Deaths in September 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.

September 2006

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.
• 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.

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.

3

• Françoise Claustre, 69, French ethnologist and archaeologist. (French)
• 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. (German)

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.
• Tamás Fejér, 86, Hungarian film director. (Hungarian)
• Mark Anthony Graham, 33, Canadian Olympian and soldier, friendly fire.
• Steve Irwin, 44, Australian naturalist (The Crocodile Hunter), stingray barb to the chest.
• 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.
• 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 (Boston Globe), husband of Beverly Sills, after long illness.
• 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, after illness.
• Mark Wright, 27, British soldier, posthumously awarded George Cross.

7

• Efraim Allsalu, 77, Estonian painter. (Estonian)
• 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.
• James Hawthorne, 74, British controller of the BBC in Northern Ireland (1979–1989).
• Robert Earl Jones, 96, American actor, father of James Earl Jones.
• Cornelius O'Leary, 78, Irish historian.
• John M. Watson, 69, American jazz musician and actor, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

8

• Hilda Bernstein, 91, British-born South African author and anti-apartheid activist, heart failure.
• Peter Brock, 61, Australian touring car racer, car accident.
• 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.
• 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, 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), heart failure.
• Solange Fernex, French ecologist and green politician. (French)
• 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).
• Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 97, British Conservative minister and wartime SOE officer.
• Christopher Essex, 61, Australian fashion designer, cancer.
• Kimveer Gill, 25, Canadian school shooter (Dawson College shooting), suicide by gunshot.
• 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. (Portuguese)
• 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

• 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.
• Rob Levin, 51, American founder of freenode, head injury from bicycle accident.
• 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.
• 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 and two-time Academy Award-winner.
• 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, son of actors Margo and Eddie Albert, lung cancer.
• Carla Benschop, 56, Dutch basketball player. (Dutch)
• 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 Academy Award-winning film score composer (The Bridge on the River Kwai), 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, prostate 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. (German)
• 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, 90, British businessman and magician.
• Ralph Story, 86, American radio broadcaster and television host (The $64,000 Challenge), emphysema.

27

• William Horwitz, 88, American chemist.
• Helmut Kallmeyer, 95, German chemist and Action 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.

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.
• Jan Werner Danielsen, 30, Norwegian singer, heart failure. (Norwegian)
• 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. (Swedish)
• Pino Mlakar, 99, Slovenian ballet dancer. (Slovenian)
• André Schwarz-Bart, 78, French novelist. (French)
• András Sütő, 79, Romanian writer of Hungarian descent, melanoma. (Hungarian)