Deaths in September 2015

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2015. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months".

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.


September 2015

 September 1 - Gurgen Dalibaltayan, 89, Armenian military commander.
 September 1 - Will Provine, 73, American science historian, brain cancer.
 September 1 - Antonio Nirta, 96, Italian criminal.
 September 1 - Aleksandar Stipčević, 84, Croatian historian of the Illyrians.
 September 1 - Richard G. Hewlett, 92, American public historian.
 September 1 - Willy Stähle, 61, Dutch waterskier, Olympic (1972) and world champion (1971). (death announced on this date)
 September 1 - Dean Jones, 84, American actor (The Love Bug, The Shaggy D.A., Beethoven), complications from Parkinson's disease.
 September 1 - Boomer Castleman, 70, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, inventor of the palm pedal, cancer.
 September 1 - Ben Kuroki, 98, American Air Force gunner of World War II.
 September 2 - Charles Gyamfi, 85, Ghanaian footballer (Fortuna Düsseldorf) and coach (national team).
 September 2 - Aleksander Mandziara, 75, Polish footballer and coach.
 September 2 - Simo Salminen, 82, Finnish comic actor.
 September 2 - Brianna Lea Pruett, 32, American singer and songwriter.
 September 3 - Leon Gorman, 80, American businessman, President (1967–2001) and Chairman (2001–2013) of L.L.Bean, cancer.
 September 3 - Jean-Luc Préel, 74, French politician, member of the French National Assembly for Vendée (1988–2012).
 September 3 - Zhang Zhen, 100, Chinese general.
 September 3 - Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 75, Nepalese primordial dwarf, shortest man in recorded history, pneumonia.
 September 3 - Sir Adrian Cadbury, 86, British businessman and rower, chairman of Cadbury.
 September 3 - Judy Carne, 76, British actress (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), pneumonia.
 September 4 - Geoffrey Bolton, 83, Australian historian.
 September 4 - Graham Brazier, 63, New Zealand musician and songwriter (Hello Sailor), heart attack.
 September 4 - Wilfred de Souza, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Goa (1993–1994, 1998).
 September 4 - Rico Rodriguez, 80, Cuban-born British trombonist (The Specials).
 September 4 - Jean Darling, 93, American silent movie actress (Our Gang movie series).
 September 4 - Sylvie Joly, 80, French actress (Going Places, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs) and comedian, heart attack.
 September 5 - Aadesh Shrivastava, 51, Indian composer and singer, cancer.
 September 5 - Alan Steel, 79, Italian bodybuilder and actor (Samson, The Rebel Gladiators, Hercules Against the Moon Men).
 September 6 - Ralph Milne, 54, Scottish footballer (Dundee United, Manchester United), liver disease.
 September 6 - Calvin J. Spann, 90, American fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).
 September 6 - Martin Milner, 83, American actor (Adam-12, Valley of the Dolls, Route 66).
 September 7 - Candida Royalle, 64, American pornographic actress, producer and director, ovarian cancer.
 September 7 - Susan Allen, 64, American harpist, brain cancer.
 September 8 - Andrew Kohut, 73, American political scientist, leukemia.
 September 8 - Joost Zwagerman, 51, Dutch author, suicide.
 September 8 - Ebby Halliday, 104, American realtor and businesswoman.
 September 8 - Willi Fuggerer, 73, German track cyclist, Olympic bronze medalist (1964). (death announced on this date)
 September 9 - Einar H. Ingman, Jr., 85, American soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 September 10 - Franco Interlenghi, 83, Italian actor (I Vitelloni, I Vinti).
 September 10 - Norman Farberow, 97, American psychologist and pioneer of suicidology.
 September 10 - Dick Moore, 89, American actor (The Beloved Rogue, Sergeant York, Miss Annie Rooney), complications from dementia.
 September 10 - James E. Proctor, Jr., 79, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (since 1990).
 September 10 - Antoine Lahad, 88, Lebanese military officer, leader of South Lebanon Army (1984–2000), heart attack.
 September 11 - Alan Purwin, 53, American helicopter pilot and aerial film operator (Transformers, Star Trek, Jurassic World), plane crash.
 September 12 - Hrvoje Petar, 61, Croatian politician of Polish ethnicity
 September 12 - Adrian Frutiger, 87, Swiss typeface designer.
 September 13 - Moses Malone, 60, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, Houston Rockets), heart disease.
 September 14 - Fred DeLuca, 67, American businessman, co-founder of Subway, leukemia.
 September 14 - Corneliu Vadim Tudor, 65, Romanian politician, Member of the European Parliament (2009–2014), journalist and editor (România Liberă, AGERPRES), heart attack.
 September 14 - Adam Purple, 84, American environmental activist, heart attack.
 September 15 - Harry J. Lipkin, 94, Israeli nuclear physicist.
 September 15 - Meir Pa'il, 89, Israeli politician and military historian, Member of the Knesset (1974–1980), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 September 15 - Bernard Van De Kerckhove, 74, Belgian racing cyclist.
 September 15 - Mihai Volontir, 81, Moldovan actor (In the Zone of Special Attention).
 September 16 - Guy Béart, 85, French singer-songwriter, heart attack.
 September 16 - Ton van de Ven, 71, Dutch industrial designer.
 September 16 - David Ashby, 65, British motorcycle speedway rider, cancer.
 September 17 - Milo Hamilton, 88, American Hall of Fame sportscaster (Houston Astros), leukemia.
 September 17 - Sir David Willcocks, 95, British choirmaster, director of music at Choir of King's College, Cambridge.
 September 17 - Dettmar Cramer, 90, German football manager (Bayern Munich).
 September 17 - Vadim Kuzmin, 78, Russian theoretical physicist.
 September 18 - Mario Benjamín Menéndez, 85, Argentine military officer, Governor of the Falkland Islands (1982).
 September 18 - Eduardo Bonvallet, 60, Chilean football commentator, suicide by hanging.
 September 18 - Marcin Wrona, 42, Polish film and television director (Demon, Medics), suicide by hanging.
 September 18 - Nancy Bernstein, 55, American visual effects producer (Digital Domain) and movie producer (Rise of the Guardians), colorectal cancer.
 September 19 - Mishael Cheshin, 79, Israeli judge (Supreme Court of Israel), cancer.
 September 19 - Masajuro Shiokawa, 93, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (2001–2003), pneumonia.
 September 19 - Jackie Collins, 77, English novelist, breast cancer.
 September 20 - Jack Larson, 87, American playwright and actor (Adventures of Superman).
 September 20 - C. K. Williams, 78, American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2000), multiple myeloma.
 September 20 - Siegfried Gottwald, 72, German mathematician.
 September 21 - Yoram Gross, 88, Polish-born Australian animation producer and director (Blinky Bill series).
 September 21 - Armen Movsisyan, 53, Armenian politician, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources (2001–2014), cancer.
 September 22 - James David Santini, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1983), esophageal cancer.
 September 22 - Richard G. Scott, 86, American apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
 September 22 - Phyllis Tickle, 81, American religious author, lung cancer.
 September 22 - Yogi Berra, 90, American Hall of Fame baseball player (New York Yankees) and manager (New York Mets), winner of 13 World Series titles, natural causes.
 September 22 - Al Seckel, 57, American optical illusion collector and sceptic. (death announced on this date)
 September 23 - Mike Gibson, 75, Australian sports journalist and broadcaster, suicide.
 September 23 - Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, 75, Spanish actor (Solas).
 September 23 - Dragan Holcer, 70, Croatian footballer (Hajduk Split).
 September 23 - Denis Sonet, 89, French Catholic priest and marriage counselor.
 September 24 - Ellis Kaut, 94, German author (Pumuckl).
 September 25 - Moti Kirschenbaum, 76, Israeli journalist and media personality.
 September 25 - Claudio Baggini, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vigevano (2000–2011).
 September 25 - John Galvin, 86, American army general, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1987—1992).
 September 26 - Homa Rousta, 69, Iranian actress, cancer.
 September 26 - Manuel Oltra, 93, Spanish composer, pneumonia.
 September 27 - Syed Ahmed, 73, Indian politician, Governor of Jharkhand (2011–2015) and Governor of Manipur (since 2015), cancer.
 September 27 - John Guillermin, 89, British movie director and producer.
 September 27 - Pietro Ingrao, 100, Italian politician, President of the Chamber of Deputies (1976–1979), journalist and partisan.
 September 27 - Wilton Felder, 75, American saxophonist (The Crusaders) and bassist.
 September 27 - Frank Tyson, 85, English cricketer, journalist and commentator.
 September 27 - Kallen Pokkudan, 78, Indian environmental activist and writer.
 September 27 - Denise Lor, 86, American singer and actress.  
 September 28 - Ignacio Zoco, 76, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid).
 September 28 - Frank Martinus Arion, 78, Dutch Antillean author.
 September 28 - Michael Burgess, 70, Canadian tenor, cancer.
 September 28 - Walter Dale Miller, 89, American politician, Governor of South Dakota (1993-1995).
 September 28 - Frankie Ford, 76, American singer ("Sea Cruise").
 September 29 - Hellmuth Karasek, 81, German literary critic and journalist (Der Spiegel).
 September 29 - Phil Woods, 83, American saxophonist ("Just the Way You Are"), emphysema.
 September 30 - Kelly Gissendaner, 47, American convicted criminal (malice murder), executed by lethal injection.
 September 30 - Claude Dauphin, 64, French businessman, cancer.
 September 30 - Guido Altarelli, 74, Italian theoretical physicist.
 September 30 - Ricky Talan, 54, Dutch footballer (AZ, Vitesse), brain cancer.

Previous months
 January 2015
 February 2015
 March 2015
 April 2015
 May 2015
 June 2015
 July 2015
 August 2015

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