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Deaths in October 2020
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2020.

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.

Miss America
Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is judged on competition segments with scoring percentages: Private Interview (30%) – a 10-minute press conference-style interview with a panel of judges, On Stage Question (10%) – answering a judge's question onstage, Talent or HER Story (20%) – a performance talent or 90 second speech, Health and Fitness (20%) – demonstrated physical fitness onstage dressed in athletic wear, and Evening Gown (20%) – modeling evening-wear onstage.

The previous year's titleholder crowns the winner. Miss America 2026 is Cassie Donegan of New York, who was crowned on September 7, 2025, at the Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Florida.
Horses in Chinese mythology
Horses are an important motif in Chinese mythology. There are many myths about horses or horse-like beings, including the pony. Chinese mythology refers to those myths found in the historical geographic area of China. This includes myths in Chinese and other languages, as transmitted by Han Chinese as well as other ethnic groups (of which fifty-six are officially recognized by the current administration of China, according to Lihui Yang, 2005:4). There are various motifs of horses in Chinese mythology. In some cases the focus is on a horse or horses as the protagonist of the action, in other cases they appear in a supporting role, sometimes as the locomotive power propelling a chariot and its occupant(s). According to a cyclical Chinese calendar system, the time period of 31 January 2014 - 18 February 2015 falls under the category of the (yang) Wood Horse.

Pony
A pony is a type of small horse, usually under a specific height at full maturity. Ponies often have thicker coats, manes and tails, compared to larger horses, and proportionally shorter legs, wider barrels, heavier bone, thicker necks and shorter heads. In modern use, breed registries and horse shows may define a pony as measuring at the withers below a certain height; height limits varying from about 142 cm (14.0 h) to 150 cm (14.3 h). Some distinguish between horse or pony based on its breed or phenotype, regardless of its height. The word pony derives from the old French poulenet, a diminutive of poulain meaning foal, a young, immature horse.: 1041  A full-sized horse may sometimes be called a pony as a term of endearment.
304th Sustainment Brigade (United States)
The 304th Sustainment Brigade is a sustainment brigade of the United States Army Reserve. It is headquartered at March Air Reserve Base near Riverside, California.

Originally the 304th Corps Materiel Management Center, the unit became the 304th Support Center and received a distinctive unit insignia in August 2005. It then was transformed into a Sustainment Brigade in February 2006, and received its shoulder sleeve insignia in March 2006.

Distinctive unit insignia
A distinctive unit insignia (DUI) is a metallic heraldic badge or device worn by soldiers in the United States Army. The DUI design is derived from the coat of arms authorized for a unit. DUIs may also be called "distinctive insignia" (DI) or, imprecisely, a "crest" or a "unit crest" by soldiers or collectors. The U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry is responsible for the design, development and authorization of all DUIs.
Joe Anderson (rugby league)
Joseph T. Anderson (1928 – 20 December 2014), also known by the nickname of 'Ginger', was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He played at representative level for Yorkshire, and at club level for Castleford, Leeds and Featherstone Rovers, as a prop.

Anderson was born in Monk Fryston, and his birth was registered in Tadcaster district, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, he founded JT Anderson Transport Ltd of Gateforth, Selby, he died aged 86 of kidney cancer, his funeral service took place at Holy Cross Church, Fryston Road, Airedale, Castleford, at 2 pm on Thursday 8 January 2015, with a committal at Pontefract Crematorium, Wakefield Road, Pontefract at 2.45 pm, followed by a reception at The Carleton Hotel, Pontefract.

Monk Fryston
Monk Fryston is a small village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England.

The village was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Selby, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
Ex Machina (comics)
Ex Machina is an American creator-owned comic book series, created by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris and published by DC Comics under the Wildstorm imprint. Ex Machina launched in 2004 as part of DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint. The series ended in August 2010 with issue fifty.

The series details the life of Mitchell Hundred (also known as the Great Machine), the world's first and only superhero, who, in the wake of his actions on 9/11, is elected mayor of New York City.  The story is set during Hundred's term in office, and interwoven with flashbacks to his past as the Great Machine. Through this, the series explores both the political situations in which Hundred finds himself as well as the mysteries surrounding his superpowers.

Ongoing series
In comics, an ongoing series is a series that runs indefinitely. This is in contrast to limited series (a series intended to end after a certain number of issues thus limited), a one shot (a comic book which is not a part of an ongoing series), a graphic novel, or a trade paperback, but a series of graphic novels may be considered ongoing as well. The term may also informally refer to a current or incomplete limited series with a predetermined number of issues.
Bodung Station
Bodung Station (Norwegian: Bodung holdeplass) is a railway station located in Bodung in Nes, Norway on the Kongsvinger Line. The station was built in 1913 as part of the Kongsvinger Line. The station is served hourly, with extra rush hour departures, by the Oslo Commuter Rail line R14 operated by Vy.

Vy
Vygruppen, branded as Vy, formerly the Norwegian State Railways (Norwegian: Norges Statsbaner, NSB), is a government-owned railway company which operates most passenger train services and many bus services in Norway. The company is owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport. Its sub-brands include Vy Buss coach services, CargoNet freight trains and the Swedish train transport company Tågkompaniet.  In 2009, NSB carried 52 million train passengers and 104 million bus passengers.  On 24 April 2019, passenger train and bus services were rebranded as Vy.

The company was established as the Norwegian State Railways (1883–1996). In 1996 the company was split into the new NSB, the infrastructure company, Jernbaneverket and the Norwegian Railway Inspectorate. In 2002, the freight operations were split to the subsidiary CargoNet, and the maintenance department became Mantena. It was controversially renamed Vygruppen in 2019; the then-opposition parties vowed to reverse the name change.
Yevheniy Lozovyi
Yevheniy Lozovyi (Ukrainian: Євгеній Вікторович Лозовий; born 25 March 1988) is a Ukrainian football midfielder who plays for Viktoriya Mykolaivka.

Lozovyi is a product of the Kharkiv city youth sportive school. In June 2015 he signed a contract with Moldavian FC Dacia Chișinău.

FC Dacia Chișinău
Fotbal Club Dacia Chișinău, commonly known as Dacia Chișinău or simply Dacia, was a Moldovan football club based in Chișinău, which last played in the village of Speia, Anenii Noi. They participated in the Divizia Națională, the top division in Moldovan football.

The club's name came from Dacia, an ancient civilization which covered parts of modern Moldova. Established in 1999, it entered the Moldovan "A" Division in 2000 and was promoted to the first division two years later. They won their first league title in the 2010–11 season, thereby qualifying for the preliminaries of the UEFA Champions League. The team has also taken part in the Europa League on five occasions, but never reached the group stage. The club was disbanded after the 2017 Moldovan National Division season.
Mashigo
Mashigo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Boipelo Mashigo (born 2003), South African soccer player

Katlego Mashigo (born 2001), South African soccer player

Koko Mokgalong-Mashigo, South African politician and civil servant

Mohale Mashigo (born 1983), South African singer-songwriter and novelist

Nhlanhla Mashigo (born 2002), South African cricketer

Refilwe Mashigo (born 1947), South African politician

Refilwe Mashigo
Refilwe Junior Mashigo (born 7 October 1947) is a retired South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2004 to 2014. First elected in 2004, she represented the Limpopo constituency during her first term, but she was re-elected off the ANC's national party list in 2009.

During her second term, Mashigo served as the ANC's whip in the Standing Committee on Appropriations; she was also a member of the Standing Committee on Finance. She did not stand for re-election in 2014.
Minsky's Burlesque
Minsky's Burlesque was a brand of American burlesque presented by four sons of Louis and Ethel Minsky: Abraham 'Abe' Bennett Minsky (1880–1949), Michael William 'Billy' Minsky (1887–1932), Herbert Kay Minsky (1891–1959), and Morton Minsky (1902–1987). They started in 1912 and ended in 1937 in New York City. Although the shows were declared obscene and outlawed, they were rather tame by modern standards.

Phil Silvers
Phil Silvers (born Phillip Silver; May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedic actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah". His career as a professional entertainer spanned nearly 60 years. He achieved major popularity when he starred in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S. Army post in which he played Master Sergeant Ernest (Ernie) Bilko. He also starred in the films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966). He was a winner of two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on The Phil Silvers Show and two Tony Awards for his performances in Top Banana and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. He also wrote the original lyrics to the jazz standard "Nancy (with the Laughing Face)".
Sarah Whitmore
Sarah Whitmore (9 August 1931 – 27 March 2021) was a British equestrian.

Whitmore started her career with eventing, but switched to dressage after breaking her back due to a fall at the Badminton Horse Trials. She competed at the 1966 World Championships and was a substitute for the 1968 Summer Olympics. Her coach was Hans von Blixen-Finecke Jr. She competed in the individual dressage event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. She won in 1976 the national title in the Grand Prix. She later competed at the 1978 and 1982 World Championships.

Whitmore lived at the Hilders Farm in Edenbridge. Her mother Charlotte Fry worked as a working student for Whitmore. Whitmore died on 27 March 2021, aged 89.

Hans von Blixen-Finecke Jr.
Baron Nils Gustaf Fredrik Bror "Hans" von Blixen-Finecke Jr.  (20 July 1916 – 16 February 2005) was a Swedish Army officer and horse rider. He competed in the three-day eventing at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics and won individual and team gold medals in 1952.
Kurtis Wagar
Kurtis Wagar (born November 5, 1985) is a retired professional lacrosse goaltender, who spent 9 years in the National Lacrosse League. He began his amateur career with the St. Catharines Athletics of the Ontario Junior A Lacrosse League, played collegiality for the Brock Badgers, and was drafted in the third round of the 2006 NLL Entry Draft by the Edmonton Rush. Wagar spent two seasons with the Rush before he was traded along with Brenden Thenhaus to the Boston Blazers in exchange for Cam Bergman. The Blazers subsequently dealt him to the New York Titans for Anthony Kelly. He spent 2009 with the Titans, and moved with them to Orlando in 2010. When the Titans folded, he was taken in the second round of the dispersal draft by the Calgary Roughnecks, but was released before the season and signed with the Philadelphia Wings. Wagar spent two seasons with the Wings before signing with the Buffalo Bandits. He played two seasons with the Bandits before retiring in 2014.

Ontario Junior Lacrosse League
The Ontario Junior Lacrosse League (OJLL) is considered the most competitive Junior A men's box lacrosse league in the world and the number one source for talent for the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The OJLL is sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. It is an 12 team league wherein the top 8 go to the playoffs and battle it out for top spot in Ontario. The Ontario Champion is annually awarded the Iroquois Trophy and moves on to compete against teams from Alberta and British Columbia for the Minto Cup - the Junior A National Box Lacrosse Championship of Canada. Ontario has captured the Minto Cup fifty-six times since 1937. Since the first NLL draft in 1996, sixteen OJLL alumni have been selected first overall.
Kunisaki Hantō Prefectural Natural Park
Kunisaki Hantō Prefectural Natural Park (国東半島県立自然公園, Kunisaki Hantō kenritsu shizen kōen) is a Prefectural Natural Park on the Kunisaki Peninsula in northeast Ōita Prefecture, Japan. Established in 1951, the park spans the municipalities of Bungotakada, Kitsuki, Kunisaki, and Usa. The park encompasses the temples of Fuki-ji and Maki Ōdō as well as Kumano magaibutsu, and includes a marine zone of 41 km2.

Kumano Magaibutsu
Kumano Magaibutsu (熊野磨崖仏) is a group of Buddhist statues carved in bas-relief into a tuff cliff on the Kunisaki Peninsula in Bungotakada, Ōita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. In 1955, Kumano Magaibutsu, along with nearby Motomiya Magaibutsu (元宮磨崖仏) and Nabeyama Magaibutsu (鍋山磨崖仏), were designated as a National Historic Sites of Japan. The carvings were designated as a National Important Cultural Property in 1964.
The Dungeon (Playhouse 90)
"The Dungeon" was an American television film broadcast on April 17, 1958, as part of the second season of the CBS television series Playhouse 90. David Swift wrote the teleplay and directed. Paul Douglas, Agnes Moorehead, and Dennis Weaver starred.

Dennis Weaver
Billy Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006. Weaver's two most famous roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon's deputy Chester Goode on the western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the police drama McCloud. He starred in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg. He is also remembered for his role as the twitchy motel attendant in Orson Welles's film Touch of Evil (1958).
Leifsbudir
Leifsbudir (Old Norse: Leifsbuðir) was a settlement mentioned in the Greenland Saga as founded by Leif Eriksson in 1000 or 1001 in Vinland.

Later, 160 Greenlanders, including 16 women, established themselves there under the leadership of Norseman Thorfinn Karlsefni, the first European to come into contact with the local Skrælings, or North American Indigenous peoples. Thorfinn's son, Snorri Thorfinnsson, is believed to have been the first child of European descent to be born in North America outside of Greenland. However, the settlement was a temporary one. The settlers were forced to abandon Leifsbudir due to a lack of trade with natives; they returned to Greenland.

Leifsbudir is believed by some scholars to have been located at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.  Dr. Stuart C. Brown of Memorial University has written "...Dr. lngstad's Procrustean attempt to demonstrate that L'Anse aux Meadows is Leifsbudir is wholly unconvincing..." [Newfoundland Quarterly, Fall, 1988, page 42.]

Snorri Thorfinnsson
Snorri Thorfinnsson (Old Norse and Icelandic: Snorri Þorfinnsson or Snorri Karlsefnisson; most likely born between 1004 and 1013, and died c. 1090) was the son of explorers Thorfinn Karlsefni and Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir. He is considered to be the first child of European descent to be born in the Americas, apart from Greenland. He became an important figure in the Christianisation of Iceland.
Stephen Orr
Stephen Orr (born 10 June 1967) is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. His works are set in uniquely Australian settings, including coastal towns, outback regions and the Australian suburbs. His fiction explores the dynamics of Australian families and communities. In a 2021 review of Orr's Sincerely, Ethel Malley the author and critic Michael McGirr explained that Orr "is a prolific writer and his work is characterised by a methodical ability to deal with issues of substance. His writing has the energy required to sustain long narratives but is never histrionic."

Australian Book Review
Australian Book Review is an Australian arts and literary review. Created in 1961, ABR is an independent non-profit organisation that publishes articles, reviews, commentaries, essays, and new writing. The aims of the magazine are "to foster high critical standards, to provide an outlet for fine new writing, and to contribute to the preservation of literary values and a full appreciation of Australia's literary heritage".
Christopher Backus
Christopher Backus  is an American actor, director and screenwriter. Backus made his television debut in NBC's Will & Grace, followed by landing roles in The O.C., Life on Mars, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Sons of Anarchy, The Mentalist, Perception, and The Last Templar. He also appeared in films such as Redline starring Eddie Griffin and 3 Days Gone directed by Scott McCullough.

The Last Templar (miniseries)
The Last Templar is a three-hour Canadian television miniseries based on the 2005 novel The Last Templar, which aired in the U.S. on January 25 and 26, 2009, starring Mira Sorvino, Scott Foley, Victor Garber, Anthony Lemke, Kenneth Welsh, Danny Blanco Hall and Omar Sharif. The miniseries is produced by Muse Entertainment Enterprises. Emmy Award-winning Robert Halmi Sr. (who produced the Gulliver's Travels miniseries), along with Robert Halmi Jr. (The Poseidon Adventure), and Michael Prupas are the executive producers.
3Xtreme
3Xtreme is a 1999 combat racing video game developed and published by 989 Sports for the PlayStation. As with 2Xtreme, 3Xtreme contains skateboarding, skating, and cycling options to reach the goal before opponents, with the optional ability for offensive physical attacks.

Aggressive inline skating
Aggressive inline skating is a sub-discipline of inline skating in the action sports canon. Aggressive inline skates are designed to accommodate grinds and jumps, which can be performed on street obstacles or at skate parks.
PVRTC
PVRTC (PowerVR Texture Compression) and PVRTC2 are a family of lossy, fixed-rate texture compression formats used in PowerVR's MBX (PVRTC only), SGX and Rogue technologies. The PVRTC algorithm is documented in Simon Fenney's paper "Texture Compression using Low-Frequency Signal Modulation"  that was presented (slides) at Graphics Hardware 2003.

These differ from strictly block-based texture formats such as S3TC and Ericsson Texture Compression (ETC) in that the compressed image is represented by two lower resolution images which are bilinearly upscaled and then blended according to low precision, per-pixel weights. They also differ in that they support ARGB data in both 4-bpp and 2-bpp modes.

PVRTC is the compressed texture format used in the Nokia N9 and all generations of the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. It is also supported in certain Android devices, that use PowerVR GPUs.

Nokia N9
The Nokia N9 (codename Lankku) is a flagship smartphone developed by Nokia, running on the Linux-based MeeGo mobile operating system. Announced in June 2011 and released in September, it was the first and only device from Nokia with MeeGo, partly because of the company's partnership with Microsoft announced that year. It was initially released in three colors: black, cyan and magenta, before a white version was announced at Nokia World 2011.

Despite a limited release, the N9 received widespread critical acclaim, with some describing it as Nokia's finest device to date. It was praised for both its software and hardware, including the MeeGo operating system, buttonless 'swipe' user interface, and its high-end features. The case would be reused for the Windows Phone-powered Nokia Lumia 800 which was released later that year.
Grech
Grech (/ˈɡrɛk/) is a surname of Maltese origin. Notable people with the surname include:

Amanda Spiteri Grech, Maltese politician

Edwin Grech (1928–2023), Maltese politician

Joe Grech (1934–2024), Maltese singer

Joe Debono Grech (born 1939), Maltese politician

Joe Grech (snooker player) (1954–2021), Maltese snooker and billiards player

Joseph Grech (1948–2010), Maltese-born Australian bishop of Sandhurst

Joseph Grech (sport shooter) (born 1935), Maltese sports shooter

Karin Grech (1962–1977), Maltese murder victim

Leandro Grech (born 1980), Maltese football player

Lino Grech (1930−2013), Maltese actor, writer and director

Louis Grech (born 1947), Maltese politician

Mario Grech (born 1947), Maltese bishop, cardinal and Vatican official

Martin Grech (born 1982), English musician

Prosper Grech (1925–2019), Maltese Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

Ric Grech (1946–1990), English bassist

Joseph Grech
Joseph Angelo Grech (10 December 1948 – 28 December 2010) was an Australian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the Bishop of Sandhurst from 2001 to 2010.

Grech was born in Balzan, Colony of Malta, on 10 December 1948. After studies in the local schools, he moved to Melbourne, Australia, where he continued his studies. He was ordained a priest on 30 November 1974 in his home town, before returning to Melbourne to take up parish duties. He became an auxiliary bishop of the Melbourne archdiocese in 1998.

On 8 March 2001, he was appointed the Bishop of Sandhurst, based in the regional Victorian city of Bendigo. He was installed on 27 April and served in that position until his death from a blood disorder on 28 December 2010.

He was active in many ways in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal ad was much in demand as a speaker.
Hazaribagh Road railway station
Hazaribagh Road is a railway station on the Grand Chord line of East Central Railway. The place is locally known as Sariya, in Sariya CD Block in Bagodar-Saria subdivision in Giridih district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

East Central Railway zone
The East Central Railway (ECR) is one of the 19 railway zones in India, serving primarily the eastern and central regions of the country. Headquartered in Hajipur, Bihar, the zone manages a vast network of railway lines across five divisions: Sonpur, Samastipur, Dhanbad, Danapur & Deen Dayal Upadhyaya