Deaths in September 2017

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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2017.

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), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.

Video Deaths in September 2017

September 2017

1

• S. Anitha, 17, Indian student, suicide by hanging.
• Armando Aste, 91, Italian alpinist.
• Shelley Berman, 92, American comedian and actor (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Meet the Fockers, You Don't Mess with the Zohan), Alzheimer's disease.
• Vladimír Brabec, 83, Czech actor (Thirty Cases of Major Zeman, Desire, Náv?t?vníci).
• Jackie Burkett, 80, American football player (Baltimore Colts), leukemia.
• Jérôme Choquette, 89, Canadian lawyer and politician, MNA (1966-1976), pneumonia.
• Verner Dalskov, 85, Danish politician, mayor of Odense (1973-1992).
• Ralph Dellor, 69, British cricketer and broadcaster, sepsis.
• Isaac Fulwood, 77, American police officer, District of Columbia police chief (1989-1992).
• Bud George, 89, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1975-2013).
• Charles Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond, 87, British peer.
• Tony Hakaoro, Cook Islands broadcaster and radio talk show host (Radio Cook Islands).
• Hedley Jones, 99, Jamaican musician, audio engineer and inventor.
• Alex Karczmar, 100, American neuroscientist.
• Elizabeth Kemp, 65, American actress (Love of Life, Challenger, He Knows You're Alone), cancer.
• Matthew Labine, 58, American soap opera writer (General Hospital).
• Peadar Lamb, 87, Irish actor (Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, Father Ted).
• Paul Moreno, 86, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1967-2008).
• Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, 85, English Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Arundel and Brighton (1977-2000) and Westminster (2000-2009).
• Theodore J. Narozanick, 96, American politician, mayor of Englishtown, New Jersey (1954-1966).
• Paul Schaal, 74, American baseball player (Los Angeles Angels, Kansas City Royals), cancer.
• Rick Shorter, 80s, American folk singer, record producer and author, stroke.
• Mick Softley, 77, British singer, songwriter and guitarist.
• ?tefan Vrablec, 92, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Bratislava (1998-2004).
• Gin D. Wong, 94, Chinese-born American architect.

2

• Shirish Atre-Pai, 87, Indian poet.
• Marge Calhoun, 91, American surfer.
• Viktor Cherepkov, 75, Russian politician, mayor of Vladivostok (1993-1994, 1996-1998), cancer.
• Eric Conn, 94, American biochemist.
• Halim El-Dabh, 96, Egyptian-born American composer and ethnomusicologist.
• Sybil Flory, 97, Burmese-born British teacher.
• Murray Lerner, 90, American documentarian and producer, Oscar winner (1981), kidney failure.
• María Cristina Orive, 86, Guatemalan photojournalist.
• Hugo Obwegeser, 96, Austrian oral and plastic surgeon, father of modern orthognathic surgery.
• Ian Powe, 84, British naval officer.
• Michael Simanowitz, 46, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (since 2011).
• Lucky Varela, 82, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1987-2016).
• Drew Wahlroos, 37, American football player (St. Louis Rams), suicide by gunshot.
• Xiang Shouzhi, 99, Chinese general, commander of the Nanjing Military Region (1982-1990) and the Second Artillery Corps (1975-1977).

3

• Tom Amundsen, 74, Norwegian rower.
• John Ashbery, 90, American poet (Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror) and art critic, Pulitzer Prize winner (1976).
• Walter Becker, 67, American Hall of Fame musician (Steely Dan), songwriter and producer, Grammy winner (2001), esophageal cancer.
• William Clauson, 87, Swedish-American singer.
• Joan Colom, 96, Spanish photographer.
• John Byrne Cooke, 76, American author and musician, throat cancer.
• Roberto Hernandez Jr., 79, Mexican journalist and sportscaster.
• Dave Hlubek, 66, American guitarist and songwriter (Molly Hatchet), heart attack.
• Victor Krasin, 88, Ukrainian-born Russian human rights activist, economist and Soviet dissident.
• Piet Ouderland, 84, Dutch footballer (Ajax, national team) and basketball player (national team).
• Sugar Ramos, 75, Cuban-Mexican Hall of Fame boxer, WBA/WBC featherweight champion (1963-1964), cancer.
• Larrington Walker, 70, Jamaican-born British actor (Taboo).
• John P. White, 80, American politician, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense (1995-1997), Parkinson's disease.

4

• Sultan Ahmed, 64, Indian politician, MP for Entally (since 2009), heart attack.
• Badih Chaaban, 57, South African politician, Cape Town city councilor (2006-2015), cancer.
• Don Cockburn, 87, Irish journalist, presenter and newsreader (RTÉ).
• David Consunji, 95, Filipino engineer and industrialist.
• Mountaga Diallo, 74-75, Senegalese diplomat and army officer, Force Commander of MONUSCO (2000-2004), Ambassador to Russia (since 2005).
• Bob Kehoe, 89, American soccer player.
• Jomde Kena, 49, Indian politician.
• John Wilson Lewis, 86, American political scientist.
• Earl Lindo, 64, Jamaican reggae musician (Bob Marley and the Wailers).
• Lev Lipatov, 77, Russian nuclear and particle physicist.
• Les McDonald, 84, British-Canadian triathlon competitor and administrator.
• Harry Meshel, 93, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate (1970-1993).
• Gastone Moschin, 88, Italian actor (The Godfather Part II, Caliber 9, My Friends), cardiomyopathy.
• José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco, 96, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tuxtla (1965-1988) and San Juan de los Lagos (1988-1999), respiratory complications.
• Abdullah Maute, Filipino Islamist militant (Maute group), killed in an airstrike. (death announced this date.)

5

• Eloísa Álvarez, 61, Spanish politician, Mayor of Soria (1999-2003), Deputy (2004-2011) and Senator for Soria (2011-2015).
• Nicolaas Bloembergen, 97, Dutch-American physicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1981).
• Holger Czukay, 79, German musician (Can).
• Cedric Hassall, 97, New Zealand chemist.
• Robert Jenson, 87, American theologian.
• Mike Lair, 71, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (2009-2016), heart disease.
• Gauri Lankesh, 55, Indian journalist and political activist, shot.
• Ma Kwang-soo, 66, South Korean author.
• Gina Mason, 57, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives (since 2017).
• Arno Rink, 76, German painter.
• Hansford Rowe, 93, American actor (Three Days of the Condor, Dante's Peak, The Bonfire of the Vanities), traffic collision.
• Bo Södersten, 86, Swedish professor and politician, MP (1979-1988).
• Sir Terence Streeton, 87, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Bangladesh (1983-1989).
• Tom Wright, 93, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox).

6

• Derek Bourgeois, 75, English composer, cancer.
• Sir Robert Bruce-Gardner, 74, British art conservator.
• Carlo Caffarra, 79, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio (1995-2003) and Bologna (2003-2015).
• Raúl Castañeda, 34, Mexican Olympic boxer (2004), shot.
• Daniel Federman, 89, American medical researcher.
• Walter Guralnick, 100, American dentist.
• Rosa Judge, 97, Maltese musician.
• Peter Luck, 73, Australian journalist and television presenter (This Day Tonight), Parkinson's disease.
• Nicolae Lupescu, 76, Romanian football player (Rapid Bucure?ti, Admira Wacker Wien, national team) and manager.
• ?erif Mardin, 90, Turkish sociologist.
• Jim McDaniels, 69, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics, Los Angeles Lakers, Buffalo Braves), complications from diabetes.
• Eleanore Mikus, 90, American artist.
• Kate Millett, 82, American feminist writer (Sexual Politics), cardiac arrest.
• Mike Neville, 80, British television presenter (BBC North East and Cumbria, ITV Tyne Tees), cancer.
• Noel Picard, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Atlanta Flames).
• Solomon Efimovich Shulman, 81, Belarusian writer and film director.
• Dimitris Varos, 68, Greek journalist and poet.
• Hugo Wathne, 84, Norwegian sculptor.
• Lotfi A. Zadeh, 96, Azerbaijani-born American mathematician, innovator of fuzzy mathematics.

7

• Türkân Akyol, 88, Turkish politician, physician and academic, Minister of Health and Social Security (1971) and rector of University of Ankara (1980-1982).
• Jeremiah Goodman, 94, American illustrator.
• Terence Harvey, 72, British actor (Hollyoaks, From Hell, The Phantom of the Opera), cancer.
• Mike Hicks, 80, British politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party (1988-1998).
• Tsunenori Kawai, 80, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors (since 2004).
• Kim Ki-duk, 82, South Korean film director (Five Marines) and professor (Seoul Institute of the Arts), lung cancer.
• Mark P. Mahon, 87, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1993-1998).
• Gene Michael, 79, American baseball player, manager and executive (New York Yankees), World Series winner (1978), heart attack.
• Charles Owens, 85, American golfer.
• Jeanne Robert, 103, French WWII resistance member.
• Roger Gordon Strand, 83, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (1985-2000).
• Tomás Villanueva, 64, Spanish politician, Vice President of Castile and León region (2001-2003), heart attack.
• Duncan Watt, 74, Zambian-born Singaporean broadcaster and author.

8

• Ann Bagnall, 90, British cookbook publisher.
• Lawrence Bartell, 84, American physical chemist.
• Pierre Bergé, 86, French businessman, co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent, myopathy.
• Cory Cadden, 48, Canadian ice hockey player (Knoxville Cherokees).
• Parzival Copes, 93, Canadian economist.
• Isabelle Daniels, 80, American sprinter, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).
• A. Joseph DeNucci, 78, American boxer and politician, Massachusetts State Auditor (1987-2011), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd, 97, American political economist and activist.
• Kevin Dynon, 92, Australian football player (North Melbourne).
• Troy Gentry, 50, American country musician (Montgomery Gentry), helicopter crash.
• Blake Heron, 35, American actor (Shiloh, We Were Soldiers, Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher), accidental fentanyl overdose.
• Connie Johnson, 40, Australian cancer research fundraiser, breast cancer.
• Harry M. Kuitert, 92, Dutch theologian (Reformed Churches in the Netherlands).
• Catherine Hardy Lavender, 87, American sprinter, Olympic gold medalist (1952).
• Daniel McNeill, 70, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (since 2013).
• Toshihiko Nakajima, 55, Japanese voice actor (Cowboy Bebop, Inuyasha, Mobile Suit Gundam).
• Jerry Pournelle, 84, American science fiction author (CoDominium) and journalist (Byte).
• Karl Ravens, 90, German politician, Federal Minister of Regional Planning, Construction and Urban Development (1974-1978).
• Humberto Rosa, 85, Argentine-Italian football player.
• Ljubi?a Samard?i?, 80, Serbian actor (Vru? vetar) and director.
• José Antonio Souto, 78, Spanish jurist, academic and politician, Mayor of Santiago de Compostela (1979-1981).
• R. N. Sudarshan, 78, Indian actor (Super), kidney disease.
• Don Williams, 78, American Hall of Fame country music singer ("Tulsa Time", "I Believe in You", "You're My Best Friend") and songwriter, emphysema.

9

• Frank Aarebrot, 70, Norwegian political scientist, complications following a heart attack.
• Gretta Chambers, 90, Canadian journalist (Montreal Gazette) and Chancellor of McGill University (1991-1999).
• Velasio de Paolis, 81, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See (2008-2011), cancer.
• Jim Donohue, 79, American baseball player (Los Angeles Angels).
• Michael Friedman, 41, American composer and lyricist (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), complications from AIDS.
• Sir Patrick Goodman, 88, New Zealand businessman (Goodman Fielder).
• Mike Hodge, 70, American actor (Law & Order, All My Children, Striking Distance) and union executive (SAG-AFTRA).
• Oscar E. Huber, 100, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1961-1972).
• Geoffrey Maynard, 95, British economist.
• Otto Meitinger, 90, German architect and preservationist, president of the Technical University of Munich (1987-1995).
• Harold Nutter, 93, Canadian Anglican prelate, Metropolitan of Canada (1980-1989).
• Pierre Pilote, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
• Wang Hairong, 78, Chinese politician.

10

• Hans Alfredson, 86, Swedish actor (The Apple War), film director (The Simple-Minded Murderer), writer and comedian (Hasse & Tage).
• Xavier Atencio, 98, American animator, lyricist and Imagineer (Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion).
• Stephen Begley, 42, Scottish rugby union player (Glasgow Warriors).
• Luigi Maria Burruano, 68, Italian actor (One Hundred Steps, The Return of Cagliostro, Baarìa), cancer.
• Mel Didier, 90, American baseball scout (Toronto Blue Jays, Montreal Expos) and coach (Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns).
• Nancy Dupree, 89, American historian (modern Afghanistan).
• E Thi, 47, Burmese fortune teller.
• Sir David Ford, 82, British government official, Chief Secretary of Hong Kong (1986-1993).
• Kenneth I. Gross, 78, American mathematician.
• René Laurentin, 99, French theologian.
• James Morwood, 73, English classical scholar.
• Don Ohlmeyer, 72, American entertainment executive (NBC, NBC Sports, ABC Sports), cancer.
• Jean Pruitt, 77, American charity worker.
• Konstantins Pupurs, 53, Latvian political scientist.
• B. V. Radha, 69, Indian actress (Thazhampoo), heart attack.
• Grigoris Varfis, 90, Greek politician, MEP (1984-1985) and Commissioner for Regional Policy (1985-1989).
• Gerald Willet, 82, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1971-1988).
• Len Wein, 69, American comic book writer and editor (Swamp Thing, Watchmen), co-creator of Wolverine.

11

• Abdul Halim of Kedah, 89, Malaysian sultan, Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1970-1975, 2011-2016), Sultan of Kedah (since 1958).
• Jan Brittin, 58, English cricketer, cancer.
• Alfonso Caycedo, 84, Colombian medical hypnotist.
• Dan Currie, 82, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
• J. P. Donleavy, 91, Irish-American novelist and playwright (The Ginger Man, A Fairy Tale of New York).
• Alfred Gadenne, 71, Belgian politician, mayor of Mouscron (since 2006), slit throat.
• Sir Peter Hall, 86, British theatre, opera and film director, director of the National Theatre (1973-1988), dementia.
• Virgil Howe, 41, British drummer (Little Barrie).
• Bruce Laming, 79, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Mooloolah (1992-2001), dementia.
• Mark LaMura, 68, American actor (All My Children, Something Borrowed, City by the Sea), lung cancer.
• James Madison Lee, 90, American lieutenant general.
• Alberto Pagani, 79, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer (Honda, MV Agusta).
• Jeff Parker, 53, American ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres), heart and lung infections.
• Arnold Sagalyn, 99, American journalist (Northern Virginia Sun).
• António Francisco dos Santos, 69, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Aveiro (2006-2014) and Porto (since 2014), heart attack.
• Malcolm Templeton, 93, New Zealand diplomat, Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1973-1978).

12

• Frank Capp, 86, American jazz drummer.
• John Chambers, 86, Australian cricketer.
• Heiner Geißler, 87, German politician, Secretary General of the CDU (1977-1989), Federal Minister of Youth, Family and Health (1982-1985).
• Alex Hawkins, 80, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
• Charles F. Knight, 81, American businessman (Emerson Electric), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Siegfried Köhler, 94, German conductor (Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Royal Swedish Opera).
• Allan MacEachen, 96, Canadian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1977-1979, 1980-1984), MP for Inverness--Richmond (1953-1958, 1962-1968) and Cape Breton Highlands--Canso (1968-1984).
• Bert McCann, 84, Scottish footballer (Motherwell, national team).
• Nicoletta Panni, 84, Italian opera singer.
• Tudor Petru?, 67, Romanian Olympic fencer.
• Xohana Torres, 85, Spanish Galician language writer, poet, narrator and playwright.
• Gary I. Wadler, 78, American physician, multiple system atrophy.
• Edith Windsor, 88, American mathematician and activist, lead plaintiff in United States v. Windsor.

13

• Basi, 37, Chinese panda, world's oldest living, cirrhosis and renal failure.
• David Bey, 60, American boxer, struck by steel sheet.
• Peter Birch, 65, British actor (Casualty, The House of Eliott).
• Pete Domenici, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate for New Mexico (1973-2009), complications from abdominal surgery.
• Per Fugelli, 73, Norwegian author, physician and professor of medicine, colorectal cancer.
• Basil Gogos, 88, American magazine cover illustrator (Famous Monsters of Filmland).
• Slavko Goldstein, 89, Croatian journalist, screenwriter (Signal Over the City), publisher and politician.
• Grant Hart, 56, American singer, songwriter ("Turn On the News") and drummer (Hüsker Dü), liver cancer.
• Saby Kamalich, 78, Peruvian film and television actress (Simplemente María).
• Gary Otte, 45, American murderer and robber, execution by lethal injection.
• Edwin H. Ragsdale, 87, American politician.
• Kazimierz Ryczan, 78, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kielce (1993-2014).
• Robert Franz Schmidt, 84, German physiologist.
• Frank Vincent, 80, American actor (The Sopranos, Goodfellas, Raging Bull), complications during heart surgery.
• Derek Wilkinson, 82, English footballer (Sheffield Wednesday).

14

• Wolfgang Bochow, 73, German badminton player.
• Arnold Chan, 50, Canadian politician and lawyer, MP for Scarborough--Agincourt (since 2014), nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
• George Englund, 91, American film producer and director (The Ugly American, Zachariah), fall.
• Michael Freeman, 85, British orthopaedic surgeon.
• Marcel Herriot, 83, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Verdun (1987-1999) and Soissons (1999-2008).
• Ermalee Hickel, 92, American philanthropist, First Lady of Alaska (1966-1969, 1990-1994).
• Wim Huis, 89, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
• John Humphreys, 85, Australian fencer.
• Tommy Irvin, 88, American politician, Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture (1969-2011), member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
• Djibo Leyti Kâ, 69, Senegalese politician, Foreign Minister (1991-1993).
• Ata Kandó, 103, Hungarian-born Dutch photographer.
• Wolfgang Michels, 66, German musician (Percewood's Onagram).
• Jan Niemiec, 76, Polish slalom canoeist (bronze medallist in 1961 World Championship).
• Otto Wanz, 74, Austrian professional wrestler (AWA, NJPW) and promoter (CWA).

15

• Arthur Apfel, 94, British figure skater.
• María Cristina Arango Vega, 88, Colombian consort, First Lady (1970-1974).
• Violet Brown, 117, Jamaican supercentenarian, world's oldest living person.
• Alma Evans-Freke, 85, New Zealand television presenter.
• Frode Granhus, 52, Norwegian author.
• Mircea Ionescu-Quintus, 100, Ukrainian-born Romanian politician, Minister of Justice (1991-1992) and President of the Senate (2000), heart failure.
• Herbert W. Kalmbach, 95, American attorney and banker, figure in the Watergate scandal.
• Wolfgang Klein, 76, German lawyer, football director (Hamburger SV), and Olympic long-jumper (1964).
• Izidoro Kosinski, 85, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Três Lagoas (1981-2009).
• Myrna Lamb, 87, American playwright, heart disease.
• Leon Mestel, 90, British astronomer and astrophysicist.
• Albert Moses, 79, Sri Lankan actor.
• Nan Rendong, 72, Chinese astronomer, founder of the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, lung cancer.
• Dwijen Sharma, 88, Bangladeshi naturalist, kidney disease.
• Anthony Thomas Smith, 82, British lawyer.
• Albert Speer Jr., 83, German architect (Expo 2000), complications from a fall.
• Harry Dean Stanton, 91, American actor (Alien, The Green Mile, Big Love).
• Hans Weinberger, 88, Austrian-born American mathematician.
• Geoff Wragg, 87, British horse trainer (Teenoso, Pentire).

16

• Bautista Álvarez, 84, Spanish Galician nationalist politician, heart attack.
• Gerald Bernbaum, 81, British academic administrator, Vice-Chancellor of Southbank University (1993-2001), cancer.
• Penny Chenery, 95, American racehorse owner and breeder (Secretariat).
• Ted Christopher, 59, American racecar driver (NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour), plane crash.
• Ben Dorcy, 92, American roadie.
• Steve Evans, 59, English rugby league player (Hull F.C., Featherstone Rovers).
• Mitchell Flint, 94, American fighter pilot (Navy, 101 Squadron).
• José Florencio Guzmán, 88, Chilean lawyer and politician, Minister of National Defence (1998-1999).
• Nicolaas Jouwe, 93, Papuan politician, vice-president of New Guinea Council (1961-1962).
• Brenda Lewis, 96, American opera soprano and theatre actress.
• Fred Moore, 97, French colonel and politician, MP (1958-1962) and Order of Liberation (2011).
• Nabeel Qureshi, 34, American Christian apologist, stomach cancer.
• Brendan Reilly, 38, Irish Gaelic football player (Louth GAA).
• Marcelo Rezende, 65, Brazilian journalist and television presenter (Linha Direta), pancreatic and liver cancer.
• Petr ?abach, 66, Czech writer (Babi?ky).
• Bucky Scribner, 57, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings), brain cancer.
• Arjan Singh, 98, Indian Air Force marshal, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi (1989-1990), heart attack.
• Sven Oluf Sørensen, 96, Norwegian physicist.

17

• Bonnie Angelo, 93, American journalist (Time), complications from dementia.
• Steve Baker, 79, American illusionist.
• Eugenio Bersellini, 81, Italian football player and manager, pneumonia.
• Cris Bolado, 47, Filipino basketball player (Alaska Milkmen), traffic collision.
• Gerd Bollmann, 69, German politician.
• Mahant Chandnath, 61, Indian politician, MP for Alwar (since 2014), cancer.
• Kirpal Singh Chugh, 84, Indian nephrologist.
• René Drucker Colín, 80, Mexican scientist, researcher and journalist.
• Mary Fairfax, 95, Polish-born Australian philanthropist.
• Suzan Farmer, 75, British actress (The Scarlet Blade, Doctor in Clover, Coronation Street).
• William F. Goodling, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district (1975-2001).
• Bobby Heenan, 72, American professional wrestler, manager and commentator (WWF, AWA, WCW), organ failure.
• Dave Hilton, 67, American baseball player (San Diego Padres, Tokyo Yakult Swallows).
• Bob Holland, 70, Australian cricketer (New South Wales, national team), brain cancer.
• Per Kleiva, 84, Norwegian painter.
• Marc Klionsky, 90, Belarusian-born American painter.
• Laudir de Oliveira, 77, Brazilian percussionist (Sérgio Mendes, Marcos Valle, Chicago) and producer.
• Lucy Ozarin, 103, American psychiatrist.
• Buster Parnell, 83, Irish jockey.
• Iftikhar Qaisar, 60, Pakistani actor.
• Uwe Storch, 77, German mathematician.
• Mohammed Taslimuddin, 74, Indian politician, MP for Araria (since 2014).
• Lionel Wilson, 84, South African rugby union player (Western Province, national team).

18

• Ronald E. Carrier, 85, American educator, President of James Madison University (1971-1998).
• Paul E. Gray, 85, American professor, President of MIT (1980-1990), Alzheimer's disease.
• Paul Horner, 38, American fake news writer and comedian, drug overdose.
• Qamar ul Islam, 69, Indian politician, Member of Karnataka Parliament (1978-1983, 1989-1996, 1999-2004, since 2008), heart attack.
• Tony Laffey, 92, New Zealand footballer.
• Chuck Low, 89, American actor (Goodfellas, The Mission, Sleepers).
• Jean Plaskie, 76, Belgian footballer (Anderlecht, national team).
• Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, 80, Pakistani writer.
• Mark Selby, 56, American musician, cancer.
• Zurab Sotkilava, 80, Georgian-Russian footballer (Dinamo Tbilisi) and opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR, pancreatic cancer.
• Sydney Starkie, 91, English cricketer.
• Pete Turner, 83, American photographer.
• Kenji Watanabe, 48, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1984, 1988, 1992).
• Paul Wilson, 66, Scottish footballer (Celtic, national team).

19

• Sir Brian Barder, 83, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Nigeria (1988-1991) and Australia (1991-1994).
• Christine Butler, 73, British politician, MP for Castle Point (1997-2001), dementia.
• Bernie Casey, 78, American actor (Revenge of the Nerds, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure) and football player (San Francisco 49ers).
• Else Marie Christiansen, 96, Norwegian speed skater.
• Sir John Hunt, 88, British politician, MP for Bromley (1964-1974) and Ravensbourne (1974-1997).
• Leonid Kharitonov, 84, Russian opera singer, soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble (1953-1972) and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1986).
• Jake LaMotta, 95, American Hall of Fame boxer and comedian, inspiration for Raging Bull, complications from pneumonia.
• Vasily Melnikov, 74, Soviet Olympic skier.[1]
• Massimo Natili, 82, Italian racing driver (Formula One).
• John Nicholson, 75, New Zealand racing driver (Formula Atlantic).
• Sigurður Pálsson, 69, Icelandic author, cancer.
• José Salcedo, 68, Spanish film editor (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead, All About My Mother), Goya winner (1989, 1996, 2000).
• Johnny Sandlin, 72, American record producer (The Allman Brothers Band), cancer.
• David Shepherd, 86, British artist and conservationist, Parkinson's disease.
• Manuela Sykes, 92, British politician and activist.
• Helen J. Walker, 64, British space scientist.

20

• Greg Antonacci, 70, American director, actor and producer (The Royal Family, The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire).
• Santanu Bhowmik, Indian journalist, murdered.
• Ken Dean, 90, English rugby league footballer (Halifax).
• William J. Ely, 105, American army officer.
• Richard Gendall, 93, British linguist and teacher.
• Mickey Harrington, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
• Garry Hill, 70, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves).
• Jimmy Magee, 82, Irish sports broadcaster (RTÉ).
• Ene Mihkelson, 72, Estonian poet and novelist (Ahasveeruse uni).
• Ed Phillips, 73, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), cancer.
• Lillian Ross, 99, American journalist (The New Yorker) and author, stroke.
• Oskar Schulz, 93, Austrian cross country skier, mineralogist and petrologist.
• Shakila, 82, Indian actress (Aar Paar, C.I.D., Alibaba Aur 40 Chor), heart attack.
• Arne Solli, 79, Norwegian military officer, Chief of Defence (1994-1999).
• Sir Teddy Taylor, 80, British politician, MP for Glasgow Cathcart (1964-1979) and Rochford and Southend East (1980-2005).

21

• Edward Allington, 66, British sculptor.
• David Beatson, 72-73, New Zealand broadcaster.
• Liliane Bettencourt, 94, French cosmetics businesswoman (L'Oréal) and socialite, world's richest woman (since 2015).
• Johnny Burke, 77, Canadian country singer.
• Vera Burt, 90, New Zealand cricketer (national team) and field hockey player (national team), coach and administrator.
• Juan Nicolás Callejas Arroyo, 73, Mexican politician, Deputy for Veracruz (1982-1985, 2000-2003, 2009-2012).
• Michael Colborne, 83, British Royal Navy officer and private secretary.
• Warren Druetzler, 88, American athlete.
• Larry J. McKinney, 73, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana (1987-2009).
• Maurice Nivat, 79, French computer scientist, co-father of theoretical computer science.
• Evelyn Scott, 81, Australian Indigenous social activist, Chairwoman of the National Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
• William G. Stewart, 84, British game show host (Fifteen to One) and television producer.

22

• Mohammed Mahdi Akef, 89, Egyptian religious and political leader, head of the Muslim Brotherhood (2004-2010), cancer.
• Mike Bright, 79, American Olympic volleyball player (1964).?
• Mike Carr, 79, English keyboard player.
• Thelma Chalifoux, 88, Canadian Métis teacher and politician, Senator (1997-2004).
• Dunc Fisher, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Hershey Bears, Boston Bruins).
• Gérard Haché, 92, Canadian politician, New Brunswick MLA (1967-1970).
• Paavo Lonkila, 94, Finnish cross-country skier, Olympic champion (1952).
• Bill Michie, 81, British politician, MP for Sheffield Heeley (1983-2001), chest infection.
• Shmuel Moreh, 84, Iraqi-born Israeli writer and Arabic professor (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
• Harold Pendleton, 93, British music executive and club owner (Marquee Club).
• Rick Shaw, 78, American radio disc jockey (WQAM, WAXY, WMXJ).
• Elizete da Silva, 46, Brazilian heptathlete, South American champion (2001, 2005, 2006), traffic collision.
• Börje Vestlund, 57, Swedish politician, MP (since 2002).
• Sima Wali, 66, Afghan human rights advocate.
• John Worsdale, 68, English footballer (Stoke City, Lincoln City).
• Daniel Yankelovich, 92, American social scientist, kidney failure.

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• Valery Asapov, 51, Russian army general, blast injury.
• Charles Bradley, 68, American singer ("Changes"), stomach cancer.
• Loreto Carbonell, 84, Filipino basketball player, cardiac arrest.
• Dorothy Eck, 93, American politician, member of the Montana Senate (1980-2000).
• Seth Firkins, 36, American audio engineer (Future, Jay-Z, Young Thug).
• Caesar Giovannini, 92, American composer and pianist.
• Harvey Jacobs, 87, American author.
• Simon J. Kistemaker, 87, American theologian.
• Aline Nistad, 63, Norwegian trombonist, cancer.
• Charles Osborne, 89, Australian-born British music writer.
• Elizabeth D. Phillips, 72, American educator and academic administrator, Provost of the University of Florida (1996-1999).
• Samuel H. Young, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 10th congressional district (1973-1975).

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• María Julia Alsogaray, 74, Argentine politician, MP for City of Buenos Aires (1985-1991) and Secretary of Natural Resources and Sustainable Development (1991-1999), pancreatic cancer.
• Washington Benavides, 87, Uruguayan poet, professor and musician.
• Barbara Blaine, 61, American founder of SNAP, heart disease.
• Tharald Brøvig Jr., 75, Norwegian shipowner.
• Gisèle Casadesus, 103, French actress (My Afternoons with Margueritte).
• Al Cannava, 93, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
• E.G.D. Cohen, 94, Dutch-American physicist.
• Norman Dyhrenfurth, 99, Swiss-American mountaineer and filmmaker.
• Jack Good, 86, British producer.
• Albert Innaurato, 70, American playwright.
• Kito Lorenc, 79, German writer, stroke.
• Orville Lynn Majors, 56, American serial killer, heart failure.
• Manuel da Silva Martins, 90, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Setúbal (1975-1998).
• Joseph M. McDade, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district (1963-1999).
• Robert J. McFarlin, 87, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1967-1970; 1973-1974).
• Kit Reed, 85, American science fiction and mystery writer, brain tumor.
• Carlos Vidal Layseca, 85, Peruvian doctor, Minister of Health (1990-1991) and Rector of Cayetano Heredia University (1994-1999).

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• Joe Bailon, 94, American car customizer, creator of candy apple red color.
• M. Cherif Bassiouni, 79, Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist, multiple myeloma.
• Richard Beckler, 77, American attorney.
• Tony Booth, 85, British actor (Till Death Us Do Part, Coronation Street, The Contender).
• Nora Marks Dauenhauer, 90, American Tlingit author, poet, and scholar.
• Liz Dawn, 77, British actress (Coronation Street, Crown Court, The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club), emphysema.
• Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, 37, Egyptian woman, world's heaviest, kidney failure and intestinal shock.
• Helga Grebing, 87, German historian.
• Anatoly Gromyko, 85, Russian scientist and diplomat.
• Mathew Hu Xiande, 83, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Coadjutor Bishop (2000-2004) and Bishop of Ningbo (since 2004).
• Aneurin Jones, 87, Welsh painter.
• Bobby Knutt, 71, British actor and comedian (Coronation Street, Benidorm, Emmerdale), heart attack.
• Peter Lewis, 75, Australian politician, Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly (2002-2005).
• David Mainse, 81, Canadian televangelist (100 Huntley Street).
• Leonard Mashako Mamba, 66, Congolese politician, Minister of Public Health (1997-2001) and Minister of Higher Education and Universities (2008-2012).
• Tom Miller, 70, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Islanders), cancer.
• Grant H. Palmer, 77, American educator and writer (An Insider's View of Mormon Origins), cancer.
• Clarence Purfeerst, 90, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1971-1991).
• Tim Quill, 54, American actor (Hamburger Hill, Argo, JAG), cancer.
• Folke Rabe, 81, Swedish composer.
• Charles Roff, 65, Scottish photographer.
• Arun Sadhu, 76, Indian writer (Sinhasan), cardiomyopathy.
• Joe Schaffer, 79, American football player (Buffalo Bills), progressive aphasia.
• Freddy Shepherd, 76, English businessman, Chairman of Newcastle United (1997-2007).
• Joseph W. Schmitt, 101, American spacesuit technician.
• Yoshitomo Tokugawa, 67, Japanese writer, head of the Tokugawa Yoshinobu-ke (since 1993).
• Jan T?íska, 80, Czech actor (Andersonville, 2010, The People vs. Larry Flynt), fall.
• Jim Walrod, 56, American interior design consultant.
• Elaine Hoffman Watts, 85, American drummer.

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• Mehmet Aksoy, 32, British filmmaker, shot.
• Anthony Allom, 78, English cricketer (Surrey).?
• Samuel Amirtham, 85, Indian Anglican prelate and theologian, Bishop of South Kerala (1990-1997).
• Dominador Aytona, 99, Filipino politician, Senator (1965-1971).
• Mario Bedogni, 93, Italian Olympic ice hockey player (1948, 1956).
• Ludmila Belousova, 81, Russian pair skater, Olympic champion (1964, 1968).
• Richard Boucher, 85, French footballer (Toulouse).
• Donnie Corker, 65, American transvestite entertainer.
• Sir James Craig, 93, British diplomat, Ambassador to Syria (1976-1979) and Saudi Arabia (1979-1984).
• Robert Delpire, 91, French photographer, publisher and filmmaker.
• Barry Dennen, 79, American actor (Jesus Christ Superstar, The Shining, Fiddler on the Roof), complications from a fall.
• Kv?ta Fialová, 88, Czech actress (Lemonade Joe, Dinner for Adele, The Phantom of Morrisville).
• Neville Furlong, 49, Irish rugby player (national team).
• Günter Halm, 95, German World War II military officer.
• Augustine Hoey, 101, English priest.
• Morton Kaplan, 96, American political scientist.
• Fred Ryecraft, 78, English footballer (Brentford F.C.).
• Sigmund Vangsnes, 91, Norwegian educationalist.
• Rinse Zijlstra, 90, Dutch politician, MP (1967-1973), Mayor of Smallingerland (1975-1981), and Senator (1983-1995).

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• Edmond Abelé, 92, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Monaco (1972-1980) and Digne (1980-1987).
• K.R. Aravindakshan, 66, Indian politician.
• Dwijen Bandyopadhyay, 68, Indian actor (Jaatishwar), heart attack.
• Raymond Buckland, 83, English Wiccan writer.
• CeDell Davis, 90, American blues musician.
• Joy Fleming, 72, German singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1975).
• Hans Gerschwiler, 96, Swiss figure skater, Olympic silver medalist (1948).
• Sir Richard Greenbury, 81, British businessman, Chairman of Marks and Spencer (1988-1999).
• Hiromi Hayakawa, 34, Japanese-born Mexican actress (El Chema) and singer (La Academia), liver hemorrhage during childbirth.
• Hugh Hefner, 91, American magazine publisher (Playboy), businessman (Playboy Enterprises) and reality television personality (The Girls Next Door), cardiac arrest due to septicemia.
• Anne Jeffreys, 94, American actress (General Hospital, Topper, Dick Tracy).
• Vann Johnson, 56, American singer.
• Red Miller, 89, American football coach (Denver Broncos), complications from a stroke.
• Stanley M. Rumbough Jr., 97, American businessman (Colgate-Palmolive).
• Zuzana R??i?ková, 90, Czech harpsichordist, cancer.
• Antonio Spallino, 92, Italian fencer and politician, Olympic champion (1956) and Mayor of Como (1970-1985).
• Alfred Stepan, 81, American political scientist.

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• Aleksey Arifullin, 46, Russian footballer (Lokomotiv Moscow).
• Jerry Balmuth, 93, American philosopher.
• Chyung Jinkyu, 77, South Korean writer.
• Makhan Lal Fotedar, 85, Indian politician.
• Balys Gajauskas, 91, Lithuanian politician and prisoner of conscience, member of the Seimas (1990-1992).
• Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, 90, Spanish film director and producer (That Man in Istanbul, The Summertime Killer, They Came to Rob Las Vegas).
• Lee Hsin, 64, Taiwanese politician, member of the National Assembly (1996-1998) and the Taipei City Council (since 1998), suicide by jumping.
• Marietta Marich, 87, American radio personality and actress (Rushmore, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
• Donald Mitchell, 92, British musicologist.
• Steven Marshall, 60, British chief executive (Railtrack).
• Vann Molyvann, 90, Cambodian architect (Chaktomuk Conference Hall, Independence Monument, Phnom Penh Olympic Stadium).
• Daniel Pe'er, 74, Israeli television host, complications from a stroke.
• ?eljko Peru?i?, 81, Croatian football player and manager.
• Jürgen Roth, 71, German journalist.
• Andreas Schmidt, 53, German actor (Summer in Berlin, The Counterfeiters) and director, cancer.
• Spikeld, 23-24, Norwegian racehorse, euthanized.
• Alan Thompson, 54, British broadcaster (BBC Radio Wales).
• Benjamin Whitrow, 80, British actor (Pride and Prejudice, Chicken Run, Quadrophenia).

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• Abu Tahsin al-Salhi, 63, Iraqi sniper, shot.
• Tom Alter, 67, Indian actor, skin cancer.
• Joep Baartmans-van den Boogaart, 77, Dutch politician.
• Keith Bush, 87, British army officer and intelligence analyst.
• Lorenz Funk, 70, German ice hockey player and manager (EC Bad Tölz, BSC Preussen), Olympic bronze medalist (1976), cancer.
• Tim Hackworth, 84, British army officer.
• Rolf Herings, 77, German Olympic javelin thrower (1964, 1968) and football coach (1. FC Köln).
• Tore Lindbekk, 84, Norwegian sociologist and politician.
• Philippe Médard, 58, French handball player, Olympic bronze medalist (1992).
• Wies?aw Michnikowski, 95, Polish actor.
• Anthony Leopold Raymond Peiris, 85, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kurunegala (1987-2009).
• Magdalena Ribbing, 77, Swedish etiquette expert, writer and journalist, complications from a fall.
• Ry?ji Saikachi, 89, Japanese voice actor (Castle in the Sky, Dragon Ball Z, Anne of Green Gables), heart failure.
• Jarvis Scott, 70, American sprinter.
• Ian Smith, 76, New Zealand rugby union player (Otago, national team).
• Dmitry Smolsky, 80, Belarusian composer and teacher (Belarusian State Conservatory).

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• Alan K. Adlington, 92, Canadian economist.
• Hortense Aka-Anghui, 83, Ivorian politician and pharmacist, MP (1965-1990), Mayoress of Port-Bouët (since 1980) and Minister of Women's Affairs (1986-1990).
• Apex, 36, British drum and bass music producer, suicide.
• John Arenhold, 86, South African cricketer. [2]
• Elizabeth Baur, 69, American actress (Ironside, Lancer, The Boston Strangler).
• Francis Harold Brown, 73, American geologist.
• Alan Carroll, 84, British RAF officer and engineer.
• Max Haines, 86, Canadian crime columnist and author, progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Monty Hall, 96, Canadian-American game show host (Let's Make a Deal), heart failure.
• Frank Hamblen, 70, American basketball coach (Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers), heart attack.
• Donald Malarkey, 96, American soldier (Easy Company), depicted in Band of Brothers.
• Jimmy McDonnell, 90, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Glen Newey, 56, British political philosopher, boating accident.
• Tom Paley, 89, American folk musician (New Lost City Ramblers).
• Lou Reda, 92, American documentary filmmaker.
• Stig Stenholm, 78, Finnish physicist.
• Joe Taruc, 70, Filipino news anchor and radio broadcaster (DZRH).
• Gunnar Thoresen, 97, Norwegian footballer (Larvik Turn, national team).
• Joe Tiller, 74, American football coach (University of Wyoming, Purdue University).
• Vladimir Voevodsky, 51, Russian-American mathematician, 2002 Fields medalist.

Maps Deaths in September 2017

References

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