The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2007.

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.

• Robert H. Ahmanson, 80, American businessman and philanthropist, heart attack.^[1]
• Tomás Medina Caracas, 42, Colombian guerrilla member of FARC, military action.^[2]
• Russell Ellington, 69, American basketball coach for the Harlem Globetrotters, lung cancer.^[3]
• Sir Abraham Goldberg, 83, Scottish doctor and medical scientist.^[4]
• Sally Haley, 99, American painter, natural causes.^[5]
• Sir Roy McKenzie, 84, New Zealand philanthropist, harness racing breeder, trainer and competitor.^[6]
• Viliam Schrojf, 76, Slovakian former football goalkeeper.^[7]
• John T. Scott, 67, black person sculptor and artist.^[8]

• Rajae Belmlih, 45, Moroccan singer, cancer.^[9]
• Anthony Day, 74, American editorial page editor for the Los Angeles Times, emphysema.^[10]
• Robert Fidgeon, 65, Australian television columnist and critic, cancer.^[11]
• Safet Isović, 71, Bosnian singer.^[12]
• Marcia Mae Jones, 83, American actress (Heidi, These Three).^[13]
• Max McNab, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and NHL general manager.^[14]
• Pat Norton, 88, Australian Olympic backstroke swimmer.^[15]
• Bill Robinson, 88, Australian rules footballer.^[16]

• Carter Albrecht, 34, American keyboardist and guitarist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians), shot.^[17]
• Clarke Bynum, 45, American basketball player (Clemson Tigers), 2000 hijack hero, cancer.^[18]
• Gustavo Eberto, 24, Argentine footballer (Boca Juniors), testicular cancer.^[19]
• Sir Hamish Forbes, 91, British soldier and aristocrat.^[20]
• Steve Fossett, 63, American adventurer, aircrash.^[21]
• Syd Jackson, 68, New Zealand Māori rights activist, cancer.^[22]
• Gift Leremi, 22, South African international footballer, car accident.^[23]
• Don Maloney, 79, American writer, author on Japan.^[24]
• Janis Martin, 67, American singer, cancer.^[25]
• Lord Michael Pratt, 61, British writer and aristocrat.^[26]
• Steve Ryan, 60, American actor (The West Wing, American Dreams, Daddio).^[27]
• Mária Szepes, 98, Hungarian writer.^[28]
• Jane Tomlinson, 43, British cancer activist, cancer.^[29]

• Michael Evans, 87, American actor.^[30]
• Bhamidipati Radhakrishna, 77, Indian playwright and scriptwriter.^[31]
• Kumari Rukmini, 78, Indian actress and dancer.^[32]
• Gigi Sabani, 54, Italian television host, heart attack.^[33]
• John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, 83, British politician and aristocrat.^[34]
• Ryūzō Sejima, 95, Japanese academic, chairman of the board of Asia University, World War II strategist.^[35]
• Seth Tobias, 44, American television commentator, financial commentator for CNBC's Squawk Box.^[36]

• Julieta Campos, 75, Cuban-Mexican writer, cancer.^[37]
• Duan Yihe, 61, Chinese congress member who arranged the murder of his mistress, execution.^[38]
• Jennifer Dunn, 66, American Representative from Washington (1993–2005), pulmonary embolism.^[39]
• Paul Gillmor, 68, American Representative from Ohio since 1989.^[40]
• Edward Gramlich, 68, American economics professor, governor of the Federal Reserve System, lymphocytic leukemia.^[41]
• Charlotte Zucker, 86, American actress.
• Thomas Hansen, 31, Norwegian musician known as "Saint Thomas", combination of prescribed drugs.^[42]
• D. James Kennedy, 76, American evangelical Protestant pastor and theologian, founder of Coral Ridge Ministries.^[43]
• Nikos Nikolaidis, 67, Greek film director, pulmonary edema.^[44]

• Martin Čech, 31, Czech international ice hockey player, car accident.^[45][46]
• Eva Crane, 95, British bee expert.^[47][48]
• Allan Crite, 97, American artist, natural causes.^[49]
• Billy Darnell, 81, American professional wrestler of the 1940s–1960s famous for feuds with Buddy Rogers.^[50]
• Wolfgang Franke, 95, German sinologist.^[51]
• Evald Gering, 89, Canadian Olympic shooter.^[52]
• Ian Gray, 69, British comics writer.^[53]
• Jack Hawkes, 92, British botanist.^[54]
• John Kelly, 71, Provisional Irish Republican Army founder-member and Northern Ireland Assembly member (1998–2003), cancer.^[55]
• Madeleine L'Engle, 88, American writer (A Wrinkle in Time), natural causes.^[56]
• Lee Ae-jung, 20, South Korean actress, complications of brain cancer.^[57]
• Ronald Magill, 87, British actor (Amos Brearly on Emmerdale Farm).^[58][59]
• Bill Muller, 42, American film critic and journalist.^[60]
• Luciano Pavarotti, 71, Italian operatic tenor, pancreatic cancer.^[61]
• Percy Rodriguez, 89, Canadian character actor and movie trailer narrator, kidney problems.^[62]
• Byron Stevenson, 50, British footballer (Wales, Leeds United, Birmingham City), throat cancer.^[63]

• Alex, 31, American-born African grey parrot, subject of animal language experiments.^[64]
• Sir John Compton, 82, St. Lucian Prime Minister (1979, 1982–1996, 2006–2007), stroke.^[65]
• Norman Deeley, 73, British footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers).^[66]
• Russell E. Dougherty, 87, American former commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command.^[67]
• Joseph W. Eschbach, 74, American doctor and kidney specialist whose research led to treatment of anemia, cancer.^[68]
• Joseph Rudolph Grimes, 84, Liberian foreign minister (1960–1972).^[69]
• Sidney Leviss, 90, American politician and judge.^[70]
• Gabriel Baccus Matthews, 59, Liberian foreign minister (1980–1981, 1990–1993).^[71]
• Mark Weil, 55, Uzbek theatre director, stabbed.^[72]

• Lord Bethell, 69, British historian of Eastern and Central Europe, human rights campaigner, Parkinson's disease.^[73]
• Jean-François Bizot, 63, French journalist, creator of "Actuel", Radio Nova, cancer.^[74]
• Adrian Esquino Lisco, 68, Salvadoran indigenous rights activist and spiritual chief, complications from diabetes.^[75]
• Vincent Serventy, 91, Australian writer and conservationist.^[76]

• Hannes Brewis, 87, South African rugby union player.^[77]
• Angie Brooks, 78, Liberian diplomat and jurist.^[78]
• Ian Campbell, 81, British politician, MP for Dunbartonshire West (1970–1983) and Dumbarton (1983–1987).^[79]
• Han Dingxiang, 71, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, detained for loyalty to the Vatican.^[80]
• ASHK Sadek, 73, Bangladeshi politician.^[81]
• Helmut Senekowitsch, 73, Austrian football player and manager.^[82]
• Zoran Tadić, 66, Croatian film director.^[83]
• Hughie Thomasson, 55, American guitarist (Outlaws), heart attack.^[84]
• Sir Tasker Watkins VC, 88, British jurist and businessman, Lord Justice of Appeal and former WRU President, after short illness.^[85]
• Xu Simin, 93, Hong Kong magazine publisher, pro-Beijing supporter, organ failure.^[86]

• Loretta King Hadler, 90, American film actress, natural causes.^[87]
• James Leasor, 83, British novelist and biographer.^[88]
• Joe Rantz, 93, American rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.^[89]
• Dame Anita Roddick, 64, British entrepreneur and founder of The Body Shop, brain haemorrhage.^[90]
• Arthur Ross, 96, American businessman and philanthropist known for his contribution to Central Park.^[91]
• Joe Sherlock, 76, Irish Teachta Dála for Cork East (1981–1982, 1987–1992, 2002–2007).^[92]
• Ted Stepien, 82, American businessman and former owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.^[93]
• Enrique Torres, 85, American professional wrestler.^[94]
• Jane Wyman, 90, American Academy Award-winning actress (Johnny Belinda), 1984 Golden Globe winner (Falcon Crest), first wife of Ronald Reagan.^[95]

• John Garrett, 76, British politician, MP for Norwich South 1974–1983 and 1987–1997.^[96]
• Ian Porterfield, 61, British footballer and manager (scored Sunderland's 1973 FA Cup winner), colon cancer.^[97]
• Gene Savoy, 80, American explorer and religious mystic, claimed discovery of over 40 lost cities in Peru, natural causes.^[98]
• James F. Smith, 84, American politician.^[99]
• Willie Tee, 63, American singer-songwriter and producer, colon cancer.^[100]
• Joe Zawinul, 75, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer, founder of Weather Report, cancer.^[101]

• Bobby Byrd, 73, American soul/funk singer, cancer.^[102]
• Daryl Holton, 45, American convicted murderer, first man executed by electric chair in Tennessee in 47 years.^[103]
• Phil Frank, 64, American cartoonist, brain cancer.^[104]
• Lou Kretlow, 86, American baseball pitcher.^[105]

• Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, 37, Iraqi leader of Anbar Salvation Council, improvised explosive device.^[106]
• Gaetano Arfé, 81, Italian politician.^[107]
• Robert Bates, 96, American mountaineer.^[108]
• Laurel Burch, 61, American artist, osteopetrosis.^[109]
• Phil Frank, 64, American cartoonist, brain tumor.^[110]
• Bill Griffiths, 59, British poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar.^[111]
• Augie Hiebert, 90, American who built Alaska's first television station (KTVA), cancer.^[112]
• Neville Jeffress, 87, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia, pneumonia.^[113]
• Colin Mitchell, 78, English cricketer.^[114]
• Clare Oliver, 26, Australian cancer activist, melanoma.^[115]
• Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi, 35, Iraqi leader of the Anbar Salvation Council, bomb.^[116]
• Whakahuihui Vercoe, 79, New Zealand retired Anglican archbishop.^[117]

• Sir Robert Honeycombe, 86, British metallurgist.^[118]
• Jacques Martin, 74, French presenter and former husband of Cécilia Sarkozy, cancer.^[119]
• Emilio Ruiz del Rio, 84, Spanish set decorator (Pan's Labyrinth), respiratory failure.^[120]
• Benny Vansteelant, 30, Belgian world champion duathlete, bike accident.^[121]

• Leslie Holligan, 29, Guyanese footballer, heart failure.^[122]
• Colin McRae, 39, British World Rally champion, helicopter crash.^[123]
• Sir Jeremy Moore, 79, British soldier, commander of UK land forces in the Falklands War.^[124]
• Specs Powell, 85, American jazz drummer, kidney disease.^[125]
• Ernie Renzel, 100, American politician, Mayor of San Jose (1945–1946), "Father of San Jose International Airport."^[126]
• Aldemaro Romero, 79, Venezuelan composer, pianist and conductor, complications of intestinal blockage.^[127]
• Brett Somers, 83, American actress, comedian and panelist (Match Game), stomach and colon cancer.^[128]

• Jean Balissat, 71, Swiss musician.^[129]
• Peter Cleeland, 69, Australian politician, MHR for McEwen (1984–1990, 1993–1996), motor neurone disease.^[130]
• Robert Jordan, 58, American fantasy novelist (The Wheel of Time), cardiac amyloidosis.^[131][132]
• Cal Rampton, 93, American politician, Governor of Utah (1965–1977), cancer.^[133]
• Garrard "Buster" Ramsey, 87, American football player and coach, pneumonia.^[134]

• Jim Furner, 79, Australian military intelligence chief.^[135]
• Stephen Medcalf, 70, British scholar.^[136]
• Rappani Khalilov, 37, Chechen militant, leader of the Shariat Jamaat, terrorist, killed by Russian troops.
• Maurice King, 72, American basketball player.^[137]
• Charlotte Lewis, 52, American basketball player.^[138]

• Augustus Akinloye, 91, Nigerian politician, founder of the Ibadan Peoples Party.^[139]
• Benyamin Yosef Bria, 51, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Denpasar.^[140]
• Norman Gaylord, 84, American chemist, developed permeable contact lens.^[141]
• Nate Hill, 41, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins, Washington Redskins).^[142]
• Pepsi Tate, 42, British bassist (Tigertailz), pancreatic cancer.^[143]
• Len Thompson, 60, Australian footballer (1965–1980), heart attack.^[144]

• Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri, 34, Iraqi sculptor, replaced Saddam Hussein statue toppled during 2003 invasion of Iraq, car accident.^[145]
• Antoine Ghanem, 64, Lebanese politician, MP, car bomb.^[146]
• Mike Osborne, 66, British jazz musician.^[147]
• Vlatko Pavletić, 76, Croatian politician, Speaker of Parliament (1995–1999), acting President (1999–2000).^[148]
• H. Emory Widener, Jr., 83, American jurist (United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit), lung cancer.^[149]

• Mahlon Clark, 84, American clarinetist, natural causes.^[150]
• Helen Elaine Freeman, 75, American endangered species (snow leopards) advocate, lung disease.^[151]
• Johnny Gavin, 79, Irish international footballer and Norwich City's record goalscorer.^[152]
• Kaljo Kiisk, 81, Estonian actor, film director and politician.^[153]
• Viktor Shershunov, 56, Russian governor of Kostroma Oblast, car accident.^[154]
• Labah Sosseh, 64, Senegalese singer.^[155]
• Sir Edward Tomkins, 91, British diplomat, ambassador to The Netherlands and France.^[156]

• Hallgeir Brenden, 78, Norwegian cross country skier, gold medallist (1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics).^[157]
• Bob Collins, 61, Australian ALP senator (1987–1998) and minister (1990–1996), suicide by alcohol and drug overdose.^[158]
• Alice Ghostley, 84, American actress (Designing Women, To Kill a Mockingbird, Grease), Tony winner (1965), colon cancer.^[159]
• Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, 81, British politician.^[160]
• Rex Humbard, 88, American televangelist, congestive heart failure.^[161]
• Paul Konsler, 94, French Olympic shooter.^[162]
• Floria Lasky, 84, American entertainment attorney and litigator, cancer.^[163]
• Ángel Romero, 75, Mexican Olympic cyclist.^[164]
• Petar Stambolić, 95, Serbian Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Serbia (1978–1982), President of Yugoslavia (1982–1983).^[165]
• Coral Watts, 53, American serial killer, complications of prostate cancer.^[166]
• Wu Xiangxiang, 92, Chinese historian.^[167]

• Albert Fuller, 81, American harpsichordist and founder of the Aston Magna Foundation and Festival.^[168]
• Herbert Gallen, 92, American chairman and owner of Ellen Tracy sportswear.^[169]
• Karl Hardman, 80, American horror film producer and actor.^[170]
• Richard Hornby, 85, British politician and businessman.^[171]
• Marcel Marceau, 84, French mime artist.^[172]
• William D. Rogers, 80, American advisor to Henry Kissinger, heart attack.^[173]
• ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá, 95, Iranian-born leader in the Baháʼí Faith.^[174]

• Renzo Barbieri, 67, Italian writer.^[175]
• Ken Danby, 67, Canadian painter.^[176]
• Ivan Hinderaker, 91, American academic, chancellor of the University of California, Riverside (1964–1979).^[177]
• John Klier, 62, British-American writer and historian.^[178]

• Geoff Cannell, 65, Manx Member of the House of Keys and sports broadcaster, stroke.^[179]
• Terry Connolly, 49, Australian judge of the ACT Supreme Court, heart attack.^[180]
• Kurt Julius Goldstein, 92, German journalist and Auschwitz survivor.^[181]
• André Gorz, 84, Austrian-born French social philosopher, suicide by lethal injection.^[182]
• Frank Hyde, 91, Australian rugby league player and commentator.^[183]
• Hiroshi Ōsaka, 44, Japanese co-founder of Bones Animation Studio, cancer.^[184]
• Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, 88, American physicist and former director of SLAC, heart attack.^[185]
• Frank Sherring, 93, Canadian politician, Mayor of Lethbridge, Alberta (1962–1968), cancer.^[186]
• Otto Spacek, 89, Czech World War II hero.^[187]
• Lenore Tawney, 100, American fiber artist.^[188]

• Haidar Abdel-Shafi, 88, Palestinian negotiator, stomach cancer.^[189]
• Patrick Bourque, 29, Canadian bass guitarist (Emerson Drive), suicide.^[190]
• Hans Colberg, 95, Danish footballer.^[191]
• André Emmerich, 82, German-born American art dealer, complications from a stroke.^[192]
• Jana Krishnamurthi, 79, Indian politician, President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (2001–2007).^[193]
• Michael Wayne Richard, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[194]
• Bill Waller, 95, American college football coach.^[195]

• Stanislav Andreski, 88, Polish sociologist.^[196]
• Robert Bruss, 67, American real estate attorney and columnist, cancer.^[197]
• Velma Wayne Dawson, 94, American creator of the Howdy Doody puppet.^[198]
• Angela Lambert, 67, British journalist, historian and novelist.^[199]
• Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, 90, Dutch secret agent, author and businessman.^[200]
• Randy Van Horne, 83, American singer of TV theme songs (The Flintstones, The Jetsons), cancer.^[201]
• Bill Wirtz, 77, American owner of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks, cancer.^[202]

• Nenad Bogdanović, 53, Serbian politician, mayor of Belgrade (2004–2007), lymphoma.^[203]
• Dale Houston, 67, American musician (Dale and Grace).^[204]
• Kenji Nagai, 50, Japanese video journalist, shot.^[205]
• Bill Perry, 77, South African-born English footballer, cancer.^[206]
• Marjatta Raita, 63, Finnish actress, cancer.^[207]
• George Rieveschl, 91, American inventor (Benadryl), pneumonia.^[208]
• Israel Segal, 63, Israeli writer and journalist, heart failure.^[209]
• Avraham Shapira, 93, Israeli rabbi, Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel (1983–1993).^[210]

• René Desmaison, 77, French mountaineer.^[211]
• Charles B. Griffith, 77, American screenwriter.^[212]
• Evelyn Knight, 89, American singer, lung cancer.^[213]
• Adam Kozłowiecki, 96, Polish-born Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lusaka (1955–1969).^[214]
• Peter Kuiper, 78, Dutch-born German actor.^[215]
• Martin Manulis, 92, American television and film producer, Emmy Award winner.^[216]
• Wally Parks, 94, American drag racing and hot rod pioneer, pneumonia.^[217]
• Derek Shackleton, 83, British cricketer (Hampshire and England).^[218]
• Hamid Shirzadeghan, 66, Iranian footballer, lung cancer.^[219]

• Cyril Martin, 79, South African Olympic wrestler.^[220]
• Lois Maxwell, 80, Canadian actress (Dr. No, Goldfinger, A View to a Kill), colorectal cancer.^[221]
• Wolfgang Preisendanz, 87, German philologist and literary critic.^[222]
• Katsuko Saruhashi, 87, Japanese scientist, pneumonia.^[223]
• Gyula Zsivótzky, 70, Hungarian hammer thrower, 1968 Olympics gold medallist, cancer.^[224]

• Al Chang, 85, American two-time Pulitzer prize-nominated military photographer, leukemia.^[225]
• John Henebry, 89, American Air Force major general, heart failure.^[226]
• Milan Jelić, 51, Bosnian politician, president of Republika Srpska entity (2006–2007), heart attack.^[227]
• Joe Mitty, 88, British founder of the Oxfam charity shop.^[228]
• C. F. D. Moule, 98, British theologian and priest.^[229]
• Eugene Saenger, 90, American radiologist and university professor.^[230]
• Oswald Mathias Ungers, 81, German architect, pneumonia.^[231]

• List of September 2007 deaths at IMDb