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.

30

• Isabel Bigley, 80, American stage actress, Tony Award-winner for Guys and Dolls. [1] [2]
• Josh Graves, 79, American bluegrass dobro player [3]
• Derek Jacobs, 18, American computer prodigy, one of the first people in the world to receive an identification microchip, motorcycle accident. [4]
• Adolf H. Lundin, 73, Swedish oil and mining entrepreneur, leukemia. [5] (Swedish)
• André Schwarz-Bart, 78, French novelist. [6]
• András Sütő, 79, Romanian writer of Hungarian descent, melanoma. [7] (Hungarian)
• Robert Jackson Thompson, 60, on California's death row since 1983 for murder, heart attack. [8]

29

• Jan Werner Danielsen, 30, Norwegian singer. [9] (Norwegian)
• Walter Hadlee, 91, New Zealand cricketer, stroke. [10]
• Dr. Joseph Kauffman, 84, American educator, training director of the Peace Corps. [11]
• John Klang, 49, Wisconsin school principal shot by student. [12]
• Luis Muñoz Rivera, 90, last surviving signatory of the constitution of Puerto Rico. [13]
• Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, 94, Archbishop Emeritus of Québec and Roman Catholic Primate of Canada. [14]

28

• Virgil Ierunca, 86, Romanian writer. [15]
• Robert H. Knight, 87, American lawyer and government official. [16]

27

• Craig Kusick, 57, former first baseman for the Minnesota Twins, leukemia. [17]
• Arthur Marwick,70, Historian. First Professor of History at the Open University

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26

• Gerhard Behrendt, 77, inventor of Sandmännchen, most successful German children television show character. [19] (German)
• Giuseppe Bennati, 85, Italian film director. [20]
• Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese-American convicted, and later pardoned, of being WWII propagandist Tokyo Rose. [21] [22]
• Alan Maclean, 81, Scottish publisher, brother of Soviet spy Donald Maclean. [23]
• Byron Nelson, 94, professional golfer. [24] [25]
• Ralph Story, 86, American radio broadcaster and television show host (The $64,000 Challenge), emphysema. [26]
• Victoria Anne Simmons, Newborn child of Joseph Simmons (Rev Run) of Run DMC, she died shortly after birth, the death was announced not long after on MTV.

25

• Safia Ahmed-jan, 65, head of the Afghan Ministry of Women's Affairs in Kandahar province since 2001, assassinated. [27]
• Omar al-Faruq, 35, a senior member of al-Qaeda, shot by British forces in Basra. [28]
• Jeff Cooper, 86, American small arms expert. [29]
• Maureen Daly, 85, author of Seventeenth Summer in 1942 which is credited with launching modern young adult literature. [30]
• Leo Diehl, 92, former aide to Tip O'Neill. [31]
• Lillian Robinson, 65, American director of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and professor of women's studies at Concordia University. [32]
• Sir Vijay R. Singh, 75, Indo-Fijian lawyer and politician, cancer. [33]
• Metropolitan Vitaly Ustinov, 96, retired First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia

24

• Joel T. Broyhill, 86, Republican Congressman from northern Virginia, 1953-75, congestive heart failure and pneumonia. [34]
• Yutaka Egashira, 98, Japanese royalty, grandfather of Crown Princess Masako. [35]
• John M. Ford, 49, American science fiction author. [36]
• Sally Gray, 90, English actress. [37]
• Ben Heppner, 63, Canadian politician, prostate cancer. [38]
• Patrick Quinn, 56, American actor and former president of the Actors' Equity Association, heart attack. [39]
• Padmini Ramachandran, 74, Indian actress in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films, heart attack. [40]
• Thomas Stewart, 78, American bass-baritone. [41]
• Tetsuro Tamba, 84, Japanese actor. [42] (Japanese) [43]
• Henry Townsend, 96, American blues guitarist, pianist, and songwriter, pulmonary edema. [44]
• Shelby Walker, 31, American female boxer and Martial Arts fighter, apparent medicine overdose. [45]

23

• Sir Malcolm Arnold, 84, composer, first UK citizen to win an Academy Award for film music, complications from a chest infection.[46]
• Etta Baker, 93, Piedmont blues guitarist. [47]
• Sir Charles Cutler, 88, former Deputy Premier of New South Wales, Australia, cancer. [48]
• Aladár Pege, 67, Hungarian jazz musician, dubbed "the Paganini of double bass". [49]
• Tim Rooney, 59, American actor, son of Mickey Rooney, dermatomyositis. [50]

22

• Edward Albert, 55, American actor, son of actors Margo and Eddie Albert, lung cancer. [51]
• Carla Benschop, 56, Dutch basketball player. [52] [53] [54] [55]
• Dr. Harris Busch, 83, American biochemist and cancer researcher at Baylor College of Medicine. [56]
• Enrique Gorriarán Merlo, 64, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader, cardiac arrest due to an abdominal aortic aneurysm. [57]
• Tommy Olivencia, 64, Puerto Rican salsa singer and bandleader. [58]

21

• Boz Burrell, 60, English bassist and vocalist (Bad Company/King Crimson), heart attack. [59][60][61][62]
• Alan Fletcher, 75, British graphic designer. [63]
• Charles Larson, 86, American television writer and Emmy Award-nominated producer (The F.B.I.). [64]
• Charles Rees, 78, British chemist [65]
• William C. Schultz, 80, American CEO of the Fender Guitar Company. [66]

20

• Henri Jayer, 84, French winemaker. [67] [68]
• Gilbert Jonas, 76, American fundraiser for the NAACP. [69]
• Armin Jordan, 74, Swiss conductor. [70] [71]
• Beth Levine, 91, American shoe designer known as the "America's First Lady of Shoe Design". [72]
• Alfred Mann, 89, German-born musicologist, professor at Rutgers University and the Eastman School of Music. [73]
• Sven Nykvist, 83, Swedish cinematographer and two-time Oscar winner. [74]
• John W. Peterson, 84, American gospel hymn writer ("It Took a Miracle", "Surely Goodness and Mercy"), cancer. [75]
• Ivan Shabunin, 70, first governor of Volgograd Oblast, natural causes. [76]
• Don Walser, 72, Texas country singer and yodeler, complications from diabetes. [77]
• Frank "Muddy" Waters, 83, American college football coach at Michigan State University. [78]
• Dean Wooldridge, 93, American physicist and co-founder of TRW. [79] [80]
• Pham Xuan An, 78, journalist, and spy for Hanoi during Vietnam war, emphysema. [81]

19

• Elizabeth Allen, 77, actress of the screen (Donovan's Reef) and stage (Do I Hear a Waltz?) [82]
• Josh Crouch, 24, actor (Dawson's Creek, Darktales), hit-and-run. [83]
• Danny Flores, 77, American saxophonist and vocalist on the Champs' 1958 hit "Tequila", pneumonia. [84] [85] [86]
• Joe Glazer, 88, American singer-songwriter known as "Labor's Troubador". [87]
• Martha Holmes, 83, American former Life photographer, natural causes. [88] [89]
• Sir Hugh Kawharu, 79, New Zealand academic and Māori leader. [90]
• Vico Magistretti, 86, Italian architect and designer. [91]
• Evelyn Ortner, 82, American brownstone preservationist. [92]
• Roy Schuiten, 55, Dutch cyclist. [93]
• Terry Smith (Australian rules footballer), 47, former player with the Richmond and St Kilda football clubs, cancer. [94]

18

• Lt Col. Seán Clancy, 105, Ireland's oldest War of Independence veteran. [95]
• Edward J. King, 81, former Democratic Governor of Massachusetts (1979-1983). [96]
• Philip H. Melanson, 61, academic, expert on assassinations, cancer. [97] [98]
• Nilton Pereira Mendes, 30, Brazilian football player with FC Shakhtyor Karagandy, heart attack during training. [99]
• Leo Navratil, 85, Austrian psychiatrist [100]
• Syd Thrift, 77, former general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles. [101] [102]

17

• Jack Banta, 81, former baseball pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. [103]
• George Heslop, 66, English football player. [104]
• Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82, sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and ex-wife of actor Peter Lawford, pneumonia. [105] [106]
• Alexei Loktev, 64, Soviet and Russian actor, car accident.[107]
• Sr. Leonella Sgorbati, 65, Italian nun, gunshot wounds. [108]
• Dorothy C. Stratton, 107, American first director of the US Coast Guard Women's Reserve. [109] [110]

16

• Hélène Deschamps Adams, 85, Chinese-born French-American hero of the French Resistance. [111]
• Sten Andersson, 83, former Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Social Affairs, and Secretary of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, heart attack. [112]
• Margaret Phipps Boegner, 99, American heiress and founder of Old Westbury Gardens. [113]
• Roy Brewer, 97, American Hollywood representative of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Motion Picture Machine Operators during the blacklist era. [114]
• Richard Caleal, 94, American automotive designer. [115]
• Floyd Curry, 81, four-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens. [116]
• Zsuzsa Körmöczy, 82, Hungarian tennis player and coach, won the 1958 French Championships. [117]
• Dr. Marjorie Lewisohn, 87, American doctor, first female trustee of Johns Hopkins University. [118]
• Esther Martinez, 94, Tewa storyteller and linguist, car crash. [119]
• Foad AlMohandess, 82, Egyptian comedy actor, heart failure. [120]

15

• Raymond Baxter, 84, British television presenter (Tomorrow's World). [121]
• Oriana Fallaci, 77, Italian journalist and writer, breast cancer. [122]
• Col. Guy Francois, participated in failed coups in Haiti in 1989 and 2001. [123]
• Ricky Gibson, 53, former professional wrestler [124]
• Charles L. Grant, 64, horror and science fiction author and editor, heart attack [125].
• Douglas Henderson, 71, Scottish politician [126]
• Jang Keum-song, 29, niece of Kim Jong-il, suicide by overdose. [127]
• Donald Kimball, 62, American defrocked Catholic priest, convicted in sex abuse scandal [128]
• Nitun Kundu, 70, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor [129]
• Evelyn LaBruce, 69, American mezzo-soprano opera singer. [130]
• Rob Levin, 51, founder of Freenode, head injuries resulting from bicycle accident. [131]
• Ivan Luini, 46, Italian furniture executive and founder of Kartell U.S., plane crash. [132]
• Dr. David Lykken, 78, American professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota. [133]
• Abe Saffron, 86, Sydney nightclub owner and property developer known as "Mr Sin". [134]
• Pablo Santos, 19, Mexican actor (Greetings from Tucson), plane crash. [135]
• Sergio Savarese, 48, Italian furniture designer and founder of Dialogica, plane crash. [136]

14

• Norman Brooks, 78, Canadian singer, purveyor of Al Jolson songs, emphysema. [137]
• Elizabeth Choy, 95, war heroine and Singapore's first female legislator, pancreatic cancer. [138]
• Mickey Hargitay, 80, Hungarian former Mr. Universe and actor, ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield, father of Mariska Hargitay. [139]
• Admiral J. William Kime, 72, former commandant of the US Coast Guard. [140]
• Andrey Kozlov, 41, First Deputy Chairman of Russia's Central Bank, shot. [141]
• Peter Ling, 80, British TV writer and creator of Crossroads. [142]
• Paulo Marques, 58, Brazilian journalist and broadcaster, brain cancer.[143] (in Portuguese)
• Esme Melville, 87, Australian film and television actress.^{[citation needed]}
• Johnny Palmer, 88, American golfer, seven time PGA Tour winner. [144]
• Dr. Frederic Wakeman, 68, American scholar of Chinese history. [145]

13

• Silviu Brucan, 90, former Romanian ambassador to the United States and an opponent of Nicolae Ceauşescu. [146]
• Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 97, former Conservative minister and wartime SOE officer. [147]
• Christopher Essex, 61, Australian fashion designer, cancer. [148]
• Kimveer Gill, 25, gunman of Dawson College shooting, suicide. [149]
• Peter Madden, 65, Canadian playwright, author of The Night No One Yelled and other plays
• Collie Nicholson, 85, American sports information director at Grambling State University. [150]
• Ann Richards, 73, former Governor of Texas, esophageal cancer. [151]
• Lou "Boulder" Richards, 35, former guitarist for metalcore band Hatebreed, presumed suicide. [152] [153]
• Peter Tevis, 69, musician, Parkinson's Disease. [154]

12

• Maria da Conceição Luanda, 42, Angolan journalist. [155]
• Glenda Dawson, 65, Texas State Representative from the 29th District. [156]
• Marc François, 46, French actor and stage director, suicide. [157] [158] (French)
• Raymond Mikesell, 93, economist at the Bretton Woods Conference. [159]
• Emily Perez, 23, United States Army 2nd Lieutenant in Iraq, killed by an improvised explosive device (IED). [160]
• Edna Staebler, 100, Canadian cookbook and non-fiction author, stroke. [161]

11

• William Auld, 81, Scottish poet, author and supporter of Esperanto. [162]
• Peter Clentzos, 97, olympic competitor for Greece in pole vault. [163]
• Peter Coppin, 86, leader of the first strike by Australian aboriginal pastoral workers. [164]
• Pat Corley, 76, American actor (Phil the barkeep on Murphy Brown), congestive heart failure. [165] [166]
• Solange Fernex, French ecologist and green politician. (French Wikipedia)
• Joachim Fest, 79, German historian and journalist. [167]
• Tyron Garner, 39, plaintiff in Lawrence v. Texas, meningitis. [168] [169][170]
• Joseph Hayes, 88, American author (The Desperate Hours). [171]
• Kwan Hoi-shan, 81, Hong Kong character actor, natural causes.[172]
• Dr. Michael Mamakos, 80, American microvascular surgeon, part of the team that reattached a child's leg in 1978. [173]
• Johannes Bob van Benthem, 85, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office. [174]

10

• Ernestine Bayer, 97, mother of women's rowing, complications from pneumonia. [175]
• Patty Berg, 88, American golf pioneer, founder of the LPGA, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [176]
• Ira Brilliant, 84, American real estate developer, chemist, and founder of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies. [177]
• Col. Ubiratan Guimarães, 63, Brazilian politician, gunshot wound. [178]
• Clyde "Holly" Holloman, 47, Musician, Sleep Apnea. [179]
• Rin Inumaru, 48, Japanese cartoonist (Ojarumaru), suicide. [180]
• Melanie Lomax, 56, civil rights lawyer and former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, car accident. [181]
• Ted Risenhoover, 71, Democrat Representative for Oklahoma (1975-1979). [182]
• Bennie Smith, 72, blues guitarist, heart attack while ill with terminal lung cancer. [183]
• Daniel Smith, 20, son of model Anna Nicole Smith, drug overdose. [184]
• Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, 88, King of Tonga, after illness. [185]
• Gábor Vargas, 45, Swedish aerobatics aircraft pilot, midair collison above Marsamxett Harbour, Valletta. [186] [187]
• James Wilson, 68, Associated Press Chicago bureau chief covered Wounded Knee Incident, cancer. [188]

9

• Gérard Brach, 79, French screenwriter (The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Name of the Rose), cancer. [189]
• Clair Burgener, 84, California Representative, from 1973-1983, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [190]
• Richard Dyer, 68, New Zealand actor and singer, heart attack while performing in HMS Pinafore. [191]
• Navigator Dzinkambani, Malawian football player, eye cancer. [192]
• Matt Gadsby, 27, Hinckley United footballer, collapsed on pitch during game and died soon after. [193]
• Lucjan Kydryński, 77, Polish journalist, presenter and TV personality, natural causes. [194]
• Emilie Mondor, 25, Canadian Olympic distance runner, car accident. [195]
• Elisabeth Ogilvie, 89, American author. [196]
• Herbert Rudley, 95, American actor. [197]
• Keshavram Kashiram Shastri, 101, Gujarati founder of VHP, natural causes. [198]
• Arkady Volsky, 74, Russian founder of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. [199]
• William B. Ziff, Jr., 76, publishing magnate, prostate cancer. [200] [201]

8

• Hilda Bernstein, 91, British-born South African author and anti-apartheid activist, heart failure. [202] [203]
• Peter Brock, 61, Australian touring car racer, injuries sustained in a crash during a rally in Western Australia. [204]
• Bernard Green, 47, former New Zealand rugby league international, mining accident at the Roa Coal Mine. [205]
• Thomas Judge, 71, former Governor of Montana, pulmonary fibrosis. [206]
• Norman Lewis, 93, American author on English grammar. [207]
• Frank Middlemass, 87, English character actor (As Time Goes By). [208]
• Dr. Estelle Ramey, 89, American endocrinologist, physiologist and feminist. [209]
• Erk Russell, 80, college American football coach for the University of Georgia and Georgia Southern University, stroke. [210]
• Dr. Fred Noel Spiess, 86, oceanographer and marine explorer, cancer. [211]

7

• Richard Blinder, 71, American architect (Rubin Museum of Art, Ford Center for the Performing Arts). [212]
• Clem Coetzee, 67, Zimbabwean conservationist, heart attack. [213]
• James deAnda, 81, American lawyer and federal judge, part of the legal team in Hernandez v. Texas, prostate cancer. [214]
• Joan Donaldson, 60, founding head of the CBC Newsworld TV Network, complications from prior injuries. [215]
• James Hawthorne, 74, former controller of the BBC in Northern Ireland. [216]
• Peter Hyndman, 64, former British Columbia minister, cancer. [217]
• Robert Earl Jones, 96, American actor, father of James Earl Jones. [218]
• Lewis Portelli, 76, Maltese veteran sports journalist. [219]

6

• Warren Bolster, 59, American surf and skate photographer, suicide. [220] [221]
• Steen Bostrup, 67, former Danish television news host. [222] (Danish)
• Sir John Drummond, 71, former controller of BBC Radio 3 and The Proms. [223]
• Peter Greenough, 89, American financial columnist for the Boston Globe, husband of Beverly Sills, after illness. [224] [225]
• Don Lunn, 72, Australian breakfast radio DJ. [226]
• Gordon Manning, 89, US television news executive at NBC and CBS, heart attack. [227]
• Sir Michael Marshall, 76, English politician, former MP for Arundel and President of the Chichester Festival Theatre. [228]
• Agha Shahi, 86, former Pakistani diplomat and foreign minister, after illness. [229]
• Mohammed Taha, around 50, Sudanese newspaper editor, murdered. [230], [231]

5

• Anne Gregg, 66, former presenter of the BBC programme Holiday, cancer. [232] [233]
• Hilary Mason, 89, British TV character actress [234]
• John McLusky, 83, British comic strip artist (James Bond). [235]
• J. Bazzel Mull, 91, American Christian preacher and gospel music promoter. [236]
• Apostolos Souglakos, 56, Greek wrestler and actor, stroke. [237] (Greek)

4

• Rémy Belvaux, 38, Belgian writer, producer and director of the cult film Man Bites Dog, probable suicide. [238]
• Ingrid Bjoner, 78, Norwegian soprano. [239]
• John Conte, 90, American actor, founded TV station KMIR, natural causes. [240] [241]
• Giacinto Facchetti, 64, Italian former footballer, cancer. [242]
• James Fee, 56, American photographer, liver cancer. [243]
• Tamás Fejér, 86, Hungarian film director. [244]
• Mark Anthony Graham, 33, Canadian Olympian and soldier, killed by friendly fire while serving in Afghanistan. [245]
• Steve Irwin, 44, Australian naturalist, "The Crocodile Hunter", acute heart trauma caused by a stingray barb. [246] [247][248]
• Norman Kelley, 95, American tenor, Alzheimer's disease. [249]
• Moses Khumalo, 26, South African jazz saxophonist who won best newcomer at the South African Music Awards of 2002, suicide. [250]
• Mlondi Mdluli, 25, Alabama A&M football (soccer) player, car crash in his native Swaziland. [251]
• Giulia Sani-Casagli, 112, Italy's oldest person since Dec 28 2005; 9th-oldest in world [252] (Italian)
• Colin Thiele, 85, Australian children's author, heart failure. [253]
• Astrid Varnay, 88, Hungarian-Swedish-American soprano. [254] [255]

3

• Françoise Claustre, 69, French ethnologist and archaeologist. [256] [257] (French)
• Eva Knardahl, 79, Norwegian classical pianist. [258]
• Julia Levien, 94, American dancer and teacher. [259]
• Jaime Osorio Gómez, 59, Colombian film producer, actor (Maria Full of Grace), heart attack. [260]
• Anna Ringier, 110, Switzerland's oldest person. [261] (German)
• Tom Suzuki, 76, American graphic designer. [262]
• Annemarie Wendl, 91, German actress, heart failure. [263] (German)

2

• Bob Mathias, 75, decathlete, winner of two Olympic gold medals, and former United States Representative, cancer. [264]
• Janet Mikhaiili, 70, Iranian book illustrator, cerebral apoplexy. [265]
• Deforrest Most, 89, helped to establish Muscle Beach in Los Angeles, heart failure. [266]
• Willi Ninja, 45, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS. [267] [268]
• Clermont Pépin, 80, Canadian composer in Montréal, liver cancer. [269]
• Silverio Pérez, 91, Mexican bullfighter, renal illness. [270]
• Lionel Pickering, 74, former chairman of Derby County Football Club and noted businessman, cancer. [271]
• Anthony Poon, 61, Singaporean abstract artist, lung cancer.^{[citation needed]}
• Dewey Redman, 75, American jazz saxophonist, father of Joshua Redman, liver failure. [272] [273]
• Sandile Sayedwa, 39, South African sports administrator, car accident. [274]
• Monty Stickles, 68, former tight-end for the San Francisco 49ers, heart failure after illness. [275]
• Charlie Williams, 77, British comedian and former footballer with Doncaster Rovers, Parkinson's disease. [276] [277]

1

• Charles Aug, 68, American real estate executive. [278]
• Tommy Chesbro, 66, wrestler and wrestling coach with Oklahoma State University, heart attack. [279] [280]
• Nellie Connally, 87, widow of Texas Governor and Treasury Secretary John Connally, shared the automobile with John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated. [281]
• György Faludy, 95, Hungarian poet, writer and translator. [282]
• Rashid Maidin, 89, leader of the Communist Party of Malaya. [283]
• Ronald Mansbridge, 100, British-born publisher, founded first US branch of Cambridge University Press. [284]
• Bill McNutt, 81, former president of international fruitcake business the Collin Street Bakery, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. [285]
• Warren Mitofsky, 72, American pollster, creator of the exit poll, heart failure. [286] [287]
• Bob O'Connor, 61, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, brain cancer. [288]
• Travis I. Payze, 60, Australian rules footballer, prostate cancer. [289]
• Jawn Sandifer, 92, American civil rights lawyer, successfully argued Henderson v. United States. [290]
• Sir Kyffin Williams, 88, Welsh artist, lung and prostate cancer. [291]