Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2006

Vincent Dole was an American doctor, who, along with his wife, Marie Nyswander, developed the use of methadone to treat heroin addiction. Dole and Nyswander, in establishing methadone maintenance treatment (MMT), improved treatment options in addiction medicine which for a century had been based on the conventional view that narcotic addiction was the result of an intractable moral defect. His work resulted in the partial re-legalization of opioid maintenance in the United States. For this contribution he was a recipient of the 1988 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.

Ken Ishikawa fue un autor de manga, escritor y guionista japonés, famoso sobre todo por ser el cocreador con Gō Nagai de Getter Robo y autor material de todas las continuaciones del mismo además de una veintena de trabajos como la adaptación de varios videojuegos, como Fatal Fury o Samurai Shodown.

Ed Benedict fue un animador y diseñador estadounidense, uno de los principales creadores de las series de dibujos animados para televisión que los estudios Hanna-Barbera crearon desde finales de la década de 1950. Fue el principal responsable de personajes tan populares como Los Picapiedra, Huckleberry Hound o el oso Yogui.

Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr. was the 12th governor of Arizona, serving from 1965 until 1967. He remained active in politics following his term in office, serving on the Democratic National Committee and as chairman of the Arizona Democratic State Committee.

Eustace Lycett was a British special effects artist who worked on attractions at Disneyland from the 1960s, such as Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln and Rocket to the Moon, as well as contributing to Disney animation.

Jean Pierre Desclaux fue un jardinero, rugbista y entrenador francés que se desempeñó como ala. Dirigió a Les Bleus durante los años 1970.

Werner Schreyer (14 November 1930 in Nuremberg; 12 February 2006 in Bochum) was a German mineralogist and experimental metamorphic petrologist. Schreyer completed his undergraduate work in geology and petrology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, obtained his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1957, and in 1966 received his Habilitation from the University of Kiel. He was a professor at Ruhr University Bochum from 1966 to 1996. In 2002 Schreyer became the first German to be awarded the Mineralogical Society of America's highest honor, the Roebling Medal. Schreyer was a leading expert on phase relations in the MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–H₂O (MASH) system, specializing in cordierite and minerals with equivalent chemical compositions, and high pressure and ultra high-pressure metamorphic mineral assemblages.