List of Famous people who died in 2006

Yuri Ivanovich Modin was the KGB controller for the "Cambridge Five" from 1948 to 1951, during which Donald Duart Maclean was said to have passed atomic secrets to the Soviets. In 1951, Modin arranged the defections of Maclean and Guy Burgess. Modin's predecessors in control of the damaging Cambridge spy ring were executed during Stalin's Great Purge.

Roland Vivian Pym was a British painter, illustrator and theatrical designer. Known for his elegant romanticism, Pym's work celebrated fashionable London society as well as country life, and drew comparisons to the more prominent Rex Whistler.

André Mandouze, was a French academic and journalist, a Catholic, and an anti-fascist and anti-colonialist activist.

Anita Gordon was an American singer who performed on radio and television and sang on films and records.