Deaths in September 2001

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

September 2001

1

• Sil Austin, 71, American jazz saxophonist, prostate cancer.
• Daniel C. Drucker, 83, American engineer and academic, leukemia.
• Bobby Evans, 74, Scottish football player, pneumonia.
• Ruthild Hahne, German sculptor.
• Budimir Metalnikov, 75, Soviet/Russian screenwriter and film director.
• Ted Mulry, 53, English-Australian singer/songwriter, brain cancer.
• Martin Pederson, 79, Canadian farmer and politician.
• Julian Scheer, 75, American journalist, author, and conservationist.
• James Lopez Watson, 79, American jurist, cancer.
• Brian Moore, 69, English football Commentator, heart attack.

2

• Christiaan Barnard, 78, South African heart surgeon, first to perform a human-to-human heart transplant, asthma.
• Troy Donahue, 65, American actor,, heart attack.
• Sir Arthur Gilbert, 88, British-American real estate developer and philanthropist.
• Horace A. Jones, 94, American horse trainer.
• Jay Migliori, 70, American saxophonist, colorectal cancer.
• John Overall, 88, Australian architect.

3

• Ferruccio Amendola, 71, Italian actor and voice actor, throat cancer.
• John Roy Chapman, 74, British actor and playwright.
• Joyce Hemlow, 95, Canadian professor and writer.
• Pauline Kael, 82, American movie critic, Parkinson's disease.
• Carl Lindquist, 82, American baseball player.
• Thuy Trang, 27, Vietnamese-American actress, traffic collision.

4

• Maria Alfero, 79, Italian sprinter.
• Pete Brown, 70, American professional football player .
• Robert McAfee Brown, 81, American presbyterian minister, theologian, and activist.
• Sándor Simó, 67, Hungarian film producer, director and screenwriter.

5

• Akinola Aguda, 78, Nigerian jurist and a Chief Justice of Botswana.
• Heywood Hale Broun, 81, American sports writer and broadcaster.
• Jørgen Hviid, 85, Danish and Latvian multi-sport athlete.
• Numa Monnard, 82, Swiss footballer.
• Hemish Shah, 33, British poker player, cardiac arrest.
• Tamara Smirnova, 65, Soviet/Russian astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.
• Justin Wilson, 87, American Cajun chef and humorist.
• Vladimir Žerjavić, 89, Croatian economist and demographer, murdered.

6

• Frank Christensen, 91, American gridiron fotball player.
• Megan Connolly, 27, Australian actress, heroin overdose.
• Carl Crack, 30, German musician, suicide by drug overdose.
• Chantal Chaudé de Silans, 82, French chess player and Woman International Master.
• Víctor Mahana, 79, Chilean basketball player.
• Wardell Pomeroy, 87, American sexologist, dementia.
• Van Rensselaer Potter, 90, American biochemist, oncologist, and bioethicist.

7

• Igor Buketoff, 86, American composer, conductor and teacher.
• Sergio Garavini, 75, Italian politician, writer and trade unionist.
• Andrey Goncharov, 83, Soviet and Russian theater director, pedagogue and author.
• Lou Grant, 81, American editorial cartoonist.
• Bunny Lewis, 82, English music manager, record producer and composer.
• Spede Pasanen, 71, Finnish television star, film director and inventor, heart attack.
• Don Paul, 75, American gridiron football player.
• Clark Thomas Rogerson, 82, American mycologist.
• Billie Lou Watt, 77, American film and television actress, and voice actress, lung cancer.

8

• Gregorio Agós, 88, Uruguayan basketball player.
• Eric Bullus, 94, British Conservative politician.
• Gabriel Green, 76, American early UFOlogist.
• Bill Ricker, 93, Canadian entomologist.
• Govind Sawant, 65, Indian field hockey player and Olympic medalist.

9

• William Sefton, Baron Sefton of Garston, 86, British politician.
• Tommy Hollis, 47, American actor, complications of diabetes.
• Ahmad Shah Massoud, 48, Afghan Northern Alliance military commander, suicide bombing.
• Shinji Sōmai, 53, Japanese film director, cancer.

10

• DJ Uncle Al, 32, American disc jockey, homicide.
• Yevhen Drahunov, 37, Ukrainian football player, stroke.
• Aurelio Genghini, 93, Italian Olympic long-distance runner.
• Magnar Ingebrigtsli, 68, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Alexey Suetin, 74, Soviet and Russian chess player and chess writer, heart attack.

11

• Clem Dreisewerd, 85, American baseball player.
• Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon, 77, British peer and racing manager to Queen Elizabeth II.
• Henryk Siwiak, 46, Polish émigré to New York City, shot.
• Alice Stewart Trillin, 63, American educator, author and film producer, heart failure.
• Vince Ventura, 84, American baseball player.
• Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 attacks, including:
• *David Angell, 55, American television producer and screenwriter. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
• *Mohamed Atta, 33, Egyptian ringleader and terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
• *Garnet Bailey, 53, Canadian ice hockey player. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 175.
• *Fayez Banihammad, 24, Emirate terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
• *Mark Bavis, 31, American ice hockey player. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 175.
• *Todd Beamer, 32, American account manager. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
• *Carolyn Beug, 48, American filmmaker, producer and music video director. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
• *Bill Biggart, 54, American photojournalist.
• *Mark Bingham, 31, American public relations executive. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
• *Patrick J. Brown, 48, American firefighter.
• *Ronald Paul Bucca, 47, American fire marshal.
• *William Francis Burke Jr., 46, American firefighter.
• *Charles Burlingame, 51, American airline pilot American Airlines Flight 77.
• *Tom Burnett, 38, American executive. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
• *Roko Camaj, 60, Albanian-American window washer.
• *William E. Caswell, 54, American physicist. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.
• *Edna Cintrón, 46, American businesswoman.
• *Kevin Cosgrove, 46, American business executive.
• *Welles Crowther, 24, American Investment banker.
• *Frank De Martini, 49, American architect.
• *Melissa Doi, 32, American businesswoman.
• *William M. Feehan, 71, American deputy fire commissioner, First Deputy Commissioner of the Fire Department New York.
• *Wilson Flagg, 62, United States Navy Rear Admiral. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.
• *Peter Ganci, 54, American firefighter, Chief of the Fire Department New York.
• *Keith A. Glascoe, 38, American actor and firefighter.
• *Ahmed al-Ghamdi, 22, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
• *Hamza al-Ghamdi, 20, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
• *Saeed al-Ghamdi, 21, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
• *Jeremy Glick, 31, American sales executive. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
• *Lauren Grandcolas, 38, American author. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
• *Nezam Hafiz, 32, Guyanese-born American cricketer.
• *Mohammad Salman Hamdani, 23, Pakistani American research technician.
• *Hani Hanjour, 29, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
• *Leonard Hatton, 45, American FBI agent.
• *Nawaf al-Hazmi, 25, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
• *Salem al-Hazmi, 20, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
• *Ahmed al-Haznawi, 20, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
• *LeRoy Homer Jr., 36, American airline pilot United Airlines Flight 93.
• *Ziad Jarrah, 26, Lebanese terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
• *Charles Edward Jones, 48, American astronaut. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
• *Angel Juarbe, 35, American firefighter and reality television show winner.
• *Mychal Judge, 68, American Franciscan friar and Catholic priest, Chaplain of the Fire Department New York.
• *Neil David Levin, 46, American politician, businessman and CEO of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
• *Daniel Lewin, 31, American-Israeli mathematician, entrepreneur and co-founder of Akamai Technologies. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
• *Eamon McEneaney, 46, American Hall of Fame lacrosse player.
• *Timothy Maude, 53, United States Army Lieutenant General.
• *Khalid al-Mihdhar, 26, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
• *Majed Moqed, 24, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
• *Ahmed al-Nami, 23, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
• *John Ogonowski, 50, American pilot American Airlines Flight 11.
• *Barbara Olson, 45, American lawyer and television commentator. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.
• *Abdulaziz al-Omari, 22, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
• *John P. O'Neill, 49, American counter-terrorism expert and FBI agent.
• *Betty Ong, 45, American flight attendant American Airlines Flight 11.
• *Pablo Ortiz, 49, American construction superintendent.
• *Orio Palmer, 45, American firefighter.
• *Berry Berenson Perkins, 53, American actress. and photographer. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
• *Dominick Pezzulo, 36, American-Italian police officer.
• *Sneha Anne Philip, 31, Indian-American physician, presumed to have been a victim of the attacks.
• *Rick Rescorla, 62, British-American soldier and police officer.
• *Michael Richards, 38, Jamaican-born American sculptor.
• *Marwan al-Shehhi, 23, Emirati terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
• *Mohand al-Shehri, 22, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
• *Wail al-Shehri, 28, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
• *Waleed al-Shehri, 22, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
• *Mari-Rae Sopper, 35, American gymnastics coach and lawyer Judge Advocate General's Corps. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.
• *Satam al-Suqami, 25, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
• *Madeline Amy Sweeney, 35, American flight attendant American Airlines Flight 11.
• *Dan Trant, 40, American basketball player.
• *Abraham Zelmanowitz, 55, American computer programmer.
• *Zhe Zeng, 28, Chinese-American banker and emergency medical technician.

12

• Carmen Rico Godoy, 62, Spanish writer, journalist and feminist, lung cancer.
• Jack Kolle, 83, Indonesian football player.
• Marilyn Meseke, 84, American beauty queen.
• Joseph Bruno Slowinski, 38, American herpetologist, snake bite.
• Manaf Suleymanov, 89, Azerbaijani writer and historian.
• Victor Wong, 74, American actor, heart failure.

13

• Jorge Comellas, 84, Cuban baseball player.
• Johnny Craig, 75, American comic book artist.
• Jaroslav Drobný, 79, Czech tennis player and Olympic ice hockey player.
• Dorothy McGuire, 85, American actress, heart failure.
• Fayga Ostrower, 80, Polish-Brazilian visual artist.
• Charles Régnier, 87, German actor and director, stroke.
• Alex Scott, 64, Scottish footballer.
• Irving S. Shapiro, 85, American lawyer and businessman.

14

• Barbara Ansell, 78, British paediatric rheumatologist, ovarian cancer.
• George Ireland, 88, American basketball coach.
• Stelios Kazantzidis, 70, Greek singer, brain cancer.
• Francisco Urcuyo, 86, Nicaraguan politician, vice president, heart attack.

15

• Herbert Burdenski, 79, German football player and coach.
• Fred de Cordova, 90, American stage, film and television director and producer.
• Richard Fegley, 64, American photographer, cancer.
• Eliezer Preminger, 81, Israeli politician.
• June Salter, 69, Australian actor.
• Robert Louis Whelan, 89, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Paul "Tank" Younger, 73, American gridiron football player.
• Živojin Zdravković, 86, Serbian conductor.

16

• Samuel Z. Arkoff, 83, American film producer.
• François Bédarida, 75, French academic historian.
• Patrick Cosgrave, 59, Irish journalist and writer.
• Neptali A. Gonzales, Sr., 78, Filipino politician and writer.
• Jerry Harper, 67, American basketball player.
• Donald Hume, 86, American Olympic rower.
• Leonid Osyka, 61, Ukrainian movie director, producer, and screen writer.

17

• Hizgil Avshalumov, 88, Soviet novelist, poet and playwright.
• Bubba Church, 77, American baseball player.
• Paul Cummings, 48, American middle and long-distance runner, drowning accident.
• Dalilah, 65, Egyptian-Spanish oriental dancer.
• Dickie Dodds, 82, English cricket player.
• Samuel Epstein, 81, Canadian-American geochemist.
• Ray Gill, 76, English football player.
• David Kipiani, 49, Georgian football player and manager, car accident.

18

• Ernie Coombs, 73, American-Canadian actor, stroke.
• Rachmat Kartolo, 63, Indonesian actor and singer.
• Hank Levy, 73, American jazz composer and saxophonist, congestive heart failure.
• Jane du Pont Lunger, 87, American heiress and philanthropist.
• Sandy Saddler, 75, American boxer.
• Barry Shepherd, 64, Australian cricket player.
• Amy Witting, 83, Australian novelist and poet.

19

• Jane Dudley, 89, American modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher.
• Nguyen Ton Hoan, 84, South Vietnamese politician, leader of Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng.
• Rhys Jones, 60, Welsh-Australian archaeologist.
• Raymond Alphonse Lucker, 74, American prelate of the Catholic Church, melanoma.
• Nina Roscher, 62, American chemist and activist, breast cancer.
• Darryl Sambell, 55, Australian talent manager and music promoter, lung cancer.
• Bill Stafford, 63, American baseball player.

20

• Patsy Adam-Smith, 77, Australian author and historian.
• Victor Henry Anderson, 84, American priest and poet.
• George Archie, 87, American baseball player.
• George Grosvenor, 91, American gridiron football player.
• Bill Gunn, 81, Australian politician.
• Billy Harris, 66, Canadian professional ice hockey player.
• Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez, 87, Venezuelan military officer and President of Venezuela.
• Princess Cecylia Lubomirska, 94, Polish princess.
• Abe Mickal, 89, American gridiron football player.
• Lewis Rudin, 74, American real estate investor and developer.
• Joe Stephenson, 80, American baseball player.
• Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, 83, German journalist and television show host, pneumonia.

21

• Eleanor Bone, 90, English neopagan wiccan priestess.
• David S. Dennison, Jr., 83, American politician.
• Daniel J. Murphy, 79, American four-star navy admiral, stomach aneurysm.
• Dwayne O'Steen, 46, American football player, heart attack.
• Ross Parker, 17, English victim of racially motivated crime, stabbed.

22

• Germaine Brée, 93, French-American literary scholar.
• Hilde Holger, 95, Austrian-British expressionist dancer and choreographer, cough.
• Leslie Howarth, 90, British mathematician.
• Fikret Kızılok, 54, Turkish rock musician, heart attack.
• William Knox, 73, Australian politician.
• Gordon Reece, 71, British journalist and political strategist, cancer.
• Isaac Stern, 81, Ukrainian-American violinist, congestive heart failure.

23

• Robert Abel, 64, American pioneer in visual effects and computer animation, heart attack.
• Spencer Barrett, 87, British classical scholar.
• Kevin Boland, 83, Irish politician.
• Allen Curnow, 90, New Zealand poet and journalist.
• Elton Hayes, 86, British actor and guitarist.
• Ron Hewitt, 73, Welsh footballer.
• Henryk Tomaszewski, 81, Polish mime artist and theatre director.

24

• Peter Shore, 77, British politician.
• Shawn Walsh, 46, American ice hockey coach, kidney cancer.
• Eldon Woolliams, 85, Canadian politician and lawyer.
• Arthur Wynn, 91, British civil servant and recruiter of Soviet spies.

25

• Irving Bernstein, 84, American historian and professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
• Ritter Collett, 80, American sports editor and columnist.
• Samar Das, 75, Bangladeshi musician and composer.
• Robert W. Floyd, 65, American computer scientist.
• Sepp Janko, 95, German SS Obersturmführer during World War II.
• Herbert Klein, 78, German Olympic swimmer.
• Evan A. Lottman, 70, American film editor, esophageal cancer.
• Dolores Michaels, 68, American actress.
• Marc North, 35, English footballer, complications from lung cancer.
• Lani O'Grady, 46, American actress and talent agent, drug overdose.
• John Powers, 72, American baseball player.
• Paul Seiler, 55, American football player, colon cancer.

26

• Clarice Cross Bagwell, 86, American educator and activist.
• Helia Bravo Hollis, 99, Mexican botanist.
• Hannes Nikel, 70, German film editor.
• Sagat Singh, 82, Indian Army officer.
• Vaithilingam Sornalingam, 52, Sri Lankan rebel, homicide.

27

• Herman Berlinski, 91, German-American musician, heart attack.
• Helen Cherry, 85, English actress.
• Linda Smith Dyer, 53, American lawyer and women's rights activist, cancer.
• Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, 81, Indian politician.
• Philip Rosenthal, 84, German industrialist, socialite and politician.
• Dick Rozek, 74, American baseball player.

28

• Ernest Ačkun, 71, Yugoslav clarinetist.
• James H. Brickley, 72, American judge and politician.
• R. J. Hollingdale, 70, British biographer and translator of German philosophy and literature.
• Isao Inokuma, 63, Japanese Olympic judoka, suicide by seppuku.
• Ejner Johansson, 79, Danish art historian, writer, and documentary film director.
• Jack Maguire, 76, American baseball player.
• Martin O'Hagan, 51, Irish investigative journalist, shot.
• Irene von Meyendorff, 85, Russian-born German-British actress.

29

• Viktor Belov, 76, Russian football player and manager.
• Mabel Fairbanks, 85, American figure skater and coach.
• Gloria Foster, 67, American actress, diabetes.
• Frank Gasparro, 92, American Chief Engraver of the United States Mint.
• Shona McFarlane, 72, New Zealand artist, journalist and broadcaster.
• Gellu Naum, 86, Romanian poet, novelist, and children's writer.
• John Noriega, 57, American baseball player.
• Risto Orko, 102, Finnish film producer and director.
• Eleanor Phelps, 94, American actress.
• Helmut Roloff, 88, German pianist, teacher and resistance fighter during World War II.
• Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, 78, South Vietnamese military officer and politician, 2nd President of South Vietnam, stroke.

30

• Consuelo Araújo, 61, Colombian politician, writer and journalist, assassination by gunshot.
• Luis Barboo, 74, Spanish actor.
• Anatoly Bogdanov, 70, Soviet sport shooter and Olympic champion.
• Gerhard Ebeling, 89, German Lutheran theologian.
• George Gately, 72, American cartoonist, cardiovascular disease.
• Calvin C. Hernton, 69, American sociologist, poet and author.
• Jenny Jugo, 97, Austrian actress.
• John C. Lilly, 86, American writer, inventor and counterculture scientist.
• Tage Lindbom, 91, Swedish mystic and conservative politician.
• Giovanni Macchia, 88, Italian literary critic and essayist.
• Madhavrao Scindia, 56, Indian politician, royal family member, Maharaja of Gwalior.
• Dora M. Sweeney, 94, American secretary and politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives.