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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2005.
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.
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October 2005
1
- Román Torán Albero, 73, Spanish chess player.
- David Frederick Case, 73, British audiobook narrator, throat cancer.[1]
- Bruce Chamberlain, 66, Australian politician.
- Robert Hanson, 85, American aviator, last-surviving crew-member of the "Memphis Belle".[2]
- Peter Hubbard-Miles, 78, British politician.[3]
- Herbert Huber, 74, German botanist.
- Paul Pena, 55, American blues guitarist and songwriter, complications of diabetes and pancreatitis.[4]
2
- Bud Black, 73, American baseball player.[5]
- Hamilton Camp, 70, British-American singer and actor (Heaven Can Wait, The Smurfs, DuckTales), heart attack.[6]
- Pat Kelly, 61, American former Major League Baseball All-Star, heart attack.[7]
- Nipsey Russell, 80, American comedian, poet and actor, cancer.[8]
- August Wilson, 60, American playwright (Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson), liver cancer.[9]
3
- Ronnie Barker, 76, British actor and writer (The Two Ronnies, Porridge, Open All Hours), heart failure.[10]
- Seymour Boardman, 83, American artist.[11]
- Emilinha Borba, 82, Brazilian singer and actress, heart attack.[12]
- Betty Bryant, 85, British-Australian actress.[13]
- Alastair G. W. Cameron, 80, Canadian-American astrophysicist and pioneer on Stellar nucleosynthesis, heart failure.[14]
- David Cohen, 90, American politician, heart failure.[15]
- Guillaume Dustan, 39, French writer, pulmonary embolism.[16]
- Mario Encarnación, 30, Dominican baseball player.[17]
- Nurettin Ersin, 86–87, Turkish army general.
- Henry Howard, 75, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives.[18]
- Chintamoni Kar, 90, British-Indian sculptor.[19]
- Sara Levi-Tanai, 95, Israeli choreographer and song writer.[20]
- André Riou, 87, French football player.[21]
- Alfredo Rodríguez, 68, Cuban pianist from the 1960s to 2000s.[22]
- Franco Scoglio, 64, Italian soccer trainer, heart attack.[23]
- Alvin Wistert, 89, American gridiron football player.
- Jeff Young, 63, Welsh rugby union player, Alzheimer's disease.
4
- Don Arioli, 69, American-Canadian actor and writer.
- John Falloon, 63, New Zealand politician, former New Zealand Cabinet minister, brain cancer.
- Mike Gibbins, 56, Welsh drummer (Badfinger), intracranial aneurysm.
- Stanley K. Hathaway, 81, American politician, Governor of Wyoming, (1967–1975), Secretary of the Interior (1975).[24]
- Vakhtang Jordania, 62, Soviet and Georgian conductor, cancer.[25]
- Harold Leventhal, 86, American folk music promoter.[26]
- Ronald Rivlin, 90, British-American physicist, mathematician, rheologist.[27]
- William J. Ruane, 79, American philanthropist and financier, lung cancer.[28]
- André Waterkeyn, 88, Belgian engineer and hockey player.[29]
- Richard Zobel, 53, American actor, cancer.[30]
5
- Álvaro Domecq y Díez, 88, Spanish aristocrat.[31]
- Shirley Ellis, 76, American soul music singer and songwriter.[32]
- Horst Floth, 71, West German bobsledder and Olympic silver medalist, cancer.[33]
- George S. Hammond, 84, American scientist and theoretical chemist.
- Leopold Horner, 94, German chemist.
- John van Hengel, 83, American entrepreneur and food bank pioneer, Parkinson's disease.[34]
6
- Warren Benson, 81, American composer.[35]
- Harry Bugin, 76, American actor (Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsucker Proxy).
- Ray Bumatai, 52, American comedian and actor (Rocket Power), brain cancer.[36]
- Ettore Cunial, 99, Italian prelate, world's oldest Roman Catholic bishop.
- Louise Gore, 80, American Republican politician, cancer.[37]
- John V. Wehausen, 92, American applied mathematician.[38]
7
- Devery Freeman, 92, American screenwriter, novelist, television producer, and union activist.[39]
- Roger A. Freeman, 77, British military aviation historian.
- Richard Stone Reeves, 85, American equestrian portraitist.[40]
- Charles Rocket, 56, American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Dumb and Dumber, Hocus Pocus), suicide.[41]
- Jovan Soldatović, 84, Serbian and Yugoslav sculptor.
- Michael Ward, 80, English surgeon and an expedition doctor on the 1953 first ascent of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary.
8
- Tin Dekkers, 89, Dutch Olympic boxer.[42]
- Sonny Fisher, 73, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.[43]
- Alfred Goldie, 84, English mathematician.[44]
- Erik Grønseth, 80, Norwegian sociologist.[45]
- George Hislop, 78, Canadian gay activist, Parkinson's disease.
- Harry Pitt, 91, British mathematician.
- Micaela Portilla, 83, Spanish anthropologist and historian.
9
- Clóvis Bornay, 89, Brazilian carnival designer and museum curator, heart attack.[46]
- Sergio Cervato, 76, Italian football player.[47]
- Tom Cheek, 66, American sportscaster, longtime Toronto Blue Jays announcer, brain cancer.[48]
- Serge Lancel, 77, French archaeologist, historian and philologist.[49]
- Madurai N. Krishnan, 76, Indian musician.[50]
- Billy Myles, 81, American R&B songwriter and singer.
- Louis Nye, 92, American comedian, lung cancer.[51]
10
- Angelo Argea, 75, Greek longtime caddy for legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus, liver cancer.[52]
- Wayne C. Booth, 84, American professor, literary critic, and rhetorician, complications of dementia.[53]
- Nick Hawkins, 40, English guitarist (Big Audio Dynamite), heart attack.[54]
- Roland Kuhn, 93, Swiss psychiatrist.[55]
- Apollo Milton Obote, 79, Ugandan political leader, president (1980-1985), kidney failure.[56]
- Attilâ İlhan, 80, Turkish poet and writer, heart attack.
11
- Sergio Citti, 72, Italian screenwriter and film director, heart attack.[57]
- Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, 87, Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, journalist, broadcaster, and lexicographer.
- Oscar Hold, 86, English football player and manager, bladder cancer.[58]
- Jan Holden, 74, British actress (The Cheaters).[59]
- Arthur Seldon, 89, British libertarian economist.[60]
- Edward Szczepanik, 90, Polish economist and last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile.
- Cor Veldhoen, 66, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord and national team).[61][62]
- Aloysius John Wycislo, 97, American prelate, Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin.[63]
12
- Zhang Bairen, 90, Chinese underground Roman Catholic bishop, heart disease.[64]
- Robert Sidney Foster, 91, British colonial officer (Governor of Fiji).[65]
- Frank Galbally, 82, Australian lawyer.[66]
- Ghazi Kanaan, 63, Syrian politician and Interior Minister, suicide by gunshot.[67]
- Baker Knight, 72, American songwriter ("Lonesome Town").[68]
- Franco Manfroi, 66, Italian cross-country skier.[69]
- C. Delores Tucker, 78, American politician and civil rights activist.[70]
- Jack White, 63, American reporter.[71]
13
- Mustapha Bettache, 74, Moroccan football player.[72]
- Emile Capouya, 80, American publisher, author, and literary critic.[73]
- István Eörsi, 74, Hungarian left-wing intellectual, leukemia.[74]
- Vivian Malone Jones, 63, American civil rights pioneer, stroke.[75]
- Volker Tulzer, 65, Austrian Olympic athlete.[76]
- Wayne Weiler, 70, American racecar driver, heart attack.
- Marian Zieliński, 75, Polish weightlifter and Olympic medalist.[77]
14
- Edmund Bacon, 95, American urban planner.[78]
- Ian Breakwell, 62, British artist, cancer.[79]
- Winifred Mary Curtis, 100, British-Australian botanist, author, and researcher.[80]
- Oleg Lundstrem, 89, Russian jazz musician.
- Elda Pucci, 77, Italian politician and professor.
15
- Leo Bogart, 84, American sociologist, babesiosis.[81]
- Giuseppe Caprio, 90, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Jason Collier, 28, American Atlanta Hawks basketball player, heart arrhythmia.[82]
- Ramón Gaya, 95, Spanish painter and writer.[83]
- Penn Kemble, 64, American political activist, brain cancer.[84]
- Louis Pojman, 70, American philosopher and professor.[85]
- Sundara Ramaswamy, 74, Indian novelist, poet, translator, and literary critic.
- Don Rowe, 69, American baseball player and pitching coach, Parkinson's disease.[86]
- Mildred Shay, 94, American actress.[87]
- Raymond Tuckey, 95, English tennis player.
- Rik Van Nutter, 76, American actor, heart attack.[88]
- Al Widmar, 80, American MLB pitcher and pitching coach, colon cancer.[89]
- Matti Wuori, 60, Finnish advocate and politician, cancer.
16
- Jean Bastia, 86, French film director, screenwriter and film producer.[90]
- Jack Carpenter, 82, American football player.[91]
- Elmer Dresslar Jr., 80, American voice actor and vocalist, voice of the Jolly Green Giant, cancer.[92]
- Francesco Fortugno, 54, Italian politician, homicide.
- Ursula Howells, 83, British character actress (The Forsyte Saga).[93]
- Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., 90, American history professor, expert on native american history.[94]
- John Larch, 91, American character actor.
- José María Medina, 84, Uruguayan football player.
- Barrington Moore, Jr., 92, American sociologist.[95]
- David Reilly, 34, American musician (God Lives Underwater), accidental death.
17
- Tom Gill, 92, American comic book artist (The Lone Ranger).[96]
- Ba Jin, 100, Chinese writer, cancer and Parkinson's disease.[97]
- Jean Lescure, 93, French poet.[98]
- Donald Kofi Tucker, 67, American civil rights activist, complications of diabetes.[99]
18
- William Evan Allan, 106, Australian soldier, last Australian World War I veteran.[100]
- Carlos António Gomes, 73, Portuguese goalkeeper with Sporting Lisbon and Portugal's national team, Parkinson's disease.[101]
- Johnny Haynes, 71, English footballer, car accident.[102]
- John Hollis, 77, British actor of TV and film.[103]
- Stephen Katz, 59, American teacher and screenwriter, prostate cancer.[104]
- Bill King, 78, American sports broadcaster, pulmonary embolism.
- Alexander Yakovlev, 81, Russian politician and architect of perestroika, stroke.[105]
19
- Bob Carpenter, 87, American baseball player.[106]
- Wolf Rilla, 85, German-British film director and writer.[107]
- Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, 80, Bolivian politician, President (1969), heart attack.[108]
- Nguyen Van Toan, 73, South Vietnamese Lieutenant general in the ARVN.
20
- Jean-Michel Folon, 71, Belgian artist, leukemia.[109]
- Michael Gill, 81, British television producer, Alzheimer's disease.[110]
- Chalmers Goodlin, 82, American test pilot (Bell X-1 supersonic rocket plane).
- Shirley Horn, 71, American jazz singer, complications of diabetes.[111]
- André van der Louw, 72, Dutch politician, cancer.[112]
- Endon Mahmood, 64, Malaysian Prime Minister's wife, breast cancer.[113]
- Willie Sojourner, 57, American basketball player, traffic collision.[114]
- Dane Zajc, 75, Slovenian poet, playwright, and writer, cancer.
- Eva Švankmajerová, 65, Czech surrealistic painter.[115]
21
- Karin Adelmund, 56, Dutch politician, heart attack.[116]
- Robert Badham, 76, American politician, Republican US Representative from California, heart attack.[117]
- Marshall Clagett, 89, American historian of science, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.[118]
- Tara Correa-McMullen, 16, American actress, gunshot wound.
- Oscar Giacché, 82, Argentine Olympic cyclist.[119]
- John Lesinski, Jr., 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1951–1965).[120]
- Herman N. Neuberger, 87, German-American rabbi.[121]
- Lou Rossini, 84, American former basketball coach of New York University, Alzheimer's disease.[122]
- Doris Storey, 85, English breaststroke swimmer.[123]
22
- Tony Adams, 53, Irish-American film and stage producer (The Pink Panther) (Victor Victoria), stroke.[124]
- Arman, 76, French-American sculptor, cancer.[125]
- Ted Bonda, 88, American former owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team, Alzheimer's disease.[126]
- David Clapham, 74, South African racing driver and motor sport journalist.
- Franky Gee, 43, Cuban-American musician and lead singer of Captain Jack, cerebral haemorrhage.
- Liam Lawlor, 61, Irish Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD), car accident.[127]
- Reginald Lisowski, 79, American professional wrestler known as "The Crusher", brain tumor.
- Cheick Oumar Diarra, 61, Malian general, deputy executive secretary of ECOWAS, plane crash.[128]
23
- Harry Dalton, 77, American Major League Baseball executive, Parkinson's disease.[129]
- William Hootkins, 57, American actor (Star Wars, Batman, Raiders of the Lost Ark), pancreatic cancer.[130]
- Yon Hyong-muk, 73, North Korean politician, Premier (1988-1992), pancreatic cancer.[131]
- John S. Monagan, 93, American politician, US Representative from Connecticut, heart failure.[132]
- John Muth, 75, American economist.
- Reginald R. Myers, 85, United States Marine Corps officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[133]
- Stella Obasanjo, 59, Nigerian First Lady, wife of president Olusegun Obasanjo, complications from surgery.[134]
- Jaime del Burgo Torres, 92, Spanish official, writer and a Carlist activist.[135]
- Ahmet Özacar, 68, Turkish football player.
24
- Ricardo Brinzoni, 60, Argentine army Lieutenant General, pancreatic cancer.[136]
- Howie Carl, 67, American basketball player.[137]
- José Azcona del Hoyo, 78, Honduran politician, President of Honduras (1986–1990), heart attack.
- Mokarrameh Ghanbari, 77, Iranian painter.
- Immanuel C.Y. Hsü, 82, American sinologist, historian, and acamdemic.
- Jun Negami, 82, Japanese actor.
- Rosa Parks, 92, American civil rights pioneer, "founding symbol of the Civil Rights Movement".[138]
- Edward Ross Roybal, 89, Mexican-American US Representative from California, pneumonia.[139]
- Robert Sloman, 79, English screenwriter and actor.
- Maria Luise Thurmair-Mumelter, 93, German Roman Catholic theologian, hymnodist and writer.
- Frank Wilson, 81, Australian actor, singer, TV celebrity, diabetes.[140]
25
- Zarina Baloch, 70, Pakistani folk singer.
- Oswald Hanfling, 77, German philosopher.[141]
- Enid A. Haupt, 99, American publisher and philanthropist.[142]
- Martti Huhtala, 86, Finnish Nordic combined athlete and Olympic silver medalist.[143]
- Barbara Keogh, 76, British actress.
- Wellington Mara, 89, American gridiron football executive, lymphoma.[144]
- Morteza Momayez, 69, Iranian graphic designer.
- Margarita Nazarova, 78, Russian circus performer, tiger trainer and actress, heart attack.
- Nirmal Verma, 76, Indian author and literary critic, heart attack.[145]
26
- Carlo Giustini, 82, Italian actor.
- Jany Holt, 96, Romanian-French actress.[146]
- Michael Kilian, 66, American author and comics writer (Dick Tracy), liver failure.[147]
- Emil Kyulev, 48, Bulgarian millionaire banker and suspected money launderer, murdered.
- Keith Parkinson, 47, American fantasy and science fiction artist and illustrator, leukemia.
- María Luisa Robledo, 93, Spanish film and television actress.
- Richard Southwood, 74, British biologist, cancer.[148]
- George Swindin, 90, English football goalkeeper and manager (Arsenal and Cardiff City), Alzheimer's disease.[149]
- David Townsend, 50, American musician.
- Rong Yiren, 89, Chinese politician, Vice President of China (1993-1998).[150]
27
- Jozef Bomba, 66, Slovak footballer.[151]
- Georges Guingouin, 92, French Communist Party militant and resistance leader during World War II.[152]
- Kurt Jarasinski, 66, German Olympic equestrian gold medalist.[153]
- Jun Papa, 60, Filipino basketball player.[154]
- Grady Webster, 78, American plant systematist and taxonomist, heart attack.[155]
28
- Eugene K. Bird, 79, American longtime Spandau prison guard of Rudolf Hess.[156]
- Bob Broeg, 87, American Hall of Fame baseball sports writer, pneumonia.[157]
- Boris Goykhman, 86, Soviet Olympic water polo player.[158]
- Raymond Hains, 78, French artist.[159]
- Tony Jackson, 62, American basketball player, cancer.[160]
- Alberto Ormaetxea, 66, Spanish football player and coach.
- Fernando Quejas, 83, Cape Verdean singer and musician.[161]
- Paul Reynard, 78, French-American painter, lung cancer.[162]
- Richard Smalley, 62, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist, co-discoverer of fullerenes, leukemia.[163]
- Ljuba Tadić, 76, Serbian actor.[164]
- Tahsin Özgüç, 89, Turkish archaeologist.[165]
29
- Fernando Alegría, 87, Chilean poet, kidney failure.[166]
- H. K. L. Bhagat, 84, Indian politician.
- Lloyd Bochner, 81, Canadian actor (Dynasty, Point Blank, Batman: The Animated Series), cancer.[167]
- Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek, 63, Turkish prelate, highest-ranking Syriac Orthodox Church priest in Europe.[168]
- Ion Irimescu, 102, Romanian sculptor and sketcher.
- Valery Kokov, 64, Russian politician, former President of Kabardino-Balkaria, cancer.
- Sergey Savelyev, 57, Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion.[169]
- Elsa Skjerven, 85, American politician.
- Joan Kennedy Taylor, 78, American journalist, author, and political activist.[170]
30
- Gordon A. Craig, 91, American historian, congestive heart failure.[171]
- John N. Erlenborn, 78, American lawyer and U.S. Representative from Illinois, Lewy body disease.[172]
- Tetsuo Hamuro, 88, Japanese breaststroke swimmer and 1936 Olympics gold medalist.[173]
- Al Lopez, 97, American baseball manager (Chicago White Sox) and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.[174]
- Joseph Owens, 97, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and philosopher.[175]
- Horace Trevor-Cox, 97, British farmer, landowner and politician.[176]
- Emiliano Zuleta, 93, Colombian vallenato musician, respiratory disease.[177]
31
- Hal Anger, 85, American biophysicist, pioneer of nuclear medicine.[178]
- William O. Baker, 90, American scientist and former Bell Labs president, respiratory failure.[179]
- Evert Hingst, 35, Dutch lawyer, allegedly involved in organized crime, shot.[180]
- P. Leela, 72, Indian film playback singer.[181]
- Amrita Pritam, 86, Indian poet and writer.[182]
- Mary Wimbush, 81, British actress (The Archers), stroke.[183]
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