The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2018.
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 2018
1
Kenneth Bowen, 86, Welsh operatic tenor singer. Chen Xian, 98, Chinese politician, Director of the National Bureau of Statistics (1974–1981). Carl Duering, 95, German-born British actor (Operation Daybreak, A Clockwork Orange, Possession). Irving Petlin, 83, American artist, liver cancer. Freddie Plaskett, 91, British major general and business executive. Tarun Sagar, 51, Indian Jain monk, sallekhana. Margit Sandemo, 94, Norwegian-Swedish author (The Legend of the Ice People). Jean Seitlinger, 93, French politician, lawyer and writer, Deputy (1956–1962, 1973–1997) and MEP (1979–1984). Mykola Shytyuk, 64, Ukrainian historian, stabbed. Randy Weston, 92, American jazz pianist and composer. Ehsan Yarshater, 98, Iranian scholar, director of the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University.
2
Elsa Bloise, 92, Argentine stage actress. Clarence Brandley, 66, American janitor wrongly convicted of murder, pneumonia. Ian Lariba, 23, Filipino Olympic table tennis player (2016), acute myeloid leukemia. Cornel Piper, 81, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), cancer and dementia. Kawther Ramzi, 87, Egyptian actress, circulatory collapse. Conway Savage, 58, Australian rock keyboardist (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), brain tumour. Frank Lee Sprague, 60, American guitarist and composer. Giovanni Battista Urbani, 94, Italian politician, Mayor of Savona (1957–1958), Senator (1972–1987). Claire Wineland, 21, American cystic fibrosis assistance advocate, stroke. Fred Zamberletti, 86, American athletic trainer (Minnesota Vikings), spinal osteomyelitis.
3
Rama Chowdhury, 81, Bangladeshi author, complications from diabetes. Lydia Clarke, 95, American actress (The Atomic City) and photographer, complications from pneumonia. Klaus Gerwien, 77, German footballer (Eintracht Braunschweig). Ian Hampshire, 70, Australian football player and manager (Geelong, Footscray). Jalaluddin Haqqani, 78–79, Afghan militant, founder of the Haqqani network. Warren Jones, 74, American judge, Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court (2007–2017), stroke. Ju Kyu-chang, 89, North Korean politician, director of nuclear and missile development, pancytopenia. Paul Koech, 49, Kenyan long-distance runner, half marathon world champion (1998). Jacqueline Pearce, 74, British actress (Blake's 7, Dark Season, Doctor Who), lung cancer. Gordon Phillips, 72, English football player (Hayes, Brentford) and manager (Staines Town), cancer. Katyna Ranieri, 93, Italian singer and actress (Captain Phantom). Thomas Rickman, 78, American screenwriter (Coal Miner's Daughter, Hooper, Truman), cancer.
4
Joseph Marie Régis Belzile, 87, Canadian-born Chadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Moundou (1974–1985). Marijan Beneš, 67, Bosnian Olympic boxer (1976), European amateur (1973) and pro super welterweight champion (1979–1981), complications from Alzheimer's disease. István Bethlen, 72, Hungarian aristocrat and economist, MP (1990–1994). Sydney Anicetus Charles, 92, Trinidadian-born Grenadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saint George's in Grenada (1974–2002). Sheldon S. Cohen, 91, American attorney, Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1965–1969), heart failure. Ralph Wolfe Cowan, 86, American portrait artist. Bill Daily, 91, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show) and game show panelist (Match Game). Don Gardner, 87, American rhythm and blues singer ("I Need Your Lovin'"). Jason Hairston, 47, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Denver Broncos) and hunting gear salesman, suicide. Vladeta Jerotić, 94, Serbian neuropsychiatrist and author. Ian Johnston, 71, Australian Olympic coxswain (1960), cancer. Christopher Lawford, 63, American actor (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Thirteen Days, All My Children), memoirist and political activist, heart attack. Lee Wang-pyo, 64, South Korean professional wrestler and martial artist, gallbladder cancer. Ab McDonald, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues), cancer. Bertrand Osborne, 83, Montserrat politician, Chief Minister (1996–1997). A. George Pradel, 80, American politician, Mayor of Naperville, Illinois (1995–2015), cancer. John W. Rogerson, 83, British Anglican priest and biblical scholar. Elisa Serna, 75, Spanish protest singer-songwriter, heart attack.