# Deaths in September 2007
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2007.
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 2007
### 1

* Robert H. Ahmanson, 80, American businessman and philanthropist, heart attack.
* Tomás Medina Caracas, 42, Colombian guerrilla member of FARC, military action.
* Russell Ellington, 69, American basketball coach for the Harlem Globetrotters, lung cancer.
* Sir Abraham Goldberg, 83, Scottish doctor and medical scientist.
* Sally Haley, 99, American painter, natural causes.
* Sir Roy McKenzie, 84, New Zealand philanthropist, harness racing breeder, trainer and competitor.
* Viliam Schrojf, 76, Slovakian former football goalkeeper.
* John T. Scott, 67, black person sculptor and artist.

### 2

* Rajae Belmlih, 45, Moroccan singer, cancer.
* Anthony Day, 74, American editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times, emphysema.
* Robert Fidgeon, 65, Australian television columnist and critic, cancer.
* Safet Isović, 71, Bosnian singer.
* Marcia Mae Jones, 83, American actress (Heidi, These Three).
* Max McNab, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and NHL general manager.
* Pat Norton, 88, Australian Olympic backstroke swimmer.
* Bill Robinson, 88, Australian rules footballer.

### 3

* Carter Albrecht, 34, American keyboardist and guitarist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians), shot.
* Clarke Bynum, 45, American basketball player (Clemson Tigers), 2000 hijack hero, cancer.
* Gustavo Eberto, 24, Argentine footballer (Boca Juniors), testicular cancer.
* Sir Hamish Forbes, 91, British soldier and aristocrat.
* Steve Fossett, 63, American adventurer, aircrash.
* Syd Jackson, 68, New Zealand Māori rights activist, cancer.
* Gift Leremi, 22, South African international footballer, car accident.
* Don Maloney, 79, American writer, author on Japan.
* Janis Martin, 67, American singer, cancer.
* Lord Michael Pratt, 61, British writer and aristocrat.
* Steve Ryan, 60, American actor (The West Wing, American Dreams, Daddio).
* Mária Szepes, 98, Hungarian writer.
* Jane Tomlinson, 43, British cancer activist, cancer.

### 4

* Michael Evans, 87, American actor.
* Bhamidipati Radhakrishna, 77, Indian playwright and scriptwriter.
* Kumari Rukmini, 78, Indian actress and dancer.
* Gigi Sabani, 54, Italian television host, heart attack.
* John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, 83, British politician and aristocrat.
* Ryūzō Sejima, 95, Japanese academic, chairman of the board of Asia University, World War II strategist.

### 5

* Julieta Campos, 75, Cuban-Mexican writer, cancer.
* Duan Yihe, 61, Chinese congress member who arranged the murder of his mistress, execution.
* Jennifer Dunn, 66, American Representative from Washington (1993–2005), pulmonary embolism.
* Paul Gillmor, 68, American Representative from Ohio since 1989.
* Edward Gramlich, 68, American economics professor, governor of the Federal Reserve System, lymphocytic leukemia.
* Charlotte Zucker, 86, American actress.
* Thomas Hansen, 31, Norwegian musician known as "Saint Thomas", combination of prescribed drugs.
* D. James Kennedy, 76, American evangelical Protestant pastor and theologian, founder of Coral Ridge Ministries.
* Nikos Nikolaidis, 67, Greek film director, pulmonary edema.

### 6

* Martin Čech, 31, Czech international ice hockey player, car accident.
* Eva Crane, 95, British bee expert.
* Allan Crite, 97, American artist, natural causes.
* Billy Darnell, 81, American professional wrestler of the 1940s–1960s famous for feuds with Buddy Rogers.
* Wolfgang Franke, 95, German sinologist.
* Evald Gering, 89, Canadian Olympic shooter.
* Ian Gray, 69, British comics writer.
* Jack Hawkes, 92, British botanist.
* John Kelly, 71, Provisional Irish Republican Army founder-member and Northern Ireland Assembly member (1998–2003), cancer.
* Madeleine L'Engle, 88, American writer (A Wrinkle in Time), natural causes.
* Lee Ae-jung, 20, South Korean actress, complications of brain cancer.
* Ronald Magill, 87, British actor (Amos Brearly on Emmerdale Farm).
* Bill Muller, 42, American film critic and journalist.
* Luciano Pavarotti, 71, Italian operatic tenor, pancreatic cancer.
* Percy Rodriguez, 89, Canadian character actor and movie trailer narrator, kidney problems.
* Byron Stevenson, 50, British footballer (Wales, Leeds United, Birmingham City), throat cancer.

### 7

* Alex, 31, American-born African grey parrot, subject of animal language experiments.
* Sir John Compton, 82, St. Lucian Prime Minister (1979, 1982–1996, 2006–2007), stroke.
* Norman Deeley, 73, British footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
* Russell E. Dougherty, 87, American former commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command.
* Joseph W. Eschbach, 74, American doctor and kidney specialist whose research led to treatment of anemia, cancer.
* Joseph Rudolph Grimes, 84, Liberian foreign minister (1960–1972).
* Sidney Leviss, 90, American politician and judge.
* Gabriel Baccus Matthews, 59, Liberian foreign minister (1980–1981, 1990–1993).
* Mark Weil, 55, Uzbek theatre director, stabbed.

### 8

* Lord Bethell, 69, British historian of Eastern and Central Europe, human rights campaigner, Parkinson's disease.
* Jean-François Bizot, 63, French journalist, creator of "Actuel", Radio Nova, cancer.
* Adrian Esquino Lisco, 68, Salvadoran indigenous rights activist and spiritual chief, complications from diabetes.
* Vincent Serventy, 91, Australian writer and conservationist.

### 9

* Hannes Brewis, 87, South African rugby union player.
* Angie Brooks, 78, Liberian diplomat and jurist.
* Ian Campbell, 81, British politician, MP for Dunbartonshire West (1970–1983) and Dumbarton (1983–1987).
* Han Dingxiang, 71, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, detained for loyalty to the Vatican.
* ASHK Sadek, 73, Bangladeshi politician.
* Helmut Senekowitsch, 73, Austrian football player and manager.
* Zoran Tadić, 66, Croatian film director.
* Hughie Thomasson, 55, American guitarist (Outlaws), heart attack.
* Sir Tasker Watkins VC, 88, British jurist and businessman, Lord Justice of Appeal and former WRU President, after short illness.
* Xu Simin, 93, Hong Kong magazine publisher, pro-Beijing supporter, organ failure.

### 10

* Loretta King Hadler, 90, American film actress, natural causes.
* James Leasor, 83, British novelist and biographer.
* Joe Rantz, 93, American rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
* Dame Anita Roddick, 64, British entrepreneur and founder of The Body Shop, brain haemorrhage.
* Arthur Ross, 96, American businessman and philanthropist known for his contribution to Central Park.
* Joe Sherlock, 76, Irish Teachta Dála for Cork East (1981–1982, 1987–1992, 2002–2007).
* Ted Stepien, 82, American businessman and former owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.
* Enrique Torres, 85, American professional wrestler.
* Jane Wyman, 90, American Academy Award-winning actress (Johnny Belinda), 1984 Golden Globe winner (Falcon Crest), first wife of Ronald Reagan.

### 11

* John Garrett, 76, British politician, MP for Norwich South 1974–1983 and 1987–1997.
* Ian Porterfield, 61, British footballer and manager (scored Sunderland's 1973 FA Cup winner), colon cancer.
* Gene Savoy, 80, American explorer and religious mystic, claimed discovery of over 40 lost cities in Peru, natural causes.
* James F. Smith, 84, American politician.
* Willie Tee, 63, American singer-songwriter and producer, colon cancer.
* Joe Zawinul, 75, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer, founder of Weather Report, cancer.

### 12

* Bobby Byrd, 73, American soul/funk singer, cancer.
* Daryl Holton, 45, American convicted murderer, first man executed by electric chair in Tennessee in 47 years.
* Phil Frank, 64, American cartoonist, brain cancer.
* Lou Kretlow, 86, American baseball pitcher.

### 13

* Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, 37, Iraqi leader of Anbar Salvation Council, improvised explosive device.
* Gaetano Arfé, 81, Italian politician.
* Robert Bates, 96, American mountaineer.
* Laurel Burch, 61, American artist, osteopetrosis.
* Phil Frank, 64, American cartoonist, brain tumor.
* Bill Griffiths, 59, British poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar.
* Augie Hiebert, 90, American who built Alaska's first television station (KTVA), cancer.
* Neville Jeffress, 87, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia, pneumonia.
* Colin Mitchell, 78, English cricketer.
* Clare Oliver, 26, Australian cancer activist, melanoma.
* Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi, 35, Iraqi leader of the Anbar Salvation Council, bomb.
* Whakahuihui Vercoe, 79, New Zealand retired Anglican archbishop.

### 14

* Sir Robert Honeycombe, 86, British metallurgist.
* Jacques Martin, 74, French presenter and former husband of Cécilia Sarkozy, cancer.
* Emilio Ruiz del Rio, 84, Spanish set decorator (Pan's Labyrinth), respiratory failure.
* Benny Vansteelant, 30, Belgian world champion duathlete, bike accident.

### 15

* Leslie Holligan, 29, Guyanese footballer, heart failure.
* Colin McRae, 39, British World Rally champion, helicopter crash.
* Sir Jeremy Moore, 79, British soldier, commander of UK land forces in the Falklands War.
* Specs Powell, 85, American jazz drummer, kidney disease.
* Ernie Renzel, 100, American politician, Mayor of San Jose (1945–1946), "Father of San Jose International Airport."
* Aldemaro Romero, 79, Venezuelan composer, pianist and conductor, complications of intestinal blockage.
* Brett Somers, 83, American actress, comedian and panelist (Match Game), stomach and colon cancer.

### 16

* Jean Balissat, 71, Swiss musician.
* Peter Cleeland, 69, Australian politician, MHR for McEwen (1984–1990, 1993–1996), motor neurone disease.
* Robert Jordan, 58, American fantasy novelist (The Wheel of Time), cardiac amyloidosis.
* Cal Rampton, 93, American politician, Governor of Utah (1965–1977), cancer.
* Garrard "Buster" Ramsey, 87, American football player and coach, pneumonia.

### 17

* Jim Furner, 79, Australian military intelligence chief.
* Stephen Medcalf, 70, British scholar.
* Rappani Khalilov, 37, Chechen militant, leader of the Shariat Jamaat, terrorist, killed by Russian troops.
* Maurice King, 72, American basketball player.
* Charlotte Lewis, 52, American basketball player.

### 18

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

### 19

* Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri, 34, Iraqi sculptor, replaced Saddam Hussein statue toppled during 2003 invasion of Iraq, car accident.
* Antoine Ghanem, 64, Lebanese politician, MP, car bomb.
* Mike Osborne, 66, British jazz musician.
* Vlatko Pavletić, 76, Croatian politician, Speaker of Parliament (1995–1999), acting President (1999–2000).
* H. Emory Widener, Jr., 83, American jurist (United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit), lung cancer.

### 20

* Mahlon Clark, 84, American clarinetist, natural causes.
* Helen Elaine Freeman, 75, American endangered species (snow leopards) advocate, lung disease.
* Johnny Gavin, 79, Irish international footballer and Norwich City's record goalscorer.
* Kaljo Kiisk, 81, Estonian actor, film director and politician.
* Viktor Shershunov, 56, Russian governor of Kostroma Oblast, car accident.
* Labah Sosseh, 64, Senegalese singer.
* Sir Edward Tomkins, 91, British diplomat, ambassador to The Netherlands and France.

### 21

* Hallgeir Brenden, 78, Norwegian cross country skier, gold medallist (1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics).
* Bob Collins, 61, Australian ALP senator (1987–1998) and minister (1990–1996), suicide by alcohol and drug overdose.
* Alice Ghostley, 84, American actress (Designing Women, To Kill a Mockingbird, Grease), Tony winner (1965), colon cancer.
* Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, 81, British politician.
* Rex Humbard, 88, American televangelist, congestive heart failure.
* Paul Konsler, 94, French Olympic shooter.
* Floria Lasky, 84, American entertainment attorney and litigator, cancer.
* Ángel Romero, 75, Mexican Olympic cyclist.
* Petar Stambolić, 95, Serbian Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Serbia (1978–1982), President of Yugoslavia (1982–1983).
* Coral Watts, 53, American serial killer, complications of prostate cancer.
* Wu Xiangxiang, 92, Chinese historian.

### 22

* Albert Fuller, 81, American harpsichordist and founder of the Aston Magna Foundation and Festival.
* Herbert Gallen, 92, American chairman and owner of Ellen Tracy sportswear.
* Karl Hardman, 80, American horror film producer and actor.
* Richard Hornby, 85, British politician and businessman.
* Marcel Marceau, 84, French mime artist.
* William D. Rogers, 80, American advisor to Henry Kissinger, heart attack.
* ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá, 95, Iranian-born leader in the Baháʼí Faith.

### 23

* Renzo Barbieri, 67, Italian writer.
* Ken Danby, 67, Canadian painter.
* Ivan Hinderaker, 91, American academic, chancellor of the University of California, Riverside (1964–1979).
* John Klier, 62, British-American writer and historian.

### 24

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

### 25

* Haidar Abdel-Shafi, 88, Palestinian negotiator, stomach cancer.
* Patrick Bourque, 29, Canadian bass guitarist (Emerson Drive), suicide.
* Hans Colberg, 95, Danish footballer.
* André Emmerich, 82, German-born American art dealer, complications from a stroke.
* Jana Krishnamurthi, 79, Indian politician, President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (2001–2007).
* Michael Wayne Richard, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Bill Waller, 95, American college football coach.

### 26

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

### 27

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

### 28

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

### 29

* Cyril Martin, 79, South African Olympic wrestler.
* Lois Maxwell, 80, Canadian actress (Dr. No, Goldfinger, A View to a Kill), colorectal cancer.
* Wolfgang Preisendanz, 87, German philologist and literary critic.
* Katsuko Saruhashi, 87, Japanese scientist, pneumonia.
* Gyula Zsivótzky, 70, Hungarian hammer thrower, 1968 Olympics gold medallist, cancer.

### 30

* Al Chang, 85, American two-time Pulitzer prize-nominated military photographer, leukemia.
* John Henebry, 89, American Air Force major general, heart failure.
* Milan Jelić, 51, Bosnian politician, president of Republika Srpska entity (2006–2007), heart attack.
* Joe Mitty, 88, British founder of the Oxfam charity shop.
* C. F. D. Moule, 98, British theologian and priest.
* Eugene Saenger, 90, American radiologist and university professor.
* Oswald Mathias Ungers, 81, German architect, pneumonia.