Deaths in September 2014 Facts for Kids

In September 2014, the world said goodbye to many interesting people. This list remembers some of the actors, musicians, athletes, and other important figures who passed away that month. Each person left their mark on the world in different ways.

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People We Remember from September 2014

Actors and Entertainers

September 1 – Gottfried John, a 72-year-old German actor, known for his role in the James Bond movie GoldenEye, died from cancer.
September 4 – Joan Rivers, an 81-year-old American actress and comedian, passed away due to respiratory and cardiac arrest. She was famous for her quick wit.
September 4 – Gustavo Cerati, a 55-year-old Argentine singer and musician from the band Soda Stereo, died from respiratory arrest.
September 9 – Denny Miller, an 80-year-old American actor who played Tarzan in Tarzan, the Ape Man, died from Lou Gehrig's disease.
September 10 – Richard Kiel, a 74-year-old American actor, famous for playing "Jaws" in James Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, passed away from heart disease.
September 11 – Joachim Fuchsberger, an 87-year-old German-Australian actor and TV host, died from multiple organ failure.
September 11 – Sir Donald Sinden, a 90-year-old English actor, passed away from prostate cancer.
September 12 – John Bardon, a 75-year-old English actor known for EastEnders, passed away.
September 17 – China Zorrilla, a 92-year-old Uruguayan actress, died from pneumonia.
September 20 – Polly Bergen, an 84-year-old American singer and actress from Cape Fear and Desperate Housewives, died from heart failure.
September 23 – Gilles Latulippe, a 77-year-old Canadian comedian and actor, passed away from lung cancer.
September 28 – Petr Skoumal, a 76-year-old Czech musician and composer, passed away.
September 29 – Luis Nishizawa, a 96-year-old Mexican painter, passed away.

Sports Stars

September 2 – Norman Gordon, a 103-year-old South African cricketer, passed away.
September 2 – Helena Rakoczy, a 92-year-old Polish Olympic gymnast, died of natural causes.
September 9 – Bob Suter, a 57-year-old American ice hockey player who won an Olympic gold medal in 1980, died from a heart attack.
September 13 – Milan Galić, a 76-year-old Serbian footballer, passed away.
September 17 – Andriy Husin, a 41-year-old Ukrainian football player and coach, died in a traffic accident.
September 20 – Rob Bironas, a 36-year-old American football player for the Tennessee Titans, died in a car accident.
September 23 – Al Suomi, a 100-year-old American professional hockey player for the Chicago Blackhawks, passed away.
September 25 – Dorothy Tyler-Odam, a 94-year-old British athlete who won two Olympic silver medals, passed away.
September 29 – George Shuba, an 89-year-old American baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers, passed away.

Scientists and Thinkers

September 1 – Joseph Shivers, a 93-year-old American textile chemist, known for developing spandex, passed away.
September 15 – Eugene I. Gordon, an 84-year-old American physicist, passed away.
September 20 – Anatoly Berezovoy, a 72-year-old Soviet cosmonaut, passed away.
September 30 – Martin Lewis Perl, an 87-year-old American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for discovering the tau particle, died from a heart attack.
September 30 – Jerrie Mock, an 88-year-old American pilot, who was the first woman to fly solo around the world, passed away.

Important Leaders

September 12 – Ian Paisley, an 88-year-old Northern Irish politician, who was the First Minister of Northern Ireland, passed away.
September 12 – Atef Ebeid, an 82-year-old Egyptian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Egypt, passed away.
September 25 – Ulrick Chérubin, a 70-year-old Canadian politician and Mayor of Amos, Quebec, passed away.