Deaths in October 2014

The following is a list of **notable deaths in October 2014**. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months".

*Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.
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* October 1 - Shlomo Lahat, 86, Israeli general and politician, Mayor of Tel Aviv (1974&ndash;1993), lung infection.
* October 1 - Lynsey de Paul, 64, English singer-songwriter ("Won't Somebody Dance with Me"), brain hemorrhage.
* October 2 - György Lázár, 90, Hungarian politician, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1975–1987).
* October 2 - Pedro Peña, 88, Spanish actor (*Médico de familia*), Alzheimer's disease.
* October 2 - Vaughn O. Lang, 86, American Army lieutenant general.
* October 2 - Ewen Gilmour, 51, New Zealand comedian.
* October 2 - Robert Flower, 59, Australian Hall of Fame VFL footballer.
* October 3 - Alan Henning, 47, British humanitarian aid worker and ISIS hostage, beheading. (death reported on this date)
* October 3 - Kevin Metheny, 60, American radio executive (WNBC (AM), WGN (AM)), suspected heart attack.
* October 3 - Ward Ruyslinck, 85, Belgian author, Alzheimer's disease.
* October 3 - Peer Augustinski, 74, German actor.
* October 3 - Jean-Jacques Marcel, 83, French footballer.
* October 4 - Paul Revere, 76, American musician (Paul Revere & the Raiders), cancer.
* October 4 - Hugo Carvana, 77, Brazilian actor (*Entranced Earth*, *Antonio das Mortes*) and director (*Casa da Mãe Joana*).
* October 4 - John J. Lloyd, 92, American art director and production designer (*Animal House*, *The Blues Brothers*, *The Thing*).
* October 4 - Fyodor Cherenkov, 55, Russian footballer (FC Spartak Moscow, Soviet national team).
* October 4 - Jean-Claude Duvalier, 63, Haitian politician, President (1971–1986), heart attack.
* October 5 - Yuri Lyubimov, 97, Russian stage actor and director, founder of the Taganka Theatre, heart failure.
* October 5 - Anna Przybylska, 36, Polish actress (*Kariera Nikosia Dyzmy*), pancreatic cancer.
* October 5 - David Chavchavadze, 90, British-born American author and CIA officer.
* October 5 - Andrea de Cesaris, 55, Italian racing driver (Formula One), traffic collision.
* October 5 - Anna Maria Gherardi, 75, Italian actress and voice actress (*Lost Love*, *Petomaniac*).
* October 5 - Geoffrey Holder, 84, Trinidadian choreographer and actor (*Annie*, *Live and Let Die*, *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory*), pneumonia.
* October 6 - Serhiy Zakarlyuka, 38, Ukrainian football player (Dnipro, national team) and manager, traffic collision.
* October 6 - Marian Seldes, 86, American actress (*Tom and Huck*, *Home Alone 3*, *Mona Lisa Smile*), complications from dementia.
* October 6 - Igor Mitoraj, 70, Polish sculptor.
* October 6 - Bill Campbell, 91, American sportscaster.
* October 6 - Feridun Buğeker, 81, Turkish footballer.
* October 7 - Cigar, 24, American thoroughbred racehorse, surgical complications.
* October 7 - Siegfried Lenz, 88, German writer (*The German Lesson*, *The Heritage*), poet, and historian.
* October 7 - Iva Withers, 97, Canadian-born American theatre actress and singer.
* October 7 - Nika Kiladze, 25, Georgian footballer, motorcycle accident.
* October 8 - Helmut Ruge, 74, German comedian, actor, and cabaret writer.
* October 8 - Jeen van den Berg, 86, Dutch Olympic speedskater (1956, 1960), winner of the Elfstedentocht (1954).
* October 8 - Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, Liberian Ebola patient, first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, Ebola virus disease.
* October 8 - Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 87, American writer (*The Egypt Game*), stroke.
* October 8 - Mike Waugh, 58, American politician, member of Pennsylvania State Senate (1998–2014), pancreatic cancer.
* October 9 - Peter A. Peyser, 93, American politician, United States Representative for New York (1971-77 and 1979-83), Parkinson's disease.
* October 9 - Jan Hooks, 57, American comedienne and actress (*Saturday Night Live*, *Designing Women*, *The Simpsons*, *Batman Returns*), cancer.
* October 10 - Valeri Karpov, 43, Russian hockey player, 1993 world champion, head injury. 
* October 10 - Ed Nimmervoll, 67, Australian music journalist and author, brain cancer.
* October 10 - Finn Lied, 98, Norwegian military researcher and politician.
* October 10 - Pavel Landovský, 78, Czech actor and dissident, heart attack.
* October 11 - Carmelo Simeone, 81, Argentine footballer (Vélez Sarsfield, Boca Juniors).
* October 11 - Tanhum Cohen-Mintz, 75, Israeli basketball player, cancer. 
* October 12 - Roberto Telch, 70, Argentine footballer (San Lorenzo, national team), heart attack.
* October 12 - Ali Mazrui, 81, Kenyan professor and political writer.
* October 13 - Antonio Cafiero, 92, Argentine politician, Governor of Buenos Aires (1987–1991), Senator (1993–2005), pneumonia.
* October 13 - Pontus Segerström, 33, Swedish footballer (IF Brommapojkarna), brain cancer.
* October 14 - Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, 38, American keyboardist, heart attack.
* October 14 - Elizabeth Peña, 55, American actress (*The Incredibles*, *Rush Hour*, ''Jacob's Ladder*) and television director, septic shock and cardiopulmonary arrest complicated by cirrhosis of the liver.
* October 15 - Marie Dubois, 77, French actress (*La Grande Vadrouille*, *Monte Carlo or Bust*, *La Menace''), multiple sclerosis.
* October 15 - Giovanni Reale, 83, Italian historian and philosopher.
* October 15 - Robert Tiernan, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House for Rhode Island's 2nd district (1967–1975).
* October 16 - John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, 88, British peer, custodian of Blenheim Palace.
* October 16 - Misty Upham, 32, American actress (*Frozen River*, *August: Osage County*). (body discovered on this date)
* October 16 - Patrick Paul D’Souza, 86, Indian prelate, Bishop of Varanasi (1971–2007).
* October 16 - Sumi Haru, 75, American actress (M*A*S*H).
* October 16 - Tim Hauser, 72, American musician (The Manhattan Transfer), cardiac arrest.
* October 17 - Mikhail Marynich, 74, Belarusian politician.
* October 17 - Daisuke Oku, 38, Japanese footballer, car accident.
* October 17 - Tom Shaw, 69, American prelate, Bishop of Massachusetts (1995-2014), brain cancer.
* October 17 - Gero Bisanz, 78, German football host. 
* October 17 - Edwards Barham, 77, American politician, Senator of Louisiana (1976-1980), plane crash.
* October 18 - Rachel Makinson, 97, Australian research scientist.
* October 18 - Joanne Borgella, 32, American singer (American Idol) and model, endometrial cancer.
* October 18 - Paul Craft, 76, American musician and songwriter ("Brother Jukebox").
* October 19 - Lynda Bellingham, 66, Canadian-British actress, colon cancer.
* October 19 - Gloria Casarez, 42, American civil rights activist, cancer.
* October 19 - Raphael Ravenscroft, 60, British saxophonist ("Baker Street") and author, suspected heart attack.
* October 19 - John Holt, 69, Jamaican singer.
* October 19 - Stephen Paulus, 65, American composer, stroke. 
* October 19 - Étienne Mourrut, 74, French politician, MP for Gard's 2nd constituency (2002–2012), Mayor of Le Grau-du-Roi (1983–2014).
* October 20 - Ox Baker, 76, American wrestler and actor (*Escape from New York*), heart attack.
* October 20 - Oscar de la Renta, 82, Dominican Republic fashion designer, cancer.
* October 20 - Efua Dorkenoo, 65, Ghanaian-born British campaigner against female genital mutilation, cancer.
* October 20 - Pavle Merkù, 87, Slovene composer. 
* October 20 - René Burri, 81, Swiss photographer, cancer.
* October 21 - Gough Whitlam, 98, Australian politician, Prime Minister (1972–1975).
* October 21 - Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, 83, Iranian politician, acting Prime Minister (1981), heart failure.
* October 21 - Christophe de Margerie, 63, French businessman, president (CEO) of Total SA, plane crash.
* October 21 - Seth Gaaikema, 75, Dutch comedian and writer, heart failure.
* October 21 - Benjamin C. Bradlee, 93, American journalist and editor, Executive editor of *The Washington Post*, Alzheimer's disease.
* October 22 - John-Roger Hinkins, 80, American author and public speaker.
* October 22 - Nathan Cirillo, 24, Canadian reservist soldier, shot.
* October 22 - Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, Canadian gunman, suspected perpetrator of the 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, shot.
* October 23 - Göran Johansson, 69, Swedish politician, Mayor of Gothenburg Municipality (1988-1991), and union leader.
* October 23 - Alvin Stardust, 72, English singer ("My Coo Ca Choo"), prostate cancer.
* October 23 - John Bramlett, 73, American football player (Boston Patriots).
* October 23 - Ghulam Azam, 91, Bangladeshi war criminal, convicted for the Bangladesh Liberation War, stroke.
* October 23 - Joan Quigley, 87, American astrologer, spiritual advisor for Nancy and Ronald Reagan, short-illness.
* October 23 - Bernard Mayes, 85, British-born American broadcast and academic, Parkinson's disease.
* October 23 - André Piters, 83, Belgian footballer (Standard Liège).
* October 24 - Kim Anderzon, 71, Swedish actress (*Second Dance*), spinal cancer. 
* October 24 - Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, 34, South African middle-distance runner, Olympic silver medalist (2004), traffic collision.
* October 24 - S. S. Rajendran, 86, Indian actor, lung infection.
* October 24 - Lorenzo Albacete, 73, American Roman Catholic priest.
* October 25 - Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, Iranian women convicted of murder, executed. 
* October 25 - Jack Bruce, 71, Scottish musician (Cream) and composer, liver disease.
* October 25 - Carlos Morales Troncoso, 74, Dominican politician, Vice President (1986–1994), Secretary of Foreign Affairs (2004–2014), leukemia.
* October 25 - Marcia Strassman, 66, American actress (*Welcome Back, Kotter*, *Honey, I Shrunk the Kids*), breast cancer.
* October 26 - Oscar Taveras, 22, Dominican baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), car accident.
* October 26 - Mo Collins, 38, American football player (Oakland Raiders), kidney failure.
* October 26 - Germain Gagnon, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, New York Islanders), long-illness.
* October 26 - Senzo Meyiwa, 27, South African footballer (Orlando Pirates), shot.
* October 26 - Jeff Robinson, 52, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
* October 26 - Genpei Akasegawa, 77, Japanese author and artist, sepsis.
* October 27 - Starke Taylor, 92, American politician, Mayor of Dallas, Texas (1983–1987).
* October 27 - Shin Hae-chul, 46, South Korean singer (*N.EX.T*), heart attack.
* October 28 - Hans Schneider, 87, Austrian-born American mathematician and journal editor ("Linear Algebra and its Applications"), cancer.
* October 28 - Michael Sata, 77, Zambian politician, President (since 2011), heart attack.
* October 28 - Romualdas Granauskas, 75, Lithuanian author. 
* October 28 - Koichiro Kimura, 44, Japanese professional writer and martial artist, pneumonia.
* October 28 - Galway Kinnell, 87, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, leukemia.
* October 29 - Klas Ingesson, 46, Swedish footballer (national team), multiple myeloma.
* October 30 - Bob Geigel, 90, American professional wrestler and promoter, Alzheimer's disease.
* October 31 - David Manker Abshire, 88, American diplomat, Permanent Representative to NATO (1983–1987).
* October 31 - Hitoshi Motoshima, 92, Japanese politician, Mayor of Nagasaki (1979–1995).
* October 31 - John Forzani, 67, Canadian businessman and football player, heart attack.
* October 31 - Renato Sellani, 88, Italian jazz pianist and composer.
* October 31 - Brad Halsey, 33, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), fall.

## Previous months
*Deaths in January 2014
*Deaths in February 2014
*Deaths in March 2014 
*Deaths in April 2014
*Deaths in May 2014
*Deaths in June 2014
*Deaths in July 2014
*Deaths in August 2014
*Deaths in September 2014
*Deaths in November 2014
*Deaths in December 2014

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