Deaths in October 2004

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, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Frank Kendall Everest Jr., 84, American Air Force officer.
• Ron Hayes, 75, American television actor, suicide from height.
• Joyce Jillson, 58, American astrologer, newspaper columnist, author and actress, kidney failure.
• Bruce Palmer, 58, Canadian bassist (Buffalo Springfield), heart attack.
• Aleksandr Rogov, 48, Soviet Olympic canoer (gold medal winner in men's C-1 500 metres individual canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics).

2

• Shaul Amor, 63, Israeli politician.
• Bjørnar Andresen, 59, Norwegian jazz musician.
• Max Geldray, 88, Dutch jazz harmonica player often credited as the world's first, and Goon Show performer.
• Fialho Gouveia, 69, Portuguese radio and TV presenter, respiratory failure.
• Norm Schachter, 90, American gridiron football official and referee.
• Nick Skorich, 83, American NFL gridiron football player and coach (Philadelphia Eagles), complications from heart surgery.

3

• Vernon Alley, 89, American jazz bassist.
• Jacques Benveniste, 69, French immunologist and physician.
• John Cerutti, 44, American Major League Baseball baseball player, announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays.
• Donald Wills Douglas, Jr., 87, American industrialist and sportsman.
• Matthäus Hetzenauer, 79, Austrian Wehrmacht sniper during World War II.
• Janet Leigh, 77, American actress (Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, Touch of Evil), vasculitis, vasculitis, heart attack.
• Frits van Turenhout, 91, Dutch sports journalist.

4

• Helmut Bantz, 83, German Olympic gymnast (gold medal in the vault at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
• Syd Bycroft, 92, English footballer player.
• Rodolfo Celletti, 87, Italian musicologist, critic, voice teacher, and novelist.
• Gordon Cooper, 77, American astronaut and aeronautical engineer, one of the original Mercury Seven, heart failure.
• Rio Diaz, 45, Filipino beauty queen, television presenter, actress and politician, colorectal cancer.
• Michael Grant, 89, British ancient historian.
• Emīlija Gudriniece, 84, Soviet/Latvian chemist.
• Nilamani Routray, 84, Indian politician and Chief Minister.

5

• Mario Ramón Beteta, 79, Mexican economist.
• Rodney Dangerfield, 82, American comedian and actor (Easy Money, Caddyshack, Back to School), Grammy winner (1981), complications from heart surgery.
• William H. Dobelle, 62, American biomedical researcher, eye doctor and artificial vision pioneer, complications of diabetes.
• John Richards, 77, British Royal Marines general.
• Wayne Rutledge, 62, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings, Houston Aeros), stomach cancer.
• Maurice Wilkins, 87, New Zealand-British physicist and molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1962).

6

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

7

• Michael C. Astour, 87, Soviet-American professor of Yiddish and Russian literature.
• Kenneth Bigley, 62, British civil engineer taken hostage in Iraq, beheaded by hostage takers, decapitation.
• T. J. Binyon, 68, British author, Oxford professor, Pushkin scholar and crime novelist, heart attack.
• Wolfgang Grzyb, 64, German football player.
• Oscar Heisserer, 90, French football player.
• Tony Lanfranchi, 69, British racing driver, cancer.
• Miki Matsubara, 44, Japanese singer, cervical cancer.
• Rosemary Murray, 91, British chemist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1975–1977).
• Jacques Noël, 84, French fencer.
• Hildy Parks, 78, American actress, writer and TV producer, complications of stroke.
• Július Toček, 65, Czechoslovak rower and Olympic medalist.
• Nikola Dimitrov Tzanev, 64, Bulgarian football player.

8

• James Chace, 72, American historian, heart attack.
• Irina Demick, 67, French actress.
• Tony Giuliani, 91, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Brooklyn Dodgers).
• Kenneth G. Mills, 81, Canadian philosopher and musician.
• Johnny Sturm, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and minor league manager, congestive heart failure.

9

• Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher (deconstruction), pancreatic cancer.
• Maxime Faget, 83, American aerospace engineer (NASA, Space Shuttle program), designer of the Mercury space capsule, bladder cancer.
• Herschel Grossman, 65, American economist.
• Don McEvoy, 75, English football player and manager.
• Bryan R. Wilson, 78, British author of religious books.

10

• Ken Caminiti, 41, American baseball player, drug overdose.
• David G. Chandler, 70, British historian.
• Kelsey Jones, 82, Canadian composer, pianist, harpsichordist, and music teacher, kidney failure.
• Christopher Reeve, 52, American actor (Superman, The Remains of the Day, Deathtrap), heart failure.
• Arthur H. Robinson, 89, American cartographer and geographer.
• Maurice Shadbolt, 72, New Zealand novelist, playwright and journalist, Alzheimer's disease.
• John William Tebbel, 91, American journalist, editor, writer, teacher, and media historian.

11

• Paul Bryan, 91, British politician.
• Bobby Cook, 81, American basketball player.
• Lord Nicholas Gordon-Lennox, 73, British diplomat, Ambassador to Spain (1984–1989).
• Elisabeth Klein, 93, Hungarian-Danish pianist.
• Ben Komproe, 62, Netherlands Antilles politician, Prime Minister (2003) and Minister of Justice (2003–2004), complications from gastric surgery.
• Mary Loos, 94, American actress, screenwriter, and novelist, complications from stroke.
• Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 82, British peer, politician and landowner.
• Keith Miller, 84, Australian cricketer, Australian rules footballer, fighter pilot and journalist.
• Gulshan Rai, 80, Indian film producer and distributor.
• Fernando Sabino, 80, Brazilian writer and journalist, cancer.

12

• Tommy Kalmanir, 78, American football player.
• Samson Kutsuwada, 57, Japanese wrestler, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Jackie McGrory, 62, Scottish football player.
• Shigehiro Ozawa, 82, Japanese film director and screenwriter.

13

• Mike Blyzka, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles).
• Erik Bye, 78, Norwegian journalist, radio/TV host, actor, and singer/songwriter, cancer.
• Enrique M. Fernando, 89, Filipino judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
• David Grose, 59, American archaeologist and classicist.
• Grethe Holmer, 80, Danish actress.
• Nirupa Roy, 73, Indian film actress, heart attack.
• Bernice Rubens, 76, British Booker Prize-winning novelist (The Elected Member), complications from stroke.
• Ivor Wood, 72, British animator (Paddington Bear, The Wombles Postman Pat), cancer.
• Tetsu Yano, 80, Japanese science fiction writer and translato, colorectal cancer.

14

• Peter Adelaar, 57, Dutch Olympic judoka.
• Juan Francisco Fresno, 90, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile (1983–1990).
• Mohamed Zahir Ismail, 80, Malaysian lawyer and politician, kidney failure.
• Cordell Jackson, 81, American rockabilly musician.
• Sheila Keith, 84, British actress.
• Lokesh, 103, Indian actor.
• Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, 67, British peer, historian and member of the House of Lords, complications of emphysema.
• Ivan Shamiakin, 83, Soviet Belarusian writer.
• Dattopant Thengadi, 83, Indian Hindu ideologueand trade union leader.

15

• Bill Eyden, 74, British jazz drummer.
• Dave Godin, 68, British soul music promoter and journalist, coined the term "northern soul".
• Per Højholt, 76, Danish poet.
• Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist (Batman, The Flash, Superman).
• Thiruthuraipoondi Radhakrishnan Pappa, 81, Indian music director of Tamil, Telugu and Sinhalese films.
• Tex Ritter, 80, American professional basketball player (Eastern Kentucky, New York Knicks).

16

• Doug Bennett, 52, Canadian rock singer (Doug and the Slugs).
• Vincent Brome, 94, British biographer and novelist.
• Susana Campos, 70, Argentine actress, brain cancer.
• Don Carlson, 85, American basketball player.
• Harold Perkin, 77, English social historian.
• Pierre Salinger, 79, American journalist and Press Secretary to John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, heart failure.
• Tomasz Strzembosz, 74, Polish historian and writer.

17

• Ray Boone, 81, American Major League Baseball player, patriarch of first third-generation MLB family.
• Wu Faxian, 89, Chinese revolutionary and military officer, commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force/.
• Julius Harris, 81, American actor (Live and Let Die, Super Fly, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three), heart failure.
• Uzi Hitman, 52, Israeli singer, songwriter and composer, heart attack.
• Bas Pease, 81, British physicist.
• Franco Prosperi, 78, Italian film director and screenwriter.
• Andreas Sassen, 36, German football player, stroke.

18

• Nancy Carline, 94, British artist.
• Edwin Arthur Hall, 95, American politician.
• Richie Lemos, 84, Mexican-American boxer.
• Elizabeth Nicholls, 58, American-Canadian paleontologist, cancer.
• Fermin Rocker, 96, British painter and book illustrator.
• Veerappan, 52, Indian criminial known as "Jungle Cat", shot by Special Task Force.
• Viktor Zubarev, 31, Kazakhstani football player, drug overdose.

19

• Antoine Abel, 69, Seychellois writer.
• Anita Bitri, 36, Albanian pop singer, carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Frank Chapple, 83, British trade unionist (General Secretary of EETPU, 1966–1984).
• Kenneth E. Iverson, 84, Canadian computer scientist, inventor of the APL programming language, stroke.
• Sang Lee, 51, Korean-American three-cushion billiard player, stomach cancer.
• Elizabeth May McClintock, 92, American botanist.
• Veljko Milatović, 82, Montenegrin communist partisan, politician, and President (1967-1969, 1974-1982).
• Paul Nitze, 97, American diplomat and Cold War arms negotiator, pneumonia.
• Calvin Ruck, 79, Canadian member of Parliament (Senate of Canada representing Nova Scotia).
• Greg Shaw, 55, American rock music journalist and record label executive, heart attack.
• Lewis Urry, 77, Canadian chemical engineer and inventor (alkaline battery, lithium battery).

20

• William Brown, 66, American operatic tenor.
• Veronika Cherkasova, 45, Belarusian journalist, stabbed.
• Tevfik Gelenbe, 73, Turkish actor and comedian, complications of cancer.
• Anthony Hecht, 81, American poet, lymphoma.
• Chuck Hiller, 70, American Major League Baseball baseball player and coach, first National League player to hit a World Series grand slam, leukemia.
• Nietzchka Keene, 52, American film director and writer, pancreatic cancer.
• Lynda Lee-Potter, 69, British newspaper columnist (Daily Mail), brain tumour, brain cancer.
• Ildo Lobo, 50, Cape Verdean singer.

21

• Adnan al-Ghoul, Palestinian Hamas chief explosives expert, alleged "father" of the Qassam rocket, targeted killing by the IDF.
• Sharifa Alkhateeb, 58, American teacher and writer, pancreatic cancer.
• Jim Bucher, 93, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox).
• Neil Campbell, 58, American scientist, heart attack.
• Jean Dondelinger, 73, Luxembourgian diplomat and civil servant.
• Everett Rogers, 73, American communication scholar and sociologist, founder of diffusion of innovations theory.
• Victoria Snelgrove, 21, American college junior, shot with pepper spray projectile by Boston Police.

22

• Louis Bouyer, 91, French Catholic priest and Lutheran minister.
• Galeazzo Dondi, 89, Italian Olympic basketball player and basketball coach.
• Samuel L. Gravely, Jr., 82, American naval pioneer (first African American fleet commander and admiral), complications from stroke.
• Katherine Victor, 81, American cult film actress, stroke.
• Pedro Vilardebo, 51, Spanish racing cyclist.

23

• Edward T. Cone, 87, American composer, music theorist, pianist, and philanthropist.
• Jim McDonald, 77, American baseball player.
• Robert Merrill, 87, American operatic baritone, natural causes.
• Bill Nicholson, 85, British football manager (Tottenham Hotspur, 1958–1974), player, coach, and scout.
• George Silk, 87, New Zealand WWII photojournalist (Life), congestive heart failure.

24

• Dario Di Palma, 71, Italian film cinematographer.
• Randy Dorton, 50, American engine builder (Hendrick Motorsports), plane crash.
• Ricky Hendrick, 24, American NASCAR stock car driver and partial team owner, plane crash.
• James Aloysius Hickey, 84, American Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Washington, D.C. (1980–2000).
• Isao Imai, 90, Japanese theoretical physicist.
• Maaja Ranniku, 63, Soviet (Estonian) chess International Master, women's Soviet chess champion, ten-time Estonian women's chess champion.
• Herbert Schilling, 74, German Olympic boxer (light welterweight boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).

25

• Thomas Kanza, 71, Congolese diplomat and ambassador, heart attack.
• Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra, 84, Indian politician (foreign minister, 1979–1980), cardiac arrest.
• John Peel, 65, English radio presenter and journalist, heart attack.
• Jerzy Ustupski, 93, Polish rower and Olympic medalist.

26

• Bobby Ávila, 79, Mexican MLB All-Star and American League batting champion (1954), complications of diabetes.
• Helen Elsie Austin, 96, American attorney, civil rights leader, and diplomat.
• Russ Derry, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals).
• Robin Kenyatta, 62, American jazz alto saxophonist.
• Patricia Knight, 89, American actress.
• Ricardo Odnoposoff, 90, Austrian violinist.
• Fred Paine, 78, American basketball player (Providence Steamrollers).

27

• Vladimir Arkhipov, 71, Soviet army general and politician.
• Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold, 99, British aristocrat.
• Claude Helffer, 82, French pianist.
• Olavi Laaksonen, 83, Finnish Olympic football player.
• Lester Lanin, 97, American jazz big band leader.
• Lasse Nordvall, 76, Swedish Olympic cyclist (men's individual and team cycling road races at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics).
• Marwell Periotti, 65, Argentine Olympic footballer (men's football at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
• V. V. Raghavan, 81, Indian communist politician.
• Zdenko Runjić, 62, Croatian songwriter, stroke.
• Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, 30, Brazilian footballer (São Caetano), heart attack during match.

28

• Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki, 56, Saudi traditional Sunni Islamic scholar.
• Rosalind Christie, 85, British literary guardian and the only child of Agatha Christie.
• Maria Fiore, 69, Italian film and television actress, lung cancer.
• Jimmy McLarnin, 96, British boxer, two-time welterweight world champion (1933, 1934).
• Gil Mellé, 72, American artist, jazz saxophonist and film and television composer, heart attack.
• George S. Schairer, 91, American aerodynamics expert at Boeing.
• Ted Taylor, 79, Mexican-American theoretical physicist and nuclear weapon designere, coronary artery disease.
• Charles F. Wheeler, 88, American cinematographer (Tora! Tora! Tora!), Alzheimer's disease.

29

• Natalya Baranskaya, 95, Soviet writer of short stories and novellas.
• Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 102, British royal, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II, stroke.
• Jacinto João, 60, Portuguese footballer, heart attack.
• Shosei Koda, 24, Japanese backpacker, beheaded by Al-Qaeda in Iraq-terrorists.
• Edward Oliver LeBlanc, 81, Dominican political leader, chief minister (1961–1967) and premier (1967–1974).
• Vaughn Meader, 68, American Grammy-winning comedian and JFK impersonator, emphysema.
• Gerard Ross Norton, 89, South African soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (1944),.
• Ezra Stoller, 89, American architectural photographer.
• Pierre Thibaud, 75, French classical trumpeter.
• Peter Twinn, 88, British mathematician, codebreaker during World War II, and entomologist.

30

• Brian Andre Doyle, 93, British judge, Attorney General of Fiji and Chief Justice of Zambia.
• Dame Phyllis Frost, 87, Australian welfare worker and philanthropist.
• David José Kohon, 75, Argentine film director and screenwriter.
• Rein Otsason, 73, Estonian economist and banker, heart failure.
• Peggy Ryan, 80, American actress (All Ashore, Hawaii Five-O), singer and dancer, stroke.
• David Shulman, 91, American lexicographer and cryptographer.
• Ed Waters, 74, American writer for film and television.

31

• Mari Aldon, 78, Lithuanian-American actress.
• Don Briscoe, 64, American stage and television actor (Dark Shadows), heart disease.
• Roland Gibbs, 83, British Field Marshal.
• David Gore-Booth, 61, British diplomat.
• Valentin Nikolayev, 80, Soviet Olympic wrestler (gold medal winner in men's light heavyweight wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
• Marie Tehan, 64, Australian Liberal politician (Victorian Parliament, 1987–1999), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.

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