Deaths in May 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 2006

= 1 =

Jay Presson Allen, 84, American screenwriter, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/theater/02allen.html |title=Jay Presson Allen, 84, Writer of Adaptations for the Stage, Dies |first=Campbell |last=Robertson |date=2 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Wilfrid Butt, 83, English biochemist and reproductive endocrinologist.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jun/22/guardianobituaries.mainsection|title=Wilfrid Butt|work=The Guardian|date=22 June 2006|first=David|last=London|access-date=12 January 2019}}
Ed Casey, 73, Australian politician, former Queensland Labor Party leader, stroke.{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=612398330 |title=Former Members: Casey, Hon Edmund Denis (Ed) |website=Queensland Parliament |access-date=30 April 2018}}
George F. Haines, 82, American Olympic swimming coach, complications from a stroke.1877{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/sports/othersports/03haines.html |title=George Haines, Coach of Elite Swimmers, Dies at 82 |first=Frank |last=Litsky |author-link=Frank Litsky |date=3 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Betsy Jones-Moreland, 76, American film and television actress, cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429506/ |title= Betsy Jones-Moreland (1930–2006) |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Rob Lacey, 43, British stage actor and award-winning Christian author, bladder cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/life/Rob_Lacey_Dies/21400/p1/ |title=Rob Lacey Dies |date=3 May 2006 |website=Cross Rhythms |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Rauno Lehtinen, 74, Finnish composer.{{cite web |url=http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/6018 |title=Finnish composer Rauno Lehtinen died |first=Edwin |last=van Gorp |date=3 May 2006 |website=ESC Today |access-date=1 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060518181752/http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/6018 |archive-date=18 May 2006}}
Johnny Paris, 65, American saxophonist (Johnny & the Hurricanes).{{cite news |url=http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060504/NEWS13/605040481/-1/NEWS |title=John M. Pocisk, 1940–2006: Saxophonist was Johnny & the Hurricanes' leader |date=4 May 2006 |newspaper=The Blade |access-date=2 May 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060628223819/http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20060504%2FNEWS13%2F605040481%2F-1%2FNEWS |archive-date=2006-06-28 }}
Bruce Peterson, 72, American test pilot and engineer, known for surviving the crash of the M2-F2 and inspiring the TV-series The Six Million Dollar Man.{{cite web |url=http://www.physorg.com/news65885579.html |title=Former NASA test pilot Bruce Peterson dead |date=3 May 2006 |website=Phys.org |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Raúl Francisco Primatesta, 87, Argentine retired Cardinal Archbishop of Córdoba, Argentina.{{cite web |url=http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-p.htm#Primatesta |title=Biographical Dictionary (1903–2005): Primatesta |website=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |access-date=2 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614082933/http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-p.htm |archive-date=14 June 2006}} Slim Aarons Gets ripped off the paper photo

= 2 =

Clive Burgess, 55, Welsh rugby union player.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/clive-burgess-6101773.html Clive Burgess]
Joseph Lewis Clark, 57, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/americas/4968022.stm |title=Struggle to execute US murderer |date=3 May 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Boyd Coffie, 68, American baseball player and manager, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://m.rockymountainnews.com/news/2006/may/03/first-pitch-may-3/ |title=First Pitch: Mourning |first=Tracy |last=Ringolsby |date=3 May 2006 |newspaper=Rocky Mountain News |access-date=12 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224122847/http://m.rockymountainnews.com/news/2006/may/03/first-pitch-may-3/ |archive-date=24 February 2012}}
Luigi Griffanti, 89, Italian footballer, goalkeeper of ACF Fiorentina in the 1940s.{{cite web |url=http://www.fiorentina.it/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=40160 |title=Chi era il grande Luigi Griffanti detto "Saracinesca" |date=3 May 2006 |website=Fiorentina |language=it |access-date=2 May 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718163418/http://www.fiorentina.it/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=40160 |archive-date=18 July 2011}}
Sam Mokuahi, Jr. aka "Sammy Steamboat", 71, American Hawaiian professional wrestler, complications from Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/May/04/sp/FP605040317.html |title=Obituaries: 'Steamboat' big in many ways (1934–2006) |first=Dayton |last=Morinaga |date=4 May 2006 |newspaper=The Honolulu Advertiser |access-date=2 May 2018 |archive-date=May 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502213255/http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/May/04/sp/FP605040317.html |url-status=dead }}
Louis Rukeyser, 73, American business and economics expert, multiple myeloma.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/business/media/03rukeyser.html |last=Grant |first=James |date=3 May 2006 |title=Louis Rukeyser, Television Host, Dies at 73 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Juan Ramón Salgado, 45, Honduran congressional deputy, gunshot wounds.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4967886.stm |title=Gunmen kill Honduran politician |date=3 May 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}

= 3 =

Karel Appel, 85, Dutch COBRA painter.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2169990,00.html |date=8 May 2006 |title=Karel Appel |newspaper=The Times |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604041141/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article714353.ece |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
Rosita Fernandez, 88, American singer.{{cite web |url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/music/stories/MYSA050406.01A.rosita.80aa1dd.html |title=Rosita Fernandez, First Lady of Song, dies at 88 |date=4 May 2006 |first=Carmina |last=Danini |newspaper=San Antonio Express-News |access-date=1 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111510/http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/music/stories/MYSA050406.01A.rosita.80aa1dd.html |archive-date=29 September 2007}}
Franco Lavoratori, 65, Italian water polo player, Olympic Champion (1960).[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418011938/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/la/franco-lavoratori-1.html Franco Lavoratori]
Pramod Mahajan, 56, Indian politician, general secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, gunshot wounds.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4968866.stm |title=Indian opposition politician dies |date=3 May 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Howard Thomas Markey, 85, American federal judge and U.S. Air Force major general, first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/05/us/05markey.html |title=Howard T. Markey, 85, Ex-Federal Judge, Is Dead |date=5 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Earl Woods, 74, American US Army infantry officer, father and former coach of U.S. golfer Tiger Woods, prostate cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.tigerwoods.com/news/fullstory.sps?inewsid=327330&iType=6245 |last=Woods |first=Tiger |date=3 May 2006 |title=Earl Woods Passes Away at 74 |website=TigerWoods.com |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616140228/http://www.tigerwoods.com/news/fullstory.sps?inewsid=327330&iType=6245 |archive-date=16 June 2006}}

= 4 =

Alejandra Boero, 88, Argentine theater actress, director and teacher, pulmonary hypertension.{{cite news |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/EdicionImpresa/espectaculos/nota.asp?nota_id=803456 |title=Fue precursora del teatro independiente |date=6 May 2006 |newspaper=La Nación |language=es |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Jim Delsing, 80, American Major League Baseball player, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/sports/baseball/09delsing.html |title=Jim Delsing, 80, Pinch-Runner for Midget in Baseball Stunt, Dies |first=Richard |last=Goldstein |date=9 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Arthur B. Metzner, 79, Canadian chemical engineer.{{cite web |url=http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2006/may/metzner.html |title=In Memoriam: Arthur B. Metzner |date=10 October 2006 |first=T.W. Fraser |last=Russell |website=University of Delaware |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Michael Taliferro, 45, American actor and football player, stroke.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848075/ |title=Michael Taliferro (1961–2006) |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=2 May 2018}}

= 5 =

Naushad Ali, 86, Indian musician.{{cite news |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/music-composer-naushad-is-dead/story-SqIb4ylkS0LOpVtbDIqOZI.html |date=6 May 2006 |title=Music composer Naushad is dead |newspaper=Hindustan Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga, 85, Romanian comparatist and essayist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119302152 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=21 January 2023 |language=French |date=}}
George Roche III, 70, American former President of Hillsdale College, probable heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060509/NEWS11/605090431 |title=Roche, former Hillsdale College president, dies at 70 |date=9 May 2006 |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |access-date=2 May 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060517235616/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20060509%2FNEWS11%2F605090431 |archive-date=2006-05-17 }}
Atıf Yılmaz, 80, Turkish film director, screenwriter and producer, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=122536 |title=Atif Yilmaz, Turkish film director, dead at 81 |date=6 May 2006 |website=TurkishPress.com |access-date=2 May 2018}}

= 6 =

Lillian Asplund, 99, last American survivor of the {{RMS|Titanic||2}} sinking, died in sleep.{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12675494 |title=Last U.S. survivor of Titanic sinking, 99, dies |date=8 May 2006 |website=NBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Konstantin Beskov, 85, Soviet and Russian footballer and manager.{{cite web |url=http://lenta.ru/news/2006/05/06/beskov/ |title=Умер великий футбольный тренер Константин Бесков |date=7 May 2006 |website=Lenta.ru |language=ru |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Ruth Bachhuber Doyle, 89, American politician and educator.{{cite web |url=http://www.madisonwest61.com/obit_m-doyle_mother.htm |title=Doyle, Ruth Bachhuber |website=Madison West Class of '61 |access-date=2 May 2018 |archive-date=February 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214135219/http://www.madisonwest61.com/obit_m-doyle_mother.htm |url-status=dead }}
Shigeru Kayano, 79, Japanese Ainu activist.{{cite web |url=http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200605080101.html |title=Tributes flow for prominent Ainu activist Shigeru Kayano |date=8 May 2006 |newspaper=Asahi Shimbun |access-date=2 May 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060517150759/http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200605080101.html |archive-date=17 May 2006}}
Grant McLennan, 48, Australian lead singer of The Go-Betweens, suspected heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.go-betweens.net/gwm.htm |title=Grant McLennan |first=Bernard |last=MacMahon |date=6 May 2006 |website=The Go-Betweens |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Sir Anthony Morton, 82, British admiral.[http://www.cachalots.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Admiral-Sir-Anthony-Morton.pdf Admiral Sir Anthony Morton, GBE, KCB]
Flight Lieutenant Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill, 32, first British servicewoman to be killed in action in Iraq.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4983578.stm |title=Basra crash victims named by MoD |date=8 May 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
František Peřina, 95, Czechoslovak fighter pilot who served in the British Royal Air Force during World War II.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2169787,00.html |date=8 May 2006 |title=Frantisek Perina |newspaper=The Times |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202085852/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2169787,00.html |archive-date=2 December 2008}}
Pattabhi Rama Reddy, 87, Indian moviemaker, complications from a prolonged illness.{{cite news |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1028037&CatID=2 |title=Film-maker Pattabhi Rama Reddy dead |date=6 May 2006 |newspaper=Daily News and Analysis |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Lorne Saxberg, 48, Canadian television journalist, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) broadcaster.{{cite web |url=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/cbc/s/07052006/3/canada-cbc-broadcaster-lorne-saxberg-dies.html |title=CBC broadcaster Lorne Saxberg dies |date=8 May 2006 |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=2 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060508231020/http://ca.news.yahoo.com/cbc/s/07052006/3/canada-cbc-broadcaster-lorne-saxberg-dies.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 May 2006}}
Sister Rose Thering, 85, American Roman Catholic nun and professor at Seton Hall University.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/08/nyregion/08thering.html |title=Sister Rose Thering, Nun Dedicated to Bridging Gap With Judaism, Dies at 85 |first=Robert D. |last=McFadden |author-link=Robert D. McFadden |date=8 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}

= 7 =

Steve Bender, 59, German record producer and member of Dschinghis Khan.{{cite web |url=http://esctoday.com/6062/steve_bender_dschinghis_khan_died |title=Steve Bender (Dschinghis Khan) died |last=Rau |first=Oliver |date=9 May 2006 |website=ESC Today |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Duncan Inglis Cameron, 78, Scottish university administrator.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/duncan-cameron-478763.html |title=Duncan Cameron |first=Tam |last=Dalyell |author-link=Tam Dalyell |date=18 May 2006 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Richard Carleton, 62, Australian television journalist (60 Minutes), heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/05/07/1146940401225.html?from=top5 |title=Veteran reporter Carleton dead |date=7 May 2006 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Joan C. Edwards, 87, American philanthropist, liver cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.huntingtonnews.net/local/060509-staff-edwards.html |date=9 May 2006 |title=Joan C. Edwards Funeral Services Slated for Thursday, May 11 |website=Huntington News.net |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061101181317/http://www.huntingtonnews.net/local/060509-staff-edwards.html |archive-date=1 November 2006}}
Stella Sigcau, 69, South African Public Works Minister, heart-related problems.{{cite news |url=https://mg.co.za/article/2006-05-08-stella-sigcau-dead-at-69 |date=8 May 2006 |title=Stella Sigcau dead at 69 |newspaper=Mail & Guardian |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Jocelyn Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, 95, United Kingdom minister and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2169879,00.html |date=8 May 2006 |title=Lord Simon of Glaisdale |newspaper=The Times |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604035603/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article714339.ece |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
Machiko Soga, 68, Japanese voice actress and actress and tokusatsu legend (Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, etc.), pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.rangerboard.com/showthread.php?t=87019 |title=Machiko Soga has passed away |date=7 May 2006 |website=RangerBoard.com |access-date=2 May 2018}}

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Lovana Jones, 68, American Assistant Majority Leader in the Illinois House of Representatives, represented the 26th District since 1987, undisclosed causes.{{cite news |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-05-10/news/0605100099_1_rep-jones-illinois-house-lawmaker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614025607/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-05-10/news/0605100099_1_rep-jones-illinois-house-lawmaker |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 14, 2013 |title=Lovana "Lou" Jones, 1938–2006 |last1=Parsons |first1=Christi |last2=Long |first2=Ray |date=10 May 2006 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=30 April 2018}}
John Kimbrough, 87, American football player (College Hall of Fame with Texas A&M) and state legislator, pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/9428262 |title=Kimbrough, star for A&M title team, dies at 87 |date=9 May 2006 |website=CBS SportsLine |access-date=1 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203103135/http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/9428262 |archive-date=3 February 2013}}
George Lutz, 59, American owner of the Amityville Horror house.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/obituaries/11lutz.html |title=George Lutz, 59, Who Found Horror in Amityville, Dies |date=11 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/former-owner-of-amityville-horror-house-dies |title=Former Owner of 'Amityville Horror' House Dies |date=10 May 2006 |website=Fox News Channel |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Patrick Pule "Ace" Ntsoelengoe, 50, South African soccer player with the Minnesota Kicks and Kaizer Chiefs, unknown causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/sports/soccer/11ntsoelengoe.html |last=Bell |first=Jack |date=11 May 2006 |title=Ace Ntsoelengoe, 50, African Soccer Star, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Barbara Schwartz, 58, American painter.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/arts/11schwartz.html |title=Barbara Schwartz, 58, Painter of Abstract Forms, Dies |date=11 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}

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Adrian Bennett, 73, Australian politician, MHR for Division of Swan (1969–1975).{{cite web |url=http://www.openaustralia.org/debates/?id=2006-05-11.65.2 |title=House debates: Condolences, Mr Adrian Frank Bennett |date=11 May 2006 |website=OpenAustralia.org |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Corey Engen, 90, Norwegian-born captain of the U.S. Nordic skiing team at the 1948 Winter Olympics, complications of pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/635206701/West-skiing-pioneer-Corey-Engen-dies-at-90.html?pg=all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021212428/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/635206701/West-skiing-pioneer-Corey-Engen-dies-at-90.html?pg=all |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 21, 2013 |date=11 May 2006 |title=West skiing pioneer Corey Engen dies at 90 |newspaper=Deseret News |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Jerzy Ficowski, 81, Polish poet, writer and translator.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,1790944,00.html |title=Jerzy Ficowski |first=Wiktor |last=Moszczynki |date=6 June 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Pietro Garinei, 87, Italian playwright and lyricist of "Arrivederci Roma" and other songs.{{cite web |url=http://arts.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1162722.php/Italy's_father_of_the_stage_musical_dies |date=10 May 2006 |title=Italy's father of the stage musical dies |website=Monsters and Critics |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060520075126/http://arts.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1162722.php/Italy%60s_father_of_the_stage_musical_dies |archive-date=20 May 2006}}
Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic.{{cite web |url=https://forum.psrabel.com/biografien/jaguer.html |title=Biografie: Édouard Jaguer |website=Antlogonis infekt |language=de |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Tony Ward, 82, Australian actor and journalist, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/if-ever-there-was-a-logie-for-tvs-best-allrounder-133/2006/05/12/1146940736772.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 |last=Callaghan |first=Allen |date=13 May 2006 |title=If ever there was a Logie for TV's best all-rounder... : Tony Ward, television personality, 1924–2006 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=30 April 2018}}

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Val Guest, 94, British film writer and director (The Quatermass Xperiment, Casino Royale).{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/val-guest-1200336609/ |title=Val Guest |date=12 May 2006 |magazine=Variety |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Marie Hartley, 100, British author and illustrator.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/may/17/guardianobituaries.books |title=Obituary: Marie Hartley |first=Martin |last=Wainwright |date=17 May 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 May 2018}}
John Hicks, 64, American jazz pianist/composer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,1773147,00.html |title=John Hicks |first=Peter |last=Vacher |date=11 May 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 May 2018}}
James Keogh, 89, American former executive editor of Time and speechwriter for US President Richard Nixon.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/nyregion/14Keogh.html |title=James Keogh, 89, Who Was Time Editor and Wordsmith for Nixon, Dies |first=Anahad |last=O'Connor |author-link=Anahad O'Connor |date=14 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Georgy Korniyenko, 81, Russian diplomat and deputy to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/13/world/europe/13korniyenko.html |title=Georgi Korniyenko, Diplomat, Dies at 81; Helped Make U.S. Policy of Soviets |agency=The Associated Press |date=13 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
A.M. Rosenthal, 84, Canadian-born Executive Editor of The New York Times for 17 years, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/nyregion/11rosenthalcnd.html |title=A. M. Rosenthal Is Dead at 84; Innovative Editor of The Times |first=Robert D. |last=McFadden |date=10 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Soraya, 37, Colombian-American songwriter, guitarist, arranger, record producer, and singer, breast cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.emol.com/noticias/todas/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=218648 |title=Murió la cantante colombiana Soraya |date=10 May 2006 |newspaper=El Mercurio |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Aleksandr Zinovyev, 83, Russian logician, sociologist and writer, brain cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4760109.stm |title=Soviet-era satirist Zinovyev dies |date=10 May 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}

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Yossi Banai, 74, Israeli singer and actor, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/Israel/Actor-singer-Yossi-Banai-passes-away |date=11 May 2006 |title=Actor-singer Yossi Banai passes away |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Sir Frank Mills, 82, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Ghana and Bangladesh.[http://www.oxford-mission.org/archives/p8/art0.html Sir Frank Mills, KCVO, CMG]
Byron Morrow, 95, American TV and film character actor.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-09-06/ |title=Actor Byron Morrow Dies |date=6 September 2006 |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=2 May 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114170629/http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-09-06/ |archive-date=14 January 2016}}
Michael O'Leary, 70, Irish politician and barrister, former leader of the Irish Labour Party, drowned in a swimming pool.{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/former-labour-leader-michael-o-leary-dies-1.782543 |title=Former Labour leader Michael O'Leary dies |date=12 May 2006 |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Floyd Patterson, 71, American former boxing heavyweight champion, Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/4763233.stm |title=Heavyweight great Patterson dies |date=11 May 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Ferdinando Tacconi, 83, Italian comics artist.{{cite web |url=http://www.afnews.info/public/afnews/viewnews.pl?newsid1147462271,72109,.htm |title=Ferdinando Tacconi passed away |website=afNews |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928061938/http://www.afnews.info/public/afnews/viewnews.pl?newsid1147462271,72109,.htm |archive-date=28 September 2007}}
Frankie Thomas, 85, American actor (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet), stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/arts/18thomas.html |title=Frankie Thomas, 85, Actor in 50's TV, Is Dead |agency=The Associated Press |date=18 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}

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Ted Berkman, 92, American author, scriptwriter (Bedtime for Bonzo).{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-30-me-passings30.1-story.html |title=Ted Berkman, 92; Screenwriter Co-Wrote 'Bedtime for Bonzo' |date=30 May 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Hussein Maziq, 88, Libyan politician, former prime minister & foreign minister of Libya.{{cite web |url=http://www.rulers.org/2006-05.html |title=May 2006 |website=Rulers.org |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery, 85, American politician, former U.S. representative from Mississippi.{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000865 |title=Montgomery, Gillespie V. (Sonny), (1920–2006) |website=Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Arthur Porges, 90, American science fiction and fantasy writer.{{cite web |url=http://alt.obituaries.narkive.com/oFo1F1Hu/arthur-porges-author-of-the-fly-dead-at-91 |title=Arthur Porges, author of "The Fly", dead at 91 |date=25 May 2006 |website=alt.obituaries.narkive.com |access-date=2 May 2018}}

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Joan Diener, 76, American actress/soprano (Man of La Mancha), complications of cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/theater/16diener.html |title=Joan Diener, 76, Dies; Dulcinea in 'La Mancha' |first=Anthony |last=Ramirez |date=16 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Rick Farley, 53, Australian National Farmers' Federation Chief Executive for eight years.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-05-13/former-nff-boss-dies/1752714 |date=13 May 2006 |title=Former National Farmers Federation (NFF) boss dies |website=ABC News |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Ryan Francis, 19, American college basketball player, freshman point guard for the University of Southern California basketball team, homicide.{{cite web |url=http://usctrojans.com/news/2006/5/21/Trojans_attend_service_for_teammate_in_Louisiana.aspx |title=Trojans attend service for teammate in Louisiana |date=21 May 2006 |website=University of Southern California Official Athletic Site |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Fernando Inchauste, 75, Bolivian Olympian.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/in/fernando-inchauste-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418093007/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/in/fernando-inchauste-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Fernando Inchauste |website=Sports Reference |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Jaroslav Pelikan, 82, American historian of Christianity, winner of the Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/obituaries/16PELIKAN.html |title=Jaroslav Pelikan, Wide-Ranging Historian of Christian Traditions, Dies at 82 |first=Wolfgang |last=Saxon |date=16 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Östen Sjöstrand, 80, Swedish poet, translator and member of the Swedish Academy.{{cite web |url=https://www.svt.se/kultur/akademiledamoten-osten-sjostrand-avliden |date=13 May 2006 |title=Akademiledamoten Östen Sjöstrand avliden |website=SVT Nyheter |language=sv |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Peter Viereck, 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/19viereck.html |title=Peter Viereck, Poet and Conservative Theorist, Dies at 89 |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=19 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Johnnie Wilder, Jr., 56, American musician (Heatwave).{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/17/obit.wilder.ap/index.html |title=Heatwave founder Wilder dead at 56 |date=17 May 2006 |website=CNN |access-date=1 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060528035508/http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/17/obit.wilder.ap/index.html |archive-date=28 May 2006}}

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Lew Anderson, 84, American bandleader, played Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show, prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/arts/television/17anderson.html |title=Lew Anderson, 84, Clarabell the Clown and a Bandleader, Dies |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=17 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
James Botten, 67, South African international test cricketer, complications after colon operations.{{cite news |url=http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=271945&area=/obituaries/ |date=16 May 2006 |title=He was a special bowler |newspaper=Mail & Guardian |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001011540/http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=271945&area=%2Fobituaries%2F |archive-date=1 October 2007}}
William Ginsberg, 75, American professor of environmental law at Hofstra University and former New York City commissioner of parks and recreation.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/nyregion/19ginsberg.html |title=William Ginsberg, 75, Advocate for Preservation of Open Space, Dies |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=19 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Reza Hassanzadeh, 33, Iranian professional soccer player with Teraktor Sazi F.C., injuries from car accident.{{cite news |url=http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/117515/Iranian-footballer-Hassanzadeh-dies-in-coma |date=15 May 2006 |title=Iranian footballer Hassanzadeh dies in coma |newspaper=Tehran Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Stanley Kunitz, 100, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US poet laureate.{{cite web |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/noted-poet-stanley-kunitz-dead-100-wbna12801949 |title=Noted poet Stanley Kunitz dead at 100 |date=15 May 2006 |website=Today.com |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Jim Lemon, 78, American Major League Baseball player, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/sports/baseball/17lemon.html |title=Jim Lemon, 78, Outfielder, Is Dead; Earned Visit With Eisenhower |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |date=17 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Paul Marco, 78, American film actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space).{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/paul-marco-1200336376/ |title=Paul Marco |date=16 May 2006 |magazine=Variety |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Bruce Merrifield, 84, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/20/nyregion/20merrifield.html |title=R. Bruce Merrifield, Who Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dies at 84 |first=Kenneth |last=Chang |date=20 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Günther Nenning, 84, Austrian journalist, author and political activist.{{cite web |url=http://wien.orf.at/stories/109466/ |title=Günther Nenning ist tot |date=16 May 2006 |website=ORF |language=de |access-date=2 May 2018 |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093818/http://wien.orf.at/stories/109466/ |url-status=dead }}
Eva Norvind, Norwegian-born Mexican writer and actress, drowning accident.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1518866/Eva-Norvind.html |date=20 May 2006 |title=Eva Norvind |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=30 April 2018}}

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Joyce Ballantyne, 88, American artist best known for creating the "Coppertone Girl" ad, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/business/media/18brand.html |title=Joyce B. Brand, Commercial Artist, Dies at 88 |date=18 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
George Blackburn, 93, American football player, head football coach at University of Virginia (1965–1970).{{cite web |url=http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/9443279 |title=Former Virginia coach Blackburn dies |date=16 May 2006 |website=CBS SportsLine |access-date=1 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929170209/http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/9443279 |archive-date=29 September 2006}}
George Crile III, 61, American journalist, CBS News producer, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/obituaries/16crile.html |title=George Crile, CBS Documentary Producer, Dies at 61 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=16 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Eberhard Esche, 73, German actor.{{cite web |url=https://www.welt.de/kultur/article217302/Schauspieler-Eberhard-Esche-ist-tot.html |title=Schauspieler Eberhard Esche ist tot |date=15 May 2006 |newspaper=Die Welt |language=de |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Chic Hecht, 77, American politician, former Republican Senator for Nevada, prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/us/18hecht.html |title=Chic Hecht, 77, Former Senator and Businessman From Nevada, Is Dead |date=18 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Judith Moore, 66, American author.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/25/arts/25moore.html |title=Judith Moore, 66, Author of Angry Memoir 'Fat Girl', Is Dead |first=Dinitia |last=Smith |date=25 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Cheikha Rimitti, 83, Algerian singer, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/may/18/guardianobituaries.robindenselow |title=Cheikha Rimitti |first=Robin |last=Denselow |author-link=Robin Denselow |date=18 May 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 May 2018}}
David Sharp, 34, British mountaineer.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10383436 |title=Dying Everest climber was frozen solid, says Inglis |first1=Derek |last1=Cheng |first2=Jarrod |last2=Booker |first3=Stuart |last3=Dye |date=25 May 2006 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Bill Strode, 69, American Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer, cancer.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/pulitzer-winning-photojournalist-bill-strode-dead/ |title=Pulitzer-Winning Photojournalist Bill Strode Dead |date=16 May 2006 |magazine=Editor & Publisher |access-date=2 May 2018 |archive-date=August 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815043347/https://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/pulitzer-winning-photojournalist-bill-strode-dead/ |url-status=dead }}

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Clare Boylan, 58, Irish author of 12 books including 7 novels, ovarian cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2006/0517/boylanc.html |title=Irish novelist Clare Boylan dies |date=17 May 2006 |website=Raidió Teilifís Éireann |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Beryl Evans, 84, Australian politician, NSW MLC (1984–1995).{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/Pages/profiles/evans_beryl-alice.aspx |title=The Hon. Beryl Alice Evans (1922–2006) |website=Parliament of New South Wales |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Anthony Murray, 47, New Zealand rugby league player.{{cite web |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=10939749 |title=Thousands farewell Ngati Haua stalwart |first=Natasha |last=Harris |date=22 May 2006 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Jorge Porcel, 69, Argentine actor and comedian, following gall bladder surgery.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/arts/21porcel.html |title=Jorge Porcel, 69, Comedian Well Known in Latin America, Is Dead |date=21 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Dan Ross, 49, American former NFL football player (Cincinnati Bengals), suspected heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/Bengals-star-tight-end-Dan-Ross-dies/21251147889744/ |title=Bengals star tight end Dan Ross dies |date=17 May 2006 |website=UPI |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Takahiro Tamura, 77, Japanese movie and television actor, cerebral infarction.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848796/ |title= Takahiro Tamura (I) (1928–2006) |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=2 May 2018}}

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Cy Feuer, 95, American Broadway producer and writer (Guys and Dolls).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/arts/18feuer.html |title=Cy Feuer, a Producer of 'Guys and Dolls' and Other Broadway Musicals, Is Dead at 95 |last1=Severo |first1=Richard |last2=McKinley |first2=Jesse |date=18 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Eric Forth, 61, British Conservative Member of Parliament and former government minister, bone cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4993000.stm |title=Tributes paid to Tory Eric Forth |date=19 May 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Nichola Goddard, 26, Canadian soldier, Canadian Forces, first female since WWII to be killed in combat.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-woman-16th-soldier-killed-in-afghanistan-1.599465 |title=Canadian woman 16th soldier killed in Afghanistan |date=17 May 2006 |website=CBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Dan Q. Kennis, 86, American B movie producer.{{cite news |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14623417.htm |title=Dan Q. Kennis |newspaper=The Mercury News}} {{dead link|date=April 2018}}
John Marsden, 64, Australian lawyer and civil liberties activist, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/national/an-outspoken-fighter-who-was-passionate-until-his-final-days/2006/05/18/1147545460774.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 |date=19 May 2006 |title=An outspoken fighter who was passionate until his final days: John Robert Marsden: Lawyer, civil libertarian, 1942–2006 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Sir John Miller, 87, British equestrian and courtier, Crown Equerry to the Queen (1961–1987).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1518864/Lieutenant-Colonel-Sir-John-Miller.html |title=Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Miller |date=20 May 2006 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Daniel Owino Misiani, 66, Tanzanian Benga musician, car accident.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/do-misiani-6094612.html |last=Lusk |first=Jon |date=23 July 2006 |title=D.O. Misiani: 'Grandfather' of benga music |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Mieczysław Nowak, 69, Polish weightlifter, 1964 Olympic medalist.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/no/mieczyslaw-nowak-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418114150/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/no/mieczyslaw-nowak-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Mieczysław Nowak |website=Sports Reference |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin, 63, Turkish prominent judge sitting in Turkey's highest court, shot dead.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4989034.stm |title=Judge dies in Turkey court attack |date=17 May 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Ramesh Parekh, 65, Indian poet.{{cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Gujarati-poet-Ramesh-Parekh-dead/articleshow/1536390.cms?from=mdr |title=Gujarati poet Ramesh Parekh dead |date=18 May 2006 |newspaper=Times of India |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff, 61, American music executive, longtime crew member of the Grateful Dead, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/05/18/MNGGDITL9I1.DTL |title=Lawrence 'Ramrod' Shurtliff: 1945–2006, mainstay of Grateful Dead crew dies – 'he was our rock' |first=Joel |last=Selvin |date=18 May 2006 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=2 May 2018}}

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Jaan Eilart, 73, Estonian biogeographer.{{cite news |url=http://www.postimees.ee/190506/esileht/siseuudised/202207.php |title=Suri Jaan Eilart |date=18 May 2006 |first=Peeter |last=Kuimet |newspaper=Postimees |language=et |access-date=1 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130213044124/http://www.postimees.ee/190506/esileht/siseuudised/202207.php |archive-date=13 February 2013}}
Stephen Fleet, 69, British researcher in mineral sciences and Former Registrary, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Master of Downing College, Cambridge.{{cite web |url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/stephen-fleet-1936-2006 |title=Former Registrary, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Master of Downing College Dr Stephen Fleet has died aged 69 |date=18 May 2006 |website=University of Cambridge |access-date=2 May 2018}}
George M. Foster, 92, American anthropologist.{{cite web |url=http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/05/26_foster.shtml |title=George M. Foster, noted anthropologist, dies |first=Kathleen |last=Maclay |date=26 May 2006 |website=UC Berkeley |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Morris Glushien, 96, American lawyer, general counsel for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/25/nyregion/25glushien.html |title=Morris P. Glushien, Union Lawyer, Dies at 96 |first=Steven |last=Greenhouse |date=25 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Hans Horrevoets, 32, Dutch sailor, swept overboard while competing in Volvo Ocean Race.{{cite web |url=http://www.volvooceanrace.com/news/article/2006/may/mobupdate |title=Statement issued by the Volvo Ocean Race |date=18 May 2006 |website=Volvo Ocean Race |access-date=1 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061107071143/http://www.volvooceanrace.com/news/article/2006/may/mobupdate/ |archive-date=7 November 2006}}
Stan Jones, 91, British Olympic runner.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/jo/stan-jones-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035626/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/jo/stan-jones-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Stan Jones |website=Sports Reference |access-date=27 April 2018}}
Maksim Kahan, 88, Israeli Olympic shooter.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/maksim-kahan-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418005909/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/maksim-kahan-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Maksim Kahan |website=Sports Reference |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Andrew Martinez, 33, American activist, the "Naked Guy" at the University of California, Berkeley, apparent suicide by asphyxiation.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/magazine/31naked.t.html |last=Zengerle |first=Jason |date=31 December 2006 |title=The Naked Guy |magazine=The New York Times Magazine |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Vitor Negrete, 38, Brazilian mountaineer, died after reaching the peak of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen.{{cite web |url=http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=2062 |title=Brazilian Vitor Negrete lost on Everest after a no O2 summit |website=Explorers Web |access-date=2 May 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614011923/http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=2062 |archive-date=14 June 2006}}
Michael O'Riordan, 88, Irish chairman of the Communist Party of Ireland and International Brigades veteran.{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0518/oriordanm.html |title=Spanish Civil War veteran dies at 88 |date=18 May 2006 |website=RTÉ |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Kiyan Prince, 15, British youth team player with English football team Queens Park Rangers, stabbed.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4996626.stm |title=Boy hunted in Kiyan murder probe |date=19 May 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Robert Reid, 81, American chemical engineer.{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/obit-reid-0607.html |title=Professor Robert C. Reid dies at 81 |first=Anne |last=Trafton |date=7 June 2006 |website=MIT News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Gilbert Sorrentino, 77, American novelist.{{cite web |url=http://www.centerforbookculture.org/pages/news/news_sorrentino.html |title=Gilbert Sorrentino Dead at 77 |date=19 May 2006 |website=Center for Book Culture |access-date=2 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092809/http://www.centerforbookculture.org/pages/news/news_sorrentino.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 September 2007}}

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Yitzhak Ben Aharon, 99, Israeli left-wing politician, founder of the Israeli Labor Party.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/world/middleeast/19aharon.html |title=Yitzhak Ben-Aharon, Kibbutz Founder, Dies at 99 |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=19 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Edward R. Becker, 73, American former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/20/us/20becker.html |title=Edward R. Becker, 73, Judge on Federal Court of Appeals, Dies |first=Tim |last=Weiner |date=20 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Peter Bryant, 82, British television producer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-bryant-6096617.html |last=Gaughan |first=Gavin |date=30 June 2006 |title=Peter Bryant: Actor turned BBC producer |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Freddie Garrity, 69, English lead singer of Freddie and the Dreamers, 1960s pop band, heart disease.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5000396.stm |title=Singer Freddie dies in hospital |date=20 May 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Alan Sapper, 75, British trade unionist.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/may/23/guardianobituaries.media |title=Alan Sapper |first=Dennis |last=Barker |date=23 May 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 May 2018}}

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JoAnna Lund, 61, American cookbook author, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.register-mail.com/stories/052306/OBI_B9T9ARD8.GID.shtml |title=JoAnna M. Lund, 1944–2006 |date=23 May 2006 |newspaper=The Register-Mail |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060526100224/http://www.register-mail.com/stories/052306/OBI_B9T9ARD8.GID.shtml |archive-date=26 May 2006}}
Bobby Jack Fowler, 66, American rapist and suspected murderer.
Les Olive, 78, English Assistant Secretary of Manchester United at time of Munich air disaster, prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jun/16/guardianobituaries.football |title=Les Olive: Man U loyalist from the old days of football |last=Meek |first=David |date=16 June 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Andy Radford, 62, British Anglican bishop, Bishop of Taunton, brain tumour.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/5002620.stm |title=Taunton's Bishop Andrew, 62, dies |date=21 May 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Cherd Songsri, 74, Thai film director, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2006/05/21/headlines/headlines_30004529.php |title=Legendary film-master Cherd Songsri succumbs to cancer at 75 |date=21 May 2006 |newspaper=The Nation |access-date=2 May 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929155528/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2006/05/21/headlines/headlines_30004529.php |archive-date=29 September 2007}}
Annis Stukus, 91, Canadian football player and ice hockey general manager, member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Canadian Football League and ice hockey.{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl-icon-stukus-dies-at-91-1.616548 |date=21 May 2006 |title=CFL icon Stukus dies at 91 |website=CBC Sports |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Tommy Watt, 80, British jazz bandleader.{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p817465/biography|pure_url=yes}} |title= Tommy Watt |last=Ankeny |first=Jason |website=AllMusic |access-date=30 April 2018}}

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Katherine Dunham, 96, American dancer and choreographer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/arts/dance/23dunham.html |title=Katherine Dunham, Dance Icon, Dies at 96 |last=Anderson |first=Jack |date=23 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Sherman Skolnick, 75, American Illinois anti-corruption activist, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/05/23/sherman-skolnick-2/ |title=Sherman Skolnick (1930–2006) |last=Noel |first=Josh |date=23 May 2006 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Inger Louise Valle, 84, Norwegian politician, Minister of Justice (1973–1979).[https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/x8aRR/inger-louise-valle-er-doed Aftenposten]
Billy Walker, 77, American country music performer and member of the Grand Ole Opry, traffic accident.{{cite web |url=http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4931345&nav=0RdE |title=Grand Ole Opry Legend and Wife Die in Car Accident |date=22 May 2006 |website=WSFA |access-date=1 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060911081556/http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4931345&nav=0RdE |archive-date=11 September 2006}}

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Spencer Clark, 19, American NASCAR Busch Series driver, road accident.{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/nascar-driver-spencer-clark-killed-in-crash |title=NASCAR Driver Spencer Clark Killed in Crash |date=23 May 2006 |website=Fox News |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Heather Crowe, 61, Canadian anti-smoking activist, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/anti-smoking-crusader-heather-crowe-dies-at-61-1.617045 |date=23 May 2006 |title=Anti-smoking crusader Heather Crowe dies at 61 |website=CBC News |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Hamza El Din, 76, Nubian Egyptian oud player.{{cite web |url=http://rootsworld-news.blogspot.com/2006/05/hamza-el-din-last-turn-of-water-wheel.html |title=Hamza El Din: the last turn of the water wheel |first=Cliff |last=Furnald |date=24 May 2006 |website=RootsWorld - World Music News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Jack Fallon, 90, Canadian-born British jazz double bassist.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2203795,00.html |title=Jack Fallon |date=31 May 2006 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604040919/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article669854.ece |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
Lee Jong-wook, 61, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization, brain thrombus.{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2006/s07/en/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060630161610/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2006/s07/en/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 30, 2006 |title=Statement regarding Dr LEE Jong-wook, Director-General, World Health Organization |date=22 May 2006 |website=WHO |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Lilia Prado, 78, Mexican actress, multiple organ failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/350849.html |title=Muere la actriz Lilia Prado |date=23 May 2006 |newspaper=El Universa |language=es |access-date=2 May 2018 |archive-date=May 25, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060525232913/http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/350849.html |url-status=dead }}

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Philippe Amaury, 66, French media owner, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/europe-travel/france/paris/philippe-amaury-gxc56kl2q8n |title=Philippe Amaury |date=1 June 2006 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Clifford Antone, 56, American Austin blues club owner, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/25/arts/25antone.html |title=Clifford Antone, 56, Is Dead; Started Texas Blues Club |first=Alan |last=Light |date=25 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Lloyd Bentsen, 85, American vice-presidential candidate, Senator, and Treasury Secretary under Clinton.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052300593.html |title=Lloyd Bentsen; Texas Senator, Vice Presidential Candidate |first=Joe |last=Holley |date=24 May 2006 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=2 May 2018}}
James W. Carey, 71, American professor of journalism at Columbia University, author.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/nyregion/26carey.html |title=James W. Carey, Teacher of Journalists, Dies at 71 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=26 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Ray Cale, 83, Welsh rugby player, dual international for Wales in rugby union and rugby league.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ray-cale-482009.html |title=Ray Cale |first=Rob |last=Cole |date=12 June 2006 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=2 May 2018 |archive-date=May 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502211427/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ray-cale-482009.html |url-status=dead }}
Ian Copeland, 57, American music promoter and agent, older brother of Stewart Copeland of The Police, melanoma.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/arts/music/26copeland.html |title=Ian Copeland, 57, Music Agent, Is Dead |date=26 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Bracha Eden, 78, Israeli pianist, brain hemorrhage.{{cite news |url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1148287853322&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull |title=Bracha Eden |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post}}{{dead link |date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
Kazimierz Górski, 85, Polish former coach of Poland national football team, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/poland-s-former-coach-gorski-dies-at-85/story-IfXo0lVdKrcU2O0euZcIYN.html |date=23 May 2006 |title=Poland's former coach Gorski dies at 85 |newspaper=Hindustan Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Jim Trimble, 87, American Philadelphia Eagles coach 1952–55, emphysema.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/sports/football/26trimble.html |last=Litsky |first=Frank |date=26 May 2006 |title=Jim Trimble, 87, Football Coach and Executive, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}

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Eric Bedser, 87, English cricketer for Surrey, and elder twin brother of Sir Alec Bedser.{{cite web |url=http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/248275.html |title=Eric Bedser dies aged 87 |first=Martin |last=Williamson |date=24 May 2006 |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Henry Bumstead, 91, American art director (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting, Vertigo), Oscar winner (1963, 1974), prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/30/movies/30bumstead.html |title=Henry Bumstead, 91, Production Designer for Noted Films, Dies |agency=The Associated Press |date=30 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-27-me-bumstead27-story.html |title=Henry Bumstead, 91; Veteran Film Production Designer |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=27 May 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Robert Giaimo, 86, American Congressman for Connecticut 3rd District (1959−1981), lung ailments.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/nyregion/26giaimo.html |last=Stowe |first=Stacey |date=26 May 2006 |title=Robert Giaimo, 86, Dies; Member of House From Connecticut |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Fritz Klein, 73, Austrian-born psychiatrist and researcher.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/us/04klein.html |title=Fritz Klein, 73, Psychiatrist Who Studied Bisexual Culture, Dies |first=Jeremy |last=Pearce |date=4 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Anderson Mazoka, 63, Zambian politician, chief opposition leader in Zambia.{{cite web |url=http://www.sabcnews.com/africa/southern_africa/0,2172,128039,00.html |date=24 May 2006 |title=Zambia's opposition leader Mazoka dies in SA |website=SABC News |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929123852/http://www.sabcnews.com/africa/southern_africa/0,2172,128039,00.html |archive-date=29 September 2007}}
Bernard Ostry, 78, Canadian chair and CEO of TVOntario, civil servant and philanthropist, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/bernard-ostry/article1099788/ |title=Bernard Ostry |first=Sandra |last=Martin |date=24 May 2006 |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Claude Piéplu, 83, French actor, cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0686263/ |title= Claude Piéplu (1923–2006) |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=2 May 2018}}
John Wheeldon, 76, Australian federal politician, former Australian Labor Party Senator and minister in the Whitlam government.{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/erudite-senator-from-the-whitlam-days/2006/05/28/1148754869322.html |title=Erudite senator from the Whitlam days: John Wheeldon, 1929-2006 |date=29 May 2006 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=30 April 2018}}

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Sir Julian Bullard, 78, British diplomat.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2202037,00.html |title=Sir Julian Bullard |date=30 May 2006 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604040853/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article669545.ece |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
Elizabeth Connelly, 77, American politician, former member of the New York State Assembly representing Staten Island, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/nyregion/26connelly.html |title=Elizabeth A. Connelly, 77, Longtime Assemblywoman, Is Dead |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=26 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Desmond Dekker, 64, Jamaican ska musician, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060526/ent/ent10.html |title=Desmond Dekker dies |date=26 May 2006 |first=Kandré |last=McDonald |newspaper=The Gleaner |access-date=1 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615130136/http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060526/ent/ent10.html |archive-date=15 June 2006}}
Lars Gyllensten, 84, Swedish author, physician, and member of the Swedish Academy.{{cite news |url=http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/inrikes/did_12768728.asp |title=Lars Gyllensten har avlidit |date=26 May 2006 |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |language=sv |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060613185909/http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/inrikes/did_12768728.asp |archive-date=13 June 2006}}
Wilber Huston, 93, American scientist and retired NASA mission director.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/10/us/10huston.html |title=Wilber Huston, 93, Dies; 'Brightest Boy' in 1929 |first=John |last=Schwartz |date=10 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Donald Rudolph, 85, US Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/30/us/30rudolph.html |title=Donald Rudolph, 85, Medal of Honor Winner, Dies |first=Richard |last=Goldstein |date=30 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Mari Yonehara, 56, Japanese essayist, ovarian cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/05/30/national/obituary-mari-yonehara/ |title=Obituary: Mari Yonehara |date=30 May 2006 |newspaper=The Japan Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Tobías Lasser, 95, Venezuelan botanist, founder of the Botanic Garden of Caracas, natural causes.{{cite news |url=http://www.eluniversal.com/2006/05/27/ccs_art_27482G2.shtml |title=Falleció el científico venezolano Tobías Lasser |date=27 May 2006 |newspaper=El Universal |language=es |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614193515/http://www.eluniversal.com/2006/05/27/ccs_art_27482G2.shtml |archive-date=14 June 2006}}

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Milicent Bagot, 99, British intelligence officer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jun/17/guardianobituaries.mainsection |title=Milicent Bagot |last=Condell |first=Diana |date=17 June 2006 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Horondino José da Silva aka "Dino Sete Cordas", 88, Brazilian virtuoso of the seven-string guitar.{{cite news |url=http://www.estadao.com.br/arteelazer/musica/noticias/2006/mai/27/66.htm |last=Cimieri |first=Fabiana |date=27 May 2006 |title=Morre o violonista Dino Sete Cordas |newspaper=Estadao |language=pt |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712024947/http://www.estadao.com.br/arteelazer/musica/noticias/2006/mai/27/66.htm |archive-date=12 July 2007}}
Selvin González, 24, Salvadoran footballer.{{cite news |url=http://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/2006/05/27/deportes/cambio1.asp |title=Selvin González se despidió |date=27 May 2006 |first=Víctor Zelada |last=Uceda |newspaper=El Diario de Hoy |language=es |access-date=2 May 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012021635/http://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/2006/05/27/deportes/cambio1.asp |archive-date=12 October 2007}}
Tuomo Kerola, 48, Finnish Olympic swimmer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ke/tuomo-kerola-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417180429/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ke/tuomo-kerola-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Tuomo Kerola |website=Sports Reference |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Alan Kotok, 64, American early video game designer (Spacewar!), engineer for Digital Equipment.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/03/business/03kotok.html |title=Alan Kotok, 64, a Pioneer in Computer Video Games, Is Dead |first=John |last=Markoff |date=3 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Carl Kuntze, 83, Dutch Olympic rower{{cite web |url=https://www.dub.uu.nl/nl/achtergrond/carl-harry-kuntze-1952 |title=Carl "Harry" Kuntze (1952) |website=Utrecht University |access-date=21 February 2025}}
Mahmoud al-Majzoub aka Abu Hamza, 41, Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader, assassination by bombing.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/26/lebanon.blast/index.html |title=Islamic Jihad member killed in Lebanon |date=26 May 2006 |website=CNN |access-date=2 May 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818093244/http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/26/lebanon.blast/index.html |archive-date=18 August 2007}}
Édouard Michelin, 42, French CEO of Michelin, boating accident off the Île de Sein.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edouard-michelin-480290.html |last=Lichfield |first=John |date=29 May 2006 |title=Edouard Michelin |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=30 April 2018 |archive-date=May 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502215745/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edouard-michelin-480290.html |url-status=dead }}
Kevin O'Flanagan, 86, Irish former association football and rugby union international, and IOC member, heart problems.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1521391/Kevin-OFlanagan.html |date=16 June 2006 |title=Kevin O'Flanagan |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Anita Roberts, 64, American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute, stomach cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/02/us/02roberts.html |title=Anita Roberts, 64, Molecular Biologist Who Studied a Key Protein, Dies |first=Jeremy |last=Pearce |date=2 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Ted Schroeder, 84, American tennis player, winner at Wimbledon (1949) and the U.S. Open (1942), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/sports/tennis/27schroeder.html |title=Ted Schroeder, 84, Winner of Tennis Titles in 1940's, Dies |first=Robin |last=Finn |date=27 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Raymond Triboulet, 99, French member of the French Resistance during World War II, member of the French Parliament and government minister.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/30/world/europe/30triboulet.html |title=Raymond Triboulet, 99, French Resistance Fighter and Politician, Is Dead |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=30 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}

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Adeeb, 72, Pakistani actor.{{cite news |url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5c05%5c27%5cstory_27-5-2006_pg7_33 |date=27 May 2006 |title=Actor Adeeb dies of illness |newspaper=Daily Times |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205021736/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C05%5C27%5Cstory_27-5-2006_pg7_33 |archive-date=5 February 2012}}
Harold Falls, 96, American ophthalmologist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/health/09falls.html |title=Harold Falls, 96, Expert on Eye Diseases, Dies |first=Jeremy |last=Pearce |date=9 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Paul Gleason, 67, American actor (The Breakfast Club, Die Hard, Trading Places), mesothelioma.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/29/movies/29gleason.html |date=29 May 2006 |title=Paul Gleason, 67, 'Breakfast Club' Actor, Is Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, 39, American NFL fullback, complications from a brain tumor.{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=2460799&type=story |title='Ironhead' Heyward loses battle with recurring tumor |last=Pasquarelli |first=Len |date=27 May 2006 |website=ESPN |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Romeo Lucas García, 81, Guatemalan politician, former President of Guatemala, complications of Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/29/world/americas/29garcia.html |title=Gen. Romeo Lucas García, 85, Former Guatemalan President, Dies |agency=The Associated Press |date=29 May 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Thelma Leeds, 95, American actress, widow of Parkyakarkus.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-31-me-bernstein31-story.html |title=Thelma Bernstein, 95; Mother of Albert Brooks Was Former Actress |last=McLellan |first=Dennis |date=May 31, 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Jim Mello, 85, American football player.{{Cite web|url=https://www.profootballarchives.com/playerm/mell00400.html|title=Jim Mello Stats - Pro Football Archives|website=www.profootballarchives.com}}
Michael Riffaterre, 81, French-born professor at Columbia University and scholar of French literature.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/books/05riffaterre.html |title=Michael Riffaterre, 81, a Scholar of Literature at Columbia, Is Dead |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=5 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Alex Toth, 77, American comic book artist and cartoonist (Space Ghost, Birdman and the Galaxy Trio).{{cite web |url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=7425 |title=Legendary cartoonist Alex Toth dead at 78 |last=Weiland |first=Jonah |date=27 May 2006 |website=Comic Book Resources |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813123459/http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=7425 |archive-date=13 August 2006}}
Apache Bull Ramos, 68, American professional wrestler, shoulder infection.{{cite web |url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/b/bull-ramos.html |title=Bull Ramos |first=Brad |last=Dykens |date=28 April 2014 |website=Online World of Wrestling |access-date=2 May 2018}}

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Edward Aldwell, 68, American music theorist and pianist specializing in Bach, automotive accident.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/03/arts/03aldwell.html |last=Wakin |first=Daniel J. |date=3 June 2006 |title=Edward Aldwell, 68, Pianist and Teacher of Music Theory, Is Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}
James Archibald, 94, American judge.{{cite news |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/06/05/james_archibald_maine_judge_for_half_century/ |agency=Associated Press |date=5 June 2006 |title=James Archibald, Maine judge for half century |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Rupert Blöch, 76, Austrian Olympic sprinter.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bl/rupert-bloch-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418060716/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bl/rupert-bloch-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Rupert Blöch |website=Sports Reference |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Lewis Carter, 81, Australian cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4731.html |title=Lewis Carter |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Fermín Chávez, 82, Argentine historian, complications from renal failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/cultura/nota.asp?nota_id=809790 |title=Falleció el historiador Fermín Chávez |date=28 May 2006 |newspaper=La Nación |language=es |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Sue Fear, 43, Australian mountaineer, climbing accident.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/top-climber-in-crevasse-plunge/2006/05/29/1148754915886.html |title=Top climber is dead: officials |first=David |last=Braithwaite |date=29 May 2006 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Umberto Masetti, 80, Italian motorcycle racer, the first Italian World Champion class 500cc in 1950 and 1952, pulmonary strokes.{{cite news |url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=93117 |first=Enrico |last=Benzing |date=30 May 2006 |title=Addio a Masetti, il primo italiano re delle 500 |newspaper=Il Giornale |language=it |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Masumi Okada, 70, Japanese actor, played Brother Michael in Shogun, throat cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.ryuganji.net/news/index.php?entry=entry060529-095258 |date=29 May 2006 |title=Actor Okada Masumi dies |website=Japan Film News |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107084040/http://www.ryuganji.net/news/index.php?entry=entry060529-095258 |archive-date=7 November 2007}}
Tony Sardisco, 73, American footballer, former captain of the Boston Patriots, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://archive.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2006/05/30/tony_sardisco_73_captain_of_first_team_of_patriots/ |date=30 May 2006 |title=Tony Sardisco, 73; captain of first team of Patriots |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Doris Saunders, 64, Canadian magazine editor, Order of Canada inductee, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=fcfa6c67-1895-4acb-9492-2970e332e7b7&k=10456 |title=Doris Saunders |website=Canada.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929213542/http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=fcfa6c67-1895-4acb-9492-2970e332e7b7&k=10456 |archive-date=29 September 2007}}
Arthur Widmer, 91, American motion picture special effects pioneer, winner of an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/movies/05widmer.html |title=Arthur Widmer, 92, Special Effects Pioneer, Dies |date=5 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}

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Neville Amadio, 93, Australian flautist and soloist for Sydney Symphony for 50 years, series of small heart attacks.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-05-29/flautist-neville-amadio-dies/1764658 |date=29 May 2006 |title=Flautist Neville Amadio dies |website=ABC News |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-04-me-andersen4-story.html |title=Poul Andersen, 84; Published Nation's Only Danish-Language Weekly Paper |last=Nelson |first=Valerie J. |date=4 July 2006 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Clarence Bailey, 43, American football player.{{Cite web|title=Clarence Bailey Stats - Pro Football Archives|url=https://www.profootballarchives.com/playerb/bail01200.html|access-date=2021-05-10|website=www.profootballarchives.com}}
Peter Borsari, 67, American-Swiss celebrity photographer, complications from elective knee surgery.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2006/voices/columns/peter_borsari_d-1200571612/ |last=Archerd |first=Army |author-link=Army Archerd |date=31 May 2006 |title=Peter Borsari dies |magazine=Variety |access-date=30 April 2018}}
James Brolan, 42, British CBS News sound technician, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/30/AR2006053000222.html |last1=Hernandez |first1=Nelson |last2=Aldin |first2=Salih Saif |date=30 May 2006 |title=Iraq Blast Kills Two On Crew For CBS |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=30 April 2018}}
Paul Douglas, 48, British veteran CBS News cameraman, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq.
Wyn Griffiths, 86, Welsh professional football player (Cardiff City F.C., Newport County A.F.C.), complications from a fall.{{cite web |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/former-city-star-dies-after-2341703 |title=Former City star dies after falling at home |publisher=WalesOnline |date=31 May 2006 |access-date=24 October 2018}}
Steve Mizerak, 61, American champion billiards player.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/2006-05-30-mizerak-obit_x.htm?POE=SPOISVA |title=Legendary pool player Steve 'The Miz' Mizerak dies |date=30 May 2006 |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Omeljan Pritsak, 87, Austrian-born American Harvard professor, scholar and authority on Ukraine.{{cite news |url=http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2006/240611.shtml |title=Obituary: Omeljan Pritsak, scholar of Ukrainian, Turkic studies, 87 |first=Peter T. |last=Woloschuk |date=11 June 2006 |newspaper=The Ukrainian Weekly |access-date=2 May 2018 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192041/http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2006/240611.shtml |url-status=dead }}
Johnny Servoz-Gavin, 64, French racing driver.{{cite web |url= http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns16905.html |title=Johnny Servoz-Gavin |date=31 May 2006 |website=Grandprix.com |access-date=2 May 2018}}

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Slim Aarons, 89, American photographer, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/arts/01aarons.html |title=Slim Aarons, 89, Dies; Photographed Celebrities at Play |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=1 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Marius van Amelsvoort, 75, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Finance.[https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/oud-staatssecretaris-van-amelsvoort-overleden~b8de46a3/ Oud-staatssecretaris Van Amelsvoort overleden] {{in lang| nl}}
Hladnik Boštjan, 77, Slovenian film director.{{cite web |url=http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/film/umrl-je-reziser-bostjan-hladnik/144806 |title=Umrl je režiser Boštjan Hladnik |date=30 May 2006 |website=RTV Slovenija |language=sl |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Shohei Imamura, 79, Japanese film director (Black Rain), two-time winner of the Palme d'Or, liver cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5029780.stm |title=Japan mourns film-maker Imamura |date=30 May 2006 |website=BBC News |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Bill Kovacs, 56, American computer animation pioneer and Academy Award winner, complications of a stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-04-me-passings4.3-story.html |date=4 June 2006 |title=Bill Kovacs, 56; Shared an Oscar for Work in Computer Animation |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=30 April 2018|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103205211/http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jun/04/local/me-passings4.3|archive-date=January 3, 2012}}
David Lloyd, 68, New Zealand botanist, complications from mystery illness, possibly poison.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10384337 |title=Scientist in poison scandal dies |date=31 May 2006 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Robert Sterling, 88, American film and television actor, star of 1950s television show Topper, natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/arts/01sterling.html |date=1 June 2006 |title=Robert Sterling, 88, of 'Topper,' Is Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=30 April 2018}}

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Miguel Berrocal, 73, Spanish sculptor and puzzle creator, prostate cancer.{{cite web |url=http://actualidad.terra.es/cultura/articulo/muere_miguel_ortiz_berrocal_909413.htm |title=Muere el escultor Miguel Ortiz Berrocal a los 73 años |date=1 June 2006 |website=Terra |language=es |access-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720143832/http://terranoticias.terra.es/cultura/articulo/muere_miguel_ortiz_berrocal_909413.htm |archive-date=20 July 2011}}
Ronald Cranford, 65, American neurologist and bioethicist who developed coma standards, complications of kidney cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/03/science/03cranford.html |title=Ronald E. Cranford, 65, an Expert on Coma, Is Dead |first=Jeremy |last=Pearce |date=3 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Raymond Davis Jr., 91, American chemist and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/02/nyregion/02davis.html |title=Raymond Davis Jr., Nobelist Who Caught Neutrinos, Dies at 91 |first=Kenneth |last=Chang |date=2 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}
Lula Mae Hardaway, 76, American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder, natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/arts/music/09hardaway.html |title=Lula Mae Hardaway, 76, Stevie Wonder's Mother, Dies |agency=The Associated Press |date=9 June 2006 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2 May 2018}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2006-05-01,2006-05-31&adult=include List of May 2006 deaths] at IMDb

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