Deaths in September 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2004.

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

 * Kenneth Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, British life peer and chairman of Rolls-Royce, Beecham Group, and STC.
 * Delkash, 80, Iranian singer and actress.
 * Kaye Elhardt, 69, American television actress.
 * Herbert Haft, 84, American pharmacists and businessman, congestive heart failure.
 * Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, Syrian Grand Mufti, heart attack.
 * Alan Stewart, 86, New Zealand educator and university administrator.

2

 * Tom Capone, 38, Brazilian music producer and guitar player, traffic collision.
 * Billy Davis, 72, American songwriter, record producer,and commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke).
 * Kieth Engen, 79, American operatic bass singer.
 * Bob O. Evans, 77, American computer scientist.
 * Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, 88, German actor.
 * Donald Leslie, 93, American audio engineer and inventor of the Leslie speaker.
 * Francesco Mander, 88, Italian conductor and composer.
 * Joan Oró, 80, Spanish biochemist.
 * Vonda Phelps, 89, American child stage actress, vaudeville performer and dancer.
 * Paul Shmyr, 58, Canadian NHL hockey player, throat cancer.
 * Rose Slivka, 85, American writer, critic and editor.
 * Eleni Zafeiriou, 88, Greek film actress.

3

 * Archer Blood, 81, American career diplomat and academic.
 * Yanis Kanidis, 74, Russian physical education teacher, killed by Chechen extremists.
 * André Stil, 83, French novelist, short story writer, occasional poet, and political activist.
 * Frenchy Uhalt, 94, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).

4

 * George Baird, 97, American sprint runner.
 * Samira Bellil, 31, French feminist activist, campaigner for Muslim girls'- and women's rights, stomach cancer.
 * Walter Campbell, 83, Australian judge, administrator and governor.
 * Alphonso Ford, 33, American Euroleague basketball player, leukemia.
 * Serge Marquand, 74, French actor, leukemia.
 * Moe Norman, 75, Canadian PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure.
 * James O. Page, 68, American chief of Emergency Medical Services, heart attack.

5

 * Winston Anglin, 42, Jamaican football player, traffic collision.
 * Red Cochran, 82, American gridiron football player and later NFL scout.
 * Gerald Merrithew, 73, Canadian politician and federal cabinet minister, cancer.
 * Gerard Piel, 89, American science writer and editor (Scientific American), stroke.

6

 * Antonio Corpora, 95, Tunisian-Italian painter.
 * Netzahualcóyotl de la Vega, 73, Mexican trade union leader and politician.
 * Morey Leonard Sear, 75, American judge (United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana).
 * Harvey Wheeler, 85, American political scientist and author (Fail-Safe), cancer.

7

 * Ashfaq Ahmad, 79, Pakistani writer, playwright and broadcaster, gallbladder cancer.
 * Bob Boyd, 84, American Major League Baseball player, first black player to sign with the Chicago White Sox.
 * Lev Burchalkin, 65, Soviet football player and Russian coach.
 * Kirk Fordice, 70, American politician, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia.
 * Fritha Goodey, 31, British actress (About a Boy), suicide.
 * Beyers Naudé, 89, South African theologian and anti-apartheid activist.
 * Miriam Pires, 78, Brazilian actress, toxoplasmosis.
 * Gong Qiuxia, 85, Chinese actress and singer.
 * Hal Reniff, 66, American baseball player (New York Yankees, New York Mets).
 * Munir Said Thalib, 38, Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic poisoning.
 * L.E. White, 74, American Grammy Award-winning songwriter, singer and musician.

8

 * John F. Bolt, 83, United States Marine Corps flying ace during World War II and the Korean War.
 * Francis Burt, 86, Australian jurist.
 * Richard Girnt Butler, 86, American white supremacist, founder of the Aryan Nations, heart failure.
 * Matías Prats Cañete, 90, Spanish radio and television journalist, kidney disease.
 * Mohammad Jusuf, 76, Indonesian military general.
 * Raymond Marcellin, 90, French politician, Minister of the Interior (1968–1974).
 * Bror Mellberg, 80, Swedish football player.
 * Tsutomu Mizukami, 85, Japanese writer of novels, biographies, and plays.
 * Dan Spătaru, 64, Romanian singer, heart attack.
 * Manuel María Fernández Teixeiro, 74, Spanish poet and academic.
 * Frank Thomas, 91, American animator (Cinderella, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp), cerebral hemorrhage.
 * James Westphal, 74, American scientist, engineer, and astronomer.

9

 * Luis Advis, 69, Chilean professor of philosophy and music composer.
 * Ernie Ball, 74, American guitar equipment maker.
 * Aleksei Barkalov, 58, Ukrainian water polo player and Olympic champion.
 * Caitlin Clarke, 52, American theater and film actress, ovarian cancer.
 * Ralph Hawkins, 69, American football coach, dementia.
 * Jean-Daniel Pollet, 68, French film director and screenwriter.

10

 * Brock Adams, 77, American politician, Parkinson's disease.
 * Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, 45, Yemeni islamist, politician and military leader, killed in action.
 * Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer, teacher, and pianist.
 * Leonard Birchall, 89, Canadian Air Force officer.
 * Richard Karlan, 85, American actor.
 * Ken Meuleman, 81, Australian cricket player.
 * Glyn Owen, 76, British actor (Emergency – Ward 10, Howards' Way), cancer.

11

 * Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, 55, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash.
 * Aaron Director, 102, Russian-American economist and academic.
 * Fred Ebb, 71, American Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack.
 * Margaret Kelly, 94, Irish dancer and founder of the Bluebell Girls.
 * David Mann, 64, American graphic artist.

12

 * Max Abramovitz, 96, American architect.
 * Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djiboutian politician, prime minister (1977–1978).
 * Kenny Buttrey, 59, American drummer and arranger, cancer.
 * Jerome Chodorov, 93, American playwright, My Sister Eileen.
 * Ray Simons, 91, South African communist, anti-apartheid activist, and trade unionist.
 * Jack Turner, 84, American racecar driver.
 * Dr. Wagner, 68, Mexican professional wrestler, or Luchador, heart attack.

13

 * Charlie Brandt, 47, American serial killer, suicide.
 * Bill Glassco, 69, Canadian theatre director and producer.
 * Luis E. Miramontes, 79, Mexican chemist.
 * Glenn Presnell, 99, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions) and coach.
 * Eric Sams, 78, British musicologist and William Shakespeare scholar.

14

 * Fernando Campos, 80, Chilean football midfielder.
 * Dakar, 83, Peruvian actor.
 * Rota Onorio, 84, Kiribati politician.
 * Richard Pierce, 86, American historian and scholar.
 * Giuni Russo, 53, Italian singer, cancer.
 * John Seymour, 90, British author and self-sufficiency advocate.
 * Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor.
 * Mamoru Takuma, 40, Japanese mass murderer (Osaka school massacre), executed.

15

 * Donald G. Brotzman, 82, American politician.
 * Bernard Gribble, 77, British film editor (Top Secret!, Death Wish, The Jokers).
 * Johnny Ramone, 55, American guitarist (The Ramones), prostate cancer.
 * Walter Stewart, 73, Canadian writer, editor and journalism educator, cancer.
 * Daouda Malam Wanké, 58, Nigerien military and political leader.
 * Austin Herbert Woolrych, 86, English historian.

16

 * Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet.
 * Izora Armstead, 62, American singer, one of the two members of The Weather Girls, heart failure.
 * Michael Donaghy, 50, American poet and musician, brain haemorrhage.
 * Ramón Gabilondo, 91, Spanish football player and manager.
 * Claude Jaeger, 87, Swiss- French film producer and actor.
 * Livio Maitan, 81, Italian trotskyist and a leader of the Fourth International.
 * Giovanni Raboni, 72, Italian poet, translator and literary critic.
 * Dolly Rathebe, 76, South African singer and actress (Jim Comes To Jo'burg), stroke.

17

 * Katharina Dalton, 87, British physician, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome.
 * Evi Rauer, 88, Estonian actress and television director.
 * H. S. Rawail, 83, Indian filmmaker.
 * Galina Rumiantseva, 77, Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist.
 * Sudheer, Indian actor.

18

 * Jim Barnett, 80, American professional wrestling promoter and executive, pneumonia.
 * Norman Cantor, 74, Canadian-American medieval scholar.
 * Kyohei Fujita, 83, Japanese glass artist.
 * Russ Meyer, 82, American filmmaker, pneumonia.
 * Marvin Mitchelson, 76, American divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer.
 * Klara Rumyanova, 74, Soviet and Russian actress and voice actress, breast cancer.

19

 * Eddie Adams, 71, American photojournalist, ALS.
 * Árpád Bogsch, 85, Hungarian-American international civil servant.
 * Stanley Clarke, 71, British businessman and philanthropist, colorectal cancer.
 * Skeeter Davis, 73, American country music singer, breast cancer.
 * Annabella Incontrera, 61, Italian film and television actress.
 * Waldren "Frog" Joseph, 86, American jazz trombone player.
 * Damayanti Joshi, 76, Indian kathak dancer.
 * Robert Lawrence, 90, Canadian film editor.
 * Ryhor Reles, 91, Belarusian Yiddish writer.
 * Derald Ruttenberg, 88, American investor and industrialist.
 * Kenneth Sandford, 80, English singer and actor.
 * Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder, snowboarding accident.

20

 * Brian Clough, 69, English footballer, coach and manager, stomach cancer.
 * Salil Dutta, 72, Indian Bengali director, screenwriter and actor.
 * Pat Hanly, 72, New Zealand painter, Huntington's disease.
 * Townsend Hoopes, 82, American historian and government official, melanoma.
 * Štěpánka Mertová, 73, Czech Olympic discus thrower.
 * Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer and television journalist.

21

 * Alan Beaumont, 69, Australian admiral, chief of Australian Defence Forces.
 * Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.
 * Bob Mason, 53, British actor and writer, esophageal cancer.
 * David Pall, 90, Canadian-American chemist, invented sophisticated filters used in blood transfusions, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Larry Phillips, 62, American stock car racer.

22

 * Edward Larrabee Barnes, 89, American architect.
 * Cy Block, 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Winston Cenac, 79, Saint Lucian civil servant and politician.
 * Big Boss Man, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man, heart attack.
 * Pete Schoening, 77, American mountaineer, cancer.
 * Alex Wayman, 83, American tibetologist and indologist.

23

 * Bryce DeWitt, 81, American theoretical physicist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Roy Drusky, 74, American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry star, lung cancer.
 * André Hazes, 53, Dutch folk singer, heart failure.
 * Lucille Lisle, 96, Australian actress.
 * Dominic Montserrat, 40, British egyptologist and papyrologist.
 * Nigel Nicolson, 89, British politician.
 * Bülent Oran, 80, Turkish screenwriter and actor.
 * Billy Reay, 86, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Chicago Black Hawks), liver cancer.
 * Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, American feminist and civil rights advocate.
 * Dido Sotiriou, 95, Greek novelist, journalist, and playwright, pneumonia.

24

 * Tim Choate, 49, American actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident.
 * Raja Ramanna, 79, Indian nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program.
 * Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist and playwright, pulmonary embolism.
 * Roman Tsepov, 42, Russian businessman and confidant to Vladimir Putin, poisoned, deliberate poisoning.
 * Ron Willey, 74, Australian rugby player and coach.

25

 * Ma Chengyuan, 76, Chinese archaeologist, president of Shanghai Museum, suicide.
 * Michael Davies, 68, British writer on Roman Catholicism, cancer.
 * Nigel Davies, 84, British anthropologist and historian.
 * Marvin Davis, 79, American industrialist and philanthropist, owned Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach.
 * Alain Glavieux, 55, French mathematician and information technology pioneer.
 * Heinz Günther Guderian, 90, German Wehrmacht officer and Bundeswehr general after World War II.
 * Robert C. James, 86, American mathematician.
 * Arun Kolatkar, 71, Indian poet.
 * Giorgio Moser, 80, Italian film director and screenwriter.

26

 * Víctor Cruz, 46, Dominican baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, Texas Rangers), liver problems.
 * Amjad Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida, killed by Pakistani security forces.
 * Einar Førde, 61, Norwegian journalist and politician of the Labour Party, cancer.
 * Natik Hashim, 44, Iraqi football midfielder, heart attack.
 * Marianna Komlos, 35, Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model and professional wrestler, breast cancer.

27

 * Amanda Crowe, 76, American Cherokee woodcarver and educator.
 * Shobha Gurtu, 79, Indian singer.
 * John Edward Mack, 74, American psychiatrist and writer, killed by a drunken driver.
 * Louis Satterfield, 67, American bass and trombone player.
 * Vittorio Sentimenti, 86, Italian football player.
 * Dick Stenberg, 83, Swedish Air Force lieutenant general.
 * Bernard Slicher van Bath, 94, Dutch social historian.
 * Tsai Wan-lin, 80, Taiwanese billionair businessman, cardiovascular disease.

28

 * Thea Altaras, 80, Croatian-German architect.
 * Luigi Amerio, 92, Italian electrical engineer and mathematician.
 * Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author, pneumonia.
 * Geoffrey Beene, 77, American fashion designer, pneumonia.
 * Christl Cranz, 90, German alpine ski racer.
 * Geo Dumitrescu, 84, Romanian poet and translator.
 * Willis Hawkins, 90, American aeronautical engineer and director (Lockheed).
 * Scott Muni, 74, American radio disc jockey.
 * Viktor Rozov, 91, Soviet and Russian dramatist and screenwriter.
 * J. H. van Lint, 72, Dutch mathematician, professor and university president.

29

 * Balamani Amma, 95, Indian poet, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Ernst van der Beugel, 86, Dutch economist, businessman, diplomat and politician.
 * FannyAnn Eddy, 30, Sierra Leonean LGBT activist, homicide.
 * Christopher Hancock, 76, British television and theatre actor, heart attack.
 * David Jackson, 49, New Zealand boxer.
 * Christer Pettersson, 57, Swedish criminal, suspected murderer of prime minister Olof Palme, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, racing accident.
 * Thure von Uexküll, 96, German scholar of psychosomatic medicine and biosemiotics.
 * Heinz Wallberg, 81, German conductor.
 * Antje Weisgerber, 82, German film and television actress, and wife of actor Horst Caspar.
 * Shimon Wincelberg, (aka S. Bar David), 80, American television writer.
 * Patrick Wormald, 57, British historian.

30

 * Isabel Freire de Matos, 89, Puerto Rican writer, educator, and journalist.
 * Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician, heart attack.
 * Jacques Levy, 69, American songwriter, theatre director and clinical psychologist.
 * Mathias Matthies, 93, German art director.
 * Mildred McDaniel, 70, American high jumper and Olympic champion, cancer.
 * Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch investigative journalist and author, cancer.
 * Michael Relph, 89, English film producer, art director and film director (nominated for Academy Award for Best Production Design for Saraband).
 * Shivaji, 47, Indian actor.
 * Justin Strzelczyk, 36, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), car crash while leading police on chase.
 * Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor.