# Deaths in September 2004
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2004.
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 2004
### 1

* Kenneth Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, British life peer and chairman of Rolls-Royce, Beecham Group, and STC.
* Delkash, 80, Iranian singer and actress.
* Kaye Elhardt, 69, American television actress.
* Herbert Haft, 84, American pharmacists and businessman, congestive heart failure.
* Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, Syrian Grand Mufti, heart attack.
* Alan Stewart, 86, New Zealand educator and university administrator.

### 2

* Tom Capone, 38, Brazilian music producer and guitar player, traffic collision.
* Billy Davis, 72, American songwriter, record producer, and commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke).
* Kieth Engen, 79, American operatic bass singer.
* Bob O. Evans, 77, American computer scientist.
* Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, 88, German actor.
* Donald Leslie, 93, American audio engineer and inventor of the Leslie speaker.
* Francesco Mander, 88, Italian conductor and composer.
* Joan Oró, 80, Spanish biochemist.
* Vonda Phelps, 89, American child stage actress, vaudeville performer and dancer.
* Paul Shmyr, 58, Canadian NHL hockey player, throat cancer.
* Rose Slivka, 85, American writer, critic and editor.
* Eleni Zafeiriou, 88, Greek film actress.

### 3

* Archer Blood, 81, American career diplomat and academic.
* Yanis Kanidis, 74, Russian physical education teacher, killed by Chechen extremists.
* André Stil, 83, French novelist, short story writer, occasional poet, and political activist.
* Frenchy Uhalt, 94, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).

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* George Baird, 97, American sprint runner.
* Samira Bellil, 31, French feminist activist, campaigner for Muslim girls'- and women's rights, stomach cancer.
* Walter Campbell, 83, Australian judge, administrator and governor.
* Alphonso Ford, 33, American Euroleague basketball player, leukemia.
* Serge Marquand, 74, French actor, leukemia.
* Moe Norman, 75, Canadian PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure.
* James O. Page, 68, American chief of Emergency Medical Services, heart attack.

### 5

* Winston Anglin, 42, Jamaican football player, traffic collision.
* Red Cochran, 82, American gridiron football player and later NFL scout.
* Gerald Merrithew, 73, Canadian politician and federal cabinet minister, cancer.
* Gerard Piel, 89, American science writer and editor (Scientific American), stroke.

### 6

* Antonio Corpora, 95, Tunisian-Italian painter.
* Netzahualcóyotl de la Vega, 73, Mexican trade union leader and politician.
* Morey Leonard Sear, 75, American judge (United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana).
* Harvey Wheeler, 85, American political scientist and author (Fail-Safe), cancer.

### 7

* Ashfaq Ahmad, 79, Pakistani writer, playwright and broadcaster, gallbladder cancer.
* Bob Boyd, 84, American Major League Baseball player, first black player to sign with the Chicago White Sox.
* Lev Burchalkin, 65, Soviet football player and Russian coach.
* Kirk Fordice, 70, American politician, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia.
* Fritha Goodey, 31, British actress (About a Boy), suicide by stabbing.
* Beyers Naudé, 89, South African theologian and anti-apartheid activist.
* Miriam Pires, 78, Brazilian actress, toxoplasmosis.
* Gong Qiuxia, 85, Chinese actress and singer.
* Hal Reniff, 66, American baseball player (New York Yankees, New York Mets).
* Munir Said Thalib, 38, Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic poisoning.
* L.E. White, 74, American Grammy Award-winning songwriter, singer and musician.

### 8

* John F. Bolt, 83, United States Marine Corps flying ace during World War II and the Korean War.
* Francis Burt, 86, Australian jurist.
* Richard Girnt Butler, 86, American white supremacist, founder of the Aryan Nations, heart failure.
* Matías Prats Cañete, 90, Spanish radio and television journalist, kidney disease.
* Mohammad Jusuf, 76, Indonesian military general.
* Raymond Marcellin, 90, French politician, Minister of the Interior (1968–1974).
* Bror Mellberg, 80, Swedish football player.
* Tsutomu Mizukami, 85, Japanese writer of novels, biographies, and plays.
* Dan Spătaru, 64, Romanian singer, heart attack.
* Manuel María Fernández Teixeiro, 74, Spanish poet and academic.
* Frank Thomas, 91, American animator (Cinderella, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp), cerebral hemorrhage.
* James Westphal, 74, American scientist, engineer, and astronomer.

### 9

* Luis Advis, 69, Chilean professor of philosophy and music composer.
* Ernie Ball, 74, American guitar equipment maker.
* Aleksei Barkalov, 58, Ukrainian water polo player and Olympic champion.
* Caitlin Clarke, 52, American theater and film actress, ovarian cancer.
* Ralph Hawkins, 69, American football coach, dementia.
* Jean-Daniel Pollet, 68, French film director and screenwriter.

### 10

* Brock Adams, 77, American politician, Parkinson's disease.
* Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, 45, Yemeni islamist, politician and military leader, killed in action.
* Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer, teacher, and pianist.
* Leonard Birchall, 89, Canadian Air Force officer.
* Richard Karlan, 85, American actor.
* Ken Meuleman, 81, Australian cricket player.
* Glyn Owen, 76, British actor (Emergency – Ward 10, Howards' Way), cancer.

### 11

* Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, 55, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash.
* Aaron Director, 102, Russian-American economist and academic.
* Fred Ebb, 71, American Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack.
* Margaret Kelly, 94, Irish dancer and founder of the Bluebell Girls.
* David Mann, 64, American graphic artist.

### 12

* Max Abramovitz, 96, American architect.
* Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djiboutian politician, prime minister (1977–1978).
* Kenny Buttrey, 59, American drummer and arranger, cancer.
* Jerome Chodorov, 93, American playwright, My Sister Eileen.
* Ray Simons, 91, South African communist, anti-apartheid activist, and trade unionist.
* Jack Turner, 84, American racecar driver.
* Dr. Wagner, 68, Mexican professional wrestler, or Luchador, heart attack.

### 13

* Charlie Brandt, 47, American serial killer, suicide by hanging.
* Bill Glassco, 69, Canadian theatre director and producer.
* Luis E. Miramontes, 79, Mexican chemist.
* Glenn Presnell, 99, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions) and coach.
* Eric Sams, 78, British musicologist and William Shakespeare scholar.

### 14

* Fernando Campos, 80, Chilean football midfielder.
* Dakar, 83, Peruvian actor.
* Rota Onorio, 84, Kiribati politician.
* Richard Pierce, 86, American historian and scholar.
* Giuni Russo, 53, Italian singer ("Un'estate al mare"), cancer.
* John Seymour, 90, British author and self-sufficiency advocate.
* Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor.
* Mamoru Takuma, 40, Japanese mass murderer (Ikeda school massacre), executed.

### 15

* Donald G. Brotzman, 82, American politician.
* Bernard Gribble, 77, British film editor (Top Secret!, Death Wish, The Jokers).
* Johnny Ramone, 55, American guitarist (The Ramones), prostate cancer.
* Walter Stewart, 73, Canadian writer, editor and journalism educator, cancer.
* Daouda Malam Wanké, 58, Nigerien military and political leader.
* Austin Herbert Woolrych, 86, English historian.

### 16

* Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet.
* Izora Armstead, 62, American singer, one of the two members of The Weather Girls, heart failure.
* Michael Donaghy, 50, American poet and musician, brain haemorrhage.
* Ramón Gabilondo, 91, Spanish football player and manager.
* Claude Jaeger, 87, Swiss-French film producer and actor.
* Livio Maitan, 81, Italian trotskyist and a leader of the Fourth International.
* Giovanni Raboni, 72, Italian poet, translator and literary critic.
* Dolly Rathebe, 76, South African singer and actress (Jim Comes To Jo'burg), stroke.

### 17

* Katharina Dalton, 87, British physician, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome.
* Evi Rauer, 88, Estonian actress and television director.
* H. S. Rawail, 83, Indian filmmaker.
* Galina Rumiantseva, 77, Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist.
* Sudheer, Indian actor.

### 18

* Jim Barnett, 80, American professional wrestling promoter and executive, pneumonia.
* Norman Cantor, 74, Canadian-American medieval scholar.
* Kyohei Fujita, 83, Japanese glass artist.
* Russ Meyer, 82, American filmmaker, pneumonia.
* Marvin Mitchelson, 76, American divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer.
* Klara Rumyanova, 74, Soviet and Russian actress and voice actress, breast cancer.

### 19

* Eddie Adams, 71, American photojournalist, ALS.
* Árpád Bogsch, 85, Hungarian-American international civil servant.
* Stanley Clarke, 71, British businessman and philanthropist, colorectal cancer.
* Skeeter Davis, 72, American country music singer, breast cancer.
* Annabella Incontrera, 61, Italian film and television actress.
* Waldren "Frog" Joseph, 86, American jazz trombone player.
* Damayanti Joshi, 76, Indian kathak dancer.
* Robert Lawrence, 90, Canadian film editor.
* Ryhor Reles, 91, Belarusian Yiddish writer.
* Derald Ruttenberg, 88, American investor and industrialist.
* Kenneth Sandford, 80, English singer and actor.
* Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder, snowboarding accident.

### 20

* Brian Clough, 69, English footballer, coach and manager, stomach cancer.
* Salil Dutta, 72, Indian Bengali director, screenwriter and actor.
* Pat Hanly, 72, New Zealand painter, Huntington's disease.
* Townsend Hoopes, 82, American historian and government official, melanoma.
* Štěpánka Mertová, 73, Czech Olympic discus thrower.
* Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer and television journalist.

### 21

* Alan Beaumont, 69, Australian admiral, chief of Australian Defence Forces.
* Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.
* Bob Mason, 53, British actor and writer, esophageal cancer.
* David Pall, 90, Canadian-American chemist, invented sophisticated filters used in blood transfusions, Alzheimer's disease.
* Larry Phillips, 62, American stock car racer.

### 22

* Edward Larrabee Barnes, 89, American architect.
* Cy Block, 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), Alzheimer's disease.
* Winston Cenac, 79, Saint Lucian civil servant and politician.
* Big Boss Man, 41, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man, heart attack.
* Pete Schoening, 77, American mountaineer, cancer.
* Alex Wayman, 83, American tibetologist and indologist.

### 23

* Bryce DeWitt, 81, American theoretical physicist, pancreatic cancer.
* Roy Drusky, 74, American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry star, lung cancer.
* André Hazes, 53, Dutch folk singer, heart failure.
* Lucille Lisle, 96, Australian actress.
* Dominic Montserrat, 40, British egyptologist and papyrologist.
* Nigel Nicolson, 89, British politician.
* Bülent Oran, 80, Turkish screenwriter and actor.
* Billy Reay, 86, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Chicago Black Hawks), liver cancer.
* Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, American feminist and civil rights advocate.
* Dido Sotiriou, 95, Greek novelist, journalist, and playwright, pneumonia.

### 24

* Tim Choate, 49, American actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident.
* Raja Ramanna, 79, Indian nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program.
* Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist and playwright, pulmonary embolism.
* Roman Tsepov, 42, Russian businessman and confidant to Vladimir Putin, poisoned.
* Ron Willey, 74, Australian rugby player and coach.

### 25

* Ma Chengyuan, 76, Chinese archaeologist, president of Shanghai Museum, suicide.
* Michael Davies, 68, British writer on Roman Catholicism, cancer.
* Nigel Davies, 84, British anthropologist and historian.
* Marvin Davis, 79, American industrialist and philanthropist, owned Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach.
* Alain Glavieux, 55, French mathematician and information technology pioneer.
* Heinz Günther Guderian, 90, German Wehrmacht officer and Bundeswehr general after World War II.
* Robert C. James, 86, American mathematician.
* Arun Kolatkar, 71, Indian poet.
* Giorgio Moser, 80, Italian film director and screenwriter.

### 26

* Víctor Cruz, 46, Dominican baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, Texas Rangers), liver problems.
* Amjad Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida, killed by Pakistani security forces.
* Einar Førde, 61, Norwegian journalist and politician of the Labour Party, cancer.
* Natik Hashim, 44, Iraqi football midfielder, heart attack.
* Marianna Komlos, 35, Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model and professional wrestler, breast cancer.

### 27

* Amanda Crowe, 76, American Cherokee woodcarver and educator.
* Shobha Gurtu, 79, Indian singer.
* John Edward Mack, 74, American psychiatrist and writer, killed by a drunken driver.
* Louis Satterfield, 67, American bass and trombone player.
* Vittorio Sentimenti, 86, Italian football player.
* Dick Stenberg, 83, Swedish Air Force lieutenant general.
* Bernard Slicher van Bath, 94, Dutch social historian.
* Tsai Wan-lin, 80, Taiwanese billionaire businessman, cardiovascular disease.

### 28

* Thea Altaras, 80, Croatian-German architect.
* Luigi Amerio, 92, Italian electrical engineer and mathematician.
* Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author, pneumonia.
* Geoffrey Beene, 77, American fashion designer, pneumonia.
* Christl Cranz, 90, German alpine ski racer.
* Geo Dumitrescu, 84, Romanian poet and translator.
* Willis Hawkins, 90, American aeronautical engineer and director (Lockheed).
* Scott Muni, 74, American radio disc jockey.
* Viktor Rozov, 91, Soviet and Russian dramatist and screenwriter.
* J. H. van Lint, 72, Dutch mathematician, professor and university president.

### 29

* Balamani Amma, 95, Indian poet, Alzheimer's disease.
* Ernst van der Beugel, 86, Dutch economist, businessman, diplomat and politician.
* FannyAnn Eddy, 30, Sierra Leonean LGBT activist, stabbed.
* Christopher Hancock, 76, British television and theatre actor, heart attack.
* David Jackson, 49, New Zealand boxer.
* Christer Pettersson, 57, Swedish criminal, suspected murderer of prime minister Olof Palme, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, racing accident.
* Thure von Uexküll, 96, German scholar of psychosomatic medicine and biosemiotics.
* Heinz Wallberg, 81, German conductor.
* Antje Weisgerber, 82, German film and television actress, and wife of actor Horst Caspar.
* Shimon Wincelberg, (aka S. Bar David), 80, American television writer.
* Patrick Wormald, 57, British historian.

### 30

* Isabel Freire de Matos, 89, Puerto Rican writer, educator, and journalist.
* Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician, heart attack.
* Jacques Levy, 69, American songwriter, theatre director and clinical psychologist.
* Mathias Matthies, 93, German art director.
* Mildred McDaniel, 70, American high jumper and Olympic champion, cancer.
* Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch investigative journalist and author, cancer.
* Michael Relph, 89, English film producer, art director and film director (nominated for Academy Award for Best Production Design for Saraband).
* Shivaji, 47, Indian actor.
* Justin Strzelczyk, 36, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), car crash while leading police on chase.
* Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor.