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june 2006
1

radu bălescu, 73, romanian scientist.
shokichi iyanaga, 100, japanese mathematician
rocío jurado, 61, spanish singer , actress, pancreatic cancer.
allan prior, 84, british television scriptwriter (z-cars, howards way, charmer), father of folk singer maddy prior.
abdul latif sharif, 59, egyptian chemist, suspect in femicides in ciudad juárez, mexico, officially of natural causes, rumored poisoning.
jack shelton, 82, australian cricketer.
william d. winn, 59, american professor of education @ university of washington.

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ronald cass, 83, british film score composer.
roy farran, 85, british army officer.
bernard loomis, 82, american toymaker responsible strawberry shortcake , star wars action figures, heart disease.
leon pownall, 63, canadian actor, cancer.
vince welnick, 55, american keyboardist, member of grateful dead, suicide.
edward yates, 87, american television director, director of american bandstand (1952–1969).
vyacheslav klykov, 66, russian sculptor , nationalist politician.

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leo clarke, 82, australian roman catholic bishop of maitland–newcastle, australia, 1976-1995.
brian duke, 79, ugandan-born tropical disease expert helped save millions river blindness.
johnny grande, 76, american pianist, member of bill haley s backing band, comets. complications arising cancer.
george kashdan, 78, american comic book writer , editor dc comics.
doug serrurier, 85, south african former grand prix racing driver , constructor.

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alec bregonzi, 76, british actor.
bill fleming, 92, american mlb pitcher boston red sox , chicago cubs
ron jones, 41, american major league baseball player, brain hemorrhage
richard kapp, 69, american conductor , founder of philharmonia virtuosi.
john kerr, 46, british footballer (tranmere rovers).
anthony marreco, 90, british barrister, junior counsel @ nuremberg trials , founding member of amnesty international.
sir john rowlands, 90, british air marshal , george cross recipient.
william m. steger, 85, united states district court judge , republican candidate governor of texas in 1960.

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frederick franck, 97, dutch artist, author, , dentist.
elizabeth fretwell, 85, australian opera singer best known performances sadler s wells company.
eric gregg, 55, american former major league baseball umpire, stroke.
jorge melendez, unknown age, involved in professional wrestling, committed suicide
edward l. moyers, 77, american railroad executive.
robert ross, 86, american leader of muscular dystrophy association 44 years , persuaded jerry lewis undertake yearly telethon raise money muscular dystrophy, complications of broken hip.
harley rutledge, 80, american physicist , ufologist.

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leslie alcock, 81, british pioneer of dark age archaeology, led team excavated cadbury castle.
arnold newman, 88, american photographer pioneered environmental portraiture .
billy preston, 59, american musician ( beautiful , nothing nothing ) known work beatles, malignant hypertension leading kidney failure.
hilton ruiz, 54, american jazz pianist, injuries fall.
léon weil, 109, french world war veteran.
jason moss, 31, american attorney , author of book last victim

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abu musab al-zarqawi, 39, jordanian leader of al-qaeda in iraq, military strike.
sheik abd-al-rahman, spiritual adviser al-qaeda in iraq, military strike.
roy brain, 79, australian cricketer.
terry mccann, 74, american wrestler, olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling , helped found usa wrestling, , retired executive director of toastmasters international, cancer (see ).
ingo preminger, 95, austrian-born american hollywood talent agent , producer (m*a*s*h), brother of otto preminger.
mickey sims, 51, american football defensive tackle, former player cleveland browns, heart attack.
louis b. sohn, 92, ukrainian-born scholar of international law, helped draft un charter.
john tenta (aka earthquake), 42, canadian professional wrestler world wrestling federation, bladder cancer.

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jake copass, 86, american cowboy poet, leukemia.
robert donner, 75, american character actor best known playing exidor on mork , mindy, aneurysm.
jack jackson (nom de plume jaxon), 65, american comic book artist , co-founder of rip off press.
mykola kolessa, 102, ukrainian composer , conductor.
abouna matta el meskeen, 87, egyptian coptic orthodox monk, spiritual father of st. macarius monastery in wilderness of scetis, egypt.
john c. roberts, 72, australian businessman, founder of australian construction company brookfield multiplex, complications of diabetes.
jamal abu samhadana, palestinian leader of pa / hamas forces in gaza strip , prc. killed israeli air strike.
talcott seelye, 84, united states foreign service officer , ambassador tunisia , syria.
sir peter smithers, 92, british politician, mp winchester , secretary general of council of europe.

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kinga choszcz aka freespirit , polish author (led destiny: hitchhiking around world), cerebral malaria.
drafi deutscher, 60, german singer.
michael forrestall, 73, canadian senator, died following hospitalization breathing problems.
patricia janus, 74, american poet, heart attack brought on liver cancer.
enzo siciliano, 72, italian writer, diabetes mellitus.
vern williams, 76, american bluegrass mandolin player , singer.

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qadi abdul karim abdullah al-arashi, 72, yemeni politician, former president of north yemen.
hubertus czernin, 50, austrian journalist helped return paintings looted nazis, mastocytosis.
moe drabowsky, 70, polish-born american major league baseball player, multiple myeloma.
german goldenshteyn, 71, bessarabian-born clarinetist , klezmer musician.
wulff-dieter heintz, 76, german astronomer @ swarthmore college.
kenneth jack, 81, australian artist.
charles johnson, 96, american negro league baseballer chicago american giants, complications of prostate cancer.
peter douglas kennedy, 83, british folklorist.
philip merrill, 72, american publisher , diplomat, suicide.
ruddy thomas, 54, jamaican singer, heart attack.

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michael bartosh, 28, american mac os x server expert, injuries fall.
james cameron, 92, american civil rights activist, founder of america s black holocaust museum, lymphoma.
neroli fairhall, 61, new zealand paraplegic archer , olympic competitor.
rolande falcinelli, 86, french organist , composer.
tim hildebrandt, 67, american artist, complications of diabetes.
hugh latimer, 93, english actor , toy maker.
mike quarry, 55, american light heavyweight boxer, challenged bob foster title, pugilistic dementia.
bruce shand, 89, british army officer, father of camilla, duchess of cornwall, , father-in-law of charles, prince of wales, cancer.
daniel steiner, 72, american president of new england conservatory, lung disease.

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anna lee aldred, 85, american jockey , first woman in receive jockey s licence, member of national cowgirl hall of fame.
andrew william nicky barr, 90, australian rugby union player , world war ii fighter pilot
chakufwa chihana, 67, malawian politician, opposition figure ran unsuccessfully president losing bakili muluzi, brain tumour.
györgy ligeti, 83, hungarian composer.
josé leite lopes, 87, brazilian physicist.
kenneth thomson, 2nd baron thomson of fleet, 82, canadian billionaire, media mogul , art collector. possible heart attack.

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freddie gorman, 67, songwriter.
charles haughey, 80, irish former taoiseach of republic of ireland, prostate cancer.
hiroyuki iwaki, 73, japanese conductor, congestive heart failure.
luis jiménez, 65, american sculptor, crushed statue.
burke riley, 92, american lawyer , politician, alzheimer s disease.
dennis shepherd, 79, south african olympic boxer.

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monty berman, 94, british b-movie producer.
surinder kaur, 77, indian punjabi folk , classical singer known nightingale of punjab .
edward craig morris, 66, american archaeologist.
jean roba, 75, belgian comics writer

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betty curtis, 70, italian singer, winner of sanremo music festival in 1961 luciano tajoli.
raymond devos, 83, french humorist.
ján langoš, 59, slovak politician, head of nation s memory institute of slovakia (slovak)

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roland boyes, 69, british labour politician , photographer, alzheimer s disease.
barbara epstein, 76, american literary editor, co-founder of new york review of books, lung cancer.
arthur malvin, 83, american emmy award winning composer , lyricist, after long illness.
scott manning, 48, canadian athlete, builder , pilot of world s smallest jet, crash landing.
daphne osborne, 76, british botanist.
igor Śmiałowski, 88, polish actor,

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norma becker, 76, american anti-war activist, former chair of war resisters league.
cláudio besserman vianna (bussunda), 43, brazilian comedian, member of casseta & planeta, heart attack
arthur franz, 86, american character actor (sands of iwo jima, invaders mars), emphysema , heart disease.[1]
mikhail lapshin, 71, russian politician, leader of agrarian party , former president of altai republic (2002–2006), cause unknown.
bill lamb, 76, american public television executive, co-founder of wnet , former chief of kcet.
charles older, 88, american los angeles superior court judge presided on charles manson trial, complications of fall.[2]
abdul-khalim saydullayev, 38 or 39, chechen separatist rebel leader.
hiroaki shukuzawa, 55, japanese rugby union coach, heart attack.
julian slade, 76, english composer , lyricist of salad days, cancer.
bob weaver, 77, american tv florida-based weatherman known weaver weatherman on wtvj, cancer.

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luke belton, 87, irish politician.
hubert cornfield, 77, turkish film director in hollywood (“the night of following day”, “les grandes moyens” etc.).
nathaniel neiman craley, jr., 78, american politician, former democratic member of united states house of representatives (1965–67) pennsylvania.
jesus fuertes, 68, spanish painter , protégé of pablo picasso, heart attack.
chris , cru kahui, 3-months, new zealand child homicide victims.
gică petrescu, 91, romanian singer.
sir david poole, 68, british judge.
donald reilly, 72, american cartoonist (the new yorker), cancer.
rené renou, 54, french vintner.
netta rheinberg, 94, english cricketer.
vincent sherman, 99, american film director (mr. skeffington, young philadelphians), natural causes.
richard stahl, 74, american comedy actor, parkinson s disease.
madeleine st john, 64, australian novelist wrote book shortlisted booker prize in 1997, emphysema.

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hugh baird, 76, scottish footballer leeds united, aberdeen, airdrieonians , scotland.
duane roland, 53, american guitarist , founder of rock band molly hatchet.
howard shanet, 87, conductor , composer.
melvin watson, 98, american baptist minister trained martin luther king , other civil rights leaders, complications surgery
arthur yap, 64, singaporean poet, artist, , lecturer, english department, university of singapore, cancer of throat.

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maurice bevan, 85, british bass-baritone.
bill daniel, 90, american politician, former governor of guam.
evelyn dubrow, 95, women , labor advocate awarded presidential medal of freedom in 1999.
billy johnson, 87, american professional baseball player, former new york yankee , all-star third baseman, cause not given.
e. pierce marshall, 67, american businessman, son of j. howard marshall , anna nicole smith s stepson , plaintiff in inheritance feud, aggressive infection.
lamont reese, 28, american convicted murderer, executed.
william shurcliff, 97, american physicist, helped develop atomic bomb.
claydes charles smith, 57, american musician, co-founder , lead guitarist of kool , gang.

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theo bell, 52, american national football league receiver pittsburgh steelers , tampa bay buccaneers, kidney disease , scleroderma.
vern leroy bullough, 77, american medical historian, known history of nursing, cancer.
monsignor denis faul, 73, irish roman catholic priest, former chaplain @ maze prison, outspoken critic of troubles , key figure in attempts end 1981 irish hunger strike in northern ireland, cancer.
jacques lanzmann, 79, french author, editor , songwriter.
khamis al-obeidi, 39, iraqi defense lawyer saddam hussein, assassinated.
david walton, 43, british economist, member of bank of england s monetary policy committee
jonathan wordsworth, 73, english academic, scholar of romanticism , chair of wordsworth trust.

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heinz ansbacher, 101, german-born psychologist , expert in work of alfred adler.
back alley john, 51, canadian musician.
gilbert monckton, 2nd viscount monckton of brenchley, 90, british army general.
moose, 16, american canine star of u.s. sit-com frasier, played character eddie, skip on film dog skip .
chanel petro nixon, 16, american student, murder victim in brooklyn, new york.

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martin adler, 47, swedish journalist. shot unknown assailant in mogadishu, somalia.
harriet, 176, galápagos tortoise believed third oldest animal in world , allegedly owned charles darwin, heart failure.
grady johnson, 66, american wwf wrestler, known crazy luke graham; heart failure.
budhi kunderan, 66, indian cricketer, wicketkeeper/batsman, lung cancer.
basil o ferrall, 81, irish anglican priest, dean of jersey (1985–1993).
tom pelly, 70, australian rules footballer (north melbourne).
aaron spelling, 83, american television producer (charlie s angels, starsky , hutch, beverly hills, 90210), complications of stroke.

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denice denton, 46, american professor, chancellor of university of california @ santa cruz, suicide.
tichaona jokonya, 67, zimbabwean politician, information & publicity minister, cardiac arrest.
patsy ramsey, 49, american beauty pageant winner, mother of jonbenét ramsey, ovarian cancer.
lyle stuart, 83, american journalist , publisher.
gerald tomlinson, 73, american mystery , baseball writer.
ric weiland, 53, american microsoft pioneer, developed basic, cobol , microsoft works, suicide.

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elkan allan, 83, british television producer, created ready steady go! , developed first television listings uk in sunday times.
eliyahu asheri, 18, israeli civilian kidnapped , murdered militants in west bank city of ramallah.
charles barrow, 84, american former justice of texas supreme court.
richard devore, 73, american ceramicist, lung cancer.
harry elliot, 101, former professional wrestling promoter, natural causes
kenneth griffith, 84, welsh actor , documentary maker, parkinson s disease.
akbar hossain, 65, bangladeshi minister shipping , hero of 1971 bangladesh liberation war, heart attack
dr. irving kaplansky, 89, american mathematician @ university of chicago.
dibya khaling, 56, nepali musician, composer , lyricist, responsible 1,000 songs, cardiac arrest.
arif mardin, 74, turkish-american grammy award winning music producer, pancreatic cancer.
sophie maslow, 95, american choreographer.
gad navon, 84, moroccan-born former chief israeli military rabbi, cancer.
jaap penraat, 88, dutch architect , member of dutch resistance in world war ii.
seema aissen weatherwax, 100, ukrainian photographer.

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bear jj1 (bruno bear), first wild bear in germany in 170 years, shot death.
paulino díaz, 71, mexican sport shooter.
johnny jenkins, 67, american blues guitarist influenced otis redding , jimi hendrix, stroke.
lieutenant general parami kulatunga, sri lankan military officer, deputy chief of staff of sri lankan army, bomb blast.
frederick mayer, 84, german educational philosopher, creativity expert, author of history of educational thought .
eric rofes, 51, american author , aids educator, heart attack.
stan torgerson, 82, american radio announcer ole miss football , basketball games.
jeff winkless, 65, american voice actor, brain tumor

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eileen barton, 76, american singer, actress, ovarian cancer
robert carrier, 82, american celebrity chef.
j. robert elliott, 96, federal district judge overturned conviction of lt. william calley.
sir gerard mansfield, 84, british admiral.
Ángel maturino reséndiz, 46, mexican convicted serial killer, execution via lethal injection.

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jim baen, 62, american science fiction editor , publisher.
vikram dharma, 44/45, indian film stunt director.
theodore levitt, 81, german-born former editor of harvard business review , author of books on marketing, coined term globalization.
mahmoud mestiri, 77, tunisian diplomat , politician, former foreign minister
george page, 71, american television host, creator , narrator of pbs series nature.
peter rawlinson, baron rawlinson of ewell, 87, english barrister, politician , author.
fernando sanchez, 70, belgian-born fashion designer.
george unwin, 93, british pilot , raf officer, battle of britain flying ace.
lennie weinrib, 71, american actor.

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fabián bielinsky, 47, argentine film director, heart attack.
joseph edamaruku, 71, indian journalist, heart attack.
joyce hatto, 77, english classical pianist, plagiarized more 100 albums, cancer.
stanley moskowitz, 68, american cia liaison congress, heart attack.
wallace potts, 59, american film archivist rudolf nureyev foundation, lymphoma.
lloyd richards, 87, canadian-american theatre director, first black broadway director, tony award winner, heart failure.
pierre rinfret, 82, canadian-born economist , republican candidate governor of new york in 1990.
randy walker, 52, american northwestern university football coach, apparent heart attack
f. mark wyatt, 86, american cia officer, delivered bags of money swing 1948 italy election.

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robert gernhardt, 68, german satirist
edward hamilton, 89, american army officer, highly decorated army veteran during world war ii, pneumonia.
dr. harold olmo, 96, american grape breeder , geneticist.
richard streeton, 75, english journalist
ross tompkins, 68, american tonight show pianist.