Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2006

George Savalla Gomes, better known as Carequinha or Baldy the Clown, was a Brazilian clown and actor, born in a circus to a circus family. He had a thick head of hair, but wore a bald wig, starting from five years old – he was a clown in Circus Ocidental until the age of twelve. He was the first Brazilian clown to have his own TV show – Circo Bombril, later called Circus Carequinha ran for 16 years.

Abate René de Naurois fue un héroe de la resistencia contra el nazismo, sacerdote, naturalista y ornitólogo francés.

Muhammad al-Maghout was a renowned Syrian writer and poet.

Alvin Swauger "Al" White was an American test pilot and mechanical engineer. He flew the maiden flights of both XB-70 Valkyrie aircraft, the first 2,000 mph flight, and all subsequent Mach 3 exploration flights.

Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki was a renowned Kurdish film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was very much a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenplays and produced 28 movies since 1951. He was active in almost every period of the Turkish film industry.

György Sándor Ligeti fue un compositor húngaro que residió en Austria y luego se naturalizó austríaco, considerado uno de los más grandes compositores del siglo XX.

Anthony George Papaleo, Jr., conocido artísticamente como Anthony Franciosa o Tony Franciosa, fue un actor de cine y televisión estadounidense.

Shirley Ann Richards was an Australian actress and author, who achieved notability in a series of 1930s Australian films for Ken G. Hall before moving to the United States, where she continued her career as a film actress, mainly as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starlet. Her best known performances were in It Isn't Done (1937), Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938), An American Romance (1944), and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). In the 1930s, she was the only Australian actor under a long-term contract to a film studio, Cinesound Productions. She subsequently became a lecturer and poet.

Konstantín Ivánovich Béskov fue un futbolista internacional y entrenador soviético y ruso. Como jugador, Béskov desarrolló gran parte de su carrera en el Dynamo Moscú como delantero, donde anotó 126 goles. Tras retirarse como futbolista inició su etapa como entrenador en la que entrenó a los principales equipos moscovitas: el Torpedo, CSKA, Spartak, Lokomotiv y Dynamo, donde acabó su carrera.

Frank Beyer fue un director de cine alemán, más exactamente de la antigua RDA, que desarrolló su carrera en torno a la agencia cinemátográfica DEFA.