The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2010.
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 2010 1 Tomás Pedro Barbosa da Silva Nunes, 67, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa (since 1998). Sir Colville Barclay, 97, British painter and botanist. Robert B. Cutler, 96, American Olympic rower. Wakanohana Kanji I, 82, Japanese sumo wrestler, kidney cancer. Cammie King, 76, American actress (Gone with the Wind), lung cancer. Don Lang, 95, American baseball player, after long illness. Molly Lazechko, 84, American politician. Jean Nelissen, 74, Dutch cycling journalist.
2 Roland Arpin, 76, Canadian educator, communicator, and public administrator, Parkinson's disease. Trevor Beard, 90, Australian physician. Germán Dehesa, 66, writer and announcer, cancer. Shmuel Eisenstadt, 86, Israeli sociologist. Bob Loveless, 81, American knife maker and manufacturer. Eileen Nearne, 89, British Special Operations Executive agent in World War II, heart attack. (body discovered on this date) *Pedro Marcos Ribeiro da Costa, 88, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saurímo (1977–1997). Jackie Sinclair, 67, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic, Newcastle United), cancer. Leo Trepp, 97, German-born American rabbi, last surviving German rabbinical witness to the Holocaust. Morgan White, 86, American actor and children's television host.
3 Larry Ashmead, 78, American book editor. Micky Burn, 97, British writer and poet. David Bushnell, 86, American historian, expert on Colombia, cancer. Mike Edwards, 62, English cellist (Electric Light Orchestra), traffic collision. Noah Howard, 67, American jazz saxophonist. Juan Huerta Montero, 46, Mexican politician, deputy (since 2009), plane crash. Dušan Lukášik, 78, Czech Olympic basketball player. Robert Schimmel, 60, American stand-up comedian (The Howard Stern Show), traffic collision. Sir Cyril Smith, 82, British politician, Member of Parliament for Rochdale (1972–1992). José Augusto Torres, 71, Portuguese football player and coach, Alzheimer's disease. Guillermo Zavaleta Rojas, 34, Mexican politician, deputy (since 2009), plane crash.
4 Oleksandra Bandura, 92, Ukrainian teacher and literature scholar. Francis Gerard Brooks, 86, Northern Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dromore (1976–1999). Paul Conrad, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist (Los Angeles Times). John Gouriet, 75, British political campaigner (The Freedom Association) and author. Kálmán Kulcsár, 82, Hungarian jurist and politician, Minister of Justice (1988–1990). Bonnie Leman, American art historian, writer, and publisher of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine
5 Hedley Beare, 77, Australian education leader. Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, 88, Dutch artist. David Dortort, 93, American television producer and writer (Bonanza, The High Chaparral). Ludvig Eikaas, 89, Norwegian artist. Elizabeth Jenkins, 104, English author. Lewis Nkosi, 73, South African writer. Homi Sethna, 86, Indian nuclear scientist and chemical engineer. R. Smith Simpson, 103, American Foreign Service Officer. Abdul Mannan Syed, 67, Bangladeshi poet.We Lost This Year Jefferson Thomas, 67, American civil rights pioneer, member of the Little Rock Nine, pancreatic cancer. Shoya Tomizawa, 19, Japanese Moto2 motorcycle racer, race crash. Angelo Vassallo, 56, Italian politician, Mayor of Pollica, shot.
6 Clive Donner, 84, British film director (The Caretaker, What's New Pussycat?), Alzheimer's disease. Bob Jencks, 69, American football player (Chicago Bears), heart attack. John McKellar, 80, Australian comedy writer. Yvonne O'Neill, 74, Canadian politician, MPP for Ottawa–Rideau (1987–1995), cancer.
7 Claude Béchard, 41, Canadian politician, MNA for Kamouraska-Témiscouata (1997–2010), cancer. Eberhard von Brauchitsch, 83, German industrial manager, suicide. Amar Garibović, 19, Serbian Olympic cross-country skier, traffic collision. William H. Goetzmann, 80, American historian. Barbara Holland, 77, American author, lung cancer. Jack Kershaw, 96, American attorney who represented James Earl Ray. John Kluge, 95, German-born American entrepreneur and billionaire, richest person in the United States (1989–1990). Brendan Lyons, 83, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Bass (1982–1986). Riad al-Saray, 35, Iraqi television presenter, shot. Joaquín Soler Serrano, 91, Spanish journalist, Alzheimer's disease. Glenn Shadix, 58, American actor (Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Heathers), injuries sustained in a fall. Wilebaldo Solano, 94, Spanish communist activist during the Spanish Civil War. Lucius Walker, 80, American pastor, heart attack.
8 Wazir Agha, 88, Pakistani Urdu language writer, poet, critic and essayist. Jenny Alpha, 100, Martinique-born French actress and singer. Hadley Caliman, 78, American jazz saxophonist, liver cancer. Rich Cronin, 36, American pop singer and songwriter (LFO), stroke related to acute myelogenous leukemia. Allen Dale June, 91, American original Navajo code talker. Thomas Guinzburg, 84, American editor, co-creator and co-founder of The Paris Review, complications from heart bypass surgery. Safah Abdul Hameed, Iraqi journalist, shot. Bernice Lapp, 92, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) swimmer. Murali, 46, Indian Tamil actor, heart attack. Irwin Silber, 84, American writer and journalist, complications of Alzheimer's disease. Israel Tal, 86, Israeli general. George Christopher Williams, 84, American evolutionary biologist, Parkinson's disease.
9 Gene Case, 72, American advertising executive, heart attack. Heriberto Correa Yepes, 94, Colombian Vicar Apostolic of Buenaventura (1973–1996). Lennie von Graevenitz, 75, South African boxer. Bent Larsen, 75, Danish chess grandmaster. Rauno Mäkinen, 79, Finnish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist. Venu Nagavally, 61, Indian actor and screenwriter. Eddie Phillips, 80, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). Mary Richard, 70, Canadian aboriginal activist and politician. Riccardo Sarfatti, 70, Italian businessman, traffic collision. Kamilla Składanowska, 62, Polish Olympic fencer. Frank Wanlass, 77, American electrical engineer.
10 Margaret Auld, 78, Scottish nurse. Juan Mari Brás, 82, Puerto Rican independence advocate. Gizela Dali, 70, Greek actress, cancer. Willian Lara, 53, Venezuelan journalist and politician, Governor of Guárico, drowned. Fridrikh Maryutin, 85, Russian Olympic footballer. Billie Mae Richards, 88, Canadian voice actress (The Care Bears Movie, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Rudolph's Shiny New Year), stroke. Andrei Timoshenko, 41, Russian football player. Edwin Charles Tubb, 90, British science fiction author. Ron Walters, 72, American scholar and civil rights activist, cancer.
11 Opal Wilcox Barron, 95, American First Lady of West Virginia (1961–1965). Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, 76, British judge and Law Lord, cancer. Bärbel Bohley, 65, German artist and opposition figure, lung cancer. Hugh Clark, 86, British army officer. King Coleman, 78, American rhythm and blues singer ("Do the Mashed Potatoes"), heart failure. Harold Gould, 86, American actor (The Sting, Rhoda, The Golden Girls), prostate cancer. Gunnar Hoffsten, 86, Swedish jazz musician. Ron Kramer, 75, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions), heart attack. Kevin McCarthy, 96, American actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Death of a Salesman, Flamingo Road). Fathi Osman, 82, Egyptian author, heart failure. Taavi Peetre, 27, Estonian shot putter, drowning. Diego Rodríguez, 22, Uruguayan footballer (Club Nacional de Football), traffic collision. Mike Shaw, 53, American professional wrestler, heart attack. Kei Tani, 78, Japanese comedian.
12 Charles Ansbacher, 67, American conductor. Val Belcher, 56, American-born Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders), heart failure. Pietro Calabrese, 66, Italian journalist (Il Messaggero, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Panorama), lung cancer. Claude Chabrol, 80, French film director (Madame Bovary, Story of Women). Kalman J. Cohen, 79, American economist. Honor Frost, 92, British underwater archaeologist. Günter Heßelmann, 85, German Olympic athlete. Varnette Honeywood, 59, American painter, cancer. Argiris Kavidas, 33, Greek actor (Strella), cardiac arrest. La Fiera, 49, Mexican professional wrestler, stabbed. Wesley Duke Lee, 78, Brazilian visual artist, heart failure. Antonina Pirozhkova, 101, Russian civil engineer and writer.Antonina Pirozhkova obituary Judith Merkle Riley, 68, American professor and author, ovarian cancer. Swarnalatha, 37, Indian playback singer, lung infection. Joe Tarnowski, 88, Polish-born Scottish electronics engineer and intelligence officer.
13 John Arundel Barnes, 92, Australian-born British social anthropologist. Stan Gooch, 78, British psychologist. Don Goodson, 77, English cricketer (Leicestershire). Lorne Greenaway, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Cariboo—Chilcotin (1979–1988), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Jim Greenwood, 81, Scottish rugby player. Robert W. McCollum, 85, American virologist, made discoveries relating to polio and hepatitis, heart failure. Robert Rompre, 81, American ice hockey player. Barbara B. Smith, 88, American religious leader, pulmonary fibrosis. Gus Williams, 73, Australian Aboriginal leader and country music singer.
14 Mohammed Arkoun, 82, Algerian-born French Islamic philosopher, professor at Sorbonne. Caterina Boratto, 95, Italian film actress. Sir James Cleminson, 89, British soldier and businessman. Ralph T. Coe, 81, American art museum director and Native American advocate, natural causes. Gennadi Gerasimov, 80, Russian diplomat, Soviet Ambassador to Portugal (1990–1995). José Janene, 55, Brazilian politician involved in Mensalão scandal, septic shock. Frederick Jelinek, 77, Czech-born American speech recognition researcher. Paulo Machado de Carvalho Filho, 86, Brazilian businessman, founder of Jovem Pan Radio. Francis Mansour Zayek, 89, American Maronite Catholic prelate, founding Archbishop of Saint Maron of Brooklyn. Dodge Morgan, 78, American businessman, fourth person in history to circumnavigate globe alone, cancer. Francisco Ribeiro, 45, Portuguese musician (Madredeus), liver cancer. Nicholas Selby, 85, British actor. Kálmán Tolnai, 85, Hungarian Olympic sailor. James E. Winner Jr., 81, American entrepreneur, inventor of The Club, traffic collision.
15 Arrow, 60, Montserratian soca musician ("Hot Hot Hot"), complications from brain cancer. Angidi Chettiar, 82, Mauritian politician, President (2002) and Vice President (1997–2002; since 2007). Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, 95, South African artist, natural causes. Frank Jarvis, 70, British character actor (The Italian Job, A Bridge Too Far). Alvin Krenzler, 89, American judge and real estate developer. Al LaMacchia, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns) and executive, stroke. Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, 75, British politician, MP for Brecon and Radnorshire (1985–1992; 1997–2001). Erkki Rönnholm, 86, Finnish Olympic athlete. Peter Stebler, 83, Swiss Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) rower. Guido Turchi, 93, Italian composer.
16 Victor Adibe Chikwe, 72, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, first Bishop of Ahiara (since 1988). Berni Collas, 56, Belgian politician, Senator (since 2007). James Dillion, 81, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) discus thrower. Helen Escobedo, 76, Mexican artist and sculptor, cancer. Imran Farooq, 50, Pakistani politician (1992–2010), stabbed. Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, 86, German Head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (since 1965). John D. Goeken, 80, American entrepreneur, founder of MCI Communications, cancer.