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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2005.

31

• Hal O. Anger, 85, pioneer of nuclear medicine, inventor of gamma ray camera. ^*
• William O. Baker, 90, American scientist and former Bell Labs president, respiratory failure. ^*
• Ryan Richard Carriere, 32, Canadian cartoonist ^*
• Milton Elkin, 89, American early radiologist, complications of Alzheimer's disease. ^*
• Evert Hingst, Dutch lawyer, allegedly involved in organized crime, shot. ^*.
• John "Beatz" Holohan, 31, drummer for pop-punk band Bayside.
• Katheryne Seep Loughran, 79, American artist, cancer. ^*
• V. K. Madhavan Kutty, 71, Indian journalist and author. ^*
• Valerie McKenzie, 82, veteran AP photojournalist, brain cancer. ^*
• Alan Pifer, 84, former head of the Carnegie Corporation. ^*
• Amrita Pritam, 86, Indian poet and writer. ^*
• Thomas P. Ronan, 96, veteran New York Times reporter. ^*
• Mary Wimbush, 81, British actress (The Archers). ^*

30

• David Bazay, 66, English CBC ombudsman and veteran journalist.
• Chester L. Cooper, 88, veteran American diplomat, congestive heart failure. ^*
• Gordon A. Craig, 91, American historian, congestive heart failure. ^*
• John N. Erlenborn, 78, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois, Lewy body disease. ^*
• Tetsuo Hamuro, 88, 1936 Olympics gold-medal winner in swimming.
• Kyle Lake, 33, pastor at the University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, electrocuted by microphone during a baptism service. ^*
• Ghalib Abdul Mehdi, brother of Iraq Vice President Adil Abdul Medhi and government official, murdered in roadside ambush. ^*
• Maurice Rosenfeld, 91, American attorney and film producer (Bang the Drum Slowly), heart failure. ^*
• Emiliano Zuleta, 93, Colombian vallenato musician, respiratory disease. ^*

29

• Lloyd Bochner, 81, Canadian character actor, cancer. ^*
• Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek, 63, highest-ranking Syriac Orthodox Church priest in Europe. ^*
• John Elliott, Jr., 84, American advertising executive, cerebral hemorrhage. ^*
• Robert Gerle, 81, American concert violinist, Parkinson's disease. ^*
• Valery Kokov, 64, former President of Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, cancer.
• Al Lopez, 97, oldest living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• H. Hunter Lott, Jr., 90, American squash champion. ^*
• Bradley Mosley, 22, former University of South Florida basketball player, kidney cancer. ^*
• Rodney Richardson, 88, jazz bassist.

28

• Eugene K. Bird, 79, longtime Spandau guard of Rudolf Hess. ^*
• Bob Broeg, 87, American Hall of Fame baseball sports writer, pneumonia. ^*
• Robert Paschal Burns, 71, American architect, car accident. ^*
• Alston Callahan, 94, American ophthalmologist. ^*
• Raymond Hains, 78, French artist. ^*
• Tony Jackson, 62, former St. John's basketball standout. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/sports/ncaabasketball/02jackson.html
• Cheryl McCall, 55, director of documentary films, political activist, advocate for the homeless.
• Tahsin Ozguc, 89, Archaeologist. ^*
• Fernando Quejas, 83, Cape Verdean singer and musician. ^*
• Paul Reynard, 78, French-born painter, lung cancer. ^*
• Richard Smalley, 62, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, co-discoverer of fullerenes. ^*
• Ljuba Tadić, 76, Serbian actor

27

• Georges Guingouin, 92, one of the most famous French resistants. ^*
• Archelaus L. Hamblen Jr., 86, retired U.S. Army brigadier general, complications of a stroke. ^*
• Jean-Claude Irvoas, 56, French employee, murder.
• Tom Masland, 55, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, injuries suffered in a car accident. ^*
• Rene Moreau, 108, among the last remaining French veterans of World War I. ^*
• Eugene Petersen, 81, UC Berkeley chemist, cancer. ^*
• Grimes Poznikov, 59, San Francisco street performer, alcohol poisoning. ^*
• George Swindin, 90, English football goalkeeper and former manager of Arsenal and Cardiff City.

26

• Marlin Gray, 38, American convicted murderer, executed in Missouri.
• Jany Holt, 94, French actress and WWII resistance fighter
• Michael Kilian, 66, American author, writer of the Dick Tracy comic, liver failure. ^*
• Emil Kyulev, 48, one of the richest men in Bulgaria, murdered in Sofia.^*
• Angus McIntosh, 91, linguist and medievalist, during World War II he cooperated on decrypting Enigma codes, died in Edinburgh. ^*
• William L. McLaughlin, 77, American radiation scientist, pancreatic cancer. ^*
• Keith Parkinson, 47, fantasy and Science-fiction artist and illustrator
• David Townsend, 50, R&B musician, guitarist/keyboardist for the band Surface (four number one R&B hits including "The First Time," number one Hot 100 in 1991.
• Rong Yiren, 89, former Vice President of the People's Republic of China. ^*

25

• George T. Alexander, Jr., 34, 2,000th U.S. military death in Iraq. [http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20051025-4982.html
• Ricardo Brinzoni, 60, Lieutenant General of the Argentine Army and former Army chief-of-staff, pancreatic cancer. [http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/10/25/um/m-01077691.htm
• Craig D. Calam, 56, American musician, actor, comedian, cast member (as "Mugsy") of T.V's Uncle Floyd Show and creator of The 11th Hour, cancer. ^*
• Frans van Dusschoten, 72, Dutch comedian and voice artist, cancer. ^*
• Enid A. Haupt, 99, American philanthropist. ^*
• Wellington Mara, 89, 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.
• Barbara Keogh, 76, British actress.

24

• Ruth Clement Bond, 101, American quilter and civic leader. ^*
• Ted Dushinski, 61, former defensive back for the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders, lung cancer.
• Phil Hays, 74, American illustrator. ^*
• Richard H. Holton, 79, American economist, former official in the Kennedy and L. Johnson Administrations, cancer and Parkinson's disease. ^*
• José Azcona del Hoyo, 78, President of Honduras (1986–1990).
• Denis Lindbohm, 78, Swedish science-fiction author.
• Jun Negami, 82, Japanese actor.
• Rosa Parks, 92, African-American civil rights pioneer; "founding symbol of the American Civil Rights Movement". ^*" target="_blank" >[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/national/25parks.html
• Edward R. Roybal, 89, Mexican-American former Democratic United States Representative from California, pneumonia
• Frank Wilson, 81, Australian actor, singer, TV celebrity.

23

• Harry Dalton, 77, former Major League Baseball general manager with the Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers, and California Angels, Parkinson's disease. ^*
• Fred S. Fox, 90, American television script writer, especially comedies, pneumonia. ^*
• Simon Hobart, 41, British club promoter. ^*
• William Hootkins, 58, American actor.
• Reginald R. Meyers, 85, Marine Medal of Honor recipient during Korean War, complications from a stroke. ^*
• John S. Monagan, 93, former Democratic United States Representative from Connecticut, heart failure. ^*
• John Muth, 75, American economist.
• Stella Obasanjo, 59, wife of Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, complications from surgery. ^*
• Yon Hyong-muk, 73, former Prime Minister of North Korea, pancreatic cancer. ^*

22

• Tony Adams, 53, Irish-born film and stage producer (The Pink Panther) (Victor/Victoria).
• Arman (né Armand Pierre Fernandez), 76, French-born sculptor, cancer. ^*
• Ted Bonda, 88, former owner of the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team, Alzheimer's disease. ^*
• Francisco Alejandro Gutierrez, 43, musician and lead singer of Captain Jack under his stage name "Frankie Gee", cerebral haemorrhage.
• Václav Král, 69, Czech car designer. (Czech Wikipedia).
• Liam Lawlor, 61, disgraced former 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, former American professional wrestler known as "The Crusher", brain tumor.
• Arley Reece, 63, American operatic tenor.

21

• Karin Adelmund, 56, Dutch politician.
• Robert E. Badham, 76, former Republican United States Representative from California, heart attack. ^*
• Marshall Clagett, 89, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, historian of science. ^*
• Tara Correa-McMullen, 16, actress who appeared on Judging Amy, shooting. ^*
• Dick Galiette, 72, early ESPN anchor and longtime football broadcaster. ^*
• Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein's trial, murdered by unknown assailants in Baghdad. ^*
• Sir Nigel Mobbs, 68, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. ^*
• Rabbi Herman N. Neuberger, 87, leader and president of Ner Israel Rabbinical College for over 50 years^*.
• Lou Rossini, 84, former basketball coach of New York University, Alzheimer's disease. ^*
• Leopold Steiner, 62, controversial Austrian businessman, convicted of fraud. ^*
• Bob White, 77, American cartoonist (Archie Comics) ^*

20

• Liis Bender, 58, Estonian actress.
• 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. ^*
• Endon Mahmood, 64, Malaysian Prime Minister's wife, breast cancer. ^*
• Luis Ramirez, 42, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
• Eva Švankmajerová, 65, Czech surrealistic painter. ^* (in Czech)

19

• Robert H. Johnston, 77, American archeologist, expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. ^*
• Corinne Levesque, 61, wife of former Quebec Premier René Lévesque, throat cancer
• Ormond McGill, 92, American Dean of American Hypnotists, stage hypnotist, hypnotherapist, and teacher. ^*
• Luis Adolfo Siles, 80, former President of Bolivia, heart attack. ^*
• Edward R. Telling, 86, American businessman, cancer. ^*
• Dallas Cook, 23, trombone player for Suburban Legends, hit-and-run motorcycle accident.

18

• Julian Alfaro, 28, Argentine race car driver, after October 16 accident.
• William Evan Allan, 106, last Australian World War I veteran (active service), sailor. ^*
• Bernard Carr, 94, American actor and film director.
• William Foist, 73, former Project Apollo control chief.
• Sidney Geist, 91, American sculptor, teacher, and art critic, stroke. ^*
• Johnny Haynes, 71, English footballer, car accident. ^*
• Bill King, 78, American sports broadcaster.
• Hal Lebovitz, 89, Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter, cancer.
• John Mink, 81, businessman, husband of late United States Representative Patsy Mink. ^*
• Letchemanah Ramasamy, 55, Malaysian strongman and world record holder. ^*
• Louise H. Stanford, 62, American civil rights activist and author. ^*
• Phil Starr, 72, British gay cabaret singer and comedian.
• Märt Tiru, 58, Estonian general.
• Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, 81, Russian politician and architect of perestroika.

17

• Marvin Chodorow, 92 Stanford University physics professor, helped develop the klystron tube.
• Tom Gill, 92, American comic book artist (The Lone Ranger). ^*
• Carlos Gomes, 73, Portuguese goalkeeper with Sporting Lisbon and Portugal in the 1950s and 1960s. ^*
• Ba Jin, 100, Chinese writer, cancer and Parkinson's disease.
• Kannan, 70, Indian actor.
• Donald K. Tucker, 67, civil rights activist and New Jersey General Assemblyman, complications of diabetes. ^*
• Charles Yates, 92, professional golfer, played in first Masters, Parkinson's disease. ^*

16

• Leo Bogart, 84, American sociologist, babesiosis. ^*
• William S. Busik, U.S. Navy captain, former star college football player. ^*
• Elmer Dresslar, Jr., 80, voice of the Jolly Green Giant, cancer. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/arts/television/27dresslar.html
• Ursula Howells, 83, British character actress (The Forsyte Saga).
• Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., 90, American history professor, expert on Native American history. ^*
• Penn Kemble, 64, American political activist. ^*
• John Larch, 91, American character actor.
• Eugene "Porky" Lee, 71, American child actor, lung cancer.
• Barrington Moore, Jr., 92, American sociologist. ^*
• David Reilly, 34, lead singer/songwriter/musician of American rock band God Lives Underwater.
• Debbie Runions, 55, prominent American AIDS activist, complications of AIDS. ^*
• Thomas Swayze, Jr., 74, former Republican Speaker of the House of Washington State. ^*

15

• Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio, 90, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Jason Collier, 28, Atlanta Hawks basketball player, heart abnormality ^*

• Voit Gilmore, 87, former North Carolina state Senator and Kennedy Administration official, complications of Parkinson's disease. ^*
• Efraim Reuytenberg, 91, Israeli painter, known for use of Chinese motifs. ^*
• Kathryn O. Scott, 94, American textile conservator, among the pioneers of that practice. ^*
• Mildred Shay, 94, American actress.
• Arthur W. Wang, 87, American publisher, Alzheimer's disease. ^*
• Al Widmar, 80, former Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach, colon cancer. ^*
• David J. Wimer, 65, American business and political consultant, cancer. ^*
• Matti Wuori, 60, Finnish advocate and politician, cancer.

14

• Edmund Bacon, 95, American urban planner and the father of actor Kevin Bacon. ^*
• Ian Breakwell, 62, British artist in multiple mediums.
• David Citino, 58, American poet and professor, multiple sclerosis. ^*
• Ralph M. Graham, 95, American former star college football player and coach. ^*
• Martha Nell Hardy, 79, American actor and professor, cancer. ^*
• Oleg Lundstrem, 89, Russian jazz musician.
• Joke Waller-Hunter, 58, Dutch senior United Nations official. ^*

13

• Emile Capouya, 80, American publisher, author, and literary critic. ^*
• Lt Cdr Andy Chalmers, 84, British submarine officer who helped prevent advanced German weapons technology from reaching Japan in World War 2.

• István Eörsi, 74, Hungarian left-wing intellectual, leukemia. ^*
• Thomas Frutig, 59, Swiss businessman. ^*
• Vivian Malone Jones, 63, civil rights pioneer, stroke. ^*
• Marie Lord (aka Marie Ryan), 100, American actress; wife of late actor Jack Lord. ^*
• Pierre van Ostade, 88, Dutch radio and television personality. ^*.
• Armelio Ferras Pellicer, 92, Cuban revolutionary. ^*
• Philip Robbins, 74, American journalist, professor, and constitutional law expert. ^*
• Jerome Roth, 87, American oboist, Alzheimer's disease. ^*
• Robert M. Scott, 76, former president of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, liver failure. ^*
• Wayne Weiler, 70, racecar driver.

12

• Zhang Bairen, 90, Chinese underground Roman Catholic bishop, heart disease. ^*
• Mary Chaney, 77, noted American courtroom sketch artist. ^*
• Frank Galbally, 82, Australian lawyer, criminal advocate, defender in celebrated murder trials; described as the “father of Australian multiculturalism”.
• 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. ^*
• Joseph Pons, Sr., 83, American thoroughbred horse breeder, heart attack. ^*
• C. Delores Tucker, 78, civil rights activist and former Pennsylvania Secretary of State. ^*
• Jack White, 63, American reporter. ^*

11

• Tony Bass, 71, Dutch singer-songwriter. ^*
• Sergio Citti, 72, Italian screenwriter and film director, frequent collaborator with Pier Paolo Pasolini; heart attack. ^*
• Sonji Clay-Glover, 59, singer, famous as the first wife of Muhammad Ali, apparent heart attack. ^*
• Carla Emery DeLong, 66, American proponent of organic farming and the homesteading movement, author of The Encyclopedia of Country Living. Complications of low blood pressure.
• Alex Harvin, 55, Democratic former South Carolina House Majority Leader. ^*
• Jan Holden, 74, British actress, (The Cheaters).
• Attila İlhan, 80, Turkish poet and writer.
• Arthur Seldon, 89, British libertarian economist. ^*
• Edward Szczepanik, 90, former and last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile.
• Cor Veldhoen, 66, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord and national team). [http://www.feyenoord.nl/domains/feyenoord/pages/article_v2.asp?content=12790000011589_2_12770000000008
• Aloysius John Wycislo, 97, Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin. ^*

10

• Angelo Argea, 75, 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, electric guitarist with Big Audio Dynamite, heart attack. ^*
• Betty Lee Hunt, 85, Broadway producer and agent, non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ^*
• Henk Jurriaans, 64, Dutch artist. ^*
• Larry "Flame" Moore, 56, surfing photographer, brain cancer. ^*
• Margaret Russo, 56, Australian tennis player, brain cancer. ^*
• Milton Obote, 80, former Ugandan president.

9

• Clóvis Bornay, 89, Brazilian carnival designer and museum curator, cardiac arrest. ^*
• Tom Cheek, 66, longtime Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer, brain cancer. ^*
• Mackie McLeod, 57, American anti-Apartheid activist, kidney failure. ^*
• Louis Nye, 92, American comedian, lung cancer. ^*
• Steven Peck, 76, American dancer, choreographer and actor, cancer. ^*
• Ted Peschak, 87, American educational film director, colon cancer. ^*
• Frederic Quitkin, 68, American psychiatrist, expert on depression, pancreatic cancer. ^*
• George Ringwald, 81, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, cancer. ^*
• LeRoy Whitfield, 36, African-American writer and AIDS activist, complications of AIDS. ^*
• Shams Ul Huda Shams, 66, President of Afghan Mellat Party and nationalist leader. ^*

8

• Phil Davis, 101, American comedy writer
• Therman "Sonny" Fisher, 73, Texan rockabilly musician.
• Chiyo Hayafune, 91, Japanese author.
• Henry Hwang, 77, founded the first federally-chartered Chinese-American bank, colon cancer. ^*
• Edward B. Marks, 94, American activist for refugee relief, heart disease and renal failure. ^*
• Jim Wessel, 90, American broadcasting executive. ^*

7

• Tobin Armstrong, 82, U.S. cattle rancher and political lobbyist. ^*
• Devery Freeman, 92, screenwriter, among the founders of the Writers' Guild of America. ^*
• William H. McKeon, 85, former Democratic Party leader in New York. ^*
• Tracey Miller, 51, radio host, pioneer of women's sports broadcasting, brain cancer. ^*
• Stefan Presser, 52, American lawyer, former ACLU official, brain cancer. ^*
• Richard Stone Reeves, 85, renowned equestrian portraitist. ^*
• Charles Rocket, 56, actor, best known for getting fired from Saturday Night Live for uttering an obscenity near the end of the show, suicide. ^*
• Foster Smith, 83, retired U.S. Air Force major general, heart disease. ^*
• Michael Ward, 80, British mountaineer and surgeon, member of 1953 Mt. Everest expedition. ^*

6

• Ray Bumatai, 52, Hawaiian comedian, brain cancer. ^*
• Ettore Cunial, 99, world's oldest Roman Catholic bishop.
• Horst Floth, 71, German bobsledder, world champion and Olympic silver medallist.
• Louise Gore, 80, prominent Maryland politician, cancer. ^*
• Ronald Ray Howard, 32, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
• Sanford M. Katz, 75, American civil rights lawyer, defended the Panther 21, heart failure. ^*
• Bert T. Kobayashi, Sr., 89, former Hawaii Supreme Court Justice, recognized for excellence in labor mediation. ^*
• David Zenoff, 89, former Nevada Supreme Court Justice, perhaps most known for performing the marriage of Elvis Presley. ^*

5

• Don Alvaro Domecq y Diez, 88, Spanish aristocrat. ^*
• Maura Murphy, 77, Irish author. ^*
• John van Hengel, 83, founder of America's Second Harvest, food bank pioneer. ^*

4

• John Falloon, 63, former New Zealand Cabinet minister.
• Mike Gibbins, 56, Welsh drummer, member of rock band Badfinger.
• Jim Gray, 47, Northern Irish loyalist, murdered.
• Stanley K. Hathaway, 81, former Republican Governor of Wyoming, (1967-1975), Secretary of the Interior (1975).
• Shirley Hillard, 70, American playwright, children's author.
• Vakhtang Jordania, 62, Georgian (formerly Soviet) conductor, cancer. ^*
• Harold Leventhal, 86, American folk music promoter. ^*
• William J. Ruane, 79, American philanthropist and financier, lung cancer. ^*
• John E. Struggles, 91, American businessman, pioneer of executive "head-hunting." ^*

3

• Ronnie Barker, 76, British comedian and actor. ^*
• Emilinha Borba, 82, Brazilian singer and actress. ^*
• Alastair G. W. Cameron, 80, American astrophysicist, responsible for Giant Impact Theory of Lunar Creation, heart failure. ^*
• David Cohen, 90, American politician, heart failure. ^*
• Sarah Levy-Tanai, 95, Israeli choreographer. ^*
• Francesco (Franco) Scoglio, 64, Italian soccer trainer.

2

• Hamilton Camp, 71, American actor, singer, and songwriter.
• Mother Benedict Duss, 94, founder of the Abbey of Regina Laudis, Bethlehem, Connecticut, the first independent cloistered female Benedictine abbey in the U.S.. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/nyregion/10duss.html
• Pat Kelly, 61, American former Major League Baseball All-Star, heart attack. ^*
• Pauline Parsons, 93, former Matron-in-Chief, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
• Nipsey Russell, 80, American comedian, poet and actor, cancer. ^*
• Ernest G. Szechenyi, 91, Hungarian Count, thoroughbred horse breeder, stroke. ^*
• August Wilson, 60, American playwright (Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson), liver cancer. ^*

1

• David Case, 73, British actor, well-known for reading over 700 audio books, throat cancer. ^*
• Morrell Draper, 84, Australian medical researcher. ^*
• Sam Goldaper, 83, American sports writer and journalist, complications of a stroke. ^*
• Robert Hanson, 85, last-surviving crew-member of the Memphis Belle. ^*
• Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, 96, British insurance executive and patron of the arts. ^*
• Paul Pena, 55, blues guitarist and songwriter, complications of diabetes and pancreatitis. ^*
• Harlo Jones, 81, Canadian World War II bomber pilot, stroke. ^*

2005 deaths