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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2008.
September 2008
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- Henry Adler, 93, American drummer, teacher of Buddy Rich.
- Ed Brinkman, 66, American baseball player and coach, lung cancer.
- Sam Calder, 92, Australian politician and World War II fighter pilot, MP (1966–1980).
- J. L. Chestnut, 77, American civil rights lawyer, kidney failure.
- Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, 82, Singaporean politician, MP (1981–1986), NCMP (1997–2001), heart failure.
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- Hayden Carruth, 87, American poet and literary critic, stroke.
- Richard Clayton, 93, American actor and talent agent (Burt Reynolds, James Dean), heart failure.
- Miguel Córcega, 79, Mexican actor and director.
- Milt Davis, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts), cancer.
- Tim Fortescue, 92, British politician, MP (1966–1974).
- Elinor Guggenheimer, 96, American philanthropist and author.
- Louis Guss, 90. American actor.
- Stan Kann, 83, American organist and Tonight Show regular, complications from heart procedure.
- Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, 72, Indian politician.
- Antônio Sarto, 82, Brazilian bishop of Barra do Garças.
- Glenister Sheil, 78, Australian medical practitioner and politician, Senator (1974–1981, 1984–1990).
- Anthony Spero, 79, American financier, leader of Bonanno crime family, after short illness.
- Relus ter Beek, 64, Dutch politician, Minister of Defence (1989–1994), abolished conscription, lung cancer.
- Jock Wilson, 105, British soldier, UK's oldest D-Day veteran.
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- Andrzej Badeński, 65, Polish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) athlete. (Polish)
- Osborn Elliott, 83, American editor of Newsweek (1961–1976), complications from cancer.
- Jack Faulkner, 82, American football coach and administrator.
- Margot Gayle, 100, American historic preservationist and author.
- Malalai Kakar, 41, Afghan senior policewoman, shot.
- Konstantin Pavlov, 75, Bulgarian poet and screenwriter, after long illness.
- Thomas Thewes, 76, American businessman, co-owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, leukemia.
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- Len Browning, 80, British footballer.
- John Houston, 78, British painter.
- Mahendra Kapoor, 74, Indian playback singer, heart attack.
- Mario Maya, 71, Spanish dancer and choreographer, cancer.
- Jimmy Murray, 72, British footballer, prostate cancer.
- Henri Pachard, 69, American pornographic film director, throat cancer.
- Olaf Poulsen, 88, Norwegian president of the International Skating Union (1980–1994). (Norwegian)
- Gerald Small, 52, American football player (Miami Dolphins).
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- Bernadette Greevy, 68, Irish mezzo-soprano, after short illness.
- Joli Jászai, 101, Hungarian actress. (Hungarian)
- Géza Kalocsay, 95, Hungarian football player and manager. (Polish)
- Phyllis Welch MacDonald, 95, American theater and film actress.
- Raymond Macherot, 84, Belgian cartoonist.
- Jan Mazur, 88, Polish bishop of Siedlce.
- Marian McQuade, 91, American founder of National Grandparents Day, heart failure.
- Marc Moulin, 66, Belgian jazz musician and journalist, throat cancer.
- Paul Newman, 83, American Academy Award-winning actor and philanthropist, lung cancer.
- Cirio H. Santiago, 72, Filipino filmmaker and producer, complications from lung cancer.
- Yonty Solomon, 71, South African pianist, brain tumour.
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- Glenn Andrews, 99, American politician, Representative (1965–1967), oldest surviving member of the House of Representatives.
- Brian Donnelly, 59, New Zealand diplomat and politician, MP (1996–2008).
- Edward Klima, 77, American linguist, complications from brain surgery.
- Horaţiu Rădulescu, 66, Romanian composer, spectral music pioneer.
- Ralph Sazio, 86, Canadian football coach (Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
- Jimmy Sirrel, 86, British football manager (Notts County), after long illness.
- Patrick d'Udekem d'Acoz, 72, Belgian count, father of Princess Mathilde.
- Roger Vanderfield, 80, Australian rugby union referee, IRB chairman and ARU president.
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- Kwadwo Baah Wiredu, 56, Ghanaian finance minister since 2005, after short illness.
- Oliver Crawford, 91, American television writer blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- Irene Dailey, 88, American actress, colon cancer.
- Sir Peter Derham, 83, Australian businessman and philanthropist, stroke.
- Uno Laht, 84, Estonian writer. (Estonian)
- Dick Lynch, 72, American football player and radio announcer (New York Giants), leukemia.
- Maurits van Nierop, 25, Dutch international cricketer, fall.
- Thiago Jotta da Silva, 24, Brazilian footballer, shot.
- Cherry Smith, 65, Jamaican singer (The Wailers).
- Mickey Vernon, 90, American baseball player, stroke.
- Vice Vukov, 72, Croatian singer and politician.
- Claude Wilton, 89, Irish politician and solicitor.
- Ruslan Yamadayev, 46, Chechen warlord and member of Russian State Duma, shot.
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- Maria Esther Figueiredo Ferraz, 93, Brazilian Minister of Education (1982–1985) and first female minister, stroke. (Portuguese)
- Arne Haugestad, 73, Norwegian Supreme Court lawyer, Arne Treholt's defender. (Norwegian)
- Richard Henyard, 34, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Wally Hilgenberg, 66, American football player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Rudolf Illovszky, 86, Hungarian footballer and manager, pneumonia.
- Peter Leonard, 66, Australian broadcaster, mesothelioma.
- Pedro Masó, 81, Spanish film director and producer, natural causes. (Spanish)
- Brock McElheran, 90, Canadian conductor and composer.
- Loren Pope, 98, American education consultant, heart failure.
- Sonja Savić, 47, Serbian actress, heroin overdose.
- Ellen Tarry, 101, American children's author.
- William Woodruff, 92, British historian and author.
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- Michael Andreevich, 88, Russian prince.
- Plato Andros, 86, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), Alzheimer's disease.
- H. Dale Cook, 84, American federal judge since 1974, cancer.
- Thomas Dörflein, 44, German zookeeper, surrogate parent of the polar bear Knut, heart attack.
- Connie Haines, 87, American singer, myasthenia gravis.
- Guillermo López Langarica, 50, Mexican YouTube celebrity, car accident. (Spanish)
- Buddy McDonald, 85, American child actor ( Our Gang ), heart failure.
- Petrus Schaesberg, 41, German art historian, suicide by jumping.
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- Mary Garber, 92, American sportswriter.
- Carlos González Cruchaga, 87, Chilean bishop of the Diocese of Talca (1967–1996).
- Nancy Hicks Maynard, 66, American journalist, advocate for diversity in journalism, organ failure.
- Sir Brian Pippard, 88, British physicist, Cavendish Professor of Physics (1971–1984).
- Barefoot Sanders, 83, American federal judge, natural causes.
- Paul Tansey, 59, Irish economics editor ( The Irish Times ).
- Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, 92, Sri Lankan prime minister (1989–1993), president (1993–1994), after long illness.
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- Nappy Brown, 78, American blues singer.
- William Fox, 97, British actor.
- Duncan Glen, 75, British poet, literary critic and designer, professor emeritus of visual communication (Nottingham Trent).
- Ken Harris, 45, American member of Baltimore City Council (1999–2007), shot.
- Johnny H. Hayes, 67, American fundraiser for Al Gore's presidential campaigns, stomach cancer.
- Willi Heidel, 92, Romanian Olympic field handball player.
- Paul Howell, 57, British member of the European Parliament (1979–1994), plane crash.
- Ed Sutton, 73, American football player, complications following heart bypass surgery.
- John Taylor, 87, American military archivist at National Archives and Records Administration, heart failure.
- Frank Valenti, 97 American mob boss (Rochester crime family).
- Ivo Žďárek, 47, Czech ambassador to Vietnam (2004-2008) and Pakistan (2008), suicide bombing.
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- Ernie Andres, 90, American college baseball coach and Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
- Alexina Calvert, 110, British supercentenarian, Scotland's oldest person.
- Ned Harkness, 89, American ice hockey coach, stroke.
- Jun Ichikawa, 59, Japanese film director.
- David Jones, 74, British theatre and film director.
- Dave Needham, 57, British bantamweight boxing champion (1974–1975).
- Earl Palmer, 83, American rhythm and blues drummer, after long illness. .
- Robert Royston, 90, American landscape architect.
- Dick Sudhalter, 69, American jazz trumpeter, pneumonia.
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- Mauricio Kagel, 76, Argentine-born German composer.
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