List of Famous people who died in 2006

Lars Korvald (help·info) was a Norwegian educator and school headmaster. He became associated with the Christian Democratic Party and was elected to the Norwegian Parliament. He served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1972 to 1973, leading the cabinet that took over when Trygve Bratteli resigned in the wake of the first referendum over Norway's membership in the European Economic Community.

Robert Bruce Merrifield was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis.

Vladimír Bouzek was an ice hockey player who played in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics. He was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 2007. He also played football as a forward, and made three appearances for the Czechoslovakia national team between 1950 and 1951.

Boris Vasilievich Snetkov was a Soviet Army and briefly Russian Ground Forces Army General.

Tony Jay was an English–American voice, stage, film and television actor.

Holger Börner was a German politician of the SPD.