List of Famous people who died in 2006

François Stahly was a German-French sculptor.

Radu Bălescu was a Romanian and Belgian scientist and professor at the Statistical and Plasma Physics group of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

Sir William Jack Skate, was a prominent Papua New Guinea politician. He was the son of an Australian father and a Papua New Guinean mother. Though his career was turbulent and often marked by setbacks, he served in the highest posts in his country: Prime Minister, Speaker of the National Parliament, and acting Governor-General.

Jean Ferré was a French art historian and a right-political journalist. He was also the founder of the Paris-based Radio Courtoisie in 1987.

Arthur Charles Wahl was an American chemist who, as a doctoral student of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley, first isolated plutonium in February 1941. He also worked on the Manhattan Project.

Hans-Jürgen Treder was a German theoretical physicist and in the GDR, specializing in general relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology. He also had an interest in the history of science and philosophy.

Dragomir Felba was a Serbian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1948 to 2000.