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The following is a list of notable people who died in September 2005.
September 2005 [ edit ]
Terry Albritton , 50, American shotputter.
Manuel Ausensi , 85, Spanish opera singer.
R. L. Burnside , 78, American blues musician.
Barry Cowsill , 50, American pop-singer and writer, victim of Hurricane Katrina . [1]
Anil Kumar Dutta , Indian artist, founder of Academy of Creative Art.
Jacob A. Marinsky , 87, American chemist, co-discoverer of the element Promethium .
Hermann Michael , 68, German conductor, aplastic anemia. [2]
Yang Kuan , 91, Chinese historian.
Tom Bailey , 56, American footballer.
Bob Denver , 70, American actor (Gilligan's Island ), complications from cancer treatment.
Adrian Karsten , 45, American ESPN announcer, suicide. [3]
Alexandru Paleologu , 86, Romanian diplomat. [4]
Warren Thomas , 47, American comedian.
Rudolf Bäcker , 91, German World War II soldier.
R. S. R. Fitter , 92, British natural historian.
Robert W. Funk , 79, founder of the Jesus Seminar , lung failure. [5]
William Rehnquist , 80, Chief Justice of the United States, thyroid cancer. [6]
James Rossi , 69, American Olympic cyclist. [7]
Ekkehard Schall , 75, German actor. [8]
Hasan Abidi , 76, Pakistani journalist and poet.
Eugenia Charles , 86, Dominican politician, Prime Minister (1980–1995), after long illness. [10]
William John Kennedy , 86, Australian Aboriginal rights activist.
Mark Matthews , 111, American supercentenarian and Army first Sergeant, oldest living Buffalo Soldier . [11]
Perugu Siva Reddy , 84, Indian eye surgeon.
Omar Ali-Shah , 82/3, Sufi teacher.
Moussa Arafat , 65, former head of general security in Gaza , cousin of Yasser Arafat , murdered.
Stanley Dancer , 78, record-setting harness racing driver.
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.
L. J. K. Setright , 74, British motoring journalist.
Boris Bittker , 88, American legal academic.
Noel Cantwell , 73, former Manchester United captain, cancer.
Oswald Hoffmann , 91, American Lutheran evangelist. [12]
Donald Horne , 83, Australian academic, historian, philosopher and intellectual.
Józef Piotrowski , 118?, Polish organist and longevity claimant.
Lewis Platt , 64, former Hewlett Packard CEO.
Perry Stephens , 47, American actor (Loving ). [13]
Samim Bilgen , 95, Turkish lawyer and musician.
Giuliano Bonfante , 101, Italian linguistics expert and centenarian .
John Wayne Glover , 72, Australian convicted serial killer nicknamed "The Granny Killer", suicide by hanging
André Pousse , 85, French actor.
Tarzan Taborda , 78, Portuguese wrestling champion, heart attack.
Theodore X. Barber , 78, psychologist renowned for his critical studies of hypnosis, ruptured aorta. [14]
Sir Hermann Bondi , 85, 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. [15]
Charlie Williams , 61, former Major League Baseball umpire; the first African American umpire to work behind home plate in a World Series game, complications of diabetes. [16]
E. Stewart Williams , 95, American architect, known for "Desert Modernism". [17]
Odd Berg , 98, Norwegian ship owner.
Al Casey , 89, American jazz guitarist, colon cancer. [18]
Steve de Shazer , 65, therapist, 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. [19]
Henryk Tomaszewski , 91, Polish internationally recognized graphic artist.
Helmut Baierl , 78, German playwright.
Stephen Capen , 59, American radio presenter.
Serge Lang , 78, American mathematician and political activist. [20]
Ronald Leigh-Hunt , 88, British actor.
Susan Anne Catherine Torres , 40 days, baby born to Susan Torres , brain-dead woman, on 2 August 2005, heart failure after intestinal surgery. [21]
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 . [22]
Helen Longley , 84, American politician, former First Lady of Maine, widow of former Governor James B. Longley . [23]
Julio César Turbay Ayala , 89, President of Colombia (1978–1982). [24]
Kent Bellows , 56, American painter.
William Berenberg , 89, leader in the treatment and rehabilitation of disabled children, professor of pediatrics, emeritis, at Harvard Medical School . [25]
Justin "Jud" Hurd , 92, cartoonist, editor and founder of Cartoonist PROfiles magazine. [26]
Frances Newton , 40, executed for murder in Texas; first African American woman executed there since 1858.
Kenneth Turpin , 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 ), heart failure.
William S. Bartman , 58, American businessman and art patron, multiple organ failure. [27]
Samuel Azu Crabbe , 77, Ghanaian jurist, Chief Justice of Ghana (1973-1977).
Guy Green , 91, British film director and noted cinematographer.
Jeronimas Kačinskas , 98, Lithuanian-born classical composer and conductor.
Sid Luft , 89, American film producer, Judy Garland 's third and last surviving husband.
Stanley Burnshaw , 99, American renowned poet and literary figure. [28]
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. [29]
Donald S. Harrington , 91, Unitarian minister and former chairman and spokesman of the Liberal Party of New York . [30]
John McMullen , 87, former owner of Major League Baseball's Houston Astros and the NHL's New Jersey Devils . [31]
Constance Moore , 85, American actress (Buck Rogers ) .
Mzukisi Sikali , 34, South African boxer; murdered during street robbery.
Donn Clendenon , 70, American baseball player; MVP of the 1969 World Series , leukemia. [32]
Jack Lesberg , 85, jazz bassist. [33]
David E. Mark , 81, former U.S. ambassador to Burundi , car accident. [34]
Alfred Reed , 84, prominent American composer of concert band music.
Edward Stutman , 60, retired lawyer and U.S. Justice Department official known for prosecution of alleged Nazi war criminals. [35]
Marta Bohn-Meyer , 48, American pilot and engineer for NASA .
Richard Britton , 34, Northern Ireland motorcycle racer, racing accident.
John Bromfield , 83, American television actor.
Richard E. Cunha , 83, American cinematographer and director
Sandra Feldman , 65, American advocate for disadvantaged students, teacher and labor leader, breast cancer. [36]
Joel Hirschhorn , 67, American Academy Award-winning songwriter.
Richard Holden , 74, Canadian lawyer and politician.
Jacques Lacarrière , 79, French author and classical translator.
Noel Mander , 93, British organ maker and restorer. [37]
Michael Park , 39, British rally co-pilot, rally accident.
Chas Smit , 23, lead guitarist and backing vocalist for South African acoustic rock band Plush , hit by car.
George C. Watkins , 84, record-setting United States Navy test pilot, heart attack. [38]
Clint C. Wilson, Sr. , 90, African American editorial cartoonist, Los Angeles Sentinel . [39] [40]
Yegor Yakovlev , 75, Russian journalist, leading opponent of press censorship. [41]
David Austin , 70, British cartoonist. [42]
Willie Hutch , 59, American record producer, singer and songwriter. [43]
Isao Nakauchi , 83, Japanese businessman, founder of Daiei , stroke. [44]
Rupert Riedl , 80, Austrian zoologist and advocate of evolutionary epistemology. de:Rupert Riedl
William Vacchiano , 93, American trumpeter and professor of music. [45]
Matest M. Agrest , 90, Russian ethnologist.
Joe Bauman , 83, American longtime minor league baseball record-holder (72 home runs in 1954), pneumonia. [46]
Franzi Groszmann , 100, last surviving Kindertransport mother, consultant on the film Into the Arms of Strangers . [47]
Tobias Schneebaum , 83, American writer, artist, and explorer. [48]
Simon Wiesenthal , 96, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter.
Patrick Alexander , 65, Irish-born Australian poet.
Lena Brogren , 86, Swedish actress.
Harry Heltzer , 94, American inventor, former CEO of 3M . [49]
Ramón Martín Huerta , 48, minister of public security of the Mexican federal government, helicopter crash. [50]
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. [51]
Joseph Smagorinsky , 81, meteorologist and mathematician, pioneer in the use of mathematical modeling as a weather forecasting tool, complications of Parkinson's disease. [52]
Albert "Caesar" Tocco , 77, American convicted organized crime boss. [53]
Molly Yard , 93, former president of the U.S. National Organization for Women .
Monty Basgall , 83, American baseball coach.
Rolf Berntzen , 85, Norwegian actor.
Joop Doderer , 84, Dutch actor who played Swiebertje for 17 years. [54] .
Bayaman Erkinbayev , 38, Kyrgyz former wrestler, businessman, and prominent parliamentarian, shot to death. [55]
Leavander Johnson , 35, American former International Boxing Federation lightweight champion boxer, brain injury suffered in bout. [56]
Hans Samelson , 89, Stanford mathematician, natural causes. [57]
Roger Brierley , 70, British actor.
Apolônio de Carvalho , 93, founder of Brazil's ruling Workers' Party , leftist political icon. [58]
John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne , 80, British television producer. [59]
Betty Leslie-Melville , 78, wildlife conservationist and giraffe expert, complications of dementia. [60]
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos , 72, Puerto Rican nationalist and leader of the Boricua Popular Army . [61]
Preben Philipsen , 95, Danish film producer. [62]
Tommy Bond , 79, American actor known for playing Butch on Our Gang , heart disease. [63]
Leopold B. Felsen , 81, leading physicist in the study of waves, Holocaust survivor, complications of surgery. [64]
Byron "Mex" Johnson , 94, Negro Leagues baseball player, prostate cancer. [65]
Daniel Podrzycki , 42, Polish left wing politician, presidential candidate.
Don Adams , 82, American actor (Get Smart , Inspector Gadget ), lung infection while battling a bone lymphoma.
George Archer , 65, American golfer and 1969 Masters winner, Burkitt's lymphoma . [66]
Georges Arvanitas , 74, French-born Greek jazz pianist and composer.
Abu Azzam , Al-Qaeda's second-in-command in Iraq, shot to death by United States forces. [67]
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. [68]
Steve Marcus , 66, American jazz saxophonist. [69]
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 .
Herman Ashworth , 32, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.
Ronald Golias , 76, Brazilian comedian.
Jerry Juhl , 67, writer and puppeteer for The Muppets . [71]
Brett Kebble , 41, South African mining magnate, murdered.
John McCabe , 84, American biographer of Laurel and Hardy .
Ronald Pearsall , 77, English author. [72]
Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen , 47, Dutch film director, cancer. [73]
Mary Lee Settle , 87, American author (the Beulah Quintet ), lung cancer. [74]
Ahmad Abdullah , 64, Malaysian accountant and politician.
Pol Bury , 83, Belgian sculptor.
Alan Matheney , 54, American convicted murderer, executed in Indiana. [75]
Constance Baker Motley , 84, American civil rights lawyer and the first female African American federal judge, congestive heart failure. [76]
Leo Sternbach , 97, Austrian-native chemist, known as the "Father of Valium ".
Olga de Alaketu , 80, Afro-Brazilian Candomblé high priestess, complications of diabetes. [77]
Patrick Caulfield , 69, British artist. [78]
Benjamin DeMott , 81, prominent American author, social critic, and professor, cardiac arrest. [79]
Austin Leslie , 71, 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 . [80]
Gennadi Sarafanov , 63, former Soyuz 15 cosmonaut.
Ivar Karl Ugi , 75, German chemicist.