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.
October 2014
October 1 - Shlomo Lahat, 86, Israeli general and politician, Mayor of Tel Aviv (1974-1993), lung infection.
October 1 - Lynsey de Paul, 64, English singer-songwriter ("Won't Somebody Dance with Me"), brain hemorrhage.
October 2 - Gyorgy Lazar, 90, Hungarian politician, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1975-1987).
October 2 - Pedro Pena, 88, Spanish actor (Medico 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 Mae 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 Bugeker, 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 Landovsky, 78, Czech actor and dissident, heart attack.
October 11 - Carmelo Simeone, 81, Argentine footballer (Velez 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 Segerstrom, 33, Swedish footballer (IF Brommapojkarna), brain cancer.
October 14 - Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, 38, American keyboardist, heart attack.
October 14 - Elizabeth Pena, 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 - Etienne 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 Merku, 87, Slovene composer.
October 20 - Rene 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 - Goran 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 - Andre Piters, 83, Belgian footballer (Standard Liege).
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 - Thomas Menino, 71, American politician, Mayor of Boston (1993-2014), cancer.
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
References
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October 2014 events