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]
• Adolf H. Lundin, 73, Swedish oil and mining entrepreneur, leukemia. [4] (Swedish)
• Pino Mlakar, 99, Slovenian ballet dancer. [5] (Slovenian)
• André Schwarz-Bart, 78, French novelist. [6] (French)
• András Sütő, 79, Romanian writer of Hungarian descent, melanoma. [7] (Hungarian)

29

• Rosamond Carr, 94, American fashion illustrator turned humanitarian and activist. [8]
• Jan Werner Danielsen, 30, Norwegian singer, heart failure. [9] [10] (Norwegian)
• Walter Hadlee, 91, New Zealand cricketer, stroke. [11]
• Louis-Albert Vachon, 94, Canadian Archbishop Emeritus of Québec. [12]

28

• George Balzer, 91, American writer for Jack Benny's radio and TV shows. [13]
• Virgil Ierunca, 86, Romanian writer. [14]

27

• Craig Kusick, 57, American former first baseman for the Minnesota Twins, leukemia. [15]
• Arthur Marwick, 70, British historian, first professor of history at the Open University. [16]

26

• Gerhard Behrendt, 77, German inventor of Sandmännchen children's television character. [17] (German)
• Giuseppe Bennati, 85, Italian film director. [18]
• Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese American convicted, and later pardoned, of being World War II propagandist Tokyo Rose. [19] [20]
• Byron Nelson, 94, American professional golfer. [21] [22]
• Sir Martin Roth, 88, Hungarian-born British president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. [23]
• Ralph Story, 86, American radio broadcaster and television host (The $64,000 Challenge), emphysema. [24]

25

• Safia Ahmed-jan, 65, Afghan women's rights advocate, shot. [25]
• Omar al-Faruq, 35, Kuwaiti senior member of al-Qaeda, shot. [26]
• Jeff Cooper, 86, American small arms expert. [27]
• Maureen Daly, 85, American author (Seventeenth Summer). [28]
• John M. Ford, 49, American science fiction and fantasy writer, natural causes. [29]
• Sir Vijay Singh, 75, Indo-Fijian lawyer and politician, cancer. [30]
• Sir Iain Tennant, 87, Scottish businessman and public servant. [31]
• Metropolitan Vitaly Ustinov, 96, Russian First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (1985–2001). [32]

24

• John S. Boskovich, 49, American artist and screenwriter (Without You I'm Nothing). [33]
• Joel Broyhill, 86, American Republican congressman for Virginia (1953–1975), heart failure and pneumonia. [34]
• Michael Ferguson, 53, Irish republican politician, testicular cancer. [35]
• Sally Gray, 90, British actress. [36]
• Ben Heppner, 63, Canadian politician, prostate cancer. [37]
• Padmini, 74, Indian actress in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films, heart attack. [38]
• Patrick Quinn, 56, American actor, president of Actors' Equity Association (2000–2006), heart attack. [39]
• Thomas Stewart, 78, American bass-baritone opera singer. [40]
• Tetsuro Tamba, 84, Japanese actor. [41]
• Henry Townsend, 96, American blues guitarist, pianist and songwriter, pulmonary edema. [42]
• Shelby Walker, 31, American female boxer and mixed martial arts fighter, apparent suicide by analgesic overdose. [43]

23

• Sir Malcolm Arnold, 84, British Academy Award-winning film score composer (The Bridge on the River Kwai), chest infection. [44]
• Etta Baker, 93, American piedmont blues guitarist. [45]
• Sir Charles Cutler, 88, Australian Deputy Premier of New South Wales (1965–1975), cancer. [46]
• Aladár Pege, 67, Hungarian jazz musician. [47]
• Tim Rooney, 59, American actor, son of Mickey Rooney, dermatomyositis. [48]

22

• Edward Albert, 55, American actor, son of actors Margo and Eddie Albert, lung cancer. [49]
• Carla Benschop, 56, Dutch basketball player. [50] [51] [52] [53]
• Dr. Harris Busch, 83, American biochemist and cancer researcher at Baylor College of Medicine. [54]
• Enrique Gorriarán Merlo, 64, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader, cardiac arrest due to an abdominal aortic aneurysm. [55]
• Tommy Olivencia, 64, Puerto Rican salsa singer and bandleader. [56]
• Mary Orr, 95, American author whose story "The Wisdom of Eve" inspired the film All About Eve. [57]

21

• Boz Burrell, 60, English bassist and vocalist (Bad Company/King Crimson), heart attack. [58][59][60][61]
• Margaret Ekpo, 92, Nigerian politician and women's rights activist. [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]
• Lillian Robinson, 65, American professor of women's studies at Concordia University. [76]
• Ivan Shabunin, 70, first governor of Volgograd Oblast, natural causes. [77]
• Don Walser, 72, Texas country singer and yodeler, complications from diabetes. [78]
• Frank "Muddy" Waters, 83, American college football coach at Michigan State University. [79]
• Dean Wooldridge, 93, American physicist and co-founder of TRW. [80] [81]
• Pham Xuan An, 78, journalist, and spy for Hanoi during Vietnam war, emphysema. [82]

19

• Elizabeth Allen, 77, American actress (Donovan's Reef, Do I Hear a Waltz?, The Jackie Gleason Show). [83] [84]
• Josh Crouch, 24, actor (Dawson's Creek, Darktales), hit-and-run. [85]
• John. L. Finley, 70, American astronaut under the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program
• Danny Flores, 77, American saxophonist and vocalist on the Champs' 1958 hit "Tequila", pneumonia. [86] [87] [88]
• Joe Glazer, 88, American singer-songwriter known as "Labor's Troubador". [89]
• Martha Holmes, 83, American former Life photographer, natural causes. [90] [91]
• Sir Hugh Kawharu, 79, New Zealand academic and Māori leader. [92]
• Vico Magistretti, 86, Italian architect and designer. [93]
• Rev. Dr. Kurt Marquart, 72, Estonian-American Lutheran theologian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [94]
• Evelyn Ortner, 82, American brownstone preservationist. [95]
• Roy Schuiten, 55, Dutch cyclist. [96]
• Terry Smith (Australian rules footballer), 47, former player with the Richmond and St Kilda football clubs, cancer. [97]
• Dorothy Roberts, suffered a stroke in 2004 and was unable to control the right-side of her body, died in hospital after a blood-clot in her leg.

18

• Lt Col. Seán Clancy, 105, Ireland's oldest War of Independence veteran. [98]
• Edward J. King, 81, former Democratic Governor of Massachusetts (1979-1983). [99]
• Philip H. Melanson, 61, academic, expert on assassinations, cancer. [100] [101]
• Nilton Pereira Mendes, 30, Brazilian football player with FC Shakhtyor Karagandy, heart attack during training. [102]
• Leo Navratil, 85, Austrian psychiatrist [103]
• Syd Thrift, 77, former general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles. [104] [105]

17

• Jack Banta, 81, former baseball pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. [106]
• George Heslop, 66, English football player. [107]
• Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82, sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and ex-wife of actor Peter Lawford, pneumonia. [108] [109]
• Alexei Loktev, 64, Soviet and Russian actor, car accident.[110]
• Sr. Leonella Sgorbati, 65, Italian nun, gunshot wounds. [111]
• Kazuyuki Sogabe, 58, Japanese anime voice actor (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball) [112]
• Dorothy C. Stratton, 107, American first director of the US Coast Guard Women's Reserve. [113] [114]

16

• Hélène Deschamps Adams, 85, Chinese-born French-American hero of the French Resistance. [115]
• Sten Andersson, 83, former Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Social Affairs, and Secretary of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, heart attack. [116]
• Margaret Phipps Boegner, 99, American heiress and founder of Old Westbury Gardens. [117]
• Roy Brewer, 97, American Hollywood representative of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Motion Picture Machine Operators during the blacklist era. [118]
• Richard Caleal, 94, American automotive designer. [119]
• Floyd Curry, 81, four-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens. [120]
• Zsuzsa Körmöczy, 82, Hungarian tennis player and coach, won the 1958 French Championships. [121]
• Dr. Marjorie Lewisohn, 87, American doctor, first female trustee of Johns Hopkins University. [122]
• Esther Martinez, 94, Tewa storyteller and linguist, car crash. [123]
• Foad AlMohandess, 82, Egyptian comedy actor, heart failure. [124]

15

• Raymond Baxter, 84, British television presenter (Tomorrow's World). [125]
• Oriana Fallaci, 77, Italian journalist and writer, breast cancer. [126]
• Col. Guy Francois, participated in failed coups in Haiti in 1989 and 2001. [127]
• Ricky Gibson, 53, former professional wrestler [128]
• Charles L. Grant, 64, horror and science fiction author and editor, heart attack [129].
• Douglas Henderson, 71, Scottish politician [130]
• Jang Keum-song, 29, niece of Kim Jong-il, suicide by overdose. [131]
• Donald Kimball, 62, American defrocked Catholic priest, convicted in sex abuse scandal [132]
• Nitun Kundu, 70, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor [133]
• Evelyn LaBruce, 69, American mezzo-soprano opera singer. [134]
• Rob Levin, 51, founder of freenode, head injuries resulting from bicycle accident. [135]
• Ivan Luini, 46, Italian furniture executive and founder of Kartell U.S., plane crash. [136]
• Dr. David Lykken, 78, American professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota. [137]
• Abe Saffron, 86, Sydney nightclub owner and property developer known as "Mr Sin". [138]
• Pablo Santos, 19, Mexican actor (Greetings from Tucson), plane crash. [139]
• Sergio Savarese, 48, Italian furniture designer and founder of Dialogica, plane crash. [140]

14

• Norman Brooks, 78, Canadian singer, purveyor of Al Jolson songs, emphysema. [141]
• Elizabeth Choy, 95, war heroine and Singapore's first female legislator, pancreatic cancer. [142]
• Mickey Hargitay, 80, Hungarian former Mr. Universe and actor, ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield, father of Mariska Hargitay. [143]
• Admiral J. William Kime, 72, former commandant of the United States Coast Guard. [144]
• Andrey Kozlov, 41, First Deputy Chairman of Russia's Central Bank, shot. [145]
• Peter Ling, 80, British TV writer and creator of Crossroads. [146]
• Paulo Marques, 58, Brazilian journalist and broadcaster, brain cancer.[147] (in Portuguese)
• Esme Melville, 87, Australian film and television actress. [148]
• Terry O'Sullivan, 91, American television actor (Search for Tomorrow), pancreatic cancer. [149]
• Johnny Palmer, 88, American golfer, seven time PGA Tour winner. [150]
• Dr. Frederic Wakeman, 68, American scholar of Chinese history. [151]

13

• Silviu Brucan, 90, former Romanian ambassador to the United States and an opponent of Nicolae Ceauşescu. [152]
• Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 97, former Conservative minister and wartime SOE officer. [153]
• Christopher Essex, 61, Australian fashion designer, cancer. [154]
• Kimveer Gill, 25, gunman of Dawson College shooting, suicide. [155]
• 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. [156]
• Ann Richards, 73, former Governor of Texas, esophageal cancer. [157]
• Lou "Boulder" Richards, 35, former guitarist for metalcore band Hatebreed, presumed suicide. [158] [159]
• Peter Tevis, 69, American musician, Parkinson's Disease. [160]
• Anastasia De Souza, 18, victim of the Kimveer Gill shooting and Dawson College International Business student. [161]

12

• Private First Class Nicholas A. Madaras,19, soldier in the United States Armed Forces, he was a Wilton High School student, killed by an IED in Iraq
• Maria da Conceição Luanda, 42, Angolan journalist. [162]
• Glenda Dawson, 65, Texas State Representative from the 29th District. [163]
• Marc François, 46, French actor and stage director, suicide. [164] [165] (French)
• Raymond Mikesell, 93, economist at the Bretton Woods Conference. [166]
• Emily Perez, 23, United States Army 2nd Lieutenant in Iraq, killed by an improvised explosive device (IED). [167]
• Bill Saul, 65, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), cancer. [168]
• Edna Staebler, 100, Canadian cookbook and non-fiction author, stroke. [169]

11

• William Auld, 81, Scottish poet, author and supporter of Esperanto. [170]
• Al Casey, 89, Phoenix-L.A. based rock, country and session guitarist.[171]
• Peter Clentzos, 97, Olympic competitor for Greece in pole vault. [172]
• Peter Coppin, 86, leader of the first strike by Australian aboriginal pastoral workers. [173]
• Pat Corley, 76, American actor (Phil the barkeep on Murphy Brown), congestive heart failure. [174] [175]
• Solange Fernex, French ecologist and green politician. (French Wikipedia)
• Joachim Fest, 79, German historian and journalist. [176]
• Tyron Garner, 39, plaintiff in Lawrence v. Texas, meningitis. [177] [178][179]
• Joseph Hayes, 88, American author (The Desperate Hours). [180]
• Kwan Hoi-shan, 81, Hong Kong character actor, natural causes.[181]
• Dr. Michael Mamakos, 80, American microvascular surgeon, part of the team that reattached a child's leg in 1978. [182]
• Johannes Bob van Benthem, 85, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office. [183]

10

• Ernestine Bayer, 97, mother of women's rowing, complications from pneumonia. [184]
• Patty Berg, 88, American golf pioneer, founder of the LPGA, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [185]
• Ira Brilliant, 84, American real estate developer, chemist, and founder of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies. [186]
• Col. Ubiratan Guimarães, 63, Brazilian politician, gunshot wound. [187]
• Clyde "Holly" Holloman, 47, Musician, Sleep Apnea. [188]
• Rin Inumaru, 48, Japanese cartoonist (Ojarumaru), suicide. [189]
• Melanie Lomax, 56, civil rights lawyer and former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, car accident. [190]
• Ted Risenhoover, 71, Democrat Representative for Oklahoma (1975-1979). [191]
• Bennie Smith, 72, blues guitarist, heart attack while ill with terminal lung cancer. [192]
• Daniel Smith, 20, son of model Anna Nicole Smith, drug overdose. [193]
• Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, 88, King of Tonga, after illness. [194]
• Gábor Vargas, 45, Swedish aerobatics aircraft pilot, midair collision above Marsamxett Harbour, Valletta. [195] [196]
• James Wilson, 68, Associated Press Chicago bureau chief covered Wounded Knee Incident, cancer. [197]

9

• Gérard Brach, 79, French screenwriter (The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Name of the Rose), cancer. [198]
• Clair Burgener, 84, California Representative, from 1973-1983, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [199]
• Richard Dyer, 68, New Zealand actor and singer, heart attack while performing in HMS Pinafore. [200]
• Navigator Dzinkambani, Malawian football player, eye cancer. [201]
• Matt Gadsby, 27, Hinckley United footballer, collapsed on pitch during game and died soon after. [202]
• Lucjan Kydryński, 77, Polish journalist, presenter and TV personality, natural causes. [203]
• Emilie Mondor, 25, Canadian Olympic distance runner, car accident. [204]
• Elisabeth Ogilvie, 89, American author. [205]
• Herbert Rudley, 95, American actor. [206]
• Keshavram Kashiram Shastri, 101, Gujarati founder of VHP, natural causes. [207]
• Arkady Volsky, 74, Russian founder of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. [208]
• William B. Ziff, Jr., 76, publishing magnate, prostate cancer. [209] [210]

8

• Hilda Bernstein, 91, British-born South African author and anti-apartheid activist, heart failure. [211] [212]
• Peter Brock, 61, Australian touring car racer, injuries sustained in a crash during a rally in Western Australia. [213]
• Bernard Green, 47, former New Zealand rugby league international, mining accident at the Roa Coal Mine. [214]
• Thomas Judge, 71, former Governor of Montana, pulmonary fibrosis. [215]
• Norman Lewis, 93, American author on English grammar. [216]
• Frank Middlemass, 87, English character actor (As Time Goes By). [217]
• Dr. Estelle Ramey, 89, American endocrinologist, physiologist and feminist. [218]
• Erk Russell, 80, college American football coach for the University of Georgia and Georgia Southern University, stroke. [219]
• Dr. Fred Noel Spiess, 86, oceanographer and marine explorer, cancer. [220]

7

• Richard Blinder, 71, American architect (Rubin Museum of Art, Ford Center for the Performing Arts). [221]
• Clem Coetzee, 67, Zimbabwean conservationist, heart attack. [222]
• James deAnda, 81, American lawyer and federal judge, part of the legal team in Hernandez v. Texas, prostate cancer. [223]
• Joan Donaldson, 60, founding head of the CBC Newsworld TV Network, complications from prior injuries. [224]