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.
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## 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*), sepsis.
*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.
*Max Walker, 68, Australian Test cricketer and football player, myeloma.

### 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
* January
* February
* March
* April
* May
* June
* July
* August
* September
* October
* November
* 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