page_title: Deaths in 2011
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2011 / October
caption_attribution_description: Herbert Hauptman receiving an honrary degree at the 2009 University at Buffalo commencement ceremony.
context_page_description: Previous: 2010 Next: 2012
context_section_description: October 1 - Sven Tumba, 80, Swedish ice hockey player, golfer and footballer, prostate cancer.
  October 1 - David Bedford, 74, English composer, lung cancer.
  October 4 - Yelena Chernykh, 32, Russian theatre actress, car crash.
  October 5 - Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk guitarist, singer and songwriter, cancer.
  October 5 - Steve Jobs, 56, American businessman (Apple Inc.), pancreatic cancer.
  October 5 - Charles Napier, 75, American actor.
  October 6 - Diane Cilento, 78, Australian actress, cancer.
  October 7 - Ramiz Alia, 85, Albanian politician and former President, lung complications.
  October 10 - Jagjit Singh, 70, Indian musician, brain haemorrhage.
  October 10 - Albert Rosellini, 101, American politician and former Governor of Washington, natural causes.
  October 12 - Dennis Ritchie, 70, American computer scientist.
  October 16 - Dan Wheldon, 33, British auto racer, racing accident.
  October 17 - Manfred Gerlach, 83, German politician and last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany.
  October 18 - Norman Corwin, 101, American radio writer, director and producer.
  October 20 - Muammar al-Gaddafi, 69, Libyan military ruler, killed.
  October 21 - Edmundo Ros, 100, Trinidadian bandleader.
  October 22 - Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, 83, Saudi crown prince, after long illness.
  October 22 - Robert Pierpoint, 86, American television journalist who covered six Presidents, complications of hip surgery.
  October 23 - Nusrat Bhutto, 82, Iranian-born former First Lady of Pakistan.
  October 23 - Marco Simoncelli, 24, Italian motorcycle racer, race crash.
  October 23 - Bronislovas Lubys, 73, Lithuanian entrepreneur and former Prime Minister, heart attack.
  October 23 - Herbert A. Hauptman, 94, American mathematician, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  October 23 - John McCarthy, 84, American computer scientist, heart disease.
  October 25 - Tom McNeeley, 74, American heavyweight boxer.
  October 26 - Jona Senilagakali, 81, Fijian physician, diplomat and 7th Prime Minister of Fiji.
  October 28 - Jiri Grusa, 72, Czech diplomat and writer.
  October 29 - Jimmy Savile, 84, British television presenter and charity fundraiser.
  October 31 - Florian Albert, 70, Hungarian footballer, heart attack.
  October 31 - Alfred Hilbe, 83, 6th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein.
  October 31 - Ali Saibou, 71, 3rd President of Niger.
caption: Herbert A. Hauptman 1917-2011
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