Deaths in October 2005

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

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

 * David Frederick Case, 73, British audiobook narrator, throat cancer.
 * Robert Hanson, 85, American aviator, last-surviving crew-member of the "Memphis Belle".
 * Peter Hubbard-Miles, 78, British politician.
 * Harlo Jones, 81, Canadian World War II bomber pilot, stroke.
 * Sir Edwin Manton, 96, English businessman and art collector.
 * Renzo Nostini, 91, Italian Olympic fencer.
 * Paul Pena, 55, American blues guitarist and songwriter, complications of diabetes and pancreatitis.

2

 * Bud Black, 73, American baseball player.
 * Hamilton Camp, 70, British-American singer and actor (Heaven Can Wait, The Smurfs, DuckTales), heart attack.
 * Bert Eriksson, 74, Belgian political activist.
 * Patrick Kelly, 61, American former Major League Baseball All-Star, heart attack.
 * Alan Rees, 64, Welsh Roman Catholic monk, organist and composer.
 * Nipsey Russell, 80, American comedian, poet and actor, cancer.
 * August Wilson, 60, American playwright (Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson), liver cancer.

3

 * Ronnie Barker, 76, British actor and writer (The Two Ronnies, Porridge, Open All Hours).
 * Seymour Boardman, 83, American artist.
 * Emilinha Borba, 82, Brazilian singer and actress.
 * Alastair G. W. Cameron, 80, Canadian-born American astrophysicist, responsible for Giant Impact Theory of Lunar Creation and pioneer work on Stellar nucleosynthesis, heart failure.
 * Dorothy Marion Campbell, 94, English potter.
 * Sir Peter Crill, 80, Jersey lawyer and politician, Bailiff of Jersey (1986–1995).
 * Mario Encarnación, 30, Dominican baseball player.
 * Nurettin Ersin, 86–87, Turkish army general.
 * Colin McDonald, 57, New Zealand cricketer.
 * David Cohen, 90, American politician, heart failure.
 * Francesco (Franco) Scoglio, 64, Italian soccer trainer.
 * David Zenoff, 89, American former Nevada Supreme Court Justice, perhaps most known for performing the marriage of Elvis Presley.

4

 * John Falloon, 63, New Zealand politician, former New Zealand Cabinet minister.
 * Mike Gibbins, 56, Welsh drummer (Badfinger).
 * Jim Gray, 47, Northern Irish loyalist, murdered.
 * Stanley K. Hathaway, 81, American politician, former Republican Governor of Wyoming, (1967–1975), Secretary of the Interior (1975).
 * Vakhtang Jordania, 62, Georgian (formerly Soviet) conductor, cancer.
 * Harold Leventhal, 86, American folk music promoter.
 * Andrew Raven, 46, British conservationist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
 * William J. Ruane, 79, American philanthropist and financier, lung cancer.
 * André Waterkeyn, 88, Belgian engineer and hockey player.

5

 * John Arnup, 94, Canadian jurist.
 * Don Alvaro Domecq y Diez, 88, Spanish aristocrat.
 * Maura Murphy, 77, Irish author.
 * John van Hengel, 83, American entrepreneur, founder of America's Second Harvest, food bank pioneer.

6

 * Warren Benson, 81, American composer.
 * Harry Bugin, 76, American actor (Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsucker Proxy).
 * Ray Bumatai, 52, American comedian and actor (Rocket Power), brain cancer.
 * Ettore Cunial, 99, Italian prelate, world's oldest Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Horst Floth, 71, German bobsledder, world champion and Olympic silver medallist.
 * Louise Gore, 80, American Republican politician from Maryland, cancer.
 * Ronald Ray Howard, 32, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.

7

 * David Birnie, 54, Australian serial killer.
 * Tracey Miller, 51, American radio host, pioneer of women's sports broadcasting, brain cancer.
 * Richard Stone Reeves, 85, American equestrian portraitist.
 * Charles Rocket, 56, American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Dumb and Dumber, Hocus Pocus), suicide.

8

 * Robert O. Beers, 89, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.
 * Alfred Goldie, 84, English mathematician.
 * Janet Elizabeth Macgregor, 85, Scottish physician and cytologist, cerebrovascular disease.
 * Sir Harry Pitt, 91, British mathematician.
 * Anatoly Shapiro, 92, Ukrainian-born Soviet soldier.

9

 * Clóvis Bornay, 89, Brazilian carnival designer and museum curator, cardiac arrest.
 * Tom Cheek, 66, American sportscaster, longtime Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer, brain cancer.
 * Madurai N. Krishnan, 76, Indian musician.
 * Louis Nye, 92, American comedian, lung cancer.
 * LeRoy Whitfield, 36, African-American writer and AIDS activist, complications of AIDS.
 * Shams Ul Huda Shams, 66, Afghan politician, President of Afghan Mellat Party and nationalist leader.

10

 * Angelo Argea, 75, Greek longtime caddy for legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus, liver cancer.
 * Aivaras Balzekas, 23, Lithuanian tennis player, car accident.
 * Wayne C. Booth, 84, American professor, literary critic, and rhetorician, complications of dementia.
 * Nick Hawkins, 40, English guitarist (Big Audio Dynamite), heart attack.
 * Attila İlhan, 80, Turkish poet and writer.
 * Milton Obote, 79, Ugandan political leader, former president of Uganda.

11

 * Sergio Citti, 72, Italian screenwriter and film director, frequent collaborator with Pier Paolo Pasolini; heart attack.
 * 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).
 * Joseph Neri, 91, French cyclist.
 * Arthur Seldon, 89, British libertarian economist.
 * Edward Szczepanik, 90, Polish economist and former and last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile.
 * Cor Veldhoen, 66, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord and national team).

12

 * Zhang Bairen, 90, Chinese underground Roman Catholic bishop, heart disease.
 * Reed Bullen, 98, American politician, broadcaster and Mormon leader.
 * Sir Robert Foster, 91, British colonial officer, (Governor of Fiji).
 * Frank Galbally, 82, Australian lawyer.
 * Ghazi Kanaan, 63, Syrian Interior Minister, officially suicide (though suspicious).
 * Baker Knight, 72, American songwriter ("Lonesome Town").
 * David E. McGiffert, 79, American lawyer and Defense Department official, heart failure.
 * C. Delores Tucker, 78, American politician, civil rights activist and former Pennsylvania Secretary of State.
 * Jack White, 63, American reporter.
 * Aloysius John Wycislo, 97, American prelate, Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

13

 * Emile Capouya, 80, American publisher, author, and literary critic.
 * István Eörsi, 74, Hungarian left-wing intellectual, leukemia.
 * Vivian Malone Jones, 63, American civil rights pioneer, stroke.
 * Volker Tulzer, 65, Austrian Olympic athlete.
 * Wayne Weiler, 70, American racecar driver.

14

 * Edmund Bacon, 95, American urban planner.
 * Ian Breakwell, 62, British artist in multiple mediums.
 * Ralph Graham, 95, American sportsman.
 * Oleg Lundstrem, 89, Russian jazz musician.
 * Joke Waller-Hunter, 58, Dutch senior United Nations official.

15

 * Leo Bogart, 84, American sociologist, babesiosis.
 * Giuseppe Caprio, 90, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Jason Collier, 28, American Atlanta Hawks basketball player, heart abnormality.
 * Voit Gilmore, 87, American Democratic politician, former North Carolina state Senator and Kennedy Administration official, complications of Parkinson's disease.
 * Penn Kemble, 64, American political activist.
 * Rik Van Nutter, 75, American actor.
 * Mildred Shay, 94, American actress.
 * Al Widmar, 80, American former Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach, colon cancer.
 * Matti Wuori, 60, Finnish advocate and politician, cancer.

16

 * Jack Carpenter, 82, American football player.
 * Elmer Dresslar Jr., 80, American voice actor and vocalist, voice of the Jolly Green Giant, cancer.
 * Ursula Howells, 83, British character actress (The Forsyte Saga).
 * Sir John Johnston, 87, British diplomat.
 * Alvin M. Josephy Jr., 90, American history professor, expert on Native American history.
 * John Larch, 91, American character actor.
 * Eugene "Porky" Lee, 71, American child actor, lung cancer.
 * Barrington Moore Jr., 92, American sociologist.
 * Børge Mortensen, 83, Danish Olympic cyclist.
 * David Reilly, 34, American lead singer/songwriter/musician of American rock band God Lives Underwater.

17

 * Tom Gill, 92, American comic book artist (The Lone Ranger).
 * Ba Jin, 100, Chinese writer, cancer and Parkinson's disease.
 * Antal Moldrich, 71, Hungarian Olympic modern pentathlete.
 * Donald Kofi Tucker, 67, American civil rights activist and New Jersey General Assemblyman, complications of diabetes.
 * Charlie Yates, 92, American amateur golfer.

18

 * William Evan Allan, 106, Australian soldier, last Australian World War I veteran (active service), sailor.
 * Carlos António Gomes, 73, Portuguese goalkeeper with Sporting Lisbon and Portugal's national team in the 1950s and 1960s.
 * Johnny Haynes, 71, English footballer, car accident.
 * Bill King, 78, American sports broadcaster.
 * Hal Lebovitz, 89, American 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, American trombone player for Suburban Legends, hit-and-run motorcycle accident.
 * Ormond McGill, 92, American Dean of American Hypnotists, stage hypnotist, hypnotherapist, and teacher.
 * Jim Morgan, 63, Australian rugby league footballer.
 * Luis Adolfo Siles, 80, Bolivian politician, former President of Bolivia, heart attack.

20

 * Jean-Michel Folon, 71, Belgian artist.
 * Michael Gill, 81, British television producer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Shirley Horn, 71, African-American jazz singer, complications of diabetes.
 * André van der Louw, 72, Dutch politician, cancer.
 * Otto Luedeke, 89, American Olympic cyclist.
 * Endon Mahmood, 64, Malaysian Prime Minister's wife, breast cancer.
 * Luis L. Ramirez, 42, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
 * Besim Sahatçiu, 70, Albanian film and theatre director.
 * Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, Iraqi defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein's trial, murdered by unknown assailants in Baghdad.
 * Willie Sojourner, 57, American basketball player.
 * Eva Švankmajerová, 65, Czech surrealistic painter.

21

 * Karin Adelmund, 56, Dutch politician.
 * Robert E. Badham, 76, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from California, heart attack.
 * Marshall Clagett, 89, American historian of science, professor emeritus at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study.
 * Oscar Giacché, 82, Argentine Olympic cyclist.
 * John Lesinski Jr., 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1951–1965).
 * Sir Nigel Mobbs, 68, British Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.
 * Rabbi Herman N. Neuberger, 87, German-born leader and president of Ner Israel Rabbinical College for over 50 years.
 * Lou Rossini, 84, American former basketball coach of New York University, Alzheimer's disease.

22

 * Tony Adams, 53, Irish-born film and stage producer (The Pink Panther) (Victor Victoria).
 * George T. Alexander, 34, American soldier, 2,000th U.S. military death in Iraq.
 * Arman, (né Armand Pierre Fernandez), 76, French-born sculptor, cancer.
 * Ted Bonda, 88, American former owner of the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Francisco Alejandro Gutierrez, 43, Cuban-born 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.
 * Reggie Lisowski, 79, American professional wrestler known as "The Crusher", brain tumor.
 * Eleanor Saukerson, 83, American politician, member of the South Dakota Senate.

23

 * Harry Dalton, 77, American former Major League Baseball general manager with the Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers, and California Angels, Parkinson's disease.
 * Simon Hobart, 41, British club promoter.
 * William Hootkins, 57, American actor (Star Wars, Batman, Raiders of the Lost Ark), pancreatic cancer.
 * Reginald R. Myers, 85, United States Marine Corps officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * John S. Monagan, 93, American politician, former Democratic United States Representative from Connecticut, heart failure.
 * John Muth, 75, American economist.
 * Stella Obasanjo, 59, Nigerian First Lady, wife of Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, complications from surgery.
 * Yon Hyong-muk, 73, North Korean politician, former Prime Minister of North Korea, pancreatic cancer.

24

 * Ricardo Brinzoni, 60, Argentine military officer, Lieutenant General of the Argentine Army and former Army chief-of-staff, pancreatic cancer.
 * Howie Carl, 67, American basketball player.
 * Ted Dushinski, 61, Canadian former defensive back for the Canadian Football Leagues Saskatchewan Roughriders, lung cancer.
 * Mokarrameh Ghanbari, 77, Iranian painter.
 * José Azcona del Hoyo, 78, Honduran politician, 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".
 * 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.
 * Oswald Hanfling, 77, German philosopher.
 * Enid A. Haupt, 99, American philanthropist.
 * Barbara Keogh, 76, British actress.
 * Wellington Mara, 89, American New York Giants co-owner, lymphoma.
 * Nirmal Verma, 76, Indian author and literary critic, heart attack.
 * 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 and comics writer (Dick Tracy), liver failure.
 * Emil Kyulev, 48, Bulgarian banker, one of the richest men in Bulgaria, murdered in Sofia.
 * Keith Parkinson, 47, American fantasy and science-fiction artist and illustrator.
 * Sir Richard Southwood, 74, British biologist.
 * George Swindin, 90, English football goalkeeper and manager (Arsenal and Cardiff City).
 * Rong Yiren, 89, Chinese politician, former Vice President of the People's Republic of China.

27

 * Jozef Bomba, 66, Slovak footballer.
 * Jerry Cooke, 84, American photographer.
 * Norman Ellis, 92, New Zealand cricketer (Auckland).
 * Georges Guingouin, 92, French Communist Party militant, one of the most famous French resistants.
 * Jean-Claude Irvoas, 56, French employee, murder.
 * Kurt Jarasinski, 66, German Olympic equestrian gold medalist.
 * Jun Papa, 60, Filipino basketball player.
 * Grimes Poznikov, 59, American San Francisco street performer, alcohol poisoning.

28

 * Peter Beet, 68, British railway preservation pioneer.
 * Eugene K. Bird, 79, American longtime Spandau guard of Rudolf Hess.
 * Bob Broeg, 87, American Hall of Fame baseball sports writer, pneumonia.
 * Raymond Hains, 78, French artist.
 * Tony Jackson, 62, American professional basketball player, former St. John's basketball standout.
 * Tahsin Ozguc, 89, Turkish archaeologist.
 * Fernando Quejas, 83, Cape Verdean singer and musician.
 * Paul Reynard, 78, French-born painter, lung cancer.
 * Richard Smalley, 62, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist, co-discoverer of fullerenes.
 * 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 actor (Dynasty, Point Blank, Batman: The Animated Series), cancer.
 * Ian Bush, 22, Canadian shooting victim.
 * Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek, 63, Turkish prelate, highest-ranking Syriac Orthodox Church priest in Europe.
 * Roger Ghyselinck, 81, Belgian cyclist.
 * Valery Kokov, 64, Russian politician, former President of Kabardino-Balkaria, cancer.
 * Albert Parker, 78, English footballer.

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.
 * John N. Erlenborn, 78, American lawyer and former Republican U.S. Representative from Illinois, Lewy body disease.
 * Tetsuo Hamuro, 88, Japanese 1936 Olympics gold-medal winner in swimming.
 * Kyle Lake, 33, American pastor at the University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, electrocuted by microphone during a baptism service.
 * Al López, 97, American baseball manager (Chicago White Sox) and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
 * Joseph Owens, 97, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and philosopher.
 * Emiliano Zuleta, 93, Colombian vallenato musician, respiratory disease.

31

 * Hal O. Anger, 85, American biophysicist, pioneer of nuclear medicine, inventor of gamma ray camera.
 * William O. Baker, 90, American scientist and former Bell Labs president, respiratory failure.
 * Arthur Gary, 91, American radio and television announcer, leukemia.
 * Evert Hingst, 35, Dutch lawyer, allegedly involved in organized crime, shot.
 * Amrita Pritam, 86, Indian poet and writer.
 * P. Leela, 72, Indian film playback singer.
 * Mary Wimbush, 81, British actress (The Archers).
 * Volma Overton, 81, American Activist.