- Sep 1 Benay Venuta [Benvenuta Rose Crooke], American actress, singer and dancer (Annie Get Your Gun; Call Me Mister), dies of lung cancer at 84
- Sep 1 Elizabeth Brown, minister healer and writer, dies at 32
- Sep 1 Ernest Marke, Sierra Leonean seaman and club owner, dies at 93
- Sep 2 Vaclav Neummann, Czech conductor, dies at 74
- Sep 3 Alec Brown, English snooker player (Daily Mail Gold Cup 1939, 40; News of the World 1951), dies at 87
- Sep 3 Donald Cuthbert Coleman, British economic historian, dies at 75
- Sep 3 Earle Birney, Canadian poet and novelist who twice won the Governor General's Award, dies at 91
- Sep 3 Mary Adshead, English muralist and painter, dies at 91
- Sep 3 Roye England, creator and founder President of the Pendon Museum of Miniature Landscape and Transport, dies at 88
- Sep 4 Chuck Greenberg, new age musician (Shadowfax), dies at 45
- Sep 4 Edmond Jouhaud, French general, dies at 90
- Sep 4 William Kunstler, American defense attorney (defended the Chicago 7), dies at 78
- Sep 5 Francis Showering, English brewer, dies at 83
- Sep 5 James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, American pianist, dies at 95
- Sep 5 John Britten, New Zealand motorcycle designer, dies at 45
- Sep 5 John Megna, American actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies of AIDS-related complications at 42
- Sep 6 Buster Mathis, American boxer (World Super Heavyweight title 1972), dies from heart failure at 52
- Sep 6 Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor, dies at 83
- Sep 7 Gordon DeMarco, American writer and activist, dies at 51
- Sep 8 Eileen Chang, Chinese-American writer and feminist, dies at 73
- Sep 8 Halldis Moren Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (Harp and Dagger), dies at 87
- Sep 8 Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of Boris Pasternak, dies of cancer at 83
- Sep 8 Safa Khulusi, Iraqi writer and historian, dies at 78
- Sep 9 Ida Carroll, English double bassist, educator, administrator (Northern School of Music, 1956-72), and composer, dies at 89
- Sep 9 Jamie Whitten, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi), dies at 85
- Sep 10 Charles Denner, French actor (The Bride Wore Black, The Man Who Loved Women), dies at 69
- Sep 10 Derek Meddings, British TV and film special effects technician (Supermarionation, James Bond), dies at 64
- Sep 10 Molly Hide, English cricketer who captained England for 17 years, dies at 81
- Sep 11 Anita Harding, British neurologist (first identification of a mitochondrial DNA mutation in human disease), dies of cancer at 42
- Sep 11 Jerome Theisen, American Abbot Primate of the Benedictine order of monks, dies of a heart attack at 64
- Sep 11 Keith Odor, British racing driver, dies during a touring car race at 33
- Sep 12 Geoffrey Stokes, American rock & roll writer, dies at 55
- Sep 12 Jeremy Brett [Peter Huggins], British actor (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; My Fair Lady), dies of heart failure at 61
- Sep 12 John Stuart-Jervis, British-American balloonist, dies after his balloon is mistakenly shot down over Belarus at 68
- Sep 12 Larry Gales, American jazz double-bassist, dies of leukemia at 59
- Sep 13 Francesco Messina, Italian sculptor, dies at 94
- Sep 13 Harold Sheperdson, British soccer trainer, dies at 76
- Sep 13 Walter Goetz, German-British illustrator, cartoonist and painter (Colonel Up and Mr. Down), dies at 83
- Sep 14 Eiji Okada, Japanese actor (Hiroshima mon amour, The Ugly American), dies of heart failure at 75
- Sep 14 Maurice K. Goddard, American state government official (b. 1912)
- Sep 15 Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish soccer striker (33 caps; AC Milan; Olympic gold 1948), dies at 73
- Sep 15 Marguerite Fawdry, English museum curator (started Pollocks Toy Museum), dies at 83
- Sep 15 Michio Watanabe, politician, dies at 72
- Sep 15 Sam McCluskie, trade unionist, dies at 63
- Sep 16 Michael Balfour, historian, dies at 86
- Sep 16 Pierre Olaf [Trivier], French actor (Camelot, Don't Drink the Water, Kraft Music Hall), dies at 67
- Sep 17 Grady Sutton, American actor (The Bank Dick; The Pruitts of Southhampton), dies at 89
- Sep 17 Lucien Victor, Belgian road racing cyclist, dies at 64
- Sep 17 Rabbi Yehuda Getz, Tunisian-Israeli soldier and religious leader, dies of a heart attack at 71 [exact birth date uncertain]
- Sep 18 Donald Davie, English Movement poet and literary critic, dies at 73 [1]
- Sep 18 Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (b. 1969)
- Sep 19 Mr. Bo [Louis Collins], American electric blues guitarist and singer, dies at 63
Orville Redenbacher (1907-1995)
Sep 19 American popcorn magnate (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn), suffers heart attack drowns in his whirlpool bathtub at 88
- Sep 19 Rudolf Peierls, German-British physicist (atomic bomb), dies at 88
- Sep 19 Walter Gross, Israeli journalist (Haaretz), dies at 83
- Sep 19 Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 55
- Sep 20 Monica Maurice, industrialist and Managing Director and Chairman of the Wolf Safety Lamp Company, Sheffield, dies at 87
- Sep 20 Walter Haas Jr., American businessman and sports team owner (Levi Strauss & Co, Oakland A's), dies of prostate cancer at 79
- Sep 21 Irven Spence, American animator, dies at 86
- Sep 21 John Lapsley, British air marshal, dies at 78
- Sep 21 Peter Shankland, English filmmaker and historian, dies at 94
- Sep 21 Rudy Perpich, American politician, 34th & 36th Governor of Minnesota, dies at 67
- Sep 21 Vernell Townsend, American blues and gospel singer, dies at 64
- Sep 21 William Murray, British teacher and educationalist, dies at 83
- Sep 22 (Dorothy) "Dolly" Collins, British folk songwriter, arranger, piano player, and composer, dies at 62
- Sep 22 Albert Goodwin, English historian, dies at 89
- Sep 22 Arthur Benfield, English celebrated head of Cheshire CID (lead investigation into 'Moors Murders'), dies at 82
- Sep 23 Lawrence "Booker T." Laury, American boogie-woogie and blues pianist and singer, dies at 81
- Sep 24 Lauri Saikkola, Finnish violinist (Viipuri Symphony, 1923–34; Helsinki Philharmonic, 1934–65), and composer (Laulusarja; Unen kaivo), dies at 89
- Sep 25 Bessie [Annie Elizabeth] Delany, American dentist and civil rights pioneer, dies at 104
- Sep 25 Dave Bowen, Welsh soccer wing-half (19 caps; Arsenal) and manager (Wales 1964-74; Northampton Town), dies at 67
- Sep 25 Dorothy Dickson, American actress and dancer (Paying the Piper, Danny Boy), dies at 102
- Sep 27 Alexander "Sasha" Argov [Abramovich], Israeli composer, dies at 80
- Sep 27 Alison "Night Bird" Steele, DJ (WNEW-FM, WXRK-FM), dies of cancer
- Sep 27 Christopher Shaw, British composer, dies at 71
- Sep 28 Allen Johnson, American doo-wop baritone vocalist (The Marcels - "Blue Moon"), dies of cancer at 55
- Sep 28 Eddy Grove, American actor (Dragnet; The Silent Service; Medic), dies at 78
- Sep 28 Lynette Roberts, British poet, dies at 86
- Sep 28 Olive Gibbs, British politician, anti-nuclear activist and peace campaigner, dies at 77
- Sep 29 Francis Johnson, British architect (country homes, churches, historic restorations), dies at 84
- Sep 29 George Chesterman Phillips, British naval officer and WWII submarine commander, dies at 90
- Sep 29 Gerd Bucerius, German lawyer, newspaper publisher (Die Zeit, 1946-95), and politician, dies at 89
- Sep 29 Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist who opposed prayer in school, murdered at 76 along with her son Jon by David Waters
- Sep 29 Seger Ellis, American jazz pianist, pop vocalist, songwriter, and bandleader, dies at 91 [1]
- Sep 29 Susan Fleetwood, British actress (Krays, Clash of Titans), dies of cancer at 51
- Sep 30 Frederick Archibald Warner, British diplomat, dies at 77
- Sep 30 George Kirby, American comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show), dies at 71
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