4th and final President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (b. 1916) Wilhelm Mohnke, German general (b. 1911) August 15 – Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972) August 19 – Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933) August 20 Fred Hoyle, British astronomer and writer (b. 1915) Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925) August 23 – Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919) August 24 – Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924) August 25 – Aaliyah, American singer and actress (b. 1979) (see 2001 Marsh Harbour Cessna 402 crash) August 26 – Marita Petersen, 8th prime minister of Faroe Islands (b. 1940) August 27 – Abu Ali Mustafa, Palestinian militant leader (b. 1938) August 30 – A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 9th president of Bangladesh (b. 1915) September September 2 Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon (b. 1922) Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936) September 3 Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919) Thuy Trang, Vietnamese American actress (b. 1973) September 9 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan military commander (b. 1953) September 11 – 2,996 people (2,977 victims and 19 hijackers) who died in the September 11 attacks (see Casualties of the September 11 attacks) September 12 – Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927) September 13 – Jaroslav Drobný, Czechoslovakian-Egyptian-British tennis player (b. 1921) September 14 – Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916) September 20 – Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 51st President of Venezuela (b. 1914) September 22 – Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920) September 29 Gloria Foster, American actress (b. 1933) Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, 2nd President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (b. 1923) October October 8 – Javed Iqbal, Pakistani serial killer (b. 1956) October 9 – Herbert Ross, American actor, choreographer, director, and producer (b. 1927) October 15 – Chang Hsueh-liang, Chinese military figure (b. 1901) October 17 Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete (b. 1922) Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli general and politician (b. 1926) (see assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi) October 21 – Bertie Mee, English football player and coach (b. 1918) October 22 – Georgy Vitsin, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1917) October 24 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak filmmaker (b. 1935) October 25 – Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Queen consort of Iran (b. 1932) November November Mohammed Atef, Al-Qaeda leader (b. 1944) Ravindra Kaushik, Indian spy (b. 1952) November 1 – Juan Bosch, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1909) November 3 – Sir Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born