The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2006. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. October 2006 1 Frank Beyer, 74, German film director (Jacob the Liar). Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall, 96, Australian mining executive. Alan Caillou, 91, British actor and writer. Pierre Gorman, 82, Australian librarian and academic. Jack Kirkbride, 83, British cartoonist, father of actress Anne Kirkbride. Anna Kunkel, 74, American baseball player (AAGPBL). Renato Polselli, 84, Italian film director (The Vampire and the Ballerina, Black Magic Rites). Rafael Quintero, 66, Cuban-born American CIA agent. André Viger, 54, Canadian wheelchair marathoner and paralympian, cancer. Yoshihiro Yonezawa, 53, Japanese manga critic, lung cancer. 2 Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista, 82, Cuban First Lady (1952–1959), second wife of President Fulgencio Batista. Frances Bergen, 84, American actress, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, American Republican Representative for Idaho (1995–2001), car accident. Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, 69, Indian scientist, spiritual teacher and poet, heart attack. Tamara Dobson, 59, American actress (Cleopatra Jones), complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis. Paul Halmos, 90, Hungarian-born American mathematician. Paul Richardson, 74, American Phillies longtime organist, prostate cancer. Clyde Vollmer, 85, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). 3 Lucilla Andrews, 86, British romantic novelist. Sir John Cox, 77, British admiral who was Commander-in-Chief in the South Atlantic. John Crank, 90, British mathematical physicist who helped solve the heat equation. Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer of all 5795 episodes of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills, after heart trouble. Peter Norman, 64, Australian athlete, silver medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics, heart attack. 4 R. W. Apple, Jr., 71, American political journalist and food writer (The New York Times), thoracic cancer. Tom Bell, 73, British actor (Wish You Were Here, Prime Suspect), after short illness. Victor Dyrgall, 88, American Olympic runner. František Fajtl, 94, Czech World War II fighter pilot, after long illness. Norbert Franck, 88, Luxembourgian Olympic swimmer. Walter Gibb, 87, British aviator and test pilot who twice held the world flight altitude record. Ralph Griswold, 72, American creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer. Vic Heyliger, 87, American ice hockey Hall of Fame player and coach. Oskar Pastior, 78, Romanian-born German