2006 deaths

South Korean film producer and director (1926–2006)

Russian philosopher and writer (1922–2006)

Jamaican heavyweight boxer (1954–2006)

American actor (1946–2006)

Italian athletics competitor

Scottish historian and Orientalist (1909–2006)

American opera singer, television personality, and dramatic actress (1932-2006)

Polish sprinter and hurdler

Romanian mathematician (1949–2006)

Indian Kannada film actor, singer (1929–2006)

South Korean social reformer (1945-2006)

Greek-American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores (1945-2006)

English footballer (1947–2006)

British author (1934–2006)

Swedish writer and film director (1924-2006)

Turkish mathematician (1913–2006)

American singer (1933–2006)

American jazz singer (1919–2006)

French historian (1930–2006)

Italian singer (1936–2006)

Spanish singer and actress (1944–2006)

American poet (1905-2006)

Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder (1926–2006)

French eater (1950-2007)

entertainer on Dutch and German television (1934–2006)

athletics competitor (1913-2006)

British actor (1952–2006)

Hungarian association football player (1923-2006)

Polish poet, Catholic priest (1915–2006)

Indian film director (1922–2006)

American actor (1939–2006)

Italian jazz pianist, painter, film producer, and the fourth child and youngest son of Benito Mussolini (1927–2006)

American country singer-songwriter (1929-2006)

English footballer and manager (1921-2006)

Austrian pentathlete (1941-2006)

French racing driver

American recording artist, singer and songwriter (1940-2006)

US tennis player (1921-2006)

Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos was an American serial killer and necrophile known as the Lust Killer and the Shoe Fetish Slayer who committed the kidnap, rape, and murder of four young women between 1968 and 1969 in Salem, Oregon. He is also known to have attempted to abduct two other young women.

World War II propaganda announcer "Orphan Ann", and best-known "Tokyo Rose" announcer

British actor (1933–2006)

Polish footballer (1921-2006)

New Zealand paralympic archer (1944–2006)

Spanish singer and actress (1943–2006)

Hungarian association footballer and trainer (1932-2006)

American computer programmer and system analyst (1919–2006)

Polish actress (1916-2006)

World War II French flying pilot (1921-2006)

Macedonian communist and National Heroe of Yugoslavia (1919-2006)

athletics competitor (1951–2006)

American philosopher (1949-2006)

American nuclear physicist (1915–2006)

Macedonian footballer (1934–2006)

Catholic cardinal (1916–2006)

Cambodian military officer (1924–2006)

Romanian table tennis player (1921–2006)

German film director (1932-2006)

President of Guatemala (1924-2006)

American actor (1915–2006)

American physicist (1922–2006)