2006 Information

2006 (MMVI) was a common year that started on a Sunday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 2006th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 7th of the 2000s decade.

2006 has been designated as:

• International Year of Deserts and Desertification.^[1]
• International Asperger's Year.
• Year of Mozart, marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Events

January

• January 1 – Russia cuts natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute.^[2]
• January 5 – A hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia collapses, killing 76 pilgrims visiting to perform hajj.^[3]
• 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.^[4][5]
• January 15 – NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.^[6]
• January 25 – Pope Benedict XVI issues his first encycylical, Deus Caritas Est.^[7]
• January 27 – Celebrations are held in Salzburg and around the world, for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.^[8]

February

• February 3 – An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people, sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.^[9]
• February 4 – The Wowowee stampede at the PhilSports Arena in Pasig City, Philippines kills 74 people and leaves 600 injured.^[10]
• February 10–26 – The 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin, Italy.
• February 17 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.^[11]
• February 19 – Pasta de Conchos mine disaster: Sixty-five miners die after becoming trapped underground, following an explosion in Nueva Rosita, Mexico.^[12]

March

• March 4 – The final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 receives no response.^[13]
• 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.^[14]
• March 10 – NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit.^[15][16]
• March 28 – A scramjet jet engine, Hyshot III, designed to fly at 7 times the speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia.^[17][18]

April

• April 5 – A swan with Avian Flu is discovered in Cellardyke in Fife, Scotland (the first case in the United Kingdom).^[19]
• April 10 – A fire at the Brand India Fair, Victoria Park, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, kills at least 100.^[20]
• April 11 – The European Space Agency's Venus Express spaceprobe enters Venus' orbit.^[21]
• April 11 – President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium.^[22][23]
• April 20 – Iran announces a deal with Russia, involving a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil;^[24] 9 days later Iran announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus leading to a de-facto termination of the deal.

May

• May 24 – East Timor's Foreign Minister José Ramos-Horta officially requests military assistance from the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal.^[25]
• 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.^[26]
• May – Human Genome Project publishes the last chromosome sequence, in Nature.

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.^[27][28]
• June 9 – July 9 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup is held in Germany, and it's been won by Italy by the 4th time.
• June 18 – The first Kazakh space satellite KazSat is launched.^[29]
• June 28 – Operation Summer Rains: Israel launches an offensive against militants in Gaza.^[30]

July

• July 1 – The Qingzang railway launches a trial operation, making Tibet the last province-level entity of China to have a conventional railway.^[31]
• July 6 – The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.^[32]
• July 9 – Italy wins their fourth FIFA World Cup title.
• July 9 – S7 Airlines Flight 778 crashes into a concrete barrier shortly after landing, killing at least 122 people and leaving many injured.^[33]
• July 10 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff.^[34]
• July 11 – A series of coordinated bomb attacks strikes several commuter trains in Mumbai, India during the evening rush hour.^[35]
• 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.^[36]
• July 18 – The SS Nomadic, the last floating link to Titanic, returns home to a large reception in Belfast.^[37]

August

• August 11 – A resolution to end the 2006 Lebanon War is unanimously accepted by the United Nations Security Council.^[38]
• August 22 – Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people, including 45 children.^[39]
• August 22 – The ICM awards Grigori Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincare conjecture, one of 7 Millennium Prize Problems; Perelman refuses the medal.^[40]
• 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.^[41]

September

• 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.^[42]
• September 29 – Gol Flight 1907 (Boeing 737-800) collides with a business jet over the Amazon Rainforest, killing all 155 onboard.^[43]

October

• October 9 – North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test.^[44]
• October 13 – South Korean Ban Ki-moon is elected as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations.^[45]
• October 29 – Aviation Development Company Flight 53 crashes shortly after takeoff in Nigeria killing 96 people.^[46]

November

• November 2 – No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock becomes the most expensive painting after it was sold privately at $140 million.^[47]
• November 5 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging by the Iraqi Special Tribunal.^[48]
• November 12 – The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.^[49]
• November 15 – Al Jazeera launches its English language news channel, Al Jazeera English.^[50]
• November 23 – A series of car bombs and mortar attacks in Sadr City, Baghdad, kill at least 215 people and injure 257 other people.^[51]
• November 30 – Typhoon Durian triggers a massive mudslide and kills at least 720 people in Albay province on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.^[52]

December

• December 5 – The military seizes power in Fiji, in a coup d'état led by Commodore Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama.^[53]
• December 13 – The Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji becomes extinct.^[54]
• December 24 – Ethiopia admits its troops have intervened in Somalia.^[55]
• December 26 – An oil pipeline explodes in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, killing at least 200 people.^[56]

Births

• September 6 – Prince Hisahito of Akishino, son of Kiko, Princess Akishino and Prince Akishino

Deaths

January

• 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 7 – Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer, explorer and author (b. 1912)
• 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 27 – Johannes Rau, President of Germany (b. 1931)
• January 30 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)

February

• February 1 – Dick Brooks, American auto racer (b. 1942)
• February 1 – Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
• 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 8 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese classical music/film composer (b. 1914)
• February 9 – Sir Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
• February 10 – J Dilla, American music producer (b. 1974)
• February 12 – Peter Benchley, American writer (b. 1940)
• February 12 – Ken Hart, American composer, journalist, and playwright (b. 1917)
• February 13 – Andreas Katsulas, American actor (b. 1946)
• 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 25 – Florian ZaBach, American musician and TV personality (b. 1931)
• February 27 – Linda Smith, English comedian (b. 1958)

March

• March 1 – Harry Browne, American Libertarian Presidential candidate (b. 1933)
• March 1 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
• March 1 – Peter Snow, New Zealand doctor (b. 1935)
• March 2 – Jack Wild, English actor (b. 1952)
• March 3 – William Herskovic, Hungarian Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
• 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)
• March 6 – King Floyd, American singer (b. 1945)
• March 8 – Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
• 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 22 – Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (b. 1939)
• 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 – Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
• 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 6 – Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
• April 8 – Gerard Reve, Dutch author (b. 1923)
• April 11 – Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
• 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 21 – Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1931)
• April 23 – Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
• April 23 – Johnny Checketts, New Zealand flying ace (b. 1912)
• 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)
• April 30 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (b. 1934)

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 11 – Yossi Banai, Israeli singer and actor (b. 1932)
• May 11 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
• May 12 – Hussein Maziq, Former Libyan prime minister (b. 1918).
• 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)
• May 30 – David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)

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 11 – Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (b. 1944)
• 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 18 – Gica Petrescu, Romanian musician (b. 1915)
• June 23 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
• 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 7 – John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)
• July 7 – Elias Hrawi, former President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
• 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 – Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (b. 1928)
• 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

• August 3 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (b. 1915)
• August 3 – Arthur Lee, American musician (b. 1945)
• August 6 – Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese Seiyu (b. 1950)
• 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 – Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (b. 1975)
• 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 19 – Oscar Miguez, Uruguayan football player (b. 1927)
• 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 musician 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 27 – Maria Capovilla, Ecuadorian supercentenarian and last remaining person born during the 1880s (b. 1889)
• August 30 – Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b. 1916)
• August 30 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• August 30 – Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)

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 8 – Hilda Bernstein, English-born author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
• September 9 – Richard Burmer, American composer and 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 14 – Elizabeth Choy, Singaporean 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 19 – Hugh Kawharu, New Zealand academic and Māori chief (b. 1927)
• 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)

October

• October 6 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• October 6 – Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
• October 7 – Anna Politkovskaya, American-born Russian journalist (b. 1958)
• October 8 – Mark Porter, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1975)
• October 9 – Paul Hunter, British snooker player (b. 1978)
• October 10 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
• October 11 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
• October 13 – Mason Andrews, delivered America's first test tube baby; former mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (b. 1919)
• October 14 – Freddy Fender, American singer (b. 1937)
• October 16 – Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
• October 16 – Valentín Paniagua, President of Peru (b. 1936)
• October 18 – Anna Russell, British-born comedian and music satirist (b. 1911)
• October 20 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
• October 24 – Enolia McMillan, American first female president of the NAACP (b. 1904)
• October 25 – Danny Rolling, American murderer (b. 1954) (executed)
• October 28 – Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and official (b. 1917)
• October 28 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
• October 30 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
• October 31 – Pieter Willem Botha, former State President of South Africa (b. 1916)

November

• November 1 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress & director (b. 1966)
• November 1 – William Styron, American writer (b. 1925)
• November 2 – Adrien Douady, French mathematician (b. 1935)
• November 2 – Wally Foreman, Australian sports commentator (b. 1948)
• November 3 – Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
• November 3 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1937)
• November 4 – Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
• November 4 – Sergi López Segú, Spanish footballer (b. 1967)
• November 5 – Mustafa Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist (b. 1925)
• November 5 – Samuel Bowers, American Ku Klux Klansman and convicted killer (b. 1924)
• November 8 – Basil Poledouris, American composer (b. 1945)
• November 9 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
• November 10 – Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
• November 10 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
• November 15 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (b. 1985)
• November 16 – Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• November 17 – Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
• November 17 – Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
• November 17 – Ruth Brown, American singer (b. 1928)
• November 20 – Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925)
• November 20 – Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
• November 21 – Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1972)
• November 22 – John Allan Cameron, Canadian musician (b. 1938)
• November 23 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian-born spy (b. 1962)
• November 23 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
• November 23 – Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
• November 23 – Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
• November 24 – Walter Booker, American jazz bassist (b. 1933)
• November 24 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer and songwriter (b. 1950)
• November 25 – Leo Chiosso, Italian poet (b. 1920)
• November 25 – Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
• November 25 – Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist and publisher (b. 1916)
• November 26 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
• November 27 – Alan Freeman, Australian-born broadcaster and disc jockey (b. 1927)
• November 28 – Bernard Orchard, British biblical scholar (b. 1912)

December

• December 3 – Craig Hinton, British novelist (b. 1964)
• December 4 – Ross A. McGinnis, American soldier, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1987)
• December 5 – David Bronstein, Soviet Union chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
• December 6 – John Feeney, New Zealand documentary film-director (b. 1922)
• December 7 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b. 1926)
• December 7 – J. B. Hunt, American trucking magnate (b. 1927)
• December 8 – Jose Uribe, Dominican Major League Baseball player (b. 1959)
• December 10 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
• December 12 – Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
• December 12 – Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
• December 12 – Raymond P. Shafer, American politician (b. 1917)
• December 13 – Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (b. 1932)
• December 13 – "Homesick" James Williamson, American blues musician (b. 1910)
• December 13 – Federico Crescentini, Sanmarinese football player (b. 1982)
• December 14 – Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish record executive (b. 1923)
• December 14 – Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
• December 15 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (b. 1939)
• December 16 – Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1940)
• December 18 – Joseph Barbera, American animator (b. 1911)
• December 20 – Yukio Aoshima, Japanese politician, novelist and TV-actor (b. 1932)
• December 20 – Ma Ji, Chinese actor (b. 1934)
• December 21 – Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
• December 22 – Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (b. 1960)
• December 23 – Robert Stafford, American politician (b. 1913)
• December 23 – Dutch Mason, Canadian blues musician (b. 1938)
• December 23 – Marilyn Waltz, American actress, model, and Playboy Playmate (b. 1931)
• December 24 – Braguinha, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1907)
• December 24 – Charlie Drake, English comedian (b. 1925)
• December 24 – Frank Stanton, American television executive (b. 1908)
• December 24 – Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian musician, composer, poet and comedian (b. 1961)
• December 25 – James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
• December 26 – Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
• December 29 – Charles Addo Odametey, Ghanaian football player (b. 1937)
• December 30 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937)
• December 30 – Antony Lambton, Viscount Lambton, British politician (b. 1922)

Awards

Nobel Prizes

• Chemistry – Roger D. Kornberg.
• Economics – Edmund Phelps.
• Literature – Orhan Pamuk.
• Peace – Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank.
• Physics – John C. Mather, and George F. Smoot.
• Physiology or Medicine – Andrew Z. Fire, and Craig C. Mello.

Major holidays

• January 1 - New Year's Day
• 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.
• January 14 – Mahayana Buddhist New Year.
• January 29 – Lunar 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 23 – 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).

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