Deaths in February 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 2006

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Roy Alon, 63, British stuntman (Die Another Day, Willow, 101 Dalmatians), heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/obituary-roy-alon-5061458 |title=Obituary: Roy Alon |date=7 February 2006 |newspaper=Huddersfield Examiner |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Dick Bass, 68, American pro football player and radio analyst.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/espn/wire/_/section/nfl/id/2318499 |title=Dick Bass, former football player (Los Angeles Rams) and announcer, dead at 68 |agency=The Associated Press |date=4 February 2006 |website=ESPN|access-date=3 June 2018}}
Dick Brooks, 63, American NASCAR race car driver and radio broadcaster, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.nascar.com/2006/news/headlines/cup/02/03/dick.brooks.passes/ |title=Dick Brooks dies at 63 |first=Dave |last=Rodman |date=3 February 2006 |website=NASCAR.com |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060302114034/http://www.nascar.com/2006/news/headlines/cup/02/03/dick.brooks.passes/ |archive-date=2 March 2006}}
Ronald B. Cameron, 78, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1963–1967).{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000067 |title=Cameron, Ronald Brooks |website=Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Robin Donkin, 78, British historian and geographer.{{cite web |url=http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/donkin/ |title=Robin Donkin |first=Tim |last=Jenkins |date=27 March 2006 |website=Department of Geography, University of Cambridge |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Ernest Dudley, 97, British novelist, journalist, screenwriter, actor, radio broadcaster.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ernest-dudley-465491.html |title=Ernest Dudley |date=4 February 2006 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202084814/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ernest-dudley-465491.html |archive-date=2 February 2017}}
Carlson Gracie, Sr., 72, Brazilian martial artist, complications from kidney stones.{{cite web |url=http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=3921 |title=BJJ Forefather Carlson Gracie Sr. Passes Away |first1=Gleidson |last1=Venga |first2=Josh |last2=Gross |date=1 February 2006 |website=Sherdog.com |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060506212819/http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=3921 |archive-date=6 May 2006}}
Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr., 86, American politician, Governor of Arizona 1965–1967.{{cite web |url=https://www.azag.gov/press-release/sam-goddard-12th-governor-arizona-dies |title=Sam Goddard, 12th Governor of Arizona, Dies |date=1 February 2006 |website=Arizona Attorney General's Office |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Bryce Harland, 74, New Zealand diplomat, Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1982–1985), High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (1985–1991).{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10368902 |title=Obituary: William Bryce Harland |first=Arnold |last=Pickmere |date=17 February 2006 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Jean-Philippe Maitre, 56, Swiss politician, former President of the Swiss National Council, brain tumor.{{cite news |url=https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/2006/03/07/jean-philippe-maitre-un-homme-lumineux |title=Hommage: Jean-Philippe Maitre, un homme d'Etat lumineux |trans-title=Tribute: Jean-Philippe Maitre, a brilliant statesman |newspaper=Le Temps |date=7 March 2006 |language=fr |access-date=6 February 2017 |archive-date=February 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207113211/https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/2006/03/07/jean-philippe-maitre-un-homme-lumineux |url-status=dead }}
John Woollam, 78, British politician, former Conservative Member of Parliament.Who's Who, 2007.

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Armando Castillo, 73, Guatemalan Olympic cyclist.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ca/armando-castillo-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418114420/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ca/armando-castillo-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Armando Castillo |website=Sports Reference |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Jill Chaifetz, 41, American lawyer and executive director of the nonprofit legal group Advocates for Children of New York, ovarian cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/03/nyregion/03chaifetz.html |title=Jill Chaifetz, Advocate for Students' Rights, Dies at 41 |first=Susan |last=Saulny |date=3 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, 77, Bangladeshi politician, former prime minister of Bangladesh.{{cite news |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/02/03/d6020301055.htm |title=Mizan Chy passes away |date=3 February 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=3 June 2018 |archive-date=July 31, 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140731143738/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/02/03/d6020301055.htm |url-status=dead }}
Chris Doty, 39, Canadian documentarian and playwright, suicide by hanging.{{cite news |url=http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Opinion/Columnists/Goodden_Herman/2006/02/10/1434682.html |title=London loses an eloquent keeper of history |first=Herman |last=Goodden |date=6 March 2006 |newspaper=The London Free Press |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060307005339/http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Opinion/Columnists/Goodden_Herman/2006/02/10/1434682.html |archive-date=7 March 2006}}
Guglielmo Letteri, 80, Italian comic book artist.{{cite web |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/letteri_guglielmo.htm |title=Guglielmo Letteri |website=Lambiek Comiclopedia |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Pat Rupp, 63, American ice hockey player, goaltender for the 1964 and 1968 Olympic ice hockey teams, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dayton/obituary.aspx?pid=16573975 |title=Pat Rupp |date=2 February 2006 |newspaper=Dayton Daily News |access-date=3 June 2018 |via=Legacy.com}}
S. K. Ramachandra Rao, 78, Indian scholar.{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/03/stories/2006020313500400.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060211022520/http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/03/stories/2006020313500400.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 February 2006 |title=S.K. Ramachandra Rao is dead |date=3 February 2006 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Athol Shephard, 85, Australian cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/7603.html |title=Athol Shephard |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Nicholas Swarbrick, 107, English sailor, one of the last two surviving World War I Merchant Navy veterans.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nicholas-swarbrick-466452.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113141757/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nicholas-swarbrick-466452.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 13, 2012 |title=Nicholas Swarbrick: First World War veteran |last=Arthur |first=Max |author-link=Max Arthur |date=13 February 2006 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Sir Reginald Swartz, 94, Australian politician, Minister for Civil Aviation from 1966 to 1969.{{cite web |url=http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Sir%20Reg%20Swartz%20biog.htm |title=Sir Reginald Swartz KBE MBE ED (1911–2006) |website=The Airways Museum & Civil Aviation Historical Society |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Chris Walton, 72, English cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22717.html |title=Chris Walton |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Stephen Worobetz, 91, Canadian politician, former lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan.{{cite news |url=http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=07c2bef5-418c-4500-802a-40bbba3960c2&k=95918 |title=Province honours Worobetz |date=4 February 2006 |newspaper=The StarPhoenix |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080323113113/http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=07c2bef5-418c-4500-802a-40bbba3960c2&k=95918 |archive-date=23 March 2008}}

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Ustad Qawwal Bahauddin, 72, Indian-Pakistani Qawwali singer.
Walerian Borowczyk, 82, Polish-born surrealist filmmaker, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/nyregion/05borowczyk.html |title=Walerian Borowczyk, Surrealist Auteur, Dies at 82 |last=Fox |first=Margalit |author-link=Margalit Fox |date=5 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Jean Byron, 80, American actress (The Patty Duke Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Johnny Concho), infection following hip replacement surgery.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-15-me-passings15.2-story.html |title=Jean Byron, 80; Actress Played Patty Duke's Mother on '60s TV Show |date=15 February 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Ernie Clements, 83, British road racing cyclist.{{cite news |url=http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/5717667.Tribute_paid_to_sporting_legend/ |title=Tribute paid to sporting legend |date=10 February 2006 |newspaper=Worcester News |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Frank Ellis, 100, British radiologist.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/20/guardianobituaries.obituaries1 |title=Obituary: Frank Ellis |first=Christopher |last=Paine |date=20 February 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Frank Goodman, 89, American Broadway press agent, congestive heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/arts/09goodman.html |title=Frank Goodman, 89, Handler of Press and Broadway Stars |first=Jesse |last=McKinley |date=9 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Lou Jones, 74, American Olympic runner.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/sports/othersports/lou-jones-74-sprinting-star-dies.html |title=Lou Jones, 74, Sprinting Star, Dies |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |date=8 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Sonny King, 83, American comedian-singer, Jimmy Durante's sidekick, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/feb/04/020410582.html |title=Sonny King, former Jimmy Durante sidekick, dies at 83 |date=4 February 2006 |newspaper=Las Vegas Sun |access-date=1 March 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930031703/http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/feb/04/020410582.html |archive-date=30 September 2007}}
Duma Kumalo, 48, South African human rights activist, one of the Sharpeville Six, film-maker and founding member of the Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid-related violence.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/otherlives/story/0,,1734971,00.html |title=Duma Kumalo |first=Brandon |last=Hamber |date=20 March 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Al Lewis, 82, American actor (The Munsters, Car 54, Where Are You?, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?).{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-02-04-al-lewis-obit_x.htm |title='Grandpa Munster' Al Lewis dies at 82 |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060220125925/https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-02-04-al-lewis-obit_x.htm |archive-date=20 February 2006}}
Romano Mussolini, 78, Italian jazz musician and painter.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4676934.stm |title=Mussolini's jazz pianist son dies |date=3 February 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Denne Petitclerc, 76, American journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/obituaries/27petitclerc.html |title=Denne Petitclerc, 76, Hemingway Friend |date=27 February 2006 |agency=The Associated Press |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Johnny Vaught, 96, American college football player, coach, and college athletics administrator, NCAA championship-winning University of Mississippi football coach.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-05-me-passings5.3-story.html |title=Johnny Vaught, 96; Legendary Ole Miss Football Coach |date=5 February 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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Jack Taylor (heavyweight man), once heaviest man in UK.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,,1703720,00.html|title=Heavyweight celebrity makes his final journey|work=The Guardian| location=London | first=Martin | last=Wainwright | date=7 February 2006 | accessdate=5 May 2010}}
Jenő Dalnoki, 73, Hungarian Olympic football player and manager (1952 gold medal, 1960 bronze medal).[https://web.archive.org/web/20161203021127/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/jeno-dalnoki-1.html Jenő Dalnoki, Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports]. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
Friedrich Engel, 97, German Nazi SS officer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/14/secondworldwar.germany |title=Nazi 'Butcher of Genoa' dies without going to jail |date=14 February 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Betty Friedan, 85, American feminist and writer, congestive heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/us/betty-friedan-who-ignited-cause-in-feminine-mystique-dies-at-85.html |title=Betty Friedan, Who Ignited Cause in 'Feminine Mystique,' Dies at 85 |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=5 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
William Augustus Jones Jr., 71, American Civil Rights pioneer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/nyregion/08jones.html |title=The Rev. William A. Jones, Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 71 |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=8 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Barbara W. Leyden, 56, American palynologist and paleoecologist.
Joe McGuff, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease).{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kansascity/obituary.aspx?pid=16591348 |title=Obituaries: Joe McGuff |date=5 February 2006 |newspaper=Kansas City Star |via=Legacy.com |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Elena Carter Richardson, 57, Mexican-born principal dancer and teacher, cancer.
Myron Waldman, 97, American animator for Betty Boop and Superman cartoons, congestive heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/06/arts/television/myron-waldman-who-drew-cartoon-stars-is-dead-at-97.html |title=Myron Waldman, Who Drew Cartoon Stars, Is Dead at 97 |first=Dave |last=Kehr |date=6 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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Norma Candal, 75, Puerto Rican comedian, actress and drama teacher, head injury.[https://books.google.com/books?id=9PnnCQAAQBAJ&dq=Norma+Candal+february+2006&pg=PA76 Puerto Rico Past and Present]
Franklin Cover, 77, American actor (The Jeffersons, Wall Street, The Stepford Wives), pneumonia.{{cite news |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/02/12/franklin_cover_77_comic_foil_to_sherman_hemsley/ |title=Franklin Cover, 77, comic foil to Sherman Hemsley |date=12 February 2006 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Reuven Frank, 85, American TV journalism pioneer and former NBC News president, complications from pneumonia.{{cite news |url=http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/columnists/aaron_barnhart/13841095.htm |title=Reuven Frank, the man who built NBC News |first=Aaron |last=Barnhart |date=11 February 2006 |newspaper=The Kansas City Star |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060222134029/http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/columnists/aaron_barnhart/13841095.htm |archive-date=22 February 2006}}
Stuart Mason, 57, English footballer.[http://www.chester-city.co.uk/stuart_mason.asp Stuart Mason 1948-2006]
Ray Owen, 65, English rugby league player and administrator.[https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/other-sport/ex-vikings-chief-dies-3521711 Ex-Vikings chief dies]
Peter Philp, 85, British dramatist and antiques expert.{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/peter-philp-bk5pwzgs592 |title=Peter Philp |date=6 March 2006 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Sir Alberto Rodrigues, 94, Hong Kong physician and politician.{{cite web |url=http://rccav.org/resources/obituaries-tributes/celebrating-the-life-of-sir-albert-maria-rodrigues/ |title=Celebrating the Life of Sir Albert Maria Rodrigues |last1=Miller |first1=Dale |last2=Miller |first2=Archie |website=Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of Vancouver |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714221135/http://rccav.org/resources/obituaries-tributes/celebrating-the-life-of-sir-albert-maria-rodrigues/ |archive-date=14 July 2014}}
Jack Taylor, 60, one of the heaviest men in Britain, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/feb/07/martinwainwright.uknews2 |title=Heavyweight celebrity makes his final journey |first=Martin |last=Wainwright |date=7 February 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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John Brightman, Baron Brightman, 94, UK lawyer and former Lord of Appeal.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1509913/Lord-Brightman.html |title=Lord Brightman |date=8 February 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Mario Condello, 53, Australian lawyer and gangland criminal, shot.{{cite news |url=https://www.theage.com.au/news/national/condello-gunned-down/2006/02/06/1139074172355.html |title=Condello gunned down in Brighton |last1=Silvester |first1=John |last2=Evans |first2=Chris |date=7 February 2006 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 80, American comedian and actor, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/arts/television/17gonzalez.html |title=Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, 80, Film and TV Character Actor |date=17 February 2006 |agency=The Associated Press |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Stella Ross-Craig, 99, English illustrator, one of the most prodigious of flora illustrators.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1509996/Stella-Ross-Craig.html |title=Stella Ross-Craig |date=9 February 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Esther Sandoval, 78, Puerto Rican actress.{{cite web |url=https://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/4da03c154b1efaa0/e2850fcabe868cb9?hl=en#e2850fcabe868cb9 |title=Esther Sandoval, actress, 78 |date=8 February 2006 |website=alt.obituaries |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Karin Struck, 58, German writer, cancer.
Kouji Totani, 57, Japanese voice actor (Fist of the North Star, Metal Gear, Dragon Ball Z), heart failure.

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Glenn Lee Benner II, 43, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.{{cite web |url=http://www.truelifecrimes.com/glenn_benner.html |title=Profile: Glenn Benner |website=True Life Crimes |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111024125404/http://www.truelifecrimes.com/glenn_benner.html |archive-date=24 October 2011 |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Sándor Garay, 86, Hungarian Olympic athlete.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/sandor-garay-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418094240/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/sandor-garay-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Sándor Garay |website=Sports Reference |access-date=3 June 2018}}
George Millay, 76, American businessman and founder of SeaWorld, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://orlando.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2006/02/06/daily18.html |title=Wet 'n Wild, SeaWorld founder dies |last=Millay |first=George |date=7 February 2006 |newspaper=Orlando Business Journal |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Max Rosenn, 96, American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1970–2006).{{cite journal |url=https://www.pennlawreview.com/print/old/judge_max_rosenn.pdf |title=In Memoriam: Max Rosenn, An Ideal Appellate Judge |last=Aldisert |first=Ruggero J. |volume=154 |date=May 2006 |number=5 |journal=University of Pennsylvania Law Review |pages=1025–1033 |access-date=3 June 2018 |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006200308/http://www.pennlawreview.com/print/old/judge_max_rosenn.pdf |url-status=dead }}
Mitchell Rupe, 51, American convicted murderer ruled too heavy to be hanged, liver disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/08/fat.inmate.ap/index.html |title=Too big to hang, killer dies in prison |date=8 February 2006 |website=CNN |access-date=1 March 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060308124540/http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/08/fat.inmate.ap/index.html |archive-date=8 March 2006}}
Alan Shalleck, 76, American television writer and director (Curious George), murdered.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/arts/09shalleck.html |title=Alan Shalleck Dies at 76; A Writer and TV Director |date=9 February 2006 |agency=The Associated Press |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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Larry Black, 54, American track and field medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics, aneurysm.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-11-me-passings11.2-story.html |title=Larry Black, 54; Track Star Won Gold, Silver Medals in '72 Olympics |date=11 February 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Elton Dean, 60, English jazz saxophonist, heart and liver related problems.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1510403/Elton-Dean.html |title=Elton Dean |date=14 February 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Michael Gilbert, 93, British mystery author and lawyer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/books/15gilbert.html |title=Michael Gilbert, 93, Dies; Wrote Law Into His Mysteries |first=Marilyn |last=Stasio |date=15 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Ron Greenwood, 84, British football manager, England national team, West Ham United.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1510087/Ron-Greenwood.html |title=Ron Greenwood |date=10 February 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Akira Ifukube, 91, Japanese film composer, best known for Godzilla film series.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4697022.stm |title=Japanese Godzilla composer dies |date=9 February 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Mart Kenney, 95, Canadian jazz musician and bandleader, "Canada's Big Band King," complications from a fall.{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=f693e404-6c48-4471-8268-ccb1a639df34&k=20753 |title=Depression and wartime Canadian big band leader Mart Kenney dies in B.C. |first=John |last=Mckay |date=9 February 2006 |website=Canada.com |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060917142128/http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=f693e404-6c48-4471-8268-ccb1a639df34&k=20753 |archive-date=17 September 2006}}
Gigi Parrish, 92, American actress, later known as Katherine Weld.{{cite news |url=http://www.coastlinepilot.com/news/story/38886p-57818c.html |title=Gigi Parrish |newspaper=Coastline Pilot}} {{dead link |date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
Kuljeet Randhawa, 30, Indian actress, suicide by hanging.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1060210/asp/nation/story_5828158.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060215223912/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060210/asp/nation/story_5828158.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 15, 2006 |title= Television actress found dead at home |last=Bhattacharya |first=Chandrima S. |date=9 February 2006 |newspaper=The Telegraph |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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Phil Brown, 89, American actor (Star Wars, Calling Dr. Gillespie, Oppenheimer).{{cite web |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/51662/uncle-owen-r-i-p |title=Uncle Owen, R.I.P. |last=Ryan |first=Joal |date=14 February 2006 |website=E! News |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Ibolya Csák, 91, Hungarian athlete, 1936 Olympic gold medalist in women's high jump.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1510324/Ibolya-Csak.html |title=Ibolya Csák |date=13 February 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Gilles Kahn, 59, French computer scientist.{{cite web |url=http://www.academie-sciences.fr/academie/membre/Kahn_Gilles.htm |title=In memoriam: Gilles Kahn |first=Gérard |last=Huet |date=May 2006 |website=Académie des sciences |language=fr |access-date=24 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016215530/http://www.academie-sciences.fr/academie/membre/Kahn_Gilles.htm |archive-date=16 October 2013}}
Sir Freddie Laker, 83, British entrepreneur, founder of Laker Airways.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/10/guardianobituaries |title=Sir Freddie Laker: British entrepreneur who pioneered low-cost air travel |last=Barker |first=Dennis |date=10 February 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Nadira, 75, Indian Bollywood actress.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nadira-6109051.html |title=Nadira: Bollywood femme fatale |last=Singh |first=Kuldip |date=15 February 2006 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Laurie Z, 48, American musician, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.lauriez.com/tributes.php |title=In Memoriam: Laurie Zeluck Carter 1957–2006 |first=Erin |last=Graffy de Garcia |date=13 April 2006 |newspaper=Santa Barbara Independent |access-date=27 April 2007 |via=Lauriez.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705042215/http://www.lauriez.com/tributes.php |archive-date=5 July 2007}}

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John Belluso, 36, American playwright, Engleman-Camurdrie syndrome.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/theater/15BELLUSO.html |title=John Belluso, 36; Wrote Plays About Disability |first=Jesse |last=McKinley |date=15 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Fernando Pereira de Freitas, 71, Brazilian Olympic basketball player.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418033018/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fe/fernando-brobro-1.html Fernando Brobra]
Jill Fraser, 59, British theatre director, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/arts/22fraser.html |title=Jill Fraser, 59, Who Directed Small but Noted British Theater |first=Nadine |last=Brozan |date=22 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Dick Harmon, 58, American golfer and golf instructor.{{cite web |url=http://www.pga.com/news/pganews/pgamedianewsletter/harmon021506.cfm |title=Harmon, member of one of America's premier golf families, dies at 58 |date=15 February 2006 |website=PGA of America |access-date=1 March 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060322122241/http://www.pga.com/news/pganews/pgamedianewsletter/harmon021506.cfm |archive-date=22 March 2006}}
Knut-Olaf Haustein, 71, German physician.
John Prentice, 79, Scottish football player and manager.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/4701398.stm |title=Ex-Scotland manager Prentice dies |date=10 February 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Norman Shumway, 83, American surgeon, performed first U.S. heart transplant, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2006/02/norman-shumway-heart-transplantation-pioneer-dies-at-83.html |title=Norman Shumway, Heart Transplantation Pioneer, Dies at 83 |date=10 February 2006 |website=Stanford Medicine |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Peter Smith, 65, British trade union leader, oesophageal cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4704390.stm |title=Former teachers' union head dies |date=11 February 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Juan Soriano, 85, Mexican painter and sculptor.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/juan-soriano-6107181.html |title=Juan Soriano: Sculptor and 'perpetual rebel' |first=Phil |last=Davison |date=8 March 2006 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=3 June 2018}}
André Strappe, 77, French football player.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/01b2-0e6d621c3cde-51f364e7c2f8-1000--france-mourns-former-internationals/ |title=France mourns former internationals |date=14 February 2006 |website=UEFA |access-date=3 June 2018}}
James Yancey aka J Dilla, 32, American hip hop record producer and MC, lupus nephritis.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/arts/music/14dilla.html |title=James Yancey, 32, Producer Known for Soulful Hip-Hop |last=Sanneh |first=Kelefa |author-link=Kelefa Sanneh |date=14 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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Peter Benchley, 65, American author and screenwriter (Jaws, The Deep), pulmonary fibrosis.{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3654200.html |title=Jaws author Peter Benchley, 65, dies |first=Hillel |last=Italie |date=12 February 2006 |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Peggy Cripps Appiah, 84, British-Ghanaian children's author.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,1724260,00.html |title=Peggy Appiah |first=Cameron |last=Duodu |author-link=Cameron Duodu |date=6 March 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Ken Fletcher, 65, Australian tennis player, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=2328937 |title=Ken Fletcher, former doubles champ, dies at 65 |date=13 February 2006 |website=ESPN |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Jackie "Mr. TV" Pallo, 79, British professional wrestler, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4714948.stm |title=Wrestling star Jackie Pallo dies |date=15 February 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Harry Schein, 81, Austrian-born founder of Swedish Film Institute, author and columnist.{{cite web |url=http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3035&date=20060212 |title=Harry Schein dies at 81 |date=12 February 2006 |website=The Local |access-date=1 March 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310160305/http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3035&date=20060212 |archive-date=10 March 2007}}
Jockey Shabalala, 62, South African singer with Ladysmith Black Mambazo.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/arts/15shabalala.html |title=Jockey Shabalala, Ladysmith Singer, Dies at 62 |date=15 February 2006 |agency=The Associated Press |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Thomas A. Spragens, 88, American administrator, former president of Centre College.{{cite web |url=http://www.centre.edu/web/news/2006/spragens1_06.html |title=Centre remembers Thomas A. Spragens |date=5 February 2017 |website=Centre College |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060222200654/http://www.centre.edu/web/news/2006/spragens1_06.html |archive-date=22 February 2006}}
Harry Vines, 67, American wheelchair basketball coach.{{cite news |url=http://www.arkansasleader.com/2006/02/obituaries-02-15-06.html |title=Obituaries: Harry Vines |date=15 February 2006 |newspaper=The Leader |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060418041733/http://www.arkansasleader.com/2006/02/obituaries-02-15-06.html |archive-date=18 April 2006}}

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Lenny Dee, 83, American virtuoso organist.{{cite web |title=LENNY DEE |url=http://www.theatreorgans.com/hammond/keng/kenhtml/lenny%20dee.htm |website=theatreorgans.com |access-date=7 February 2021}}
Henri Guédon, 61, French percussionist.{{cite web |title=Henri Guedon - Early Latin & Boogaloo Recordings by The Drum Master |first=Julian |last=Drago |date=25 June 2007 |website=Sun of Latin Music }}
Pamela O'Malley, 76, Irish-Spanish activist and educationalist and radical, stroke.{{cite news|title=Unconventional activist who made Spain her home|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/unconventional-activist-who-made-spain-her-home-1.1017613|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=18 February 2006|accessdate=7 February 2021|archive-date=18 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118181103/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/unconventional-activist-who-made-spain-her-home-1.1017613|url-status=live}}
Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón, 92, Mexican entrepreneur and co-founder of National Action Party.{{cite news |url=http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2006/225797.html |date=12 February 2006 |newspaper=La Crónica de Hoy |language=es |access-date=3 June 2018 |title=Archived copy |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305073507/http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2006/225797.html |url-status=dead }}

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John Brooke-Little, 78, English author and officer of arms.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1510576/John-Brooke-Little.html |title=John Brooke-Little |date=16 February 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Ilan Halimi, French Jew kidnapped and murdered by a gang from a banlieue. Possibly anti-Semitic murder.{{cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/foreign/tale-of-torture-and-murder-horrifies-the-whole/27948/ |title=Tale of Torture and Murder Horrifies the Whole of France |first=Michel |last=Gurfinkiel |author-link=Michel Gurfinkiel |date=22 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Sun |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Jaakko Honko, 83, Finnish economist.{{cite news |url=https://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000002626688.html |title=Muistot: Jaakko Honko |date=15 May 2011 |newspaper=Helsingin Sanomat |language=fi |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Andreas Katsulas, 59, American actor (Babylon 5, The Fugitive, Star Trek: The Next Generation), lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-21-me-passings21.2-story.html |title=Andreas Katsulas, 59; Had Roles on 'Babylon 5' and in 'The Fugitive' Film |date=21 February 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Alan M. Levin, 79, American documentary filmmaker.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/arts/television/17levin.html |title=Alan M. Levin, 79, Documentarian of Social and Political Issues for TV |first=Felicia R. |last=Lee |date=17 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Edna Lewis, 89, American author of cookbooks on Southern U.S. cuisine.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/national/14lewis.html |title=Edna Lewis, 89, Dies; Wrote Cookbooks That Revived Refined Southern Cuisine |first1=Eric |last1=Asimov |first2=Kim |last2=Severson |date=14 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Altynbek Sarsenbayev, 43, Kazakh politician, former cabinet minister, assassinated.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4709580.stm |title=Top Kazakh politician found dead |date=13 February 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Sir Peter Strawson, 86, British philosopher.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2040505,00.html |title=Sir Peter Strawson |date=15 February 2006 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725003637/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2040505,00.html |archive-date=25 July 2008}}
Joseph Ujlaki, 76, Hungarian-born French football player.
Wang Xuan, 70, Chinese academic and IT expert.{{cite web |url=http://english.people.com.cn/200602/20/eng20060220_244102.html |title=Farewell to Chinese IT expert Wang Xuan |date=20 February 2006 |website=People's Daily Online |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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Ramon Bagatsing, 89, Filipino politician, Mayor of Manila, cardiac arrest.[https://varsitarian.net/news/20081117/ex_manila_mayor_ramon_bagatsing_dies Ex-Manila Mayor Ramon Bagatsing dies]
Yehuda Chitrik, 106, Russian-born rabbi and Lubavitch storyteller.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/nyregion/rabbi-yehuda-chitrik-a-legend-in-lubavitcher-circles-is-dead-at.html |title=Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, 106, a Legend in Lubavitcher Circles |date=16 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Darry Cowl, 80, French actor and pianist, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2006/02/14/French-Actor-Darry-Cowl-dead-at-80/39281139976123/ |title=French Actor Darry Cowl dead at 80 |date=14 February 2006 |website=United Press International |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Shoshana Damari, 83, Yemeni-born Israeli singer, "Queen of Israeli song," pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/arts/music/15damari.html |title=Shoshana Damari, 83, Noted Israeli Singer |first=Steven |last=Erlanger |author-link=Steven Erlanger |date=15 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Michael G. Fitzgerald, 55, American film historian and author.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-16-me-passings16.1-story.html |title=Michael G. Fitzgerald, 55; Wrote Books on Westerns, Film Studio |date=16 February 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Lynden David Hall, 31, British soul singer, Hodgkin's lymphoma.{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds29168.html |title=Lynden David Hall dies of cancer at 31 |date=15 February 2006 |first=Miriam |last=Zendle |website=Digital Spy |access-date=1 March 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060223043238/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds29168.html |archive-date=23 February 2006}}
Tage Møller, 91, Danish Olympic cyclist.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/tage-moller-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418003513/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/tage-moller-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Tage Møller |website=Sports Reference |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Don Paarlberg, 94, American agricultural economics adviser to three U.S. Presidents.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/20/national/20paarlberg.html |title=Don Paarlberg, 94, Agricultural Economics Adviser to 3 Presidents, Is Dead |first=Wolfgang |last=Saxon |date=20 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Michael Posner, 74, British economist.[https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/michael-posner-hl93htf5r62 Michael Posner]
Putte Wickman, 81, Swedish jazz orchestra leader and clarinetist, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=370555ef-2f67-4c73-92ef-4ae5b7437a24&k=7908 |title=Swedish jazz musician Putte Wickman dies at age 81 of cancer |date=14 February 2006 |website=Canada.com |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060224172825/http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=370555ef-2f67-4c73-92ef-4ae5b7437a24&k=7908 |archive-date=24 February 2006}}

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Barbara Guest, 85, American poet of the New York School.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/books/04guest.html |title=Barbara Guest, Pioneering Poet of the New York School, Is Dead at 85 |last=Fox |first=Margalit |date=4 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Anna Marly, 88, Russian-born songwriter, France's "Troubadour of the Resistance.".{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/world/europe/anna-marly-88-dies-inspired-french-resistance-in-song.html |title=Anna Marly, 88, Dies; Inspired French Resistance in Song |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=13 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Andrei Petrov, 75, Russian composer.{{cite web |url=http://arts.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1130367.php/Russian_composer_Andrei_Petrov_dead_at_75 |title=Russian composer Andrei Petrov dead at 75 |date=16 February 2006 |website=Monsters and Critics |access-date=1 March 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060223044054/http://arts.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1130367.php/Russian_composer_Andrei_Petrov_dead_at_75 |archive-date=23 February 2006}}
Robert E. Rich, Sr., 92, American businessman, creator of first non dairy whipped topping.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/business/17richOBT.html |title=Robert Rich, 92, Maker of Nondairy Whipped Topping |first=Melanie |last=Warner |date=17 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Sun Yun-suan, 93, Chinese engineer and politician, former Premier of Republic of China, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-17-me-sun17-story.html |title=Sun Yun-suan, 92; Taiwan's Premier From 1978 to 1984 Developed Export Economy |date=17 February 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Josip Vrhovec, 79, Croatian Yugoslav communist politician, former foreign minister of Yugoslavia.
Lim Hock Soon, 41, murder victim who was shot to death in Singapore by former acquaintance and gangster Tan Chor Jin

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Paul Avrich, 74, American professor and historian of anarchism, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/24/nyregion/24avrich.html |title=Paul Avrich, 74, a Historian of Anarchism, Is Dead |last=Brozan |first=Nadine |date=24 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Benno Besson, 83, Swiss stage director.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/theater/25besson.html |title=Benno Besson, 83, Director of Plays and Brecht Disciple, Is Dead |last=Rockwell |first=John |date=25 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Johnny Grunge, 40, American pro wrestler, sleep apnea complications.{{cite web |url=http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/pages/other/obituary.htm |title=Wrestling Obituaries |website=Wrestling Information Archive |access-date=14 February 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218054429/http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/pages/other/obituary.htm |archive-date=18 February 2008}}
Sid Feller, 89, American music arranger, conductor and record producer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nysun.com/obituaries/sid-feller-89-arranged-ray-charles-tunes/27818/ |title=Sid Feller, 89, Arranged Ray Charles Tunes |last=Miller |first=Stephen |date=17 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Sun |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Dennis Kirkland, 63, British television producer and director, after a short illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dennis-kirkland-6108397.html |title=Dennis Kirkland: Benny Hill's favourite producer |date=24 February 2006 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Ernie Stautner, 80, German-born American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/sports/football/17stautner.html |title=Ernie Stautner, 80, Starred As Undersized N.F.L. Tackle |first=Frank |last=Litsky |date=17 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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Ray Barretto, 76, American-born Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/18/arts/music/18barretto.html |title=Ray Barretto, a Master of the Conga Drum, Dies at 76 |last=Chinen |first=Nate |date=18 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Sybille Bedford, 94, German-born British novelist and memoirist.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sybille-bedford-6108683.html |title=Sybille Bedford |date=20 February 2006 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Paul Carr, 72, American actor (Akira, Raise the Titanic, Star Trek), lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/15432.html |title=Paul Carr, "Lt. Kelso," Mourned |date=22 February 2006 |website=Startrek.com |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060308001553/http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/15432.html |archive-date=8 March 2006}}
Bill Cowsill, 58, American singer, lead of The Cowsills, emphysema and other ailments.{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/entertainment/story.html?id=66b41d0b-fe7c-4897-a70b-c91300e96c78 |title=Rock legend Cowsill dies in Calgary home |date=20 February 2006 |website=Canada.com |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628222433/http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/entertainment/story.html?id=66b41d0b-fe7c-4897-a70b-c91300e96c78 |archive-date=28 June 2011}}
Gertrude Ganote, 86, American baseball player (AAGPBL).{{cite web|url=http://www.aagpbl.org/profiles/gertrude-ganote-weise-lefty/616|title=All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Gertrude Weise|access-date=2019-04-08}}
Harold Hunter, 31, American pro skateboarder, in movie Kids, suspected drug overdose.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/nyregion/harold-hunter-31-skateboarder-with-celebrity-appeal-dies.html |title=Harold Hunter, 31, Skateboarder With Celebrity Appeal, Dies |last=Kilgannon |first=Corey |date=25 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Bob Lewis, 81, American race horse owner, congestive heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/20060217-1430-rac-obit-boblewis.html |title=Bob Lewis, owner of two Kentucky Derby winners, dies at 81 |last=Chang |first=Alicia |date=17 February 2006 |newspaper=San Diego Union-Tribune |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060428015042/http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/20060217-1430-rac-obit-boblewis.html |archive-date=28 April 2006}}
Jorge Pinto Mendonça, 51, Brazilian football player, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.xtratime.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-184021.html |title=RIP Jorge Mendonça |date=19 February 2006 |website=Xtratime Community |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Yevgeny Samoilov, 94, Russian actor.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0759963/ |title= Evgeniy Samoylov (1912–2006) |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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Richard Bright, 68, American actor (The Godfather, Marathon Man, Once Upon a Time in America), traffic collision.{{cite news |url=http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/62127.htm |title='Godfather' Actor Killed by Tour Bus |first1=Tatiana |last1=Deligiannakis |first2=Perry |last2=Chiaramonte |date=19 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Sun |access-date=1 March 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060428134733/http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/62127.htm |archive-date=28 April 2006}}
Bill Hartley, 75, Australian political activist and trade unionist.{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/socialist-stalwart-hartley-dies-75/2006/02/18/1140151851318.html |title=Socialist stalwart Hartley dies, 75 |first=Jason |last=Dowling |date=19 February 2006 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Laurel Hester, 49, American gay rights activist, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/20/obituaries/lieutenant-who-won-pension-rights-for-her-domestic-partner-dies.html |title=Lieutenant Who Won Pension Rights for Her Domestic Partner Dies at 49 |first=Michael |last=Wilson |date=20 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Charles Leonard, 92, American US Army Major General and Olympic sharpshooter.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/02/sports/othersports/02leonard.html |title=Charles Leonard, 92, Olympic Sharpshooter, Dies |date=2 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Tom Sellers, 83, American newspaper reporter and 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/13961964.htm |title=Tom Sellers |newspaper=Ledger-Enquirer}} {{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Ruth Taylor, 44, Canadian poet, alcohol poisoning.{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/insight/story.html?id=c8e300c6-b0ba-4b6b-bbf3-a85a00508d36&__federated=1 |title=A restless spirit 'always on the brink of combustion' |date=5 March 2006 |website=Canada.com |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904004017/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/insight/story.html?id=c8e300c6-b0ba-4b6b-bbf3-a85a00508d36&__federated=1 |archive-date=4 September 2014}}
Saulius Mykolaitis, 40, Lithuanian director, actor, and singer-songwriter.

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Angelo Brignole, 81, Italian cyclist.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=2679 |title=Angelo Brignole |website=Cycling Archives |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Ken Keuffel, 82, American college football coach, prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/23/sports/ncaafootball/23keuffell.html |title=Ken Keuffel, 82, a Champion Of the Single-Wing Offense |first=Frank |last=Litsky |date=23 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Erna Lazarus, 102, American screenwriter.{{cite web |url=http://www.gatago.com/alt/obituaries/6253129.html |title=Erna Lazarus, Film & TV screenwriter (wrote "Hollywood or Bust", Martin & Lewis's last film), 102 |date=15 March 2006 |website=Gatago.com |access-date=29 August 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927045824/http://www.gatago.com/alt/obituaries/6253129.html |archive-date=27 September 2007}}
Edward H. McNamara, 79, American county official.{{cite news |url=http://www.michigandaily.com/content/ed-mcnamara-dies-age-79 |title=Ed McNamara dies at age 79 |date=20 February 2006 |newspaper=The Michigan Daily |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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Lou Gish, 35, British stage, film and television actress, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/24/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries |title=Lou Gish |last=Coveney |first=Michael |date=24 February 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Curt Gowdy, 86, American sports broadcaster, leukemia.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=2337202 |title='Superstar' TV broadcaster Gowdy dies at 86 |date=27 February 2006 |website=ESPN |access-date=3 June 2018}}{{cite magazine |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/more/02/20/gowdy.obit.ap/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060303062341/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/more/02/20/gowdy.obit.ap/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 3, 2006 |title=Gowdy dead at 86; Sportscasting legend loses battle with leukemia |date=20 February 2006 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |access-date=3 June 2018}}{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-02-20-gowdy-obit_x.htm |title=Legendary sportscaster Curt Gowdy dies at age 86 |first=Michael |last=Hiestand |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604054825/https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-02-20-gowdy-obit_x.htm |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
Paul Marcinkus, 84, American Catholic archbishop, President of Vatican Bank and Pro-President of Vatican City State.{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/02/22/archbishop-paul-marcinkus-1922-2006/ |title=Archbishop Paul Marcinkus 1922–2006 |first=Ron |last=Grossman |date=22 February 2006 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Lucjan Wolanowski, 86, Polish journalist, writer and traveller.{{cite web |url=http://www.wolanowski.com |title=Lucjan Wolanowski |website=wolanowski.com |language=pl |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307023858/http://www.wolanowski.com/ |archive-date=7 March 2007}}

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Gennadiy Aygi, 71, Russian author and poet who wrote in the Chuvash language.{{cite web |url=http://www.regnum.ru/english/594381.html |title=Poet Gennady Aygi died |date=1 March 2006 |website=REGNUM News Agency |access-date=1 March 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060301015602/http://www.regnum.ru/english/594381.html |archive-date=1 March 2006}}
Theodore Draper, 93, American historian and political commentator.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/national/22DRAPER.html |title=Theodore Draper, Freelance Historian, Is Dead at 93 |first=Christopher |last=Lehmann-Haupt |author-link=Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |date=22 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Mirko Marjanović, 68, Serbian politician, Prime Minister of Serbia (1994–2000).{{cite web |url=https://www.b92.net/info/komentari.php?nav_id=189382 |title=Preminuo Mirko Marjanović |date=22 February 2006 |website=B92.net |language=sr |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Angelica Rozeanu, 84, Romanian-born table tennis world champion, cirrhosis.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/24/sports/othersports/24rozeanu.html |title=Angelica Rozeanu, 84, Table Tennis Star |date=24 February 2006 |agency=The Associated Press |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Stefan Terlezki, 78, British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983–1987.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/mar/01/guardianobituaries.obituaries |title=Stefan Terlezki |first=Andrew |last=Roth |date=1 March 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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Bill Bagnall, 80, American magazine publisher and editor (Motorcyclist).[https://www.motorcyclistonline.com/former-editor-and-publisher-motorcyclist-dies Former Editor and Publisher of Motorcyclist Dies]
Atwar Bahjat, 30, Iraqi journalist for al-Arabiya, abducted and killed in Iraq.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4743050.stm |title=Shock over Iraqi reporter's death |date=23 February 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=3 June 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=832270 |title=Al-Arabia correspondent, two crew members killed in Iraq |date=23 February 2006 |website=Kuwait News Agency |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080323235216/http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=832270 |archive-date=23 March 2008}}
Anthony Burger, 44, American gospel music pianist, collapsed during performance.{{cite news |url=https://baptistcourier.com/2006/02/gaither-pianist-anthony-burger-dies-during-homecoming-cruise-performance/ |title=Gaither pianist Anthony Burger dies during 'Homecoming' cruise performance |last=Blume |first=Butch |date=28 February 2006 |newspaper=The Courier |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Hilde Domin, 96, German poet and writer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/mar/16/guardianobituaries.bookscomment1 |title=Hilde Domin |first=Ben |last=Hutchinson |date=15 March 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Donelson Hoopes, 73, American curator.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/arts/21hoopes.html |title=Donelson Hoopes, 73, Curator and Historian of American Painting |first=Wolfgang |last=Saxon |date=21 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Edward Nalbandian, 78, American businessman, owner of Zachary All Clothing in Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=edward-g-nalbandian&pid=16836233&fhid=10622 |title=Edward G. Nalbandian |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=24 February 2006 |via=Legacy.com |access-date=3 June 2018}}
S. Rajaratnam, 90, Singaporean politician, first Senior Minister of Singapore, heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.tamilguardian.com/content/obituary-sinnathamby-rajaratnam |title=Obituary: Sinnathamby Rajaratnam |date=7 March 2006 |website=Tamil Guardian |access-date=3 June 2018}}
John Sullivan, 61, English cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/21117.html |title=John Sullivan |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Bill Tung, 72, Hong Kong actor, horse racing commentator.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmbuffonline.com/InRemembrance/BillTungPiu.htm |title=In Remembrance : Bill Tung Piu |website=Film Buff Online |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Richard Wawro, 52, Scottish autistic savant internationally recognized artist, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1512657/Richard-Wawro.html |title=Richard Wawro |date=11 March 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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Giuseppe Amici, 67, Sammarinese politician, former Captain Regent of San Marino.
Frederick Busch, 64, American author, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/books/25busch.html |title=Frederick Busch, Author of Poetic Fiction, Dies at 64 |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=25 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Said Mohamed Djohar, 87, Comorian politician, former President of Comoros.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/obituaries/said-mohamed-djohar-87-comoros-leader-is-dead.html |title=Said Mohamed Djohar, 87, Comoros Leader, Is Dead |agency=Reuters |date=25 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Muhammad Shamsul Huq, 93, Bangladeshi academic and former Minister of Foreign Affairs.{{cite Banglapedia|author=Islam, Sirajul|article=Huq, Muhammad Shamsul}}
Luna Leopold, 90, American ecologist and author.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/national/20leopold.html |title=Luna Leopold, River Researcher, Is Dead at 90 |last=Pearce |first=Jeremy |date=20 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Machteld Mellink, 88, Netherlands-born American archaeologist of sites in Anatolia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/06/obituaries/06mellink.html |title=Machteld J. Mellink, 88, Archaeologist, Dies |last=Pearce |first=Jeremy |date=6 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Diane Shalet, 71, American actress and author.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/diane-shalet-teacher-and-broadway-actress-is-dead-com-131147 |title=Diane Shalet, Teacher and Broadway Actress, Is Dead |author-link1=Robert Simonson|last=Simonson |first=Robert |date=1 March 2006 |magazine=Playbill |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Earl Stallings, 89, American Baptist minister and activist, praised by Martin Luther King Jr. in the "Letter from Birmingham Jail".{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/national/04STALLINGS.html |title=Rev. Earl Stallings, 89, Pastor Praised by Jailed Dr. King, Dies |first=Wolfgang |last=Saxon |date=4 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Telmo Zarraonaindía, 85, Spanish football player, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/Kind=2/newsId=398430.html |title=Zarra gone but not forgotten |last=Turner |first=Lucy |date=24 February 2006 |website=UEFA |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080321030601/http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/Kind=2/newsId=398430.html |archive-date=21 March 2008}}

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Octavia Butler, 58, American science fiction author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, head injury.{{cite news |url=http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=webbutlerobit26&date=20060226&query=%22Octavia%20Butler%22 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121216095456/http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=webbutlerobit26&date=20060226&query=%22Octavia+Butler%22 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 16, 2012 |title=Octavia Butler, prominent science fiction author, dies at 58 |date=26 February 2006 |first=Gene |last=Johnson |newspaper=Seattle Times |access-date=3 June 2018 }}
Harold Faragher, 88, English cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/12809.html |title=Harold Faragher |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Don Knotts, 81, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Three's Company, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken), 5-time Emmy winner, complications from pneumonia and lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/arts/television/26knotts.html |title=Actor Don Knotts, 81, Dies; Won Fame as Barney Fife |date=26 February 2006 |agency=The Associated Press |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
John Martin, 58, Canadian broadcaster, throat cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.chartattack.com/news/40529/the-new-musicmuchmusic-mastermind-succumbs-to-cancer |title=The New Music/MuchMusic Mastermind Succumbs To Cancer |first=Steve |last=McLean |date=24 February 2006 |website=Chart Attack |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607181233/http://www.chartattack.com/news/40529/the-new-musicmuchmusic-mastermind-succumbs-to-cancer |archive-date=7 June 2011}}
Andrew Sherratt, 59, British archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/international/europe/20sherratt.html |title=Andrew Sherratt, 59, Who Studied Animal Husbandry, Is Dead |last=Pearce |first=Jeremy |date=20 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Denis Twitchett, 80, British Sinologist and scholar, Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University (1980–1994), creator of the 15 volume The Cambridge History of China.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/30/books/30twitchett.html |title=Denis Twitchett, 80, Scholar Who Created 'History of China', Is Dead |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |date=30 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Dennis Weaver, 81, American actor (Gunsmoke, McCloud, Duel), Emmy winner (1959), complications from cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/arts/dennis-weaver-81-sidekick-on-gunsmoke-dies.html |title=Dennis Weaver, 81, Sidekick on 'Gunsmoke,' Dies |last=Lee |first=Felicia R. |date=28 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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Kenneth Deane, 45, Canadian police officer convicted in Ipperwash shooting, automobile accident.{{cite news |url=http://torontosun.com/News/Canada/2006/02/27/1464680-sun.html |title=Crash kills key witness |last1=Kemick |first1=April |last2=Matyas |first2=Joe |date=27 February 2006 |newspaper=Toronto Sun |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930204126/http://torontosun.com/News/Canada/2006/02/27/1464680-sun.html |archive-date=30 September 2007}}
Thomas Koppel, 61, Danish musician and composer from the band Savage Rose.{{cite news |url=https://politiken.dk/kultur/art4859067/Komponisten-Thomas-Koppel-er-d%C3%B8d |title=Komponisten Thomas Koppel er død |last=Høy-Jensen |first=Camilla |date=26 February 2006 |newspaper=Politiken |language=da |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Liang Lingguang, 89, Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician, Minister of Light Industry (1977–1980), Mayor of Guangzhou (1980–1983), Governor of Guangdong (1983–1985).{{Cite web|url=http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2006-02-26/09128304328s.shtml|title=原轻工业部部长广东省原省长梁灵光逝世|date=2006-02-26|website=Sina|language=zh|access-date=2019-09-25}}
Darren McGavin, 83, American actor (Kolchak: The Night Stalker, A Christmas Story, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/arts/television/27mcgavin.html |title=Darren McGavin, 83, Versatile Veteran Actor |first=Nadine |last=Brozan |date=27 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Henry M. Morris, 87, American young earth creationist leader, complications of stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-03-me-morris3-story.html |title=Henry Morris, 87; 1961 Book Is Credited With Reviving the Creationism Movement |first=Valerie J. |last=Nelson |date=3 March 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, 69, Ethiopian Poet Laureate, kidney disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/ethiopia_hero_3347.jsp |title=An Ethiopian hero: Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin (1936–2006) |first=Richard |last=Pankhurst |date=10 September 2007 |website=OpenDemocracy.net |access-date=3 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060718204617/http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/ethiopia_hero_3347.jsp |archive-date=July 18, 2006 |url-status=dead }}
Imette St. Guillen, 24, American Hispanic John Jay College of Criminal Justice student, murdered.

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Georgina Battiscombe, 100, British author & biographer.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2064880,00.html |title=Georgina Battiscombe |date=2 March 2006 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604025037/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article736357.ece |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
Bill Cardoso, 68, American writer and editor, coined the term "gonzo", heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/national/16cardoso.html |title=Bill Cardoso, 68, Editor Who Coined 'Gonzo' |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=16 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Noel Diprose, 83, Australian cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4949.html |title=Noel Diprose |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Sir Hans Singer, 95, German-born British economist, helped create the World Food Program and the United Nations Development Program.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/business/26singer.html |title=Hans W. Singer, 95, Creator of U.N. Development Program, Dies |first=Heather |last=Timmons |date=26 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Charlie Wayman, 84, English footballer (Southampton, Preston North End).[https://spartacus-educational.com/NEWCwayman.htm Charlie Wayman]

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Alice Baker, 107, British World War I service veteran, last surviving British woman to serve in the First World War, member of the Royal Flying Corps.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/norfolk/4781342.stm |title=WWI aircraftswoman dies aged 107 |date=7 February 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Ferenc Bene, 61, Hungarian football player, fall.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ferenc-bene-6107726.html |title=Ferenc Bene: Thrilling goal-scorer for Hungary |date=4 March 2006 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Otis Chandler, 78, American former publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Lewy body disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/02/28/otis_chandler_78_transformed_la_times_into_leading_paper/ |title=Otis Chandler, 78; transformed L.A. Times into leading paper |first=Gary |last=Gentile |date=28 February 2006 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Fahd Faraj al-Juwair, 36, Saudi Arabian alleged head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, killed in foiled bombing attempt.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4759742.stm |title=Saudi most wanted killed in raid |date=28 February 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Milton Katims, 96, American violist and conductor, long-time conductor and leader of the Seattle Symphony.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/02/arts/music/02katims.html |title=Milton Katims, 96, Conductor Who Led Seattle Symphony |first=Jeremy |last=Eichler |date=2 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Tsakani Mhinga, 27, South African R&B singer, drug overdose.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4758248.stm |title=South African singer found dead |date=28 February 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=3 June 2018}}
William Musto, 88, American politician, former mayor of Union City, New Jersey, convicted of racketeering.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/nyregion/01musto.html |title=William Musto, 88, a Mayor Re-elected on His Way to Jail |last=Gettleman |first=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Gettleman |date=1 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Robert Lee Scott, Jr., 97, American general officer, retired United States Air Force brigadier general and fighter ace, author (God is My Co-Pilot).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/national/28scott.html |title=Robert Scott, War-Hero Author, Dies at 97 |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |date=28 February 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Linda Smith, 48, British comedian, ovarian cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4759968.stm |title=Radio comedian Linda Smith dies |date=28 February 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=3 June 2018}}

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James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn, 69, American NASCAR driver.{{cite web |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/03/05/james_blackburn_ex_nascar_driver/ |title=James Blackburn, ex-NASCAR driver |agency=The Associated Press |date=5 March 2006 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Owen Chamberlain, 85, American particle physicist, co-discoverer of the antiproton, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics, complications from Parkinson's Disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/02/science/02chamberlain.html |title=Owen Chamberlain, 85, Dies; Discovered Antiproton |last=Glanz |first=James |date=2 March 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Travis Claridge, 27, American football player (Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), pneumonia.{{cite news |url=http://obits.columbian.com/obituaries/columbian/obituary.aspx?n=travis-aaron-claridge&pid=16993704 |title=Travis Aaron Claridge |date=7 March 2006 |newspaper=The Columbian |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Hugh McCartney, 86, Scottish politician, former Labour Party MP.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2066718,00.html |title=Hugh McCartney |date=3 March 2006 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=3 June 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604071901/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article736687.ece |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
Ron Cyrus, 70, American politician, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2006/03/05/Obituary-Ron-Cyrus-Former-Kentucky-legislator-father-of-country-singer/stories/200603050304 |title=Obituary: Ron Cyrus / Former Kentucky legislator, father of country singer |date=5 March 2006 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |access-date=3 June 2018}}
Peter Snow, c. 70, New Zealand doctor who discovered "Tapanui flu" (chronic fatigue syndrome).{{cite web |url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0603/S00010.htm |title=New Zealand loses a fine GP |date=2 March 2006 |website=Scoop News |access-date=3 June 2018}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2006-02-01,2006-02-28&adult=include List of February 2006 deaths] at IMDb

*2006-02