The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2005. 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. September 2005 1 Terry Albritton, 50, American shotputter. Manuel Ausensi, 85, Spanish opera singer. R. L. Burnside, 78, American blues musician. Uvedale Corbett, 95, British soldier, politician and businessman. Barry Cowsill, 50, American pop-singer and writer, victim of Hurricane Katrina. Nikki Tilroe, 63, American puppeteer. Jacob A. Marinsky, 87, American chemist, co-discoverer of the element Promethium. Yang Kuan, 91, Chinese historian. Zdobysław Stawczyk, 82, Polish Olympic sprinter. 2 Tom Bailey, 56, American footballer. Bob Denver, 70, American actor (Gilligan's Island, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Good Guys), complications from throat cancer. Adrian Karsten, 45, American ESPN announcer, suicide. Alexandru Paleologu, 86, Romanian diplomat. Warren Thomas, 47, American comedian. 3 Rudolf Bäcker, 91, German World War II soldier. R. S. R. Fitter, 92, British natural historian. Robert W. Funk, 79, American biblical scholar, founder of the Jesus Seminar, lung failure. Bernard S. Meyer, 89, American lawyer and politician. Jens Nygård, 71, Norwegian Olympic sports shooter. William Rehnquist, 80, American lawyer and jurist, Chief Justice of the United States, thyroid cancer. James Rossi, 69, American Olympic cyclist. Ekkehard Schall, 75, German actor. 4 Lloyd Avery II, 36, American actor (Boyz n the Hood) and convicted murderer, beaten. Dame Nancy Buttfield, 92, Australian politician. Stanley Jennings, 84, American cartoonist, journalist. Patricia McQueeney, 77, American actress and talent agent. Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann, 67, Filipino-American microbiologist and botanist, Parkinson's disease. Alan Truscott, 80, British bridge player, writer, and editor, one of the best known bridge columnists. Arnold Weinstein, 78, American poet, playwright, and librettist, liver cancer. 5 Hank Anderson, 84, American basketball coach and athletics director. Rizal Nurdin, 57, Indonesian politician, Governor of North Sumatra, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crash. Dhan Singh Thapa, 77, Indian Army officer and recipient of the Param Vir Chakra. Raja Inal Siregar, 67, Indonesian politician, former Governor of North Sumatra, Indonesia, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crash. 6 Hasan Abidi, 76, Pakistani journalist and poet. Eugenia Charles, 86, Dominican politician, Prime Minister (1980–1995), after long illness. William John Kennedy, 86, Australian Aboriginal rights activist. Mark Matthews, 111, American supercentenarian and Army first Sergeant, oldest living Buffalo Soldier. Perugu