# Deaths in September 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2006.
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 2006
### 1

* Tommy Chesbro, 66, American wrestler and coach (Oklahoma State University), heart attack.
* Nellie Connally, 87, American widow of Texas Governor John Connally, shared car at John F. Kennedy assassination.
* Anil Kumar Dutta, 73, Indian artist, founder of Academy of Creative Art.
* György Faludy, 95, Hungarian poet, writer and translator.
* Rashid Maidin, 89, Malaysian leader of the Communist Party.
* Ronald Mansbridge, 100, British-born American publisher, founded first US branch of Cambridge University Press.
* Richard Frewen Martin, 88, British fighter pilot and test pilot.
* Warren Mitofsky, 72, American pollster, creator of the exit poll, heart failure.
* Bob O'Connor, 61, American Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, brain cancer.
* Travis I. Payze, 60, Australian footballer, prostate cancer.
* Sir Kyffin Williams, 88, Welsh artist, lung and prostate cancer.
* Pierre Monichon, 80, French musicologist and inventor of the Harmoneon.

### 2

* Eduard Butenko, 65, Russian actor, theatre director.
* Bob Mathias, 75, American decathlete, twice Olympic gold medalist, United States Representative, cancer.
* Deforrest Most, 89, American gymnast, helped establish Muscle Beach, heart failure.
* Willi Ninja, 45, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS.
* Clermont Pépin, 80, Canadian composer, liver cancer.
* Silverio Pérez, 91, Mexican bullfighter, renal illness.
* Lionel Pickering, 74, British businessman, chairman of Derby County, cancer.
* Anthony Poon, 61, Singaporean abstract artist, lung cancer.
* Dewey Redman, 75, American jazz saxophonist, father of Joshua Redman, liver failure.
* Monty Stickles, 68, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), heart failure.
* Charlie Williams, 77, British comedian and footballer (Doncaster Rovers), Parkinson's disease.
* Sahibzada Muhammad Ishaq Zaffar, 61, Pakistani politician, heart attack.

### 3

* Françoise Claustre, 69, French ethnologist and archaeologist.
* Levi Fox, 92, British conservationist and historian, Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
* Ian Hamer, 73, British jazz trumpeter.
* Eva Knardahl, 79, Norwegian classical pianist.
* Annemarie Wendl, 91, German actress, heart failure.

### 4

* Rémy Belvaux, 38, Belgian writer, film producer and director (Man Bites Dog), suicide.
* Ingrid Bjoner, 78, Norwegian soprano.
* John Conte, 90, American actor, founded TV station KMIR, natural causes.
* Giacinto Facchetti, 64, Italian footballer, cancer.
* James Fee, 56, American photographer, liver cancer.
* Mark Anthony Graham, 33, Canadian Olympian and soldier, friendly fire.
* Steve Irwin, 44, Australian naturalist (The Crocodile Hunter), stabbed in the chest by a stingray barb.
* Khadaffy Janjalani, 31, Filipino militant, leader of Abu Sayyaf, shot.
* Moses Khumalo, 26, South African jazz saxophonist, Best Newcomer at South African Music Awards (2002), suicide by hanging.
* Clive Lythgoe, 79, British pianist.
* Colin Thiele, 85, Australian children's author, heart failure.
* Astrid Varnay, 88, American soprano.

### 5

* Sir Michael Davies, 85, British jurist.
* Anne Gregg, 66, British television presenter (Holiday), cancer.
* Gösta Löfgren, 83, Swedish football player.
* Hilary Mason, 89, British character actress.
* John McLusky, 83, British comics artist (James Bond).
* J. Bazzel Mull, 91, American Christianity preacher and gospel music promoter.

### 6

* Warren Bolster, 59, American surf and skateboard photographer, suicide by gunshot.
* Sir John Drummond, 71, British controller of BBC Radio 3 and The Proms.
* Lovette George, 44, American Broadway theatre singer and actress, ovarian cancer.
* Peter Greenough, 89, American finance columnist (The Boston Globe), husband of Beverly Sills, after long illness.
* Peter Hyndman, 64, Canadian politician and lawyer, cancer.
* Gordon Manning, 89, American television journalist (NBC and CBS), heart attack.
* Sir Michael Marshall, 76, British politician, MP for Arundel (1974–1997), President of the Chichester Festival Theatre.
* Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, c.50, Sudanese newspaper editor, beheaded.
* Agha Shahi, 86, Pakistani diplomat and foreign minister, heart attack.
* Mark Wright, 27, British soldier, posthumously awarded George Cross.

### 7

* Efraim Allsalu, 77, Estonian painter.
* Sir Norman Blacklock, 78, British physician, Medical Officer to the Queen (1976–1993).
* Clem Coetzee, 67, Zimbabwean conservationist, heart attack.
* James deAnda, 81, American lawyer and federal judge, part of the legal team in Hernandez v. Texas, prostate cancer.
* Jorge di Giandoménico, 75, Argentine Olympic sports shooter.
* Joan Donaldson, 60, American founding head of the CBC Newsworld television network, complications from injuries.
* Sir Stephen Egerton, 74, British diplomat, Ambassador to Italy (1989–1992).
* James Hawthorne, 74, British controller of the BBC in Northern Ireland (1979–1989).
* Robert Earl Jones, 96, American actor, father of James Earl Jones.
* Ronald St. John Macdonald, 78, Canadian legal academic and jurist.
* Cornelius O'Leary, 78, Irish historian.
* John M. Watson, 69, American jazz musician and actor, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

### 8

* Hilda Bernstein, 99, British-born South African author and anti-apartheid activist, heart failure.
* Peter Brock, 61, Australian touring car racer, car accident.
* William Harper, 90, Rhodesian politician
* Thomas Lee Judge, 71, American Governor of Montana (1973–1981), pulmonary fibrosis.
* Frank Middlemass, 87, British character actor (As Time Goes By).
* Erk Russell, 80, American college football coach (University of Georgia, Georgia Southern University), stroke.
* Fred Spiess, 86, American oceanographer and marine explorer, cancer.

### 9

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

### 10

* Ernestine Bayer, 97, American rower, complications from pneumonia.
* Patty Berg, 88, American golf pioneer, founder of the LPGA, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* James C. Hickman, 79, American actuary and academic administrator, Dean of University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business (1985–1990).
* Sir John Johnston, 84, British courtier, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office (1981–1987).
* Ramanlal Joshi, 80, Indian literary critic and editor.
* Melanie Lomax, 56, American civil rights lawyer, former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, car accident.
* Ted Risenhoover, 71, American Representative for Oklahoma (1975–1979).
* Bennie Smith, 72, American blues guitarist, heart attack.
* Daniel Wayne Smith, 20, American actor, son of Anna Nicole Smith, drug overdose.
* Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, 88, Tongan royal, King of Tonga, after illness.

### 11

* William Auld, 81, British poet, author and supporter of Esperanto.
* Peter Clentzos, 97, American-born Greek 1932 Summer Olympics competitor in pole vault.
* Pat Corley, 76, American actor (Murphy Brown, Against All Odds, Hill Street Blues), heart failure.
* János Dévai, 66, Hungarian Olympic cyclist.
* Solange Fernex, French ecologist and green politician.
* Joachim Fest, 79, German historian and journalist.
* Joseph Hayes, 88, American author (The Desperate Hours).
* Johannes Bob van Benthem, 85, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office (1977–1985).

### 12

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

### 13

* Brian Biggins, 66, English football player (Chester City).
* Cesare Barbetti, 75, Italian actor and voice actor.
* Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 97, British Conservative minister and wartime SOE officer.
* Christopher Essex, 61, Australian fashion designer, cancer.
* N. V. Krishnaiah, 76, Indian politician.
* Ann Richards, 73, American Governor of Texas (1991–1995), esophageal cancer.
* Peter Tevis, 69, American musician, Parkinson's Disease.

### 14

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

### 15

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

### 16

* John Allen, 80, American Olympic athlete.
* Sten Andersson, 83, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1985–1991) and Minister for Social Affairs (1982–1985), heart attack.
* Floyd Curry, 81, Canadian four-time Stanley Cup winner (Montreal Canadiens).
* George Estman, 84, South African Olympic cyclist.
* E. H. H. Green, 47, British historian, multiple sclerosis.
* Zsuzsa Körmöczy, 82, Hungarian tennis player and coach, won 1958 French Championships.
* Esther Martinez, 94, American Tewa storyteller and linguist, car accident.
* Fouad el-Mohandes, 82, Egyptian comedy actor, heart failure.

### 17

* Jack Banta, 81, American Major League Baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Al Casey, 89, American rock and country music guitarist.
* Seán Clancy, 105, Irish oldest War of Independence veteran.
* George Heslop, 66, English footballer (Manchester City).
* Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82, American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy, ex-wife of actor Peter Lawford, pneumonia.
* Nathaniel Lubell, 90, American Olympic fencer and artist.
* Edward D. Re, 85, American lawyer and judge.
* Leonella Sgorbati, 65, Italian nun, shot.
* Kazuyuki Sogabe, 58, Japanese anime voice actor (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball).
* Dorothy C. Stratton, 107, American first director of the Coast Guard Women's Reserve.

### 18

* Edward J. King, 81, American Governor of Massachusetts (1979–1983).
* Philip H. Melanson, 61, American academic, expert on assassinations, cancer.
* Nilton Pereira Mendes, 30, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
* Leo Navratil, 85, Austrian psychiatrist.
* Syd Thrift, 77, American general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles.

### 19

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

### 20

* Phạm Xuân Ẩn, 78, Vietnamese journalist, North Vietnamese spy during Vietnam War, emphysema.
* Clarence Hill, 48, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
* Henri Jayer, 84, French winemaker.
* Armin Jordan, 74, Swiss conductor.
* Beth Levine, 91, American shoe designer.
* Sven Nykvist, 83, Swedish cinematographer (Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander, The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Oscar winner (1974, 1984).
* John W. Peterson, 84, American gospel hymn writer, cancer.
* Lillian Robinson, 65, American professor of women's studies (Concordia University).
* Don Walser, 72, American country singer and yodeler, complications from diabetes.
* Muddy Waters, 83, American college football coach (Michigan State University).
* Dean Wooldridge, 93, American physicist, co-founder of TRW.

### 21

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

### 22

* Edward Albert, 55, American actor (Butterflies Are Free, Port Charles, Power Rangers Time Force), lung cancer.
* Carla Benschop, 56, Dutch basketball player.
* Tommy Garnett, 91, English-born Australian cricketer and educator.
* Enrique Gorriarán Merlo, 64, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader, cardiac arrest due to abdominal aortic aneurysm.
* Tommy Olivencia, 64, Puerto Rican salsa singer and bandleader.
* Mary Orr, 95, American author whose story "The Wisdom of Eve" inspired the film All About Eve.

### 23

* Sir Malcolm Arnold, 84, British film score composer (The Bridge on the River Kwai), Oscar winner (1958), chest infection.
* Etta Baker, 93, American piedmont blues guitarist.
* Sir Charles Cutler, 88, Australian Deputy Premier of New South Wales (1965–1975), cancer.
* Aladár Pege, 67, Hungarian jazz musician.
* Tim Rooney, 59, American actor, son of Mickey Rooney, dermatomyositis.

### 24

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

### 25

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

### 26

* Gerhard Behrendt, 77, German inventor of Sandmännchen children's television character.
* Giuseppe Bennati, 85, Italian film director.
* Laurence Jonathan Cohen, 83, British philosopher.
* Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese American convicted and later pardoned of being World War II propagandist "Tokyo Rose".
* Mihály Fülöp, 70, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
* Byron Nelson, 94, American professional golfer.
* Sir Philip Randle, 80, British biochemist.
* Sir Martin Roth, 88, Hungarian-born British president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
* John Salisse, 80, British businessman and magician.
* Ralph Story, 86, American radio broadcaster and television host (The $64,000 Challenge), emphysema.

### 27

* Geraldine Guest, 83, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
* William Horwitz, 88, American chemist.
* Helmut Kallmeyer, 95, German chemist and Aktion T4 perpetrator.
* Craig Kusick, 57, American former first baseman for the Minnesota Twins, leukemia.
* Arthur Marwick, 70, British historian, first professor of history at the Open University.
* Sir Michael Pollock, 89, British admiral, First Sea Lord (1971–1974).

### 28

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

### 29

* Rosamond Carr, 94, American fashion illustrator turned humanitarian and activist.
* Billy Mauch, 85, American child actor and sound editor.
* Jan Werner Danielsen, 30, Norwegian singer, heart failure.
* Gerry Gazzard, 81, English footballer.
* Walter Hadlee, 91, New Zealand cricketer, stroke.
* Michael A. Monsoor, 25, United States Navy SEAL.
* Louis-Albert Vachon, 94, Canadian Archbishop Emeritus of Québec.

### 30

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