Deaths in September 2005

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.
• Manuel Ausensi, 85, Spanish opera singer.
• R. L. Burnside, 78, American blues musician.
• Barry Cowsill, 50, American pop-singer and writer, victim of Hurricane Katrina. (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.
• Zdobysław Stawczyk, 82, Polish Olympic sprinter.
• Jack D. Walker, 83, American politician and physician.

2

• Tom Bailey, 56, American gridiron footballer, heart attack and complications from atherosclerosis.
• Bob Denver, 70, American actor (Gilligan's Island, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Good Guys), throat cancer.
• Adrian Karsten, 45, American ESPN announcer, suicide by hanging.
• Thure Lindgren, 84, Swedish ski jumper.
• Alexandru Paleologu, 86, Romanian diplomat.

3

• R. S. R. Fitter, 92, British natural historian.
• Robert W. Funk, 79, American biblical scholar, founder of the Jesus Seminar, lung failure.
• Edward Hepple, 91, Australian actor, producer, director, playwright and television scriptwriter.
• Bernard S. Meyer, 89, American lawyer and politician.
• William Rehnquist, 80, American lawyer and jurist, Chief Justice of the United States, thyroid cancer.
• James Rossi, 69, American Olympic cyclist.
• Ekkehard Schall, 75, German actor.
• 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.
• 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.
• Arnold Weinstein, 78, American poet, playwright, and librettist, liver cancer.

5

• Hank Anderson, 84, American basketball coach and athletics director.
• Walther Heissig, 91, Austrian mongolist.
• 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.
• 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.
• Karl Vorse Krombein, 93, American entomologist.
• Mark Matthews, 111, American supercentenarian and Army first Sergeant, oldest living Buffalo Soldier.
• Dhan Singh Thapa, 77, Indian Army officer and recipient of the Param Vir Chakra.
• Bob Warlick, 64, American basketball player.

7

• Omar Ali-Shah, 82/3, Afghan Sufi teacher.
• Moussa Arafat, 65, Palestinian former head of general security in Gaza, cousin of Yasser Arafat, shot.
• Sergio Endrigo, 72, Italian singer and songwriter, cancer.
• 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.
• 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.
• Noel Cantwell, 73, Irish soccer player, former Manchester United captain, cancer.
• Stanley Dancer, 78, American harness racing driver and trainer, prostate cancer.
• Donald Horne, 83, Australian academic, historian, philosopher and intellectual, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Milena Hübschmannová, 72, Czech professor of Romani studies, traffic collision.
• Hans Keiter, 95, German field handball player.
• David Pearce, 63, British economist, leukemia.
• Lewis E. Platt, 64, American businessman and former Hewlett-Packard CEO, intracranial aneurysm.

9

• Giuliano Bonfante, 101, Italian linguistics expert.
• John Wayne Glover, 72, Australian convicted serial killer nicknamed "The Granny Killer", suicide by hanging.
• André Pousse, 85, French actor, traffic collision.
• Mel Wanzo, 74, American jazz trombonist.
• 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.
• Hermann Bondi, 85, Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist.
• Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, 81, American blues musician.
• Erich Kuby, 95, German journalist, publisher and screenwriter.
• Lea Nikel, 86, Israeli abstract artist.
• Charlie Williams, 61, American Major League Baseball umpire, complications of diabetes.
• Emerson Stewart Williams, 95, American modernist architect.

11

• Messias José Baptista, 37, Brazilian Olympic athlete, leukemia.
• Al Casey, 89, American jazz guitarist, colon cancer.
• Steve de Shazer, 65, American psychotherapist, developer of solution focused brief therapy.
• Abdallah Ibrahim, 87, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1958-1960).
• Naphtali Lewis, 93, American papyrologist and egyptologist.
• Chris Schenkel, 82, American sportscaster, emphysema.
• Henryk Tomaszewski, 91, Polish graphic artist.

12

• Helmut Baierl, 78, German playwright.
• Honey Harlow, 78, American stripper and showgirl, colitis.
• Serge Lang, 78, American mathematician and political activist.
• Ronald Leigh-Hunt, 88, British actor.
• Alain Polaniok, 46, French footballer.
• Fritz Schilgen, 99, German athlete and final Olympic torchbearer at the 1936 Summer Games..
• Haydee Yorac, 64, Filipino lawyer and public servant, ovarian cancer.

13

• Julio César Turbay Ayala, 89, Colombian lawyer and politician, President (1978–1982).
• 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.
• Fiorella Ghilardotti, 59, Italian socialist politician and trade unionist, sudden illness.
• Cyril Harris, 68, South African rabbi, cancer.
• Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, 90, Brazilian composer, teacher and musicologist.
• Chieko Nakakita, 79, Japanese actress.

14

• William Berenberg, 89, American physician, professor of pediatrics, emeritus, at Harvard Medical School.
• Henry Kaplan, 79, American television director.
• Frances Newton, 40, American convict, first African American woman executed in Texas since 1858, lethal injection.
• Pavel Andreyevich Taran, 88, Soviet and Russian bomber pilot during World War II and war hero.
• Vladimir Volkoff, 72, French-Russian spy novelist.
• Mary Wade, 77, Australian palaeontologist.
• Robert Wise, 91, American film director (The Sound of Music, West Side Story), Oscar winner (1962), heart failure.

15

• Samuel Azu Crabbe, 77, Ghanaian jurist, Chief Justice of Ghana (1973-1977).
• Lennart Ekdahl, 92, Swedish sailor.
• Guy Green, 91, British film director and noted cinematographer, kidney failure.
• Walther Heissig, 91, Austrian mongolist.
• Jeronimas Kačinskas, 98, Lithuanian-American classical composer and conductor.
• Sidney Luft, 89, American film producer, Judy Garland's third and last surviving husband, heart attack.
• 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.
• Harry Freedman, 83, Polish-Canadian composer, English hornist, and music educator, cancer.
• Gordon Gould, 85, American pioneer in laser technology.
• Jay M. Gould, 90, American epidemiologist and anti-nuclear activist, heart disease.
• Arkadiusz Gołaś, 24, Polish Olympic volleyball player, traffic collision.
• Jean-Claude Guiguet, 65, French film director and screenwriter, cancer.
• Donald S. Harrington, 91, American politician and religious leader.
• Harold Q. Masur, 96, American novelist.
• John McMullen, 87, American businessman, naval architect and Major League Baseball executive.
• Constance Moore, 85, American actress (Buck Rogers).
• Mzukisi Sikali, 34, South African boxer, stabbed.
• Jerzy Sołtan, 92, Polish architect.
• F. K. Waechter, 67, German cartoonist, author, and playwright.

17

• Donn Clendenon, 70, American baseball player, MVP of the 1969 World Series, leukemia.
• Hermidita, 80, Spanish football player.
• Thorstein Kråkenes, 81, Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist.
• Jacques Lacarrière, 79, French author and classical translator.
• Ray Lemek, 71, American gridiron football player.
• Jack Lesberg, 85, American jazz bassist.
• Les Perry, 82, Australian Olympic long-distance runner.
• Alfred Reed, 84, American neo-classical composer.
• S. L. Puram Sadanandan, 77, Indian playwright and film scriptwriter, India.

18

• Richard E. Cunha, 83, American cinematographer and director.
• Sandra Feldman, 65, American advocate for disadvantaged students, teacher and labor leader, breast cancer.
• Frank Fields, 91, American double bass player.
• Joel Hirschhorn, 67, American Academy Award-winning songwriter.
• Richard Holden, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician, suicide.
• Noel Mander, 93, British organ maker and restorer.
• Otto Friedrich August Meinardus, 79, German coptologist, pastor and author.
• Michael Park, 39, British rally co-pilot, rally accident.
• Rupert Riedl, 80, Austrian zoologist and advocate of evolutionary epistemology.
• Yegor Yakovlev, 75, Russian journalist, leading opponent of press censorship.

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.
• Willie Hutch, 59, American record producer, singer and songwriter.
• Isao Nakauchi, 83, Japanese businessman, founder of Daiei, stroke.
• John Rayner, 81, German-British rabbi.
• William Vacchiano, 93, American trumpeter and professor of music.

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.
• Gordon Carroll, 77, American film producer (Alien, Cool Hand Luke, Red Heat), heart attack.
• Charles L. Harness, 89, American science fiction writer.
• Tobias Schneebaum, 83, American writer, artist, and explorer.
• Simon Wiesenthal, 96, Austrian Holocaust survivor and nazi hunter and writer.

21

• Harry Heltzer, 94, American inventor, former CEO of 3M.
• Mustai Karim, 85, Soviet and Russian poet, writer and playwright.
• Ramón Martín Huerta, 48, Mexican politician, minister of public security, helicopter crash.
• Preben Philipsen, 95, Danish film producer.
• Félix Javier Pérez, 33, Puerto Rican basketball player, shot.
• Joseph Smagorinsky, 81, American meteorologist and mathematician, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Albert Tocco, 77, American convicted organized crime boss, stroke.
• Molly Yard, 93, American feminist, former president of the U.S. National Organization for Women.

22

• Monty Basgall, 83, American baseball coach.
• Joop Doderer, 84, Dutch actor known for playing the character Swiebertje, heart attack.
• Heimo Erbse, 81, German composer.
• Bayaman Erkinbayev, 38, Kyrgyz former wrestler, businessman, and politician, shot.
• Annemarie Heinrich, 93, German-Argentine photographer.
• Leavander Johnson, 35, American former IBF lightweight boxing champion, brain injury suffered in bout.
• Silvano Meconi, 73, Italian Olympic shot putter.
• Hans Samelson, 89, German-American mathematician.

23

• John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, 80, British television producer.
• 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.
• Betty Leslie-Melville, 78, American wildlife conservationist and giraffe expert, complications of dementia.
• Ivica Miljković, 58, Croatian football player.
• Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, 72, Puerto Rican nationalist and leader of the Boricua Popular Army, shot by the FBI.
• Jim Taylor, 85, Australian politician.

24

• Tommy Bond, 79, American actor known for playing Butch on Our Gang, heart disease.
• Leopold B. Felsen, 81, German leading physicist in the study of waves, holocaust survivor, complications of surgery.
• Yuri Moiseyev, 65, Russian ice hockey player.
• Frank Smith, 77, American baseball player.
• Sulo Suorttanen, 84, Finnish lawyer, civil servant and politician.
• André Testut, 79, Monegasque Formula One driver.
• Theodore L. Thomas, 85, American chemical engineer and patent attorney.
• Bala Usman, 59-60, Nigerian academic, politician and historian.

25

• Don Adams, 82, American actor (Get Smart, Inspector Gadget, Check It Out!), lymphoma.
• George Archer, 65, American golfer and 1969 Masters winner, Burkitt's lymphoma.
• Georges Arvanitas, 74, French-born Greek jazz pianist and composer.
• Sally Anne Bowman, 18, English hairdresser and model.
• Urie Bronfenbrenner, 88, Russian-American professor of psychology, complications of diabetes.
• Lou Carter, 87, American jazz pianist, composer, and songwriter.
• Leland Clark, 86, American biochemist.
• Ghulam Mustafa Khan, 93, Pakistani researcher, literary critic, linguist, author, and spiritual leader.
• Lionel Kochan, 83, British historian, leukemia.
• Steve Marcus, 66, American jazz saxophonist.
• M. Scott Peck, 69, American psychiatrist and author, pancreatic cancer.
• 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.
• Henrik Flöjt, 53, Finnish biathlete, world champion and Olympic medalist.
• Heidi Genée, 66, German film editor, director and screenwriter.
• Izuo Hayashi, 83, Japanese physicist.
• Jozef Karel, 83, Slovak football player and coach.

27

• Jack Burmaster, 78, American basketball player and coach.
• 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.
• John McCabe, 84, American biographer of Laurel and Hardy.
• Ronald Pearsall, 77, English author.
• Mary Lee Settle, 87, American author (the Beulah Quintet), lung cancer.
• Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen, 47, Dutch film director, cancer.
• Roger Tréville, 102, French actor.

28

• Ahmad Abdullah, 64, Malaysian accountant and politician.
• Pol Bury, 83, Belgian sculptor.
• Enric Gensana, 69, Spanish football player.
• Constance Baker Motley, 84, American civil rights lawyer, congestive heart failure.
• Ihor Rybak, 70, Ukrainian weightlifter and Olympic champion.
• Leo Sternbach, 97, Austrian-native chemist, known as the "Father of Valium".
• Boris Uspensky, 78, Soviet and Russian poster and graphics painter.

29

• Olga de Alaketu, 80, Benin-Brazilian Candomblé high priestess, complications of diabetes.
• Patrick Caulfield, 69, British artist.
• Benjamin DeMott, 81, American writer, scholar, and cultural critic, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
• Robert Dorgebray, 89, French cyclist and Olympic champion.
• 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.
• Ivar Karl Ugi, 75, German chemist.

30

• Monika Hellwig, 74, German-American theologian and Roman Catholic lay leader, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Renzo Nostini, 91, Italian fencer and Olympic multiple silver medalist .
• Andrew P. O'Meara, 98, United States Army general, stroke.
• Sergey Starostin, 52, Soviet and Russian linguist, heart attack.

External links

• List of September 2005 deaths at IMDb