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february 2006
1

roy alon, 63, british film stuntman (james bond), heart attack.
dick bass, 68, american pro football player , radio analyst.
dick brooks, 63, american nascar race car driver , radio broadcaster, heart attack.
ronald b. cameron, 78, american politician, u.s. representative california (1963–1967).
robin donkin, 78, british historian , geographer.
ernest dudley, 97, british novelist, journalist, screenwriter, actor, radio broadcaster.
carlson gracie, sr., 72, brazilian martial artist, complications kidney stones.
samuel pearson goddard, jr., 86, american politician, governor of arizona 1965-1967.
bryce harland, 74, new zealand diplomat, permanent representative united nations (1982–1985), high commissioner united kingdom (1985–1991).
jean-philippe maitre, 56, swiss politician, former president of swiss national council, brain tumor.
john woollam, 78, british politician, former conservative member of parliament. (who s 2007)

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armando castillo, 73, guatemalan olympic cyclist.
jill chaifetz, 41, american lawyer , executive director of nonprofit legal group advocates children of new york, ovarian cancer.
mizanur rahman chowdhury, 77, bangladesh politician, former prime minister of bangladesh.
chris doty, 39, canadian documentarian , playwright, suicide.
guglielmo letteri, 80, italian comic book artist.
pat rupp, 63, american ice hockey player, goaltender 1964 , 1968 olympic ice hockey teams, cancer.
s. k. ramachandra rao, 78, indian scholar.
athol shephard, 85, australian cricketer.
nicholas swarbrick, 107, english merchant sailor, last remaining of world war i.
sir reginald swartz, 94, australian politician, minister civil aviation 1966-1969.
chris walton, 72, english cricketer.
stephen worobetz, 91, canadian politician, former lieutenant governor of saskatchewan.

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ustad qawwal bahauddin, 72, indian-pakistani qawwali singer.
walerian borowczyk, 82, polish-born surrealist filmmaker, heart failure
jean byron, 80, american actress (the patty duke show, many loves of dobie gillis, johnny concho), infection following hip replacement surgery.
ernie clements, 83, british road racing cyclist.
frank ellis, 100, british radiologist.
kurt emmerich, 76, german radio reporter.
frank goodman, 89, american broadway press agent., congestive heart failure.
lou jones, 74, american olympic runner.
sonny king, 83, american comedian-singer, jimmy durante s sidekick, cancer.
duma kumalo, 48, south african human rights activist, 1 of sharpeville six, film-maker , founding member of khulumani support group victims of apartheid-related violence.
al lewis, 82, american actor (the munsters, car 54, you?).
romano mussolini, 78, italian jazz musician , painter, son of benito mussolini.
denne petitclerc, 76, american journalist, screenwriter, , friend of ernest hemingway.
johnny vaught, 96, american college football player, coach, , college athletics administrator, ncaa championship-winning university of mississippi football coach.

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friedrich engel, 97, german nazi ss officer.
betty friedan, 85, american feminist , writer, congestive heart failure.
william augustus jones jr., 71, american civil rights pioneer.
barbara w. leyden, 56, american palynologist , paleoecologist.
joe mcguff, 79, american sportswriter , newspaper editor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (lou gehrig s disease).
elena carter richardson, 57, mexican-born principal dancer , teacher, cancer.
myron waldman, 97, american animator betty boop , superman cartoons, congestive heart failure.

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roland s. boreham jr., 81, american businessman, former ceo of baldor electric co.
norma candal, 75, puerto rican comedian, actress , drama teacher, head injury.
franklin cover, 77, american actor (the jeffersons, wall street, stepford wives), pneumonia.
reuven frank, 85, american tv journalism pioneer , former nbc news president, complications pneumonia.
peter philp, 85, british dramatist , antiques expert.
jack taylor, 60, british fat man, 1 of heaviest men in britain, heart attack.
carl vogel, 84, german art collector.

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john brightman, baron brightman, 94, uk lawyer , former lord of appeal.
mario condello, 53, australian lawyer , gangland criminal.
pedro gonzalez-gonzalez, 80, american comedian , actor, cancer.
stella ross-craig, 99, english illustrator, 1 of prodigious of flora illustrators.
esther sandoval, 78, puerto rican actress.
karin struck, 58, german writer, cancer.
kouji totani, 57, japanese voice actor, heart failure.

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glenn lee benner ii, 43, american convicted murderer, executed lethal injection.
sándor garay, 86, hungarian olympic athlete. [1]
george millay, 76, american businessman , founder of seaworld, lung cancer.
max rosenn, 96, american judge on u.s. court of appeals third circuit (1970–2006).
mitchell rupe, 51, american convicted murderer ruled heavy hanged, liver disease.
alan shalleck, 76, american tv writer, director (curious george animated films), murdered.

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larry black, 54, american track , field medalist @ 1972 summer olympics, aneurysm.
elton dean, 60, english jazz saxophonist, heart , liver related problems.
michael gilbert, 93, british mystery author , lawyer.
ron greenwood, 84, british football manager, england national team, west ham united.
akira ifukube, 91, japanese film composer, best known godzilla film series.
mart kenney, 95, canadian jazz musician , bandleader, canada s big band king, complications fall.
gigi parrish, 92, american actress, later known katherine weld.
kuljeet randhawa, 30, indian television actress, suicide.

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phil brown, 89, american actor (star wars).
ibolya csák, 91, hungarian athlete, 1936 olympic gold medalist in women s high jump.
gilles kahn, 59, french computer scientist. (french)
sir freddie laker, 83, british entrepreneur, founder of laker airways.
nadira, 75, indian bollywood actress.
laurie z, american musician, lung cancer

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john belluso, 36, american playwright, engleman-camurdrie syndrome.
jill fraser, 59, british theatre director, cancer.
dick harmon, 58, american golfer , golf instructor.
knut-olaf haustein, 71, german physician.
john prentice, 79, scottish football player , manager.
norman shumway, 83, american surgeon performed first u.s. heart transplant, lung cancer.
peter smith, 65, british trade union leader, oesophageal cancer.
juan soriano, 85, mexican painter , sculptor.
andré strappe, 77, french football player.
james yancey aka j dilla, 32, american hip hop record producer , mc, lupus nephritis.

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peter benchley, 65, american author , screenwriter (jaws, deep), pulmonary fibrosis.
peggy cripps appiah, 84, british-ghanaian children s author.
ken fletcher, 65, australian tennis player, cancer.
jackie mr. tv pallo, 79, british professional wrestler, cancer.
harry schein, 81, austrian-born founder of swedish film institute, author , columnist.
jockey shabalala, 62, south african singer ladysmith black mambazo.
thomas a. spragens, 88, american educator, former president of centre college.
harry vines, 67, american wheelchair basketball coach.

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henri guédon, 61, french percussionist.
geordie hormel, 77, american musician , studio owner, heir hormel foods fortune.
juan sánchez-navarro y peón, 92, mexican entrepreneur , co-founder of national action party.
ken hart, 88, american composer, playwright, veteran, lobbyist, journalist, world war ii

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john brooke-little, 78, english author , officer of arms.
ilan halimi, french jew murdered gang banlieue. possibly anti-semitic murder.
andreas katsulas, 59, american actor (babylon 5, fugitive, star trek: next generation), lung cancer.
alan m. levin, 79, american documentary filmmaker.
edna lewis, 89, american author of cookbooks on southern u.s. cuisine.
altynbek sarsenbayev, 43, kazakh politician, former cabinet minister, assassinated.
sir peter strawson, 86, british philosopher.
joseph ujlaki, 76, hungarian-born french football player.
wang xuan, 70, chinese academic , expert.
bettie wilson, 115, american supercentenarian mississippi s oldest person, complications congestive heart failure.

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rabbi yehuda chitrik, 106, russian-born lubavitch storyteller.
darry cowl, 80, french actor , pianist, lung cancer.
shoshana damari, 83, yemeni-born israeli singer, queen of israeli song, pneumonia.
joel dorius, 87, american professor of literature, bone marrow cancer.
michael g. fitzgerald, 55, american film historian , author.
lynden david hall, 31, british soul singer, hodgkin s lymphoma.
benjamin matthews, 72, american bass-baritone opera singer, co-founder of opera ebony.
tage møller, 91, danish olympic cyclist.
don paarlberg, 94, american agricultural economics adviser 3 u.s. presidents.
robert taylor sr., 89, american businessman, miniature golf pioneer.
putte wickman, 81, swedish jazz orchestra leader , clarinetist, cancer.

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barbara guest, 85, american poet of new york school
anna marly, 88, russian-born songwriter, france s troubadour of resistance.
andrei petrov, 75, russian composer.
robert e. rich, sr., 92, american businessman, creator of first nondairy whipped topping.
sun yun-suan, 93, chinese engineer , politician, former premier of republic of china, heart attack.
josip vrhovec, 79, croatian yugoslav communist politician, former foreign minister of yugoslavia.

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paul avrich, 74, american professor , historian of anarchism, alzheimer s disease.
benno besson, 83, swiss stage director.
johnny grunge, 39, american pro wrestler, sleep apnea complications.
sid feller, 89, american music arranger, conductor , record producer.
susie gibson, 115, american supercentenarian alabama s oldest person, heart failure.
dennis kirkland, 63, british television producer , director, after short illness.
ernie stautner, 80, german-born american football player (pittsburgh steelers) , member of pro football hall of fame, alzheimer s disease.

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ray barretto, 76, american-born latin jazz percussionist , bandleader, heart failure.
sybille bedford, 94, german-born british novelist , memoirist.
paul carr, 72, american actor (akira, raise titanic, star trek), lung cancer.
bill cowsill, 58, american singer, lead of cowsills, emphysema , other ailments.
harold hunter, 31, american pro skateboarder, in movie kids, suspected drug overdose.
bob lewis, 81, american race horse owner, congestive heart failure.
jorge pinto mendonça, 51, brazilian football player, heart attack.
yevgeny samoilov, 94, russian actor

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richard bright, 68, american actor (the godfather, marathon man, once upon time in america), traffic collision.
bill hartley, 75, australian political activist , trade unionist.
laurel hester, 49, american gay rights activist, lung cancer.
charles leonard, 92, american army major general , olympic sharpshooter
tom sellers, 83, american newspaper reporter , 1955 pulitzer prize winner, heart attack.
ruth taylor, 44, canadian poet, alcohol poisoning.
saulius mykolaitis, 40, lithuanian director, actor, , singer-songwriter.

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angelo brignole, 81, italian cyclist.
ken keuffel, 82, american college football coach, prostate cancer.
erna lazarus, 102, american screenwriter.
edward h. mcnamara, 79, american county official.

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lou gish, 35, british stage, film , television actress, cancer.
curt gowdy, 86, american sports broadcaster, leukemia.[2]
paul marcinkus, 84, american catholic archbishop, president of vatican bank , pro-president of vatican city state.
lucjan wolanowski, 86, polish journalist, writer , traveller.

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gennadiy aygi, 71, russian author , poet wrote in chuvash language.
theodore draper, 93, american historian , political commentator.
mirko marjanovic, 68, serbian politician, prime minister of serbia (1994–2000).
angelica rozeanu, 84, romanian-born table tennis world champion, cirrhosis.
stefan terlezki, 78, british conservative member of parliament 1983-1987.

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atwar bahjat, 30, iraqi journalist al-arabiya, abducted , killed in iraq.
anthony burger, 44, american gospel music pianist, collapsed during performance.
hilde domin, 96, german poet , writer.
donelson hoopes, 73, american curator
edward nalbandian, 78, american businessman, owner of zachary clothing in los angeles, alzheimer s disease.
flossie page, 112, american supercentenarian, oldest person kansas.
sinnathamby rajaratnam, 90, singaporean politician, former second deputy prime minister of singapore, heart failure.
john sullivan, 61, english cricketer.
bill tung, 72, hong kong actor, horse racing commentator.
richard wawro, 52, scottish autistic savant internationally recognized artist, cancer.

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giuseppe amici, 67, sammarinese politician, former captain regent of san marino
frederick busch, 64, american author, heart attack.
said mohamed djohar, 87, comorian politician, former president of comoros.[3]
luna leopold, 90, american ecologist , author
machteld mellink, 88, netherlands-born american archaeologist of sites in anatolia
diane shalet, 71, american actress , author
reverend earl stallings, 89, american baptist minister , activist, praised martin luther king in letter birmingham jail
telmo zarraonaindía, 85, spanish football player, heart attack.[4]

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octavia butler, 58, american science fiction author , macarthur foundation fellow, head injury.
harold faragher, 88, english cricketer.
don knotts, 81, american actor (the andy griffith show, 3 s company), complications aspiration pneumonia , lung cancer.
john martin, 58, canadian broadcaster, throat cancer.
andrew sherratt, 59, british archaeologist @ university of sheffield, heart failure.
denis twitchett, 80, british sinologist , scholar, gordon wu professor of chinese studies, princeton university (1980–1994), creator of 15 volume cambridge history of china, poor health.
dennis weaver, 81, american actor (gunsmoke, mccloud), complications cancer.

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kenneth deane, 45, canadian police officer convicted in ipperwash shooting, automobile accident.
thomas koppel, 61, danish musician , composer band savage rose.
darren mcgavin, 83, american actor (kolchak: night stalker, christmas story), natural causes.
henry m. morris, 87, american young earth creationist leader, complications of stroke.
tsegaye gabre-medhin, 69, ethiopian poet laureate, kidney disease.
imette st. guillen, 24, american hispanic john jay college of criminal justice student, murdered.
charlie wayman, 83, english footballer, during 1940s , 1950s, following long illness

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georgina battiscombe, 100, british author & biographer
bill cardoso, 68, american writer , editor, coined term gonzo , heart failure.
noel diprose, 83, australian cricketer.
sir hans singer, 95, german-born british economist, helped create world food program , united nations development program.

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alice baker, 107, british world war service veteran, last surviving british woman serve in first world war, member of royal flying corps
ferenc bene, 61, hungarian football player, fall.
otis chandler, 78, american former publisher of los angeles times, lewy body disease.
fahd faraj al-juwair, 36, saudi arabian alleged head of al-qaeda in arabian peninsula, killed in foiled bombing attempt.
milton katims, 96, american violist , conductor, long-time conductor , leader of seattle symphony.
tsakani mhinga, 27, south african r&b singer, drug overdose.
william musto, 88, american politician, former mayor of union city, new jersey, convicted of racketeering
robert lee scott, jr., 97, american general officer, retired united states air force brigadier general , fighter ace, author (god co-pilot).
linda smith, 48, british comedian, ovarian cancer.

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james ronald bunkie blackburn, 69, american nascar driver
owen chamberlain, 85, american particle physicist, co-discoverer of antiproton, winner of 1959 nobel prize in physics, complications parkinson s disease.
travis claridge, 27, american football player atlanta falcons, carolina panthers , hamilton tiger-cats, pneumonia.
hugh mccartney, 86, scottish politician, former labour party mp.
ron cyrus, 70, american politician, lung cancer.
peter snow, c. 70, new zealand doctor discovered tapanui flu (chronic fatigue syndrome).