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2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. In the Chinese calendar,
2006 was the Year of the Dog. Chinese New Year is January 29. Contents · 1Events o 1.3March o 1.4April o 1.5May o 1.6June o 1.7July · 3Births · 4Deaths o 4.3March o 4.4April o 4.5May o 4.6June o 4.7July · 6Movies Events[change | change source] January[change | change source] ·
January 1 Sydney, Australia, has its
warmest day on record, when the city reaches 45 °C (113 °F).[1] ·
January 1 Russia cuts natural gas to Ukraine over a price
dispute.[2] ·
January 2 The Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof in Germany collapses after heavy snowfall in the Bavarian
Alps, killing 15.[3] ·
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.[4] ·
January 5 A hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia collapses, killing 76
pilgrims visiting to perform hajj.[5] ·
January 6 The record-breaking 2005
Atlantic hurricane season officially draws to a close
as Tropical Storm Zeta dissipates.[6] ·
January 7 Embroiled in multiple
scandals, former U.S. House
Majority Leader Tom DeLay announces he will not seek to
reassume his former post.[7][8] ·
January 7 UK Liberal
Democratic leader Charles Kennedy resigns
after revelations that he has a drinking problem.[9] ·
January 8 A 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.[10] ·
January 9 The Dow Jones
Industrial Average closes above 11,000 (11,011.90) for the
first time since June 7, 2001.[11][12] ·
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.[13][14] ·
January 14 A natural gas explosion in a coal mine
kills seven and injures five in Romania.[15] ·
January 15 NASA's Stardust mission
successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.[16] ·
January 19 A suicide bomber in Tel Aviv, Israel injures 20,[17] seriously injuring one.[18] ·
January 23 Stephen Harper wins the federal election in Canada, forming a minority government.[19][20] ·
January 25 Hamas wins the majority of seats in
the Palestinian Legislative Council elections.[21] ·
January 25 Pope Benedict XVI issues
his first encyclical, Deus
Caritas Est.[22] ·
January 27 Celebrations are held
in Salzburg and around the world, for the
250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart.[23] ·
January 27 Manuel
Zelaya becomes President of
Honduras. ·
January 28 Trade hall roof collapses in Katowice, Poland, killing 66 people.[24] ·
January 31 Samuel Alito is sworn in as an
associate justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States.[25] February[change | change source] ·
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.[26] ·
February 3 An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more
than 1,400 people, sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.[27] ·
February 4 The Wowowee stampede
at the PhilSports
Arena in Pasig City, Philippines kills 74 people and leaves
600 injured.[28] ·
February 5 Super Bowl XL: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat
the Seattle Seahawks 2110 [29] ·
February 6 Stephen Harper is sworn in as Canada's
22nd Prime Minister. He is the leader of the Conservative
Party of Canada ·
February 8 2006
East Timor crisis: 404 soldiers desert their barracks in East Timor.[30] ·
February 1026 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.[31] ·
February 19 Pasta de Conchos mine disaster: Sixty-five
miners die after becoming trapped underground, following an explosion
in Nueva
Rosita, Mexico.[32] ·
February 22 A bomb heavily
damages the Al Askari Mosque,
a Shiite holy site in Samarra, Iraq.[33] ·
February 22 Over £53.1 million is
stolen during the Securitas depot
robbery, the largest ever cash robbery in the United Kingdom.[34][35] ·
February 23 A roof collapses on
a Moscow market, killing 56 people.[36] ·
February 24 A state of emergency is declared in
the Philippines, after
an alleged coup d'ιtat against
President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo is foiled.[37] ·
February 25 Police officers and
protesters in Dublin, Ireland are injured when a protest prior to the Love Ulster parade
turns into a major riot.[38] ·
February 25 Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni wins
his second re-election,[39][40] sparking riots in Kampala by opposition supporters.[41] March[change | change source] ·
March 4 The final contact attempt
with Pioneer 10 receives
no response.[42] ·
March 620 The first World Baseball
Classic is held in San Diego, California, U.S.A.. ·
March 7 20 people die and many others
are injured in 3
blasts throughout Varanasi, India.[43] ·
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.[44] ·
March 10 NASA's Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit.[45][46] ·
March 14 Penumbral
lunar eclipse ·
March 1526 The 2006 Commonwealth
Games take place in Melbourne, Australia. ·
March 16 The Blu-ray Disc format is released in
the United States ·
March 17 The United States strikes its 2
remaining Iowa-class battleships from the Naval
Vessel Register, ending the age of the battleship.[47][48] ·
March 22 ETA declares
a permanent ceasefire in
their campaign for Basque independence
from Spain.[49] ·
March 22 The Federal Reserve stops
the publishing of M3 money supply data.[50][51] ·
March 25 A scramjet jet engine, Hyshot III,
designed to fly at 7 times the speed of sound, is successfully tested
at Woomera,
South Australia.[52][53] ·
March 25 Seven die in the Capitol
Hill Massacre in Seattle, Washington.[54] ·
March 29 Total solar eclipse ·
March 30 The first Brazilian astronaut, Marcos
Pontes, goes into space in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-8,
at 2:29:00 CET.[55] ·
March 30 The al-Dana capsizes off
the coast of Bahrain, killing at
least 56 people.[56] April[change | change source] ·
April 5 A swan with Avian Flu is
discovered in Cellardyke in Fife, Scotland (the first case in the United Kingdom).[57] ·
April 8 The bodies of 8
murdered men are found in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. ·
April 9 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is removed from office
after 4 months in a coma.[58] ·
April 10 The Brand India Fair
Victoria Park fire at Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, kills at least 100.[59] ·
April 11 The European Space
Agency's Venus
Express spaceprobe enters Venus' orbit.[60] ·
April 11 President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms
that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade enriched
uranium.[61][62] ·
April 16 Albert II,
Prince of Monaco, reaches the North Pole, becoming the first reigning
monarch ever to do so.[63] ·
April 16 Ireland commemorates
the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising, for the first time
since 1971.[64] ·
April 17 An Islamic Jihad suicide bombing in Tel Aviv kills 9 people and injures
dozens.[65] ·
April 20 Iran announces a deal with Russia, involving a joint uranium
enrichment firm on Russian soil;[66] 9 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 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 24 Three explosions in a
tourist section of Dahab, Egypt kill 30 and injure over 115.[67] ·
April 25 The Beaconsfield
mine collapse occurs in Tasmania, Australia. ·
April 29 Massive anti-war
demonstrations and a march down Broadway in New York City mark the third year
of war in Iraq.[68] ·
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.[69] May[change | change source] ·
May 1 Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalizes his nation's
gas fields.[70] ·
May 1 The Great
American Boycott takes place across the United States as marchers protest for
immigration rights.[71] ·
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.[72] ·
May 9 Beaconsfield
mine collapse: After 14 days trapped underground, miners Todd
Russell and Brant Webb are rescued in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia.[73] ·
May 20 Lordi win the Eurovision Song
Contest, the first win for Finland and the first hard rock song to
win the contest. ·
May 24 East Timor's Foreign Minister Josι Ramos-Horta officially
requests military assistance from the governments of Australia, New Zealand,
Malaysia and Portugal.[74] ·
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.[75] ·
May 27 The first demonstration
for gay rights in Moscow is broken up by the police.[76] June[change | change source] ·
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.[77][78] ·
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.[79][80] ·
June 6 The Union
of Islamic Courts gains control of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, ending warlord rule of the city.[81] ·
June 7 Al-Qaeda
in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and
7 of his aides are killed in a U.S. air raid just north of the town of Baqouba, Iraq.[82][83][84] ·
June 9 An explosion kills 8
Palestinian civilians on a Gaza beach; Israel denies responsibility for the
blast.[85][86] ·
June 9 Thailand begins celebrations of the
60th anniversary of the accession of Bhumibol Adulyadej to
the throne.[87] ·
June 9 July 9 The 2006 FIFA World Cup is
held in Germany. ·
June 18 The first Kazakh space satellite KazSat is
launched.[88] ·
June 22 The Magen
David Adom and Palestine Red Crescent Society are
officially recognized by the International
Committee of the Red Cross.[89] ·
June 23 In Miami, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation arrests 7 men, accusing them of
planning to bomb the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) in Chicago and other attacks in Miami.[90][91] ·
June 25 Warren Buffett donates over US$30
billion to the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation.[92] ·
June 28 Operation
Summer Rains: Israel launches an offensive against
militants in Gaza.[93] July[change | change source] ·
July 1 The Qinghai-Tibet
Railway launches a trial operation, connecting China
proper and Tibet for the first time.[94] ·
July 4 STS-121: Space Shuttle
Discovery is launched to the International
Space Station.[95] It returns safely on July 17. It is the second return
to flight mission after the Space
Shuttle Columbia disaster.[96] ·
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.[97] ·
July 6 The Nathula
Pass between India and China,
sealed during the Sino-Indian War,
re-opens for trade after 44 years.[98] ·
July 9 S7
Airlines Flight 778 crashes into a concrete barrier shortly
after landing, killing at least 122 people and leaving many injured.[99] ·
July 10 Pakistan
International Airlines Flight
688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff.[100] ·
July 11 A series of coordinated bomb attacks strikes
several commuter
trains in Mumbai, India during the evening rush hour.[101] ·
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.[102] ·
July 18 The SS
Nomadic, the last floating link to Titanic, returns home to a large
reception in Belfast.[103] ·
July 31 Cuban president Fidel Castro temporarily relinquishes power to his brother Raϊl before surgery.[104] August[change | change source] ·
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 carry-on baggage.[105][106] ·
August 11 A resolution to end
the 2006 Lebanon War is
unanimously accepted by the United
Nations Security Council.[107] ·
August 14 A UN cease fire takes
effect in the 2006 Lebanon War.[108] ·
August 22 Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian
border in Ukraine, killing 171
people, including 45 children.[109] ·
August 22 The ICM awards Grigori
Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincarι conjecture,
one of 7 Millennium
Prize Problems; Perelman refuses the medal.[110] ·
August 23 In Austria, Natascha Kampusch manages
to escape after being kidnapped 8 years ago by Wolfgang
Priklopil, who locked her up in his cellar. Priklopil commits
suicide by throwing himself in front of a train.[111] ·
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.[112] ·
August 27 Comair
Flight 5191, carrying 50 people, crashes shortly after takeoff
from Blue
Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky.[113] ·
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 seriously injuring others.[114] ·
August 31 Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna are
recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway.[115] September[change | change source] ·
September 1 A fire kills 29 of 148
aboard an Iran Air Tours Tu-154M
aircraft after the plane lands in Mashhad, Iran.[116] ·
September 2 A Nimrod MR2
based at RAF Kinloss, Scotland, crashes in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, due to a technical fault. All
14 crew onboard are killed.[117] ·
September 7 Partial lunar eclipse ·
September 12 A stampede at a rally
in Yemen leaves 41 dead and injures 50.[118] ·
September 12 Pope Benedict XVI gives a lecture in Germany; he quotes a criticism of the Islamic faith, sparking mass protests.[119] ·
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".[120] ·
September 15 Spinach contaminated with E. coli kills
2 and poisons over 100 others in 20 states of the United States.[121] ·
September 16 Five churches are
attacked in Palestinian areas following the Pope's comments on Islam.[122] ·
September 17 Protests start
near the Hungarian
Parliament.[123] ·
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'ιtat. The army announces the removal
of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from power.[124] ·
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.[125] ·
September 22 Annular solar eclipse ·
September 29 Gol
Flight 1907 (Boeing 737-800) collides with a business jet
over the Amazon Rainforest,
killing all 155 on board.[126] October[change | change source] ·
October 2 Charles
Carl Roberts IV, a 32-yr-old milk-truck driver, kills
5 girls at an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania before shooting himself.[127] ·
October 6 A hazardous waste plant
near Apex, North Carolina explodes,
releasing chlorine gas, and resulting in the evacuation of thousands and the
hospitalization of over 100 residents.[128]
·
October 9 - Actor Tommy Kirk becomes a Disney
Legend ·
October 9 North Korea claims to have conducted
its first-ever nuclear test.[129] ·
October 10 Google buys YouTube for USD $1.65 billion.[130] ·
October 12 A freak snowstorm blows
into Buffalo, New York, leaving over 400,000 without power and killing 13.[131] ·
October 13 South Korean Ban Ki-moon is elected as the new
Secretary-General of the United Nations.[132] ·
October 15 The UN agrees to
sanction North Korea over
nuclear testing claims.[133] ·
October 15 The establishment of the Islamic
State of Iraq is declared. ·
October 16 A magnitude 6.7 earthquake
rocks Hawaii, causing property damage,
injuries, landslides, power
outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport. see 2006
Hawaii Earthquake. ·
October 16 The last American MASH is decommissioned.[134] ·
October 16 CBeebies 2006-2009 show of
Numberjacks. ·
October 24 NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first
flyby of Venus (it will be captured into
Mercury's orbit on March 18, 2011).[135] ·
October 29 Aviation Development Company Flight 53 crashes
shortly after takeoff in Nigeria killing 96 people.[136] ·
October 30 Former President of Chile Augusto Pinochet is
placed under house arrest for crimes committed at the Villa
Grimaldi detention centre.[137] ·
October 30 An airstrike on
a madrasah in Bajaur, Pakistan kills dozens of
suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.[138] November[change | change source] ·
November 5 Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein and 2 of his senior
allies are sentenced to death by hanging, after an Iraqi court finds them
guilty of crimes against humanity.[139] ·
November 8 A transit
of Mercury occurs.[140] ·
November 9 Margaret
Chan is elected as the Director-General of the World Health
Organization.[141] ·
November 12 The former Soviet
republic of South Ossetia holds
a referendum on independence from Georgia.[142] ·
November 15 Al Jazeera launches its English
language news channel, Al
Jazeera English.[143] ·
November 16 Rioting in Nukuʻalofa,
the capital of Tonga, destroys approx.
80% of the CBD; 8 bodies found and foreign forces requested.[144] ·
November 17 The PlayStation 3 is released in North America.[145] ·
November 19 The Wii is released in North America.[146] ·
November 20 Iran and Syria recognize the government of Iraq, restore diplomatic relations,
and call for a peace
conference.[147][148] ·
November 21 Pierre
Amine Gemayel, Lebanon's Minister of Industry, is
assassinated in Beirut.[149] ·
November 21 A gas explosion in the
coal mine Halemba in Ruda Slaska, Poland, kills 23 miners approximately 1,000
meters below ground.[150] ·
November 22 The Kolkata leather factory fire traps and
kills 9 in India.[151] ·
November 23 A series of car bombs and mortar attacks
in Sadr City, Baghdad, kill at least 215 people and injure
257 other people.[152] ·
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.[153] December[change | change source] ·
December 1 Felipe Calderσn takes
office as President of Mexico.[154] ·
December 1 The 15th
Asian Games start in Doha, Qatar; the closing ceremony takes place
on December 15.[155] ·
December 2 In Rome, about 2 million people, led by
opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi,
demonstrate against Romano Prodi's government.[156] ·
December 2 Stιphane Dion is
elected the new Leader of the Liberal Party of
Canada, on the fourth ballot.[157] ·
December 219 2006 Ipswich murder investigation: The
bodies of 5 murdered prostitutes are discovered at different locations near
Ipswich in Suffolk, England.[158] ·
December 3 Ed Stelmach is
elected the new Leader of the Progressive Conservatives, Alberta, after the second ballot results,
and second choice votes for Ted Morton have been added up. Ed becomes
the Premier-designate of
Alberta.[159] ·
December 3 Hugo Chαvez is re-elected President of
Venezuela.[160] ·
December 3 Germany's tallest chimney is demolished by
explosion at the former Westerholt
Power Station.[161] ·
December 5 The military seizes power
in Fiji, in a coup
d'ιtat led by Commodore Josaia Voreqe
"Frank" Bainimarama.[162] ·
December 7 Smoking is banned in
all Ohio bars, restaurants, workplaces, and
other public places.[163] ·
December 9 The Moscow
hospital fire kills 45 people.[164] ·
December 10 Space Shuttle
Mission STS-116: Space Shuttle
Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center on
the first night launch since the 2003 loss
of Columbia.[165] ·
December 10 Christer
Fuglesang becomes the first Swede in space.[166] ·
December 11 The Holocaust
conference is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.[167] ·
December 12 Peugeot produces 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.[168] ·
December 13 The Chinese River
Dolphin or Baiji becomes extinct.[169] ·
December 13 U.S. Senator Tim
Johnson (D-SD) suffers a stroke during a radio interview.[170] ·
December 14 U.S. Spy Satellite USA 193,
also known as NRO Launch 21 (NROL-21 or simply L-21), is launched and
malfunctions soon after.[171] ·
December 15 Lockheed Martin's F-35
Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter successfully flies for the
first time.[172] ·
December 15 An alleged assassination
attempt on Palestinian prime minister Ismail
Haniyeh sparks inter-Palestinian clashes.[173] ·
December 15 King Jigme
Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan abdicates in favour of his
son Jigme
Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, a year earlier than expected.[174] ·
December 15 The Japanese government passes a bill to
upgrade the Japan
Defense Agency to a Ministry.[175] ·
December 19 A Libyan court sentences 5 Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor
to death, for knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.[176] ·
December 20 Somalia: Islamic
Courts Union fighters begin attacking the
government-held town of Baidoa.[177] ·
December 21 The death of Saparmurat Niyazov sparks
world concern over a possible power vacuum and instability in
energy-rich Turkmenistan.[178] ·
December 22 The Space Shuttle
Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center, concluding
a 2-week mission to
the International
Space Station.[179] ·
December 24 Ethiopia admits its troops have intervened in Somalia.[180] ·
December 26 An oil pipeline explodes in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, killing at least 200 people.[181] ·
December 26 The Hengchun
earthquake in Taiwan kills 2 people, and damages about 15
historical buildings and several undersea cables, disrupting Internet and IDD
telecommunication services in Asia.[182] ·
December 29 War in Somalia: Ethiopian and Transitional
government troops capture
Mogadishu without resistance.[183] ·
December 30 Saddam Hussein, former Iraq president, is executed in Baghdad.[184] ·
December 30 The M/V
Senopati Nusantara sinks in Indonesia, causing several hundred
casualties.[185] ·
December 30 The Free
State Project completes its "First 1,000" pledge. ·
December 30 The Basque
separatist group ETA sets
off a bomb in Madrid Barajas International Airport,
killing 2 Ecuadorians.[186] ·
December 31 At least 11
bombs go off in Bangkok hours before the new year,
leaving at least 30 injured.[187] ·
December 31 The Met Office announces that England has
experienced its warmest year since records began in 1659, with an average temperature of
10.82 °C (51.48 °F).[188] Major religious holidays[change | change
source]
·
January 6 Feast of Epiphany or
Dνa de los Reyes Magos (Day of the Magi Kings) or La Fκte 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 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 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 21 Iranian New Year's Day (Norouz). ·
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 Hanukkah. ·
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). Births[change | change source] for more information, see Category:2006
births. ·
6 September - Prince Hisahito of
Akishino, Japanese prince Deaths[change | change source] Main article: Deaths
in 2006 January[change | change source]
·
January 1 Charles
Steen, American geologist, The "Uranium King" (b. 1919) ·
January 2 Cecilia
Muρoz-Palma, first female Philippine
Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913) ·
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 4 Robert
Howard White, Mayor of Papatoetoe, New Zealand (b. 1914) ·
January 6 Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933) ·
January 7 Heinrich
Harrer, mountaineer, explorer and writer (b. 1912) ·
January 8 Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, British politician (b. 1943) ·
January 9 Andy
Caldecott, Australian 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 19 Geoff
Rabone, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1921) ·
January 21 Ibrahim
Rugova, first President of Kosovo (b. 1944) ·
January 21 Bedanand
Jha, Nepalese politician ·
January 24 Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965) ·
January 25 Anna Malle,
American pornographic actress (b. 1967) ·
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[change | change source]
·
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/movie composer (b. 1914) ·
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 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 Favιn,
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[change | change source]
·
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 Dave Rose,
American artist (b. 1910) ·
March 4 Edgar
Valter, Estonian illustrator and cartoonist (b. 1929) ·
March 4 John
Reynolds Gardiner, American writer 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
Miloević, 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 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[change | change source]
·
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 writer (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 Telκ 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 28 Steve Howe,
American Baseball Player (b. 1958) ·
April 29 John
Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908) ·
April 30 Beatriz
Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (b. 1934) May[change | change source]
·
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 movie 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 Tobνas
Lasser, Venezuelan botanist (b. 1911) ·
May 25 Kari S.
Tikka, Finnish professor (b. 1944) ·
May 26 Ιdouard 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 movie director (b. 1926) ·
May 30 David
Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938) June[change | change source]
·
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 Gyφrgy 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 writer (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[change | change source]
·
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, writer, and biker (b. 1925) ·
July 7 Tom Weir,
Scottish climber, writer, 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 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 Josι
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 writer (b. 1948) ·
July 30 Murray Bookchin,
American libertarian socialist (b. 1921) August[change | change source]
·
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 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 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 movie maker (b. 1922) ·
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[change | change source]
·
September 1 Gyφrgy
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 writer and educator
(b. 1920) ·
September 8 Hilda
Bernstein, English-born writer, 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 Aladαr 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[change | change source]
·
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 Valentνn
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[change | change source]
·
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
Lσpez Segϊ, Spanish footballer (b. 1967) ·
November 5 Mustafa
Bόlent 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 Puskαs,
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 movie 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[change | change source]
·
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 movie 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
Ertegόn, 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) Nobel Prizes[change | change
source]
·
Chemistry Roger D. Kornberg. ·
Economics Edmund Phelps. ·
Literature Orhan Pamuk. ·
Peace Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank. ·
Physics John C. Mather, George F. Smoot. ·
Physiology
or Medicine Andrew
Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello. Movies[change | change source] ·
Borat ·
Crank Hit Songs[change | change source] ·
Stupid
Girls Pink ·
Say It Right Nelly Furtado ·
Remember
the Name Fort Minor ·
London
Bridge Fergie ·
White & Nerdy - Weird Al Yankovic ·
Tell Me - P. Diddy and Christina Aguilera ·
Irreplaceable Beyoncι ·
Unfaithful Rihanna ·
Far Away Nickelback ·
Move Along The All-American
Rejects ·
My Curse Killswitch Engage ·
8th of
November Big and
Rich ·
A
Little Too Late Toby Keith ·
Leave
the Pieces The
Wreckers ·
Before
He Cheats Carrie Underwood ·
New Strings Miranda Lambert |
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