# Deaths in September 2001
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2001.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## September 2001
### 1

* Sil Austin, 71, American jazz saxophonist, prostate cancer.
* Daniel C. Drucker, 83, American engineer and academic, leukemia.
* Bobby Evans, 74, Scottish football player, pneumonia.
* Ruthild Hahne, German sculptor.
* Budimir Metalnikov, 75, Soviet/Russian screenwriter and film director.
* Ted Mulry, 53, English-Australian singer/songwriter, brain cancer.
* Martin Pederson, 79, Canadian farmer and politician.
* Julian Scheer, 75, American journalist, author, and conservationist.
* James Lopez Watson, 79, American jurist, cancer.
* Brian Moore, 69, English football Commentator, Heart Attack.

### 2

* Christiaan Barnard, 78, South African heart surgeon, first to perform a human-to-human heart transplant, asthma.
* Troy Donahue, 65, American actor, (A Summer Place, Rome Adventure), heart attack.
* Sir Arthur Gilbert, 88, British-American real estate developer and philanthropist.
* Horace A. Jones, 94, American horse trainer.
* Jay Migliori, 70, American saxophonist (Supersax), colorectal cancer.
* John Overall, 88, Australian architect.

### 3

* Ferruccio Amendola, 71, Italian actor and voice actor, throat cancer.
* John Roy Chapman, 74, British actor and playwright (Dry Rot, Not Now, Darling, There Goes the Bride).
* Joyce Hemlow, 95, Canadian professor and writer.
* Pauline Kael, 82, American movie critic, Parkinson's disease.
* Carl Lindquist, 82, American baseball player.
* Thuy Trang, 27, Vietnamese-American actress (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, The Crow: City of Angels), traffic collision.

### 4

* Maria Alfero, 79, Italian sprinter.
* Pete Brown, 70, American professional football player (Georgia Tech) (San Francisco 49ers: 1953–1954).
* Robert McAfee Brown, 81, American presbyterian minister, theologian, and activist.
* Sándor Simó, 67, Hungarian film producer, director and screenwriter.

### 5

* Akinola Aguda, 78, Nigerian jurist and a Chief Justice of Botswana.
* Heywood Hale Broun, 81, American sports writer and broadcaster.
* Jørgen Hviid, 85, Danish and Latvian multi-sport athlete.
* Numa Monnard, 82, Swiss footballer.
* Hemish Shah, 33, British poker player, cardiac arrest.
* Tamara Smirnova, 65, Soviet/Russian astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.
* Justin Wilson, 87, American Cajun chef and humorist.
* Vladimir Žerjavić, 89, Croatian economist and demographer, murdered.

### 6

* Frank Christensen, 91, American gridiron fotball player.
* Megan Connolly, 27, Australian actress, heroin overdose.
* Carl Crack, 30, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot), suicide by drug overdose.
* Chantal Chaudé de Silans, 82, French chess player and Woman International Master.
* Víctor Mahana, 79, Chilean basketball player.
* Wardell Pomeroy, 87, American sexologist, dementia.
* Van Rensselaer Potter, 90, American biochemist, oncologist, and bioethicist.

### 7

* Igor Buketoff, 86, American composer, conductor and teacher.
* Sergio Garavini, 75, Italian politician, writer and trade unionist.
* Andrey Goncharov, 83, Soviet and Russian theater director, pedagogue and author.
* Lou Grant, 81, American editorial cartoonist (Oakland Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time).
* Bunny Lewis, 82, English music manager, record producer and composer.
* Spede Pasanen, 71, Finnish television star, film director and inventor, heart attack.
* Don Paul, 75, American gridiron football player.
* Clark Thomas Rogerson, 82, American mycologist.
* Billie Lou Watt, 77, American film and television actress (Search for Tomorrow), and voice actress (Astro Boy, Elsie the Cow), lung cancer.

### 8

* Gregorio Agós, 88, Uruguayan basketball player.
* Eric Bullus, 94, British Conservative politician.
* Gabriel Green, 76, American early UFOlogist.
* Bill Ricker, 93, Canadian entomologist.
* Govind Sawant, 65, Indian field hockey player and Olympic medalist.

### 9

* William Sefton, Baron Sefton of Garston, 86, British politician.
* Tommy Hollis, 47, American actor, complications of diabetes.
* Ahmad Shah Massoud, 48, Afghan Northern Alliance military commander, suicide bombing.
* Shinji Sōmai, 53, Japanese film director, cancer.

### 10

* DJ Uncle Al, 32, American disc jockey, homicide.
* Yevhen Drahunov, 37, Ukrainian football player, stroke.
* Aurelio Genghini, 93, Italian Olympic long-distance runner (men's marathon at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
* Magnar Ingebrigtsli, 68, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 15 kilometre cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics).
* Alexey Suetin, 74, Soviet and Russian chess player and chess writer, heart attack.

### 11

* Clem Dreisewerd, 85, American baseball player.
* Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon, 77, British peer and racing manager to Queen Elizabeth II.
* Henryk Siwiak, 46, Polish émigré to New York City, shot.
* Alice Stewart Trillin, 63, American educator, author and film producer, heart failure.
* Vince Ventura, 84, American baseball player.
* Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 attacks, including:
** David Angell, 55, American television producer and screenwriter (Frasier, Wings). Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
** Mohamed Atta, 33, Egyptian ringleader and terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
** Garnet Bailey, 53, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oil Kings, Washington Capitals, Hershey Bears). Passenger of United Airlines Flight 175.
** Fayez Banihammad, 24, Emirate terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
** Mark Bavis, 31, American ice hockey player (Providence Bruins, South Carolina Stingrays, Fredericton Canadiens). Passenger of United Airlines Flight 175.
** Todd Beamer, 32, American account manager. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
** Carolyn Beug, 48, American filmmaker, producer and music video director ('"Right Now", "Fast as You"). Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
** Bill Biggart, 54, American photojournalist.
** Mark Bingham, 31, American public relations executive. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
** Patrick J. Brown, 48, American firefighter.
** Ronald Paul Bucca, 47, American fire marshal.
** William Francis Burke Jr., 46, American firefighter.
** Charles Burlingame, 51, American airline pilot American Airlines Flight 77.
** Tom Burnett, 38, American executive. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
** William E. Caswell, 54, American physicist. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.
** Kevin Cosgrove, 46, American business executive.
** Welles Crowther, 24, American Investment banker.
** Frank De Martini, 49, American architect.
** Melissa Doi, 32, American businesswoman.
** William M. Feehan, 71, American deputy fire commissioner, First Deputy Commissioner of the Fire Department New York.
** Wilson Flagg, 62, United States Navy Rear Admiral. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.
** Peter Ganci, 54, American firefighter, Chief of the Fire Department New York.
** Keith A. Glascoe, 38, American actor (Léon: The Professional, 100 Centre Street, The Pirates of Central Park) and firefighter.
** Ahmed al-Ghamdi, 22, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
** Hamza al-Ghamdi, 20, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
** Saeed al-Ghamdi, 21, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
** Jeremy Glick, 31, American sales executive. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
** Lauren Grandcolas, 38, American author. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
** Nezam Hafiz, 32, Guyanese-born American cricketer (national team).
** Mohammad Salman Hamdani, 23, Pakistani American research technician.
** Hani Hanjour, 29, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
** Leonard Hatton, 45, American FBI agent.
** Nawaf al-Hazmi, 25, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
** Salem al-Hazmi, 20, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
** Ahmed al-Haznawi, 20, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
** LeRoy Homer Jr., 36, American airline pilot United Airlines Flight 93.
** Ziad Jarrah, 26, Lebanese terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
** Charles Edward Jones, 48, American astronaut (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program). Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
** Mychal Judge, 68, American Franciscan friar and Catholic priest, Chaplain of the Fire Department New York.
** Neil David Levin, 46, American politician, businessman and CEO of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (since 2001).
** Daniel Lewin, 31, American-Israeli mathematician, entrepreneur and co-founder of Akamai Technologies. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
** Eamon McEneaney, 46, American Hall of Fame lacrosse player (Cornell Big Red).
** Timothy Maude, 53, United States Army Lieutenant General.
** Khalid al-Mihdhar, 26, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
** Majed Moqed, 24, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
** Ahmed al-Nami, 23, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
** John Ogonowski, 50, American pilot American Airlines Flight 11.
** Barbara Olson, 45, American lawyer and television commentator (CNN, Fox News Channel). Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.
** Abdulaziz al-Omari, 22, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
** John P. O'Neill, 49, American counter-terrorism expert and FBI agent.
** Betty Ong, 45, American flight attendant American Airlines Flight 11.
** Pablo Ortiz, 49, American construction superintendent.
** Orio Palmer, 45, American firefighter.
** Berry Berenson Perkins, 53, American actress (Remember My Name, Cat People). and photographer. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.
** Dominick Pezzulo, 36, American-Italian police officer.
** Sneha Anne Philip, 31, Indian-American physician, presumed to have been a victim of the attacks.
** Rick Rescorla, 62, British-American soldier and police officer.
** Michael Richards, 38, Jamaican-born American sculptor.
** Marwan al-Shehhi, 23, Emirati terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
** Mohand al-Shehri, 22, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
** Wail al-Shehri, 28, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
** Waleed al-Shehri, 22, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
** Mari-Rae Sopper, 35, American gymnastics coach and lawyer Judge Advocate General's Corps. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.
** Satam al-Suqami, 25, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
** Madeline Amy Sweeney, 35, American flight attendant American Airlines Flight 11.
** Dan Trant, 40, American basketball player (Boston Celtics).
** Abraham Zelmanowitz, 55, American computer programmer

### 12

* Carmen Rico Godoy, 62, Spanish writer, journalist and feminist, lung cancer.
* Jack Kolle, 83, Indonesian football player.
* Marilyn Meseke, 84, American beauty queen.
* Joseph Bruno Slowinski, 38, American herpetologist, snake bite
* Manaf Suleymanov, 89, Azerbaijani writer and historian.
* Victor Wong, 74, American actor (The Joy Luck Club, The Last Emperor, The Golden Child), heart failure.

### 13

* Jorge Comellas, 84, Cuban baseball player.
* Johnny Craig, 75, American comic book artist.
* Jaroslav Drobný, 79, Czechoslovakian tennis player (Wimbledon Championship) and Olympic ice hockey player (silver medal winner at the 1948 Winter Olympics).
* Dorothy McGuire, 85, American actress (nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for Gentleman's Agreement), heart failure.
* Fayga Ostrower, 80, Polish-Brazilian visual artist.
* Charles Régnier, 87, German actor and director, stroke.
* Alex Scott, 64, Scottish footballer.
* Irving S. Shapiro, 85, American lawyer and businessman.

### 14

* Barbara Ansell, 78, British paediatric rheumatologist, ovarian cancer.
* George Ireland, 88, American basketball coach (Loyola of Chicago 1963 NCAA Championship).
* Stelios Kazantzidis, 70, Greek singer, brain cancer.
* Francisco Urcuyo, 86, Nicaraguan politician, vice president (1967-1972, 1979), heart attack.

### 15

* Herbert Burdenski, 79, German football player and coach.
* Fred de Cordova, 90, American stage, film and television director and producer (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson).
* Richard Fegley, 64, American photographer, cancer.
* Eliezer Preminger, 81, Israeli politician.
* June Salter, 69, Australian actor.
* Robert Louis Whelan, 89, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Paul "Tank" Younger, 73, American gridiron football player.
* Živojin Zdravković, 86, Serbian conductor.

### 16

* Samuel Z. Arkoff, 83, American film producer (Futureworld, The Amityville Horror).
* François Bédarida, 75, French academic historian.
* Patrick Cosgrave, 59, Irish journalist and writer.
* Neptali A. Gonzales, Sr., 78, Filipino politician and writer.
* Jerry Harper, 67, American basketball player (University of Alabama from 1952 to 1956).
* Donald Hume, 86, American Olympic rower (gold medal winner in men's rowing eight at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
* Leonid Osyka, 61, Ukrainian movie director, producer, and screen writer.

### 17

* Hizgil Avshalumov, 88, Soviet novelist, poet and playwright.
* Bubba Church, 77, American baseball player.
* Paul Cummings, 48, American middle and long-distance runner, drowning accident.
* Dalilah, 65, Egyptian-Spanish oriental dancer.
* Dickie Dodds, 82, English cricket player.
* Samuel Epstein, 81, Canadian-American geochemist.
* Ray Gill, 76, English football player.
* David Kipiani, 49, Georgian football player and manager, car accident.

### 18

* Ernie Coombs, 73, American-Canadian actor (Mr. Dressup), stroke.
* Rachmat Kartolo, 63, Indonesian actor and singer.
* Hank Levy, 73, American jazz composer and saxophonist, congestive heart failure.
* Jane du Pont Lunger, 87, American heiress and philanthropist.
* Sandy Saddler, 75, American boxer.
* Barry Shepherd, 64, Australian cricket player.
* Amy Witting, 83, Australian novelist and poet.

### 19

* Jane Dudley, 89, American modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher.
* Nguyen Ton Hoan, 84, South Vietnamese politician, leader of Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng (Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam).
* Rhys Jones, 60, Welsh-Australian archaeologist.
* Raymond Alphonse Lucker, 74, American prelate of the Catholic Church, melanoma.
* Nina Roscher, 62, American chemist and activist, breast cancer.
* Darryl Sambell, 55, Australian talent manager and music promoter, lung cancer.
* Bill Stafford, 63, American baseball player.

### 20

* Patsy Adam-Smith, 77, Australian author and historian.
* Victor Henry Anderson, 84, American priest and poet.
* George Archie, 87, American baseball player.
* George Grosvenor, 91, American gridiron football player (Colorado, Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals).
* Bill Gunn, 81, Australian politician.
* Billy Harris, 66, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Oakland Seals, Pittsburgh Penguins).
* Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez, 87, Venezuelan military officer and President of Venezuela.
* Princess Cecylia Lubomirska, 94, Polish princess.
* Abe Mickal, 89, American gridiron football player.
* Lewis Rudin, 74, American real estate investor and developer.
* Joe Stephenson, 80, American baseball player.
* Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, 83, German journalist and television show host, pneumonia.

### 21

* Eleanor Bone, 90, English neopagan wiccan priestess.
* David S. Dennison, Jr., 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district from 1957 to 1959).
* Daniel J. Murphy, 79, American four-star navy admiral, stomach aneurysm.
* Dwayne O'Steen, 46, American football player, heart attack.
* Ross Parker, 17, English victim of racially motivated crime, stabbed.

### 22

* Germaine Brée, 93, French-American literary scholar.
* Hilde Holger, 95, Austrian-British expressionist dancer and choreographer, cough.
* Leslie Howarth, 90, British mathematician.
* Fikret Kızılok, 54, Turkish rock musician, heart attack.
* William Knox, 73, Australian politician.
* Gordon Reece, 71, British journalist and political strategist, cancer.
* Isaac Stern, 81, Ukrainian-American violinist, congestive heart failure.

### 23

* Robert Abel, 64, American pioneer in visual effects and computer animation, heart attack.
* Spencer Barrett, 87, British classical scholar.
* Kevin Boland, 83, Irish politician.
* Allen Curnow, 90, New Zealand poet and journalist.
* Elton Hayes, 86, British actor and guitarist.
* Ron Hewitt, 73, Welsh footballer.
* Henryk Tomaszewski, 81, Polish mime artist and theatre director.

### 24

* Peter Shore, 77, British politician.
* Shawn Walsh, 46, American ice hockey coach, kidney cancer.
* Eldon Woolliams, 85, Canadian politician and lawyer.
* Arthur Wynn, 91, British civil servant and recruiter of Soviet spies.

### 25

* Irving Bernstein, 84, American historian and professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
* Ritter Collett, 80, American sports editor and columnist.
* Samar Das, 75, Bangladeshi musician and composer.
* Robert W. Floyd, 65, American computer scientist (Floyd–Warshall algorithm, Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm, Floyd–Steinberg dithering, Hoare logic).
* Sepp Janko, 95, German SS Obersturmführer during World War II.
* Herbert Klein, 78, German Olympic swimmer (bronze medal winner in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
* Evan A. Lottman, 70, American film editor, esophageal cancer.
* Dolores Michaels, 68, American actress.
* Marc North, 35, English footballer, complications from lung cancer.
* Lani O'Grady, 46, American actress (Eight Is Enough) and talent agent, drug overdose.
* John Powers, 72, American baseball player.
* Paul Seiler, 55, American football player, colon cancer.

### 26

* Clarice Cross Bagwell, 86, American educator and activist.
* Helia Bravo Hollis, 99, Mexican botanist.
* Hannes Nikel, 70, German film editor.
* Sagat Singh, 82, Indian Army officer.
* Vaithilingam Sornalingam, 52, Sri Lankan rebel (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), homicide.

### 27

* Herman Berlinski, 91, German-American musician, heart attack.
* Helen Cherry, 85, English actress (Three Cases of Murder, The Naked Edge, The Charge of the Light Brigade).
* Linda Smith Dyer, 53, American lawyer and women's rights activist, cancer.
* Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, 81, Indian politician.
* Philip Rosenthal, 84, German industrialist, socialite and politician.
* Dick Rozek, 74, American baseball player.

### 28

* Ernest Ačkun, 71, Yugoslav clarinetist.
* James H. Brickley, 72, American judge and politician.
* R. J. Hollingdale, 70, British biographer and translator of German philosophy and literature.
* Isao Inokuma, 63, Japanese Olympic judoka (gold medal winner in men's heavyweight judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics), suicide by seppuku.
* Ejner Johansson, 79, Danish art historian, writer, and documentary film director.
* Jack Maguire, 76, American baseball player.
* Martin O'Hagan, 51, Irish investigative journalist, shot.
* Irene von Meyendorff, 85, Russian-born German-British actress.

### 29

* Viktor Belov, 76, Russian football player and manager.
* Mabel Fairbanks, 85, American figure skater and coach.
* Gloria Foster, 67, American actress (The Matrix, The Comedians, City of Hope), diabetes.
* Frank Gasparro, 92, American Chief Engraver of the United States Mint.
* Shona McFarlane, 72, New Zealand artist, journalist and broadcaster.
* Gellu Naum, 86, Romanian poet, novelist, and children's writer.
* John Noriega, 57, American baseball player.
* Risto Orko, 102, Finnish film producer and director.
* Eleanor Phelps, 94, American actress.
* Helmut Roloff, 88, German pianist, teacher and resistance fighter during World War II.
* Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, 78, South Vietnamese military officer and politician, 2nd President of South Vietnam, stroke.

### 30

* Consuelo Araújo, 61, Colombian politician, writer and journalist, assassination by gunshot.
* Luis Barboo, 74, Spanish actor.
* Anatoly Bogdanov, 70, Soviet sport shooter and Olympic champion.
* Gerhard Ebeling, 89, German Lutheran theologian.
* George Gately, 72, American cartoonist (Heathcliff), cardiovascular disease.
* Calvin C. Hernton, 69, American sociologist, poet and author.
* Jenny Jugo, 97, Austrian actress.
* John C. Lilly, 86, American writer, inventor and counterculture scientist.
* Tage Lindbom, 91, Swedish mystic and conservative politician.
* Giovanni Macchia, 88, Italian literary critic and essayist.
* Madhavrao Scindia, 56, Indian politician, royal family member, Maharaja of Gwalior.
* Dora M. Sweeney, 94, American secretary and politician.