Deaths in October 2006

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

  October 2006

1

• Frank Beyer, 74, German film director.
• Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall, 96, Australian mining executive.
• Alan Caillou, 91, British actor and writer.
• Pierre Gorman, 82, Australian librarian and academic.
• Jack Kirkbride, 83, British cartoonist, father of actress Anne Kirkbride.
• Anna Kunkel, 74, American baseball player.
• Renato Polselli, 84, Italian film director.
• Rafael Quintero, 66, Cuban-born American CIA agent.
• André Viger, 54, Canadian wheelchair marathoner and paralympian, cancer.
• Yoshihiro Yonezawa, 53, Japanese manga critic, lung cancer.

  2

• Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista, 82, Cuban First Lady, second wife of President Fulgencio Batista.
• Frances Bergen, 84, American actress, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen.
• Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, American Republican Representative for Idaho, car accident.
• Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, 68, Indian scientist, spiritual teacher and poet, heart attack.
• Tamara Dobson, 59, American actress, complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis.
• Paul Halmos, 90, Hungarian-born American mathematician.
• Paul Richardson, 74, American Phillies longtime organist, prostate cancer.
• Clyde Vollmer, 85, American Major League Baseball player.

  3

• Lucilla Andrews, 86, British romantic novelist.
• Sir John Cox, 77, British admiral who was Commander-in-Chief in the South Atlantic.
• John Crank, 90, British mathematical physicist who helped solve the heat equation.
• Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer of all 5795 episodes of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills, after heart trouble.
• Peter Norman, 64, Australian athlete, silver medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics, heart attack.

  4

• R. W. Apple, Jr., 71, American political journalist and food writer, thoracic cancer.
• Tom Bell, 73, British actor, after short illness.
• Victor Dyrgall, 88, American Olympic runner.
• František Fajtl, 94, Czech World War II fighter pilot, after long illness.
• Norbert Franck, 88, Luxembourgish Olympic swimmer.
• Walter Gibb, 87, British aviator and test pilot who twice held the world flight altitude record.
• Ralph Griswold, 72, American creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer.
• Vic Heyliger, 94, American ice hockey Hall of Fame player and coach.
• Oskar Pastior, 78, Romanian-born German writer.
• Riccardo Pazzaglia, 80, Italian actor, writer and film director.
• Don Thompson, 73, British race walker and 1960 Olympic gold medal winner, aneurysm.
• Katarina Tomasevski, 53, Croatian-born former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education.

  5

• Valerie Campbell-Harding, 74, Canadian textile art designer, heart attack.
• Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, German-Austrian billionaire industrialist.
• George King, 78, American college basketball coach.
• Speedy O. Long, 78, American Democratic Representative for Louisiana, cousin of Huey Long.
• Jennifer Moss, 61, British actress, played Lucille Hewitt on Coronation Street.
• Antonio Peña, 55, Mexican promoter of Lucha Libre AAA World Wide, heart attack.
• Jackie Rae, 85, Canadian singer, songwriter and entertainer.
• Dick Wagner, 78, American former president of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros, injuries from a 1999 car crash.
• Gilbert F. White, 94, American geographer.

  6

• Bertha Brouwer, 75, Dutch athlete, silver medalist in the 200m at the 1952 Olympics.
• Charles Clark, 73, British publisher and lawyer.
• Claude Luter, 83, French jazz clarinetist and bandleader.
• Eduardo Mignogna, 66, Argentinian film director.
• Buck O'Neil, 94, American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues, heart failure and bone marrow cancer.
• Timo Sarpaneva, 79, Finnish glassmaker.
• Heinz Sielmann, 89, German zoologist.
• Wilson Tucker, 91, American science fiction writer.

  7

• Charlie Bradberry, 24, American NASCAR driver, car accident.
• Danifel Campilan, 25, Filipino news reporter, car accident.
• Polly Craus, 83, American Olympic fencer.
• Craig Dobbin, 71, Canadian founder of CHC Helicopter, after illness following lung transplant.
• Julen Goikoetxea, 21, Spanish bicycle racer, suicide by jumping.
• Anna Politkovskaya, 48, Russian journalist, shot.
• Peter H. Rossi, 84, American sociologist.

  8

• Bob Cunningham, 79, Canadian football player.
• Ira B. Harkey Jr., 88, American newspaper editor, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
• Pavol Hnilica, 85, Slovak Catholic bishop.
• Ivan Murrell, 63, American Major League Baseball player for the Astros and Padres.
• Mark Porter, 32, New Zealand racing driver, race crash.

  9

• Sedat Alp, 93, Turkish archaeologist specializing in Hittitology.
• Coccinelle, 75, French transsexual singer, stroke.
• Reg Freeson, 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government.
• Marek Grechuta, 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist.
• Danièle Huillet, 70, French filmmaker, cancer.
• Paul Hunter, 27, British snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours.
• Mario Moya Palencia, 73, Mexican politician and diplomat, heart attack.
• Glenn Myernick, 51, American assistant soccer coach of the men's national team, heart attack.
• Raymond Noorda, 82, American computer executive, CEO of Novell.
• Kanshi Ram, 72, Indian politician, heart attack.

  10

• Sheikh Akijuddin, 76–77, Bangladeshi entrepreneur.
• Jerry Belson, 68, American Emmy-winning television comedy writer, prostate cancer.
• Francis Berry, 91, British poet and literary critic.
• P. C. Devassia, 100, Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet, won 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award.
• Sir Derek Pattinson, 76, British Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England
• Michael John Rogers, 74, British ornithologist.
• Ian Scott, 72, Canadian Attorney General of Ontario.
• Ravindra Varma, 81, Indian politician.

  11

• Henry Caldera, 69, Sri Lankan singer, cancer.
• Sir Victor Goodhew, 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans.
• Howard Kerzner, 42, South African businessman, helicopter crash.
• Cory Lidle, 34, American baseball pitcher, victim of the 2006 New York City plane crash.
• Benito Martínez, 126, Cuban claimant to the title of world's oldest person.
• Sir Robert Megarry, 96, British judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court.
• Eddie Pellagrini, 88, American baseball player and coach.
• Jimmy Peters, Sr., 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner.
• Raad Mutar Saleh, Iraqi Mandaean leader, shot.
• Jacques Sternberg, 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer.
• John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy.

  12

• Carlo Acutis, 15, English-born Italian Catholic computer programmer.
• Todd Bolender, 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet.
• Johnny Callison, 67, American Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star outfielder with the Phillies.
• Samuel B. Casey, Jr., 79, American CEO of Pullman Company.
• Hermann Eilts, 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
• Angelika Machinek, 49, German glider pilot, five times national champion and holder of nine world records, air crash.
• Eugène Martin, 91, French racing driver.
• Gerard Murphy, 57, Irish mathematician.
• Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Italian film director, heart failure.

  13

• Mason Andrews, 87, American physician and politician who delivered America's first test tube baby, Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia.
• Deborah Blumer, 64, American member of the Massachusetts General Court, heart attack.
• Petra Cabot, 99, American designer, created the Skotch Kooler, natural causes.
• Bob Lassiter, 61, American talk radio personality.
• Dino Monduzzi, 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household.
• Hilda Terry, 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip Teena.
• Sir Anthony Tippet, 78, British admiral.
• Wang Guangmei, 85, Chinese wife of late Communist leader Liu Shaoqi.

  14

• Bernard Allen, 69, American member of the North Carolina General Assembly.
• James Barr, 82, British Old Testament scholar.
• Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox, silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer.
• Gino Empry, 81, Canadian entertainment publicist and manager
• Freddy Fender, 69, American singer, lung cancer.
• Nancy Lynn, American aerobatic pilot, plane crash.
• Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed Church theologian.
• Gerry Studds, 69, American first openly gay congressman, represented Massachusetts, pulmonary embolism.

  15

• Eddie Blay, 68, Ghanaian Olympic boxer.
• Derek Bond, 86, British actor.
• William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages.
• Michael Forrester, 89, British army general.
• Robert Pfarr, 86, American Olympic cyclist.
• George Stevens, 74, American politician and Baptist minister.
• Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoon editor for Playboy.
• Varduhi Vardanyan, 30, Armenian singer, traffic collision.
• Maurice F. Weisner, 88, American admiral.

  16

• Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South, MEP for Leinster, lung cancer.
• Donna Cook, 78, American baseball player
• Ross Davidson, 57, British former EastEnders actor, brain tumour.
• Sid Davis, 90, American educational filmmaker, lung cancer.
• Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough.
• Tommy Johnson, 71, American musician known for his work on the Jaws theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure.
• John V. Murra, 90, Ukrainian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar.
• Valentín Paniagua, 70, Peruvian president, complications from heart surgery.
• Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster, pulmonary embolism.
• Ernie Steele, 88, American football player.
• Ondina Valla, 90, Italian athlete, first Italian female 1936 Olympic champion, natural causes.
• Anatoly Voronin, 55, Russian business chief of ITAR TASS news agency, stabbed.