Deaths in October 2016

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.
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## 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 Donbas, 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
*Malik Nazar Hussain, 56, Gentle man worked hard for his family, from Jampur Pakistan and served WAPDA for 35 years. His Son Sajjad Salik can be reached @00923335225191.

*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.

## Months
* January
* February
* March
* April
* May
* June
* July
* August
* September
* October
* November
* December

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