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2006 (MMVI )
was acommon year starting on Sunday of theGregorian calendar ,the 2006th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 3rd millennium ,the 6th year of the21st century ,and the 7th year of the2000s decade.
In theChinese calendar ,2006 was the Year of theDog .Chinese New Year isJanuary 29 .
January 1 – Sydney, Australia, has its warmest day on record, when the city reaches 45 °C (113 °F).[1] January 1 –Russia cutsnatural gas toUkraine over aprice dispute .[2] January 2 – TheBad Reichenhall ice rink roof inGermany collapses after heavysnowfall in theBavarian Alps ,killing 15.[3] January 4 – Powers are transferred from Israeli Prime MinisterAriel Sharon to his deputy, Vice Prime MinisterEhud Olmert ,after Sharon suffers a massivehemorrhagic stroke .[4] January 5 – A hotel inMecca ,Saudi Arabia collapses, killing 76 pilgrims visiting to performhajj .[5] January 6 – The record-breaking2005 Atlantic hurricane season officially draws to a close asTropical Storm Zeta dissipates.[6] January 7 – Embroiled in multiple scandals, former U.S.House Majority Leader Tom DeLay announces he will not seek to reassume his former post.[7] [8] January 7 –UK Liberal Democratic leaderCharles Kennedy resigns after revelations that he has a drinking problem.[9] January 8 – A magnitude 6.9earthquake ,centered off the coast of theGreek island ofKythera ,shakes much ofGreece and is felt throughout the easternMediterranean basin.[10] January 9 – TheDow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 (11,011.90) for the first time sinceJune 7 ,2001 .[11] [12] January 11 – TheAugustine Volcano inAlaska erupts twice, marking its first major eruption since1986 .January 12 – A stampede during theStoning of the devil ritual on the last day at theHajj inMina, Saudi Arabia ,kills 362pilgrims .[13] [14] January 14 – Anatural gas explosion in a coal mine kills seven and injures five inRomania .[15] January 15 –NASA 'sStardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from acomet .[16] January 19 – A suicide bomber inTel Aviv ,Israel injures 20,[17] [18] January 23 –Stephen Harper wins thefederal election inCanada ,forming a minority government.[19] [20] January 25 –Hamas wins the majority of seats in thePalestinian Legislative Council elections.[21] January 25 –Pope Benedict XVI issues his first encyclical,Deus Caritas Est [22] January 27 – Celebrations are held inSalzburg and around the world, for the 250th anniversary of the birth ofWolfgang Amadeus Mozart .[23] January 27 –Manuel Zelaya becomesPresident of Honduras .January 28 –Trade hall roof collapses inKatowice ,Poland ,killing 66 people.[24] January 31 –Samuel Alito is sworn in as an associate justice of theSupreme Court of the United States .[25] February 1 –UAL Corporation ,United Airlines ' parent company, emerges from bankruptcy after being in that position since December 9, 2002, the longest such filing in history.[26] February 3 – AnEgyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people, sinks in theRed Sea off the Saudi coast.[27] February 4 – TheWowowee stampede at thePhilSports Arena inPasig City ,Philippines kills 74 people and leaves 600 injured.[28] February 5 –Super Bowl XL :ThePittsburgh Steelers defeat theSeattle Seahawks 21–10[29] February 6 –Stephen Harper is sworn in as Canada's 22nd Prime Minister. He is the leader of theConservative Party of Canada February 8 –2006 East Timor crisis :404 soldiers desert their barracks inEast Timor .[30] February 10 –26 – The2006 Winter Olympics are held inTurin ,Italy .February 17 – Amassive mudslide occurs inSouthern Leyte ,Philippines ;the official death toll is set at 1,126.[31] February 19 –Pasta de Conchos mine disaster :Sixty-five miners die after becoming trapped underground, following an explosion inNueva Rosita ,Mexico .[32] February 22 – Abomb heavily damages theAl Askari Mosque ,aShiite holy site inSamarra ,Iraq .[33] February 22 – Over £53.1 million is stolen during theSecuritas depot robbery ,the largest ever cash robbery in theUnited Kingdom .[34] [35] February 23 – A roof collapses on aMoscow market, killing 56 people.[36] February 24 – Astate of emergency is declared in thePhilippines ,after an allegedcoup d'état against PresidentGloria Macapagal Arroyo is foiled.[37] February 25 –Police officers and protesters in Dublin, Ireland are injured when a protest prior to theLove Ulster parade turns into amajor riot .[38] February 25 –Uganda 's PresidentYoweri Museveni wins his second re-election,[39] [40] Kampala by opposition supporters.[41] March 4 – The final contact attempt withPioneer 10 receives no response.[42] March 6 –20 – The firstWorld Baseball Classic is held inSan Diego ,California ,U.S.A. .March 7 – 20 people die and many others are injured in3 blasts throughoutVaranasi ,India .[43] March 9 –NASA 'sCassini-Huygens spacecraft discoversgeysers of a liquid substance shooting fromSaturn 's moonEnceladus ,signaling a possible presence of water.[44] March 10 – NASA'sMars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit.[45] [46] March 14 –Penumbral lunar eclipse March 15 –26 – The2006 Commonwealth Games take place inMelbourne ,Australia .March 16 – TheBlu-ray Disc format is released in theUnited States March 17 – TheUnited States strikes its 2 remainingIowa -classbattleships from theNaval Vessel Register ,ending the age of the battleship.[47] [48] March 22 –ETA declares a permanentceasefire in their campaign forBasque independence fromSpain .[49] March 22 – TheFederal Reserve stops the publishing of M3 money supply data.[50] [51] March 25 – Ascramjet jet engine ,Hyshot III ,designed to fly at 7 times the speed of sound, is successfully tested atWoomera, South Australia .[52] [53] March 25 – Seven die in theCapitol Hill Massacre inSeattle ,Washington .[54] March 29 –Total solar eclipse March 30 – The firstBrazilian astronaut ,Marcos Pontes ,goes into space in aRussian Soyuz spacecraft ,Soyuz TMA-8 [55] March 30 – Theal-Dana capsizesBahrain ,killing at least 56 people.[56] April 5 – A swan withAvian Flu is discovered inCellardyke inFife ,Scotland (the first case in theUnited Kingdom ).[57] April 8 – The bodies of8 murdered men are found inShedden, Elgin County, Ontario .April 9 –Israeli Prime MinisterAriel Sharon is removed from office after 4 months in acoma .[58] April 10 – The Brand India Fair Victoria Park fire atMeerut ,Uttar Pradesh ,India ,kills at least 100.[59] April 11 – TheEuropean Space Agency 'sVenus Express spaceprobe entersVenus ' orbit.[60] April 11 –President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-gradeenriched uranium .[61] [62] April 16 –Albert II, Prince of Monaco ,reaches theNorth Pole ,becoming the first reigning monarch ever to do so.[63] April 16 –Ireland commemorates the 90th anniversary of theEaster Rising ,for the first time since1971 .[64] April 17 – AnIslamic Jihad suicide bombing inTel Aviv kills 9 people and injures dozens.[65] April 20 –Iran announces a deal withRussia ,involving a jointuranium enrichment firm on Russian soil;[66] April 22 – FourCanadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north ofKandahar ,Afghanistan by a roadside bomb (the worst one-day combat loss for the Canadian army since theKorean War ).April 24 – Three explosions in a tourist section ofDahab ,Egypt kill 30 and injure over 115.[67] April 25 – TheBeaconsfield mine collapse occurs inTasmania ,Australia .April 29 – Massive anti-war demonstrations and a march downBroadway inNew York City mark the third year ofwar in Iraq .[68] April 29 – TheGlobal Night Commute takes place in over 130 cities around the world, to promote the visibility of theInvisible Children inUganda .[69] May 1 –Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalizes his nation's gas fields.[70] May 1 – TheGreat American Boycott takes place across theUnited States as marchers protest for immigration rights.[71] May 5 –Fiat chairmanSergio Marchionne announces that theAlfa Romeo automobile brand will return to the United States in2008 ,after a 13-year hiatus.[72] May 9 –Beaconsfield mine collapse :After 14 days trapped underground, miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb are rescued inBeaconsfield ,Tasmania ,Australia .[73] May 20 –Lordi win theEurovision Song Contest ,the first win forFinland and the first hard rock song to win the contest.May 24 –East Timor 's Foreign MinisterJosé Ramos-Horta officially requests military assistance from the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal.[74] May 27 – A6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes centralJava inIndonesia ,killing more than 6,000, injuring at least 36,000 and leaving some 1.5 million people homeless.[75] May 27 – The first demonstration forgay rights inMoscow is broken up by the police.[76] July 1 – TheQinghai-Tibet Railway launches a trial operation, connectingChina proper andTibet for the first time.[94] July 4 –STS-121 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched to theInternational Space Station .[95] July 17 .It is the secondreturn to flight Space Shuttle Columbia disaster .[96] July 5 –North Korea test fires missiles, timed with the liftoff of Discovery, preceding the fireworks celebrations that night inAmerica .The long rangeTaepodong-2 reportedly fails shortly after takeoff.[97] July 6 – TheNathula Pass betweenIndia andChina ,sealed during theSino-Indian War ,re-opens for trade after 44 years.[98] July 9 –S7 Airlines Flight 778 crashes into a concrete barrier shortly after landing, killing at least 122 people and leaving many injured.[99] July 10 –Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 crashes inMultan ,Pakistan shortly after takeoff.[100] July 11 – Aseries of coordinated bomb attacks strikes severalcommuter trains inMumbai ,India during the evening rush hour.[101] July 12 –2006 Lebanon War :Israeli troops invadeLebanon in response toHezbollah kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and killing 3. Hezbollah declares open war againstIsrael 2 days later.[102] July 18 – TheSS Nomadic Titanic [103] July 31 – Cuban presidentFidel Castro temporarilyrelinquishes power to his brotherRaúl before surgery.[104] August 10 –London Metropolitan Police make 21 arrests in connection to an apparentterrorist plot that involved aircraft traveling from theUnited Kingdom to theUnited States .Liquids and gels are banned from checked and carry-on baggage.[105] [106] August 11 – A resolution to end the2006 Lebanon War is unanimously accepted by theUnited Nations Security Council .[107] August 14 – A UN cease fire takes effect in the2006 Lebanon War .[108] August 22 –Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border inUkraine ,killing 171 people, including 45 children.[109] August 22 – TheICM awardsGrigori Perelman theFields Medal for proving thePoincaré conjecture ,one of 7Millennium Prize Problems ;Perelman refuses the medal.[110] August 23 – InAustria ,Natascha Kampusch manages to escape after being kidnapped 8 years ago byWolfgang Priklopil ,who locked her up in his cellar. Priklopil commits suicide by throwing himself in front of a train.[111] August 24 – TheInternational Astronomical Union defines 'planet ' at its 26th General Assembly, demotingPluto to the status of 'dwarf planet ' more than 70 years after its discovery.[112] August 27 –Comair Flight 5191 ,carrying 50 people, crashes shortly after takeoff fromBlue Grass Airport inLe xing ton, Kentucky .[113] August 28 – AGreyhound Lines bus fromNew York City toMontreal ,carrying 52 people, crashes at mile 115 onInterstate 87 nearElizabethtown ,killing 5 people (including the driver) and seriously injuring others.[114] August 31 –Edvard Munch paintingsThe Scream Madonna Oslo, Norway .[115] September 1 – A fire kills 29 of 148 aboard anIran Air Tours Tu-154 M aircraft after the plane lands inMashhad ,Iran .[116] September 2 – ANimrod MR2 based atRAF Kinloss ,Scotland ,crashes inKandahar Province ,Afghanistan ,due to a technical fault. All 14 crew onboard are killed.[117] September 7 –Partial lunar eclipse September 12 – A stampede at a rally inYemen leaves 41 dead and injures 50.[118] September 12 – PopeBenedict XVI gives a lecture inGermany ;he quotes a criticism of theIslamic faith, sparkingmass protests .[119] September 13 – Thesolar system 's largestdwarf planet ,designated until now as 2003 UB313, is officially named "Eris ";its satellite is now known as"Dysnomia ".[120] September 15 –Spinach contaminated with E. coli kills 2 and poisons over 100 others in 20 states of the United States.[121] September 16 – Five churches are attacked in Palestinian areas following the Pope's comments on Islam.[122] September 17 –Protests start near theHungarian Parliament .[123] September 19 –Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ofThailand declares astate of emergency inBangkok as members of the Royal Thai Army stage acoup d'état .The army announces the removal of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from power.[124] September 22 – ATransrapid Maglev train crashes into a maintenance vehicle on a test track inGermany ,killing 23 and injuring 10; it is the first recorded fatal accident involving a Maglev.[125] September 22 –Annular solar eclipse September 29 –Gol Flight 1907 (Boeing 737-800 ) collides with a business jet over theAmazon Rainforest ,killing all 155 on board.[126] North Korean nuclear test October 9 - ActorTommy Kirk becomes aDisney Legend October 9 –North Korea claims to have conducted its first-evernuclear test .[129] October 10 –Google buysYouTube forUSD $1.65 billion.[130] October 12 – A freak snowstorm blows into Buffalo, New York, leaving over 400,000 without power and killing 13.[131] October 13 –South Korean Ban Ki-moon is elected as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations.[132] October 15 – The UN agrees to sanctionNorth Korea over nuclear testing claims.[133] October 15 – The establishment of theIslamic State of Iraq is declared.October 16 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocksHawaii ,causing property damage, injuries,landslides ,power outages, and the closure ofHonolulu International Airport .see2006 Hawaii Earthquake .October 16 – The last AmericanMASH isdecommissioned .[134] October 16 – CBeebies 2006-2009 show of Numberjacks.October 24 –NASA 'sMESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby ofVenus (it will be captured into Mercury's orbit onMarch 18 ,2011 ).[135] October 29 –Aviation Development Company Flight 53 crashes shortly after takeoff inNigeria killing 96 people.[136] October 30 – FormerPresident of Chile Augusto Pinochet is placed under house arrest for crimes committed at theVilla Grimaldi detention centre.[137] October 30 – Anairstrike on amadrasah inBajaur ,Pakistan kills dozens of suspectedal-Qaeda andTaliban militants.[138] November 5 – FormerPresident of Iraq Saddam Hussein and 2 of his senior allies are sentenced to death by hanging, after an Iraqi court finds them guilty of crimes against humanity.[139] November 8 – Atransit of Mercury occurs.[140] November 9 –Margaret Chan is elected as the Director-General of theWorld Health Organization .[141] November 12 – The former Soviet republic ofSouth Ossetia holds areferendum on independence fromGeorgia .[142] November 15 –Al Jazeera launches its English language news channel,Al Jazeera English [143] November 16 – Rioting inNukuʻ alofa ,the capital ofTonga ,destroys approx. 80% of the CBD; 8 bodies found and foreign forces requested.[144] November 17 – ThePlayStation 3 is released inNorth America .[145] November 19 – TheWii is released in North America.[146] November 20 –Iran andSyria recognize the government ofIraq ,restorediplomatic relations ,and call for apeace conference .[147] [148] November 21 –Pierre Amine Gemayel ,Lebanon 's Minister of Industry, is assassinated inBeirut .[149] November 21 – A gas explosion in the coal mineHalemba inRuda Slaska ,Poland ,kills 23 miners approximately 1,000 meters below ground.[150] November 22 – TheKolkata leather factory fire traps and kills 9 inIndia .[151] November 23 – A series ofcar bombs andmortar attacks inSadr City ,Baghdad ,kill at least 215 people and injure 257 other people.[152] November 30 –Typhoon Durian triggers a massive mudslide and kills at least 720 people inAlbay province on the island ofLuzon in thePhilippines .[153] December 1 –Felipe Calderón takes office asPresident of Mexico .[154] December 1 – The15th Asian Games start inDoha ,Qatar ;the closing ceremony takes place onDecember 15 .[155] December 2 – InRome ,about 2 million people, led by opposition leaderSilvio Berlusconi ,demonstrate againstRomano Prodi 's government.[156] December 2 –Stéphane Dion is elected the new Leader of theLiberal Party of Canada ,on thefourth ballot .[157] December 2 –19 –2006 Ipswich murder investigation :The bodies of 5 murdered prostitutes are discovered at different locations near Ipswich in Suffolk, England.[158] December 3 –Ed Stelmach is elected the new Leader of theProgressive Conservatives ,Alberta ,after the second ballot results, and second choice votes for Ted Morton have been added up. Ed becomes thePremier-designate of Alberta .[159] December 3 –Hugo Chávez isre-elected President of Venezuela .[160] December 3 –Germany 's tallest chimney is demolished by explosion at the formerWesterholt Power Station .[161] December 5 – The military seizes power inFiji ,in acoup d'état led byCommodore Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama .[162] December 7 – Smoking is banned in allOhio bars, restaurants, workplaces, and other public places.[163] December 9 – TheMoscow hospital fire kills 45 people.[164] December 10 – Space Shuttle MissionSTS-116 Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from theKennedy Space Center on the first night launch since the 2003loss ofColumbia .[165] December 10 –Christer Fuglesang becomes the firstSwede in space.[166] December 11 – TheHolocaust conference is opened inTehran ,Iran byMahmoud Ahmadinejad .[167] December 12 –Peugeot produces their last car at theRyton Plant ,signalling the end of mass car production in a city that was once a major centre of theBritish motor industry ;Coventry .[168] December 13 – TheChinese River Dolphin or Baiji becomes extinct.[169] December 13 – U.S. SenatorTim Johnson (D-SD) suffers a stroke during a radio interview.[170] December 14 – U.S. Spy SatelliteUSA 193 ,also known as NRO Launch 21 (NROL-21 or simply L-21), is launched and malfunctions soon after.[171] December 15 –Lockheed Martin 'sF-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter successfully flies for the first time.[172] December 15 – An alleged assassination attempt on Palestinian prime ministerIsmail Haniyeh sparksinter-Palestinian clashes .[173] December 15 – KingJigme Singye Wangchuck ofBhutan abdicates in favour of his sonJigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck ,a year earlier than expected.[174] December 15 – TheJapanese government passes a bill to upgrade theJapan Defense Agency to a Ministry.[175] December 19 – ALibyan courtsentences 5Bulgarian nurses and aPalestinian doctor to death, for knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children withHIV .[176] December 20 –Somalia :Islamic Courts Union fighters beginattacking the government-held town ofBaidoa .[177] December 21 – The death ofSaparmurat Niyazov sparks world concern over a possible power vacuum and instability in energy-richTurkmenistan .[178] December 22 – TheSpace Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center, concluding a2-week mission to theInternational Space Station .[179] December 24 –Ethiopia admits its troops haveintervened in Somalia .[180] December 26 – Anoil pipeline explodes inNigeria 's commercial capital,Lagos ,killing at least 200 people.[181] December 26 – TheHengchun earthquake in Taiwan kills 2 people, and damages about 15 historical buildings and severalundersea cables ,disrupting Internet and IDD telecommunication services in Asia.[182] December 29 –War in Somalia :Ethiopian and Transitional government troopscapture Mogadishu without resistance.[183] December 30 –Saddam Hussein ,formerIraq president, isexecuted inBaghdad .[184] December 30 – TheM/V Senopati Nusantara Indonesia ,causing several hundred casualties.[185] December 30 – TheFree State Project completes its "First 1,000" pledge.December 30 – TheBasque separatist groupETA sets offa bomb in Madrid Barajas International Airport ,killing 2Ecuadorians .[186] December 31 – At least11 bombs go off inBangkok hours before the new year, leaving at least 30 injured.[187] December 31 – TheMet Office announces that England has experienced its warmest year since records began in1659 ,with an average temperature of 10.82 °C (51.48 °F).[188] for more information, see Category:2006 births.
2 February - Preston Oliver III, American child actor fromLas Vegas .27 February - Josephina Evie, English musician (d.2021 )1 March - Sawyer Sharbino, American child vlogger, from MetropolitanDallas .
8 March - Dylan Hockley, American child student, from Newton, ConnecticutApril 5 - Remus Covaci, Romanian bass player (Timpuri Grele)April 10 - Sofia Pablo, Philippine actressMay 3 - Mutya Orqulia, Philippine actress6 May - Jack Pinto Jr., American child student and footballer, from Danbury, Connecticut30 June - Jesse Lewis, American child student, from Newton, Connecticut6 September - Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince9 September - Andra Maria Leon, Romanian drummer (Timpuri Grele)12 September - Benjamin Wheeler, American child student, from Newton, Connecticut5 October - Jacob Tremblay, Canadian child actor, fromVancouver ,Canada 20 November - Noah Pozner, American child student, from Newton, Connecticut2006 births
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Noah Pozner †
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum Shelley Winters Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Johannes Rau Coretta Scott King January 1 –Charles Steen ,American geologist, The "Uranium King" (b.1919 )January 2 –Cecilia Muñoz-Palma ,first femalePhilippine Supreme Court Justice (b.1913 )January 3 –Steve Rogers ,Australian rugby player (b.1954 )January 3 –Bill Skate ,Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b.1954 )January 4 – SheikhMaktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum ,Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b.1946 )January 4 –Robert Howard White ,Mayor ofPapatoetoe ,New Zealand (b.1914 )January 6 –Lou Rawls ,American singer (b.1933 )January 7 –Heinrich Harrer ,mountaineer, explorer and writer (b. 1912)January 8 –Tony Banks, Baron Stratford ,British politician (b.1943 )January 9 –Andy Caldecott ,Australianmotorcycle racer (b.1964 )January 14 –Jim Gary ,American sculptor (b.1939 )January 14 –Shelley Winters ,American actress (b.1920 )January 15 –Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ,Emir of Kuwait (b.1926 )January 19 –Wilson Pickett ,American singer (b.1941 )January 19 –Geoff Rabone ,New Zealand cricket player (b.1921 )January 21 –Ibrahim Rugova ,firstPresident of Kosovo (b.1944 )January 21 –Bedanand Jha ,Nepalese politicianJanuary 24 –Chris Penn ,American actor (b.1965 )January 25 –Anna Malle ,American pornographic actress (b.1967 )January 27 –Johannes Rau ,President of Germany (b.1931 )January 28 –Yitzchak Kadouri ,Iraqi-born rabbi (b.1900 )January 30 –Coretta Scott King ,American civil rights activist and wife ofMartin Luther King, Jr. (b.1927 )Betty Friedan February 1 –Dick Brooks ,American auto racer (b.1942 )February 1 –Bryce Harland ,New Zealand diplomat (b.1931 )February 3 –Al Lewis ,American actor (b.1923 )February 4 –Betty Friedan ,American feminist, activist, and writer (b.1921 )February 8 –Ron Greenwood ,English football manager (b.1921 )February 8 –Akira Ifukube ,Japanese classical music/movie composer (b.1914 )February 9 – SirFreddie Laker ,British airline entrepreneur (b.1922 )February 10 –J Dilla ,American music producer (b.1974 )February 12 –Ken Hart ,American composer, journalist, and playwright (b.1917 )February 13 –Andreas Katsulas ,American actor (b.1946 )February 13 –P. F. Strawson ,English philosopher (b.1919 )February 14 –Shoshana Damari ,Israeli singer and actress (b.1923 )February 15 –Sun Yun-suan ,Premier of the Republic of China (b.1913 )February 16 –Ernie Stautner ,German-born American football player (b.1925 )February 18 –Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa ,5thPrime Minister of Sudan (b.1919 )February 20 –Lucjan Wolanowski ,Polish journalist, writer and traveler (b.1920 )February 22 –Anthony Burger ,American musician and singer (b.1961 )February 22 –Sinnathamby Rajaratnam ,Singapore politician (b.1925 )February 23 –Mauri Favén ,Finnish painter (b.1920 )February 23 –Zarra ,Spanish footballer (b.1921 )February 24 –Don Knotts ,American actor (b.1924 )February 24 –Dennis Weaver ,American actor (b.1924 )February 25 –Darren McGavin ,American actor (b.1922 )February 25 –Florian ZaBach ,American musician and TV personality (b.1931 )February 27 –Linda Smith ,English comedian (b.1958 )February 28 –Owen Chamberlain ,American physicist (b.1921 )Slobodan Milošević March 1 –Harry Browne ,American Libertarian Presidential candidate (b.1933 )March 1 –Peter Osgood ,English footballer (b.1947 )March 1 –Peter Snow ,New Zealand doctor (b.1935 )March 2 –Jack Wild ,English actor (b.1952 )March 3 –William Herskovic ,Hungarian Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b.1914 )March 4 –Dave Rose ,American artist (b.1910 )March 4 –Edgar Valter ,Estonian illustrator and cartoonist (b.1929 )March 4 –John Reynolds Gardiner ,American writer and engineer (b.1944 )March 6 –Dana Reeve ,American actress, wife ofChristopher Reeve (b.1961 )March 6 –Kirby Puckett ,U.S. baseball player (b.1960 )March 6 –King Floyd ,American singer (b.1945 )March 8 –Brian Barratt-Boyes ,New Zealand heart surgeon (b.1924 )March 9 –Hanka Bielicka ,Polish actress (b.1915 )March 9 –John Profumo ,British politician (b.1915 )March 11 –Bernie Geoffrion ,Canadian hockey player (b.1931 )March 11 –Slobodan Milošević ,President of Serbia (b.1941 )March 13 –Maureen Stapleton ,American actress (b.1925 )March 13 –Peter Tomarken ,American game show host (b.1942 )March 14 –Lennart Meri ,President of Estonia (b.1929 )March 15 –George Mackey ,American mathematician (b.1916 )March 22 –Lawrence Stephen ,Nauruan politician (b.1939 )March 23 –Cindy Walker ,American songwriter (b.1918 )March 24 –Lynne Perrie ,English actress (b.1931 )March 25 –Rocío Dúrcal ,Spanish singer and actress (b.1944 )March 25 –Buck Owens ,American musician (b.1929 )March 26 –Paul Dana ,American race car driver (b.1975 )March 27 –Stanislaw Lem ,Polish writer (b.1921 )March 28 –Caspar Weinberger ,United States Secretary of Defense (b.1917 )John Kenneth Galbraith April 2 –Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg ,German wife of soldierClaus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b.1913 )April 4 –Denis Donaldson ,Irish Republican informer (b.1950 )April 5 –Gene Pitney ,American singer (b.1941 )April 6 –Francis L. Kellogg ,U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b.1917 )April 8 –Gerard Reve ,Dutch writer (b.1923 )April 11 –Proof ,American rapper (D12 ) (b.1973 )April 11 –Les Foote ,Australian footballer (b.1924 )April 11 –June Pointer ,American singer (b.1953 )April 12 –Rajkumar ,Indian actor (b.1929 )April 12 –William Sloane Coffin ,American university chaplain and activist (b.1924 )April 13 –Muriel Spark ,Scottish novelist (b.1918 )April 15 –Louise Smith ,American race car driver (b.1916 )April 17 –Calum Kennedy ,Scottish singer (b.1928 )April 18 –John Lyall ,British football player and manager (b.1940 )April 19 –Scott Crossfield ,American pilot (b.1921 )April 21 –Telê Santana ,Brazilian footballer and coach (b.1931 )April 23 –Alida Valli ,Italian actress (b.1921 )April 23 –Johnny Checketts ,New Zealand flying ace (b.1912 )April 24 –Nasreen Huq ,Bangladeshi social worker and human rights activist (b.1958 )April 24 –Brian Labone ,English footballer (b.1940 )April 24 –Steve Stavro ,Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b.1927 )April 24 –Moshe Teitelbaum ,Hungarian-born Hassidic rabbi (b.1914 )April 25 –Jane Jacobs ,American-born writer and activist (b.1916 )April 25 –Peter Law ,British politician (b.1948 )April 28 –Steve Howe ,American Baseball Player (b.1958 )April 29 –John Kenneth Galbraith ,Canadian economist (b.1908 )April 30 –Beatriz Sheridan ,Mexican actress and director (b.1934 )Karel Appel May 2 –Louis Rukeyser ,American television host (b.1933 )May 3 –Karel Appel ,Dutch painter (b.1921 )May 3 –Pramod Mahajan ,Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and strategist (b.1949 )May 3 –Earl Woods ,American athlete and father ofTiger Woods (b.1932 )May 6 –Konstantin Beskov ,Russian footballer (b.1920 )May 6 –Lillian Asplund ,last American survivor of theTitanic disaster (b.1906 )May 6 –Shigeru Kayano ,Japanese activist (b.1926 )May 7 –Richard Carleton ,Australian journalist (b.1943 )May 7 –Steve Bender ,German musician (Dschinghis Khan ) (b.1946 )May 8 –Iain Macmillan ,British photographer (b.1938 )May 10 –Val Guest ,British movie director (b.1911 )May 11 –Yossi Banai ,Israeli singer and actor (b.1932 )May 11 –Floyd Patterson ,American boxer (b.1935 )May 12 –Hussein Maziq ,Former Libyan prime minister (b.1918 ).May 13 –Jaroslav Pelikan ,American historian (b.1923 )May 13 –Johnnie Wilder, Jr. ,American R&B singer (b.1949 )May 16 –Jorge Porcel ,Argentine actor (b.1936 )May 19 –Freddie Garrity ,English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers ) (b.1940 )May 21 –Katherine Dunham ,American dancer, choreographer, and songwriter (b.1909 )May 22 –Lee Jong-wook ,Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b.1945 )May 23 –Lloyd Bentsen ,American politician (b.1921 )May 24 –Anderson Mazoka ,Zambian politician (b.1943 )May 24 –Michał Życzkowski ,Polish technician (b.1930 )May 25 –Desmond Dekker ,Jamaican singer and songwriter (b.1941 )May 25 –Tobías Lasser ,Venezuelan botanist (b.1911 )May 25 –Kari S. Tikka ,Finnish professor (b.1944 )May 26 –Édouard Michelin ,French businessman (b.1963 )May 27 –Alex Toth ,American comic book artist and cartoonist (b.1928 )May 29 –Masumi Okada ,Japanese actor (b.1935 )May 30 –Shohei Imamura ,Japanese movie director (b.1926 )May 30 –David Lloyd ,New Zealand biologist (b.1938 )Billy Preston Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Charles Haughey June 1 –Rocio Jurado ,Spanish singer and actress (b.1944 )June 6 –Arnold Newman ,American photographer (b.1918 )June 6 –Billy Preston ,American artist and musician (b.1946 )June 6 –Hilton Ruiz ,Puerto Rican jazz pianist (b.1952 )June 7 –Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ,Jordanian militant (b.1966 )June 7 –John Tenta ,Canadian professional wrestler (b.1963 )June 11 –Neroli Fairhall ,New Zealand archer (b.1944 )June 12 –Chakufwa Chihana ,Malawi politician (b.1939 )June 12 –György Ligeti ,Hungarian composer (b.1923 )June 12 –Kenneth Thomson ,Canadian businessman and art collector (b.1923 )June 13 –Charles Haughey ,Prime Minister of Ireland (b.1925 )June 13 –Hiroyuki Iwaki ,Japanese conductor and percussionist (b.1932 )June 14 –Jean Roba ,Belgian comics writer (b.1930 )June 15 –Raymond Devos ,French humorist (b.1922 )June 18 –Gica Petrescu ,Romanian musician (b.1915 )June 23 –Aaron Spelling ,American television producer (b.1923 )June 25 –Arif Mardin ,Turkish-born music producer (b.1932 )June 25 –Jaap Penraat ,Dutch architect and resistance fighter (b.1918 )June 30 –Mohamed Haneef ,Maldivian Politician and former vice-president ofIslamic Democratic Party of Maldives (b.1946 )June 30 –Robert Gernhardt ,German satirist (b.1937 )Ryutaro Hashimoto June Allyson July 1 –Ryutaro Hashimoto ,53rdPrime Minister of Japan (b.1937 )July 1 –Fred Trueman ,English cricketer (b.1931 )July 3 –Joseph Goguen ,American computer scientist (b.1941 )July 5 –Gert Fredriksson ,Swedish kayaker (b.1919 )July 5 –Kenneth Lay ,American businessman (b.1942 )July 6 –Kasey Rogers ,American actress, writer, and biker (b.1925 )July 7 –Tom Weir ,Scottish climber, writer, and broadcaster (b.1914 )July 7 –Rudi Carrell ,Dutch entertainer (b.1934 )July 7 –Syd Barrett ,English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b.1946 )July 7 –John Money ,Sexologist (b.1921 )July 8 –June Allyson ,American actress (b.1917 )July 8 –Catherine Leroy ,French photographer (b.1945 )July 10 –Shamil Basayev ,Chechen rebel (b.1965 )July 11 –Ross M. Lence ,American political scientist (b.1943 )July 11 –John Spencer ,British snooker player (b.1935 )July 13 –Red Buttons ,American actor and comedian (b.1919 )July 16 –Bob Orton ,American wrestler (b.1929 )July 17 –Mickey Spillane ,American writer (b.1918 )July 18 –Raul Cortez ,Brazilian actor (b.1931 )July 19 –Jack Warden ,American actor (b.1920 )July 20 –Lim Kim San ,Singapore politician (b.1916 )July 20 –Ted Grant ,British politician (b.1913 )July 21 –Ta Mok ,Cambodian military leader (b.1926 )July 21 –Mako Iwamatsu ,Japanese-born actor (b.1933 )July 22 –José Antonio Delgado ,Venezuelan mountain climber (b.1965 )July 22 –Gianfrancesco Guarnieri ,Italian-born Brazilian actor and playwright (b.1934 )July 25 –Hani Mohsin ,Malaysian actor (b.1965 )July 28 –David Gemmell ,British writer (b.1948 )July 30 –Murray Bookchin ,American libertarian socialist (b.1921 )Glenn Ford August 3 –Elisabeth Schwarzkopf ,German-born soprano (b.1915 )August 3 –Arthur Lee ,American musician (b.1945 )August 6 –Hirotaka Suzuoki ,Japanese Seiyu (b.1950 )August 9 –James van Allen ,American physicist (b.1914 )August 11 –Mike Douglas ,American entertainer (b.1925 )August 13 –Tony Jay ,English-born actor (b.1933 )August 13 –Payao Poontarat ,Thai boxer (b.1957 )August 15 –Te Atairangi Kaahu ,Maori queen (b.1931 )August 15 –Faas Wilkes ,former Dutch football player(b.1923 )August 16 –Alfredo Stroessner ,President of Paraguay (b.1912 )August 20 –Joe Rosenthal ,American photographer (b.1911 )August 21 –Bismillah Khan ,Indian musician (b.1916 )August 21 –S. Yizhar ,Israeli writer (b.1916 )August 23 –Maynard Ferguson ,Canadian musician and bandleader (b.1928 )August 23 –Wolfgang Priklopil ,Austrian kidnapper ofNatascha Kampusch (b.1962 )August 26 –Rainer Barzel ,German politician (b.1924 )August 26 –Clyde Walcott ,Barbadian cricketer (b.1926 )August 27 –Hrishikesh Mukherjee ,Indian movie maker (b.1922 )August 30 –Glenn Ford ,Canadian actor (b.1916 )August 30 –Naguib Mahfouz ,Egyptian writer,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1911 )August 30 –Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon ,New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b.1926 )Steve Irwin September 1 –György Faludy ,Hungarian poet (b.1910 )September 2 –Charlie Williams ,British comedian (b.1927 )September 2 –Bob Mathias ,American athlete (b.1930 )September 2 –Willi Ninja ,American dancer and choreographer (b.1961 )September 4 –Steve Irwin ,Australian environmentalist and television personality (b.1962 )September 4 –Giacinto Facchetti ,Italian footballer (b.1942 )September 4 –Colin Thiele ,Australian writer and educator (b.1920 )September 8 –Hilda Bernstein ,English-born writer, artist, and activist (b.1915 )September 9 –Richard Burmer ,American composer and musician (b.1955 )September 9 –William B. Ziff, Jr. ,American publishing executive (b.1930 )September 10 –Taufa'ahau Tupou IV ,King of Tonga (b.1918 )September 11 –Joachim Fest ,German historian and journalist (b.1926 )September 11 –Johannes Bob van Benthem ,Dutch lawyer (b.1921 )September 14 –Elizabeth Choy ,Singaporean World War II hero (b.1910 )September 14 –Mickey Hargitay ,Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (b.1926 )September 15 –Oriana Fallaci ,Italian journalist (b.1929 )September 15 –Abe Saffron ,Australian nightclub owner and property developer (b.1920 )September 16 –Rob Levin ,American computer programmer (b.1955 )September 17 –Patricia Kennedy Lawford ,American socialite, sister ofJohn F. Kennedy (b.1924 )September 17 –Dorothy C. Stratton ,Director of theUnited States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (b.1899 )September 19 –Roy Schuiten ,Dutch cyclist (b.1950 )September 19 –Hugh Kawharu ,New Zealand academic and Māori chief (b.1927 )September 20 –Armin Jordan ,Swiss conductor (b.1932 )September 20 –John W. Peterson ,American composer (b.1921 )September 23 –Malcolm Arnold ,English composer (b.1921 )September 23 –Aladár Pege ,Hungarian musician (b.1939 )September 24 –Tetsuro Tamba ,Japanese actor (b.1922 )September 26 –Byron Nelson ,American golfer (b.1912 )September 26 –Iva Toguri D'Aquino ,American propagandist for Japan in World War II (b.1916 )September 29 –Walter Hadlee ,New Zealand cricketer (b.1915 )Jane Wyatt Red Auerbach P. W. Botha October 6 –Buck O'Neil ,American baseball player (b.1911 )October 6 –Wilson Tucker ,American writer (b.1914 )October 7 –Anna Politkovskaya ,American-born Russian journalist (b.1958 )October 8 –Mark Porter ,New Zealand race car driver (b.1975 )October 9 –Paul Hunter ,British snooker player (b.1978 )October 10 –Michael John Rogers ,English ornithologist (b.1932 )October 11 –Cory Lidle ,American baseball player (b.1972 )October 13 –Mason Andrews ,delivered America's firsttest tube baby ;former mayor ofNorfolk, Virginia (b.1919 )October 14 –Freddy Fender ,American singer (b.1937 )October 16 –Lister Sinclair ,Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b.1921 )October 16 –Valentín Paniagua ,President of Peru (b.1936 )October 18 –Anna Russell ,British-born comedian and music satirist (b.1911 )October 20 –Jane Wyatt ,American actress (b.1910 )October 24 –Enolia McMillan ,American first female president of theNAACP (b.1904 )October 25 –Danny Rolling ,American murderer (b.1954 ) (executed)October 28 –Red Auerbach ,American basketball coach and official (b.1917 )October 28 –Trevor Berbick ,Jamaican boxer (b.1955 )October 30 –Clifford Geertz ,American anthropologist (b.1926 )October 31 –P. W. Botha ,formerState President of South Africa (b.1916 )Bülent Ecevit Jack Palance Ferenc Puskás November 1 –Adrienne Shelly ,American actress & director (b.1966 )November 1 –William Styron ,American writer (b.1925 )November 2 –Adrien Douady ,French mathematician (b.1935 )November 2 –Wally Foreman ,Australian sports commentator (b.1948 )November 3 –Paul Mauriat ,French musician (b.1925 )November 3 –Alberto Spencer ,Ecuadorian footballer (b.1937 )November 4 –Frank Arthur Calder ,Canadian politician (b.1915 )November 4 –Sergi López Segú ,Spanish footballer (b.1967 )November 5 –Bülent Ecevit ,Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist (b.1925 )November 5 –Samuel Bowers ,American Ku Klux Klansman and convicted killer (b.1924 )November 8 –Basil Poledouris ,American composer (b.1945 )November 9 –Ed Bradley ,American journalist (b.1941 )November 10 –Gerald Levert ,American singer (b.1966 )November 10 –Jack Palance ,American actor (b.1919 )November 15 –Ana Carolina Reston ,Brazilian fashion model (b.1985 )November 16 –Milton Friedman ,American economist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1912 )November 17 –Ferenc Puskás ,Hungarian footballer (b.1927 )November 17 –Bo Schembechler ,American football coach (b.1929 )November 17 –Ruth Brown ,American singer (b.1928 )November 20 –Robert Altman ,American movie director (b.1925 )November 20 –Andre Waters ,American football player (b.1962 )November 21 –Pierre Amine Gemayel ,Lebanese politician (b.1972 )November 22 –John Allan Cameron ,Canadian musician (b.1938 )November 23 –Alexander Litvinenko ,Russian-born spy (b.1962 )November 23 –Philippe Noiret ,French actor (b.1930 )November 23 –Anita O'Day ,American singer (b.1919 )November 23 –Willie Pep ,American boxer (b.1922 )November 24 –Walter Booker ,American jazz bassist (b.1933 )November 24 –Juice Leskinen ,Finnish singer and songwriter (b.1950 )November 25 –Leo Chiosso ,Italian poet (b.1920 )November 25 –Valentin Elizalde ,Mexican singer (b.1979 )November 25 –Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner ,American actress, journalist and publisher (b.1916 )November 26 –Dave Cockrum ,American comic book artist (b.1943 )November 27 –Alan Freeman ,Australian-born broadcaster and disc jockey (b.1927 )November 28 –Bernard Orchard ,British biblical scholar (b.1912 )Augusto Pinochet Joseph Barbera Saparmurat Niyazov James Brown Gerald R. Ford Saddam Hussein December 3 –Craig Hinton ,British novelist (b.1964 )December 4 –Ross A. McGinnis ,American soldier, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b.1987 )December 5 –David Bronstein ,Soviet Union chess grandmaster (b.1924 )December 6 –John Feeney ,New Zealand documentary movie director (b.1922 )December 7 –Jeane Kirkpatrick ,American political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b.1926 )December 7 –J. B. Hunt ,American trucking magnate (b.1927 )December 8 –Jose Uribe ,DominicanMajor League Baseball player (b.1959 )December 10 –Augusto Pinochet ,Chilean dictator (b.1915 )December 12 –Paul Arizin ,American basketball player (b.1928 )December 12 –Peter Boyle ,American actor (b.1935 )December 12 –Raymond P. Shafer ,American politician (b.1917 )December 13 –Lamar Hunt ,American sports executive (b.1932 )December 13 –"Homesick" James Williamson ,Americanblues musician (b.1910 )December 13 –Federico Crescentini ,Sanmarinese football player (b.1982 )December 14 –Ahmet Ertegün ,Turkish record executive (b.1923 )December 14 –Mike Evans ,American actor (b.1949 )December 15 –Clay Regazzoni ,Swiss race car driver (b.1939 )December 16 –Don Jardine ,Canadian professional wrestler (b.1940 )December 18 –Joseph Barbera ,American animator (b.1911 )December 20 –Yukio Aoshima ,Japanese politician, novelist and TV-actor (b.1932 )December 20 –Ma Ji ,Chinese actor (b.1934 )December 21 –Saparmurat Niyazov ,President of Turkmenistan (b.1940 )December 22 –Elena Mukhina ,Russian gymnast (b.1960 )December 23 –Robert Stafford ,American politician (b.1913 )December 23 –Dutch Mason ,Canadian blues musician (b.1938 )December 23 –Marilyn Waltz ,American actress, model, andPlayboy Playmate (b.1931 )December 24 –Braguinha ,Brazilian songwriter (b.1907 )December 24 –Charlie Drake ,English comedian (b.1925 )December 24 –Frank Stanton ,American television executive (b.1908 )December 24 –Kenneth Sivertsen ,Norwegian musician, composer, poet and comedian (b.1961 )December 25 –James Brown ,American singer (b.1933 )December 26 –Gerald R. Ford ,38thPresident of the United States (b.1913 )December 29 –Charles Addo Odametey ,Ghanaian football player (b.1937 )December 30 –Saddam Hussein ,5thPresident of Iraq (b.1937 )December 30 –Antony Lambton, Viscount Lambton ,British politician (b.1922 )Nobel Prize
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