The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2004.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
September 2004
1
- Johnny Bragg, 79, American leader of The Prisonaires, one of earliest music groups to record for Sam Phillips and Sun Records.
- Herbert H. Haft, 84, American owner of Dart Drugs Chain, congestive heart failure.[1]
- Kenneth Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, British life peer and former chairman of Rolls-Royce, Hill Samuel, Beecham Group, and STC.
- Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, Syrian Grand Mufti.
- Sir Alastair Morton, 66, South African former chief executive of Eurotunnel and chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority.
- Gordon Parry, Baron Parry, 78, Welsh politician.
2
- Billy Davis, 72, American songwriter, record producer, singer and commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke).[2]
- Bob O. Evans, 77, American IBM computer scientist.[3]
- Donald Leslie, 93, American creator of the Leslie speaker.
- Joan Oró i Florensa, 80, Spanish biochemist.
- Alan Preston, 71, New Zealand footballer and cricketer.
- Brian Scarlett, 66, British physicist.
- Paul Shmyr, 58, Canadian former National Hockey League and World Hockey Association defenseman, throat cancer.[4]
- Rose Slivka, 85, American writer, critic and editor, and a major figure in the advancement of crafts as a serious artistic discipline.[5]
3
- Steven Blackford, 28, American former University of Arizona wrestler, car accident.
- Jozef Desiatnik, 60, Slovak footballer.
- Yanis Kanidis, 74, Russian physical education teacher, killed by Chechen extremists.
- Frenchy Uhalt, 94, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[6]
4
- Samira Bellil, 31, French feminist activist, campaigner for Muslim girls' and women's rights, stomach cancer.
- Alphonso Ford, 33, American-born Euroleague player, leukemia.
- Michael Louden, 40, American actor, brain aneurysm.
- Moe Norman, 75, Canadian PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure.
- James O. Page, 68, American former chief of Emergency Medical Services and founder of modern emergency medical response, heart attack.[7]
- Caroline Pratt, 42, British equestrian eventer, killed during a race
5
- Bruce Armstrong, 60, Australian football player.
- Gerald Merrithew, 73, Canadian politician and former federal cabinet minister, cancer.
- Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motoracer, killed during a race.
- Gerard Piel, 89, American science writer and editor (Scientific American).[8]
- Steve Wayne, 84, American actor.
6
- Stephen Akiga, Nigerian politician.
- Antonio Corpora, 95, Tunisian born Italian painter.
- Elly Annie Schneider, 90, American dwarf actress, one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.
- Morey Leonard Sear, 75, American judge (United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana).[9]
- Harvey Wheeler, 85, American political scientist and author (Fail-Safe).[10]
7
- Bob Boyd, 84, American former Major League Baseball player, first black player to sign with the Chicago White Sox.[11]
- Kirk Fordice, 70, American politician, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia.
- Fritha Goodey, 31, British actress (About a Boy), suicide.
- Seppo Irjala, 66, Finnish sports shooter.[12]
- Beyers Naudé, 89, South African theologian and anti-apartheid activist.[13]
- Hal Reniff, 66, American baseball player (New York Yankees, New York Mets).[14]
- Munir Said Thalib, 38, Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic.
8
- Richard Girnt Butler, 86, American aerospace engineer, white supremacist, founder of the Aryan Nations[15]
- Mohammad Jusuf, 76, Indonesian military general
- Raymond Marcellin, 90, French politician, Minister of the Interior (1968–1974)
- Frank Thomas, 91, American animator (Cinderella, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp).
- James Westphal, 74, American scientist, engineer, and astronomer.[16]
9
- Ernie Ball, 74, American guitar equipment maker.
- Ian Cochrane, 62, Northern Irish novelist.
- Rose Gacioch, 89, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[17][18]
- Donald R. Keith, 77, American army general.
- Thomas Kerr, 80, British aerospace engineer.
- Dhirendranath Mondal, 75, Indian cricketer.
- Jimmy Spence, 69, British ice hockey player.
10
- Brock Adams, 77, American politician.[19]
- Leonard Birchall, 89, Canadian Air Force officer.
- O. L. Duke, 51, American actor (Malcolm X, Antwone Fisher, Out of Time), automobile crash.
- Glyn Owen, 76, British actor (Emergency – Ward 10, Howards' Way).[20]
11
- Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer.
- Fred Ebb, 71, American Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack.
- Jimmy Lewis, 66, American soul musician.
- David Mann, 64, American graphic artist.
- Peter VII, 55, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash.
12
- Max Abramovitz, 96, American architect.
- Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djiboutian politician, vice-president of the government council (1959–60) and prime minister (1977–78).
- John Buller, 77, British composer.
- Jerome Chodorov, 93, American playwright, My Sister Eileen.[21]
13
- Bill Glassco, 69, Canadian theatre director and producer.
- Luis E. Miramontes, 79, Mexican chemist.
- Glenn Presnell, 99, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator, early NFL player with the Detroit Lions.[22]
- Eric Sams, 78, British musicologist and Shakespeare scholar.
14
- Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, American judge, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge.
- Colin Griffiths, 73, English cricketer.
- Richard Pierce, 86, American historian and scholar, specialized in the Russian era of Alaska.[23]
- Christopher Prior, 92, British Anglican priest, Chaplain of the Fleet and Archdeacon of Portsmouth.
- John Seymour, 90, British self-sufficiency advocate.[24]
- Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor.
15
- Nalda Bird, 77, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[25]
- Donald Yetter Gardner, 91, American songwriter ("All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth").
- Bernard Gribble, 77, British film editor (Top Secret!, Death Wish, The Jokers).
- Daouda Malam Wanke, 58, Nigerien military and political leader, leader of the 1999 transitional government in Niger.
- Johnny Ramone, 55, American guitarist (The Ramones), prostate cancer.[26]
16
- Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet.[27]
- Izora Rhodes Armstead, 62, American singer, one of the two members of The Weather Girls.[28]
- Michael Donaghy, 50, American poet and musician.
- Dolly Rathebe, 76, South African singer and actress (Jim Comes To Jo'burg).[29]
17
- Katharina Dalton, 87, British physician, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome.[30]
- William Mulvihill, 81, American author, pancreatic cancer.
- Evi Rauer, 88, Estonian actress and television director.
- H. S. Rawail, 83, Indian filmmaker.
- Galina Rumiantseva, 77, Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist.
- Edmund Shea, 62, American photographer based in San Francisco, metastatic esophageal cancer.
- Sudheer, Indian actor.
18
- Norman Cantor, 74, Canadian-American medieval scholar.[31]
- Russ Meyer, 82, American filmmaker.[32]
- Marvin Mitchelson, 76, American divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer.[33]
- Klara Rumyanova, 74, Soviet and Russian actress and voice actress.
19
- Eddie Adams, 71, American photojournalist.
- Sir Stanley Clarke, 71, British businessman and philanthropist.
- Skeeter Davis, 73, American country music singer.
- Robert Smith Johnston, Lord Kincraig, 85, Scottish jurist, Senator of the College of Justice (1972-1987).
- Ellis Marsalis, Sr., 96, American businessman, patriarch of family of jazz musicians.
- Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder.
- Ryhor Reles, 91, Belarusian writer, the last writer from Belarus who wrote in Yiddish.
- Derald Ruttenberg, 88, American investor and industrialist (merged Studebaker and Worthington Corporation into Studebaker-Worthington.[34]
20
- Eugene Armstrong, 52, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.
- Horst Baeseler, 74, German architect.
- Brian Clough, 69, English footballer and cup-winning coach and manager.
- Pat Hanly, 72, New Zealand painter, Huntington's disease.
- Bill Shortt, 83, Welsh footballer.
- Gerry Teifer, 82, American songwriter, music publisher and entertainer.
- Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer and television journalist.
21
- Alan Beaumont, 69, Australian admiral, chief of Australian Defence Forces.
- Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.[35]
- Robert Hungate, 98, American microbiologist.
- David Pall, 90, Canadian-American chemist, invented sophisticated filters used in blood transfusions.[36]
- Larry Phillips, 62, American stock car racer.
22
- Edward Larrabee Barnes, 89, American architect.
- Cy Block, 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).[37]
- Martha Van Coppenolle, 92, Belgian artist and book illustrator.
- Pete Schoening, 77, American mountaineer legend.[38]
- Ray Traylor, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man.
23
- Bill Ballance, 85, American radio personality, forerunner of shock jocks Tom Leykis and Howard Stern.
- Lucille Dixon Robertson, 81, American jazz double-bassist.
- Roy Drusky, 74, American country music singer, Grand Ole Opry star and smooth countrypolitan stylist of the 1960s.
- André Hazes, 53, Dutch singer.
- Nigel Nicolson, 89, British politician.[39]
- Bülent Oran, 80, Turkish screenwriter and actor.
- Billy Reay, 86, Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, former NHL player and coach for the Chicago Black Hawks.[40]
- Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, American feminist and civil rights advocate, former editor of Ms. Magazine.[41]
- Maurice Michael Stephens, 84, British World War II flying ace.[42]
- Abu Taher, 72, Bangladeshi banker and politician.
24
- Tim Choate, 49, American actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident.
- Raja Ramanna, 79, Indian nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program.[43]
- Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist and playwright.[44]
- Roman Tsepov, 42, Russian businessman and confidant to Vladimir Putin, poisoned.
- Ron Willey, 74, Australian rugbyplayer and coach.
25
- Michael Davies, 68, British writer on Roman Catholicism.
- Marvin Davis, 79, American industrialist and philanthropist, ex-owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach.[45]
- Alain Glavieux, 55, French mathematician, information technology pioneer.
- Ma Chengyuan, 76, Chinese archaeologist, president of Shanghai Museum. Suicide.
26
- Víctor Cruz, 46, Dominican baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, Texas Rangers).[46]
- Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida.
- Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Palestinian Hamas leader, assassinated by car bomb.
- Marianna Komlos, 35, Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model and professional wrestler, breast cancer.
- Gladstone Mills, 84, Jamaican academic and public servant.
- Philip H. Sechzer, 90, American pioneer in anesthesiology and pain management, known as the inventor of patient-controlled analgesia.[47]
27
- Bernard Slicher van Bath, 94, Dutch social historian.
- Shobha Gurtu, 79, Indian singer.
- John E. Mack, 74, American psychiatrist and writer, killed by a drunken driver.[48]
- Kishen Pattnaik, 74, Indian social leader, author and activist.
- Louis Satterfield, 67, American bass and trombone player.
- Dick Stenberg, 83, Swedish Air Force lieutenant general.
- Tsai Wan-lin, 80, Taiwanese businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group.[49]
28
- Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author.[50]
- Geoffrey Beene, 77, American fashion designer, pneumonia.[51]
- Carl Berntsen, 91, Danish Olympic sailor [52]
- Scott Muni, 74, American radio disc jockey.[53]
- Vytautas Valius, 74, Lithuanian painter and graphic designer.
29
- Ernst van der Beugel, 86, Dutch economist, businessman, diplomat and politician, former Dutch junior Foreign Minister and former CEO of KLM.
- Gertrude Dunn, 70, American women's baseball and field hockey player, plane crash.[54]
- David Jackson, 49, New Zealand boxer.
- Christer Pettersson, 57, Swedish criminal, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.
- Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident.
- Shimon Wincelberg, (aka S. Bar David), 80, American television writer.
30
- Jacques Levy, 69, American songwriter, theatre director and clinical psychologist, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!.
- Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor.
- Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer.
- Michael Relph, 89, English film producer, art director and film director (nominated for Academy Award for Best Production Design for Saraband).[55]
- Justin Strzelczyk, 36, American football offensive tackle, former National Football League Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase.[56]
- Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician.
References
- ↑ Barnaby J. Feder (September 4, 2004). "Herbert Haft, Founder of Discount Drugstores, Dies at 84". The New York Times. p. B 7. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
- ↑ Margalit Fox (September 10, 2004). "Billy Davis, Who Developed Iconic TV Ads, Dies at 72". The New York Times. p. C 10. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
- ↑ Laurie J. Flynn (September 8, 2004). "Bob Evans, Who Helped I.B.M. Transform Data Processing, Dies at 77". The New York Times. p. C 15. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
- ↑ Paul Shmyr, Sports-Reference / Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
- ↑ Ken Johnson (September 4, 2004). "Rose Slivka, 85, Writer and Champion of Crafts as Fine Art, Dies". The New York Times. p. B 7. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
- ↑ "Frenchy Uhalt". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
- ↑ Jennifer Bayot (September 21, 2004). "James Page, Advocate of Emergency Services, Dies at 68". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
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- ↑ Wolfgang Saxon (September 17, 2004). "Harvey Wheeler, 85, Author of a Nuclear-Disaster Novel, Dies". The New York Times. p. A 25. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
- ↑ Rives, Bob. "Bob Boyd". Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
- ↑ "Seppo Juhani Irjala". Suomen Sukututkimusseura (in Finnish). Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
- ↑ Michael Wines (September 8, 2004). "Beyers Naude, Who Fought Apartheid, Dies at 89". The New York Times. p. C 15. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
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- ↑ Dennis Overbye (September 14, 2004). "J. A. Westphal, 74, Tinkerer and Leader in Astronomy, Dies". The New York Times. p. C 23. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
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- ↑ "Nalda Phillips". All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
- ↑ Ben Sisario (September 17, 2004). "Johnny Ramone, Pioneer Punk Guitarist, Is Dead at 55". The New York Times. p. A 25. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
- ↑ Margalit Fox (September 18, 2004). "Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, a Poet Famous Late in Life, Dies". The New York Times. p. A 13. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
- ↑ Ben Sisario (September 28, 2004). "Izora Armstead, a Singer in the Weather Girls Duo, Dies". The New York Times. p. A 23. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
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- ↑ Jennifer Bayot (September 26, 2004). "David B. Pall, 90, Invented Filters for Blood, Is Dead". The New York Times. p. 1 44. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
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- ↑ Douglas Martin (September 27, 2004). "Pete Schoening, 77, Accomplished Climber, Is Dead". The New York Times. p. B 7. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
- ↑ Margalit Fox (September 25, 2004). "Nigel Nicolson, 87, Bloomsbury Group Biographer and Heir, Dies". The New York Times. p. B 9. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
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