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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2004 .
October 2004 [ edit ]
Richard Avedon , 81, American portrait and fashion photographer, cerebral hemorrhage. [1]
Joyce Jillson , 58, American astrologer, newspaper columnist, author and actress, kidney failure. [2]
Bruce Palmer , 58, Canadian bassist (Buffalo Springfield ), heart attack. [3]
John Cerutti , 44, American Major League Baseball baseball player, announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays , natural causes. [7]
Ralph Citro , 78, American boxing historian, archivist and cutman , member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame . [8]
Tish Daija , 78, Albanian composer. [9] (Albanian)
Janet Leigh , 77, American actress (Psycho , The Manchurian Candidate ), vasculitis . [10]
Frits van Turenhout , 91, Dutch sports journalist. [11] (Dutch)
Helmut Bantz , 83, German gymnast and Olympian (gold medal in pommel horse gymnastics, 1956), after long illness. [12]
Gordon Cooper , 77, American NASA astronaut and aeronautical engineer, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, heart failure. [13]
William H. Dobelle , 62, American biomedical researcher, eye doctor and inventor (artificial vision research), complications of diabetes. [14]
Michael Grant , 89, British ancient historian. [15]
William Clark, Baron Clark of Kempston , 86, British politician. [18]
Frederica de Laguna , 98, American anthropologist and archaeologist, studied Alaskan native cultures. [19]
Johnny Kelley , 97, American long-distance runner and Olympian (1936, 1948). [20]
Pete McCarthy , 51, British travel writer and broadcaster, cancer. [21]
Marvin Santiago , 56, Puerto Rican salsa singer, complications of diabetes. [22]
Veríssimo Correia Seabra , 57, Bissau-Guinean military commander, beaten to death in mutiny. [23]
Harbhajan Singh Yogi , 75, spiritual leader and head of the Sikh Dharma in the western hemisphere, heart failure. [24]
Kenneth Bigley , 62, British civil engineer taken hostage in Iraq, beheaded by hostage takers. [25]
T. J. Binyon , 68, British author, Oxford professor, Pushkin scholar and crime novelist. [26]
Tony Lanfranchi , 69, British racing driver, cancer. [27]
Dame Rosemary Murray , 91, British chemist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1975–1977). [28]
Hildy Parks , 78, American actress, writer and TV producer, complications of stroke. [29]
Sir John Richards , 77, British army general.
Ken Caminiti , 41, American baseball player, drug overdose. [34]
Christopher Reeve , 52, American actor (Superman and sequels), stem cell research campaigner, heart failure caused by septicemia . [35]
Arthur H. Robinson , 89, American cartographer and geographer, after short illness. [36]
Maurice Shadbolt , 72, New Zealand novelist, playwright and journalist, Alzheimer's disease. [37]
Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian , 82, British peer, politician and landowner. [38]
Ben Komproe , 62, Netherlands Antilles politician, Prime Minister (2003) and Minister of Justice (2003–2004), kidney failure and complications from gastric surgery. [39]
Mary Loos , 94, American actress, screenwriter, and novelist, complications from stroke. [40]
Keith Miller , 84, Australian Test cricketer, Australian rules footballer, fighter pilot and journalist. [41]
Csaba Pálinkás , 45, Hungarian Olympic cyclist. [42]
Gulshan Rai , 80, Indian film producer and distributor, after long illness. [43]
Lillian Zuckerman , 88, American character actress. [44]
Erik Bye , 78, Norwegian journalist (AP, BBC, NRK ), radio/TV host, actor, singer/songwriter, cancer. [45]
Adremy Dennis , 28, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
Nirupa Roy , 73, Indian film actress, heart attack. [46]
Bernice Rubens , 76, British Booker Prize -winning novelist (The Elected Member ), complications from stroke. [47]
Tetsu Yano , 80, Japanese science fiction writer and translator, founder of the Science Fiction Writers of Japan. [48]
Ivor Wood , 72, British animator (Paddington Bear , The Wombles ), cancer. [49]
Vlassis Bonatsos , 54, Greek entertainer. [50]
Willie Browne , 68, Irish soccer player. [51]
Juan Francisco Fresno , 90, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile (1983-1990). [52]
Cordell Jackson , 81, American rockabilly musician. [53]
Sheila Keith , 84, British actress. [54]
Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell , 67, British historian and member of the House of Lords, complications of emphysema. [55]
Ivan Shamiakin , 83, Soviet Belarusian writer. [56]
Doug Bennett , 52, Canadian rock singer (Doug and the Slugs ), after long illness. [60]
Vincent Brome , 94, British biographer and novelist. [61]
Uzi Hitman , 52, Israeli singer, songwriter and composer, heart attack. [62]
Pierre Salinger , 79, American journalist, Senator (California, 1964) and Press Secretary to John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson , heart failure. [63]
Ray Boone , 81, American Major League Baseball player, patriarch of first third-generation MLB family , after long illness. [64]
Julius Harris , 81, American actor (Live and Let Die , Super Fly , The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ), heart failure. [65]
Betty Hill , 85, American alien abduction claimant, lung cancer. [66]
Bas Pease , 81, British physicist. [67]
Antoine Abel , 69, Seychellois writer. [70]
Anita Bitri , c. 36, Albanian pop singer, carbon monoxide poisoning. [71]
Frank Chapple , 83, British trade unionist (General Secretary of EETPU , 1966–1984). [72]
Kenneth E. Iverson , 84, Canadian computer scientist, inventor of the APL programming language , stroke. [73]
Paul Nitze , 97, American diplomat and Cold War arms negotiator. [74]
Sang Lee , 51, Korean-American three-cushion billiard player, stomach cancer. [75]
Lewis Urry , 77, Canadian chemical engineer and inventor (alkaline battery , lithium battery ). [76]
William Brown , 66, American operatic tenor.
Veronika Cherkasova , 45, Belarus journalist, stabbed. [77]
Anthony Hecht , 81, American poet, lymphoma. [78]
Chuck Hiller , 70, American Major League Baseball baseball player and coach, first National League player to hit a World Series grand slam, leukemia. [79]
Tevfik Gelenbe , 73, Turkish actor and comedian, complications of cancer. [80] (Turkish)
Lynda Lee-Potter , 69, British newspaper columnist (Daily Mail ), brain tumour. [81]
Bertie Brownlow , 84, Australian cricketer.
Samuel L. Gravely, Jr. , 82, American naval pioneer (first African American fleet commander and admiral), complications from stroke. [85]
Jean-François Leuba , Swiss National Council President (1995–1996), lawyer and jurist. [86] (French)
Katherine Victor , 81, American cult film actress. [87]
Jim McDonald , 77, American baseball player. [88]
Robert Merrill , 87, American operatic baritone, natural causes. [89]
Bill Nicholson , 85, British football manager (Tottenham Hotspur , 1958–1974), player, coach, and scout. [90]
George Silk , 87, New Zealand WWII photojournalist (Life ), congestive heart failure. [91]
Randy Dorton , 50, American engine builder (Hendrick Motorsports ), victim of the 2004 Martinsville plane crash . [92]
Bethany Goldsmith , 77, American baseball player. [93]
Ricky Hendrick , 24, American NASCAR stock car driver and partial team owner (Hendrick Motorsports), plane crash. [94]
James Aloysius Hickey , 84, American Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Washington, D.C. (1980–2000), Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio (1974–1980). [95]
Jokin Ormaetxea , 24, Spanish professional cyclist, car accident. [96]
Al Clouston , 94, Canadian storyteller and humourist. [101]
Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold , 99, British aristocrat. [102]
Lester Lanin , 97, American jazz big band leader. [103]
Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva ("Serginho") , 30, Brazilian footballer (São Caetano ), heart attack during match. [104]
Rosalind Hicks , 85, British literary guardian and daughter of Agatha Christie . [105]
Shosei Koda , 24, Japanese backpacker, beheaded by kidnappers in Iraq. [106]
Jimmy McLarnin , 96, British boxer, two-time welterweight world champion (1933, 1934). [107]
Gil Mellé , 72, American artist, jazz saxophonist and film and television composer, heart attack. [108]
Graham Roberts , 75, British actor (The Archers , Z-Cars ). [109]
Ted Taylor , 79, Mexican-born American theoretical physicist, nuclear weapon designer and eventual nuclear disarmament advocate, coronary artery disease. [110]
William E. Wallace , 87, American chemist, complications from Parkinson's disease. [111]
Charles F. Wheeler , 88, American cinematographer (Tora! Tora! Tora! ). [112]
HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester , 102, British royal, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II . [113]
Jacinto João , 60, Portuguese footballer, heart attack. [114]
Edward Oliver LeBlanc , 81, Dominican political leader, chief minister (1961–1967) and premier (1967–1974). [115]
Vaughn Meader , 68, American Grammy -winning comedian and JFK impersonator, emphysema. [116]
Gerard Ross Norton , 89, South African soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (1944), [117]
Peter Twinn , 88, British mathematician, World War II codebreaker, and entomologist. [118]