:Deaths in June 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2006.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
June 2006
= 1 =
- Radu Bălescu, 73, Romanian scientist.{{cite web |url=http://www.jet.efda.org/pages/content/news/2006/060602balescu.html |title=Professor Emeritus Radu Balescu - Obituary |date=2 June 2006 |website=EFDA-JET |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070411154850/http://www.jet.efda.org/pages/content/news/2006/060602balescu.html |archive-date=11 April 2007}}
- Frederick S. Billig, 73, American aerospace engineer.[https://www.nae.edu/30082/Dr-Frederick-S-Billig Dr. Frederick S. Billig]
- Shokichi Iyanaga, 100, Japanese mathematician.{{cite web |url=http://www.mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1397642&tstart=0 |last=Becker |first=Jerry P. |date=13 June 2006 |title=Sad News - S. Iyanaga [Japan] |website=The Math Forum |publisher=National Council of Teachers of Mathematics |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Rocío Jurado, 61, Spanish singer and actress, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jun/02/guardianobituaries.mainsection2 |last=Eaude |first=Michael |date=2 June 2006 |title=Rocío Jurado: Flamboyant Spanish singer, she lived her life in the public eye |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Allan Prior, 84, British television scriptwriter (Z-Cars, Howards' Way, The Charmer), father of folk singer Maddy Prior.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2212111,00.html |date=6 June 2006 |title=Allan Prior |newspaper=The Times |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604041937/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article671954.ece |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
- Abdul Latif Sharif, 59, Egyptian chemist, suspect in the femicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, officially of natural causes, rumored poisoning.
- Jack Shelton, 82, Australian cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/7601.html |title=Jack Shelton |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- William D. Winn, 59, American professor of education at the University of Washington.{{cite web |url=http://depts.washington.edu/coe/calendar/event_detail.php?month=06&year=2006&id=410 |title=Memorial for Bill Winn |date=7 June 2006 |website=University of Washington |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060617122516/http://depts.washington.edu/coe/calendar/event_detail.php?month=06&year=2006&id=410 |archive-date=17 June 2006}}
= 2 =
- Ronald Cass, 83, British film score composer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ronnie-cass-410191.html |last=Vosburgh |first=Dick |author-link=Dick Vosburgh |date=1 August 2006 |title=Ronnie Cass: Unstoppable composer |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=22 April 2018}}
- Roy Farran, 85, British army officer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1520303/Major-Roy-Farran.html |title=Major Roy Farran |date=5 June 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Bernard Loomis, 82, American toymaker responsible for Strawberry Shortcake and Star Wars action figures, heart disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/business/06loomis.html |title=Bernard Loomis, 82, Dies; Made Toys TV Stars |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=6 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Leon Pownall, 63, Canadian actor, cancer.{{Cite web |url=http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Pownall%252C%2520Leon |title=Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia |website=www.canadiantheatre.com |access-date=2019-08-25}}
- Vince Welnick, 55, American keyboardist, member of The Grateful Dead, suicide by exsanguination.{{cite news |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14732260.htm |last=Wykes |first=Sara |date=2 June 2006 |title=Grateful Dead keyboard player Vince Welnick dies |newspaper=The Mercury News |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060620043013/http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14732260.htm |archive-date=20 June 2006}}
- Edward Yates, 87, American television director, director of American Bandstand (1952–1969).{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060606/ap_en_tv/obit_yates_1 |date=6 June 2006 |title='American Bandstand' director dies |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618101516/https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060606/ap_en_tv/obit_yates_1 |archive-date=June 18, 2006}}
- Vyacheslav Klykov, 66, Russian sculptor and nationalist politician.{{cite web |url=http://www.lenta.ru/news/2006/06/02/klykov/ |title=Умер скульптор Вячеслав Клыков |date=2 June 2006 |website=Lenta.ru |language=ru |access-date=24 April 2018}}
= 3 =
- Leo Clarke, 82, Australian Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland–Newcastle, Australia, 1976-1995.{{cite news |url=http://cathnews.acu.edu.au/606/32.php |date=6 June 2006 |title=Death of Maitland-Newcastle's Bishop Leo Clarke |website=Catholic News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Brian Duke, 79, Ugandan-born tropical disease expert who helped to save millions from river blindness.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2247839,00.html |date=29 June 2006 |title=Brian Duke |newspaper=The Times |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604044342/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article680688.ece |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
- Johnny Grande, 76, American pianist, member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets. Complications arising from cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/johnny-grande-481221.html |date=5 June 2006 |title=Johnny Grande: Original member of Bill Haley and His Comets |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- George Kashdan, 78, American comic book writer and editor (House of Mystery, Aquaman, Sgt. Rock).{{cite web |url=http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_06_08.html#011611 |title=George Kashdan, R.I.P. |last=Evanier |first=Mark |date=8 June 2006 |website=News From Me |access-date=24 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060617002507/http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_06_08.html |archive-date=17 June 2006}}
- Doug Serrurier, 85, South African former Grand Prix racing driver and constructor.{{cite web |url=https://www.iol.co.za/motoring/bikes/sa-racing-legend-dies-864174 |title=SA racing legend dies |date=6 June 2006 |website=IOL |access-date=24 April 2018}}
= 4 =
- Alec Bregonzi, 76, British actor.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jun/09/guardianobituaries.mainsection |title=Alec Bregonzi |first=David |last=McGillivray |date=8 June 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Bill Fleming, 92, American MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs[https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/ad2fc332 Society for American Baseball Research]
- Ron Jones, 41, American Major League Baseball player, brain hemorrhage.{{cite news |url=http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/sports/14796440.htm |date=12 June 2006 |title=Phillies Notes: Sad news |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060623182424/http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/sports/14796440.htm |archive-date=June 23, 2006}}
- Richard Kapp, 69, American conductor and founder of the Philharmonia Virtuosi.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/arts/music/06kapp.html |title=Richard Kapp, 69, Innovative Conductor, Is Dead |first=Daniel J. |last=Wakin |date=6 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- John Kerr, 46, British footballer (Tranmere Rovers).{{cite news |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mourners+pay+tribute+to+academy+boss+Kerr.-a0147323452 |last=Phillips |first=Terry |date=21 June 2006 |title=Mourners pay tribute to academy boss Kerr |newspaper=South Wales Echo |access-date=24 April 2018 |via=TheFreeLibrary}}
- Fulvia Mammi, 79, Italian actress (Against the Law).{{cite news|last1=Jenner Meletti|title=Se n' è andata Fulvia Mammi l' anima vera della Lyda Borelli|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2006/06/06/se-andata-fulvia-mammi-anima.html?ref=search|accessdate=25 July 2022|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=6 June 2006|pages=1, 5}}
- Anthony Marreco, 90, British barrister, junior Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials and founding member of Amnesty International.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1520491/Anthony-Marreco.html |date=7 June 2006 |title=Anthony Marreco |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Sir John Rowlands, 90, British air marshal and George Cross recipient.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jun/29/guardianobituaries.secondworldwar |title=Air Marshall Sir John Rowlands, GC |first=Diana |last=Condell |date=28 June 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- William M. Steger, 85, United States district court judge and Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1960.{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3928456.html |title=Federal judge Steger dies in Tyler |date=5 June 2006 |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |access-date=24 April 2018}}
= 5 =
- Frederick Franck, 97, Dutch artist, author, and dentist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/nyregion/18franck.html |title=Frederick Franck, Who Explored Spirituality Through Art, Dies at 97 |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=18 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Elizabeth Fretwell, 85, Australian opera singer best known for her performances with the Sadler's Wells company.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elizabeth-fretwell-6095809.html |last=Forbes |first=Elizabeth |author-link=Elizabeth Forbes (musicologist) |date=9 July 2006 |title=Elizabeth Fretwell: Sadler's Wells prima donna |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Eric Gregg, 55, American former Major League Baseball umpire, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/sports/06gregg.html |title=Eric Gregg, Umpire Who Battled Weight Problems, Dies at 55 |first=Richard |last=Goldstein |date=6 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Edward L. Moyers, 77, American railroad executive.{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/06/08/moyers-jr-edward-l/ |title=Moyers Jr., Edward L. |date=8 June 2006 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Robert Ross, 86, American leader of the Muscular Dystrophy Association for 44 years and persuaded Jerry Lewis to undertake a yearly telethon to raise money for muscular dystrophy, complications of broken hip.{{cite news |url=http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/132482.php |title=Ross, MDA leader for 44 years, dies at 86 |first1=Richard |last1=Ducote |first2=Ken |last2=Sweet |newspaper=Arizona Daily Star |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060626034432/http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/132482.php |archive-date=26 June 2006}}
- Harley Rutledge, 80, American physicist and ufologist.{{cite news |url=http://www.semissourian.com/story/1155552.html |title=Area UFO expert Dr. Harley Rutledge, 80, dies |first=T.J. |last=Greaney |date=6 June 2006 |newspaper=Southeast Missourian |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Huda Sultan, 80, Egyptian actress, cancer.[https://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2006/06/200841015213400942.html Leading Egyptian actress dies]
= 6 =
- Leslie Alcock, 81, British pioneer of Dark Age archaeology, led the team that excavated Cadbury Castle.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1521284/Professor-Leslie-Alcock.html |title=Professor Leslie Alcock |date=15 June 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- María Teresa López Boegeholz, 78, Chilean oceanographer.{{cite journal|title=OBITUARIO: María Teresa López Boegeholz|journal=Gayana (Concepción)|date=2006|volume=70|issue=2|doi=10.4067/S0717-65382006000200001|doi-access=free}}
- Arnold Newman, 88, American photographer who pioneered "environmental portraiture".{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/arts/07newman.html |title=Arnold Newman, Portrait Photographer Who Captured the Essence of His Subjects, Dies at 88 |first=Andy |last=Grundberg |date=7 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Billy Preston, 59, American musician ("You Are So Beautiful", "Nothing from Nothing") known for his work with the Beatles, malignant hypertension leading to kidney failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/arts/07preston.html |title=Billy Preston, 59, Soul Musician, Is Dead; Renowned Keyboardist and Collaborator |first=Jon |last=Pareles |date=7 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Hilton Ruiz, 54, American jazz pianist, injuries from a fall.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/arts/music/07ruiz.html |title=Hilton Ruiz, 54, Pianist Fluent in Jazz and Latin Rhythms, Dies |first=Peter |last=Keepnews |date=7 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Léon Weil, 109, French World War I veteran.{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060607/ap_on_re_eu/obit_weil |date=7 June 2006 |title=French World War I vet dies at 109 |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618101253/https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060607/ap_on_re_eu/obit_weil |archive-date=18 June 2006}}
- Jason Moss, 31, American attorney and author of the book "The Last Victim"{{cite web |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LVRB&p_theme=lvrb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=Best-selling%20AND%20author%20AND%20of%20AND%20book%20AND%20on%20AND%20serial%20AND%20killers&s_dispstring=Best-selling%20author%20of%20book%20on%20serial%20killers%20AND%20date(1/1/2006%20to%201/1/2007)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=1/1/2006%20to%201/1/2007)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no |last=Kalil |first=M. |date=13 June 2006 |title=Best-selling author of book on serial killer kills himself |newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal |access-date=20 October 2011}}
= 7 =
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 39, Jordanian leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/08/iraq.al.zarqawi/index.html |title=U.S. military: Al-Zarqawi was alive after bombing |date=9 June 2006 |website=CNN |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman, spiritual adviser for Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/Iraq/Story/0,,1793028,00.html |title=Zarqawi death a 'significant blow' to al-Qaida |date=8 June 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Roy Brain, 79, Australian cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4196.html |title=Roy Brain |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Terry McCann, 74, American wrestler, olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling and helped found USA Wrestling, and retired Executive Director of Toastmasters International, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://sport.monstersandcritics.com/othersport/article_1171262.php/Olympic_wrestling_gold_medalist_dies |title=Olympic wrestling gold medalist dies |date=9 June 2006 |website=Monsters and Critics |access-date=1 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618124321/http://sport.monstersandcritics.com/othersport/article_1171262.php/Olympic_wrestling_gold_medalist_dies |archive-date=18 June 2006}}
- Ingo Preminger, 95, Austrian-born American Hollywood talent agent and producer (M*A*S*H), brother of Otto Preminger.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/arts/14preminger.html |title=Ingo Preminger, 95, Talent Agent, Dies |date=14 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}{{cite news |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14798472.htm |date=18 June 2006 |title=Ingo Preminger, "MASH" producer and literary agent, dies at 95 |newspaper=The Mercury News |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619043747/http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14798472.htm |archive-date=19 June 2006}}
- Mickey Sims, 51, American football defensive tackle, former player with the Cleveland Browns, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.cleveland.com/obituary/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1150187415278170.xml&coll=2 |title=Mickey Sims |website=Cleveland.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607074614/http://www.cleveland.com/obituary/plaindealer/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fnews%2F1150187415278170.xml&coll=2 |archive-date=7 June 2011}}
- Louis B. Sohn, 92, Ukrainian-born scholar of international law, helped draft the UN Charter.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR2006061301542.html |title=International Law Expert Louis Sohn |first=Patricia |last=Sullivan |date=14 June 2006 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- John Tenta (aka "Earthquake"), 42, Canadian professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation, bladder cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/tenta |title=John "Earthquake" Tenta passes away |date=7 June 2006 |website=World Wrestling Entertainment |access-date=1 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060708072036/http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/tenta |archive-date=8 July 2006}}
= 8 =
- Jake Copass, 86, American cowboy poet, leukemia.{{cite news |url=http://www.lompocrecord.com/articles/2006/06/11/news/news05.txt |title=S.Y.'s Jake Copass, The Last Cowboy, dies |first=Pamela |last=Dozois |date=11 June 2006 |newspaper=Lompoc Record |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Robert Donner, 75, American actor (Mork & Mindy, The Waltons, High Plains Drifter), aneurysm.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/robert-donner-1200337875/ |title=Robert Donner |date=12 June 2006 |magazine=Variety |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Jack Jackson (nom de plume Jaxon), 65, American comic book artist and co-founder of Rip Off Press.{{cite web |url=http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/jack_jackson_1941_2006/ |title=Jack Jackson, 1941-2006 |first=Tom |last=Spurgeon |author-link=Tom Spurgeon |date=10 June 2006 |website=The Comics Reporter |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Mykola Kolessa, 102, Ukrainian composer and conductor.{{cite web |url=http://www.ukrainianstudies.org/aaus-list/0606/msg00008.html |title=Composer Mykola Kolessa deceased |date=12 June 2006 |website=Ukrainian Studies.org |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Abouna Matta El Meskeen, 87, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk, Spiritual Father of St. Macarius' Monastery in the Wilderness of Scetis, Egypt.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/fr-matta-el-meskeen-6096971.html |last=Watson |first=John H. |date=26 June 2006 |title=Fr Matta El Meskeen: Radical Coptic Orthodox monk |newspaper=The Independent|access-date=24 April 2018}}
- John Roberts, 72, Australian businessman, founder of Australian construction company Multiplex, Complications of diabetes.{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/Multiplex-founder-John-Roberts-dies/2006/06/08/1149359869353.html |title=Multiplex founder John Roberts dies |date=8 June 2006 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Jamal Abu Samhadana, Palestinian leader of PA / Hamas forces in Gaza Strip and PRC. Killed by Israeli air strike.{{cite web |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3260670,00.html |title=IAF strike kills top PA official |date=9 June 2006 |website=Ynetnews |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Talcott Seelye, 84, United States Foreign Service Officer and ambassador to Tunisia and Syria.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/us/15seelye.html |title=T. W. Seelye, 84, Ambassador and Mideast Expert, Dies |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=15 June 2006 |newspaper=New York Times|access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Sir Peter Smithers, 92, British politician, MP for Winchester and Secretary General of the Council of Europe.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1520841/Sir-Peter-Smithers.html |title=Sir Peter Smithers |date=10 June 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=24 April 2018}}
= 9 =
- Kinga Choszcz aka "Freespirit", Polish author (Led By Destiny: Hitchhiking Around the World), cerebral malaria.{{cite web |url=http://www.kingafreespirit.pl:80/kingaen/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=22&Itemid=36 |title=On the camel to haven |date=27 June 2006 |website=Kinga Freespirit |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218030455/http://www.kingafreespirit.pl/kingaen/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=22&Itemid=36 |archive-date=2007-02-18 }}
- Drafi Deutscher, 60, German singer.
- Michael Forrestall, 73, Canadian senator, died following hospitalization for breathing problems.{{Cite news |date=9 June 2006 |title=Senator Forrestall dies at 73 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/senator-forrestall-dies-at-73-1.582963 |access-date=24 April 2018 |work=CBC News}}
- Patricia Janus, 74, American poet, heart attack brought on by liver cancer.
- Enzo Siciliano, 72, Italian writer, diabetes mellitus.{{cite news |url=http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2006/06_Giugno/09/siciliano.shtml |title=Morto a Roma lo scrittore Enzo Siciliano |date=9 June 2006 |newspaper=Corriere della Sera |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Vern Williams, 76, American bluegrass mandolin player and singer.{{cite web |url=http://www.cybergrass.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1953 |title=Tribute to Vern Williams |first=Laurie |last=Lewis |date=10 June 2006 |website=Cybergrass |access-date=3 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061103080722/http://www.cybergrass.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1953 |archive-date=3 November 2006}}
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- Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi, 72, Yemeni politician, former President of North Yemen.{{cite news |url=http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=954&p=front&a=2 |title=Former North Yemen president Al-Arashi dies |date=27 September 2007 |newspaper=Yemen Times |access-date=24 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927022547/http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=954&p=front&a=2 |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2007}}
- Hubertus Czernin, 50, Austrian journalist who helped return paintings looted by the Nazis, mastocytosis.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/arts/16czernin.html |title=Hubertus Czernin, 50, Reporter Who Helped Recover Stolen Art |date=16 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Moe Drabowsky, 70, Polish-born American Major League Baseball player, multiple myeloma.{{cite news |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-sp.drabowsky11jun11-story.html |title=O's Series hero was prankster, too |first=Bill |last=Ordine |date=11 June 2006 |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- German Goldenshteyn, 71, Bessarabian-born clarinetist and klezmer musician.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/arts/16goldenshteyn.html |title=German Goldenshteyn, 71, Clarinetist and Keeper of the Klezmer Flame, Dies |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=16 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Wulff-Dieter Heintz, 76, German astronomer at Swarthmore College.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/us/18heintz.html |title=W. D. Heintz, 76, Dies; Studied Double Stars |date=18 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Kenneth Jack, 81, Australian artist.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kenneth-jack-6097792.html |title=Kenneth Jack: Artist who recorded a vanishing world in the Australian outback |first=Simon |last=Fenwick |date=18 June 2006 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Charles Johnson, 96, American Negro league baseball player for the Chicago American Giants, complications of prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-19-me-passings19.1-story.html |title=Charles Johnson, 96; Former Player in the Negro Leagues |date=19 June 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Peter Douglas Kennedy, 83, British folklorist.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jun/19/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries |title=Peter Kennedy |first=Derek |last=Schofield |date=19 June 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Philip Merrill, 72, American publisher and diplomat, suicide by gunshot.{{cite web |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2006/06/trustee-philip-merrill-55-presumed-dead-sailing-accident |title=Philip Merrill '55, publisher, statesman, philanthropist, is presumed dead in sailing accident |first=Lauren |last=Gold |date=15 June 2006 |newspaper=Cornell Chronicle |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Ruddy Thomas, 54, Jamaican singer, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060612/ent/ent2.html |title=JCDC finalist Ruddy Thomas dies on stage |first=Teino |last=Evans |date=12 June 2006 |newspaper=The Gleaner |access-date=1 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060701060249/http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060612/ent/ent2.html |archive-date=1 July 2006}}
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- Michael Bartosh, 28, American Mac OS X Server expert, injuries from a fall.{{cite web |url=http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/06/12/bartosh/index.php |title=Mac author Michael Bartosh dies |first=Peter |last=Cohen |date=12 June 2006 |website=Macworld |access-date=24 April 2018 |archive-date=July 2, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060702165636/http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/06/12/bartosh/index.php |url-status=dead }}
- Ernest Arthur Bell, 79, British biochemist, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1522389/Arthur-Bell.html |title=Arthur Bell |date=27 June 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- James Cameron, 92, American civil rights activist, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum, lymphoma.{{cite news |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060611/ap_on_re_us/obit_cameron |last=Fredrix |first=Emily |date=11 June 2006 |title=Founder of Black Holocaust Museum dies |newspaper=Yahoo! News |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618101617/https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060611/ap_on_re_us/obit_cameron |archive-date=18 June 2006}}
- Neroli Fairhall, 61, New Zealand paraplegic archer and Olympic competitor.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10386306 |title=Tributes flow for archery legend Fairhall |date=13 June 2006 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Rolande Falcinelli, 86, French organist and composer.{{cite web |url=http://www.magle.dk/music-forums/2032-rolande-falcinelli-has-died.html |title=Rolande Falcinelli has died |date=12 June 2006 |website=Magle International Music Forum |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Tim Hildebrandt, 67, American artist, complications of diabetes.{{cite web |url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=7540 |title=Legendary Artist Tim Hildebrandt Has Passed Away |first=Arune |last=Singh |date=12 June 2006 |website=Comic Book Resources |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615020020/http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=7540 |archive-date=15 June 2006}}
- Hugh Latimer, 93, English actor and toy maker.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1522133/Hugh-Latimer.html |title=Hugh Latimer |date=24 June 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Mike Quarry, 55, American light heavyweight boxer, who challenged Bob Foster for the title, pugilistic dementia.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2481478 |title=Former light heavyweight boxer Mike Quarry dies |date=13 June 2006 |website=ESPN |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Bruce Shand, 89, British Army officer, father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, and father-in-law of Charles, Prince of Wales, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5069520.stm |title=Camilla's father Bruce Shand dies |website=BBC News |date=11 June 2006 |access-date=24 April 2018}}
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- Anna Lee Aldred, 85, American jockey and first woman in US to receive a jockey's licence, member of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/sports/othersports/05aldred.html |title=Anna Lee Aldred, 85, Hall of Fame Cowgirl, Dies |date=5 July 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Andrew William "Nicky" Barr, 90, Australian rugby union player and World War II fighter pilot {{cite web |url=http://www.planet-rugby.com/Teams/Australia/story_51825.shtml |title=Legendary Nicky Barr dies |date=13 June 2006 |website=Planet Rugby |access-date=1 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618132951/http://www.planet-rugby.com/Teams/Australia/story_51825.shtml |archive-date=18 June 2006}}
- Chakufwa Chihana, 67, Malawian politician, opposition figure who ran unsuccessfully for President losing to Bakili Muluzi, brain tumour.{{cite news |url=https://mg.co.za/article/2006-06-12-chihana-liberated-malawi-from-dictatorship |last=Tenthani |first=Raphael |date=12 June 2006 |title=Chihana 'liberated Malawi from dictatorship' |newspaper=Mail & Guardian |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- György Ligeti, 83, Hungarian composer.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/12/AR2006061201532.html |last=Page |first=Tim |date=13 June 2006 |title=Gyorgy Ligeti's Music Was a Constant Surprise |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- José Leite Lopes, 87, Brazilian physicist.{{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242002698_Jose_Leite_Lopes_in_memoriam |title=José Leite Lopes: In memoriam |last=Caruso |first=Francisco |date=13 July 2006 |website=Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas |access-date=24 April 2018 |via=ResearchGate}}
- Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, 82, Canadian billionaire, media mogul and art collector. Possible heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.ctv.ca:80/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060612/kenneth_thomson_060612/20060612?hub=Canada |title=Media mogul Kenneth Thomson dies at 82 |date=15 June 2006 |website=CTV.ca |access-date=24 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615231347/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060612/kenneth_thomson_060612/20060612?hub=Canada |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 June 2006}}
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- Freddie Gorman, 67, US songwriter.{{cite web |url=http://eurweb.com/story/eur26929.cfm |title=Music Bits: Gorman dies |date=15 June 2006 |website=EURWeb.com |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060701144205/http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur26929.cfm |archive-date=1 July 2006 }}
- Charles Haughey, 80, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1979–1981, 1982, 1987–1992), prostate cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3001775.stm |title=Ex-Irish Taoiseach Haughey dies |website=BBC News |date=13 June 2006 |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Hiroyuki Iwaki, 73, Japanese conductor, congestive heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/13/obit.iwaki.ap/ |title=Noted conductor dies at 73 |date=13 June 2006 |website=CNN |access-date=1 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618002024/http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/13/obit.iwaki.ap/ |archive-date=18 June 2006}}
- Luis Jiménez, 65, American sculptor, crushed by a statue.{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3967629.html |title=Sculptor Luis Jimenez dies |first=Patricia |last=Johnson |date=14 June 2006 |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Burke Riley, 92, American lawyer and politician, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=http://juneauempire.com/stories/061406/loc_20060614003.shtml |date=14 June 2006 |title=Burke Riley, signer of AK constitution, dead at 92 |newspaper=Juneau Empire |access-date=24 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424072237/http://juneauempire.com/stories/061406/loc_20060614003.shtml |archive-date=April 24, 2018 |url-status=dead }}
- Dennis Shepherd, 79, South African Olympic boxer.{{cite web |url=http://www.superboxing.co.za/default.asp?id=182119&des=article&scat=superboxing/amateur |title=Olympics medallist Shepherd dies |date=15 June 2006 |website=SuperBoxing.co.za |access-date=24 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060930160742/http://www.superboxing.co.za/default.asp?id=182119&des=article&scat=superboxing%2Famateur |archive-date=30 September 2006}}
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- Monty Berman, 94, British B-movie producer.{{cite web |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/b-movie%20giant%20dies_1004416 |title=B-movie Giant Dies |date=4 August 2006 |website=Contactmusic.com |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Surinder Kaur, 77, Indian Punjabi folk and classical singer known as the "nightingale of Punjab".{{cite web |url=http://zeenews.india.com/home/punjab-nightingale-surinder-kaur-dies_302639.html |title=Punjab nightingale Surinder Kaur dies |date=16 June 2006 |website=Zee News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Edward Craig Morris, 66, American archaeologist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/nyregion/16morris.html |title=Craig Morris, a Towering Figure in Inca Expeditions, Dies at 66 |first=John Noble |last=Wilford |author-link=John Noble Wilford |date=16 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Jean Roba, 75, Belgian comics writer{{cite web |url=http://www.actuabd.com/article.php3?id_article=3839 |title=Mort de Jean Roba, le papa de "Boule & Bill" |first=Didier |last=Pasamonik |date=14 June 2006 |website=ActuaBD.com |language=fr |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- James Davis Speed, 91, American politician.{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/winstonsalem/name/james-speed-obituary?id=28313099|title=James Speed Obituary (1915-2006)|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=June 16, 2006|access-date=October 15, 2022}}
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- Betty Curtis, 70, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1961 with Luciano Tajoli.{{cite web |url=http://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/spettacolo/articoli/articolo314505.shtml |date=16 June 2006 |title=S'a spenta la voce di Betty Curtis |website=TgCom24 |language=it |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Raymond Devos, 83, French humorist.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5084600.stm |title=Belgian comic Raymond Devos dies |date=15 June 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Ján Langoš, 59, Slovak politician, head of the National Memory Institute of Slovakia.{{cite news |url=http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/jan-langos-former-dissident-and-post-1989-czechoslovak-interior-ministerdies-in-an-automobile-accident |title=Jan Langos, former dissident and post-1989 Czechoslovak Interior Minister, dies in an automobile accident |last=Maštalíř |first=Linda |date=16 June 2016 |website=Radio Praha |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Carlos Tovar, 92, Peruvian football player.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Carlos Tovar |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26904 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=21 January 2023}}
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- Roland Boyes, 69, British Labour politician and photographer, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/roland-boyes-6097559.html |title=Roland Boyes: Photographer and Labour MP |date=20 June 2006 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Barbara Epstein, 76, American literary editor, co-founder of the New York Review of Books, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800775.html |last=Schudel |first=Matt |date=19 June 2006 |title=N.Y. Review of Books Founder Barbara Epstein |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Arthur Malvin, 83, American Emmy award-winning composer and lyricist, after a long illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-26-me-malvin26-story.html |last=Nelson |first=Valerie J. |date=26 June 2006 |title=Arthur Malvin, 83; Lyricist, Composer Won Two Emmys |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Scott Manning, 48, Canadian athlete, builder and pilot of the world's smallest jet, crash landing.{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/fatal-attraction/article713198/ |last=Cheney |first=Peter |date=22 July 2006 |title=Fatal Attraction |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Daphne Osborne, 76, British botanist.{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/daphne-osborne-z3r9pp25bzg |title=Daphne Osborne |date=27 July 2006 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Igor Śmiałowski, 88, Polish actor.{{cite web |url=http://fakty.interia.pl/news?inf=760701 |title=Zmarł Igor Śmiałowski |date=16 June 2006 |website=Fakty TVN |language=pl |access-date=1 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060620072306/http://fakty.interia.pl/news?inf=760701 |archive-date=20 June 2006}}
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- Norma Becker, 76, American anti-war activist, former chair of the War Resisters League.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/nyregion/27becker.html |title=Norma Becker, 76, Organizer of Opposition to the Vietnam War, Is Dead |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=27 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Cláudio Besserman Vianna (Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta, heart attack{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5091064.stm |title=Comedian dies covering World Cup |date=17 June 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Arthur Franz, 86, American character actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, Invaders from Mars), emphysema and heart disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/arts/television/21franz.html |title=Arthur Franz, Film and Television Actor, 86, Is Dead |date=21 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-franz19jun19,1,4841979.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california |last=Thurber |first=Jon |date=19 June 2006 |title=Arthur Franz, 86; He Played the Friendly Guy in Movies and on TV |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Mikhail Lapshin, 71, Russian politician, leader of the Agrarian Party and former president of the Altai Republic (2002–2006), cause unknown.{{cite web |url=http://www.rulers.org/2006-06.html |title=June 2006 |website=Rulers.org |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Charles Older, 88, American Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the Charles Manson trial, complications of a fall.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/us/21older.html |title=Charles H. Older, 88, Judge Who Presided at Manson Trial, Dies |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=21 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}{{cite news |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14859001.htm |agency=Associated Press |date=20 June 2006 |title=LA Judge Charles Older, presided over Manson trial, dies at 88 |newspaper=The Mercury News |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060622110417/http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14859001.htm |archive-date=22 June 2006}}
- Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev, 38 or 39, Chechen separatist rebel leader.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5089942.stm |title=Rebel leader 'killed' in Chechnya |date=17 June 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Hiroaki Shukuzawa, 55, Japanese rugby union coach, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2006/06/19/more-sports/rugby/ex-japan-coach-shukuzawa-dies/ |title=Ex-Japan coach Shukuzawa dies |date=19 June 2006 |newspaper=Japan Times Online |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Julian Slade, 76, English composer and lyricist of Salad Days, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,1801374,00.html |title=Julian Slade |first=Dennis |last=Barker |date=20 June 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Bob Weaver, 77, American TV Florida-based weatherman known as "Weaver the Weatherman" on WTVJ, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2006-06-18/news/0606170196_1_mr-weaver-tv-s-bob-weaver-weatherman |title=TV's Bob Weaver, Was 77 |date=18 June 2006 |first1=Tom |last1=Jicha |first2=Akilah |last2=Johnson |newspaper=Sun-Sentinel |access-date=24 April 2018 |archive-date=April 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427120120/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2006-06-18/news/0606170196_1_mr-weaver-tv-s-bob-weaver-weatherman |url-status=dead }}
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- Luke Belton, 87, Irish politician.{{cite news |url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=3963075&p=3963x9x&n=3963167&x= |title=Two former TDs turned publicans die |date=20 June 2006 |newspaper=Irish Examiner |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Hubert Cornfield, 77, Turkish film director in Hollywood (The Night of the Following Day, Les Grandes Moyens etc.).{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-21-me-passings21.1-story.html |date=21 June 2006 |title=Hubert Cornfield, 77; 'B'-movie director and screenwriter |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr., 78, American politician, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–67) from Pennsylvania.{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000866 |title=Craley, Nathaniel Neiman, Jr., (1927-2006) |website=Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Jesus Fuertes, 68, Spanish painter and protégé of Pablo Picasso, heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/spanish-cubist-jesus-fuertes-dies-miami-wbna13467862 |title=Spanish cubist Jesus Fuertes dies in Miami |date=21 June 2006 |website=Today.com |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Chris and Cru Kahui, 3-months, New Zealand child homicide victims.{{cite web |url=https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/kahui-case-10-years-moment-chris-murder-verdict-read |last=Bremner |first=Nicole |date=16 June 2016 |title=Kahui case 10 years on: The moment Chris Kahui murder verdict is read out |website=Television New Zealand |access-date=24 April 2018 |archive-date=April 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427120459/https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/kahui-case-10-years-moment-chris-murder-verdict-read |url-status=dead }}
- Gică Petrescu, 91, Romanian singer.{{cite web |url=http://romaniaregional.ro/2016/06/16/muzica-unei-generatii-perene-22/ |last=Dragomir |first=Bogdan |date=16 June 2016 |title=Gică Petrescu – un cântăreț de legendă |website=Radio România Regional |language=ro |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Sir David Poole, 68, British judge.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article608051.ece |title=Sir David Poole |date=14 August 2006 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312064732/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article608051.ece |archive-date=12 March 2007}}
- Donald Reilly, 72, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/arts/20reilly.html |title=Donald Reilly, a Cartoonist for New Yorker, Dies at 72 |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=20 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- René Renou, 54, French vintner, president of INAO.{{cite web |url=http://www.decanter.com/news/87087.html |title=Head of INAO, Rene Renou, dies |first=Jane |last=Anson |date=20 June 2006 |website=Decanter.com |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060701054322/http://www.decanter.com/news/87087.html |archive-date=1 July 2006}}
- Netta Rheinberg, 94, English cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/251292.html |title=Netta Rheinberg dies aged 94 |date=24 June 2006 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Vincent Sherman, 99, American film director (Mr. Skeffington, The Young Philadelphians), natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/movies/21sherman.html |title=Vincent Sherman, Studio-Era Hollywood Director, Dies at 99 |first=Robert |last=Berkvist |date=21 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Richard Stahl, 74, American actor (9 to 5, Ghosts of Mississippi, Five Easy Pieces), Parkinson's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/movies/23stahl.html |title=Richard Stahl, Film and Television Actor, 74, Is Dead |agency=The Associated Press |date=23 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Madeleine St John, 64, Australian novelist who wrote a book shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997, emphysema.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/writer-exposed-british-mores/2006/06/28/1151174264401.html?page=fullpage |title=Writer exposed British mores: Madeleine St John, 1941-2006 |date=29 June 2006 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=24 April 2018}}
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- Hugh Baird, 76, Scottish footballer for Leeds United, Aberdeen, Airdrieonians and Scotland.{{cite news |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/default_content/12432997.Hugh_Baird/ |date=23 June 2006 |title=Hugh Baird |newspaper=The Herald |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Priit Kolbre, 50, Estonian diplomat, ambassador to Finland (since 2005).{{Cite web |title=Suursaadik Priit Kolbre leiti Vantaa lennujaamalt töötava mootoriga autost surnuna |url=https://www.ohtuleht.ee/200208/suursaadik-priit-kolbre-leiti-vantaa-lennujaamalt-tootava-mootoriga-autost-surnuna |access-date=2025-05-22 |website=www.ohtuleht.ee |language=et}}
- Duane Roland, 53, American guitarist and a founder of rock band Molly Hatchet.{{cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2006/06/23/Molly-Hatchet-guitarist-Duane-Roland-dies/46851151105825/ |title=Molly Hatchet guitarist Duane Roland dies |date=23 June 2006 |website=United Press International |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Howard Shanet, 87, US conductor and composer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/arts/music/22shanet.html |title=Howard Shanet, 87, a Conductor and Composer, Dies |first=Allan |last=Kozinn |author-link=Allan Kozinn |date=22 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Arthur Yap, 64, Singaporean poet, artist, and lecturer, English Department, University of Singapore, throat cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.sayoni.com/forums/topic?id=666 |title=Arthur Yap died last night |date=20 June 2006 |website=Sayoni :: To Empower Asian Queer Women |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092822/http://www.sayoni.com/forums/topic?id=666 |archive-date=4 March 2016}}
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- Maurice Bevan, 85, British bass-baritone.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1524422/Maurice-Bevan.html |title=Maurice Bevan |date=21 July 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Bill Daniel, 90, American politician, former Governor of Guam.{{cite news |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jun/21/br/br12p.html |date=21 June 2006 |title=Bill Daniel, former governor of Guam, dead at 90 |newspaper=The Honolulu Advertiser |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Evelyn Dubrow, 95, US women and labor advocate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/us/22dubrow.html |last=Greenhouse |first=Steven |date=22 June 2006 |title=Evelyn Dubrow, Labor Lobbyist, Dies at 95 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Billy Johnson, 87, American professional baseball player, former New York Yankee and All-Star third baseman, cause not given.{{cite web |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bdbb8e18 |title=Billy Johnson |first=Cort |last=Vitty |website=Society for American Baseball Research |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- E. Pierce Marshall, 67, American businessman, son of J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith's stepson and plaintiff in their inheritance feud, aggressive infection.{{cite news |url=https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Texas-oilman-E-Pierce-Marshall-67-dies-1885586.php |last=Minaya |first=Zeke |date=23 June 2006 |title=Texas oilman E. Pierce Marshall, 67, dies |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- William Shurcliff, 97, American physicist, who helped develop the atomic bomb.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/us/28shurcliff.html |title=William A. Shurcliff, Who Helped Develop Atomic Bomb, Dies at 97 |first=Matthew L. |last=Wald |date=28 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Claydes Charles Smith, 57, American musician, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool and the Gang.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-23-me-passings23.2-story.html |date=23 June 2006 |title=Claydes Charles Smith, 57; Co-Founder of '70s Group Kool & the Gang |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
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- Theo Bell, 52, American National Football League header with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, kidney disease and scleroderma.{{cite news |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2006/06/23/Obituary-Theo-Bell-Former-Steelers-wide-receiver/stories/200606230165 |last=Axelrod |first=Phil |date=23 June 2006 |title= Obituary: Theo Bell, Former Steelers wide receiver |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Vern Leroy Bullough, 77, American medical historian, known for his history of nursing, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/us/03bullough.html |title=Vern Leroy Bullough, 77, Noted Medical Historian, Dies |first=Jeremy |last=Pearce |date=3 July 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Denis Faul, 73, Irish Roman Catholic priest, former chaplain at the Maze Prison, outspoken critic of The Troubles and a key figure in attempts to end the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=12159824&p=yzy5987x&n=12159912&x= |title=Human rights campaigner Denis Faul dies |date=21 June 2006 |newspaper=Irish Examiner |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Jacques Lanzmann, 79, French author, editor and songwriter.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jacques-lanzmann-6096344.html |last=Perrone |first=Pierre |date=3 July 2006 |title=Jacques Lanzmann: Novelist, lyricist and editor of 'Lui' |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Khamis al-Obeidi, 39, Iraqi defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein, kidnapped and shot.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/world/middleeast/21cnd-lawyer.html |title=Third Lawyer in Hussein Trial Is Killed |date=21 June 2006 |first1=John F. |last1=Burns |first2=Christine |last2=Hauser |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- David Walton, 43, British economist, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5105360.stm |title=Bank of England policymaker dies |date=22 June 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Jonathan Wordsworth, 73, English academic, scholar of Romanticism and chair of the Wordsworth Trust.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5111270.stm |title=Wordsworth Trust leader mourned |date=23 June 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
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- Heinz Ansbacher, 101, German-born psychologist and expert in the work of Alfred Adler.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/us/24ansbacher.html |title=Heinz Ansbacher, 101, Adlerian Psychology Expert, Dies |first=Holcomb B. |last=Noble |date=24 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Back Alley John, 51, Canadian musician.{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/entertainment/story.html?id=adea03a0-50f3-42de-92fe-5cd724355754&k=40361 |title=Blues scene remembers 'real deal' Back Alley John |date=28 June 2006 |website=Canada.com |access-date=24 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104231534/http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/entertainment/story.html?id=adea03a0-50f3-42de-92fe-5cd724355754&k=40361 |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 November 2012 }}
- Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, 90, British army general.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1522745/Maj-Gen-Lord-Monckton-of-Brenchley.html |title=Maj-Gen Lord Monckton of Brenchley |date=1 July 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Moose, 15, American canine actor (Frasier, My Dog Skip).{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5124104.stm |title=Frasier's dog Eddie dies aged 16 |date=28 June 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Chanel Petro Nixon, 16, American student, murder victim in Brooklyn, New York.
- Sir Peter Russell, 92, British historian.
- Sir Michael Weir, 81, British diplomat, Ambassador to Egypt (1979–1985).{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jul/03/guardianobituaries.mainsection |title=Obituary: Sir Michael Weir |first=John |last=Graham |date=2 July 2006 |website=The Guardian |access-date=24 April 2018}}
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- Martin Adler, 47, Swedish journalist. Shot by unknown assailant in Mogadishu, Somalia.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/06/23/somalia.shooting/index.html |title=TV man shot dead in Somalia |date=23 June 2006 |website=CNN |access-date=1 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060625044835/http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/06/23/somalia.shooting/index.html |archive-date=25 June 2006}}
- Harriet, 176, Galápagos tortoise believed to be the third oldest animal in the world and allegedly owned by Charles Darwin, heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-06-23/harriet-the-tortoise-dies/1785220 |date=23 June 2006 |title=Harriet the tortoise dies |website=ABC News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Grady Johnson, 66, American WWF wrestler, known as "Crazy" Luke Graham; heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/06/24/1650989.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714051502/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/06/24/1650989.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=July 14, 2012 |title="Crazy" Luke remembered fondly |first=Steven |last=Johnson |date=24 June 2006 |website=SLAM! Sports Wrestling |access-date=24 April 2018 }}
- Budhi Kunderan, 66, Indian cricketer, wicketkeeper/batsman, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/251193.html |title=Budhi Kunderan dies at the age of 66 |date=23 June 2006 |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Basil O'Ferrall, 81, Irish Anglican priest, Dean of Jersey (1985–1993).{{cite news |url=http://notices.irishtimes.com/2384634 |title=Death notice: O'Ferrall |date=1 July 2006 |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Tom Pelly, 70, Australian rules footballer (North Melbourne).{{cite web |url=http://australianfootball.com/players/player/tom+pelly/8848 |title=Tom Pelly - Player Bio |website=Australian Football.com |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Aaron Spelling, 83, American television producer (Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch, Beverly Hills, 90210), complications of stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/arts/television/24spelling.html |title=Aaron Spelling, Prolific Television Producer, Dies at 83 |first=Bill |last=Carter |date=24 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
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- Denice Denton, 46, American professor, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, suicide by jumping.{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/UC-Santa-Cruz-chancellor-jumps-to-her-death-in-2517073.php |last1=Vega |first1=Cecilia M. |last2=Van Derbeken |first2=Jaxon |date=24 June 2006 |title=UC Santa Cruz chancellor jumps to her death in S.F. |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Tichaona Jokonya, 67, Zimbabwean politician, Information & Publicity Minister, cardiac arrest.{{cite web |url=http://www.zimbabwejournalists.com/story.php?art_id=573&cat=1 |title=Zimbabwe's Information Minister, Tichaona Jokonya, dies |first=Taurai |last=Nyasha |date=24 June 2006 |website=Association of Zimbabwe Journalists |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009180728/http://www.zimbabwejournalists.com/story.php?art_id=573&cat=1 |archive-date=9 October 2007}}
- Patsy Ramsey, 49, American beauty pageant winner, mother of JonBenét Ramsey, ovarian cancer.{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2116198&page=1 |title=Mother of JonBenet Ramsey Dead at 49 |date=25 June 2006 |website=ABC News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Lyle Stuart, 83, American journalist and publisher.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/arts/26stuart.html |title=Lyle Stuart, Publisher of Renegade Titles, Dies at 83 |first=Anthony |last=Ramirez |date=26 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Gerald Tomlinson, 73, American mystery and baseball writer.{{cite news |url=http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060627/COLUMNIST05/606270310 |title=Gerald Tomlinson |newspaper=Star-Gazette |access-date=2018-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928212201/http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20060627%2FCOLUMNIST05%2F606270310 |archive-date=2007-09-28 |url-status=dead }}
- Ric Weiland, 53, American Microsoft pioneer, developed BASIC, COBOL and Microsoft Works, suicide by gunshot.{{cite news |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Ric-Weiland-1953-2006-Microsoft-pioneer-a-major-1207632.php |title=Ric Weiland, 1953-2006: Microsoft pioneer a major benefactor |first=Nick |last=Eaton |date=29 June 2006 |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |access-date=24 April 2018}}
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- Elkan Allan, 83, British television producer, created Ready Steady Go! and developed the first television listings for the UK in the Sunday Times.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,1809292,00.html |title=Elkan Allan |first=Neil |last=Lyndon |author-link=Neil Lyndon |date=30 June 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Eliyahu Asheri, 18, Israeli civilian kidnapped and murdered by militants in the West Bank city of Ramallah.{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/migrants-kidnapped-son-found-executed/2006/06/29/1151174331942.html |title=Migrant's kidnapped son found executed |date=30 June 2006 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Charles Barrow, 84, American former justice of the Texas Supreme Court.{{cite web |url=https://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=40971 |date=27 June 2006 |title=Baylor Mourns Former Law Dean and 'Legal Giant' Justice Charles W. Barrow |website=Baylor University |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Richard DeVore, 73, American ceramicist, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.denverpost.com/2006/06/27/artist-devore-transcended-clays-limits/ |title=Artist DeVore transcended clay’s limits |first=Kyle |last=MacMillian |date=27 June 2006 |newspaper=The Denver Post |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Kenneth Griffith, 84, Welsh actor and documentary maker, Parkinson's disease.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/5115424.stm |title=Actor Kenneth Griffith dies at 84 |date=25 June 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Akbar Hossain, 65, Bangladeshi Minister for Shipping and hero of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2006/06/25/shipping-minister-akbar-hossain-dies-of-cardiac-arrest-1-st-ld |date=25 June 2006 |title=Shipping Minister Akbar Hossain dies of cardiac arrest |website=Bdnews24.com |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Irving Kaplansky, 89, American mathematician at the University of Chicago.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/us/13kaplansky.html |title=Irving Kaplansky, 89, a Pioneer in Mathematical Exploration, Dies |first=Jeremy |last=Pearce |date=13 July 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Dibya Khaling, 54, Nepali musician, composer and lyricist, responsible for 1,000 songs, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=6a6Qa1a8a.9amal&folder=aHaoamW&Name=Home&dtSiteDate=20060626 |title=Noted Musician Dibya Khaling Dies At 56 |date=26 June 2006 |newspaper=The Himalayan Times |access-date=1 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027004741/http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=6a6Qa1a8a.9amal&folder=aHaoamW&Name=Home&dtSiteDate=20060626 |archive-date=27 October 2007}}
- Arif Mardin, 74, Turkish-American Grammy Award winning music producer, pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5118188.stm |title=Music producer Mardin dies at 74 |date=26 June 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Sophie Maslow, 95, American choreographer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/arts/dance/27maslow.html |title=Choreographer, Sophie Maslow, Dies at 95 |first=Jack |last=Anderson |date=26 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Gad Navon, 84, Moroccan-born Former Chief Israeli Military Rabbi, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3266983,00.html |title=Former Chief Military Rabbi Gad Navon dies |date=25 June 2006 |website=Ynetnews |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Jaap Penraat, 88, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/nyregion/02penraat.html?ex=1151985600&en=a4353f3e47911b9e&ei=5087%0A |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=2 July 2006 |title=Jaap Penraat Dies at 88; Saved Hundreds in Holocaust |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Seema Aissen Weatherwax, 100, Ukrainian photographer.{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santacruzsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=seema-aissen-weatherwax&pid=18289251 |title=Seema Aissen Weatherwax |date=29 June 2006 |newspaper=Santa Cruz Sentinel |access-date=24 April 2018 |via=Legacy.com}}
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- Bear JJ1 (Bruno the Bear), the first wild bear in Germany in 170 years, shot to death.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5116316.stm |title=Bruno the bear shot dead in Alps |date=26 June 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Paulino Díaz, 71, Mexican sports shooter.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/paulino-diaz-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418053524/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/paulino-diaz-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Paulino Díaz |website=Sports Reference |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Johnny Jenkins, 67, American blues guitarist who influenced Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/28/AR2006062801937.html |title=Guitarist Johnny Jenkins; Aided Otis Redding |first=Adam |last=Bernstein |date=29 June 2006 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=24 April 2018}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/30/arts/music/30jenkins.html |title=Johnny Jenkins, 67, Whose Style Inspired Hendrix, Dies |date=30 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Parami Kulatunga, Sri Lankan military officer, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army, bomb blast.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5115968.stm |title=Sri Lanka general killed in blast |date=26 June 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Frederick Mayer, 84, German educational philosopher, creativity expert, author of "History of Educational Thought".
- Eric Rofes, 51, American author and AIDS educator, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/us/29rofes.html |title=Eric Rofes, Commentator on Gay Issues, Dies at 51 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=29 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Stan Torgerson, 82, American radio announcer for Ole Miss football and basketball games.{{cite news |url=http://www.meridianstar.com/news/local_news/time-stills-voice-of-ole-miss/article_e5bf8aec-a1d0-546e-8f08-d697d60b40d6.html |title=Time stills 'Voice of Ole Miss' |date=26 June 2006 |newspaper=The Meridian Star |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Jeff Winkless, 65, American voice actor, brain tumor.
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- Eileen Barton, 81, American singer, actress, ovarian cancer{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/eileen-barton-6096352.html |title=Eileen Barton: Singer of 'I'd've Baked a Cake' |first=Spencer |last=Leigh |date=3 July 2006 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Robert Carrier, 82, American celebrity chef.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5121658.stm |title=US TV chef Carrier dies aged 82 |date=27 June 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- J. Robert Elliott, 96, US Federal District Judge who overturned the conviction of Lt. William Calley.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/28/AR2006062801939.html |date=29 June 2006 |title=J. Robert Elliott, 96; Judge in My Lai Case |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Sir Gerard Mansfield, 84, British admiral.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1524172/Vice-Admiral-Sir-Ged-Mansfield.html |title=Vice-Admiral Sir Ged Mansfield |date=18 July 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Marta Mata, 80, Spanish politician and pedagogue.[https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20060627/51274869105/fallece-a-los-80-anos-la-pedagoga-marta-mata-presidenta-del-consejo-escolar-del-estado.html Fallece a los 80 años la pedagoga Marta Mata, presidenta del Consejo Escolar del Estado] {{in lang|es}}
- Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, 45, Mexican convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.{{cite news |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8IGSURG1.html |last=Graczyk |first=Michael |date=28 June 2006 |title=Serial killer facing execution Tuesday |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930030437/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8IGSURG1.html |archive-date=30 September 2007}}
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- Jim Baen, 62, American science fiction editor and publisher.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-04-me-baen4-story.html |last=Rourke |first=Mary |date=4 July 2006 |title=Jim Baen, 62; Science Fiction Publisher Pioneered Web Sales |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Vikram Dharma, 44/45, Indian film stunt director.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0223502/ |title= Vikram Dharma (I) (–2006) |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Theodore Levitt, 81, German-born former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of books on marketing, coined the term globalization.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/business/06levitt.html |title=Theodore Levitt, 81, Who Coined the Term 'Globalization', Is Dead |first=Barnaby J. |last=Feder |date=6 July 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury, 78, British paediatrician and life peer.{{cite web |title=Obituary: Lady Lloyd of Highbury |date=2006-07-10 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426091130/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jul/11/guardianobituaries.mainsection |archive-date=2023-04-26 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jul/11/guardianobituaries.mainsection}}
- Mahmoud Mestiri, 77, Tunisian diplomat and politician, former foreign minister.
- George Page, 71, American television host, creator and narrator of the PBS series Nature.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/arts/02page.html |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |date=2 July 2006 |title=George Page Dies at 71; Creator and Host of PBS's 'Nature' |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, 87, English barrister, politician and author.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1522560/Lord-Rawlinson-of-Ewell.html |title=Lord Rawlinson of Ewell |date=29 June 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Fernando Sanchez, 70, Belgian-born fashion designer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/arts/design/03sanchez.html |title=Fernando Sanchez, Fashion Innovator, Is Dead at 70 |first=Eric |last=Wilson |date=3 July 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- George Unwin, 93, British pilot and RAF officer, Battle of Britain flying ace.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2247807,00.html |date=29 June 2006 |title=Wing Commander George Unwin |newspaper=The Times |access-date=24 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311011044/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article680682.ece |archive-date=11 March 2007}}
- Lennie Weinrib, 71, American voice actor (H.R. Pufnstuf, The New Adventures of Batman, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo).{{cite web |url=http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=17334 |title=Voice Actor Lennie "Pufnstuf" Weinrib Dies at 71 |date=29 June 2006 |website=Animation World Network |access-date=1 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829004551/http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=17334 |archive-date=29 August 2006}}
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- Fabián Bielinsky, 47, Argentine film director, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/fabian-bielinsky-6094891.html |last=Harley |first=Kevin |date=19 July 2006 |title=Fabian Bielinsky: Director of 'Nine Queens' |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Joseph Edamaruku, 71, Indian journalist, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_noted-rationalist-edamaruku-passes-away_1038420 |title=Noted rationalist Edamaruku passes away |date=29 June 2006 |newspaper=Daily News and Analysis |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Joyce Hatto, 77, English classical pianist, who plagiarized more than 100 albums, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/07/04/joyce_hatto_at_77_pianist_was_prolific_recording_artist/ |title=Joyce Hatto, at 77; pianist was prolific recording artist |first=Richard |last=Dyer |date=4 July 2006 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Ed Hugus, 82, American racing driver.{{cite web |url=https://www.sportscarmarket.com/news/obituary-for-le-mans-winner-ed-hugus |title=Obituary for Le Mans Winner Ed Hugus |date=17 July 2006 |website=Sports Car Market.com |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Stanley Moskowitz, 68, American CIA liaison to Congress, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/30/AR2006063001629.html |title=Stanley M. Moskowitz, 68; Twice CIA Liaison to Congress |first=Patricia |last=Sullivan |date=1 July 2006 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Wallace Potts, 59, American film archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, lymphoma.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/arts/11potts.html |title=Wallace Potts, 59, Nureyev Film Archivist, Is Dead |date=11 July 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Lloyd Richards, 87, Canadian-American theatre director, first black Broadway director, Tony Award winner, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/01/theater/01richards.html |title=Lloyd Richards, Theater Director and Cultivator of Playwrights, Is Dead at 87 |first=Campbell |last=Robertson |date=1 July 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Pierre Rinfret, 82, Canadian-born economist and Republican candidate for Governor of New York in 1990.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/nyregion/06rinfret.html |title=Pierre A. Rinfret, 82, Who Lost to Cuomo in '90 Race, Dies |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=6 July 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Randy Walker, 52, American Northwestern University football coach, apparent heart attack{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=2505033 |title=Northwestern's Walker dead at 52 |date=3 July 2006 |website=ESPN |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- F. Mark Wyatt, 86, American CIA officer, who delivered bags of money to swing the 1948 Italy election.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/09/AR2006070900847.html |title=F. Mark Wyatt; CIA Agent and Sometimes Critic |first=Joe |last=Holley |date=10 July 2006 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=24 April 2018}}
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- Robert Gernhardt, 68, German satirist.{{cite news |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/zum-tod-robert-gernhardts-gevatter-tod-war-nur-der-gehilfe-dieses-dichters-1331139.html |last=Spiegel |first=Hubert |date=30 June 2006 |title=Zum Tod Robert Gernhardts: Gevatter Tod war nur der Gehilfe dieses Dichters |newspaper=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |language=de |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Edward S. Hamilton, 89, American Army officer, highly decorated Army veteran during World War II, pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/03/AR2006070301005.html |title=Decorated Veteran Edward Hamilton |first=Matt |last=Schudel |date=4 July 2006 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Harold Olmo, 96, American grape breeder and geneticist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/us/12olmo.html |title=Harold Olmo, 96, Who Created Many Grape Varieties, Is Dead |first=Frank J. |last=Prial |author-link=Frank J. Prial |date=12 July 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Richard Streeton, 75, English sports journalist {{cite web |url=http://www.acscricket.com/Articles/4/4449.html |title=Richard Streeton - a brief tribute |first=Andrew |last=Hignell |website=Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians |access-date=17 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216093212/http://www.acscricket.com/Articles/4/4449.html |archive-date=16 February 2007}}
- Ross Tompkins, 68, American The Tonight Show pianist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/arts/09tompkins.html |title=Ross Tompkins, 68, 'Tonight' Show Pianist, Is Dead |date=9 July 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2018}}
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