# Deaths in October 1985
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1985.
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 1985
### 1

* William Allen, 66, Canadian politician.
* J. Grant Anderson, 88, Scottish theatre director and actor.
* Warren Ashby, 65, American philosopher.
* Michele Avila, 17, American murder victim, drowned.
* Barney Brown, 77, American baseball player.
* Bland Cox Bruns, 84, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1950–1956).
* Terry Duffy, 63, British trade unionist.
* George Gooma, 67, Australian cricketer.
* Charlotte Posenenske, 54, German artist.
* Ninian Sanderson, 60, Scottish racing driver, leukemia.
* Bill Springsteen, 85, American football player.
* Gordon Strutt, 73, English Anglican prelate.
* Giovanni Tosi, 86, Italian Olympic sprinter (1920).
* Earl Vann, 71, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1967–1976).
* Kong Visudharomn, 78, Thai physical educator.
* Emil Vogel, 91, German general.
* E. B. White, 86, American author (Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

### 2

* Harry Bohrer, 69, Czechoslovak journalist (Der Spiegel), heart failure.
* Rebecca Caudill, 86, American author (Tree of Freedom).
* Sidney Clute, 69, American actor (Cagney & Lacey, McCloud), cancer.
* Noel Cox, 74, American politician.
* Rock Hudson, 59, American actor (Giant, Pillow Talk, McMillan & Wife), AIDS.
* Salomón Ibarra Mayorga, 98, Nicaraguan lyricist ("Salve a ti, Nicaragua").
* Eric Jones, 70, English footballer.
* Alex Möller, 82, German politician.
* George Savalas, 60, American actor (Kojak), leukemia.
* Daramyn Tömör-Ochir, 64, Mongolian politician, murdered.

### 3

* Charles Collingwood, 68, American journalist, cancer.
* Maurice Copeland, 74, American actor.
* Harry Cowans, 52, British politician, MP (since 1976).
* Arthur Froehlich, 76, American architect, cancer.
* John Pallett, 64, Canadian politician, MP (1954–1962).
* Yngve Stoor, 73, Swedish singer.

### 4

* Josie Bennett, 82, American rodeo manager.
* Arthur J. Bidwill, 82, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate (1934–1935, 1938–1972).
* Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, 87, Bulgarian royal.
* Fred Foster, 39, American basketball player.
* Enzo Giudici, 65, Italian literary scholar.
* Norm Harris, 79, Australian footballer.
* Jozef Herda, 75, Czechoslovak Olympic wrestler (1936).
* François Hertel, 80, Canadian Olympic writer (1948).
* Ludvig Lindblom, 75 Swedish Olympic wrestler (1932, 1936).
* Franklin Merrell-Wolff, 98, American esoteric philosopher.
* Laurence Reavell-Carter, 71, English Olympic discus thrower (1936, 1948).
* Jim Robertson, 82, Australian footballer.
* Geoffrey Sladen, 81, English rugby player and naval officer.
* Werner Stark, 75, Austrian-English sociologist.
* Gleb Strizhenov, 60, Soviet actor.
* Frederic Virtue, 88, British Olympic boxer (1920).
* Trond Halvorsen Wirstad, 81, Norwegian politician.

### 5

* Caroline Bancroft, 85, American journalist.
* Harald Cramér, 92, Swedish mathematician.
* Cyril Edge, 68, English cricketer.
* Joachim Helbig, 70, German fighter pilot, traffic collision.
* Glynn Isaac, 47, South African archaeologist.
* Serge Jaroff, 89, Russian-born American choir conductor (Don Cossack Choir).
* Ben Jeby, 75, American boxer.
* Brian Keenan, 42, American drummer (The Chambers Brothers), heart attack.
* Joseph Kushner, 62, Polish-born American real estate developer.
* Liang Xingchu, 72, Chinese general.
* Karl Menger, 83, Austrian-American mathematician.
* Vic Nankervis, 66, Australian footballer.
* Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, 85, German-born American theoretical physicist.
* Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri, 76, Indian writer.
* Walter Wallace Sackett Jr., 79, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1972–1976).
* Abdus Sattar, 79, Bangladeshi politician, president (1981–1982).
* Holbrook Working, 90, American economist.

### 6

* Torsten Aminoff, 75, Finnish politician.
* Roy Atkins, 77, Australian footballer.
* Fred Colledge, 70, Scottish cricketer.
* Enrique Fernández, 73, Uruguayan footballer.
* Lola Gjoka, 75, Albanian pianist.
* Walter Gordy, 76, American physicist.
* Jack Harkness, 78, Scottish footballer.
* Vilém Klíma, 79, Czechoslovak electrical engineer.
* Lauri Kokkonen, 67, Finnish playwright.
* James Chalmers McRuer, 95, Canadian judge.
* Nelson Riddle, 64, American songwriter and composer, heart and kidney failure.
* Martha Schlamme, 62, Austrian-born American actress and singer, complications from a stroke.
* Karl Zischek, 75, Austrian footballer.

### 7

* Leopold Bode, 91, Austrian footballer.
* Frank Curran, 75, Australian rugby player.
* Lucile Czarnowski, 90, American dance educator.
* Albert Downs, 80, Australian footballer.
* Joe Flanagan, 87, Australian footballer.
* Leroy Holmes, 72, American baseball player.
* John A. Kent, 71, Canadian-English flying ace.
* Wolfgang Kieling, 61, German actor.
* Kaare Langlo, 72, Norwegian meteorologist.
* Dmitry Lukyanov, 85, Soviet general.
* Noah Mozes, 73, Israeli newspaper publisher.
* Cemal Reşit Rey, 80, Turkish pianist and composer.
* Gordon Arthur Riley, 74, American marine biologist.
* Silvestre Vargas, 83, Mexican mariachi musician.
* Len Webster, 78, Australian footballer.

### 8

* Riccardo Bacchelli, 94, Italian writer.
* Kenneth Bagshaw, 64, Australian cricketer.
* Roger Blough, 81, American steel executive.
* William L. Borden, 65, American congressional staffer (United States Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy), heart attack.
* Subby Byas, 75, American baseball player.
* Diatome, 23, British Thoroughbred racehorse.
* Amalia Celia Figueredo, 90, Argentine aviator.
* Theresa Harris, 78, American actress.
* Marcelino Huerta, 60, American football player and coach, heart attack.
* Leon Klinghoffer, 69, American businessman, shot.
* Marta Lynch, 60, Argentine writer, suicide.
* Pedro Mathey, 57, Peruvian Olympic cyclist (1948).
* August Mortelmans, 84, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Malcolm Ross, 68, American balloonist.
* Giorgio Santelli, 87, Italian-American Olympic fencer (1920).
* Francesco Saverio Starrabba Barbera, 84, Italian lawyer and politician.
* John Wesley Snyder, 90, American businessman and politician, secretary of the treasury (1946–1953).
* Clive Sullivan, 42, Welsh rugby player, cancer.
* Gordon Welchman, 79, English-American mathematician.

### 9

* John Kameaaloha Almeida, 87, American musician.
* Cecil Closenberg, 78, South African cricketer.
* Ludo Coeck, 30, Belgian footballer, complications from a traffic collision.
* Karel De Baere, 60, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Lionel George Higgins, 94, British lepidopterist.
* Edward Highton, 61, English cricketer.
* Dar Hutchins, 69, American basketball player.
* Manuel Flores Leon Guerrero, 70, Guamanian politician, governor (1963–1969).
* Emílio Garrastazu Médici, 79, Brazilian politician, president (1969–1974), kidney failure.
* Rusty Yarnall, 82, American baseball player.

### 10

* S. S. Apte, 78, Indian journalist.
* Vera Bogetti, 83, British actress.
* Yul Brynner, 65, Russian-born American actor (The Ten Commandments, The King and I, The Magnificent Seven), lung cancer.
* Bettina Ehrlich, 82, Austrian-English painter and illustrator.
* Hedley Powell Jacobs, 81, English-Jamaican journalist and writer.
* Alice Melin, 85, Belgian politician.
* Doris Reynolds, 86, British geologist.
* Don Schlundt, 52, American basketball player.
* Suvadhana, 80, Thai royal, princess consort (1925).
* David Van Alstyne, 88, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (1943–1953), heart attack.
* Hans Vatne, 62, Norwegian newspaper editor.
* Orson Welles, 70, American actor, director (Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil), and broadcaster ("The War of the Worlds"), heart attack.

### 11

* Frank G. Anderson, 93, American football player and coach.
* Todd Andrews, 84, Irish public servant.
* Blanche Charlet, 87, French Allied spy.
* Viktor Gurjev, 71, Estonian opera singer.
* Jussi Jalas, 77, Finnish composer.
* Alex La Guma, 61, South African novelist, heart attack.
* Sew Leeka, 78, American basketball player.
* Edward Lowinsky, 77, American musicologist.
* Ted Mitchell, 80, American football player.
* Ingvard Nørregaard, 71, Danish Olympic canoeist (1952).
* Alex Odeh, 41, Palestinian peace activist, assassination by bombing.
* Dorothy O'Grady, 87, English saboteur.
* Bernard Privat, 70, French writer.
* Elwood Ullman, 82, American writer.
* Tex Williams, 68, American singer ("Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)"), pancreatic cancer.

### 12

* Blind John Davis, 71, American musician.
* Duke Dinsmore, 72, American racing driver.
* Paul DuCharme, 68, American basketball player.
* Grant Heckenlively, 69, American football player and coach.
* Norman James, 77, English footballer.
* Judy Lee Klemesrud, 46, American journalist, breast cancer.
* Numa F. Montet, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1929–1937).
* Johnny Olson, 75, American radio and television announcer (The Price Is Right, What's My Line?, Match Game), stroke.
* Sergei Osipov, 70, Soviet artist.
* Victor Salazar, 74, American politician.
* Ricky Wilson, 32, American guitarist (The B-52s), AIDS.

### 13

* Herb Aach, 62, German-born American painter.
* Maurice Austin, 68, Australian soldier and military historian.
* Francesca Bertini, 93, Italian actress.
* Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz, 91, Polish general.
* Tage Danielsson, 57, Swedish actor and comedian, skin cancer.
* Paolo De Stefano, unknown, Italian mobster, murdered.
* Theodore Epp, 78, American radio evangelist.
* Sir Neville Faulks, 77, English barrister
* Richard E. Ferrario, 54, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1959–1964).
* Pierre-Étienne Guyot, 80, French sports executive.
* Calvin D. Johnson, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1945).
* Eiji Kanie, 43, Japanese actor and voice actor, stroke.
* Florence Luscomb, 98, American architect and suffragist.
* Saul Mielziner, 80, American football player.
* Herbert Nebe, 86, German racing cyclist.
* Tassos, 71, Greek engraver.
* Jack Wilson, 64, Australian cricketer.

### 14

* Ossie Bluege, 84, American baseball player and manager, stroke.
* Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock, 77, British barrister.
* Artur Dyson, 73, Portuguese footballer.
* Harry Friedauer, 58, German singer and actor.
* Parimal Ghosh, 68, Indian politician and diplomat, MP (1967–1971).
* Emil Gilels, 68, Soviet pianist.
* Paul B. Johnson Jr., 69, American politician, governor of Mississippi (1964–1968), heart attack.
* Ludwig Landen, 76, German Olympic canoeist (1936).
* Emil Naclerio, 70, American surgeon.
* Doris Odlum, 95, English psychiatrist.
* Sir Gerald Reece, 88, British colonial administrator, governor of British Somaliland (1948–1954).
* Mustafa Selimov, 75, Soviet politician and civil rights activist.
* Floyd E. Shurbert, 84, American politician.
* Pál Teleki, 79, Hungarian footballer.
* Edwin B. Wheeler, 67, American general, heart attack.

### 15

* Sandro Angiolini, 65, Italian cartoonist.
* Alice C. Browning, 77, American writer.
* Bruno Fattori, 94, Italian poet.
* Gus Rivers, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Frank Shoofey, 44, Canadian lawyer, shot.
* Ted Steele, 68, American bandleader.
* Damon Wetzel, 74, American football player.
* Max Zaslofsky, 59, American basketball player and coach, leukemia.

### 16

* Khalekdad Chowdhury, 78, Bangladeshi writer.
* Antoni Gronowicz, 72, Polish-American novelist, heart attack.
* James Hutton, 79, Scottish rugby player.
* Sir Bruce Levy, 93, New Zealand botanist.
* Franklin Milton, 78, American sound engineer (Ben-Hur, Doctor Zhivago, How the West Was Won).
* Archie McQuilken, 52, Northern Irish cricketer, traffic collision.
* George Odey, 85, British politician and businessman, MP (1947–1955).
* Fred L. Peterson, 89, American politician, mayor of Portland, Oregon (1953–1957).
* Alexander Doniphan Wallace, 80, American mathematician.
* Burton Wilkinson, 85, American-born English cricketer.
* Paul A. Zahl, 75, American biologist.

### 17

* Trevor Aston, 60, British historian, drug overdose.
* Omero Bonoli, 76, Italian Olympic gymnast (1932).
* Asbjørn Engen, 67, Norwegian newspaper editor.
* John Ericksen, 82, American Olympic skier (1932).
* Jimmy Fowler, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Ottar Gravås, 63, Norwegian politician.
* Helmi Juvonen, 82, American artist, diabetes.
* Wiktor Kemula, 82, Polish electrochemist.
* Simone Le Bargy, 108, French actress.
* Peeter Pedaja, 54, Estonian-born Australian sculptor and sailor, liver failure.
* Abdelmunim Rifai, 68, Jordanian politician, prime minister (1969, 1970).
* Joseph Rosenstock, 90, Polish-American conductor.
* Bud Sheely, 64, American baseball player.

### 18

* Stefan Askenase, 89, Polish-Belgian pianist.
* George Darling, 80, British politician, MP (1950–1974).
* Medardo Galli, 78, Italian Olympic rower (1928).
* Bryn Jones, 73, Welsh footballer.
* Jack Kent, 65, American cartoonist (King Aroo), leukemia.
* Benjamin Moloise, 30, South African poet and political activist, execution by hanging.
* Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 84, Austrian royal.
* K. R. Ramsingh, 70, Indian actor.
* Tish Sommers, 71, American author and feminist, cancer.
* Jun Tazaki, 72, Japanese actor.
* Janwillem van den Berg, 64, Dutch speech scientist.

### 19

* Jean-Roger Caussimon, 67, French singer and actor.
* Anton Christoforidis, 68, Greek boxer, heart attack.
* Charlie Hazelton, 68, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Lincoln LaPaz, 88, American astronomer.
* Aage Nielsen-Edwin, 87, Danish sculptor.
* Alfred Rouleau, 70, Canadian businessman.
* Johnny Williams, 79, American drummer.

### 20

* Granny Alston, 77, English cricketer.
* Hal Goldsmith, 87, American baseball player.
* Abraham M. Halpern, 71, American linguist and anthropologist.
* Knut Hultgren, 75, Norwegian actor.
* Mary Aquinas Kinskey, 91, American religious sister and pilot, heart attack.
* Knud Børge Overgaard, 67, Danish footballer.
* Jean Riboud, 65, French oil executive, cancer.
* Kirio Urayama, 54, Japanese filmmaker.
* Harry Wragg, 83, British jockey and horse trainer.

### 21

* Victor Barthélemy, 79, French political activist.
* Creed Burlingame, 80, American naval admiral.
* Florence Jaffy, 68, American economist.
* Jens Lambæk, 86, Danish Olympic gymnast (1920).
* Masuiyama Daishirō I, 65, Japanese sumo wrestler.
* Hillman Howard Sersland, 79, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (1952–1965).
* Diane Thomas, 39, American screenwriter (Romancing the Stone), traffic collision.
* Dan White, 39, American politician and convicted murderer (Moscone–Milk assassinations), suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

### 22

* Anthony T. Augelli, 83, American judge.
* Leo Baron, 69, British lawyer and jurist.
* Arthur Coadou, 88, French WW1 flying ace.
* Edward William Day, 84, American judge.
* Dorothy Hartley, 92, English social historian and author (Food in England).
* Les Hughson, 78, Australian footballer.
* Albena Lake-Hodge, 64-65, Anguillan politician and educator.
* Norbert Poehlke, 34, German serial killer, suicide by gunshot.
* Stefano Satta Flores, 48, Italian actor and dubber (Star Wars, Alien), leukemia.
* Viorica Ursuleac, 91, Romanian singer.
* Richard G. Weede, 74, American general.
* Xu Shiyou, 78-79, Chinese general.

### 23

* Bernhard Bauknecht, 85, German politician.
* Thena Mae Farr, 57, American rodeo rider.
* Robert George, 92, French ice hockey player.
* Norman Lind, 64, Norwegian-British military officer, plane explosion.
* Mario Prassinos, 69, French writer and painter.
* Don Quartermain, 77, Australian footballer.
* Bruno Gustav Scherwitz, 89, German politician.
* John Greenlees Semple, 81, British mathematician.
* Barbara Thorne Stevenson, 75, American singer.
* Merle Watson, 36, American guitarist, traffic collision.
* Martin Wierstra, 57, Dutch racing cyclist.

### 24

* László Bíró, 86, Hungarian-Argentine inventor of the ballpoint pen.
* Gábor Bódy, 39, Hungarian filmmaker.
* Richie Evans, 44, American racing driver, racing crash.
* Muhammad Mustafa Jauhar, 90, Pakistani religious scholar.
* William Rudolph Kanne, 72, American physicist.
* Wilhelm Klemm, 89, Polish chemist.
* Masaichi Nagata, 79, Japanese film producer (Rashomon, Gamera, the Giant Monster).
* Daniele Pace, 50, Italian composer and songwriter, heart attack.
* Maurice Roy, 80, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Hermann Teuber, 91, German painter.

### 25

* Brian Barker, 77, British journalist.
* Felixberto Camacho Flores, 64, Guamanian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Morton Downey, 83, American singer, stroke.
* Ann Forrest, 90, Danish-born American actress.
* Jimmy Frew, 90, Scottish footballer.
* Gary Holton, 33, British musician (Heavy Metal Kids), drug overdose.
* Huub Huizenaar, 76, Dutch Olympic boxer (1924).
* Doug Johnstone, 82, Australian footballer.
* Blair Lee III, 69, American politician, acting governor of Maryland (1977–1979), lung cancer.
* Viktor Makeyev, 61, Soviet rocket scientist.
* Olier Mordrel, 84, French Breton nationalist and Nazi collaborator.
* Ludwig Ott, 79, German theologian.
* Hans Trauttenberg, 76, Austrian ice hockey player.
* Fritz Konrad Ernst Zumpt, 77, German entomologist.

### 26

* Cecil Langley Doughty, 71, British illustrator.
* Sheldon Fitts, 85, American football player and lawyer.
* Emilio Guinea, 78, Spanish botanist.
* Dimitri Jorjadze, 87, Georgian aristocrat, hotelier and racing driver.
* Kikuko Kawakami, 81, Japanese writer.
* Liu Woying, 78-79, Chinese politician.
* Neil O'Reilly, 60, Australian footballer.
* Svetozar Popović, 83, Yugoslav footballer.
* Mieczysław Połukard, 55, Polish racing cyclist, racing collision.
* Bob Scheffing, 72, American baseball player and manager.
* J. Norman Shade, 83, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1954–1970)
* Louis Weichardt, 91, South African politician and fascist organizer (South African Gentile National Socialist Movement).

### 27

* Thomas Townsend Brown, 80, American electrical engineer.
* Andreas Gruentzig, 46, German cardiologist, plane crash.
* Robert Jephson Jones, 80, British soldier.
* Tola Mankiewiczówna, 85, Polish singer and actress.
* William C. Perry, 85, American jurist.
* Walter Segal, 78, German-English architect.
* Phoney Smith, 80, American football player.
* Kurt Vogel, 97, German mathematics historian.

### 28

* William McPherson Allen, 85, American aviation executive, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* William Bramley, 57, American actor.
* Elga Brink, 80, German actress.
* Eric Coy, 74, Canadian Olympic discus thrower (1948).
* Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek, 81, British politician, MP (1945–1970) and member of the House of Lords (since 1970).
* Joseph L. Donovan, 92, American politician.
* Arletta Duncan, 70, American actress.
* Horace Gillom, 64, American football player, heart attack.
* Leslie Harris, 70, Welsh cricketer.
* Carry Hauser, 90, Austrian painter and stage designer.
* Joachim Knychała, 33, Polish serial killer, execution by hanging.
* Ruby Hart Phillips, 86, American journalist.
* Paul Edwin Roth, 67, German actor.
* Axel Thue, 81, Norwegian actor.
* Ángel Zubieta, 67, Spanish footballer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

### 29

* Sjur Bygd, 96, Norwegian novelist.
* Michael Carey, 70, English Anglican priest.
* Robert Edward Chambliss, 81, American terrorist (16th Street Baptist Church bombing).
* Charles Douglas-Home, 48, Scottish journalist, cancer.
* Lucien Dugas, 87, Canadian politician.
* Evgeny Lifshitz, 70, Soviet physicist.
* John Davis Lodge, 82, American politician, diplomat and actor, governor of Connecticut (1951–1955), member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1951), heart attack.
* Lola Prusac, 90, Polish-born French fashion designer.
* Alice Roberts, 79, Belgian actress.
* Pavle Stefanović, 84, Yugoslav writer and philosopher.

### 30

* Lucien Berthelot, 81, French philatelist.
* Edgar Bruun, 80, Norwegian racewalker.
* Aimé Dossche, 83, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Kirby Grant, 73, American actor (Sky King), traffic collision.
* Vic Grigg, 64, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Raul Hellberg, 84, Finnish racing cyclist.
* Nils Hjelmtveit, 93, Norwegian educator and politician.
* Fazle Lohani, 56, Bangladeshi journalist and television presenter.
* David Oxley, 64, English actor, stroke.
* Guy Pentreath, 83, British Anglican priest and academic administrator.

### 31

* Ellis Ashton, 65, English theatre historian.
* Nikos Engonopoulos, 78, Greek painter.
* Frank Handley, 75, English Olympic runner (1936).
* Harry N. Jonah, 89, Canadian politician.
* Qanate Kurdo, 76, Soviet philologist.
* Hardit Malik, 90, Indian diplomat.
* John H. Michaelis, 73, American general, heart failure.
* Poul Reichhardt, 72, Danish actor.
* Bill Schwartau, 59, American recording engineer.
* Bill Spokes, 72, Australian footballer.
* Jamasie Teevee, 75, Canadian Inuk artist.
* Rosalie Van der Gucht, 77, British-South African theatre director.