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In the year 2006
746 Notable deaths
Paul Halmos
American mathematician.
Born March 3rd, 1916 in Budapest. [ref]
Died October 2nd, 2006 at 90 years old in Los Gatos (pneumonia). [ref]
Georgia Gibbs
American singer.
Born August 17th, 1919 in Worcester. [ref]
Died December 9th, 2006 at 87 years old in New York City (leukemia). [ref]
Kathleen Antonelli
Irish computer programmer (1921-2006).
Born February 12th, 1921 in Creeslough.
Died April 20th, 2006 at 85 years old in Wyndmoor (cancer). [ref]
David Bronstein
Soviet chess grandmaster.
Born February 19th, 1924 in Bila Tserkva.
Died December 5th, 2006 at 82 years old in Minsk (stroke). [ref]
Paul Marcinkus
Catholic archbishop, former head of the vatican bank (1922-2006).
Born January 15th, 1922 in Cicero.
Died February 20th, 2006 at 84 years old in Sun City. [ref]
George Koval
American and soviet intelligence officer.
Born December 25th, 1913 in Sioux City.
Died January 31st, 2006 at 92 years old in Moscow.
Marie Tharp
Oceanographer and cartographer.
Born July 30th, 1920 in Ypsilanti.
Died August 23rd, 2006 at 86 years old in Nyack (cancer). [ref]
Nandini Satpathy
Politician from odisha, india (1931-2006).
Born June 9th, 1931 in Cuttack.
Died August 4th, 2006 at 75 years old in Bhubaneswar. [ref]
Bernie Geoffrion
Canadian ice hockey player.
Born February 14th, 1931 in Montreal.
Died March 11th, 2006 at 75 years old in Atlanta (stomach cancer). [ref]
Ryutaro Hashimoto
82nd and 83rd prime minister of japan (1937-2006).
Born July 29th, 1937 in Shibuya-ku, Sōja.
Died July 1st, 2006 at 68 years old in National Center for Global Health and Medicine (surgical complications).
Deaths 241 to 250 of 746
He who is not busy being born is busy dying. Bob Dylan