Deaths in September 2006

The following is a list of notable **deaths in September 2006**.

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 2006
### 1
*Tommy Chesbro, 66, American wrestler and coach (Oklahoma State University), heart attack.
*Nellie Connally, 87, American widow of Texas Governor John Connally, shared car at John F. Kennedy assassination.
*Anil Kumar Dutta, 73, Indian artist, founder of Academy of Creative Art.
*György Faludy, 95, Hungarian poet, writer and translator.
*Rashid Maidin, 89, Malaysian leader of the Communist Party.
*Ronald Mansbridge, 100, British-born American publisher, founded first US branch of Cambridge University Press.
*Richard Frewen Martin, 88, British fighter pilot and test pilot.
*Warren Mitofsky, 72, American pollster, creator of the exit poll, heart failure.
*Bob O'Connor, 61, American Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, brain cancer.
*Travis I. Payze, 60, Australian footballer, prostate cancer.
*Sir Kyffin Williams, 88, Welsh artist, lung and prostate cancer.
*Pierre Monichon, 80, French musicologist and inventor of the Harmoneon.

### 2
*Bob Mathias, 75, American decathlete, twice Olympic gold medalist, United States Representative, cancer.
*Deforrest Most, 89, American gymnast, helped establish Muscle Beach, heart failure.
*Willi Ninja, 45, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS.
*Clermont Pépin, 80, Canadian composer, liver cancer.
*Silverio Pérez, 91, Mexican bullfighter, renal illness.
*Lionel Pickering, 74, British businessman, chairman of Derby County, cancer.
*Anthony Poon, 61, Singaporean abstract artist, lung cancer.
*Dewey Redman, 75, American jazz saxophonist, father of Joshua Redman, liver failure.
*Monty Stickles, 68, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), heart failure.
*Charlie Williams, 77, British comedian and footballer (Doncaster Rovers), Parkinson's disease.
*Sahibzada Muhammad Ishaq Zaffar, 61, Pakistani politician, heart attack.

### 3
*Françoise Claustre, 69, French ethnologist and archaeologist.
*Levi Fox, 92, British conservationist and historian, Director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
*Ian Hamer, 73, British jazz trumpeter.
*Eva Knardahl, 79, Norwegian classical pianist.
*Annemarie Wendl, 91, German actress, heart failure.

### 4
*Rémy Belvaux, 38, Belgian writer, film producer and director (*Man Bites Dog*), suicide.
*Ingrid Bjoner, 78, Norwegian soprano.
*John Conte, 90, American actor, founded TV station KMIR, natural causes.
*Giacinto Facchetti, 64, Italian footballer, cancer.
*James Fee, 56, American photographer, liver cancer.
*Tamás Fejér, 86, Hungarian movie director.
*Mark Anthony Graham, 33, Canadian Olympian and soldier, friendly fire.
*Steve Irwin, 44, Australian naturalist (*The Crocodile Hunter*), stabbed in the chest by a stingray barb.
*Khadaffy Janjalani, 31, Filipino militant, leader of Abu Sayyaf, gunshot wounds.
*Moses Khumalo, 26, South African jazz saxophonist, Best Newcomer at South African Music Awards (2002), suicide by hanging.
*Clive Lythgoe, 79, British pianist.
*Colin Thiele, 85, Australian children's author, heart failure.
*Astrid Varnay, 88, American soprano.

### 5
*Sir Michael Davies, 85, British jurist.
*Anne Gregg, 66, British television presenter (*Holiday*), cancer.
*Gösta Löfgren, 83, Swedish football player.
*Hilary Mason, 89, British character actress.
*John McLusky, 83, British comics artist (*James Bond*).
*J. Bazzel Mull, 91, American Christianity preacher and gospel music promoter.

### 6
*Warren Bolster, 59, American surf and skateboard photographer, suicide by gunshot.
*Sir John Drummond, 71, British controller of BBC Radio 3 and The Proms.
*Lovette George, 44, American Broadway theatre singer and actress, ovarian cancer.
*Peter Greenough, 89, American finance columnist (*The Boston Globe*), husband of Beverly Sills, after long illness.
*Peter Hyndman, 64, Canadian politician and lawyer, cancer.
*Gordon Manning, 89, American television journalist (NBC and CBS), heart attack.
*Sir Michael Marshall, 76, British politician, MP for Arundel (1974–1997), President of the Chichester Festival Theatre.
*Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, c.50, Sudanese newspaper editor, beheaded.
*Agha Shahi, 86, Pakistani diplomat and foreign minister, heart attack.
*Mark Wright, 27, British soldier, posthumously awarded George Cross.

### 7
*Efraim Allsalu, 77, Estonian painter.
*Sir Norman Blacklock, 78, British physician, Medical Officer to the Queen (1976–1993).
*Clem Coetzee, 67, Zimbabwean conservationist, heart attack.
*James deAnda, 81, American lawyer and federal judge, part of the legal team in *Hernandez v. Texas*, prostate cancer.
*Jorge di Giandoménico, 75, Argentine Olympic sports shooter.
*Joan Donaldson, 60, American founding head of the CBC Newsworld television network, complications from injuries.
*Sir Stephen Egerton, 74, British diplomat, Ambassador to Italy (1989&ndash;1992).
*James Hawthorne, 74, British controller of the BBC in Northern Ireland (1979–1989).
*Robert Earl Jones, 96, American actor, father of James Earl Jones.
*Ronald St. John Macdonald, 78, Canadian legal academic and jurist.
*Cornelius O'Leary, 78, Irish historian.
*John M. Watson, 69, American jazz musician and actor, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

### 8
*Hilda Bernstein, 99, British-born South African author and anti-apartheid activist, heart failure.
*Peter Brock, 61, Australian touring car racer, car accident. 
*William Harper, 90, Rhodesian politician
*Thomas Lee Judge, 71, American Governor of Montana (1973–1981), pulmonary fibrosis.
*Frank Middlemass, 87, British character actor (*As Time Goes By*).
*Erk Russell, 80, American college football coach (University of Georgia, Georgia Southern University), stroke.
*Fred Spiess, 86, American oceanographer and marine explorer, cancer.

### 9
* Gérard Brach, 79, French screenwriter (*The Fearless Vampire Killers*, *The Name of the Rose)*, cancer.
*Clair Burgener, 84, American Representative for California (1973–1983), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
*Matt Gadsby, 27, British footballer (Hinckley United), ARVC.
*Émilie Mondor, 25, Canadian Olympic distance runner, car accident.
*Elisabeth Ogilvie, 89, American author.
*Herbert Rudley, 95, American actor.
*Keshavram Kashiram Shastri, 101, Indian founder of VHP, natural causes.
*William Bernard Ziff, Jr., 76, American publishing magnate, prostate cancer.

### 10
*Ernestine Bayer, 97, American rower, complications from pneumonia.
* Patty Berg, 88, American golf pioneer, founder of the LPGA, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* James C. Hickman, 79, American actuary and academic administrator, Dean of University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business (1985&ndash;1990).
* Sir John Johnston, 84, British courtier, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office (1981&ndash;1987).
* Ramanlal Joshi, 80, Indian literary critic and editor.
* Melanie Lomax, 56, American civil rights lawyer, former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, car accident.
*Ted Risenhoover, 71, American Representative for Oklahoma (1975–1979).
* Bennie Smith, 72, American blues guitarist, heart attack.
* Daniel Wayne Smith, 20, American actor, son of Anna Nicole Smith, drug overdose.
* Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, 88, Tongan royal, King of Tonga, after illness.

### 11
* William Auld, 81, British poet, author and supporter of Esperanto.
* Peter Clentzos, 97, American-born Greek 1932 Summer Olympics competitor in pole vault.
* Pat Corley, 76, American actor (*Murphy Brown*), heart failure.
*János Dévai, 66, Hungarian Olympic cyclist.
* Solange Fernex, French ecologist and green politician.
* Joachim Fest, 79, German historian and journalist.
*Joseph Hayes, 88, American author (*The Desperate Hours*).
*Johannes Bob van Benthem, 85, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office (1977–1985).

### 12
*John S.R. Duncan, 85, British diplomat.
*Raymond Mikesell, 93, American economist at the Bretton Woods Conference.
*Emily Perez, 23, American first female African-American Army officer to die in combat, improvised explosive device.
*Craig Roberts, 38, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
*Bill Saul, 65, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), cancer.
*Edna Staebler, 100, Canadian cookbook and non-fiction author, stroke.

### 13
*Brian Biggins, 66, English football player (Chester City).
*Cesare Barbetti, 75, Italian actor and voice actor.
*Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 97, British Conservative minister and wartime SOE officer.
*Christopher Essex, 61, Australian fashion designer, cancer.
*N. V. Krishnaiah, 76, Indian politician.
*Ann Richards, 73, American Governor of Texas (1991–1995), esophageal cancer.
*Peter Tevis, 69, American musician, Parkinson's Disease.

### 14
*Norman Brooks, 78, Canadian singer, Al Jolson imitator, emphysema.
*Silviu Brucan, 90, Romanian ambassador to the United States, opponent of Nicolae Ceauşescu.
*Elizabeth Choy, 95, Singaporean war heroine, first female legislator, pancreatic cancer.
*Miklós Hargitay, 80, Hungarian former Mr. Universe and actor, ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield, father of Mariska Hargitay.
*J. William Kime, 72, American former commandant of the Coast Guard.
*Andrey Kozlov, 41, Russian First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia, shot.
*Peter Ling, 80, British television writer, creator of *Crossroads*.
*Paulo Marques, 58, Brazilian journalist and presenter, brain cancer.
*Esme Melville, 87, Australian film and television actress.
*Terry O'Sullivan, 91, American television actor (*Search for Tomorrow*), pancreatic cancer.
*Johnny Palmer, 88, American golfer, seven-time PGA Tour winner.
*Frederic Wakeman, 68, American scholar of Chinese history.

### 15
*Raymond Baxter, 84, British television presenter (''Tomorrow's World*).
*Oriana Fallaci, 77, Italian journalist and writer, breast cancer.
*Guy François, Haitian Army colonel, participated in failed coups in 1989 and 2001.
*Charles L. Grant, 64, American horror and science fiction author, heart attack.
*Douglas Henderson, 71, British politician.
*Donald Kimball, 62, American defrocked Roman Catholic priest, convicted in sex abuse scandal.
*Nitun Kundu, 70, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor.
*David T. Lykken, 78, American professor of psychology (University of Minnesota).
*Abe Saffron, 86, Australian nightclub owner and property developer.
*Pablo Santos, 19, Mexican actor (*Greetings from Tucson*), plane crash.
*Sergio Savarese, 48, Italian furniture designer, plane crash.
*Meredith Thring, 90, British engineer.

### 16
*John Allen, 80, American Olympic athlete.
*Sten Andersson, 83, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1985–1991) and Minister for Social Affairs (1982–1985), heart attack.
*Floyd Curry, 81, Canadian four-time Stanley Cup winner (Montreal Canadiens).
*George Estman, 84, South African Olympic cyclist.
*E. H. H. Green, 47, British historian, multiple sclerosis.
*Zsuzsa Körmöczy, 82, Hungarian tennis player and coach, won 1958 French Championships.
*Rob Levin, 51, American founder of freenode, head injury from bicycle accident.
*Esther Martinez, 94, American Tewa storyteller and linguist, car accident.
*Fouad el-Mohandes, 82, Egyptian comedy actor, heart failure.

### 17
*Jack Banta, 81, American Major League Baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
*Al Casey, 89, American rock and country music guitarist.
*George Heslop, 66, English footballer (Manchester City).
*Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82, American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy, ex-wife of actor Peter Lawford, pneumonia.
*Nathaniel Lubell, 90, American Olympic fencer and artist.
*Edward D. Re, 85, American lawyer and judge.
*Leonella Sgorbati, 65, Italian nun, shot.
*Kazuyuki Sogabe, 58, Japanese anime voice actor (*Sailor Moon*, *Dragon Ball'').
* Dorothy C. Stratton, 107, American first director of the Coast Guard Women's Reserve.

### 18
*Seán Clancy, 105, Irish oldest War of Independence veteran.
*Edward J. King, 81, American Governor of Massachusetts (1979–1983).
*Philip H. Melanson, 61, American academic, expert on assassinations, cancer.
*Nilton Pereira Mendes, 30, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
*Leo Navratil, 85, Austrian psychiatrist.
*Syd Thrift, 77, American general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles.

### 19
*Elizabeth Allen, 77, American actress (''Donovan's Reef*, *Do I Hear a Waltz?*, *The Jackie Gleason Show*).
*Danny Flores, 77, American saxophonist and vocalist (The Champs), pneumonia.
*Joe Glazer, 88, American singer-songwriter.
*Martha Holmes, 83, American *Life'' photographer, natural causes.
*Sir Hugh Kawharu, 79, New Zealand academic and Māori leader.
*Vico Magistretti, 86, Italian architect and designer.
*Manuel Mindán Manero, 103, Spanish philosopher and priest, natural causes.
*Roy Schuiten, 55, Dutch track and road racing cyclist.
*Terry Smith, 47, Australian rules football player (Richmond, St Kilda), cancer.

### 20
*Phạm Xuân Ẩn, 78, Vietnamese journalist, North Vietnamese spy during Vietnam War, emphysema.
*Clarence Hill, 48, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
*Henri Jayer, 84, French winemaker.
*Armin Jordan, 74, Swiss conductor.
*Beth Levine, 91, American shoe designer.
*Sven Nykvist, 83, Swedish cinematographer and two-time Academy Award-winner.
*John W. Peterson, 84, American gospel hymn writer, cancer.
*Lillian Robinson, 65, American professor of women's studies (Concordia University).
*Don Walser, 72, American country singer and yodeler, complications from diabetes.
*Muddy Waters, 83, American college football coach (Michigan State University).
*Dean Wooldridge, 93, American physicist, co-founder of TRW.

### 21
*Boz Burrell, 60, British bassist and vocalist (Bad Company, King Crimson), heart attack.
*Margaret Ekpo, 92, Nigerian politician and women's rights activist.
*Alan Fletcher, 75, British graphic designer.
*Gilbert Jonas, 76, American fundraiser for the NAACP.
*Charles Larson, 86, American television writer and Emmy Award-nominated producer (*The F.B.I.*). 
*Charles Rees, 78, British chemist.

### 22
*Edward Albert, 55, American actor, son of actors Margo and Eddie Albert, lung cancer.
*Carla Benschop, 56, Dutch basketball player.
*Tommy Garnett, 91, English-born Australian cricketer and educator.
*Enrique Gorriarán Merlo, 64, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader, cardiac arrest due to abdominal aortic aneurysm.
*Tommy Olivencia, 64, Puerto Rican salsa singer and bandleader.
*Mary Orr, 95, American author whose story "The Wisdom of Eve" inspired the film *All About Eve*.

### 23
*Sir Malcolm Arnold, 84, British Academy Award-winning film score composer (*The Bridge on the River Kwai*), chest infection.
*Etta Baker, 93, American piedmont blues guitarist.
*Sir Charles Cutler, 88, Australian Deputy Premier of New South Wales (1965–1975), cancer.
*Aladár Pege, 67, Hungarian jazz musician.
*Tim Rooney, 59, American actor, son of Mickey Rooney, dermatomyositis.

### 24
*John S. Boskovich, 49, American artist and screenwriter (''Without You I'm Nothing'').
*Joel Broyhill, 86, American Republican congressman for Virginia (1953–1975), heart failure and pneumonia.
*Michael Ferguson, 53, Irish republican politician, testicular cancer.
*Sally Gray, 90, British actress.
*Joan Hatcher, 82, New Zealand cricketer.
*Ben Heppner, 63, Canadian politician, bone cancer.
*Padmini, 74, Indian actress in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films, heart attack.
*Patrick Quinn, 56, American actor, president of Actors' Equity Association (2000–2006), heart attack.
*Thomas Stewart, 78, American bass-baritone opera singer.
*Tetsuro Tamba, 84, Japanese actor.
*Henry Townsend, 96, American blues guitarist, pianist and songwriter, pulmonary edema.

### 25
*Safia Ahmed-jan, 65, Afghan women's rights advocate, shot.
*Omar al-Faruq, 35, Kuwaiti senior member of al-Qaeda, shot.
*Jeff Cooper, 86, American small arms expert.
*Maureen Daly, 85, American author (*Seventeenth Summer*).
*John M. Ford, 49, American science fiction and fantasy writer, natural causes.
*Sir Vijay Singh, 75, Indo-Fijian lawyer and politician, cancer.
* Sir Iain Tennant, 87, Scottish businessman and public servant.
*Metropolitan Vitaly Ustinov, 96, Russian First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (1985–2001).

### 26
*Gerhard Behrendt, 77, German inventor of Sandmännchen children's television character. 
*Giuseppe Bennati, 85, Italian film director.
*Laurence Jonathan Cohen, 83, British philosopher.
*Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese American convicted and later pardoned of being World War II propagandist "Tokyo Rose".
*Mihály Fülöp, 70, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
*Byron Nelson, 94, American professional golfer.
*Sir Philip Randle, 80, British biochemist.
*Sir Martin Roth, 88, Hungarian-born British president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
*John Salisse, 80, British businessman and magician.
*Ralph Story, 86, American radio broadcaster and television host (*The $64,000 Challenge*), emphysema.

### 27
*Geraldine Guest, 83, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
*William Horwitz, 88, American chemist.
*Helmut Kallmeyer, 95, German chemist and *Aktion T4* perpetrator.
*Craig Kusick, 57, American former first baseman for the Minnesota Twins, leukemia.
*Arthur Marwick, 70, British historian, first professor of history at the Open University.
*Sir Michael Pollock, 89, British admiral, First Sea Lord (1971&ndash;1974).

### 28
*George Balzer, 91, American writer for Jack Benny's radio and TV shows.
*Adam Curle, 90, British academic and peace activist.
*James Hamilton, 4th Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, 68, British aristocrat and politician, cancer.
*Virgil Ierunca, 86, Romanian writer.

### 29
* Rosamond Carr, 94, American fashion illustrator turned humanitarian and activist.
* Billy Mauch, 85, American child actor and sound editor.
*Jan Werner Danielsen, 30, Norwegian singer, heart failure.
*Gerry Gazzard, 81, English footballer.
*Walter Hadlee, 91, New Zealand cricketer, stroke.
*Louis-Albert Vachon, 94, Canadian Archbishop Emeritus of Québec.

### 30
*Isabel Bigley, 80, American stage actress, Tony Award-winner for *Guys and Dolls*.
*Josh Graves, 79, American bluegrass dobro player.
*Bert James, 92, Australian politician, MP for Hunter (1960&ndash;1980).
*Adolf H. Lundin, 73, Swedish oil and mining entrepreneur, leukemia.
*Pino Mlakar, 99, Slovenian ballet dancer.
*André Schwarz-Bart, 78, French novelist.
*András Sütő, 79, Romanian writer of Hungarian descent, melanoma.

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