page_title: 2019 deaths in the United States
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 deaths in the United States / October
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Eric Pleskow (r.) und Armin Thurnher im Gespräch, Viennale 2015 in Wien, Österreich. English: Eric Pleskow (r.) and Armin Thurnher at Vienna International Film Festival 2015 in Vienna, Austria.
context_page_description: Deaths in the year 2019 in the United States.
context_section_description: October 1
  Cain Hope Felder, Methodist minister and biblical scholar (b. 1943)
  Eric Pleskow, Austrian-born American film producer (b. 1924)
  Ed Simonini, football player (b. 1954)
  Dick Soash, politician (b. 1941)
  Ruben A. Valdez, politician (b. 1937)
  Beverly Watkins, blues guitarist (b. 1939)
  October 2
  Michael Bauman, theologian (b. 1950)
  Bill Bidwill, football team owner (b. 1931)
  Julie Gibson, actress and singer (b. 1913)
  John Kirby, attorney (b. 1939)
  Beth Palmer, bridge player (b. 1952)
  Kim Shattuck, singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1963)
  Alan Zaslove, animator (b. 1927)
  Ezra Zilkha, financier and philanthropist (b. 1925)
  October 3
  Vinnie Bell, inventor and guitarist (b. 1932)
  Lewis Dauber, actor (b. 1949)
  Dana Fradon, cartoonist (b. 1922)
  Philip Gips, designer and film poster artist (b. 1931)
  Stephen J. Lukasik, physicist (b. 1931)
  Philip K. Lundeberg, naval historian and World War II veteran (b. 1923)
  October 4
  Ed Ackerson, singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
  Peter Beckwith, Anglican prelate (b. 1939)
  Diahann Carroll, actress (b. 1935)
  James Schmerer, TV writer and producer (b. 1938)
  Bob Tufts, baseball player (b. 1955)
  October 5
  Lee Botts, environmentalist (b. 1928)
  Andy Etchebarren, baseball player (b. 1943)
  Blaine Lindgren, track and field athlete (b. 1939)
  Eloy Pérez, boxer (b. 1986)
  Philip J. Prygoski, legal scholar (b. 1947)
  October 6
  Larry Junstrom, bass guitarist (b. 1949)
  Karen Pendleton, child actress (b. 1946)
  S. A. Stepanek, poet (b. 1959)
  Stephen Swid, businessman (b. 1940)
  Rip Taylor, comedian and actor (b. 1935)
  October 7
  Warren William Eginton, federal judge (b. 1924)
  Ed Kalafat, basketball player (b. 1932)
  October 8
  Francis S. Currey, U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1925)
  Chip Healy, football player (b. 1947)
  Sammy Taylor, baseball player (b. 1933)
  Quade Winter, composer and opera singer (b. 1951)
  October 9
  Richard Askey, mathematician (b. 1933)
  John W. Corso, art director (b. 1929)
  Robert W. Estill, Episcopal prelate (b. 1927)
  Thomas Flanagan, Irish-born Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1930)
  Jill Freedman, photographer (b. 1939)
  Robert Guestier Goelet, French-born businessman and philanthropist (b. 1923)
  Samuel Hynes, author (b. 1924)
  James O. Mason, physician (b. 1930)
  Murray Rosenblatt, statistician and academic (b. 1926)
  David Weisman, film producer and author (b. 1942)
  October 10
  William J. Hamilton, politician (b. 1932)
  Enrique Moreno, Mexican-born American lawyer (b. 1955)
  Paul Polak, psychiatrist and entrepreneur (b. 1939)
  Joseph E. Tregoning, politician (b. 1941)
  October 11
  Sam Bobrick, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1932)
  Mac Christensen, clothier (b. 1934)
  Robert Forster, actor (b. 1941)
  John Giorno, poet and performance artist (b. 1936)
  James Hart Stern, civil rights activist (b. 1964)
  October 12
  Kate Braverman, author (b. 1949)
  E. A. Carmean, art curator and historian (b. 1945)
  Woodie Flowers, mechanical engineer (b. 1943)
  Bob Goin, college athletic director (b. 1938)
  Emilio Nicolas Sr., Mexican-born American television executive (b. 1930)
  Norman Schofield, Scottish-born political scientist (b. 1944)
  October 13
  William T. Allen, law academic (b. 1948)
  Scotty Bowers, male prostitute and pimp (b. 1923)
  Bobby Del Greco, baseball player (b. 1933)
  Jay Frank, music industry executive (b. 1971)
  Charles Jencks, architectural historian (b. 1939)
  Elias James Manning, American-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1938)
  October 14
  Harold Bloom, literary critic (b. 1930)
  Steve Cash, singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
  Emmett Chappelle, scientist (b. 1925)
  Buckwheat Donahue, sportsman and tourism promoter (b. 1951)
  Louis Frey Jr., politician (b. 1934)
  Cooper Snyder, politician (b. 1928)
  Yvonne S. Wilson, politician (b. 1929)
  October 15
  Mary Stuart Gile, politician (b. 1936)
  Igo Kantor, Austrian-born film producer (b. 1930)
  Michael D. Reynolds, astronomer and educator (b. 1954)
  October 16
  Ed Beck, basketball player (b. 1936)
  John Clarke, actor (b. 1931)
  Patrick Day, boxer (b. 1992)
  Bernard Fisher, surgeon (b. 1918)
  Morton Mandel, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (b. 1921)
  Harold Scheub
caption: Eric Pleskow
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