Deaths in September 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2001.

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.

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 born 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, 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, (A Summer Place, Rome Adventure), 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 (Supersax), 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 (Dry Rot, Not Now, Darling, There Goes the Bride).
 * 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 (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, The Crow: City of Angels), traffic collision.

4

 * Maria Alfero, 79, Italian sprinter.
 * Pete Brown, 70, American professional football player (Georgia Tech) (San Francisco 49ers: 1953–1954).
 * 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 (Atari Teenage Riot), suicide.
 * 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, an 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 (Oakland Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time).
 * Bunny Lewis, 82, English music manager, record producer and composer.
 * Spede Pasanen, 71, Finnish television star, heart attack.
 * Don Paul, 75, American gridiron football player.
 * Clark Thomas Rogerson, 82, American mycologist.
 * Billie Lou Watt, 77, American film and television actress (Search for Tomorrow), and voice actress (Astro Boy, Elsie the Cow), 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, murdered.
 * Shinji Sōmai, 53, Japanese film director, cancer.

10

 * DJ Uncle Al, 32, American disc jockey, homicide.
 * Yevhen Drahunov, 37, Ukrainian football player, stroke.
 * Magnar Ingebrigtsli, 68, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 15 kilometre cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics).
 * Alexey Suetin, 74, Soviet and Russian chess player and chess writer, heart attack.

11

 * Clem Dreisewerd, 85, American baseball player.
 * Aurelio Genghini, 93, Italian Olympic long-distance runner (men's marathon at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
 * 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 (Frasier, Wings). 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 (Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oil Kings, Washington Capitals, Hershey Bears). Passenger of United Airlines Flight 175.
 * Fayez Banihammad, 24, Emirati terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
 * Mark Bavis, 31, American ice hockey player (Providence Bruins, South Carolina Stingrays, Fredericton Canadiens). Passenger of United Airlines Flight 175.
 * Todd Beamer, 32, American airline passenger United Airlines Flight 93.
 * Carolyn Beug, 48, American filmmaker, producer and music video director ('"Right Now", "Fast as You"). 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.
 * William E. Caswell, 54, American physicist. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.
 * 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 (Léon: The Professional, 100 Centre Street, The Pirates of Central Park). 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 airline passenger United Airlines Flight 93.
 * Lauren Grandcolas, 38, American author. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
 * Nezam Hafiz, 32, Guyanese-born American cricketer (national team).
 * 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 (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program). Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
 * 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 (since 2001).
 * 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 (Cornell Big Red).
 * Timothy Maude, 53, Lieutenant General United States Army officer.
 * 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, 24, 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 (CNN, Fox News Channel). 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 (Remember My Name, Cat People). 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 (Boston Celtics).
 * Abraham Zelmanowitz, 55, American computer programmer

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 (The Joy Luck Club, The Last Emperor, The Golden Child), heart failure.

13

 * Jorge Comellas, 84, Cuban baseball player.
 * Johnny Craig, 75, American comic book artist.
 * Jaroslav Drobný, 79, Czechoslovakian tennis player (Wimbledon Championship) and Olympic ice hockey player (silver medal winner at the 1948 Winter Olympics).
 * Dorothy McGuire, 85, American actress (nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for Gentleman's Agreement), 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 (Loyola of Chicago 1963 NCAA Championship).
 * Stelios Kazantzidis, 70, Greek singer, brain cancer.
 * Francisco Urcuyo, 86, Nicaraguan politician, vice president (1967-1972, 1979), heart attack.

15

 * Herbert Burdenski, 79, German football player and coach.
 * Fred de Cordova, 90, American stage, film and television director and producer (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson).
 * 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 (Futureworld, The Amityville Horror).
 * 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 (University of Alabama from 1952 to 1956).
 * Donald Hume, 86, American Olympic rower (gold medal winner in men's rowing eight at the 1936 Summer Olympics)(.
 * 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 (Mr. Dressup), 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, laeder of Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng (Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam).
 * 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 (Colorado, Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals).
 * Bill Gunn, 81, Australian politician.
 * Billy Harris, 66, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Oakland Seals, Pittsburgh Penguins).
 * 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 (U.S. Representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district from 1957 to 1959).
 * 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 (Floyd–Warshall algorithm, Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm, Floyd–Steinberg dithering, Hoare logic).
 * Sepp Janko, 95, German SS Obersturmführer during World War II.
 * Herbert Klein, 78, German Olympic swimmer (bronze medal winner in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * 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 (Eight Is Enough) and talent agent, mixed drug intoxication, 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 (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), homicide.

27

 * Herman Berlinski, 91, German-American musician, heart attack.
 * Helen Cherry, 85, English actress (Three Cases of Murder, The Naked Edge, The Charge of the Light Brigade).
 * 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 (gold medal winner in men's heavyweight judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics), seppuku, suicide.
 * Ejner Johansson, 79, Danish art historian, writer, and documentary film director.
 * Jack Maguire, 76, American baseball player.
 * Martin O'Hagan, 51, Irish investigative journalist, murdered.
 * 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 (The Matrix, The Comedians, City of Hope), diabetes.
 * Frank Gasparro, 92, American Chief Engraver of the United States Mint (Susan B. Anthony dollar, Eisenhower Dollar, Lincoln cent reverse, Kennedy half dollar reverse).
 * 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, murdered by the FARC.
 * 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 (Heathcliff), cardiovascular disease.
 * Calvin C. Hernton, 69, American sociologist, poet and author.
 * Jenny Jugo, 96, 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.