Deaths in October 2005
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The following is a list of notable people who died in October 2005.
- William O. Baker, 90, American scientist and former Bell Labs president, respiratory failure. [1]
- Evert Hingst, Dutch lawyer, allegedly involved in organized crime, shot. [2].
- John Holohan, drummer for pop-punk band Bayside.
- Amrita Pritam, 86, Indian poet and writer. [3]
- Mary Wimbush, 81, British actress (The Archers). [4]
- David Bazay, 66, English CBC ombudsman and veteran journalist.
- John N. Erlenborn, 78, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois, Lewy body disease. [5]
- 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. [6]
- Ghalib Abdul Mehdi, brother of Iraq Vice President Adil Abdul Medhi and government official, murdered in roadside ambush. [7]
- Emiliano Zuleta, 93, Colombian vallenato musician, respiratory disease. [8]
- Lloyd Bochner, 81, Canadian character actor, cancer. [9]
- John Elliott, Jr., 84, American advertising executive, cerebral hemorrhage. [10]
- Robert Gerle, 81, American concert violinist, Parkinson's disease. [11]
- 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. [12]
- Bradley Mosley, 22, former University of South Florida basketball player, kidney cancer. [13]
- Bob Broeg, 87, American Hall of Fame baseball sports writer, pneumonia. [14]
- Robert Paschal Burns, 71, American architect, car accident. [15]
- Alston Callahan, 94, American opthamologist. [16]
- Tony Jackson, 62, former St. John's basketball standout. [17] [18]
- Cheryl McCall, 55, director of documentary films, political activist, advocate for the homeless
- Fernando Quejas, 83, Cape Verdean singer and musician. [19]
- Paul Reynard, 78, French-born painter, lung cancer. [20]
- Richard Smalley, 62, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, co-discoverer of fullerenes. [21]
- Tom Masland, 55, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, injuries suffered in a car accident. [22]
- Rene Moreau, 108, among the last remaining French veterans of World War I. [23]
- Grimes Poznikov, 59, San Francisco street performer, alcohol poisoning. [24]
- George Swindin, 90, English football goalkeeper and former manager of Arsenal and Cardiff City.
- Marlin Gray, 38, American convicted murderer, executed in Missouri.
- Michael Kilian, 66, American author, writer of the Dick Tracy comic, liver failure. [25]
- Emil Kyulev, 48, one of the richest men in Bulgaria, murdered in Sofia.[26]
- Rong Yiren, 89, former Vice President of the People's Republic of China. [27]
- George T. Alexander, Jr., 34, 2,000th U.S. military death in Iraq. [28] [29]
- Ricardo Brinzoni, 60, Lieutenant General of the Argentine Army and former Army chief-of-staff, pancreatic cancer. [30] [31]
- Craig D. Calame, 56, American musician, actor, comedian, cast member (as "Mugsy") of T.V's Uncle Floyd Show and creator of The 11th Hour, cancer. [32]
- Frans van Dusschoten, 72, Dutch comedian and voice artist, cancer. [33]
- Enid A. Haupt, 99, American philanthropist. [34]
- Wellington Mara, 89, New York Giants co-owner, lymphoma.
- Nirmal Verma, 76, Indian author and literary critic, heart attack. [35]
- Willie Williams, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.
- Ted Dushinski, 61, former defensive back for the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders, lung cancer.
- Phil Hays, 74, American illustrator. [36]
- Richard H. Holton, 79, American economist, former official in the Kennedy and L. Johnson Administrations, cancer and Parkinson's disease. [37]
- José Azcona del Hoyo, 78, President of Honduras (1986–1990).
- Jun Negami, 82, Japanese actor.
- Rosa Parks, 92, African-American civil rights pioneer; "founding symbol of the civil rights movement". [38] [39] [40] [41]
- Edward R. Roybal, 89, Mexican-American former Democratic United States Representative from California, pneumonia
- Frank Wilson, 81, Australian actor, singer, TV celebrity.
- Harry Dalton, 77, former Major League Baseball general manager with the Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers, and California Angels, Parkinson's disease. [42]
- Fred S. Fox, 90, American television script writer, especially comedies, pneumonia. [43]
- William Hootkins, 58, American actor.
- John S. Monagan, 93, former Democratic United States Representative from Connecticut, heart failure. [44]
- Stella Obasanjo, 59, wife of Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, complications from surgery. [45]
- Yon Hyong-muk, 73, former Prime Minister of North Korea, pancreatic cancer. [46]
- Tony Adams, 53, Irish-born film and stage producer (Pink Panther) (Victor/Victoria).
- Arman (né Armand Pierre Fernandez), 76, French-born sculptor, cancer. [47]
- Ted Bonda, 88, former owner of the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team, Alzheimer's disease. [48]
- 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. [49]
- Reggie Lisowski, 79, former American professional wrestler known as "The Crusher", brain tumor.
- Arley Reece, 63, American operatic tenor.
- Karin Adelmund, 56, Dutch politician.
- Robert E. Badham, 76, former Republican United States Representative from California, heart attack. [50]
- Marshall Clagett, 89, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, historian of science. [51]
- Tara Correa-McMullen, 16, actress who appeared on Judging Amy, shooting. [52]
- Dick Galiette, 72, early ESPN anchor and longtime football broadcaster. [53]
- Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein's trial, murdered by unknown assailants in Baghdad. [54]
- Sir Nigel Mobbs, 68, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. [55]
- Lou Rossini, 84, former basketball coach of New York University, Alzheimer's disease. [56]
- Leopold Steiner, 62, controversial Austrian businessman, convicted of fraud. [57]
- Liis Bender, 58, Estonian actress.
- Jean-Michel Folon, 71, Belgian artist.
- Michael Gill, 81, British television producer, Alzheimer's disease. [58]
- Shirley Horn, 71, African American jazz singer, complications of diabetes.
- André van der Louw, 72, Dutch politician, cancer. [59]
- Endon Mahmood, 64, Malaysian Prime Minister's wife, breast cancer. [60]
- Luis Ramirez, 42, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
- Eva Švankmajerová, 65, Czech surrealistic painter. [61] (in Czech)
- Ormond McGill, 92, AmericanDean of American Hypnotists, stage hypnotist, hypnotherapist, and teacher. [[62]]
- Robert H. Johnston, 77, American archeologist, expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. [63]
- Luis Adolfo Siles, 80, former President of Bolivia, heart attack. [64]
- Edward R. Telling, 86, American businessman, cancer. [65]
- Corinne Levesque, 61, wife of former Quebec Premier René Lévesque, throat cancer
- Julian Alfaro, 28, Argentine race car driver, after October 16 accident.
- William Evan Allan, 106, last Australian World War I veteran (active service), sailor. [66]
- 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. [67]
- Johnny Haynes, 71, English footballer, car accident. [68]
- 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. [69]
- Letchemanah Ramasamy, 55, Malaysian strongman and world record holder. [70]
- Phil Starr, 72, British gay cabaret singer and comedian.
- Märt Tiru, 58, Estonian general.
- Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, 81, Russian politician and architect of perestroika.
- Marvin Chodorow, 92 Stanford University physics professor, helped develop the klystron tube.
- Tom Gill, 92, American comic book artist (The Lone Ranger). [71]
- Carlos Gomes, 73, Portuguese goalkeeper with Sporting Lisbon and Portugal in the 1950s and 1960s. [72]
- 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. [73]
- Charles Yates, 92, professional golfer, played in first Masters, Parkinson's disease. [74]
- Leo Bogart, 84, American sociologist, babesiosis. [75]
- William S. Busik, U.S. Navy captain, former star college football player. [76]
- Elmer Dresslar, Jr., 80, voice of the Jolly Green Giant, cancer. [77] [78]
- Ursula Howells, 83, British character actress (The Forsyte Saga).
- Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., 90, American history professor, expert on Native American history. [79]
- Penn Kemble, 64, American political activist. [80]
- John Larch, 91, American character actor.
- Eugene "Porky" Lee, 71, American child actor, lung cancer.
- Barrington Moore, Jr., 92, American sociologist. [81]
- Debbie Runions, 55, prominent American AIDS activist, complications of AIDS. [82]
- Thomas Swayze, Jr., 74, former Republican Speaker of the House of Washington State. [83]
- Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio, 90, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Jason Collier, 28, Atlanta Hawks basketball player, heart abnormality [84]
- Voit Gilmore, 87, former North Carolina state Senator and Kennedy Administration official, complications of Parkinson's disease. [86]
- Efraim Reuytenberg, 91, Israeli painter, known for use of Chinese motifs. [87]
- Kathryn O. Scott, 94, American textile conservator, among the pioneers of that practice. [88]
- Mildred Shay, 94, American actress.
- Arthur W. Wang, 87, American publisher, Alzheimer's disease. [89]
- Al Widmar, 80, former Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach, colon cancer. [90]
- David J. Wimer, 65, American business and political consultant, cancer. [91]
- Matti Wuori, 60, Finnish advocate and politician, cancer.
- Edmund Bacon, 95, American urban planner and the father of actor Kevin Bacon. [92]
- Ian Breakwell, 62, British artist in multiple mediums.
- David Citino, 58, American poet and professor, multiple sclerosis. [93]
- Ralph M. Graham, 95, American former star college football player and coach. [94]
- Martha Nell Hardy, 79, American actor and professor, cancer. [95]
- Oleg Lundstrem, 89, Russian jazz musician.
- Joke Waller-Hunter, 58, Dutch senior United Nations official. [96]
- István Eörsi, 74, Hungarian left-wing intellectual, leukemia. [97]
- Thomas Frutig, 59, Swiss businessman. [98]
- Vivian Malone Jones, 63, civil rights pioneer, stroke. [99]
- Marie Lord, 100, American actress; wife of late actor Jack Lord. [100]
- Pierre van Ostade, 88, Dutch radio and television personality. [101].
- Armelio Ferras Pellicer, 92, Cuban revolutionary. [102]
- Philip Robbins, 74, American journalist, professor, and constitutional law expert. [103]
- Jerome Roth, 87, American oboist, Alzheimer's disease. [104]
- Robert M. Scott, 76, former president of the Philadephia Museum of Art, liver failure. [105]
- Wayne Weiler, 70, racecar driver.
- Zhang Bairen, 90, Chinese underground Roman Catholic bishop, heart disease. [106]
- Mary Chaney, 77, noted American courtroom sketch artist. [107]
- 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). [108]
- Baker Knight, 72, American songwriter ("Lonesome Town"). [109]
- David E. McGiffert, 79, American lawyer and Defense Department official, heart failure. [110]
- Joseph Pons, Sr., 83, American thoroughbred horse breeder, heart attack. [111]
- C. Delores Tucker, 78, civil rights activist and former Pennsylvania Secretary of State. [112]
- Jack White, 63, American reporter. [113]
- Tony Bass, 71, Dutch singer-songwriter. [114]
- Sergio Citti, 72, Italian screenwriter and film director, frequent collaborator with Pier Paolo Pasolini; heart attack. [115]
- Sonji Clay-Glover, 59, singer, famous as the first wife of Muhammad Ali, apparent heart attack. [116]
- Alex Harvin, 55, Democratic former South Carolina House Majority Leader. [117]
- Jan Holden, 74, British actress, (The Cheaters).
- Attila İlhan, 80, Turkish poet and writer.
- Arthur Seldon, 89, British libertarian economist. [118]
- Edward Szczepanik, 90, former and last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile.
- Cor Veldhoen, 66, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord and national team). [119], [120]
- Aloysius John Wycislo, 97, Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin. [121]
- Angelo Argea, 75, longtime caddy for legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus, liver cancer. [122]
- Aivaras Balzekas, 23, Lithuanian tennis player, car accident.
- Wayne C. Booth, 84, American professor, literary critic, and rhetorician, complications of dementia. [123]
- Nick Hawkins, 40, electric guitarist with Big Audio Dynamite, heart attack. [124]
- Betty Lee Hunt, 85, Broadway producer and agent, non-Hodgkins lymphoma. [125]
- Henk Jurriaans, 64, Dutch artist. [126]
- Larry "Flame" Moore, 56, surfing photographer, brain cancer. [127]
- Margaret Russo, 56, Australian tennis player, brain cancer. [128]
- Milton Obote, 80, former Ugandan president.
- Clovis Bornay, 89, Brazilian carnival designer and museum curator, cardiac arrest. [129]
- Tom Cheek, 66, longtime Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer, brain cancer. [130]
- Sergio Citti, 72, Italian film director, heart attack [131].
- Mackie McLeod, 57, American anti-Apartheid activist, kidney failure. [132]
- Louis Nye, 92, American comedian, lung cancer. [133]
- Steven Peck, 76, American dancer, choreographer and actor, cancer. [134]
- Ted Peschak, 87, American educational film director, colon cancer. [135]
- Frederic Quitkin, 68, American psychiatrist, expert on depression, pancreatic cancer. [136]
- George Ringwald, 81, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, cancer. [137]
- LeRoy Whitfield, 36, African-American writer and AIDS activist, complications of AIDS. [138]
- 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. [139]
- Edward B. Marks, 94, American activist for refugee relief, heart disease and renal failure. [140]
- Jim Wessel, 90, American broadcasting executive. [141]
- Tobin Armstrong, 82, U.S. cattle rancher and political lobbyist. [142]
- Devery Freeman, 92, screenwriter, among the founders of the Writers' Guild of America. [143]
- William H. McKeon, 85, former Democratic Party leader in New York. [144]
- Tracey Miller, 51, radio host, pioneer of women's sports broadcasting, brain cancer. [145]
- Stefan Presser, 52, American lawyer, former ACLU official, brain cancer. [146]
- Richard Stone Reeves, 85, renowned equestrian portraitist. [147]
- Charles Rocket, 56, actor, best known for getting fired from Saturday Night Live for mumbling an obscenity during a skit, suicide. [148]
- Michael Ward, 80, British mountaineer and surgeon, member of 1953 Mt. Everest expedition. [149]
- Ray Bumatai, 52, Hawaiian comedian, brain cancer. [150]
- 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. [151]
- Ronald Ray Howard, 32, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
- Sanford M. Katz, 75, American civil rights lawyer, defended the Panther 21, heart failure. [152]
- Bert T. Kobayashi, Sr., 89, former Hawaii Supreme Court Justice, recognized for excellence in labor mediation. [153]
- David Zenoff, 89, former Nevada Supreme Court Justice, perhaps most known for performing the marriage of Elvis Presley. [154]
- Don Alvaro Domecq y Diez, 88, Spanish aristocrat. [155]
- Maura Murphy, 77, Irish author. [156]
- John van Hengel, 83, founder of America's Second Harvest, food bank pioneer. [157]
- 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. [158]
- Harold Leventhal, 86, American folk music promoter. [159]
- William J. Ruane, 79, American philanthropist and financier, lung cancer. [160]
- John E. Struggles, 91, American businessman, pioneer of executive "head-hunting." [161]
- Ronnie Barker, 76, British comedian and actor. [162]
- Emilinha Borba, 82, Brazilian singer and actress. [163]
- Alastair G. W. Cameron, 80, American astrophysicist, responsible for Giant Impact Theory of Lunar Creation, heart failure. [164]
- David Cohen, 90, American politician, heart failure. [165]
- Sarah Levy-Tanai, 95, Israeli choreographer. [166]
- Francesco (Franco) Scoglio, 64, Italian soccer trainer.
- 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.. [167] [168]
- Pat Kelly, 61, American former Major League Baseball All-Star, heart attack. [169]
- Pauline Parsons, 93, former Matron-in-Chief, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
- Nipsey Russell, 80, American comedian, poet and actor, cancer. [170]
- Ernest G. Szechenyi, 91, Hungarian Count, thoroughbred horse breeder, stroke. [171]
- August Wilson, 60, American playwright (Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson), liver cancer. [172]
- David Case, 73, British actor, well-known for reading over 700 audio books, throat cancer. [173]
- Sam Goldaper, 83, American sports writer and journalist, complications of a stroke. [174]
- Robert Hanson, 85, last-surviving crew-member of the Memphis Belle. [175]
- Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, 96, British insurance executive and patron of the arts. [176]
- Paul Pena, 55, blues guitarist and songwriter, complications of diabetes and pancreatitis. [177]