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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.

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• P. W. Botha, 90, South African politician, Prime Minister (1978–1984), State President (1984–1989), heart attack. [1]
• Shane Drury, 27, American professional bull rider in the PRCA, Ewing's sarcoma. [2]
• William Franklyn, 81, English actor, prostate cancer. [3]
• Peter Fryer, 79, English journalist who reported on the Hungarian Revolution. [4]
• Michael Genovese, 87, American alleged Mafia boss of Pittsburgh. [5]
• Mabel Grosvenor, 101, Canadian physician and granddaughter of Alexander Graham Bell. [6]
• Nicholas John Vine Hall, 62, Australian genealogist, cancer. [7]
• Dr. George B. Thomas Jr., 92, American mathematician and author. [8]

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• Clifford Geertz, 80, American cultural anthropologist, complications following heart surgery. [9]
• Jens Christian Hauge, 91, Norwegian WWII resistance leader, and first postwar defence minister, natural causes. [10] [11]
• Stephen Kaye, 75, American lawyer and author, cancer. [12]
• Cesar Nazareno, 65, Filipino former head of the Philippine National Police, aneurysm. [13]
• Ian Rilen, 58, Australian bass player (Rose Tattoo), bladder cancer. [14]
• Aud Schønemann, 83, Norwegian actress best known for comedy roles. [15] (Norwegian)
• Mose Tolliver, 82, Alabaman folk artist, pneumonia.[16]
• Junji Kinoshita, 92, Japanese playwright, pneumonia [17]

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• Nigel Kneale, 84, English scriptwriter (The Quatermass Experiment), stroke. [18]
• Mohammadu Maccido, 78, Sultan of Sokoto, spiritual leader of Nigeria's Muslims, aeroplane crash. [19]
• Silas Simmons, 111, American Negro league baseball player, oldest known professional baseball player in history. [20] [21]
• Friedel Stern, 89, German-born Israeli cartoonist. [22]

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• Amr Ibrahim,7,Egyptian child
• Robert Anderson, 85, American president and chairman of Rockwell International Corporation. [23]
• Red Auerbach, 89, American coach of the Boston Celtics (1950–1966), heart attack. [24]
• Tina Aumont, 60, French actress, pulmonary embolism. [25] (Italian)
• György Bence, 64, Hungarian philosopher. [26] (Hungarian)
• Trevor Berbick, 51, Jamaican former heavyweight boxing champion and last boxer to face Muhammad Ali, homicide. [27]
• Brian Brolly, 70, British co-manager of Wings (1973-78), Managing Director of Really Useful Group (1978-88), co-founder of Classic FM, heart attack. [28]
• Henry Fok, 83, Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist, and CCPPC official, lymphoma. [29]
• Richard Gilman, 83, American drama and literary critic, lung cancer. [30]
• Peter Gingold, 90, German anti-fascist. [31] (German)
• Jack McGinley, 85, American businessman, part owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, cancer. [32]
• Marijohn Wilkin, 86, American country songwriter, a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, heart failure. [33]

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• John Raymond Broadbent, 92, Australian Army officer and distinguished lawyer. [34]
• Ephraim Chamba, 71, Zimbabwean broadcaster, car accident. [35]
• József Gregor, 66, Hungarian opera singer (bass) and father of actress Bernadett Gregor. [36] [37]
• Thomas Russell Jones, 93, African-American New York state assemblyman and judge. [38]
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan, 91, Pakistani former President, pneumonia. [39]
• Humphrey Khoza, 58, South African businessman who set up the country's national lottery, car crash. [40]
• Marlin McKeever, 66, former American football player, head injuries from a fall. [41]
• Joe Niekro, 61, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain aneurysm. [42]
• Muhammad Qasim, 32, goalkeeper for the Pakistani field hockey team, cancer. [43]
• Albrecht von Goertz, 92, German-born American automobile designer. [44]
• Bradley Roland Will, 36, American Indymedia reporter, shot dead whilst covering a Mexican teachers' strike. [45]

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• Gary Coull, 52, Canadian journalist, and co-founder of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange brokerage CLSA, cancer. [46] [47]
• Rogério Duprat, 74, Brazilian composer, cancer. [48] (Portuguese)
• Tillman Franks, 86, American bassist, songwriter and country music manager, natural causes. [49]
• Michel Habib-Deloncle, 84, French politician, former Secretary of State. [50]
• Ralph R. Harding, 77, former Idaho congressman. [51]
• Pontus Hultén, 82, Swedish art collector and pioneering museum director. [52] (Swedish)
• John Kentish, 96, English operatic tenor.[53]
• Charlie Leigh, 60, American kick returner for unbeaten 1972 Miami Dolphins, lung cancer. [54]
• Kojima Nobuo, 91, Japanese author, pneumonia. [55] (Japanese)
• Theodore Taylor, 85, American writer best known for The Cay, heart attack. [56]

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• Gerrard Haworth, 95, founder of office furniture company Haworth. [57]
• Bernice Kanner, 57, American advertising columnist and journalist, aneurysm. [58] [59]
• Edward Kenney, Sr., 85, baseball executive in the Boston Red Sox farm system from 1949-91, complications of diabetes.[60]
• Kintaro Ohki, known professionally as Kim Il, 77, South Korean World Wrestling Association champion, heart attack. [61]
• Daniel Rolling, 52, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [62]
• Robert Rosenberg, 54, Israeli author, cancer. [63]
• Gregory Summers, 48, convicted U.S. murderer, executed by lethal injection.[64]
• Tom Wagoner, 75, responsible for springing open the starting gates each year at the Kentucky Derby. [65]

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• David Conn, 56, District Attorney in the Menendez Brothers trial, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [66]
• Ray Johnson, 72, former CFL and Western Mustangs player and coach. [67]
• Sally Lilienthal, 87, American disarmament activist, founder of the Ploughshares Fund, pneumonia following a bone infection. [68] [69]
• Jeffrey Lundgren, 56, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [70]
• Enolia McMillan, 102, American civil rights activist, first female president of the NAACP, heart failure. [71]
• Benjamin Meed, 88, Polish-born president and co-founder of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. [72]
• Jack Radtke, 93, American baseball player [73]
• Rafael Ramírez Heredia, 67, Mexican writer, lung cancer [74]
• William Montgomery Watt, 97, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. [75]
• Daisy (dog), 13, Rudolph Moshammer's dog, often appeared together in the media. [76]

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• Leonid Hambro, 86, American concert pianist. [77]
• Dr. Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, 91, American doctor and abortion rights advocate, the only doctor ever convicted in the US of performing an abortion in a hospital. [78]
• Charles Horton, 81, founder of Physicians for Peace, cancer. [79]
• Bruno Lauzi, 69, Italian singer and composer, Parkinson's disease. [80] (Italian)
• Lawrence W. Levine, 73, American cultural historian, cancer. [81]
• Lebo Mathosa, 29, South African singer, car accident. [82]
• Mary Murray, 81, Massachusetts Republican representative between 1976 and 2000, cancer. [83]
• Jack E. Scholl, 80, former head of Dr. Scholl's and executive director of the Dr. Scholl Foundation. [84]
• Todd Skinner, 48, pioneering free climber, climbing accident. [85] [86]
• Rein Strikwerda, 76, Dutch doctor and knee injury specialist. [87]

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• Nelson de la Rosa, 38, Dominican actor, "World's Shortest Man" in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records, Unknown Causes. [88] [89]
• Lucho DeCastro, Touring car driver, air crash. [90]
• Masayuki Fujio, 89, former Japanese Minister of Education. [91]
• Choe Gyuha, 87, former South Korean president. [92]
• Arthur Hill, 84, Canadian Tony Award-winning actor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Alzheimer's disease. [93] [94]
• Lembit Lauri, 77, Estonian journalist
• Mancs, 12, Hungarian rescue dog with the Spider Special Rescue Team of Miskolc, pneumonia [95]
• William Marquard, 86, former CEO of American Standard Companies. [96]
• Richard Mayes, 83, English stage and television actor.
• Michael Mayne, 77, English clergyman, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986–1996), cancer of the jaw. [97]
• Manoj Punj, 36 Indian director. [98]
• Arnold Sundgaard, 96, American lyricist, librettist and playwright. [99]

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• Peter Barkworth, 77, British actor, bronchopneumonia following a stroke. [100][101]
• Paul Biegel, 81, Dutch writer of children's literature. [102] (Dutch)
• Pye Chamberlayne, 68, American radio journalist, heart attack. [103]
• Daryl Duke, 77, Canadian film director (The Thorn Birds), pulmonary fibrosis. [104]
• Nersi Gorgia, 68, Iranian film actor. [105]
• Bryan Hipp, Diabolic and Cradle of Filth guitarist, unknown [106]
• Bob Mann, 82, American football player, one of the Detroit Lions' first black players. [107]
• Arthur Peacocke, 81, English scientist and theologian. [108]
• Milton Selzer, 87, American actor. [109]
• Erik Walker, 23, Tampa Bay Devil Rays minor league pitcher, drowning. [110]
• Paul Walters, 59, BBC radio and TV producer. [111]
• Sandy West, 47, drummer and vocalist with The Runaways, lung cancer. [112]

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• Maxi Baier, 86, German figure skater, gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Parkinson's disease. [113]
• Don Burroughs, 75, American football player from 1955–1964, cancer. [114]
• Takuya Fujioka (藤岡琢也), 76, Japanese actor (Daikichi Okakura in the Japanese soap opera Wataru Seken wa oni Bakari). [115]
• Princess Irene Galitzine, 90, Russian-born Italian fashion designer. [116] [117]
• Ted Johnson, 72, founder and former president of the World of Outlaws, lung cancer. [118]
• Dr. Lawrence Kolb, 95, American psychiatrist, leader in community mental health movement, natural causes. [119]
• Eric Newby, 86, British travel writer, natural causes. [120]
• Mary Gay Taylor, 71, radio journalist for WCBS-AM. [121]
• Jane Wyatt, 96, American actress (Father Knows Best), natural causes. [122]

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• Ralph Harris, Baron Harris of High Cross, 81, British founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and life peer, heart attack. [123]
• Dr. Arthur Holleb, 85, American surgical oncologist and educator, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society. [124]
• Phyllis Kirk, 79, American actress (House of Wax, The Thin Man), post cerebral aneurysm. [125] [126]
• Ernest Maftei, 86, Romanian actor, lung cancer. [127]
• Dr. Leonard Pepkowitz, 91, American chemist and advisor to the Atomic Energy Commission. [128]
• Srividya, 53, Indian actress, cancer. [129]

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• Don R. Christensen, 90, American animator and cartoonist. [130]
• Oberia Coffin, 122?, American woman who may have been world's oldest person. [131]
• Marc Hodler, 87, Swiss president of the International Ski Federation from 1951–1998, IOC whistleblower, stroke. [132]
• Dr. Edithe Levit, 79, American doctor and educator, former president of the National Board of Medical Examiners. [133]
• Achille Millo, 84, Italian actor. [134] (Italian)
• Lisa Norris, 16, Scottish teenage cancer patient and accidental overdose victim [135]
• Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda, 77, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature from 1999–2004, brain hemorrhage. [136] [137] (German)
• Anna Russell, 94, British/Canadian comedian and classical music satirist. [138] [139]
• Spoony Singh, 83, Indian born founder of the Hollywood Wax Museum. [140] [141]
• Alvin M. Weinberg, 91, American Manhattan Project scientist and former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [142] [143]

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• Daniel Emilfork, 82, French actor (The City of Lost Children). [144]
• Miriam Engelberg, 48, American graphic author (Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person), metastatic breast cancer. [145]
• Christopher Glenn, 68, American CBS News radio and television news anchor, liver cancer. [146] [147]
• Ursula Moray Williams, 95, English children's author. [148]
• Sandra Regina Arantes do Nascimento, 42, Brazilian politician, daughter of footballer Pelé, breast cancer. [149]
• Lieuwe Steiger, 82, goalkeeper for PSV Eindhoven (1942–1957, 1959) and the Netherlands (1953–1954), natural causes. [150] (Dutch)
• Marcia Tucker, 66, American curator, founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. [151]

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• Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977–1987), MEP for Leinster (1984–2004), lung cancer. [152]
• Ross Davidson, 57, former EastEnders actor, brain tumor. [153]
• Sid Davis, 90, American educational filmmaker, lung cancer. [154] [155]
• Richard Duvall, 44, British co-founder of Egg Banking plc and Zopa, cancer. [156]
• Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974–1992). [157]
• Harold Gardner, 107, WWI veteran, served a single day prior to the November 11 armistice. [158]
• Tommy Johnson, 71, session musician best known for his work on the Jaws theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure. [159]
• Dr. John Murra, 90, Ukranian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar. [160]
• Valentín Paniagua, 70, former president of Peru, complications from heart surgery. [161]
• Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster, pulmonary embolism. [162]
• Ernie Steele, 88, played in two NFL championship games for the Philadelphia Eagles. [163]
• Sigmund Strochlitz, 89, Polish Holocaust survivor and co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. [164]
• Trebisonda "Ondina" Valla, 90, first Italian female Olympic champion, 80m hurdles, 1936, natural causes. [165]
• Anatoly Voronin, 55, the business chief of Russian Itar-TASS news agency, apparent murder [166]

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• Derek Bond, 86, British actor (Callan, Scott of the Antarctic). [167]
• William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages. [168]
• Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoons editor for Playboy. [169]

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• Marja Bakker, 59, Dutch-born organizer of the Boston Marathon, only female president of the Boston Athletic Association Running Club. [170]
• James Barr, 82, Scottish Hebrew Bible scholar. [171]
• Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox and silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer. [172] [173] (Dutch)
• Gino Empry, 83, Canadian entertainment publicist and promoter. [174]
• Freddy Fender, 69, Mexican-American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), lung cancer. [175]
• Thomas Hlongwane, former South African football (soccer) player, cancer. [176]
• Herbert Leonard, 84, American TV and movie producer (Route 66, Naked City, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin). [177] [178] [179]
• Soni Pabla, 26, Punjabi singer, collapsed on stage during concert of a suspected heart attack
• Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed theologian. [180]
• Gerry Studds, 69, first openly homosexual U.S. Congressman, Democratic Representative for Massachusetts (1973–1997), pulmonary embolism. [181][182]

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• Bernard Allen, 69, North Carolina General Assembly member. [183]
• Mason Andrews, 87, delivered first test tube baby in the United States; former mayor of Norfolk, Virginia. [184]
• Deborah Blumer, 64, Massachusetts State Representative, heart attack. [185] [186]
• Petra Cabot, 99, American designer, created the Skotch Kooler, natural causes. [187] [188]
• Mayme Clayton, 83, black history archivist, pancreatic cancer. [189]
• Pál Kállai, 73, Hungarian jockey. [190]
• Dino Cardinal Monduzzi, 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household from 1986–1998. [191]
• Edward Newlands, 64, Scottish oncologist, pioneered etoposide to improve the treatment of testicular and ovarian cancers, temozolomide for astrocytoma. [192]
• Dr. S. Peter Rosen, 73, British-American physicist. [193]
• Hilda Terry, 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip Teena. [194]
• Wang Guangmei, 85, wife of late Chinese Communist leader Liu Shaoqi. [195]

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• Todd Bolender, 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet. [196]
• Johnny Callison, 67, American Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star outfielder with the Phillies. [197] [198]
• Samuel B. Casey, Jr., 78, American CEO of Pullman Inc.
• Hermann Eilts, 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1965-70). [199]
• Dr. Saul Farber, 88, American dean of the New York University Medical School, complications from circulatory problems. [200]
• Richard Hunter, 60, Ngarrindjeri elder and South Australian citizen of the year. [201]
• Eugène Martin, 91, driver in very first Grand Prix. [202] (French)
• Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Italian film director (The Battle of Algiers), congestive heart failure. [203]

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• Sir Victor Goodhew, 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans (1959–1983). [204]
• Klaus Hiendl, 62, German businessman, injuries from a car crash. [205]
• Howard Kerzner, 42, South African resort developer, CEO of Kerzner International Ltd., helicopter crash. [206][207]
• Cory Lidle, 34, American baseball pitcher with the New York Yankees, plane crash. [208] [209]
• Benito Martínez, 126?, claimant to the title of world's oldest person. [210]
• Sir Robert Megarry, 96, British Judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (1982–1985). [211]
• Jimmy Peters, 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens and the Detroit Red Wings. [212]
• Eddie Pellagrini, 88, American baseball player and coach at Boston College. [213]
• Sheikh Raad Mutar Saleh, Mandaean leader in Iraq, assassination.[214]
• Norman Salsitz, 86, Polish-born resistance fighter, Holocaust survivor, and author. [215]
• Jacques Sternberg, 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer. [216] (French)
• John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy. [217]

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• Norsehah Abu Bakar, 44, Malaysian singer, lung cancer. [218]
• Jerry Belson, 68, Emmy-winning American television comedy writer (The Tracey Ullman Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show), prostate cancer. [219] [220]
• Francis Berry, 91, English poet and literary critic. [221]
• Harold Farb, 83, developer who expanded Houston by more than 30,000 apartments over the course of his career, heart attack. [222].
• Josie Orr, 85, former first lady of Indiana as wife of Gov. Robert D. Orr. [223]
• Robert Richenburg, 89, abstract expressionist painter. [224]
• Ian Scott, 72, former Attorney-General of Ontario. [225]
• Edgar Summerlin, 78, American tenor saxophonist and composer of jazz church music. [226]
• Lalit Suri, 59, Indian hotelier and parliamentarian, heart attack. [227]

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• Sedat Alp, 93, first archaeologist in Turkey to specialize in Hittitology. [228] (Turkish)
• Haris Charalambous, 21, University of Toledo basketball player. [229]
• Jacqueline-Charlotte Dufresnoy (known as Coccinelle), 75, French transsexual singer, stroke. [230] (French)
• Reg Freeson, 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government (1974–1979). [231]
• Jeff Getty, 49, AIDS activist and first recipient of a cross-species bone marrow transplant, heart failure. [232] [233]
• Marek Grechuta, 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist. [234] (Polish)
• Danièle Huillet, 70, French filmmaker, cancer. [235]
• Paul Hunter, 27, English snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours. [236]
• Dr Nelson Leonard, 90, American bioorganic chemist and chloroquine researcher. [237]
• Sheldon Meyer, 80, American historian and editor at Oxford University Press. [238]
• Mario Moya Palencia, 73, Mexican politician and diplomat (Interior Minister, 1969–1976), heart attack. [239]
• Glenn Myernick, 51, assistant coach of the United States men's national soccer team, heart attack. [240]
• Raymond Noorda, 82, American computer executive, former CEO of Novell.