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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2004.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
1
- Kenneth Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, British life peer and chairman of Rolls-Royce, Beecham Group, and STC.[1]
- Delkash, 80, Iranian singer and actress.
- Kaye Elhardt, 69, American television actress.
- Herbert Haft, 84, American pharmacists and businessman, congestive heart failure.[2]
- Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, Syrian Grand Mufti, heart attack.
- Alan Stewart, 86, New Zealand educator and university administrator.
2
- Tom Capone, 38, Brazilian music producer and guitar player, traffic collision.
- Billy Davis, 72, American songwriter, record producer, and commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke).[3]
- Kieth Engen, 79, American operatic bass singer.[4]
- Bob O. Evans, 77, American computer scientist.[5]
- Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, 88, German actor.[6]
- Donald Leslie, 93, American audio engineer and inventor of the Leslie speaker.
- Francesco Mander, 88, Italian conductor and composer.[7]
- Joan Oró, 80, Spanish biochemist.[8]
- Vonda Phelps, 89, American child stage actress, vaudeville performer and dancer.
- Paul Shmyr, 58, Canadian NHL hockey player, throat cancer.[9]
- Rose Slivka, 85, American writer, critic and editor.[10]
- Eleni Zafeiriou, 88, Greek film actress.[11]
3
- Archer Blood, 81, American career diplomat and academic.[12]
- Yanis Kanidis, 74, Russian physical education teacher, killed by Chechen extremists.
- André Stil, 83, French novelist, short story writer, occasional poet, and political activist.[13]
- Frenchy Uhalt, 94, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[14]
4
- George Baird, 97, American sprint runner.[15]
- Samira Bellil, 31, French feminist activist, campaigner for Muslim girls'- and women's rights, stomach cancer.[16]
- Walter Campbell, 83, Australian judge, administrator and governor.[17]
- Alphonso Ford, 33, American Euroleague basketball player, leukemia.
- Serge Marquand, 74, French actor, leukemia.[18]
- Moe Norman, 75, Canadian PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure.
- James O. Page, 68, American chief of Emergency Medical Services, heart attack.[19]
5
- Winston Anglin, 42, Jamaican football player, traffic collision.[20]
- Red Cochran, 82, American gridiron football player and later NFL scout.[21]
- Gerald Merrithew, 73, Canadian politician and federal cabinet minister, cancer.
- Gerard Piel, 89, American science writer and editor (Scientific American), stroke.[22]
6
- Antonio Corpora, 95, Tunisian-Italian painter.[23]
- Netzahualcóyotl de la Vega, 73, Mexican trade union leader and politician.
- Morey Leonard Sear, 75, American judge (United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana).[24]
- Harvey Wheeler, 85, American political scientist and author (Fail-Safe), cancer.[25]
7
- Ashfaq Ahmad, 79, Pakistani writer, playwright and broadcaster, gallbladder cancer.[26]
- Bob Boyd, 84, American Major League Baseball player, first black player to sign with the Chicago White Sox.[27]
- Lev Burchalkin, 65, Soviet football player and Russian coach.[28]
- Kirk Fordice, 70, American politician, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia.
- Fritha Goodey, 31, British actress (About a Boy), suicide by stabbing.[29]
- Beyers Naudé, 89, South African theologian and anti-apartheid activist.[30]
- Miriam Pires, 78, Brazilian actress, toxoplasmosis.
- Gong Qiuxia, 85, Chinese actress and singer.
- Hal Reniff, 66, American baseball player (New York Yankees, New York Mets).[31]
- Munir Said Thalib, 38, Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic poisoning.
- L.E. White, 74, American Grammy Award-winning songwriter, singer and musician.
8
- John F. Bolt, 83, United States Marine Corps flying ace during World War II and the Korean War.
- Francis Burt, 86, Australian jurist.[32]
- Richard Girnt Butler, 86, American white supremacist, founder of the Aryan Nations, heart failure.[33]
- Matías Prats Cañete, 90, Spanish radio and television journalist, kidney disease.[34]
- Mohammad Jusuf, 76, Indonesian military general.
- Raymond Marcellin, 90, French politician, Minister of the Interior (1968–1974).[35]
- Bror Mellberg, 80, Swedish football player.[36]
- Tsutomu Mizukami, 85, Japanese writer of novels, biographies, and plays.[37]
- Dan Spătaru, 64, Romanian singer, heart attack.
- Manuel María Fernández Teixeiro, 74, Spanish poet and academic.[38]
- Frank Thomas, 91, American animator (Cinderella, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp), cerebral hemorrhage.[39]
- James Westphal, 74, American scientist, engineer, and astronomer.[40]
9
- Luis Advis, 69, Chilean professor of philosophy and music composer.[41]
- Ernie Ball, 74, American guitar equipment maker.
- Aleksei Barkalov, 58, Ukrainian water polo player and Olympic champion.[42]
- Caitlin Clarke, 52, American theater and film actress, ovarian cancer.[43]
- Ralph Hawkins, 69, American football coach, dementia.[44]
- Jean-Daniel Pollet, 68, French film director and screenwriter.[45]
10
- Brock Adams, 77, American politician, Parkinson's disease.[46]
- Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, 45, Yemeni islamist, politician and military leader, killed in action.
- Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer, teacher, and pianist.[47]
- Leonard Birchall, 89, Canadian Air Force officer.
- Richard Karlan, 85, American actor.[48]
- Ken Meuleman, 81, Australian cricket player.[49]
- Glyn Owen, 76, British actor (Emergency – Ward 10, Howards' Way), cancer.[50]
11
- Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, 55, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash.[51]
- Aaron Director, 102, Russian-American economist and academic.
- Fred Ebb, 71, American Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack.[52]
- Margaret Kelly, 94, Irish dancer and founder of the Bluebell Girls.[53]
- David Mann, 64, American graphic artist.
12
- Max Abramovitz, 96, American architect.[54]
- Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djiboutian politician, prime minister (1977–1978).[55]
- Kenny Buttrey, 59, American drummer and arranger, cancer.[56]
- Jerome Chodorov, 93, American playwright, My Sister Eileen.[57]
- Ray Simons, 91, South African communist, anti-apartheid activist, and trade unionist.
- Jack Turner, 84, American racecar driver.
- Dr. Wagner, 68, Mexican professional wrestler, or Luchador, heart attack.
13
- Charlie Brandt, 47, American serial killer, suicide by hanging.
- Bill Glassco, 69, Canadian theatre director and producer.[58]
- Luis E. Miramontes, 79, Mexican chemist.
- Glenn Presnell, 99, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions) and coach.[59]
- Eric Sams, 78, British musicologist and William Shakespeare scholar.[60]
14
- Fernando Campos, 80, Chilean football midfielder.
- Dakar, 83, Peruvian actor.
- Rota Onorio, 84, Kiribati politician.
- Richard Pierce, 86, American historian and scholar.[61]
- Giuni Russo, 53, Italian singer ("Un'estate al mare"), cancer.
- John Seymour, 90, British author and self-sufficiency advocate.[62]
- Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor.[63]
- Mamoru Takuma, 40, Japanese mass murderer (Ikeda school massacre), executed.[64]
15
- Donald G. Brotzman, 82, American politician.[65]
- Bernard Gribble, 77, British film editor (Top Secret!, Death Wish, The Jokers).
- Johnny Ramone, 55, American guitarist (The Ramones), prostate cancer.[66]
- Walter Stewart, 73, Canadian writer, editor and journalism educator, cancer.[67]
- Daouda Malam Wanké, 58, Nigerien military and political leader.
- Austin Herbert Woolrych, 86, English historian.[68]
16
- Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet.[69]
- Izora Armstead, 62, American singer, one of the two members of The Weather Girls, heart failure.[70]
- Michael Donaghy, 50, American poet and musician, brain haemorrhage.
- Ramón Gabilondo, 91, Spanish football player and manager.
- Claude Jaeger, 87, Swiss- French film producer and actor.[71]
- Livio Maitan, 81, Italian trotskyist and a leader of the Fourth International.[72]
- Giovanni Raboni, 72, Italian poet, translator and literary critic.[73]
- Dolly Rathebe, 76, South African singer and actress (Jim Comes To Jo'burg), stroke.[74]
17
- Katharina Dalton, 87, British physician, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome.[75]
- Evi Rauer, 88, Estonian actress and television director.[76]
- H. S. Rawail, 83, Indian filmmaker.
- Galina Rumiantseva, 77, Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist.
- Sudheer, Indian actor.
18
- Jim Barnett, 80, American professional wrestling promoter and executive, pneumonia.[77]
- Norman Cantor, 74, Canadian-American medieval scholar.[78]
- Kyohei Fujita, 83, Japanese glass artist.
- Russ Meyer, 82, American filmmaker, pneumonia.[79]
- Marvin Mitchelson, 76, American divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer.[80]
- Klara Rumyanova, 74, Soviet and Russian actress and voice actress, breast cancer.
19
- Eddie Adams, 71, American photojournalist, ALS.
- Árpád Bogsch, 85, Hungarian-American international civil servant.
- Stanley Clarke, 71, British businessman and philanthropist, colorectal cancer.[81]
- Skeeter Davis, 73, American country music singer, breast cancer.[82]
- Annabella Incontrera, 61, Italian film and television actress.
- Waldren "Frog" Joseph, 86, American jazz trombone player.[83]
- Damayanti Joshi, 76, Indian kathak dancer.
- Robert Lawrence, 90, Canadian film editor.[84]
- Ryhor Reles, 91, Belarusian Yiddish writer.
- Derald Ruttenberg, 88, American investor and industrialist.[85]
- Kenneth Sandford, 80, English singer and actor.[86]
- Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder, snowboarding accident.[87]
20
- Brian Clough, 69, English footballer, coach and manager, stomach cancer.
- Salil Dutta, 72, Indian Bengali director, screenwriter and actor.
- Pat Hanly, 72, New Zealand painter, Huntington's disease.[88]
- Townsend Hoopes, 82, American historian and government official, melanoma.[89]
- Štěpánka Mertová, 73, Czech Olympic discus thrower.[90]
- Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer and television journalist.
21
- Alan Beaumont, 69, Australian admiral, chief of Australian Defence Forces.
- Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.[91]
- Bob Mason, 53, British actor and writer, esophageal cancer.[92]
- David Pall, 90, Canadian-American chemist, invented sophisticated filters used in blood transfusions, Alzheimer's disease.[93]
- Larry Phillips, 62, American stock car racer.[94]
22
- Edward Larrabee Barnes, 89, American architect.[95]
- Cy Block, 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), Alzheimer's disease.[96]
- Winston Cenac, 79, Saint Lucian civil servant and politician.
- Big Boss Man, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man, heart attack.
- Pete Schoening, 77, American mountaineer, cancer.[97]
- Alex Wayman, 83, American tibetologist and indologist.[98]
23
- Bryce DeWitt, 81, American theoretical physicist, pancreatic cancer.[99]
- Roy Drusky, 74, American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry star, lung cancer.[100]
- André Hazes, 53, Dutch folk singer, heart failure.[101]
- Lucille Lisle, 96, Australian actress.
- Dominic Montserrat, 40, British egyptologist and papyrologist.[102]
- Nigel Nicolson, 89, British politician.[103]
- Bülent Oran, 80, Turkish screenwriter and actor.[104]
- Billy Reay, 86, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Chicago Black Hawks), liver cancer.[105]
- Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, American feminist and civil rights advocate.[106]
- Dido Sotiriou, 95, Greek novelist, journalist, and playwright, pneumonia.
24
- Tim Choate, 49, American actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident.[107]
- Raja Ramanna, 79, Indian nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program.[108]
- Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist and playwright, pulmonary embolism.[109]
- Roman Tsepov, 42, Russian businessman and confidant to Vladimir Putin, poisoned.
- Ron Willey, 74, Australian rugby player and coach.
25
- Ma Chengyuan, 76, Chinese archaeologist, president of Shanghai Museum, suicide.
- Michael Davies, 68, British writer on Roman Catholicism, cancer.[110]
- Nigel Davies, 84, British anthropologist and historian.[111]
- Marvin Davis, 79, American industrialist and philanthropist, owned Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach.[112]
- Alain Glavieux, 55, French mathematician and information technology pioneer.[113]
- Heinz Günther Guderian, 90, German Wehrmacht officer and Bundeswehr general after World War II.
- Robert C. James, 86, American mathematician.
- Arun Kolatkar, 71, Indian poet.[114]
- Giorgio Moser, 80, Italian film director and screenwriter.
26
- Víctor Cruz, 46, Dominican baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, Texas Rangers), liver problems.[115]
- Amjad Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida, killed by Pakistani security forces.[116]
- Einar Førde, 61, Norwegian journalist and politician of the Labour Party, cancer.
- Natik Hashim, 44, Iraqi football midfielder, heart attack.[117]
- Marianna Komlos, 35, Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model and professional wrestler, breast cancer.[118]
27
- Amanda Crowe, 76, American Cherokee woodcarver and educator.[119]
- Shobha Gurtu, 79, Indian singer.[120]
- John Edward Mack, 74, American psychiatrist and writer, killed by a drunken driver.[121]
- Louis Satterfield, 67, American bass and trombone player.
- Vittorio Sentimenti, 86, Italian football player.[122]
- Dick Stenberg, 83, Swedish Air Force lieutenant general.
- Bernard Slicher van Bath, 94, Dutch social historian.[123]
- Tsai Wan-lin, 80, Taiwanese billionaire businessman, cardiovascular disease.[124]
28
- Thea Altaras, 80, Croatian-German architect.
- Luigi Amerio, 92, Italian electrical engineer and mathematician.
- Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author, pneumonia.[125]
- Geoffrey Beene, 77, American fashion designer, pneumonia.[126]
- Christl Cranz, 90, German alpine ski racer.[127]
- Geo Dumitrescu, 84, Romanian poet and translator.
- Willis Hawkins, 90, American aeronautical engineer and director (Lockheed).[128]
- Scott Muni, 74, American radio disc jockey.[129]
- Viktor Rozov, 91, Soviet and Russian dramatist and screenwriter.[130]
- J. H. van Lint, 72, Dutch mathematician, professor and university president.
29
- Balamani Amma, 95, Indian poet, Alzheimer's disease.
- Ernst van der Beugel, 86, Dutch economist, businessman, diplomat and politician.
- FannyAnn Eddy, 30, Sierra Leonean LGBT activist, stabbed.[131]
- Christopher Hancock, 76, British television and theatre actor, heart attack.
- David Jackson, 49, New Zealand boxer.[132]
- Christer Pettersson, 57, Swedish criminal, suspected murderer of prime minister Olof Palme, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, racing accident.[133]
- Thure von Uexküll, 96, German scholar of psychosomatic medicine and biosemiotics.
- Heinz Wallberg, 81, German conductor.[134]
- Antje Weisgerber, 82, German film and television actress, and wife of actor Horst Caspar.[135]
- Shimon Wincelberg, (aka S. Bar David), 80, American television writer.[136]
- Patrick Wormald, 57, British historian.
30
- Isabel Freire de Matos, 89, Puerto Rican writer, educator, and journalist.
- Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician, heart attack.
- Jacques Levy, 69, American songwriter, theatre director and clinical psychologist.[137]
- Mathias Matthies, 93, German art director.
- Mildred McDaniel, 70, American high jumper and Olympic champion, cancer.
- Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch investigative journalist and author, cancer.[138]
- Michael Relph, 89, English film producer, art director and film director (nominated for Academy Award for Best Production Design for Saraband).[139]
- Shivaji, 47, Indian actor.
- Justin Strzelczyk, 36, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), car crash while leading police on chase.[140]
- Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor.[141]
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