Deaths in September 2005

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The following is a list of notable people who died in September 2005.

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• Olga de Alaketu, 80, Afro-Brazilian Candomblé high priestess, complications of diabetes. [1]
• Barry Boesch, 51, Texas journalist and newspaper editor, cancer. [2]
• Patrick Caulfield, 69, British artist. [3]
• Benjamin DeMott, 81, prominent American author, social critic, and professor, cardiac arrest. [4]
• Frank Haraway, American sports writer and journalist. [5]
• Austin Leslie, 71, famed New Orleans chef (also the inspiration for the television show Frank's Place), hospitalized with pneumonia since his evacuation several days after Hurricane Katrina. [6]
• Gennadi Sarafanov, 63, former cosmonaut Soyuz 15.

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• Nora Kerr, 61, former New York Times Sunday editor, cancer. [7]
• Alan Matheney, 54, American convicted murderer, executed in Indiana. [8]
• Constance Baker Motley, 84, American civil rights lawyer and the first female African-American federal judge, congestive heart failure. [9]
• Leo Sternbach, 97, Austrian native chemist, 'Father of Valium'.

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• Plia Albeck, 86, former legal advisor to the Israeli government, so-called "mother" of the resettlement program. [10]
• Herman Ashworth, 32, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.
• Ronald Golias, 76, Brazilian comedian.
• Brett Kebble, 41, South African mining magnate, murdered.
• John McCabe, 84, biographer of Laurel and Hardy.
• Brian Roylance, 60, British publisher of "fine art" rock music memorabilia, heart attack. [11]
• Willem van de Sande Bakhuysen, 47, Dutch film director, cancer. [12]
• Mary Lee Settle, 87, American author (the Beulah Quintet), lung cancer. [13]

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• Robert F. Corrigan, 91, former U.S. ambassador to Rwanda. [14]
• Helen Cresswell, 71, British author of children's literature, cancer. [15]
• Steven P. Frankino, 69, American scholar, professor of law, and university dean. [16]
• Monty Gopallawa, 63, son of former Sri Lankan president William Gopallawa and governor of Central Province, Sri Lanka.
• Jerry Juhl, 68, writer and puppetteer for the Muppets.
• Ain Sarv, 57, Estonian folklore activist
• Sister Jacques-Marie (neé Monique Bourgeois), 84, Dominican nun, inspiration for Henri Matisse's Chapel of the Rosary. [17]
• Shawntinice Polk, 22, center on the University of Arizona's women's basketball team, of a pulmonary embolism.
• Michael Wittenberg, 43, husband of actress Bernadette Peters, helicopter crash in Montenegro. [18]

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• Don Adams, 82, American actor (Get Smart, Inspector Gadget), lung infection while battling a bone lymphoma.
• George Archer, 65, American golfer and 1969 Masters winner, Burkitt's lymphoma. [19]
• Abu Azzam, Al-Qaeda's second-in-command in Iraq, shot to death by US and Iraqi forces. [20]
• Tommy Bond, 79, American actor known for playing Butch on Our Gang, heart disease. [21]
• Urie Bromfenbrenner, 88, Russian-born U.S. professor of psychology, among the founders of the Head Start program in the U.S., complications of diabetes. [22]
• Steve Marcus, 66, American jazz saxophonist. [23]
• M. Scott Peck, 69, American psychiatrist and author.
• Friedrich Peter, 84, Austrian politician (chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria 1958-1978), controversial as a former member of the Waffen-SS.
• Stephen Salmore, 64, prominent New Jersey Republican political consultant, kidney disease. [24]

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• Jojo D'Amore, ?, American actor.
• Russell Harris, 37, British worker in Australia, killed by a crocodile. [25]
• Byron "Mex" Johnson, 94, Negro Leagues baseball player, prostate cancer. [26]
• Daniel Podrzycki, 42, Polish left wing politician, presidential candidate.

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• Borge Bek-Nielsen, 79, Danish businessman, known for successes in Malaysia. [27]
• James F. Bell, Jr., 90, former Ohio Supreme Court justice, also known for his opinion in the Sam Sheppard case. [28]
• Roger Brierley, 70, British actor.
• Apolônio de Carvalho, 93, founder of Brazil's ruling Worker's Party, leftist political icon. [29]
• George Croonenberghs, 87, American fisherman, advisor to Hollywood films. [30]
• Donna Hanson, 65, American Roman Catholic lay leader, cancer. [31]
• John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, 80, British television producer. [32]
• Betty Leslie-Melville, 78, wildlife conservationist and giraffe expert, complications of dementia. [33]
• Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, 72, Puerto Rican nationalist and leader of the Boricua Popular Army. [34]
• Preben Philipsen, 95, Danish movie producer. [35]

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• Joop Doderer, 84, Dutch actor who played Swiebertje for 17 years. [36].
• Bayaman Erkinbayev, 38, Kyrgyz former wrestler, businessman, and prominent parliamentarian, shot to death. [37]
• Alberto Giraldo, 70, Colombian journalist, convicted of criminal involvement with the Cali cartel, cancer. [38]
• Leavander Johnson, 35, American former IBF lightweight champion boxer, brain injury suffered in bout. [39]
• John W. Peoples, Jr., 48, American convicted murderer, executed in Alabama.

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• Victor Futter, 86, prominent American lawyer and professor, congestive heart failure. [40]
• Harry Heltzer, 94, American inventor, former CEO of 3M. [41]
• Alfredo Jordán Morales, 55, Cuban minister of agriculture, cancer. [42]
• Ramón Martín Huerta, 48, minister of public security of the Mexican federal government, helicopter crash. [43]
• William McCampbell, 60, American lawyer and advisor on Iraq War policy, brain cancer. [44]
• Félix Javier Pérez, 33, Puerto Rican basketball player and former member of the Puerto Rican National Basketball Team, murdered during robbery.
• Joseph Smagorinsky, 81, meteorologist and mathematician, pioneer in the use of mathematical modeling as a weather forecasting tool, complications of Parkinson's disease. [45]
• Albert "Caesar" Tocco, 77, convicted American organized crime boss. [46]
• Molly Yard, 93, former president of the U.S. National Organization for Women.

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• Paul Arlt, 91, American political cartoonist and painter (New York Herald Tribune), congestive heart failure. [47]
• Joe Bauman, 83, American longtime minor league baseball record-holder (72 homeruns in 1954), pneumonia. [48]
• Franzi Groszmann, 100, last surviving Kindertransport mother, consultant on the film Into the Arms of Strangers. [49]
• Tobias Schneebaum, 83, American writer, artist, and explorer. [50]
• Simon Wiesenthal, 96, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter.

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• Willie Hutch, 59, American record producer, singer and songwriter. [51]
• Isao Nakauchi, 83, Japanese businessman, founder of Daiei, stroke. [52]
• Rupert Riedl, 80, Austrian zoologist and advocate of evolutionary epistemology. [53]
• William Vacchiano, 93, American trumpeter and professor of music. [54]

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• Hassan Abu Basha, 83, former Egyptian interior minister, victim of 1987 assassination attempt, lung cancer. [55]
• Richard Britton, 34, Northern Ireland motorcycle racer, racing accident.
• John Bromfield, 83, American television actor.
• Richard E. Cunha, 83, American cinematographer and director
• Sandra Feldman, 65, American advocate for disadvantaged students, teacher and labor leader. [56]
• Joel Hirschhorn, 67, American Academy Award-winning songwriter.
• Jerome Hynes, 45, Irish opera director, heart attack. [57]
• Jacques Lacarrière, French author and classical translator.
• Noel Mander, 93, British organ maker and restorer. [58]
• Michael Park, 39, British rally co-pilot, rally accident.
• Chas Smit, 23, lead guitarist and backing vocalist for South African acoustic rock band Plush, hit by car.
• Clint C. Wilson, Sr., 90, African-American editorial cartoonist, Los Angeles Sentinel. [59] [60]
• Yegor Yakovlev, 75, Russian journalist, leading opponent of press censorship. [61]

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• Donn Clendenon, 70, American baseball player; MVP of the 1969 World Series, leukemia. [62]
• Max Dominique, 60s, Haitian priest and theologian, leading proponent of liberation theology. [63]
• Benny Garcia Jr., 79, guitarist with Bob Wills and many jazz greats.
• David E. Mark, 81, former U.S. ambassador to Burundi, car accident. [64]
• Alfred Reed, 84, prominent American composer of concert band music.
• Edward Stutman, 60, retired lawyer and U.S. Justice Department official known for prosecution of alleged Nazi war criminals. [65]

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• Stanley Burnshaw, 99, American renowned poet and literary figure. [66]
• Harold L. Friedman, 82, American liquid chemist, complications from Parkinson's disease. [67]
• Arkadiusz Gołaś, 24, Polish volleyball player.
• Gordon Gould, 85, American pioneer in laser technology.
• Jay M. Gould, 90, American epidemiologist and anti-nuclear activist, heart disease. [68]
• Donald S. Harrington, 91, Unitarian minister and former chairman and spokesman of the Liberal Party of New York. [69]
• John McMullen, 87, former owner of MLB's Houston Astros and the NHL's New Jersey Devils. [70]
• Constance Moore, 85, American actress (Buck Rogers).
• Mzukisi Sikali, 34, South African boxer; murdered during street robbery.

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• David C. Anderson, 62, criminal justice editor of the New York Times, cancer of the biliary tract. [71]
• William S. Bartman, 58, businessman and art patron, multiple organ failure. [72]
• Guy Green, 91, British film director and noted cinematographer.
• Sid Luft, 89, American film producer, Judy Garland's third and last surviving husband.
• Toni Trent Parker, 58, African-American author and advocate for children's literature, brain tumor. [73]

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• William Berenberg, 89, leader in the treatment and rehabilitation of disabled children, professor of pediatrics, emeritis, at Harvard Medical School. [74]
• Justin "Jud" Hurd, 92, cartoonist, editor and founder of Cartoonist PROfiles magazine. [75]
• Frances Newton, 40, executed for murder in Texas; first African-American woman executed there since 1858.
• Kenneth Turpin, former Provost of Oriel College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of University of Oxford.
• Vladimir Volkoff, 72, French-born Russian spy novelist.
• Robert Wise, 91, American film director (Sound of Music, West Side Story), heart failure.

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• Toni Fritsch, 60, Austrian-born football player and American football placekicker with the Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers, Houston Oilers, and New Orleans Saints. [76]
• Cyril K. Harris, 68, former chief rabbi of South Africa, cancer. [77]
• Myles Thoroton Hildyard, 91, British landowner and historian.
• Helen Longley, 84, former First Lady of Maine, widow of former Governor James B. Longley. [78]
• Julio César Turbay Ayala, 89, President of Colombia (1978–1982). [79]

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• Raymond "Maric" Chiavarino, 78, French comic book writer/artist.
• Honey Harlow Bruce Friedman, 78, widow of comedian Lenny Bruce.
• Serge Lang, 78, American mathematician and political activist. [80]
• Ronald Leigh-Hunt, 88, British actor.
• Susan Anne Catherine Torres, 40 days, baby born to Susan Torres, brain-dead woman, on 2 August 2005, heart failure after intestinal surgery. [81]

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• Al Casey, 89, American jazz guitarist, colon cancer. [82]
• Pat Maloney, Sr., 81, flamboyant and wealthy American trial lawyer, pulmonary fibrosis. [83]
• Steve de Shazer, 65, therapist, founder of Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and developer of Solution focused brief therapy.
• Chris Schenkel, 82, American sportscaster, emphysema.
• Joseph Smitherman, 75, longtime mayor of Selma, Alabama, "reformed" segregationist. [84]
• Henryk Tomaszewski, 91, Polish internationally recognized graphic artist.
• Sterling Weed, 104, American bandleader for nearly 80 years.

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• Theodore X. Barber, 78, psychologist renowned for his critical studies of hypnosis, ruptured aorta. [85]
• Sir Hermann Bondi, 85, mathematician & cosmologist; co-advocate (with Gold & Hoyle) of the Steady-State Theory.
• Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, 81, American blues musician.
• Lea Nikel, 86, Israeli abstract artist. [86]
• Eugene Desmond O'Kelly, 53, controversial former KPMG U.S. CEO, cancer. [87]
• Charlie Williams, 61, former MLB umpire; the first African American umpire to work behind home plate in a World Series game, complications of diabetes. [88]

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• J. Calvin Jureit, 87, prominent inventor, head injuries suffered in fall. [89]
• André Pousse, 85, French actor.
• Tarzan Taborda, 78, Portuguese wrestling champion, heart attack.

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• Randall Behr, 53, operatic conductor.
• Noel Cantwell, 73, former Manchester United captain, cancer.
• Oswald Hoffman, 91, Lutheran evangelist. [90]
• Donald Horne, 83, Australian academic, historian, philosopher and intellectual.
• Lewis Platt, 64, former Hewlett Packard CEO.
• Perry Stephens, 47, American actor (Loving). [91] [92]

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• Moussa Arafat, 65, former head of general security in Gaza, cousin of Yasser Arafat, murdered.
• Dame Eugenia Charles, 86, former prime minister of Dominica.
• Stanley Dancer, 78, record-setting harness racing driver.
• Sergio Endrigo, 72, Italian singer and songwriter.
• Nicolino Locche, 66, Argentine world boxing champion.
• Henry Luce III, 80, Publisher of Time Magazine and philanthropist. [93]

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• Mark Matthews, 111, US Army first sergeant, oldest living Buffalo Soldier. [94]
• Octavio Medeiros, 82, Brazilian General, founder of the SNI, multiple organ failure. [95]
• Karl von Vorse Krombein, 93, senior entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution, cardiac arrest. [96]

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• Rizal Nurdin, 57, Governor of North Sumatra, Indonesia, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crash.
• Raja Inal Siregar, 67, former Governor of North Sumatra, Indonesia, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crash.

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• Bill Charmatz, 80, American illustrator, especially noted for works in Sports Illustrated. [97]
• Stanley Jennings, 84, American cartoonist, journalist.
• Alan Truscott, 80, one of the most known bridge columnists. [98]

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• Richard Fitter, 92, British naturalist.
• Robert W. Funk, 79, founder of the Jesus Seminar, lung failure. [99]
• William Rehnquist, 80, Chief Justice of the United States , thyroid cancer. [100]
• Ekkehard Schall, 75, German actor. [101]

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• Bob Denver, 70, American actor (Gilligan's Island), complications from cancer treatment.
• Adrian Karsten, 45, ESPN announcer, suicide. [102]
• Alexandru Paleologu, 86, Romanian diplomat. [103]
• Marilyn Whirry, 72, US Teacher of the Year for 2000, afterwards a lecturer, lung disease. [104]

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• R. L. Burnside, 78, American blues musician.
• Jacob A. Marinsky, 87, American chemist, co-discoverer of the element Promethium.
• Hermann Michael, 68, German conductor, aplastic anemia. [105]
• Cassio Raposo do Amaral, 62, Brazilian plastic surgeon and medical professor.