The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2004

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 2004

1

• Richard Avedon, 81, American fashion and portrait photographer.^[1]
• Jimmy Campbell, 82–83, Scottish football player and manager (Clyde, national team).^[2]
• Joyce Jillson, 58, American astrologer, newspaper columnist, author and actress, kidney failure.^[3]
• Bruce Palmer, 58, Canadian bassist (Buffalo Springfield), heart attack.^[4]
• Aleksandr Rogov, 48, Soviet Olympic canoer (gold medal winner in men's C-1 500 metres individual canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics).^[5]

2

• Ralph Citro, 78, American boxing historian, archivist and cutman, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.^[6]
• Max Geldray, 88, Dutch jazz harmonica player often credited as the world's first, and Goon Show performer.^[7]
• Fialho Gouveia, 69, Portuguese radio and TV presenter, respiratory failure.^[8]
• Nick Skorich, 83, American NFL offensive lineman and coach (Philadelphia Eagles), after heart valve surgery.^[9]

3

• Ken Brondell, 82, American baseball player (New York Giants).^[10]
• John Cerutti, 44, American Major League Baseball baseball player, announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays, natural causes.^[11]
• Janet Leigh, 77, American actress (Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, Touch of Evil), vasculitis.^[12]
• Marvin Travis Runyon, 80, American business executive and civil servant.
• Frits van Turenhout, 91, Dutch sports journalist.^[13]

4

• Helmut Bantz, 83, German gymnast and Olympian (gold medal in pommel horse gymnastics, 1956), after long illness.^[14]
• Syd Bycroft, 92, English footballer player.
• Gordon Cooper, 77, American NASA astronaut and aeronautical engineer, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, heart failure.^[15]
• Michael Grant, 89, British ancient historian.^[16]
• Emīlija Gudriniece, 84, Soviet/Latvian chemist.

5

• Rodney Dangerfield, 82, American comedian and actor (Easy Money, Caddyshack, Back to School), Grammy winner (1981), complications from heart surgery.^[17]
• William H. Dobelle, 62, American biomedical researcher, eye doctor and inventor (artificial vision research), complications of diabetes.^[18]
• Sir John Richards, 77, British Royal Marines general.^[19]
• Wayne Rutledge, 62, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings, Houston Aeros).^[20]
• Maurice Wilkins, 87, New Zealand-born British physicist and molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1962) for work on DNA.^[21]

6

• William Clark, Baron Clark of Kempston, 86, British politician and peer.^[22]
• Frederica de Laguna, 98, American anthropologist and archaeologist, studied Alaskan native cultures.^[23]
• Johnny Kelley, 97, American long-distance runner and Olympian (1936, 1948).^[24]
• Pete McCarthy, 51, British travel writer and broadcaster, cancer.^[25]
• Marvin Santiago, 56, Puerto Rican salsa singer, complications of diabetes.^[26]
• Norm Schlueter, 88, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians).^[27]
• Veríssimo Correia Seabra, 57, Bissau-Guinean military commander, beaten to death in mutiny.^[28]
• Harbhajan Singh Yogi, 75, Indian spiritual leader and head of the Sikh Dharma in the western hemisphere, heart failure.^[29]
• Clem Tholet, 56, Rhodesian singer and songwriter

7

• Kenneth Bigley, 62, British civil engineer taken hostage in Iraq, beheaded by hostage takers.^[30]
• T. J. Binyon, 68, British author, Oxford professor, Pushkin scholar and crime novelist.^[31]
• Tony Lanfranchi, 69, British racing driver, cancer.^[32]
• Miki Matsubara, 44, Japanese singer, cervical cancer.^[33]
• Dame Rosemary Murray, 91, British chemist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1975–1977).^[34]
• Hildy Parks, 78, American actress, writer and TV producer, complications of stroke.^[35]

8

• James Chace, 72, American historian.^[36]
• Tony Giuliani, 91, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Brooklyn Dodgers).^[37]
• Kenneth G. Mills, 81, Canadian philosopher and musician.^[38]
• Johnny Sturm, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and minor league manager, congestive heart failure.^[39]
• Mei Zhi, 90, Chinese children's author and essayist.

9

• Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher (deconstruction), pancreatic cancer.^[40]
• Maxime Faget, 83, American aerospace engineer (NASA, Space Shuttle program), designer of the Mercury space capsule, bladder cancer.^[41]
• Herschel Grossman, 65, American economist.
• Richard K. Sorenson, 80, United States Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Bryan R. Wilson, 78, British author of religious books.

10

• Ken Caminiti, 41, American baseball player, drug overdose.^[42]
• Christopher Reeve, 52, American actor (Superman, The Remains of the Day, Deathtrap) and stem cell research activist, heart failure.^[43]
• Arthur H. Robinson, 89, American cartographer and geographer, after short illness.^[44]
• Maurice Shadbolt, 72, New Zealand novelist, playwright and journalist, Alzheimer's disease.^[45]
• Denis Wakeling, 85, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Southwell (1970–1985).^[46]

11

• Sir Paul Bryan, 91, British politician.
• Lord Nicholas Gordon Lennox, 73, British diplomat, Ambassador to Spain (1984–1989).^[47]
• Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 82, British peer, politician and landowner.^[48]
• Elisabeth Klein, 93, Hungarian-Danish pianist.
• Ben Komproe, 62, Netherlands Antilles politician, Prime Minister (2003) and Minister of Justice (2003–2004), kidney failure and complications from gastric surgery.^[49]
• Mary Loos, 94, American actress, screenwriter, and novelist, complications from stroke.^[50]
• Keith Miller, 84, Australian Test cricketer, Australian rules footballer, fighter pilot and journalist.^[51]
• Csaba Pálinkás, 45, Hungarian Olympic cyclist.^[52]
• Gulshan Rai, 80, Indian film producer and distributor, after long illness.^[53]
• Lillian Zuckerman, 88, American character actress.^[54]

12

• Tommy Kalmanir, 78, American football player.^[55]
• Kim King, 59, American businessman, leukemia.
• Samson Kutsuwada, 57, Japanese wrestler.^[56]
• Lawrence E. Roberts, 81, colonel in the US Air Force, heart attack.

13

• Mohammad Va'ez Abaee-Khorasani, 64, Iranian cleric and reformist politician, physical illness.
• Mike Blyzka, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles).^[57]
• Erik Bye, 78, Norwegian journalist (AP, BBC, NRK), radio/TV host, actor, singer/songwriter, cancer.^[58]
• Adremy Dennis, 28, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• David Grose, 59, American archaeologist and classicist.^[59]
• Archie McIndewar, 83, Scottish footballer.^[60]
• Nirupa Roy, 73, Indian film actress, heart attack.^[61]
• Bernice Rubens, 76, British Booker Prize-winning novelist (The Elected Member), complications from stroke.^[62]
• Tetsu Yano, 80, Japanese science fiction writer and translator, founder of the Science Fiction Writers of Japan.
• Ivor Wood, 72, British animator (Paddington Bear, The Wombles Postman Pat), cancer.^[63]

14

• Peter Adelaar, 57, Dutch judoka.^[64]
• Vlassis Bonatsos, 54, Greek entertainer.^[65]
• Willie Browne, 68, Irish soccer player.^[66]
• Juan Francisco Fresno, 90, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile (1983-1990).^[67]
• Cordell Jackson, 81, American rockabilly musician.^[68]
• Sheila Keith, 84, British actress.^[69]
• Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, 67, British peer, historian and member of the House of Lords, complications of emphysema.^[70]
• Ivan Shamiakin, 83, Soviet Belarusian writer.^[71]

15

• Bill Eyden, 74, British jazz drummer.^[72]
• Dave Godin, 68, British soul music promoter and journalist, coined the term "northern soul".^[73]
• Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist (Batman, The Flash, Superman).^[74]
• Tex Ritter, 80, American professional basketball player (Eastern Kentucky, New York Knicks).^[75]

16

• Doug Bennett, 52, Canadian rock singer (Doug and the Slugs), after long illness.^[76]
• Vincent Brome, 94, British biographer and novelist.^[77]
• Harold Perkin, 77, English social historian, helped to establish social history as a major area of study.^[78]
• Pierre Salinger, 79, American journalist, Senator (California, 1964) and Press Secretary to John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, heart failure.^[79]
• Bassam Zuamut, 53, Israeli actor and screenwriter, kidney disease.^[80]

17

• Ray Boone, 81, American Major League Baseball player, patriarch of first third-generation MLB family, after long illness.^[81]
• Julius Harris, 81, American actor (Live and Let Die, Super Fly, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three), heart failure.^[82]
• Betty Hill, 85, American alien abduction claimant, lung cancer.^[83]
• Uzi Hitman, 52, Israeli singer, songwriter and composer, heart attack.^[84]
• Bas Pease, 81, British physicist.^[85]
• Wu Faxian, 89, Chinese revolutionary and military officer, commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force/

18

• Nancy Carline, 94, British artist.
• Richie Lemos, 84, Mexican-American boxer.
• Maurice Stewart, 75, Irish Anglican priest, Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (1991–1999).^[86]
• Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 52, Indian bandit known as "Jungle Cat", shot by Special Task Force.^[87]

19

• Antoine Abel, 69, Seychellois writer.^[88]
• Anita Bitri, 36, Albanian pop singer, carbon monoxide poisoning.^[89]
• Frank Chapple, Baron Chapple of Hoxton, 83, British trade unionist (General Secretary of EETPU, 1966–1984).^[90]
• George Daneel, 100, South African rugby player.^[91]
• Kenneth E. Iverson, 84, Canadian computer scientist, inventor of the APL programming language, stroke.^[92]
• Paul Nitze, 97, American diplomat and Cold War arms negotiator.^[93]
• Kingsley Rasanayagam, 63, Sri Lankan politician.^[94]
• Calvin Ruck, 79, Canadian member of Parliament (Senate of Canada representing Nova Scotia).^[95]
• Sang Lee, 51, Korean-American three-cushion billiard player, stomach cancer.^[96]
• Greg Shaw, 55, American rock-music journalist and record label executive, known as a major force in the spread of underground music and fanzine publishing.^[97]
• Liviu Vasilică, 54, Romanian folk singer, cirrhosis.
• Lewis Urry, 77, Canadian chemical engineer and inventor (alkaline battery, lithium battery).^[98]

20

• William Brown, 66, American operatic tenor.
• Veronika Cherkasova, 45, Belarusian journalist, stabbed.^[99]
• Anthony Hecht, 81, American poet, lymphoma.^[100]
• Chuck Hiller, 70, American Major League Baseball baseball player and coach, first National League player to hit a World Series grand slam, leukemia.^[101]
• Tevfik Gelenbe, 73, Turkish actor and comedian, complications of cancer.^[102]
• Lynda Lee-Potter, 69, British newspaper columnist (Daily Mail), brain tumour.^[103]
• C. P. Spencer, 66, American singer and songwriter, and member of the Motown quartet The Originals ("Baby, I'm For Real", "The Bells").^[104]

21

• Imad Abbas, Palestinian Hamas militant and assistant to Adnan al-Ghoul, targeted killing by the IDF.
• Adnan al-Ghoul, Palestinian Hamas chief explosives expert, alleged "father" of the Qassam rocket, targeted killing by the IDF.^[105]
• Sharifa Alkhateeb, 58, American teacher and writer.^[106]
• Jim Bucher, 93, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox).^[107]
• Everett Rogers, 73, American communication scholar and sociologist, founder of diffusion of innovations theory.^[108]
• Victoria Snelgrove, 21, American college junior, shot with pepper spray projectile by Boston Police.^[109]

22

• Bertie Brownlow, 84, Australian cricketer.
• Samuel L. Gravely, Jr., 82, American naval pioneer (first African American fleet commander and admiral), complications from stroke.^[110]
• Lawrence Stark, 78, American neurologist and a pioneer in the use of engineering analysis to characterize neurological systems.^[111]
• Katherine Victor, 81, American cult film actress.^[112]

23

• Edward T. Cone, 87, American composer, music theorist, pianist, and philanthropist.^[113]
• Jim McDonald, 77, American baseball player.^[114]
• Robert Merrill, 87, American operatic baritone, natural causes.^[115]
• Bill Nicholson, 85, British football manager (Tottenham Hotspur, 1958–1974), player, coach, and scout.^[116]
• Dorothy Comstock Riley, 79, American judge, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1987–1991).^[117]
• George Silk, 87, New Zealand WWII photojournalist (Life), congestive heart failure.^[118]

24

• Randy Dorton, 50, American engine builder (Hendrick Motorsports), victim of the 2004 Martinsville plane crash.^[119]
• Bethany Goldsmith, 77, American baseball player.^[120]
• Ricky Hendrick, 24, American NASCAR stock car driver and partial team owner (Hendrick Motorsports), plane crash.^[121]
• James Aloysius Hickey, 84, American Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Washington, D.C. (1980–2000), Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio (1974–1980).^[122]
• Maaja Ranniku, 63, Soviet (Estonian) chess International Master, women's Soviet chess champion, ten-time Estonian women's chess champion.^[123]
• Herbert Schilling, 74, German Olympic boxer (light welterweight boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).^[124]

25

• Thomas Kanza, 71, Congolese diplomat and ambassador, heart attack.
• A. David Mazzone, 76, American judge (United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts).^[125]
• Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra, 84, Indian politician (foreign minister, 1979–1980), cardiac arrest.^[126]
• John Peel, 65, British BBC disc jockey and guru of the British independent music scene, heart attack.^[127]

26

• Bobby Ávila, 79, Mexican MLB All-Star and American League batting champion (1954), complications of diabetes.^[128]
• Russ Derry, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals).^[129]
• Paul F. Iams, 89, American businessman, founder of the Iams pet food company, complications from broken hip.^[130]
• Robin Kenyatta, 62, American jazz alto saxophonist.^[131]
• Ricardo Odnoposoff, 90, Austrian violinist.
• Fred Paine, 78, American professional basketball player (Providence Steamrollers).^[132]

27

• Al Clouston, 94, Canadian storyteller and humourist.^[133]
• Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold, 99, British aristocrat.^[134]
• Olavi Laaksonen, 83, Finnish Olympic football player.^[135]
• Lester Lanin, 97, American jazz big band leader.^[136]
• Lars Nordwall, 76, Swedish Olympic cyclist (men's individual and team cycling road races at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics).^[137]
• Marwell Periotti, 65, Argentine Olympic footballer (men's football at the 1960 Summer Olympics).^[138]
• Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva ("Serginho"), 30, Brazilian footballer (São Caetano), heart attack during match.^[139]

28

• Rosalind Hicks, 85, British literary guardian and the only child of Agatha Christie.^[140]
• Jimmy McLarnin, 96, British boxer, two-time welterweight world champion (1933, 1934).^[141]
• Gil Mellé, 72, American artist, jazz saxophonist and film and television composer, heart attack.^[142]
• Graham Roberts, 75, British actor (The Archers, Z-Cars).^[143]
• George S. Schairer, 91, American aerodynamics expert at Boeing (B-47 Stratojet, B-52 Stratofortress, Boeing 707, Boeing 727, Boeing 737, Boeing 747).^[144]
• Ted Taylor, 79, Mexican-born American theoretical physicist, nuclear weapon designer and eventual nuclear disarmament advocate, coronary artery disease.^[145]
• William E. Wallace, 87, American chemist, complications from Parkinson's disease.^[146]
• Charles F. Wheeler, 88, American cinematographer (Tora! Tora! Tora!).^[147]

29

• HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 102, British royal, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II.^[148]
• Jacinto João, 60, Portuguese footballer, heart attack.^[149]
• Shosei Koda, 24, Japanese backpacker, beheaded by kidnappers in Iraq.^[150]
• Edward Oliver LeBlanc, 81, Dominican political leader, chief minister (1961–1967) and premier (1967–1974).^[151]
• Vaughn Meader, 68, American Grammy-winning comedian and JFK impersonator, emphysema.^[152]
• Gerard Ross Norton, 89, South African soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (1944),^[153]
• Peter Twinn, 88, British mathematician, World War II codebreaker, and entomologist.^[154]

30

• Dame Phyllis Frost, 87, Australian welfare worker and philanthropist.^[155]
• Rein Otsason, 73, Estonian economist and banker, heart failure.^[156]
• Peggy Ryan, 80, American actress (All Ashore, Hawaii Five-O), singer and dancer (partnered with Donald O'Connor).^[157]
• David Shulman, 91, American lexicographer and cryptographer, known for his frequent contributions to the Oxford English Dictionary.^[158]
• Eddie Straiton, 87, British veterinarian.^[159]

31

• Don Briscoe, 64, American stage and television actor (Dark Shadows), heart disease.^[160]
• Sir Roland Gibbs, 83, British Field Marshal.
• Sir David Gore-Booth, 61, British diplomat.^[161]
• Valentin Nikolayev, 80, Soviet Olympic wrestler (gold medal winner in men's light heavyweight wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics).^[162]
• Helen Z. Papanikolas, 87, Greek-American historian, educator and author, known for documenting the immigrant experience in the American West.^[163]
• Russell Reinke, 82, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Hamilton South, Ontario).^[164]
• Marie Tehan, 64, Australian Liberal politician (Victorian Parliament, 1987–1999), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.^[165]