List of Famous people who died in 2006

Charles Patrick Paul Graf von Westenholz was a British alpine skier who competed in the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Mykola Filaretovich Kolessa was a Ukrainian composer and conductor, born in Sambir near Lviv.

William Clark Styron Jr. was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.

Henriette Davidson Avram was a computer programmer and systems analyst who developed the MARC format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries. Avram's development of the MARC format in the late 1960s and early 1970s at the Library of Congress had a revolutionizing effect on the practice of librarianship, making possible the automation of many library functions and the sharing of bibliographic information electronically between libraries using pre-existing cataloging standards.