2006 Deaths
2006 (MMVI) was a common year that started on a Sunday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2006th year of Anno Domini or Common Era designation, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, and the 7th of the 2000s decade.
2006 was designated the:
- International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
- International Asperger's Year.
- Year of Mozart, marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)