* 1912 – Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan politician ( d. 2006 )

* November 3 – Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay ( d. 2006 )

Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda ( also Strössner or Strößner ; November 3, 1912 – August 16, 2006 ), was a Paraguayan military officer and the country's president from 1954 to 1989.

Stroessner died on August 16, 2006, in Brasília, at the age of 93.

Pole died in July 2006.

She died in 2006 at the age of 96.

* Milan Williams ( keyboards, trombone, rhythm guitar ) – born March 28, 1948, Okolona, Mississippi, died of cancer, July 9, 2006, Houston, Texas.

Brown died on Christmas Day 2006 from heart failure after becoming ill two days earlier and being hospitalized for hours.

Following a long history of heart disease, he died a few days after his 75th birthday on 27 January 2006.

He died of heart failure at the age of 94 years in San Francisco on November 16, 2006.

During the Vierdaagse of 2006 two people died due to the extreme hot weather ( both had pre-existing health issues ).

General Augusto Pinochet, who died on December 10, 2006, was never brought to trial for the murders, although Townley implicated him as being responsible for them.

One prisoner, Julian Ernesto Guevara Castro, a police officer, died of tuberculosis on 28 January 2006.

In January 2006, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister of the UAE and the ruler of Dubai, died, and Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum assumed both roles.

** Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright ( died 2006 )

* January 14 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist ( died 2006 )

** Betty Friedan, American feminist ( died 2006 )

* February 11 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician ( died 2006 )

* February 28 – Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot ( died 2006 )

* April 9 – Frankie Thomas, American actor ( died 2006 )

* April 25 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter ( died 2006 )

* July 15 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( died 2006 )

* September 12 – Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer ( died 2006 )

** Malcolm Arnold, British music composer ( died 2006 )

** Ron Greenwood, English football manager ( died 2006 )

Altman died on November 20, 2006, at age 81 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood.

* Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević was brought to trial for alleged war crimes, but died in custody in 2006 before the trial could be concluded after more than 4 years of proceedings.

Of these, 18 riders died in the period 2006 – 2008.

However, several landmarks have been achieved in the fight against it in Latin America, including a reduction by 72 % of the incidence of human infection in children and young adults in the countries of the Southern Cone Initiative, and at least three countries ( Uruguay, in 1997, and Chile, in 1999, and Brazil in 2006 ) have been certified free of vectorial and transfusional transmission.

A 2006 study from Brazil examined data from testing children during 1930 and 2002 – 2004, the largest time gap ever considered.

* 2006 – Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo ( Brazil ), leaving at least 150 dead.

* 2006 – 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.

* Brazil, 1974 – 1983, 1984 – 2000, 2000 – 2006, 2008 – present ;

In 2006, the band played several one-off live dates as well as short tours in the UK, Brazil and Argentina.

United States 30 %, Mainland China 11 %, Japan 6 %, Chile 5 % Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, Brazil ( 2006 )

* Brazil – Published in Brazil since October 2006 by Spring Comunicações.

* 2006 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 total people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.

* Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected ( 2002 ) and reelected ( 2006 ) President of Brazil.

An assembly last met in Porto Alegre, Brazil in February 2006, under the theme " God, in your grace, transform the world ".

* Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 14 – 23 February 2006

In defeating Brazil, 1 – 0 on 1 July 2006, Barthez, having made only one save in the game, became the first keeper to blank the Brazilian team in consecutive World Cup finals matches, the first being the 1998 final ( 3 – 0 ).

It was matched by England in 1966 ( who played six matches ) and Brazil in 1994 ( who played seven ), but was not surpassed until 1998 when France won the World Cup conceding only two goals over seven games, Italy in 2006 and Spain in 2010.

Its presidential candidate in the 2006 general elections, Heloísa Helena is termed a Trotskyist who was a member of the Workers Party of Brazil ( PT ), a legislative deputy in Alagoas and in 1999 was elected to the Federal Senate.

In Brazil, however, a 2006 federal decree requires allowance of guide dogs in all public and open to public places.

* Cardoso, Fernando Henrique ( 2006 ) The Accidental President of Brazil, PublicAffairs, ISBN 1-58648-324-2

Only Brazil matched England's record of reaching the quarter final in tournaments in 2002, 2004 and 2006.

As of 2010, both Master System and Sega Mega Drive are still being produced in Brazil, now with several games running direct from the memory, and, as of 2006, the cartridge slots have been removed from the Master System, as the cartridges aren't marketed anymore.

Since 2006, Rosselló runs a Caribbean-themed bar in the city of Campinas, located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, where he also owns a jewelry store.

* Human mobility in the triple border of Peru, Colombia and Brazil, Márcia Maria de Oliveira, São Paulo May / August 2006 ( abstract in English, text in Portuguese ).

In 2006, Isobel Campbell's collaboration with Mark Lanegan, Ballad of the Broken Seas, was included in the shortlist, despite Lanegan being American while Guillemots, whose album was also nominated in 2006, contained band members from Brazil and Canada.