Deaths in September 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2007.

September 2007

30

• Al Chang, 85, American two-time Pulitzer prize-nominated military photographer, leukemia. [1]
• John Henebry, 89, American Air Force major general, heart failure. [2]
• Milan Jelić, 51, Bosnian politician, president of Republika Srpska entity (2006–2007), heart attack. [3]
• Joe Mitty, 88, British founder of the Oxfam charity shop. [4]
• Eugene Saenger, 90, American radiologist and university professor. [5]
• Oswald Mathias Ungers, 81, German architect, pneumonia. [6]

29

• Lois Maxwell, 80, Canadian actress, first Miss Moneypenny in James Bond film series, Golden Globe winner, colorectal cancer. [7]
• Katsuko Saruhashi, 87, Japanese scientist, pneumonia. [8]
• Gyula Zsivótzky, 70, Hungarian hammer thrower, 1968 Olympics gold medallist, cancer. [9]

28

• René Desmaison, 77, French mountaineer. [10] (French)
• Charles B. Griffith, 77, American screenwriter. [11]
• Evelyn Knight, 89, American singer, lung cancer. [12]
• Adam Kozłowiecki, 96, Polish-born Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lusaka (1955–1969). [13]
• Peter Kuiper, 78, Dutch-born German actor. [14] (German)
• Martin Manulis, 92, American television and film producer, Emmy Award winner. [15]
• Wally Parks, 94, American drag racing and hot rod pioneer, pneumonia. [16]
• Derek Shackleton, 83, British cricketer (Hampshire and England). [17]
• Hamid Shirzadeghan, 66, Iranian footballer, lung cancer. [18] [19]

27

• Nenad Bogdanović, 53, Serbian politician, mayor of Belgrade (2004–2007), lymphoma. [20]
• Dale Houston, 67, American musician (Dale and Grace). [21]
• Kenji Nagai, 50, Japanese video journalist, shot. [22]
• Bill Perry, 77, South African-born English footballer, cancer. [23]
• Marjatta Raita, 63, Finnish actress, cancer. [24] (Finnish)
• George Rieveschl, 91, American inventor (Benadryl), pneumonia. [25]
• Israel Segal, 63, Israeli writer and journalist, heart failure. [26]
• Avraham Shapira, 93, Israeli rabbi, Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel (1983–1993). [27]

26

• Stanislav Andreski, 88, Polish sociologist. [28]
• Robert Bruss, 67, American real estate attorney and columnist, cancer. [29]
• Velma Wayne Dawson, 94, American creator of the Howdy Doody puppet. [30]
• Angela Lambert, 67, British journalist, historian and novelist. [31]
• Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, 90, Dutch secret agent, author and businessman. [32]
• Randy Van Horne, 83, American singer of TV theme songs (The Flintstones, The Jetsons), cancer. [33]
• Bill Wirtz, 77, American owner of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks, cancer. [34]

25

• Haidar Abdel-Shafi, 88, Palestinian negotiator, stomach cancer. [35]
• Patrick Bourque, 29, Canadian bass guitarist (Emerson Drive), suicide. [36]
• André Emmerich, 82, German-born American art dealer, complications from a stroke. [37]
• Jana Krishnamurthi, 79, Indian politician, President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (2001–2007). [38]
• Bill Waller, 95, American college football coach. [39]

24

• Geoff Cannell, 65, Manx Member of the House of Keys and sports broadcaster, stroke. [40]
• Terry Connolly, 49, Australian judge of the ACT Supreme Court, heart attack. [41]
• Kurt Julius Goldstein, 92, German journalist and Auschwitz survivor. [42]
• André Gorz, 84, Austrian-born French social philosopher, suicide. [43]
• Frank Hyde, 91, Australian rugby league player and commentator. [44]
• Hiroshi Osaka, 44, Japanese co-founder of Bones Animation Studio, cancer. [45]
• Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, 88, American physicist and former director of SLAC, heart attack. [46]
• Frank Sherring, 93, Canadian politician, Mayor of Lethbridge, Alberta (1962–1968), cancer. [47]
• Otto Spacek, 89, Czech World War II hero. [48]
• Lenore Tawney, 100, American fiber artist. [49]

23

• Renzo Barbieri, 67, Italian writer. [50] (Italian)
• Ken Danby, 67, Canadian painter. [51]
• Ivan Hinderaker, 91, American academic, chancellor of the University of California, Riverside (1964–1979). [52]

22

• Albert Fuller, 81, American harpsichordist and founder of the Aston Magna Foundation and Festival. [53] [54]
• Herbert Gallen, 92, American chairman and owner of Ellen Tracy sportswear. [55]
• Karl Hardman, 80, American horror film producer and actor. [56] [57]
• Richard Hornby, 85, British politician and businessman. [58]
• Marcel Marceau, 84, French mime artist. [59]
• William D. Rogers, 80, American advisor to Henry Kissinger, heart attack. [60]
• `Alí-Muhammad Varqá, 95, Iranian-born Bahá'í leader. [61] [62]

21

• Hallgeir Brenden, 78, Norwegian cross country skier, gold medallist (1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics). [63] (Norwegian)
• Bob Collins, 61, Australian ALP senator (1987–1998) and minister (1990–1996), suicide by alcohol and drug overdose. [64] [65] [66]
• Alice Ghostley, 81, American Tony Award-winning actress, colon cancer. [67]
• Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, 81, British politician. [68]
• Rex Humbard, 88, American televangelist, congestive heart failure. [69]
• Floria Lasky, 84, American entertainment attorney and litigator, cancer. [70]
• Petar Stambolić, 95, Serbian Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Serbia (1978–1982), President of Yugoslavia (1982–1983). [71]
• Coral Watts, 53, American serial killer, complications of prostate cancer. [72]

20

• Mahlon Clark, 84, American clarinetist, natural causes. [73]
• Helen Elaine Freeman, 75, American endangered species (snow leopards) advocate, lung disease. [74]
• Johnny Gavin, 79, Irish international footballer and Norwich City's record goalscorer. [75]
• Myra Nicholson, 112, Australia's oldest person, 11th oldest in the world, bronchitis. [76]
• Viktor Shershunov, 56, Russian governor of Kostroma Oblast, car accident. [77] (Russian)
• Labah Sosseh, 64, Senegalese singer. [78] (French).

19

• Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri, 34, Iraqi sculptor, replaced Saddam Hussein statue toppled during 2003 invasion of Iraq, car accident. [79]
• Antoine Ghanem, 64, Lebanese politician, Member of Parliament, car bomb. [80]
• Mike Osborne, 66, British jazz musician. [81] (German)
• Vlatko Pavletić, 76, Croatian politician, Speaker of Parliament (1995–1999), acting President (1999–2000). [82]
• Maia Simon, 67, French film and television actress, assisted suicide. [83]
• H. Emory Widener, Jr., 83, American jurist (United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit), lung cancer. [84]

18

• Augustus Akinloye, 91, Nigerian politician, founder of the Ibadan Peoples Party. [85]
• Benyamin Yosef Bria, 51, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Denpasar. [86]
• Norman Gaylord, 84, American chemist, developed permeable contact lens. [87]
• Nate Hill, 41, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins, Washington Redskins). [88]
• Pepsi Tate, 42, British bassist (Tigertailz), pancreatic cancer. [89]
• Len Thompson, 60, Australian footballer (1965–1980), heart attack. [90]

17

• Stephen Medcalf, 70, British scholar. [91]

16

• Jean Balissat, 71, Swiss musician. [92] (German)
• Peter Cleeland, 69, Australian politician, MHR for McEwen (1984–1990, 1993–1996), motor neurone disease. [93]
• Robert Jordan, 58, American fantasy novelist (The Wheel of Time), cardiac amyloidosis. [94] [95]
• Calvin L. Rampton, 93, American politician, governor of Utah (1965–1977), cancer. [96]
• Garrard "Buster" Ramsey, 87, American football player and coach, pneumonia. [97]

15

• Marie-Simone Capony, 113, French supercentenarian, heart failure. [98]
• Leslie Holligan, 29, Guyanese footballer, heart failure. [99]
• Colin McRae, 39, British World Rally champion, helicopter crash. [100] [101]
• Jeremy Moore, 79, British soldier, commander of UK land forces in the Falklands War. [102]
• Specs Powell, 85, American jazz drummer, kidney disease. [103]
• Ernie Renzel, 100, American politician, Mayor of San Jose (1945–1946), "Father of San Jose International Airport." [104]
• Aldemaro Romero, 79, Venezuelan composer, pianist and conductor, complications of intestinal blockage. [105]
• Brett Somers, 83, American actress, comedienne and panelist (Match Game), stomach and colon cancer. [106]

14

• Jacques Martin, 74, French presenter and former husband of Cécilia Sarkozy, cancer. [107]
• Emilio Ruiz del Rio, 84, Spanish set decorator (Pan's Labyrinth), respiratory failure. [108]
• Benny Vansteelant, 30, Belgian world champion duathlete, bike accident. [109]

13

• Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, 37, Iraqi leader of Anbar Salvation Council, improvised explosive device. [110]
• Gaetano Arfé, 81, Italian politician. [111] (Italian)
• Laurel Burch, 61, American artist, osteopetrosis. [112]
• Phil Frank, 64, American cartoonist, brain tumor. [113]
• Bill Griffiths, 59, British poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar. [114]
• Augie Hiebert, 90, American who built Alaska's first television station (KTVA), cancer. [115]
• Neville Jeffress, 87, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia, pneumonia. [116]
• Clare Oliver, 26, Australian cancer activist, melanoma. [117]
• Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi, 35, Iraqi leader of the Anbar Salvation Council, bomb. [118]
• Whakahuihui Vercoe, 79, New Zealand retired Anglican Archbishop. [119]

12

• Bobby Byrd, 73, American soul/funk singer, cancer. [120]
• Daryl Holton, 55, American convicted murderer, first man executed by electric chair in Tennessee in 47 years. [121]
• Gordon Sloan, 34, New Zealand-Australian television personality, 2001 Big Brother contestant, alleged heroin overdose. [122]

11

• John Garrett, 76, British politician, Member of Parliament for Norwich South 1974–1983 and 1987–1997. [123]
• Ian Porterfield, 61, British footballer and manager (scored Sunderland's 1973 FA Cup winner), colon cancer. [124] [125]
• Gene Savoy, 80, American explorer and religious mystic, claimed discovery of over 40 lost cities in Peru, natural causes. [126] [127]
• Willie Tee, 63, American singer-songwriter and producer, colon cancer. [128]
• Joe Zawinul, 75, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer, founder of Weather Report, cancer. [129] [130]

10

• Loretta King Hadler, 90, American film actress, natural causes. [131]
• James Leasor, 83, British novelist and biographer. [132]
• Lord Michael Pratt, 61, British aristocrat and writer. [133]
• Joseph Rantz, 93, American rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. [134]
• Dame Anita Roddick, 64, British entrepreneur and founder of The Body Shop, brain haemorrhage. [135]
• Arthur Ross, 96, American businessman and philanthropist known for his contribution to Central Park. [136]
• Joe Sherlock, 76, Irish Teachta Dála for Cork East (1981–1982, 1987–1992, 2002–2007). [137]
• Ted Stepien, 82, American businessman and former owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. [138]
• Enrique Torres, 85, American professional wrestler. [139]
• Jane Wyman, 90, American Academy Award-winning actress (Johnny Belinda), first wife of Ronald Reagan. [140]

9

• Ian Campbell, 81, British politician, MP for Dunbartonshire West (1970–1983) and Dumbarton (1983–1987). [141]
• Belinda Dann, 107, Australian centenarian, longest-lived member of the Stolen Generation. [142]
• Han Dingxiang, 71, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, detained for loyalty to the Vatican. [143]
• Helmut Senekowitsch, 73, Austrian football player and manager. [144]
• Hughie Thomasson, 55, American guitarist (Outlaws), heart attack. [145]
• Sir Tasker Watkins VC, 88, British jurist and businessman, Lord Justice of Appeal and former WRU President, after short illness. [146]
• Xu Simin, 93, Hong Kong magazine publisher, pro-Beijing supporter, organ failure. [147]

8

• Lord Bethell, 69, British historian of Eastern and Central Europe, human rights campaigner, Parkinson's disease. [148]
• Jean-François Bizot, 63, French journalist, creator of Actuel, Radio Nova (France), cancer. [149] (French)
• Adrian Esquino Lisco, 68, El Salvadoran indigenous rights activist and spiritual chief, complications from diabetes. [150]
• Vincent Serventy, 91, Australian writer and conservationist. [151]

7

• Alex, 31, American-born African grey parrot, subject of animal language experiments. [152]
• Sir John Compton, 82, St. Lucian Prime Minister (1979, 1982–1996, 2006–2007), stroke. [153]
• Norman Deeley, 73, British footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers). [154]
• Russell E. Dougherty, 87, American former commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command. [155]
• Joseph W. Eschbach, 74, American doctor and kidney specialist whose research lead to treatment for anemia, cancer. [156]
• Joseph Rudolph Grimes, 84, Liberian foreign minister (1960–1972). [157]
• Gabriel Baccus Matthews, 59, Liberian foreign minister (1980–1981, 1990–1993). [158]
• Mark Weil, 55, Uzbek theatre director, stabbed. [159] [160]

6

• Martin Čech, 31, Czech international ice hockey player, car accident. [161] (Czech) [162] (Russian)
• Eva Crane, 95, British bee expert. [163] [164]
• Allan Crite, 97, American artist, natural causes. [165]
• Billy Darnell, 81, American professional wrestler of the 1940s–1960s famous for feuds with Buddy Rogers. [166]
• John Kelly, 71, British advocate of Irish republicanism, Provisional Irish Republican Army founder member, Northern Ireland Assembly member (1998–2003). [167]
• Madeleine L'Engle, 88, American writer (A Wrinkle in Time), natural causes. [168]
• Ronald Magill, 87, British actor (Amos Brearly on Emmerdale Farm). [169] [170]
• Luciano Pavarotti, 71, Italian operatic tenor, pancreatic cancer. [171]
• Percy Rodriguez, 89, Canadian character actor and movie trailer narrator, kidney problems. [172]
• Byron Stevenson, 50, British footballer (Wales, Leeds United, Birmingham City), throat cancer. [173]

5

• Julieta Campos, 75, Cuban-Mexican writer, cancer. [174]
• Duan Yihe, 61, Chinese congress member who arranged the murder of his mistress, execution. [175]
• Jennifer Dunn, 66, American Representative from Washington (1993–2005), pulmonary embolism. [176]
• Paul Gillmor, 68, American Representative from Ohio since 1989. [177]
• Edward Gramlich, 68, American economics professor, governor of the Federal Reserve System, lymphocytic leukemia. [178]
• Thomas Hansen, 31, Norwegian musician known as "Saint Thomas", combination of prescribed drugs. [179] (Norwegian)
• D. James Kennedy, 76, American evangelical Protestant pastor and theologian, founder of Coral Ridge Ministries. [180]
• Nikos Nikolaidis, 68, Greek film director, pulmonary edema. [181] (Greek)

4

• Michael Evans, 87, American actor. [182]
• Gigi Sabani, 54, Italian television host, heart attack. [183] (Italian)
• John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, 83, British politician and aristocrat. [184] [185]
• Ryūzō Sejima, 95, Japanese academic, chairman of the board of Asia University, World War II strategist. [186]
• Seth Tobias, 44, American television commentator, financial commentator for CNBC's Squawk Box. [187]

3

• Carter Albrecht, 34, American keyboardist and guitarist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians), shot. [188]
• Clarke Bynum, 45, American basketball player (Clemson Tigers), 2000 hijack hero, cancer. [189]
• Gustavo Eberto, 24, Argentine footballer (Boca Juniors), testicular cancer. [190]
• Steve Fossett, 63, American adventurer, aircrash. [191]
• Syd Jackson, 68, New Zealand Māori rights activist, cancer. [192]
• Gift Leremi, 22, South African international footballer, car accident. [193]
• Don Maloney, 79, American writer, author on Japan. [194]
• Janis Martin, 67, American singer, cancer. [195]
• Lord Michael Pratt, 61, British writer and aristocrat. [196]
• Steve Ryan, 60, American actor. [197]
• Mária Szepes, 98, Hungarian writer. [198] (Hungarian)
• Jane Tomlinson, 43, British cancer activist, cancer. [199] [200]

2

• Rajae Belmlih, 45, Moroccan singer, cancer. [201]
• Anthony Day, 74, American editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times, emphysema. [202]
• Robert Fidgeon, 65, Australian television columnist and critic, cancer. [203]
• Safet Isović, 71, Bosnian singer. [204] (Bosnian)
• Marcia Mae Jones, 83, American actress (Heidi, These Three). [205]
• Max McNab, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and NHL general manager. [206]
• Pat Norton, 88, Australian Olympic backstroke swimmer. [207]

1

• Tomás Medina Caracas, 42, Colombian guerrilla member of FARC, military action. [208]
• Russell Ellington, 69, American basketball coach for the Harlem Globetrotters, lung cancer. [209]
• Sally Haley, 99, American painter, natural causes. [210]
• Sir Roy McKenzie, 84, New Zealand philanthropist, harness racing breeder, trainer and competitor. [211] [212]
• Viliam Schrojf, 76, Slovakian former football goalkeeper. [213]