Celebrity Deaths 2006

by abossolaComment — Updated August 3, 2023
Lou Rawls
Lou Rawls
January 6
Shelley Winters died
Shelley Winters
January 14
Coretta Scott King Died
Coretta Scott King
January 30
Betty Friedan died
Betty Friedan
February 4
Curt Gowdy died
Curt Gowdy
February 20
Don Knotts died
Don Knotts
February 24
Dennis Weaver died
Dennis Weaver
February 24
Lew Anderson - Clarabell is dead
Lew Anderson
(Clarabell)
May 14
Aaron Spelling died
Aaron Spelling
June 23
Patsy Ramsey died
Patsy Ramsey
June 24
Frazier's Eddie dies
Moose
(Frazier’s Eddie)
late June
Benjamin Hendrickson dies
Benjamin Hendrickson
July 1
June Allyson
June Allyson
July 8
Red Buttons died
Red Buttons
July 13
Mike Douglas died
Mike Douglas
August 11
Glen Ford died
Glenn Ford
August 30
Steve Irwin died
Steve Irwin
September 4
Jane Wyatt died
Jane Wyatt
October 20
Ed Bradley died
Ed Bradley
November 9
Jck Palance died
Jack Palance
November 10
Gerald Ford died
President
Gerald R. Ford
December 26

Gone But Not Forgotten – 2006

January 6 – Lou Rawls, soul singer (“Lady Love”) age 72

January 14 – Shelley Winters, two time Oscar winning actor (“The Diary of Anne Frank” and “A Patch of Blue”) age 85

January 19 – Wilson Pickett, soul singer (“In the MIdnight Hour” and “Mustang Sally”) age 64

January 19 – Anthony Franciosa, actor (“The Long Hot Summer” and “The Name of the Game”) age 77

January 24 – Chris Penn, actor (“Reservoir Dogs” and “Starsky & Hutch”) brother of Sean Penn, age 40

January 30 – Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King and Civil Rights matriarch, age 78

February 3 – Al Lewis, actor (Grandpa on “The Munsters” and Officer Leo Schnauzer on “Car 54, Where Are You?”) age 82

February 4 – Betty Friedan, author (“The Feminine Mystique”) and early leader of the feminist movement, age 85

February 12 – Peter Benchley, author (“Jaws”) age 65

February 13 – Andreas Katsulas, actor (GKar on “Babylon 5”) age 59

February 18 – William Cowsill, singer (The Cowsills, band that inspired the TV series “The Partridge Family” ) age 58

February 18 – Richard Bright, actor (Al Neri in ” The Godfather”) age 68

February 20 – Curt Gowdy, sportscaster (“American Sportsman”) age 86

February 24 – Don Knotts, actor (Deputy Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show” and Ralph Furley on “Three’s Company” ) age 81

February 24 – Dennis Weaver, actor (Chester Goode on“Gunsmoke” and Sam McCloud on “McCloud”) age 81

February 25 – Darren McGavin, actor (Carl Kolchak on “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” ) age 83

March 6 – Kirby Puckett,Baseball Hall of Famer who played for Minnesota Twins, age 44

March 6 – Dana Reeve, widow of Christopher Reeve, age 44

March 11 – Slobodan Milosevic. tyrant (“Butcher of the Balkans”) age 64

March 13 – Maureen Stapleton, actress (“Reds” and “Interiors”) age 80

March 26 – Buck Owens, singer, host (“Hee Haw”) age 76

March 25 – Richard Fleischer, director (“Tora, Tora, Tora” and “Soylent Green”) age 89

March 26 – Paul Dana, IRL race car driver – Rahal Letterman Racing Team, age 30

March 28 – Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan, age 88

April 5 – Gene Pitney, singer/songwriter (“Town Without Pity” and “Liberty Valance”) age 65

April 17 – Scott Brazil, producer/director (“The Shield” and “Hill Street Blues”) age 50

May 2 – Louis Rukeyser, journalist (“Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser”) age 73

May 3 – Earl Woods, father of golfer Tiger Woods, age 74

May 11 – Floyd Patterson, Heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic Gold medalist, age 71

May 14 – Lew Anderson, actor and musician (Clarabell on “Howdy Doody Show”) age 84

May 23 – Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury (under Clinton) and U.S. Senator from Texas 1971-1993, age 85

May 27 – Paul Gleason, actor (Principal Richard Vernon in “Breakfast Club”) age 67

May 30 – Robert Sterling, actor (ghost George Kerby in “Topper”) age 88

June 2 – Vince Welnick, keyboard player for the Grateful Dead, age 51

June 6 – Billy Preston, keyboardist (“Outta Space” and “Nothing From Nothing”) age 59

June 20 – Claydes Charles Smith, musician (co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool & the Gang) age 57

June 23 – Aaron Spelling, producer (“Mod Squad,” “Starsky and Hutch,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “The Love Boat,” “Dynasty,” and “Beverly Hills 90210”) age 83

June 24 – Patsy Ramsey, mother of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, 49

June ? – Moose, actor (played Eddie on “Frazier”) age 16 ½

July 1 – Benjamin Hendrickson, actor (Hal Munson on “As the World Turns”) age 55

July 2 – Jan Murray, comic host (“Treasure Hunt”) age 89

July 5 – Ken Lay, fomer CEO of Enron, who was convicted of conspiracy and fraud, age 64

July 7 – Syd Barrett, musician (founder of Pink Floyd) age 60

July 8 – June Allyson, actress (“The Glenn Miller Story” and “Strategic Air Command”) age 88

Juky 11 – Barnard Hughes, actor (Grandpa in “Lost Boys”) age, 90

July 13 – Red Buttons, actor (“Sayonara” and Poseidon Adventure”) age 87

July 16 – Lt. Governor Win Rockefeller, Arkansas politician, billionaire great-grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, age 57

July 17 – Mickey Spillane, writer (Mike Hammer novels) age 88

July 19 – Jack Warden, actor (“Crazy Like a Fox” and “Heaven Can Wait”) age 85

August 11 – Mike Douglas, singer and talk show host (“The Mike Douglas Show:), age 81

August 14 – Bruno Kirby, actor (Ed Funillo in “City Slickers”) age 57

August 30 – Glenn Ford, actor ( “The Blackboard Jungle,” “Put the Blame on Mame”) age 90

September 1 – Nellie Connally, wife of former Gov. John Connally of Texas (1917-1993) and the last surviving occupant of President Kennedy’s limousine when he was assassinated, age 87

September 2 – Bob Mathias, Olympic decathlete and U.S. Congressman (1967-1975), age 75

September 4 – Steve Irwin, Enviromentalist known as the “Croc Hunter,” age 44

September 13 – Ann Richards, former Governor of Texas (1991 to 1995), age 73

September 14 – Michael Hargitay,bobybuilder ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield and father of “Law & Order: SVU” star Mariska Hargitay, age 80

September 17 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of John F. Kennedy and former wife of Peter Lawford, age 82

September 22 – Edward Albert Jr., actor ( Don Baker in “Butterflies Are Free”) age 55

September 26 – Byron Nelson, Golfing great, age 94

October 11 – Corey Lidle, pitcher of the New York Yankees, age 34

October 14 – Freddy Fender, country singer (“Before the Next Teardrop Falls”) age 69

October 20 – Phyllis Kirk, actress (Nora Charles on “The Thin Man”) age 77

October 20 – Jane Wyatt, actress (Margaret Anderson on “Father Knows Best”)  age 96

October 28 – Red Auerbach, legendary winning coach of the Boston Celtics, age 89

November 9 – Ed Bradley, journalist, longtime corresponent for “60 Minutes,” age 65

November 10- Jack Palance, actor (Curly Washburn in “City Slickers”) age 87

November 17 – Bo Schembechler, legendary football coach at University of Michigan, age 77

November 21 – Robert Altman, director (“M.A.S.H.”) age 81

December 12 – Peter Boyle, actor (Frank Barone on “Everybody Loves Raymond”) age 71

December 25 – James Brown, Godfather of Soul, “I Got You (I Feel Good)” age 73

December 26 – President Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States 1974-1977, age 93

December 29 – Saddam Hussein,Butcher of Bagdad, age 69

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