Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2008. [edit] September 2008 - Henry Adler, 93, American drummer, teacher of Buddy Rich. [1]
- Ed Brinkman, 66, American baseball player and coach, lung cancer. [2]
- Sam Calder, 92, Australian politician and World War II fighter pilot, MP (1966–1980). [3]
- J. L. Chestnut, 77, American civil rights lawyer, kidney failure. [4]
- Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, 82, Singaporean politician, MP (1981–1986), NCMP (1997–2001), heart failure. [5]
- Hayden Carruth, 87, American poet and literary critic, stroke. [6]
- Richard Clayton, 93, American actor and talent agent (Burt Reynolds, James Dean), heart failure. [7]
- Miguel Córcega, 79, Mexican actor and director. [8]
- Milt Davis, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts), cancer. [9]
- Tim Fortescue, 92, British politician, MP (1966–1974). [10]
- Elinor Guggenheimer, 96, American philanthropist and author. [11]
- Louis Guss, 90. American actor. [12]
- Stan Kann, 83, American organist and Tonight Show regular, complications from heart procedure. [13]
- Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, 72, Indian politician. [14]
- Antônio Sarto, 82, Brazilian bishop of Barra do Garças. [15]
- Glenister Sheil, 78, Australian medical practitioner and politician, Senator (1974–1981, 1984–1990). [16]
- Anthony Spero, 79, American financier, leader of Bonanno crime family, after short illness. [17]
- Relus ter Beek, 64, Dutch politician, Minister of Defence (1989–1994), abolished conscription, lung cancer. [18]
- Jock Wilson, 105, British soldier, UK's oldest D-Day veteran. [19]
- Andrzej Badeński, 65, Polish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) athlete. [20] (Polish)
- Osborn Elliott, 83, American editor of Newsweek (1961–1976), complications from cancer. [21]
- Jack Faulkner, 82, American football coach and administrator. [22]
- Margot Gayle, 100, American historic preservationist and author. [23]
- Malalai Kakar, 41, Afghan senior policewoman, shot. [24]
- Konstantin Pavlov, 75, Bulgarian poet and screenwriter, after long illness. [25]
- Thomas Thewes, 76, American businessman, co-owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, leukemia. [26]
- Len Browning, 80, British footballer. [27]
- John Houston, 78, British painter. [28]
- Mahendra Kapoor, 74, Indian playback singer, heart attack. [29]
- Mario Maya, 71, Spanish dancer and choreographer, cancer. [30]
- Jimmy Murray, 72, British footballer, prostate cancer. [31]
- Henri Pachard, 69, American pornographic film director, throat cancer. [32]
- Olaf Poulsen, 88, Norwegian president of the International Skating Union (1980–1994). [33] (Norwegian)
- Gerald Small, 52, American football player (Miami Dolphins). [34]
- Bernadette Greevy, 68, Irish mezzo-soprano, after short illness. [35]
- Joli Jászai, 101, Hungarian actress. [36] (Hungarian)
- Géza Kalocsay, 95, Hungarian football player and manager. [37] (Polish)
- Phyllis Welch MacDonald, 95, American theater and film actress. [38]
- Raymond Macherot, 84, Belgian cartoonist. [39]
- Jan Mazur, 88, Polish bishop of Siedlce. [40]
- Marian McQuade, 91, American founder of National Grandparents Day, heart failure. [41]
- Marc Moulin, 66, Belgian jazz musician and journalist, throat cancer. [42]
- Paul Newman, 83, American Academy Award-winning actor and philanthropist, lung cancer. [43]
- Cirio H. Santiago, 72, Filipino filmmaker and producer, complications from lung cancer. [44]
- Yonty Solomon, 71, South African pianist, brain tumour. [45]
- Glenn Andrews, 99, American politician, Representative (1965–1967), oldest surviving member of the House of Representatives. [46]
- Brian Donnelly, 59, New Zealand diplomat and politician, MP (1996–2008). [47]
- Edward Klima, 77, American linguist, complications from brain surgery. [48]
- Horaţiu Rădulescu, 66, Romanian composer, spectral music pioneer. [49]
- Ralph Sazio, 86, Canadian football coach (Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [50]
- Jimmy Sirrel, 86, British football manager (Notts County), after long illness. [51]
- Patrick d'Udekem d'Acoz, 72, Belgian count, father of Princess Mathilde. [52]
- Roger Vanderfield, 80, Australian rugby union referee, IRB chairman and ARU president. [53]
- Kwadwo Baah Wiredu, 56, Ghanaian finance minister since 2005, after short illness. [54]
- Oliver Crawford, 91, American television writer blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. [55]
- Irene Dailey, 88, American actress, colon cancer. [56]
- Sir Peter Derham, 83, Australian businessman and philanthropist, stroke. [57]
- Uno Laht, 84, Estonian writer. [58] (Estonian)
- Dick Lynch, 72, American football player and radio announcer (New York Giants), leukemia. [59]
- Maurits van Nierop, 25, Dutch international cricketer, fall. [60]
- Thiago Jotta da Silva, 24, Brazilian footballer, shot. [61]
- Cherry Smith, 65, Jamaican singer (The Wailers). [62]
- Mickey Vernon, 90, American baseball player, stroke. [63]
- Vice Vukov, 72, Croatian singer and politician. [64]
- Claude Wilton, 89, Irish politician and solicitor. [65]
- Ruslan Yamadayev, 46, Chechen warlord and member of Russian State Duma, shot. [66]
- Maria Esther Figueiredo Ferraz, 93, Brazilian Minister of Education (1982–1985) and first female minister, stroke. [67] (Portuguese)
- Arne Haugestad, 73, Norwegian Supreme Court lawyer, Arne Treholt's defender. [68] (Norwegian)
- Richard Henyard, 34, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [69]
- Wally Hilgenberg, 66, American football player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [70]
- Rudolf Illovszky, 86, Hungarian footballer and manager, pneumonia. [71]
- Peter Leonard, 66, Australian broadcaster, mesothelioma. [72]
- Pedro Masó, 81, Spanish film director and producer, natural causes. [73] (Spanish)
- Brock McElheran, 90, Canadian conductor and composer. [74]
- Loren Pope, 98, American education consultant, heart failure. [75]
- Sonja Savić, 47, Serbian actress, heroin overdose. [76]
- Ellen Tarry, 101, American children's author. [77]
- William Woodruff, 92, British historian and author. [78]
- Michael Andreevich, 88, Russian prince. [79]
- Plato Andros, 86, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), Alzheimer's disease. [80]
- H. Dale Cook, 84, American federal judge since 1974, cancer. [81]
- Thomas Dörflein, 44, German zookeeper, surrogate parent of the polar bear Knut, heart attack. [82]
- Connie Haines, 87, American singer, myasthenia gravis. [83]
- Guillermo López Langarica, 50, Mexican YouTube celebrity, car accident. [84] (Spanish)
- Buddy McDonald, 85, American child actor (Our Gang), heart failure. [85]
- Petrus Schaesberg, 41, German art historian, suicide by jumping. [86]
- Mary Garber, 92, American sportswriter. [87]
- Carlos González Cruchaga, 87, Chilean bishop of the Diocese of Talca (1967–1996). [88]
- Nancy Hicks Maynard, 66, American journalist, advocate for diversity in journalism, organ failure. [89]
- Sir Brian Pippard, 88, British physicist, Cavendish Professor of Physics (1971–1984). [90]
- Barefoot Sanders, 83, American federal judge, natural causes. [91]
- Paul Tansey, 59, Irish economics editor (The Irish Times). [92]
- Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, 92, Sri Lankan prime minister (1989–1993), president (1993–1994), after long illness. [93]
- Nappy Brown, 78, American blues singer. [94]
- William Fox, 97, British actor. [95]
- Duncan Glen, 75, British poet, literary critic and designer, professor emeritus of visual communication (Nottingham Trent). [96]
- Ken Harris, 45, American member of Baltimore City Council (1999–2007), shot. [97]
- Johnny H. Hayes, 67, American fundraiser for Al Gore's presidential campaigns, stomach cancer. [98]
- Willi Heidel, 92, Romanian Olympic field handball player. [99]
- Paul Howell, 57, British member of the European Parliament (1979–1994), plane crash. [100]
- Ed Sutton, 73, American football player, complications following heart bypass surgery. [101]
- John Taylor, 87, American military archivist at National Archives and Records Administration, heart failure. [102]
- Frank Valenti, 97 American mob boss (Rochester crime family). [103]
- Ivo Žďárek, 47, Czech ambassador to Vietnam (2004-2008) and Pakistan (2008), suicide bombing. [104]
- Ernie Andres, 90, American college baseball coach and Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [105]
- Alexina Calvert, 110, British supercentenarian, Scotland's oldest person. [106]
- Ned Harkness, 89, American ice hockey coach, stroke. [107]
- Jun Ichikawa, 59, Japanese film director. [108]
- David Jones, 74, British theatre and film director. [109]
- Dave Needham, 57, British bantamweight boxing champion (1974–1975). [110]
- Earl Palmer, 83, American rhythm and blues drummer, after long illness. [111].
- Robert Royston, 90, American landscape architect. [112]
- Dick Sudhalter, 69, American jazz trumpeter, pneumonia. [113]
- Mauricio Kagel, 76, Argentine-born German composer. [114]
- Peter Kastner, 64, Canadian actor, heart attack. [115]
- Ron Lancaster, 69, American CFL quarterback and coach, heart attack. [116]
- Howard Mann, 85, American actor and comedian, cancer. [117]
- Sherman Parker, 37, American politician, member of Missouri House of Representatives (2003–2006), brain aneurysm. [118]
- Fabiola Salazar, 42, Peruvian congresswoman since 2006, car accident. [119]
- Henry Z. Steinway, 93, American businessman (Steinway & Sons). [120]
- Don Ultang, 91, American Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer. [121]
- Florestano Vancini, 82, Italian film director and screenwriter, after long illness. [122]
- John Webb, 82, American judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1986–1998), Parkinson's disease. [123]
- Princess Luluwah bint Abdulaziz Al Saud, 80, Saudi member of the royal family, sister of King Abdullah. [124]
- James Crumley, 68, American crime writer, complications from kidney and pulmonary diseases. [125]
- Didier Dagueneau, 52, French winemaker, plane crash. [126]
- José María Cirarda Lachiondo, 91, Spanish bishop of the Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela (1978–1993). [127]
- Anna Langford, 90, American politician, first African American woman to serve on the Chicago City Council, lung cancer. [128]
- Michael Omondi, 46, Kenyan field hockey player, after short illness. [129]
- Humberto Solás, 66, Cuban filmmaker, cancer. [130]
- Robert Steinberg, 61, American physician, co-founder of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, lymphoma. [131]
- Jack Alderman, 57, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [132]
- Avraham Biran, 98, Israeli archaeologist, natural causes. [133]
- Elizabeth Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, 92, British peeress. [134]
- John Fancy, 95, British World War II RAF airman. [135]
- Andrei Volkonsky, 75, Russian composer. [136]
- Charles Whitebread, 65, American professor of law, cancer. [137]
- Norman Whitfield, 68, American Motown songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine") and record producer, diabetes. [138]
- Marion Dewar, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (1978–1985), fall. [139]
- Barthélémy Djabla, 72, Ivorian archbishop of Gagnoa. [140]
- Gangadhar Gadgil, 85, Indian writer, cancer. [141]
- Charlotte Kohler, 99, American editor, heart failure. [142]
- John Matshikiza, 53, South African actor, writer and poet, heart attack. [143]
- Juraj Njavro, 70, Croatian doctor and politician, after long illness. [144]
- J. Patrick Rooney, 80, American insurance advocate. [145]
- Richard Wright, 65, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) and songwriter ("The Dark Side of the Moon"), cancer. [146]
- John Burnside, 91, American inventor, brain cancer. [147]
- Hyman Golden, 85, American co-founder of Snapple Beverage Corporation, complications from stroke. [148]
- Ştefan Iordache, 67, Romanian actor, leukemia. [149]
- Georgi Kitov, 65, Bulgarian archaeologist, heart attack. [150]
- Lynn Kohlman, 62, American model and photographer, breast and brain cancer. [151]
- Lobsang Nyima Pal Sangpo, 79, Tibetan 100th Ganden Tripa (1994–2002), head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. [152]
- Mu Tiezhu, 59, Chinese basketball player, heart attack. [153]
- Ralph Russell, 90, British Urdu scholar. [154]
- Walter H. Seward, 111, American supercentenarian, blood infection. [155]
- Gennady Troshev, 61, Russian politician and military commander (Second Chechen War), plane crash. [156]
- Peter Camejo, 68, American politician and activist, lymphoma. [157]
- Dean Hoge, 71, American sociologist, specialist in American Catholicism, cancer. [158]
- Duncan Laing, 77, New Zealand swimming coach, cancer. [159]
- James W. Snow, 79, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1967–1985), diabetes. [160]
- Olin Stephens, 100, American yacht designer. [161]
- Alice Van-Springsteen, 90, American stuntwoman, pneumonia. [162]
- Abdullah Wardak, Afghan governor of Logar Province, suicide attack. [163]
- Simon Hantaï, 85, Hungarian-born French abstract artist. [164] (French)
- Tomislav Ladan, 76, Croatian encyclopedist and polymath, malignant tumor. [165]
- Max Mermelstein, 65, American drug trafficker, cancer. [166]
- George Putnam, 94, American television news reporter, heart failure. [167]
- Bob Quinn, 93, Australian footballer (Port Adelaide) and Military Medal recipient. [168]
- Marjorie Thomas, 85, British opera singer, after long illness. [169]
- Paola S. Timiras, 85, American doctor, expert on the physiology of ageing, heart failure. [170]
- Charlie Walker, 81, American country music singer, colon cancer. [171]
- David Foster Wallace, 46, American author and essayist (Infinite Jest), suicide by hanging. [172]
- Bennett Campbell, 65, Canadian politician, premier of Prince Edward Island (1978–1979), cancer. [173]
- Florian Goebel, 35, German astrophysicist, fall. [174]
- Dave Hanner, 78, American football player and coach (Green Bay Packers), heart attack. [175]
- Klaus Johann Jacobs, 71, German-born Swiss billionaire, cancer. [176]
- Fran Reed, 65, American teacher and fish skin artist, cancer. [177]
- Nils Johan Ringdal, 56, Norwegian author and historian. [178] (Norwegian)
- Martin Tytell, 94, American manual typewriter expert, cancer. [179]
- Joan Winston, 77, American author, founder of Star Trek convention, Alzheimer's disease. [180]
- Saleh al Aridi, 50, Lebanese pro-Syrian politician, car bomb. [181]
- Gérald Beaudoin, 79, Canadian lawyer and senator (1988–2004). [182]
- José Antonio Dammert Bellido, 91, Peruvian bishop. [183]
- Cameron Buchanan, 80, British footballer. [184]
- David Chipp, 81, British editor-in-chief (Press Association, Reuters), first resident correspondent for Reuters in China. [185]
- Patrick Flynn, 72, American composer and conductor, pulmonary embolism. [186]
- Robert Glasgow, 83, American organist and University of Michigan professor emeritus. [187]
- Vernon Handley, 77, British conductor. [188]
- Sherrill Headrick, 71, American football player, cancer. [189]
- Domagoj Kapec, 18, Croatian ice hockey player, car accident. [190]
- Frank Mundus, 82, American shark fisherman, alleged inspiration for Quint in Jaws, heart attack. [191]
- Yuri Osipyan, 77, Russian physicist. [192]
- Paul Williams, 85, British politician, MP (1953–1964). [193]
- Betty Constable, 83, American squash player. [194]
- Eddie Crowder, 77, American football player and coach, complications of leukemia. [195]
- A.U. Fuimaono, 85, American Samoan politician, first Delegate to the United States House of Representatives (1970–1974). [196]
- Nina Lawson, 82, British wigmaker for the Metropolitan Opera, pernicious anaemia. [197]
- Jacob Lekgetho, 34, South African footballer. [198]
- P. N. Menon, 80, Indian film director, after long illness. [199]
- Warith Deen Mohammed, 74, American Islamic leader, son of Elijah Muhammad. [200]
- Richard Monette, 64, Canadian actor and director, pulmonary embolism. [201]
- Nouhak Phoumsavanh, 98, Laotian politician, president (1992–1998), natural causes. [202]
- Ahn Jae-hwan, 36, South Korean actor, body found on this date after suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [203]
- Nathan Green Gordon, 92, American politician and Medal of Honor recipient, Lt. Governor of Arkansas (1947–1967), pneumonia. [204]
- Celia Gregory, 58, British actress. [205]
- Bheki Mseleku, 53, South African-born British jazz musician, diabetes. [206]
- Ralph Plaisted, 80, American Arctic explorer, natural causes. [207]
- Evan Tanner, 37, American MMA fighter and UFC middleweight champion, body found on this date after apparent heat exposure. [208]
- Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, 73, Indian violinist, after long illness. [209]
- George Zarnecki, 92, Polish art historian and medievalist. [210]
- Hector Zazou, 60, French composer and record producer. [211]
- Kune Biezeveld, 60, Dutch theologian. [212]
- Ilarion Ciobanu, 76, Romanian actor. [213] (Romanian)
- Dino Dvornik, 44, Croatian actor and pop singer. [214]
- Peter Glossop, 80, British operatic baritone. [215]
- Don Gutteridge, 96, American Major League Baseball player, coach and manager. [216]
- Don Haskins, 78, American college basketball coach, heart failure. [217]
- Gregory Mcdonald, 71, American author (Fletch), cancer. [218]
- Nagi Noda, 35, Japanese pop star and director, injuries from traffic accident. [219]
- Larry Shaben, 73, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1975–1989), cancer. [220]
- Aril Edvardsen, 69, Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary. [221]
- Abd al-Halim Abu Ghazala, 78, Egyptian politician, field marshal and defence minister, throat cancer. [222]
- Antonio Innocenti, 93, Italian cardinal. [223]
- Nicole Lai, 36, Singaporean singer, skin cancer. [224]
- Allan Lawrence, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Northumberland—Durham (1972–1988). [225]
- Ray Loring, 65, American professor and composer, heart attack. [226]
- Sören Nordin, 91, Swedish harness racing trainer. [227]
- Anita Page, 98, American actress (The Broadway Melody), natural causes. [228]
- Bill Shorthouse, 86, British footballer. [229]
- Mike Swoboda, 69, American politician, mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri (2000–2008), complications of shooting. [230]
- Raymond Bernabei, 83, American soccer player, complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [231]
- Robert Giroux, 94, American editor and publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). [232]
- Miroslav Havel, 86, Czech-born Irish chief designer (Waterford Crystal). [233]
- Thubten Jigme Norbu, 86, Tibetan lama (Taktser Rinpoche), eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama. [234]
- Lucian Pye, 86, American political scientist and sinologist, expert on Chinese politics, pneumonia. [235]
- Luis Santibáñez, 72, Chilean football team manager, complications from a kidney condition. [236]
- Mila Schön, 91, Italian fashion designer. [237]
- Mary Dunn, 66, American Iyengar Yoga instructor, peritoneal cancer. [238]
- Colin Egar, 81, Australian test cricket umpire. [239]
- Dick Enderle, 60, American football player. [240]
- Fon Huffman, 95, American World War II veteran, last survivor of the Panay incident. [241]
- Abdul Samad Ismail, 84, Malaysian journalist, lung infection and kidney failure. [242]
- Alain Jacquet, 69, French pop artist, cancer. [243]
- Jenny, 55, American western lowland gorilla, oldest gorilla in captivity (Dallas Zoo), euthanized. [244]
- Tommy Johnston, 81, British footballer, top scorer for Leyton Orient. [245]
- Erik Nielsen, 84, Canadian deputy prime minister (1984–1986), brother of Leslie Nielsen, heart attack. [246]
- Waldick Soriano, 75, Brazilian composer and singer, prostate cancer. [247] (Portuguese)
- Fernando Torres, 80, Brazilian actor, voice-over artist, director and producer, husband of Fernanda Montenegro, emphysema. [248]
- Jerome Weber, 92, Canadian abbot of St. Peter-Muenster of Saskatchewan. [249]
- Abdulla Alishayev, Russian Dagestani journalist, shot. [250]
- Lalla Bahia, Moroccan royalty, third wife of Mohammed V. [251]
- Donald Blakeslee, 89, American Air Force officer. [252]
- Françoise Demulder, 61, French war photographer, heart attack. [253]
- Mark Guardado, 46, American mobster, President of Hells Angels San Francisco chapter, shot. [254]
- Michael Hammer, 60, American management theorist, cranial bleeding. [255]
- Earl Lunsford, 74, American Canadian Football League player (Calgary Stampeders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), Hall of Famer. [256]
- Ron Rivera, 60, American public health innovator, malaria. [257]
- May Shin, 91, Burmese actress and singer, pulmonary edema. [258]
- Pierre Van Dormael, 56, Belgian guitarist, cancer. [259]
- Géo Voumard, 87, Swiss composer and producer, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival. [260]
- Andreas Zeier Cappelen, 93, Norwegian politician and minister. [261] (Norwegian)
- Todd Cruz, 52, American Major League Baseball player. [262]
- Arne Domnérus, 83, Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist. [263]
- Joey Giardello, 78, American boxer, middleweight boxing champion (1963–1965), heart failure. [264]
- Abdullah al-Harari, 98, Ethiopian-born Lebanese scholar, founder of the Al-Ahbash movement, natural causes. [265]
- Bill Meléndez, 91, Mexican-born American animator (Peanuts). [266]
- Sir Denis Rooke, 84, British industrialist. [267]
- Thomas J. Bata, 93, Czech-born Canadian businessman (Bata Shoes). [268]
- Calvin Beale, 85, American demographer, colon cancer. [269]
- Ian Edward Fraser, 87, British recipient of the Victoria Cross. [270]
- Helen Galland, 83, American retail executive, president of Bonwit Teller (1980–1983), heart attack. [271]
- Kevin Heinze, 80, Australian pioneer gardening television presenter, heart attack. [272]
- Mel Ignatow, 70, American murderer, fall. [273]
- Carl Kaufmann, 72, German Olympic silver medallist (1960). [274]
- Sheldon Keller, 85, American comedy writer, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [275]
- Don LaFontaine, 68, American voice-over artist, complications from pneumothorax. [276]
- Henry Wako Muloki, 87, Ugandan Kyabazinga of Busoga since 1995, esophageal cancer. [277]
- Michael Pate, 88, Australian actor and writer, pneumonia. [278]
- Oded Schramm, 46, Israeli mathematician, fall. [279]
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