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.