page_title: Deaths in 2011
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2011 / September
caption_attribution_description: English: Wangari Maathai in Nairobi, Kenya
context_page_description: Previous: 2010 Next: 2012
context_section_description: September 3 - Sandor Kepiro, 97, Hungarian military officer.
  September 5 - Salvatore Licitra, 43, Italian tenor, from injuries in a motorcycle crash.
  September 5 - Vann Nath, 65, Cambodian painter.
  September 7 - Notable ice hockey players and coaches among the 44 killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:
  Vitali Anikeyenko, 24, Ukrainian
  Mikhail Balandin, 31, Russian
  Gennady Churilov, 24, Russian
  Pavol Demitra, 36, Slovakian
  Robert Dietrich, 25, German
  Marat Kalimulin, 23, Russian
  Alexander Kalyanin, 23, Russian
  Alexander Karpovtsev, 41, Russian coach, world champion (as player, 1993), Stanley Cup champion (as player, 1994, with New York Rangers)
  Andrei Kiryukhin, 24, Russian
  Nikita Klyukin, 21, Russian, world U18 champion (2007)
  Igor Korolev, 41, Russian coach
  Stefan Liv, 30, Swedish, Olympic gold medalist (2006), world champion (2006)
  Jan Marek, 31, Czech
  Brad McCrimmon, 52, Canadian coach, Stanley Cup champion (as player, 1989, with Calgary Flames)
  Sergei Ostapchuk, 21, Belarusian
  Karel Rachůnek, 32, Czech, world champion (2010)
  Ruslan Salei, 36, Belarusian
  Maxim Shuvalov, 18, Russian
  Kārlis Skrastiņš, 37, Latvian
  Pavel Snurnitsyn, 19, Russian
  Daniil Sobchenko, 20, Russian, world junior champion (2011)
  Ivan Tkachenko, 31, Russian
  Pavel Trakhanov, 33, Russian
  Yuri Urychev, 20, Russian, world junior champion (2011)
  Josef Vašíček, 30, Czech, world junior champion (2000), world champion (2005), Stanley Cup champion (2006, with Carolina Hurricanes)
  Alexander Vasyunov, 23, Russian
  Alexander Vyukhin, 38, Ukrainian
  Artem Yarchuk, 21, Russian
  September 8 - Vo Chi Cong, 99, former President of Vietnam.
  September 10 - Cliff Robertson, 88, American actor, natural causes.
  September 11 - Andy Whitfield, 39, Welsh actor, cancer.
  September 12 - Alexander Galimov, 26, Russian ice hockey player, injuries from plane crash.
  September 13 - Richard Hamilton, 89, British painter and collage artist.
  September 13 - Walter Bonatti, 81, Italian mountaineer.
  September 14 - Rudolf Moessbauer, 82, German physicist and Nobel Prize winner
  September 17 - Kurt Sanderling, 98, German conductor.
  September 19 - Dolores Hope, 102, American singer and philanthropist.
  September 19 - George Cadle Price, 92, 1st Prime Minister of Belize.
  September 20 - Burhanuddin Rabbani, 71, former President of Afghanistan, bomb attack.
  September 21 - Paulette Dubost, 100, French actress.
  September 22 - Aristides Pereira, 87, 1st President of Cape Verde.
  September 22 - Knut Steen, 86, Norwegian sculptor.
  September 25 - Theyab Awana, 21, Emirati footballer, traffic accident.
  September 25 - Wangari Maathai, 71, Kenyan environmental and political activist (2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner), cancer.
  September 27 - Imre Makovecz, 75, Hungarian architect.
  September 29 - Tatyana Lioznova, 87, Russian movie director.
  September 29 - Hella Haasse, 93, Dutch writer.
  September 30 - Anwar al-Awlaki, 40, American-born Yemeni terrorist and Islamist militant, airstrike.
  September 30 - Ralph M. Steinman, 68, Canadian immunologist (announced on October 3 as joint winner of the Nobel Prize), pancreatic cancer.
caption: Wangari Maathai 1940-2011
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