Deaths in October 2005

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

October 2005

1

• Janet Adair, 104, American actress
• Robert Hanson, 85, last-surviving crew-member of the Memphis Belle. [1]
• Paul Pena, 55, blues guitarist and songwriter, complications of diabetes and pancreatitis. [2]
• Harlo Jones, 81, Canadian World War II bomber pilot, stroke. [3]

2

• Bud Black, 73, American baseball player.
• Hamilton Camp, 70, American actor, singer, and songwriter.
• Patrick Kelly, 61, American former Major League Baseball All-Star, heart attack. [4]
• Alan Rees, 64, Welsh Roman Catholic monk, organist and composer.
• Nipsey Russell, 80, American comedian, poet and actor, cancer. [5]
• August Wilson, 60, American playwright (Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson), liver cancer. [6]

3

• Ronnie Barker, 76, British actor and writer (The Two Ronnies, Porridge, Open All Hours). [7]
• Seymour Boardman, 83, American artist.
• Emilinha Borba, 82, Brazilian singer and actress. [8]
• Alastair G. W. Cameron, 80, American astrophysicist of Canadian birth. He was responsible for Giant Impact Theory of Lunar Creation and pioneer work on Stellar nucleosynthesis, heart failure. [9]
• Dorothy Marion Campbell, 94, English potter.
• Nurettin Ersin, 86-87, Turkish army general.
• Colin McDonald, 57, New Zealand cricketer. [10]
• David Cohen, 90, American politician, heart failure. [11]
• Francesco (Franco) Scoglio, 64, Italian soccer trainer.

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).
• Vakhtang Jordania, 62, Georgian (formerly Soviet) conductor, cancer. [12]
• Harold Leventhal, 86, American folk music promoter. [13]
• Andrew Raven, 46, British conservationist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [14]
• William J. Ruane, 79, American philanthropist and financier, lung cancer. [15]
• André Waterkeyn, 88, Belgian engineer and hockey player.

5

• John Arnup, 94, Canadian jurist.
• Don Alvaro Domecq y Diez, 88, Spanish aristocrat. [16]
• Maura Murphy, 77, Irish author. [17]
• John van Hengel, 83, founder of America's Second Harvest, food bank pioneer. [18]

6

• Warren Benson, 81, American composer.
• Harry Bugin, 76, American actor and musician.
• Ray Bumatai, 52, Hawaiian comedian, brain cancer. [19]
• 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. [20]
• Ronald Ray Howard, 32, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
• David Zenoff, 89, former Nevada Supreme Court Justice, perhaps most known for performing the marriage of Elvis Presley. [21]

7

• David Birnie, 54, Australian serial killer.
• Tracey Miller, 51, radio host, pioneer of women's sports broadcasting, brain cancer. [22]
• Richard Stone Reeves, 85, renowned equestrian portraitist. [23]
• Charles Rocket, 56, actor, best known for getting fired from Saturday Night Live for uttering an obscenity near the end of the show, suicide. [24]
• M. Jaffar-ur-Rehman, Pakistani computer scientist.

9

• Robert O. Beers, 89, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.
• Clóvis Bornay, 89, Brazilian carnival designer and museum curator, cardiac arrest. [25]
• Tom Cheek, 66, longtime Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer, brain cancer. [26]
• Louis Nye, 92, American comedian, lung cancer. [27]
• LeRoy Whitfield, 36, African-American writer and AIDS activist, complications of AIDS. [28]
• Shams Ul Huda Shams, 66, President of Afghan Mellat Party and nationalist leader. [29]

10

• Angelo Argea, 75, longtime caddy for legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus, liver cancer. [30]
• Aivaras Balzekas, 23, Lithuanian tennis player, car accident.
• Wayne C. Booth, 84, American professor, literary critic, and rhetorician, complications of dementia. [31]
• Nick Hawkins, 40, electric guitarist with Big Audio Dynamite, heart attack. [32]
• Milton Obote, 80, former Ugandan president.

11

• Maury A. Bromsen, 86, American book collector and dealer.
• Sergio Citti, 72, Italian screenwriter and film director, frequent collaborator with Pier Paolo Pasolini; heart attack. [33]
• Carla Emery DeLong, 66, American proponent of organic farming and the homesteading movement; author of The Encyclopedia of Country Living, hypotension.
• Jan Holden, 74, British actress, (The Cheaters).
• Attila İlhan, 80, Turkish poet and writer.
• Joseph Neri, 91, French cyclist.
• Arthur Seldon, 89, British libertarian economist. [34]
• Edward Szczepanik, 90, former and last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile.
• Cor Veldhoen, 66, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord and national team). [35], [36]
• Aloysius John Wycislo, 97, Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin. [37]

12

• Zhang Bairen, 90, Chinese underground Roman Catholic bishop, heart disease. [38]
• Reed Bullen, 98, American politician, broadcaster and Mormon leader. [39]
• Sir Robert Foster, 91, British colonial officer, (Governor of Fiji). [40]
• Frank Galbally, 82, Australian lawyer. [41]
• Ghazi Kanaan, 63, Syrian Interior Minister, officially suicide (though suspicious). [42]
• Baker Knight, 72, American songwriter ("Lonesome Town"). [43]
• David E. McGiffert, 79, American lawyer and Defense Department official, heart failure. [44]
• C. Delores Tucker, 78, civil rights activist and former Pennsylvania Secretary of State. [45]
• Jack White, 63, American reporter. [46]

13

• Emile Capouya, 80, American publisher, author, and literary critic. [47]
• István Eörsi, 74, Hungarian left-wing intellectual, leukemia. [48]
• Vivian Malone Jones, 63, civil rights pioneer, stroke. [49]
• Marie Lord (aka Marie Ryan), 100, American actress; wife of late actor Jack Lord. [50]
• Wayne Weiler, 70, racecar driver.

14

• Edmund Bacon, 95, American urban planner and the father of actor Kevin Bacon. [51]
• Ian Breakwell, 62, British artist in multiple mediums.
• Ralph Graham, American sportsman.
• Oleg Lundstrem, 89, Russian jazz musician.
• Joke Waller-Hunter, 58, Dutch senior United Nations official. [52]

15

• Leo Bogart, 84, American sociologist, babesiosis. [53]
• Giuseppe Caprio, 90, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Jason Collier, 28, Atlanta Hawks basketball player, heart abnormality. [54], [55]
• Voit Gilmore, 87, former North Carolina state Senator and Kennedy Administration official, complications of Parkinson's disease. [56]
• Mildred Shay, 94, American actress.
• Al Widmar, 80, former Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach, colon cancer. [57]
• Matti Wuori, 60, Finnish advocate and politician, cancer.

16

• Jack Carpenter, 82, American football player.
• Elmer Dresslar, Jr., 80, voice of the Jolly Green Giant, cancer. [58]
• Ursula Howells, 83, British character actress (The Forsyte Saga).
• Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., 90, American history professor, expert on Native American history. [59]
• Penn Kemble, 64, American political activist. [60]
• John Larch, 91, American character actor.
• Eugene "Porky" Lee, 71, American child actor, lung cancer.
• Barrington Moore, Jr., 92, American sociologist. [61]
• Børge Mortensen, 83, Danish Olympic cyclist. [62]
• David Reilly, 34, lead singer/songwriter/musician of American rock band God Lives Underwater.

17

• Zak Carr, 30, British cyclist, traffic collision.
• Tom Gill, 92, American comic book artist (The Lone Ranger). [63]
• Carlos Gomes, 73, Portuguese goalkeeper with Sporting Lisbon and Portugal's national team in the 1950s and 1960s. [64]
• Ba Jin, 100, Chinese writer, cancer and Parkinson's disease.
• Kannan, 70, Indian actor.
• Antal Moldrich, 71, Hungarian Olympic modern pentathlete. [65]
• Donald Kofi Tucker, 67, civil rights activist and New Jersey General Assemblyman, complications of diabetes. [66]
• Charlie Yates, 92, American amateur golfer.

18

• William Evan Allan, 106, last Australian World War I veteran (active service), sailor. [67]
• Johnny Haynes, 71, English footballer, car accident. [68]
• Bill King, 78, American sports broadcaster.
• Hal Lebovitz, 89, Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter, cancer.
• Phil Starr, 72, British gay cabaret singer and comedian.
• Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, 81, Russian politician and architect of perestroika.

19

• Bob Carpenter, 87, American baseball player.
• Dallas Cook, 23, trombone player for Suburban Legends, hit-and-run motorcycle accident.
• Ormond McGill, 92, American Dean of American Hypnotists, stage hypnotist, hypnotherapist, and teacher. [69]
• Jim Morgan, 63, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Luis Adolfo Siles, 80, former President of Bolivia, heart attack. [70]

20

• Jean-Michel Folon, 71, Belgian artist.
• Michael Gill, 81, British television producer, Alzheimer's disease. [71]
• Shirley Horn, 71, African American jazz singer, complications of diabetes.
• André van der Louw, 72, Dutch politician, cancer. [72]
• Otto Luedeke, 89, American Olympic cyclist. [73]
• Endon Mahmood, 64, Malaysian Prime Minister's wife, breast cancer. [74]
• Luis L. Ramirez, 42, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
• Eva Švankmajerová, 65, Czech surrealistic painter. Nekrolog (in Czech)

21

• Karin Adelmund, 56, Dutch politician. [75] (Dutch)
• Robert E. Badham, 76, former Republican United States Representative from California, heart attack. [76]
• Marshall Clagett, 89, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, historian of science. [77]
• Oscar Giacché, 82, Argentine Olympic cyclist. [78]
• Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein's trial, murdered by unknown assailants in Baghdad. [79]
• John Lesinski Jr., 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1951–1965). [80]
• Sir Nigel Mobbs, 68, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. [81]
• Rabbi Herman N. Neuberger, 87, leader and president of Ner Israel Rabbinical College for over 50 years [82].
• Lou Rossini, 84, former basketball coach of New York University, Alzheimer's disease. [83]

22

• Tony Adams, 53, Irish-born film and stage producer (The Pink Panther) (Victor Victoria). [84]
• George T. Alexander, 34, 2,000th U.S. military death in Iraq. [85]
• Arman (né Armand Pierre Fernandez), 76, French-born sculptor, cancer. [86]
• Ted Bonda, 88, former owner of the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team, Alzheimer's disease. [87]
• Francisco Alejandro Gutierrez, 43, musician and lead singer of Captain Jack under his stage name "Frankie Gee", cerebral haemorrhage.
• Liam Lawlor, 61, 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. [88]
• Reggie Lisowski, 79, former American professional wrestler known as "The Crusher", brain tumor.

23

• Marshall Armstrong, 91, Accounting Hall of Fame member. [89]
• Harry Dalton, 77, former Major League Baseball general manager with the Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers, and California Angels, Parkinson's disease. [90]
• Simon Hobart, 41, British club promoter. [91]
• William Hootkins, 58, American actor.
• John S. Monagan, 93, former Democratic United States Representative from Connecticut, heart failure. [92]
• John Muth, 75, American economist.
• Stella Obasanjo, 59, wife of Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, complications from surgery. [93]
• Yon Hyong-muk, 73, former Prime Minister of North Korea, pancreatic cancer. [94]

24

• Ricardo Brinzoni, 60, Lieutenant General of the Argentine Army and former Army chief-of-staff, pancreatic cancer. [95]
• Howie Carl, 67, American basketball player.
• Ted Dushinski, 61, former defensive back for the Canadian Football Leagues Saskatchewan Roughriders, lung cancer.
• Mokarrameh Ghanbari, 77, Iranian painter.
• José Azcona del Hoyo, 78, President of Honduras (1986–1990).
• Denis Lindbohm, 78, Swedish science fiction author.
• Rosa Parks, 92, African-American civil rights pioneer; "founding symbol of the Civil Rights Movement". [96]
• Edward R. Roybal, 89, Mexican-American former Democratic United States Representative from California, pneumonia.
• Frank Wilson, 81, Australian actor, singer, TV celebrity.
• Katherine Young, 104, Chinese-born American centenarian, world's oldest Internet user.

25

• Zarina Baloch, 70, Pakistani folk singer.
• 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. [97]
• Oswald Hanfling, 77, German philosopher. [98]
• Enid A. Haupt, 99, American philanthropist. [99]
• Barbara Keogh, 76, British actress.
• Wellington Mara, 89, New York Giants co-owner, lymphoma. [100]
• Nirmal Verma, 76, Indian author and literary critic, heart attack. [101]
• Willie Williams, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.

26

• Leslie Clifford Bateman, 90, British rubber expert.
• Marlin Gray, 38, American convicted murderer, executed in Missouri.
• Michael Kilian, 66, American author, writer of the Dick Tracy comic, liver failure. [102]
• Emil Kyulev, 48, one of the richest men in Bulgaria, murdered in Sofia.[103]
• Keith Parkinson, 47, fantasy and science-fiction artist and illustrator.
• George Swindin, 90, English football goalkeeper and manager (Arsenal and Cardiff City).
• Rong Yiren, 89, former Vice President of the People's Republic of China. [104]

27

• Jozef Bomba, 66, Slovak footballer.
• Jerry Cooke, 84, American photographer.
• Norman Ellis, 92, New Zealand cricketer (Auckland).
• Georges Guingouin, 92, one of the most famous French resistants. [105]
• Jean-Claude Irvoas, 56, French employee, murder.
• Grimes Poznikov, 59, San Francisco street performer, alcohol poisoning. [106]

28

• Eugene K. Bird, 79, longtime Spandau guard of Rudolf Hess. [107]
• Bob Broeg, 87, American Hall of Fame baseball sports writer, pneumonia. [108]
• Raymond Hains, 78, French artist. [109]
• Tony Jackson, 62, former St. John's basketball standout. [110] [111]
• Tahsin Ozguc, 89, archaeologist. [112]
• Fernando Quejas, 83, Cape Verdean singer and musician. [113]
• Paul Reynard, 78, French-born painter, lung cancer. [114]
• Richard Smalley, 62, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, co-discoverer of fullerenes. [115]
• Ljuba Tadić, 76, Serbian actor.

29

• Fernando Alegría, 87, Chilean poet.
• H. K. L. Bhagat, 84, Indian politician.
• Marianne Bluger, 60, Canadian poet.
• Lloyd Bochner, 81, Canadian character actor, cancer. [116]
• Ian Bush, 22, Canadian shooting victim.
• Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek, 63, highest-ranking Syriac Orthodox Church priest in Europe. [117]
• Roger Ghyselinck, 81, Belgian cyclist. [118]
• Valery Kokov, 64, former President of Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, cancer.

30

• Bob Allen, 91, American baseball pitcher.
• David Bazay, 66, English CBC ombudsman and veteran journalist.
• Gordon A. Craig, 91, American historian, congestive heart failure. [119]
• John N. Erlenborn, 78, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois, Lewy body disease. [120]
• 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. [121]
• Al Lopez, 97, American baseball manager (Chicago White Sox) and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• Joseph Owens, 97, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and philosopher. [122]
• Emiliano Zuleta, 93, Colombian vallenato musician, respiratory disease. [123]

31

• Hal O. Anger, 85, pioneer of nuclear medicine, inventor of gamma ray camera. [124]
• William O. Baker, 90, American scientist and former Bell Labs president, respiratory failure. [125]
• Evert Hingst, Dutch lawyer, allegedly involved in organized crime, shot. [126].
• V. K. Madhavan Kutty, 71, Indian journalist and author. [127]
• Amrita Pritam, 86, Indian poet and writer. [128]
• Mary Wimbush, 81, British actress (The Archers). [129]
• Steve Hill, 52, Australian rock singer, original lead singer with Skyhooks, liver cancer.