The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2006.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
August 2006
1
Vincent Dole, 93, American medical researcher, established that methadone could treat heroin addiction, ruptured aorta. Rufus Harley, 70, American jazz bagpipe player, prostate cancer. Arlene Raven, 62, American feminist writer and art critic, kidney cancer. Jason Rhoades, 41, American installation artist, heart failure. George Styles, 78, British army officer, awarded the George Cross. Bob Thaves, 81, American cartoonist (Frank and Ernest), respiratory failure. Johannes Willebrands, 96, Dutch Archbishop of Utrecht 1975–1983, oldest Cardinal in the Roman Catholic church. Iris Marion Young, 57, American political philosopher and feminist, esophageal cancer.
2
Holger Börner, 75, German politician, prime minister of Hesse (1976–1987), cancer. Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr., 82, American former owner of the Philadelphia 76ers who signed Julius Erving, skin cancer. Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, 92, French Resistance fighter, militant communist, and politician. Audrey Lindvall, 23, American model and sister of American supermodel Angela Lindvall, traffic accident. Kim McLagan, 57, British model of the 1960s, wife of Ian McLagan of The Faces and former wife of Keith Moon, traffic accident. Gary Pajcic, 58, American athlete and lawyer. Luisel Ramos, 22, Uruguayan model, heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa. Ferenc Szusza, 82, Hungarian football player, record goalscorer for a single club in Hungarian football. John Watters, 81, Australian cricketer.
3
John Haase, 82, German-born American dentist turned author, emphysema. Arthur Lee, 61, American rock musician, leader of the psychedelic band Love, leukemia. Ken Richmond, 80, British actor and wrestler, 1952 Olympic bronze medal winner, gong striker in the credits for films by J. Arthur Rank Studios. Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, German-born opera soprano, natural causes.
4
Elden Auker, 95, American Major League Baseball pitcher, heart attack. Julio Galán, 46, Mexican neo-expressionist painter, brain hemorrhage. John Locke, 62, American keyboardist of Spirit, cancer. Nandini Satpathy, 75, Indian politician and author, Chief Minister of Odisha, India 1972–1976, cerebral bleeding. Esther Snyder, 86, American businesswoman, president of California-based In-N-Out Burger.
5
Susan Butcher, 51, American dog musher, four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion, complications from a bone marrow transplant to combat acute myeloid leukemia. Aron Gurevich, 82, Russian medievalist. Terry McRae, 65, Australian politician, Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly. Hugo Schiltz, 78, Belgian politician. Daniel Schmid, 64, Swiss filmmaker and director (Il Bacio di Tosca), cancer. Ed Thrasher, 74, American art director.
6
Esther Victoria Abraham, 89, Indian model, actress and film producer. Ángel de Andrés, 88, Spanish theatre actor and director, heart attack. Salvino Azzopardi, 75, Maltese Jesuit priest and philosopher. Gintaras Beresnevičius, 45, Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology, writer, scholar, publicist. Dorothy Healey, 91, American communist leader, pneumonia. Prince Christoph of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 49, European socialite, massive organ failure after being imprisoned. Rafik Kamalov, Kyrgyz Imam and alleged Islamic militant, injuries sustained from gunfire. Stella Moray, 83, British actress and performer. Jim Pomeroy, 53, American professional motocross racer, first American to win a World Championship Motocross event, automobile accident. Milcho Rusev, 81-82, Bulgarian Olympic cyclist. Moacir Santos, 80, Brazilian composer and arranger. Sir Robert Sparkes, 77, Australian grazier and businessman, former President of the Queensland National Party (1970–1990). Hirotaka Suzuoki, 56, Japanese anime voice actor, lung cancer. Ian Walters, 76, British sculptor. Lawrence Wnuk, 98, Polish Roman Catholic priest, Protonotary Apostolic, founder of the Polish Canadian Centre Association of Windsor, Ontario.