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. Tacariju de Paula, 88, Brazilian Olympic sailor (1952). Zdobysław Stawczyk, 82, Polish Olympic sprinter (1952). Jack D. Walker, 83, American politician and physician.
2 Tom Bailey, 56, American gridiron footballer (Florida State Seminoles, Philadelphia Eagles), 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 and Olympian (1952). Petr Lohnický, 64, Czech Olympic swimmer (1964). Alexandru Paleologu, 86, Romanian diplomat.
3 Juan Carmona, 73, Chilean Olympic rower (1956). 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. Jens Nygård, 71, Norwegian Olympic sports shooter (1972). William Rehnquist, 80, American lawyer and jurist, Chief Justice of the United States, thyroid cancer. James Rossi, 69, American Olympic cyclist (1956, 1960). 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. Thomas Alonzo Clark, 84, American circuit judge. 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 (Gonzaga Bulldogs, Montana State Bobcats). Donald Hains, 89, Canadian Olympic sailor (1952). Walther Heissig, 91, Austrian mongolist. Bubba McCollum, 52, American football player (Houston Oilers).Jim McCollum 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. Desmond Cleary, 80, Irish footballer and Olympian (1948). Sergio Endrigo, 72, Italian singer and songwriter ("Canzone per te", "L'arca di Noè", "Io che amo solo te"), cancer. Joe Kodba, 83, American football player (Baltimore Colts). Nicolino Locche, 66, Argentine world boxing champion, heart attack. Marion Miller, 92, Canadian Olympic alpine skier (1936). Edoardo Mulargia, 79, Italian director (Escape from Hell, W Django!) and screenwriter (Challenge of the McKennas). 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. Fiona Campbell, 76, British Olympic alpine skier (1952). Noel Cantwell, 73, Irish soccer player, former Manchester United captain, cancer. Stanley Dancer, 78, American harness racing driver and trainer, prostate cancer.Christine, Bill. "Stanley Dancer, 78; Was Dominating Harness Racing Driver, Trainer", Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2005. Retrieved October 19, 2024. 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 and Olympian (1936). Ralph Knoesen, 64, South African Olympic boxer (1960). 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 X. 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. Jónas Halldórsson, 91, Icelandic Olympic water polo player (1936). Wilbur Jackett, 93, Canadian public servant and jurist. First chief justice of the Federal Court of Canada.Q.C. Jackett June 27, 1912 - September 10, 2005 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. Loren Wright, 88, American basketball player.
11 Messias José Baptista, 37, Brazilian triple jumper and Olympian (1996), 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 Juan Carlos Anderson, 92, Argentine Olympic sprinter (1936). Helmut Baierl, 78, German playwright. Honey Bruce, 78, American stripper and showgirl, colitis. Serge Lang, 78, American mathematician and political activist. Ronald Leigh-Hunt, 88, British actor. Lenora Mandella, 74, American baseball player. Alain Polaniok, 46, French footballer. Katherine Sanford, 90, American biologist.SANFORD, Katherine Koontz (1915 – 2005) Fritz Schilgen, 99, German athlete and final Olympic torchbearer at the 1936 Summer Games. Erich Schöppner, 73, German Olympic boxer (1952). John Slade, 97, American Olympic field hockey player (1948). 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, referee, and Olympian (1948). Tom Felleghy, 83, Hungarian-born Italian actor (Four Flies on Grey Velvet, The Cat o' Nine Tails, The Big Gundown). 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 and musicologist. Chieko Nakakita, 79, Japanese actress (Drunken Angel, The Quiet Duel, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs).
14 William Berenberg, 89, American physician, professor of pediatrics, emeritus, at Harvard Medical School. Toni Fritsch, 60, Austrian footballer and American football player. Henry Kaplan, 79, American television director. Frances Newton, 40, American convict, first African American woman executed in Texas since 1858, lethal injection. Mirai, 22, Japanese professional wrestler, accidental drowning. 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, The Day the Earth Stood Still), Oscar winner (1962), heart failure.
15 Samuel Azu Crabbe, 77, Ghanaian jurist, Chief Justice of Ghana (1973-1977). Lennart Ekdahl, 92, Swedish Olympic sailor (1936). 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 Bob Agler, 81, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). Lou Almada, 98, American baseball player. Stanley Burnshaw, 99, American poet and literary figure. Howell Cobb, 82, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas). 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 volleyball player and Olympian (2004), 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 (1948, 1952). Jacques Lacarrière, 79, French author and classical translator. Ray Lemek, 71, American gridiron football player (Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Washington Redskins, Pittsburgh Steelers). Jack Lesberg, 85, American jazz bassist. Les Perry, 82, Australian Olympic long-distance runner (1952, 1956). Alfred Reed, 84, American neo-classical composer. S. L. Puram Sadanandan, 77, Indian playwright and film scriptwriter, India.
18 Richard Britton, 35, Irish motorcycle racer. 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.