Deaths in September 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2005.

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

 * Terry Albritton, 50, American shotputter.
 * Manuel Ausensi, 85, Spanish opera singer.
 * R. L. Burnside, 78, American blues musician.
 * Uvedale Corbett, 95, British soldier, politician and businessman.
 * Barry Cowsill, 50, American pop-singer and writer, victim of Hurricane Katrina.
 * Nikki Tilroe, 63, American puppeteer.
 * Jacob A. Marinsky, 87, American chemist, co-discoverer of the element Promethium.
 * Yang Kuan, 91, Chinese historian.
 * Zdobysław Stawczyk, 82, Polish Olympic sprinter.

2

 * Tom Bailey, 56, American footballer.
 * Bob Denver, 70, American actor (Gilligan's Island, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Good Guys), complications from throat cancer.
 * Adrian Karsten, 45, American ESPN announcer, suicide.
 * Alexandru Paleologu, 86, Romanian diplomat.
 * Warren Thomas, 47, American comedian.

3

 * Rudolf Bäcker, 91, German World War II soldier.
 * R. S. R. Fitter, 92, British natural historian.
 * Robert W. Funk, 79, American biblical scholar, founder of the Jesus Seminar, lung failure.
 * Bernard S. Meyer, 89, American lawyer and politician.
 * Jens Nygård, 71, Norwegian Olympic sports shooter.
 * William Rehnquist, 80, American lawyer and jurist, Chief Justice of the United States, thyroid cancer.
 * James Rossi, 69, American Olympic cyclist.
 * Ekkehard Schall, 75, German actor.

4

 * Lloyd Avery II, 36, American actor (Boyz n the Hood) and convicted murderer, beaten.
 * Dame Nancy Buttfield, 92, Australian politician.
 * Stanley Jennings, 84, American cartoonist, journalist.
 * Patricia McQueeney, 77, American actress and talent agent.
 * Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann, 67, Filipino-American microbiologist and botanist, Parkinson's disease.
 * Alan Truscott, 80, British bridge player, writer, and editor, one of the best known bridge columnists.
 * Arnold Weinstein, 78, American poet, playwright, and librettist, liver cancer.

5

 * Hank Anderson, 84, American basketball coach and athletics director.
 * Rizal Nurdin, 57, Indonesian politician, Governor of North Sumatra, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crash.
 * Dhan Singh Thapa, 77, Indian Army officer and recipient of the Param Vir Chakra.
 * Raja Inal Siregar, 67, Indonesian politician, former Governor of North Sumatra, Indonesia, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crash.

6

 * Hasan Abidi, 76, Pakistani journalist and poet.
 * Eugenia Charles, 86, Dominican politician, Prime Minister (1980–1995), after long illness.
 * William John Kennedy, 86, Australian Aboriginal rights activist.
 * Mark Matthews, 111, American supercentenarian and Army first Sergeant, oldest living Buffalo Soldier.
 * Perugu Siva Reddy, 84, Indian eye surgeon.

7

 * Omar Ali-Shah, 82/3, Afghan Sufi teacher.
 * Moussa Arafat, 65, Palestinian former head of general security in Gaza, cousin of Yasser Arafat, murdered.
 * Sergio Endrigo, 72, Italian singer and songwriter.
 * Hope Garber, 81, Canadian entertainer and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Nicolino Locche, 66, Argentine world boxing champion.
 * Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 6th Earl of Minto, 77, Scottish aristocrat.
 * L. J. K. Setright, 74, British motoring journalist.
 * Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie, 81, Scottish politician, Lord Advocate (1970–1974).

8

 * Boris Bittker, 88, American legal academic.
 * Noel Cantwell, 73, Irish soccer player, former Manchester United captain, cancer.
 * Oswald Hoffmann, 91, American Lutheran evangelist.
 * Donald Horne, 83, Australian academic, historian, philosopher and intellectual.
 * David Pearce, 63, British economist.
 * Lewis Platt, 64, American businessman and corporate director, former Hewlett-Packard CEO.
 * Perry Stephens, 47, American actor (Loving).

9

 * Samim Bilgen, 95, Turkish lawyer and musician.
 * Giuliano Bonfante, 101, Italian linguistics expert and centenarian.
 * Stanley Dancer, 78, American record-setting harness racing driver.
 * John Wayne Glover, 72, Australian convicted serial killer nicknamed "The Granny Killer", suicide by hanging
 * André Pousse, 85, French actor.
 * Tarzan Taborda, 70, Portuguese wrestling champion, heart attack.
 * Mel Wanzo, 74, American jazz trombonist.

10

 * Theodore X. Barber, 78, American psychologist renowned for his critical studies of hypnosis, ruptured aorta.
 * Sir Hermann Bondi, 85, Austrian-born mathematician & cosmologist; co-advocate (with Gold & Hoyle) of the Steady State theory.
 * Ken Burgess, 77, Canadian politician.
 * Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, 81, American blues musician.
 * Lea Nikel, 86, Israeli abstract artist.
 * Charlie Williams, 61, American former Major League Baseball umpire, complications of diabetes.
 * E. Stewart Williams, 95, American architect, known for "Desert Modernism".

11

 * Messias José Baptista, 37, Brazilian Olympic athlete.
 * Odd Berg, 98, Norwegian ship owner.
 * Al Casey, 89, American jazz guitarist, colon cancer.
 * Steve de Shazer, 65, American psychotherapist, founder of Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and developer of solution focused brief therapy.
 * Chris Schenkel, 82, American sportscaster, emphysema.
 * Joseph Smitherman, 75, American politician, longtime mayor of Selma, Alabama, reformed segregationist.
 * Henryk Tomaszewski, 91, Polish internationally recognized graphic artist.

12

 * Helmut Baierl, 78, German playwright.
 * Stephen Capen, 59, American radio presenter.
 * Serge Lang, 78, American mathematician and political activist.
 * Ronald Leigh-Hunt, 88, British actor.
 * Alain Polaniok, 46, French footballer.
 * Katherine Sanford, 90, American cell biologist and cancer researcher, first to clone a mammal cell in vitro
 * Susan Anne Catherine Torres, 40 days, American baby born to Susan Torres, brain-dead woman, heart failure after intestinal surgery.

13

 * Ann Barnes, 60, American actress and singer.
 * Toni Fritsch, 60, Austrian-born football player and American football placekicker with the Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers, Houston Oilers, and New Orleans Saints.
 * Jack Green, 83, Australian cricketer.
 * Helen Longley, 84, American politician, former First Lady of Maine, widow of former Governor James B. Longley.
 * Julio César Turbay Ayala, 89, Colombian lawyer and politician, President of Colombia (1978–1982).
 * Haydee Yorac, 64, Filipino lawyer and public servant.

14

 * Kent Bellows, 56, American painter.
 * William Berenberg, 89, American physician, leader in the treatment and rehabilitation of disabled children, professor of pediatrics, emeritus, at Harvard Medical School.
 * Justin "Jud" Hurd, 92, American cartoonist, editor and founder of Cartoonist PROfiles magazine.
 * Frances Newton, 40, American executed for murder in Texas, first African American woman executed there since 1858.
 * Kenneth Turpin, 90, English former Provost of Oriel College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of University of Oxford.
 * Vladimir Volkoff, 72, French-born Russian spy novelist.
 * Robert Wise, 91, American film director (The Sound of Music, West Side Story) and film editor (Citizen Kane), Oscar winner (1962), heart failure.

15

 * William S. Bartman, 58, American businessman and art patron, multiple organ failure.
 * Samuel Azu Crabbe, 77, Ghanaian jurist, Chief Justice of Ghana (1973-1977).
 * Guy Green, 91, British film director and noted cinematographer.
 * Charles Nicholas Hales, 70, British biochemist and physician.
 * Jeronimas Kačinskas, 98, Lithuanian-born classical composer and conductor.
 * Sid Luft, 89, American film producer, Judy Garland's third and last surviving husband.

16

 * Stanley Burnshaw, 99, American renowned poet and literary figure.
 * Arkadiusz Gołaś, 24, Polish volleyball player, member of Poland men's national volleyball team in 2001–2005, a participant of the Olympic Games 2004.
 * Gordon Gould, 85, American pioneer in laser technology.
 * Jay M. Gould, 90, American epidemiologist and anti-nuclear activist, heart disease.
 * Donald S. Harrington, 91, American politician and religious leader, unitarian minister and former chairman and spokesman of the Liberal Party of New York.
 * Harold Q. Masur, 96, American novelist.
 * John McMullen, 87, American businessman, naval architect and former owner of Major League Baseball's Houston Astros and the NHL's New Jersey Devils.
 * Constance Moore, 85, American actress (Buck Rogers).
 * Mzukisi Sikali, 34, South African boxer, murdered during street robbery.

17

 * Donn Clendenon, 70, American baseball player, MVP of the 1969 World Series, leukemia.
 * Joel Hirschhorn, 67, American Academy Award-winning songwriter.
 * Jacques Lacarrière, 79, French author and classical translator.
 * Jack Lesberg, 85, American jazz bassist.
 * David E. Mark, 81, American former U.S. ambassador to Burundi, car accident.
 * Alfred Reed, 84, American neo-classical composer.
 * Edward Stutman, 60, American senior trial attorney, retired lawyer and U.S. Justice Department official known for prosecution of alleged Nazi war criminals.

18

 * Marta Bohn-Meyer, 48, American pilot and engineer for NASA.
 * Richard Britton, 34, Northern Ireland motorcycle racer, racing accident.
 * Richard E. Cunha, 83, American cinematographer and director
 * Sandra Feldman, 65, American advocate for disadvantaged students, teacher and labor leader, breast cancer.
 * Marv Grissom, 87, American baseball player and coach.
 * Richard Holden, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician.
 * Noel Mander, 93, British organ maker and restorer.
 * Michael Park, 39, British rally co-pilot, rally accident.
 * Rupert Riedl, 80, Austrian zoologist and advocate of evolutionary epistemology.
 * Clint C. Wilson, Sr., 90, African American editorial cartoonist, Los Angeles Sentinel.
 * Yegor Yakovlev, 75, Russian journalist, leading opponent of press censorship.
 * Roz Young, 92, American author, educator, historian, and columnist.

19

 * John Bromfield, 83, American actor, renal failure.
 * Marv Grissom, 87, American baseball player and pitching coach.
 * Willie Hutch, 59, American record producer, singer and songwriter.
 * Isao Nakauchi, 83, Japanese businessman, founder of Daiei, stroke.
 * John Rayner, 81, German-born British rabbi.
 * William Vacchiano, 93, American trumpeter and professor of music.

20

 * Matest M. Agrest, 90, Russian ethnologist.
 * Joe Bauman, 83, American longtime minor league baseball record-holder (72 home runs in 1954), pneumonia.
 * Gordon Carroll, 77, American film producer (Alien, Cool Hand Luke, Red Heat), heart attack.
 * Franzi Groszmann, 100, Austrian-born last surviving Kindertransport mother, consultant on the film Into the Arms of Strangers.
 * Tobias Schneebaum, 83, American writer, artist, and explorer.
 * Simon Wiesenthal, 96, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter.

21

 * Patrick Alexander, 65, Irish-born Australian poet.
 * Lena Brogren, 76, Swedish actress.
 * Harry Heltzer, 94, American inventor, former CEO of 3M.
 * Ramón Martín Huerta, 48, Mexican politician, minister of public security of the Mexican federal government, helicopter crash.
 * Humphrey Kelleher, 59, Irish Gaelic footballer.
 * Félix Javier Pérez, 33, Puerto Rican basketball player and former member of the Puerto Rican National Basketball Team, murdered during robbery.
 * Preben Philipsen, 95, Danish film producer.
 * Joseph Smagorinsky, 81, American meteorologist and mathematician, pioneer in the use of mathematical modeling as a weather forecasting tool, complications of Parkinson's disease.
 * Albert "Caesar" Tocco, 77, American convicted organized crime boss.
 * Molly Yard, 93, American feminist, former president of the U.S. National Organization for Women.

22

 * Monty Basgall, 83, American baseball coach.
 * Rolf Berntzen, 85, Norwegian actor.
 * Joop Doderer, 84, Dutch actor who played Swiebertje for 17 years.
 * Bayaman Erkinbayev, 38, Kyrgyz former wrestler, businessman, and prominent parliamentarian, shot to death.
 * Leavander Johnson, 35, American former International Boxing Federation lightweight champion boxer, brain injury suffered in bout.
 * Hans Samelson, 89, German-born American mathematician, natural causes.

23

 * Roger Brierley, 70, British actor (Young Sherlock Holmes, A Fish Called Wanda, About a Boy).
 * Apolônio de Carvalho, 93, Brazilian founder of Brazil's ruling Workers' Party, leftist political icon.
 * John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, 80, British television producer.
 * Betty Leslie-Melville, 78, American wildlife conservationist and giraffe expert, complications of dementia.
 * Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, 72, Puerto Rican nationalist and leader of the Boricua Popular Army.

24

 * Tommy Bond, 79, American actor known for playing Butch on Our Gang, heart disease.
 * Betty Curnow, 93, New Zealand artist.
 * Leopold B. Felsen, 81, German leading physicist in the study of waves, Holocaust survivor, complications of surgery.
 * Byron "Mex" Johnson, 94, American Negro league baseball player, prostate cancer.
 * Rod Oliver, 83, Australian politician.
 * Daniel Podrzycki, 42, Polish left wing politician, presidential candidate.
 * Barry Ramachandra Rao, 82, Indian space physicist.
 * André Testut, 79, Monegasque Formula One driver.
 * Bala Usman, 59-60, Nigerian academic, politician and historian.

25

 * Don Adams, 82, American actor (Get Smart, Inspector Gadget, Check It Out!), lung infection.
 * George Archer, 65, American golfer and 1969 Masters winner, Burkitt's lymphoma.
 * Georges Arvanitas, 74, French-born Greek jazz pianist and composer.
 * Abu Azzam, Iraqi Al-Qaeda's second-in-command in Iraq, shot to death by United States forces.
 * Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician, member of the Governing Council.
 * Urie Bronfenbrenner, 88, Russian-born U.S. professor of psychology, among the founders of the Head Start program in the U.S., complications of diabetes.
 * Lionel Kochan, 83, British historian.
 * Steve Marcus, 66, American jazz saxophonist.
 * M. Scott Peck, 69, American psychiatrist and author.
 * Friedrich Peter, 84, Austrian politician (chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria 1958–1978), controversial as a former member of the Waffen-SS.

26

 * Eugen Ciucă, 92, Romanian-American artist.
 * Helen Cresswell, 71, British author of children's literature, ovarian cancer.
 * Lowell E. English, 90, United States Marine Corps major general.
 * Heidi Genée, 66, German film editor, director and screenwriter.
 * Monty Gopallawa, 63, Sri Lankan politician, son of former Sri Lankan president William Gopallawa and governor of Central Province, Sri Lanka.
 * Jozef Karel, 83, Slovak football player and coach.
 * Shawntinice Polk, 22, American center on the University of Arizona's women's basketball team, pulmonary embolism.

27

 * Herman Ashworth, 32, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.
 * Karl Decker, 84, Austrian football player and manager.
 * Ronald Golias, 76, Brazilian comedian.
 * Jerry Juhl, 67, American writer and puppeteer (The Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock).
 * Brett Kebble, 41, South African mining magnate, murdered.
 * John McCabe, 84, American biographer of Laurel and Hardy.
 * Ronald Pearsall, 77, English author.
 * Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen, 47, Dutch film director, cancer.
 * Mary Lee Settle, 87, American author (the Beulah Quintet), lung cancer.

28

 * Ahmad Abdullah, 64, Malaysian accountant and politician.
 * Pol Bury, 83, Belgian sculptor.
 * Sir Mark Heath, 78, British diplomat, Ambassador to the Holy See.
 * Alan Matheney, 54, American convicted murderer, executed in Indiana.
 * Constance Baker Motley, 84, American civil rights lawyer and the first female African American federal judge, congestive heart failure.
 * Leo Sternbach, 97, Austrian-native chemist, known as the "Father of Valium".

29

 * Olga de Alaketu, 80, Benin-born Brazilian Candomblé high priestess, complications of diabetes.
 * Patrick Caulfield, 69, British artist.
 * Benjamin DeMott, 81, American writer, scholar, and cultural critic, cardiac arrest.
 * Robert Dorgebray, 89, French Olympic cyclist.
 * Austin Leslie, 71, American famed New Orleans chef (also the inspiration for the television show Frank's Place), hospitalized with pneumonia since his evacuation several days after Hurricane Katrina.
 * Gordon McKeag, 77, English solicitor and football club chairman (Newcastle United F.C.).
 * Gennadi Sarafanov, 63, Soviet Soyuz 15 cosmonaut.
 * Mogens Schou, 86, Danish psychiatrist.
 * Ivar Karl Ugi, 75, German chemist.

30

 * Basil Glass, 79, Northern Irish politician.
 * Monika Hellwig, 74, German-born American theologian and Roman Catholic lay leader, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Andrew P. O'Meara, 98, United States Army general, stroke.
 * Sergei Starostin, 52, Russian linguist.