List of notable deaths in a month
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.
Ian Cochrane , 62, Northern Irish novelist.[15]
8 Richard Girnt Butler , 86, American aerospace engineer, white supremacist, founder of the Aryan Nations [16]
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.[17]
9 Ernie Ball , 74, American guitar equipment maker.
Rose Gacioch , 89, American baseball player (AAGPBL ).[18] [19]
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.[20]
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 ).[21]
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 .[22]
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 .[23]
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.[24]
Christopher Prior , 92, British Anglican priest, Chaplain of the Fleet and Archdeacon of Portsmouth .
John Seymour , 90, British self-sufficiency advocate.[25]
Ove Sprogøe , 84, Danish actor.
15 Nalda Bird , 77, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ).[26]
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 , 56, American guitarist (The Ramones ), prostate cancer.[27]
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17 Katharina Dalton , 87, British physician, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome .[31]
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.
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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 .[35]
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.[36]
Robert Hungate , 98, American microbiologist.
David Pall , 90, Canadian-American chemist, invented sophisticated filters used in blood transfusions .[37]
Larry Phillips , 62, American stock car racer.
22 Edward Larrabee Barnes , 89, American architect.
Cy Block , 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs ).[38]
Martha Van Coppenolle , 92, Belgian artist and book illustrator.
Pete Schoening , 77, American mountaineer legend.[39]
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.[40]
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 .[41]
Margaret Sloan-Hunter , 57, American feminist and civil rights advocate, former editor of Ms. Magazine .[42]
Maurice Michael Stephens , 84, British World War II flying ace.[43]
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.[44]
Françoise Sagan , 69, French novelist and playwright.[45]
Roman Tsepov , 42, Russian businessman and confidant to Vladimir Putin , poisoned.
Ron Willey , 74, Australian rugby player 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 .[46]
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 ).[47]
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 .[48]
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.[49]
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.[50]
28 Mulk Raj Anand , 98, Indian author.[51]
Geoffrey Beene , 77, American fashion designer, pneumonia.[52]
Carl Berntsen , 91, Danish Olympic sailor [53]
Scott Muni , 74, American radio disc jockey.[54]
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.[55]
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 ).[56]
Justin Strzelczyk , 36, American football offensive tackle, former National Football League Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase.[57]
Gamini Fonseka , 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician.
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