Deaths in September 2015

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2015.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

September 2015

1

• Bouteldja Belkacem, 68, Algerian singer and composer.
• Frank Brennan, 67, Irish economist.
• Boomer Castleman, 70, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, inventor of the palm pedal, cancer.
• Gurgen Dalibaltayan, 89, Armenian colonel-general.
• Eric H. Davidson, 78, American biologist, heart attack.
• Antonio Deinde Fernandez, 79, Nigerian diplomat.
• Richard G. Hewlett, 92, American public historian.
• Don Holder, 86, American Olympic gymnast.
• Dean Jones, 84, American actor (The Love Bug, Company, Beethoven), Parkinson's disease.
• Ben Kuroki, 98, American bomber crewman.
• Jiří Louda, 94, Czech heraldist, designer of the current Coat of arms of the Czech Republic.
• Hanna Mierzejewska, 65, Polish politician.
• Takuma Nakahira, 77, Japanese photographer.
• Antonio Nirta, 96, Italian organized crime boss ('Ndrangheta San Luca).
• Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, 80, Pakistani politician and lawyer.
• William B. Provine, 73, American science historian, brain tumor.
• Robert Ravenstahl, 90, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1975–1978).
• Aleksandar Stipčević, 84, Croatian historian of the Illyrians.
• Jacek Wierzchowiecki, 71, Polish Olympic equestrian.

2

• John E. Boland, 78, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1971–1973).
• Suheil Bushrui, 85, Lebanese academic.
• Lindsay Collins, 71, Australian marine geologist.
• Avinash Deobhakta, 78, Indian-born New Zealand jurist.
• Boudjemaâ El Ankis, 88, Algerian musician.
• Ephraim Engleman, 104, American rheumatologist.
• Henry Gleitman, 90, German-born American psychologist.
• Charles Gyamfi, 85, Ghanaian football player (Fortuna Düsseldorf) and coach (national team).
• Stan Kane, 86, Scottish actor (Storm).
• Piero Livi, 90, Italian film director.
• Aleksander Mandziara, 75, Polish football player and coach.
• Stewart McCrae, 85, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1973–1982).
• Manos Nathan, 67, New Zealand artist, leukaemia.
• Giuseppe Petitto, 46, Italian film director.
• Brianna Lea Pruett, 32, American singer and songwriter, suicide.
• William Arbuckle Reid, 82, British curriculum theorist.
• Simo Salminen, 82, Finnish comic actor.

3

• Wayne D. Bennett, 87, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (1973–1993) and Senate (1993–1997).
• Gabrielle Burton, 76, American novelist, pancreatic cancer.
• Sir Adrian Cadbury, 86, British businessman and rower, chairman of Cadbury.
• Judy Carne, 76, British actress and comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), pneumonia.
• Stanton R. Cook, 90, American chief executive (Chicago Tribune).
• Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 75, Nepalese primordial dwarf, shortest man in recorded history, pneumonia.
• Harold Drasdo, 85, English rock climber and writer.
• Giltedge, 29, Irish-born American eventing horse.
• Dan Eley, 100, British chemist (Eley-Rideal mechanism).
• Claude Flahault, 92, French Olympic sailor.
• Leon Gorman, 80, American businessman, President (1967–2001) and chairman (2001–2013) of L.L.Bean, cancer.
• Ken Horne, 89, English footballer (Brentford).
• Carter Lay, 44, American businessman and philanthropist, heir to Frito-Lay.
• Leland McPhie, 101, American masters athlete.
• John Noah, 87, American ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist (1952), Alzheimer's disease.
• Jean-Luc Préel, 74, French politician, member of the French National Assembly for Vendée (1988–2012).
• Andrew Sibley, 81, Australian painter.
• Daniel Thompson, 94, Canadian-born American inventor, creator of the automatic bagel maker and the folding ping pong table.
• Yevgeny Ukhnalyov, 83, Russian artist, co-creator of the current coat of arms of Russia.
• John Waller, 91, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Stafford (1979–1987).
• Binny Yanga, 57, Indian social worker and activist.
• Zhang Zhen, 100, Chinese general.

4

• Geoffrey Bolton, 83, Australian historian.
• Graham Brazier, 63, New Zealand musician and songwriter (Hello Sailor), heart attack.
• Antonio Ciciliano, 82, Italian sailor, Olympic bronze medalist (1960).
• Frédéric Comte, 39, French rally driver, car crash.
• Jean Darling, 93, American silent film actress (Our Gang), radio personality and author.
• Eldon Johnson, 85, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1977–1999), stroke.
• Sylvie Joly, 80, French actress and comedian (Going Places, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs), heart attack.
• Rainer Kirsch, 81, German author and poet.
• Max Kruse, 93, German novelist.
• Sara Little Turnbull, 97, American product designer.
• Claus Moser, Baron Moser, 92, German-born British statistician, stroke.
• Warren Murphy, 81, American author (The Destroyer) and screenwriter (Lethal Weapon 2, The Eiger Sanction).
• Rico Rodriguez, 80, Cuban-born British trombonist (The Specials).
• Joel Rufino dos Santos, 74, Brazilian historian and writer.
• Wilfred de Souza, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Goa (1993–1994, 1998).
• Egon Sundberg, 104, Swedish footballer.
• Duane Weiman, 69, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (1982–1986).
• Hal Willis, 82, Canadian country singer (The Lumberjack).
• Jonathan Woolf, 54, British architect.
• Cyril Zuma, 30, South African footballer, traffic collision.

5

• Ilja Bergh, 88, Danish pianist and composer.
• Antonio Dalmonte, 96, Italian footballer (Juventus FC, Atalanta B.C.).
• Avery Dennis Sr., 86, American tribal politician and substance abuse counselor, Trustee of the Shinnecock Indian Nation.
• Gene Elston, 93, American Major League Baseball broadcaster (Houston Astros).
• Goh Eng Wah, 92, Malaysian-born Singaporean film distributor.
• Denny Greene, 66, American singer (Sha Na Na), actor, movie studio executive and law professor, esophageal cancer.
• Peter D. Hannaford, 82, American public relations consultant.
• Setsuko Hara, 95, Japanese actress, pneumonia.
• Jacques Israelievitch, 67, French-born Canadian violinist.
• Yotaro Kobayashi, 82, English-born Japanese businessman (Fuji Xerox), chronic empyema.
• Cody Ledbetter, 42, American football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Edmonton Eskimos), suicide by hanging.
• Alacid Nunes, 90, Brazilian politician, Governor of Pará (1966–1971, 1979–1983).
• Aadesh Shrivastava, 51, Indian composer and singer, cancer.
• Alan Steel, 79, Italian bodybuilder and actor (Samson, The Rebel Gladiators, Hercules Against the Moon Men).
• Chester Stranczek, 85, American politician, Mayor of Crestwood, Illinois (1969–2007).
• Fagaoalii Satele Sunia, 69, American Samoan literacy advocate, First Lady (1997–2003), stroke.
• Peter Alfred Sutton, 80, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Keewatin–Le Pas (1986–2006).
• RO Tambunan, 80, Indonesian lawyer.
• Patricia Canning Todd, 93, American tennis player.
• Ivan Voshchyna, 57, Ukrainian drummer.

6

• John O. Almquist, 94, American scientist.
• Beverly Daggett, 69, American politician, member (1996–2004) and President (2003–2004) of the Maine Senate, polycystic kidney disease.
• Vincenzo Dall'Osso, 86, Italian boxer.
• Bastien Damiens, 20, French canoeist, European kayaking champion (2012), fall.
• Richard E. Flathman, 81, American political theorist.
• R. Hollis Gause, 90, American theologian.
• Åke Hansson, 88, Swedish footballer (Malmö FF).
• Jack Linn, 48, American football player (Detroit Lions), motorcycle accident.
• Thor-Erik Lundby, 78, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player (1964).
• Herbert Mayr, 72, Italian politician.
• Ralph Milne, 54, Scottish footballer (Dundee United, Manchester United), liver disease.
• Martin Milner, 83, American actor (Adam-12, Route 66, Sweet Smell of Success), heart failure.
• Harald Norbelie, 70, Swedish writer and journalist, prostate cancer.
• Fred Ohr, 96, American World War II flying ace.
• Nelson Peery, 92, American political activist and author.
• John Perreault, 78, American art critic and poet, complications from gastrointestinal surgery.
• Allen Roberts, 92, New Zealand cricketer.
• Barney Schultz, 89, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals).
• Muhammad Shah Rukh, 88, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (1948) and cyclist (1956).
• Gaylord Shaw, 73, American journalist.
• Calvin J. Spann, 90, American fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).
• Vladislav Timakov, 22, Russian water polo player, heart attack.
• Peter Walker, 65, British Royal Air Force officer, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (since 2011).
• Petraq Zoto, 77, Albanian writer.

7

• Susan Allen, 64, American harpist, brain cancer.
• Elena Arnedo, 74, Spanish gynecologist, writer and women's rights activist.
• Cor Edskes, 90, Dutch organ builder and restorer.
• Jorge Alberto Garramuño, 61, Argentine politician, Senator (since 2013).
• Leon Gordis, 81, American epidemiologist.
• George Guida, 93, American Olympic sprinter (1948).
• Jane Hill, 79, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Frankston (1982–1985) and Frankston North (1985–1992).
• Dickie Moore, 89, American child actor (Our Gang, Sergeant York, Oliver Twist).
• Sigifredo Nájera Talamantes, Mexican drug cartel leader (Los Zetas), heart attack.
• Candida Royalle, 64, American Hall of Fame pornographic actress, producer and director, ovarian cancer.
• Guillermo Rubalcaba, 88, Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer.
• José María Ruiz-Mateos, 84, Spanish businessman and politician.
• Rebecca Shaw, 83, English author, stroke.
• Sowkoor Jayaprakash Shetty, 80, Indian politician.
• Leonard Silverman, 84, American politician and judge.
• Turdakun Usubaliev, 95, Kyrgyz Soviet politician.
• Mitrasen Yadav, 81, Indian politician, convicted embezzler and pardoned double murderer.
• Voula Zouboulaki, 90, Egyptian-born Greek actress.

8

• Merv Adelson, 85, American television producer, cancer.
• Habil Aliyev, 88, Azerbaijani musician, heart and lung failure.
• Joaquín Andújar, 62, Dominican baseball player (Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals), complications from diabetes.
• Ron Beagle, 81, American football player.
• Erlinda Cortes, 91, Filipino actress.
• Willi Fuggerer, 73, German track cyclist, Olympic bronze medalist (1964).
• Ebby Halliday, 104, American realtor and businesswoman.
• Teri Harangozó, 72, Hungarian singer.
• Basil H. Johnston, 86, Canadian writer.
• Ferenc Kiss, 73, Hungarian wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist (1972).
• Andrew Kohut, 73, American political scientist, leukemia.
• Bettina Le Beau, 83, Belgian-born British actress (Dr. No).
• Peeter Luksep, 60, Swedish politician, MP (1991–1994).
• Tyler Sash, 27, American football player (New York Giants), accidental drug overdose.
• Carlo Schäfer, 51, German author.
• Miroslav Josić Višnjić, 69, Serbian writer.
• Smokey Wilson, 79, American blues guitarist.
• Robert Wylie, 67, New Zealand cricketer.
• Joost Zwagerman, 51, Dutch author, suicide.

9

• John Allen, 83, British Anglican priest, Provost of Wakefield (1982–1997).
• Annemarie Bostroem, 93, German writer.
• Lane Bray, 86, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1991–1995).
• Gabriel Fragnière, 81, Swiss academic.
• Green Desert, 32, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Charles Hallac, 50, American businessman (BlackRock), colorectal cancer.
• Leinaʻala Kalama Heine, 75, American hula dancer.
• Einar H. Ingman Jr., 85, American Army Medal of Honor recipient (Korean War).
• K. Kunaratnam, 81, Sri Lankan academic.
• Fernando Di Laura Frattura, 83, Italian politician, President of Molise (1988–1990), member of the Chamber of Deputies (1992–1994).
• Jørgen Sonne, 89, Danish writer.

10

• Philip Amm, 51, South African cricketer.
• John Connell, 91, American actor (Young Doctor Malone, Fail Safe, Family Business).
• Norman Farberow, 97, American psychologist, pioneer of suicidology.
• Adrian Frutiger, 87, Swiss type designer.
• José María Gamazo, 86, Spanish politician.
• Ihab Hassan, 89, Egyptian-born American literary theorist.
• Franco Interlenghi, 83, Italian actor (I Vitelloni, I Vinti).
• Kärt Jänes-Kapp, 55, Estonian journalist and editor.
• Antoine Lahad, 88, Lebanese military officer, leader of South Lebanon Army (1984–2000), heart attack.
• Bengt Nyholm, 85, Swedish footballer.
• Radim Palouš, 90, Czech dissident.
• James E. Proctor Jr., 79, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (since 1990).
• Alberto Schommer, 87, Spanish photographer.
• Colleen Waata Urlich, 75, New Zealand ceramicist.
• Gert Wilden, 98, German film composer.

11

• Rezo Cheishvili, 82, Georgian writer.
• Bárbara Gil, 85, Mexican actress (Seven Women).
• Vernon Hauser, 87, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1970–1982).
• Fred Lucas, 81, English cricketer.
• Roy Marble, 48, American basketball player (Iowa Hawkeyes, Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets), lung cancer.
• Marcelo Moren Brito, 80, Chilean agent of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, head of Villa Grimaldi, convicted of crimes against humanity (Caravan of Death), multisystem failure.
• Knut Næss, 88, Norwegian football player and coach (Rosenborg BK).
• Jaswant Singh Neki, 90, Indian academic and poet.
• Lawrence S. Phillips, 88, American philanthropist.
• Alan Purwin, 53, American helicopter pilot and aerial film operator (Transformers, Star Trek, Jurassic World), plane crash.
• Kerry Simon, 60, American chef, multiple system atrophy.
• Ray Smolover, 94, American opera director and hazzan.
• Bruno Stutz, 77, Swiss clown.

12

• Deborah Asnis, 59, American infectious disease specialist, discovered the first cases of West Nile virus in the United States, breast cancer.
• Max Beauvoir, 79, Haitian houngan and biochemist.
• William J. Becker, 88, American theater critic and film distributor (Janus Films), complications of kidney failure.
• Melvin Bernhardt, 84, American theater director, fall.
• Claudia Card, 74, American philosopher, lung cancer.
• Arrigo Delladio, 86, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (1952).
• Valentin Dzhonev, 63, Bulgarian Olympic athlete.
• John Emerton, 87, British Hebraist, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University (1968–1995).
• Frank D. Gilroy, 89, American playwright and screenwriter.
• Malcolm Graham, 81, English footballer (Barnsley, Leyton Orient, Queens Park Rangers).
• Kenneth Leech, 76, British Anglican priest and theologian, founded Centrepoint.
• Maciek Malish, 53, Polish-born American sound editor (The X-Files, Lost, Starship Troopers), traffic collision.
• Bill H. McAfee, 84, American radio (WCGA) and TV (WTVC) broadcaster and politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1976–2000).
• Bryn Merrick, 56, Welsh bassist (The Damned), cancer.
• Al Monchak, 98, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and coach (Pittsburgh Pirates).
• Aronda Nyakairima, 56, Ugandan army officer and politician, Chief of Defence Forces (2003–2013), Minister of Internal Affairs (since 2013), heart attack.
• Neil Rosendorff, 70, South African cricketer.
• Salvo, 68, Italian artist.
• Bernard Secly, 84, French horse trainer.
• Ron Springett, 80, English footballer (Sheffield Wednesday).
• Zhang Xu, 101, Chinese telecommunications engineer.

13

• Sir Jim Belich, 88, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Wellington (1986–1992).
• Erma Bergmann, 91, American baseball player (AAGPBL) (1946–1951).
• Brown Panther, 7, British Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized after race injury.
• Brian Close, 84, English cricketer (Yorkshire, Somerset, England).
• Georges de Paris, 81, French-born American tailor.
• Stanley Hoffmann, 86, Austrian-born French scholar.
• Jane Jacobs, 91, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
• Howie Johnson, 90, American golf player.
• Betty Judge, 94, Australian runner and coach.
• Betty Lago, 60, Brazilian actress, gallbladder cancer.
• Moses Malone, 60, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, Houston Rockets), atherosclerosis.
• Barrie Meyer, 83, English footballer (Bristol Rovers, Bristol City, Plymouth Argyle), cricket player (Gloucestershire) and umpire.
• Raymond Mould, 74, British property developer and racehorse owner.
• Ian Payne, 65, South African cricketer.
• Gord Pennell, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (Buffalo Bisons).
• Jay Scott Pike, 91, American cartoonist and illustrator.
• Gary Richrath, 65, American guitarist and songwriter (REO Speedwagon).
• Kalamandalam Satyabhama, 77, Indian dancer.
• Carl Emil Schorske, 100, American cultural historian, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1981).
• Ted Smith, 95, British nature conservationist.
• Vivinho, 54, Brazilian footballer (Vasco).

14

• Davey Browne, 28, Australian boxer, head injuries sustained in a bout.
• Fred DeLuca, 67, American businessman, co-founder of Subway, leukemia.
• Bill Golden, 81, American drag racer.
• Indika Gunawardena, 72, Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Higher Education.
• Martin Kearns, 38, British drummer (Bolt Thrower).
• Bob Ledger, 77, English footballer (Huddersfield Town, Oldham Athletic, Mansfield Town).
• Steve Meilinger, 84, American football player (Washington Redskins, Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers).
• György Mészáros, 82, Hungarian sprint canoeist, Olympic silver medalist (1960).
• Mile Novaković, 65, Serbian major general, Commander of the Republic of Serbian Krajina Army (1992–1994).
• Hugh O'Neil, 79, Canadian politician, MPP of Ontario (1975–1995).
• Adam Purple, 84, American environmental activist, heart attack.
• Willy O. Rossel, 94, Swiss-born American chef.
• Paweł Sobek, 85, Polish international footballer.
• Keith Remfry, 67, British judoka, Olympic silver medallist (1976).
• Corneliu Vadim Tudor, 65, Romanian politician, Member of the European Parliament (2009–2014), journalist and editor (România Liberă, AGERPRES), heart attack.
• Ali Wardhana, 87, Indonesian economist, Minister of Finance (1966–1983), Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs (1983–1988).

15

• Harry J. Lipkin, 94, Israeli nuclear physicist.
• Cor Melchers, 61, Dutch painter, legionnaires' disease.
• José María Ortiz de Mendíbil, 89, Spanish football referee.
• Meir Pa'il, 89, Israeli politician and military historian, member of the Knesset (1974–1980), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Tomas Pontén, 69, Swedish actor and director.
• Tommy Thompson, 86, English footballer (Aston Villa, Preston North End).
• Ian Uttley, 73, New Zealand rugby union player (Auckland, Wellington, Hawke's Bay, national team), traffic collision.
• Bernard Van de Kerckhove, 74, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Mihai Volontir, 81, Moldovan actor (In the Zone of Special Attention).
• Randy Wiles, 64, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), cancer.

16

• Christophe Agou, 46, French photographer, cancer.
• David Ashby, 65, British motorcycle speedway rider, cancer.
• Guy Béart, 85, French singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Julio Brady, 73, U.S. Virgin Islander judge and politician, Lieutenant Governor (1983–1987).
• Bob Cleary, 79, American ice hockey player, Olympic gold medalist (1960).
• David Cook, 74, British broadcaster and writer.
• Clóvis Fernandes, 60, Brazilian football fan, cancer.
• Overton James, 90, American educator and politician, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation (1963–1987).
• Peggy Jones, 75, American guitarist (Bo Diddley).
• Abolghasem Khazali, 90, Iranian politician and Shi'i ayatollah, co-author of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, 89, Scottish physician and life peer.
• Emma Wong Mar, 89, American political activist.
• Ossi Mildh, 85, Finnish Olympic hurdler (1952), (1956).
• Peter Molan, 71, Welsh-born New Zealand biochemist, cancer.
• Anthony Kevin Morais, 55, Malaysian public prosecutor, homicide.
• W. H. Oliver, 90, New Zealand historian and poet.
• Kurt Oppelt, 83, Austrian figure skater, Olympic champion (1956).
• Niall O'Shaughnessy, 59, Irish Olympic middle distance runner (1976), brain cancer.
• Joe Morrone, 79, American soccer coach (Connecticut Huskies).
• Ton van de Ven, 71, Dutch industrial designer.
• Allan Wright, 95, British World War II flying ace.

17

• Ingrīda Andriņa, 71, Latvian stage and film actress.
• Peter Barrable, 72, South African cricketer.
• Stojan Batič, 90, Slovene sculptor.
• Valeria Cappellotto, 45, Italian Olympic racing cyclist (1992, 2000).
• Tom Cichowski, 71, American football player (Denver Broncos).
• Eddie Connolly, 29, Irish hurler (Tipperary), brain cancer.
• Dettmar Cramer, 90, German football manager (Bayern Munich).
• Bobby Etheridge, 73, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants).
• Milo Hamilton, 88, American Hall of Fame sportscaster (Houston Astros).
• Sir Peter Heatly, 91, Scottish Olympic diver (1948, 1952), chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation.
• Danilo Jovanovitch, 96, Australian poet and actor.
• Vadim Kuzmin, 78, Russian theoretical physicist.
• Joe Maiden, 74, British horticulturist, prostate cancer.
• Carlos Manga, 87, Brazilian film director.
• D. M. Marshman Jr., 92, American screenwriter (Sunset Boulevard).
• Bal Pandit, 86, Indian cricket player, writer and commentator.
• Everett Parker, 102, American civil rights activist.
• Mikhail Remizov, 66, Russian actor.
• Nelo Risi, 95, Italian poet and film director (A Season in Hell).
• Bruno Tommasi, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lucca (1991–2005).
• Sir David Willcocks, 95, British choirmaster, director of music at Choir of King's College, Cambridge.
• Eraclio Zepeda, 78, Mexican author and politician.

18

• Nancy Bernstein, 55, American visual effects and film producer (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, X-Men, Rise of the Guardians), colorectal cancer.
• Eduardo Bonvallet, 60, Chilean footballer (Universidad de Chile, national team) and commentator, suicide by hanging.
• James R. Houck, 74, American astrophysicist.
• John A. Jane, 84, American neurosurgeon.
• Holger Karlsson, 80, Swedish Olympic ski jumper.
• Moe Mantha Sr., 81, Canadian ice hockey player and politician, MP (1984–1988).
• Mario Menéndez, 85, Argentine military officer, Military Governor of the Falkland Islands (1982).
• William E. Paul, 79, American immunologist and AIDS researcher, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Jim Ross, 87, Australian football player (St Kilda).
• Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, 88, Polish mathematician.
• Freddy Ternero, 53, Peruvian football player and manager, kidney cancer.
• Marcin Wrona, 42, Polish film and television director (Demon, Medics), suicide by hanging.

19

• Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, 33, Emirati prince, businessman and endurance runner, heart attack.
• Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, 99, Nigerian businesswoman and politician.
• Enrique Ballesté, 68, Mexican theatre director.
• James Rodger Brandon, 88, American academic.
• Mishael Cheshin, 79, Israeli judge, member of the Supreme Court (1992–2006), cancer.
• Jackie Collins, 77, British-American novelist, breast cancer.
• Georg Eder, 87, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Salzburg (1989–2002).
• Todd Ewen, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim), suicide by gunshot.
• Miki Gorman, 80, Japanese-born American marathon runner, cancer.
• Sadhan Gupta, 97, Indian lawyer and politician.
• Ismael Kiram II, 76, Philippine sultan, Regent of Sulu (since 2001), kidney failure.
• Bill Larson, 77, American football player (Boston Patriots).
• Alan Magill, 61, American medical researcher.
• Winton W. Marshall, 96, American air force lieutenant general.
• Eugenio Mayer, 75, Italian Olympic skier.
• Brian Sewell, 84, British art critic.
• Masajuro Shiokawa, 93, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (2001–2003), pneumonia.
• Herschel Silverman, 89, American Beat poet.
• Walter Young, 35, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), heart attack.

20

• Carmen Balcells, 85, Spanish literary agent.
• Dorothy Butler, 90, New Zealand children's author, bookseller and reading advocate.
• Mario Caiano, 82, Italian film director (My Name Is Shanghai Joe, The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules).
• Jagmohan Dalmiya, 75, Indian cricket official, President of International Cricket Council (1997–2000) and Board of Control for Cricket in India (2001–2004), cardiac arrest.
• Giovanni De Vivo, 75, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pescia (since 1993).
• Siegfried Gottwald, 72, German mathematician.
• Joseph Iannuzzi, 84, American mobster and FBI informant, bone cancer.
• Jack Larson, 87, American playwright and actor (Adventures of Superman).
• Geoffrey Lilley, 95, British aeronautical scientist.
• John Parker, 6th Earl of Morley, 92, British aristocrat, Lord Lieutenant of Devon (1982–1998).
• Franz Surges, 57, German composer and musician.
• Radhika Thilak, 45, Indian singer, cancer.
• C. K. Williams, 78, American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2000), multiple myeloma.

21

• Ben Cauley, 67, American trumpet player and singer (The Bar-Kays).
• Juliet Clutton-Brock, 82, English zooarchaeologist.
• Honey Lee Cottrell, 68, American photographer and filmmaker.
• N. Patrick Crooks, 77, American judge, Wisconsin Supreme Court justice (since 1996).
• Victor Démé, 53, Burkinabe singer-songwriter, malaria.
• Ivan Dvorny, 63, Russian basketball player, Olympic champion (1972), lung cancer.
• Abdulcadir Gabeire Farah, 59–60, Somali-born Polish social activist and historian, candidate for President of Somalia in 2016, bombing.
• Raphael Michael Fliss, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Superior (1985–2007).
• Esther Golar, 71, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (since 2006), cancer.
• Yoram Gross, 88, Polish-born Australian animation producer and director (The Adventures of Blinky Bill).
• Vasily Ilyin, 66, Russian Soviet handball player, Olympic champion (1976).
• Kenneth L. Johnson, 90, British engineer.
• Charles Kellogg, 75, American Olympic skier.
• Armen Movsisyan, 53, Armenian politician, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources (2001–2014), cancer.
• Costas Papacostas, 75, Cypriot politician, Minister of Defence (2008–2011).
• Leon Root, 86, American orthopedic surgeon and author, complications of a low blood count.
• Robert E. Simon, 101, American real estate entrepreneur.
• Ray Warleigh, 76, Australian-born British saxophonist and flautist, cancer.
• Richard Williamson, 74, American football player (Alabama Crimson Tide) and coach (Kansas City Chiefs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Carolina Panthers).

22

• Yogi Berra, 90, American Hall of Fame baseball player and manager (New York Yankees, New York Mets), member of 13 World Series championship teams.
• Richard Dickson Cudahy, 89, American federal judge.
• Edmund Fantino, 76, American neuroscientist, prostate cancer.
• Elizabeth Fink, 70, American defense attorney.
• Nana Gichuru, 28, Kenyan actress, traffic collision.
• Asako Kishi, 91, Japanese cookery journalist.
• Gerard Mach, 89, Polish Olympic sprinter.
• John J. McNeill, 90, American Jesuit priest and gay rights activist.
• Ali Salem, 79, Egyptian writer.
• James David Santini, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Nevada at-large (1975–1983), esophageal cancer.
• Al Seckel, 57, American optical illusion collector and sceptic. (death announced on this date)
• Richard G. Scott, 86, American cleric, Mormon apostle.
• Phyllis Tickle, 81, American religious studies author and lector, lung cancer.
• Derek Ware, 77, British stuntman and actor (Doctor Who, The Italian Job), cancer.
• Mokhtar Yahyaoui, 63, Tunisian judge, cardiac arrest.

23

• Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, 75, Spanish actor (Solas).
• Tor Arneberg, 87, Norwegian sailor, Olympic silver medalist (1952).
• Adnan Buyung Nasution, 81, Indonesian lawyer and human rights activist, kidney failure.
• Jean-Marie Drot, 86, French writer and documentary filmmaker.
• Mike Gibson, 75, Australian sports journalist and broadcaster, suicide.
• Dragan Holcer, 70, Croatian footballer (Hajduk Split).
• Aleksandr Kolpovski, 62, Russian Soviet footballer (CSKA).
• Claudia Pasini, 76, Italian Olympian[1]
• Dayananda Saraswati, 85, Indian Hindu monk and teacher (Arsha Vidya Gurukulam).
• Denis Sonet, 89, French Roman Catholic priest and marriage counselor.

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• Mohan Bhandari, Indian actor, brain tumour.
• Paul Carney, 72, Irish judge, High Court judge (1991–2015).
• Uğur Dağdelen, 41, Turkish footballer, suicide by gunshot.
• Bas van Duivenbode, 75, Dutch Olympic boxer.
• Chuck Forsberg, 71, American computer programmer.
• Kikujirō Fukushima, 94, Japanese photographer, stroke.
• Assad Murtaza Gilani, 47, Pakistani politician, Member of National Assembly (2002–2008), Hajj stampede.
• William W. Gullett, 92, American politician.
• Michael Howard, 67, British pagan author and editor (The Cauldron).
• Ellis Kaut, 94, German author (Pumuckl).
• Naomi Kawashima, 54, Japanese actress, bile duct cancer.
• Celina Kombani, 56, Tanzanian politician.
• Alan Moore, 101, Australian war artist.
• Patrick O'Donnell, 75, Canadian general, Vice Chief of the Defence Staff (1993–1995).
• Hugo St-Cyr, 36, Canadian actor (Watatatow, October 1970), bone cancer.
• samfree, 31, Japanese musician and producer.
• Peter P. Sorokin, 84, American physicist.
• Harold Stapleton, 100, Australian cricketer (New South Wales).
• Ed Sukla, 72, American baseball player (California Angels), osteosarcoma.
• Bilkisu Yusuf, 62, Nigerian journalist and editor, Mina stampede.
• Wang Zhongshu, 89, Chinese archaeologist.

25

• Carlos Anibal Altamirano Argüello, 73, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Azogues (since 2004).
• Claudio Baggini, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vigevano (2000–2011).
• Bill Bridges, 76, American basketball player (Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warriors).
• Dino Brugioni, 93, American imagery intelligence analyst.
• Martin Colfer, Irish footballer, (Shelbourne, national team).
• Bill Crawford, 79, American politician, member of Indiana House of Representatives (1972–2012).
• Pat Dunne, 72, Irish football player and manager.
• John Galvin, 86, American army general, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1987–1992).
• Tommie Green, 59, American basketball player (New Orleans Jazz) and college coach (Southern University).
• Terje Gulbrandsen, 70, Norwegian footballer (Skeid, Vålerenga).
• Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, 81, Mexican poet, diplomat and academic, Ambassador to Greece (1987–1994).
• Christopher Jackson, 67, Canadian musician, lung cancer.
• Henry Jacobs, 91, American sound artist and radio presenter.
• Alexandr Jurečka, 24, Czech judoka, scuba diving accident.
• Tom Kelley, 71, American Major League Baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves).
• Moti Kirschenbaum, 76, Israeli journalist and media personality.
• Morten Krogh, 67, Norwegian Olympic fencer (1972).
• Jim Meadowcroft, 68, English snooker player and commentator.
• Richard M. Moose, 83, American politician.
• Manuel Oltra, 93, Spanish composer, pneumonia.
• Carol Rama, 97, Italian painter.
• David Watt, 98, Australian cricketer.
• Joe Wilson, 78, English footballer (Workington Reds, Wolverhampton Wanderers).
• Zabeel, 28, New Zealand racehorse, leading sire in Australia (1998–1999) and New Zealand (1998–2001), namesake of the Zabeel Classic.

26

• Jamal al Barzinji, 75, Iraqi-born American Muslim activist.
• Chng Seng Mok, 65, Singaporean Olympic sports shooter.
• Eugene D. Commins, 83, American physicist.
• Tino García, 80, Nicaraguan-Puerto Rican actor, bone cancer.
• Roy Kelly, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Kazuaki Kimura, 69, Japanese academic.
• Hopingstone Lyngdoh, 86, Indian politician.
• Sidney Phillips, 91, American Marine (1941–1945), physician and author.
• Ulla Puolanne, 84, Finnish politician, Deputy Minister of Finance (1987-1991).
• Paul Reed, 96, American artist.
• Fred Ridgway, 92, English cricketer (Kent, England).
• Homa Rousta, 71, Iranian actress, cancer.
• Ana Seneviratne, 88, Sri Lankan diplomat and Inspector General of Police.

27

• Syed Ahmed, 73, Indian politician, Governor of Jharkhand (2011–2015) and Manipur (2015), cancer.
• Howard A. Anderson Jr., 95, American visual effects artist (Star Trek: The Original Series, Tobruk) and title designer (The Brady Bunch).
• Albert Blan, 85, English rugby league player (Swinton, national team).
• Odd Blomdal, 88, Norwegian judge and civil servant.
• Roland Collins, 97, English painter.
• Norm Defelice, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
• Wilton Felder, 75, American saxophonist (The Crusaders) and session bassist (Motown).
• John Guillermin, 89, British film director and producer (The Towering Inferno, King Kong, Shaft in Africa), heart attack.
• In Style, 20, Canadian show jumping horse, euthanized.
• Pietro Ingrao, 100, Italian politician, President of the Chamber of Deputies (1976–1979), journalist and partisan.
• Hugh Jackson, 75, Irish golfer.
• Denise Lor, 86, American singer ("If I Give My Heart to You") and actress.
• Kallen Pokkudan, 78, Indian environmental activist and writer.
• Richard Rainwater, 71, American investor.
• Fred Stickel, 93, American newspaper publisher (The Oregonian).
• Frank Tyson, 85, English cricketer (Northamptonshire, England), journalist and commentator.

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• Sir Peter Abbott, 73, British admiral, Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff (1997–2001), cancer.
• Frank Martinus Arion, 78, Dutch Antillean author.
• Siert Bruins, 94, Dutch war criminal.
• Michael Burgess, 70, Canadian tenor, skin cancer.
• Claudia Bär, 35, German slalom canoer, European champion (2008, 2011), leukemia.
• Catherine E. Coulson, 71, American actress and production assistant (Twin Peaks, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Eraserhead), cancer.
• Viren Dangwal, 68, Indian poet, academic, and journalist.
• Louis Armand Desrochers, 87, Canadian lawyer and academic.
• Carlos Diaz, 57, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets).
• Alexander Faris, 94, Northern Irish composer.
• Frankie Ford, 76, American singer ("Sea Cruise").
• Valerie Ganz, 79, Welsh painter.
• Sjur Hopperstad, 84, Norwegian politician, county mayor of Sogn og Fjordane.
• Walter Dale Miller, 89, American politician, Governor of South Dakota (1993–1995).
• Simo Rinne, 74, Finnish Olympic speed skater.
• Karsten Schwan, 63, American computer scientist, cancer.
• Ignacio Zoco, 76, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid).

29

• Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 83, Saudi Arabian prince, director of General Intelligence Directorate (2001–2005).
• Sorin Avram, 72, Romanian Olympic football player (1964) and coach (Bacău).
• Al Benecick, 78, American football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders).
• Claude Dubar, 69, French sociologist.
• Mauro Ferri, 95, Italian politician.
• Rick Foley, 70, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red Wings).
• Gillian Gear, 72, English historian and archivist (Barnet Museum).
• Benjamin Hutto, 67, American organist, choirmaster and academic, gallbladder cancer.
• Susumu Ito, 96, American cell biologist and WW2 veteran (442nd Regiment).
• Ram Kapse, 81, Indian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (2004–2006).
• Hellmuth Karasek, 81, German literary critic and journalist (Der Spiegel).
• William Kerslake, 85, American NASA engineer and wrestler.
• Gilles Mayer, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
• Sybil Collins Mobley, 89, American academic.
• Gamaliel Onosode, 82, Nigerian businessman and politician.
• Burton Raffel, 87, American literary translator and writer.
• Soaring Softly, 20, American racehorse, paddock accident.
• Jean Ter-Merguerian, 79, French violinist.
• Pat Woodell, 71, American actress (Petticoat Junction), cancer.
• Phil Woods, 83, American saxophonist ("Just the Way You Are"), emphysema.

30

• Allen Aldridge, 71, American football player (Toronto Argonauts, Houston Oilers, Cleveland Browns).
• Guido Altarelli, 74, Italian theoretical physicist.
• Frank Battig, 79, Austrian Olympic modern pentathlete (1960) and fencer (1968).
• Pierre de Bellefeuille, 92, Canadian politician.
• Caio César, 27, Brazilian voice actor (Harry Potter) and policeman, shot.
• Claude Dauphin, 64, French business executive, co-founder and CEO of Trafigura, cancer.
• Morris E. Fine, 97, American scientist.
• Kelly Gissendaner, 47, American convicted malice murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Göran Hägg, 68, Swedish writer and literary critic, heart attack.
• Antje Huber, 91, German politician, Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health (1976–1982).
• Svein B. Manum, 89, Norwegian botanist.
• Eric Martin, 90, English cricketer.
• Al Romine, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Denver Broncos).
• Donald Seawell, 103, American theater producer and newspaper publisher.
• Alfred Schickel, 82, German historian.
• Rick Talan, 54, Dutch footballer (AZ, Vitesse Arnhem), brain cancer.
• Ian Thwaites, 72, English cricketer.

References

External links

• List of September 2015 deaths at IMDb