The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2004.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

• Kenneth Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, British life peer and chairman of Rolls-Royce, Beecham Group, and STC.^[1]
• Delkash, 80, Iranian singer and actress.
• Kaye Elhardt, 69, American television actress.
• Herbert Haft, 84, American pharmacists and businessman, congestive heart failure.^[2]
• Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, Syrian Grand Mufti, heart attack.
• Alan Stewart, 86, New Zealand educator and university administrator.

• Tom Capone, 38, Brazilian music producer and guitar player, traffic collision.
• Billy Davis, 72, American songwriter, record producer, and commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke).^[3]
• Kieth Engen, 79, American operatic bass singer.^[4]
• Bob O. Evans, 77, American computer scientist.^[5]
• Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, 88, German actor.^[6]
• Donald Leslie, 93, American audio engineer and inventor of the Leslie speaker.
• Francesco Mander, 88, Italian conductor and composer.^[7]
• Joan Oró, 80, Spanish biochemist.^[8]
• Vonda Phelps, 89, American child stage actress, vaudeville performer and dancer.
• Paul Shmyr, 58, Canadian NHL hockey player, throat cancer.^[9]
• Rose Slivka, 85, American writer, critic and editor.^[10]
• Eleni Zafeiriou, 88, Greek film actress.^[11]

• Archer Blood, 81, American career diplomat and academic.^[12]
• Yanis Kanidis, 74, Russian physical education teacher, killed by Chechen extremists.
• André Stil, 83, French novelist, short story writer, occasional poet, and political activist.^[13]
• Frenchy Uhalt, 94, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).^[14]

• George Baird, 97, American sprint runner.^[15]
• Samira Bellil, 31, French feminist activist, campaigner for Muslim girls'- and women's rights, stomach cancer.^[16]
• Walter Campbell, 83, Australian judge, administrator and governor.^[17]
• Alphonso Ford, 33, American Euroleague basketball player, leukemia.
• Serge Marquand, 74, French actor, leukemia.^[18]
• Moe Norman, 75, Canadian PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure.
• James O. Page, 68, American chief of Emergency Medical Services, heart attack.^[19]

• Winston Anglin, 42, Jamaican football player, traffic collision.^[20]
• Red Cochran, 82, American gridiron football player and later NFL scout.^[21]
• Gerald Merrithew, 73, Canadian politician and federal cabinet minister, cancer.
• Gerard Piel, 89, American science writer and editor (Scientific American), stroke.^[22]

• Antonio Corpora, 95, Tunisian-Italian painter.^[23]
• Netzahualcóyotl de la Vega, 73, Mexican trade union leader and politician.
• Morey Leonard Sear, 75, American judge (United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana).^[24]
• Harvey Wheeler, 85, American political scientist and author (Fail-Safe), cancer.^[25]

• Ashfaq Ahmad, 79, Pakistani writer, playwright and broadcaster, gallbladder cancer.^[26]
• Bob Boyd, 84, American Major League Baseball player, first black player to sign with the Chicago White Sox.^[27]
• Lev Burchalkin, 65, Soviet football player and Russian coach.^[28]
• Kirk Fordice, 70, American politician, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia.
• Fritha Goodey, 31, British actress (About a Boy), suicide by stabbing.^[29]
• Beyers Naudé, 89, South African theologian and anti-apartheid activist.^[30]
• Miriam Pires, 78, Brazilian actress, toxoplasmosis.
• Gong Qiuxia, 85, Chinese actress and singer.
• Hal Reniff, 66, American baseball player (New York Yankees, New York Mets).^[31]
• Munir Said Thalib, 38, Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic poisoning.
• L.E. White, 74, American Grammy Award-winning songwriter, singer and musician.

• John F. Bolt, 83, United States Marine Corps flying ace during World War II and the Korean War.
• Francis Burt, 86, Australian jurist.^[32]
• Richard Girnt Butler, 86, American white supremacist, founder of the Aryan Nations, heart failure.^[33]
• Matías Prats Cañete, 90, Spanish radio and television journalist, kidney disease.^[34]
• Mohammad Jusuf, 76, Indonesian military general.
• Raymond Marcellin, 90, French politician, Minister of the Interior (1968–1974).^[35]
• Bror Mellberg, 80, Swedish football player.^[36]
• Tsutomu Mizukami, 85, Japanese writer of novels, biographies, and plays.^[37]
• Dan Spătaru, 64, Romanian singer, heart attack.
• Manuel María Fernández Teixeiro, 74, Spanish poet and academic.^[38]
• Frank Thomas, 91, American animator (Cinderella, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp), cerebral hemorrhage.^[39]
• James Westphal, 74, American scientist, engineer, and astronomer.^[40]

• Luis Advis, 69, Chilean professor of philosophy and music composer.^[41]
• Ernie Ball, 74, American guitar equipment maker.
• Aleksei Barkalov, 58, Ukrainian water polo player and Olympic champion.^[42]
• Caitlin Clarke, 52, American theater and film actress, ovarian cancer.^[43]
• Ralph Hawkins, 69, American football coach, dementia.^[44]
• Jean-Daniel Pollet, 68, French film director and screenwriter.^[45]

• Brock Adams, 77, American politician, Parkinson's disease.^[46]
• Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, 45, Yemeni islamist, politician and military leader, killed in action.
• Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer, teacher, and pianist.^[47]
• Leonard Birchall, 89, Canadian Air Force officer.
• Richard Karlan, 85, American actor.^[48]
• Ken Meuleman, 81, Australian cricket player.^[49]
• Glyn Owen, 76, British actor (Emergency – Ward 10, Howards' Way), cancer.^[50]

• Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, 55, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash.^[51]
• Aaron Director, 102, Russian-American economist and academic.
• Fred Ebb, 71, American Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack.^[52]
• Margaret Kelly, 94, Irish dancer and founder of the Bluebell Girls.^[53]
• David Mann, 64, American graphic artist.

• Max Abramovitz, 96, American architect.^[54]
• Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djiboutian politician, prime minister (1977–1978).^[55]
• Kenny Buttrey, 59, American drummer and arranger, cancer.^[56]
• Jerome Chodorov, 93, American playwright, My Sister Eileen.^[57]
• Ray Simons, 91, South African communist, anti-apartheid activist, and trade unionist.
• Jack Turner, 84, American racecar driver.
• Dr. Wagner, 68, Mexican professional wrestler, or Luchador, heart attack.

• Charlie Brandt, 47, American serial killer, suicide by hanging.
• Bill Glassco, 69, Canadian theatre director and producer.^[58]
• Luis E. Miramontes, 79, Mexican chemist.
• Glenn Presnell, 99, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions) and coach.^[59]
• Eric Sams, 78, British musicologist and William Shakespeare scholar.^[60]

• Fernando Campos, 80, Chilean football midfielder.
• Dakar, 83, Peruvian actor.
• Rota Onorio, 84, Kiribati politician.
• Richard Pierce, 86, American historian and scholar.^[61]
• Giuni Russo, 53, Italian singer ("Un'estate al mare"), cancer.
• John Seymour, 90, British author and self-sufficiency advocate.^[62]
• Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor.^[63]
• Mamoru Takuma, 40, Japanese mass murderer (Ikeda school massacre), executed.^[64]

• Donald G. Brotzman, 82, American politician.^[65]
• Bernard Gribble, 77, British film editor (Top Secret!, Death Wish, The Jokers).
• Johnny Ramone, 55, American guitarist (The Ramones), prostate cancer.^[66]
• Walter Stewart, 73, Canadian writer, editor and journalism educator, cancer.^[67]
• Daouda Malam Wanké, 58, Nigerien military and political leader.
• Austin Herbert Woolrych, 86, English historian.^[68]

• Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet.^[69]
• Izora Armstead, 62, American singer, one of the two members of The Weather Girls, heart failure.^[70]
• Michael Donaghy, 50, American poet and musician, brain haemorrhage.
• Ramón Gabilondo, 91, Spanish football player and manager.
• Claude Jaeger, 87, Swiss- French film producer and actor.^[71]
• Livio Maitan, 81, Italian trotskyist and a leader of the Fourth International.^[72]
• Giovanni Raboni, 72, Italian poet, translator and literary critic.^[73]
• Dolly Rathebe, 76, South African singer and actress (Jim Comes To Jo'burg), stroke.^[74]

• Katharina Dalton, 87, British physician, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome.^[75]
• Evi Rauer, 88, Estonian actress and television director.^[76]
• H. S. Rawail, 83, Indian filmmaker.
• Galina Rumiantseva, 77, Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist.
• Sudheer, Indian actor.

• Jim Barnett, 80, American professional wrestling promoter and executive, pneumonia.^[77]
• Norman Cantor, 74, Canadian-American medieval scholar.^[78]
• Kyohei Fujita, 83, Japanese glass artist.
• Russ Meyer, 82, American filmmaker, pneumonia.^[79]
• Marvin Mitchelson, 76, American divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer.^[80]
• Klara Rumyanova, 74, Soviet and Russian actress and voice actress, breast cancer.

• Eddie Adams, 71, American photojournalist, ALS.
• Árpád Bogsch, 85, Hungarian-American international civil servant.
• Stanley Clarke, 71, British businessman and philanthropist, colorectal cancer.^[81]
• Skeeter Davis, 73, American country music singer, breast cancer.^[82]
• Annabella Incontrera, 61, Italian film and television actress.
• Waldren "Frog" Joseph, 86, American jazz trombone player.^[83]
• Damayanti Joshi, 76, Indian kathak dancer.
• Robert Lawrence, 90, Canadian film editor.^[84]
• Ryhor Reles, 91, Belarusian Yiddish writer.
• Derald Ruttenberg, 88, American investor and industrialist.^[85]
• Kenneth Sandford, 80, English singer and actor.^[86]
• Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder, snowboarding accident.^[87]

• Brian Clough, 69, English footballer, coach and manager, stomach cancer.
• Salil Dutta, 72, Indian Bengali director, screenwriter and actor.
• Pat Hanly, 72, New Zealand painter, Huntington's disease.^[88]
• Townsend Hoopes, 82, American historian and government official, melanoma.^[89]
• Štěpánka Mertová, 73, Czech Olympic discus thrower.^[90]
• Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer and television journalist.

• Alan Beaumont, 69, Australian admiral, chief of Australian Defence Forces.
• Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.^[91]
• Bob Mason, 53, British actor and writer, esophageal cancer.^[92]
• David Pall, 90, Canadian-American chemist, invented sophisticated filters used in blood transfusions, Alzheimer's disease.^[93]
• Larry Phillips, 62, American stock car racer.^[94]

• Edward Larrabee Barnes, 89, American architect.^[95]
• Cy Block, 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), Alzheimer's disease.^[96]
• Winston Cenac, 79, Saint Lucian civil servant and politician.
• Big Boss Man, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man, heart attack.
• Pete Schoening, 77, American mountaineer, cancer.^[97]
• Alex Wayman, 83, American tibetologist and indologist.^[98]

• Bryce DeWitt, 81, American theoretical physicist, pancreatic cancer.^[99]
• Roy Drusky, 74, American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry star, lung cancer.^[100]
• André Hazes, 53, Dutch folk singer, heart failure.^[101]
• Lucille Lisle, 96, Australian actress.
• Dominic Montserrat, 40, British egyptologist and papyrologist.^[102]
• Nigel Nicolson, 89, British politician.^[103]
• Bülent Oran, 80, Turkish screenwriter and actor.^[104]
• Billy Reay, 86, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Chicago Black Hawks), liver cancer.^[105]
• Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, American feminist and civil rights advocate.^[106]
• Dido Sotiriou, 95, Greek novelist, journalist, and playwright, pneumonia.

• Tim Choate, 49, American actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident.^[107]
• Raja Ramanna, 79, Indian nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program.^[108]
• Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist and playwright, pulmonary embolism.^[109]
• Roman Tsepov, 42, Russian businessman and confidant to Vladimir Putin, poisoned.
• Ron Willey, 74, Australian rugby player and coach.

• Ma Chengyuan, 76, Chinese archaeologist, president of Shanghai Museum, suicide.
• Michael Davies, 68, British writer on Roman Catholicism, cancer.^[110]
• Nigel Davies, 84, British anthropologist and historian.^[111]
• Marvin Davis, 79, American industrialist and philanthropist, owned Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach.^[112]
• Alain Glavieux, 55, French mathematician and information technology pioneer.^[113]
• Heinz Günther Guderian, 90, German Wehrmacht officer and Bundeswehr general after World War II.
• Robert C. James, 86, American mathematician.
• Arun Kolatkar, 71, Indian poet.^[114]
• Giorgio Moser, 80, Italian film director and screenwriter.

• Víctor Cruz, 46, Dominican baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, Texas Rangers), liver problems.^[115]
• Amjad Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida, killed by Pakistani security forces.^[116]
• Einar Førde, 61, Norwegian journalist and politician of the Labour Party, cancer.
• Natik Hashim, 44, Iraqi football midfielder, heart attack.^[117]
• Marianna Komlos, 35, Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model and professional wrestler, breast cancer.^[118]

• Amanda Crowe, 76, American Cherokee woodcarver and educator.^[119]
• Shobha Gurtu, 79, Indian singer.^[120]
• John Edward Mack, 74, American psychiatrist and writer, killed by a drunken driver.^[121]
• Louis Satterfield, 67, American bass and trombone player.
• Vittorio Sentimenti, 86, Italian football player.^[122]
• Dick Stenberg, 83, Swedish Air Force lieutenant general.
• Bernard Slicher van Bath, 94, Dutch social historian.^[123]
• Tsai Wan-lin, 80, Taiwanese billionaire businessman, cardiovascular disease.^[124]

• Thea Altaras, 80, Croatian-German architect.
• Luigi Amerio, 92, Italian electrical engineer and mathematician.
• Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author, pneumonia.^[125]
• Geoffrey Beene, 77, American fashion designer, pneumonia.^[126]
• Christl Cranz, 90, German alpine ski racer.^[127]
• Geo Dumitrescu, 84, Romanian poet and translator.
• Willis Hawkins, 90, American aeronautical engineer and director (Lockheed).^[128]
• Scott Muni, 74, American radio disc jockey.^[129]
• Viktor Rozov, 91, Soviet and Russian dramatist and screenwriter.^[130]
• J. H. van Lint, 72, Dutch mathematician, professor and university president.

• Balamani Amma, 95, Indian poet, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ernst van der Beugel, 86, Dutch economist, businessman, diplomat and politician.
• FannyAnn Eddy, 30, Sierra Leonean LGBT activist, stabbed.^[131]
• Christopher Hancock, 76, British television and theatre actor, heart attack.
• David Jackson, 49, New Zealand boxer.^[132]
• Christer Pettersson, 57, Swedish criminal, suspected murderer of prime minister Olof Palme, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, racing accident.^[133]
• Thure von Uexküll, 96, German scholar of psychosomatic medicine and biosemiotics.
• Heinz Wallberg, 81, German conductor.^[134]
• Antje Weisgerber, 82, German film and television actress, and wife of actor Horst Caspar.^[135]
• Shimon Wincelberg, (aka S. Bar David), 80, American television writer.^[136]
• Patrick Wormald, 57, British historian.

• Isabel Freire de Matos, 89, Puerto Rican writer, educator, and journalist.
• Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician, heart attack.
• Jacques Levy, 69, American songwriter, theatre director and clinical psychologist.^[137]
• Mathias Matthies, 93, German art director.
• Mildred McDaniel, 70, American high jumper and Olympic champion, cancer.
• Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch investigative journalist and author, cancer.^[138]
• Michael Relph, 89, English film producer, art director and film director (nominated for Academy Award for Best Production Design for Saraband).^[139]
• Shivaji, 47, Indian actor.
• Justin Strzelczyk, 36, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), car crash while leading police on chase.^[140]
• Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor.^[141]

• List of September 2004 deaths at IMDb