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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2006.
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
- Tommy Chesbro, 66, American wrestler and coach (Oklahoma State University), heart attack.[1]
- Nellie Connally, 87, American widow of Texas Governor John Connally, shared car at John F. Kennedy assassination.[2]
- Anil Kumar Dutta, 73, Indian artist, founder of Academy of Creative Art.
- György Faludy, 95, Hungarian poet, writer and translator.[3]
- Rashid Maidin, 89, Malaysian leader of the Communist Party.[4]
- Ronald Mansbridge, 100, British-born American publisher, founded first US branch of Cambridge University Press.[5]
- Richard Frewen Martin, 88, British fighter pilot and test pilot.[6]
- Warren Mitofsky, 72, American pollster, creator of the exit poll, heart failure.[7]
- Bob O'Connor, 61, American Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, brain cancer.[8]
- Travis I. Payze, 60, Australian footballer, prostate cancer.[9]
- Sir Kyffin Williams, 88, Welsh artist, lung and prostate cancer.[10]
- Pierre Monichon, 80, French musicologist and inventor of the Harmoneon.
2
- Bob Mathias, 75, American decathlete, twice Olympic gold medalist, United States Representative, cancer.[11]
- Deforrest Most, 89, American gymnast, helped establish Muscle Beach, heart failure.[12]
- Willi Ninja, 45, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS.[13]
- Clermont Pépin, 80, Canadian composer, liver cancer.[14]
- Silverio Pérez, 91, Mexican bullfighter, renal illness.[15]
- Lionel Pickering, 74, British businessman, chairman of Derby County, cancer.[16]
- Anthony Poon, 61, Singaporean abstract artist, lung cancer.[17]
- Dewey Redman, 75, American jazz saxophonist, father of Joshua Redman, liver failure.[18]
- Monty Stickles, 68, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), heart failure.[19]
- Charlie Williams, 77, British comedian and footballer (Doncaster Rovers), Parkinson's disease.[20]
- Sahibzada Muhammad Ishaq Zaffar, 61, Pakistani politician, heart attack.[21]
3
- Françoise Claustre, 69, French ethnologist and archaeologist.[22]
- Levi Fox, 92, British conservationist and historian, Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.[23]
- Ian Hamer, 73, British jazz trumpeter.[24]
- Eva Knardahl, 79, Norwegian classical pianist.[25]
- Annemarie Wendl, 91, German actress, heart failure.[26]
4
- Rémy Belvaux, 38, Belgian writer, film producer and director (Man Bites Dog), suicide.[27]
- Ingrid Bjoner, 78, Norwegian soprano.[28]
- John Conte, 90, American actor, founded TV station KMIR, natural causes.[29]
- Giacinto Facchetti, 64, Italian footballer, cancer.[30]
- James Fee, 56, American photographer, liver cancer.[31]
- Mark Anthony Graham, 33, Canadian Olympian and soldier, friendly fire.[32]
- Steve Irwin, 44, Australian naturalist (The Crocodile Hunter), stabbed in the chest by a stingray barb.[33]
- Khadaffy Janjalani, 31, Filipino militant, leader of Abu Sayyaf, shot.[34]
- Moses Khumalo, 26, South African jazz saxophonist, Best Newcomer at South African Music Awards (2002), suicide by hanging.[35]
- Clive Lythgoe, 79, British pianist.[36]
- Colin Thiele, 85, Australian children's author, heart failure.[37]
- Astrid Varnay, 88, American soprano.[38]
5
- Sir Michael Davies, 85, British jurist.[39]
- Anne Gregg, 66, British television presenter (Holiday), cancer.[40]
- Gösta Löfgren, 83, Swedish football player.[41]
- Hilary Mason, 89, British character actress.[42]
- John McLusky, 83, British comics artist (James Bond).[43]
- J. Bazzel Mull, 91, American Christianity preacher and gospel music promoter.[44]
6
- Warren Bolster, 59, American surf and skateboard photographer, suicide by gunshot.[45]
- Sir John Drummond, 71, British controller of BBC Radio 3 and The Proms.[46]
- Lovette George, 44, American Broadway theatre singer and actress, ovarian cancer.[47]
- Peter Greenough, 89, American finance columnist (The Boston Globe), husband of Beverly Sills, after long illness.[48]
- Peter Hyndman, 64, Canadian politician and lawyer, cancer.[49]
- Gordon Manning, 89, American television journalist (NBC and CBS), heart attack.[50]
- Sir Michael Marshall, 76, British politician, MP for Arundel (1974–1997), President of the Chichester Festival Theatre.[51]
- Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, c.50, Sudanese newspaper editor, beheaded.[52]
- Agha Shahi, 86, Pakistani diplomat and foreign minister, heart attack.[53]
- Mark Wright, 27, British soldier, posthumously awarded George Cross.[54]
7
- Efraim Allsalu, 77, Estonian painter.[55]
- Sir Norman Blacklock, 78, British physician, Medical Officer to the Queen (1976–1993).[56]
- Clem Coetzee, 67, Zimbabwean conservationist, heart attack.[57]
- James deAnda, 81, American lawyer and federal judge, part of the legal team in Hernandez v. Texas, prostate cancer.[58]
- Jorge di Giandoménico, 75, Argentine Olympic sports shooter.[59]
- Joan Donaldson, 60, American founding head of the CBC Newsworld television network, complications from injuries.[60]
- Sir Stephen Egerton, 74, British diplomat, Ambassador to Italy (1989–1992).[61]
- James Hawthorne, 74, British controller of the BBC in Northern Ireland (1979–1989).[62]
- Robert Earl Jones, 96, American actor, father of James Earl Jones.[63]
- Ronald St. John Macdonald, 78, Canadian legal academic and jurist.[64]
- Cornelius O'Leary, 78, Irish historian.[65]
- John M. Watson, 69, American jazz musician and actor, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[66]
8
- Hilda Bernstein, 99, British-born South African author and anti-apartheid activist, heart failure.[67]
- Peter Brock, 61, Australian touring car racer, car accident.[68]
- William Harper, 90, Rhodesian politician[69]
- Thomas Lee Judge, 71, American Governor of Montana (1973–1981), pulmonary fibrosis.[70]
- Frank Middlemass, 87, British character actor (As Time Goes By).[71]
- Erk Russell, 80, American college football coach (University of Georgia, Georgia Southern University), stroke.[72]
- Fred Spiess, 86, American oceanographer and marine explorer, cancer.[73]
9
- Gérard Brach, 79, French screenwriter (The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Name of the Rose), cancer.[74]
- Clair Burgener, 84, American Representative for California (1973–1983), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[75]
- Matt Gadsby, 27, British footballer (Hinckley United), ARVC.[76]
- Émilie Mondor, 25, Canadian Olympic distance runner, car accident.[77]
- Elisabeth Ogilvie, 89, American author.[78]
- Herbert Rudley, 95, American actor.[79]
- Keshavram Kashiram Shastri, 101, Indian founder of VHP, natural causes.[80]
- William Bernard Ziff, Jr., 76, American publishing magnate, prostate cancer.[81]
10
- Ernestine Bayer, 97, American rower, complications from pneumonia.[82]
- Patty Berg, 88, American golf pioneer, founder of the LPGA, complications from Alzheimer's disease.[83]
- James C. Hickman, 79, American actuary and academic administrator, Dean of University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business (1985–1990).[84]
- Sir John Johnston, 84, British courtier, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office (1981–1987).[85]
- Ramanlal Joshi, 80, Indian literary critic and editor.[86]
- Melanie Lomax, 56, American civil rights lawyer, former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, car accident.[87]
- Ted Risenhoover, 71, American Representative for Oklahoma (1975–1979).[88]
- Bennie Smith, 72, American blues guitarist, heart attack.[89]
- Daniel Wayne Smith, 20, American actor, son of Anna Nicole Smith, drug overdose.[90]
- Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, 88, Tongan royal, King of Tonga, after illness.[91]
11
- William Auld, 81, British poet, author and supporter of Esperanto.[92]
- Peter Clentzos, 97, American-born Greek 1932 Summer Olympics competitor in pole vault.[93]
- Pat Corley, 76, American actor (Murphy Brown, Against All Odds, Hill Street Blues), heart failure.[94]
- János Dévai, 66, Hungarian Olympic cyclist.[95]
- Solange Fernex, French ecologist and green politician.[96]
- Joachim Fest, 79, German historian and journalist.[97]
- Joseph Hayes, 88, American author (The Desperate Hours).[98]
- Johannes Bob van Benthem, 85, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office (1977–1985).[99]
12
- John S.R. Duncan, 85, British diplomat.[100]
- Raymond Mikesell, 93, American economist at the Bretton Woods Conference.[101]
- Emily Perez, 23, American first female African-American Army officer to die in combat, improvised explosive device.[102]
- Craig Roberts, 38, Canadian Olympic wrestler.[103]
- Bill Saul, 65, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), cancer.[104]
- Edna Staebler, 100, Canadian cookbook and non-fiction author, stroke.[105]
13
- Brian Biggins, 66, English football player (Chester City).[106]
- Cesare Barbetti, 75, Italian actor and voice actor.[107]
- Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 97, British Conservative minister and wartime SOE officer.[108]
- Christopher Essex, 61, Australian fashion designer, cancer.[109]
- N. V. Krishnaiah, 76, Indian politician.[110]
- Ann Richards, 73, American Governor of Texas (1991–1995), esophageal cancer.[111]
- Peter Tevis, 69, American musician, Parkinson's Disease.[112]
14
- Norman Brooks, 78, Canadian singer, Al Jolson imitator, emphysema.[113]
- Silviu Brucan, 90, Romanian ambassador to the United States, opponent of Nicolae Ceauşescu.[114]
- Elizabeth Choy, 95, Singaporean war heroine, first female legislator, pancreatic cancer.[115]
- Miklós Hargitay, 80, Hungarian former Mr. Universe and actor, ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield, father of Mariska Hargitay.[116]
- J. William Kime, 72, American former commandant of the Coast Guard.[117]
- Andrey Kozlov, 41, Russian First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia, shot.[118]
- Peter Ling, 80, British television writer, creator of Crossroads.[119]
- Paulo Marques, 58, Brazilian journalist and presenter, brain cancer.[120]
- Esme Melville, 87, Australian film and television actress.[121]
- Terry O'Sullivan, 91, American television actor (Search for Tomorrow), pancreatic cancer.[122]
- Johnny Palmer, 88, American golfer, seven-time PGA Tour winner.[123]
- Frederic Wakeman, 68, American scholar of Chinese history.[124]
15
- Raymond Baxter, 84, British television presenter (Tomorrow's World).[125]
- Oriana Fallaci, 77, Italian journalist and writer, breast cancer.[126]
- Guy François, Haitian Army colonel, participated in failed coups in 1989 and 2001.[127]
- Charles L. Grant, 64, American horror and science fiction author, heart attack.[128]
- Douglas Henderson, 71, British politician.[129]
- Donald Kimball, 62, American defrocked Roman Catholic priest, convicted in sex abuse scandal.[130]
- Nitun Kundu, 70, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor.[131]
- David T. Lykken, 78, American professor of psychology (University of Minnesota).[132]
- Abe Saffron, 86, Australian nightclub owner and property developer.[133]
- Pablo Santos, 19, Mexican actor (Greetings from Tucson), plane crash.[134]
- Sergio Savarese, 48, Italian furniture designer, plane crash.[135]
- Meredith Thring, 90, British engineer.[136]
16
- John Allen, 80, American Olympic athlete.[137]
- Sten Andersson, 83, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1985–1991) and Minister for Social Affairs (1982–1985), heart attack.[138]
- Floyd Curry, 81, Canadian four-time Stanley Cup winner (Montreal Canadiens).[139]
- George Estman, 84, South African Olympic cyclist.[140]
- E. H. H. Green, 47, British historian, multiple sclerosis.[141]
- Zsuzsa Körmöczy, 82, Hungarian tennis player and coach, won 1958 French Championships.[142]
- Esther Martinez, 94, American Tewa storyteller and linguist, car accident.[143]
- Fouad el-Mohandes, 82, Egyptian comedy actor, heart failure.[144]
17
- Jack Banta, 81, American Major League Baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[145]
- Al Casey, 89, American rock and country music guitarist.[146]
- George Heslop, 66, English footballer (Manchester City).[147]
- Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82, American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy, ex-wife of actor Peter Lawford, pneumonia.[148]
- Nathaniel Lubell, 90, American Olympic fencer and artist.[149]
- Edward D. Re, 85, American lawyer and judge.[150]
- Leonella Sgorbati, 65, Italian nun, shot.[151]
- Kazuyuki Sogabe, 58, Japanese anime voice actor (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball).[152]
- Dorothy C. Stratton, 107, American first director of the Coast Guard Women's Reserve.[153]
18
- Seán Clancy, 105, Irish oldest War of Independence veteran.[154]
- Edward J. King, 81, American Governor of Massachusetts (1979–1983).[155]
- Philip H. Melanson, 61, American academic, expert on assassinations, cancer.[156]
- Nilton Pereira Mendes, 30, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.[157]
- Leo Navratil, 85, Austrian psychiatrist.[158]
- Syd Thrift, 77, American general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles.[159]
19
- Elizabeth Allen, 77, American actress (Donovan's Reef, Do I Hear a Waltz?, The Jackie Gleason Show).[160]
- Danny Flores, 77, American saxophonist and vocalist (The Champs), pneumonia.[161]
- Joe Glazer, 88, American singer-songwriter.[162]
- Martha Holmes, 83, American Life photographer, natural causes.[163]
- Sir Hugh Kawharu, 79, New Zealand academic and Māori leader.[164]
- Vico Magistretti, 86, Italian architect and designer.[165]
- Manuel Mindán Manero, 103, Spanish philosopher and priest, natural causes.[166]
- Roy Schuiten, 55, Dutch track and road racing cyclist.[167]
- Terry Smith, 47, Australian rules football player (Richmond, St Kilda), cancer.[168]
20
- Phạm Xuân Ẩn, 78, Vietnamese journalist, North Vietnamese spy during Vietnam War, emphysema.[169]
- Clarence Hill, 48, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.[170]
- Henri Jayer, 84, French winemaker.[171]
- Armin Jordan, 74, Swiss conductor.[172]
- Beth Levine, 91, American shoe designer.[173]
- Sven Nykvist, 83, Swedish cinematographer (Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander, The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Oscar winner (1974, 1984).[174]
- John W. Peterson, 84, American gospel hymn writer, cancer.[175]
- Lillian Robinson, 65, American professor of women's studies (Concordia University).[176]
- Don Walser, 72, American country singer and yodeler, complications from diabetes.[177]
- Muddy Waters, 83, American college football coach (Michigan State University).[178]
- Dean Wooldridge, 93, American physicist, co-founder of TRW.[179]
21
- Boz Burrell, 60, British bassist and vocalist (Bad Company, King Crimson), heart attack.[180]
- Margaret Ekpo, 92, Nigerian politician and women's rights activist.[181]
- Alan Fletcher, 75, British graphic designer.[182]
- Gilbert Jonas, 76, American fundraiser for the NAACP.[183]
- Charles Larson, 86, American television writer and Emmy Award-nominated producer (The F.B.I.).[184]
- Charles Rees, 78, British chemist.[185]
22
- Edward Albert, 55, American actor (Butterflies Are Free, Port Charles, Power Rangers Time Force), lung cancer.[186]
- Carla Benschop, 56, Dutch basketball player.[187]
- Tommy Garnett, 91, English-born Australian cricketer and educator.[188]
- Enrique Gorriarán Merlo, 64, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader, cardiac arrest due to abdominal aortic aneurysm.[189]
- Tommy Olivencia, 64, Puerto Rican salsa singer and bandleader.[190]
- Mary Orr, 95, American author whose story "The Wisdom of Eve" inspired the film All About Eve.[191]
23
- Sir Malcolm Arnold, 84, British film score composer (The Bridge on the River Kwai), Oscar winner (1958), chest infection.[192]
- Etta Baker, 93, American piedmont blues guitarist.[193]
- Sir Charles Cutler, 88, Australian Deputy Premier of New South Wales (1965–1975), cancer.[194]
- Aladár Pege, 67, Hungarian jazz musician.[195]
- Tim Rooney, 59, American actor, son of Mickey Rooney, dermatomyositis.[196]
24
- John S. Boskovich, 49, American artist and screenwriter (Without You I'm Nothing).[197]
- Joel Broyhill, 86, American Republican congressman for Virginia (1953–1975), heart failure and pneumonia.[198]
- Michael Ferguson, 53, Irish republican politician, testicular cancer.[199]
- Sally Gray, 90, British actress.[200]
- Joan Hatcher, 82, New Zealand cricketer.[201]
- Ben Heppner, 63, Canadian politician, bone cancer.[202]
- Padmini, 74, Indian actress in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films, heart attack.[203]
- Patrick Quinn, 56, American actor, president of Actors' Equity Association (2000–2006), heart attack.[204]
- Thomas Stewart, 78, American bass-baritone opera singer.[205]
- Tetsuro Tamba, 84, Japanese actor.[206]
- Henry Townsend, 96, American blues guitarist, pianist and songwriter, pulmonary edema.[207]
25
- Safia Ahmed-jan, 65, Afghan women's rights advocate, shot.[208]
- Omar al-Faruq, 35, Kuwaiti senior member of al-Qaeda, shot.[209]
- Jeff Cooper, 86, American small arms expert.[210]
- Maureen Daly, 85, American author (Seventeenth Summer).[211]
- John M. Ford, 49, American science fiction and fantasy writer, natural causes.[212]
- Sir Vijay Singh, 75, Indo-Fijian lawyer and politician, cancer.[213]
- Sir Iain Tennant, 87, Scottish businessman and public servant.[214]
- Metropolitan Vitaly Ustinov, 96, Russian First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (1985–2001).[215]
26
- Gerhard Behrendt, 77, German inventor of Sandmännchen children's television character.[216]
- Giuseppe Bennati, 85, Italian film director.[217]
- Laurence Jonathan Cohen, 83, British philosopher.[218]
- Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese American convicted and later pardoned of being World War II propagandist "Tokyo Rose".[219]
- Mihály Fülöp, 70, Hungarian Olympic fencer.[220]
- Byron Nelson, 94, American professional golfer.[221]
- Sir Philip Randle, 80, British biochemist.[222]
- Sir Martin Roth, 88, Hungarian-born British president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.[223]
- John Salisse, 80, British businessman and magician.[224]
- Ralph Story, 86, American radio broadcaster and television host (The $64,000 Challenge), emphysema.[225]
27
- Geraldine Guest, 83, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[226]
- William Horwitz, 88, American chemist.[227]
- Helmut Kallmeyer, 95, German chemist and Aktion T4 perpetrator.
- Craig Kusick, 57, American former first baseman for the Minnesota Twins, leukemia.[228]
- Arthur Marwick, 70, British historian, first professor of history at the Open University.[229]
- Sir Michael Pollock, 89, British admiral, First Sea Lord (1971–1974).[230]
28
- George Balzer, 91, American writer for Jack Benny's radio and TV shows.[231]
- Adam Curle, 90, British academic and peace activist.[232]
- James Hamilton, 4th Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, 68, British aristocrat and politician, cancer.[233]
- Virgil Ierunca, 86, Romanian writer.[234]
29
- Rosamond Carr, 94, American fashion illustrator turned humanitarian and activist.[235]
- Billy Mauch, 85, American child actor and sound editor.[236]
- Jan Werner Danielsen, 30, Norwegian singer, heart failure.[237]
- Gerry Gazzard, 81, English footballer.[238]
- Walter Hadlee, 91, New Zealand cricketer, stroke.[239]
- Louis-Albert Vachon, 94, Canadian Archbishop Emeritus of Québec.[240]
30
- Isabel Bigley, 80, American stage actress, Tony Award-winner for Guys and Dolls.[241]
- Josh Graves, 79, American bluegrass dobro player.[242]
- Bert James, 92, Australian politician, MP for Hunter (1960–1980).[243]
- Adolf H. Lundin, 73, Swedish oil and mining entrepreneur, leukemia.[244]
- Pino Mlakar, 99, Slovenian ballet dancer.[245]
- André Schwarz-Bart, 78, French novelist.[246]
- András Sütő, 79, Romanian writer of Hungarian descent, melanoma.[247]
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