The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2004.
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 2004
1 Kenneth Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, British life peer and chairman of Rolls-Royce, Beecham Group, and STC. Delkash, 80, Iranian singer and actress. Kaye Elhardt, 69, American television actress. Herbert Haft, 84, American pharmacists and businessman, congestive heart failure. Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, Syrian Grand Mufti, heart attack. Alan Stewart, 86, New Zealand educator and university administrator.
2 Tom Capone, 38, Brazilian music producer and guitar player, traffic collision. Billy Davis, 72, American songwriter, record producer, and commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke). Frederick Desrosiers, 64, Canadian Olympic boxer (1964). Kieth Engen, 79, American operatic bass singer. Bob O. Evans, 77, American computer scientist. Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, 88, German actor. Donald Leslie, 93, American audio engineer and inventor of the Leslie speaker. Francesco Mander, 88, Italian conductor and composer. Joan Oró, 80, Spanish biochemist. Vonda Phelps, 89, American child stage actress, vaudeville performer and dancer. Marcel Rewenig, 83, Luxembourgian footballer and Olympian (1948). Paul Shmyr, 58, Canadian NHL hockey player, throat cancer.Paul Shmyr, Sports-Reference / Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2019-02-14. Rose Slivka, 85, American writer, critic and editor. Eleni Zafeiriou, 88, Greek film actress.
3 Archer Blood, 81, American career diplomat and academic. Yanis Kanidis, 74, Russian physical education teacher, killed by Chechen extremists. Robert McCleave, 81, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1957-1963, 1965-1977). André Stil, 83, French novelist, short story writer, occasional poet, and political activist. Frenchy Uhalt, 94, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
4 George Baird, 97, American sprinter and Olympian (1928). Samira Bellil, 31, French feminist activist, campaigner for Muslim girls'- and women's rights, stomach cancer. Walter Campbell, 83, Australian judge, administrator and governor. Mick Craigie, 87, Australian rugby league footballer. Alphonso Ford, 33, American basketball player (Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils, Seattle Supersonics, Philadelphia 76ers), leukemia. Serge Marquand, 74, French actor, leukemia. Moe Norman, 75, Canadian PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure. James O. Page, 68, American chief of Emergency Medical Services, heart attack.
5 Winston Anglin, 42, Jamaican football player, traffic collision. Red Cochran, 82, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals), and later NFL scout. Allan Koury, 73, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1988-1993). Pedro Listur, 82, Uruguayan Olympic high jumper (1948). Gerald Merrithew, 73, Canadian politician and federal cabinet minister, cancer. Gerard Piel, 89, American science writer and editor (Scientific American), stroke.
6 Antonio Corpora, 95, Tunisian-Italian painter. Don Estes, 65, American football player (LSU Tigers, San Diego Chargers). Netzahualcóyotl de la Vega, 73, Mexican trade union leader and politician. Morey Leonard Sear, 75, American judge (United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana). Harvey Wheeler, 85, American political scientist and author (Fail-Safe), cancer.
7 Ashfaq Ahmad, 79, Pakistani writer, playwright and broadcaster, gallbladder cancer. Bob Boyd, 84, American Major League Baseball player, first black player to sign with the Chicago White Sox. Lev Burchalkin, 65, Soviet football player and Russian coach. Kirk Fordice, 70, American politician, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia. Fritha Goodey, 31, British actress (About a Boy), suicide by stabbing. Seppo Irjala, 66, Finnish Olympic sports shooter (1972). György Nagy, 77, Hungarian Olympic basketball player (1948). Beyers Naudé, 89, South African theologian and anti-apartheid activist. Miriam Pires, 78, Brazilian actress, toxoplasmosis. Gong Qiuxia, 85, Chinese actress and singer. Hal Reniff, 66, American baseball player (New York Yankees, New York Mets). Munir Said Thalib, 38, Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic poisoning. L.E. White, 74, American Grammy Award-winning songwriter, singer and musician.
8 John F. Bolt, 83, United States Marine Corps flying ace during World War II and the Korean War. Patti Bright, 63, American Olympic volleyball player (1964, 1968). Francis Burt, 86, Australian jurist. Richard Girnt Butler, 86, American white supremacist, founder of the Aryan Nations, heart failure. Matías Prats Cañete, 90, Spanish radio and television journalist, kidney disease. Mohammad Jusuf, 76, Indonesian military general. Raymond Marcellin, 90, French politician, Minister of the Interior (1968–1974). Bror Mellberg, 80, Swedish football player. Tsutomu Mizukami, 85, Japanese writer of novels, biographies, and plays. Dan Spătaru, 64, Romanian singer, heart attack. Manuel María Fernández Teixeiro, 74, Spanish poet and academic. Frank Thomas, 92, American animator (Cinderella, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp), cerebral hemorrhage. Kuno Werner, 79, German Olympic skier (1956, 1960). James Westphal, 74, American scientist, engineer, and astronomer.
9 Luis Advis, 69, Chilean professor of philosophy and music composer. Ernie Ball, 74, American guitar equipment maker. Aleksei Barkalov, 58, Ukrainian water polo player and Olympic champion (1968, 1972, 1976, 1980). Caitlin Clarke, 52, American theater and film actress, ovarian cancer. Rose Gacioch, 89, American baseball player. Ralph Hawkins, 69, American football coach, dementia. Jean-Daniel Pollet, 68, French film director and screenwriter.
10 Brock Adams, 77, American politician, Parkinson's disease. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, 45, Yemeni islamist, politician and military leader, killed in action. Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer, teacher, and pianist. Leonard Birchall, 89, Canadian Air Force officer. Richard Karlan, 85, American actor. Ken Meuleman, 81, Australian cricket player. Glyn Owen, 76, British actor (Emergency – Ward 10, Howards' Way), cancer. Andrea Wonfor, 60, British television executive and producer.
11 Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, 55, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria (since 1997), helicopter crash. Aaron Director, 102, Russian-American economist and academic. Fred Ebb, 71, American Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack. Mohamed El-Minabawi, 77, Egyptian Olympic boxer (1948, 1952). Nectarios Kellis, Australian Greek Orthodox prelate, Greek Orthodox Bishop of Madagascar (since 1997), helicopter crash. Margaret Kelly, 94, Irish dancer and founder of the Bluebell Girls. Johnny Maloney, 72, British Olympic boxer (1952). David Mann, 64, American graphic artist.
12 Max Abramovitz, 96, American architect. Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djiboutian politician, prime minister (1977–1978). Kenny Buttrey, 59, American drummer and arranger, cancer. Jerome Chodorov, 93, American playwright (My Sister Eileen). Margaret Jeffery, 84, English swimmer and Olympian (1936). Ray Simons, 91, South African communist, anti-apartheid activist, and trade unionist. Jack Turner, 84, American racecar driver. Dr. Wagner, 68, Mexican professional wrestler, or Luchador, heart attack.
13 Charlie Brandt, 47, American serial killer, suicide by hanging. Daniel Dean, 95, American Olympic long-distance runner (1932). Bill Glassco, 69, Canadian theatre director and producer. Luis E. Miramontes, 79, Mexican chemist. Glenn Presnell, 99, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions) and coach. Eric Sams, 78, British musicologist and William Shakespeare scholar. Im Sang-jo, 74, South Korean Olympic cyclist (1952, 1956).
14 Fernando Campos, 80, Chilean football midfielder. Dakar, 83, Peruvian actor. Reynaldo Guerra Garza, 89, American federal judge. Judith Keep, 60, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of California). Rota Onorio, 84, Kiribati politician. Richard Pierce, 86, American historian and scholar. Giuni Russo, 53, Italian singer ("Un'estate al mare"), cancer. John Seymour, 90, British author and self-sufficiency advocate. Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor. Mamoru Takuma, 40, Japanese mass murderer (Ikeda school massacre), executed. Mawade Wade, 76, Senegalese football manager.
15 Nalda Bird, 77, American baseball player. Donald G. Brotzman, 82, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1963-1965, 1967-1975). Bernard Gribble, 77, British film editor (Top Secret!, Death Wish, The Jokers). Johnny Ramone, 55, American guitarist (The Ramones), prostate cancer. Walter Stewart, 73, Canadian writer, editor and journalism educator, cancer. Daouda Malam Wanké, 58, Nigerien military and political leader. Austin Herbert Woolrych, 86, English historian.
16 Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet. Izora Armstead, 62, American singer, one of the two members of The Weather Girls, heart failure. Michael Donaghy, 50, American poet and musician, brain haemorrhage. Ramón Gabilondo, 91, Spanish football player and manager. Claude Jaeger, 87, Swiss-French film producer and actor. Livio Maitan, 81, Italian trotskyist and a leader of the Fourth International. Lars Matton, 79, Swedish Olympic sailor (1948). Giovanni Raboni, 72, Italian poet, translator and literary critic. Dolly Rathebe, 76, South African singer and actress (Jim Comes To Jo'burg), stroke.
17 Katharina Dalton, 87, British physician, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome. Evi Rauer, 88, Estonian actress and television director. H. S. Rawail, 83, Indian filmmaker. Galina Rumiantseva, 77, Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist. Sudheer, Indian actor.
18 Jim Barnett, 80, American professional wrestling promoter and executive, pneumonia. Norman Cantor, 74, Canadian-American medieval scholar. Fran Curran, 82, American basketball player (Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Rochester Royals). Kyohei Fujita, 83, Japanese glass artist. René Kunz, 93, Swiss Olympic hurdler (1936). Russ Meyer, 82, American filmmaker, pneumonia. Marvin Mitchelson, 76, American divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer. Klara Rumyanova, 74, Soviet and Russian actress and voice actress, breast cancer. Pål Sæthrang, 59, Norwegian footballer.
19 Eddie Adams, 71, American photojournalist, ALS. Árpád Bogsch, 85, Hungarian-American international civil servant. Stanley Clarke, 71, British businessman and philanthropist, colorectal cancer. Skeeter Davis, 72, American country music singer ("The End of the World", "I Can't Stay Mad at You"), breast cancer. Annabella Incontrera, 61, Italian actress (The Assassination Bureau, Black Belly of the Tarantula, The Case of the Bloody Iris). Waldren "Frog" Joseph, 86, American jazz trombone player. Damayanti Joshi, 76, Indian kathak dancer. Robert Lawrence, 90, Canadian film editor (Spartacus, El Cid, Fiddler on the Roof). Pat McHugh, 84, American football player (Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Philadelphia Eagles). Ryhor Reles, 91, Belarusian Yiddish writer. Derald Ruttenberg, 88, American investor and industrialist. Kenneth Sandford, 80, English singer and actor (D'Oyly Carte Opera Company). Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder, snowboarding accident.
20 Otto Beyeler, 78, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier (1952). Harry Burrus, 83, American football player (New York Yankees, Chicago Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers). Brian Clough, 69, English footballer, coach and manager, stomach cancer. Salil Dutta, 72, Indian Bengali director, screenwriter and actor. Pat Hanly, 72, New Zealand painter, Huntington's disease. Townsend Hoopes, 82, American historian and government official, melanoma.