Deaths in September 2016

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2016. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Months".  Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.

 Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.


September 2016

1
Ruth Hubbard, 92, Austrian-born American biologist.
Kacey Jones, 66, American singer-songwriter ("I'm the One Mama Warned You About"), producer and humorist, cancer.
Jon Polito, 65, American actor (Miller's Crossing, The Rocketeer, Homicide: Life on the Street), multiple myeloma.

2
Nalinidhar Bhattacharya, 94, Indian poet and literary critic.
Blackie Gejeian, 90, American race car driver and hot rod builder.
Jerry Heller, 75, American music manager (N.W.A), heart attack.
John Hostetter, 69, American actor (Murphy Brown, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Heartbreak Ridge), complications from cancer.
Islam Karimov, 78, Uzbek politician, President (since 1990), stroke.
Gerald Lehner, 48, Austrian football referee.
Margrit Mondavi, 91, Swiss-born American businesswoman, Vice President of Cultural Affairs at Robert Mondavi Winery.
Antonina Seredina, 87, Soviet Russian sprint canoeist, Olympic champion (1960).

3
Mir Quasem Ali, 63, Bangladeshi businessman, politician and war criminal, execution by hanging.
Maria Isabel Barreno, 77, Portuguese feminist writer.
Carlos Bulgheroni, 71, Argentine businessman, CEO of Bridas.
Claudio Olinto de Carvalho, 74, Brazilian football player and coach (Cagliari).
Anna Dewdney, 50, American children's author and illustrator, brain cancer.
John W. Drummond, 96, American politician, member of the South Carolina Senate (1966–2008).
Albert Hofstede, 75, American politician, Mayor of Minneapolis (1974–1975, 1978–1979), respiratory failure.
Jaakko Kolmonen, 75, Finnish chef.
Norman Kwong, 86, Canadian football player (Calgary Stampeders, Edmonton Eskimos) and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (2005–2010).
Leslie H. Martinson, 101, American movie and television director (Batman: The Movie, CHiPs, Fantasy Island).
Johnny Rebel, 77, American country singer. 
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, 59, French mathematician, Fields Medalist (1994).

4
Bob Bissonnette, 35, Venezuelan-born Canadian singer, ice hockey player (Hull Olympiques, Acadie–Bathurst Titan) and baseball team owner (Québec Capitales), helicopter crash.
Peter Janich, 74, German philosopher, cancer.
Klaus Katzur, 73, German swimmer, Olympic silver medalist (1972).
Novella Matveyeva, 81, Russian poet and singer-songwriter.
Richard Neville, 74, Australian writer and editor (Oz).
Zoran Šami, 67, Serbian politician, President of the Assembly (2004–2006).
Yang Jingnian, 107, Chinese economist.

5
She'ar Yashuv Cohen, 88, Israeli chief rabbi of Haifa.
Duane Graveline, 85, American astronaut.
Sir Fred Holliday, 80, British marine biologist. 
Hugh O'Brian, 91, American actor (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, The Shootist, Twins).
Donald Ranvaud, 62, Italian-born British journalist and movie producer (The Constant Gardener, Central Station, City of God), heart attack.
Phyllis Schlafly, 92, American constitutional lawyer, conservative activist and author, pancreatic cancer.

6
H. Joel Deckard, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 8th congressional district (1979–1983).
Nauyane Ariyadhamma Mahathera, 77, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and author.
Lewis Merenstein, 81, American record producer (Van Morrison), pneumonia.
Lilian Uchtenhagen, 87, Swiss economist and politician.

7
José Barluenga, 76, Spanish chemist. 
Bob Dailey, 63, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers), cancer.
Joseph Keller, 93, American mathematician.
Norbert Schemansky, 92, American weightlifter, Olympic champion (1952).
Farhang Sharif, 84–85, Iranian musician and tar player.
Ye Xiushan, 81, Chinese philosopher.

8
Hannes Arch, 48, Austrian race pilot, world champion (2008), helicopter crash.
Johan Botha, 51, South African operatic tenor, cancer.
Inga Clendinnen, 82, Australian historian.
Hazel Douglas, 92, British actress (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1).
*The Lady Chablis, 59, American actress (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil), pneumonia.
Bert Llewellyn, 77, English footballer (Crewe, Port Vale, Wigan).
Dragiša Pešić, 62, Montenegrin politician, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (2001–2003).
Prince Buster, 78, Jamaican ska musician ("One Step Beyond", "Al Capone").
Roman Romanchuk, 37, Ukrainian-born Russian boxer and kickboxer, heart attack.
Greta Zimmer Friedman, 92, American dental assistant, subject in V-J Day in Times Square photo.

9
Sylvia Gore, 71, English football player (national team) and manager (Wales national team), cancer.
Luke Herrmann, 84, German-born British art historian.
Lord Littlebrook, 87, British midget wrestler, trainer and booking manager.
Bill Nojay, 59, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (since 2013), suicide by gunshot.
Mario Spezi, 71, Italian journalist and author (The Monster of Florence: A True Story).
James Stacy, 79, American actor (Lancer, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Something Wicked This Way Comes), anaphylaxis.

10
Jutta Limbach, 82, German jurist and politician, President of the Federal Constitutional Court (1994–2002).
Chris Stone, 81, American recording studio owner (Record Plant) and entrepreneur, heart attack and stroke.

11
Alexis Arquette, 47, American actress (The Wedding Singer, Pulp Fiction, Lords of Dogtown), cardiac arrest.
Mbaye-Jacques Diop, 80, Senegalese politician, member of the National Assembly (1983–2004), Mayor of Rufisque (1987–2002).
Norman May, 88, Australian sports broadcaster.
Lyn Wilde, 93, American singer and actress.

12
Gunnila Bernadotte, 93, Swedish countess.
Ellen Burka, 95, Dutch-born Canadian figure skater and coach, Dutch national champion (1946, 1947).
Sándor Csoóri, 86, Hungarian poet, essayist, writer, and politician.
Ali Javan, 89, Iranian-American physicist, heart attack.
Hidayat Inayat Khan, 99, English-French composer and conductor.
Stanley Sheinbaum, 96, American peace and human rights activist.

13
Ottavio Bugatti, 87, Italian footballer (Napoli, Inter Milan).

14
Dick Adams, 96, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
Don Buchla, 79, American synthesizer designer.
Kim McGuire, 60, American actress (Cry-Baby), pneumonia.
Hilmar Thate, 85, German actor (Veronika Voss).

15
John Gudenus, 75, Austrian politician and convicted Holocaust denier.
Deborah S. Jin, 47, American physicist, cancer.
Rose Mofford, 94, American politician, Governor of Arizona (1988–1991).
Haakon Sørbye, 96, Norwegian engineer and resistance member.

16
Tarık Akan, 66, Turkish actor (Yol), lung cancer.
Edward Albee, 88, American playwright (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?), Tony (1963, 2002) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1967, 1975, 1994).
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 95, Italian banker and politician, President (1999–2006) and Prime Minister (1993–1994), multiple organ failure complicated by pneumonia.
Charles H. Henry, 79, American physicist.
W. P. Kinsella, 81, Canadian writer (Shoeless Joe), euthanasia.
Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, 84, French-born American businessman (Louis Dreyfus Company).
António Mascarenhas Monteiro, 72, Cape Verdean politician, President (1991–2001).
Qiao Renliang, 28, Chinese singer and actor, suicide.
Joe Seng, 69, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (2001–2003) and Senate (since 2003), brain cancer.

17
Theodore Wilbur Anderson, 98, American mathematician and statistician, heart failure.
Charmian Carr, 73, American actress and singer (The Sound of Music), complications from dementia.
Bahman Golbarnezhad, 48, Iranian Paralympic racing cyclist (2012, 2016), race collision.
C. Martin Croker, 54, American voice actor and animator (Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Brak Show), food poisoning.
Roman Ivanychuk, 87, Ukrainian writer.
Rune Larsson, 92, Swedish athlete, Olympic bronze medalist (1948).

18
Robert W. Cone, 59, American Army general, Commander of the Army Training and Doctrine Command (2011–2014), prostate cancer.
David Kyle, 97, American science fiction writer.
Rose Pak, 68, Chinese-born American political activist.
András Prékopa, 87, Hungarian mathematician.
Hassan Sharif, 65, Emirati artist, cancer.

19
Karl Dietrich Bracher, 94, German political scientist and historian.
Bobby Breen, 88, Canadian-born American actor (Let's Sing Again, Rainbow on the River, Fisherman's Wharf) and singer.
Gerwald Claus-Brunner, 44, German politician, member of the Berlin House of Representatives (since 2011), suicide.
Bill Glassford, 102, American football player and coach.
Allister Sparks, 83, South African writer, journalist (The Rand Daily Mail) and political commentator.
Boris Trakhtenbrot, 95, Russian-Israeli mathematician.
Bill Zucker, 60, American actor and comedian, heart attack.

20
Bill Barrett, 87, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska's 3rd congressional district (1991–2001).
Richie Dunn, 59, American ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames, Hartford Whalers).
Jack Garman, 72, American computer engineer and NASA official, key figure in the Apollo 11 mission, bone cancer.
Peter Leo Gerety, 104, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Portland (1969–1974) and Archbishop of Newark (1974–1986), world's oldest living Catholic bishop.
Erwin Hahn, 95, American physicist.
Curtis Hanson, 71, American movie director and screenwriter (L.A. Confidential, 8 Mile, Wonder Boys), Oscar winner (1998).
Micki Marlo, 88, American singer and model.
Foil A. Miller, 100, American chemist and philatelist.
Edmund F. O'Connor, 94, American Air Force officer.
Victor Scheinman, 73, American inventor.

21
Shawty Lo, 40, American hip-hop musician (D4L), car crash.
John D. Loudermilk, 82, American singer-songwriter ("Tobacco Road", "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye", "Indian Reservation"), bone cancer.

22
Kjell Albin Abrahamson, 71, Swedish journalist (Sveriges Radio), stroke. 
Joseph Harmatz, 91, Lithuanian World War II Jewish partisan fighter and anti-Nazi avenger.
Gian Luigi Rondi, 94, Italian screenwriter (Obsession) and movie director, President of the Academy of Italian Arts - David di Donatello (since 1981).
Ed Temple, 89, American track and field coach (Tennessee State Lady Tigers, women's Olympic team).

23
Yngve Brodd, 86, Swedish footballer (Toulouse, Sochaux-Montbéliard, IFK Göteborg).
Max Mannheimer, 96, Czech-born German painter, author and Holocaust survivor.
Michel Rousseau, 80, French cyclist, Olympic champion (1956).
Andrzej Tarkowski, 83, Polish embryologist.

24
Vladimir Kuzmichyov, 37, Russian footballer (Spartak Moscow, CSKA Moscow), car crash.
Bill Mollison, 88, Australian researcher, author, teacher and biologist.
Bill Nunn, 63, American actor (Do the Right Thing, Spider-Man, Sister Act), leukemia.
Buckwheat Zydeco, 68, American accordionist and bandleader, lung cancer.

25
José Fernández, 24, Cuban-born American baseball player (Miami Marlins), boat crash.
Dawn Hampton, 88, American cabaret and jazz singer-songwriter (Malcolm X), saxophonist and dancer.
David Padilla, 89, Bolivian politician, President (1978–1979).
Arnold Palmer, 87, American Hall of Fame professional golfer.
Jean Shepard, 82, American honky tonk singer-songwriter ("A Dear John Letter", "Slippin' Away"), Parkinson's disease.

26
Don Brothwell, 83, British archaeologist.
Mark Dvoretsky, 68, Russian chess player and trainer.
Giacomo Fornoni, 76, Italian racing cyclist, Olympic gold medalist (1960).
Herschell Gordon Lewis, 87, American movie director (Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs!).
Wilhelm Mohr, 99, Norwegian aviation officer.
Ioan Gyuri Pascu, 55, Romanian singer, producer, actor and comedian, heart attack.
Curtis Roosevelt, 86, American writer, heart attack.
Karel Růžička, 76, Czech jazz pianist, Anděl Award winner (1993).
Jackie Sewell, 89, English footballer (Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa).
Toughie, Panamanian frog, last surviving of the Rabbs fringe-limbed treefrog.

27
Jamshid Amouzegar, 93, Iranian politician, Prime Minister (1977–1978) and Minister of Finance (1965–1974).
Syed Shamsul Haque, 81, Bangladeshi poet and writer.
Luis Ossio, 86, Bolivian politician, Vice President (1989–1993).
Charles Schultze, 91, American economist and public policy analyst, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (1977–1981), complications from sepsis.

28
Joseph V. Charyk, 96, Canadian-born American engineer, Under Secretary of the Air Force (1960–1963).  
Malcolm Lucas, 89, American judge, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court (1987–1996), U.S. District Court Judge for the Central District of California (1971–1984).
Sreten Mirković, 58, Serbian boxer. 
Gloria Naylor, 66, American novelist (The Women of Brewster Place).
Agnes Nixon, 93, American television writer and producer (One Life to Live, All My Children, Guiding Light).
Shimon Peres, 93, Polish-born Israeli statesman, President (2007–2014) and Prime Minister (1977, 1984–1986, 1995–1996), Nobel Peace Prize winner (1994), stroke.

29
Cheng Yu-tung, 91, Hong Kong businessman (Chow Tai Fook).
Miriam Defensor Santiago, 71, Filipino politician, Senator (1995–2001, 2004–2016) and International Criminal Court Judge (2012–2014), lung cancer.
Shirley Jaffe, 93, American painter and sculptor.
Joni Madraiwiwi, 59, Fijian lawyer and politician, Vice President of Fiji (2004–2006) and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nauru (since 2014).
Joseph Verner Reed Jr., 78, American banker and politician, Ambassador to Morocco (1981–1985) and Chief of Protocol (1989–1991).
Mark Ricks, 92, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Idaho (2006–2007) and State Senator (1979–1994).
Laura Troschel, 71, Italian actress (Four Flies on Grey Velvet), singer, and model.
Brahim Zniber, 96, Moroccan businessman and vintner.

30
Bjarni Jónsson, 96, Icelandic mathematician.

Months
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 October
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 December

Related pages
 Deaths in 2014
 Deaths in 2015

References

Other websites
 The Guardian, UK obituaries
 Obituaries, Los Angeles Times
 Obituaries, Chicago Tribune
 The New York Times, US obituaries
 The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries
 The Telegraph obituaries

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September 2016 events