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. October 2005
1 David Frederick Case , 73, British audiobook narrator, throat cancer. Robert Hanson , 85, American aviator, last-surviving crew-member of the "Memphis Belle ". Peter Hubbard-Miles , 78, British politician. Harlo Jones , 81, Canadian World War II bomber pilot, stroke. Sir Edwin Manton , 96, English businessman and art collector. Renzo Nostini , 91, Italian Olympic fencer. Paul Pena , 55, American blues guitarist and songwriter, complications of diabetes and pancreatitis. 2 Bud Black , 73, American baseball player. Hamilton Camp , 70, British-American singer and actor (Heaven Can Wait , The Smurfs , DuckTales ), heart attack. Bert Eriksson , 74, Belgian political activist. Patrick Kelly , 61, American former Major League Baseball All-Star, heart attack. Alan Rees , 64, Welsh Roman Catholic monk, organist and composer. Nipsey Russell , 80, American comedian, poet and actor, cancer. August Wilson , 60, American playwright (Fences , Ma Rainey's Black Bottom , The Piano Lesson ), liver cancer. 3 Ronnie Barker , 76, British actor and writer (The Two Ronnies , Porridge , Open All Hours ). Seymour Boardman , 83, American artist. Emilinha Borba , 82, Brazilian singer and actress. Alastair G. W. Cameron , 80, Canadian-born American astrophysicist, responsible for Giant Impact Theory of Lunar Creation and pioneer work on Stellar nucleosynthesis , heart failure. Dorothy Marion Campbell , 94, English potter. Sir Peter Crill , 80, Jersey lawyer and politician, Bailiff of Jersey (1986–1995). Mario Encarnación , 30, Dominican baseball player. Nurettin Ersin , 86–87, Turkish army general. Colin McDonald , 57, New Zealand cricketer. David Cohen , 90, American politician, heart failure. Francesco (Franco) Scoglio , 64, Italian soccer trainer. David Zenoff , 89, American former Nevada Supreme Court Justice, perhaps most known for performing the marriage of Elvis Presley . 4 John Falloon , 63, New Zealand politician, former New Zealand Cabinet minister. Mike Gibbins , 56, Welsh drummer (Badfinger ). Jim Gray , 47, Northern Irish loyalist, murdered. Stanley K. Hathaway , 81, American politician, former Republican Governor of Wyoming, (1967–1975), Secretary of the Interior (1975). Vakhtang Jordania , 62, Georgian (formerly Soviet) conductor, cancer. Harold Leventhal , 86, American folk music promoter. Andrew Raven , 46, British conservationist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. William J. Ruane , 79, American philanthropist and financier, lung cancer. André Waterkeyn , 88, Belgian engineer and hockey player. 5 John Arnup , 94, Canadian jurist. Don Alvaro Domecq y Diez , 88, Spanish aristocrat. Maura Murphy , 77, Irish author. John van Hengel , 83, American entrepreneur, founder of America's Second Harvest , food bank pioneer. 6 Warren Benson , 81, American composer. Harry Bugin , 76, American actor (Barton Fink , The Big Lebowski , The Hudsucker Proxy ). Ray Bumatai , 52, American comedian and actor (Rocket Power ), brain cancer. Ettore Cunial , 99, Italian prelate, world's oldest Roman Catholic bishop. Horst Floth , 71, German bobsledder, world champion and Olympic silver medallist. Louise Gore , 80, American Republican politician from Maryland, cancer. Ronald Ray Howard , 32, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas. 7 David Birnie , 54, Australian serial killer. Tracey Miller , 51, American radio host, pioneer of women's sports broadcasting, brain cancer. Richard Stone Reeves , 85, American equestrian portraitist. Charles Rocket , 56, American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live , Dumb and Dumber , Hocus Pocus ), suicide. 8 Robert O. Beers , 89, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate . Alfred Goldie , 84, English mathematician. Janet Elizabeth Macgregor , 85, Scottish physician and cytologist, cerebrovascular disease . Sir Harry Pitt , 91, British mathematician. Anatoly Shapiro , 92, Ukrainian-born Soviet soldier. 9 Clóvis Bornay , 89, Brazilian carnival designer and museum curator, cardiac arrest. Tom Cheek , 66, American sportscaster, longtime Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer, brain cancer. Madurai N. Krishnan , 76, Indian musician. Louis Nye , 92, American comedian, lung cancer. LeRoy Whitfield , 36, African-American writer and AIDS activist, complications of AIDS. Shams Ul Huda Shams , 66, Afghan politician, President of Afghan Mellat Party and nationalist leader. 10 Angelo Argea , 75, Greek longtime caddy for legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus , liver cancer. Aivaras Balzekas , 23, Lithuanian tennis player, car accident. Wayne C. Booth , 84, American professor, literary critic, and rhetorician, complications of dementia. Nick Hawkins , 40, English guitarist (Big Audio Dynamite ), heart attack. Attila İlhan , 80, Turkish poet and writer. Milton Obote , 79, Ugandan political leader, former president of Uganda. 11 Sergio Citti , 72, Italian screenwriter and film director, frequent collaborator with Pier Paolo Pasolini ; heart attack. Carla Emery DeLong , 66, American proponent of organic farming and the homesteading movement; author of The Encyclopedia of Country Living , hypotension. Jan Holden , 74, British actress, (The Cheaters) . Joseph Neri , 91, French cyclist. Arthur Seldon , 89, British libertarian economist. Edward Szczepanik , 90, Polish economist and former and last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile . Cor Veldhoen , 66, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord and national team). 12 Zhang Bairen , 90, Chinese underground Roman Catholic bishop, heart disease. Reed Bullen , 98, American politician, broadcaster and Mormon leader. Sir Robert Foster , 91, British colonial officer, (Governor of Fiji ). Frank Galbally , 82, Australian lawyer. Ghazi Kanaan , 63, Syrian Interior Minister, officially suicide (though suspicious). Baker Knight , 72, American songwriter ("Lonesome Town "). David E. McGiffert , 79, American lawyer and Defense Department official, heart failure. C. Delores Tucker , 78, American politician, civil rights activist and former Pennsylvania Secretary of State. Jack White , 63, American reporter. Aloysius John Wycislo , 97, American prelate, Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin . 13 Emile Capouya , 80, American publisher, author, and literary critic. István Eörsi , 74, Hungarian left-wing intellectual, leukemia. Vivian Malone Jones , 63, American civil rights pioneer, stroke. Volker Tulzer , 65, Austrian Olympic athlete. Wayne Weiler , 70, American racecar driver. 14 Edmund Bacon , 95, American urban planner. Ian Breakwell , 62, British artist in multiple mediums. Ralph Graham , 95, American sportsman. Oleg Lundstrem , 89, Russian jazz musician. Joke Waller-Hunter , 58, Dutch senior United Nations official. 15 Leo Bogart , 84, American sociologist, babesiosis. Giuseppe Caprio , 90, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Jason Collier , 28, American Atlanta Hawks basketball player, heart abnormality. Voit Gilmore , 87, American Democratic politician, former North Carolina state Senator and Kennedy Administration official, complications of Parkinson's disease. Penn Kemble , 64, American political activist. Rik Van Nutter , 75, American actor. Mildred Shay , 94, American actress. Al Widmar , 80, American former Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach, colon cancer. Matti Wuori , 60, Finnish advocate and politician, cancer. 16 Jack Carpenter , 82, American football player. Elmer Dresslar Jr. , 80, American voice actor and vocalist, voice of the Jolly Green Giant , cancer. Ursula Howells , 83, British character actress (The Forsyte Saga ) . Sir John Johnston , 87, British diplomat. Alvin M. Josephy Jr. , 90, American history professor, expert on Native American history. John Larch , 91, American character actor. Eugene "Porky" Lee , 71, American child actor, lung cancer. Barrington Moore Jr. , 92, American sociologist. Børge Mortensen , 83, Danish Olympic cyclist. David Reilly , 34, American lead singer/songwriter/musician of American rock band God Lives Underwater . 17 Tom Gill , 92, American comic book artist (The Lone Ranger ). Ba Jin , 100, Chinese writer, cancer and Parkinson's disease. Antal Moldrich , 71, Hungarian Olympic modern pentathlete. Donald Kofi Tucker , 67, American civil rights activist and New Jersey General Assemblyman, complications of diabetes. Charlie Yates , 92, American amateur golfer. 18 William Evan Allan , 106, Australian soldier, last Australian World War I veteran (active service), sailor. Carlos António Gomes , 73, Portuguese goalkeeper with Sporting Lisbon and Portugal's national team in the 1950s and 1960s. Johnny Haynes , 71, English footballer, car accident. Bill King , 78, American sports broadcaster. Hal Lebovitz , 89, American Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter, cancer. Phil Starr , 72, British gay cabaret singer and comedian. Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev , 81, Russian politician and architect of perestroika . 19 Bob Carpenter , 87, American baseball player. Dallas Cook , 23, American trombone player for Suburban Legends , hit-and-run motorcycle accident. Ormond McGill , 92, American Dean of American Hypnotists, stage hypnotist, hypnotherapist, and teacher. Jim Morgan , 63, Australian rugby league footballer. Luis Adolfo Siles , 80, Bolivian politician, former President of Bolivia, heart attack. 20 Jean-Michel Folon , 71, Belgian artist. Michael Gill , 81, British television producer, Alzheimer's disease. Shirley Horn , 71, African-American jazz singer, complications of diabetes. André van der Louw , 72, Dutch politician, cancer. Otto Luedeke , 89, American Olympic cyclist. Endon Mahmood , 64, Malaysian Prime Minister's wife, breast cancer. Luis L. Ramirez , 42, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas. Besim Sahatçiu , 70, Albanian film and theatre director. Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi , Iraqi defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein 's trial, murdered by unknown assailants in Baghdad. Willie Sojourner , 57, American basketball player. Eva Švankmajerová , 65, Czech surrealistic painter. 21 Karin Adelmund , 56, Dutch politician. Robert E. Badham , 76, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from California, heart attack. Marshall Clagett , 89, American historian of science, professor emeritus at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study . Oscar Giacché , 82, Argentine Olympic cyclist. John Lesinski Jr. , 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1951–1965). Sir Nigel Mobbs , 68, British Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire . Rabbi Herman N. Neuberger , 87, German-born leader and president of Ner Israel Rabbinical College for over 50 years. Lou Rossini , 84, American former basketball coach of New York University , Alzheimer's disease. 22 Tony Adams , 53, Irish-born film and stage producer (The Pink Panther ) (Victor Victoria ) . George T. Alexander , 34, American soldier, 2,000th U.S. military death in Iraq. Arman , (né Armand Pierre Fernandez ), 76, French-born sculptor, cancer. Ted Bonda , 88, American former owner of the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team, Alzheimer's disease. Francisco Alejandro Gutierrez , 43, Cuban-born musician and lead singer of Captain Jack under his stage name "Frankie Gee", cerebral haemorrhage. Liam Lawlor , 61, Irish Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD), whose involvement in land rezoning and political corruption was the subject of the Flood Tribunal , car accident in Moscow. Reggie Lisowski , 79, American professional wrestler known as "The Crusher", brain tumor. Eleanor Saukerson , 83, American politician, member of the South Dakota Senate . 23 Harry Dalton , 77, American former Major League Baseball general manager with the Baltimore Orioles , Milwaukee Brewers , and California Angels , Parkinson's disease. Simon Hobart , 41, British club promoter. William Hootkins , 57, American actor (Star Wars , Batman , Raiders of the Lost Ark ), pancreatic cancer. Reginald R. Myers , 85, United States Marine Corps officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor . John S. Monagan , 93, American politician, former Democratic United States Representative from Connecticut, heart failure. John Muth , 75, American economist. Stella Obasanjo , 59, Nigerian First Lady, wife of Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo , complications from surgery. Yon Hyong-muk , 73, North Korean politician, former Prime Minister of North Korea, pancreatic cancer. 24 Ricardo Brinzoni , 60, Argentine military officer, Lieutenant General of the Argentine Army and former Army chief-of-staff, pancreatic cancer. Howie Carl , 67, American basketball player. Ted Dushinski , 61, Canadian former defensive back for the Canadian Football Leagues Saskatchewan Roughriders , lung cancer. Mokarrameh Ghanbari , 77, Iranian painter. José Azcona del Hoyo , 78, Honduran politician, President of Honduras (1986–1990). Denis Lindbohm , 78, Swedish science fiction author. Rosa Parks , 92, African-American civil rights pioneer, "founding symbol of the Civil Rights Movement ". Edward R. Roybal , 89, Mexican-American former Democratic United States Representative from California, pneumonia. Frank Wilson , 81, Australian actor, singer, TV celebrity. Katherine Young , 104, Chinese-born American centenarian, world's oldest Internet user. 25 Zarina Baloch , 70, Pakistani folk singer. Oswald Hanfling , 77, German philosopher. Enid A. Haupt , 99, American philanthropist. Barbara Keogh , 76, British actress. Wellington Mara , 89, American New York Giants co-owner, lymphoma. Nirmal Verma , 76, Indian author and literary critic, heart attack. Willie Williams , 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. 26 Leslie Clifford Bateman , 90, British rubber expert. Marlin Gray , 38, American convicted murderer, executed in Missouri. Michael Kilian , 66, American author and comics writer (Dick Tracy ), liver failure. Emil Kyulev , 48, Bulgarian banker, one of the richest men in Bulgaria, murdered in Sofia. Keith Parkinson , 47, American fantasy and science-fiction artist and illustrator. Sir Richard Southwood , 74, British biologist. George Swindin , 90, English football goalkeeper and manager (Arsenal and Cardiff City ). Rong Yiren , 89, Chinese politician, former Vice President of the People's Republic of China. 27 Jozef Bomba , 66, Slovak footballer. Jerry Cooke , 84, American photographer. Norman Ellis , 92, New Zealand cricketer (Auckland ). Georges Guingouin , 92, French Communist Party militant, one of the most famous French resistants. Jean-Claude Irvoas , 56, French employee, murder. Kurt Jarasinski , 66, German Olympic equestrian gold medalist. Jun Papa , 60, Filipino basketball player. Grimes Poznikov , 59, American San Francisco street performer, alcohol poisoning. 28 Peter Beet , 68, British railway preservation pioneer. Eugene K. Bird , 79, American longtime Spandau guard of Rudolf Hess . Bob Broeg , 87, American Hall of Fame baseball sports writer, pneumonia. Raymond Hains , 78, French artist. Tony Jackson , 62, American professional basketball player, former St. John's basketball standout. Tahsin Ozguc , 89, Turkish archaeologist. Fernando Quejas , 83, Cape Verdean singer and musician. Paul Reynard , 78, French-born painter, lung cancer. Richard Smalley , 62, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist, co-discoverer of fullerenes . Ljuba Tadić , 76, Serbian actor. 29 Fernando Alegría , 87, Chilean poet. H. K. L. Bhagat , 84, Indian politician. Marianne Bluger , 60, Canadian poet. Lloyd Bochner , 81, Canadian actor (Dynasty , Point Blank , Batman: The Animated Series ), cancer. Ian Bush , 22, Canadian shooting victim. Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek , 63, Turkish prelate, highest-ranking Syriac Orthodox Church priest in Europe. Roger Ghyselinck , 81, Belgian cyclist. Valery Kokov , 64, Russian politician, former President of Kabardino-Balkaria , cancer. Albert Parker , 78, English footballer. 30 Bob Allen , 91, American baseball pitcher. David Bazay , 66, English CBC ombudsman and veteran journalist. Gordon A. Craig , 91, American historian, congestive heart failure. John N. Erlenborn , 78, American lawyer and former Republican U.S. Representative from Illinois, Lewy body disease . Tetsuo Hamuro , 88, Japanese 1936 Olympics gold-medal winner in swimming. Kyle Lake , 33, American pastor at the University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas , electrocuted by microphone during a baptism service. Al López , 97, American baseball manager (Chicago White Sox ) and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame . Joseph Owens , 97, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and philosopher. Emiliano Zuleta , 93, Colombian vallenato musician, respiratory disease. 31 Hal O. Anger , 85, American biophysicist, pioneer of nuclear medicine , inventor of gamma ray camera. William O. Baker , 90, American scientist and former Bell Labs president, respiratory failure. Arthur Gary , 91, American radio and television announcer, leukemia. Evert Hingst , 35, Dutch lawyer, allegedly involved in organized crime, shot. Amrita Pritam , 86, Indian poet and writer. P. Leela , 72, Indian film playback singer. Mary Wimbush , 81, British actress (The Archers ). Volma Overton , 81, American Activist. References
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