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2006 (MMVI ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar , the 2006th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium , the 6th year of the 21st century , and the 7th year of the 2000s decade.
2006 was designated as:
January [ edit ]
February [ edit ]
April 11
April 20 – Iran announces a deal with Russia, involving a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil;[18] nine days later Iran announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus leading to a de facto termination of the deal.
September [ edit ]
October [ edit ]
November [ edit ]
December [ edit ]
January [ edit ]
January 3 – Bill Skate , 5th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1953 )
January 4 – Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum , 3rd Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1943 )
January 6 – Lou Rawls , African-American singer (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
January 21 – Ibrahim Rugova , Kosovar writer, scholar and political leader (b. 1944 )
January 24 – Chris Penn , American actor (b. 1965 )
January 27 – Johannes Rau , 8th President of Germany (b. 1931 )
January 30 – Coretta Scott King , American civil rights activist (b. 1927 )
February [ edit ]
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
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 – Said Mohamed Djohar , 2-Time President of the Comoros (b. 1918 )
February 23 – Telmo Zarra , Spanish footballer (b. 1921 )
February 24
February 28 – Owen Chamberlain , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920 )
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 – John Profumo , British politician (b. 1915 )
March 11 – Slobodan Milošević , 3rd President of Serbia (b. 1941 )
March 13
March 14 – Lennart Meri , 2nd President of Estonia (b. 1929 )
March 15 – Georgios Rallis , Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918 )
March 25 – Richard Fleischer , American film director (b. 1916 )
March 27 – Stanisław Lem , Polish writer (b. 1921 )
March 28 – Caspar Weinberger , 15th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917 )
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 30 – Shohei Imamura , Japanese film director (b. 1926 )
May 31 – Raymond Davis Jr. , American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914 )
July 1 – Ryutaro Hashimoto , 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937 )
July 5
July 7
July 8 – June Allyson , American actress (b. 1917 )
July 10 – Shamil Basayev , Chechen rebel (b. 1965 )
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 – Ta Mok , Cambodian military leader (b. 1926 )
July 28 – David Gemmell , British author (b. 1948 )
July 30 – Murray Bookchin , American libertarian socialist (b. 1921 )
September [ edit ]
October [ edit ]
November [ edit ]
November 1
November 3 – Paul Mauriat , French musician (b. 1925 )
November 5 – Bülent Ecevit , Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1925 )
November 8 – Basil Poledouris , American composer (b. 1945 )
November 10 – Jack Palance , American actor (b. 1919 )
November 15 – Ana Carolina Reston , Brazilian fashion model (b. 1985 )
November 16 – Milton Friedman , American Nobel economist (b. 1912 )
November 17
November 20 – Robert Altman , American film director (b. 1925 )
November 21
November 23
December [ edit ]
December 1 – Claude Jade , French actress (b. 1948 )
December 5 – David Bronstein , Soviet Union chess grandmaster (b. 1924 )
December 7 – Jeane Kirkpatrick , American political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b. 1926 )
December 10 – Augusto Pinochet , 31st President of Chile (b. 1915 )
December 12
December 14 – Ahmet Ertegün , Turkish record executive (b. 1923 )
December 15 – Clay Regazzoni , Swiss race car driver (b. 1939 )
December 18 – Joseph Barbera , American animator (b. 1911 )
December 21 – Saparmurat Niyazov , 1st President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940 )
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 )
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Nobel Prizes [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
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