Monday, December 28, 2009

We Hardly Knew Ye - Those We Lost in September 2009

September 30
John Couey, 51, American murderer, killer of Jessica Lunsford (the inspiration for Jessica's Law), anal cancer.

September 27th
Donald Fisher, 81, American businessman, founder of The Gap, cancer.
William Safire, 79, American speechwriter and journalist (The New York Times), pancreatic cancer.

September 26th
Amy Farris, 40, American fiddler, singer and songwriter.
Rudy LaGatta, 79, American musician (Five Fun Ghouls).
Alfred Oglesby, 42, American football player (Miami Dolphins).

September 24th
Susan Atkins, 61, American murderer ('Manson Family' member), brain cancer. Forrest Church, 61, American Unitarian Universalist minister, author and theologian, esophageal cancer.
Cryptoclearance, 25, American Thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic surgery.
Mimi Weddell, 94, American actress (Student Bodies, The Thomas Crown Affair), after short illness.

September 22nd
Summer Squall, 22, American thoroughbred stallion racehorse, 1990 Preakness Stakes winner, euthanized. Lucy Vodden, 46, British inspiration for The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", lupus.

September 20th
John Hart, 91, American actor (The Lone Ranger).

September 19th
Arthur Ferrante, 88, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher), natural causes. [111]

September 18th
John J. Wild, 95, American physician, co-developer of ultrasound use in cancer detection.

September 17th
Bob Kowalkowski, 65, American football player and coach (Detroit Lions).
Robert Searcy, 88, American member of the Tuskegee Airmen, colorectal cancer.

September 16th
Melvin Simon, 82, American shopping mall developer (Simon Property Group), producer (Porky's), Indiana Pacers owner.
Mary Travers, 72, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary), leukemia.

September 15th
George Crumbley, 86, American founder of the Peach Bowl.
Michael Knox, 48, American co-founder of Park Place Productions, producer of John Madden Football, colon cancer.

September 14th
Henry Gibson, 73, American actor (Laugh-In, Boston Legal), cancer.
Patrick Swayze, 57, American actor (Dirty Dancing, Ghost), pancreatic cancer.

September 13th
Paul Burke, 83, American actor (Naked City), leukemia.
Lonny Frey, 99, American baseball player, oldest living MLB All-Star.
Arnold Laven, 87, American film and television director (The Rifleman, The Big Valley), pneumonia.
Sarah E. Wright, 80, American novelist, complications of cancer.

September 12th
Thabet bin Laden, 49, Saudi businessman and patriarch, brother of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
George Eckstein, 81, American television writer and producer (The Fugitive), lung cancer.
Bill Sparkman, 51, American substitute teacher and census worker, hanged. [207]

September 11th
Gertrude Baines, 115, American supercentenarian, world's oldest person, suspected heart attack.
Jim Carroll, 60, American author (The Basketball Diaries), poet and musician, heart attack.
Larry Gelbart, 81, American comedy writer (M*A*S*H) and blogger (The Huffington Post), cancer.
Bob Greenberg, 75, American record executive, stroke.
Crystal Lee Jordan, 68, American union organizer, inspiration for Norma Rae, brain cancer.

September 10th
Frank Batten, 82, American businessman, founder of The Weather Channel, after long illness.
Lou Bender, 99, American basketball pioneer who popularized the sport in New York City, cancer.
Gertrude Noone, 110, American supercentenarian, world's oldest military veteran. Tony Thornton, 49, American professional boxer, injuries from a motorcycle accident.

September 9th
Sultan Munadi, 32, Afghan journalist, translator and correspondent (The New York Times), shot.

September 8th
Army Archerd, 90, American entertainment columnist (Variety), mesothelioma.
Annie Le, 24, American graduate student, homicide. [252]
Kyle Woodring, 42, American drummer (Survivor), apparent suicide by hanging.

September 7th
Frank Coghlan, Jr., 93, American silent movie actor.

September 5th
Mickie Jones, American bassist (Angel), liver cancer.
Jesse Mahelona, 26, American football player (Tennessee Titans), car accident.

September 4th
Skip Miller, 62, American music industry executive, president of Motown Records, heart attack.

September 3rd
Caro Jones, 86, American casting director (Rocky, The Karate Kid, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres), multiple myeloma.
Alec MacLachlan, 30, British hostage in Iraq (death confirmed on this date).

September 2nd
Guy Babylon, 52, American musician (Elton John band), heart attack.

September 1st
Dick Berg, 87, American screenwriter and television producer, fall.
Wycliffe Johnson, 47, Jamaican Reggae musician and composer, heart failure.
Erich Kunzel, 74, American conductor (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra), cancer. [318]
John Stephens, 43, American football player (New England Patriots), NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (1988), car accident.

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