# Deaths in October 2004
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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 by jumping.
* 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.

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* Helmut Bantz, 83, German Olympic gymnast (gold medal in the vault at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
* Syd Bycroft, 92, English football 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, 52, 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.

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* 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.
* Ted Blakey, 79, American historian, activist, and businessman.
* 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, 57, 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 ideologue and 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.
* Bassam Zuamut, 53, Israeli Arab actor (HaMis'ada HaGdola) and screenwriter, kidney disease.

### 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 criminal 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, Luxembourgish 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.
* 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, 96, 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.