Patrick Swayze (1952-2009)
Sep 14 American actor (Ghost), dancer (Dirty Dancing), and songwriter, dies of pancreatic cancer at 57
Mary Travers (1936-2009)
Sep 16 American folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary - "Puff" (The Magic Dragon)"; "Leaving On A Jet Plane"), dies of leukemia at 72
- Sep 17 Leon Kirchner, American contemporary classical composer (Pulitzer Prize for Music 1967), dies of congestive heart failure at 90
- Sep 19 Arthur Ferrante, American pianist and composer (Ferrante & Teicher - Exodus), dies at 88
- Sep 25 Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica), dies at 86
- Sep 29 Greg Ladanyi, Hungarian-American record producer and recording engineer, dies of injuries sustained in a fall at 57