Those who went through the pearly gates in 2006:
Buck Owens
Syd Barrett
Lou Rawls
Wilson Pickett
Gene Pitney
June Pointer (one of the Pointer Sisters)
Billy Preston (tickled the ivory keys both for The Beatles and the Rolling Stones)
James Brown (the "Godfather of Soul")
Akira Ifukube (composer - wrote music for Godzilla)
Peter Boyle
Jack Palance
Don Knotts
Dennis Weaver
Darren McGavin
Robert Sterling
Mike Douglas
Glenn Ford
Steve Irwin ("The Crocodile Hunter")
Peter Benchley (writer of
Jaws)
Mickey Spillane (writer)
Tim Hildebrandt (artist)
Joseph Barbera (the creator of Boo Boo, who btw was subsequently banned from these premises)
Coretta Scott King (MLK Jr's wife)
Dana Reeve (Christopher Reeve's wife)
Chris Penn (Sean Penn's younger brother)
Aaron Spelling (Tori Spelling's father)
Gerald R. Ford - the 38th U.S. President.
source:
Dead People Server - Celebrities and Notable People Who Died in the Year 2006
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden (from wiki: née Jones; August 15, 1890 – December 11, 2006) was an American super-centenarian woman who, at the time of her death at [the] age [of] 116.