Deaths in September 2007

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

September 2007

1

• Robert H. Ahmanson, 80, American businessman and philanthropist, heart attack.
• Tomás Medina Caracas, 42, Colombian guerrilla member of FARC, military action.
• Russell Ellington, 69, American basketball coach for the Harlem Globetrotters, lung cancer.
• Sir Abraham Goldberg, 83, Scottish doctor and medical scientist.
• Sally Haley, 99, American painter, natural causes.
• Sir Roy McKenzie, 84, New Zealand philanthropist, harness racing breeder, trainer and competitor.
• Viliam Schrojf, 76, Slovakian former football goalkeeper.
• John T. Scott, 67, American sculptor and artist.

2

• Rajae Belmlih, 45, Moroccan singer, cancer.
• Anthony Day, 74, American editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times, emphysema.
• Robert Fidgeon, 65, Australian television columnist and critic, cancer.
• Safet Isović, 71, Bosnian singer.
• Marcia Mae Jones, 83, American actress ''.
• Max McNab, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and NHL general manager.
• Pat Norton, 88, Australian Olympic backstroke swimmer.
• Bill Robinson, 88, Australian rules footballer.

3

• Carter Albrecht, 34, American keyboardist and guitarist, shot.
• Clarke Bynum, 45, American basketball player, 2000 hijack hero, cancer.
• Gustavo Eberto, 24, Argentine footballer, testicular cancer.
• Sir Hamish Forbes, 91, British soldier and aristocrat.
• Steve Fossett, 63, American adventurer, aircrash.
• Syd Jackson, 68, New Zealand Māori rights activist, cancer.
• Gift Leremi, 22, South African international footballer, car accident.
• Don Maloney, 79, American writer, author on Japan.
• Janis Martin, 67, American singer, cancer.
• Lord Michael Pratt, 61, British writer and aristocrat.
• Steve Ryan, 60, American actor.
• Mária Szepes, 98, Hungarian writer.
• Jane Tomlinson, 43, British cancer activist, cancer.

4

• Michael Evans, 87, American actor.
• Bhamidipati Radhakrishna, 77, Indian playwright and scriptwriter.
• Kumari Rukmani, 78, Indian actress and dancer.
• Gigi Sabani, 54, Italian television host, heart attack.
• John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, 83, British politician and aristocrat.
• Ryūzō Sejima, 95, Japanese academic, chairman of the board of Asia University, World War II strategist.

5

• Julieta Campos, 75, Cuban-Mexican writer, cancer.
• Duan Yihe, 61, Chinese congress member who arranged the murder of his mistress, execution.
• Jennifer Dunn, 66, American Representative from Washington, pulmonary embolism.
• Paul Gillmor, 68, American Representative from Ohio since 1989.
• Edward Gramlich, 68, American economics professor, governor of the Federal Reserve System, lymphocytic leukemia.
• Charlotte Zucker, 86, American actress.
• Thomas Hansen, 31, Norwegian musician known as "Saint Thomas", combination of prescribed drugs.
• D. James Kennedy, 76, American evangelical Protestant pastor and theologian, founder of Coral Ridge Ministries.
• Nikos Nikolaidis, 67, Greek film director, pulmonary edema.

6

• Martin Čech, 31, Czech international ice hockey player, car accident.
• Eva Crane, 95, British bee expert.
• Allan Crite, 97, American artist, natural causes.
• Billy Darnell, 81, American professional wrestler of the 1940s–1960s famous for feuds with Buddy Rogers.
• Wolfgang Franke, 95, German sinologist.
• Evald Gering, 89, Canadian Olympic shooter.
• Ian Gray, 69, British comics writer.
• Jack Hawkes, 92, British botanist.
• John Kelly, 71, Provisional Irish Republican Army founder-member and Northern Ireland Assembly member, cancer.
• Madeleine L'Engle, 88, American writer, natural causes.
• Lee Ae-jung, 20, South Korean actress, complications of brain cancer.
• Ronald Magill, 87, British actor.
• Bill Muller, 42, American film critic and journalist.
• Luciano Pavarotti, 71, Italian operatic tenor, pancreatic cancer.
• Percy Rodriguez, 89, Canadian character actor and movie trailer narrator, kidney problems.
• Byron Stevenson, 50, British footballer, throat cancer.

7

• Alex, 31, American-born African grey parrot, subject of animal language experiments.
• Sir John Compton, 82, St. Lucian Prime Minister, stroke.
• Norman Deeley, 73, British footballer.
• Russell E. Dougherty, 87, American former commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command.
• Joseph W. Eschbach, 74, American doctor and kidney specialist whose research led to treatment of anemia, cancer.
• Joseph Rudolph Grimes, 84, Liberian foreign minister.
• Sidney Leviss, 90, American politician and judge.
• Gabriel Baccus Matthews, 59, Liberian foreign minister.
• Mark Weil, 55, Uzbek theatre director, stabbed.

8

• Lord Bethell, 69, British historian of Eastern and Central Europe, human rights campaigner, Parkinson's disease.
• Jean-François Bizot, 63, French journalist, creator of "Actuel", Radio Nova, cancer.
• Adrian Esquino Lisco, 68, Salvadoran indigenous rights activist and spiritual chief, complications from diabetes.
• Vincent Serventy, 91, Australian writer and conservationist.

9

• Hannes Brewis, 87, South African rugby union player.
• Angie Brooks, 78, Liberian diplomat and jurist.
• Ian Campbell, 81, British politician, MP for Dunbartonshire West and Dumbarton.
• Han Dingxiang, 71, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, detained for loyalty to the Vatican.
• ASHK Sadek, 73, Bangladeshi politician.
• Helmut Senekowitsch, 73, Austrian football player and manager.
• Zoran Tadić, 66, Croatian film director.
• Hughie Thomasson, 55, American guitarist, heart attack.
• Sir Tasker Watkins VC, 88, British jurist and businessman, Lord Justice of Appeal and former WRU President, after short illness.
• Xu Simin, 93, Hong Kong magazine publisher, pro-Beijing supporter, organ failure.

10

• Loretta King Hadler, 90, American film actress, natural causes.
• James Leasor, 83, British novelist and biographer.
• Joe Rantz, 93, American rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
• Dame Anita Roddick, 64, British entrepreneur and founder of The Body Shop, brain haemorrhage.
• Arthur Ross, 96, American businessman and philanthropist known for his contribution to Central Park.
• Joe Sherlock, 76, Irish Teachta Dála for Cork East.
• Ted Stepien, 82, American businessman and former owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.
• Enrique Torres, 85, American professional wrestler.
• Jane Wyman, 90, American actress, Oscar winner.

11

• John Garrett, 76, British politician, MP for Norwich South 1974–1983 and 1987–1997.
• Ian Porterfield, 61, British footballer and manager, colon cancer.
• Gene Savoy, 80, American explorer and religious mystic, claimed discovery of over 40 lost cities in Peru, natural causes.
• James F. Smith, 84, American politician.
• Willie Tee, 63, American singer-songwriter and producer, colon cancer.
• Joe Zawinul, 75, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer, founder of Weather Report, cancer.

12

• Bobby Byrd, 73, American soul/funk singer, cancer.
• Daryl Holton, 45, American convicted murderer, first man executed by electric chair in Tennessee in 47 years.
• Phil Frank, 64, American cartoonist, brain cancer.
• Lou Kretlow, 86, American baseball pitcher.

13

• Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, 37, Iraqi leader of Anbar Salvation Council, improvised explosive device.
• Gaetano Arfé, 81, Italian politician.
• Robert Bates, 96, American mountaineer.
• Laurel Burch, 61, American artist, osteopetrosis.
• Phil Frank, 64, American cartoonist, brain tumor.
• Bill Griffiths, 59, British poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar.
• Augie Hiebert, 90, American who built Alaska's first television station, cancer.
• Neville Jeffress, 87, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia, pneumonia.
• Colin Mitchell, 78, English cricketer.
• Clare Oliver, 26, Australian cancer activist, melanoma.
• Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi, 35, Iraqi leader of the Anbar Salvation Council, bomb.
• Whakahuihui Vercoe, 79, New Zealand retired Anglican archbishop.

14

• Sir Robert Honeycombe, 86, British metallurgist.
• Gary Hubler, 52, American aviator, aviation accident.
• Jacques Martin, 74, French presenter and former husband of Cécilia Sarkozy, cancer.
• Emilio Ruiz del Río, 84, Spanish set decorator, respiratory failure.
• Benny Vansteelant, 30, Belgian world champion duathlete, bike accident.

15

• Leslie Holligan, 29, Guyanese footballer, heart failure.
• Colin McRae, 39, British World Rally champion, helicopter crash.
• Sir Jeremy Moore, 79, British soldier, commander of UK land forces in the Falklands War.
• Specs Powell, 85, American jazz drummer, kidney disease.
• Ernie Renzel, 100, American politician, Mayor of San Jose, "Father of San Jose International Airport."
• Aldemaro Romero, 79, Venezuelan composer, pianist and conductor, complications of intestinal blockage.
• Brett Somers, 83, American actress, comedian and panelist, stomach and colon cancer.

16

• Jean Balissat, 71, Swiss musician.
• Peter Cleeland, 69, Australian politician, MHR for McEwen, motor neurone disease.
• Robert Jordan, 58, American fantasy novelist, cardiac amyloidosis.
• Cal Rampton, 93, American politician, Governor of Utah, cancer.
• Buster Ramsey, 87, American football player and coach, pneumonia.

17

• Jim Furner, 79, Australian military intelligence chief.
• Stephen Medcalf, 70, British scholar.
• Rappani Khalilov, 37, Chechen militant, leader of the Shariat Jamaat, terrorist, killed by Russian troops.
• Maurice King, 72, American basketball player.
• Charlotte Lewis, 52, American basketball player.

18

• Augustus Akinloye, 91, Nigerian politician, founder of the Ibadan Peoples Party.
• Benyamin Yosef Bria, 51, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Denpasar.
• Norman Gaylord, 84, American chemist, developed permeable contact lens.
• Nate Hill, 41, American football player.
• Len Thompson, 60, Australian footballer, heart attack.

19

• Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri, 34, Iraqi sculptor, replaced Saddam Hussein statue toppled during 2003 invasion of Iraq, car accident.
• Antoine Ghanem, 64, Lebanese politician, MP, car bomb.
• Mike Osborne, 66, British jazz musician.
• Vlatko Pavletić, 76, Croatian politician, Speaker of Parliament, acting President.
• Hiram Emory Widener Jr., 83, American jurist, lung cancer.

20

• Mahlon Clark, 84, American clarinetist, natural causes.
• Helen Freeman, 75, American endangered species advocate, lung disease.
• Johnny Gavin, 79, Irish international footballer and Norwich City's record goalscorer.
• Kaljo Kiisk, 81, Estonian actor, film director and politician.
• Viktor Shershunov, 56, Russian governor of Kostroma Oblast, car accident.
• Laba Sosseh, 64, Senegalese singer.
• Sir Edward Tomkins, 91, British diplomat, ambassador to The Netherlands and France.

21

• Hallgeir Brenden, 78, Norwegian cross country skier, gold medallist.
• Bob Collins, 61, Australian ALP senator and minister, suicide by alcohol and drug overdose.
• Alice Ghostley, 84, American actress, Tony winner, colon cancer.
• Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, 81, British politician.
• Rex Humbard, 88, American televangelist, congestive heart failure.
• Paul Konsler, 94, French Olympic shooter.
• Floria Lasky, 84, American entertainment attorney and litigator, cancer.
• Ángel Romero, 75, Mexican Olympic cyclist.
• Petar Stambolić, 95, Serbian Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, President of Yugoslavia.
• Carl Eugene Watts, 53, American serial killer, complications of prostate cancer.
• Wu Xiangxiang, 92, Chinese historian.

22

• Albert Fuller, 81, American harpsichordist and founder of the Aston Magna Foundation and Festival.
• Herbert Gallen, 92, American chairman and owner of Ellen Tracy sportswear.
• Richard Hornby, 85, British politician and businessman.
• Marcel Marceau, 84, French mime artist.
• William D. Rogers, 80, American advisor to Henry Kissinger, heart attack.
• ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá, 95, Iranian-born leader in the Baháʼí Faith.

23

• Renzo Barbieri, 67, Italian writer.
• Ken Danby, 67, Canadian painter.
• Ivan Hinderaker, 91, American academic, chancellor of the University of California, Riverside.
• John Klier, 62, British-American writer and historian.

24

• Geoff Cannell, 65, Manx Member of the House of Keys and sports broadcaster, stroke.
• Terry Connolly, 49, Australian judge of the ACT Supreme Court, heart attack.
• Kurt Julius Goldstein, 92, German journalist and Auschwitz survivor.
• André Gorz, 84, Austrian-born French social philosopher, suicide by lethal injection.
• Frank Hyde, 91, Australian rugby league player and commentator.
• Hiroshi Ōsaka, 44, Japanese co-founder of Bones Animation Studio, cancer.
• Pief Panofsky, 88, American physicist and former director of SLAC, heart attack.
• Frank Sherring, 93, Canadian politician, Mayor of Lethbridge, Alberta, cancer.
• Otto Špaček, 89, Czech World War II hero.
• Lenore Tawney, 100, American fiber artist.

25

• Haidar Abdel-Shafi, 88, Palestinian negotiator, stomach cancer.
• Hans Colberg, 95, Danish footballer.
• André Emmerich, 82, German-born American art dealer, complications from a stroke.
• Jana Krishnamurthi, 79, Indian politician, President of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
• Michael Wayne Richard, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Bill Waller, 95, American college football coach.

26

• Stanislav Andreski, 88, Polish sociologist.
• Robert Bruss, 67, American real estate attorney and columnist, cancer.
• Velma Wayne Dawson, 94, American creator of the Howdy Doody puppet.
• Angela Lambert, 67, British journalist, historian and novelist.
• Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, 90, Dutch secret agent, author and businessman.
• Randy Van Horne, 83, American singer of TV theme songs, cancer.
• Bill Wirtz, 77, American owner of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks, cancer.

27

• Nenad Bogdanović, 53, Serbian politician, mayor of Belgrade, lymphoma.
• Dale Houston, 67, American musician.
• Kenji Nagai, 50, Japanese video journalist, shot.
• Bill Perry, 77, South African-born English footballer, cancer.
• Marjatta Raita, 63, Finnish actress, cancer.
• George Rieveschl, 91, American inventor, pneumonia.
• Darcy Robinson, 26, Italian/Canadian professional ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Israel Segal, 63, Israeli writer and journalist, heart failure.
• Avraham Shapira, 93, Israeli rabbi, Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel.

28

• René Desmaison, 77, French mountaineer.
• Charles B. Griffith, 77, American screenwriter.
• Evelyn Knight, 89, American singer, lung cancer.
• Adam Kozłowiecki, 96, Polish-born Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lusaka.
• Peter Kuiper, 78, Dutch-born German actor.
• Martin Manulis, 92, American television and film producer, Emmy Award winner.
• Wally Parks, 94, American drag racing and hot rod pioneer, pneumonia.
• Derek Shackleton, 83, British cricketer.
• Hamid Shirzadegan, 66, Iranian footballer, lung cancer.

29

• Cyril Martin, 79, South African Olympic wrestler.
• Lois Maxwell, 80, Canadian actress, colorectal cancer.
• Wolfgang Preisendanz, 87, German philologist and literary critic.
• Katsuko Saruhashi, 87, Japanese scientist, pneumonia.
• Gyula Zsivótzky, 70, Hungarian hammer thrower, 1968 Olympics gold medallist, cancer.

30

• Al Chang, 85, American two-time Pulitzer prize-nominated military photographer, leukemia.
• John Henebry, 89, American Air Force major general, heart failure.
• Milan Jelić, 51, Bosnian politician, president of Republika Srpska entity, heart attack.
• Jorge Massa Armijo, 71–72, Chilean air force general, Minister of Transport and Telecommunications.
• Joe Mitty, 88, British founder of the Oxfam charity shop.
• C. F. D. Moule, 98, British theologian and priest.
• Eugene Saenger, 90, American radiologist and university professor.
• Oswald Mathias Ungers, 81, German architect, pneumonia.