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. [1]
• Nellie Connally, 87, American widow of Texas Governor John Connally, shared car at John F. Kennedy assassination. [2]
• György Faludy, 95, Hungarian poet, writer and translator. [3]
• Rashid Maidin, 89, Malaysian leader of the Communist Party. [4]
• Ronald Mansbridge, 100, British-born American publisher, founded first US branch of Cambridge University Press. [5]
• Richard Frewen Martin, 88, British fighter pilot and test pilot. [6]
• Warren Mitofsky, 72, American pollster, creator of the exit poll, heart failure. [7]
• Bob O'Connor, 61, American Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, brain cancer. [8]
• Travis I. Payze, 60, Australian footballer, prostate cancer. [9]
• Sir Kyffin Williams, 88, Welsh artist, lung and prostate cancer. [10]

2

• Bob Mathias, 75, American decathlete, twice Olympic gold medalist, United States Representative, cancer. [11]
• Deforrest Most, 89, American gymnast, helped establish Muscle Beach, heart failure. [12]
• Willi Ninja, 45, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS. [13]
• Clermont Pépin, 80, Canadian composer, liver cancer. [14]
• Silverio Pérez, 91, Mexican bullfighter, renal illness. [15]
• Lionel Pickering, 74, British businessman, chairman of Derby County, cancer. [16]
• Anthony Poon, 61, Singaporean abstract artist, lung cancer. [17]
• Dewey Redman, 75, American jazz saxophonist, father of Joshua Redman, liver failure. [18]
• Monty Stickles, 68, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), heart failure. [19]
• Charlie Williams, 77, British comedian and footballer (Doncaster Rovers), Parkinson's disease. [20]

3

• Françoise Claustre, 69, French ethnologist and archaeologist. [21] (French)
• Levi Fox, 92, British conservationist and historian, Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. [22]
• Ian Hamer, 73, British jazz trumpeter. [23]
• Eva Knardahl, 79, Norwegian classical pianist. [24]
• Anna Ringier, 110, Switzerland's oldest person. [25] (German)
• Annemarie Wendl, 91, German actress, heart failure. [26] (German)

4

• Rémy Belvaux, 38, Belgian writer, film producer and director (Man Bites Dog), suicide. [27]
• Ingrid Bjoner, 78, Norwegian soprano. [28]
• John Conte, 90, American actor, founded TV station KMIR, natural causes. [29]
• Giacinto Facchetti, 64, Italian footballer, cancer. [30]
• James Fee, 56, American photographer, liver cancer. [31]
• Tamás Fejér, 86, Hungarian film director. [32] (Hungarian)
• Mark Anthony Graham, 33, Canadian Olympian and soldier, friendly fire. [33]
• Steve Irwin, 44, Australian naturalist (The Crocodile Hunter), stingray barb to the chest. [34]
• Moses Khumalo, 26, South African jazz saxophonist, Best Newcomer at South African Music Awards (2002), suicide by hanging. [35]
• Clive Lythgoe, 79, British pianist. [36]
• Colin Thiele, 85, Australian children's author, heart failure. [37]
• Astrid Varnay, 88, American soprano. [38]

5

• Sir Michael Davies, 85, British jurist. [39]
• Anne Gregg, 66, British television presenter (Holiday), cancer. [40]
• Hilary Mason, 89, British character actress. [41]
• John McLusky, 83, British comics artist (James Bond). [42]
• J. Bazzel Mull, 91, American Christianity preacher and gospel music promoter. [43]

6

• Warren Bolster, 59, American surf and skateboard photographer, suicide by gunshot. [44]
• Sir John Drummond, 71, British controller of BBC Radio 3 and The Proms. [45]
• Lovette George, 44, American Broadway theatre singer and actress, ovarian cancer. [46]
• Peter Greenough, 89, American finance columnist (Boston Globe), husband of Beverly Sills, after long illness. [47]
• Gordon Manning, 89, American television journalist (NBC and CBS), heart attack. [48]
• Sir Michael Marshall, 76, British politician, MP for Arundel (1974–1997), President of the Chichester Festival Theatre. [49]
• Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, c.50, Sudanese newspaper editor, beheaded. [50]
• Agha Shahi, 86, Pakistani diplomat and foreign minister, after illness. [51]
• Mark Wright, 27, British soldier, posthumously awarded George Cross. [52]

7

• Efraim Allsalu, 77, Estonian painter. [53] (Estonian)
• Sir Norman Blacklock, 78, British physician, Medical Officer to the Queen (1976–1993). [54]
• Clem Coetzee, 67, Zimbabwean conservationist, heart attack. [55]
• James deAnda, 81, American lawyer and federal judge, part of the legal team in Hernandez v. Texas, prostate cancer. [56]
• Jorge di Giandoménico, 75, Argentine Olympic sports shooter. [57]
• Joan Donaldson, 60, American founding head of the CBC Newsworld television network, complications from injuries. [58]
• James Hawthorne, 74, British controller of the BBC in Northern Ireland (1979–1989). [59]
• Robert Earl Jones, 96, American actor, father of James Earl Jones. [60]
• Cornelius O'Leary, 78, Irish historian. [61]
• John M. Watson, 69, American jazz musician and actor, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [62]

8

• Hilda Bernstein, 91, British-born South African author and anti-apartheid activist, heart failure. [63]
• Peter Brock, 61, Australian touring car racer, car accident. [64]
• Thomas Lee Judge, 71, American Governor of Montana (1973–1981), pulmonary fibrosis. [65]
• Frank Middlemass, 87, British character actor (As Time Goes By). [66]
• Erk Russell, 80, American college football coach (University of Georgia, Georgia Southern University), stroke. [67]
• Fred Spiess, 86, American oceanographer and marine explorer, cancer. [68]

9

• Gérard Brach, 79, French screenwriter (The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Name of the Rose), cancer. [69]
• Clair Burgener, 84, American Representative for California (1973–1983), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [70]
• Matt Gadsby, 27, British footballer (Hinckley United ), ARVC. [71]
• Émilie Mondor, 25, Canadian Olympic distance runner, car accident. [72]
• Elisabeth Ogilvie, 89, American author. [73]
• Herbert Rudley, 95, American actor. [74]
• Keshavram Kashiram Shastri, 101, Indian founder of VHP, natural causes. [75]
• William Bernard Ziff, Jr., 76, American publishing magnate, prostate cancer. [76]

10

• Ernestine Bayer, 97, American rower, complications from pneumonia. [77]
• Patty Berg, 88, American golf pioneer, founder of the LPGA, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [78]
• Melanie Lomax, 56, American civil rights lawyer, former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, car accident. [79]
• Ted Risenhoover, 71, American Representative for Oklahoma (1975–1979). [80]
• Bennie Smith, 72, American blues guitarist, heart attack. [81]
• Daniel Wayne Smith, 20, American actor, son of Anna Nicole Smith, drug overdose. [82]
• Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, 88, King of Tonga, after illness. [83]

11

• William Auld, 81, British poet, author and supporter of Esperanto. [84]
• Al Casey, 89, American rock and country music guitarist. [85]
• Peter Clentzos, 97, American-born Greek 1932 Summer Olympics competitor in pole vault. [86]
• Pat Corley, 76, American actor (Murphy Brown), heart failure. [87]
• Solange Fernex, French ecologist and green politician. [88] (French)
• Joachim Fest, 79, German historian and journalist. [89]
• Joseph Hayes, 88, American author (The Desperate Hours). [90]
• Johannes Bob van Benthem, 85, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office (1977–1985). [91]

12

• John S.R. Duncan, 85, British diplomat.[92]
• Raymond Mikesell, 93, American economist at the Bretton Woods Conference. [93]
• Emily Perez, 23, American first female African-American Army officer to die in combat, improvised explosive device. [94]
• Craig Roberts, 38, Canadian Olympic wrestler. [95]
• Bill Saul, 65, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), cancer. [96]
• Edna Staebler, 100, Canadian cookbook and non-fiction author, stroke. [97]

13

• Brian Biggins, 66, English football player (Chester City). [98]
• Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 97, British Conservative minister and wartime SOE officer. [99]
• Christopher Essex, 61, Australian fashion designer, cancer. [100]
• Kimveer Gill, 25, Canadian school shooter (Dawson College shooting), suicide by gunshot. [101]
• Ann Richards, 73, American Governor of Texas (1991–1995), esophageal cancer. [102]
• Peter Tevis, 69, American musician, Parkinson's Disease. [103]

14

• Norman Brooks, 78, Canadian singer, Al Jolson imitator, emphysema. [104]
• Silviu Brucan, 90, Romanian ambassador to the United States, opponent of Nicolae Ceauşescu. [105]
• Elizabeth Choy, 95, Singaporean war heroine, first female legislator, pancreatic cancer. [106]
• Miklós Hargitay, 80, Hungarian former Mr. Universe and actor, ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield, father of Mariska Hargitay. [107]
• J. William Kime, 72, American former commandant of the Coast Guard. [108]
• Andrey Kozlov, 41, Russian First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia, shot. [109]
• Peter Ling, 80, British television writer, creator of Crossroads. [110]
• Paulo Marques, 58, Brazilian journalist and presenter, brain cancer. [111] (Portuguese)
• Esme Melville, 87, Australian film and television actress. [112]
• Terry O'Sullivan, 91, American television actor (Search for Tomorrow), pancreatic cancer. [113]
• Johnny Palmer, 88, American golfer, seven-time PGA Tour winner. [114]
• Frederic Wakeman, 68, American scholar of Chinese history. [115]

15

• Raymond Baxter, 84, British television presenter (Tomorrow's World). [116]
• Oriana Fallaci, 77, Italian journalist and writer, breast cancer. [117]
• Guy François, Haitian Army colonel, participated in failed coups in 1989 and 2001. [118]
• Charles L. Grant, 64, American horror and science fiction author, heart attack. [119].
• Douglas Henderson, 71, British politician. [120]
• Donald Kimball, 62, American defrocked Roman Catholic priest, convicted in sex abuse scandal. [121]
• Nitun Kundu, 70, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor. [122]
• David T. Lykken, 78, American professor of psychology (University of Minnesota). [123]
• Abe Saffron, 86, Australian nightclub owner and property developer. [124]
• Pablo Santos, 19, Mexican actor (Greetings from Tucson), plane crash. [125]
• Sergio Savarese, 48, Italian furniture designer, plane crash. [126]
• Meredith Thring, 90, British engineer. [127]

16

• Sten Andersson, 83, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1985–1991) and Minister for Social Affairs (1982–1985), heart attack. [128]
• Floyd Curry, 81, Canadian four-time Stanley Cup winner (Montreal Canadiens). [129]
• George Estman, 84, South African Olympic cyclist. [130]
• E. H. H. Green, 47, British historian, multiple sclerosis. [131]
• Zsuzsa Körmöczy, 82, Hungarian tennis player and coach, won 1958 French Championships. [132]
• Rob Levin, 51, American founder of freenode, head injury from bicycle accident. [133]
• Esther Martinez, 94, American Tewa storyteller and linguist, car accident. [134]
• Fouad el-Mohandes, 82, Egyptian comedy actor, heart failure. [135]

17

• Jack Banta, 81, American Major League Baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). [136]
• George Heslop, 66, English footballer (Manchester City). [137]
• Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82, American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy, ex-wife of actor Peter Lawford, pneumonia. [138]
• Nathaniel Lubell, 90, American Olympic fencer and artist. [139]
• Leonella Sgorbati, 65, Italian nun, shot. [140]
• Kazuyuki Sogabe, 58, Japanese anime voice actor (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball). [141]
• Dorothy C. Stratton, 107, American first director of the Coast Guard Women's Reserve. [142]

18

• Seán Clancy, 105, Irish oldest War of Independence veteran. [143]
• Edward J. King, 81, American Governor of Massachusetts (1979–1983). [144]
• Philip H. Melanson, 61, American academic, expert on assassinations, cancer. [145]
• Nilton Pereira Mendes, 30, Brazilian footballer. [146]
• Leo Navratil, 85, Austrian psychiatrist. [147]
• Syd Thrift, 77, American general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles. [148]

19

• Elizabeth Allen, 77, American actress (Donovan's Reef, Do I Hear a Waltz?, The Jackie Gleason Show). [149]
• Danny Flores, 77, American saxophonist and vocalist (The Champs), pneumonia. [150]
• Joe Glazer, 88, American singer-songwriter. [151]
• Martha Holmes, 83, American Life photographer, natural causes. [152]
• Sir Hugh Kawharu, 79, New Zealand academic and Māori leader. [153]
• Vico Magistretti, 86, Italian architect and designer. [154]
• Manuel Mindán Manero, 103, Spanish philosopher and priest, natural causes. [155]
• Roy Schuiten, 55, Dutch track and road racing cyclist. [156]
• Terry Smith, 47, Australian football player (Richmond, St Kilda), cancer. [157]

20

• Phạm Xuân Ẩn, 78, Vietnamese journalist, North Vietnamese spy during Vietnam War, emphysema. [158]
• Clarence Hill, 48, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [159]
• Henri Jayer, 84, French winemaker. [160]
• Armin Jordan, 74, Swiss conductor. [161]
• Beth Levine, 91, American shoe designer. [162]
• Sven Nykvist, 83, Swedish cinematographer and two-time Academy Award-winner. [163]
• John W. Peterson, 84, American gospel hymn writer, cancer. [164]
• Lillian Robinson, 65, American professor of women's studies (Concordia University). [165]
• Don Walser, 72, American country singer and yodeler, complications from diabetes. [166]
• Muddy Waters, 83, American college football coach (Michigan State University). [167]
• Dean Wooldridge, 93, American physicist, co-founder of TRW. [168]

21

• Boz Burrell, 60, British bassist and vocalist (Bad Company, King Crimson), heart attack. [169]
• Margaret Ekpo, 92, Nigerian politician and women's rights activist. [170]
• Alan Fletcher, 75, British graphic designer. [171]
• Gilbert Jonas, 76, American fundraiser for the NAACP. [172]
• Charles Larson, 86, American television writer and Emmy Award-nominated producer (The F.B.I.). [173]
• Charles Rees, 78, British chemist. [174]

22

• Edward Albert, 55, American actor, son of actors Margo and Eddie Albert, lung cancer. [175]
• Carla Benschop, 56, Dutch basketball player. [176] (Dutch)
• Tommy Garnett, 91, English-born Australian cricketer and educator. [177]
• Enrique Gorriarán Merlo, 64, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader, cardiac arrest due to abdominal aortic aneurysm. [178]
• Tommy Olivencia, 64, Puerto Rican salsa singer and bandleader. [179]
• Mary Orr, 95, American author whose story "The Wisdom of Eve" inspired the film All About Eve. [180]

23

• Sir Malcolm Arnold, 84, British Academy Award-winning film score composer (The Bridge on the River Kwai), chest infection. [181]
• Etta Baker, 93, American piedmont blues guitarist. [182]
• Sir Charles Cutler, 88, Australian Deputy Premier of New South Wales (1965–1975), cancer. [183]
• Aladár Pege, 67, Hungarian jazz musician. [184]
• Tim Rooney, 59, American actor, son of Mickey Rooney, dermatomyositis. [185]

24

• John S. Boskovich, 49, American artist and screenwriter(Without You I'm Nothing). [186]
• Joel Broyhill, 86, American Republican congressman for Virginia (1953–1975), heart failure and pneumonia. [187]
• Michael Ferguson, 53, Irish republican politician, testicular cancer. [188]
• Sally Gray, 90, British actress. [189]
• Joan Hatcher, 82, New Zealand cricketer. [190]
• Ben Heppner, 63, Canadian politician, prostate cancer. [191]
• Padmini, 74, Indian actress in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films, heart attack. [192]
• Patrick Quinn, 56, American actor, president of Actors' Equity Association (2000–2006), heart attack. [193]
• Thomas Stewart, 78, American bass-baritone opera singer. [194]
• Tetsuro Tamba, 84, Japanese actor. [195]
• Henry Townsend, 96, American blues guitarist, pianist and songwriter, pulmonary edema. [196]

25

• Safia Ahmed-jan, 65, Afghan women's rights advocate, shot. [197]
• Omar al-Faruq, 35, Kuwaiti senior member of al-Qaeda, shot. [198]
• Jeff Cooper, 86, American small arms expert. [199]
• Maureen Daly, 85, American author (Seventeenth Summer). [200]
• John M. Ford, 49, American science fiction and fantasy writer, natural causes. [201]
• Sir Vijay Singh, 75, Indo-Fijian lawyer and politician, cancer. [202]
• Sir Iain Tennant, 87, Scottish businessman and public servant. [203]
• Metropolitan Vitaly Ustinov, 96, Russian First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (1985–2001). [204]

26

• Gerhard Behrendt, 77, German inventor of Sandmännchen children's television character. [205] (German)
• Giuseppe Bennati, 85, Italian film director. [206]
• Laurence Jonathan Cohen, 83, British philosopher. [207]
• Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese American convicted, and later pardoned, of being World War II propagandist Tokyo Rose. [208]
• Mihály Fülöp, 70, Hungarian Olympic fencer. [209]
• Byron Nelson, 94, American professional golfer. [210]
• Sir Martin Roth, 88, Hungarian-born British president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. [211]
• Ralph Story, 86, American radio broadcaster and television host (The $64,000 Challenge), emphysema. [212]

27

• William Horwitz, 88, American chemist. [213]
• Helmut Kallmeyer, 95, German chemist and Action T4 perpetrator
• Craig Kusick, 57, American former first baseman for the Minnesota Twins, leukemia. [214]
• Arthur Marwick, 70, British historian, first professor of history at the Open University. [215]

28

• George Balzer, 91, American writer for Jack Benny's radio and TV shows. [216]
• Adam Curle, 90, British academic and peace activist. [217]
• James Hamilton, 4th Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, 68, British aristocrat and politician, cancer. [218]
• Virgil Ierunca, 86, Romanian writer. [219]

29

• Rosamond Carr, 94, American fashion illustrator turned humanitarian and activist. [220]
• Jan Werner Danielsen, 30, Norwegian singer, heart failure. [221] (Norwegian)
• Gerry Gazzard, 81, English footballer. [222]
• Walter Hadlee, 91, New Zealand cricketer, stroke. [223]
• Louis-Albert Vachon, 94, Canadian Archbishop Emeritus of Québec. [224]

30

• Isabel Bigley, 80, American stage actress, Tony Award-winner for Guys and Dolls. [225]
• Josh Graves, 79, American bluegrass dobro player. [226]
• Bert James, 92, Australian politician, MP for Hunter (1960–1980). [227]
• Adolf H. Lundin, 73, Swedish oil and mining entrepreneur, leukemia. [228] (Swedish)
• Pino Mlakar, 99, Slovenian ballet dancer. [229] (Slovenian)
• André Schwarz-Bart, 78, French novelist. [230] (French)
• András Sütő, 79, Romanian writer of Hungarian descent, melanoma. [231] (Hungarian)