We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in September, 2007

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• Russell Ellington, 69, American basketball coach for the Harlem Globetrotters, lung cancer.
• Sally Haley, 99, American painter, natural causes.

2

• Anthony Day, 74, American editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times, emphysema.
• Marcia Mae Jones, 83, American actress (Heidi, These Three). [198]

3

• Carter Albrecht, 34, American keyboardist, guitarist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians), shot. [183]
• Clarke Bynum, 45, American basketball player (Clemson Tigers) and 2000 hijack hero, cancer.
  
• Janis Martin, 67, American singer, cancer.
• Steve Ryan, 60, American theater and television actor.
  

4

• Michael Evans, 87, American stage and television actor.
  
• Seth Tobias, 44, American financial commentator for CNBC's Squawk Box.

7

• Alex, 31, American-born African grey parrot, subject of animal language experiments.
  
• Russell E. Dougherty, 87, American former commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command. [150]
• Joseph W. Eschbach, 74, American doctor and kidney specialist whose research lead to treatment for anemia, cancer.

9

• Hughie Thomasson, 55, American guitarist (The Outlaws), heart attack.

10

• Loretta King Hadler, 90, American film actress, natural causes.
  
• Ted Stepien, 82, American businessman and former owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.
• Jane Wyman, 90, American Academy Award-winning actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan.

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• Gene Savoy, 80, American explorer, claimed discovery of over 40 lost cities in Peru, founder of religion, natural causes.
• Willie Tee, 63, American singer, songwriter and producer, colon cancer.
  

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• Bobby Byrd, 73, American soul/funk singer, long-time friend and collaborator of James Brown, cancer.
• Daryl Holton, 55, American murderer, first man executed by electric chair in Tennessee in 47 years.

15

• Brett Somers, 83, American actress, comedienne and panelist (Match Game), stomach and colon cancer.

18

• Norman Gaylord, 84, American chemist, developed permeable contact lens.
• Nate Hill, 41, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins, Washington Redskins).

21

• Rex Humbard, 88, American televangelist, congestive heart failure.
• Coral Watts, 53, American serial killer, complications of prostate cancer. [68]

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• Velma Wayne Dawson, 94, American creator of the Howdy Doody puppet.
• Randy Van Horne, 83, American singer of TV theme songs (The Flintstones, The Jetsons), cancer.
  

27

• Dale Houston, 67, American musician (Dale and Grace).
  
• Rena Rago, 85, American artist, stroke complications.
  
• George Rieveschl, 91, American inventor of Benadryl, pneumonia.
  

28

• Charles B. Griffith, 77, American screenwriter.
• Evelyn Knight, 89, American singer, lung cancer.
• Martin Manulis, 92, American Emmy Award-winning television and film producer.
• Wally Parks, 94, American drag racing and hot rod pioneer, pneumonia.
  

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• Lois Maxwell, 80, Canadian Golden Globe-winning actress, first Miss Moneypenny in James Bond film series, colorectal cancer.

30

• Al Chang, 85, American two-time Pulitzer prize-nominated military photographer, leukemia.
• John Henebry, 89, American Air Force major general, heart failure.