List of Famous people who died in 2006

Ingwald "Ingo" Preminger was a film producer. He was also the literary agent for several writers, including Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr., both of whom were blacklisted in the McCarthy era. He was brother of actor-director-producer Otto Preminger.

Jorge Artur Rego de Brito ComIH ComM was a Portuguese businessman, founder of Banco Intercontinental Português (BIP) and Brisa, who served as the 28th president of sports club S.L. Benfica, succeeding João Santos.

Robert Fabre was a French politician and pharmacist.

Lula Mae Hardaway was an American songwriter and the mother of soul musician Stevie Wonder. She spent her early adult life in Saginaw, Michigan, but from 1975 until her death in 2006, lived in Los Angeles, California.

Valentine Louis Telegdi was a Hungarian-born U.S. physicist. He was the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago before he moved to ETH Zürich.

Brebis Bleaney CBE FRS was a British physicist. His main area of research was the use of microwave techniques to study the magnetic properties of solids. He was head of the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford from 1957 to 1977. In 1992, Bleaney received the International Zavoisky Award "for his contribution to the theory and practice of electron paramagnetic resonance of transition ions in crystals."

Matti Olavi "Ola" Tuomi was a Finnish cinematographer, chief lighting technician and actor.

Feodora Schenk was an Austrian athlete. She competed in the women's high jump at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Louis-Albert Vachon, was a Canadian educator, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and Archbishop Emeritus of Quebec.

Susan Bergman was an American writer and literary scholar.