The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2004.
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 2004
1
* Johnny Bragg, 79, American leader of The Prisonaires, one of earliest music groups to record for
Sam Phillips
Samuel Cornelius Phillips (January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003) was an American record producer. He was the founder of Sun Records and Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where he produced recordings by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, ...
and
Sun Records
Sun Records is an American independent record label founded by producer Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee in February 1952. Sun was the first label to record Elvis Presley, Charlie Rich, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny ...
.
* Herbert H. Haft, 84, American owner of Dart Drugs Chain, congestive heart failure.
*
Kenneth Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre
Kenneth Alexander Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre (30 August 1916 – 1 September 2004) was a British businessman and banker.
Keith was invested as a Knight in 1969Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage,'' 107th edi ...
, 88, British life peer and former chairman of
Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce (always hyphenated) may refer to:
* Rolls-Royce Limited, a British manufacturer of cars and later aero engines, founded in 1906, now defunct
Automobiles
* Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, the current car manufacturing company incorporated in ...
Ahmed Kuftaro
Ahmed Kuftaro or Ahmad Kaftaru (Arabic: أحمد كفتارو; December 1915 – 1 September 2004) was the Grand Mufti of Syria, the highest officially appointed Sunni Muslim representative of the Fatwa-Administration in the Syrian Ministry of ...
, 89, Syrian
Grand Mufti
The Grand Mufti (also called Chief Mufti, State Mufti and Supreme Mufti) is the head of regional muftis, Islamic jurisconsults, of a state. The office originated in the early modern era in the Ottoman empire and has been later adopted in a num ...
Eurotunnel
Getlink, formerly Groupe Eurotunnel, is a European public company based in Paris that manages and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel between England and France, operates the Eurotunnel Shuttle train service, and earns revenue o ...
and chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority.
*
Gordon Parry, Baron Parry
Gordon Samuel David Parry, Baron Parry (usually Lord Parry) (30 November 1925 – 1 September 2004) was a Welsh Labour politician.
He was created a Life Peer as Baron Parry, of Neyland in the County of Dyfed on 21 January 1976 by the Prime Mi ...
, 78, Welsh politician.
2
* Billy Davis, 72, American songwriter, record producer, singer and commercial jingle writer (''I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke'').
* Bob O. Evans, 77, American IBM computer scientist.
* Donald Leslie, 93, American creator of the Leslie speaker.
* Joan Oró i Florensa, 80, Spanish biochemist.
* Alan Preston, 71, New Zealand footballer and cricketer.
*
Brian Scarlett
Brian Scarlett (11 July 1938–2 September 2004) was a British academic noted for his contributions to particle technology
Life
Scarlett was born 11 July 1938 in Biddulph, Staffordshire, England.Davies, R,. (2004) Particles & Particle Syste ...
, 66, British physicist.
*
Paul Shmyr
Paul Shmyr (January 18, 1946 – September 2, 2004) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) and National Hockey League (NHL).
Playing career
Shmyr was one of the top defensive stars in th ...
, 58, Canadian former National Hockey League and World Hockey Association defenseman, throat cancer.
* Rose Slivka, 85, American writer, critic and editor, and a major figure in the advancement of crafts as a serious artistic discipline.
3
*
Steven Blackford
Steven Allen Blackford (August 1, 1976 – September 3, 2004) was a three-time NCAA All-American and two-time Pac-10 Champion wrestler for Arizona State University. He was a 1996 graduate of WDM Dowling and was an individual 2x state champion.
Ri ...
, 28, American former University of Arizona wrestler, car accident.
* Jozef Desiatnik, 60, Slovak footballer.
*
Yanis Kanidis
Yanis Kanidis ( el, Γιάννης Κανίδης, russian: Иван Константинович Каниди, Ivan Constantinovich Kanidi; January 1, 1930 – September 3, 2004) was a Russian physical education teacher, born in Georgia of ...
, 74, Russian physical education teacher, killed by Chechen extremists.
* Frenchy Uhalt, 94, American baseball player (
Chicago White Sox
The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The White Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is owned by Jerry Reinsdorf, and ...
).
4
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Samira Bellil
Samira Bellil (24 November 1972 – 4 September 2004) was a French feminist activist and a campaigner for the rights of girls and women.
Bellil became famous in France with the publication of her autobiographical book ''Dans l'enfer des tournante ...
, 31, French feminist activist, campaigner for Muslim girls' and women's rights, stomach cancer.
*
Alphonso Ford
Alphonso Gene Ford (October 31, 1971 – September 4, 2004) was an American professional basketball player. A 1.92 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, 98 kg (216 lbs.) shooting guard, he was one of the greatest scorers in college basketball histo ...
brain aneurysm
An intracranial aneurysm, also known as a brain aneurysm, is a cerebrovascular disorder in which weakness in the wall of a cerebral artery or vein causes a localized dilation or ballooning of the blood vessel.
Aneurysms in the posterior circ ...
.
*
Moe Norman
Murray Irwin "Moe" Norman (July 10, 1929 – September 4, 2004) was a Canadian professional golfer whose accuracy and ability to hit shot after shot perfectly straight gave him the nickname "Pipeline Moe". During his career Norman won 55 tourname ...
Canadian Tour
PGA Tour Canada, commonly referred to as the Canadian Tour, is a men's professional golf tour headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The United States based PGA Tour took over operation of the tour on November 1, 2012, at which time it was renamed PG ...
golfer, congestive heart failure.
* James O. Page, 68, American former chief of Emergency Medical Services and founder of modern emergency medical response, heart attack.
* Caroline Pratt, 42, British equestrian
eventer
Eventing (also known as three day eventing or horse trials) is an equestrian event where a single horse and rider combine and compete against other competitors across the three disciplines of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This ...
, killed during a race
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Bruce Armstrong
Bruce Charles Armstrong (born September 7, 1965) is an American former football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) from 1987 to 2000, playing all 14 seasons with the New England Patriots. He was draf ...
, 60, Australian football player.
*
Gerald Merrithew
Gerald Stairs "Gerry" Merrithew (September 23, 1931 – September 5, 2004), born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, was an educator, provincial and federal politician, and statesman.
Merrithew graduated from the New Brunswick Teachers' Col ...
, 73, Canadian politician and former federal cabinet minister, cancer.
* Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motoracer, killed during a race.
*
Gerard Piel
Gerard Piel (1 March 1915 in Woodmere, N.Y. – 5 September 2004) was the publisher of the new Scientific American magazine starting in 1948. He wrote for magazines, including ''The Nation'', and published books on science for the general p ...
, 89, American science writer and editor (
Scientific American
''Scientific American'', informally abbreviated ''SciAm'' or sometimes ''SA'', is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it. In print since 1845, it ...
Antonio Corpora
Antonio Corpora (1909–2004) was a Tunisian born Italian painter who followed the Tachisme style of Abstract art.
Corpora was born in Tunis, Tunisia on 15 August 1909 to Sicilian parents. He trained at the Tunis Institute of Fine Arts under ...
, 95, Tunisian born Italian painter.
* Elly Annie Schneider, 90, American dwarf actress, one of the
Munchkins
A Munchkin is a native of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum. They first appear in the classic children's novel ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' (1900) where they welcome Dorothy Gale to their city in ...
Morey Leonard Sear
Morey Leonard Sear (February 26, 1929 – September 6, 2004) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Education and career
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Sear received a Jur ...
, 75, American judge (
United States district judge
The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary. There is one district court for each federal judicial district, which each cover one U.S. state or, in some cases, a portion of a state. Each district cou ...
of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (in case citations, E.D. La.) is a United States federal court based in New Orleans.
Appeals from the Eastern District of Louisiana are taken to the United States Court of A ...
).
*
Harvey Wheeler
John Harvey Wheeler (October 17, 1918 – September 6, 2004) was an American author, political scientist, and scholar. He was best known as co-author with Eugene Burdick of ''Fail-Safe'' (1962), an early Cold War novel that depicted what could ...
, 85, American political scientist and author (''
Fail-Safe
In engineering, a fail-safe is a design feature or practice that in the event of a specific type of failure, inherently responds in a way that will cause minimal or no harm to other equipment, to the environment or to people. Unlike inherent safe ...
'').
7
* Bob Boyd, 84, American former Major League Baseball player, first black player to sign with the
Chicago White Sox
The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The White Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is owned by Jerry Reinsdorf, and ...
.
*
Kirk Fordice
Daniel Kirkwood "Kirk" Fordice Jr. () (February 10, 1934 – September 7, 2004), was an American politician and businessman who served as the 61st Governor of Mississippi from 1992 to 2000. He was the first Republican governor of the stat ...
, 70, American politician, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia.
* Fritha Goodey, 31, British actress ('' About a Boy''), suicide.
* Seppo Irjala, 66, Finnish sports shooter.
*
Beyers Naudé
Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé (10 May 1915 – 7 September 2004) was a South African Afrikaner Calvinist Dominee, theologian and the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist. He was known simply as Beyers Naudé, or more colloquially, ...
, 89, South African theologian and anti-apartheid activist.
*
Hal Reniff
Harold Eugene Reniff (July 2, 1938 – September 7, 2004) was an American professional baseball player. The right-handed relief pitcher appeared in Major League Baseball for all or parts of seven seasons, from to , almost exclusively as a member ...
, 66, American baseball player (
New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one of ...
,
New York Mets
The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens. The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East division. They are one of two major league ...
).
*
Munir Said Thalib
Munir Said Thalib (8 December 1965 – 7 September 2004) was an Indonesian activist. Founder of the Kontras human rights organisation and laureate of the 2000 Right Livelihood Award, Munir was assassinated in 2004 while travelling to Utrecht ...
, 38, Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic.
* Ian Cochrane, 62, Northern Irish novelist.
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Richard Girnt Butler
Richard Girnt Butler (February 23, 1918 – September 8, 2004) was an American engineer and white supremacist. After dedicating himself to the Christian Identity movement, a racialist offshoot of British Israelism, Butler founded the neo-Na ...
, 86, American aerospace engineer, white supremacist, founder of the Aryan Nations
*
Mohammad Jusuf
Andi Mohammad Jusuf Amir (23 June 1928 – 8 September 2004), more commonly known as M. Jusuf, was an Indonesian military general and a witness to the signing of the Supersemar document transferring power from President Sukarno to General Suhar ...
, 76, Indonesian military general
*
Raymond Marcellin
Raymond Marcellin (19 August 1914 in Sézanne, Marne – 8 September 2004) was a French politician.
Biography
The son of a banker, he studied law at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Paris. He worked as a lawyer for three ye ...
, 90, French politician,
Minister of the Interior
An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...
(1968–1974)
* Frank Thomas, 91, American animator (''
Cinderella
"Cinderella",; french: link=no, Cendrillon; german: link=no, Aschenputtel) or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsi ...
'', ''
Bambi
''Bambi'' is a 1942 American animated drama film directed by David Hand (supervising a team of sequence directors), produced by Walt Disney and based on the 1923 book ''Bambi, a Life in the Woods'' by Austrian author and hunter Felix Salten ...
'', ''
Lady and the Tramp
''Lady and the Tramp'' is a 1955 American animated musical romance film produced by Walt Disney and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution. The 15th Disney animated feature film, it was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and ...
'').
*
James Westphal
James Adolph Westphal (June 13, 1930 – September 8, 2004) was an American academic, scientist, engineer, inventor and astronomer and Director of Caltech's Palomar Observatory from 1994 through 1997.Danielson, G. Edward "Obituary: James Adol ...
, 74, American scientist, engineer, and astronomer.
9
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Ernie Ball
Ernie Ball (born Roland Sherwood Ball; August 30, 1930 – September 9, 2004) was an American entrepreneur and musician who developed guitar-related products. Ball began as a club and local television musician and entrepreneur, building an inte ...
, 74, American guitar equipment maker.
*
Rose Gacioch
Rose M. Gacioch (; August 31, 1915 – September 9, 2004) was a right fielder and pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.AAGPBL).
* 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.
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Brock Adams
Brockman Adams (January 13, 1927 – September 10, 2004) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of Congress. A Democrat from Washington, Adams served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and United States Secretary of Trans ...
, 77, American politician.
*
Leonard Birchall
Air Commodore Leonard Joseph Birchall, (6 July 1915 – 10 September 2004), "The Saviour of Ceylon", was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) officer who warned of a Japanese attack on the island of Ceylon during the Second World War.
Early life
Bi ...
, 89, Canadian Air Force officer.
*
O. L. Duke
Orville Lewis Duke (August 12, 1953
– September 10, 2004) was an American stage, television and film actor.
He was a member of the renowned Actors Studio and was the interim Artistic Director of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) from 2002 to ...
, 51, American actor (''
Malcolm X
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of I ...
'', ''
Antwone Fisher
Antwone Quenton Fisher (born August 3, 1959) is an American director, screenwriter, author, and film producer.
His 2001 autobiographical book '' Finding Fish'' was a ''New York Times'' Best Seller. The 2002 film '' Antwone Fisher'' was writt ...
Glyn Owen
Glyn Griffith Owen (6 March 1928 – 10 September 2004) was a Welsh stage, television and film actor, perhaps best known to British TV viewers for three roles: that of Dr Patrick O'Meara in ''Emergency Ward 10'' (ITV, 1957–61), Edward Hamm ...
, 76, British actor (''
Emergency – Ward 10
''Emergency Ward 10'' is a British medical soap opera series shown on ITV between 1957 and 1967. Like ''The Grove Family'', a series shown by the BBC between 1954 and 1957, ''Emergency Ward 10'' is considered to be one of British television's ...
'', ''
Howards' Way
''Howards' Way'' is a television drama series produced by BBC Birmingham and transmitted on BBC1 between 1 September 1985 and 25 November 1990. The series deals with the personal and professional lives of the wealthy yachting and business comm ...
'').
11
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Juraj Beneš
Juraj Beneš (2 March 1940 in Trnava, Slovak State – 11 September 2004 in Bratislava, Slovakia) was a Slovak composer, teacher, and pianist.
He graduated from the university called Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU) and was a p ...
, 64, Slovak composer.
*
Fred Ebb
Fred Ebb (April 8, 1928 – September 11, 2004) was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Riv ...
, 71, American Broadway lyricist (''
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining o ...
'', ''
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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''), heart attack.
* Jimmy Lewis, 66, American soul musician.
* David Mann, 64, American graphic artist.
* Peter VII, 55, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash.
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Max Abramovitz
Max Abramovitz (May 23, 1908 – September 12, 2004) was an American architect. He was best known for his work with the New York City firm Harrison & Abramovitz.
Life
Abramovitz was the son of Romanian Jewish immigrant parents. He graduate ...
, 96, American architect.
* Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djiboutian politician, vice-president of the government council (1959–60) and prime minister (1977–78).
* John Buller, 77, British composer.
*
Jerome Chodorov
Jerome Chodorov (August 10, 1911 – September 12, 2004) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. He co-wrote the book with Joseph A. Fields for the original Broadway musical ''Wonderful Town'' starring Rosalind Russell. The musi ...
, 93, American playwright, ''
My Sister Eileen
''My Sister Eileen'' is a series of autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney, originally published in ''The New Yorker'', which eventually inspired many other works: her 1938 book ''My Sister Eileen'', a play, a musical, a radio play (a ...
''.
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Bill Glassco
William Grant Glassco, (August 30, 1935 – September 13, 2004) was a Canadian theatre director, producer, translator and founder of Toronto's Tarragon Theatre.
Born in Quebec City, Quebec, he studied at the University of Toronto, Princeton ...
, 69, Canadian theatre director and producer.
*
Luis E. Miramontes
Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas (March 16, 1925 – September 13, 2004) was a Mexican chemist known as the co-inventor of the progestin norethisterone used in one of the first three oral contraceptives.
Miramontes was born in Tepic, Nayarit ...
, 79, Mexican chemist.
*
Glenn Presnell
Glenn Emery "Press" Presnell (July 28, 1905 – September 13, 2004) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He set the NFL single-season scoring record in 1933 and led the league in total offense. He was the ...
, 99, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator, early NFL player with the Detroit Lions.
*
Eric Sams
Eric Sams (3 May 1926 – 13 September 2004) was a British musicologist and Shakespeare scholar.
Life
Born in London, Sams was raised in Essex. His early brilliance in school ( Westcliff High School for Boys) earned him a scholarship to Cor ...
, 78, British musicologist and Shakespeare scholar.
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* Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, American judge, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge.
*
Colin Griffiths
Colin Griffiths (born 16 August 1983) is an English comedian, DJ, VJ and writer. He is most famous for his work as host of the MTV show ''Up, Up, Down, Down...'', the flagship program of MTV Flux which has also aired on TMF UK and MTV UK a ...
, 73, English cricketer.
* Richard Pierce, 86, American historian and scholar, specialized in the Russian era of Alaska.
*
Christopher Prior
Christopher Prior, Order of the Bath, CB (2 July 1912 – 14 September 2004) was an eminent Anglican priest: Chaplain of the Fleet from 1966 to 1969 and Archdeacon of Portsmouth from then to 1977.
Born on 2 July 1912, he was educated at Keble Co ...
, 92, British Anglican priest,
Chaplain of the Fleet
The Royal Navy Chaplaincy Service provides chaplains to the Royal Navy. The chaplains are commissioned by the Sovereign but do not hold military rank other than that of "Chaplain Royal Navy". They are usually addressed as Padre, Reverend or more ...
and
Archdeacon of Portsmouth
The archdeacons in the Diocese of Portsmouth are senior ecclesiastical officers in the Church of England in south-east Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. They currently include: the archdeacon of The Meon, the archdeacon of the Isle of Wight and the ...
.
* John Seymour, 90, British self-sufficiency advocate.
*
Ove Sprogøe
Ove Wendelboe Sprogøe Petersen (21 December 1919 – 14 September 2004) was a Danish actor.
Life
Born in Odense, his parents were Arthur and Inger Sprogøe Petersen. He married Eva Rasmussen in 1945, with whom he had three children. O ...
Bernard Gribble
Bernard Gribble (15 May 1927 – 15 September 2004) was a British film editor who, between 1948 and 2003, worked on nearly a hundred theatrical and made-for-TV films.
Gribble was nominated for ACE Eddie Awards for the editing of two episodes o ...
, 77, British film editor (''
Top Secret!
''Top Secret!'' is a 1984 American action comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker ( ZAZ). It stars Val Kilmer (in his film debut role) and Lucy Gutteridge alongside a supporting cast featuring Omar Shari ...
The Jokers
''The Jokers'' is a 1967 British comedy film written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and directed by Michael Winner. The film stars Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed as brothers who hatch a plot to steal the Crown Jewels.
Very much of i ...
'').
* Daouda Malam Wanke, 58, Nigerien military and political leader, leader of the 1999 transitional government in Niger.
* Johnny Ramone, 55, American guitarist (
The Ramones
The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first true punk rock group. Despite achieving a limited commercial appeal in the United S ...
), prostate cancer.
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Virginia Hamilton Adair
Virginia Hamilton Adair (February 28, 1913, New York City – September 16, 2004, Claremont, California) was an American poet who became famous later in life with the 1996 publication of ''Ants on the Melon''.
Background
Mary Virginia Hamilton wa ...
, 91, American poet.
* Izora Rhodes Armstead, 62, American singer, one of the two members of
The Weather Girls
The Weather Girls are an American female duo whose best-known line-up comprised Martha Wash and Izora Armstead. Formed in 1976 in San Francisco, California, The Weather Girls members began their musical career as Two Tons O' Fun, the female back ...
.
*
Michael Donaghy
Michael Donaghy (May 24, 1954 – September 16, 2004) was a New York City poet and musician, who lived in London from 1985.
Life and career
Donaghy was born into an Irish family and grew up with his sister Patricia in the Bronx, New York, lo ...
, 50, American poet and musician.
*
Dolly Rathebe
Dolly Rathebe ( OIS) (2 April 1928 – 16 September 2004) was a South African musician and actress who performed with the Elite Swingsters jazz band, and in Alf Herbert's ''African Jazz and Variety Show''.
Rathebe died on 16 September 2004 f ...
Katharina Dalton
Katharina Dalton (11 November 1916 – 17 September 2004) was a British physician and pioneer in the research of premenstrual stress syndrome (PMS), coining the term, treating many women and testifying as an expert witness in influential court c ...
, 87, British physician, pioneered research on
premenstrual stress syndrome
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) refers to emotional and physical symptoms that regularly occur in the one to two weeks before the start of each menstrual period. Symptoms resolve around the time menstrual bleeding begins. Different women experienc ...
.
* William Mulvihill, 81, American author, pancreatic cancer.
* Evi Rauer, 88, Estonian actress and television director.
*
H. S. Rawail
Harnam Singh Rawail (21 August 1921 – 17 September 2004), often credited as H. S. Rawail, was an Indian filmmaker. He debuted as a director with the 1940 Bollywood film ''Dorangia Daku'' and is best known for romantic films like ''Mere M ...
, 83, Indian filmmaker.
* Galina Rumiantseva, 77, Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist.
*
Edmund Shea
Edmund Shea (August 15, 1942 – September 17, 2004) was an American photographer based in San Francisco.
Shea's work is featured on book covers, including works by Richard Brautigan and Hunter S. Thompson, and record album covers for music by ...
, 62, American photographer based in San Francisco,
metastatic
Metastasis is a pathogenic agent's spread from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host's body; the term is typically used when referring to metastasis by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, then, ...
Norman Cantor
Norman Frank Cantor (November 19, 1929 – September 18, 2004) was a Canadian-American historian who specialized in the medieval period. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely rea ...
, 74, Canadian-American medieval scholar.
*
Russ Meyer
Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 – September 18, 2004) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor. He is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful sexploitation films that fea ...
, 82, American filmmaker.
* Marvin Mitchelson, 76, American divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer.
*
Klara Rumyanova
Klara Mikhailovna Rumyanova (russian: link=no, Кла́ра Миха́йловна Румя́нова; 8 December 1929 – 18 September 2004) was a Soviet and Russian actress, voice actress and singer. She was active from 1951 to 1999.
Her child ...
, 74, Soviet and Russian actress and voice actress.
Skeeter Davis
Skeeter Davis (born Mary Frances Penick; December 30, 1931September 19, 2004) was an American country music singer and songwriter who sang crossover pop music songs including 1962's " The End of the World". She started out as part of the Davis S ...
, 73, American country music singer.
*
Robert Smith Johnston, Lord Kincraig
Hon. Lord (Robert Smith Johnston) Kincraig (10 October 1918 – 19 September 2004) was a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland from 1972 to 1987; chairman, Parole Review Body for Scotland, 1988.
Early life
Robert Smith Johnston was educa ...
Yiddish
Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ve ...
.
*
Derald Ruttenberg
Derald H. Ruttenberg (17 February 1916 – 19 September 2004) was a lawyer who became a deal maker, organizing large industrial mergers. He arranged the merger of Studebaker and Worthington Corporation, and for some time ran the combined Stud ...
, 88, American investor and industrialist (merged Studebaker and
Worthington Corporation
The Worthington Corporation was a diversified American manufacturer that had its roots in Worthington and Baker, a steam pump manufacturer founded in 1845. In 1967 it merged with Studebaker and Wagner Electric to form Studebaker-Worthington. This ...
into
Studebaker-Worthington
Studebaker-Worthington was a diversified American manufacturer created in 1967 through a merger of Studebaker-Packard Corporation, Wagner Electric and Worthington Corporation. The company was in turn acquired by McGraw-Edison in 1979.
Origins
F ...
.
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Eugene Armstrong
Members of the Iraqi insurgency began taking foreign hostages in Iraq beginning in April 2004. Since then, in a dramatic instance of Islamist kidnapping they have taken captive more than 200 foreigners and thousands of Iraqis; among them, dozens o ...
, 52, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.
* Horst Baeseler, 74, German architect.
*
Brian Clough
Brian Howard Clough ( ; 21 March 1935 – 20 September 2004) was an English football player and manager, primarily known for his successes as a manager with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. He is one of four managers to have won the Engl ...
, 69, English footballer and cup-winning coach and manager.
* Pat Hanly, 72, New Zealand painter,
Huntington's disease
Huntington's disease (HD), also known as Huntington's chorea, is a neurodegenerative disease that is mostly inherited. The earliest symptoms are often subtle problems with mood or mental abilities. A general lack of coordination and an uns ...
.
* Bill Shortt, 83, Welsh footballer.
* Gerry Teifer, 82, American songwriter, music publisher and entertainer.
* Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer and television journalist.
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Alan Beaumont
Admiral Alan Lee Beaumont, (24 December 1934 – 21 September 2004) was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy, whose career culminated with his appointment as Chief of the Defence Force from 1993 to 1995.
Early life
Alan Lee Beaumont ...
, 69, Australian admiral, chief of Australian Defence Forces.
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Jack Hensley
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, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.
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Robert Hungate
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Early life
Hungate was born on March 2, 1906 in Cheney, WA, ...
, 98, American microbiologist.
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David Pall
David Boris Pall (2 April 1914 – 21 September 2004), founder of Pall Corporation, was the chemist who invented the Pall filter used in blood transfusions.
Education
Born in 1914 in Thunder Bay, Ontario of Russian immigrant parents, he grew up o ...
, 90, Canadian-American chemist, invented sophisticated filters used in
blood transfusion
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Edward Larrabee Barnes
Edward Larrabee Barnes (April 22, 1915 – September 22, 2004) was an American architect. His work was characterized by the "fusing fModernism with vernacular architecture and understated design." Barnes was best known for his adherence to st ...
, 89, American architect.
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Cy Block
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Pete Schoening
Peter Kittilsby Schoening (July 30, 1927 – September 22, 2004) was an American mountaineer. Schoening and Andrew Kauffman was two Americans to first successfully climb the Pakistani peak Gasherbrum I in 1958, and was one of the first to summit M ...
, 77, American mountaineer legend.
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Ray Traylor
Ray Washington Traylor Jr. (May 2, 1963 – September 22, 2004) was an American professional wrestler best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring name Big Boss Man, as well as for his appearances with ...
, 42, American professional wrestler known as ''The Big Boss Man''.
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Bill Ballance
Willis Bennett Ballance (October 27, 1918 – September 23, 2004) was an American radio talk show host.
Ballance was born in Peoria, Illinois, and studied journalism at the University of Illinois before serving in the United States Marines., R ...
, 85, American radio personality, forerunner of ''shock jocks''
Tom Leykis
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* Tom Beck, a character ...
and
Howard Stern
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Roy Drusky
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, 74, American country music singer, Grand Ole Opry star and smooth countrypolitan stylist of the 1960s.
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André Hazes
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, 53, Dutch singer.
*
Nigel Nicolson
Nigel Nicolson (19 January 1917 – 23 September 2004) was an English writer, publisher and politician.
Early life and education
Nicolson was the second son of writers Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West; he had an elder brother Ben ...
, 89, British politician.
*
Bülent Oran
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, 80, Turkish screenwriter and actor.
* Billy Reay, 86, Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, former NHL player and coach for the
Chicago Black Hawks
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Margaret Sloan-Hunter
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Margaret Sloan-Hunter was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on May 31 ...
, 57, American feminist and civil rights advocate, former editor of
Ms. Magazine
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Abu Taher
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, 72, Bangladeshi banker and politician.
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Tim Choate
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Choate was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, the son ...
, 49, American actor (''
Babylon 5
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''), motorcycle accident.
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Raja Ramanna
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Having joined the nuclear program in 1964, Ramanna worked under Homi Jeha ...
, 79, Indian nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program.
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Françoise Sagan
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, 69, French novelist and playwright.
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Roman Tsepov
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, 42, Russian businessman and confidant to
Vladimir Putin
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, poisoned.
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Ron Willey
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, 74, Australian rugby player and coach.
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* Michael Davies, 68, British writer on Roman Catholicism.
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Marvin Davis
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, 79, American industrialist and philanthropist, ex-owner of
Twentieth Century Fox
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and
Pebble Beach
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.
* Alain Glavieux, 55, French mathematician, information technology pioneer.
*
Ma Chengyuan
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, 76, Chinese archaeologist, president of Shanghai Museum. Suicide.
Toronto Blue Jays
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,
Cleveland Indians
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Marianna Komlos
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, 35, Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model and professional wrestler, breast cancer.
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Gladstone Mills
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Early life
Born in Clarendon, Jam ...
, 84, Jamaican academic and public servant.
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Philip H. Sechzer Philip H. Sechzer (September 13, 1914 – September 26, 2004) was a pioneer in anesthesiology and pain management. He was the inventor of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), now commonly used post-operatively. Sechzer graduated from New York's Stuy ...
, 90, American pioneer in
anesthesiology
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and pain management, known as the inventor of
patient-controlled analgesia
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Shobha Gurtu
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, 79, Indian singer.
* John E. Mack, 74, American psychiatrist and writer, killed by a drunken driver.
* Kishen Pattnaik, 74, Indian social leader, author and activist.
*
Louis Satterfield
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, 67, American bass and trombone player.
*Dick Stenberg, 83, Swedish Air Force lieutenant general.
*Tsai Wan-lin, 80, Taiwanese businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group.
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*Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author.
*Geoffrey Beene, 77, American fashion designer, pneumonia.
*Carl Berntsen, 91, Danish Olympic sailor
*Scott Muni, 74, American radio disc jockey.
*Vytautas Valius, 74, Lithuanian painter and graphic designer.
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*Ernst van der Beugel, 86, Dutch economist, businessman, diplomat and politician, former Dutch junior Foreign Minister and former CEO of KLM.
*Gertrude Dunn, 70, American women's baseball and field hockey player, plane crash.
*David Jackson (New Zealand boxer), David Jackson, 49, New Zealand boxer.
*Christer Pettersson, 57, Swedish criminal, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.
*Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident.
*Shimon Wincelberg, (aka S. Bar David), 80, American television writer.
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*Jacques Levy, 69, American songwriter, theatre director and clinical psychologist, director of original production of ''Oh! Calcutta!''.
*Iggie Wolfington, Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor.
*Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer.
*Michael Relph, 89, English film producer, art director and film director (nominated for Academy Award for Best Production Design for ''Saraband for Dead Lovers, Saraband'').
*Justin Strzelczyk, 36, American football offensive tackle, former National Football League Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase.
*Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician.
References
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Lists of deaths in 2004, 09