List of Famous people who died in 2006
Don Burgers
Donatus Clemens Bernard "Don" Burgers was a Dutch politician for the KVP and later the CDA.
Takayuki Kiyooka
Takayuki Kiyooka was a Japanese poet and novelist. He was born in Dalian, China, while it was Japan's leased territory, spent his youth there, and is noted for his stories about the life in Dalian. He received the Akutagawa Prize in 1969, for his story, Dalian of Acasia Flowers.
Motoki Fujimura
Nikki Catsouras
Norman Tate
Pierre Tabatoni
Youssef Darwish
Youssef Darwish was an Egyptian labour lawyer, communist and activist. During his years of political activism, he was frequently accused of communist subversion and imprisoned, spending around 10 years of his life in jail. Of Jewish background, he converted to Islam in 1947. He was one of the few from the Karaite Jewish community to remain in Egypt after the establishment of Israel in 1948.