The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2004.
Johnny Bragg, 79, American leader of The Prisonaires, one of earliest music groups to record for Sam Phillips and Sun Records.
Herbert H. Haft, 84, American owner of Dart Drugs Chain, congestive heart failure.
Kenneth Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, British life peer and former chairman of Rolls-Royce, Hill Samuel, Beecham Group, and STC.
Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, Syrian Grand Mufti.
Sir Alastair Morton, 66, South African former chief executive of Eurotunnel and chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority.
Gordon Parry, Baron Parry, 78, Welsh politician.
Billy Davis, 72, American songwriter, record producer, singer and commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke).
Paul Shmyr, 58, Canadian former National Hockey League and World Hockey Association defenseman, throat cancer.
Donald Leslie, 93, American creator of the Leslie speaker.
Bob O. Evans, 77, American IBM computer scientist.
Joan Oró i Florensa, 80, Spanish biochemist.
Alan Preston, 71, New Zealand footballer and cricketer.
Brian Scarlett, 66, British physicist.
Steven Blackford, 28, American former University of Arizona wrestler, car accident.
Bob Boyd, 84, American former Major League Baseball player, first black player to sign with the Chicago White Sox, and first Baltimore Orioles to bat over .300 in the 20th century.
Alphonso Ford, 33, American-born Euroleague player, leukemia.
Michael Louden, 40, American actor, autoerotic asphyxiation.
Moe Norman, 75, Canadian PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure.
James O. Page, 68, American former chief of Emergency Medical Services and founder of modern emergency medical response, heart attack.
Bruce Armstrong, 60, Australian football player.
Fritha Goodey, 31, British actress (About a Boy), apparent suicide.
Gerald Merrithew, 73, Canadian politician and former federal cabinet minister, cancer.
Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motoracer, killed during a race.
Caroline Pratt, 42, British equestrian eventer, killed during a race
Steve Wayne, 84, American actor.
Elly Annie Schneider, 90, American dwarf actress, one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.
Harvey Wheeler, 85, American political scientist and author (Fail-Safe).
Samira Bellil, 31, French feminist activist, campaigner for Muslim girls' and women's rights, cancer.
Ian Cochrane, 62, Northern Irish novelist.
Kirk Fordice, 70, American politician, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia.
Munir, 39, Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic.
Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, 89, Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist.
Gerard Piel, 89, American publisher of Scientific American, complications from a stroke.
Richard Girnt Butler, 86, American aerospace engineer, white supremacist, founder of the Aryan Nations
Mohammad Jusuf, 76, Indonesian military general
Raymond Marcellin, 90, French politician, former Interior minister of France
Frank Thomas, 91, American Disney animator
Ernie Ball, 74, American guitar equipment maker.
Donald R. Keith, 77, American army general.
Thomas Kerr, 80, British aerospace engineer.
Dhirendranath Mondal, 75, Indian cricketer.
Jimmy Spence, 69, British ice hockey player.
Brock Adams, 77, American politician.
Leonard Birchall, 89, Canadian Air Force officer.
O.L. Duke, 51, American actor, automobile crash.
Jimmy Lewis, 66, American soul musician.
Glyn Owen, 76, British actor.
Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer.
Fred Ebb, 71, American Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack.
David Mann, 64, American graphic artist.
Peter VII, 55, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash.
Max Abramovitz, 96, American architect.
Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djiboutian politician, vice-president of the government council (1959–60) and prime minister (1977–78).
John Buller, 77, British composer.
Jerome Chodorov, 93, American playwright, My Sister Eileen.
Glenn Presnell, 99, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator, early NFL player with the Detroit Lions.
Colin Griffiths, 73, English cricketer.
John Seymour, 90, British self-sufficiency advocate.
Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor.
Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, American judge, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge. [1]
Nalda Bird, 77, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
Donald Yetter Gardner, 91, American songwriter, All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.
Daouda Malam Wanke, 58, Nigerien military and political leader, leader of the 1999 transitional government in Niger.
Johnny Ramone, 55, American guitarist and founding member of The Ramones, prostate cancer.
Dolly Rathebe, 76, South African musician.
Izora Rhodes Armstead, 62, American singer, one of the two members of The Weather Girls.
Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet.
Katharina Dalton, 87, British physician, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome.
Norman Cantor, 74, Canadian-American medieval scholar.
Russ Meyer, 82, American filmmaker.
Marvin Mitchelson, 76, American divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer.
Klara Rumyanova, 74, Russian actress.
Eddie Adams, 71, American photojournalist.
Sir Stanley Clarke, 71, British businessman and philanthropist.
Skeeter Davis, 73, American country music singer.
Robert Smith Johnston, Lord Kincraig, 85, Scottish jurist, Senator of the College of Justice (1972-1987).
Ellis Marsalis, Sr., 96, American businessman, patriarch of family of jazz musicians.
Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder.
Ryhor Reles, 91, Belarusian writer, the last writer from Belarus who wrote in Yiddish.
Eugene Armstrong, 52, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.
Brian Clough, 69, English footballer and cup-winning coach and manager.
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. [2]
Larry Phillips, 62, American stock car racer.
Ray Traylor, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man.
Roy Drusky, 74, American country music singer, Grand Ole Opry star and smooth countrypolitan stylist of the 1960s.
Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, American feminist and civil rights advocate, former editor of Ms. Magazine.
Maurice Michael Stephens, 84, British World War II flying ace.
André Hazes, 53, Dutch singer.
Nigel Nicolson, 89, British politician.
Billy Reay, 86, Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, former NHL player and coach for the Chicago Black Hawks.
Raja Ramanna, 79, Indian nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program.
Bill Ballance, 85, American radio personality, forerunner of shock jocks Tom Leykis and Howard Stern.
Tim Choate, 49, American actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident.
Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist.
Michael Davies, 68, British writer on Roman Catholicism.
Marvin Davis, 79, American industrialist and philanthropist, ex-owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach.
Alain Glavieux, 55, French mathematician, information technology pioneer.
Ma Chengyuan, 76, Chinese archaeologist, president of Shanghai Museum. Suicide.
Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida.
Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Palestinian Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb.
Gladstone Mills, 84, Jamaican academic and public servant.
John E. Mack, 74, American psychiatrist.
Tsai Wan-lin, 81, Taiwanese businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group.
Geoffrey Beene, 77, American fashion designer, pneumonia.
Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author in English.
Scott Muni, 74, American radio disc jockey.
Ernst van der Beugel, 86, Dutch economist, businessman, diplomat and politician, former Dutch junior Foreign Minister and former CEO of KLM.
Gertrude Dunn, 72, American women's baseball and field hockey player, plane crash.
David Jackson, 49, New Zealand boxer.
Christer Pettersson, 57, Swedish criminal, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.
Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident.
Shimon Wincelberg (aka S. Bar David), 80, American television writer.
Jacques Levy, 69, American songwriter, theatre director and clinical psychologist, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!.
Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor.
Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer.
Justin Strzelczyk, 36, American football offensive tackle, former National Football League Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase.
Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician.
