Deaths in September 2005

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The following is a list of notable people who died in September 2005.

30

• Monika Hellwig, 74, German-born American theologian and Roman Catholic lay leader, cerebral hemorrhage. [1]
• Sergei Starostin, 52, Russian linguist.

29

• Olga de Alaketu, 80, Afro-Brazilian Candomblé high priestess, complications of diabetes. [2]
• Patrick Caulfield, 69, British artist. [3]
• Benjamin DeMott, 81, prominent American author, social critic, and professor, cardiac arrest. [4]
• Austin Leslie, 71, famed New Orleans chef (also the inspiration for the television show Frank's Place), hospitalized with pneumonia since his evacuation several days after Hurricane Katrina. [5]
• Gennadi Sarafanov, 63, former Soyuz 15 cosmonaut.
• Ivar Karl Ugi, 75, German chemicist.

28

• Ahmad Abdullah, 64, Malaysian accountant and politician.
• Alan Matheney, 54, American convicted murderer, executed in Indiana. [6]
• Constance Baker Motley, 84, American civil rights lawyer and the first female African American federal judge, congestive heart failure. [7]
• Leo Sternbach, 97, Austrian-native chemist, known as the "Father of Valium".

27

• Plia Albeck, 86, former legal advisor to the Israeli government, so-called "mother" of the resettlement program. [8]
• Herman Ashworth, 32, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.
• Edwin D. Goldfield, 87, longtime American statistician with US Census Bureau, cardiovascular disease. [9]
• Ronald Golias, 76, Brazilian comedian.
• Jerry Juhl, 67, writer and puppetteer for The Muppets. [10]
• Brett Kebble, 41, South African mining magnate, murdered.
• John McCabe, 84, biographer of Laurel and Hardy.
• Ronald Pearsall, 77, English author. [11]
• Brian Roylance, 60, British publisher of "fine art" rock music memorabilia, heart attack. [12]
• Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen, 47, Dutch film director, cancer. [13]
• Mary Lee Settle, 87, American author (the Beulah Quintet), lung cancer. [14]

26

• Robert F. Corrigan, 91, former U.S. ambassador to Rwanda. [15]
• Helen Cresswell, 71, British author of children's literature, ovarian cancer. [16]
• Steven P. Frankino, 69, American scholar, professor of law, and university dean. [17]
• Monty Gopallawa, 63, son of former Sri Lankan president William Gopallawa and governor of Central Province, Sri Lanka.
• Sister Jacques-Marie (née Monique Bourgeois), 84, Roman Catholic nun of the Dominican Order (O.P.) who was the inspiration for Matisse's Chapel of the Rosary. [18]
• Shawntinice Polk, 22, center on the University of Arizona's women's basketball team, pulmonary embolism.
• Troy Steele (né Scott Saunders), 43, gay pornographic actor and AIDS activist. [19]
• Michael Wittenberg, 43, husband of actress Bernadette Peters, helicopter crash in Montenegro. [20]

25

• Don Adams, 82, American actor (Get Smart, Inspector Gadget), lung infection while battling a bone lymphoma.
• George Archer, 65, American golfer and 1969 Masters winner, Burkitt's lymphoma. [21]
• Georges Arvanitas, 74, French-born Greek jazz pianist and composer.
• Abu Azzam, Al-Qaeda's second-in-command in Iraq, shot to death by United States forces. [22]
• Tommy Bond, 79, American actor known for playing Butch on Our Gang, heart disease. [23]
• Urie Bronfenbrenner, 88, Russian-born U.S. professor of psychology, among the founders of the Head Start program in the U.S., complications of diabetes. [24]
• C. H. Kenneth Knisely, 48, American television host, taxi driver, and philosopher, heart attack. [25]
• Steve Marcus, 66, American jazz saxophonist. [26]
• M. Scott Peck, 69, American psychiatrist and author.
• Friedrich Peter, 84, Austrian politician (chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria 1958-1978), controversial as a former member of the Waffen-SS.
• Stephen Salmore, 64, prominent New Jersey Republican political consultant, kidney disease. [27]

24

• Leopold B. Felsen, 81, leading physicist in the study of waves, Holocaust survivor, complications of surgery. [28]
• Russell Harris, 37, British mine worker, crocodile attack. [29]
• Byron "Mex" Johnson, 94, Negro Leagues baseball player, prostate cancer. [30]
• Daniel Podrzycki, 42, Polish left wing politician, presidential candidate.
• Robert James Degenaars, 65, American, worked in construction, loved to fish and ice skate. Died of lung cancer.

23

• Borge Bek-Nielsen, 79, Danish businessman, known for successes in Malaysia. [31]
• James F. Bell, Jr., 90, former Ohio Supreme Court justice, also known for his opinion in the Sam Sheppard case. [32]
• Roger Brierley, 70, British actor.
• Apolônio de Carvalho, 93, founder of Brazil's ruling Workers' Party, leftist political icon. [33]
• George Croonenberghs, 87, American fisherman, advisor to Hollywood films. [34]
• Charlie Gormley, 67, Scottish film director and producer (Heavenly Pursuits). [35]
• Donna Hanson, 65, Roman Catholic lay leader, cancer. [36]
• John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, 80, British television producer. [37]
• Betty Leslie-Melville, 78, wildlife conservationist and giraffe expert, complications of dementia. [38]
• Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, 72, Puerto Rican nationalist and leader of the Boricua Popular Army. [39]
• Preben Philipsen, 95, Danish film producer. [40]

22

• Joop Doderer, 84, Dutch actor who played Swiebertje for 17 years. [41].
• Bayaman Erkinbayev, 38, Kyrgyz former wrestler, businessman, and prominent parliamentarian, shot to death. [42]
• Alberto Giraldo, 70, Colombian journalist, convicted of criminal involvement with the Cali Cartel, cancer. [43]
• Leavander Johnson, 35, American former IBF lightweight champion boxer, brain injury suffered in bout. [44]
• John W. Peoples, Jr., 48, American convicted murderer, executed in Alabama.
• Julie Robbins, 26, American pornographic actress, car accident.
• Hans Samelson, 89, Stanford mathematician, natural causes. [45]

21

• Victor Futter, 86, prominent American lawyer and professor, congestive heart failure. [46]
• Harry Heltzer, 94, American inventor, former CEO of 3M. [47]
• Alfredo Jordán Morales, 55, Cuban minister of agriculture, cancer. [48]
• Ramón Martín Huerta, 48, minister of public security of the Mexican federal government, helicopter crash. [49]
• William McCampbell, 60, American lawyer and advisor on Iraq War policy, brain cancer. [50]
• Félix Javier Pérez, 33, Puerto Rican basketball player and former member of the Puerto Rican National Basketball Team, murdered during robbery. [51]
• Joseph Smagorinsky, 81, meteorologist and mathematician, pioneer in the use of mathematical modeling as a weather forecasting tool, complications of Parkinson's disease. [52]
• Albert "Caesar" Tocco, 77, convicted American organized crime boss. [53]
• Molly Yard, 93, former president of the U.S. National Organization for Women.

20

• Paul Arlt, 91, American political cartoonist and painter (New York Herald Tribune), congestive heart failure. [54]
• Joe Bauman, 83, American longtime minor league baseball record-holder (72 home runs in 1954), pneumonia. [55]
• Franzi Groszmann, 100, last surviving Kindertransport mother, consultant on the film Into the Arms of Strangers. [56]
• Tobias Schneebaum, 83, American writer, artist, and explorer. [57]
• Simon Wiesenthal, 96, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter.

19

• Willie Hutch, 59, American record producer, singer and songwriter. [58]
• Paul A. Massey, 58, American publisher, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [59]
• Isao Nakauchi, 83, Japanese businessman, founder of Daiei, stroke. [60]
• Rupert Riedl, 80, Austrian zoologist and advocate of evolutionary epistemology. de:Rupert Riedl
• William Vacchiano, 93, American trumpeter and professor of music. [61]

18

• Hassan Abu Basha, 83, former Egyptian interior minister, victim of 1987 assassination attempt, lung cancer. [62]
• Richard Britton, 34, Northern Ireland motorcycle racer, racing accident.
• John Bromfield, 83, American television actor.
• Richard E. Cunha, 83, American cinematographer and director
• Sandra Feldman, 65, American advocate for disadvantaged students, teacher and labor leader, breast cancer. [63]
• Joel Hirschhorn, 67, American Academy Award-winning songwriter.
• Jerome Hynes, 45, Irish opera director, heart attack. [64]
• Jacques Lacarrière, French author and classical translator.
• Noel Mander, 93, British organ maker and restorer. [65]
• Michael Park, 39, British rally co-pilot, rally accident.
• Chas Smit, 23, lead guitarist and backing vocalist for South African acoustic rock band Plush, hit by car.
• George C. Watkins, 84, record-setting United States Navy test pilot, heart attack. [66]
• Clint C. Wilson, Sr., 90, African American editorial cartoonist, Los Angeles Sentinel. [67] [68]
• Yegor Yakovlev, 75, Russian journalist, leading opponent of press censorship. [69]

17

• Donn Clendenon, 70, American baseball player; MVP of the 1969 World Series, leukemia. [70]
• Max Dominique, 60s, Haitian priest and theologian, leading proponent of liberation theology. [71]
• Jack Lesberg, 85, jazz bassist. [72]
• David E. Mark, 81, former U.S. ambassador to Burundi, car accident. [73]
• Alfred Reed, 84, prominent American composer of concert band music.
• Edward Stutman, 60, retired lawyer and U.S. Justice Department official known for prosecution of alleged Nazi war criminals. [74]

16

• Stanley Burnshaw, 99, American renowned poet and literary figure. [75]
• Harold L. Friedman, 82, American liquid chemist, complications from Parkinson's disease. [76]
• Gordon Gould, 85, American pioneer in laser technology.
• Jay M. Gould, 90, American epidemiologist and anti-nuclear activist, heart disease. [77]
• Donald S. Harrington, 91, Unitarian minister and former chairman and spokesman of the Liberal Party of New York. [78]
• John McMullen, 87, former owner of MLB's Houston Astros and the NHL's New Jersey Devils. [79]
• Constance Moore, 85, American actress (Buck Rogers).
• Mzukisi Sikali, 34, South African boxer; murdered during street robbery.

15

• David C. Anderson, 62, criminal justice editor of The New York Times, cancer of the biliary tract. [80]
• William S. Bartman, 58, businessman and art patron, multiple organ failure. [81]
• Guy Green, 91, British film director and noted cinematographer.
• Jeronimas Kačinskas, 98, Lithuanian-born classical composer and conductor.
• Sid Luft, 89, American film producer, Judy Garland's third and last surviving husband.
• Toni Trent Parker, 58, African American author and advocate for children's literature, brain tumor. [82]

14

• William Berenberg, 89, leader in the treatment and rehabilitation of disabled children, professor of pediatrics, emeritis, at Harvard Medical School. [83]
• Justin "Jud" Hurd, 92, cartoonist, editor and founder of Cartoonist PROfiles magazine. [84]
• Frances Newton, 40, executed for murder in Texas; first African American woman executed there since 1858.
• Kenneth Turpin, former Provost of Oriel College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of University of Oxford.
• Vladimir Volkoff, 72, French-born Russian spy novelist.
• Robert Wise, 91, American film director (The Sound of Music, West Side Story), heart failure.

13

• Toni Fritsch, 60, Austrian-born football player and American football placekicker with the Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers, Houston Oilers, and New Orleans Saints. [85]
• Cyril K. Harris, 68, former chief rabbi of South Africa, cancer. [86]
• Helen Longley, 84, former First Lady of Maine, widow of former Governor James B. Longley. [87]
• Julio César Turbay Ayala, 89, President of Colombia (1978–1982). [88]

12

• Honey Harlow Bruce Friedman, 78, widow of comedian Lenny Bruce.
• Serge Lang, 78, American mathematician and political activist. [89]
• Ronald Leigh-Hunt, 88, British actor.
• Susan Anne Catherine Torres, 40 days, baby born to Susan Torres, brain-dead woman, on 2 August 2005, heart failure after intestinal surgery. [90]

11

• Al Casey, 89, American jazz guitarist, colon cancer. [91]
• Pat Maloney, Sr., 81, flamboyant and wealthy American trial lawyer, pulmonary fibrosis. [92]
• Steve de Shazer, 65, therapist, founder of Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and developer of Solution focused brief therapy.
• Chris Schenkel, 82, American sportscaster, emphysema.
• Joseph Smitherman, 75, longtime mayor of Selma, Alabama, reformed segregationist. [93]
• Henryk Tomaszewski, 91, Polish internationally recognized graphic artist.
• Sterling Weed, 104, American bandleader for nearly 80 years.

10

• Theodore X. Barber, 78, psychologist renowned for his critical studies of hypnosis, ruptured aorta. [94]
• Sir Hermann Bondi, 85, mathematician & cosmologist; co-advocate (with Gold & Hoyle) of the Steady State theory.
• Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, 81, American blues musician.
• Lea Nikel, 86, Israeli abstract artist. [95]
• Eugene Desmond O'Kelly, 53, former CEO, KPMG, cancer. [96]
• Charlie Williams, 61, former MLB umpire; the first African American umpire to work behind home plate in a World Series game, complications of diabetes. [97]
• E. Stewart Williams, 95, American architect, known for "Desert Modernism". [98]

9

• J. Calvin Jureit, 87, prominent inventor, head injuries suffered in fall. [99]
• John Wayne Glover, 72, convicted Australian serial killer nicknamed "The Granny Killer", suicide, hanging
• André Pousse, 85, French actor.
• Tarzan Taborda, 78, Portuguese wrestling champion, heart attack.

8

• Noel Cantwell, 73, former Manchester United captain, cancer.
• Oswald Hoffmann, 91, American Lutheran evangelist. [100]
• Donald Horne, 83, Australian academic, historian, philosopher and intellectual.
• Lewis Platt, 64, former Hewlett Packard CEO.
• Perry Stephens, 47, American actor (Loving). [101] [102]

7

• Hope Garber, 81, Canadian entertainer and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.
• Moussa Arafat, 65, former head of general security in Gaza, cousin of Yasser Arafat, murdered.
• Dame Eugenia Charles, 86, former prime minister of Dominica.
• Stanley Dancer, 78, record-setting harness racing driver.
• Sergio Endrigo, 72, Italian singer and songwriter.
• Nicolino Locche, 66, Argentine world boxing champion.
• Henry Luce III, 80, publisher of Time and philanthropist. [103]

6

• Hasan Abidi, 76, Pakistani journalist and poet.
• Eugenia Charles, 86, Dominican politician, Prime Minister (1980–1995), after long illness. [104]
• Mark Matthews, 111, US Army first Sergeant, oldest living Buffalo Soldier. [105]
• Octavio Medeiros, 82, Brazilian General, founder of the National Intelligence Service of Brazil, multiple organ failure. [106]
• Karl von Vorse Krombein, 93, senior entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution, cardiac arrest. [107]
• Mercedes Tira Andrei, 56, former Information Attache for the Philippine Embassy in Bucharest, Romania in the 1970s and veteran foreign correspondent in Washington DC for BusinessWorld, the leading business daily newspaper in the Philippines. [108]

5

• Rizal Nurdin, 57, Governor of North Sumatra, Indonesia, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crash.
• Raja Inal Siregar, 67, former Governor of North Sumatra, Indonesia, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crash.

4

• Bill Charmatz, 80, American illustrator, especially noted for works in Sports Illustrated. [109]
• Stanley Jennings, 84, American cartoonist, journalist.
• Alan Truscott, 80, one of the most known bridge columnists. [110]

3

• R. S. R. Fitter, 92, British naturalist.
• Robert W. Funk, 79, founder of the Jesus Seminar, lung failure. [111]
• William Rehnquist, 80, Chief Justice of the United States , thyroid cancer. [112]
• Ekkehard Schall, 75, German actor. [113]

2

• Bob Denver, 70, American actor (Gilligan's Island), complications from cancer treatment.
• Adrian Karsten, 45, ESPN announcer, suicide. [114]
• Alexandru Paleologu, 86, Romanian diplomat. [115]
• Marilyn Whirry, 72, US Teacher of the Year for 2000, afterwards a lecturer, lung disease. [116]

1

• R. L. Burnside, 78, American blues musician.
• Barry Cowsill, pop-singer and writer, victim of Hurricane Katrina. [117]
• Anil Kumar Dutta, artist, founder or Academy of Creative Art.
• Jacob A. Marinsky, 87, American chemist, co-discoverer of the element Promethium.
• Hermann Michael, 68, German conductor, aplastic anemia. [118]
• Cassio Raposo do Amaral, 62, Brazilian plastic surgeon and medical professor.