Deaths in September 2011

September 30th
* Anwar al-Awlaki, 40, American-born Yemeni cleric and Al-Qaeda official, airstrike.
* Lee Davenport, 95, American physicist, helped develop SCR-584 radar, cancer.
* Peter Gent, 69, American football player (Dallas Cowboys) and author (North Dallas Forty).
* Mike Heimerdinger, 58, American football coach (Tennessee Titans), cancer.
* Clifford Olson, 71, Canadian serial killer, cancer.
* Ralph M. Steinman, 68, Canadian immunologist, announced as 2011 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, pancreatic cancer.
* Marv Tarplin, 70, American guitarist and songwriter (The Miracles).

September 29th
* Sylvia Robinson, 75, American singer (Mickey & Sylvia), music producer and record label executive, heart failure.

September 28th
* Heidi, 3, American-born cross-eyed opossum at Leipzig Zoo, euthanised.

September 27th* David Croft, 89, British television comedy writer and producer (Are You Being Served?, Dad's Army).
* Wilson Greatbatch, 92, American engineer, inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker.
* Johnny "Country" Mathis, 77, American singer-songwriter.
* Johnnie Wright, 97, American country music singer (Johnnie & Jack), husband of Kitty Wells.

September 26th
* Bob Cassilly, 61, American sculptor, founder of City Museum, bulldozer accident.
* Jessy Dixon, 73, American gospel musician.
* David Zelag Goodman, 81, American screenwriter (Straw Dogs), progressive supranuclear palsy.
* Uan Rasey, 90, American film trumpeter (Chinatown, Singin' in the Rain), heart ailment.

September 25th
* Helen Reichert, 109, American talk show personality and New York University professor.

September 23rd
* Orlando Brown, 40, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens), diabetic ketoacidosis.

September 22nd
* Peter E. Berger, 67, American film editor (Fatal Attraction, Alvin and the Chipmunks), leukemia.
* Vesta Williams, 53, American R&B singer.

September 21st
* Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
* Troy Davis, 42, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
* John Du Cann, 66, British musician (Atomic Rooster), heart attack.

September 20th
* Frank Driggs, 81, American Grammy Award-winning jazz producer, musician and archivist, natural causes.
* Arch West, 97, American marketing executive credited with developing Doritos.
* Robert Whitaker, 71, British photographer, shot The Beatles' butcher album cover, cancer.

September 19th
* Thomas Capano, 61, American convicted murderer, heart attack.

September18th
* Norma Holloway Johnson, 79, American federal judge, first African American woman to serve as a district court chief judge, stroke.
* Bayless Manning, 88, American lawyer, Dean of Stanford Law School (1964–1971), first President of the Council on Foreign Relations.
* William F. May, 95, American film society founder (Film Society of Lincoln Center), heart failure.

September17th
* Ernest House Sr., 65, American tribal leader, Chairman of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (1982–2010), injuries from a motorcycle accident.
* Eleanor Mondale, 51, American television personality, daughter of Walter Mondale, brain cancer.

September16th
* John P. Carroll, 12, American bulldog, mascot of Georgetown University.
* Norma Eberhardt, 82, American actress (Live Fast, Die Young, The Return of Dracula), stroke.
* Kara Kennedy, 51, American television producer, daughter of Ted Kennedy, heart attack.
* Jimmy Leeward, 74, American stunt and racing pilot, plane crash.
* Ted Mullighan, 72, Australian jurist, cancer.
* Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, 75, American blues musician.
* Tom Wilson, Sr., 80, American cartoonist (Ziggy).

September15th
* Frances Bay, 92, Canadian character actress (Happy Gilmore, Blue Velvet, The Middle).
* Dorothy Harrell, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
* Mo Rothman, 92, Canadian-born American movie executive, persuaded Charlie Chaplin to return to the United States, Parkinson's disease.

September14th
* Jack Garner, 84, American actor (The Rockford Files, My Fellow Americans), brother of James Garner.
* Carl Oglesby, 76, American anti-war activist, lung cancer.
* Steven Michael Woods, Jr., 31, American murderer, executed by lethal injection.

September12th
* Bill Cash, 92, American Negro league baseball player.
* Wade Mainer, 104, American bluegrass musician, heart failure.

September11th
* Arthur Evans, 68, American gay rights activist and author, aortic aneurysm.

September 8th
* Mary Fickett, 83, American actress (All My Children), complications of Alzheimer's disease.

September 7th
* Notable ice hockey players and coaches among the 44 killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:
o Vitali Anikeyenko, 24, Ukrainian
o Mikhail Balandin, 31, Russian
o Gennady Churilov, 24, Russian
o Pavol Demitra, 36, Slovakian
o Robert Dietrich, 25, German
o Marat Kalimulin, 23, Russian
o Alexander Kalyanin, 23, Russian
o Alexander Karpovtsev, 41, Russian coach, world champion (as player, 1993), Stanley Cup champion (as player, 1994, with New York Rangers)
o Andrei Kiryukhin, 24, Russian
o Nikita Klyukin, 21, Russian, world U18 champion (2007)
o Igor Korolev, 41, Russian coach
o Stefan Liv, 30, Swedish, Olympic gold medalist (2006), world champion (2006)
o Jan Marek, 31, Czech
o Brad McCrimmon, 52, Canadian coach, Stanley Cup champion (as player, 1989, with Calgary Flames)
o Sergei Ostapchuk, 21, Belarusian
o Karel Rachůnek, 32, Czech, world champion (2010)
o Ruslan Salei, 36, Belarusian
o Maxim Shuvalov, 18, Russian
o Kārlis Skrastiņš, 37, Latvian
o Pavel Snurnitsyn, 19, Russian
o Daniil Sobchenko, 20, Russian, world junior champion (2011)
o Ivan Tkachenko, 31, Russian
o Pavel Trakhanov, 33, Russian
o Yuri Urychev, 20, Russian, world junior champion (2011)
o Josef Vašíček, 30, Czech, world junior champion (2000), world champion (2005), Stanley Cup champion (2006, with Carolina Hurricanes)
o Alexander Vasyunov, 23, Russian
o Alexander Vyukhin, 38, Ukrainian
o Artem Yarchuk, 21, Russian

September 6th
* Bruce Dan, 64, American researcher (toxic shock syndrome), complicatons of a bone marrow transplant.
* Michael S. Hart, 64, American author, inventor of the e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg, heart attack.
* George Kuchar, 69, American film director, prostate cancer.


September 5th
* Charles S. Dubin, 92, American film and television director (Hawaii Five-O, Kojak, M*A*S*H), natural causes.

September 4th
* Lalla Aicha, 81, Moroccan princess, first female Arab ambassador, Ambassador to United Kingdom (1965–1969); Greece (1969–1970); Italy (1970–1973).
* Victor Bussie, 92, American labor activist, president of Louisiana AFL–CIO, stomach cancer.