Deaths in September 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.
September 2006
30
- Isabel Bigley, 80, American stage actress, Tony Award-winner for Guys and Dolls. [1] [2]
- Josh Graves, 79, American bluegrass dobro player. [3]
- Bert James, 92, Australian politician, MP for Hunter (1960–1980). [4]
- Adolf H. Lundin, 73, Swedish oil and mining entrepreneur, leukemia. [5] (Swedish)
- Pino Mlakar, 99, Slovenian ballet dancer. [6] (Slovenian)
- André Schwarz-Bart, 78, French novelist. [7] (French)
- András Sütő, 79, Romanian writer of Hungarian descent, melanoma. [8] (Hungarian)
29
- Rosamond Carr, 94, American fashion illustrator turned humanitarian and activist. [9]
- Jan Werner Danielsen, 30, Norwegian singer, heart failure. [10] [11] (Norwegian)
- Walter Hadlee, 91, New Zealand cricketer, stroke. [12]
- Louis-Albert Vachon, 94, Canadian Archbishop Emeritus of Québec. [13]
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- Gerhard Behrendt, 77, German inventor of Sandmännchen children's television character. [19] (German)
- Giuseppe Bennati, 85, Italian film director. [20]
- Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese American convicted, and later pardoned, of being World War II propagandist Tokyo Rose. [21] [22]
- Mihály Fülöp, 70, Hungarian Olympic fencer. [23]
- Byron Nelson, 94, American professional golfer. [24] [25]
- Sir Martin Roth, 88, Hungarian-born British president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. [26]
- Ralph Story, 86, American radio broadcaster and television host (The $64,000 Challenge), emphysema. [27]
25
- Safia Ahmed-jan, 65, Afghan women's rights advocate, shot. [28]
- Omar al-Faruq, 35, Kuwaiti senior member of al-Qaeda, shot. [29]
- Jeff Cooper, 86, American small arms expert. [30]
- Maureen Daly, 85, American author (Seventeenth Summer). [31]
- John M. Ford, 49, American science fiction and fantasy writer, natural causes. [32]
- Sir Vijay Singh, 75, Indo-Fijian lawyer and politician, cancer. [33]
- Sir Iain Tennant, 87, Scottish businessman and public servant. [34]
- Metropolitan Vitaly Ustinov, 96, Russian First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (1985–2001). [35]
24
- John S. Boskovich, 49, American artist and screenwriter (Without You I'm Nothing). [36]
- Joel Broyhill, 86, American Republican congressman for Virginia (1953–1975), heart failure and pneumonia. [37]
- Michael Ferguson, 53, Irish republican politician, testicular cancer. [38]
- Sally Gray, 90, British actress. [39]
- Ben Heppner, 63, Canadian politician, prostate cancer. [40]
- Padmini, 74, Indian actress in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films, heart attack. [41]
- Patrick Quinn, 56, American actor, president of Actors' Equity Association (2000–2006), heart attack. [42]
- Thomas Stewart, 78, American bass-baritone opera singer. [43]
- Tetsuro Tamba, 84, Japanese actor. [44]
- Henry Townsend, 96, American blues guitarist, pianist and songwriter, pulmonary edema. [45]
- Shelby Walker, 31, American female boxer and mixed martial arts fighter, apparent suicide by analgesic overdose. [46]
23
- Sir Malcolm Arnold, 84, British Academy Award-winning film score composer (The Bridge on the River Kwai), chest infection. [47]
- Etta Baker, 93, American piedmont blues guitarist. [48]
- Sir Charles Cutler, 88, Australian Deputy Premier of New South Wales (1965–1975), cancer. [49]
- Aladár Pege, 67, Hungarian jazz musician. [50]
- Tim Rooney, 59, American actor, son of Mickey Rooney, dermatomyositis. [51]
22
- Edward Albert, 55, American actor, son of actors Margo and Eddie Albert, lung cancer. [52]
- Carla Benschop, 56, Dutch basketball player. [53] (Dutch)
- Enrique Gorriarán Merlo, 64, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader, cardiac arrest due to abdominal aortic aneurysm. [54]
- Tommy Olivencia, 64, Puerto Rican salsa singer and bandleader. [55]
- Mary Orr, 95, American author whose story "The Wisdom of Eve" inspired the film All About Eve. [56]
21
- Boz Burrell, 60, British bassist and vocalist (Bad Company, King Crimson), heart attack. [57]
- Margaret Ekpo, 92, Nigerian politician and women's rights activist. [58]
- Alan Fletcher, 75, British graphic designer. [59]
- Gilbert Jonas, 76, American fundraiser for the NAACP. [60]
- Charles Larson, 86, American television writer and Emmy Award-nominated producer (The F.B.I.). [61]
- Charles Rees, 78, British chemist. [62]
20
- Phạm Xuân Ẩn, 78, Vietnamese journalist, North Vietnamese spy during Vietnam War, emphysema. [63]
- Clarence Hill, 49, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [64]
- Henri Jayer, 84, French winemaker. [65]
- Armin Jordan, 74, Swiss conductor. [66]
- Beth Levine, 91, American shoe designer. [67]
- Sven Nykvist, 83, Swedish cinematographer and two-time Academy Award-winner. [68]
- John W. Peterson, 84, American gospel hymn writer, cancer. [69]
- Lillian Robinson, 65, American professor of women's studies (Concordia University). [70]
- Don Walser, 72, American country singer and yodeler, complications from diabetes. [71]
- Muddy Waters, 83, American college football coach (Michigan State University). [72]
- Dean Wooldridge, 93, American physicist, co-founder of TRW. [73] [74]
19
- Elizabeth Allen, 77, American actress (Donovan's Reef, Do I Hear a Waltz?, The Jackie Gleason Show). [75] [76]
- Danny Flores, 77, American saxophonist and vocalist (The Champs), pneumonia. [77] [78]
- Joe Glazer, 88, American singer-songwriter. [79]
- Martha Holmes, 83, American Life photographer, natural causes. [80] [81]
- Sir Hugh Kawharu, 79, New Zealand academic and Māori leader. [82]
- Vico Magistretti, 86, Italian architect and designer. [83]
- Manuel Mindán Manero, 103, Spanish philosopher and priest, natural causes. [84]
- Roy Schuiten, 55, Dutch track and road racing cyclist. [85]
- Terry Smith, 47, Australian football player (Richmond, St Kilda), cancer. [86]
18
- Seán Clancy, 105, Irish oldest War of Independence veteran. [87]
- Edward J. King, 81, American Governor of Massachusetts (1979–1983). [88]
- Philip H. Melanson, 61, American academic, expert on assassinations, cancer. [89]
- Leo Navratil, 85, Austrian psychiatrist. [90]
- Syd Thrift, 77, American general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles. [91]
17
- Jack Banta, 81, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). [92]
- George Heslop, 66, British football player. [93]
- Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82, American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy, ex-wife of actor Peter Lawford, pneumonia. [94] [95]
- Nathaniel Lubell, 90, American Olympic fencer and artist. [96]
- Leonella Sgorbati, 65, Italian nun, shot. [97]
- Kazuyuki Sogabe, 58, Japanese anime voice actor (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball) [98]
- Dorothy C. Stratton, 107, American first director of the Coast Guard Women's Reserve. [99]
16
- Sten Andersson, 83, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1985–1991) and Minister for Social Affairs (1982–1985), heart attack. [100]
- Floyd Curry, 81, Canadian four-time Stanley Cup winner (Montreal Canadiens). [101]
- Zsuzsa Körmöczy, 82, Hungarian tennis player and coach, won 1958 French Championships. [102]
- Rob Levin, 51, American founder of freenode, head injury from bicycle accident. [103]
- Esther Martinez, 94, American Tewa storyteller and linguist, car accident. [104]
- Fouad el-Mohandes, 82, Egyptian comedy actor, heart failure. [105]
15
- Raymond Baxter, 84, British television presenter (Tomorrow's World). [106]
- Oriana Fallaci, 77, Italian journalist and writer, breast cancer. [107]
- Guy François, Haitian Army colonel, participated in failed coups in 1989 and 2001. [108]
- Charles L. Grant, 64, American horror and science fiction author, heart attack. [109].
- Douglas Henderson, 71, British politician. [110]
- Donald Kimball, 62, American defrocked Roman Catholic priest, convicted in sex abuse scandal. [111]
- Nitun Kundu, 70, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor. [112]
- David T. Lykken, 78, American professor of psychology (University of Minnesota). [113]
- Abe Saffron, 86, Australian nightclub owner and property developer. [114]
- Pablo Santos, 19, Mexican actor (Greetings from Tucson), plane crash. [115]
- Sergio Savarese, 48, Italian furniture designer, plane crash. [116]
14
- Norman Brooks, 78, Canadian singer, Al Jolson imitator, emphysema. [117]
- Silviu Brucan, 90, Romanian ambassador to the United States, opponent of Nicolae Ceauşescu. [118]
- Elizabeth Choy, 95, Singaporean war heroine, first female legislator, pancreatic cancer. [119]
- Miklós Hargitay, 80, Hungarian former Mr. Universe and actor, ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield, father of Mariska Hargitay. [120]
- J. William Kime, 72, American former commandant of the Coast Guard. [121]
- Andrey Kozlov, 41, Russian First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank, shot. [122]
- Peter Ling, 80, British television writer, creator of Crossroads. [123]
- Paulo Marques, 58, Brazilian journalist and presenter, brain cancer. [124] (Portuguese)
- Esme Melville, 87, Australian film and television actress. [125]
- Terry O'Sullivan, 91, American television actor (Search for Tomorrow), pancreatic cancer. [126]
- Johnny Palmer, 88, American golfer, seven-time PGA Tour winner. [127]
- Frederic Wakeman, 68, American scholar of Chinese history. [128]
13
- Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 97, British Conservative minister and wartime SOE officer. [129]
- Christopher Essex, 61, Australian fashion designer, cancer. [130]
- Kimveer Gill, 25, Canadian school shooter (Dawson College shooting), suicide by gunshot. [131]
- Ann Richards, 73, American Governor of Texas (1991–1995), esophageal cancer. [132]
- Peter Tevis, 69, American musician, Parkinson's Disease. [133]
12
- Raymond Mikesell, 93, American economist at the Bretton Woods Conference. [134]
- Emily Perez, 23, American first female African-American Army officer to die in combat, improvised explosive device. [135]
- Bill Saul, 65, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), cancer. [136]
- Edna Staebler, 100, Canadian cookbook and non-fiction author, stroke. [137]
11
- William Auld, 81, British poet, author and supporter of Esperanto. [138]
- Al Casey, 89, American rock and country music guitarist. [139]
- Peter Clentzos, 97, American-born Greek Olympic competitor in pole vault. [140]
- Pat Corley, 76, American actor (Murphy Brown), heart failure. [141]
- Solange Fernex, French ecologist and green politician. [142] (French)
- Joachim Fest, 79, German historian and journalist. [143]
- Joseph Hayes, 88, American author (The Desperate Hours). [144]
- Johannes Bob van Benthem, 85, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office (1977–1985). [145]
10
- Ernestine Bayer, 97, American rower, complications from pneumonia. [146]
- Patty Berg, 88, American golf pioneer, founder of the LPGA, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [147]
- Melanie Lomax, 56, American civil rights lawyer, former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, car accident. [148]
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover, 71, American Representative for Oklahoma (1975–1979). [149]
- Bennie Smith, 72, American blues guitarist, heart attack. [150]
- Daniel Wayne Smith, 20, American actor, son of Anna Nicole Smith, drug overdose. [151]
- Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, 88, Tongan King, after illness. [152]
9
- Gérard Brach, 79, French screenwriter (The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Name of the Rose), cancer. [153]
- Clair Burgener, 84, American Representative for California (1973–1983), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [154]
- Matt Gadsby, 27, British footballer (Hinckley United ), ARVC. [155]
- Émilie Mondor, 25, Canadian Olympic distance runner, car accident. [156]
- Elisabeth Ogilvie, 89, American author. [157]
- Herbert Rudley, 95, American actor. [158]
- Keshavram Kashiram Shastri, 101, Indian founder of VHP, natural causes. [159]
- William Bernard Ziff, Jr., 76, American publishing magnate, prostate cancer. [160]
8
- Hilda Bernstein, 91, British-born South African author and anti-apartheid activist, heart failure. [161]
- Peter Brock, 61, Australian touring car racer, car accident. [162]
- Thomas Lee Judge, 71, American Governor of Montana (1973–1981), pulmonary fibrosis. [163]
- Frank Middlemass, 87, British character actor (As Time Goes By). [164]
- Erk Russell, 80, American college football coach (University of Georgia, Georgia Southern University), stroke. [165]
- Fred Spiess, 86, American oceanographer and marine explorer, cancer. [166]
7
- Efraim Allsalu, 77, Estonian painter. [167] (Estonian)
- Sir Norman Blacklock, 78, British physician, Medical Officer to the Queen (1976–1993). [168]
- Clem Coetzee, 67, Zimbabwean conservationist, heart attack. [169]
- James deAnda, 81, American lawyer and federal judge, part of the legal team in Hernandez v. Texas, prostate cancer. [170]
- Joan Donaldson, 60, American founding head of the CBC Newsworld television network, complications from injuries. [171]
- James Hawthorne, 74, British controller of the BBC in Northern Ireland (1979–1989). [172]
- Robert Earl Jones, 96, American actor, father of James Earl Jones. [173]
- Cornelius O'Leary, 78, Irish historian. [174]
- John M. Watson, 69, American jazz musician and actor, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [175]
6
- Warren Bolster, 59, American surf and skateboard photographer, suicide by gunshot. [176]
- Sir John Drummond, 71, British controller of BBC Radio 3 and The Proms. [177]
- Lovette George, 44, American Broadway theatre singer and actress, ovarian cancer. [178]
- Peter Greenough, 89, American finance columnist (Boston Globe), husband of Beverly Sills, after long illness. [179]
- Gordon Manning, 89, American television journalist (NBC and CBS), heart attack. [180]
- Sir Michael Marshall, 76, British politician, MP for Arundel (1974–1997), President of the Chichester Festival Theatre. [181]
- Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, c.50, Sudanese newspaper editor, beheaded. [182]
- Agha Shahi, 86, Pakistani diplomat and foreign minister, after illness. [183]
- Mark Wright, 27, British soldier, posthumously awarded George Cross. [184]
5
4
- Rémy Belvaux, 38, Belgian writer, film producer and director (Man Bites Dog), suicide. [189]
- Ingrid Bjoner, 78, Norwegian soprano. [190]
- John Conte, 90, American actor, founded TV station KMIR, natural causes. [191]
- Giacinto Facchetti, 64, Italian footballer, cancer. [192]
- James Fee, 56, American photographer, liver cancer. [193]
- Tamás Fejér, 86, Hungarian film director. [194] (Hungarian)
- Mark Anthony Graham, 33, Canadian Olympian and soldier, friendly fire. [195]
- Steve Irwin, 44, Australian naturalist (The Crocodile Hunter), stingray barb to the chest. [196]
- Moses Khumalo, 26, South African jazz saxophonist, Best Newcomer at South African Music Awards (2002), suicide by hanging. [197]
- Giulia Sani-Casagli, 112, Italian ninth-oldest person in the world. [198] (Italian)
- Colin Thiele, 85, Australian children's author, heart failure. [199]
- Astrid Varnay, 88, American soprano. [200]
3
- Françoise Claustre, 69, French ethnologist and archaeologist. [201] (French)
- Ian Hamer, 73, British jazz trumpeter. [202]
- Eva Knardahl, 79, Norwegian classical pianist. [203]
- Anna Ringier, 110, Switzerland's oldest person. [204] (German)
- Annemarie Wendl, 91, German actress, heart failure. [205] (German)
2
- Bob Mathias, 75, American decathlete, twice Olympic gold medalist, United States Representative, cancer. [206]
- Deforrest Most, 89, American gymnast, helped establish Muscle Beach, heart failure. [207]
- Willi Ninja, 45, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS. [208]
- Clermont Pépin, 80, Canadian composer, liver cancer. [209]
- Silverio Pérez, 91, Mexican bullfighter, renal illness. [210]
- Lionel Pickering, 74, British businessman, chairman of Derby County, cancer. [211]
- Anthony Poon, 61, Singaporean abstract artist, lung cancer. [212]
- Dewey Redman, 75, American jazz saxophonist, father of Joshua Redman, liver failure. [213]
- Monty Stickles, 68, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), heart failure. [214]
- Charlie Williams, 77, British comedian and footballer (Doncaster Rovers), Parkinson's disease. [215]
1
- Tommy Chesbro, 66, American wrestler and coach (Oklahoma State University), heart attack. [216]
- Nellie Connally, 87, American widow of Texas Governor John Connally, shared car at John F. Kennedy assassination. [217]
- György Faludy, 95, Hungarian poet, writer and translator. [218]
- Rashid Maidin, 89, Malaysian leader of the Communist Party. [219]
- Ronald Mansbridge, 100, British-born American publisher, founded first US branch of Cambridge University Press. [220]
- Richard Frewen Martin, 88, British fighter pilot and test pilot. [221]
- Bill McNutt II, 81, American businessman (Collin Street Bakery), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. [222]
- Warren Mitofsky, 72, American pollster, creator of the exit poll, heart failure. [223]
- Bob O'Connor, 61, American Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, brain cancer. [224]
- Travis I. Payze, 60, Australian footballer, prostate cancer. [225]
- Sir Kyffin Williams, 88, Welsh artist, lung and prostate cancer. [226]