Lacarrière, French journalist and critic (b. 1925) 2005 – Alfred Reed, American composer and educator (b. 1921) 2009 – Dick Durock, American stuntman and actor (b. 1937) 2009 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian terrorist (b. 1968) 2011 – Colin Madigan, Australian architect and author, designed the National Gallery of Australia (b. 1921) 2012 – Melvin Charney, Canadian sculptor and architect (b. 1935) 2012 – Lou Kenton, English soldier and potter (b. 1908) 2012 – Russell E. Train, American soldier and civil servant (b. 1920) 2013 – Kristian Gidlund, Swedish drummer and journalist (b. 1983) 2013 – Larry Lake, American-Canadian trumpet player and composer (b. 1943) 2013 – Bernie McGann, Australian saxophonist and composer (b. 1937) 2013 – Alex Naumik, Lithuanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1949) 2013 – Michael J. Noonan, Irish farmer and politician, 25th Irish Minister of Defence (b. 1935) 2013 – Marvin Rainwater, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925) 2013 – Eiji Toyoda, Japanese businessman (b. 1913) 2014 – George Hamilton IV, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937) 2014 – Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1972) 2014 – Wakachichibu Komei, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1939) 2014 – Charles Read, Australian air marshal (b. 1918) 2014 – Peter von Bagh, Finnish historian, director, and screenwriter (b. 1943) 2014 – China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress (b. 1922) 2015 – Ingrīda Andriņa, Latvian actress (b. 1944) 2015 – Dettmar Cramer, German footballer and manager (b. 1925) 2015 – Milo Hamilton, American sportscaster (b. 1927) 2015 – Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1937) 2015 – David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1919) 2016 – Bahman Golbarnezhad, Iranian racing cyclist (b. 1968) 2016 – Sigge Parling, Swedish footballer (b. 1936) 2017 – Bobby Heenan, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1944) 2019 – Cokie Roberts, American journalist and bestselling author (b. 1943) 2020 – Robert W. Gore, American engineer and businessman, co-inventor of Gore-Tex (b. 1937) 2021 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algerian politician, President of Algeria (b. 1937) 2022 – Maarten Schmidt, Dutch astronomer (b. 1929) Holidays and observances Australian Citizenship Day Christian feast day: Albert of Vercelli Ariadne of Phrygia Blessed Cecilia Eusepi Stanislaus Papczyński Hildegard of Bingen Lambert Robert Bellarmine Satyrus of Milan Socrates and Stephen Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński September 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitution Day, observed on the previous Friday if it falls on a Saturday, the following Monday if on a Sunday; and the beginning of the Constitution