Deaths in May 2006

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

May 2006

1

• Jay Presson Allen, 84, American screenwriter, stroke.
• Wilfrid Butt, 83, English biochemist and reproductive endocrinologist.
• Ed Casey, 73, Australian politician, former Queensland Labor Party leader, stroke.
• George F. Haines, 82, American Olympic swimming coach, complications from a stroke.
• Betsy Jones-Moreland, 76, American film and television actress, cancer.
• Rob Lacey, 43, British stage actor and award-winning Christian author, bladder cancer.
• Rauno Lehtinen, 74, Finnish composer.
• Johnny Paris, 65, American saxophonist.
• Bruce Peterson, 72, American test pilot and engineer, known for surviving the crash of the M2-F2 and inspiring the TV-series The Six Million Dollar Man.
• Raúl Francisco Primatesta, 87, Argentine retired Cardinal Archbishop of Córdoba, Argentina. Slim Aarons Gets ripped off the paper photo

2

• Clive Burgess, 55, Welsh rugby union player.
• Joseph Lewis Clark, 57, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.
• Boyd Coffie, 68, American baseball player and manager, cancer.
• Luigi Griffanti, 89, Italian footballer, goalkeeper of ACF Fiorentina in the 1940s.
• Sam Mokuahi, Jr. aka "Sammy Steamboat", 71, American Hawaiian professional wrestler, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Louis Rukeyser, 73, American business and economics expert, multiple myeloma.
• Juan Ramón Salgado, 45, Honduran congressional deputy, gunshot wounds.

3

• Karel Appel, 85, Dutch COBRA painter.
• Rosita Fernandez, 88, American singer.
• Franco Lavoratori, 65, Italian water polo player, Olympic Champion.
• Pramod Mahajan, 56, Indian politician, general secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, gunshot wounds.
• Howard Thomas Markey, 85, American federal judge and U.S. Air Force major general, first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
• Earl Woods, 74, American US Army infantry officer, father and former coach of U.S. golfer Tiger Woods, prostate cancer.

4

• Alejandra Boero, 88, Argentine theater actress, director and teacher, pulmonary hypertension.
• Jim Delsing, 80, American Major League Baseball player, cancer.
• Arthur B. Metzner, 79, Canadian chemical engineer.
• Michael Taliferro, 45, American actor and football player, stroke.

5

• Naushad Ali, 86, Indian musician.
• Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga, 85, Romanian comparatist and essayist.
• George Roche III, 70, American former president of Hillsdale College, probable heart attack.
• Atıf Yılmaz, 80, Turkish film director, screenwriter and producer, cancer.

6

• Lillian Asplund, 99, last American survivor of the sinking, died in sleep.
• Konstantin Beskov, 85, Soviet and Russian footballer and manager.
• Ruth Bachhuber Doyle, 89, American politician and educator.
• Shigeru Kayano, 79, Japanese Ainu activist.
• Grant McLennan, 48, Australian lead singer of The Go-Betweens, suspected heart attack.
• Sir Anthony Morton, 82, British admiral.
• Flight Lieutenant Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill, 32, first British servicewoman to be killed in action in Iraq.
• František Peřina, 95, Czechoslovak fighter pilot who served in the British Royal Air Force during World War II.
• Pattabhi Rama Reddy, 87, Indian moviemaker, complications from a prolonged illness.
• Lorne Saxberg, 48, Canadian television journalist, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcaster.
• Sister Rose Thering, 85, American Roman Catholic nun and professor at Seton Hall University.

7

• Steve Bender, 59, German record producer and member of Dschinghis Khan.
• Duncan Inglis Cameron, 78, Scottish university administrator.
• Richard Carleton, 62, Australian television journalist, heart attack.
• Joan C. Edwards, 87, American philanthropist, liver cancer.
• Stella Sigcau, 69, South African Public Works Minister, heart-related problems.
• Jocelyn Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, 95, United Kingdom minister and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
• Machiko Soga, 68, Japanese voice actress and actress and tokusatsu legend, pancreatic cancer.

8

• Lovana Jones, 68, American Assistant Majority Leader in the Illinois House of Representatives, represented the 26th District since 1987, undisclosed causes.
• John Kimbrough, 87, American football player and state legislator, pneumonia.
• George Lutz, 59, American owner of the Amityville Horror house.
• Patrick Pule "Ace" Ntsoelengoe, 50, South African soccer player with the Minnesota Kicks and Kaizer Chiefs, unknown causes.
• Barbara Schwartz, 58, American painter.

9

• Adrian Bennett, 73, Australian politician, MHR for Division of Swan.
• Corey Engen, 90, Norwegian-born captain of the U.S. Nordic skiing team at the 1948 Winter Olympics, complications of pneumonia.
• Jerzy Ficowski, 81, Polish poet, writer and translator.
• Pietro Garinei, 87, Italian playwright and lyricist of "Arrivederci Roma" and other songs.
• Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic.
• Tony Ward, 82, Australian actor and journalist, cancer.

10

• Val Guest, 94, British film writer and director .
• Marie Hartley, 100, British author and illustrator.
• John Hicks, 64, American jazz pianist/composer.
• James Keogh, 89, American former executive editor of Time and speechwriter for US President Richard Nixon.
• Georgy Korniyenko, 81, Russian diplomat and deputy to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
• A.M. Rosenthal, 84, Canadian-born Executive Editor of The New York Times for 17 years, stroke.
• Soraya, 37, Colombian-American songwriter, guitarist, arranger, record producer, and singer, breast cancer.
• Aleksandr Zinovyev, 83, Russian logician, sociologist and writer, brain cancer.

11

• Yossi Banai, 74, Israeli singer and actor, cancer.
• Sir Frank Mills, 82, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Ghana and Bangladesh.
• Byron Morrow, 95, American TV and film character actor.
• Michael O'Leary, 70, Irish politician and barrister, former leader of the Irish Labour Party, drowned in a swimming pool.
• Floyd Patterson, 71, American former boxing heavyweight champion, Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer.
• Ferdinando Tacconi, 83, Italian comics artist.
• Frankie Thomas, 85, American actor , stroke.

12

• Ted Berkman, 92, American author, scriptwriter.
• Hussein Maziq, 88, Libyan politician, former prime minister & foreign minister of Libya.
• Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery, 85, American politician, former U.S. representative from Mississippi.
• Arthur Porges, 90, American science fiction and fantasy writer.

13

• Joan Diener, 76, American actress/soprano, complications of cancer.
• Rick Farley, 53, Australian National Farmers' Federation Chief Executive for eight years.
• Ryan Francis, 19, American college basketball player, freshman point guard for the University of Southern California basketball team, homicide.
• Fernando Inchauste, 75, Bolivian Olympian.
• Jaroslav Pelikan, 82, American historian of Christianity, winner of the Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences, lung cancer.
• Östen Sjöstrand, 80, Swedish poet, translator and member of the Swedish Academy.
• Peter Viereck, 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
• Johnnie Wilder, Jr., 56, American musician.

14

• Lew Anderson, 84, American bandleader, played Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show, prostate cancer.
• James Botten, 67, South African international test cricketer, complications after colon operations.
• William Ginsberg, 75, American professor of environmental law at Hofstra University and former New York City commissioner of parks and recreation.
• Reza Hassanzadeh, 33, Iranian professional soccer player with Teraktor Sazi F.C., injuries from car accident.
• Stanley Kunitz, 100, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US poet laureate.
• Jim Lemon, 78, American Major League Baseball player, cancer.
• Paul Marco, 78, American film actor.
• Bruce Merrifield, 84, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist.
• Günther Nenning, 84, Austrian journalist, author and political activist.
• Eva Norvind, Norwegian-born Mexican writer and actress, drowning accident.

15

• Joyce Ballantyne, 88, American artist best known for creating the "Coppertone Girl" ad, heart attack.
• George Blackburn, 93, American football player, head football coach at University of Virginia.
• George Crile III, 61, American journalist, CBS News producer, pancreatic cancer.
• Eberhard Esche, 73, German actor.
• Chic Hecht, 77, American politician, former Republican Senator for Nevada, prostate cancer.
• Judith Moore, 66, American author.
• Cheikha Rimitti, 83, Algerian singer, heart attack.
• David Sharp, 34, British mountaineer.
• Bill Strode, 69, American Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer, cancer.

16

• Clare Boylan, 58, Irish author of 12 books including 7 novels, ovarian cancer.
• Beryl Evans, 84, Australian politician, NSW MLC.
• Anthony Murray, 47, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Jorge Porcel, 69, Argentine actor and comedian, following gall bladder surgery.
• Dan Ross, 49, American former NFL football player, suspected heart attack.
• Takahiro Tamura, 77, Japanese movie and television actor, cerebral infarction.

17

• Cy Feuer, 95, American Broadway producer and writer.
• Eric Forth, 61, British Conservative Member of Parliament and former government minister, bone cancer.
• Nichola Goddard, 26, Canadian soldier, Canadian Forces, first female since WWII to be killed in combat.
• Dan Q. Kennis, 86, American B movie producer.
• John Marsden, 64, Australian lawyer and civil liberties activist, cancer.
• Sir John Miller, 87, British equestrian and courtier, Crown Equerry to the Queen.
• Daniel Owino Misiani, 66, Tanzanian Benga musician, car accident.
• Mieczysław Nowak, 69, Polish weightlifter, 1964 Olympic medalist.
• Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin, 63, Turkish prominent judge sitting in Turkey's highest court, shot dead.
• Ramesh Parekh, 65, Indian poet.
• Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff, 61, American music executive, longtime crew member of the Grateful Dead, lung cancer.

18

• Jaan Eilart, 73, Estonian biogeographer.
• Stephen Fleet, 69, British researcher in mineral sciences and Former Registrary, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Master of Downing College, Cambridge.
• George M. Foster, 92, American anthropologist.
• Morris Glushien, 96, American lawyer, general counsel for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
• Hans Horrevoets, 32, Dutch sailor, swept overboard while competing in Volvo Ocean Race.
• Stan Jones, 91, British Olympic runner.
• Maksim Kahan, 88, Israeli Olympic shooter.
• Andrew Martinez, 33, American activist, the "Naked Guy" at the University of California, Berkeley, apparent suicide by asphyxiation.
• Vitor Negrete, 38, Brazilian mountaineer, died after reaching the peak of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen.
• Michael O'Riordan, 88, Irish chairman of the Communist Party of Ireland and International Brigades veteran.
• Kiyan Prince, 15, British youth team player with English football team Queens Park Rangers, stabbed.
• Robert Reid, 81, American chemical engineer.
• Gilbert Sorrentino, 77, American novelist.

19

• Yitzhak Ben Aharon, 99, Israeli left-wing politician, founder of the Israeli Labor Party.
• Edward R. Becker, 73, American former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
• Peter Bryant, 82, British television producer.
• Freddie Garrity, 69, English lead singer of Freddie and the Dreamers, 1960s pop band, heart disease.
• Alan Sapper, 75, British trade unionist.

20

• JoAnna Lund, 61, American cookbook author, cancer.
• Bobby Jack Fowler, 66, American rapist and suspected murderer.
• Les Olive, 78, English Assistant Secretary of Manchester United at time of Munich air disaster, prostate cancer.
• Andy Radford, 62, British Anglican bishop, Bishop of Taunton, brain tumour.
• Cherd Songsri, 74, Thai film director, cancer.
• Annis Stukus, 91, Canadian football player and ice hockey general manager, member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Canadian Football League and ice hockey.
• Tommy Watt, 80, British jazz bandleader.

21

• Katherine Dunham, 96, American dancer and choreographer.
• Sherman Skolnick, 75, American Illinois anti-corruption activist, heart attack.
• Inger Louise Valle, 84, Norwegian politician, Minister of Justice.
• Billy Walker, 77, American country music performer and member of the Grand Ole Opry, traffic accident.

22

• Spencer Clark, 19, American NASCAR Busch Series driver, road accident.
• Heather Crowe, 61, Canadian anti-smoking activist, lung cancer.
• Hamza El Din, 76, Nubian Egyptian oud player.
• Jack Fallon, 90, Canadian-born British jazz double bassist.
• Lee Jong-wook, 61, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization, brain thrombus.
• Lilia Prado, 78, Mexican actress, multiple organ failure.

23

• Philippe Amaury, 66, French media owner, cancer.
• Clifford Antone, 56, American Austin blues club owner, heart attack.
• Lloyd Bentsen, 85, American vice-presidential candidate, Senator, and Treasury Secretary under Clinton.
• James W. Carey, 71, American professor of journalism at Columbia University, author.
• Ray Cale, 83, Welsh rugby player, dual international for Wales in rugby union and rugby league.
• Ian Copeland, 57, American music promoter and agent, older brother of Stewart Copeland of The Police, melanoma.
• Bracha Eden, 78, Israeli pianist, brain hemorrhage.
• Kazimierz Górski, 85, Polish former coach of Poland national football team, cancer.
• Jim Trimble, 87, American Philadelphia Eagles coach 1952–55, emphysema.

24

• Eric Bedser, 87, English cricketer for Surrey, and elder twin brother of Sir Alec Bedser.
• Henry Bumstead, 91, American art director, Oscar winner, prostate cancer.
• Robert Giaimo, 86, American Congressman for Connecticut 3rd District, lung ailments.
• Fritz Klein, 73, Austrian-born psychiatrist and researcher.
• Anderson Mazoka, 63, Zambian politician, chief opposition leader in Zambia.
• Bernard Ostry, 78, Canadian chair and CEO of TVOntario, civil servant and philanthropist, cancer.
• Claude Piéplu, 83, French actor, cancer.
• John Wheeldon, 76, Australian federal politician, former Australian Labor Party Senator and minister in the Whitlam government.

25

• Sir Julian Bullard, 78, British diplomat.
• Elizabeth Connelly, 77, American politician, former member of the New York State Assembly representing Staten Island, cancer.
• Desmond Dekker, 64, Jamaican ska musician, heart attack.
• Lars Gyllensten, 84, Swedish author, physician, and member of the Swedish Academy.
• Wilber Huston, 93, American scientist and retired NASA mission director.
• Donald Rudolph, 85, US Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II, Alzheimer's disease.
• Mari Yonehara, 56, Japanese essayist, ovarian cancer.
• Tobías Lasser, 95, Venezuelan botanist, founder of the Botanic Garden of Caracas, natural causes.

26

• Milicent Bagot, 99, British intelligence officer.
• Horondino José da Silva aka "Dino Sete Cordas", 88, Brazilian virtuoso of the seven-string guitar.
• Selvin González, 24, Salvadoran footballer.
• Tuomo Kerola, 48, Finnish Olympic swimmer.
• Alan Kotok, 64, American early video game designer, engineer for Digital Equipment.
• Carl Kuntze, 83, Dutch Olympic rower
• Mahmoud al-Majzoub aka Abu Hamza, 41, Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader, assassination by bombing.
• Édouard Michelin, 42, French CEO of Michelin, boating accident off the Île de Sein.
• Kevin O'Flanagan, 86, Irish former association football and rugby union international, and IOC member, heart problems.
• Anita Roberts, 64, American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute, stomach cancer.
• Ted Schroeder, 84, American tennis player, winner at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, cancer.
• Raymond Triboulet, 99, French member of the French Resistance during World War II, member of the French Parliament and government minister.

27

• Adeeb, 72, Pakistani actor.
• Harold Falls, 96, American ophthalmologist.
• Paul Gleason, 67, American actor, mesothelioma.
• Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, 39, American NFL fullback, complications from a brain tumor.
• Romeo Lucas García, 81, Guatemalan politician, former President of Guatemala, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Thelma Leeds, 95, American actress, widow of Parkyakarkus.
• Jim Mello, 85, American football player.
• Michael Riffaterre, 81, French-born professor at Columbia University and scholar of French literature.
• Alex Toth, 77, American comic book artist and cartoonist.
• Apache Bull Ramos, 68, American professional wrestler, shoulder infection.

28

• Edward Aldwell, 68, American music theorist and pianist specializing in Bach, automotive accident.
• James Archibald, 94, American judge.
• Rupert Blöch, 76, Austrian Olympic sprinter.
• Lewis Carter, 81, Australian cricketer.
• Fermín Chávez, 82, Argentine historian, complications from renal failure.
• Sue Fear, 43, Australian mountaineer, climbing accident.
• Umberto Masetti, 80, Italian motorcycle racer, the first Italian World Champion class 500cc in 1950 and 1952, pulmonary strokes.
• Masumi Okada, 70, Japanese actor, played Brother Michael in Shogun, throat cancer.
• Ramsay D. Potts, 89, American air force general.
• Tony Sardisco, 73, American footballer, former captain of the Boston Patriots, heart attack.
• Doris Saunders, 64, Canadian magazine editor, Order of Canada inductee, Alzheimer's disease.
• Arthur Widmer, 91, American motion picture special effects pioneer, winner of an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, cancer.

29

• Neville Amadio, 93, Australian flautist and soloist for Sydney Symphony for 50 years, series of small heart attacks.
• Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease.
• Clarence Bailey, 43, American football player.
• Peter Borsari, 67, American-Swiss celebrity photographer, complications from elective knee surgery.
• James Brolan, 42, British CBS News sound technician, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq.
• Paul Douglas, 48, British veteran CBS News cameraman, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq.
• Wyn Griffiths, 86, Welsh professional football player, complications from a fall.
• Steve Mizerak, 61, American champion billiards player.
• Omeljan Pritsak, 87, Austrian-born American Harvard professor, scholar and authority on Ukraine.
• Johnny Servoz-Gavin, 64, French racing driver.

30

• Slim Aarons, 89, American photographer, stroke.
• Marius van Amelsvoort, 75, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Finance.
• Hladnik Boštjan, 77, Slovenian film director.
• Shohei Imamura, 79, Japanese film director, two-time winner of the Palme d'Or, liver cancer.
• Bill Kovacs, 56, American computer animation pioneer and Academy Award winner, complications of a stroke.
• David Lloyd, 68, New Zealand botanist, complications from mystery illness, possibly poison.
• Robert Sterling, 88, American film and television actor, star of 1950s television show Topper, natural causes.

31

• Miguel Berrocal, 73, Spanish sculptor and puzzle creator, prostate cancer.
• Ronald Cranford, 65, American neurologist and bioethicist who developed coma standards, complications of kidney cancer.
• Raymond Davis Jr., 91, American chemist and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, Alzheimer's disease.
• Lula Mae Hardaway, 76, American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder, natural causes.