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In the year 2006
747 Notable deaths
Shankar Lakshman
Field hockey player.
Born July 7th, 1933 in Dr. Ambedkar Nagar.
Died April 29th, 2006 at 72 years old in Dr. Ambedkar Nagar.
Andy Caldecott
Off road motorcycle racer born in keith, south australia.
Born August 10th, 1964 in Keith.
Died January 9th, 2006 at 41 years old in Mauritania (motorcycle accident). [ref]
Markus Löffel
German musician (1966-2006).
Born November 27th, 1966 in Frankfurt am Main.
Died January 11th, 2006 at 39 years old in Berlin (myocardial infarction).
Claude Piéplu
French actor (1923-2006).
Born May 9th, 1923 in 14th arrondissement of Paris.
Died May 24th, 2006 at 83 years old in 16th arrondissement of Paris (cancer). [ref]
Andy Tonkovich
American basketball player.
Born November 1st, 1922 in Wheeling.
Died September 2nd, 2006 at 83 years old in Inverness.
Henri Colpi
Swiss film director, screenwriter and film editor (1921-2006).
Born July 15th, 1921 in Brig. [ref]
Died January 14th, 2006 at 84 years old in Menton. [ref]
George Wetherill
American physicist (1925-2006).
Born August 12th, 1925 in Philadelphia. [ref]
Died July 19th, 2006 at 80 years old in Washington, D.C. (heart disease). [ref]
Ted Schroeder
Us tennis player (1921-2006).
Born July 20th, 1921 in Newark.
Died May 26th, 2006 at 84 years old in La Jolla (cancer). [ref]
Lyubov Polishchuk
Soviet and russian actress (1949-2006).
Died November 28th, 2006 at 57 years old in Moscow (spinal cord neoplasm). [ref]
Playboi Carti
Romanian singer.
Born April 2nd, 1915 in Bucharest.
Died June 18th, 2006 at 91 years old in Bucharest.
Deaths 441 to 450 of 747
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