The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2001.
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 born 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, 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.[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, an 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, 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, murdered.[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]
- Magnar Ingebrigtsli, 68, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (men's 15 kilometre cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics).[43]
- Alexey Suetin, 74, Soviet and Russian chess player and chess writer, heart attack.[44]
11
- Clem Dreisewerd, 85, American baseball player.[45]
- Aurelio Genghini, 93, Italian Olympic long-distance runner (men's marathon at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[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, Emirati 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 airline passenger 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 airline passenger 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, Lieutenant General United States Army officer. [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, 24, 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, laeder 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, mixed drug intoxication, 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), seppuku, suicide.[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, murdered.[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 (Susan B. Anthony dollar, Eisenhower Dollar, Lincoln cent reverse, Kennedy half dollar reverse).[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, murdered by the FARC.
- 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, 96, 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.
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