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= 2006 =
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Introduction
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2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and
Desertification and the International Asperger's Year.
January
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- January 1 – Russia cuts the shipment of natural gas to Ukraine over
a price dispute.
- January 12 – A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on
the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362
pilgrims.
- January 15 – NASA's 'Stardust' mission successfully ends, the first
to return dust from a comet.
- January 19 – NASA launches the first space mission to Pluto as a
rocket hurls the 'New Horizons' spacecraft on a nine-year journey.
- January 25 - The Walt Disney Company buys Pixar Animation Studios
from Lucasfilm Ltd. for $7.4 billion, making Pixar a subsidiary of
Walt Disney Pictures.
- January 2 – Lidia Wysocka, Polish actress (b. 1916)
- January 3 – Bill Skate, 5th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b.
1953)
- January 4
- * Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet (b. 1912)
- * Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab
Emirates (b. 1943)
- January 6 – Lou Rawls, African-American singer, songwriter and actor
(b. 1933)
- January 7 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, explorer and
author (b. 1912)
- January 14 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
- January 15 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, 13th Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
- January 19
- * Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
- * Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
- January 21 – Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovar writer, scholar and political
leader (b. 1944)
- January 24 – Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
- January 25 – Sudharmono, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1927)
- January 27 – Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
- January 29 – Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American artist (b.
1932)
- January 30 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist (b.
1927)
February
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- February 3 – Egyptian passenger ferry, , sinks in the Red Sea off
the coast of Saudi Arabia, killing over 1,000 people.
- February 6 – Stephen Harper is elected as the Prime Minister of
Canada.
- February 10–26 – The 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin, Italy.
- February 17 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte,
Philippines killing an estimated 1,126 people.
- February 20 – Six aircraft manufacturing of Russia, were merged,
including Ilyushin, Sukhoi and Tupolev, which United Aircraft
Corporation of Russia has start operation.
- February 3 – Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
- February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer
(b. 1921)
- February 8 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese classical music/film composer
(b. 1914)
- February 10 – J Dilla, American music producer (b. 1974)
- February 12 – Peter Benchley, American writer (b. 1940)
- February 13
- * Andreas Katsulas, American actor (b. 1946)
- * P. F. Strawson, English philosopher (b. 1919)
- February 15 – Sun Yun-suan, 10th Premier of the Republic of China
(b. 1913)
- February 18 – Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa, 5th Prime Minister of Sudan
(b. 1919)
- February 21 – Mirko Marjanović, 63rd Prime Minister of Serbia (b.
1937)
- February 22
- * S. Rajaratnam, Singaporean politician, 1st Senior Minister of
Singapore (b. 1915)
- * Said Mohamed Djohar, 2-Time President of the Comoros (b. 1919)
- February 23 - Telmo Zarra, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
- February 24
- * Octavia E. Butler, American author and writer (b. 1947)
- * Don Knotts, American actor and comedian (b. 1924)
- * Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
- February 25 – Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
- February 28 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
March
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- March 9 – NASA's 'Cassini-Huygens' spacecraft discovers geysers of a
liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a
possible presence of water.
- March 10 – NASA's 'Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter' enters orbit around
Mars.
- March 14 – Total penumbral lunar eclipse.
- March 15 – The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly
to establish the United Nations Human Rights Council.
- March 28 – A scramjet jet engine, HyShot III, designed to fly at
seven times the speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera,
South Australia.
- March 29 – Total solar eclipse.
- March 1 - Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
- March 6 – Dana Reeve, American actress (b. 1961)
- March 7 – Gordon Parks, American photographer (b. 1912)
- March 9
- * Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (b. 1932)
- * John Profumo, British politician (b. 1915)
- March 11 – Slobodan Milošević, 3rd President of Serbia (b. 1941)
- March 13
- * Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
- * Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
- March 14 – Lennart Meri, 2nd President of Estonia (b. 1929)
- March 15 – Georgios Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
- March 23 – Desmond Doss, American combat medic (b. 1919)
- March 25
- * Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
- * Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
- * Buck Owens, American, singer, bandleader, and TV host (b. 1929)
- March 26 – Paul Dana, American racing driver (b. 1975)
- March 27 – Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
- March 28 – Caspar Weinberger, 15th United States Secretary of
Defense (b. 1917)
April
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- April 11
- * The European Space Agency's 'Venus Express' spaceprobe enters
Venus' orbit.
- * President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully
produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium.
- April 20 – Iran announces a deal with Russia, involving a joint
uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil; nine days later Iran
announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus leading
to a 'de facto' termination of the deal.
- April 5 - Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
- April 8 - Gerard Reve, Dutch author (b. 1923)
- April 11 - Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
- April 12 – Rajkumar, Indian actor and singer (b. 1929)
- April 16 – Silvia Caos, Cuban-Mexican actress (b. 1933)
- April 21 – Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1931)
- April 23 – Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
- April 24 – Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
- April 25
- * Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian writer and activist (b. 1916)
- * Peter Law, Welsh politician and independent member of parliament
(b. 1948)
- April 29 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
May
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- May 17 – The Human Genome Project publishes the last chromosome
sequence, in 'Nature'.
- May 18-20 - The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 takes place in Athens,
Greece, and is won by Finnish band entrant Lordi with the song "Hard
Rock Hallelujah".
- May 27 – The 6.4 Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java in
Indonesia with an MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), leaving more than
5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
- May 3 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
- May 6 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (b. 1926)
- May 11 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
- May 12 – Hussein Maziq, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1918)
- May 13 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
- May 14 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
- May 22 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health
Organisation (b. 1945)
- May 23 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
- May 25 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer and songwriter (b. 1941)
- May 26 – Édouard Michelin, French businessman (b. 1963)
- May 27 – Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
- May 30 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
- May 31 – Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1914)
June
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- June 3 – Montenegro declares its independence from Serbia and
Montenegro after a May 21 referendum and becomes a sovereign state.
Two days later, the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro officially
disbands after Serbia declares its independence as well, ending an
88-year union between the two states and leaving Serbia as the
successor country to the union.
- June 9 – July 9 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup takes place in Germany;
which is won by Italy.
- June 28
- * Israel launches an offensive in the Gaza Strip in response to
rocketfire by Hamas into Israeli territory.
- * The United States Armed Forces withdraws its forces in Iceland,
thereby disbanding the Iceland Defense Force.
- June 1 – Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer (b. 1946)
- June 2 - Vince Welnick, American keyboardist for The Grateful Dead
(b. 1951)
- June 6 – Billy Preston, American artist and musician (b. 1946)
- June 7 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant (b. 1966)
- June 8 – Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
- June 12 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
- June 13 – Charles Haughey, 7th Taoisearch of Ireland (b. 1925)
- June 18 - Vincent Sherman, American film director and actor (b.
1906)
- June 23 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
- June 25 - Arif Mardin, Turkish-American music producer (b. 1932)
July
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- July 1 – The Qinghai-Tibet railway launches a trial operation,
making Tibet the last province-level entity of China to have a
conventional railway.
- July 6 – The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during
the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
- July 11 - A series of seven bomb blasts hits the city of Mumbai,
India, killing more than 200 people.
- July 12 – Israeli troops invade Lebanon in response to Hezbollah
kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and killing three others. Hezbollah
declares open war against Israel two days later.
- July 1 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
- July 5
- * Gert Fredriksson, Swedish kayaker (b. 1919)
- * Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
- July 7
- * Syd Barrett, English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1946)
- * Elias Hrawi, 9th President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
- * John Money, psychologist and author known for his research in
gender identity (b. 1921)
- July 8 – June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
- July 10 – Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
- July 11 – Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
- July 13 – Red Buttons, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
- July 17 – Mickey Spillane, American writer (b. 1918)
- July 19 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
- July 20 – Ted Grant, British politician (b. 1913)
- July 21
- * Mako, Japanese-American actor and singer (b. 1933)
- * J. Madison Wright Morris, American actress (b. 1984)
- * Ta Mok, Cambodian military leader (b. 1926)
- July 28 – David Gemmell, British author (b. 1948)
- July 30 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
August
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- August 22 - Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the
Russian border in Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
- August 24 – The International Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at
its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of dwarf
planet 76 years after its discovery.
- August 3
- * Arthur Lee, American musician (b. 1945)
- * Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (b. 1915)
- August 9 – James Van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
- August 13 – Tony Jay, English-American actor and voice artist (b.
1933)
- August 14 – Bruno Kirby, American actor, singer and comedian (b.
1949)
- August 15
- * Te Atairangikaahu, Maori queen (b. 1931)
- * Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer (b. 1923)
- August 16 – Alfredo Stroessner, 42nd President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
- August 19 – Óscar Míguez, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1927)
- August 20 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
- August 21
- * Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
- * S. Yizhar, Israeli writer (b. 1916)
- August 23 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian musician and bandleader (b.
1928)
- August 25 – Noor Hassanali, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b.
1918)
- August 26 – Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
- August 27
- * Jon Dough, American pornographic actor (b. 1962)
- * Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian filmmaker (b. 1922)
- August 30
- * Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b. 1916)
- * Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Nobel writer (b. 1911)
September
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- September 1 – The game Roblox is released.
- September 7 – Partial lunar eclipse.
- September 19 – The Royal Thai Army overthrows the government of
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a 'coup d'état'.
- September 22 – Annular solar eclipse.
- September 29 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides with a
business jet over the Amazon rainforest, killing all 154 on board the
former.
- September 1 - György Faludy, Hungarian poet (b. 1910)
- September 2 - Bob Mathias, American athlete (b. 1930)
- September 4
- * Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
- * Steve Irwin, Australian environmentalist and television personality
(b. 1962)
- September 7 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor and boxer (b. 1910)
- September 8 - Peter Brock, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)
- September 10 - Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, 4th King of Tonga (b. 1918)
- September 11
- * Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930)
- * Joachim Fest, German historian and journalist (b. 1926)
- September 14 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder
(b. 1926)
- September 15
- * Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist (b. 1929)
- * Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
- September 17 - Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Hungarian tennis player and coach
(b. 1924)
- September 17 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b.
1924)
- September 18 - Nilton Pereira Mendes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1976)
- September 22 - Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
- September 23 - Malcolm Arnold, English composer (b. 1921)
- September 26
- * Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
- * Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American propagandist for Japan in World War
II (b. 1916)
- September 28 - Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian pop singer (b. 1976)
October
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- October 6 – Fredrik Reinfeldt replaces Göran Persson as Prime
Minister of Sweden.
- October 9 – North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever
nuclear test.
- October 13 – South Korean Ban Ki-moon is elected as the new
Secretary-General of the United Nations, succeeding Kofi Annan.
- October 17 – The United States population reaches 300 million.
- October 4 – Tom Bell, English actor (b. 1933)
- October 7 – Anna Politkovskaya, American-born Russian journalist (b.
1958)
- October 9 – Paul Hunter, British snooker player (b. 1978)
- October 11 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
- October 16 – Valentín Paniagua, President of Peru (b. 1936)
- October 20 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
- October 21 - Sandy West, American rock musician, former member of The
Runaways (b. 1959)
- October 22 – Choi Kyu-hah, 4th President of South Korea (b. 1919)
- October 27 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani civil servant and 7th
President of Pakistan (b. 1915)
- October 28
- * Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and official (b. 1917)
- * Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1954)
- October 30 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
- October 31 – P. W. Botha, former State President of South Africa (b.
1916)
November
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- November 2 – 'No. 5, 1948' by Jackson Pollock becomes the most
expensive painting after it is sold privately for $140 million.
- November 5 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to
death by hanging by the Iraqi Special Tribunal. He is later executed
by hanging for crimes against humanity on December 30.
- November 12 – The breakaway state of South Ossetia holds a
referendum on independence from Georgia.
- November 19 – Nintendo releases its first home console targeted at
families, the Wii, in North America. It would go on to become the best
selling of Nintendo's home consoles.
- November 23 – A series of car bombs and mortar attacks in Sadr City,
Baghdad, kills at least 215 people and injure 257 other people.
- November 1
- * Adrienne Shelly, American actress and director (b. 1966)
- * William Styron, American writer (b. 1925)
- November 3
- * Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
- * Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-Uruguayan footballer (b. 1937)
- November 4 - Sergi López Segú, Spanish footballer (b. 1967)
- November 5
- * Bülent Ecevit, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1925)
- * Pietro Rava, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1916)
- November 6 - Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish ski racer (b. 1950)
- November 7 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b.
1924)
- November 8 - Basil Poledouris, American composer (b. 1945)
- November 9 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
- November 10 - Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
- November 11 - Esther Lederberg, American microbiologist (b. 1922)
- November 15 - Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (b. 1985)
- November 16 - Milton Friedman, American Nobel economist (b. 1912)
- November 17
- * Ruth Brown, American singer (b. 1928)
- * Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
- November 20 - Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925)
- November 21
- * Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1972)
- * Hassan Gouled Aptidon, 1st President of Djibouti (b. 1916)
- November 22 - Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (b. 1917)
- November 23
- * Alexander Litvinenko, Russian-born spy (b. 1962)
- * Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
- * Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
- November 26 - Isaac Galvez, Spanish racing cyclist (b. 1975)
- November 29 - Allen Carr, British author (b. 1934)
December
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- December 5 – The military seizes power in Fiji, in a coup d'état led
by Commodore Frank Bainimarama.
- December 11 – Felipe Calderón sends the Mexican military to combat
the drug cartels and put down the violence in the state of Michoacán,
initiating the Mexican Drug War.
- December 24 – Ethiopia admits its troops have intervened in Somalia.
- December 26 – An oil pipeline explodes in Nigeria's commercial
capital, Lagos, killing at least 200 people.
- December 29 - UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan
debt.
- December 1 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
- December 4 – Ross A. McGinnis, American soldier, posthumously
awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1987)
- December 5 – David Bronstein, Soviet Union chess grandmaster (b.
1924)
- December 6 – Han Ahmedow, 1st Prime Minister of Turkmenistan (b.
1936)
- December 7 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American political theorist and U.N.
ambassador (b. 1926)
- December 8 - Martha Tilton, American singer (b. 1915)
- December 9 – Georgia Gibbs, American singer (b. 1919)
- December 10 – Augusto Pinochet, 31st President of Chile (b. 1915)
- December 11 – Elizabeth Bolden, American supercentenarian (b. 1890)
- December 12
- * Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
- * Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
- December 13 – Lamar Hunt, American businessman (b. 1932)
- December 14
- * Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish record executive (b. 1923)
- * Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
- December 15 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (b. 1939)
- December 18 – Joseph Barbera, American animator (b. 1911)
- December 19 – Rogério Oliveira da Costa, Brazilian-born football
(soccer) striker (b. 1976)
- December 21 – Saparmurat Niyazov, 1st President of Turkmenistan (b.
1940)
- December 22
- * Elena Mukhina, Soviet artistic gymnast (b. 1960)
- * Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer (b. 1919)
- December 25 – James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
- December 26 – Gerald Ford, American politician, 38th President of
the United States (b. 1913)
- December 30 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937)
- December 31 – Ya'akov Hodorov, Israeli footballer (b. 1927)
Births
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- January 27 - Kim Su-an, South Korean actress
- March 12 - Lee Re, South Korean child actress
- June 23 - Lee Chae-mi, South Korean actress
- June 23 - CX Navarro, Filipino child actor
- June 25 - Mckenna Grace, American actress
- July 25 - Konomi Watanabe, Japanese actress
- September 6 - Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince
- September 27 - Trishanth Mellimi
- October 5 Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor
- October 18 - Charlotte Figi, American medical cannabidiol patient
and reform figure (d. 2020)
- November 16 - Mason Ramsey, American singer
- December 6 - Millie Davis, Canadian actress
Nobel Prizes
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- Chemistry – Roger D. Kornberg.
- Economics – Edmund Phelps.
- Literature – Orhan Pamuk.
- Peace – Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank.
- Physics – John C. Mather, and George F. Smoot.
- Physiology or Medicine – Andrew Z. Fire, and Craig C. Mello.
New English words and terms
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- 'agender'
- 'bucket list'
- 'crowdfunding'
- 'crowdsourcing'
- 'Eris'
- 'hypermiling'
- 'mumblecore'
- 'sizzle reel'
- 'ski cross'
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