The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2016. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Months".  Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.

 Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.


October 2016

1
David Herd, 82, Scottish footballer (Arsenal, Manchester United, national team).
Daphne Odjig, 97, Canadian First Nations artist.
Lowell Thomas Jr., 92, English-born American movie producer and politician, member of the Alaska Senate (1967–1974) and Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1974–1978).

2
Georg Apenes, 76, Norwegian politician and jurist, MP (1977–1989).
Sir Neville Marriner, 92, British conductor (Amadeus), founder of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Gary Reed, 60, American comic book writer (Deadworld, Baker Street), heart attack.

3
Andrew Vicari, 84, British painter.
Mário Wilson, 86, Portuguese football player (Académica) and manager (Sporting, Benfica).

4
Mario Almada, 94, Mexican actor (La Viuda Negra).
Brigitte Hamann, 76, German-Austrian historian and author.
Pieter Hintjens, 53, Belgian software developer, assisted suicide by euthanasia.
Merfyn Jones, 85, Welsh footballer (Scunthorpe United, Crewe Alexandra, Chester City).
Hso Khan Pha, 78, Burmese-born Canadian geologist and exiled prince of Yawnghwe.
Ned Randolph, 74, American politician, Mayor of Alexandria, Louisiana (1986–2006), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Bing Thom, 75, Hong Kong-born Canadian architect, cerebral aneurysm.

5
Georges Balandier, 95, French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist.
Dick Haugland, 73, American biochemist, brain cancer.
Michal Kováč, 86, Slovakian politician, President (1993–1998), complications of Parkinson's disease.
Luisa Massimo, 87, Italian pediatrician.
Josh Samman, 28, American mixed martial artist (UFC).
Rod Temperton, 66, English keyboardist (Heatwave) and songwriter ("Rock with You", "Give Me the Night", "Thriller"), cancer. (death announced on this date)

6
Fred Slaughter, 74, American college basketball player (UCLA).

7
John Gleeson, 78, Australian Test cricketer.
Ross Higgins, 85, Australian actor (Kingswood Country, Bullpitt!).
Lyudmila Ivanova, 83, Russian actress (Office Romance).
Barbara Kisseler, 67, German culture manager and politician, Senator of Hamburg.
Frederick C. Neidhardt, 85, American microbiologist.
Wolfgang Suschitzky, 104, Austro-Hungarian-born British photographer and cinematographer (Get Carter).
Alistair Urquhart, 97, Scottish author and soldier (Gordon Highlanders).
Rebecca Wilson, 54, Australian sports journalist, breast cancer.

8
Guillaume Bieganski, 83, French footballer (Lens).
Lyn Chevli, 84, American underground comics artist (Tits & Clits Comix).
Dickie Jeeps, 84, English rugby union player (Northampton Saints) and administrator (Sports Council).
Stylianos Pattakos, 103, Greek military officer and coup leader, Deputy Prime Minister (1967–1973).
Pierre Tchernia, 88, French screenwriter and voice actor (Asterix).

9
Worth H. Bagley, 92, American Navy admiral, Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1974–1975).
Mamadou Dembelé, 82, Malian physician and politician, Prime Minister (1986–1988).
Sir Anthony Grant, 91, British politician, MP (1964–1997).
Kenneth P. Thompson, 50, American lawyer, Kings County District Attorney (since 2014), cancer.
Andrzej Wajda, 90, Polish movie director (Ashes and Diamonds, Man of Iron, Katyń), respiratory failure.

10
Gerry Gow, 64, Scottish footballer (Bristol City, Manchester City, Rotherham), cancer.
Graham C. Greene, 80, British publisher (Jonathan Cape).
Tamme Hanken, 56, German television personality (Der XXL-Ostfriese).
Marnix Kappers, 73, Dutch actor (De Familie Knots), suicide.
Hans Petter Langtangen, 54, Norwegian computer scientist.
Eddie O'Hara, 80, Scottish footballer (Falkirk, Everton, Barnsley).

11
Patricia Barry, 93, American actress (All My Children, The Guiding Light, Days of Our Lives).
Matti Hagman, 61, Finnish ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers, HIFK).
Pia Hallström, 55, Swedish politician, MP for Värmland (since 2010), breast cancer.
Lars Huldén, 90, Finnish writer and translator.
Steve Lemmens, 44, Belgian snooker player, suicide.
Marju, 28, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. (death announced on this date)
Peter Reynolds, 58, Welsh composer.
Teatao Teannaki, 80, I-Kiribati politician, Vice-President (1979–1991) and President (1991–1994), heart attack.
Ewen Whitaker, 94, British astronomer.

12
Shahlyla Baloch, 20, Pakistani footballer (national team), car crash.
Frank Fischl, 89, American air force pilot and politician, Mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania (1978–1982).
Thomas Mikal Ford, 52, American actor (Martin, Harlem Nights, Across the Tracks) and comedian, stomach aneurysm.
Jack Greenberg, 91, American lawyer and civil rights activist.
Leo Harrison, 94, English cricketer (Hampshire).
Ma Jiang Bao, 74, Chinese martial arts teacher.
Bryan Pearson, 82, British-born Canadian politician.

13
Bhumibol Adulyadej, 88, Thai monarch, King (since 1946), world's longest-serving head of state.
William Gilbert Chaloner, 87, British palaeobotanist.
Curt Engelhorn, 90, German billionaire businessman.
Dario Fo, 90, Italian playwright, Nobel Literature Prize laureate (1997), lung disease.
Andrzej Kopiczyński, 82, Polish actor (Czterdziestolatek).
Richard A. Pittman, 71, American Marine, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
Booneua Prasertsuwan, 97, Thai politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1996).
Jim Prentice, 60, Canadian politician, Premier of Alberta (2014–2015) and MP for Calgary Centre-North (2004–2010), plane crash.
Tonino Valerii, 82, Italian movie director (My Name Is Nobody, A Girl Called Jules, Sahara Cross).

14
Jean Alexander, 90, English actress (Coronation Street, Last of the Summer Wine).
Lucy Baxley, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alabama (2003–2007).
Klim Churyumov, 79, Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer, co-discoverer of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
Pierre Étaix, 87, French clown, comedian and movie director (Heureux Anniversaire, Yo Yo, Le Grand Amour), Oscar winner (1963), complications from intestinal infection.
Kamal Habibollahi, 86, Iranian politician and admiral, Minister of Culture and Higher Education (1978). 
Helen Kelly, 52, New Zealand trade unionist, President of the Council of Trade Unions (2007–2015), lung cancer.
Werner Lämmerhirt, 67, German singer-songwriter and guitarist.

15
Marcel Berger, 89, French mathematician.
Hans Bruggeman, 89, Dutch activist and politician, member of the House of Representatives (1963–1967).
Quentin Groves, 32, American football player (Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders, Cleveland Browns), heart attack.
Barbara Romack, 83, American golfer.

16
Maggie Diaz, 91, American-born Australian photographer. 
Anthony Foley, 42, Irish rugby union player and coach (Munster), acute pulmonary edema.
Cecilia Hart, 68, American television and stage actress (Paris), ovarian cancer.
Clyde C. Holloway, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 8th congressional district (1987–1993).
*Valerie Hunter Gordon, 94, British inventor of disposable nappies.
Jia Jia, 38, Chinese giant panda, euthanized.
Kigeli V, 80, Rwandan monarch, King (1959–1961), heart failure.
Ted V. Mikels, 87, American movie director (Girl in Gold Boots, The Astro-Zombies, The Doll Squad), colon cancer.
Stephen Moorbath, 87, German-born British geologist.
Arsen Pavlov, 33, Russian military officer, participant in the War in Donbass, IED explosion.
Juras Požela, 34, Lithuanian politician, Minister of Health (since March 2016), pancreatitis.
Juan Radrigán, 79, Chilean writer, cancer.
Molly Rose, 95, British World War II aviator.

17
Eddie Applegate, 81, American actor (The Patty Duke Show, Easy A, A Ticklish Affair).
Teodor Kufel, 96, Polish general.

18
Anthony Addabbo, 56, American actor (Guiding Light, Generations, The Bold & the Beautiful).
David Bunnell, 69, American businessman, writer and publisher (PC Magazine).
Dave Colclough, 52, Welsh professional poker player, cancer.

19
Tommy Bartlett, 88, American tennis and basketball coach.
Radu Câmpeanu, 94, Romanian politician, Senator (1990–1992, 2004–2008).
Milka Canić, 72, Serbian television presenter and academic.
Yvette Chauviré, 99, French prima ballerina.
Pat Scott, 87, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
Sammy Smyth, 91, Northern Irish footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.).

20
Edward A. Allworth, 95, American historian.
William G. Bowen, 83, American educator, President of Princeton University (1972–1988).
Kaneta Kimotsuki, 80, Japanese voice actor (Doraemon, Anpanman), pneumonia.
Michael Massee, 64, American actor (The Crow, 24, The Amazing Spider-Man), stomach cancer.
Giorgos Pavlidis, 60, Greek politician, Governor of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (since 2014), cancer.
Simone Schaller, 104, American hurdler.
Junko Tabei, 77, Japanese mountaineer, first woman to climb Mount Everest, peritoneal cancer.
Mieke Telkamp, 82, Dutch singer.

21
Paweł Baumann, 33, Polish sprint canoer, world championship silver medalist (2006, 2007).
Frans Jozef van der Heijden, 78, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1982–1998), assisted suicide.
Kenji Kosaka, 70, Japanese politician, Minister of Education (2005–2006).
Manfred Krug, 79, German actor (Tatort, Liebling Kreuzberg), singer, and author.
Frenchy Martin, 69, Canadian professional wrestler and manager (WWF), bladder cancer.
Bob McCord, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings).
Moscow Flyer, 22, Irish racehorse. (death announced on this date)
Robert Windom, 86, American physician, Assistant Secretary for Health (1986–1989).

22 
Steve Dillon, 54, English comic book artist (Preacher, The Punisher, Judge Dredd), appendicitis.
Frans Tutuhatunewa, 93, Indonesian politician, President in Exile of Republic of South Maluku (1993–2010).
Bob Vanatta, 98, American college basketball coach (Missouri State, Memphis, Missouri).
Valeriya Zaklunna, 74, Ukrainian actress and politician, member of Verkhovna Rada (1998–2007).

23
Pete Burns, 57, English singer-songwriter (Dead or Alive), cardiac arrest.
Tom Hayden, 76, American writer, politician and activist (Chicago Seven), member of the California State Senate (1992–2000), heart disease and stroke.
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, 84, Qatari monarch, Emir (1972–1995).
Jimmy Perry, 93, English actor and screenwriter (Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi!).
Bob Saunders, 87, American politician, member of the Florida Senate (1969–1971, 1973–1976).

24
Jorge Batlle, 88, Uruguayan politician, President (2000–2005), cerebral hemorrhage.
Eddy Christiani, 98, Dutch musician and songwriter.
Benjamin Creme, 93, Scottish artist, author and esotericist.
Reinhard Häfner, 64, German footballer (Dynamo Dresden), Olympic champion (1976).
Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, 90, Ukrainian-born Canadian economist.
Siv Holma, 64, Swedish politician, MP for Norrbotten (1998–2014), cancer.
Hellmut von Leipzig, 95, German soldier.
Bobby Vee, 73, American pop singer ("Rubber Ball", "Take Good Care of My Baby", "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes") and actor, Alzheimer's disease.
John P. Woodall, 81, British entomologist.

25
Kevin Curran, 59, American television writer (The Simpsons, Married... with Children, Late Night with David Letterman), cancer.
Bob Hoover, 94, American Air Force test pilot.
Edouard Pliner, 80, Russian figure skating coach.
Jerzy Szacki, 87, Polish sociologist.
Carlos Alberto Torres, 72, Brazilian football player (Santos, national team) and manager (Botafogo), World champion (1970), heart attack.

26
Melis Abzalov, 77, Uzbek movie director (Oʻtgan kunlar).
Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi, 93, Iranian grand ayatollah.
Luciano Rispoli, 84, Italian television and radio writer and presenter.
Ali Hussein Shihab, 55, Iraqi footballer (national team).

27
João Lobo Antunes, 72, Portuguese neurosurgeon, melanoma.
Ruben Hovsepyan, 77, Armenian author and politician, MP (2000–2007).
Susan Lindquist, 67, American biologist, cancer.
Bill Miller, 86, American javelin thrower, Olympic silver medalist (1952).
Pentti Siimes, 87, Finnish actor (The Unknown Soldier).
Takahito, Prince Mikasa, 100, Japanese royal, heart failure.
Bobby Wellins, 80, Scottish jazz saxophonist.

28
Melhem Barakat, 71, Lebanese singer.
Sir Nicholas Brathwaite, 91, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1990–1995) and Chairman of the Interim Advisory Council (1983–1984).
Shashikala Kakodkar, 81, Indian politician.

29
Paul Demers, 60, Canadian singer-songwriter 
Roland Dyens, 61, French classical guitarist and composer.
Paul Luebke, 70, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (since 1991), lymphoma.
John D. Roberts, 98, American chemist.
Pen Sovan, 80, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister (1981).
Barry Stout, 79, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1971–1976) and Senate (1977–2010).

30
Törner Åhsman, 85, Swedish boxer. 
Tammy Grimes, 82, American actress (The Unsinkable Molly Brown, High Spirits, Look After Lulu!).
Don Marshall, 80, American actor (Land of the Giants, Star Trek).

31
Natalie Babbitt, 84, American children's author and illustrator (Tuck Everlasting), lung cancer.
Klaus Schulten, 69, German-American physicist.
Vladimir Zeldin, 101, Russian actor (Desyat Negrityat), People's Artist of the USSR (1975), multiple organ failure.

References

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October 2016 events