List of Famous people who died in 2006

Bernard Godfrey Argent was an English photographer notable for his black and white portraits of royalty, politicians, aristocrats and celebrities.

Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, known in Canada as Ken Thomson, was a Canadian/British businessman and art collector. At the time of his death, he was listed by Forbes as the richest person in Canada and the ninth richest person in the world, with a net worth of approximately US $19.6 billion.

Fatma Omar An-Najar was a Palestinian grandmother and suicide bomber who lived in the Gaza Strip. In November 2006 she detonated explosives she was wearing on a belt and injured several Israeli soldiers near Beit Lahia and the Jabalia Camp. According to Hamas, which claimed the bombing, she was 57 and her family said she was 68.

Khan Abdul Wali Khan was a Pakistani secular democratic socialist and Pashtun leader, and served as president of Awami National Party. Son of the prominent Pashtun nationalist leader Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Wali Khan was an activist and a writer against the British Raj like his father.

Jorge Pinto Mendonça was a famous Brazilian footballer during the 1970s and 1980s, playing in a striker role.

Mircea Grigore Carol Hohenzollern, also known as Prince Mircea Grigore Carol al României according to his amended Romanian birth certificate or as Carol Lambrino, was the elder son of King Carol II of Romania.

Gernot Jurtin was an Austrian football player, and a legend amongst Sturm Graz fans.

Kuroda Kan'ichi was a 20th-century Japanese philosopher and social theorist. Born in Fuchū, Tokyo as the son of a doctor, he began studying Marxist philosophy at the age of twenty, in 1947, following the defeat of Japan and the subsequent U.S. occupation of Japan. At this time the workers movement in Japan was quite strong, but very influenced by pro-Soviet politics. Kuroda began studying closely works by prominent Japanese philosophers, among them Umemoto Katsumi, Kakehashi Akihide and Uno Kōzō.