List of Famous people who died in 2006
Bjørn Wiinblad
Bjørn Wiinblad, was a Danish painter, designer and artist in ceramics, silver, bronze, textiles, and graphics. His work has been shown widely in Europe, in the United States of America first in 1954 and in Japan, Australia and Canada in 1968. Wiinblad was named Man of the Year in New York in 1985 and was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Cultural Prize of 1995.
Satoshi Mihara
Gerhard Fischer
Gerhard Fischer was a German diplomat, ambassador and humanitarian who received the 1997 Gandhi Peace Prize in recognition of his work for leprosy and polio-afflicted patients in India.
Donato Squicciarini
Donato Squicciarini was an Italian Catholic archbishop who acted as Nuncio to Austria from 1989 to 2002.
Norah Gwynne Jones
John Andrew Crofton Uniacke
John Drummond
Sir John Richard Gray Drummond was a British arts administrator who spent most of his career at the BBC. He was described by Rodney Milnes of Opera magazine as "one of the most formidable figures in the arts world of the UK for 40 years".
Jeremy Slate
Jeremy Slate was an American film and television actor, and songwriter.