Deaths in October 2005

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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2005.

31

• Hal O. Anger, 85, pioneer of nuclear medicine, inventor of gamma ray camera. [1]
• William O. Baker, 90, American scientist and former Bell Labs president, respiratory failure. [2]
• Evert Hingst, Dutch lawyer, allegedly involved in organized crime, shot. [3].
• V. K. Madhavan Kutty, 71, Indian journalist and author. [4]
• Amrita Pritam, 86, Indian poet and writer. [5]
• Mary Wimbush, 81, British actress (The Archers). [6]

30

• David Bazay, 66, English CBC ombudsman and veteran journalist.
• Chester L. Cooper, 88, veteran American diplomat, congestive heart failure. [7]
• Gordon A. Craig, 91, American historian, congestive heart failure. [8]
• John N. Erlenborn, 78, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois, Lewy body disease. [9]
• Tetsuo Hamuro, 88, 1936 Olympics gold-medal winner in swimming.
• Kyle Lake, 33, pastor at the University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, electrocuted by microphone during a baptism service. [10]
• Ghalib Abdul Mehdi, brother of Iraq Vice President Adil Abdul Medhi and government official, murdered in roadside ambush. [11]
• Maurice Rosenfeld, 91, American attorney and film producer (Bang the Drum Slowly), heart failure. [12]
• Emiliano Zuleta, 93, Colombian vallenato musician, respiratory disease. [13]

29

• Lloyd Bochner, 81, Canadian character actor, cancer. [14]
• Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek, 63, highest-ranking Syriac Orthodox Church priest in Europe. [15]
• John Elliott, Jr., 84, American advertising executive, cerebral hemorrhage. [16]
• Robert Gerle, 81, American concert violinist, Parkinson's disease. [17]
• Valery Kokov, 64, former President of Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, cancer.
• Al Lopez, 97, oldest living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• H. Hunter Lott, Jr., 90, American squash champion. [18]
• Bradley Mosley, 22, former University of South Florida basketball player, kidney cancer. [19]

28

• Eugene K. Bird, 79, longtime Spandau guard of Rudolf Hess. [20]
• Bob Broeg, 87, American Hall of Fame baseball sports writer, pneumonia. [21]
• Robert Paschal Burns, 71, American architect, car accident. [22]
• Alston Callahan, 94, American ophthalmologist. [23]
• Raymond Hains, 78, French artist. [24]
• Tony Jackson, 62, former St. John's basketball standout. [25] [26]
• Cheryl McCall, 55, director of documentary films, political activist, advocate for the homeless.
• Tahsin Ozguc, 89, Archaeologist. [27]
• Fernando Quejas, 83, Cape Verdean singer and musician. [28]
• Paul Reynard, 78, French-born painter, lung cancer. [29]
• Richard Smalley, 62, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, co-discoverer of fullerenes. [30]
• Ljuba Tadić, 76, Serbian actor

27

• Georges Guingouin, 92, one of the most famous French resistants. [31]
• Archelaus L. Hamblen Jr., 86, retired U.S. Army brigadier general, complications of a stroke. [32]
• Jean-Claude Irvoas, 56, French employee, murder.
• Tom Masland, 55, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, injuries suffered in a car accident. [33]
• Rene Moreau, 108, among the last remaining French veterans of World War I. [34]
• Eugene Petersen, 81, UC Berkeley chemist, cancer. [35]
• Grimes Poznikov, 59, San Francisco street performer, alcohol poisoning. [36]
• George Swindin, 90, English football goalkeeper and former manager of Arsenal and Cardiff City.

26

• Marlin Gray, 38, American convicted murderer, executed in Missouri.
• Michael Kilian, 66, American author, writer of the Dick Tracy comic, liver failure. [37]
• Emil Kyulev, 48, one of the richest men in Bulgaria, murdered in Sofia.[38]
• Angus McIntosh, 91, linguist and medievalist, during World War II he cooperated on decrypting Enigma codes, died in Edinburgh. [39]
• William L. McLaughlin, 77, American radiation scientist, pancreatic cancer. [40]
• Keith Parkinson, 47, fantasy and Science-fiction artist and illustrator
• Rong Yiren, 89, former Vice President of the People's Republic of China. [41]

25

• George T. Alexander, Jr., 34, 2,000th U.S. military death in Iraq. [42] [43]
• Ricardo Brinzoni, 60, Lieutenant General of the Argentine Army and former Army chief-of-staff, pancreatic cancer. [44] [45]
• Craig D. Calam, 56, American musician, actor, comedian, cast member (as "Mugsy") of T.V's Uncle Floyd Show and creator of The 11th Hour, cancer. [46]
• Frans van Dusschoten, 72, Dutch comedian and voice artist, cancer. [47]
• Oswald Hanfling, 77, German philosopher. [48]
• Enid A. Haupt, 99, American philanthropist. [49]
• Barbara Keogh, 76, British actress.
• Wellington Mara, 89, New York Giants co-owner, lymphoma.
• Nirmal Verma, 76, Indian author and literary critic, heart attack. [50]
• Willie Williams, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.

24

• Ruth Clement Bond, 101, American quilter and civic leader. [51]
• Ted Dushinski, 61, former defensive back for the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders, lung cancer.
• Mokarrameh Ghanbari, 77, Iranian painter.
• Phil Hays, 74, American illustrator. [52]
• Richard H. Holton, 79, American economist, former official in the Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Administrations, cancer and Parkinson's disease. [53]
• José Azcona del Hoyo, 78, President of Honduras (1986–1990).
• Denis Lindbohm, 78, Swedish science fiction author.
• Rosa Parks, 92, African-American civil rights pioneer; "founding symbol of the American Civil Rights Movement". [54] [55] [56] [57]
• Edward R. Roybal, 89, Mexican-American former Democratic United States Representative from California, pneumonia
• Frank Wilson, 81, Australian actor, singer, TV celebrity.

23

• Marshall Armstrong, 91, Accounting Hall of Fame member. [58]
• Harry Dalton, 77, former Major League Baseball general manager with the Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers, and California Angels, Parkinson's disease. [59]
• Fred S. Fox, 90, American television script writer, especially comedies, pneumonia. [60]
• Simon Hobart, 41, British club promoter. [61]
• William Hootkins, 58, American actor.
• Reginald R. Meyers, 85, Marine Medal of Honor recipient during Korean War, complications from a stroke. [62]
• John S. Monagan, 93, former Democratic United States Representative from Connecticut, heart failure. [63]
• John Muth, 75, American economist.
• Stella Obasanjo, 59, wife of Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, complications from surgery. [64]
• Yon Hyong-muk, 73, former Prime Minister of North Korea, pancreatic cancer. [65]

22

• Tony Adams, 53, Irish-born film and stage producer (The Pink Panther) (Victor Victoria). [66]
• Arman (né Armand Pierre Fernandez), 76, French-born sculptor, cancer. [67]
• Ted Bonda, 88, former owner of the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team, Alzheimer's disease. [68]
• Francisco Alejandro Gutierrez, 43, musician and lead singer of Captain Jack under his stage name "Frankie Gee", cerebral haemorrhage.
• Václav Král, 69, Czech car designer. (Czech Wikipedia).
• Liam Lawlor, 61, Irish Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD), whose involvement in land rezoning and political corruption was the subject of the Flood Tribunal, car accident in Moscow. [69]
• Reggie Lisowski, 79, former American professional wrestler known as "The Crusher", brain tumor.

21

• Karin Adelmund, 56, Dutch politician. [70] (Dutch}
• Robert E. Badham, 76, former Republican United States Representative from California, heart attack. [71]
• Marshall Clagett, 89, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, historian of science. [72]
• Tara Correa-McMullen, 16, actress who appeared on Judging Amy, shooting. [73]
• Dick Galiette, 72, early ESPN anchor and longtime football broadcaster. [74]
• Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein's trial, murdered by unknown assailants in Baghdad. [75]
• Sir Nigel Mobbs, 68, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. [76]
• Rabbi Herman N. Neuberger, 87, leader and president of Ner Israel Rabbinical College for over 50 years [77].
• Lou Rossini, 84, former basketball coach of New York University, Alzheimer's disease. [78]
• Leopold Steiner, 62, controversial Austrian businessman, convicted of fraud. [79]
• Bob White, 77, American cartoonist (Archie Comics) [80]

20

• Jean-Michel Folon, 71, Belgian artist.
• Michael Gill, 81, British television producer, Alzheimer's disease. [81]
• Shirley Horn, 71, African American jazz singer, complications of diabetes.
• André van der Louw, 72, Dutch politician, cancer. [82]
• Endon Mahmood, 64, Malaysian Prime Minister's wife, breast cancer. [83]
• Luis Ramirez, 42, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
• Eva Švankmajerová, 65, Czech surrealistic painter. Nekrolog (in Czech)

19

• Robert H. Johnston, 77, American archeologist, expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. [84]
• Corinne Levesque, 61, wife of former Quebec Premier René Lévesque, throat cancer
• Ormond McGill, 92, American Dean of American Hypnotists, stage hypnotist, hypnotherapist, and teacher. [85]
• Luis Adolfo Siles, 80, former President of Bolivia, heart attack. [86]
• Edward R. Telling, 86, American businessman, cancer. [87]
• Dallas Cook, 23, trombone player for Suburban Legends, hit-and-run motorcycle accident.

18

• William Evan Allan, 106, last Australian World War I veteran (active service), sailor. [88]
• Sidney Geist, 91, American sculptor, teacher, and art critic, stroke. [89]
• Johnny Haynes, 71, English footballer, car accident. [90]
• Bill King, 78, American sports broadcaster.
• Hal Lebovitz, 89, Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter, cancer.
• John Mink, 81, businessman, husband of late United States Representative Patsy Mink. [91]
• Letchemanah Ramasamy, 55, Malaysian strongman and world record holder. [92]
• Louise H. Stanford, 62, American civil rights activist and author. [93]
• Phil Starr, 72, British gay cabaret singer and comedian.
• Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, 81, Russian politician and architect of perestroika.

17

• David Citino, 58, American poet, professor and Poet Laureate of Ohio State University, multiple sclerosis
• Marvin Chodorow, 92 Stanford University physics professor, helped develop the klystron tube.
• Tom Gill, 92, American comic book artist (The Lone Ranger). [94]
• Carlos Gomes, 73, Portuguese goalkeeper with Sporting Lisbon and Portugal in the 1950s and 1960s. [95]
• Ba Jin, 100, Chinese writer, cancer and Parkinson's disease.
• Kannan, 70, Indian actor.
• Donald Kofi Tucker, 67, civil rights activist and New Jersey General Assemblyman, complications of diabetes. [96]
• Charles Yates, 92, professional golfer, played in first Masters, Parkinson's disease. [97]

16

• Leo Bogart, 84, American sociologist, babesiosis. [98]
• William S. Busik, U.S. Navy captain, former star college football player. [99]
• Elmer Dresslar, Jr., 80, voice of the Jolly Green Giant, cancer. [100] [101]
• Ursula Howells, 83, British character actress (The Forsyte Saga).
• Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., 90, American history professor, expert on Native American history. [102]
• Penn Kemble, 64, American political activist. [103]
• John Larch, 91, American character actor.
• Eugene "Porky" Lee, 71, American child actor, lung cancer.
• Barrington Moore, Jr., 92, American sociologist. [104]
• David Reilly, 34, lead singer/songwriter/musician of American rock band God Lives Underwater.
• Debbie Runions, 55, prominent American AIDS activist, complications of AIDS. [105]
• Thomas Swayze, Jr., 74, former Republican Speaker of the House of Washington State. [106]

15

• Giuseppe Caprio, 90, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Jason Collier, 28, Atlanta Hawks basketball player, heart abnormality. [107], [108]
• Voit Gilmore, 87, former North Carolina state Senator and Kennedy Administration official, complications of Parkinson's disease. [109]
• Efraim Reuytenberg, 91, Israeli painter, known for use of Chinese motifs. [110]
• Kathryn O. Scott, 94, American textile conservator, among the pioneers of that practice. [111]
• Mildred Shay, 94, American actress.
• Arthur W. Wang, 87, American publisher, Alzheimer's disease. [112]
• Al Widmar, 80, former Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach, colon cancer. [113]
• David J. Wimer, 65, American business and political consultant, cancer. [114]
• Matti Wuori, 60, Finnish advocate and politician, cancer.

14

• Edmund Bacon, 95, American urban planner and the father of actor Kevin Bacon. [115]
• Ian Breakwell, 62, British artist in multiple mediums.
• Ralph M. Graham, 95, American former star college football player and coach. [116]
• Martha Nell Hardy, 79, American actor and professor, cancer. [117]
• Oleg Lundstrem, 89, Russian jazz musician.
• Joke Waller-Hunter, 58, Dutch senior United Nations official. [118]

13

• Emile Capouya, 80, American publisher, author, and literary critic. [119]
• Andy Chalmers, 84, British submarine officer who helped prevent advanced German weapons technology from reaching Japan in World War II.[120]
• István Eörsi, 74, Hungarian left-wing intellectual, leukemia. [121]
• Thomas Frutig, 59, Swiss businessman. [122]
• Vivian Malone Jones, 63, civil rights pioneer, stroke. [123]
• Marie Lord (aka Marie Ryan), 100, American actress; wife of late actor Jack Lord. [124]
• Pierre van Ostade, 88, Dutch radio and television personality. [125].
• Armelio Ferras Pellicer, 92, Cuban revolutionary. [126]
• Philip Robbins, 74, American journalist, professor, and constitutional law expert. [127]
• Jerome Roth, 87, American oboist, Alzheimer's disease. [128]
• Robert M. Scott, 76, former president of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, liver failure. [129]
• Wayne Weiler, 70, racecar driver.

12

• Zhang Bairen, 90, Chinese underground Roman Catholic bishop, heart disease. [130]
• Mary Chaney, 77, noted American courtroom sketch artist. [131]
• Ghazi Kanaan, 63, Syrian Interior Minister, officially suicide (though suspicious). [132]
• Baker Knight, 72, American songwriter ("Lonesome Town"). [133]
• David E. McGiffert, 79, American lawyer and Defense Department official, heart failure. [134]
• Joseph Pons, Sr., 83, American thoroughbred horse breeder, heart attack. [135]
• C. Delores Tucker, 78, civil rights activist and former Pennsylvania Secretary of State. [136]
• Jack White, 63, American reporter. [137]

11

• Tony Bass, 71, Dutch singer-songwriter. [138]
• Sergio Citti, 72, Italian screenwriter and film director, frequent collaborator with Pier Paolo Pasolini; heart attack. [139]
• Sonji Clay-Glover, 59, singer, famous as the first wife of Muhammad Ali, apparent heart attack. [140]
• Carla Emery DeLong, 66, American proponent of organic farming and the homesteading movement; author of The Encyclopedia of Country Living. hypotension.
• Alex Harvin, 55, Democratic former South Carolina House Majority Leader. [141]
• Jan Holden, 74, British actress, (The Cheaters).
• Attila İlhan, 80, Turkish poet and writer.
• Arthur Seldon, 89, British libertarian economist. [142]
• Edward Szczepanik, 90, former and last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile.
• Cor Veldhoen, 66, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord and national team). [143], [144]
• Aloysius John Wycislo, 97, Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin. [145]

10

• Angelo Argea, 75, longtime caddy for legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus, liver cancer. [146]
• Aivaras Balzekas, 23, Lithuanian tennis player, car accident.
• Wayne C. Booth, 84, American professor, literary critic, and rhetorician, complications of dementia. [147]
• Nick Hawkins, 40, electric guitarist with Big Audio Dynamite, heart attack. [148]
• Betty Lee Hunt, 85, Broadway producer and agent, non-Hodgkins lymphoma. [149]
• Henk Jurriaans, 64, Dutch artist. [150]
• Larry "Flame" Moore, 56, surfing photographer, brain cancer. [151]
• Margaret Russo, 56, Australian tennis player, brain cancer. [152]
• Milton Obote, 80, former Ugandan president.

9

• Clóvis Bornay, 89, Brazilian carnival designer and museum curator, cardiac arrest. [153]
• Tom Cheek, 66, longtime Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer, brain cancer. [154]
• Mackie McLeod, 57, American anti-Apartheid activist, kidney failure. [155]
• Louis Nye, 92, American comedian, lung cancer. [156]
• Steven Peck, 76, American dancer, choreographer and actor, cancer. [157]
• Ted Peschak, 87, American educational film director, colon cancer. [158]
• Frederic Quitkin, 68, American psychiatrist, expert on depression, pancreatic cancer. [159]
• George Ringwald, 81, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, cancer. [160]
• LeRoy Whitfield, 36, African-American writer and AIDS activist, complications of AIDS. [161]
• Shams Ul Huda Shams, 66, President of Afghan Mellat Party and nationalist leader. [162]

8

• Henry Hwang, 77, founded the first federally-chartered Chinese-American bank, colon cancer. [163]
• Edward B. Marks, 94, American activist for refugee relief, heart disease and renal failure. [164]
• Jim Wessel, 90, American broadcasting executive. [165]

7

• Tobin Armstrong, 82, U.S. cattle rancher and political lobbyist. [166]
• Devery Freeman, 92, screenwriter, among the founders of the Script Writers Guild. [167]
• William H. McKeon, 85, former Democratic Party leader in New York. [168]
• Tracey Miller, 51, radio host, pioneer of women's sports broadcasting, brain cancer. [169]
• Stefan Presser, 52, American lawyer, former ACLU official, brain cancer. [170]
• Richard Stone Reeves, 85, renowned equestrian portraitist. [171]
• Charles Rocket, 56, actor, best known for getting fired from Saturday Night Live for uttering an obscenity near the end of the show, suicide. [172]
• Foster Smith, 83, retired U.S. Air Force major general, heart disease. [173]
• Michael Ward, 80, British mountaineer and surgeon, member of 1953 Mt. Everest expedition. [174]

6

• Ray Bumatai, 52, Hawaiian comedian, brain cancer. [175]
• Ettore Cunial, 99, world's oldest Roman Catholic bishop.
• Horst Floth, 71, German bobsledder, world champion and Olympic silver medallist.
• Louise Gore, 80, prominent Maryland politician, cancer. [176]
• Ronald Ray Howard, 32, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
• Sanford M. Katz, 75, American civil rights lawyer, defended the Panther 21, heart failure. [177]
• Bert T. Kobayashi, Sr., 89, former Hawaii Supreme Court Justice. [178]
• David Zenoff, 89, former Nevada Supreme Court Justice, perhaps most known for performing the marriage of Elvis Presley. [179]

5

• Don Alvaro Domecq y Diez, 88, Spanish aristocrat. [180]
• Maura Murphy, 77, Irish author. [181]
• John van Hengel, 83, founder of America's Second Harvest, food bank pioneer. [182]

4

• John Falloon, 63, former New Zealand Cabinet minister.
• Mike Gibbins, 56, Welsh drummer, member of rock band Badfinger.
• Jim Gray, 47, Northern Irish loyalist, murdered.
• Stanley K. Hathaway, 81, former Republican Governor of Wyoming, (1967–1975), Secretary of the Interior (1975).
• Vakhtang Jordania, 62, Georgian (formerly Soviet) conductor, cancer. [183]
• Harold Leventhal, 86, American folk music promoter. [184]
• Andrew Raven, 46, British conservationist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [185]
• William J. Ruane, 79, American philanthropist and financier, lung cancer. [186]
• John E. Struggles, 91, American businessman, pioneer of executive "head-hunting." [187]

3

• Ronnie Barker, 76, British comedian and actor. [188]
• Emilinha Borba, 82, Brazilian singer and actress. [189]
• Alastair G. W. Cameron, 80, American astrophysicist of Canadian birth. He was responsible for Giant Impact Theory of Lunar Creation and pioneer work on Stellar nucleosynthesis, heart failure. [190]
• David Cohen, 90, American politician, heart failure. [191]
• Sarah Levy-Tanai, 95, Israeli choreographer. [192]
• Francesco (Franco) Scoglio, 64, Italian soccer trainer.

2

• Hamilton Camp, 71, American actor, singer, and songwriter.
• Mother Benedict Duss, 94, founder of the Abbey of Regina Laudis, Bethlehem, Connecticut, the first independent cloistered female Benedictine abbey in the U.S.. [193] [194]
• Patrick Kelly (baseball player), 61, American former Major League Baseball All-Star, heart attack. [195]
• Pauline Parsons, 93, former Matron-in-Chief, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
• Nipsey Russell, 80, American comedian, poet and actor, cancer. [196]
• Ernest G. Szechenyi, 91, Hungarian Count, thoroughbred horse breeder, stroke. [197]
• August Wilson, 60, American playwright (Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson), liver cancer. [198]

1

• Janet Adair, 104, American actress
• David Case, 73, British actor, well-known for reading over 700 audio books, throat cancer. [199]
• Morrell Draper, 84, Australian medical researcher. [200]
• Sam Goldaper, 83, American sports writer and journalist, complications of a stroke. [201]
• Robert Hanson, 85, last-surviving crew-member of the Memphis Belle. [202]
• Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, 96, British insurance executive and patron of the arts. [203]
• Paul Pena, 55, blues guitarist and songwriter, complications of diabetes and pancreatitis. [204]
• Harlo Jones, 81, Canadian World War II bomber pilot, stroke. [205]

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