September 2 Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1933) Allen Drury, American writer (b. 1918) September 5 Willem Drees Jr., Dutch politician (b. 1922) Leo Penn, American actor and director (b. 1921) September 6 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1910) September 8 – Leonid Kinskey, Russian-born actor (b. 1903) September 9 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (b. 1943) September 11 – Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1912) September 13 – George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919) September 14 Yang Shangkun, 4th President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1907) Johnny Adams, American singer (b. 1932) September 15 – Fred Alderman, American sprint runner (b. 1905) September 19 – Patricia Hayes, British character actress and comedian (b. 1909) September 20 – Muriel Humphrey Brown, American politician (b. 1912) September 21 – Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959) September 23 – Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943) September 26 – Betty Carter, American jazz singer (b. 1929) September 30 Bruno Munari, Italian-born industrial designer (b. 1907) Robert Lewis Taylor, American author (b. 1912) October October 2 Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and sports team owner (b. 1907) Olin J. Eggen, American astronomer (b. 1919) Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924) October 3 – Roddy McDowall, British-born American actor (b. 1928) October 6 – Rolan Bykov, Soviet and Russian actor, director and producer (b. 1929) October 9 – Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer (b. 1917) October 10 – Clark Clifford, American lawyer and politician (b. 1906) October 11 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914) October 12 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976) October 16 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943) October 17 – Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906) October 22 – Eric Ambler, British writer (b. 1909) October 24 – Pino Dordoni, Italian athlete (b. 1926) October 26 – Kenkichi Iwasawa, Japanese mathematician (b. 1917) October 27 – Reidar Kvammen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1914) October 28 Tommy Flowers, English engineer (b. 1905) James Goldman, American writer (b. 1927) October 29 – Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930) October 30 – Apo Lazaridès, French cyclist (b. 1925) November November 3 – Bob Kane, American comic book creator (b. 1915) November 5 – Momoko Kōchi, Japanese actress (b. 1932) November 6 Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, 5th President of the Comoros (b. 1936) Niklas Luhmann, German sociologist (b. 1927) November 8 – Jean Marais,