The Recently Dead List 2006

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Celebrity
Died
Age
Comments
Paul Hunter
09 oct 2006
27
Former Snooker world champion.
Chris Penn
24 jan 2006
40
Actor and brother of Sean Penn.
Martin Gilks
3 apr 2006
41
Drummer with the Wonder Stuff.
Dana Reeve
6 mar 2006
44
Widow of actor Christopher Reeve.
Steve Irwin
4 sep 2006
44
Australian crocodile wrestler.
Linda Smith
28 feb 2006
48
Regularly appeared on Radio 4 programmes
Jack Wild
1 mar 2006
53
Played the Artful Dodger in the film Oliver.
Vince Welnick
2 jun 2006
55
Keyboard player with the Grateful Dead.
Bob Carlos Clarke
25 mar 2006
56
Fashion phogographer.
David Gemmell
27 jul 2006
57
Fantasy novelist.
Paul Walters
20 oct 2006
59
AKA Dr Wally.
Dave Mount
2 dec 2006
59
Drummer with the band 'Mud'
Syd Barrett
10 jul 2006
60
Original singer/songwriter with Pink Floyd.
Tony Banks
7 jan 2006
62
Former Labour MP and Sports Minister.
Wilson Pickett
20 jan 2006
64
Soul singer - hits included In the Midnight Hour and Mustang Sally.
Slobodan Milosovic
11 mar 2006
64
Former President of Yujoslavia.
Desmond Dekker
26 may 2006
64
Reggae singer. Had a hit with 'The Israelites'
Peter Benchley
13 feb 2006
65
Author of the novel Jaws.
Gene Pitney
5 apr 2006
65
Singer. Had hits with '24 Hours from Tulsa'
Freddie Garrity
20 may 2006
69
1960's singer with the band Freddie and the Dreamers.
Saddam Hussain
30 dec 2006
69
Former dictator of Iraq.
Lou Rawls
6 jan 2006
72
Singer
Tom Bell
3 oct 2006
73
Actor. Appeared in many films and tv shows including Prime Suspect
James Brown
25 dec 2006
73
Soul legend. Appeared in the film Blues Brothers
Lynne Perrie
24 mar 2006
75
Actress - played Ivy Tilsley in Coronation Street.
Freddie Truman
30 jun 2006
75
Legendary cricketer from the 50s and 60s.
John Junkin
7 mar 2006
76
TV Comedy writer. Worked with Tommy Cooper
Alan fluff Freeman
28 nov 2006
79
Old-school former Radio DJ.
Dennis Weaver
28 feb 2006
81
Actor. Appeared in the TV series Gunsmoke and Steven Spielberg's film Duel.
James Van Allen
9 aug 2006
81
Astronomer/Space scientist.
Robert Altman
20 nov 2006
81
Film director.
Charlie Drake
12 dec 2006
81
Comedy actor from the 50s and 60s.
Al Lewis
3 feb 2006
82
Played Grandpa Munster in the TV Series
Robert Carrier
27 jun 2006
82
American TV chef from the 1970s.
Ivor Cutler
6 mar 2006
83
Poet and Musician.
Gyorgy Ligeti
12 jun 2006
83
Hungarian-born composer.
Aaron Spelling
24 jun 2006
83
American TV Producer.
Derek Blaster Bates
1 sep 2006
83
Demolition expert and raconteur.
Stanislav Lem
27 mar 2006
84
Polish author. Wrote the novel 'Solaris'
Joseph Stefano
30 aug 2006
84
Screenwriter. Wrote the script for the film Psycho
Raymond Baxter
14 sep 2006
84
Early presenter of Tomorrow's World on TV.
Nigel Kneale
31 oct 2006
84
Creator of the Quatermass TV series
Shelley Winters
14 jan 2006
85
Oversized American Actress.
Jack Palance
10 nov 2006
87
Actor best known for roles in Westerns
Muriel Spark
15 apr 2006
88
Novelist.
Mickey Spillane
18 jul 2006
88
American crime novelist. Created the detective Mike Hammer.
Sir Kyffin Williams
31 aug 2006
88
Welsh artist.
Richard Fleischer
25 mar 2006
89
Film director. Films included 'Tora Tora Tora'
P W Botha
31 oct 2006
90
President of South Africa during the height of Apartheid in the 1980s
John Profumo
9 mar 2006
91
Government minister in the 1960s.
General Pinochet
10 dec 2006
91
Former dictator of Chile.
Gerald Ford
26 dec 2006
93
Took over as president when Richard Nixon resigned.
Joseph Barbera
18 dec 2006
95
Cartoon maker

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