Deaths in September 2008

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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2008.

September 2008

30

• Henry Adler, 93, American drummer, teacher of Buddy Rich. [1]
• Ed Brinkman, 66, American baseball player and coach, lung cancer. [2]
• Sam Calder, 92, Australian politician and World War II fighter pilot, MP (1966–1980). [3]
• J. L. Chestnut, 77, American civil rights lawyer, kidney failure. [4]
• Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, 82, Singaporean politician, MP (1981–1986), NCMP (1997–2001), heart failure. [5]

29

• Hayden Carruth, 87, American poet and literary critic, stroke. [6]
• Richard Clayton, 93, American actor and talent agent (Burt Reynolds, James Dean), heart failure. [7]
• Miguel Córcega, 79, Mexican actor and director. [8]
• Milt Davis, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts), cancer. [9]
• Tim Fortescue, 92, British politician, MP (1966–1974). [10]
• Elinor Guggenheimer, 96, American philanthropist and author. [11]
• Louis Guss, 90. American actor. [12]
• Stan Kann, 83, American organist and Tonight Show regular, complications from heart procedure. [13]
• Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, 72, Indian politician. [14]
• Antônio Sarto, 82, Brazilian bishop of Barra do Garças. [15]
• Glenister Sheil, 78, Australian medical practitioner and politician, Senator (1974–1981, 1984–1990). [16]
• Anthony Spero, 79, American financier, leader of Bonanno crime family, after short illness. [17]
• Relus ter Beek, 64, Dutch politician, Minister of Defence (1989–1994), abolished conscription, lung cancer. [18]
• Jock Wilson, 105, British soldier, UK's oldest D-Day veteran. [19]

28

• Andrzej Badeński, 65, Polish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) athlete. [20] (Polish)
• Osborn Elliott, 83, American editor of Newsweek (1961–1976), complications from cancer. [21]
• Jack Faulkner, 82, American football coach and administrator. [22]
• Margot Gayle, 100, American historic preservationist and author. [23]
• Malalai Kakar, 41, Afghan senior policewoman, shot. [24]
• Konstantin Pavlov, 75, Bulgarian poet and screenwriter, after long illness. [25]
• Thomas Thewes, 76, American businessman, co-owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, leukemia. [26]

27

• Len Browning, 80, British footballer. [27]
• John Houston, 78, British painter. [28]
• Mahendra Kapoor, 74, Indian playback singer, heart attack. [29]
• Mario Maya, 71, Spanish dancer and choreographer, cancer. [30]
• Jimmy Murray, 72, British footballer, prostate cancer. [31]
• Henri Pachard, 69, American pornographic film director, throat cancer. [32]
• Olaf Poulsen, 88, Norwegian president of the International Skating Union (1980–1994). [33] (Norwegian)
• Gerald Small, 52, American football player (Miami Dolphins). [34]

26

• Bernadette Greevy, 68, Irish mezzo-soprano, after short illness. [35]
• Joli Jászai, 101, Hungarian actress. [36] (Hungarian)
• Géza Kalocsay, 95, Hungarian football player and manager. [37] (Polish)
• Phyllis Welch MacDonald, 95, American theater and film actress. [38]
• Raymond Macherot, 84, Belgian cartoonist. [39]
• Jan Mazur, 88, Polish bishop of Siedlce. [40]
• Marian McQuade, 91, American founder of National Grandparents Day, heart failure. [41]
• Marc Moulin, 66, Belgian jazz musician and journalist, throat cancer. [42]
• Paul Newman, 83, American actor (The Sting, The Color of Money, Road to Perdition), founder of Newman's Own, lung cancer. [43]
• Cirio H. Santiago, 72, Filipino filmmaker and producer, complications from lung cancer. [44]
• Yonty Solomon, 71, South African pianist, brain tumour. [45]

25

• Glenn Andrews, 99, American politician, Representative (1965–1967), oldest surviving member of the House of Representatives. [46]
• Brian Donnelly, 59, New Zealand diplomat and politician, MP (1996–2008). [47]
• Edward Klima, 77, American linguist, complications from brain surgery. [48]
• Horaţiu Rădulescu, 66, Romanian composer, spectral music pioneer. [49]
• Ralph Sazio, 86, Canadian football coach (Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [50]
• Jimmy Sirrel, 86, British football manager (Notts County), after long illness. [51]
• Patrick d'Udekem d'Acoz, 72, Belgian count, father of Princess Mathilde. [52]
• Roger Vanderfield, 80, Australian rugby union referee, IRB chairman and ARU president. [53]

24

• Kwadwo Baah Wiredu, 56, Ghanaian finance minister since 2005, after short illness. [54]
• Oliver Crawford, 91, American television writer blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. [55]
• Irene Dailey, 88, American actress, colon cancer. [56]
• Sir Peter Derham, 83, Australian businessman and philanthropist, stroke. [57]
• Uno Laht, 84, Estonian writer. [58] (Estonian)
• Dick Lynch, 72, American football player and radio announcer (New York Giants), leukemia. [59]
• Maurits van Nierop, 25, Dutch international cricketer, fall. [60]
• Thiago Jotta da Silva, 24, Brazilian footballer, shot. [61]
• Cherry Smith, 65, Jamaican singer (The Wailers). [62]
• Mickey Vernon, 90, American baseball player, stroke. [63]
• Vice Vukov, 72, Croatian singer and politician. [64]
• Claude Wilton, 89, Irish politician and solicitor. [65]
• Ruslan Yamadayev, 46, Chechen warlord and member of Russian State Duma, shot. [66]

23

• Maria Esther Figueiredo Ferraz, 92, Brazilian Minister of Education (1982–1985) and first female minister, stroke. [67] (Portuguese)
• Arne Haugestad, 73, Norwegian Supreme Court lawyer, Arne Treholt's defender. [68] (Norwegian)
• Richard Henyard, 34, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [69]
• Wally Hilgenberg, 66, American football player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [70]
• Rudolf Illovszky, 86, Hungarian footballer and manager, pneumonia. [71]
• Peter Leonard, 66, Australian broadcaster, mesothelioma. [72]
• Li Shiming, c.60, Chinese official, stabbed. [73]
• Pedro Masó, 81, Spanish film director and producer, natural causes. [74] (Spanish)
• Brock McElheran, 90, Canadian conductor and composer. [75]
• Loren Pope, 98, American education consultant, heart failure. [76]
• Sonja Savić, 47, Serbian actress, heroin overdose. [77]
• Ellen Tarry, 101, American children's author. [78]
• William Woodruff, 92, British historian and author. [79]

22

• Michael Andreevich, 88, Russian prince. [80]
• Plato Andros, 86, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), Alzheimer's disease. [81]
• H. Dale Cook, 84, American federal judge since 1974, cancer. [82]
• Thomas Dörflein, 44, German zookeeper, surrogate parent of the polar bear Knut, heart attack. [83]
• Connie Haines, 87, American singer, myasthenia gravis. [84]
• Guillermo López Langarica, 50, Mexican YouTube celebrity, car accident. [85] (Spanish)
• Buddy McDonald, 85, American child actor (Our Gang), heart failure. [86]
• Petrus Schaesberg, 41, German art historian, suicide by jumping. [87]

21

• Mary Garber, 92, American sportswriter. [88]
• Carlos González Cruchaga, 87, Chilean bishop of the Diocese of Talca (1967–1996). [89]
• Nancy Hicks Maynard, 66, American journalist, advocate for diversity in journalism, organ failure. [90]
• Sir Brian Pippard, 88, British physicist, Cavendish Professor of Physics (1971–1984). [91]
• Barefoot Sanders, 83, American federal judge, natural causes. [92]
• Paul Tansey, 59, Irish economics editor (The Irish Times). [93]
• Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, 92, Sri Lankan prime minister (1989–1993), president (1993–1994), after long illness. [94]

20

• Nappy Brown, 78, American blues singer. [95]
• William Fox, 97, British actor. [96]
• Duncan Glen, 75, British poet, literary critic and designer, professor emeritus of visual communication (Nottingham Trent). [97]
• Ken Harris, 45, American member of Baltimore City Council (1999–2007), shot. [98]
• Johnny H. Hayes, 67, American fundraiser for Al Gore's presidential campaigns, stomach cancer. [99]
• Willi Heidel, 92, Romanian Olympic field handball player. [100]
• Paul Howell, 57, British member of the European Parliament (1979–1994), plane crash. [101]
• George Larson, 96, Canadian Olympic swimmer. [102]
• Ed Sutton, 73, American football player, complications following heart bypass surgery. [103]
• John Taylor, 87, American military archivist at National Archives and Records Administration, heart failure. [104]
• Frank Valenti, 97 American mob boss (Rochester crime family). [105]
• Ivo Žďárek, 47, Czech ambassador to Vietnam (2004–2008) and Pakistan (2008), suicide bombing. [106]

19

• Ernie Andres, 90, American college baseball coach and Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [107]
• Alexina Calvert, 110, British supercentenarian, Scotland's oldest person. [108]
• Ned Harkness, 89, American ice hockey coach, stroke. [109]
• Jun Ichikawa, 59, Japanese film director. [110]
• David Jones, 74, British theatre and film director. [111]
• Dave Needham, 57, British bantamweight boxing champion (1974–1975). [112]
• Earl Palmer, 83, American rhythm and blues drummer, after long illness. [113].
• Robert Royston, 90, American landscape architect. [114]
• Dick Sudhalter, 69, American jazz trumpeter, pneumonia. [115]

18

• Mauricio Kagel, 76, Argentine-born German composer. [116]
• Peter Kastner, 64, Canadian actor, heart attack. [117]
• Ron Lancaster, 69, American CFL quarterback and coach, heart attack. [118]
• Howard Mann, 85, American actor and comedian, cancer. [119]
• Sherman Parker, 37, American politician, member of Missouri House of Representatives (2003–2006), brain aneurysm. [120]
• Fabiola Salazar, 42, Peruvian congresswoman since 2006, car accident. [121]
• Henry Z. Steinway, 93, American businessman (Steinway & Sons). [122]
• Don Ultang, 91, American Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer. [123]
• Florestano Vancini, 82, Italian film director and screenwriter, after long illness. [124]
• John Webb, 82, American judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1986–1998), Parkinson's disease. [125]

17

• Princess Luluwah bint Abdulaziz Al Saud, 80, Saudi member of the royal family, sister of King Abdullah. [126]
• James Crumley, 68, American crime writer, complications from kidney and pulmonary diseases. [127]
• Didier Dagueneau, 52, French winemaker, plane crash. [128]
• Princess Iniga of Thurn and Taxis, 83, German princess. [129] (German)
• José María Cirarda Lachiondo, 91, Spanish bishop of the Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela (1978–1993). [130]
• Anna Langford, 90, American politician, first African American woman to serve on the Chicago City Council, lung cancer. [131]
• Michael Omondi, 46, Kenyan field hockey player, after short illness. [132]
• Humberto Solás, 66, Cuban filmmaker, cancer. [133]
• Robert Steinberg, 61, American physician, co-founder of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, lymphoma. [134]

16

• Jack Alderman, 57, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [135]
• Avraham Biran, 98, Israeli archaeologist, natural causes. [136]
• Elizabeth Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, 92, British peeress. [137]
• John Fancy, 95, British World War II RAF airman. [138]
• Andrei Volkonsky, 75, Russian composer. [139]
• Charles Whitebread, 65, American professor of law, cancer. [140]
• Norman Whitfield, 68, American Motown songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine") and record producer, diabetes. [141]

15

• Marion Dewar, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (1978–1985), fall. [142]
• Barthélémy Djabla, 72, Ivorian archbishop of Gagnoa. [143]
• Gangadhar Gadgil, 85, Indian writer, cancer. [144]
• Jean-Jacques Guissart, 81, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) rower. [145]
• Charlotte Kohler, 99, American editor, heart failure. [146]
• John Matshikiza, 53, South African actor, writer and poet, heart attack. [147]
• Juraj Njavro, 70, Croatian doctor and politician, after long illness. [148]
• J. Patrick Rooney, 80, American insurance advocate. [149]
• Richard Wright, 65, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) and songwriter ("The Dark Side of the Moon"), cancer. [150]

14

• John Burnside, 91, American inventor, brain cancer. [151]
• Hyman Golden, 85, American co-founder of Snapple Beverage Corporation, complications from stroke. [152]
• Ştefan Iordache, 67, Romanian actor, leukemia. [153]
• Georgi Kitov, 65, Bulgarian archaeologist, heart attack. [154]
• Lynn Kohlman, 62, American model and photographer, breast and brain cancer. [155]
• Lobsang Nyima Pal Sangpo, 79, Tibetan 100th Ganden Tripa (1994–2002), head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. [156]
• Mu Tiezhu, 59, Chinese basketball player, heart attack. [157]
• Ralph Russell, 90, British Urdu scholar. [158]
• Walter H. Seward, 111, American supercentenarian, blood infection. [159]
• Gennady Troshev, 61, Russian politician and military commander (Second Chechen War), plane crash. [160]

13

• Peter Camejo, 68, American politician and activist, lymphoma. [161]
• Dean Hoge, 71, American sociologist, specialist in American Catholicism, cancer. [162]
• Duncan Laing, 77, New Zealand swimming coach, cancer. [163]
• James W. Snow, 79, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1967–1985), diabetes. [164]
• Olin Stephens, 100, American yacht designer. [165]
• Alice Van-Springsteen, 90, American stuntwoman, pneumonia. [166]
• Abdullah Wardak, Afghan governor of Logar Province, suicide attack. [167]

12

• Simon Hantaï, 85, Hungarian-born French abstract artist. [168] (French)
• Tomislav Ladan, 76, Croatian encyclopedist and polymath, malignant tumor. [169]
• Max Mermelstein, 65, American drug trafficker, cancer. [170]
• George Putnam, 94, American television news reporter, heart failure. [171]
• Bob Quinn, 93, Australian footballer (Port Adelaide) and Military Medal recipient. [172]
• Marjorie Thomas, 85, British opera singer, after long illness. [173]
• Paola S. Timiras, 85, American doctor, expert on the physiology of ageing, heart failure. [174]
• Charlie Walker, 81, American country music singer, colon cancer. [175]
• David Foster Wallace, 46, American author and essayist (Infinite Jest), suicide by hanging. [176]

11

• Bennett Campbell, 65, Canadian politician, premier of Prince Edward Island (1978–1979), cancer. [177]
• Florian Goebel, 35, German astrophysicist, fall. [178]
• Dave Hanner, 78, American football player and coach (Green Bay Packers), heart attack. [179]
• Klaus Johann Jacobs, 71, German-born Swiss billionaire, cancer. [180]
• Fran Reed, 65, American teacher and fish skin artist, cancer. [181]
• Nils Johan Ringdal, 56, Norwegian author and historian. [182] (Norwegian)
• Martin Tytell, 94, American manual typewriter expert, cancer. [183]
• Joan Winston, 77, American author, founder of Star Trek convention, Alzheimer's disease. [184]

10

• Saleh al Aridi, 50, Lebanese pro-Syrian politician, car bomb. [185]
• Gérald Beaudoin, 79, Canadian lawyer and senator (1988–2004). [186]
• José Antonio Dammert Bellido, 91, Peruvian bishop. [187]
• Cameron Buchanan, 80, British footballer. [188]
• David Chipp, 81, British editor-in-chief (Press Association, Reuters), first resident correspondent for Reuters in China. [189]
• Patrick Flynn, 72, American composer and conductor, pulmonary embolism. [190]
• Robert Glasgow, 83, American organist and University of Michigan professor emeritus. [191]
• Vernon Handley, 77, British conductor. [192]
• Sherrill Headrick, 71, American football player, cancer. [193]
• Domagoj Kapec, 18, Croatian ice hockey player, car accident. [194]
• Frank Mundus, 82, American shark fisherman, alleged inspiration for Quint in Jaws, heart attack. [195]
• Yuri Osipyan, 77, Russian physicist. [196]
• Reginald Shepherd, 45, American poet, cancer. [197]
• Paul Williams, 85, British politician, MP (1953–1964). [198]

9

• Betty Constable, 83, American squash player. [199]
• Eddie Crowder, 77, American football player and coach, complications of leukemia. [200]
• A.U. Fuimaono, 85, American Samoan politician, first Delegate to the United States House of Representatives (1970–1974). [201]
• Nina Lawson, 82, British wigmaker for the Metropolitan Opera, pernicious anaemia. [202]
• Jacob Lekgetho, 34, South African footballer. [203]
• P. N. Menon, 80, Indian film director, after long illness. [204]
• Warith Deen Mohammed, 74, American Islamic leader, son of Elijah Muhammad. [205]
• Richard Monette, 64, Canadian actor and director, pulmonary embolism. [206]
• Nouhak Phoumsavanh, 98, Laotian politician, president (1992–1998), natural causes. [207]

8

• Ahn Jae-hwan, 36, South Korean actor, body found on this date after suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [208]
• Nathan Green Gordon, 92, American politician and Medal of Honor recipient, Lt. Governor of Arkansas (1947–1967), pneumonia. [209]
• Celia Gregory, 58, British actress. [210]
• Bheki Mseleku, 53, South African-born British jazz musician, diabetes. [211]
• Ralph Plaisted, 80, American Arctic explorer, natural causes. [212]
• Evan Tanner, 37, American MMA fighter and UFC middleweight champion, body found on this date after apparent heat exposure. [213]
• Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, 73, Indian violinist, after long illness. [214]
• George Zarnecki, 92, Polish art historian and medievalist. [215]
• Hector Zazou, 60, French composer and record producer. [216]

7

• Kune Biezeveld, 60, Dutch theologian. [217]
• Ilarion Ciobanu, 76, Romanian actor. [218] (Romanian)
• Dino Dvornik, 44, Croatian actor and pop singer. [219]
• Peter Glossop, 80, British operatic baritone. [220]
• Don Gutteridge, 96, American Major League Baseball player, coach and manager. [221]
• Don Haskins, 78, American college basketball coach, heart failure. [222]
• Gregory Mcdonald, 71, American author (Fletch), cancer. [223]
• Nagi Noda, 35, Japanese pop star and director, injuries from traffic accident. [224]
• Larry Shaben, 73, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1975–1989), cancer. [225]

6

• Aril Edvardsen, 69, Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary. [226]
• Abd al-Halim Abu Ghazala, 78, Egyptian politician, field marshal and defence minister, throat cancer. [227]
• Antonio Innocenti, 93, Italian cardinal. [228]
• Nicole Lai, 36, Singaporean singer, skin cancer. [229]
• Allan Lawrence, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Northumberland—Durham (1972–1988). [230]
• Ray Loring, 65, American professor and composer, heart attack. [231]
• Sören Nordin, 91, Swedish harness racing trainer. [232]
• Anita Page, 98, American actress (The Broadway Melody), natural causes. [233]
• Bill Shorthouse, 86, British footballer. [234]
• Mike Swoboda, 69, American politician, mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri (2000–2008), complications of shooting. [235]

5

• Raymond Bernabei, 83, American soccer player, complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [236]
• Robert Giroux, 94, American editor and publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). [237]
• Miroslav Havel, 86, Czech-born Irish chief designer (Waterford Crystal). [238]
• Thubten Jigme Norbu, 86, Tibetan lama (Taktser Rinpoche), eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama. [239]
• Lucian Pye, 86, American political scientist and sinologist, expert on Chinese politics, pneumonia. [240]
• Luis Santibáñez, 72, Chilean football team manager, complications from a kidney condition. [241]
• Mila Schön, 91, Italian fashion designer. [242]

4

• Mary Dunn, 66, American Iyengar Yoga instructor, peritoneal cancer. [243]
• Colin Egar, 81, Australian test cricket umpire. [244]
• Dick Enderle, 60, American football player. [245]
• Fon Huffman, 95, American World War II veteran, last survivor of the Panay incident. [246]
• Abdul Samad Ismail, 84, Malaysian journalist, lung infection and kidney failure. [247]
• Alain Jacquet, 69, French pop artist, cancer. [248]
• Jenny, 55, American western lowland gorilla, oldest gorilla in captivity (Dallas Zoo), euthanized. [249]
• Tommy Johnston, 81, British footballer, top scorer for Leyton Orient. [250]
• Erik Nielsen, 84, Canadian deputy prime minister (1984–1986), brother of Leslie Nielsen, heart attack. [251]
• Eduard Paukson, 72, Estonian astrologer. [252] (Estonian)
• Waldick Soriano, 75, Brazilian composer and singer, prostate cancer. [253] (Portuguese)
• Fernando Torres, 80, Brazilian actor, voice-over artist, director and producer, husband of Fernanda Montenegro, emphysema. [254]
• Jerome Weber, 92, Canadian abbot of St. Peter-Muenster of Saskatchewan. [255]

3

• Abdulla Alishayev, Russian Dagestani journalist, shot. [256]
• Lalla Bahia, Moroccan royalty, third wife of Mohammed V. [257]
• Donald Blakeslee, 89, American Air Force officer. [258]
• Paul Dilascia, 49, American software developer. [259]
• Françoise Demulder, 61, French war photographer, heart attack. [260]
• Mark Guardado, 46, American mobster, President of Hells Angels San Francisco chapter, shot. [261]
• Michael Hammer, 60, American management theorist, cranial bleeding. [262]
• Earl Lunsford, 74, American Canadian Football League player (Calgary Stampeders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), Hall of Famer. [263]
• Ron Rivera, 60, American public health innovator, malaria. [264]
• May Shin, 91, Burmese actress and singer, pulmonary edema. [265]
• Pierre Van Dormael, 56, Belgian guitarist, cancer. [266]
• Géo Voumard, 87, Swiss composer and producer, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival. [267]

2

• Andreas Zeier Cappelen, 93, Norwegian politician and minister. [268] (Norwegian)
• Todd Cruz, 52, American Major League Baseball player. [269]
• Arne Domnérus, 83, Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist. [270]
• Joey Giardello, 78, American boxer, middleweight boxing champion (1963–1965), heart failure. [271]
• Abdullah al-Harari, 98, Ethiopian-born Lebanese scholar, founder of the Al-Ahbash movement, natural causes. [272]
• Bill Meléndez, 91, Mexican-born American animator (Peanuts). [273]
• Sir Denis Rooke, 84, British industrialist. [274]

1

• Thomas J. Bata, 93, Czech-born Canadian businessman (Bata Shoes). [275]
• Calvin Beale, 85, American demographer, colon cancer. [276]
• Ian Edward Fraser, 87, British recipient of the Victoria Cross. [277]
• Helen Galland, 83, American retail executive, president of Bonwit Teller (1980–1983), heart attack. [278]
• Kevin Heinze, 80, Australian pioneer gardening television presenter, heart attack. [279]
• Mel Ignatow, 70, American murderer, fall. [280]
• Carl Kaufmann, 72, German Olympic silver medallist (1960). [281]
• Sheldon Keller, 85, American comedy writer, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [282]
• Don LaFontaine, 68, American voice-over artist, complications from pneumothorax. [283]
• Henry Wako Muloki, 87, Ugandan Kyabazinga of Busoga since 1995, esophageal cancer. [284]
• Michael Pate, 88, Australian actor and writer, pneumonia. [285]
• Jerry Reed, 71, American musician and actor, complications from emphysema. [286]
• Oded Schramm, 46, Israeli mathematician, fall. [287]
• Gerry White, 64, British businessman, prostate cancer. [288]