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.
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* 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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