Deaths in September 2001

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2001.

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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 2001

1

• Sil Austin, 71, American jazz saxophonist, prostate cancer.^[1]
• Daniel C. Drucker, 83, American engineer and academic, leukemia.^[2]
• Bobby Evans, 74, Scottish football player, pneumonia.^[3]
• Ruthild Hahne, German sculptor.
• Budimir Metalnikov, 75, Soviet/Russian screenwriter and film director.
• Ted Mulry, 53, English-Australian singer/songwriter, brain cancer.
• Martin Pederson, 79, Canadian farmer and politician.
• Julian Scheer, 75, American journalist, author, and conservationist.^[4]
• James Lopez Watson, 79, American jurist, cancer.^[5]
• Brian Moore, 69, English football Commentator, heart attack.^[6]

2

• Christiaan Barnard, 78, South African heart surgeon, first to perform a human-to-human heart transplant, asthma.^[7]
• Troy Donahue, 65, American actor, (A Summer Place, Rome Adventure), heart attack.^[8]
• Sir Arthur Gilbert, 88, British-American real estate developer and philanthropist.^[9]
• Horace A. Jones, 94, American horse trainer.
• Jay Migliori, 70, American saxophonist (Supersax), colorectal cancer.^[10]
• John Overall, 88, Australian architect.^[11]

3

• Ferruccio Amendola, 71, Italian actor and voice actor, throat cancer.^[12]
• John Roy Chapman, 74, British actor and playwright (Dry Rot, Not Now, Darling, There Goes the Bride).^[13]
• Joyce Hemlow, 95, Canadian professor and writer.^[14]
• Pauline Kael, 82, American movie critic, Parkinson's disease.^[15]
• Carl Lindquist, 82, American baseball player.^[16]
• Thuy Trang, 27, Vietnamese-American actress (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, The Crow: City of Angels), traffic collision.^[17]

4

• Maria Alfero, 79, Italian sprinter.
• Pete Brown, 70, American professional football player (Georgia Tech) (San Francisco 49ers: 1953–1954).^[18]
• Robert McAfee Brown, 81, American presbyterian minister, theologian, and activist.^[19]
• Sándor Simó, 67, Hungarian film producer, director and screenwriter.^[20]

5

• Akinola Aguda, 78, Nigerian jurist and a Chief Justice of Botswana.
• Heywood Hale Broun, 81, American sports writer and broadcaster.^[21]
• Jørgen Hviid, 85, Danish and Latvian multi-sport athlete.^[22]
• Numa Monnard, 82, Swiss footballer.^[23]
• Hemish Shah, 33, British poker player, cardiac arrest.
• Tamara Smirnova, 65, Soviet/Russian astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.
• Justin Wilson, 87, American Cajun chef and humorist.^[24]
• Vladimir Žerjavić, 89, Croatian economist and demographer, murdered.

6

• Frank Christensen, 91, American gridiron fotball player.^[25]
• Megan Connolly, 27, Australian actress, heroin overdose.
• Carl Crack, 30, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot), suicide by drug overdose.^[26]
• Chantal Chaudé de Silans, 82, French chess player and Woman International Master.^[27]
• Víctor Mahana, 79, Chilean basketball player.
• Wardell Pomeroy, 87, American sexologist, dementia.^[28]
• Van Rensselaer Potter, 90, American biochemist, oncologist, and bioethicist.^[29]

7

• Igor Buketoff, 86, American composer, conductor and teacher.^[30]
• Sergio Garavini, 75, Italian politician, writer and trade unionist.
• Andrey Goncharov, 83, Soviet and Russian theater director, pedagogue and author.
• Lou Grant, 81, American editorial cartoonist (Oakland Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time).^[31]
• Bunny Lewis, 82, English music manager, record producer and composer.
• Spede Pasanen, 71, Finnish television star, film director and inventor, heart attack.^[32]
• Don Paul, 75, American gridiron football player.
• Clark Thomas Rogerson, 82, American mycologist.
• Billie Lou Watt, 77, American film and television actress (Search for Tomorrow), and voice actress (Astro Boy, Elsie the Cow), lung cancer.^[33]

8

• Gregorio Agós, 88, Uruguayan basketball player.^[34]
• Eric Bullus, 94, British Conservative politician.^[35]
• Gabriel Green, 76, American early UFOlogist.
• Bill Ricker, 93, Canadian entomologist.^[36]
• Govind Sawant, 65, Indian field hockey player and Olympic medalist.^[37]

9

• William Sefton, Baron Sefton of Garston, 86, British politician.^[38]
• Tommy Hollis, 47, American actor, complications of diabetes.^[39]
• Ahmad Shah Massoud, 48, Afghan Northern Alliance military commander, suicide bombing.^[40]
• Shinji Sōmai, 53, Japanese film director, cancer.

10

• DJ Uncle Al, 32, American disc jockey, homicide.^[41]
• Yevhen Drahunov, 37, Ukrainian football player, stroke.^[42]
• Aurelio Genghini, 93, Italian Olympic long-distance runner (men's marathon at the 1936 Summer Olympics).^[43]
• Magnar Ingebrigtsli, 68, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 15 kilometre cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics).^[44]
• Alexey Suetin, 74, Soviet and Russian chess player and chess writer, heart attack.^[45]

11

See also: List of victims of the September 11 attacks (A–G), List of victims of the September 11 attacks (H–N), and List of victims of the September 11 attacks (O–Z)

• Clem Dreisewerd, 85, American baseball player.^[46]
• Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon, 77, British peer and racing manager to Queen Elizabeth II.
• Henryk Siwiak, 46, Polish émigré to New York City, shot.
• Alice Stewart Trillin, 63, American educator, author and film producer, heart failure.^[47]
• Vince Ventura, 84, American baseball player.^[48]
• Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 attacks, including:
  • David Angell, 55, American television producer and screenwriter (Frasier, Wings). Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.^[49]
  • Mohamed Atta, 33, Egyptian ringleader and terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Garnet Bailey, 53, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oil Kings, Washington Capitals, Hershey Bears). Passenger of United Airlines Flight 175.^[50]
  • Fayez Banihammad, 24, Emirate terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Mark Bavis, 31, American ice hockey player (Providence Bruins, South Carolina Stingrays, Fredericton Canadiens). Passenger of United Airlines Flight 175.^[51]
  • Todd Beamer, 32, American account manager. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Carolyn Beug, 48, American filmmaker, producer and music video director ('"Right Now", "Fast as You"). Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.^[52]
  • Bill Biggart, 54, American photojournalist.^[53]
  • Mark Bingham, 31, American public relations executive. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.^[54]
  • Patrick J. Brown, 48, American firefighter.
  • Ronald Paul Bucca, 47, American fire marshal.^[55]
  • William Francis Burke Jr., 46, American firefighter.^[56]
  • Charles Burlingame, 51, American airline pilot American Airlines Flight 77.^[57]
  • Tom Burnett, 38, American executive. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • William E. Caswell, 54, American physicist. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Kevin Cosgrove, 46, American business executive.
  • Welles Crowther, 24, American Investment banker.^[58]
  • Frank De Martini, 49, American architect.
  • Melissa Doi, 32, American businesswoman.^[59]
  • William M. Feehan, 71, American deputy fire commissioner, First Deputy Commissioner of the Fire Department New York.
  • Wilson Flagg, 62, United States Navy Rear Admiral. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.^[60]
  • Peter Ganci, 54, American firefighter, Chief of the Fire Department New York.^[61]
  • Keith A. Glascoe, 38, American actor (Léon: The Professional, 100 Centre Street, The Pirates of Central Park) and firefighter.^[62]
  • Ahmed al-Ghamdi, 22, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Hamza al-Ghamdi, 20, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Saeed al-Ghamdi, 21, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Jeremy Glick, 31, American sales executive. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Lauren Grandcolas, 38, American author. Passenger of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Nezam Hafiz, 32, Guyanese-born American cricketer (national team).^[63]
  • Mohammad Salman Hamdani, 23, Pakistani American research technician.
  • Hani Hanjour, 29, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Leonard Hatton, 45, American FBI agent.
  • Nawaf al-Hazmi, 25, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Salem al-Hazmi, 20, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Ahmed al-Haznawi, 20, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • LeRoy Homer Jr., 36, American airline pilot United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Ziad Jarrah, 26, Lebanese terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • Charles Edward Jones, 48, American astronaut (Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program). Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.^[64]
  • Mychal Judge, 68, American Franciscan friar and Catholic priest, Chaplain of the Fire Department New York.^[65]
  • Neil David Levin, 46, American politician, businessman and CEO of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (since 2001).^[66]
  • Daniel Lewin, 31, American-Israeli mathematician, entrepreneur and co-founder of Akamai Technologies. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.^[67]
  • Eamon McEneaney, 46, American Hall of Fame lacrosse player (Cornell Big Red).^[68]
  • Timothy Maude, 53, United States Army Lieutenant General.^[69]
  • Khalid al-Mihdhar, 26, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Majed Moqed, 24, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Ahmed al-Nami, 23, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
  • John Ogonowski, 50, American pilot American Airlines Flight 11.^[70]
  • Barbara Olson, 45, American lawyer and television commentator (CNN, Fox News Channel). Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.^[71]
  • Abdulaziz al-Omari, 22, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • John P. O'Neill, 49, American counter-terrorism expert and FBI agent.^[72]
  • Betty Ong, 45, American flight attendant American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Pablo Ortiz, 49, American construction superintendent.
  • Orio Palmer, 45, American firefighter.
  • Berry Berenson Perkins, 53, American actress (Remember My Name, Cat People). and photographer. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 11.^[73]
  • Dominick Pezzulo, 36, American-Italian police officer.
  • Sneha Anne Philip, 31, Indian-American physician, presumed to have been a victim of the attacks.
  • Rick Rescorla, 62, British-American soldier and police officer.
  • Michael Richards, 38, Jamaican-born American sculptor.
  • Marwan al-Shehhi, 23, Emirati terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Mohand al-Shehri, 22, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175.
  • Wail al-Shehri, 28, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Waleed al-Shehri, 22, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Mari-Rae Sopper, 35, American gymnastics coach and lawyer Judge Advocate General's Corps. Passenger of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • Satam al-Suqami, 25, Saudi Arabian terrorist, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Madeline Amy Sweeney, 35, American flight attendant American Airlines Flight 11.
  • Dan Trant, 40, American basketball player (Boston Celtics).^[74]
  • Abraham Zelmanowitz, 55, American computer programmer

12

• Carmen Rico Godoy, 62, Spanish writer, journalist and feminist, lung cancer.^[75]
• Jack Kolle, 83, Indonesian football player.
• Marilyn Meseke, 84, American beauty queen.
• Joseph Bruno Slowinski, 38, American herpetologist, snake bite.^[76]
• Manaf Suleymanov, 89, Azerbaijani writer and historian.
• Victor Wong, 74, American actor (The Joy Luck Club, The Last Emperor, The Golden Child), heart failure.^[77]

13

• Jorge Comellas, 84, Cuban baseball player.^[78]
• Johnny Craig, 75, American comic book artist.^[79]
• Jaroslav Drobný, 79, Czechoslovakian tennis player (Wimbledon Championship) and Olympic ice hockey player (silver medal winner at the 1948 Winter Olympics).^[80]
• Dorothy McGuire, 85, American actress (nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for Gentleman's Agreement), heart failure.^[81]
• Fayga Ostrower, 80, Polish-Brazilian visual artist.^[82]
• Charles Régnier, 87, German actor and director, stroke.
• Alex Scott, 64, Scottish footballer.^[83]
• Irving S. Shapiro, 85, American lawyer and businessman.^[84]

14

• Barbara Ansell, 78, British paediatric rheumatologist, ovarian cancer.^[85]
• George Ireland, 88, American basketball coach (Loyola of Chicago 1963 NCAA Championship).^[86]
• Stelios Kazantzidis, 70, Greek singer, brain cancer.^[87]
• Francisco Urcuyo, 86, Nicaraguan politician, vice president (1967-1972, 1979), heart attack.

15

• Herbert Burdenski, 79, German football player and coach.^[88]
• Fred de Cordova, 90, American stage, film and television director and producer (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson).^[89]
• Richard Fegley, 64, American photographer, cancer.
• Eliezer Preminger, 81, Israeli politician.
• June Salter, 69, Australian actor.
• Robert Louis Whelan, 89, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Paul "Tank" Younger, 73, American gridiron football player.^[90]
• Živojin Zdravković, 86, Serbian conductor.^[91]

16

• Samuel Z. Arkoff, 83, American film producer (Futureworld, The Amityville Horror).^[92]
• François Bédarida, 75, French academic historian.^[93]
• Patrick Cosgrave, 59, Irish journalist and writer.
• Neptali A. Gonzales, Sr., 78, Filipino politician and writer.
• Jerry Harper, 67, American basketball player (University of Alabama from 1952 to 1956).^[94]
• Donald Hume, 86, American Olympic rower (gold medal winner in men's rowing eight at the 1936 Summer Olympics).^[95]
• Leonid Osyka, 61, Ukrainian movie director, producer, and screen writer.

17

• Hizgil Avshalumov, 88, Soviet novelist, poet and playwright.
• Bubba Church, 77, American baseball player.^[96]
• Paul Cummings, 48, American middle and long-distance runner, drowning accident.^[97]
• Dalilah, 65, Egyptian-Spanish oriental dancer.
• Dickie Dodds, 82, English cricket player.^[98]
• Samuel Epstein, 81, Canadian-American geochemist.^[99]
• Ray Gill, 76, English football player.^[100]
• David Kipiani, 49, Georgian football player and manager, car accident.

18

• Ernie Coombs, 73, American-Canadian actor (Mr. Dressup), stroke.^[101]
• Rachmat Kartolo, 63, Indonesian actor and singer.
• Hank Levy, 73, American jazz composer and saxophonist, congestive heart failure.^[102]
• Jane du Pont Lunger, 87, American heiress and philanthropist.
• Sandy Saddler, 75, American boxer.^[103]
• Barry Shepherd, 64, Australian cricket player.^[104]
• Amy Witting, 83, Australian novelist and poet.

19

• Jane Dudley, 89, American modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher.^[105]
• Nguyen Ton Hoan, 84, South Vietnamese politician, leader of Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng (Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam).^[106]
• Rhys Jones, 60, Welsh-Australian archaeologist.^[107]
• Raymond Alphonse Lucker, 74, American prelate of the Catholic Church, melanoma.
• Nina Roscher, 62, American chemist and activist, breast cancer.^[108]
• Darryl Sambell, 55, Australian talent manager and music promoter, lung cancer.
• Bill Stafford, 63, American baseball player.^[109]

20

• Patsy Adam-Smith, 77, Australian author and historian.^[110]
• Victor Henry Anderson, 84, American priest and poet.
• George Archie, 87, American baseball player.^[111]
• George Grosvenor, 91, American gridiron football player (Colorado, Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals).^[112]
• Bill Gunn, 81, Australian politician.
• Billy Harris, 66, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Oakland Seals, Pittsburgh Penguins).^[113]
• Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez, 87, Venezuelan military officer and President of Venezuela.^[114]
• Princess Cecylia Lubomirska, 94, Polish princess.
• Abe Mickal, 89, American gridiron football player.
• Lewis Rudin, 74, American real estate investor and developer.^[115]
• Joe Stephenson, 80, American baseball player.^[116]
• Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, 83, German journalist and television show host, pneumonia.^[117]

21

• Eleanor Bone, 90, English neopagan wiccan priestess.
• David S. Dennison, Jr., 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district from 1957 to 1959).^[118]
• Daniel J. Murphy, 79, American four-star navy admiral, stomach aneurysm.
• Dwayne O'Steen, 46, American football player, heart attack.
• Ross Parker, 17, English victim of racially motivated crime, stabbed.^[119]

22

• Germaine Brée, 93, French-American literary scholar.^[120]
• Hilde Holger, 95, Austrian-British expressionist dancer and choreographer, cough.
• Leslie Howarth, 90, British mathematician.
• Fikret Kızılok, 54, Turkish rock musician, heart attack.^[121]
• William Knox, 73, Australian politician.
• Gordon Reece, 71, British journalist and political strategist, cancer.^[122]
• Isaac Stern, 81, Ukrainian-American violinist, congestive heart failure.^[123]

23

• Robert Abel, 64, American pioneer in visual effects and computer animation, heart attack.^[124]
• Spencer Barrett, 87, British classical scholar.
• Kevin Boland, 83, Irish politician.
• Allen Curnow, 90, New Zealand poet and journalist.^[125]
• Elton Hayes, 86, British actor and guitarist.
• Ron Hewitt, 73, Welsh footballer.^[126]
• Henryk Tomaszewski, 81, Polish mime artist and theatre director.^[127]

24

• Peter Shore, 77, British politician.^[128]
• Shawn Walsh, 46, American ice hockey coach, kidney cancer.^[129]
• Eldon Woolliams, 85, Canadian politician and lawyer.
• Arthur Wynn, 91, British civil servant and recruiter of Soviet spies.^[130]

25

• Irving Bernstein, 84, American historian and professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[131]
• Ritter Collett, 80, American sports editor and columnist.
• Samar Das, 75, Bangladeshi musician and composer.
• Robert W. Floyd, 65, American computer scientist (Floyd–Warshall algorithm, Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm, Floyd–Steinberg dithering, Hoare logic).^[132]
• Sepp Janko, 95, German SS Obersturmführer during World War II.
• Herbert Klein, 78, German Olympic swimmer (bronze medal winner in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics).^[133]
• Evan A. Lottman, 70, American film editor, esophageal cancer.
• Dolores Michaels, 68, American actress.^[134]
• Marc North, 35, English footballer, complications from lung cancer.
• Lani O'Grady, 46, American actress (Eight Is Enough) and talent agent, drug overdose.^[135]
• John Powers, 72, American baseball player.^[136]
• Paul Seiler, 55, American football player, colon cancer.^[137]

26

• Clarice Cross Bagwell, 86, American educator and activist.^[138]
• Helia Bravo Hollis, 99, Mexican botanist.^[139]
• Hannes Nikel, 70, German film editor.
• Sagat Singh, 82, Indian Army officer.
• Vaithilingam Sornalingam, 52, Sri Lankan rebel (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), homicide.

27

• Herman Berlinski, 91, German-American musician, heart attack.^[140]
• Helen Cherry, 85, English actress (Three Cases of Murder, The Naked Edge, The Charge of the Light Brigade).^[141]
• Linda Smith Dyer, 53, American lawyer and women's rights activist, cancer.
• Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, 81, Indian politician.
• Philip Rosenthal, 84, German industrialist, socialite and politician.
• Dick Rozek, 74, American baseball player.^[142]

28

• Ernest Ačkun, 71, Yugoslav clarinetist.
• James H. Brickley, 72, American judge and politician.^[143]
• R. J. Hollingdale, 70, British biographer and translator of German philosophy and literature.
• Isao Inokuma, 63, Japanese Olympic judoka (gold medal winner in men's heavyweight judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics), suicide by seppuku.^[144]
• Ejner Johansson, 79, Danish art historian, writer, and documentary film director.
• Jack Maguire, 76, American baseball player.^[145]
• Martin O'Hagan, 51, Irish investigative journalist, shot.^[146]
• Irene von Meyendorff, 85, Russian-born German-British actress.^[147]

29

• Viktor Belov, 76, Russian football player and manager.
• Mabel Fairbanks, 85, American figure skater and coach.^[148]
• Gloria Foster, 67, American actress (The Matrix, The Comedians, City of Hope), diabetes.^[149]
• Frank Gasparro, 92, American Chief Engraver of the United States Mint.^[150]
• Shona McFarlane, 72, New Zealand artist, journalist and broadcaster.
• Gellu Naum, 86, Romanian poet, novelist, and children's writer.
• John Noriega, 57, American baseball player.^[151]
• Risto Orko, 102, Finnish film producer and director.^[152]
• Eleanor Phelps, 94, American actress.^[153]
• Helmut Roloff, 88, German pianist, teacher and resistance fighter during World War II.
• Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, 78, South Vietnamese military officer and politician, 2nd President of South Vietnam, stroke.^[154]

30

• Consuelo Araújo, 61, Colombian politician, writer and journalist, assassination by gunshot.
• Luis Barboo, 74, Spanish actor.
• Anatoly Bogdanov, 70, Soviet sport shooter and Olympic champion.^[155]
• Gerhard Ebeling, 89, German Lutheran theologian.^[156]
• George Gately, 72, American cartoonist (Heathcliff), cardiovascular disease.^[157]
• Calvin C. Hernton, 69, American sociologist, poet and author.^[158]
• Jenny Jugo, 97, Austrian actress.^[159]
• John C. Lilly, 86, American writer, inventor and counterculture scientist.^[160]
• Tage Lindbom, 91, Swedish mystic and conservative politician.
• Giovanni Macchia, 88, Italian literary critic and essayist.^[161]
• Madhavrao Scindia, 56, Indian politician, royal family member, Maharaja of Gwalior.^[162]
• Dora M. Sweeney, 94, American secretary and politician.