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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2004.
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- Don Briscoe, 64, stage and television actor (Dark Shadows)
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- Peggy Ryan, 80, actress, singer and dancer
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- Gerard Norton VC, 89, won the Victoria Cross in 1944
- Vaughn Meader, 68, Grammy-Award-winning JFK-imitating comedian, emphysema
- Edward Oliver LeBlanc, 81, Dominican political leader, chief minister (1961-1967) and premier (1967-1974), unknown natural causes
- Jacinto João, 60, Portuguese football player, cardiac arrest
- HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 102
- Peter Twinn, 88, mathematician and code-breaker
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- Rosalind Hicks, 85, daughter of Agatha Christie
- Ted Taylor, 79, designer of American nuclear bombs before becoming an activist warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons
- Shosei Koda, 24, Japanese backpacker, beheaded by his captors in Iraq
- Jimmy McLarnin, 96, British boxer, two-time world champion
- Graham Roberts, 75, British actor, best known for playing George Barford in The Archers
- Gil Melle, 72, film and television music composer, heart attack
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- Al Clouston, 94, humorist
- Lester Lanin, 97, Society Big-Band leader
- Bill Liebowitz, 63, American comic book retailer and founder of notable chain of Golden Apple Comics stores, leading the way for the direct market
- Paulo Sérgio de Oliveira Silva (also known as Serginho), 30, Brazilian football player for São Caetano, heart attack during a league match
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- Bobby Avila, 79, MLB All-Star and AL batting champion in 954
- Paul F. Iams, 89, founder of the Iams pet food company
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- John Peel, 65, British BBC disc jockey and guru of the British indie music scene, heart attack
- Shyam Nandan Mishra, 84, Indian foreign minister from 1979 to 1980, heart attack
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- Jokin Ormaetxea, 24, Spanish professional cyclist, car accident
- 10 people, including the son of NASCAR race owner Rick Hendrick, crew members and pilots, airplane crash
- James Cardinal Hickey, 84, former Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., previously bishop of Cleveland, Ohio
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- George Silk, 87, Famous WWII Photojournalist for Life magazine, congestive heart failure
- Robert Merrill, 85 (or 87?), American opera singer
- Bill Nicholson OBE, 85, British football manager of Tottenham Hotspur, 1958-1974, associated with the club as player, coach, manager and scout for over 60 years
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- Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr., 82, first African American U.S. Navy admiral
- Katherine Victor, 81, cult film actress
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- Everett Rogers, 73, founder of diffusion of innovations theory
- Adnan al-Ghoul, ??, Hamas chief explosives expert, alleged "father" of the Qassam rocket, assassinated by the IDF
- Victoria Snelgrove, 21, Boston Red Sox fan killed in post-American League Championship Series victory celebration accident
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- Veronika Cherkasova, 45, Belarus journalist, murdered
- Anthony Hecht, 81, American poet
- Chuck Hiller, 70, former major league baseball player
- Tevfik Gelenbe, 73, Turkish actor, cancer
- Lynda Lee-Potter, 69, journalist for Daily Mail, brain tumour
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- Arthur H. Robinson, 89, American cartographer
- Anita Bitri-Prapaniku, 36?, Albanian pop singer
- Sang Chun Lee, 51, three cushion billiard player, cancer
- Lewis Urry, 77, Canadian, invented the long-lasting alkaline battery
- Kenneth E. Iverson, 84, computer scientist inventor of the APL programming language
- Paul H. Nitze, 97, American diplomat and Cold War arms negotiator
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- Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 52, notorious Indian bandit known as "Jungle Cat", killed by special forces
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- Julius Harris, 81, African American actor, heart failure
- Betty Hill, 85, wife of Barney Hill and famous in Ufology for their abduction report, lung cancer
- Ray Boone, 81, patriarch of three-generation major league baseball family
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- Doug Bennett, 52, lead singer of Canadian band Doug and the Slugs
- Uzi Hitman, 52, Israeli singer, songwriter and composer, heart attack
- Pierre Salinger, 79, Press Secretary to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and newsman
- Vincent Brome, 94, English biographer and novelist
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- Dave Godin, 68, Soul music promoter, journalist
- Helmut Simon, 67, finder of Ötzi the Iceman
- Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist
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- Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, 67, British historian and member of the House of Lords
- Ivan Shamiakin, 83, Soviet Belarusian writer
- Cordell Jackson, 81, rockabilly musician
- Sheila Keith, 84, British actress
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- Ivor Wood, 72, British animator, Paddington Bear, The Wombles
- Erik Bye, 78, Norwegian journalist (AP, BBC, NRK), radio/TV host, actor, singer/songwriter; cancer
- Tetsu Yano, 80, Japanese science fiction writer and translator, founder of the Science Fiction Writers of Japan
- Nirupa Roy, 73, Indian film actress
- Bernice Rubens, 76, British novelist (Madame Sousatzka), complications following stroke
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- Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 82, landowner, diplomat
- Ben Komproe, 62, former Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles
- Gulshan Rai, 80, Indian film producer and distributor
- Keith Miller, 84, Australian rules footballer, cricketer, fighter pilot and journalist
- Mary Loos, 94, actress, screenwriter, and novelist; complications from stroke
- Lillian Zuckerman, 88, character actress
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- Arthur H. Robinson, 89, cartographer
- Christopher Reeve, 52, U.S. actor who starred as Superman in the 978 movie and sequels, and campaigned for stem cell research after being paralyzed, heart failure brought on by septicemia
- Ken Caminiti, 41, American baseball player, heart attack
- Maurice Shadbolt, 72, New Zealand writer, Alzheimer's disease
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- Maxime A. Faget, 83, NASA longtime engineer through the Space Shuttle program & designer of the Mercury space capsule, bladder cancer
[edit] 8
- Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher, pancreatic cancer
- Richard Ellison, 80, documentary producer, diffuse Lewy Body Syndrome
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- Ken Bigley, 62, British hostage in Iraq, executed by hostage takers
- T.J. Binyon, 68, author, Oxford professor, Pushkin scholar
- Hildy Parks, 78, American actress, writer, TV producer
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- Frederica de Laguna, 98, archaeologist and anthropologist studied Alaskan native cultures
- John A. Kelley, 97, U.S. athlete
- Pete McCarthy, 51, travel writer and broadcaster, cancer
- Harbhajan Singh Yogi, 75, spiritual leader and head of the Sikh Dharma in the western hemisphere
- Veríssimo Correia Seabra, 57, military commander in Guinea-Bissau, killed in mutiny[1]
- Marvin Santiago, 56, Puerto Rican Salsa music singer, diabetes complications
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- Maurice Wilkins, 87, DNA pioneer
- Rodney Dangerfield, 82, comic and actor
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- William Dobelle (62), American eye doctor and inventor prominent in artificial vision research, diabetes complications
- Helmut Bantz, 83, 1956 Olympic gold medal winner in pommel horse gymnastics
- Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts
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- Ralph Citro, 78, renowned boxing cut-man, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
- Janet Leigh, 77, American actress, of vasculitis
- Frits van Turenhout, 91, Dutch sports journalist
- John Cerutti, 44, former MLB baseball player, announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays
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- Fialho Gouveia, 69, Portuguese radio and TV presenter, of cardiac arrest
- Nick Skorich, 83, NFL coach, (Philadelphia Eagles) in the early 1960s
- Max van Gelder, 88, world's first jazz harmonica player and Goon, of old age
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- Richard Avedon, 81, American fashion photographer, of a brain hemorrhage
- Joyce Jillson, 58, American astrologer, of kidney failure
- Bruce Palmer, 58, Bassist for Buffalo Springfield, heart attack
