Deaths in October 2008

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

  October 2008

1

• Ian Collier, 65, British singer and actor.
• Robert Couturier, 103, French sculptor.
• J. Don Ferguson, 74, American actor, leukemia.
• Bill Flagg, 79, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Peru.
• Daphney Hlomuka, 59, South African actress, kidney cancer.
• Val Jansante, 88, American football player.
• Detlef Lewe, 69, German canoeist, 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, after brief illness.
• House Peters, Jr., 92, American actor, pneumonia.
• Nick Reynolds, 75, American folk musician, acute respiratory disease.
• Arlene Sherman, 61, American television producer.
• LeJuan Simon, 27, Trinidadian athlete, complications of pulmonary hypertension.
• Poornam Viswanathan, 88, Indian actor, multiple organ failure.
• Boris Yefimov, 108, Russian political cartoonist.

  2

• George Anselevicius, 85, Lithuanian-born American architect.
• Bonnie Bluh, 82, American feminist writer, aortic dissection.
• Choi Jin-sil, 39, South Korean actress, suicide by hanging.
• Rob Guest, 58, British-born New Zealand actor and singer, stroke.
• Anna Hagemann, 89, German Olympic athlete.
• Shaharom Husain, 88, Malaysian historian.
• Kataejar Jibas, 55, Marshallese politician, mayor of Bikini Atoll since 2007, injuries from a car accident.
• John Sjoberg, 67, British footballer.

  3

• Zulfiqar Ahmed, 82, Pakistani cricketer, cardiac arrest.
• Mahir al-Zubaydi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot.
• Geoffrey Davis, 74, Australian doctor.
• Jean Foyer, 87, French politician, Minister of Justice and Minister of Health.
• Frederick Charles Hurrell, 80, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Hugo Ironside, 90, British soldier.
• Johnny "J", 39, American hip-hop producer, apparent suicide by jumping.
• Rajendra Singh Lodha, 66, Indian accountant, chairman of the Birla Corporation, heart attack.
• George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, 87, British businessman and journalist, MP, viral infection.

  4

• Harry Bath, 83, Australian National Rugby League player and coach, after long illness.
• Ted Briggs, 85, British sailor, last survivor of the sinking of.
• Craig Fertig, 66, American football player and coach, kidney failure.
• Al Gallodoro, 95, American jazz musician, after brief illness.
• Derek Jones, 81, British colonial official, Hong Kong Secretary for Economic Services, Environment.
• Saul Laskin, 90, Canadian politician, first mayor of Thunder Bay, heart attack.
• Peter Vansittart, 88, British writer.

  5

• Ernest Beutler, 80, American hematologist, lymphoma.
• Beth A. Brown, 39, American NASA astrophysicist, pulmonary embolism.
• Kim Chan, 90, Chinese-born American actor.
• Leopoldo Elia, 82, Italian legal scholar, President of the Constitutional Court, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Servando González, 85, Mexican documentary film director.
• Mohamed Moumou, 43, Iraqi al-Qaeda second-in-command, shot.
• Howard G. Munson, 84, American judge.
• Iba N'Diaye, 80, Senegalese painter, heart failure.
• Ken Ogata, 71, Japanese actor, liver cancer.
• Hans Richter, 89, German actor and director.
• Lloyd Thaxton, 81, American television personality, multiple myeloma.

  6

• Murad Abro, 42, Pakistani politician, road accident.
• Peter Avery, 85, British scholar and Iranian specialist.
• Larry Belcher, 61, American politician, member of Kentucky House of Representatives, car accident.
• Paul Clark, 68, British judge.
• Peter Cox, 82, Australian politician.
• Paavo Haavikko, 77, Finnish poet and playwright, after long illness.
• Olga Kaljakin, 57, American art director and film poster artist, emphysema.
• Nadia Nerina, 80, South African ballerina.
• Janaka Perera, 62, Sri Lankan general and politician, bomb blast injuries.
• Anne Margrethe Strømsheim, 94, Norwegian resistance member.
• Sir John Young, 88, Australian jurist, Chief Justice of Victoria, Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria.

  7

• Peter Copley, 93, British actor.
• Cozzene, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Bruce Dal Canton, 66, American baseball player, esophageal cancer.
• Leslie Hardman, 95, British Army Jewish chaplain at liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
• George Kissell, 88, American baseball coach, car accident.
• Ivar Mathisen, 88, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning sprint canoer.
• DeWayne McKinney, 47, American ATM entrepreneur wrongfully convicted of murder, traffic accident.
• George Emil Palade, 95, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Princess Rooney, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Miles Richmond, 85, British painter.

  8

• David Akutagawa, 71, Japanese Canadian martial artist, heart attack.
• Chicão, 59, Brazilian footballer.
• Jim Drake, 77, British rugby league player.
• Bob Friend, 70, British newscaster, cancer.
• Gidget Gein, 39, American bassist, drug overdose.
• Pete Goegan, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Tanya Halesworth, 73, Australian television news presenter, cancer.
• Eileen Herlie, 90, British-born American actress, complications of pneumonia.
• Norman Hogg, Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld, 70, British politician, MP, cancer.
• Cliff Malone, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, heart failure.
• Les McCrabb, 93, American baseball player.

  9

• Karl Albert, 87, German philosopher and professor.
• Albert Hall, 74, American hammer throw champion, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Milan Kymlicka, 72, Czech-born Canadian composer and conductor.
• David Lett, 69, American winemaker, heart failure.
• Bert Loxley, 74, British footballer and manager, after long illness.
• Ardeshir Mohasses, 70, Iranian illustrator and cartoonist, heart attack.
• Judith Wachs, 70, American musician and promoter of Sephardic music, cancer.

  10

• James Benson, 63, American entrepreneur, brain tumor.
• Alton Ellis, 70, Jamaican singer, lymphatic cancer.
• Sid Hudson, 93, American baseball player.
• Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak, 100, Pakistani politician and diplomat, after long illness.
• Gerald Leeman, 86, American wrestler, Olympic silver medallist.
• Kazuyoshi Miura, 61, Japanese businessman, murder suspect, suicide by hanging.
• Javad Nurbakhsh, 81, Iranian spiritual leader.
• Jiřina Petrovická, 85, Czech actress.
• Alexey Prokurorov, 44, Russian cross-country skier, car accident.
• Leo Rosner, 90, Polish-born Australian musician, Holocaust survivor in Schindler's List, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Summing, 30, American thoroughbred racehorse and sire, natural causes.
• Kurt Weinzierl, 77, Austrian actor.

  11

• Vija Artmane, 79, Latvian actress, complications from strokes.
• Daniel Awdry, 84, British politician, MP for Chippenham.
• William Claxton, 80, American photographer, complications of heart failure.
• Kevin Foster, 39, American baseball player, renal cancer.
• Jörg Haider, 58, Austrian politician, Governor of Carinthia, leader of the FPÖ and BZÖ, car accident.
• Russ Hamilton, 76, British singer.
• Ernst-Paul Hasselbach, 42, Surinamese-born Dutch television producer, car accident.
• Neal Hefti, 85, American composer, heart attack.
• William J. Higginson, 69, American poet and translator.
• Randy Johnston, 20, American male model, accidental drug overdose.
• Hayley Marie Kohle, 26, Canadian fashion model, suicide by jumping.
• Badar Munir, 68, Pakistani actor, complications of cardiac arrest.
• Scarlett, 13, American stray cat, name source of the Scarlett Award for Animal Heroism, animal euthanasia.
• Mark Shivas, 70, British film and television producer, Head of BBC Drama.
• Allan Spear, 71, American politician, first openly gay member of Minnesota Senate, complications of heart surgery.
• Gil Stratton, 86, American television and radio sportscaster, heart failure.
• Nelson Symonds, 75, Canadian jazz guitarist, heart attack,

  12

• Sukha Bose, 77, Indian cricket umpire.
• Lenvil Elliott, 57, American football player, heart attack.
• Chuck Evans, 41, American football player, heart failure.
• Sir Dick Franks, 88, British Head of the Secret Intelligence Service.
• Roy K. Moore, 94, American FBI agent known for civil rights investigations, pneumonia.
• Cliff Nobles, 67, American pop musician, cancer.
• Rudolf Pangsepp, 87, Estonian book designer and artist.
• James E. Reilly, 60, American soap opera writer, complications from cardiac surgery.
• John R. Reilly, 80, American lawyer, adviser to six Democratic presidential candidates, cancer.
• Allan Rosenfield, 75, American physician, dean of Columbia University School of Public Health, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Emil Steinberger, 79, American physician, lung cancer.

  13

• Khryss Adalia, 62, Filipino film, television and stage director, colorectal cancer.
• Pablo Barrachina Estevan, 95, Spanish bishop of Orihuela-Alicante.
• Alexei Cherepanov, 19, Russian ice hockey player, acute cardiomyopathy.
• Arthur J. Crowns, 86, American politician and academic lawyer.
• Guillaume Depardieu, 37, French actor, pneumonia.
• Antonio José González Zumárraga, 83, Ecuadorian cardinal, stomach cancer.
• Luciana Pignatelli, 73, Italian socialite, suicide by drug overdose.
• Matthew John Rinaldo, 77, American politician, member of the House of Representatives, Parkinson's disease.
• Paul Rogers, 87, American politician, member of the House of Representatives, lung cancer.
• Frank Rosenthal, 79, American gaming executive, sports handicapper, inspiration for the 1995 film Casino, heart attack.
• Eduardus Sangsun, 65, Indonesian bishop of Ruteng, heart attack.
• Françoise Seigner, 80, French comedian and actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Eduardo Serrano, 97, Venezuelan musician, conductor and composer.
• Adam Watene, 31, Cook Islands rugby league player, heart attack.
• Christopher Wicking, 65, British screenwriter.