The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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. December 2006 1 Claude Jade, 58, French actress (Baisers Volés, L'Amour en Fuite, Topaz), metastatic eye cancer. Herbert Gursky, 76, American astrophysicist for the Naval Research Laboratory, stomach cancer. Geoffrey Colin Guy, 86, British airman and colonial governor. Sid Raymond, 97, American character actor and voice of Baby Huey, complications of a stroke. Ali Khan Samsudin, 48, Malaysian "snake king", venomous snakebite. 2 Bob Berry, 80, British test cricket player, natural causes. Corinne Clark, 83, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). Kari Edwards, 52, American poet, artist and gender activist, heart failure. Kurt Lipstein, 97, German-born legal scholar. Dave Mount, 59, British drummer for glam rock band Mud, heart attack. Mariska Veres, 59, Dutch singer for Shocking Blue (Venus), cancer. 3 Craig Hinton, 42, British science fiction author, heart attack. Logan Whitehurst, 29, American singer and songwriter (The Velvet Teen), brain cancer. 4 Sir Peter Gadsden, 77, British Lord Mayor of London (1979–1980). Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 84, Burkinabé politician, natural causes. (French) James Kim, 35, American CNET editor, exposure and hypothermia. Rodney Needham, 83, British social anthropologist. Len Sutton, 81, American Indianapolis 500 racing driver, cancer. Adam Williams, 82, American actor, lymphoma. 5 David Bronstein, 82, Ukrainian chess grandmaster and writer, champion of USSR, natural causes. Eric Cox, 83, Australian rugby league player, referee and administrator, pneumonia and stroke. Michael Gilden, 44, American actor (NCIS, Return of the Jedi), apparent suicide. Gerry Humphreys, 75, Welsh sound engineer. Gernot Jurtin, 51, Austrian football player, cancer. Timothy Moxon, 82, British actor and entrepreneur. Van Smith, 61, American costume and makeup designer, heart attack. 6 Han Ahmedow, 70, Turkmen Prime Minister (1989–1992), heart attack. Darren Brown, 44, British musician and lead singer (Mega City Four), stroke. Russell Buchanan, 106, American World War I veteran, stroke. Hugo Cores, 69, Uruguayan historian, labor leader and politician, Deputy (1990–1994), stroke. Samuel Devons, 92, British physicist and science historian at Columbia University, heart failure. Andra Franklin, 47, American football player (Miami Dolphins), heart failure. Mavis Pugh, 92, British actress (You Rang, M'Lord?), natural causes. Robert Rosenblum, 79, American art historian, curator, and author, colon