Deaths in September 2012

1st
Hal David, 91, American lyricist ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"), complications from a stroke.

2nd
Mark Abrahamian, 46, American musician (Starship), heart attack.
Jack Boucher, 80, American photographer (Historic American Buildings Survey), heart disease.

3rd
Bob DiPietro, 85, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), cancer.
Michael Clarke Duncan, 54, American actor (The Green Mile, Armageddon, Daredevil), complications from a heart attack.

5th
Joe South, 72, American singer-songwriter ("Down in the Boondocks", "Hush", "Rose Garden"), heart failure.

7th
Rollin Sullivan, 93, American country music entertainer (Lonzo and Oscar).

8th
Bob Hale, 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees).
Leigh Hamilton, 62, New Zealand-born American actress (Forced Vengeance, Gas Food Lodging, Hocus Pocus).
Mike Martineau, 53, American television writer (Rescue Me, Mad About You), heart disease.

10th
Lance LeGault, 77, American actor (The A-Team, Magnum, P.I.).

11th
Sean Smith, 34, American diplomat serving in Libya, injuries sustained during U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi.
J. Christopher Stevens, 52, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Libya (2012), smoke inhalation during U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi.

14th
Stephen Dunham, 48, American actor (The Mummy, What I Like About You), heart attack.

16th
John Ingle, 84, American actor (Days of our Lives, General Hospital), cancer.

17th
Tedi Thurman, 89, American fashion model and actress.
Russell E. Train, 92, American civil servant, Administrator of the EPA (1973–1977) and President of the WWF (1978–1985).

23rd
Bennie L. Davis, 94, American general (Strategic Air Command, 1981–1985).

25th
Andy Williams, 84, American singer ("Moon River") and entertainer, bladder cancer.

26th
Johnny Lewis, 28, American actor (Sons of Anarchy, The O.C.), injuries from a fall.

27th
R. B. Greaves, 68, American singer ("Take a Letter Maria"), prostate cancer.
Herbert Lom, 95, Czech-born British actor (The Pink Panther, Spartacus, Gambit, The Ladykillers).
Joseph Parker, Jr., 95, American Navy physician, last surviving physician from Omaha Beach.

28th
Michael O'Hare, 60, American actor (Babylon 5), heart attack.

29th
Bob Stevens, American college basketball coach (Oklahoma, South Carolina), boating accident.

30th
Barry Commoner, 95, American biologist and politician, founder of the Citizen's Party, 1980 presidential nominee.