Deaths in September 2008

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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2008.

30

• Henry Adler, 93, American drummer. [1]
• Ed Brinkman, 66, American baseball player and coach, lung cancer. [2]
• Sam Calder, 92, Australian politician and World War II fighter pilot, MP (1966–1980). [3]
• J. L. Chestnut, 77, American civil rights lawyer, kidney failure. [4]
• Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, 82, Singaporean politician, MP (1981–1986), NCMP (1997–2001), heart failure. [5]

29

• Hayden Carruth, 87, American poet and literary critic, stroke. [6]
• Richard Clayton, 93, American actor, heart failure. [7]
• Miguel Corcega, 79, Mexican actor. [8] (Spanish)
• Milt Davis, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts), cancer. [9]
• Tim Fortescue, 92, British politician, MP (1966–1974). [10]
• Ken Hoffman, 77, American mathematician, pulmonary embolism. [11]
• Stan Kann, 83, American organist and Tonight Show regular, complications from heart procedure. [12]
• Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, 72, Indian politician. [13]
• Antonio Sarto, 82, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop. [14]
• Bohumil Smolik, 65, Czech footballer. [15] (Czech)
• Anthony Spero, 79, American financier, leader of Bonanno crime family, after short illness. [16]
• Relus ter Beek, 64, Dutch politician, Minister of Defence (1989–1994), abolished conscription, lung cancer. [17]
• Peter Troy, 70, Australian surfing pioneer, pulmonary embolism. [18]
• Jock Wilson, 105, British serviceman, UK's oldest D-Day veteran. [19]

28

• Adolf Branald, 97, Czech writer. [20] (Czech)
• Osborn Elliott, 83, American editor of Newsweek (1961–1976), complications from cancer. [21]
• Jack Faulkner, 82, American football coach and administrator. [22]
• Malalai Kakar, 41, Afghan senior policewoman, shot. [23]
• Aaron Katz, 92, American director of the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case (1963–2005). [24]
• Konstantin Pavlov, 75, Bulgarian poet and screenwriter, after a long illness. [25]
• Thomas Thewes, 76, American businessman, co-owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, leukemia. [26]

27

• Len Browning, 80, British footballer. [27]
• Kristen Brydum, 25, American political activist, shot. [28]
• Sanny Day, 87, Dutch singer (The Millers). [29] (Dutch)
• George Jones, 71, American doo-wop singer-songwriter (The Edsels), cancer. [30]
• Mahendra Kapoor, 74, Indian playback singer, heart attack. [31]
• Mario Maya, 71, Spanish dancer and choreographer, cancer. [32]
• Jimmy Murray, 72, British footballer, prostate cancer. [33]
• Henri Pachard, 69, American pornographic film director, throat cancer. [34]
• Olaf Poulsen, 88, Norwegian president of the International Skating Union (1980–1994). [35] (Norwegian)

26

• Bernadette Greevy, 68, Irish mezzo-soprano, after short illness. [36]
• Joli Jászai, 101, Hungarian actress. [37] (Hungarian)
• Géza Kalocsay, 95, Hungarian football player and manager. [38] (Polish)
• Raymond Macherot, 84, Belgian cartoonist. [39]
• Marian McQuade, 91, American founder of National Grandparents Day, heart failure. [40]
• Bryan Morrison, 66, British manager of The Pretty Things and Pink Floyd, infection. [41]
• William M. Murphy, 92, American biographer. [42]
• Paul Newman, 83, American Academy Award-winning actor and philanthropist, cancer. [43]
• Cirio H. Santiago, 72, Filipino filmmaker and producer, complications from lung cancer. [44]

25

• Glenn Andrews, 99, American politician, Representative (1965–1967), oldest surviving member of the House of Representatives. [45]
• Brian Donnelly, 59, New Zealand diplomat and politician, MP (1996–2008). [46]
• Edward Klima, 77, American linguist, complications from brain surgery. [47]
• Horaţiu Rădulescu, 66, Romanian composer, spectral music pioneer. [48]
• Ralph Sazio, 86, Canadian football coach (Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [49]]
• Jimmy Sirrel, 86, British football manager (Notts County), after long illness. [50]
• Patrick d'Udekem d'Acoz, 72, Belgian count, father of Princess Mathilde. [51]
• Roger Vanderfield, 80, Australian rugby union referee, IRB chairman and ARU president. [52]

24

• Kwadwo Baah Wiredu, 56, Ghanaian finance minister since 2005, after short illness. [53]
• Oliver Kaufman Crawford, 91, American television writer blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. [54]
• Irene Dailey, 88, American actress, colon cancer. [55]
• Sir Peter Derham, 83, Australian businessman and philanthropist, stroke. [56]
• Dick Lynch, 72, American football player and radio announcer (New York Giants), leukemia. [57]
• Jim McKinney, 77, American food packaging specialist, lung cancer. [58]
• Dionicio Morales, 89, American labor organizer, natural causes. [59]
• Maurits van Nierop, 25, Dutch international cricketer, fall. [60]
• Thiago Jotta da Silva, 24, Brazilian footballer, shot. [61]
• Tom Tescher, 82, American rodeo champion. [62]
• Mickey Vernon, 90, American baseball player, stroke. [63]
• Vice Vukov, 72, Croatian singer and politician. [64]
• James Whitesell, 77, American fast food entrepreneur, heart complications. [65]
• Claude Wilton, 89, Irish politician and solicitor. [66]
• Ruslan Yamadayev, 46, Chechen warlord and member of Russian State Duma, shot. [67]

23

• Maria Esther Figueiredo Ferraz, 93, Brazilian Minister of Education (1982–1985) and first female minister, stroke. [68] (Portuguese)
• Arne Haugestad, 73, Norwegian Supreme Court lawyer, Arne Treholt's defender. [69] (Norwegian)
• Richard Henyard, 34, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [70]
• Wally Hilgenberg, 66, American football player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [71]
• Thomas Elbridge Holland, 97, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1966-1968) [72]
• Rudolf Illovszky, 86, Hungarian footballer and manager, pneumonia. [73]
• Peter Leonard, 66, Australian broadcaster, mesothelioma. [74]
• Brock McElheran, 90, Canadian conductor and composer. [75]
• Loren Pope, 98, American education consultant, heart failure. [76]
• Matti Juhani Saari, 22, Finnish school shooter, suicide by gunshot. [77]
• Sonja Savić, 47, Serbian actress, heroin overdose. [78]
• William Woodruff, 92, British historian and author. [79]

22

• Michael Andreevich, 88, Russian prince. [80]
• Plato Andros, 86, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), Alzheimer's disease. [81]
• H. Dale Cook, 84, American federal judge since 1974, cancer. [82]
• Thomas Dörflein, 44, German zookeeper, surrogate parent of the polar bear Knut, heart attack. [83]
• Connie Haines, 87, American singer, myasthenia gravis. [84]
• Buddy McDonald, 85, American child actor (Our Gang), heart failure. [85]
• Petrus Schaesberg, 41, German art historian, suicide by jumping. [86]

21

• Carlos González Cruchaga, 87, Chilean bishop of the Diocese of Talca (1967–1996). [87]
• Mary Garber, 92, American sportswriter. [88]
• Nancy Hicks Maynard, 66, American journalist, advocate for diversity in journalism, organ failure. [89]
• Sir Brian Pippard, 88, British physicist, Cavendish Professor of Physics (1971–1984). [90]
• Barefoot Sanders, 83, American federal judge, natural causes. [91]
• Olov Svedelid, 76, Swedish writer. [92] (Swedish)
• Paul Tansey, 59, Irish economics editor (The Irish Times). [93]
• Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, 92, Sri Lankan prime minister (1989–1993), president (1993–1994), after long illness. [94]

20

• Nappy Brown, 78, American blues singer. [95]
• William Fox, 97, British actor. [96]
• Duncan Glen, 75, British poet, literary critic and designer, professor emeritus of visual communication (Nottingham Trent). [97]
• Ken Harris, 45, American member of Baltimore City Council (1999–2007), shot. [98]
• Johnny H. Hayes, 67, American fundraiser for Al Gore's presidential campaigns, stomach cancer. [99]
• Paul Howell, 57, British member of the European Parliament (1979–1994), plane crash. [100]
• Ed Sutton, 73, American football player, complications following heart bypass surgery. [101]
• John Taylor, 87, American military archivist at National Archives and Records Administration, heart failure. [102]
• Frank Valenti, 97 American mob boss (Rochester crime family). [103]
• Ivo Žďárek, 47, Czech ambassador to Vietnam (2004-2008) and Pakistan (2008), suicide bombing. [104]

19

• Ernie Andres, 90, American college baseball coach and Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [105]
• Alexina Calvert, 110, British supercentenarian, Scotland's oldest person. [106]
• Ned Harkness, 89, American ice hockey coach, stroke. [107]
• Jun Ichikawa, 59, Japanese film director. [108]
• David Jones, 74, British theatre and film director. [109]
• Srikanth Nagarajan, 22, Indian student ambassador, founder of Gyanodhaya Charity School, cardiac arrest. [110] (Tamil)
• Dave Needham, 57, British bantamweight boxing champion (1974–1975). [111]
• Earl Palmer, 83, American rhythm and blues drummer, after long illness. [112].
• Robert Royston, 90, American landscape architect. [113]
• Dick Sudhalter, 69, American jazz trumpeter, pneumonia. [114]

18

• Opal Courtney, Jr., 71, American singer (The Spaniels), heart attack. [115]
• David Jones, 74, British film and theater director, heart attack. [116]
• Mauricio Kagel, 76, Argentine-born German composer. [117]
• Peter Kastner, 64, Canadian actor, heart attack. [118]
• Ron Lancaster, 69, American CFL quarterback and coach, heart attack. [119]
• Sherman Parker, 37, American politician, member of Missouri House of Representatives (2003–2006), brain aneurysm. [120]
• Henry Z. Steinway, 93, American businessman (Steinway & Sons). [121]
• Lou Trebar, 88, American polka bandleader. [122]
• Don Ultang, 91, American Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer. [123]
• Florestano Vancini, 82, Italian film director and screenwriter, after long illness. [124]
• John Webb, 82, American judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1986–1998), Parkinson's disease. [125]

17

• Princess Luluwah bint Abdulaziz Al Saud, 80, Saudi member of the royal family, sister of King Abdullah. [126]
• James Crumley, 68, American crime writer, complications from kidney and pulmonary diseases. [127]
• Didier Dagueneau, 52, French winemaker, plane crash. [128]
• José María Cirarda Lachiondo, 91, Spanish bishop of the Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela (1978–1993). [129] (Spanish)
• Anna Langford, 90, American politician, first African American woman to serve on the Chicago City Council, lung cancer. [130]
• Michael Omondi, 46, Kenyan field hockey player, after short illness. [131]
• Fabiola Salazar, 42, Peruvian congresswoman, car accident. [132]
• Humberto Solás, 66, Cuban filmmaker, cancer. [133]
• Robert Steinberg, 61, American chocolatier, lymphoma. [134]

16

• Jack Alderman, 57, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [135]
• Avraham Biran, 98, Israeli archaeologist, natural causes. [136]
• Elizabeth Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, 92, British peeress. [137]
• John Fancy, 95, British World War II RAF airman. [138]
• Satya Ranjan Roy, 67, Indian athletics coach, Alzheimer's disease. [139]
• Andrei Volkonsky, 75, Russian composer. [140] (Russian)
• Charles Whitebread, 65, American professor of law, cancer. [141]
• Norman Whitfield, 68, American Motown songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine") and record producer, diabetes. [142]

15

• Marion Dewar, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (1978–1985), fall. [143]
• Elmer Dills, 82, American food critic (KABC-TV). [144]
• Ciaran Duffy, 42, Irish managing director of Namibia Breweries Limited, cancer. [145]
• Gangadhar Gadgil, 85, Indian writer, cancer. [146]
• Charlotte Kohler, 99, American editor, heart failure. [147]
• John Matshikiza, 53, South African actor, writer and poet, heart attack. [148]
• Juraj Njavro, 70, Croatian doctor and politician, after long illness. [149]
• J. Patrick Rooney, 80, American insurance advocate. [150]
• Richard Wright, 65, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) and songwriter ("Dark Side Of The Moon"), cancer. [151]

14

• John Burnside, 91, American inventor, brain cancer. [152]
• Steve Engel, 49, American drag racer, race accident. [153]
• Hyman Golden, 85, American co-founder of Snapple Beverage Corporation, complications from stroke. [154]
• Ştefan Iordache, 67, Romanian actor, leukemia. [155]
• Georgi Kitov, 65, Bulgarian archaeologist, heart attack. [156]
• Lynn Kohlman, 62, American model and photographer, breast and brain cancer. [157]
• Lobsang Nyima Pal Sangpo, 79, Tibetan 100th Ganden Tripa (1994–2002), head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. [158]
• Keiko McDonald, 68, Japanese-born American professor, drowned. [159]
• Mu Tiezhu, 59, Chinese basketball player, heart attack. [160]
• Walter H. Seward, 111, American supercentenarian, blood infection. [161]
• Oscar Suarez, 47, American boxing trainer, pancreatic cancer. [162]
• Gennady Troshev, 61, Russian politician and military commander (Second Chechen War), plane crash. [163]

13

• Peter Camejo, 68, American politician and activist, lymphoma. [164]
• Dean Hoge, 71, American sociologist, specialist in American Catholicism, cancer. [165]
• Oliver King-Onzila, 19, British footballer (Barnet), stabbed. [166]
• Duncan Laing, 77, New Zealand swimming coach, cancer. [167]
• James W. Snow, 79, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1967–1985), diabetes. [168]
• Olin Stephens, 100, American yacht designer. [169]
• Alice Van-Springsteen, 90, American stuntwoman, pneumonia. [170]
• Abdullah Wardak, Afghan governor of Lowgar Province, suicide attack. [171]

12

• Simon Hantaï, 85, Hungarian-born French abstract artist. [172] (French)
• Tomislav Ladan, 76, Croatian encyclopedist and polymath, malignant tumor. [173]
• Max Mermelstein, 65, American drug trafficker, cancer. [174]
• George Putnam, 94, American television news reporter, heart failure. [175]
• Bob Quinn, 93, Australian footballer (Port Adelaide) and Military Medal recipient. [176]
• Marjorie Thomas, 85, British opera singer, after long illness. [177]
• Paola S. Timiras, 85, American doctor, expert on the physiology of ageing, heart failure. [178]
• Charlie Walker, 81, American country music singer, colon cancer. [179]
• David Foster Wallace, 46, American author and essayist (Infinite Jest), suicide by hanging. [180]

11

• Bennett Campbell, 65, Canadian politician, premier of Prince Edward Island (1978–1979), cancer. [181]
• Florian Goebel, 35, German astrophysicist, fall. [182]
• Dave Hanner, 78, American football player and coach (Green Bay Packers), heart attack. [183]
• Klaus Johann Jacobs, 71, German-born Swiss billionaire, cancer. [184]
• Fran Reed, 65, American teacher and fish skin artist, cancer. [185]
• Nils Johan Ringdal, 56, Norwegian author and historian. [186] (Norwegian)
• Martin Tytell, 94, American manual typewriter expert, cancer. [187]
• Joan Winston, 77, American author, founder of Star Trek convention, Alzheimer's disease. [188]

10

• Saleh al Aridi, 50, Lebanese pro-Syrian politician, car bomb. [189]
• Gérald Beaudoin, 79, Canadian lawyer and senator (1988–2004). [190]
• José Antonio Dammert Bellido, 91, Peruvian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. [191] (Spanish)
• Cameron Buchanan, 80, British footballer. [192]
• David Chipp, 81, British editor-in-chief (Press Association, Reuters), first resident correspondent for Reuters in China. [193]
• Patrick Flynn, 72, American composer and conductor, pulmonary embolism. [194]
• Robert Glasgow, 83, American organist and University of Michigan professor emeritus. [195]
• Vernon Handley, 77, British conductor. [196]
• Sherrill Headrick, 71, American football player, cancer. [197]
• Domagoj Kapeć, 18, Croatian ice hockey player, car accident. [198]
• Frank Mundus, 82, American shark fisherman, alleged inspiration for Quint in Jaws, heart attack. [199]
• Yuri Osipyan, 77, Russian physicist. [200]
• Paul Williams, 85, British politician, MP (1953–1964). [201]

9

• Betty Constable, 83, American squash player. [202]
• Eddie Crowder, 77, American football player and coach, complications of leukemia. [203]
• A.U. Fuimaono, 85, American Samoan politician, first Delegate to the United States House of Representatives (1970–1974). [204]
• Nina Lawson, 82, British wigmaker for the Metropolitan Opera, pernicious anaemia. [205]
• Jacob Lekgetho, 34, South African footballer. [206]
• P. N. Menon, 80, Indian film director, after long illness. [207]
• Warith Deen Mohammed, 74, American Islamic leader, son of Elijah Muhammad. [208]
• Richard Monette, 64, Canadian actor and director, pulmonary embolism. [209]
• Nouhak Phoumsavanh, 98, Laotian politician, president (1992–1998), natural causes. [210]

8

• Ahn Jae-hwan, 36, South Korean actor, body found on this date after suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [211]
• Nathan Green Gordon, 92, American politician and Medal of Honor recipient, Lt. Governor of Arkansas (1947–1967), pneumonia. [212]
• Celia Gregory, 58, British actress. [213]
• Bheki Mseleku, 53, South African-born British jazz musician, diabetes. [214]
• Ralph Plaisted, 80, American Arctic explorer, natural causes. [215]
• Evan Tanner, 37, American MMA fighter and UFC middleweight champion, body found on this date after apparent heat exposure. [216]
• Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, 73, Indian violinist, after long illness. [217]
• George Zarnecki, 92, Polish art historian and medievalist. [218]
• Hector Zazou, 60, French composer and record producer. [219]

7

• Kune Biezeveld, 60, Dutch theologian. [220]
• Ilarion Ciobanu, 76, Romanian actor. [221] (Romanian)
• Dino Dvornik, 44, Croatian actor and pop singer. [222]
• Peter Glossop, 80, British operatic baritone. [223]
• Don Gutteridge, 96, American Major League Baseball player, coach and manager. [224]
• Don Haskins, 78, American college basketball coach, heart failure. [225]
• Gregory Mcdonald, 71, American author (Fletch), cancer. [226]
• Nagi Noda, 35, Japanese pop star and director, injuries from traffic accident. [227]
• Larry Shaben, 73, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1975–1989), cancer. [228]

6

• Aril Edvardsen, 69, Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary. [229]
• Abd al-Halim Abu Ghazala, 78, Egyptian politician, field marshal and defence minister, throat cancer. [230]
• Antonio Innocenti, 93, Italian cardinal. [231]
• Nicole Lai, 36, Singaporean singer, skin cancer. [232]
• Allan Lawrence, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Northumberland—Durham (1972–1988). [233]
• Ray Loring, 65, American professor and composer, heart attack. [234]
• Sören Nordin, 91, Swedish harness racing trainer. [235]
• Anita Page, 98, American actress (The Broadway Melody), natural causes. [236]
• Bill Shorthouse, 86, British footballer. [237]
• Mike Swoboda, 69, American politician, mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri (2000–2008), complications of shooting. [238]

5

• Raymond Bernabei, 83, American soccer player, complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [239]
• Robert Giroux, 94, American editor and publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). [240]
• Miroslav Havel, 86, Czech-born Irish chief designer (Waterford Crystal). [241]
• Thubten Jigme Norbu, 86, Tibetan lama (Taktser Rinpoche), eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama. [242]
• Lucian Pye, 86, American political scientist and sinologist, expert on Chinese politics, pneumonia. [243]
• Luis Santibáñez, 72, Chilean football team manager, complications from a kidney condition. [244]
• Mila Schön, 91, Italian fashion designer. [245]

4

• Mary Dunn, 66, American Iyengar yoga instructor, peritoneal cancer. [246]
• Colin Egar, 81, Australian test cricket umpire. [247]
• Dick Enderle, 60, American football player. [248]
• Fon Huffman, 95, American World War II veteran, last survivor of the Panay incident. [249]
• Abdul Samad Ismail, 84, Malaysian journalist, lung infection and kidney failure. [250]
• Alain Jacquet, 69, French pop artist, cancer. [251]
• Jenny, 55, American western lowland gorilla, oldest gorilla in captivity (Dallas Zoo), euthanized. [252]
• Tommy Johnston, 81, British footballer, top scorer for Leyton Orient. [253]
• Erik Nielsen, 84, Canadian deputy prime minister (1984–1986), brother of Leslie Nielsen, heart attack. [254]
• Waldick Soriano, 75, Brazilian composer and singer, prostate cancer. [255] (Portuguese)
• Fernando Torres, 80, Brazilian actor, voice-over artist, director and producer, husband of Fernanda Montenegro, emphysema. [256]
• Jerome Weber, 92, Canadian abbot of St. Peter-Muenster of Saskatchewan. [257]

3

• Abdulla Alishayev, Russian Dagestani journalist, shot. [258]
• Lalla Bahia, Moroccan royalty, third wife of Mohammed V. [259]
• Donald Blakeslee, 89, American Air Force officer. [260]
• Françoise Demulder, 61, French war photographer, heart attack. [261]
• Michael Hammer, 60, American management theorist, cranial bleeding. [262]
• Earl Lunsford, 74, American Canadian Football League player, Hall of Famer (Calgary Stampeders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers). [263]
• Ron Rivera, 60, American public health innovator, malaria. [264]
• May Shin, 91, Burmese actress and singer, pulmonary edema. [265]
• Pierre Van Dormael, 56, Belgian guitarist, cancer. [266]
• Géo Voumard, 87, Swiss composer and producer, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival. [267]

2

• Andreas Zeier Cappelen, 93, Norwegian politician and minister. [268] (Norwegian)
• Todd Cruz, 52, American Major League Baseball player. [269]
• Arne Domnérus, 83, Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist. [270]
• Joey Giardello, 78, American boxer, middleweight boxing champion (1963–1965), heart failure. [271]
• Abdullah al-Harari, 98, Ethiopian-born Lebanese scholar, founder of the Al-Ahbash movement, natural causes. [272]
• Bill Meléndez, 91, Mexican-born American animator (Peanuts). [273]
• Sir Denis Rooke, 84, British industrialist. [274]

1

• Thomas J. Bata, 93, Czech-born Canadian businessman (Bata Shoes). [275]
• Calvin Beale, 85, American demographer, colon cancer. [276]
• Ian Edward Fraser, 87, British recipient of the Victoria Cross. [277]
• Helen Galland, 83, American retail executive, president of Bonwit Teller (1980–1983), heart attack. [278]
• Kevin Heinze, 80, Australian pioneer gardening television presenter, heart attack. [279]
• Mel Ignatow, 70, American murderer, fall. [280]
• Sheldon Keller, 85, American comedy writer, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [281]
• Don LaFontaine, 68, American voice-over artist, complications from pneumothorax. [282]
• Henry Wako Muloki, 87, Ugandan Kyabazinga of Busoga since 1995, esophageal cancer. [283]
• Michael Pate, 88, Australian actor and writer, pneumonia. [284]
• Oded Schramm, 46, Israeli mathematician, fall. [285]