2006 in the United States

August

• August 10 – London Metropolitan Police make 21 arrests in connection to an apparent terrorist plot that involved aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States. Liquids and gels are banned from checked and carry-on baggage. As of September 26, the Transportation Security Administration adjusts its ban on liquids, aerosols and gels. Travelers are permitted to carry liquids through security checkpoints in containers of 3.4 ounces (100 mL) or less that fit comfortably in one quart-size clear plastic zip-top bag. This procedure came to be known as "3–1–1 for carry-ons" (3.4 ounce containers in a 1 quart bag, 1 bag per passenger). Items purchased in the airside zone after clearing security could be brought on board without restriction. Other exemptions to this restriction include medications and breast milk.
• August 20 – World Wrestling Entertainment holds its SummerSlam event from the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
• August 27 – Comair Flight 5191, carrying 50 people, crashes shortly after takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky. Forty-nine people are killed, leaving the first officer as the sole survivor of the accident.
• August 28 – A Greyhound Lines bus from New York City to Montreal carrying 52 people crashes at mile 115 on Interstate 87 near Elizabethtown, killing five people, including the driver, and seriously injuring others.
• August 29 – The United States commemorates the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

September

• September 3 – Gordon B. Hinckley dedicates the Sacramento California Temple, the LDS Church's seventh temple in California.
• September 4 – While filming Ocean's Deadliest, television host Steve Irwin is stung by a sting ray and killed off the coast of Australia.
• September 8 – The world's tallest living tree, a tall coast redwood (sequoia) now named "Hyperion", is discovered in Redwood National Park.
• September 11 – The United States commemorates the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York City.
• September 15 – Spinach contaminated with E. coli kills two and poisons over 100 others in 20 states.
• September 18 – The CW network debuts as the sixth broadcast network, merging with UPN (owned by CBS Corporation which split from the original Viacom, three days after UPN ceased operations) and The WB (owned by Warner Bros., a day after The WB ceased operations).
• September 25 – The New Orleans Saints play their first game at the Louisiana Superdome since Hurricane Katrina with a 23–3 victory over NFC South rival Atlanta Falcons.

October

• October – The unemployment rate drops to 4.4%, the lowest since May 2001.
• October 2 – Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk-truck driver, kills five girls at an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, before shooting himself.
• October 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 56.99 points, or 0.49 percent, with a close of 11,727.34, its first all-time high in more than 6 years after it last hit in a record high of 11,722.98 on January 20, 2000.
• October 6 – A hazardous waste plant near Apex, North Carolina explodes, releasing chlorine gas, and resulting in the evacuation of thousands and the hospitalization of over 200 residents.
• October 8 – World Wrestling Entertainment holds its No Mercy pay-per-view event from the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• October 10 – Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion.
• October 11 – A plane crashes into a high-rise building in New York City, killing two.
• October 12 – Lake Storm "Aphid": A freak snowstorm blows into Buffalo, New York, leaving over 400,000 without power and killing 13.
• October 16
• The last American MASH is decommissioned.
• The Chicago Bears defeat the Arizona Cardinals 24–23 on Monday Night Football, after overcoming a 20-point deficit and six turnovers at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
• October 19 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes 12,000 for the first time, 12,011.73.
• October 24 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby of Venus (it will be captured into Mercury's orbit on March 18, 2011).
• October 27 – 2006 World Series: The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Detroit Tigers in five games to win their 10th World Series championship.

November

• November 1 – Oklahoma becomes the last state to legalize tattooing, having banned it since 1963.
• November 5 – World Wrestling Entertainment holds its Cyber Sunday pay-per-view event from the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• November 7 – The midterm elections result in a historic victory for the Democrats, who gain control of both chambers of Congress and a majority of the state governorships.
• November 10 – The final episode of Reading Rainbow airs on PBS.
• November 19 – Nintendo's Wii is released in the United States.
• November 26 – World Wrestling Entertainment holds its Survivor Series pay-per-view event from the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

December

• December 3 – World Wrestling Entertainment holds its December to Dismember pay-per-view event from the James Brown Arena in Augusta, Georgia.
• December 7 – Smoking is banned in all Ohio bars, restaurants, workplaces and other public places.
• December 10 – Space Shuttle Mission STS–116: Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center on the first night launch since the 2003 loss of Columbia.
• December 13 – U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D–South Dakota) suffers a brain hemorrhage during a conference call with reporters.
• December 14 – The U.S. spy satellite USA–193, also known as NRO Launch 21 (NROL–21 or simply L–21), is launched but malfunctions.
• December 15 – Lockheed Martin's F–35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter successfully flies for the first time.
• December 17 – World Wrestling Entertainment holds its Armageddon pay-per-view event from the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia.
• December 18 – Robert Gates is sworn in as the new Secretary of Defense, succeeding Donald Rumsfeld.
• December 20 – The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act is signed into law.
• December 22 – The Space Shuttle Discovery lands at Kennedy Space Center, concluding a two-week mission to the International Space Station.
• December 25 – Funk singer James Brown dies of a heart attack at the age of 73.
• December 26 – Former President Gerald Ford dies at the age of 93 in Rancho Mirage, California.
• December 30 – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging for crimes against humanity.

Undated

• United States housing bubble: A total of 1,259,118 foreclosures are filed during 2006, up 42 percent from 2005.
• Subprime mortgage crisis: This summer, the housing bubble bursts, starting a chain of events that would eventually develop into a full-blown market meltdown.
• Mangroomer shaving product is introduced.
• OneSimCard, an international cell phone service provider is founded.
• For Fair Trade Towns USA, Media, Pennsylvania is the first fair trade town in the United States.
• Fight Forever Foundation: is founded in Illinois.
• The Culinistas, a home-chef and boutique catering service is founded.

Ongoing

• War in Afghanistan (2001–2014)
• Iraq War (2003–2011)

Births

• January 17 – Nick Holliday, soccer player
• January 17 – Adrian Wibowo, Indonesian soccer player
• January 26 – Mo Gaba, notable baseball superfan and cancer victim (d. 2020)
• February 10 – Megan Skiendiel, singer, dancer and actress
• February 14 – Josh Pierson, racing driver
• February 17 – Matthew Corcoran, soccer player
• March 1 – Julian Grey, actor
• March 20 – Barron Trump, son of Donald Trump
• March 27 – Kaii Winkler, swimmer
• March 29 – Haven Coleman, activist
• April 4 – Minna Stess, skateboarder
• April 15 – Katherine Ong Pui Kuan, Malaysian figure skater
• April 26 – Andy Walken, actor
• April 29 – Xochitl Gomez, actress
• May 1 – Gianna Bryant, daughter of Kobe Bryant (d. 2020)
• June 1 – Bombette Martin, skateboarder
• June 25 – Mckenna Grace, actress
• June 28 – Laurel Griggs, actress (d. 2019)
• June 29 – Sam Lavagnino, voice actor
• July 16 – Corey Jackson, rapper
• July 22 – Javon Walton, boxer, gymnast
• July 28 – Katelyn Jong, gymnast
• August 17 – E. J. Tamayo, stock car racing driver
• August 23 – Victoria Martens, notable victim of child abuse (d. 2016)
• September 4 – Maximus Williamson, swimmer
• September 7
• Dannielynn Birkhead, notable paternity case subject and daughter of Anna Nicole Smith
• Ian Chen, actor
• September 8 – Desideri Trujillo, film director, actor, writer, editor, animator and music supervisor
• September 12 – Zackary Arthur, actor
• September 13 – Isabella Rice, actress
• September 17 – Ella Jay Basco, actress
• October 1 – Priah Ferguson, actress
• October 16 – Naomi Wadler, activist
• October 18 – Charlotte Figi, notable medical cannabidiol patient and rare disease victim (d. 2020)
• October 30 – Saniyya Sidney, actress
• November 2 – Hilde Lysiak, journalist
• November 9 – Honestie Hodges, notable victim of police brutality (d. 2020)
• November 16 – Mason Ramsey, singer
• December 2 – Ruby Lilley, skateboarder
• December 5 – Ava Kolker, actress
• December 19 – Christopher Yoo, chess player

Deaths

January

• January 1
• Harry Magdoff, economist, (b. 1913)
• Gideon Rodan, Romanian-born American physician (b. 1934)
• Hubert Schoemaker, Dutch-born American biochemist and executive (b. 1950)
• January 6
• Lou Rawls, African-American singer, songwriter and actor (b. 1933)
• Hugh Thompson, Jr., soldier and pilot (b. 1943)
• January 8 – David Rosenbaum, journalist (b. 1942)
• January 9
• Elliot Forbes, conductor and musicologist (b. 1917)
• W. Cleon Skousen, American conservative author and professor (b. 1913)
• January 10 – Ira Black, physician and neuroscientist (b. 1941)
• January 11
• Nixzmary Brown, murder victim (b. 1998)
• Eric Namesnik, swimmer (b. 1970)
• January 12
• Eldon Dedini, cartoonist (b. 1921)
• Anne Meacham, actress (b. 1925)
• January 14 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
• January 15 – Edward Hall, aeronautical engineer and brother of Theodore Hall (b. 1914)
• January 16 – Stanley Biber, surgeon (b. 1923)
• January 18 – Thomas Murphy, executive (b. 1915)
• January 19
• Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
• Wilson Pickett, singer and songwriter (b. 1941)
• January 23
• David Weber, Lithuanian-born American musician (b. 1913)
• Samuel Koster, general and murderer (b. 1919)
• January 24 – Chris Penn, actor and brother of Sean Penn (b. 1965)
• January 25 – Herbert Schilder, dental surgeon (b. 1929)
• January 28 – Helmut W. Schulz, German physicist and chemical engineer, died in White Plains, New York (b. 1912)
• January 30
• Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
• Wendy Wasserstein, writer (b. 1950)
• January 31
• George Koval, Soviet intelligence agent (b. 1913)
• Paul Regina, actor (b. 1956)

February

• February 1 – Dick Brooks, auto racer (b. 1942)
• February 3
• Lou Jones, track and field athlete (b. 1932)
• Jean Byron, actress (b. 1925)
• Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
• February 4
• Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer (b. 1921)
• William Jones, minister and civil rights activist (b. 1934)
• February 5 – Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)
• February 8 – Barry Martin, dancer, choreographer, and murder victim (b. 1962)
• February 10
• J Dilla, American music producer (b. 1974)
• Norman Shumway, surgeon (b. 1923)
• John Belluso, writer (b. 1969)
• February 9 – Phil Brown, American actor (b. 1916)
• February 11 – Peter Benchley, writer (b. 1940)
• February 13 – Andreas Katsulas, American actor (b. 1946)
• February 18
• Richard Bright, actor
• Bill Cowsill, American musician, songwriter, and producer (b. 1948)
• February 20 – Curt Gowdy, sports announcer (b. 1919)
• February 24
• Don Knotts, actor and comedian (b. 1924)
• Dennis Weaver, actor (b. 1924)
• February 25 – Darren McGavin, actor (b. 1922)
• February 28 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)

March

• March 1 – Harry Browne, politician and author (b. 1933)
• March 2 – Phyllis Huffman, American casting director (b. 1944)
• March 5 – Richard Kuklinski, American hitman (b. 1935)
• March 6
• Kirby Puckett, baseball player (b. 1960)
• Dana Reeve, American actress (b. 1961)
• March 7 – Gordon Parks, American photographer (b. 1912)
• March 10
• Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
• Ronald H. Nash, American philosopher (b. 1936)
• March 13
• Peter Tomarken, American television personality and host (b. 1942)
• Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
• March 17
• Oleg Cassini, Russian-born fashion designer (b. 1913)
• March 18 – Bill Beutel, American reporter and journalist (b. 1930)
• March 21 – Bob Delegall, actor, director and producer (b. 1945)
• March 23 – Desmond Doss, combat medic (b. 1919)
• March 25
• Richard Fleischer, film director (b. 1916)
• Buck Owens, singer, bandleader, and TV host (b. 1929)
• March 26 – Paul Dana, racing driver (b. 1975)
• March 27 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist, political consultant, and author (b. 1924)
• March 28
• Jerry Brudos, murderer (b. 1939)
• Charles Schepens, Belgium-born American ophthalmologist, surgeon, and insurgent (b. 1912)
• Caspar Weinberger, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
• March 29 – Don Alias, musician (b. 1939)
• March 30 – Philip Hyde, American wildlife photographer (b. 1921)
• March 31 – Jackie McLean, American jazz musician (b. 1931)

April

• April 3
• Marshall Goldberg, American football player (b. 1917)
• Al Harker, American soccer player (b. 1910)
• April 4 – Fred J. Christensen, American fighter pilot (b. 1921)
• April 5 – Gene Pitney, singer (b. 1941)
• April 6 – Francis L. Kellogg, diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
• April 9
• Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• Jimmy Outlaw, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• April 11
• June Pointer, American singer (b. 1953)
• Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
• April 15 – Louise Smith, American race car driver (b. 1916)
• April 16
• Morton Freedgood, American author (b. 1913)
• Daniel Schaefer, American politician (b. 1936)
• April 17
• Scott Brazil, television producer and director (b. 1955)
• Al Cederberg, American politician (b. 1918)
• April 19 – Bob Dove, American football player (b. 1921)
• April 24 – Sibby Sisti, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• April 25 – Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian writer and activist (b. 1916)
• April 29 – Alberta Nelson, American actress (b. 1937)

May

• May 1 – Big Hawk, American rapper (b. 1969)
• May 2 – Louis Rukeyser, American financial journalist, commentator, and columnist (b. 1933)
• May 4 – Michael Taliferro, American actor (b. 1961)
• May 6 – Lillian Asplund, last American survivor of the RMS Titanic (b. 1906)
• May 10 – A. M. Rosenthal, Canadian-American journalist (b. 1922)
• May 11
• Byron Morrow, American actor (b. 1911)
• Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
• May 12 – Gillespie V. Montgomery, general and politician (b. 1920)
• May 13
• Jaroslav Pelikan, historian (b. 1923)
• Johnnie Wilder Jr., R&B singer (b. 1949)
• May 14
• Lew Anderson, American actor and musician (b. 1922)
• Robert Bruce Merrifield, biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• May 21 – Billy Walker, country musician (b. 1929)
• May 23 – Lloyd Bentsen, U.S. Senator from Texas from 1971 to 1993 (b. 1921)
• May 27 – Paul Gleason, actor (b. 1939)
• May 28 – Ramsay D. Potts, American air force general (b. 1916)
• May 29 – Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944)
• May 30 – Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
• May 31 – Raymond Davis Jr., chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)

June

• June 1 – William Winn, American psychologist (b. 1945)
• June 2 – Vince Welnick, American keyboardist (b. 1951)
• June 6
• Billy Preston, American artist and musician (b. 1946)
• Hilton Ruiz, jazz pianist (b. 1952)
• June 7 – John Tenta, Canadian wrestler (b. 1963)
• June 8 – Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
• June 11 – Michael Bartosh, engineer and businessman (b. 1977)
• June 13
• Freddie Gorman, songwriter (b. 1939)
• Luis Jiménez, sculptor (b. 1940)
• June 17 – Arthur Franz, American actor (b. 1920)
• June 18
• Vincent Sherman, American movie director and actor (b. 1906)
• Richard Stahl, American actor (b. 1932)
• June 22 – Moose, canine actor (b. 1990)
• June 23 – Aaron Spelling, television producer (b. 1923)
• June 24 – Patsy Ramsey, American beauty pageant winner and mother of JonBenét Ramsey (b. 1956)
• June 25
• George W. Clarke, Washington State politician (b. 1906)
• Arif Mardin, Turkish-American music producer (b. 1932)
• June 27 – Eileen Barton, singer (b. 1924) .

July

• July 2 – Jan Murray, comedian, actor, and host (b. 1916)
• July 3 – Benjamin Hendrickson, actor (b. 1950)
• July 5 – Kenneth Lay, businessman (b. 1942)
• July 6 – Kasey Rogers, American actress and writer (b. 1925)
• July 7
• Reinhold O. Carlson, politician (b. 1905)
• John Money, New Zealand psychologist, sexologist and author (b. 1921)
• July 8 – June Allyson, actress (b. 1917)
• July 11 – Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
• July 13 – Red Buttons, actor and comedian (b. 1919)
• July 14 – Carrie Nye, American actress (b. 1936)
• July 16
• Destiny Norton, murder victim (b. 2000)
• Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, politician (b. 1948)
• July 17 – Mickey Spillane, writer (b. 1918)
• July 19 – Jack Warden, actor (b. 1920)
• July 21
• Mako, Japanese-American actor and singer (b. 1933)
• J. Madison Wright Morris, actress (b. 1984)
• July 30 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)

August

• August 1 – Rufus Harley, jazz musician (b. 1936)
• August 3 – Arthur Lee, musician (b. 1945)
• August 6 – Marcus Fiesel, murder victim (b. 2003)
• August 9 – James Van Allen, physicist (b. 1914)
• August 11 – Mike Douglas, talk show host and actor (b. 1920)
• August 13 – Tony Jay, English-American actor and voice artist (b. 1933)
• August 14 – Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
• August 16 – Herschel Green, fighter pilot (b. 1920)
• August 20 – Joe Rosenthal, photographer (b. 1911)
• August 21
• John Hulett, African American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
• William Norris, business executive (b. 1911)
• August 23 – Ed Warren, paranormal investigator and author (b. 1926)
• August 28
• Norman Hitchcock, pool and billiards player (b. 1929)
• Melvin Schwartz, Nobel-winning physicist (b. 1932)
• August 30 – Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b. 1916)

September

• September 1 – Nellie Connally, American socialite (b. 1919)
• September 2 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (b. 1930)
• September 7 – Robert Earl Jones, American actor and boxer (b. 1910)
• September 9 – Herbert Rudley, American actor (b. 1910)
• September 10
• Jane Hope Hastings (Katherine Kelenen), stage actress (b. 1902)
• Daniel Wayne Smith, American actor (b. 1986)
• September 11 – Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930)
• September 13 – Ann Richards, 45th Governor of Texas (1991–1995) (b. 1933)
• September 14 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
• September 17 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
• September 22 – Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
• September 23 – Etta Baker, American piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1913)
• September 24 – Henry Townsend, American blues musician (b. 1909)
• September 26
• Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
• Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American propagandist for Japan in World War II (b. 1916)
• September 30 – Josh Graves, American bluegrass musician (b. 1927)

October

• October 2
• Frances Bergen, American actress (b. 1922)
• Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
• October 5 – George King, American basketball player and coach (b. 1928)
• October 6 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
• October 7 – Anna Politkovskaya, American-born Russian journalist (b. 1958)
• October 9 – Glenn Myernick, American soccer player and coach (b. 1954)
• October 11 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
• October 13 – Hilda Terry, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
• October 14
• Freddy Fender, American singer (b. 1937)
• Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937)
• October 17 – Megan Meier, notable victim (b. 1992)
• October 18 – Alvin Weinberg, American nuclear physicist (b. 1915)
• October 19 – Phyllis Kirk, American actress (b. 1927)
• October 20 – Jane Wyatt, actress (b. 1910)
• October 21 – Sandy West, rock musician, former member of The Runaways (b. 1959)
• October 22 – Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (b. 1922)
• October 24 – Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
• October 27
• Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
• Brad Will, American activist (b. 1970)
• October 28 – Red Auerbach, basketball coach and official (b. 1917)
• October 29 – Silas Simmons, Pre-Negro league baseball player, longest-lived professional baseball player (b. 1895)
• October 30 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)

November

• November 1
• Adrienne Shelly, actress & director (b. 1966)
• William Styron, writer (b. 1925)
• November 2
• Red Hayworth, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• Carroll Knicely, American publisher (b. 1929)
• Leonard Schrader, American screenwriter (b. 1943)
• November 3
• Belden Bly, American teacher (b. 1914)
• Sputnik Monroe, American professional wrestler (b. 1928)
• November 4
• Nelson S. Bond, American writer (b. 1908)
• William Lee Brent, American Black Panther Party member (b. 1931)
• November 5 – Samuel Bowers, American Ku Klux Klansman and convicted killer (b. 1924)
• November 7 – Johnny Sain, American baseball player (b. 1917)
• November 8 – Basil Poledouris, American composer (b. 1945)
• November 9 – Ed Bradley, African-American journalist (b. 1941)
• November 10
• Gerald Levert, American singer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1966)
• Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
• November 14
• Sumner Shapiro, American admiral (b.1926)
• Pete Suder, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• November 16 – Milton Friedman, American Nobel economist (b. 1912)
• November 17
• Ruth Brown, American singer (b. 1928)
• Bo Schembechler, American college football player, coach, and athletic administrator (b. 1929)
• November 19 – Jeremy Slate, American actor and songwriter (b. 1926)
• November 20
• Robert Altman, film director (b. 1925)
• Andre Waters, American football player and coach (b. 1962)
• November 23
• Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
• Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
• November 24 – Walter Booker, American jazz bassist (b. 1933)
• November 25 – Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (b. 1919)
• November 26 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
• November 29 – Emmett Kelly Jr. American clown (b. 1924)
• November 30 – Shirley Walker, composer and conductor for film and television (b. 1945)

December

• December 2 – Kari Edwards, poet (b. 1954)
• December 3 – Logan Whitehurst, musician (b. 1977)
• December 7 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b. 1926)
• December 8 – Martha Tilton, singer (b. 1915)
• December 9 – Georgia Gibbs, singer (b. 1919)
• December 11 – Elizabeth Bolden, supercentenarian (b. 1890)
• December 12
• Paul Arizin, basketball player (b. 1928)
• Peter Boyle, actor (b. 1935)
• Ellis Rubin, attorney and author (b. 1925)
• Raymond P. Shafer, politician (b. 1917)
• December 13
• Lamar Hunt, sports executive (b. 1932)
• Homesick James, blues musician (b. 1910)
• Rebecca Riley, murder victim (b. 2002)
• December 14 – Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
• December 16 – Marjorie F. Lambert, American archaeologist, anthropologist (b. 1908)
• December 18 – Joseph Barbera, cartoonist (b. 1911)
• December 25 – James Brown, American musician (b. 1933)
• December 26 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (1974–1977) (b. 1913)
• December 29 – Red Wolf, American bucking bull (b. 1988)
• December 31 – Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist (b. 1922)

See also

• 2006 in American soccer
• 2006 in American television
• List of American films of 2006
• Timeline of United States history (1990–2009)

References

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