Deaths in October 2004

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  October 2004

1

• Richard Avedon, 81, American fashion and portrait photographer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Frank Kendall Everest Jr., 84, American Air Force officer.
• Ron Hayes, 75, American television actor, suicide by jumping.
• Joyce Jillson, 58, American astrologer, newspaper columnist, author and actress, kidney failure.
• Bruce Palmer, 58, Canadian bassist, heart attack.
• Aleksandr Rogov, 48, Soviet Olympic canoer.

  2

• Shaul Amor, 63, Israeli politician.
• Bjørnar Andresen, 59, Norwegian jazz musician.
• Max Geldray, 88, Dutch jazz harmonica player often credited as the world's first, and Goon Show performer.
• Fialho Gouveia, 69, Portuguese radio and TV presenter, respiratory failure.
• Norm Schachter, 90, American gridiron football official and referee.
• Nick Skorich, 83, American NFL gridiron football player and coach, complications from heart surgery.

  3

• Vernon Alley, 89, American jazz bassist.
• Jacques Benveniste, 69, French immunologist and physician.
• John Cerutti, 44, American Major League Baseball baseball player, announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays.
• Donald Wills Douglas, Jr., 87, American industrialist and sportsman.
• Matthäus Hetzenauer, 79, Austrian Wehrmacht sniper during World War II.
• Janet Leigh, 77, American actress, vasculitis, heart attack.
• Frits van Turenhout, 91, Dutch sports journalist.

  4

• Helmut Bantz, 83, German Olympic gymnast.
• Syd Bycroft, 92, English football player.
• Rodolfo Celletti, 87, Italian musicologist, critic, voice teacher, and novelist.
• Gordon Cooper, 77, American astronaut and aeronautical engineer, one of the original Mercury Seven, heart failure.
• Rio Diaz, 45, Filipino beauty queen, television presenter, actress and politician, colorectal cancer.
• Michael Grant, 89, British ancient historian.
• Emīlija Gudriniece, 84, Soviet/Latvian chemist.
• Nilamani Routray, 84, Indian politician and Chief Minister.

  5

• Mario Ramón Beteta, 79, Mexican economist.
• Rodney Dangerfield, 82, American comedian and actor, Grammy winner, complications from heart surgery.
• William H. Dobelle, 62, American biomedical researcher, eye doctor and artificial vision pioneer, complications of diabetes.
• John Richards, 77, British Royal Marines general.
• Wayne Rutledge, 62, Canadian professional ice hockey player, stomach cancer.
• Maurice Wilkins, 87, New Zealand-British physicist and molecular biologist, Nobel laureate.

  6

• Frederica de Laguna, 98, American anthropologist and archaeologist.
• Johnny Kelley, 97, American long-distance runner and Olympian.
• William Clark, Baron Clark of Kempston, 86, British politician and peer.
• Pete McCarthy, 52, British travel writer and broadcaster, cancer.
• Marvin Santiago, 56, Puerto Rican salsa singer, complications of diabetes.
• Norm Schlueter, 88, American baseball player.
• Veríssimo Correia Seabra, 57, Bissau-Guinean military commander, beaten to death in mutiny.
• Clem Tholet, 56, Rhodesian singer and songwriter.
• Harbhajan Singh Yogi, 75, Indian spiritual leader and head of the Sikh Dharma in the western hemisphere, heart failure.

  7

• Michael C. Astour, 87, Soviet-American professor of Yiddish and Russian literature.
• Kenneth Bigley, 62, British civil engineer taken hostage in Iraq, beheaded by hostage takers, decapitation.
• T. J. Binyon, 68, British author, Oxford professor, Pushkin scholar and crime novelist, heart attack.
• Wolfgang Grzyb, 64, German football player.
• Oscar Heisserer, 90, French football player.
• Tony Lanfranchi, 69, British racing driver, cancer.
• Miki Matsubara, 44, Japanese singer, cervical cancer.
• Rosemary Murray, 91, British chemist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
• Jacques Noël, 84, French fencer.
• Hildy Parks, 78, American actress, writer and TV producer, complications of stroke.
• Július Toček, 65, Czechoslovak rower and Olympic medalist.
• Nikola Dimitrov Tzanev, 64, Bulgarian football player.

  8

• James Chace, 72, American historian, heart attack.
• Irina Demick, 67, French actress.
• Tony Giuliani, 91, American baseball player.
• Kenneth G. Mills, 81, Canadian philosopher and musician.
• Johnny Sturm, 88, American baseball player and minor league manager, congestive heart failure.

  9

• Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher, pancreatic cancer.
• Maxime Faget, 83, American aerospace engineer, designer of the Mercury space capsule, bladder cancer.
• Herschel Grossman, 65, American economist.
• Don McEvoy, 75, English football player and manager.
• Bryan R. Wilson, 78, British author of religious books.

  10

• Ken Caminiti, 41, American baseball player, drug overdose.
• David G. Chandler, 70, British historian.
• Kelsey Jones, 82, Canadian composer, pianist, harpsichordist, and music teacher, kidney failure.
• Christopher Reeve, 52, American actor, heart failure.
• Arthur H. Robinson, 89, American cartographer and geographer.
• Maurice Shadbolt, 72, New Zealand novelist, playwright and journalist, Alzheimer's disease.
• John William Tebbel, 91, American journalist, editor, writer, teacher, and media historian.

  11

• Paul Bryan, 91, British politician.
• Bobby Cook, 81, American basketball player.
• Lord Nicholas Gordon-Lennox, 73, British diplomat, Ambassador to Spain.
• Elisabeth Klein, 93, Hungarian-Danish pianist.
• Ben Komproe, 62, Netherlands Antilles politician, Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, complications from gastric surgery.
• Mary Loos, 94, American actress, screenwriter, and novelist, complications from stroke.
• Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 82, British peer, politician and landowner.
• Keith Miller, 84, Australian cricketer, Australian rules footballer, fighter pilot and journalist.
• Gulshan Rai, 80, Indian film producer and distributor.
• Fernando Sabino, 80, Brazilian writer and journalist, cancer.

  12

• Tommy Kalmanir, 78, American football player.
• Samson Kutsuwada, 57, Japanese wrestler, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Jackie McGrory, 62, Scottish football player.
• Shigehiro Ozawa, 82, Japanese film director and screenwriter.

  13

• Mike Blyzka, 75, American baseball player.
• Erik Bye, 78, Norwegian journalist, radio/TV host, actor, and singer/songwriter, cancer.
• Enrique M. Fernando, 89, Filipino judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
• David Grose, 59, American archaeologist and classicist.
• Grethe Holmer, 80, Danish actress.
• Nirupa Roy, 73, Indian film actress, heart attack.
• Bernice Rubens, 76, British Booker Prize-winning novelist, complications from stroke.
• Ivor Wood, 72, British animator, cancer.
• Tetsu Yano, 80, Japanese science fiction writer and translato, colorectal cancer.

  14

• Peter Adelaar, 57, Dutch Olympic judoka.
• Ted Blakey, 79, American historian, activist, and businessman.
• Juan Francisco Fresno, 90, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile.
• Mohamed Zahir Ismail, 80, Malaysian lawyer and politician, kidney failure.
• Cordell Jackson, 81, American rockabilly musician.
• Sheila Keith, 84, British actress.
• Lokesh, 57, Indian actor.
• Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, 67, British peer, historian and member of the House of Lords, complications of emphysema.
• Ivan Shamiakin, 83, Soviet Belarusian writer.
• Dattopant Thengadi, 83, Indian Hindu ideologue and trade union leader.

  15

• Bill Eyden, 74, British jazz drummer.
• Dave Godin, 68, British soul music promoter and journalist, coined the term "northern soul".
• Per Højholt, 76, Danish poet.
• Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist.
• Thiruthuraipoondi Radhakrishnan Pappa, 81, Indian music director of Tamil, Telugu and Sinhalese films.
• Tex Ritter, 80, American professional basketball player.

  16

• Doug Bennett, 52, Canadian rock singer.
• Vincent Brome, 94, British biographer and novelist.
• Susana Campos, 70, Argentine actress, brain cancer.
• Don Carlson, 85, American basketball player.
• Harold Perkin, 77, English social historian.
• Pierre Salinger, 79, American journalist and Press Secretary to John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, heart failure.
• Tomasz Strzembosz, 74, Polish historian and writer.
• Bassam Zuamut, 53, Israeli Arab actor and screenwriter, kidney disease.

  17

• Ray Boone, 81, American Major League Baseball player, patriarch of first third-generation MLB family.
• Wu Faxian, 89, Chinese revolutionary and military officer, commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force/.
• Julius Harris, 81, American actor, heart failure.
• Uzi Hitman, 52, Israeli singer, songwriter and composer, heart attack.
• Bas Pease, 81, British physicist.
• Franco Prosperi, 78, Italian film director and screenwriter.
• Andreas Sassen, 36, German football player, stroke.

  18

• Nancy Carline, 94, British artist.
• Edwin Arthur Hall, 95, American politician.
• Richie Lemos, 84, Mexican-American boxer.
• Elizabeth Nicholls, 58, American-Canadian paleontologist, cancer.
• Fermin Rocker, 96, British painter and book illustrator.
• Veerappan, 52, Indian criminal known as "Jungle Cat", shot by Special Task Force.
• Viktor Zubarev, 31, Kazakhstani football player, drug overdose.

  19

• Antoine Abel, 69, Seychellois writer.
• Anita Bitri, 36, Albanian pop singer, carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Frank Chapple, 83, British trade unionist.
• Kenneth E. Iverson, 84, Canadian computer scientist, inventor of the APL programming language, stroke.
• Sang Lee, 51, Korean-American three-cushion billiard player, stomach cancer.
• Elizabeth May McClintock, 92, American botanist.
• Veljko Milatović, 82, Montenegrin communist partisan, politician, and President.
• Paul Nitze, 97, American diplomat and Cold War arms negotiator, pneumonia.
• Calvin Ruck, 79, Canadian member of Parliament.
• Greg Shaw, 55, American rock music journalist and record label executive, heart attack.
• Lewis Urry, 77, Canadian chemical engineer and inventor.