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Notable deaths in 2006:

• James Brown - super funky wife beater
  
• Octavia Butler - science fiction writer
  
• Desmond Dekker - ska bandleader, singer, and songwriter
  
• Betty Friedan - author of The Feminine Mystique
  
• John Kenneth Galbraith - economist, author of The New Industrial State
  
• Stanislaw Lem - Polish science fiction writer
  
• Buck O'Neil - negro leauge baseball player, instrumental in getting negro league greats into the baseball hall of fame
  
• Wilson Pickett - soul and R&B singer
  
• Alan Shugart - pioneered the development of the disk drive