Name, age, country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
September 2009
1 Dick Berg, 87, American screenwriter and television producer, fall. Jake Drake-Brockman, 53, British musician (Echo & the Bunnymen) and sound recordist, motorcycle accident. Jock Buchanan, 74, Scottish footballer (Hibernian). Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa, 91, British television executive and conservationist. Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito, 66, Brazilian judge (Supreme Federal Court) (2007–2009), pancreatic cancer. Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani, 78, Indian admiral.Vice-Admiral Hiranandani cremated with full Naval honours Jang Jin-young, 37, South Korean actress, stomach cancer. Wycliffe Johnson, 47, Jamaican Reggae musician and composer, heart failure. Erich Kunzel, 74, American conductor (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra), cancer.Cincinnati Pops’ Erich Kunzel dies Wayne E. Meyer, 83, American Rear-Admiral, Aegis Combat System manager, heart failure. Francis Rogallo, 97, American aeronautical inventor (Rogallo wing). John Stephens, 43, American football player (New England Patriots), NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (1988), traffic collision. Alexis Tioseco, 28, Filipino-born Canadian film critic, shot. Sir Oliver Wright, 88, British diplomat.
2 Hylton Ackerman, 62, South African cricketer. Guy Babylon, 52, American musician (Elton John band), heart attack. Brian Boshier, 77, British cricketer. Jon Eydmann, 41, British band manager (Suede), heart attack. Donald Hamilton Fraser, 80, British painter. Bill Hefner, 79, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for North Carolina (1975–1999), brain aneurysm.Bill Hefner, Former Congressman, Dies at 79 Virve Kiple, 82, Estonian ballet dancer, actress, and director. Tibor Kristóf, 67, Hungarian voice actor, Hungarian voice of Sean Connery, Morgan Freeman and Darth Vader. Abdullah Laghmani, 40s, Afghan Secret Service chief, bomb blast. Mr Percival, 33, Australian pelican, animal actor (Storm Boy), natural causes. John Poole, 82, British sculptor. Christian Poveda, 52, French photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, shot. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, 60, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (since 2004), helicopter crash.Andhra Pradesh CM YSR Reddy dead in chopper crash Mohamed Alí Seineldín, 75, Argentine military commander and putschist (Carapintadas). Robert Spinrad, 77, American computer pioneer, director of the Palo Alto Research Center, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Ismael Valenzuela, 74, American jockey, after long illness. Jeffrey Wernick, 56, American animation executive (DIC Animation City) and sports agent.
3 Nicky Chapman, Baroness Chapman, 48, British peer, member of the House of Lords, brittle bone disease. Hulda Regehr Clark, 80, Canadian alternative medicine practitioner. Christine D'haen, 85, Belgian poet. Giovanni Melis Fois, 92, Italian Bishop of Nuoro (1970–1992). Caro Jones, 86, American casting director (Rocky, The Karate Kid, Green Acres), multiple myeloma. Edith Kaplan, 85, American neuropsychologist. Alec MacLachlan, 30, British hostage in Iraq (death confirmed on this date). Ronald Sarre, 77, Australian cricketer.Ron Sarre Yukhym Shkolnykov, 70, Ukrainian association football coach.
4 Buddy Blattner, 89, American sportscaster, baseball and table tennis player, complications from lung cancer. Iain Cuthbertson, 79, British actor (Gorillas in the Mist, The Railway Children). Allan Ekelund, 91, Swedish film producer, collaborator with Ingmar Bergman. Guy Guillabert, 78, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) rower. Siegfried Gurschler, 83, Austrian sports shooter. Skip Miller, 62, American music industry executive, president of Motown Records, heart attack. Franz Olah, 99, Austrian politician, Interior Minister (1963–1964). Carl Reindel, 74, American actor (Bullitt, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Andromeda Strain). Keith Waterhouse, 80, British author and playwright (Billy Liar), natural causes. Bill Welch, 68, American politician, mayor of State College, Pennsylvania, complications after leg surgery.
5 Gani Fawehinmi, 71, Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, lung cancer. Carl Hovde, 82, American professor, Dean during the Columbia University protests of 1968, lung cancer. Mickie Jones, 56, American bassist (Angel), liver cancer. Liang Shoupan, 93, Chinese aerospace engineer. Jesse Mahelona, 26, American football player (Tennessee Titans), traffic collision. Richard Merkin, 70, American artist. Saifur Rahman, 77, Bangladeshi politician, longest-serving Finance Minister, traffic collision. Ron Raikes, 61, American politician, Nebraska state senator (1998–2008), farm accident. Richard D. Robinson, 88, American educator. Charlie Waller, 87, American football coach.
6 Christopher John Banda, 35, Malawian footballer. Harcharan Singh Brar, 90, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab (1995–1996). Vanja Drach, 77, Croatian actor. Gerhart Friedlander, 93, German-born American nuclear chemist, coronary disease. Helgi Hóseasson, 89, Icelandic activist. José Francisco Fuentes, 43, Mexican politician, shot. Catherine Gaskin, 80, Irish-born Australian novelist, ovarian cancer. Nada Iveljić, 79, Croatian writer. John Merino, 42, Ecuadorian colonel, head of presidential security for Rafael Correa, swine flu. David J. Ritchie, 58, American game designer. Sim, 83, French comic actor. Tatyana Ustinova, 96, Russian geologist. Stephen White, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer, member of Ireland Team of the Century, after short illness. Sir David Williams, 78, British academic, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1989–1996), cancer.
7 Medea Chakhava, 88, Georgian theatre and film actress.Medea Chakhava dies at 88 Junior Coghlan, 93, American silent film actor. Norman Curtis, 84, English football player and manager (Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers). John T. Elson, 78, American religion editor (Time). Eddie Locke, 79, American jazz drummer. Fred Mills, 74, Canadian musician (Canadian Brass), traffic collision. Ra'anan Naim, 73, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1981–1984).Knesset Members: Raanan Naim Colin Sharp, 56, British musician and writer, brain haemorrhage. Paul Lê Đắc Trọng, 91, Vietnamese Bishop of Hanoi (1994–2006). Christos Vartzakis, 98, Greek athlete.
8 Aleksandr Aksyonov, 85, Belarusian PM of Byelorussian SSR (1978–1983), Soviet Ambassador to Poland (1983–1986). Army Archerd, 90, American entertainment columnist (Variety), malignant mesothelioma. Ray Barrett, 82, Australian film, television and theatre actor, brain hemorrhage. Aage Bohr, 87, Danish physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics (1975). Mike Bongiorno, 85, American-born Italian television presenter, heart failure. Rica Erickson, 101, Australian naturalist, artist and author. Henry S. Fitch, 99, American herpetologist. Rogelio Borja Flores, 74, Filipino sports writer, respiratory failure. Annie Le, 24, American graduate student, strangled. Kyle Woodring, 42, American drummer (Survivor), apparent suicide by hanging.
9 Kevin Carmody, 84, Australian cricket umpire. Eric Davidson, 94, Canadian blind mechanic, survivor of the Halifax Explosion. Anthony G. Evans, 66, British scientist. Léon Glovacki, 81, French footballer, played in 1954 FIFA World Cup. James Krenov, 88, American cabinetmaker. Stanley Cornwell Lewis, 103, British painter and illustrator. Steve Mann, 66, American songwriter and guitarist. Frank Mazzuca, 87, Canadian businessman, mayor of Capreol, Ontario. Sultan Munadi, 32, Afghan journalist, translator and correspondent (The New York Times), shot. Andrzej Śliwiński, 70, Polish Bishop of Elbląg (1992–2003).
10 John Asquith, 77, English cricketer.John Asquith Frank Batten, 82, American businessman, founder of The Weather Channel. Lou Bender, 99, American basketball pioneer who popularized the sport in New York City, cancer. Kerry Brown, 51, Canadian professional wrestler, liver failure. Lisle C. Carter, 83, American administrator, complications from pneumonia. Lyn Hamilton, 65, Canadian author, cancer. Sam Hinton, 92, American folk singer and marine biologist. Margaret Holmes, 100, Australian peace activist. Robert H. Miller, 90, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1988–1990). Gertrude Noone, 110, American supercentenarian, oldest person in Connecticut and world's oldest military veteran. Patricia Robinson, 79, Trinidadian economist, First Lady (1997–2003), wife of A. N. R. Robinson. Yoshifumi Tajima, 91, Japanese actor (Mothra vs. Godzilla), esophageal cancer. Tony Thornton, 49, American professional boxer, injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.
11 Sarane Alexandrian, 82, French art historian and philosopher. *Juan Almeida Bosque, 82, Cuban politician, Vice President of the Council of State, cardiac arrest. James E. Bromwell, 89, American politician, Representative for Iowa (1961–1965). Jim Carroll, 60, American author (The Basketball Diaries), poet and musician, heart attack. Mool Chand Chowhan, 82, Indian sports official. Pierre Cossette, 85, Canadian television producer, brought the Grammy Awards to television. Larry Gelbart, 81, American comedy writer (M*A*S*H) and blogger (The Huffington Post), cancer. Bob Greenberg, 75, American record executive, stroke.Music Executive Bob Greenberg Dies Zakes Mokae, 75, South African-born American actor (Gross Anatomy), complications from a stroke. Georgios Papoulias, 82, Greek politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1989, 1990), suicide by gunshot. John Pattison, 92, New Zealand World War II pilot. *Henny van Schoonhoven, 39, Dutch footballer, cancer. Crystal Lee Sutton, 68, American union organizer, inspiration for Norma Rae, brain cancer. Felicia Tang, 31, Singaporean-born American actress and model, suffocated. Yoshito Usui, 51, Japanese manga artist (Crayon Shin-chan), mountaineering accident.
12 Norman Borlaug, 95, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1970), cancer. Dominik Brunner, 50, German businessman and manager, blunt trauma. Jeanne Clemson, 87, American theatre director, actress and educator, Parkinson's disease. Raj Singh Dungarpur, 73, Indian cricket player and administrator. George Eckstein, 81, American television writer and producer (The Fugitive), lung cancer. Edward Gelsthorpe, 88, American marketing executive. Alfred Gottschalk, 79, German-born American President of Hebrew Union College, Reform Judaism leader, traffic collision. William Hoffman, 84, American novelist. Shah Abdul Karim, 93, Bangladeshi musician, respiratory problems. Jack Kramer, 88, American tennis player, cancer. Armando Manhiça, 66, Portuguese international footballer.Armando Manhiça Brian Mier, 74, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Waverley (1982–1996). Antônio Olinto, 90, Brazilian writer, multiple organ failure. Danny Pang, 42, Taiwanese-born American hedge fund manager. Willy Ronis, 99, French photographer. T. R. Satishchandran, 80, Indian Administrative Service officer. Fred Sherman, 86, American economist and business commentator. Lawrence B. Slobodkin, 81, American ecologist. Bill Sparkman, 51, American substitute teacher and census worker, hanged.
13 Philip Aziz, 86, Canadian artist, cancer. Felix Bowness, 87, British actor (Hi-de-Hi!). Paul Burke, 83, American actor (Naked City), leukemia. Malcolm Casadaban, 60, American molecular genetics professor, plague. Lonny Frey, 99, American baseball player, oldest living MLB All-Star.Linus R. "Lonny" Frey Arnold Laven, 87, American film and television director (The Rifleman, The Big Valley), pneumonia. Paul Shirtliff, 46, English footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Northampton Town), cancer. Sarah E. Wright, 80, American novelist, complications from cancer.
14 Keith Floyd, 65, British chef, heart attack. Henry Gibson, 73, American actor (Laugh-In, The Blues Brothers, Boston Legal), cancer.Henry Gibson dies at 73; original cast member of 'Laugh-In'