Deaths in October 2004

1

Richard Avedon, 81, American portrait and fashion photographer, cerebral hemorrhage. [1]

Joyce Jillson, 58, American astrologer, newspaper columnist, author and actress, kidney failure. [2]

Bruce Palmer, 58, Canadian bassist (Buffalo Springfield), heart attack. [3]

2

Max Geldray, 88, Dutch jazz harmonica player often credited as the world's first, and Goon Show performer. [4]

Fialho Gouveia, 69, Portuguese radio and TV presenter, respiratory failure. [5]

Nick Skorich, 83, American NFL offensive lineman and coach (Philadelphia Eagles), after heart valve surgery. [6]

3

John Cerutti, 44, American Major League Baseball baseball player, announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays, natural causes. [7]

Ralph Citro, 78, American boxing historian, archivist and cutman, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. [8]

Tish Daija, 78, Albanian composer. [9] (Albanian)

Janet Leigh, 77, American actress (Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate), vasculitis. [10]

Frits van Turenhout, 91, Dutch sports journalist. [11] (Dutch)

4

Helmut Bantz, 83, German gymnast and Olympian (gold medal in pommel horse gymnastics, 1956), after long illness. [12]

Gordon Cooper, 77, American NASA astronaut and aeronautical engineer, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, heart failure. [13]

William H. Dobelle, 62, American biomedical researcher, eye doctor and inventor (artificial vision research), complications of diabetes. [14]

Michael Grant, 89, British ancient historian. [15]

5

Rodney Dangerfield, 82, American comedian and actor (Easy Money, Caddyshack), complications from heart surgery. [16]

Sir John Richards, 77, British Royal Marines general. [17]

Maurice Wilkins, 87, New Zealand-born British physicist and molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1962) for work on DNA. [18]

6

William Clark, Baron Clark of Kempston, 86, British politician and peer. [19]

Frederica de Laguna, 98, American anthropologist and archaeologist, studied Alaskan native cultures. [20]

Johnny Kelley, 97, American long-distance runner and Olympian (1936, 1948). [21]

Pete McCarthy, 51, British travel writer and broadcaster, cancer. [22]

Marvin Santiago, 56, Puerto Rican salsa singer, complications of diabetes. [23]

Veríssimo Correia Seabra, 57, Bissau-Guinean military commander, beaten to death in mutiny. [24]

Harbhajan Singh Yogi, 75, Indian spiritual leader and head of the Sikh Dharma in the western hemisphere, heart failure. [25]

7

Kenneth Bigley, 62, British civil engineer taken hostage in Iraq, beheaded by hostage takers. [26]

T. J. Binyon, 68, British author, Oxford professor, Pushkin scholar and crime novelist. [27]

Tony Lanfranchi, 69, British racing driver, cancer. [28]

Dame Rosemary Murray, 91, British chemist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1975–1977). [29]

Hildy Parks, 78, American actress, writer and TV producer, complications of stroke. [30]

Sir John Richards, 77, British army general.

8

Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher (deconstruction), pancreatic cancer. [31]

Kenneth G. Mills, 81, Canadian philosopher and musician. [32]

Johnny Sturm, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and minor league manager, congestive heart failure. [33]

9

Maxime Faget, 83, American aerospace engineer (NASA, Space Shuttle program), designer of the Mercury space capsule, bladder cancer. [34]

10

Ken Caminiti, 41, American baseball player, drug overdose. [35]

Christopher Reeve, 52, American actor (Superman and sequels), stem cell research campaigner, heart failure caused by septicemia. [36]

Arthur H. Robinson, 89, American cartographer and geographer, after short illness. [37]

Maurice Shadbolt, 72, New Zealand novelist, playwright and journalist, Alzheimer's disease. [38]

Denis Wakeling, 85, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Southwell (1970–1985).[39]

11

Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 82, British peer, politician and landowner. [40]

Ben Komproe, 62, Netherlands Antilles politician, Prime Minister (2003) and Minister of Justice (2003–2004), kidney failure and complications from gastric surgery. [41]

Mary Loos, 94, American actress, screenwriter, and novelist, complications from stroke. [42]

Keith Miller, 84, Australian Test cricketer, Australian rules footballer, fighter pilot and journalist. [43]

Csaba Pálinkás, 45, Hungarian Olympic cyclist. [44]

Gulshan Rai, 80, Indian film producer and distributor, after long illness. [45]

Lillian Zuckerman, 88, American character actress. [46]

12

Samson Kutsuwada, 57, Japanese wrestler. [47]

13

Mohammad Va'ez Abaee-Khorasani, 64, Iranian cleric and reformist politician, physical illness.

Erik Bye, 78, Norwegian journalist (AP, BBC, NRK), radio/TV host, actor, singer/songwriter, cancer. [48]

Adremy Dennis, 28, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.

David Grose, 59, American archaeologist and classicist. [49]

Nirupa Roy, 73, Indian film actress, heart attack. [50]

Bernice Rubens, 76, British Booker Prize-winning novelist (The Elected Member), complications from stroke. [51]

Tetsu Yano, 80, Japanese science fiction writer and translator, founder of the Science Fiction Writers of Japan. [52]

Ivor Wood, 72, British animator (Paddington Bear, The Wombles), cancer. [53]

14

Vlassis Bonatsos, 54, Greek entertainer. [54]

Willie Browne, 68, Irish soccer player. [55]

Juan Francisco Fresno, 90, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile (1983-1990). [56]

Cordell Jackson, 81, American rockabilly musician. [57]

Sheila Keith, 84, British actress. [58]

Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, 67, British peer, historian and member of the House of Lords, complications of emphysema. [59]

Ivan Shamiakin, 83, Soviet Belarusian writer. [60]

15

Bill Eyden, 74, British jazz drummer. [61]

Dave Godin, 68, British soul music promoter and journalist, coined the term "northern soul". [62]

Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist. [63]

16

Doug Bennett, 52, Canadian rock singer (Doug and the Slugs), after long illness. [64]

Vincent Brome, 94, British biographer and novelist. [65]

Uzi Hitman, 52, Israeli singer, songwriter and composer, heart attack. [66]

Pierre Salinger, 79, American journalist, Senator (California, 1964) and Press Secretary to John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, heart failure. [67]

17

Ray Boone, 81, American Major League Baseball player, patriarch of first third-generation MLB family, after long illness. [68]

Julius Harris, 81, American actor (Live and Let Die, Super Fly, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three), heart failure. [69]

Betty Hill, 85, American alien abduction claimant, lung cancer. [70]

Bas Pease, 81, British physicist. [71]

18

Maurice Stewart, 75, Irish Anglican priest, Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (1991–1999). [72]

Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 52, Indian bandit known as "Jungle Cat", shot by Special Task Force. [73]

19

Antoine Abel, 69, Seychellois writer. [74]

Anita Bitri, 36, Albanian pop singer, carbon monoxide poisoning. [75]

Frank Chapple, 83, British trade unionist (General Secretary of EETPU, 1966–1984). [76]

Kenneth E. Iverson, 84, Canadian computer scientist, inventor of the APL programming language, stroke. [77]

Paul Nitze, 97, American diplomat and Cold War arms negotiator. [78]

Sang Lee, 51, Korean-American three-cushion billiard player, stomach cancer. [79]

Lewis Urry, 77, Canadian chemical engineer and inventor (alkaline battery, lithium battery). [80]

20

William Brown, 66, American operatic tenor.

Veronika Cherkasova, 45, Belarusian journalist, stabbed. [81]

Anthony Hecht, 81, American poet, lymphoma. [82]

Chuck Hiller, 70, American Major League Baseball baseball player and coach, first National League player to hit a World Series grand slam, leukemia. [83]

Tevfik Gelenbe, 73, Turkish actor and comedian, complications of cancer. [84] (Turkish)

Lynda Lee-Potter, 69, British newspaper columnist (Daily Mail), brain tumour. [85]

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. [86]

Everett Rogers, 73, American communication scholar and sociologist, founder of diffusion of innovations theory. [87]

Victoria Snelgrove, 21, American college junior, shot with pepper spray projectile by Boston Police. [88]

22

Bertie Brownlow, 84, Australian cricketer.

Brian Cartledge, 63, Australian cricketer.

Samuel L. Gravely, Jr., 82, American naval pioneer (first African American fleet commander and admiral), complications from stroke. [89]

Jean-François Leuba, 70, Swiss National Council President (1995–1996), lawyer and jurist. [90] (French)

Katherine Victor, 81, American cult film actress. [91]

23

Jim McDonald, 77, American baseball player. [92]

Robert Merrill, 87, American operatic baritone, natural causes. [93]

Bill Nicholson, 85, British football manager (Tottenham Hotspur, 1958–1974), player, coach, and scout. [94]

George Silk, 87, New Zealand WWII photojournalist (Life), congestive heart failure. [95]

24

Randy Dorton, 50, American engine builder (Hendrick Motorsports), victim of the 2004 Martinsville plane crash. [96]

Bethany Goldsmith, 77, American baseball player. [97]

Ricky Hendrick, 24, American NASCAR stock car driver and partial team owner (Hendrick Motorsports), plane crash. [98]

James Aloysius Hickey, 84, American Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Washington, D.C. (1980–2000), Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio (1974–1980). [99]

Jokin Ormaetxea, 24, Spanish professional cyclist, car accident. [100]

25

Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra, 84, Indian politician (foreign minister, 1979–1980), cardiac arrest. [101]

John Peel, 65, British BBC disc jockey and guru of the British independent music scene, heart attack. [102]

26

Bobby Ávila, 79, Mexican MLB All-Star and American League batting champion (1954), complications of diabetes. [103]

Paul F. Iams, 89, American businessman, founder of the Iams pet food company, complications from broken hip. [104]

27

Al Clouston, 94, Canadian storyteller and humourist. [105]

Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold, 99, British aristocrat. [106]

Lester Lanin, 97, American jazz big band leader. [107]

Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva ("Serginho"), 30, Brazilian footballer (São Caetano), heart attack during match. [108]

28

Rosalind Hicks, 85, British literary guardian and daughter of Agatha Christie. [109]

Shosei Koda, 24, Japanese backpacker, beheaded by kidnappers in Iraq. [110]

Jimmy McLarnin, 96, British boxer, two-time welterweight world champion (1933, 1934). [111]

Gil Mellé, 72, American artist, jazz saxophonist and film and television composer, heart attack. [112]

Graham Roberts, 75, British actor (The Archers, Z-Cars). [113]

Ted Taylor, 79, Mexican-born American theoretical physicist, nuclear weapon designer and eventual nuclear disarmament advocate, coronary artery disease. [114]

William E. Wallace, 87, American chemist, complications from Parkinson's disease. [115]

Charles F. Wheeler, 88, American cinematographer (Tora! Tora! Tora!). [116]

29

HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 102, British royal, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II. [117]

Jacinto João, 60, Portuguese footballer, heart attack. [118]

Edward Oliver LeBlanc, 81, Dominican political leader, chief minister (1961–1967) and premier (1967–1974). [119]

Vaughn Meader, 68, American Grammy-winning comedian and JFK impersonator, emphysema. [120]

Gerard Ross Norton, 89, South African soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (1944), [121]

Peter Twinn, 88, British mathematician, World War II codebreaker, and entomologist. [122]

30

Dame Phyllis Frost, 87, Australian welfare worker and philanthropist. [123]

Rein Otsason, 73, Estonian economist and banker, heart failure. [124]

Peggy Ryan, 80, American actress (All Ashore, Hawaii Five-O), singer and dancer. [125]

31

Don Briscoe, 64, American stage and television actor (Dark Shadows), heart disease. [126]

Sir Roland Gibbs, 83, British Field Marshal.

Sir David Gore-Booth, 61, British diplomat. [127]