Deaths in September 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2007.

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

 * Robert H. Ahmanson, 80, American businessman and philanthropist, heart attack.
 * Tomás Medina Caracas, 42, Colombian guerrilla member of FARC, military action.
 * Russell Ellington, 69, American basketball coach for the Harlem Globetrotters, lung cancer.
 * Sir Abraham Goldberg, 83, Scottish doctor and medical scientist.
 * Sally Haley, 99, American painter, natural causes.
 * Sir Roy McKenzie, 84, New Zealand philanthropist, harness racing breeder, trainer and competitor.
 * Viliam Schrojf, 76, Slovakian former football goalkeeper.
 * John T. Scott, 67, black person sculptor and artist.

2

 * Rajae Belmlih, 45, Moroccan singer, cancer.
 * Anthony Day, 74, American editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times, emphysema.
 * Robert Fidgeon, 65, Australian television columnist and critic, cancer.
 * Safet Isović, 71, Bosnian singer.
 * Marcia Mae Jones, 83, American actress (Heidi, These Three).
 * Max McNab, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and NHL general manager.
 * Pat Norton, 88, Australian Olympic backstroke swimmer.
 * Bill Robinson, 88, Australian rules footballer.

3

 * Carter Albrecht, 34, American keyboardist and guitarist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians), shot.
 * Clarke Bynum, 45, American basketball player (Clemson Tigers), 2000 hijack hero, cancer.
 * Gustavo Eberto, 24, Argentine footballer (Boca Juniors), testicular cancer.
 * Sir Hamish Forbes, 91, British soldier and aristocrat.
 * Steve Fossett, 63, American adventurer, aircrash.
 * Syd Jackson, 68, New Zealand Māori rights activist, cancer.
 * Gift Leremi, 22, South African international footballer, car accident.
 * Don Maloney, 79, American writer, author on Japan.
 * Janis Martin, 67, American singer, cancer.
 * Lord Michael Pratt, 61, British writer and aristocrat.
 * Steve Ryan, 60, American actor (The West Wing, American Dreams, Daddio).
 * Mária Szepes, 98, Hungarian writer.
 * Jane Tomlinson, 43, British cancer activist, cancer.

4

 * Michael Evans, 87, American actor.
 * Bhamidipati Radhakrishna, 77, Indian playwright and scriptwriter.
 * Kumari Rukmini, 78, Indian actress and dancer.
 * Gigi Sabani, 54, Italian television host, heart attack.
 * John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, 83, British politician and aristocrat.
 * Ryūzō Sejima, 95, Japanese academic, chairman of the board of Asia University, World War II strategist.
 * Seth Tobias, 44, American television commentator, financial commentator for CNBC's Squawk Box.

5

 * Julieta Campos, 75, Cuban-Mexican writer, cancer.
 * Duan Yihe, 61, Chinese congress member who arranged the murder of his mistress, execution.
 * Jennifer Dunn, 66, American Representative from Washington (1993–2005), pulmonary embolism.
 * Paul Gillmor, 68, American Representative from Ohio since 1989.
 * Edward Gramlich, 68, American economics professor, governor of the Federal Reserve System, lymphocytic leukemia.
 * Charlotte Zucker, 86, American actress.
 * Thomas Hansen, 31, Norwegian musician known as "Saint Thomas", combination of prescribed drugs.
 * D. James Kennedy, 76, American evangelical Protestant pastor and theologian, founder of Coral Ridge Ministries.
 * Nikos Nikolaidis, 67, Greek film director, pulmonary edema.

6

 * Martin Čech, 31, Czech international ice hockey player, car accident.
 * Eva Crane, 95, British bee expert.
 * Allan Crite, 97, American artist, natural causes.
 * Billy Darnell, 81, American professional wrestler of the 1940s–1960s famous for feuds with Buddy Rogers.
 * Wolfgang Franke, 95, German sinologist.
 * Evald Gering, 89, Canadian Olympic shooter.
 * Ian Gray, 69, British comics writer.
 * Jack Hawkes, 92, British botanist.
 * John Kelly, 71, Provisional Irish Republican Army founder-member and Northern Ireland Assembly member (1998–2003), cancer.
 * Madeleine L'Engle, 88, American writer (A Wrinkle in Time), natural causes.
 * Lee Ae-jung, 20, South Korean actress, complications of brain cancer.
 * Ronald Magill, 87, British actor (Amos Brearly on Emmerdale Farm).
 * Bill Muller, 42, American film critic and journalist.
 * Luciano Pavarotti, 71, Italian operatic tenor, pancreatic cancer.
 * Percy Rodriguez, 89, Canadian character actor and movie trailer narrator, kidney problems.
 * Byron Stevenson, 50, British footballer (Wales, Leeds United, Birmingham City), throat cancer.

7

 * Alex, 31, American-born African grey parrot, subject of animal language experiments.
 * Sir John Compton, 82, St. Lucian Prime Minister (1979, 1982–1996, 2006–2007), stroke.
 * Norman Deeley, 73, British footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
 * Russell E. Dougherty, 87, American former commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command.
 * Joseph W. Eschbach, 74, American doctor and kidney specialist whose research led to treatment of anemia, cancer.
 * Joseph Rudolph Grimes, 84, Liberian foreign minister (1960–1972).
 * Sidney Leviss, 90, American politician and judge.
 * Gabriel Baccus Matthews, 59, Liberian foreign minister (1980–1981, 1990–1993).
 * Mark Weil, 55, Uzbek theatre director, stabbed.

8

 * Lord Bethell, 69, British historian of Eastern and Central Europe, human rights campaigner, Parkinson's disease.
 * Jean-François Bizot, 63, French journalist, creator of "Actuel", Radio Nova, cancer.
 * Adrian Esquino Lisco, 68, Salvadoran indigenous rights activist and spiritual chief, complications from diabetes.
 * Vincent Serventy, 91, Australian writer and conservationist.

9

 * Hannes Brewis, 87, South African rugby union player.
 * Angie Brooks, 78, Liberian diplomat and jurist.
 * Ian Campbell, 81, British politician, MP for Dunbartonshire West (1970–1983) and Dumbarton (1983–1987).
 * Han Dingxiang, 71, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, detained for loyalty to the Vatican.
 * ASHK Sadek, 73, Bangladeshi politician.
 * Helmut Senekowitsch, 73, Austrian football player and manager.
 * Zoran Tadić, 66, Croatian film director.
 * Hughie Thomasson, 55, American guitarist (Outlaws), heart attack.
 * Sir Tasker Watkins VC, 88, British jurist and businessman, Lord Justice of Appeal and former WRU President, after short illness.
 * Xu Simin, 93, Hong Kong magazine publisher, pro-Beijing supporter, organ failure.

10

 * Loretta King Hadler, 90, American film actress, natural causes.
 * James Leasor, 83, British novelist and biographer.
 * Joe Rantz, 93, American rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
 * Dame Anita Roddick, 64, British entrepreneur and founder of The Body Shop, brain haemorrhage.
 * Arthur Ross, 96, American businessman and philanthropist known for his contribution to Central Park.
 * Joe Sherlock, 76, Irish Teachta Dála for Cork East (1981–1982, 1987–1992, 2002–2007).
 * Ted Stepien, 82, American businessman and former owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.
 * Enrique Torres, 85, American professional wrestler.
 * Jane Wyman, 90, American Academy Award-winning actress (Johnny Belinda), 1984 Golden Globe winner (Falcon Crest), first wife of Ronald Reagan.

11

 * John Garrett, 76, British politician, MP for Norwich South 1974–1983 and 1987–1997.
 * Ian Porterfield, 61, British footballer and manager (scored Sunderland's 1973 FA Cup winner), colon cancer.
 * Gene Savoy, 80, American explorer and religious mystic, claimed discovery of over 40 lost cities in Peru, natural causes.
 * James F. Smith, 84, American politician.
 * Willie Tee, 63, American singer-songwriter and producer, colon cancer.
 * Joe Zawinul, 75, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer, founder of Weather Report, cancer.

12

 * Bobby Byrd, 73, American soul/funk singer, cancer.
 * Daryl Holton, 45, American convicted murderer, first man executed by electric chair in Tennessee in 47 years.
 * Phil Frank, 64, American cartoonist, brain cancer.
 * Lou Kretlow, 86, American baseball pitcher.

13

 * Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, 37, Iraqi leader of Anbar Salvation Council, improvised explosive device.
 * Gaetano Arfé, 81, Italian politician.
 * Robert Bates, 96, American mountaineer.
 * Laurel Burch, 61, American artist, osteopetrosis.
 * Phil Frank, 64, American cartoonist, brain tumor.
 * Bill Griffiths, 59, British poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar.
 * Augie Hiebert, 90, American who built Alaska's first television station (KTVA), cancer.
 * Neville Jeffress, 87, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia, pneumonia.
 * Colin Mitchell, 78, English cricketer.
 * Clare Oliver, 26, Australian cancer activist, melanoma.
 * Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi, 35, Iraqi leader of the Anbar Salvation Council, bomb.
 * Whakahuihui Vercoe, 79, New Zealand retired Anglican archbishop.

14

 * Sir Robert Honeycombe, 86, British metallurgist.
 * Jacques Martin, 74, French presenter and former husband of Cécilia Sarkozy, cancer.
 * Emilio Ruiz del Rio, 84, Spanish set decorator (Pan's Labyrinth), respiratory failure.
 * Benny Vansteelant, 30, Belgian world champion duathlete, bike accident.

15

 * Leslie Holligan, 29, Guyanese footballer, heart failure.
 * Colin McRae, 39, British World Rally champion, helicopter crash.
 * Sir Jeremy Moore, 79, British soldier, commander of UK land forces in the Falklands War.
 * Specs Powell, 85, American jazz drummer, kidney disease.
 * Ernie Renzel, 100, American politician, Mayor of San Jose (1945–1946), "Father of San Jose International Airport."
 * Aldemaro Romero, 79, Venezuelan composer, pianist and conductor, complications of intestinal blockage.
 * Brett Somers, 83, American actress, comedian and panelist (Match Game), stomach and colon cancer.

16

 * Jean Balissat, 71, Swiss musician.
 * Peter Cleeland, 69, Australian politician, MHR for McEwen (1984–1990, 1993–1996), motor neurone disease.
 * Robert Jordan, 58, American fantasy novelist (The Wheel of Time), cardiac amyloidosis.
 * Cal Rampton, 93, American politician, Governor of Utah (1965–1977), cancer.
 * Garrard "Buster" Ramsey, 87, American football player and coach, pneumonia.

17

 * Jim Furner, 79, Australian military intelligence chief.
 * Stephen Medcalf, 70, British scholar.
 * Rappani Khalilov, 37, Chechen militant, leader of the Shariat Jamaat, terrorist, killed by Russian troops.
 * Maurice King, 72, American basketball player.
 * Charlotte Lewis, 52, American basketball player.

18

 * Augustus Akinloye, 91, Nigerian politician, founder of the Ibadan Peoples Party.
 * Benyamin Yosef Bria, 51, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Denpasar.
 * Norman Gaylord, 84, American chemist, developed permeable contact lens.
 * Nate Hill, 41, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins, Washington Redskins).
 * Pepsi Tate, 42, British bassist (Tigertailz), pancreatic cancer.
 * Len Thompson, 60, Australian footballer (1965–1980), heart attack.

19

 * Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri, 34, Iraqi sculptor, replaced Saddam Hussein statue toppled during 2003 invasion of Iraq, car accident.
 * Antoine Ghanem, 64, Lebanese politician, MP, car bomb.
 * Mike Osborne, 66, British jazz musician.
 * Vlatko Pavletić, 76, Croatian politician, Speaker of Parliament (1995–1999), acting President (1999–2000).
 * H. Emory Widener, Jr., 83, American jurist (United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit), lung cancer.

20

 * Mahlon Clark, 84, American clarinetist, natural causes.
 * Helen Elaine Freeman, 75, American endangered species (snow leopards) advocate, lung disease.
 * Johnny Gavin, 79, Irish international footballer and Norwich City's record goalscorer.
 * Kaljo Kiisk, 81, Estonian actor, film director and politician.
 * Viktor Shershunov, 56, Russian governor of Kostroma Oblast, car accident.
 * Labah Sosseh, 64, Senegalese singer.
 * Sir Edward Tomkins, 91, British diplomat, ambassador to The Netherlands and France.

21

 * Hallgeir Brenden, 78, Norwegian cross country skier, gold medallist (1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics).
 * Bob Collins, 61, Australian ALP senator (1987–1998) and minister (1990–1996), suicide by alcohol and drug overdose.
 * Alice Ghostley, 84, American actress (Designing Women, To Kill a Mockingbird, Grease), Tony winner (1965), colon cancer.
 * Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, 81, British politician.
 * Rex Humbard, 88, American televangelist, congestive heart failure.
 * Paul Konsler, 94, French Olympic shooter.
 * Floria Lasky, 84, American entertainment attorney and litigator, cancer.
 * Ángel Romero, 75, Mexican Olympic cyclist.
 * Petar Stambolić, 95, Serbian Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Serbia (1978–1982), President of Yugoslavia (1982–1983).
 * Coral Watts, 53, American serial killer, complications of prostate cancer.
 * Wu Xiangxiang, 92, Chinese historian.

22

 * Albert Fuller, 81, American harpsichordist and founder of the Aston Magna Foundation and Festival.
 * Herbert Gallen, 92, American chairman and owner of Ellen Tracy sportswear.
 * Karl Hardman, 80, American horror film producer and actor.
 * Richard Hornby, 85, British politician and businessman.
 * Marcel Marceau, 84, French mime artist.
 * William D. Rogers, 80, American advisor to Henry Kissinger, heart attack.
 * ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá, 95, Iranian-born leader in the Baháʼí Faith.

23

 * Renzo Barbieri, 67, Italian writer.
 * Ken Danby, 67, Canadian painter.
 * Ivan Hinderaker, 91, American academic, chancellor of the University of California, Riverside (1964–1979).
 * John Klier, 62, British-American writer and historian.

24

 * Geoff Cannell, 65, Manx Member of the House of Keys and sports broadcaster, stroke.
 * Terry Connolly, 49, Australian judge of the ACT Supreme Court, heart attack.
 * Kurt Julius Goldstein, 92, German journalist and Auschwitz survivor.
 * André Gorz, 84, Austrian-born French social philosopher, suicide.
 * Frank Hyde, 91, Australian rugby league player and commentator.
 * Hiroshi Ōsaka, 44, Japanese co-founder of Bones Animation Studio, cancer.
 * Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, 88, American physicist and former director of SLAC, heart attack.
 * Frank Sherring, 93, Canadian politician, Mayor of Lethbridge, Alberta (1962–1968), cancer.
 * Otto Spacek, 89, Czech World War II hero.
 * Lenore Tawney, 100, American fiber artist.

25

 * Haidar Abdel-Shafi, 88, Palestinian negotiator, stomach cancer.
 * Patrick Bourque, 29, Canadian bass guitarist (Emerson Drive), suicide.
 * Hans Colberg, 95, Danish footballer.
 * André Emmerich, 82, German-born American art dealer, complications from a stroke.
 * Jana Krishnamurthi, 79, Indian politician, President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (2001–2007).
 * Michael Wayne Richard, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Bill Waller, 95, American college football coach.

26

 * Stanislav Andreski, 88, Polish sociologist.
 * Robert Bruss, 67, American real estate attorney and columnist, cancer.
 * Velma Wayne Dawson, 94, American creator of the Howdy Doody puppet.
 * Angela Lambert, 67, British journalist, historian and novelist.
 * Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, 90, Dutch secret agent, author and businessman.
 * Randy Van Horne, 83, American singer of TV theme songs (The Flintstones, The Jetsons), cancer.
 * Bill Wirtz, 77, American owner of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks, cancer.

27

 * Nenad Bogdanović, 53, Serbian politician, mayor of Belgrade (2004–2007), lymphoma.
 * Dale Houston, 67, American musician (Dale and Grace).
 * Kenji Nagai, 50, Japanese video journalist, shot.
 * Bill Perry, 77, South African-born English footballer, cancer.
 * Marjatta Raita, 63, Finnish actress, cancer.
 * George Rieveschl, 91, American inventor (Benadryl), pneumonia.
 * Israel Segal, 63, Israeli writer and journalist, heart failure.
 * Avraham Shapira, 93, Israeli rabbi, Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel (1983–1993).

28

 * René Desmaison, 77, French mountaineer.
 * Charles B. Griffith, 77, American screenwriter.
 * Evelyn Knight, 89, American singer, lung cancer.
 * Adam Kozłowiecki, 96, Polish-born Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lusaka (1955–1969).
 * Peter Kuiper, 78, Dutch-born German actor.
 * Martin Manulis, 92, American television and film producer, Emmy Award winner.
 * Wally Parks, 94, American drag racing and hot rod pioneer, pneumonia.
 * Derek Shackleton, 83, British cricketer (Hampshire and England).
 * Hamid Shirzadeghan, 66, Iranian footballer, lung cancer.

29

 * Cyril Martin, 79, South African Olympic wrestler.
 * Lois Maxwell, 80, Canadian actress (Dr. No, Goldfinger, A View to a Kill), colorectal cancer.
 * Wolfgang Preisendanz, 87, German philologist and literary critic.
 * Katsuko Saruhashi, 87, Japanese scientist, pneumonia.
 * Gyula Zsivótzky, 70, Hungarian hammer thrower, 1968 Olympics gold medallist, cancer.

30

 * Al Chang, 85, American two-time Pulitzer prize-nominated military photographer, leukemia.
 * John Henebry, 89, American Air Force major general, heart failure.
 * Milan Jelić, 51, Bosnian politician, president of Republika Srpska entity (2006–2007), heart attack.
 * Joe Mitty, 88, British founder of the Oxfam charity shop.
 * C. F. D. Moule, 98, British theologian and priest.
 * Eugene Saenger, 90, American radiologist and university professor.
 * Oswald Mathias Ungers, 81, German architect, pneumonia.