List of Famous people who died in 2006

Lim Kim San was a Singaporean politician. He was credited for leading the successful public housing program in the Southeast Asian city-state during the early 1960s, which eased the acute housing shortage problem at that time.

Phyllis Kirk was an American actress.

Alan Kotok was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Steven Levy, in his book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, describes Kotok and his classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the first true hackers.

Hans Sima was an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), serving as governor (Landeshauptmann) of Carinthia from 1965 to 1974.

John William Francis Hallam was a British character actor, who was well known in the United Kingdom for playing hard men or military types.

Ruth Esther Hadassah Schonthal was a pianist and composer.