2006 deaths

Italian footballer and manager (1916–2006)

American male singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

American crime novelist (1918–2006)

Japanese film director (1926-2006)

Head of the East German foreign intelligence service during the Cold War (1923–2006)

Spanish footballer (1921–2006)

Emir of Dubai (1943–2006)

Peruvian politician (1936-2006)

American heavyweight boxer (1935-2006)

First President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina 1991–1992

American photographer, musician, writer and film director (1912–2006)

American science fiction writer (1908–2006)

American video art pioneer (1932–2006)

American film and television producer (1923-2006)

American actress (1910–2006)

Uruguayan footballer (1927-2006)

American–Canadian journalist, author, and activist (1916–2006)

American journalist (1941–2006)

American mathematician (1916–2006)

Scottish poet, author, translator (1924–2006)

10th President of Lebanon (1926-2006)

American politician (1933–2006)

American actor (1920–2006)

American author (1940–2006)

American basketball coach (1917–2006)

Chuvash poet, writer, and translator (1934-2006)

American athlete and congressman (1930–2006)

Scottish footballer (1944-2006)

Mexican singer (1979–2007)

Brazilian footballer and manager (1931-2006)

American sociologist (1922–2006)

American diplomat and Presidential advisor (1926-2006)

Swiss racecar driver

German historian (1926–2006)

7th Taoiseach from 1979 to 1981; 1982; 1987 to 1992

Irish computer programmer (1921-2006)

Jamaican ska singer-songwriter (1941–2006)

New Zealand psychologist and sexologist (1921–2006)

American politician (1917-2006)

American actor (1924–2006)

English composer and conductor (1921–2006)

British philosopher (1919–2006)

American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)

Canadian jazz musician and bandleader (1928–2006)

American politician (1921–2006)

English snooker player

French writer and philosopher (1924–2006)

American oceanographer and cartographer (1920–2006)

Indian actress (1932–2006)

27th Prime Minister of Norway

Dutch writer (1923-2006)

American basketball player (1928–2006)

Prime Minister of Greece (1918–2006)

American photographer (1911–2006)

Ecuadorian footballer (1937-2025)

British author of heroic fantasy (1948-2006)

United States Army officer (1943–2006)

US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale (1923–2006)

South Korean film producer and director (1926–2006)

Russian philosopher and writer (1922–2006)