Deaths in October 1995

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1995.

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.

1

 * Aditya Vikram Birla, 51, Indian industrialist, prostate cancer.
 * Einer Boberg, 59-60, Danish-Canadian speech pathologist.
 * René Cloke, 90, British illustrator and watercolorist.
 * Margaret Gorman, 90, American beauty queen and 1st Miss America.
 * Felipe Rivera, 24, Chilean tennis player, traffic collision.
 * Henry P. Smith III, 84, American politician.

2

 * John Ayers, 42, American National Football League offensive lineman, liver cancer.
 * Otto Chr. Bastiansen, 77, Norwegian chemist.
 * Hajir Darioush, 57, Iranian film maker.
 * Helmut Degen, 84, German composer.
 * Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, 67, British artist and teacher.
 * Ben Meier, 77, American politician.

3

 * Col Austen, 74, Australian rules footballer.
 * Orlando Aloysius Battista, 78, Canadian chemist and writer.
 * John Chickerneo, 78, American football player.
 * Kevin Commins, 67, South African cricketer.
 * Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, 86, Brazilian intellectual and activist.
 * Štefan Jačiansky, 65, Slovak football manager.
 * Nippy Jones, 70, American baseball player.
 * Elena Quiroga, 73, Spanish writer.
 * Francis O. Schmitt, 91, American biologist and professor.
 * M. P. Sivagnanam, 89, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
 * Leon Surmelian, 89, Armenian-American author.
 * Charles L. Veach, 51, American astronaut, cancer.

4

 * Fabio Albarelli, 52, Italian competitive sailor and Olympic medalist.
 * Matt Armstrong, 83, Scottish footballer.
 * Woody Bledsoe, 73, American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Else Brems, 87, Danish contralto.
 * Arturo García Buhr, 89, Argentine actor and film director, suicide.
 * Dean Roden Chapman, 73, American mechanical engineer with NASA.
 * Fred Fehl, 89, American photographer.
 * Masood Rana, 57, Pakistani film playback singer.
 * Eu Chooi Yip, 76, Malaysian politician and Singaporean activist.

5

 * Walter Edwin Arnoldi, 77, American aeronautical engineer.
 * Karl Johan Baadsvik, 85, Canadian skier.
 * Arthur Barbosa, 87, English artist.
 * Lillian Fuchs, 93, American viola player, composer and teacher.
 * Linda Gary, 50, American voice actress (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Spider-Man).
 * Dick Jurgens, 85, American bandleader.
 * Pin Malakul, 91, Thai educator and politician.
 * Abdurehim Ötkür, 72, Uyghur author and poet.

6

 * Michael Allen, 62, English cricketer.
 * Paul Baize, 94, a French pediatrician and amateur astronomer.
 * Karl Band, 94, German architect.
 * Eileen Cassidy, 63, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
 * Benoît Chamoux, 34, French Alpinist, disappeared during climb.
 * Hughie Charles, 88, English songwriter and impresario.
 * José Antonio de Armas Chitty, 86, Venezuelan historian, poet, biographer and researcher.
 * Iván Mándy, 76, Hungarian writer.
 * Anthony Newlands, 70, British actor.

7

 * Ya'akov Arnon, 82, Israeli economist and government official.
 * Mikhail Butkevich, 69, Soviet/Russian theatre director and drama professor at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.
 * Roberto Cabrera, 81, Chilean footballer.
 * Ralph Churchfield, 77, American basketball player.
 * Gérard de Vaucouleurs, 77, French astronomer.
 * Emanuele Del Vecchio, 61, Brazilian football forward.
 * Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann, 44, German far-left militant, cancer.
 * Louis Meyer, 91, American Hall of Fame race car driver.
 * Olga Taussky-Todd, 89, Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician.
 * Harley A. Wilhelm, 95, American chemist.

8

 * Erich Brost, 91, German journalist and publisher.
 * John Cairncross, 82, Scottish civil servant and Soviet spy during World War II.
 * Alvaro Cartei, 84, Italian painter and ceramist.
 * Christopher Keene, 48, American conductor and director of the New York City Opera, AIDS.
 * Kentarō Ogawa, 61, Japanese baseball player.
 * Olavi Salsola, 61, Finnish middle distance runner and Olympian.
 * Patric Walker, 64, American-British astrologer.
 * Geoffrey Warnock, 72, English philosopher and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.

9

 * Kamal Bose, 80, Indian cinematographer.
 * Sagramor de Scuvero Brandão, 74, Brazilian actress and radio personality.
 * Henry W. Clune, 105, American writer and journalist.
 * Alec Douglas-Home, 92, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
 * Zaim Imamović, 34, Bosnian commander, killed in action.
 * Kukrit Pramoj, 84, Thai politician and 13th Prime Minister of Thailand, diabetes.
 * John A. Scali, 77, American journalist and diplomat.

10

 * Fateh Chand Badhwar, 94-95, Indian civil servant.
 * Doug Cline, 57, American football player.
 * Robert Finch, 70, American politician, heart attack.
 * Ed Gill, 100, American baseball player.
 * Paolo Gucci, 64, Italian businessman and fashion designer.
 * Carl Barton Huffaker, 81, American biologist, ecologist and agricultural entomologist.
 * Lars Näsman, 52, Finnish football player and coach.
 * Doug Russell, 84, American gridiron football player.

11

 * Isolde Ahlgrimm, 81, Austrian harpsichordist and fortepianist.
 * Donald Beckford, 88, Jamaican cricketer.
 * Graciela Amaya de García, 100, Mexican feminist and labour organizer.
 * Huang Yijun, 80, Chinese conductor and composer.
 * Jeff York, 83, American actor (Old Yeller, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Alaskans).

12

 * Eleanor Aller, 78, American cellist.
 * Harald Barlie, 58, Norwegian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic athlete.
 * George Blaikie, 80, Australian author and journalist.
 * Gary Bond, 55, English actor (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Anne of the Thousand Days, Wake in Fright) and singer, AIDS-related complications.
 * David McLean, 73, American actor, lung cancer.
 * Hans Wärmling, 52, Swedish musician and songwriter, drowned.

13

 * John Tyler Caldwell, 83, American academic and professor of political science.
 * Geoffrey Chung, 44, Jamaican musician, recording engineer, and record producer, liver failure.
 * Michael Lah, 83, Slovenian-American animator.
 * Henry Roth, 89, American novelist and short story writer.
 * Béla Varga, 92, Hungarian Catholic priest and politician.
 * Jean Weber, 89, French film actor.
 * Herbert Weißbach, 93, German actor, cabaret artist, and voice actor.

14

 * John R. P. French, 82, American psychologist.
 * William Fritz, 81, Canadian sprinter and Olympian.
 * Gunvor Hofmo, 74, Norwegian writer.
 * Edith Pargeter, 82, English author.
 * Helen Vlachos, 83, Greek journalist and anti-junta activist.
 * Karl Widmark, 84, Swedish sprint canoeists.

15

 * Akhat Bragin, 42, Ukrainian businessman, bomb attack.
 * Marco Campos, 19, Brazilian racing driver, racing accident.
 * Claudine Chomat, 80, French communist militant and member of the resistance during World War II.
 * Thelma Griffith Haynes, 82, Canadian-American Major League Baseball executive.
 * Bengt Åkerblom, 28, Swedish ice hockey player.

16

 * Richard Caldicot, 87, British actor.
 * Günther Happich, 43, Austrian football midfielder.
 * Jimmie Lewallen, 76, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
 * Augustine Martin, 59, Irish academic, writer, broadcaster and literary critic.
 * Joe Pearce, 85, Australian rugby player and coach.
 * Thoogudeepa Srinivas, 52, Indian film actor.
 * John Walker, 88, American art curator.

17

 * Mike Brittain, 32, American basketball player.
 * Peter Hinchliff, 66, South African Anglican priest and academic.
 * Fachtna O'Donovan, 74, Irish sportsperson.
 * Pál Zolnay, 67, Hungarian film director, screenwriter and actor.

18

 * Claudio Brook, 68, Mexican actor, stomach cancer.
 * Franco Fabrizi, 79, Italian actor, cancer.
 * Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, 71, American lawyer and civil rights activist.
 * Edward Griffiths, 66, British politician.
 * Bryan Johnson, 69, English singer and actor.
 * Tommy Lyttle, 56, Irish Ulster loyalist and paramilitary, heart attack.
 * William Mackey, 80, Canadian Catholic priest and Jesuit educator, sepsis.
 * Ted Sturgis, 82, American jazz bassist.
 * Ted Whiteaway, 66, British racing driver.

19

 * Don Cherry, 58, American jazz trumpeter, liver cancer.
 * Kumari Naaz, 51, Indian film actress.
 * Harilaos Perpessas, 88, Greek composer.
 * Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, 84, Ukrainian-Canadian linguist, lexicographer, author and publicist.
 * Don Williams, 59, Australian rules football player.

20

 * Eric Birley, 89, British historian and archaeologist.
 * William D. Campbell, 88, American leader of the international Scouting movement.
 * Riccardo Carapellese, 73, Italian football manager and player.
 * Jack Rose, 83, American screenwriter.
 * Christopher Stone, 53, American actor, heart attack.
 * John Tonkin, 93, Australian politician.

21

 * Maxene Andrews, 79, American singer and actress and member of The Andrews Sisters.
 * Jesús Blasco, 75, Spanish comic book author.
 * José Ignacio Cabrujas, 58, Venezuelan playwright and theater director, heart attack.
 * Harold I. Cammer, 86, American lawyer who co-founded the National Lawyers Guild.
 * Manuel Vázquez Gallego, 65, Spanish cartoonist.
 * Linda Goodman, 70, American astrologer and poet, diabetes.
 * Nancy Graves, 55, American sculptor, painter, and printmaker, ovarian cancer.
 * Sverre Hansen, 76, Norwegian actor.
 * Hans Helfritz, 93, German composer and photographer.
 * Shannon Hoon, 28, American singer-songwriter, drug overdose.
 * Vada Pinson, 57, American baseball player and coach, stroke.
 * Abel Salazar, 78, Mexican actor, producer and director, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Anatoly Shelyukhin, 65, Soviet cross-country skier and Olympian.

22

 * Kingsley Amis, 73, English author (Lucky Jim, Jake's Thing, The Old Devils).
 * Mario Costa, 91, Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
 * Simone Gallimard, 77, French editor and publisher, cancer.
 * Ralph Whitlock, 81, British farmer, conservationist, writer, and broadcaster.
 * Mary Wickes, 85, American actress (White Christmas, Sister Act, The Hunchback of Notre Dame), complications following surgery.

23

 * Bert Bandstra, 73, American politician.
 * Johnny Bookman, 63, American gridiron football player.
 * Helen Gilbert, 80, American film actress and musician.
 * Don Pendleton, 67, American author of fiction and non-fiction books.

24

 * Marion Adnams, 96, English painter, printmaker and draughtswoman.
 * Jan Bartosik, 47, Polish sailor and Olympian.
 * Syed Abuzar Bukhari, Pakistani scholar and president of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam.
 * Émile Jonassaint, 82, Haitian jurist and politician (1994),.
 * Hermann Langbein, 83, Austrian communist resistance fighter and historian.
 * Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley, 71, Venezuelan lawyer and diplomat (b. 1924)
 * Anna Wood, 15, Australian teenager, drug overdose.
 * Ronnie Selby Wright, 87, Scottish Church of Scotland minister.

25

 * Agha Saadat Ali, 66, Pakistani cricketer.
 * François Brousse, 82, French philosophy professor and poet.
 * Noel Crump, 78, New Zealand freestyle swimmer.
 * Kenneth Dadzie, 65, Ghanaian diplomat and 1st African Secretary-General of UNCTAD.
 * Gavin Ewart, 79, British poet.
 * Robert Grieve, 84, Scottish civil servant and planner.
 * David Healy, 66, American-born actor.
 * Bernhard Heiliger, 79, German artist.
 * Jan Hoffman, 89, Polish pianist and music educator.
 * Viveca Lindfors, 74, Swedish actress, arthritis.
 * Bobby Riggs, 77, American tennis player, prostate cancer.
 * B. F. Sisk, 84, American politician.
 * Miljenko Smoje, 72, Croatian writer and journalist, lung cancer.
 * Peter Stallard, 80, British colonial governor.

26

 * Kumbha Ram Arya, 81, Indian politician.
 * Georgia Neese Clark Gray, 97, first woman Treasurer of the United States.
 * Hamilton E. Holmes, 54, American orthopedic physician, heart failure.
 * Wilhelm Freddie, 86, Danish painter.
 * Fylymon Kurchaba, 81, Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, auxiliary bishop of Lviv (since 1985).
 * John Sangster, 66, Australian jazz composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist.

27

 * André Berge, 93, French physician and psychoanalyst.
 * Marta Colvin, 87-88, Chileán sculptor.
 * Jacques Heurgon, 92, French historian and classical philologist.
 * Mumtaz Mufti, 90, Pakistani writer.
 * Richard Ryder, 53, American actor, AIDS-related complications.
 * Slobodan Selenić, 62, Serbian writer, literary critic, and academic, cancer.

28

 * Fouad Abdulhameed Alkhateeb, 69-70, Saudi Arabian ambassador, author, and businessman.
 * Chingiz Babayev, 31, Azerbaijani officer and National Hero of Azerbaijan, killed in action.
 * Thomas Bellew, 52, Irish politician.
 * Julien Bertheau, 85, French actor.
 * Edward Drabiński, 83, Polish football player and manager.
 * Morris Williams, 71, Australian politician.

29

 * Robert Boeser, 68, American ice hockey player.
 * Fred Gerbic, 63, New Zealand politician.
 * Jean Heather, 74, American actress.
 * Minna Lederman, 99, American editor and writer on music and dance.
 * Al Niemiec, 84, American baseball second basemen and shortstop.
 * Terry Southern, 71, American screenwriter (Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, Saturday Night Live) and author.
 * Jimmy Swan, 81, American country musician.

30

 * Louis Abolafia, 54, American artist and social activist, drug overdose.
 * Paolo Alatri, 77, Italian historian and Marxist politician.
 * Anastasios Balkos, 79, Greek Army lieutenant general and conservative politician.
 * Stephen Bekassy, 88, Hungarian-born American film actor.
 * Virginia Bradford, 95, American actress.
 * Brian Easdale, 86, British composer of orchestral, choral and film music.
 * Paul Ferris, 54, English film composer and actor, suicide.
 * David M. Schneider, 76, American cultural anthropologist.

31

 * Royal B. Allison, 76, United States Air Force lieutenant general, cancer.
 * Word Baker, 72, American theatre director.
 * Caroline Bammel, 55, English historian, classicist, and academic, cancer.
 * Glenn Berry, 90, American gymnast who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.
 * Alan Bush, 94, British composer, pianist, and conductor.
 * Jim Campbell, 71, American baseball executive (Detroit Tigers).
 * Rosalind Cash, 56, American actress (The Omega Man, General Hospital, Klute), cancer.
 * Derek Enright, 60, British Labour politician.
 * Dr. Hepcat, 82, American blues pianist, singer, and baseball commentator.
 * Lou Levy, 84, American music publisher.
 * Joel Mason, 83, American NFL football player and NBL basketball player.
 * Mario Napolitano, 85, Italian chess master.
 * Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, 42, British peer, neurological disorder.
 * Bill Rowling, 67, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand, cancer.