Famous People Who Died In 2006

• Lennart Meri

  Politician

  Estonia

• Steve Irwin

  Zookeeper

  Victoria, Australia

• John M. Ford

  Writer

  Indiana, United States of America

• Coretta Scott King

  Author

  Alabama, United States of America

• Owen Chamberlain

  Physicist

  California, United States of America

• Andreas Katsulas

  Actor

  Missouri, United States of America

• Basil Poledouris

  Composer

  Missouri, United States of America

• Betty Friedan

  Writer

  Illinois, United States of America

• Jerome Brudos

  Criminal

  South Dakota, United States of America

• George Abramovich Koval

  Intelligence

  Iowa, United States of America

• Augusto Pinochet

  Military Leader

  Valparaíso, Chile

• James Brown

  Actor

  South Carolina, United States of America

• Karel Appel

  Painter

  North Holland, Netherlands

• Saddam Hussein

  Criminal

  Iraq

• Melvin Schwartz

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• Milton Friedman

  Economist

  New York, United States of America

• Gyorgy Ligeti

  Composer

  Transylvania, Romania

• Katherine Dunham

  Dancer

  Illinois, United States of America

• Gerald Ford

  Politician

  Nebraska, United States of America

• Joseph Barbera

  Animator

  New York, United States of America

• Mason Andrews

  Doctor

  Virginia, United States of America

• Sven Vilhem Nykvist

  Cinematographer

  Småland, Sweden

• Lou Rawls

  R&B Singer

  Illinois, United States of America

• Jane Jacobs

  Journalist

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Betty Comden

  Musician

  New York, United States of America

• Don Knotts

  Actor

  West Virginia, United States of America

• Heinrich Harrer

  Mountaineer

  Carinthia, Austria

• Billy Preston

  Musician

  Texas, United States of America

• Gillo Pontecorvo

  Filmmaker

  Tuscany, Italy

• Robert Bruce Merrifield

  Biochemist

  Texas, United States of America

• Alfredo Stroessner

  Politician

  ?Itapúa, Paraguay

• Buck Owens

  Musician

  Texas, United States of America

• Octavia Butler

  Writer

  California, United States of America

• Naguib Mahfouz

  Author

  Egypt

• Slobodan Milosevic

  Politician

  Serbia, Yugoslavia

• Kitaw Ejigu

  Engineer

  Keffa, Ethiopia

• Shelley Winters

  Actress

  Missouri, United States of America

• P.W. Botha

  Politician

  Free State, South Africa

• Ann Richards

  Politician

  Texas, United States of America

• William Styron

  Author

  Virginia, United States of America

• Kenneth Lay

  Business Leader

  Missouri, United States of America

• Susan Butcher

  Athlete

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Tokyo Rose

  Host

  California, united states of America

• Dai Ailian

  Choreographer

  Trinidad and Tobago

• Dana Reeve

  Actress

  New Jersey, United States of America

• Laurel Hester

  Civil Servant

  Illinois, United States of America

• Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski

  Criminal

  New Jersey, United States of America

• James Zadroga

  Military

  New Jersey, United States of America

• Wendy Wasserstein

  Playwright

  New York, United States of America

• Ferenc Puskás

  Soccer Player

  Budapest, Hungary

• Jack Palance

  Movie Actor

  Pennsylvania, United States Of America

• Norman Shumway

  Doctor

  Michigan, United States Of America

• Muriel Spark

  Academic

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Jackie McLean

  Academic

  New York, United States Of America

• Desmond Dekker

  Singer

  Kingston, Jamaica

• Maureen Stapleton

  Actress

  New York, United States of America

• Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Government Official

  Oklahoma, United States of America

• Red Buttons

  Actor

  New York, United States of America

• Floyd Patterson

  Boxer

  North Carolina, United States of America

• Fayard Nicholas

  Dancer

  Alabama, United States of America

• Glenn Ford

  Actor

  Quebec, Canada

• Mickey Spillane

  Author

  New York, United States of America

• Gordon Parks

  Director

  Kansas, United States of America

• Jane Wyatt

  Actress

  New Jersey, United States Of America

• Gene Pitney

  Songwriter

  Connecticut, united states of America

• Clifford Geertz

  Anthropologist

  California, United States of America

• Ruth Brown

  Actress

  Virginia, united states of America

• Wilson Pickett

  Singer

  Alabama, united states of America

• Al Lewis

  Actor

  New York, united states of America

• Johannes Rau

  Environmental Activist

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Robert Altman

  Director

  Missouri, United States