Deaths in September 2008

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

  September 2008

1

• Thomas J. Bata, 93, Czech-born Canadian businessman.
• Inge Bausenwein, 87, German Olympic athlete.
• Calvin Beale, 85, American demographer, colon cancer.
• Ian Edward Fraser, 87, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• Helen Galland, 83, American retail executive, president of Bonwit Teller, heart attack.
• Kevin Heinze, 80, Australian pioneer gardening television presenter, heart attack.
• Mel Ignatow, 70, American murderer, fall.
• Carl Kaufmann, 72, German Olympic silver medallist.
• Sheldon Keller, 85, American comedy writer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Don LaFontaine, 68, American voice-over artist, complications from pneumothorax.
• Henry Wako Muloki, 87, Ugandan Kyabazinga of Busoga since 1995, esophageal cancer.
• Michael Pate, 88, Australian actor and writer, pneumonia.
• Jerry Reed, 71, American musician and actor, complications from emphysema.
• Oded Schramm, 46, Israeli mathematician, fall.
• Gerry White, 64, British businessman, prostate cancer.

  2

• Andreas Zeier Cappelen, 93, Norwegian politician and minister.
• Todd Cruz, 52, American Major League Baseball player.
• Arne Domnérus, 83, Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist.
• Joey Giardello, 78, American boxer, middleweight boxing champion, heart failure.
• Abdullah al-Harari, 98, Ethiopian-born Lebanese scholar, founder of the Al-Ahbash movement, natural causes.
• Bill Melendez, 91, Mexican-born American animator.
• Dame Alison Munro, 94, British civil servant and headmistress.
• Julia Pirie, 90, British MI5 spy.
• Sir Denis Rooke, 84, British industrialist.

  3

• Charles-Robert Ageron, 84, French historian.
• Abdulla Alishayev, Russian Dagestani journalist, shot.
• Lalla Bahia, Moroccan royalty, third wife of Mohammed V.
• Donald Blakeslee, 89, American Air Force officer.
• Paul DiLascia, 49, American software developer.
• Françoise Demulder, 61, French war photographer, heart attack.
• Mark Guardado, 46, American mobster, President of Hells Angels San Francisco chapter, shot.
• Michael Hammer, 60, American management theorist, cranial bleeding.
• Earl Lunsford, 74, American Canadian Football League player, Hall of Famer.
• Ron Rivera, 60, American public health innovator, malaria.
• Joan Segarra, 80, Spanish football player (FC Barcelona and manager.
• May Shin, 91, Burmese actress and singer, pulmonary edema.
• Pierre Van Dormael, 56, Belgian guitarist, cancer.
• René Vingerhoet, 96, Belgian Olympic rower.
• Géo Voumard, 87, Swiss composer and producer, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival.
• Jerry Zawadzkas, 62, American football player.

  4

• Fernest Arceneaux, 68, American Creole Zydeco accordionist and singer.
• Mary Dunn, 66, American Iyengar Yoga instructor, peritoneal cancer.
• Colin Egar, 81, Australian test cricket umpire.
• Dick Enderle, 60, American football player.
• Fon Huffman, 95, American World War II veteran, last survivor of the Panay incident.
• Abdul Samad Ismail, 84, Malaysian journalist, lung infection and kidney failure.
• Alain Jacquet, 69, French pop artist, cancer.
• Jenny, 55, American western lowland gorilla, oldest gorilla in captivity, euthanized.
• Tommy Johnston, 81, British footballer, top scorer for Leyton Orient.
• Francesca Lancellotti, 91, Italian farmer declared venerable.
• Erik Nielsen, 84, Canadian deputy prime minister, brother of Leslie Nielsen, heart attack.
• Eduard Paukson, 72, Estonian astrologer.
• Waldick Soriano, 75, Brazilian composer and singer, prostate cancer.
• Fernando Torres, 80, Brazilian actor, voice-over artist, director and producer, husband of Fernanda Montenegro, emphysema.
• Alina Vedmid, 68, Ukrainian politician.
• Jerome Weber, 92, Canadian abbot of St. Peter-Muenster of Saskatchewan.

  5

• Kay Amert, 60, French scholar, cancer.
• Raymond Bernabei, 83, American soccer player, complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Robert Giroux, 94, American editor and publisher.
• Miroslav Havel, 86, Czech-born Irish chief designer.
• Thubten Jigme Norbu, 86, Tibetan lama, eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama.
• Lucian Pye, 86, American political scientist and sinologist, expert on Chinese politics, pneumonia.
• Luis Santibáñez, 72, Chilean football team manager, complications from a kidney condition.
• Mila Schön, 91, Italian fashion designer.

  6

• Abd Al-Halim Abu-Ghazala, 78, Egyptian politician, field marshal and defence minister, throat cancer.
• Aril Edvardsen, 69, Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary.
• Antonio Innocenti, 93, Italian cardinal.
• Nicole Lai, 34, Singaporean singer, skin cancer.
• Allan Lawrence, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Northumberland—Durham.
• Ray Loring, 65, American professor and composer, heart attack.
• Sören Nordin, 91, Swedish harness racing trainer.
• Anita Page, 98, American actress, natural causes.
• Larry Shaben, 73, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta, cancer.
• Bill Shorthouse, 86, British footballer.
• Mike Swoboda, 69, American politician, mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri, complications from gunshot wounds.
• Sally Willington, 77, English activist.

  7

• Kune Biezeveld, 60, Dutch theologian.
• Ilarion Ciobanu, 76, Romanian actor.
• Dino Dvornik, 44, Croatian actor and pop singer.
• David Fitzsimons, 58, Australian Olympic athlete.
• Peter Glossop, 80, British operatic baritone.
• Don Gutteridge, 96, American Major League Baseball player, coach and manager.
• Don Haskins, 78, American college basketball coach, heart failure.
• Gregory Mcdonald, 71, American author, cancer.
• Nagi Noda, 35, Japanese pop artist and director, complications from a traffic collision.
• Gordon Stromberg, 80, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
• Richard "Popcorn" Wylie, 69, American musician.

  8

• Ahn Jae-hwan, 36, South Korean actor, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Riaz Ahsan, 56, Pakistani statistician and mathematician, cancer.
• Nathan Green Gordon, 92, American politician and Medal of Honor recipient, Lt. Governor of Arkansas, pneumonia.
• Celia Gregory, 58, British actress.
• Ron Guthrey, 92, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Christchurch.
• Ralph Plaisted, 80, American Arctic explorer, natural causes.
• Evan Tanner, 37, American mixed martial arts fighter and UFC middleweight champion, hyperthermia.
• Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, 73, Indian violinist, after long illness.
• George Zarnecki, 92, Polish art historian and medievalist.
• Hector Zazou, 60, French composer and record producer.

  9

• Tina Allen, 58, American sculptor, pneumonia.
• Betty Constable, 83, American squash player.
• Eddie Crowder, 77, American football player and coach, complications of leukemia.
• A. U. Fuimaono, 85, American Samoan politician, first Delegate to the United States House of Representatives.
• Nina Lawson, 82, British wigmaker for the Metropolitan Opera, pernicious anaemia.
• Jacob Lekgetho, 34, South African footballer.
• P. N. Menon, 80, Indian film director, after long illness.
• Warith Deen Mohammed, 74, American Islamic leader, son of Elijah Muhammad.
• Richard Monette, 64, Canadian actor and director, pulmonary embolism.
• Bheki Mseleku, 53, South African-born British jazz musician, diabetes.
• Nouhak Phoumsavanh, 98, Laotian politician, president, natural causes.

  10

• Saleh al Aridi, 50, Lebanese pro-Syrian politician, car bomb.
• Gérald Beaudoin, 79, Canadian lawyer and senator.
• José Antonio Dammert Bellido, 91, Peruvian bishop.
• Cameron Buchanan, 80, British footballer.
• David Chipp, 81, British editor-in-chief, first resident correspondent for Reuters in China.
• Patrick Flynn, 72, American composer and conductor, pulmonary embolism.
• Robert Glasgow, 83, American organist and University of Michigan professor emeritus.
• Florian Goebel, 35, German astrophysicist, fall.
• Vernon Handley, 77, British conductor.
• J. J. Harrington, 89, American politician.
• Sherrill Headrick, 71, American football player, cancer.
• Fitzroy Hoyte, 68, Trinidad Olympic cyclist, traffic collision.
• Domagoj Kapec, 18, Croatian ice hockey player, car accident.
• Frank Mundus, 82, American shark fisherman, alleged inspiration for Quint in Jaws, heart attack.
• Gary O'Donnell, 40, British soldier, improvised explosive device.
• Yuri Osipyan, 77, Russian physicist.
• Reginald Shepherd, 45, American poet, cancer.
• Paul Williams, 85, British politician, MP.

  11

• Bennett Campbell, 65, Canadian politician, premier of Prince Edward Island, cancer.
• Dave Hanner, 78, American football player and coach, heart attack.
• Klaus Johann Jacobs, 71, German-born Swiss billionaire, cancer.
• Fran Reed, 65, American teacher and fish skin artist, cancer.
• Nils Johan Ringdal, 56, Norwegian author and historian.
• Martin Tytell, 94, American manual typewriter expert, cancer.
• Joan Winston, 77, American author, founder of Star Trek convention, Alzheimer's disease.
• Lai Ying Xin, 16, Malaysian schoolgirl, strangulation.

  12

• Camila Ashland, 97, American actress.
• George Brown, 85, American football player.
• Simon Hantaï, 85, Hungarian-born French abstract artist.
• Tomislav Ladan, 76, Croatian encyclopedist and polymath, malignant tumor.
• Max Mermelstein, 65, American drug trafficker, cancer.
• George Putnam, 94, American television news reporter, heart failure.
• Bob Quinn, 93, Australian footballer and Military Medal recipient.
• Marjorie Thomas, 85, British opera singer, after long illness.
• Paola S. Timiras, 85, American doctor, expert on the physiology of ageing, heart failure.
• Ferenc Velkey, 92, Hungarian Olympic handball player.
• Charlie Walker, 81, American country music singer, colon cancer.
• David Foster Wallace, 46, American author and essayist, suicide by hanging.