List of Famous people who died in 2006

Thomas Nigel Kneale was a Manx screenwriter who wrote professionally for more than 50 years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay. In 2000, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association.

Miguel Fisac (1913–2006) was a Spanish architect, urban planner, and painter. He was a member of Opus Dei.

Hanns Alexander was a German Jewish refugee who tracked down and arrested the Kommandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Höss.

Arthur Edward Spence Hill was a Canadian actor. He was known in British and American theatre, film, and television. He attended the University of British Columbia law school. He studied acting in Seattle, Washington.

Christiaan Karel Appel was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement CoBrA in 1948. He was also an avid sculptor and has had works featured in MoMA and other museums worldwide.

Masaaki Tanaka was a Japanese author notable for his book What Really Happened in Nanking: The Refutation of a Common Myth, which denies that the Nanking Massacre as traditionally understood took place. Originally written in Japanese in 1987, an English version was published in 2000 in response to Iris Chang's book, The Rape of Nanking.

Friedrich Wilhelm Konrad Siegfried Engel was a German SS officer who was convicted in absentia of 246 murder charges by an Italian military court in 1999 for his role in the 1944 execution of Italian captives in retaliation for a partisan attack against German soldiers, which as a result earned him the nickname "Butcher of Genoa".

Enid Margaret "Peggy" Appiah, MBE, was a British children's author, philanthropist and socialite. She was the daughter of the Right Honourable Sir Stafford Cripps and Dame Isobel Cripps, and the wife of Ghanaian lawyer and political activist Nana Joe Appiah.

Anicée Alvina, also known as Anicée Schahmaneche (b. Anicée Shahmanesh or Anicee Schahmane was a French singer and actress.

Annette von Aretin was christened Marie Adelheid Kunigunde Felicitas Elisabeth, Freiin von Aretin.