Deaths in September 2009
Appearance
The following is a list of deaths in September 2009.
September 2009
- Dick Berg, 87, American screenwriter and television producer, fall. [1]
- Jake Drake-Brockman, 53, British musician (Echo & the Bunnymen) and sound recordist, motorcycle accident. [2]
- Jock Buchanan, 74, Scottish footballer (Hibernian). [3]
- Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa, 91, British television executive and conservationist. [4]
- Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito, 66, Brazilian judge (Supreme Federal Court) (2007–2009), pancreatic cancer. [5]
- Jang Jin-young, 35, South Korean actress, stomach cancer. [6]
- Wycliffe Johnson, 47, Jamaican Reggae musician and composer, heart failure. [7]
- Erich Kunzel, 74, American conductor (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra), cancer. [8]
- Maria Christina of Bourbon-Parma, 84, Spanish royal (House of Bourbon-Parma), daughter of Elias, Duke of Parma. [9]
- Wayne E. Meyer, 83, American Rear-Admiral, Aegis Combat System manager, heart failure. [10]
- Francis Rogallo, 97, American aeronautical inventor (Rogallo wing). [11]
- John Stephens, 43, American football player (New England Patriots), NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (1988), car accident. [12]
- Alexis Tioseco, 28, Filipino-born Canadian film critic, shot. [13]
- Sir Oliver Wright, 88, British diplomat. [14]
- Hylton Ackerman, 62, South African cricketer, after long illness. [15]
- Guy Babylon, 52, American musician (Elton John band), heart attack. [16]
- Brian Boshier, 77, British cricketer. [17]
- Jon Eydmann, 41, British band manager (Suede), heart attack. [18]
- Donald Hamilton Fraser, 80, British painter. [19]
- Bill Hefner, 79, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for North Carolina (1975–1999), brain aneurysm. [20]
- Tibor Kristóf, 67, Hungarian voice actor, Hungarian voice of Sean Connery, Morgan Freeman and Darth Vader. [21] (Hungarian)
- Abdullah Laghmani, 40s, Afghan Secret Service chief, bomb blast. [22]
- Mr Percival, 33, Australian pelican, animal actor (Storm Boy), natural causes. [23]
- John Poole, 82, British sculptor. [24]
- Christian Poveda, 54, French photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, shot. [25]
- Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, 60, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (since 2004), helicopter crash. [26]
- Mohamed Alí Seineldín, 75, Argentine military commander and putschist (Carapintadas). [27]
- Robert Spinrad, 77, American computer pioneer, director of the Palo Alto Research Center, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [28]
- Ismael Valenzuela, 74, American jockey, after long illness. [29]
- Jeffrey Wernick, 56, American animation executive (DIC Animation City) and sports agent. [30]
- Nicola Chapman, Baroness Chapman, 48, British peer, member of the House of Lords, brittle bone disease. [31]
- Hulda Regehr Clark, 80, Canadian alternative medicine practitioner. [32]
- Christine D'Haen, 85, Belgian poet. [33] (Dutch)
- Giovanni Melis Fois, 92, Italian Bishop of Nuoro (1970–1992). [34]
- Caro Jones, 86, American casting director (Rocky, The Karate Kid, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres), multiple myeloma. [35]
- Edith Kaplan, 85, American neuropsychologist. [36]
- Alec MacLachlan, 30, British hostage in Iraq (death confirmed on this date). [37]
- Yukhym Shkolnykov, 70, Ukrainian association football coach. [38] (Ukrainian)
- Buddy Blattner, 89, American sportscaster, baseball and table tennis player, complications from lung cancer. [39]
- Iain Cuthbertson, 79, British actor. [40]
- Allan Ekelund, 91, Swedish film producer, collaborator with Ingmar Bergman. [41] (Swedish)
- Guy Guillabert, 78, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) rower. [42]
- Skip Miller, 62, American music industry executive, president of Motown Records, heart attack. [43]
- Franz Olah, 99, Austrian politician, Interior Minister (1963–1964). [44]
- Carl Reindel, 74, American actor. [45]
- Keith Waterhouse, 80, British author and playwright (Billy Liar), natural causes. [46]
- Bill Welch, 68, American politician, mayor of State College, Pennsylvania, complications after leg surgery. [47]
- Gani Fawehinmi, 71, Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, lung cancer. Archived January 31, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- Carl Hovde, 82, American professor, Dean during the Columbia University protests of 1968, lung cancer. [48]
- Mickie Jones, American bassist (Angel), liver cancer. [49]
- Jesse Mahelona, 26, American football player (Tennessee Titans), car accident. [50]
- Richard Merkin, 70, American artist. [51]
- Saifur Rahman, 77, Bangladeshi politician, longest-serving Finance Minister, car accident. [52]
- Ron Raikes, 61, American politician, Nebraska state senator (1998–2008), farm accident. [53]
- Richard D. Robinson, 88, American educator. [54]
- Charlie Waller, 87, American football coach. [55]
- Christopher John Banda, 36, Malawian footballer. [56]
- Harcharan Singh Brar, 87, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab (1995–1996), after long illness. Archived February 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- Vanja Drach, 77, Croatian actor. [57] (Croatian)
- Gerhart Friedlander, 93, German-born American nuclear chemist, coronary disease. [58]
- Helgi Hóseasson, 89, Icelandic activist. [59]
- Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, Mexican politician, shot. [60]
- Catherine Gaskin, 80, Irish-born Australian novelist, ovarian cancer. [61]
- Nada Iveljić, 79, Croatian writer. [62] (Croatian)
- John Merino, 42, Ecuadorian colonel, head of presidential security for Rafael Correa, swine flu. [63]
- Syed Abdul Mujeeb, 52, Pakistani physician and pathologist, heart attack. [64]
- David J. Ritchie, 58, American game designer.[65]
- Sim, 83, French comic actor. [66] (French)
- Tatyana Ustinova, 96, Russian geologist. [67] (Russian)
- Stephen White, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer, member of Ireland Team of the Century, after short illness. [68]
- Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams, 78, British academic, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1989–1996), cancer. [69]
- Medea Chakhava, 88, Georgian theatre and film actress. [70]
- Frank Coghlan, Jr., 93, American silent film actor.[71]
- Norman Curtis, 84, English football player and manager (Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers). [72]
- John T. Elson, 78, American religion editor (Time). [73]
- Eddie Locke, 79, American jazz drummer. [74]
- Fred Mills, 74, Canadian musician (Canadian Brass), car accident. [75]
- Ra'anan Naim, 73, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1981–1984). [76]
- Colin Sharp, 56, British musician and writer, brain haemorrhage. [77]
- Paul Lê Dac Trong, 91, Vietnamese Bishop of Hanoi (1994–2006). [78]
- Christos Vartzakis, 98, Greek athlete. [79] (Greek)
- Aleksandr Aksyonov, 85, Belarusian PM of Byelorussian SSR (1978–1983), Soviet Ambassador to Poland (1983–1986). [80]
- Army Archerd, 90, American entertainment columnist (Variety), malignant mesothelioma. [81]
- Ray Barrett, 82, Australian film, television and theatre actor, brain haemorrhage. [82]
- Aage Bohr, 87, Danish physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics (1975). [83]
- Mike Bongiorno, 85, American-born Italian television presenter, heart failure. [84]
- Rica Erickson, 101, Australian naturalist, artist and author. [85]
- Henry Sheldon Fitch, 99, American herpetologist. [86]
- Rogelio Borja Flores, 74, Filipino sports writer, respiratory failure. [87]
- Annie Le, 24, American graduate student, homicide. [88]
- Kyle Woodring, 42, American drummer (Survivor), apparent suicide by hanging. Archived September 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- Kevin Carmody, 84, Australian cricket umpire. [89]
- Guillermo de Cun, 80, Cuban actor. [90]
- Eric Davidson, 94, Canadian blind mechanic, survivor of the Halifax Explosion. [91]
- Anthony G. Evans, 66, British scientist. [92]
- Léon Glovacki, 81, French footballer, played in 1954 FIFA World Cup. Archived January 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine (French)
- James Krenov, 88, American cabinetmaker. [93]
- Stanley Cornwell Lewis, 103, British painter and illustrator. Archived June 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- Steve Mann, 66, American songwriter and guitarist. [94]
- Frank Mazzuca, 87, Canadian businessman, mayor of Capreol, Ontario. [95]
- Sultan Munadi, 32, Afghan journalist, translator and correspondent (The New York Times), shot. [96]
- Andrzej Śliwiński, 70, Polish Bishop of Elbląg (1992–2003). [97]
- Frank Batten, 82, American businessman, founder of The Weather Channel, after long illness. [98]
- Lou Bender, 99, American basketball pioneer who popularized the sport in New York City, cancer. [99]
- Kerry Brown, 51, Canadian professional wrestler, liver failure. [100]
- Lisle Carter, Jr, 83, American administrator, complications from pneumonia. [101]
- Lyn Hamilton, 65, Canadian author, cancer. [102]
- Sam Hinton, 92, American folk singer and marine biologist. [103]
- Margaret Holmes, 100, Australian peace activist. [104]
- Robert H. Miller, 90, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1988–1990). [105]
- Gertrude Noone, 110, American supercentenarian, oldest person in Connecticut and world's oldest military veteran. [106]
- Patricia Robinson, 79, Trinidadian economist, First Lady (1997–2003), wife of A. N. R. Robinson. [107]
- Yoshifumi Tajima, 91, Japanese actor in Kaiju films, esophageal cancer. [108] (Japanese)
- Tony Thornton, 49, American professional boxer, injuries from a motorcycle accident. [109]
- Sarane Alexandrian, 82, French art historian and philosopher. [110]
- Juan Almeida Bosque, 82, Cuban politician, Vice President of the Council of State, cardiac arrest. [111]
- Gertrude Baines, 115, American supercentenarian, world's oldest person, suspected heart attack. [112]
- William Beck, 49, American businessman, co-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, plane crash. [113]
- James E. Bromwell, 89, American politician, Representative for Iowa (1961–1965), after short illness. [114]
- Jim Carroll, 60, American author (The Basketball Diaries), poet and musician, heart attack. [115]
- Mool Chand Chowhan, 82, Indian sports official, after short illness. [116]
- Pierre Cossette, 85, Canadian television producer, brought the Grammy Awards to television. [117]
- Larry Gelbart, 81, American comedy writer (M*A*S*H) and blogger (The Huffington Post), cancer. [118]
- Bob Greenberg, 75, American record executive, stroke. [119]
- Crystal Lee Jordan, 68, American union organizer, inspiration for Norma Rae, brain cancer. [120]
- Zakes Mokae, 75, South African-born American actor (Gross Anatomy), complications of a stroke. [121]
- Georgios Papoulias, 82, Greek politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1989, 1990), suicide. [122] (Greek)
- John Pattison, 92, New Zealand World War II pilot. [123]
- Henny van Schoonhoven, 39, Dutch footballer, cancer. [124] (Dutch)
- Crystal Lee Sutton, 68, American union organizer. [125]
- Felicia Tang, 31, Singaporean-born American actress and model, suffocated. [126]
- Yoshito Usui, 51, Japanese manga artist (Crayon Shin-chan), mountaineering accident. [127]
- Thabet bin Laden, 49, Saudi businessman and patriarch, brother of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. [128]
- Norman Borlaug, 95, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1970), cancer. [129]
- Dominik Brunner, 50, German businessman and manager, blunt trauma. [130]
- Jeanne Clemson, 87, American theatre director, actress and educator, Parkinson's disease. [131]
- Raj Singh Dungarpur, 73, Indian cricket player and administrator, after long illness. [132]
- George Eckstein, 81, American television writer and producer (The Fugitive), lung cancer. [133]
- Edward Gelsthorpe, 88, American marketing executive. [134]
- Alfred Gottschalk, 79, German-born American President of Hebrew Union College, Reform Judaism leader, traffic collision. [135]
- William Hoffman, 84, American novelist. [136]
- Shah Abdul Karim, 93, Bangladeshi musician, respiratory problems. [137]
- Jack Kramer, 88, American tennis player, cancer. [138]
- Brian Mier, 74, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Waverley (1982–1996). [139]
- Antônio Olinto, 90, Brazilian writer, multiple organ failure. [140] (Portuguese)
- Danny Pang, 42, Taiwanese-born American hedge fund manager. [141]
- Beth Rickey, 53, American political activist. Archived January 20, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- Willy Ronis, 99, French photographer. [142]
- Fred Sherman, 86, American economist and business commentator, multiple health problems. [143]
- Lawrence B. Slobodkin, 81, American ecologist. [144]
- Bill Sparkman, 51, American substitute teacher and census worker, hanged. [145]
- Philip Aziz, 86, Canadian artist, cancer. [146]
- Felix Bowness, 87, British actor (Hi-de-Hi!) [147]
- Paul Burke, 83, American actor (Naked City), leukemia. [148]
- Malcolm Casadaban, 60, American molecular genetics professor, plague. [149]
- Lonny Frey, 99, American baseball player, oldest living MLB All-Star. [150]
- Arnold Laven, 87, American film and television director (The Rifleman, The Big Valley), pneumonia. [151]
- Paul Shirtliff, 46, English footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Northampton Town), cancer. [152]
- Sarah E. Wright, 80, American novelist, complications of cancer. [153]
- Keith Floyd, 65, British chef, heart attack. [154]
- Henry Gibson, 73, American actor (Laugh-In, Boston Legal), cancer. [155]
- Bobby Graham, 69, British session drummer, stomach cancer. [156]
- Jing Shuping, 91, Chinese businessman, founder of Minsheng Bank. [157]
- Mike Leyland, 68, Australian travel documentary host (Leyland Brothers), complications of Parkinson's disease. [158]
- Ralph S. Moore, 102, American horticulturist, natural causes. [159]
- Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, c. 30, Kenyan terrorist, airstrike. [160]
- Jody Powell, 65, American White House Press Secretary for President Jimmy Carter, heart attack. [161]
- John Rarick, 85, American politician, Representative for Louisiana (1967–1975), cancer. [162]
- Darren Sutherland, 27, Irish boxer, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, suicide by hanging. [163]
- Patrick Swayze, 57, American actor (Dirty Dancing, Ghost, The Outsiders), pancreatic cancer. [164]
- Lily Tembo, 27, Zambian musician, songwriter and journalist, complications of gastritis. Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- Titus, 35, African silverback gorilla. [165]
- Elio Zagato, 88, Italian car designer. [166]
- Nicu Constantin, 70, Romanian actor. [167] (Romanian)
- George Crumbley, 86, American founder of the Peach Bowl. [168]
- Fred Cusick, 90, American sports commentator (Boston Bruins), complications from bladder cancer. [169]
- Leon Eisenberg, 87, American child psychiatrist, prostate cancer. [170]
- Tommy Greenhough, 77, British cricketer. [171]
- Troy Kennedy Martin, 77, British screenwriter (Z-Cars, Edge of Darkness, The Italian Job), liver cancer. [172]
- Michael Knox, 48, American co-founder of Park Place Productions, producer of John Madden Football, colon cancer. [173]
- Espiridion Laxa, 79, Filipino independent film producer, prostate cancer. [174]
- Gerald Lestz, 95, American columnist and author, founder of the Demuth Museum. [175]
- Trevor Rhone, 69, Jamaican playwright, heart attack. [176]
- Brian Barron, 69, British journalist and war correspondent, cancer. [177]
- Timothy Bateson, 83, British actor. Archived December 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- Myles Brand, 67, American NCAA president, pancreatic cancer. Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- W. Horace Carter, 88, American newspaper publisher, 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack. [178]
- Monte Clark, 72, American football player and coach (Detroit Lions), cancer. [179]
- Luciano Emmer, 91, Italian film director (Three Girls from Rome). [180] (Italian)
- Sotero Laurel, 90, Filipino politician, Senator (1986–1992), President Pro Tempore (1990–1991), after long illness. [181]
- John Littlewood, 78, British chess player Archived September 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- Lori Mai, 31, German-American folk rock singer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [182]
- Ernst Märzendorfer, 88, Austrian conductor, after long illness. [183]
- Johnny Mullins, 86, American songwriter, Alzheimer's disease. [184]
- Julian Niemczyk, 89, American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1986–1989), cardiac arrest. [185]
- Filip Nikolic, 35, French singer and actor, drug overdose. [186] (French)
- Steve Romanik, 85, American football player (Chicago Bears), after long illness. [187]
- Melvin Simon, 82, American shopping mall developer (Simon Property Group), producer (Porky's), Indiana Pacers owner. [188]
- Mary Travers, 72, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary), leukemia. [189]
- Dorothy Wellman, 95, American dancer and actress, widow of William Wellman. [190]
- Tommy Burnett, 67, American politician, Tennessee House of Representatives (1970–1990). [191]
- Virginia Chadwick, 64, Australian politician, cancer. [192]
- Frank Deasy, 49, Irish Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (Prime Suspect: The Final Act), liver cancer. [193]
- Dick Durock, 72, American actor and stuntman (Swamp Thing), pancreatic cancer. [194]
- Sue Eakin, 90, American historian. [195]
- Bernie Fuchs, 76, American illustrator, esophageal cancer. [196]
- Dick Hoover, 79, American professional bowler. [197]
- Randy Johnson, 65, American football player (Atlanta Falcons). [198]
- Leon Kirchner, 90, American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, heart failure. [199]
- Bob Kowalkowski, 65, American football player and coach (Detroit Lions). [200]
- Robert Searcy, 88, American member of the Tuskegee Airmen, colorectal cancer. [201]
- Noordin Mohammad Top, 41, Malaysian terrorist, shot. [202]
- Geoff Williamson, 86, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) rower. [203]
- Peter Denyer, 62, British actor (Please Sir!). [204]
- James Donnewald, 84, American politician, Illinois Treasurer (1983–1987). [205]
- Doug Fisher, 89, Canadian journalist and politician, MP for Port Arthur (1957–1965). [206]
- Pearl Hackney, 92, British actress, widow of Eric Barker. [207]
- Mahlon Hoagland, 87, American biochemist. [208]
- Irving Kristol, 89, American neoconservative advocate and editor (The Public Interest), lung cancer. [209]
- Natalia Shvedova, 92, Russian lexicologist. [210] (Russian)
- John J. Wild, 95, American physician, co-developer of ultrasound use in cancer detection. [211]
- Willy Breinholst, 91, Danish author. [212] (Danish)
- Alan Deyermond, 77, British hispanist. [213]
- Arthur Ferrante, 88, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher), natural causes. [214]
- Stevie Gray, 42, British footballer (Aberdeen FC, 1983–1990).
- Víctor Israel, 80, Spanish actor. [215]
- Monty Kaser, 67, American professional golfer, prostate cancer. [216]
- Milton Meltzer, 94, American historian and author, esophageal cancer.
- Maurizio Montalbini, 56, Italian sociologist and caver, heart failure. [217]
- Elizaveta Mukasei, 97, Russian Soviet-era spy, wife of Mikhail Mukasei. [218]
- Jose Antonio Ortega Bonet, 79, Cuban-born businessman and philanthropist, founder of Sazón Goya Food Company, cancer. [219]
- Roc Raida, 37, American turntablist (The X-Ecutioners), spinal cord injury. [220]
- Joseph-Marie Sardou, 86, French archbishop Emeritus of Monaco. [221]
- Eduard Zimmermann, 80, German journalist and television presenter. [222] (German)
- Freddy Bienstock, 81, American music publisher (Carlin America). [223]
- Herman Córdoba, 19, Colombian footballer, car accident. [224]
- Bertil Gärtner, 84, Swedish Lutheran bishop of Gothenburg (1970–1991). [225] (Swedish)
- John Hart, 91, American actor (The Lone Ranger). [226]
- Ken Hough, 80, New Zealand cricketer and footballer. [227]
- Yusuf Khan, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest. [228]
- Booker Moore, 50, American football player (Buffalo Bills), heart attack. [229]
- Bayo Ohu, 45, Nigerian journalist and news editor (The Guardian), shot. [230]
- Eddy Prentice, 88, New Zealand cricketer. [231]
- Robert Ginty, 60, American actor and director, cancer. [232]
- Michael Lockett, 29, British soldier, improvised explosive device. [233]
- Miroslav Stefan Marusyn, 85, Ukrainian archbishop, Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. [234]
- Piers Merchant, 58, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (1983–1987) and Beckenham (1992–1997), cancer. [235]
- Parviz Meshkatian, 54, Iranian musician and composer, cardiac arrest. [236]
- Junzo Shono, 88, Japanese author, member of the Japan Art Academy. [237]
- Sula Wolff, 85, British child psychiatrist. [238]
- Manuel Bermejo Hernández, 73, Spanish politician, MP for Cáceres. [239]
- Kole Casule, 88, Macedonian writer, after long illness.
- Edward Delaney, 79, Irish sculptor. [240]
- Olaf Dufseth, 91, Norwegian Olympic Nordic combined and cross-country skier. [241] (Norwegian)
- Andrea Maltarolli, 46, Brazilian telenovela screenwriter (Beleza Pura), cancer. [242] (Portuguese)
- Bruce McPhee, 82, Australian race car driver, won Hardie Ferodo 500 (1968).
- Dirce Migliaccio, 76, Brazilian actress, pneumonia. [243] (Portuguese)
- Summer Squall, 22, American thoroughbred racehorse, 1990 Preakness Stakes winner, euthanized. [244]
- Charlotte Turgeon, 97, American chef and author, influenza. [245]
- S. Varalakshmi, 84, Indian actress and singer, complications from a fall. [246]
- Lucy Vodden, 46, British inspiration for The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", lupus. [247]
- Wess, 64, Italian singer, placed third in Eurovision Song Contest 1975. [248]
- Paul B. Fay, 91, American politician, Acting Secretary of the Navy (1963), Alzheimer's disease. [249]
- Gigolo FRH, 26, German-bred dressage horse, four-time Olympic gold medalist, euthanized. [250]
- Ertuğrul Osman, 97, Turkish 43rd Head of the Imperial Ottoman Dynasty, lung and kidney failure. [251]
- Dennis Pacey, 80, British footballer (Leyton Orient, Millwall), aneurysm. Archived February 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- Stuart Robertson, 65, British-born Canadian journalist and gardener, complications of pneumonia.
- Bill Speirs, 57, British trade union leader, after long illness. [252]
- George M. Sullivan, 87, American politician, Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska (1967–1981), lung cancer. [253]
- Marie Wadley, 102, American co-founder of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum. [254]
- Don Yarborough, 83, American politician, Parkinson's disease. [255]
- Nelly Arcan, 35, Canadian novelist, suicide. [256]
- Susan Atkins, 61, American murderer ('Manson Family' member), brain cancer. [257]
- Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy, 80, Indian Bishop of Nellore. [258]
- Terry Bly, 73, British footballer (Norwich City, Peterborough United), heart attack. [259]
- Forrest Church, 61, American Unitarian Universalist minister, author and theologian, esophageal cancer. [260]
- Cryptoclearance, 25, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic surgery.
- Joseph Satoshi Fukahori, 84, Japanese Bishop of Takamatsu. [261]
- Joseph Gurwin, 89, Lithuanian-born American textile manufacturer and philanthropist, heart failure. [262]
- Kevork Hovnanian, 86, Iraqi-born American businessman, founder of Hovnanian Enterprises. [263]
- Rogers McVaugh, 100, American botanist. [264]
- Sir Howard Morrison, 74, New Zealand singer, heart attack. [265]
- Emile Norman, 91, American artist, natural causes. [266]
- Robert Sahakyants, 59, Armenian animator, complications from heart surgery.
- Egon Solymossy, 87, Hungarian Olympic athlete (death announced on this date). [267] (Hungarian)
- Mimi Weddell, 94, American actress (Student Bodies, The Thomas Crown Affair), after short illness. [268]
- Margo Wilson, 66, Canadian psychologist. [269]
- István Bujtor, 67, Hungarian actor and director, coccidiosis. [270] (Hungarian)
- Pierre Falardeau, 62, Canadian film director, cancer. [271]
- Alicia de Larrocha, 86, Spanish pianist. [272]
- Maria Gulovich Liu, 87, Slovakian resistance member, cancer. [273]
- Clifton Maloney, 71, American businessman, husband of U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, mountaineering accident. [274]
- Steeve Nguema Ndong, 37, Gabonese Olympic judoka. Archived September 9, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (French)
- Francis Noel-Baker, 89, British politician, MP for Brentford and Chiswick (1945–1950) and Swindon (1955–1969). [275]
- Bob Stupak, 67, American casino owner (Vegas World, Stratosphere Las Vegas), leukemia. [276]
- David Will, 72, British vice president of FIFA, former Brechin City F.C. chairman, cancer. [277]
- Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet, 70, British aristocrat, car accident. [278]
- Geoff Barrowcliffe, 77, British footballer (Derby County). [279]
- Tony Chua, Filipino sports executive, Barako Bulls team manager, drowning during Tropical Storm Ketsana. [280]
- Zygmunt Chychła, 83, Polish boxer, 1952 Olympic gold medalist. [281] (Polish)
- W. I. B. Crealock, 89, British yacht designer. [282]
- Amy Farris, 40, American fiddler, singer and songwriter. [283]
- John Hyson, 81, American museum curator and historian. [284]
- Paul Medhurst, 55, British-New Zealand cyclist. [285]
- Nihat Nikerel, 59, Turkish actor, heart attack. [286]
- Alfred Oglesby, 42, American football player (Miami Dolphins). [287]
- R. Soeprapto, 85, Indonesian politician, Governor of Jakarta (1982–1987). [288]
- David Underdown, 84, British historian, author of definitive work on Pride's Purge. [289]
- John Connell, 69, American artist. [290]
- Ivan Dykhovichny, 61, Russian film director, screenwriter, cancer. [291]
- Donald Fisher, 81, American businessman, founder of The Gap, cancer. [292]
- John Holmes, 57, British rugby league player, cancer. [293]
- Henry Hopkins, 81, American curator and museum director, cancer. [294]
- Charles Snead Houston, 96, American physician, mountaineer, inventor, author and filmmaker. [295]
- Donal McLaughlin, 102, American architect, designer of the Flag of the United Nations, esophageal cancer. [296]
- Brian Redman, 31, American bass player (3 Inches of Blood, Trial), scooter accident. [297]
- Dewald Roode, 69, South African academic, accidental fall. [298]
- William Safire, 79, American speechwriter and journalist (The New York Times), pancreatic cancer. [299]
- Beau Velasco, Australian guitarist (The Death Set). [300]
- Alimsultan Alkhamatov, 44, Russian official, head of the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan, shot. [301]
- Apostolos, 85, Greek bishop of Kilkis. [302] (Greek)
- René Bliard, 76, French footballer (Stade Reims) (death announced on this date). [303]
- Annie Butler, 112, British supercentenarian. [304]
- Guillermo Endara, 73, Panamanian politician, President (1989–1994). [305]
- Ulf Larsson, 53, Swedish actor, stage director and revue artist. [306] (Swedish)
- Best Ogedegbe, 55, Nigerian footballer, complications from surgery. [307]
- Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira, 83, Peruvian archbishop Emeritus of Arequipa. [308]
- Don Thompson, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers), after long illness. [309]
- Micheline Beauchemin, 79, Canadian tapestry and textile artist. [310]
- Henry Bellmon, 88, American Governor of Oklahoma (1963–1967; 1987–1991), U.S. Senator (1969–1981), Parkinson's disease. [311]
- Ebony Dickinson, 32, American basketball player, breast cancer. [312]
- Gunnar Haugan, 84, Norwegian character actor. [313] (Norwegian)
- Julian Hope, 2nd Baron Glendevon, 59, British opera producer, cancer. [314]
- Margo Johns, 90, British actress. [315]
- Greg Ladanyi, 57, American record producer and recording engineer, complications from a fall. [316]
- Ray Nettles, 60, American-born Canadian football player (BC Lions), cancer. [317]
- John L. Pollock, 69, American philosopher. [318]
- Pavel Popovich, 78, Ukrainian-born Soviet cosmonaut. [319]
- Ed Sherman, 97, American football coach (Muskingum College). [320]
- Nick Strutt, 62, British country musician. [321]
- Sperantza Vrana, 77 or 83, Greek film actress, singer and writer, heart attack. [322] (Greek)
- Sir Alastair Aird, 78, British Royal courtier. [323]
- Pentti Airikkala, 64, Finnish rally driver, prostate cancer. [324]
- Rafael Arozarena, 86, Spanish writer and poet. [325] (Spanish)
- Robert S. Baker, 93, British film and television producer (The Saint, The Persuaders!). [326]
- John Couey, 51, American murderer, killer of Jessica Lunsford (the inspiration for Jessica's Law), anal cancer. [327]
- Lee Fletcher, 43, American politician, Chief of staff of U.S. Representative John Cooksey, talk radio host (KBYO-FM), cancer. [328]
- Roland La Starza, 82, American actor and professional boxer. [329]
- Raúl Magaña, 69, Salvadoran footballer and manager, gastric cancer. [330] (Spanish)
- Byron Palmer, 89, American actor, natural causes. [331]
- Rao Birender Singh, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Haryana (1967), cardiac arrest. [332]