Deaths in September 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2006.

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

 * Tommy Chesbro, 66, American wrestler and coach (Oklahoma State University), heart attack.
 * Nellie Connally, 87, American widow of Texas Governor John Connally, shared car at John F. Kennedy assassination.
 * Anil Kumar Dutta, 73, Indian artist, founder of Academy of Creative Art.
 * György Faludy, 95, Hungarian poet, writer and translator.
 * Rashid Maidin, 89, Malaysian leader of the Communist Party.
 * Ronald Mansbridge, 100, British-born American publisher, founded first US branch of Cambridge University Press.
 * Richard Frewen Martin, 88, British fighter pilot and test pilot.
 * Warren Mitofsky, 72, American pollster, creator of the exit poll, heart failure.
 * Bob O'Connor, 61, American Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, brain cancer.
 * Travis I. Payze, 60, Australian footballer, prostate cancer.
 * Sir Kyffin Williams, 88, Welsh artist, lung and prostate cancer.
 * Pierre Monichon, 80, French musicologist and inventor of the Harmoneon.

2

 * Bob Mathias, 75, American decathlete, twice Olympic gold medalist, United States Representative, cancer.
 * Deforrest Most, 89, American gymnast, helped establish Muscle Beach, heart failure.
 * Willi Ninja, 45, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS.
 * Clermont Pépin, 80, Canadian composer, liver cancer.
 * Silverio Pérez, 91, Mexican bullfighter, renal illness.
 * Lionel Pickering, 74, British businessman, chairman of Derby County, cancer.
 * Anthony Poon, 61, Singaporean abstract artist, lung cancer.
 * Dewey Redman, 75, American jazz saxophonist, father of Joshua Redman, liver failure.
 * Monty Stickles, 68, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), heart failure.
 * Charlie Williams, 77, British comedian and footballer (Doncaster Rovers), Parkinson's disease.
 * Sahibzada Muhammad Ishaq Zaffar, 61, Pakistani politician, heart attack.

3

 * Françoise Claustre, 69, French ethnologist and archaeologist.
 * Levi Fox, 92, British conservationist and historian, Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
 * Ian Hamer, 73, British jazz trumpeter.
 * Eva Knardahl, 79, Norwegian classical pianist.
 * Annemarie Wendl, 91, German actress, heart failure.

4

 * Rémy Belvaux, 38, Belgian writer, film producer and director (Man Bites Dog), suicide.
 * Ingrid Bjoner, 78, Norwegian soprano.
 * John Conte, 90, American actor, founded TV station KMIR, natural causes.
 * Giacinto Facchetti, 64, Italian footballer, cancer.
 * James Fee, 56, American photographer, liver cancer.
 * Mark Anthony Graham, 33, Canadian Olympian and soldier, friendly fire.
 * Steve Irwin, 44, Australian naturalist (The Crocodile Hunter), stabbed in the chest by a stingray barb.
 * Khadaffy Janjalani, 31, Filipino militant, leader of Abu Sayyaf, shot.
 * Moses Khumalo, 26, South African jazz saxophonist, Best Newcomer at South African Music Awards (2002), suicide by hanging.
 * Clive Lythgoe, 79, British pianist.
 * Colin Thiele, 85, Australian children's author, heart failure.
 * Astrid Varnay, 88, American soprano.

5

 * Sir Michael Davies, 85, British jurist.
 * Anne Gregg, 66, British television presenter (Holiday), cancer.
 * Gösta Löfgren, 83, Swedish football player.
 * Hilary Mason, 89, British character actress.
 * John McLusky, 83, British comics artist (James Bond).
 * J. Bazzel Mull, 91, American Christianity preacher and gospel music promoter.

6

 * Warren Bolster, 59, American surf and skateboard photographer, suicide by gunshot.
 * Sir John Drummond, 71, British controller of BBC Radio 3 and The Proms.
 * Lovette George, 44, American Broadway theatre singer and actress, ovarian cancer.
 * Peter Greenough, 89, American finance columnist (The Boston Globe), husband of Beverly Sills, after long illness.
 * Peter Hyndman, 64, Canadian politician and lawyer, cancer.
 * Gordon Manning, 89, American television journalist (NBC and CBS), heart attack.
 * Sir Michael Marshall, 76, British politician, MP for Arundel (1974–1997), President of the Chichester Festival Theatre.
 * Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, c.50, Sudanese newspaper editor, beheaded.
 * Agha Shahi, 86, Pakistani diplomat and foreign minister, heart attack.
 * Mark Wright, 27, British soldier, posthumously awarded George Cross.

7

 * Efraim Allsalu, 77, Estonian painter.
 * Sir Norman Blacklock, 78, British physician, Medical Officer to the Queen (1976–1993).
 * Clem Coetzee, 67, Zimbabwean conservationist, heart attack.
 * James deAnda, 81, American lawyer and federal judge, part of the legal team in Hernandez v. Texas, prostate cancer.
 * Jorge di Giandoménico, 75, Argentine Olympic sports shooter.
 * Joan Donaldson, 60, American founding head of the CBC Newsworld television network, complications from injuries.
 * Sir Stephen Egerton, 74, British diplomat, Ambassador to Italy (1989–1992).
 * James Hawthorne, 74, British controller of the BBC in Northern Ireland (1979–1989).
 * Robert Earl Jones, 96, American actor, father of James Earl Jones.
 * Ronald St. John Macdonald, 78, Canadian legal academic and jurist.
 * Cornelius O'Leary, 78, Irish historian.
 * John M. Watson, 69, American jazz musician and actor, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

8

 * Hilda Bernstein, 99, British-born South African author and anti-apartheid activist, heart failure.
 * Peter Brock, 61, Australian touring car racer, car accident.
 * William Harper, 90, Rhodesian politician
 * Thomas Lee Judge, 71, American Governor of Montana (1973–1981), pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Frank Middlemass, 87, British character actor (As Time Goes By).
 * Erk Russell, 80, American college football coach (University of Georgia, Georgia Southern University), stroke.
 * Fred Spiess, 86, American oceanographer and marine explorer, cancer.

9

 * Gérard Brach, 79, French screenwriter (The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Name of the Rose), cancer.
 * Clair Burgener, 84, American Representative for California (1973–1983), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * Matt Gadsby, 27, British footballer (Hinckley United), ARVC.
 * Émilie Mondor, 25, Canadian Olympic distance runner, car accident.
 * Elisabeth Ogilvie, 89, American author.
 * Herbert Rudley, 95, American actor.
 * Keshavram Kashiram Shastri, 101, Indian founder of VHP, natural causes.
 * William Bernard Ziff, Jr., 76, American publishing magnate, prostate cancer.

10

 * Ernestine Bayer, 97, American rower, complications from pneumonia.
 * Patty Berg, 88, American golf pioneer, founder of the LPGA, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * James C. Hickman, 79, American actuary and academic administrator, Dean of University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business (1985–1990).
 * Sir John Johnston, 84, British courtier, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office (1981–1987).
 * Ramanlal Joshi, 80, Indian literary critic and editor.
 * Melanie Lomax, 56, American civil rights lawyer, former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, car accident.
 * Ted Risenhoover, 71, American Representative for Oklahoma (1975–1979).
 * Bennie Smith, 72, American blues guitarist, heart attack.
 * Daniel Wayne Smith, 20, American actor, son of Anna Nicole Smith, drug overdose.
 * Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, 88, Tongan royal, King of Tonga, after illness.

11

 * William Auld, 81, British poet, author and supporter of Esperanto.
 * Peter Clentzos, 97, American-born Greek 1932 Summer Olympics competitor in pole vault.
 * Pat Corley, 76, American actor (Murphy Brown, Against All Odds, Hill Street Blues), heart failure.
 * János Dévai, 66, Hungarian Olympic cyclist.
 * Solange Fernex, French ecologist and green politician.
 * Joachim Fest, 79, German historian and journalist.
 * Joseph Hayes, 88, American author (The Desperate Hours).
 * Johannes Bob van Benthem, 85, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office (1977–1985).

12

 * John S.R. Duncan, 85, British diplomat.
 * Raymond Mikesell, 93, American economist at the Bretton Woods Conference.
 * Emily Perez, 23, American first female African-American Army officer to die in combat, improvised explosive device.
 * Craig Roberts, 38, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
 * Bill Saul, 65, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), cancer.
 * Edna Staebler, 100, Canadian cookbook and non-fiction author, stroke.

13

 * Brian Biggins, 66, English football player (Chester City).
 * Cesare Barbetti, 75, Italian actor and voice actor.
 * Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 97, British Conservative minister and wartime SOE officer.
 * Christopher Essex, 61, Australian fashion designer, cancer.
 * N. V. Krishnaiah, 76, Indian politician.
 * Ann Richards, 73, American Governor of Texas (1991–1995), esophageal cancer.
 * Peter Tevis, 69, American musician, Parkinson's Disease.

14

 * Norman Brooks, 78, Canadian singer, Al Jolson imitator, emphysema.
 * Silviu Brucan, 90, Romanian ambassador to the United States, opponent of Nicolae Ceauşescu.
 * Elizabeth Choy, 95, Singaporean war heroine, first female legislator, pancreatic cancer.
 * Miklós Hargitay, 80, Hungarian former Mr. Universe and actor, ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield, father of Mariska Hargitay.
 * J. William Kime, 72, American former commandant of the Coast Guard.
 * Andrey Kozlov, 41, Russian First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia, shot.
 * Peter Ling, 80, British television writer, creator of Crossroads.
 * Paulo Marques, 58, Brazilian journalist and presenter, brain cancer.
 * Esme Melville, 87, Australian film and television actress.
 * Terry O'Sullivan, 91, American television actor (Search for Tomorrow), pancreatic cancer.
 * Johnny Palmer, 88, American golfer, seven-time PGA Tour winner.
 * Frederic Wakeman, 68, American scholar of Chinese history.

15

 * Raymond Baxter, 84, British television presenter (Tomorrow's World).
 * Oriana Fallaci, 77, Italian journalist and writer, breast cancer.
 * Guy François, Haitian Army colonel, participated in failed coups in 1989 and 2001.
 * Charles L. Grant, 64, American horror and science fiction author, heart attack.
 * Douglas Henderson, 71, British politician.
 * Donald Kimball, 62, American defrocked Roman Catholic priest, convicted in sex abuse scandal.
 * Nitun Kundu, 70, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor.
 * David T. Lykken, 78, American professor of psychology (University of Minnesota).
 * Abe Saffron, 86, Australian nightclub owner and property developer.
 * Pablo Santos, 19, Mexican actor (Greetings from Tucson), plane crash.
 * Sergio Savarese, 48, Italian furniture designer, plane crash.
 * Meredith Thring, 90, British engineer.

16

 * John Allen, 80, American Olympic athlete.
 * Sten Andersson, 83, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1985–1991) and Minister for Social Affairs (1982–1985), heart attack.
 * Floyd Curry, 81, Canadian four-time Stanley Cup winner (Montreal Canadiens).
 * George Estman, 84, South African Olympic cyclist.
 * E. H. H. Green, 47, British historian, multiple sclerosis.
 * Zsuzsa Körmöczy, 82, Hungarian tennis player and coach, won 1958 French Championships.
 * Esther Martinez, 94, American Tewa storyteller and linguist, car accident.
 * Fouad el-Mohandes, 82, Egyptian comedy actor, heart failure.

17

 * Jack Banta, 81, American Major League Baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
 * Al Casey, 89, American rock and country music guitarist.
 * George Heslop, 66, English footballer (Manchester City).
 * Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82, American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy, ex-wife of actor Peter Lawford, pneumonia.
 * Nathaniel Lubell, 90, American Olympic fencer and artist.
 * Edward D. Re, 85, American lawyer and judge.
 * Leonella Sgorbati, 65, Italian nun, shot.
 * Kazuyuki Sogabe, 58, Japanese anime voice actor (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball).
 * Dorothy C. Stratton, 107, American first director of the Coast Guard Women's Reserve.

18

 * Seán Clancy, 105, Irish oldest War of Independence veteran.
 * Edward J. King, 81, American Governor of Massachusetts (1979–1983).
 * Philip H. Melanson, 61, American academic, expert on assassinations, cancer.
 * Nilton Pereira Mendes, 30, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
 * Leo Navratil, 85, Austrian psychiatrist.
 * Syd Thrift, 77, American general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles.

19

 * Elizabeth Allen, 77, American actress (Donovan's Reef, Do I Hear a Waltz?, The Jackie Gleason Show).
 * Danny Flores, 77, American saxophonist and vocalist (The Champs), pneumonia.
 * Joe Glazer, 88, American singer-songwriter.
 * Martha Holmes, 83, American Life photographer, natural causes.
 * Sir Hugh Kawharu, 79, New Zealand academic and Māori leader.
 * Vico Magistretti, 86, Italian architect and designer.
 * Manuel Mindán Manero, 103, Spanish philosopher and priest, natural causes.
 * Roy Schuiten, 55, Dutch track and road racing cyclist.
 * Terry Smith, 47, Australian rules football player (Richmond, St Kilda), cancer.

20

 * Phạm Xuân Ẩn, 78, Vietnamese journalist, North Vietnamese spy during Vietnam War, emphysema.
 * Clarence Hill, 48, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
 * Henri Jayer, 84, French winemaker.
 * Armin Jordan, 74, Swiss conductor.
 * Beth Levine, 91, American shoe designer.
 * Sven Nykvist, 83, Swedish cinematographer (Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander, The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Oscar winner (1974, 1984).
 * John W. Peterson, 84, American gospel hymn writer, cancer.
 * Lillian Robinson, 65, American professor of women's studies (Concordia University).
 * Don Walser, 72, American country singer and yodeler, complications from diabetes.
 * Muddy Waters, 83, American college football coach (Michigan State University).
 * Dean Wooldridge, 93, American physicist, co-founder of TRW.

21

 * Boz Burrell, 60, British bassist and vocalist (Bad Company, King Crimson), heart attack.
 * Margaret Ekpo, 92, Nigerian politician and women's rights activist.
 * Alan Fletcher, 75, British graphic designer.
 * Gilbert Jonas, 76, American fundraiser for the NAACP.
 * Charles Larson, 86, American television writer and Emmy Award-nominated producer (The F.B.I.).
 * Charles Rees, 78, British chemist.

22

 * Edward Albert, 55, American actor (Butterflies Are Free, Port Charles, Power Rangers Time Force), lung cancer.
 * Carla Benschop, 56, Dutch basketball player.
 * Tommy Garnett, 91, English-born Australian cricketer and educator.
 * Enrique Gorriarán Merlo, 64, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader, cardiac arrest due to abdominal aortic aneurysm.
 * Tommy Olivencia, 64, Puerto Rican salsa singer and bandleader.
 * Mary Orr, 95, American author whose story "The Wisdom of Eve" inspired the film All About Eve.

23

 * Sir Malcolm Arnold, 84, British film score composer (The Bridge on the River Kwai), Oscar winner (1958), chest infection.
 * Etta Baker, 93, American piedmont blues guitarist.
 * Sir Charles Cutler, 88, Australian Deputy Premier of New South Wales (1965–1975), cancer.
 * Aladár Pege, 67, Hungarian jazz musician.
 * Tim Rooney, 59, American actor, son of Mickey Rooney, dermatomyositis.

24

 * John S. Boskovich, 49, American artist and screenwriter (Without You I'm Nothing).
 * Joel Broyhill, 86, American Republican congressman for Virginia (1953–1975), heart failure and pneumonia.
 * Michael Ferguson, 53, Irish republican politician, testicular cancer.
 * Sally Gray, 90, British actress.
 * Joan Hatcher, 82, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Ben Heppner, 63, Canadian politician, bone cancer.
 * Padmini, 74, Indian actress in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films, heart attack.
 * Patrick Quinn, 56, American actor, president of Actors' Equity Association (2000–2006), heart attack.
 * Thomas Stewart, 78, American bass-baritone opera singer.
 * Tetsuro Tamba, 84, Japanese actor.
 * Henry Townsend, 96, American blues guitarist, pianist and songwriter, pulmonary edema.

25

 * Safia Ahmed-jan, 65, Afghan women's rights advocate, shot.
 * Omar al-Faruq, 35, Kuwaiti senior member of al-Qaeda, shot.
 * Jeff Cooper, 86, American small arms expert.
 * Maureen Daly, 85, American author (Seventeenth Summer).
 * John M. Ford, 49, American science fiction and fantasy writer, natural causes.
 * Sir Vijay Singh, 75, Indo-Fijian lawyer and politician, cancer.
 * Sir Iain Tennant, 87, Scottish businessman and public servant.
 * Metropolitan Vitaly Ustinov, 96, Russian First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (1985–2001).

26

 * Gerhard Behrendt, 77, German inventor of Sandmännchen children's television character.
 * Giuseppe Bennati, 85, Italian film director.
 * Laurence Jonathan Cohen, 83, British philosopher.
 * Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese American convicted and later pardoned of being World War II propagandist "Tokyo Rose".
 * Mihály Fülöp, 70, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
 * Byron Nelson, 94, American professional golfer.
 * Sir Philip Randle, 80, British biochemist.
 * Sir Martin Roth, 88, Hungarian-born British president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
 * John Salisse, 80, British businessman and magician.
 * Ralph Story, 86, American radio broadcaster and television host (The $64,000 Challenge), emphysema.

27

 * Geraldine Guest, 83, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * William Horwitz, 88, American chemist.
 * Helmut Kallmeyer, 95, German chemist and Aktion T4 perpetrator.
 * Craig Kusick, 57, American former first baseman for the Minnesota Twins, leukemia.
 * Arthur Marwick, 70, British historian, first professor of history at the Open University.
 * Sir Michael Pollock, 89, British admiral, First Sea Lord (1971–1974).

28

 * George Balzer, 91, American writer for Jack Benny's radio and TV shows.
 * Adam Curle, 90, British academic and peace activist.
 * James Hamilton, 4th Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, 68, British aristocrat and politician, cancer.
 * Virgil Ierunca, 86, Romanian writer.

29

 * Rosamond Carr, 94, American fashion illustrator turned humanitarian and activist.
 * Billy Mauch, 85, American child actor and sound editor.
 * Jan Werner Danielsen, 30, Norwegian singer, heart failure.
 * Gerry Gazzard, 81, English footballer.
 * Walter Hadlee, 91, New Zealand cricketer, stroke.
 * Louis-Albert Vachon, 94, Canadian Archbishop Emeritus of Québec.

30

 * Isabel Bigley, 80, American stage actress, Tony Award-winner for Guys and Dolls.
 * Josh Graves, 79, American bluegrass dobro player.
 * Bert James, 92, Australian politician, MP for Hunter (1960–1980).
 * Adolf H. Lundin, 73, Swedish oil and mining entrepreneur, leukemia.
 * Pino Mlakar, 99, Slovenian ballet dancer.
 * André Schwarz-Bart, 78, French novelist.
 * András Sütő, 79, Romanian writer of Hungarian descent, melanoma.