Deaths in October 2004
# Deaths in October 2004

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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2004

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.

## October 2004

### 1

* Richard Avedon, 81, American fashion and portrait photographer.
* Jimmy Campbell, 82–83, Scottish football player and manager (Clyde, national team).
* Joyce Jillson, 58, American astrologer, newspaper columnist, author and actress, kidney failure.
* Bruce Palmer, 58, Canadian bassist (Buffalo Springfield), heart attack.
* Aleksandr Rogov, 48, Soviet Olympic canoer (gold medal winner in men's C-1 500 metres individual canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics).

### 2

* Ralph Citro, 78, American boxing historian, archivist and cutman, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
* Max Geldray, 88, Dutch jazz harmonica player often credited as the world's first, and Goon Show performer.
* Fialho Gouveia, 69, Portuguese radio and TV presenter, respiratory failure.
* Nick Skorich, 83, American NFL offensive lineman and coach (Philadelphia Eagles), after heart valve surgery.

### 3

* Ken Brondell, 82, American baseball player (New York Giants).
* John Cerutti, 44, American Major League Baseball baseball player, announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays, natural causes.
* Janet Leigh, 77, American actress (Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, Touch of Evil), vasculitis.
* Marvin Travis Runyon, 80, American business executive and civil servant.
* Frits van Turenhout, 91, Dutch sports journalist.

### 4

* Helmut Bantz, 83, German gymnast and Olympian (gold medal in pommel horse gymnastics, 1956), after long illness.
* Syd Bycroft, 92, English footballer player.
* Gordon Cooper, 77, American NASA astronaut and aeronautical engineer, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, heart failure.
* Michael Grant, 89, British ancient historian.
* Emīlija Gudriniece, 84, Soviet/Latvian chemist.

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* Rodney Dangerfield, 82, American comedian and actor (Easy Money, Caddyshack, Back to School), Grammy winner (1981), complications from heart surgery.
* William H. Dobelle, 62, American biomedical researcher, eye doctor and inventor (artificial vision research), complications of diabetes.
* Sir John Richards, 77, British Royal Marines general.
* Wayne Rutledge, 62, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings, Houston Aeros).
* Maurice Wilkins, 87, New Zealand-born British physicist and molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1962) for work on DNA.

### 6

* William Clark, Baron Clark of Kempston, 86, British politician and peer.
* Frederica de Laguna, 98, American anthropologist and archaeologist, studied Alaskan native cultures.
* Johnny Kelley, 97, American long-distance runner and Olympian (1936, 1948).
* Pete McCarthy, 51, British travel writer and broadcaster, cancer.
* Marvin Santiago, 56, Puerto Rican salsa singer, complications of diabetes.
* Norm Schlueter, 88, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians).
* Veríssimo Correia Seabra, 57, Bissau-Guinean military commander, beaten to death in mutiny.
* Harbhajan Singh Yogi, 75, Indian spiritual leader and head of the Sikh Dharma in the western hemisphere, heart failure.
* Clem Tholet, 56, Rhodesian singer and songwriter

### 7

* Kenneth Bigley, 62, British civil engineer taken hostage in Iraq, beheaded by hostage takers.
* T. J. Binyon, 68, British author, Oxford professor, Pushkin scholar and crime novelist.
* Tony Lanfranchi, 69, British racing driver, cancer.
* Miki Matsubara, 44, Japanese singer, cervical cancer.
* Dame Rosemary Murray, 91, British chemist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1975–1977).
* Hildy Parks, 78, American actress, writer and TV producer, complications of stroke.

### 8

* James Chace, 72, American historian.
* Tony Giuliani, 91, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Kenneth G. Mills, 81, Canadian philosopher and musician.
* Johnny Sturm, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and minor league manager, congestive heart failure.
* Mei Zhi, 90, Chinese children's author and essayist.

### 9

* Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher (deconstruction), pancreatic cancer.
* Maxime Faget, 83, American aerospace engineer (NASA, Space Shuttle program), designer of the Mercury space capsule, bladder cancer.
* Herschel Grossman, 65, American economist.
* Richard K. Sorenson, 80, United States Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Bryan R. Wilson, 78, British author of religious books.

### 10

* Ken Caminiti, 41, American baseball player, drug overdose.
* Christopher Reeve, 52, American actor (Superman, The Remains of the Day, Deathtrap) and stem cell research activist, heart failure.
* Arthur H. Robinson, 89, American cartographer and geographer, after short illness.
* Maurice Shadbolt, 72, New Zealand novelist, playwright and journalist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Denis Wakeling, 85, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Southwell (1970–1985).

### 11

* Sir Paul Bryan, 91, British politician.
* Lord Nicholas Gordon Lennox, 73, British diplomat, Ambassador to Spain (1984–1989).
* Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 82, British peer, politician and landowner.
* Elisabeth Klein, 93, Hungarian-Danish pianist.
* Ben Komproe, 62, Netherlands Antilles politician, Prime Minister (2003) and Minister of Justice (2003–2004), kidney failure and complications from gastric surgery.
* Mary Loos, 94, American actress, screenwriter, and novelist, complications from stroke.
* Keith Miller, 84, Australian Test cricketer, Australian rules footballer, fighter pilot and journalist.
* Csaba Pálinkás, 45, Hungarian Olympic cyclist.
* Gulshan Rai, 80, Indian film producer and distributor, after long illness.
* Lillian Zuckerman, 88, American character actress.

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* Tommy Kalmanir, 78, American football player.
* Kim King, 59, American businessman, leukemia.
* Samson Kutsuwada, 57, Japanese wrestler.
* Lawrence E. Roberts, 81, colonel in the US Air Force, heart attack.

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* Mohammad Va'ez Abaee-Khorasani, 64, Iranian cleric and reformist politician, physical illness.
* Mike Blyzka, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles).
* Erik Bye, 78, Norwegian journalist (AP, BBC, NRK), radio/TV host, actor, singer/songwriter, cancer.
* Adremy Dennis, 28, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
* David Grose, 59, American archaeologist and classicist.
* Archie McIndewar, 83, Scottish footballer.
* Nirupa Roy, 73, Indian film actress, heart attack.
* Bernice Rubens, 76, British Booker Prize-winning novelist (The Elected Member), complications from stroke.
* Tetsu Yano, 80, Japanese science fiction writer and translator, founder of the Science Fiction Writers of Japan.
* Ivor Wood, 72, British animator (Paddington Bear, The Wombles Postman Pat), cancer.

### 14

* Peter Adelaar, 57, Dutch judoka.
* Vlassis Bonatsos, 54, Greek entertainer.
* Willie Browne, 68, Irish soccer player.
* Juan Francisco Fresno, 90, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile (1983-1990).
* Cordell Jackson, 81, American rockabilly musician.
* Sheila Keith, 84, British actress.
* Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, 67, British peer, historian and member of the House of Lords, complications of emphysema.
* Ivan Shamiakin, 83, Soviet Belarusian writer.

### 15

* Bill Eyden, 74, British jazz drummer.
* Dave Godin, 68, British soul music promoter and journalist, coined the term "northern soul".
* Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist (Batman, The Flash, Superman).
* Tex Ritter, 80, American professional basketball player (Eastern Kentucky, New York Knicks).

### 16

* Doug Bennett, 52, Canadian rock singer (Doug and the Slugs), after long illness.
* Vincent Brome, 94, British biographer and novelist.
* Harold Perkin, 77, English social historian, helped to establish social history as a major area of study.
* Pierre Salinger, 79, American journalist, Senator (California, 1964) and Press Secretary to John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, heart failure.
* Bassam Zuamut, 53, Israeli actor and screenwriter, kidney disease.

### 17

* Ray Boone, 81, American Major League Baseball player, patriarch of first third-generation MLB family, after long illness.
* Julius Harris, 81, American actor (Live and Let Die, Super Fly, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three), heart failure.
* Betty Hill, 85, American alien abduction claimant, lung cancer.
* Uzi Hitman, 52, Israeli singer, songwriter and composer, heart attack.
* Bas Pease, 81, British physicist.
* Wu Faxian, 89, Chinese revolutionary and military officer, commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force/

### 18

* Nancy Carline, 94, British artist.
* Richie Lemos, 84, Mexican-American boxer.
* Maurice Stewart, 75, Irish Anglican priest, Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (1991–1999).
* Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 52, Indian bandit known as "Jungle Cat", shot by Special Task Force.

### 19

* Antoine Abel, 69, Seychellois writer.
* Anita Bitri, 36, Albanian pop singer, carbon monoxide poisoning.
* Frank Chapple, Baron Chapple of Hoxton, 83, British trade unionist (General Secretary of EETPU, 1966–1984).
* George Daneel, 100, South African rugby player.
* Kenneth E. Iverson, 84, Canadian computer scientist, inventor of the APL programming language, stroke.
* Paul Nitze, 97, American diplomat and Cold War arms negotiator.
* Kingsley Rasanayagam, 63, Sri Lankan politician.
* Calvin Ruck, 79, Canadian member of Parliament (Senate of Canada representing Nova Scotia).
* Sang Lee, 51, Korean-American three-cushion billiard player, stomach cancer.
* Greg Shaw, 55, American rock-music journalist and record label executive, known as a major force in the spread of underground music and fanzine publishing.
* Liviu Vasilică, 54, Romanian folk singer, cirrhosis.
* Lewis Urry, 77, Canadian chemical engineer and inventor (alkaline battery, lithium battery).

### 20

* William Brown, 66, American operatic tenor.
* Veronika Cherkasova, 45, Belarusian journalist, stabbed.
* Anthony Hecht, 81, American poet, lymphoma.
* Chuck Hiller, 70, American Major League Baseball baseball player and coach, first National League player to hit a World Series grand slam, leukemia.
* Tevfik Gelenbe, 73, Turkish actor and comedian, complications of cancer.
* Lynda Lee-Potter, 69, British newspaper columnist (Daily Mail), brain tumour.
* C. P. Spencer, 66, American singer and songwriter, and member of the Motown quartet The Originals ("Baby, I'm For Real", "The Bells").

### 21

* Imad Abbas, Palestinian Hamas militant and assistant to Adnan al-Ghoul, targeted killing by the IDF.
* Adnan al-Ghoul, Palestinian Hamas chief explosives expert, alleged "father" of the Qassam rocket, targeted killing by the IDF.
* Sharifa Alkhateeb, 58, American teacher and writer.
* Jim Bucher, 93, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox).
* Everett Rogers, 73, American communication scholar and sociologist, founder of diffusion of innovations theory.
* Victoria Snelgrove, 21, American college junior, shot with pepper spray projectile by Boston Police.

### 22

* Bertie Brownlow, 84, Australian cricketer.
* Samuel L. Gravely, Jr., 82, American naval pioneer (first African American fleet commander and admiral), complications from stroke.
* Lawrence Stark, 78, American neurologist and a pioneer in the use of engineering analysis to characterize neurological systems.
* Katherine Victor, 81, American cult film actress.

### 23

* Edward T. Cone, 87, American composer, music theorist, pianist, and philanthropist.
* Jim McDonald, 77, American baseball player.
* Robert Merrill, 87, American operatic baritone, natural causes.
* Bill Nicholson, 85, British football manager (Tottenham Hotspur, 1958–1974), player, coach, and scout.
* Dorothy Comstock Riley, 79, American judge, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1987–1991).
* George Silk, 87, New Zealand WWII photojournalist (Life), congestive heart failure.

### 24

* Randy Dorton, 50, American engine builder (Hendrick Motorsports), victim of the 2004 Martinsville plane crash.
* Bethany Goldsmith, 77, American baseball player.
* Ricky Hendrick, 24, American NASCAR stock car driver and partial team owner (Hendrick Motorsports), plane crash.
* James Aloysius Hickey, 84, American Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Washington, D.C. (1980–2000), Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio (1974–1980).
* Maaja Ranniku, 63, Soviet (Estonian) chess International Master, women's Soviet chess champion, ten-time Estonian women's chess champion.
* Herbert Schilling, 74, German Olympic boxer (light welterweight boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).

### 25

* Thomas Kanza, 71, Congolese diplomat and ambassador, heart attack.
* A. David Mazzone, 76, American judge (United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts).
* Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra, 84, Indian politician (foreign minister, 1979–1980), cardiac arrest.
* John Peel, 65, British BBC disc jockey and guru of the British independent music scene, heart attack.

### 26

* Bobby Ávila, 79, Mexican MLB All-Star and American League batting champion (1954), complications of diabetes.
* Russ Derry, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals).
* Paul F. Iams, 89, American businessman, founder of the Iams pet food company, complications from broken hip.
* Robin Kenyatta, 62, American jazz alto saxophonist.
* Ricardo Odnoposoff, 90, Austrian violinist.
* Fred Paine, 78, American professional basketball player (Providence Steamrollers).

### 27

* Al Clouston, 94, Canadian storyteller and humourist.
* Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold, 99, British aristocrat.
* Olavi Laaksonen, 83, Finnish Olympic football player.
* Lester Lanin, 97, American jazz big band leader.
* Lars Nordwall, 76, Swedish Olympic cyclist (men's individual and team cycling road races at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics).
* Marwell Periotti, 65, Argentine Olympic footballer (men's football at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
* Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva ("Serginho"), 30, Brazilian footballer (São Caetano), heart attack during match.

### 28

* Rosalind Hicks, 85, British literary guardian and the only child of Agatha Christie.
* Jimmy McLarnin, 96, British boxer, two-time welterweight world champion (1933, 1934).
* Gil Mellé, 72, American artist, jazz saxophonist and film and television composer, heart attack.
* Graham Roberts, 75, British actor (The Archers, Z-Cars).
* George S. Schairer, 91, American aerodynamics expert at Boeing (B-47 Stratojet, B-52 Stratofortress, Boeing 707, Boeing 727, Boeing 737, Boeing 747).
* Ted Taylor, 79, Mexican-born American theoretical physicist, nuclear weapon designer and eventual nuclear disarmament advocate, coronary artery disease.
* William E. Wallace, 87, American chemist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
* Charles F. Wheeler, 88, American cinematographer (Tora! Tora! Tora!).

### 29

* HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 102, British royal, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II.
* Jacinto João, 60, Portuguese footballer, heart attack.
* Shosei Koda, 24, Japanese backpacker, beheaded by kidnappers in Iraq.
* Edward Oliver LeBlanc, 81, Dominican political leader, chief minister (1961–1967) and premier (1967–1974).
* Vaughn Meader, 68, American Grammy-winning comedian and JFK impersonator, emphysema.
* Gerard Ross Norton, 89, South African soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (1944),
* Peter Twinn, 88, British mathematician, World War II codebreaker, and entomologist.

### 30

* Dame Phyllis Frost, 87, Australian welfare worker and philanthropist.
* Rein Otsason, 73, Estonian economist and banker, heart failure.
* Peggy Ryan, 80, American actress (All Ashore, Hawaii Five-O), singer and dancer (partnered with Donald O'Connor).
* David Shulman, 91, American lexicographer and cryptographer, known for his frequent contributions to the Oxford English Dictionary.
* Eddie Straiton, 87, British veterinarian.

### 31

* Don Briscoe, 64, American stage and television actor (Dark Shadows), heart disease.
* Sir Roland Gibbs, 83, British Field Marshal.
* Sir David Gore-Booth, 61, British diplomat.
* Valentin Nikolayev, 80, Soviet Olympic wrestler (gold medal winner in men's light heavyweight wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
* Helen Z. Papanikolas, 87, Greek-American historian, educator and author, known for documenting the immigrant experience in the American West.
* Russell Reinke, 82, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Hamilton South, Ontario).
* Marie Tehan, 64, Australian Liberal politician (Victorian Parliament, 1987–1999), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
