List of Famous people who died in 2006

Major Bruce Middleton Hope Shand was an officer in the British Army. He is best known as the father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.

Atwar Bahjat was an Iraqi journalist. Initially a reporter for Iraq's state-controlled television under Saddam Hussein, Bahjat became a popular television correspondent for al-Jazeera and later al-Arabiya following the US invasion of Iraq. On 22 February 2006, Bahjat was hunted down and shot in cold blood along with her colleagues Adnan Al Dulaimi and Khalid Al Fellahi while covering a story in Samarra.

Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri was an Indian writer within the Salafi ideology.

Robert Gernhardt was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and poet.

Christian Mary McEwen, Dowager Lady Hesketh, OBE, DL was a British politician, journalist and educationist.

Pierre Amine Gemayel was a Lebanese politician in the Kataeb Party, also known as the Phalange Party in English.

Sheikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa was a member of the Bahrain's ruling family, the House of Khalifa.

Clarence Ray Allen was an American criminal who was executed in 2006 at the age of 76 by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison in California for the murders of three people. Allen was the second-oldest inmate at the time to be executed in the United States since 1976.

Abraham Michael Rosenthal was an American journalist who served as The New York Times executive editor from 1977 to 1988. Previously he was the newspaper's city editor and managing editor. Near the end of his tenure as executive editor, he became a columnist (1987–1999). Later, he had a column for the New York Daily News (1999–2004).