Year '2006' ('
MMVI') was a
common year starting on Sunday of the
Gregorian calendar.
The year 2006 was designated:
★ The Year of the
Dog In the
Chinese calendar, beginning on
January 29, 2006.
★ International Year of
Deserts and
Desertification by the
United Nations General Assembly,
[1]
★ International Asperger's Year,
★ Year of Mozart, marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Events of 2006
January
★
January 1 -
Sydney,
Australia, has its hottest day on record, when the city swelters in 45°C (113°F) heat.
★
January 1 -
Russia cuts
natural gas to
Ukraine over a
price dispute.
★
January 2 - The
Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof in
Germany collapses after heavy
snowfall in the
Bavarian Alps, killing 15.
★
January 3 - Twelve dead coal miners and one survivor are discovered in the
Sago Mine Disaster near
Buckhannon, West Virginia,
U.S.
★
January 4 - Powers are transferred from Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon to his deputy, Vice Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert, after Sharon suffers a massive
hemorrhagic stroke.
★
January 5 - A hotel in
Mecca,
Saudi Arabia collapses, killing 76 pilgrims visiting to perform
hajj.
★
January 6 - The record-breaking
2005 Atlantic hurricane season officially draws to a close as
Tropical Storm Zeta dissipates.
★
January 7 - Embroiled in multiple scandals, former U.S.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay announces he will not seek to reassume his former post.
★
January 7 -
UK Liberal Democratic leader
Charles Kennedy resigns after revelations that he has a drinking problem.
★
January 8 - A powerful, magnitude 6.9
earthquake centered off the coast of the
Greek island of
Kythera shakes much of
Greece and is felt throughout the eastern
Mediterranean basin.
★
January 9 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time since
June 7,
2001, closing at 11,011.90.
★
January 11 - The
Augustine Volcano in
Alaska erupts twice, marking its first major eruption since
1986.
★
January 12 - A stampede during the
Stoning of the devil ritual on the last day at the
Hajj in
Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 362
pilgrims.
★
January 14 - A
natural gas explosion in a coal mine kills eight in
Romania.
★
January 15 -
NASA's
Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a
comet.
★
January 22 -
Kobe Bryant scored 81 points in regulation and is second only to the legendary 1960s center
Wilt Chamberlain, who had 100 points.
★
January 23 -
Stephen Harper wins the
federal election in
Canada, forming a minority government.
★
January 25 -
Hamas wins the majority of seats in the
Palestinian Legislative Council elections.
★
January 25 - ''
Deus Caritas Est'', the first
encyclical of
Pope Benedict XVI, is promulgated.
★
January 27 - Celebrations are held in
Salzburg and around the world for the 250th anniversary of the birth of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
★
January 28 - A
trade hall roof collapses in
Katowice,
Poland, killing 65 people.
★
January 31 -
Samuel Alito is sworn in as an associate justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
February
★
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.
★
February 4 - The
Wowowee stampede occurred at the
PhilSports Arena. 61 killed.
★
February 5 - The
Pittsburgh Steelers win
Super Bowl XL, defeating the
Seattle Seahawks 21-10.
★
February 7 - An aging
Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sinks in the
Red Sea off the Saudi coast.
★
February 8 -
2006 East Timor crisis: 404 soldiers desert their barracks in
East Timor.
★
February 10 - The
2006 Winter Olympics open in
Turin,
Italy. The closing ceremony occurred on
February 26.
★
February 11 -
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots his friend and lawyer,
Harry Whittington, in the face with a shotgun on a south
Texas ranch.
★
February 16 -
Kobe Airport, a controversial offshore airport in
Kobe,
Japan, opens for airline service.
★
February 17 - As many as 1,800 people die when a mudslide occurs on
Leyte Island in the
Philippines.
★
February 19 -
Pasta de Conchos mine disaster: Sixty-five miners become trapped underground after an explosion in
Nueva Rosita,
Mexico; all 65 die.
★
February 22 - A
bomb heavily damages the
Al Askari Mosque, a
Shiite holy site in
Samarra,
Iraq.
★
February 22 - Over £53.1 million is stolen during the
Securitas depot robbery, the largest ever cash robbery in the
United Kingdom.
★
February 22 - The 1
billionth song is purchased from the
Apple iTunes Store.
★
February 23 - A roof collapses on a
Moscow market, killing 56 people.
★
February 24 - A
state of emergency is declared in the
Philippines, after an alleged
coup d'état against President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is foiled.
★
February 25 - Police officers, and protesters injured when a protest prior to the
Love Ulster parade turns into a
major riot.
★
February 25 -
Uganda's President
Yoweri Museveni wins his second re-election, sparking riots in
Kampala by opposition supporters.
March
★
March 4 - The final contact attempt with
Pioneer 10 receives no response.
★
March 4 -
Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway was christened by Bishop
Ole Christian Kvarme at the chapel inside The Royal Palace in
Oslo.
★
March 5 - The
2006 Academy Awards are held, with
''Crash'' winning
Best Picture.
★
March 7 - Fifteen people die and many others are injured in
three blasts throughout
Varanasi,
India.
★
March 9 -
NASA's
Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers
geysers of a liquid substance shooting from
Saturn's moon
Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.
★
March 10 - NASA's
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit.
★
March 11 -
Michelle Bachelet is sworn in as the first female
President of Chile.
★
March 11 -
Slobodan Milošević is found dead in his cell in the
UN war crimes tribunal's detention centre, located in the
Scheveningen section of The
Hague.
★
March 12 - Historic cricket match between Australia in South Africa, 5th ODI of theseries.
★
March 15-
March 26 - The
2006 Commonwealth Games take place in
Melbourne,
Australia.
★
March 17 - The
United States strikes its two remaining
''Iowa''-class battleships from the
Naval Vessel Register, ending the age of the battleship.
★
March 20 -
Tropical Cyclone Larry makes landfall in
Queensland, Australia.
★
March 21 - Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs
Laila Freivalds resigns after over a year of criticism.
★
March 22 -
ETA declares a permanent
ceasefire in their campaign for
Basque independence from
Spain.
★
March 25 - An estimated 500,000 people take to the streets in downtown
Los Angeles to protest a proposed federal crackdown on
illegal immigration.
★
March 25 - A revolutionary
scramjet jet engine,
Hyshot III, designed to fly at seven times the speed of sound, is successfully tested at
Woomera, South Australia.
★
March 25 - Seven people die in the
Capitol Hill Massacre in
Seattle,
Washington.
★
March 26 - The
ban on smoking in public places such as
bars and
restaurants comes into effect in
Scotland.
★
March 30 - The first
Brazilian
astronaut,
Marcos Pontes, goes to space in a
Russian
Soyuz spacecraft, ''
Soyuz TMA-8'', at 2:29:00 CET.
★
March 30 - The
''al-Dana'' capsizes off the coast of
Bahrain, killing at least 48 people.
★
March 30 - The first
World Baseball Classic ends in
San Diego,
California with
Japan beating
Cuba in the Championship.
April
★
April 2 -
Chicago, Illinois hosts
WrestleMania 22.
★
April 5 - A swan with
Avian Flu is discovered in
Cellardyke in
Fife,
Scotland (the first case in the
United Kingdom).
★
April 8 -
Shedden massacre: The bodies of 8 murdered men are found in
Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario.
★
April 8 -
Bristol,
United Kingdom celebrates the 200th birthday of
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (actually April 9) by relighting the
Clifton Suspension Bridge.
★
April 8 -
Numbersixvalverde, ridden by
Niall Madden, wins the
Grand National at
Aintree.
★
April 8 -
Bloc 8406 publishes their
Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy for Viet Nam in
Viet Nam; their name comes from this date.
★
April 9 -
Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon is removed from office after four months in a
coma.
★
April 10 -
Romano Prodi narrowly defeats
Silvio Berlusconi in the
Italian parliamentary elections.
★
April 11 - The
European Space Agency's
Venus Express spaceprobe enters
Venus' orbit.
★
April 11 -
President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade
enriched uranium.
★
April 16 -
Albert II, Prince of Monaco, reaches the
North Pole, becoming the first reigning monarch ever to do so.
★
April 16 -
Ireland commemorates the 90th anniversary of the
1916 Rising for the first time since
1971.
★
April 17 - A
suicide bombing by
Islamic Jihad in
Tel Aviv kills nine people and injures dozens.
★
April 18 - Festivities and memorials across the
Bay Area mark the 100th anniversary of the
Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
★
April 19 -
Han Myeong Sook becomes the first female
Prime Minister of South Korea.
★
April 20 -
Iran announces a uranium enrichment deal with
Russia, involving a joint
uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil; nine days later Iran announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus leading to a de-facto termination of the deal.
★
April 22 -
War on Terror: Four
Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of
Kandahar,
Afghanistan by a roadside bomb – the worst one-day combat loss for the Canadian army since the
Korean War.
★
April 22 -
Jalal Talabani re-elected for a second term as President of
Iraq.
★
April 24 - Three explosions in a tourist section of
Dahab,
Egypt kill 30 and injure over 115.
★
April 29 - Massive anti-war demonstrations and a march down
Broadway in
New York City mark the third year of
war in Iraq.
★
April 29 - The
Global Night Commute takes place in over 130 cities around the world to promote the visibility of the
Invisible Children in
Uganda.
★
April 30 - In the
Australian Football League, a match between
St Kilda and
Fremantle ends in controversial circumstances after St Kilda's
Steven Baker was alleged to have kicked a behind after the final siren had went. Following an investigation, the Saints were stripped of two competition points and the full win was handed to Fremantle.
May
★
May 1 -
Bolivian
President Evo Morales nationalizes his nation's gas fields.
★
May 1 - The
Great American Boycott takes place across the
United States as marchers protest for immigration rights.
★
May 4 - A new
coalition government takes office in
Israel; its four political parties hold 67 of the 120 seats in the
Knesset.
★
May 5 -
NASA astronomers announce the discovery of a storm system in the
Jovian atmosphere, dubbed the
Red Spot Junior.
★
May 5 -
Fiat chairman
Sergio Marchionne announces that the
Alfa Romeo automobile brand will return to the United States in
2008, after a 13-year hiatus.
★
May 9 -
Beaconsfield mine collapse: After 14 days trapped underground, miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb are rescued in
Beaconsfield,
Tasmania,
Australia.
★
May 13 -
Liverpool F.C. defeat
West Ham United F.C. on penalties in the
2006 FA Cup Final following a 3-3 draw after extra time.
★
May 17 -
FC Barcelona beat
Arsenal in the final of the
UEFA Champions League played in Paris.
★
May 20 -
Finland's
Lordi wins the
2006 Eurovision Song Contest held in
Athens.
★
May 21 - The
Dallas Mavericks beat the
San Antonio Spurs in overtime to win the Western Conference semi-finals in the
NBA Playoffs.
★
May 24 -
East Timor's Foreign Minister
Horta officially requests military assistance from the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal.
★
May 27 - A
6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes central
Java in
Indonesia, killing more than 6,000, injuring at least 36,000 and leaving some 1.5 million people homeless.
★
May 27 - The first demonstration for
gay rights in
Moscow is broken up by the police.
★
May 28 - President
Alvaro Uribe Velez is re-elected in
Colombia for a second term. He becomes the first president in over a century to serve consecutive terms.
June
★
June 3 -
Montenegro declares independence after a
May 21 referendum. The state union of
Serbia and Montenegro is dissolved on
June 5 leaving
Serbia as the successor state.
★
June 3 - Seventeen men are arrested in the
Greater Toronto Area for alleged ties to a
terrorist plot to blow up targets in the region.
★
June 6 - The
Union of Islamic Courts gains control of
Somalia's capital
Mogadishu, ending warlord rule of the city.
★
June 6 - The
6bone (testbed
network for the
IPv6 network protocol) is phased out.
★
June 7 -
Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and seven of his aides are killed in a U.S. air raid just north of the town of
Baqouba,
Iraq.
★
June 9 - An explosion kills eight Palestinian civilians on a
Gaza beach.
Israel denies responsibility for the blast.
★
June 9 -
Thailand begins celebrations of the
60th anniversary of the accession of Bhumibol Adulyadej to the throne.
★
June 9 - The
2006 FIFA World Cup begins in
Germany.
★
June 10 - President
Mahmoud Abbas sets
July 26 as the date for a national
referendum in the
Palestinian National Authority.
★
June 18 - The first
Kazakh space
satellite "
KazSat" is launched.
★
June 19 - The
Carolina Hurricanes defeat the
Edmonton Oilers 4 games-3 games to win the
Stanley Cup.
★
June 20 - The
Miami Heat win the
NBA Finals over the
Dallas Mavericks, 4-2.
★
June 22 - The
Magen David Adom and
Palestine Red Crescent Society are officially recognized by the
International Committee of the Red Cross.
★
June 23 - In
Miami, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests seven men, accusing them of planning to bomb the
Sears Tower and other attacks in Miami.
★
June 25 -
Warren Buffett donates over US$30 billion to the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
★
June 28 -
Israel launches
Operation Summer Rains, an offensive against militants in
Gaza.
★
June 29 - The
Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigns after the political party of
D'66 drops its support.
★
June 29 - Women vote for the first time in elections for the
National Assembly of Kuwait.
July
North Korean Taepodong-2 missile test (Picture of Taepodong-1 missile test from 1998).
★
July 1 - The
Qinghai-Tibet Railway launches a trial operation, connecting
China proper and
Tibet for the first time.
★
July 2 - A
presidential election is held in
Mexico.
Felipe Calderón is confirmed as the winner on
September 5.
★
July 4 - ''
STS-121'': Space Shuttle ''
Discovery'' is launched to the
International Space Station. It returns safely on
July 17.
★
July 5 -
North Korea test fires missiles, timed with the liftoff of Discovery, preceding the fireworks celebrations that night in
America. The long range
Taepodong-2 reportedly fails shortly after takeoff.
★
July 6 - The
Nathula Pass between
India and
China, sealed during the
Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
★
July 9 -
S7 Airlines Flight 778 crashes into a concrete barrier shortly after landing, killing at least 122 people and leaving many injured.
★
July 9 -
Italy wins the
2006 FIFA World Cup by beating
France 5-3 on
penalties. The score after
extra time is 1-1.
★
July 10 -
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 crashes in
Multan,
Pakistan shortly after takeoff.
★
July 11 - A
series of coordinated bomb attacks strikes several
commuter trains in
Mumbai,
India during the evening rush hour.
★
July 12 -
2006 Lebanon War:
Israeli troops invade
Lebanon in response to
Hezbollah kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and killing 3. Hezbollah declares open war against
Israel 2 days later.
★
July 17 - Space Shuttle ''
Discovery'' returns to
Earth from the
International Space Station, thirteen days after its launch.
★
July 18 - The
SS Nomadic, the last floating link to ''
Titanic'', returns home to a great reception in Belfast.
★
July 21 -
St Louis is hit by two major
derechos (violent windstorms) in a span of three days.
★
July 22 -
Canada defeats
USA 15-11 in the
2006 World Lacrosse Championship. This marked only the second time the USA had not won the gold medal, and only the second time Canada had won the gold.
Geoff Snider was announced as MVP.
★
July 23 -
Phonak team rider, American cyclist
Floyd Landis wins the
Tour de France; however, tour officials soon announce that he has failed a
doping test.
★
July 28 -
Alejandro Toledo concludes his term as
President of Peru, and
Alan Garcia becomes president.
★
July 28 - Actor
Mel Gibson is arrested for drunk driving in California and
launches an anti-semitic tirade.
★
July 30 - The world's longest running music show, ''
Top of the Pops'', broadcasts for the last time on
BBC Two.
★
July 31 -
Fidel Castro, President of
Cuba, temporarily
relinquishes power to his brother
Raúl before surgery.
August
★
August 10 -
London Metropolitan Police make 21 arrests in connection to an apparent
terrorist plot that involved aircraft traveling from the
United Kingdom to the
United States. Liquids and gels are banned from checked and carryon baggage.
★
August 11 - A resolution to end the
2006 Lebanon War is unanimously accepted by the
United Nations Security Council.
★
August 14 - A UN cease fire takes effect in the
2006 Lebanon War.
★
August 22 -
Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in
Ukraine, killing 171 people, including 45 children.
★
August 22 - The
ICM awards
Grigori Perelman the
Fields Medal for proving the
Poincare conjecture, one of seven
Millennium Prize Problems. Perelman refuses the medal.
★
August 23 - In
Austria Natascha Kampusch manages to escape after being kidnapped eight years ago by
Wolfgang Priklopil who locked her up in his cellar. Priklopil commits suicide by throwing himself in front of a train.
★
August 24 - The
International Astronomical Union defines '
planet' at its 26th
General Assembly, demoting
Pluto to the status of '
dwarf planet' more than 70 years after its discovery.
★
August 27 -
Comair Flight 5191, carrying 50 people, crashes shortly after take off from
Blue Grass Airport in
Lexington, Kentucky.
★
August 28 - A
Greyhound Lines bus from
New York City to
Montreal, carrying 52 people, crashes at mile 115 on
Interstate 87 near
Elizabethtown killing 5 people including the driver and several are seriously injured.
★
August 31 -
Edvard Munch paintings ''
The Scream'' and ''
Madonna'' are recovered in a police raid in
Oslo, Norway.
September
★
September 1 - A fire kills 29 of 148 people aboard an
Iran Air Tours Tu-154M aircraft after the plane lands in
Mashhad,
Iran.
★
September 2 - A
Nimrod MR2 based at
RAF Kinloss,
Scotland, crashes in the
Southern Province of Kandahar,
Afghanistan, due to a technical fault. All 14 crew on board were killed.
★
September 3 -
Spain wins the
2006 FIBA World Championship.
★
September 3 -
Andre Agassi retires after his final tennis match against
Benjamin Becker in the
U.S. Open.
★
September 6 -
Prince Hisahito of Akishino, son of Princess Akishino and Prince Akishino, the prince is third in line to the throne of
Japan.
★
September 7 - Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in
Taipei is renamed to
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.
★
September 9 - ''
STS-115'': Space Shuttle ''
Atlantis'' is launched on a mission to build up the
International Space Station. It returns safe and successful on
September 21.
★
September 10 - Seven-time
World Champion Michael Schumacher announces he will retire from
Formula 1 at the end of the year.
★
September 12 - A stampede at a rally in
Yemen leaves 41 dead.
★
September 12 - Pope
Benedict XVI gives a lecture in
Germany; he quotes a criticism of the
Islamic faith, sparking
mass protest.
★
September 13 - The
Dawson College Shooting occurs in
Montreal,
Quebec,
Canada, leaving one student dead and 19 others injured.
★
September 13 - The
solar system's largest
dwarf planet, designated until now as 2003 UB313, is officially named "
Eris"; its satellite is now known as "
Dysnomia".
★
September 15 -
Spinach contaminated with E. coli kills one person and poisons over 100 others in 20 states of the United States.
★
September 16 - Five churches are attacked in Palestinian areas following the Pope's comments on Islam.
★
September 17 - The
Alliance for Sweden claims victory in the
Swedish general election, 2006.
★
September 19 -
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of
Thailand declares a
state of emergency in
Bangkok as members of the Royal Thai Army stage a
coup d'état. The army announces the removal of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from power.
★
September 19 - A memorial service for recently deceased Australian personality
Steve Irwin takes place at Australia Zoo,
Queensland,
Australia. The service is broadcast across Australia and other parts of the world.
★
September 20 -
The CW Television Network (a merger of
The WB and
UPN) officially begins operations.
★
September 22 - A
Transrapid Maglev train crashes into a maintenance vehicle on a test track in
Germany, killing 23 and injuring 10; it is the first recorded fatal accident involving a Maglev.
★
September 23 -
Toomas Hendrik Ilves is elected
President of Estonia.
★
September 24 -
Europe win the
Ryder Cup in
Ireland.
★
September 24 -
Communist Party of China Central Political Bureau committee member,
Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Secretary
Chen Liangyu is dismissed for alleged corruption charges.
★
September 25 - The Louisiana
Superdome in New Orleans re-opens 13 months after
Hurricane Katrina with extensive repairs, including the largest re-roofing project in the United States.
★
September 26 -
Diet of Japan elects
Shinzo Abe as new
Prime Minister of Japan succeeding
Junichiro Koizumi.
★
September 27 - An armed suspect
holds six female students as hostages in Platte Canyon High School located in
Bailey, Colorado. One hostage is fatally wounded as the gunman kills himself.
★
September 28 - After 40 years of development,
Suvarnabhumi Airport, opens in
Bangkok,
Thailand replacing
Don Mueang International Airport as Bangkok's primary airport for commercial flights.
★
September 29 -
Gol Flight 1907, a
Boeing 737-800, collides with a business jet over the
Amazon Rainforest killing all 154 onboard.
★
September 29 - U.S. Representative
Mark Foley (R-FL) resigns after it is revealed that he sent explicit e-mails for several years to underage male pages.
★
September 30 -
West Coast Eagles win the
Australian Football League Grand Final at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground.
★
September 30 -
Nangpa La shootings.
October
★
October 1 -
Brisbane Broncos beat
Melbourne Storm in the controversial 2006
National Rugby League Grand Final at
Telstra Stadium in
Sydney, Australia.
★
October 1 -
Vodafone Japan, owned by
SoftBank, officially changes its name to Softbank Mobile Corporation.
★
October 2 -
Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-yr-old milk-truck driver,
kills five female students at an
Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania before shooting himself.
★
October 2 -
Per Westerberg takes office as
Speaker of the Riksdag in
Sweden.
★
October 3 -
North Korea announces plans to conduct a
nuclear test.
★
October 4 - The Dow Industrial Average closes above 11,800
for the first time rising 123.27 points, or 1.05%, finishing at 11,850.61.
★
October 6 - Hazardous waste plant near
Apex, North Carolina explodes releasing chlorine gas, resulting in the evacuation of thousands and the hospitalization of over 100 residents.
★
October 9 -
North Korea claims to have conducted its first ever
nuclear test.
★
October 10 -
Google buys
YouTube for
USD$1.65 billion.
★
October 11 -
New York Yankees pitcher
Cory Lidle is killed, along with his flight instructor, when his plane crashes into a building in New York City's
Upper East Side.
★
October 13 -
Ban Ki-moon (from
South Korea) is elected as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations.
★
October 15 - The UN agrees to sanction
North Korea over nuclear testing issue.
★
October 15 -
Chief Justice of Japan Akira Machida retires upon reaching the age of 70.
★
October 15 - Declaration of the etablishment of the
Islamic State of Iraq.
★
October 16 - The last
MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) was
decommissioned.
★
October 17 - The
United States population reaches 300 million based on a
United States Census Bureau projection.
★
October 18 -
Microsoft publicly releases Windows
Internet Explorer 7.
★
October 19 - On the 19th anniversary of the
1987 stock market crash, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 12,000
for the first time gaining 19.05 points, or 0.16%, to 12,011.73.
★
October 23 -
Jeffrey Skilling is sentenced to 24 years and 4 months in federal prison on charges relating to the financial collapse of
Enron.
★
October 25 - The
New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor of marriage equality.
[1]
★
October 27 - Last
Ford Taurus rolls off
Atlanta Assembly line.
★
October 27 - The
St. Louis Cardinals win the
2006 World Series.
★
October 29 -
Aviation Development Company Flight 53 crashes shortly after take off in
Nigeria.
★
October 29 -
Luis Inácio Lula da Silva is re-elected
President of Brazil.
★
October 30 - Former
President of Chile Augusto Pinochet is placed under house arrest for crimes committed at the
Villa Grimaldi detention centre.
★
October 30 - An
airstrike on a
madrasah in
Bajaur kills dozens of suspected
al-Qaeda and
Taliban militants.
★
October 30 - The
Esperanza Fire burns over 61 square miles of
Cabazon, California mountain territory.
November
★
November 1 - The
Stardust Resort & Casino closes after 48 years of business in
Las Vegas.
★
November 3 -
Iran successfully test-fires 3 new models of sea missiles in a show of force to assert its military capacities in the Gulf.
★
November 3 - ''
Science'' predicts 90% of maritime life forms will be extinct by
2048.
★
November 3 -
Ted Haggard resigns as president of the
National Association of Evangelicals, after allegations of methamphetamine use and sexual relations with a male prostitute.
★
November 5 - Former
Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein and two of his senior allies are sentenced to death by hanging after an Iraqi court finds them guilty of crimes against humanity.
★
November 7 -
U.S. Midterm elections:
Democrats win control of both houses of
Congress for the first time since 1994.
★
November 7 - In the U.S. congressional elections, Minnesota Democrat
Keith Ellison becomes the first Muslim elected to the
House of Representatives.
★
November 7 - The
Japanese town of
Saroma, Hokkaido is struck by a
tornado, killing nine. It is the deadliest tornado in Japan since 1941.
★
November 8 - U.S. Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld resigns;
President Bush nominates
Robert Gates, a former
Central Intelligence Agency director, as his replacement. Gates is then confirmed by the
U.S. Senate and sworn in on
December 18.
★
November 8 -
Margaret Chan is elected as the Director-General of the
World Health Organization.
★
November 8 - A
transit of Mercury occurs.
★
November 11 -
Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier,
Hong Kong, completed the last journey of its 49-year operation.
★
November 12 -
Gerald Ford surpasses
Ronald Reagan as the longest lived
President of the United States.
★
November 12 - The former Soviet republic of
South Ossetia holds a
referendum on independence from
Georgia.
★
November 15 -
Al Jazeera launches its new English language news channel,
Al Jazeera English.
★
November 15 - Start of the ''Sales and Use Tax'' in
Puerto Rico; a response to the
Puerto Rico budget crisis of May 2006.
★
November 15 - The State of Hawaii bans smoking in all enclosed public places.
★
November 16 - Rioting in
Nuku'alofa, the capital of
Tonga, destroys approx. 80% of the CBD; 8 bodies found and foreign forces requested.
★
November 17 - U.S. comedian and actor
Michael Richards launches a racially charged tirade at hecklers during a performance at the Laugh Factory in
Los Angeles.
Sony launches its next-generation console, the
PlayStation 3, in North America.
★
November 19 - The
94th Grey Cup is held in
Winnipeg,
Manitoba. The
B.C. Lions beat the
Montreal Alouettes 25-14.
Nintendo launches its next-generation console, the
Wii, in North America.
★
November 20 -
Iran and
Syria recognize the government of
Iraq, restore
diplomatic relations, and call for a
peace conference.
★
November 20 -
Lee High School bus crash kills 4 students in Huntsville, Alabama.
★
November 21 -
Pierre Amine Gemayel,
Lebanon's Minister of Industry, is assassinated in
Beirut.
★
November 21 -
Israel's Supreme Court finds that Israel must recognize and register
same-gender marriages celebrated in other countries.
★
November 21 - A gas explosion in the coal mine ''Halemba'' in
Ruda Slaska,
Poland, kills 23 miners approximately 1,000 meters below ground.
★
November 22 -
Dutch general election, 2006: The
Christian Democratic Appeal wins a plurality of seats in
The Netherlands.
★
November 22 - A
General Election is held for the
House of Keys in the
Isle of Man.
★
November 22 - Ten people are trapped and killed in the
Kolkata leather factory fire in
India.
★
November 23 -
Alexander Litvinenko, a former
Russian
KGB agent, is killed by
Polonium-210 in a
London sushi bar.
★
November 23 - A series of
car bombs and mortar attacks in
Sadr City,
Baghdad, kill at least 215 people and injure 257 others.
★
November 24 -
Michael Stone is arrested for breaking into the parliament buildings at
Stormont while armed.
Bertie Ahern and
Tony Blair's deadline on
Northern Ireland power-sharing.
★
November 25 -
Steve Bracks wins the
Victorian state election.
★
November 26 - US Judge
James Robertson orders the US Treasury to
change the dollar bill.
★
November 28 -
November 29 - The
NATO Summit 2006 takes place in
Latvia.
★
November 30 -
South Africa becomes the fifth nation to legalize
gay marriage.
★
November 30 -
Typhoon Durian triggers a massive mudslide and kills hundreds of people in the
Philippines.
★
November 30 -
Windows Vista, the newest version of operating system from
Microsoft, released for volume license customers.
December
★
December 1 -
Felipe Calderón is sworn in as the
President of Mexico by the
Congress in
Mexico.
★
December 1 - The
15th Asian Games start in
Doha,
Qatar; the closing ceremony takes place on
December 15.
★
December 1 -
Typhoon Durian kills at least 388 people in
Albay province on the island of
Luzon in the
Philippines.
★
December 2 - In
Rome, about two million people, led by opposition leader
Silvio Berlusconi, demonstrate against
Romano Prodi's government.
★
December 2 -
Stephane Dion is elected the new Leader of the
Liberal Party of Canada, on the
fourth ballot.
★
December 3 -
Ed Stelmach is elected the new Leader of the
Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta,
Canada, after the second ballot results, and second choice votes for Ted Morton have been added up. Ed becomes the
Premier-designate of Alberta.
★
December 3 -
Hugo Chávez is
re-elected President of Venezuela.
★
December 3 - Explosive demolition of
Germany's tallest chimney at former
Westerholt Power Station.
★
December 5 - The military seizes power in
Fiji by means of a
coup d'état led by
Commodore Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama.
★
December 9 - A
fire at a hospital in
Moscow kills 45 people.
★
December 10 - ''
STS-116'': Space Shuttle ''
Discovery'' lifts off from the
Kennedy Space Center on the first night launch since the 2003
loss of ''Columbia''.
★
December 10 -
Christer Fuglesang becomes the first
Swede in space.
★
December 10 - The
Nobel Prize ceremonies take place in
Stockholm and
Oslo.
★
December 10 -
Chivas defeats
Toluca in the final of the Mexican Soccer League.
★
December 11 - The
Holocaust conference is opened in
Tehran,
Iran by
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
★
December 12 -
Peugeot produce their last car at the
Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in a city that was once a major centre of the
British motor industry;
Coventry.
★
December 13 - The
Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji becomes extinct.
★
December 13 - U.S. Senator
Tim Johnson (D-SD) suffers a stroke during a radio interview.
★
December 15 -
Lockheed Martin's
F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter successfully flies for the first time.
★
December 15 - An alleged assassination attempt on the Palestinian prime minister
Ismail Haniyeh sparks
inter-Palestinian clashes.
★
December 15 -
Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the King of
Bhutan, abdicates in favour of his son
Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck a year earlier than expected.
★
December 15 - The
Japanese government passes a bill to upgrade the
Japan Defense Agency to a Ministry.
★
December 19 - A
Libyan court
sentences five
Bulgarian nurses and a
Palestinian doctor to death for knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with
HIV.
★
December 20 -
Somalia:
Islamic Courts Union fighters begin
attacking the government-held town of
Baidoa.
★
December 21 -
Saparmurat Niyazov, the dictator of
Turkmenistan dies unexpectedly, sparking world concern over a possible power vacuum and instability in this energy-rich country.
★
December 21 - Australian cricketer
Shane Warne announces his retirement from the sport.
★
December 22 - The
Space Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center, concluding a
two week mission to the
International Space Station.
★
December 24 -
Ethiopia admits its troops have
intervened in Somalia.
★
December 26 - An
oil pipeline explodes in
Nigeria's commercial capital,
Lagos killing at least 200 people.
★
December 26 - The
Hengchun earthquake in Taiwan kills two people, damaged about 15 historical buildings and several
undersea cable, disrupting Internet and IDD telecommunication services in Asia.
★
December 29 -
War in Somalia: Ethiopian and Transitional government troops
capture Mogadishu without resistance.
★
December 30 -
Saddam Hussein, former
Iraq president, is
executed in
Baghdad.
★
December 30 - The ''
M/V Senopati Nusantara'' sinks in
Indonesia with several hundred casualties.
★
December 30 - The
Free State Project completes its "First 1,000" pledge.
★
December 31 - At least
eleven bombs go off in
Bangkok hours before the new year.
★
December 31 - The U.S. death toll in
Iraq reaches 3,000.
★
December 31 - According to the
Met Office, England experienced its warmest year since records began in
1659 with an average temperature of 10.82°C.
Major religious holidays
★
January 6 - Feast of
Epiphany or Día de los Reyes Magos (Day of the
Magi Kings) or La Fête des Rois (Feast of the Kings).
★
January 7 -
Christmas in the
Russian Orthodox,
Serbian Orthodox,
Coptic Orthodox,
Ukrainian Catholic and other Eastern Christian church calendars.
★
January 10 -
Islamic festival of
Eid ul-Adha begins (ends on
January 12).
★
January 11 - Vaikunta
Ekadashi is observed by
Hindus. This is the day when the Gates of Heaven open and remain open for the next ten days.
★
January 14 -
Mahayana Buddhist New Year.
★
January 14 -
Pongal Harvest Festival in
Tamil Nadu.
★
January 15 - Maatu Pongal, Festival of
Cows in
Tamil Nadu.
★
January 16 - Uzhavar Tirunaal,
Farmer's Day in
Tamil Nadu.
★
January 29 -
Year of the Dog, 4703, begins. Chinese/Asian New Year.
★
January 31 -
Muslim New Year.
★
February 1 -
Imbolc Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on
February 2 in some places).
★
February 9 - Day of
Ashurah.
★
February 13 -
Tu Bishvat.
★
February 28 -
Mardi Gras.
★
March 13 - Jewish holiday of
Purim begins at sunset.
★
March 14 -
Sikh New Year.
★
March 21 - Iranian New Year's Day (
Norouz).
★
March 30 -
Hindu New Year.
★
April 5 -
Qingming Festival.
★
April 11 - Birth anniversary of
Muhammad.
★
April 12 -
Pesach or
Passover begins at sunset, continues for a week.
★
April 13 - Theravada Buddhist New Year.
★
April 13 -
Punjabi New Year.
★
April 14 -
Good Friday in the Western Church Calendar,
Sikh Holiday of
Vaisakhi.
★
April 14 - Puththaandu
Tamil New Year in the Tamil Calendar, observed by people in
Tamil Nadu.
★
April 16 -
Easter in the Western Church Calendar.
★
April 21 -
Good Friday in the Eastern Church Calendar.
★
April 23 -
Easter in the Eastern Church Calendar.
★
May 1 -
Beltane Cross-quarter day.
★
June 1 - Jewish holiday of
Shavuot begins at sunset.
★
August 1 -
Lammas Cross-quarter day.
★
August 2 - Jewish fast of
Tisha B'Av begins at sundown; it extends until the night of
August 3.
★
September 22 - Jewish holiday of
Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. Continues until nightfall of the 24th.
★
September 23 - First day of
Ramadan.
★
October 1 - Jewish holiday of
Yom Kippur begins at sundown. Ends at nightfall of the
2nd.
★
October 21 - Hindu festival of
Diwali.
★
October 24 - Islamic festival of
Eid ul-Fitr.
★
October 31 -
Samhain Cross-quarter day.
★
December 15 -
Hannukah.
★
December 21 -
Wiccans celebrate the festival of
Yule.
★
December 25 -
Christmas in the Western Church Calendar.
★
December 31 - Islamic festival of
Eid ul-Adha begins (ends on
January 2,
2007).
Undated
★ June-November - The
2006 hurricane season was mild compared to 2005.
Ongoing
★
War in Iraq.
Births
★
March 20 -
Chris and Cru Kahui, infant twin brothers murdered in
New Zealand (d. 2006).
★
June 3 -
Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, daughter of
Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands and
Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands.
★
June 18 -
Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, daughter of
Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau and
Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau.
★
September 6 -
Prince Hisahito of Akishino, son of
Princess Akishino and
Prince Akishino, the prince is third in line to the throne of
Japan.
★
October 24 - World's youngest
premature baby (22 weeks in the womb)
[2].
★
October 25 -
Krista and Tatiana Hogan, notable conjoined twins.
Deaths
Main articles: Deaths in 2006
January
★
January 1 -
Charles Steen, American geologist, The "Uranium King"
★
January 2 -
John Woodnutt, British actor (b.
1924)
★
January 3 -
Steve Rogers, Australian rugby player (b.
1954)
★
January 3 -
Bill Skate,
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b.
1954)
★
January 4 - Sheikh
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b.
1946)
★
January 6 -
Lou Rawls, American singer (b.
1933)
★
January 8 -
Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, British politician (b.
1943)
★
January 9 -
Andy Caldecott,
off road motorcycle 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 21 -
Ibrahim Rugova, first
President of Kosovo (b.
1944)
★
January 24 -
Chris Penn, American actor (b.
1965)
★
January 24 -
Marija Skalovska, Macedonian opera singer (b.
1929)
★
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 of
Martin Luther King, Jr. (b.
1927)
February
★
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 9 - Sir
Freddie 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 -
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 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 27 -
Linda Smith, English comedian (b.
1958)
★
February 28 -
Ron Cyrus, American politician, father of
Billy Ray Cyrus (b.
1935)
March
★
March 1 -
Harry Browne, American Libertarian Presidential candidate (b.
1933)
★
March 1 -
Peter Osgood, English footballer (b.
1947)
★
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 author and engineer (b.
1944)
★
March 6 -
Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of
Christopher Reeve (b.
1961)
★
March 6 -
Kirby Puckett, U.S. baseball player (b.
1960)
Slobodan Milošević, died at
The Hague while on trial for war crimes
★
March 6 -
King Floyd, American singer (b.
1945)
★
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 23 -
Cindy Walker, American songwriter (b.
1918)
★
March 24 -
Lynne Perrie, English actress (b.
1931)
★
March 25 -
Rocio Durcal, 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)
April
★
April 2 -
Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of soldier
Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b.
1913)
★
April 4 -
Denis Donaldson, Irish Republican informer (b.
1950)
★
April 5 -
Gene Pitney, American singer (b.
1941)
★
April 8 -
Gerard Reve, Dutch author (b.
1923)
★
April 11 -
Proof, American rapper (
D12) (b.
1975)
★
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 20 -
Anna Svidersky, American murder victim (b.
1988)
★
April 21 -
Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach (b.
1931)
★
April 23 -
Alida Valli, Italian actress (b.
1921)
★
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 29 -
John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b.
1908)
May
★
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 of
Tiger Woods (b.
1932)
★
May 6 -
Lillian Asplund, last American survivor of the
Titanic 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 film director (b.
1911)
★
May 10 -
Soraya, Colombian-born singer and musician (b.
1969)
★
May 11 -
Yossi Banai, Israeli singer and actor (b.
1932)
★
May 11 -
Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b.
1935)
★
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 film director (b.
1926)
June
★
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 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 author (b.
1930)
★
June 15 -
Raymond Devos, French humorist (b.
1922)
★
June 17 -
Bussunda, Brazilian comedian (b.
1962)
★
June 18 -
Gica Petrescu, Romanian musician (b.
1915)
★
June 18 -
Chris and Cru Kahui, infant twin brothers murdered in
New Zealand (b. 2006)
★
June 23 -
Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b.
1923)
★
June 24 -
Patsy Ramsey, Mother of slain 6-year-old JonBenet (b.
1956)
★
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 of
Islamic Democratic Party of Maldives (b.
1946)
★
June 30 -
Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b.
1937)
July
★
July 1 -
Ryutaro Hashimoto, 53rd
Prime 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, author, and biker (b.
1925)
★
July 7 -
Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author, and broadcaster (b.
1914)
★
July 7 -
Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer (b.
1934)
★
July 7 -
Syd Barrett, English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b.
1946)
★
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 author (b.
1948)
★
July 30 -
Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b.
1921)
August
Nobel Prize for Literature winner Naguib Mahfouz
★
August 2 -
Luisel Ramos, Uruguayan model (b.
1984)
★
August 3 -
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (b.
1915)
★
August 3 -
Arthur Lee, American musician (b.
1945)
★
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 trumpet player and bandleader (b.
1928)
★
August 23 -
Wolfgang Priklopil, Austrian kidnapper of Natascha Kampusch (b.
1962)
★
August 26 -
Rainer Barzel, German politician (b.
1924)
★
August 26 -
Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer (b.
1926)
★
August 27 -
Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian filmmaker (b.
1922)
★
August 30 -
Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b.
1916)
★
August 30 -
Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1911)
September
★
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 author and educator (b.
1920)
★
September 7 -
Robert Earl Jones, American stage and film actor (b. (
1910)
★
September 8 -
Hilda Bernstein, English-born author, artist, and activist (b.
1915)
★
September 8 -
Peter Brock, Australian race car driver (b.
1945)
★
September 9 -
Richard Burmer, American composer and electronic 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 13 -
Ann Richards, Governor of Texas, USA (b.
1933)
★
September 14 -
Elizabeth Choy, Singapore 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 of
John F. Kennedy (b.
1924)
★
September 17 -
Dorothy C. Stratton, Director of the
United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (b.
1899)
★
September 19 -
Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b.
1950)
★
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)
★
September 29 -
Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian musician (b.
1976)
October
★
October 6 -
Buck O'Neil, American Negro League baseball player (b.
1911)
★
October 6 -
Wilson Tuck 
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