Reflections on 2006
 

2006 saw a lot of celebrities pass away, many from the music world:

James Brown 12/25
Peter Boyle 12/12
Georgia Gibbs 12/9
Joseph Barbera 12/18
Robert Altman 11/20

Jack Palance 11/10
Ruth Brown 11/17
Shelley Winters 1/14
Steve Irwin 9/4
Lou Rawls 1/6

Ahmet Ertegun 12/14 (Founder of Atlantic Records)
Darren McGavin 2/25
Glenn Ford 8/30
Gerald Levert 11/10
Al Lewis 2/3

Bruno Kirby 8/14
Wilson Pickett 1/19
Buck Owens 3/25
Ed Bradley 11/9
June Allyson (born Ella Geisman) 7/8

Aaron Spelling 6/23
Arif Mardin 6/25 (Atlantic Records)
Syd Barrett 7/7
Mike Douglas (born Micheal Delany Dowd, Jr.) 8/11
Freddy Fender 10/14

William Styron 11/1
Jane Wyatt 10/20
Mikey Spillane 7/17
Maureen Stapleton 3/13
Gene Pitney 4/5

Wendy Wasserstein 1/30
Billy Preston 6/6
Don Knotts 2/24
Red Buttons (born Aaron Chwatt) 7/13
Anita O'Day 11/23

Arthur Lee 8/3
Maynard Ferguson 8/23
Dana Reeve (born Dana Morosini) 3/6
Chris Penn 1/24
Edward Albert 9/22

Betty Comden (born Elizabeth Cohen) 11/23