Deaths in September 2004

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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2004.

September 2004

1

• Johnny Bragg, 79, leader of The Prisonaires, one of earliest music groups to record for Sam Phillips and Sun Records.
• Herbert H. Haft, 84, owner of Dart Drugs Chain, congestive heart failure.
• Kenneth Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, life peer and former chairman of Rolls-Royce, Hill Samuel, Beecham Group, and STC.
• Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, the Grand Mufti of Syria.
• Sir Alastair Morton, 66, former chief executive of Eurotunnel and chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority.
• Gordon Parry, Baron Parry, 78, Welsh politician.

2

• Billy Davis, 72, commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke).
• Paul Shmyr, 58, former National Hockey League and World Hockey Association defenseman, throat cancer.
• Donald Leslie, 93, creator of the Leslie speaker.
• Bob O. Evans, 77, IBM computer scientist.
• Joan Oró i Florensa, 80, biochemist.

3

• Steven Blackford, 28, former University of Arizona wrestler, car accident.

4

• Bob Boyd, 84?, former Major League Baseball; first black player to sign with the Chicago White Sox, and first Baltimore Orioles to bat over .300 in the 20th century.
• Alphonso Ford, 33, American-born Euroleague player, leukemia.
• Michael Louden, 40, actor, autoerotic asphyxiation.
• Moe Norman, 75, PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure.
• James O. Page, 68, North Carolina's former chief of Emergency Medical Services and founder of modern emergency medical response, heart attack.

5

• Bruce Armstrong, 60, Australian football player.
• Fritha Goodey, 31, actress (About a Boy), apparent suicide.
• Gerald Merrithew, 73, New Brunswick, Canada politician and former federal cabinet minister, cancer.
• Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motoracer, killed during a race.
• Caroline Pratt, 42, British eventer, killed during a race
• Steve Wayne, 84, American actor.

6

• Elly Annie Schneider, 90, one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.
• Harvey Wheeler, 85, political scientist and author (Fail-Safe).

7

• Samira Bellil, 31, campaigner for Muslim girls' and women's rights, cancer.
• Ian Cochrane, 62, Northern Irish novelist.
• Kirk Fordice, 70, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia.
• Munir, 39, prominent Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic.
• Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, 89, Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist.
• Gerard Piel, 89, publisher of Scientific American, complications from a stroke.

8

• Frank Thomas, 91, Disney animator.
• Raymond Marcellin, 90, former Interior minister of France.
• Richard Girnt Butler, 86, founder of the Aryan Nations

9

• Ernie Ball, 74, guitar equipment maker.
• Donald R. Keith, 77, American army general.
• Thomas Kerr, 80, British aerospace engineer.
• Dhirendranath Mondal, 75, Indian cricketer.
• Jimmy Spence, 69, British ice hockey player.

10

• Brock Adams, 77, U.S. politician.
• Leonard Birchall, 89, Canadian Air Force officer.
• O.L. Duke, 51, actor, automobile crash.
• Jimmy Lewis, 66, American soul musician.
• Glyn Owen, 76, British actor.

11

• Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer.
• Fred Ebb, 71, Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack.
• David Mann, 64, American graphic artist.
• Peter VII, 55, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash.

12

• Max Abramovitz, 96, architect.
• Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djibouti politician, vice-president of the government council (1959–60) and prime minister (1977–78).
• John Buller, 77, British composer.
• Jerome Chodorov, 93, playwright, My Sister Eileen.

13

• Glenn Presnell, 99, early National Football League player with the Detroit Lions.

14

• Colin Griffiths, 73, English cricketer.
• John Seymour, 90, British self-sufficiency advocate.
• Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor.
• Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge.

15

• Nalda Bird, 77, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• Donald Yetter Gardner, 91, songwriter, All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.
• Daouda Malam Wanke, 50?, leader of the 1999 transitional government in Niger.
• Johnny Ramone, 55, guitarist and founding member of The Ramones, prostate cancer.

16

• Dolly Rathebe, South African musician.
• Izora Rhodes Armstead, American singer, one of the two members of The Weather Girls.
• Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet.

17

• Katharina Dalton, 87, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome.

18

• Norman Cantor, 74, medieval scholar.
• Russ Meyer, 82, filmmaker.
• Marvin Mitchelson, 76, divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer.
• Klara Rumyanova, 74, Russian actress.

19

• Eddie Adams, 71, photojournalist.
• Sir Stanley Clarke, 71, British businessman and philanthropist.
• Skeeter Davis, 73, country music singer.
• Robert Smith Johnston, Lord Kincraig, 85, Scottish jurist, Senator of the College of Justice (1972-1987).
• Ellis Marsalis, Sr., 96, patriarch of family of jazz musicians.
• Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder.
• Ryhor Reles, 91, the last writer from Belarus who wrote in Yiddish.

20

• Eugene Armstrong, 52, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.
• Brian Clough, 69, English footballer and cup-winning coach and manager.
• Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer and television journalist.

21

• Alan Beaumont, 69, Australian admiral, chief of Australian Defence Forces.
• Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.
• Larry Phillips, 62, stock car racer.

22

• Ray Traylor, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man.

23

• Roy Drusky, 74, Grand Ole Opry star and smooth countrypolitan stylist of the 1960s.
• Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, former editor of Ms. Magazine, feminist and civil rights advocate.
• Maurice Michael Stephens, 84, British World War II flying ace.
• André Hazes, 53, Dutch singer.
• Nigel Nicolson, 89, British politician.
• Billy Reay, 86, former National Hockey League player and coach for the Chicago Black Hawks.
• Raja Ramanna, 79, nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program.
• Bill Ballance, 85, radio personality; forerunner of shock jocks Tom Leykis and Howard Stern.

24

• Tim Choate, 49, actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident.
• Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist.

25

• Michael Davies, 68, British writer on Roman Catholicism.
• Marvin Davis, 79, philanthropist; ex-owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach.
• Alain Glavieux, 55, mathematician, information technology pioneer.
• Ma Chengyuan, 76, Chinese archarologist, president of Shanghai Museum. Suicide.

26

• Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida.
• Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb.
• Gladstone Mills, 84, Jamaican academic and public servant.

27

• John E. Mack, 74, American psychiatrist.
• Tsai Wan-lin, 81, Taiwan's wealthiest businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group.

28

• Geoffrey Beene, 77, fashion designer, pneumonia.
• Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author in English.
• Scott Muni, 74, longtime New York City radio disc jockey.

29

• Ernst van der Beugel, 86, former Dutch junior Foreign Minister and former CEO of KLM.
• Gertrude Dunn, 72, American women's baseball and field hockey player, plane crash.
• David Jackson, 49, New Zealand boxer.
• Christer Pettersson, 57, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.
• Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident.
• Shimon Wincelberg (also known as S. Bar David), 80, television writer.

30

• Jacques Levy, 69, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!.
• Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor.
• Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer.
• Justin Strzelczyk, 36, former National Football League Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase.
• Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician.