Deaths in September 2005
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2005.
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.
September 2005
1
- Terry Albritton, 50, American shotputter.[1]
- Manuel Ausensi, 85, Spanish opera singer.[2]
- R. L. Burnside, 78, American blues musician.[3]
- Barry Cowsill, 50, American pop-singer and writer, victim of Hurricane Katrina.[4] (body discovered on this date)
- Raj Kamal, 77, Indian composer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Yang Kuan, 91, Chinese historian.
- Jacob Akiba Marinsky, 87, American chemist, co-discoverer of the element Promethium, multiple myeloma.[5]
- Zdobysław Stawczyk, 82, Polish Olympic sprinter.[6]
- Jack D. Walker, 83, American politician and physician.
2
- Tom Bailey, 56, American gridiron footballer, heart attack and complications from atherosclerosis.[7]
- Bob Denver, 70, American actor (Gilligan's Island, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Good Guys), throat cancer.[8]
- Adrian Karsten, 45, American ESPN announcer, suicide by hanging.[9]
- Thure Lindgren, 84, Swedish ski jumper.[10]
- Alexandru Paleologu, 86, Romanian diplomat.[11]
3
- R. S. R. Fitter, 92, British natural historian.[12]
- Robert W. Funk, 79, American biblical scholar, founder of the Jesus Seminar, lung failure.[13]
- Edward Hepple, 91, Australian actor, producer, director, playwright and television scriptwriter.
- Bernard S. Meyer, 89, American lawyer and politician.[14]
- William Rehnquist, 80, American lawyer and jurist, Chief Justice of the United States, thyroid cancer.[15]
- James Rossi, 69, American Olympic cyclist.[16]
- Ekkehard Schall, 75, German actor.[17]
- Fernando Távora, 82, Portuguese architect and professor.
4
- Kenneth R. Andrews, 89, American business writers and academic.
- Lloyd Avery II, 36, American actor (Boyz n the Hood) and convicted murderer, strangled.
- Nancy Buttfield, 92, Australian politician.[18]
- Grigóris Grigoríou, 86, Greek screenwriter and film director.
- Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann, 67, Filipino-American microbiologist and botanist, Parkinson's disease.
- Alan Truscott, 80, British bridge player, writer, and editor, one of the best known bridge columnists.[19]
- Arnold Weinstein, 78, American poet, playwright, and librettist, liver cancer.[20]
5
- Hank Anderson, 84, American basketball coach and athletics director.[21]
- Walther Heissig, 91, Austrian mongolist.[22]
- Heinz Melkus, 77, East German race car driver and constructor of sport cars.
- Rizal Nurdin, 57, Indonesian politician, Governor of North Sumatra, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crash.[23]
- Raja Inal Siregar, 67, Indonesian politician, former Governor of North Sumatra, Indonesia, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crash.
6
- Eugenia Charles, 86, Dominican politician, Prime Minister (1980–1995), pulmonary embolism.[24]
- Karl Vorse Krombein, 93, American entomologist.[25]
- Mark Matthews, 111, American supercentenarian and Army first Sergeant, oldest living Buffalo Soldier.[26]
- Dhan Singh Thapa, 77, Indian Army officer and recipient of the Param Vir Chakra.
- Bob Warlick, 64, American basketball player.[27]
7
- Omar Ali-Shah, 82/3, Afghan Sufi teacher.[28]
- Moussa Arafat, 65, Palestinian former head of general security in Gaza, cousin of Yasser Arafat, shot.[29]
- Sergio Endrigo, 72, Italian singer and songwriter, cancer.[30]
- Nicolino Locche, 66, Argentine world boxing champion, heart attack.
- Edoardo Mulargia, 79, Italian director and screenwriter.
- L. J. K. Setright, 74, British motoring journalist, lung cancer.[31]
- Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie, 81, Scottish politician, Lord Advocate (1970–1974).
- Finnbogi Ísakson, 62, Faroese journalist, writer, and politician.
8
- Boris Bittker, 88, American legal academic.[32]
- Noel Cantwell, 73, Irish soccer player, former Manchester United captain, cancer.
- Stanley Dancer, 78, American harness racing driver and trainer, prostate cancer.[33]
- Donald Horne, 83, Australian academic, historian, philosopher and intellectual, pulmonary fibrosis.[34]
- Milena Hübschmannová, 72, Czech professor of Romani studies, traffic collision.[35]
- Hans Keiter, 95, German field handball player.[36]
- David Pearce, 63, British economist, leukemia.
- Lewis E. Platt, 64, American businessman and former Hewlett-Packard CEO, intracranial aneurysm.[37]
9
- Giuliano Bonfante, 101, Italian linguistics expert.[38]
- John Wayne Glover, 72, Australian convicted serial killer nicknamed "The Granny Killer", suicide by hanging.
- André Pousse, 85, French actor, traffic collision.[39]
- Mel Wanzo, 74, American jazz trombonist.[40]
- Xiong Xianghui, 86, Chinese Communist Party spy during the Chinese Civil War.
10
- Theodore Barber, 78, American psychologist known for his critical studies of hypnosis, ruptured aorta.[41]
- Hermann Bondi, 85, Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist.[42]
- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, 81, American blues musician.[43]
- Erich Kuby, 95, German journalist, publisher and screenwriter.[44]
- Lea Nikel, 86, Israeli abstract artist.[45]
- Charlie Williams, 61, American Major League Baseball umpire, complications of diabetes.[46]
- Emerson Stewart Williams, 95, American modernist architect.[47]
11
- Messias José Baptista, 37, Brazilian Olympic athlete, leukemia.[48]
- Al Casey, 89, American jazz guitarist, colon cancer.[49]
- Steve de Shazer, 65, American psychotherapist, developer of solution focused brief therapy.
- Abdallah Ibrahim, 87, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1958-1960).[50]
- Naphtali Lewis, 93, American papyrologist and egyptologist.[51]
- Chris Schenkel, 82, American sportscaster, emphysema.[52]
- Henryk Tomaszewski, 91, Polish graphic artist.[53]
12
- Helmut Baierl, 78, German playwright.[54]
- Honey Harlow, 78, American stripper and showgirl, colitis.
- Serge Lang, 78, American mathematician and political activist.[55]
- Ronald Leigh-Hunt, 88, British actor.[56]
- Alain Polaniok, 46, French footballer.
- Fritz Schilgen, 99, German athlete and final Olympic torchbearer at the 1936 Summer Games..[57]
- Haydee Yorac, 64, Filipino lawyer and public servant, ovarian cancer.
13
- Julio César Turbay Ayala, 89, Colombian lawyer and politician, President (1978–1982).[58]
- Hong Deok-young, 84, South Korean football player, manager and referee.
- Tom Felleghy, 83, Hungarian-born Italian actor.
- Toni Fritsch, 60, Austrian-American gridiron football player (Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers, Houston Oilers, New Orleans Saints), cardioplegia, heart attack.[59]
- Fiorella Ghilardotti, 59, Italian socialist politician and trade unionist, sudden illness.[60]
- Cyril Harris, 68, South African rabbi, cancer.
- Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, 90, Brazilian composer, teacher and musicologist.[61]
- Chieko Nakakita, 79, Japanese actress.[62]
14
- William Berenberg, 89, American physician, professor of pediatrics, emeritus, at Harvard Medical School.[63]
- Henry Kaplan, 79, American television director.[64]
- Frances Newton, 40, American convict, first African American woman executed in Texas since 1858, lethal injection.
- Mirai, 22, Japanese professional wrestler, accidental drowning.
- Pavel Andreyevich Taran, 88, Soviet and Russian bomber pilot during World War II and war hero.
- Vladimir Volkoff, 72, French-Russian spy novelist.[65]
- Mary Wade, 77, Australian palaeontologist.
- Robert Wise, 91, American film director (The Sound of Music, West Side Story), Oscar winner (1962), heart failure.[66]
15
- Samuel Azu Crabbe, 77, Ghanaian jurist, Chief Justice of Ghana (1973-1977).
- Lennart Ekdahl, 92, Swedish sailor.[67]
- Guy Green, 91, British film director and noted cinematographer, kidney failure.[68]
- Walther Heissig, 91, Austrian mongolist.
- Jeronimas Kačinskas, 98, Lithuanian-American classical composer and conductor.[69]
- Sidney Luft, 89, American film producer, Judy Garland's third and last surviving husband, heart attack.[70]
- Franko Luin, 64, Slovenian-Swedish typographer and type designer.
- Agim Murati, 52, Albanian football striker player.
16
- Stanley Burnshaw, 99, American poet and literary figure.[71]
- Harry Freedman, 83, Polish-Canadian composer, English hornist, and music educator, cancer.[72]
- Gordon Gould, 85, American pioneer in laser technology.[73]
- Jay M. Gould, 90, American epidemiologist and anti-nuclear activist, heart disease.[74]
- Arkadiusz Gołaś, 24, Polish Olympic volleyball player, traffic collision.[75]
- Jean-Claude Guiguet, 65, French film director and screenwriter, cancer.[76]
- Donald S. Harrington, 91, American politician and religious leader.[77]
- Harold Q. Masur, 96, American novelist.[78]
- John McMullen, 87, American businessman, naval architect and Major League Baseball executive.[79]
- Constance Moore, 85, American actress (Buck Rogers).[80]
- Mzukisi Sikali, 34, South African boxer, stabbed.
- Jerzy Sołtan, 92, Polish architect.[81]
- F. K. Waechter, 67, German cartoonist, author, and playwright.[82]
17
- Donn Clendenon, 70, American baseball player, MVP of the 1969 World Series, leukemia.[83]
- Hermidita, 80, Spanish football player.
- Thorstein Kråkenes, 81, Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist.
- Jacques Lacarrière, 79, French author and classical translator.[84]
- Ray Lemek, 71, American gridiron football player.[85]
- Jack Lesberg, 85, American jazz bassist.[86]
- Les Perry, 82, Australian Olympic long-distance runner.[87]
- Alfred Reed, 84, American neo-classical composer.[88]
- S. L. Puram Sadanandan, 77, Indian playwright and film scriptwriter, India.
18
- Richard E. Cunha, 83, American cinematographer and director.[89]
- Sandra Feldman, 65, American advocate for disadvantaged students, teacher and labor leader, breast cancer.[90]
- Frank Fields, 91, American double bass player.[91]
- Joel Hirschhorn, 67, American Academy Award-winning songwriter.[92]
- Richard Holden, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician, suicide.
- Noel Mander, 93, British organ maker and restorer.[93]
- Otto Friedrich August Meinardus, 79, German coptologist, pastor and author.[94]
- Michael Park, 39, British rally co-pilot, rally accident.
- Rupert Riedl, 80, Austrian zoologist and advocate of evolutionary epistemology.[95]
- Yegor Yakovlev, 75, Russian journalist, leading opponent of press censorship.[96]
19
- John Bromfield, 83, American actor and commercial fisherman, renal failure.
- Masaharu Gotōda, 91, Japanese bureaucrat and politician, pneumonia.
- Marv Grissom, 87, American baseball player and pitching coach.[97]
- Willie Hutch, 59, American record producer, singer and songwriter.[98]
- Isao Nakauchi, 83, Japanese businessman, founder of Daiei, stroke.[99]
- John Rayner, 81, German-British rabbi.[100]
- William Vacchiano, 93, American trumpeter and professor of music.[101]
20
- Matest M. Agrest, 90, Russian ethnologist.
- Yuri Aizenshpis, 60, Russian music manager and producer, liver cirrhosis.
- Joe Bauman, 83, American longtime minor league baseball recordholder (72 home runs in 1954), pneumonia.[102]
- Gordon Carroll, 77, American film producer (Alien, Cool Hand Luke, Red Heat), heart attack.
- Charles L. Harness, 89, American science fiction writer.[103]
- Tobias Schneebaum, 83, American writer, artist, and explorer.[104]
- Simon Wiesenthal, 96, Austrian Holocaust survivor and nazi hunter and writer.[105]
21
- Harry Heltzer, 94, American inventor, former CEO of 3M.[106]
- Mustai Karim, 85, Soviet and Russian poet, writer and playwright.
- Ramón Martín Huerta, 48, Mexican politician, minister of public security, helicopter crash.[107]
- Preben Philipsen, 95, Danish film producer.[108]
- Félix Javier Pérez, 33, Puerto Rican basketball player, shot.[109]
- Joseph Smagorinsky, 81, American meteorologist and mathematician, complications of Parkinson's disease.[110]
- Albert Tocco, 77, American convicted organized crime boss, stroke.[111]
- Molly Yard, 93, American feminist, former president of the U.S. National Organization for Women.[112]
22
- Monty Basgall, 83, American baseball coach.[113]
- Joop Doderer, 84, Dutch actor known for playing the character Swiebertje, heart attack.[114]
- Heimo Erbse, 81, German composer.[115]
- Bayaman Erkinbayev, 38, Kyrgyz former wrestler, businessman, and politician, shot.[116]
- Annemarie Heinrich, 93, German-Argentine photographer.
- Leavander Johnson, 35, American former IBF lightweight boxing champion, brain injury suffered in bout.[117]
- Silvano Meconi, 73, Italian Olympic shot putter.[118]
- Hans Samelson, 89, German-American mathematician.[119]
23
- John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, 80, British television producer.[120]
- Roger Brierley, 70, British actor (Young Sherlock Holmes, A Fish Called Wanda, About a Boy).
- Apolônio de Carvalho, 93, Brazilian socialist politician and founder of Brazil's Workers' Party.[121]
- Betty Leslie-Melville, 78, American wildlife conservationist and giraffe expert, complications of dementia.[122]
- Ivica Miljković, 58, Croatian football player.[123]
- Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, 72, Puerto Rican nationalist and leader of the Boricua Popular Army, shot by the FBI.[124]
- Jim Taylor, 85, Australian politician.
24
- Tommy Bond, 79, American actor known for playing Butch on Our Gang, heart disease.[125]
- Leopold B. Felsen, 81, German leading physicist in the study of waves, holocaust survivor, complications of surgery.[126]
- Yuri Moiseyev, 65, Russian ice hockey player.[127]
- Frank Smith, 77, American baseball player.[128]
- Sulo Suorttanen, 84, Finnish lawyer, civil servant and politician.
- André Testut, 79, Monegasque Formula One driver.[129]
- Theodore L. Thomas, 85, American chemical engineer and patent attorney.
- Bala Usman, 59-60, Nigerian academic, politician and historian.[130]
25
- Don Adams, 82, American actor (Get Smart, Inspector Gadget, Check It Out!), lymphoma.[131]
- George Archer, 65, American golfer and 1969 Masters winner, Burkitt's lymphoma.[132]
- Georges Arvanitas, 74, French-born Greek jazz pianist and composer.[133]
- Sally Anne Bowman, 18, English hairdresser and model.
- Urie Bronfenbrenner, 88, Russian-American professor of psychology, complications of diabetes.[134]
- Lou Carter, 87, American jazz pianist, composer, and songwriter.[135]
- Leland Clark, 86, American biochemist.
- Ghulam Mustafa Khan, 93, Pakistani researcher, literary critic, linguist, author, and spiritual leader.
- Lionel Kochan, 83, British historian, leukemia.[136]
- Steve Marcus, 66, American jazz saxophonist.[137]
- M. Scott Peck, 69, American psychiatrist and author, pancreatic cancer.[138]
- Friedrich Peter, 84, Austrian politician and Waffen-SS Obersturmführer during World War II, kidney failure.
26
- Helen Cresswell, 71, British author of children's literature, ovarian cancer.[139]
- Henrik Flöjt, 53, Finnish biathlete, world champion and Olympic medalist.[140]
- Heidi Genée, 66, German film editor, director and screenwriter.[141]
- Izuo Hayashi, 83, Japanese physicist.
- Jozef Karel, 83, Slovak football player and coach.[142]
27
- Jack Burmaster, 78, American basketball player and coach.[143]
- Karl Decker, 84, Austrian football player and manager.
- Ronald Golias, 76, Brazilian comedian.
- Jerry Juhl, 67, American writer and puppeteer (The Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock), pancreatic cancer.[144]
- John McCabe, 84, American biographer of Laurel and Hardy.[145]
- Ronald Pearsall, 77, English author.[146]
- Mary Lee Settle, 87, American author (the Beulah Quintet), lung cancer.[147]
- Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen, 47, Dutch film director, cancer.[148]
- Roger Tréville, 102, French actor.[149]
28
- Ahmad Abdullah, 64, Malaysian accountant and politician.[150]
- Pol Bury, 83, Belgian sculptor.[151]
- Enric Gensana, 69, Spanish football player.[152]
- Constance Baker Motley, 84, American civil rights lawyer, congestive heart failure.[153]
- Ihor Rybak, 70, Ukrainian weightlifter and Olympic champion.[154]
- Leo Sternbach, 97, Austrian-native chemist, known as the "Father of Valium".[155]
- Boris Uspensky, 78, Soviet and Russian poster and graphics painter.
29
- Olga de Alaketu, 80, Benin-Brazilian Candomblé high priestess, complications of diabetes.[156]
- Patrick Caulfield, 69, British artist.[157]
- Benjamin DeMott, 81, American writer, scholar, and cultural critic, cardiac arrest, heart attack.[158]
- Robert Dorgebray, 89, French cyclist and Olympic champion.[159]
- Yuri Sapega, 40, Belarusian volleyball player and coach, heart attack.
- Gennadi Sarafanov, 63, Soviet Soyuz 15 cosmonaut.
- Mogens Schou, 86, Danish psychiatrist.
- Bruce Stewart, 80, New Zealand-British actor and scriptwriter.[160]
- Ivar Karl Ugi, 75, German chemist.
30
- Monika Hellwig, 74, German-American theologian and Roman Catholic lay leader, cerebral hemorrhage.[161]
- Renzo Nostini, 91, Italian fencer and Olympic multiple silver medalist .[162]
- Andrew P. O'Meara, 98, United States Army general, stroke.[163]
- Sergey Starostin, 52, Soviet and Russian linguist, heart attack.
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