# Deaths in October 2005
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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.

## October 2005
### 1

* Román Torán Albero, 73, Spanish chess player.
* David Frederick Case, 73, British audiobook narrator, throat cancer.
* Bruce Chamberlain, 66, Australian politician.
* Robert Hanson, 85, American aviator, last-surviving crew-member of the "Memphis Belle".
* Peter Hubbard-Miles, 78, British politician.
* Herbert Huber, 74, German botanist.
* 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.
* Pat Kelly, 61, American former Major League Baseball All-Star, heart attack.
* 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), heart failure.
* Seymour Boardman, 83, American artist.
* Emilinha Borba, 82, Brazilian singer and actress, heart attack.
* Betty Bryant, 85, British-Australian actress.
* Alastair G. W. Cameron, 80, Canadian-American astrophysicist and pioneer on Stellar nucleosynthesis, heart failure.
* David Cohen, 90, American politician, heart failure.
* Guillaume Dustan, 39, French writer, pulmonary embolism.
* Mario Encarnación, 30, Dominican baseball player.
* Nurettin Ersin, 86–87, Turkish army general.
* Chintamoni Kar, 90, British-Indian sculptor.
* Sara Levi-Tanai, 95, Israeli choreographer and song writer.
* André Riou, 87, French football player.
* Alfredo Rodríguez, 68, Cuban pianist from the 1960s to 2000s.
* Franco Scoglio, 64, Italian soccer trainer, heart attack.
* Alvin Wistert, 89, American gridiron football player.
* Jeff Young, 63, Welsh rugby union player, Alzheimer's disease.

### 4

* Don Arioli, 69, American-Canadian actor and writer.
* John Falloon, 63, New Zealand politician, former New Zealand Cabinet minister, brain cancer.
* Mike Gibbins, 56, Welsh drummer (Badfinger), intracranial aneurysm.
* Stanley K. Hathaway, 81, American politician, Governor of Wyoming, (1967–1975), Secretary of the Interior (1975).
* Vakhtang Jordania, 62, Soviet and Georgian conductor, cancer.
* Harold Leventhal, 86, American folk music promoter.
* Ronald Rivlin, 90, British-American physicist, mathematician, rheologist.
* William J. Ruane, 79, American philanthropist and financier, lung cancer.
* André Waterkeyn, 88, Belgian engineer and hockey player.
* Richard Zobel, 53, American actor, cancer.

### 5

* Álvaro Domecq y Díez, 88, Spanish aristocrat.
* Shirley Ellis, 76, American soul music singer and songwriter.
* Horst Floth, 71, West German bobsledder and Olympic silver medalist, cancer.
* George S. Hammond, 84, American scientist and theoretical chemist.
* Leopold Horner, 94, German chemist.
* John van Hengel, 83, American entrepreneur and food bank pioneer, Parkinson's disease.

### 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.
* Louise Gore, 80, American Republican politician, cancer.
* John V. Wehausen, 92, American applied mathematician.

### 7

* Devery Freeman, 92, American screenwriter, novelist, television producer, and union activist.
* Roger A. Freeman, 77, British military aviation historian.
* Richard Stone Reeves, 85, American equestrian portraitist.
* Charles Rocket, 56, American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Dumb and Dumber, Hocus Pocus), suicide.
* Jovan Soldatović, 84, Serbian and Yugoslav sculptor.
* Michael Ward, 80, English surgeon and an expedition doctor on the 1953 first ascent of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary.

### 8

* Tin Dekkers, 89, Dutch Olympic boxer.
* Sonny Fisher, 73, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
* Alfred Goldie, 84, English mathematician.
* Erik Grønseth, 80, Norwegian sociologist.
* George Hislop, 78, Canadian gay activist, Parkinson's disease.
* Harry Pitt, 91, British mathematician.
* Micaela Portilla, 83, Spanish anthropologist and historian.

### 9

* Clóvis Bornay, 89, Brazilian carnival designer and museum curator, heart attack.
* Sergio Cervato, 76, Italian football player.
* Tom Cheek, 66, American sportscaster, longtime Toronto Blue Jays announcer, brain cancer.
* Serge Lancel, 77, French archaeologist, historian and philologist.
* Madurai N. Krishnan, 76, Indian musician.
* Billy Myles, 81, American R&B songwriter and singer.
* Louis Nye, 92, American comedian, lung cancer.

### 10

* Angelo Argea, 75, Greek longtime caddy for legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus, liver cancer.
* Wayne C. Booth, 84, American professor, literary critic, and rhetorician, complications of dementia.
* Nick Hawkins, 40, English guitarist (Big Audio Dynamite), heart attack.
* Roland Kuhn, 93, Swiss psychiatrist.
* Apollo Milton Obote, 79, Ugandan political leader, president (1980-1985), kidney failure.
* Attilâ İlhan, 80, Turkish poet and writer, heart attack.

### 11

* Sergio Citti, 72, Italian screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
* Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, 87, Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, journalist, broadcaster, and lexicographer.
* Oscar Hold, 86, English football player and manager, bladder cancer.
* Jan Holden, 74, British actress (The Cheaters).
* Arthur Seldon, 89, British libertarian economist.
* Edward Szczepanik, 90, Polish economist and last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile.
* Cor Veldhoen, 66, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord and national team).
* Aloysius John Wycislo, 97, American prelate, Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

### 12

* Zhang Bairen, 90, Chinese underground Roman Catholic bishop, heart disease.
* Robert Sidney Foster, 91, British colonial officer (Governor of Fiji).
* Frank Galbally, 82, Australian lawyer.
* Ghazi Kanaan, 63, Syrian politician and Interior Minister, suicide by gunshot.
* Baker Knight, 72, American songwriter ("Lonesome Town").
* Franco Manfroi, 66, Italian cross-country skier.
* C. Delores Tucker, 78, American politician and civil rights activist.
* Jack White, 63, American reporter.

### 13

* Mustapha Bettache, 74, Moroccan football player.
* 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, heart attack.
* Marian Zieliński, 75, Polish weightlifter and Olympic medalist.

### 14

* Edmund Bacon, 95, American urban planner.
* Ian Breakwell, 62, British artist, cancer.
* Winifred Mary Curtis, 100, British-Australian botanist, author, and researcher.
* Oleg Lundstrem, 89, Russian jazz musician.
* Elda Pucci, 77, Italian politician and professor.

### 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 arrhythmia.
* Ramón Gaya, 95, Spanish painter and writer.
* Penn Kemble, 64, American political activist, brain cancer.
* Louis Pojman, 70, American philosopher and professor.
* Sundara Ramaswamy, 74, Indian novelist, poet, translator, and literary critic.
* Don Rowe, 69, American baseball player and pitching coach, Parkinson's disease.
* Mildred Shay, 94, American actress.
* Raymond Tuckey, 95, English tennis player.
* Rik Van Nutter, 76, American actor, heart attack.
* Al Widmar, 80, American MLB pitcher and pitching coach, colon cancer.
* Matti Wuori, 60, Finnish advocate and politician, cancer.

### 16

* Jean Bastia, 86, French film director, screenwriter and film producer.
* Jack Carpenter, 82, American football player.
* Elmer Dresslar Jr., 80, American voice actor and vocalist, voice of the Jolly Green Giant, cancer.
* Francesco Fortugno, 54, Italian politician, homicide.
* Ursula Howells, 83, British character actress (The Forsyte Saga).
* Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., 90, American history professor, expert on native american history.
* John Larch, 91, American character actor.
* José María Medina, 84, Uruguayan football player.
* Barrington Moore, Jr., 92, American sociologist.
* David Reilly, 34, American musician (God Lives Underwater), accidental death.

### 17

* Tom Gill, 92, American comic book artist (The Lone Ranger).
* Ba Jin, 100, Chinese writer, cancer and Parkinson's disease.
* Jean Lescure, 93, French poet.
* Donald Kofi Tucker, 67, American civil rights activist, complications of diabetes.

### 18

* William Evan Allan, 106, Australian soldier, last Australian World War I veteran.
* Carlos António Gomes, 73, Portuguese goalkeeper with Sporting Lisbon and Portugal's national team, Parkinson's disease.
* Johnny Haynes, 71, English footballer, car accident.
* John Hollis, 77, British actor of TV and film.
* Stephen Katz, 59, American teacher and screenwriter, prostate cancer.
* Bill King, 78, American sports broadcaster, pulmonary embolism.
* Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, 81, Russian politician and architect of perestroika, stroke.

### 19

* Bob Carpenter, 87, American baseball player.
* Wolf Rilla, 85, German-British film director and writer.
* Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, 80, Bolivian politician, President (1969), heart attack.
* Nguyen Van Toan, 73, South Vietnamese Lieutenant general in the ARVN.

### 20

* Jean-Michel Folon, 71, Belgian artist, leukemia.
* Michael Gill, 81, British television producer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Chalmers Goodlin, 82, American test pilot (Bell X-1 supersonic rocket plane).
* Shirley Horn, 71, American jazz singer, complications of diabetes.
* André van der Louw, 72, Dutch politician, cancer.
* Endon Mahmood, 64, Malaysian Prime Minister's wife, breast cancer.
* Willie Sojourner, 57, American basketball player, traffic collision.
* Dane Zajc, 75, Slovenian poet, playwright, and writer, cancer.
* Eva Švankmajerová, 65, Czech surrealistic painter.

### 21

* Karin Adelmund, 56, Dutch politician, heart attack.
* Robert Badham, 76, American politician, Republican US Representative from California, heart attack.
* Marshall Clagett, 89, American historian of science, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
* Tara Correa-McMullen, 16, American actress, gunshot wound.
* Oscar Giacché, 82, Argentine Olympic cyclist.
* John Lesinski, Jr., 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1951–1965).
* Herman N. Neuberger, 87, German-American rabbi.
* Lou Rossini, 84, American former basketball coach of New York University, Alzheimer's disease.
* Doris Storey, 85, English breaststroke swimmer.

### 22

* Tony Adams, 53, Irish-American film and stage producer (The Pink Panther) (Victor Victoria), stroke.
* Arman, 76, French-American sculptor, cancer.
* Ted Bonda, 88, American former owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team, Alzheimer's disease.
* David Clapham, 74, South African racing driver and motor sport journalist.
* Franky Gee, 43, Cuban-American musician and lead singer of Captain Jack, cerebral haemorrhage.
* Liam Lawlor, 61, Irish Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD), car accident.
* Reginald Lisowski, 79, American professional wrestler known as "The Crusher", brain tumor.

### 23

* Harry Dalton, 77, American Major League Baseball executive, Parkinson's disease.
* William Hootkins, 57, American actor (Star Wars, Batman, Raiders of the Lost Ark), pancreatic cancer.
* Yon Hyong-muk, 73, North Korean politician, Premier (1988-1992), pancreatic cancer.
* John S. Monagan, 93, American politician, US Representative from Connecticut, heart failure.
* John Muth, 75, American economist.
* Reginald R. Myers, 85, United States Marine Corps officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Stella Obasanjo, 59, Nigerian First Lady, wife of president Olusegun Obasanjo, complications from surgery.
* Jaime del Burgo Torres, 92, Spanish official, writer and a Carlist activist.
* Ahmet Özacar, 68, Turkish football player.

### 24

* Ricardo Brinzoni, 60, Argentine army Lieutenant General, pancreatic cancer.
* Howie Carl, 67, American basketball player.
* José Azcona del Hoyo, 78, Honduran politician, President of Honduras (1986–1990), heart attack.
* Mokarrameh Ghanbari, 77, Iranian painter.
* Immanuel C.Y. Hsü, 82, American sinologist, historian, and acamdemic.
* Jun Negami, 82, Japanese actor.
* Rosa Parks, 92, American civil rights pioneer, "founding symbol of the Civil Rights Movement".
* Edward Ross Roybal, 89, Mexican-American US Representative from California, pneumonia.
* Robert Sloman, 79, English screenwriter and actor.
* Maria Luise Thurmair-Mumelter, 93, German Roman Catholic theologian, hymnodist and writer.
* Frank Wilson, 81, Australian actor, singer, TV celebrity, diabetes.

### 25

* Zarina Baloch, 70, Pakistani folk singer.
* Oswald Hanfling, 77, German philosopher.
* Enid A. Haupt, 99, American publisher and philanthropist.
* Martti Huhtala, 86, Finnish Nordic combined athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
* Barbara Keogh, 76, British actress.
* Wellington Mara, 89, American gridiron football executive, lymphoma.
* Morteza Momayez, 69, Iranian graphic designer.
* Margarita Nazarova, 78, Russian circus performer, tiger trainer and actress, heart attack.
* Nirmal Verma, 76, Indian author and literary critic, heart attack.

### 26

* Carlo Giustini, 82, Italian actor.
* Jany Holt, 96, Romanian-French actress.
* Michael Kilian, 66, American author and comics writer (Dick Tracy), liver failure.
* Emil Kyulev, 48, Bulgarian millionaire banker and suspected money launderer, murdered.
* Keith Parkinson, 47, American fantasy and science fiction artist and illustrator, leukemia.
* María Luisa Robledo, 93, Spanish film and television actress.
* Richard Southwood, 74, British biologist, cancer.
* George Swindin, 90, English football goalkeeper and manager (Arsenal and Cardiff City), Alzheimer's disease.
* David Townsend, 50, American musician.
* Rong Yiren, 89, Chinese politician, Vice President of China (1993-1998).

### 27

* Jozef Bomba, 66, Slovak footballer.
* Georges Guingouin, 92, French Communist Party militant and resistance leader during World War II.
* Kurt Jarasinski, 66, German Olympic equestrian gold medalist.
* Jun Papa, 60, Filipino basketball player.
* Grady Webster, 78, American plant systematist and taxonomist, heart attack.

### 28

* Eugene K. Bird, 79, American longtime Spandau prison guard of Rudolf Hess.
* Bob Broeg, 87, American Hall of Fame baseball sports writer, pneumonia.
* Boris Goykhman, 86, Soviet Olympic water polo player.
* Raymond Hains, 78, French artist.
* Tony Jackson, 62, American basketball player, cancer.
* Alberto Ormaetxea, 66, Spanish football player and coach.
* Fernando Quejas, 83, Cape Verdean singer and musician.
* Paul Reynard, 78, French-American painter, lung cancer.
* Richard Smalley, 62, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist, co-discoverer of fullerenes, leukemia.
* Ljuba Tadić, 76, Serbian actor.
* Tahsin Özgüç, 89, Turkish archaeologist.

### 29

* Fernando Alegría, 87, Chilean poet, kidney failure.
* H. K. L. Bhagat, 84, Indian politician.
* Lloyd Bochner, 81, Canadian actor (Dynasty, Point Blank, Batman: The Animated Series), cancer.
* Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek, 63, Turkish prelate, highest-ranking Syriac Orthodox Church priest in Europe.
* Ion Irimescu, 102, Romanian sculptor and sketcher.
* Valery Kokov, 64, Russian politician, former President of Kabardino-Balkaria, cancer.
* Sergey Savelyev, 57, Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion.
* Elsa Skjerven, 85, American politician.
* Joan Kennedy Taylor, 78, American journalist, author, and political activist.

### 30

* Gordon A. Craig, 91, American historian, congestive heart failure.
* John N. Erlenborn, 78, American lawyer and U.S. Representative from Illinois, Lewy body disease.
* Tetsuo Hamuro, 88, Japanese breaststroke swimmer and 1936 Olympics gold medalist.
* Al Lopez, 97, American baseball manager (Chicago White Sox) and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
* Joseph Owens, 97, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and philosopher.
* Horace Trevor-Cox, 97, British farmer, landowner and politician.
* Emiliano Zuleta, 93, Colombian vallenato musician, respiratory disease.

### 31

* Hal Anger, 85, American biophysicist, pioneer of nuclear medicine.
* William O. Baker, 90, American scientist and former Bell Labs president, respiratory failure.
* Evert Hingst, 35, Dutch lawyer, allegedly involved in organized crime, shot.
* P. Leela, 72, Indian film playback singer.
* Amrita Pritam, 86, Indian poet and writer.
* Mary Wimbush, 81, British actress (The Archers), stroke.