List of Famous people who died in 2006
Patrick Allen
John Keith Patrick Allen was a British actor.
Martin Löb
Martin Hugo Löb was a German mathematician. He settled in the United Kingdom after the Second World War and specialised in mathematical logic. He moved to the Netherlands in the 1970s, where he remained in retirement. He is perhaps best known for having formulated Löb's theorem in 1955.
Jon Lilletun
Jon Lilletun was a Norwegian politician active in the Christian Democratic Party.
Luca Coscioni
Luca Coscioni was an Italian economist and politician. He was a Professor of Environmental Economics at Università della Tuscia (Italy) who engaged very actively in the social and political spheres with the political organization Partito Radicale and with the Luca Coscioni Association (LCA), which he presided over from 2002 to 2006. His life was marked by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) which claimed his life at the age of 38.
Dan Curtis
Dan Curtis was an American director, writer, and producer of television and film, known among fans of horror films for his afternoon TV series Dark Shadows and TV films such as Trilogy of Terror. Dark Shadows originally aired from 1966 to 1971 and has aired in syndication for nearly 40 years. Curtis was responsible for the 1991 remake of Dark Shadows, which was canceled because of low ratings.
Sten Andersson
Sten Sture Andersson was a Swedish social democratic politician, who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs 1985–1991 and as President of the Nordic Council in 1994.
Pedro González González
Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez was an American character actor best known for his appearances in a number of John Wayne movies.
Naushad
Naushad Ali was an Indian music director for Hindi films. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and foremost music directors of the Hindi film industry. He is particularly known for popularising the use of classical music in films.
Tadayuki Nakashima
Kurt Kreuger
Kurt Kreuger was a Swiss-reared German actor. Kreuger once was the third most requested male actor at 20th Century Fox. He starred with, among others, Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart.