Deaths in October 2004 explained
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, cerebral hemorrhage.[1]
- Frank Kendall Everest Jr., 84, American Air Force officer.[2]
- Ron Hayes, 75, American television actor, suicide by jumping.
- Joyce Jillson, 58, American astrologer, newspaper columnist, author and actress, kidney failure.[3]
- Bruce Palmer, 58, Canadian bassist (Buffalo Springfield), heart attack.[4]
- Aleksandr Rogov, 48, Soviet Olympic canoer (gold medal winner in men's C-1 500 metres individual canoeing at the 1976 Summer Olympics).[5]
2
- Shaul Amor, 63, Israeli politician.
- Bjørnar Andresen, 59, Norwegian jazz musician.
- Max Geldray, 88, Dutch jazz harmonica player often credited as the world's first, and Goon Show performer.[6]
- Fialho Gouveia, 69, Portuguese radio and TV presenter, respiratory failure.[7]
- Norm Schachter, 90, American gridiron football official and referee.[8]
- Nick Skorich, 83, American NFL gridiron football player and coach (Philadelphia Eagles), complications from heart surgery.[9]
3
- Vernon Alley, 89, American jazz bassist.[10]
- Jacques Benveniste, 69, French immunologist and physician.[11]
- John Cerutti, 44, American Major League Baseball baseball player, announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays.[12]
- Donald Wills Douglas, Jr., 87, American industrialist and sportsman.
- Matthäus Hetzenauer, 79, Austrian Wehrmacht sniper during World War II.
- Janet Leigh, 77, American actress (Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, Touch of Evil), vasculitis, vasculitis, heart attack.[13]
- Frits van Turenhout, 91, Dutch sports journalist.[14]
4
- Helmut Bantz, 83, German Olympic gymnast (gold medal in the vault at the 1956 Summer Olympics).[15]
- Syd Bycroft, 92, English football player.[16]
- Rodolfo Celletti, 87, Italian musicologist, critic, voice teacher, and novelist.[17]
- Gordon Cooper, 77, American astronaut and aeronautical engineer, one of the original Mercury Seven, heart failure.[18]
- Rio Diaz, 45, Filipino beauty queen, television presenter, actress and politician, colorectal cancer.
- Michael Grant, 89, British ancient historian.[19]
- Emīlija Gudriniece, 84, Soviet/Latvian chemist.
- Nilamani Routray, 84, Indian politician and Chief Minister.
5
- Mario Ramón Beteta, 79, Mexican economist.
- Rodney Dangerfield, 82, American comedian and actor (Easy Money, Caddyshack, Back to School), Grammy winner (1981), complications from heart surgery.[20]
- William H. Dobelle, 62, American biomedical researcher, eye doctor and artificial vision pioneer, complications of diabetes.[21]
- John Richards, 77, British Royal Marines general.[22]
- Wayne Rutledge, 62, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings, Houston Aeros), stomach cancer.[23]
- Maurice Wilkins, 87, New Zealand-British physicist and molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1962).[24]
6
- Frederica de Laguna, 98, American anthropologist and archaeologist.[25]
- Johnny Kelley, 97, American long-distance runner and Olympian (1936, 1948).[26]
- William Clark, Baron Clark of Kempston, 86, British politician and peer.[27]
- Pete McCarthy, 51, British travel writer and broadcaster, cancer.[28]
- Marvin Santiago, 56, Puerto Rican salsa singer, complications of diabetes.[29]
- Norm Schlueter, 88, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians).[30]
- Veríssimo Correia Seabra, 57, Bissau-Guinean military commander, beaten to death in mutiny.[31]
- Clem Tholet, 56, Rhodesian singer and songwriter.
- Harbhajan Singh Yogi, 75, Indian spiritual leader and head of the Sikh Dharma in the western hemisphere, heart failure.[32]
7
- Michael C. Astour, 87, Soviet-American professor of Yiddish and Russian literature.
- Kenneth Bigley, 62, British civil engineer taken hostage in Iraq, beheaded by hostage takers, decapitation.[33]
- T. J. Binyon, 68, British author, Oxford professor, Pushkin scholar and crime novelist, heart attack.[34]
- Wolfgang Grzyb, 64, German football player.[35]
- Oscar Heisserer, 90, French football player.
- Tony Lanfranchi, 69, British racing driver, cancer.[36]
- Miki Matsubara, 44, Japanese singer, cervical cancer.[37]
- Rosemary Murray, 91, British chemist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1975 - 1977).[38]
- Jacques Noël, 84, French fencer.[39]
- Hildy Parks, 78, American actress, writer and TV producer, complications of stroke.[40]
- Július Toček, 65, Czechoslovak rower and Olympic medalist.[41]
- Nikola Dimitrov Tzanev, 64, Bulgarian football player.
8
- James Chace, 72, American historian, heart attack.[42]
- Irina Demick, 67, French actress.[43]
- Tony Giuliani, 91, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Brooklyn Dodgers).[44]
- Kenneth G. Mills, 81, Canadian philosopher and musician.[45]
- Johnny Sturm, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and minor league manager, congestive heart failure.[46]
9
- Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher (deconstruction), pancreatic cancer.[47]
- Maxime Faget, 83, American aerospace engineer (NASA, Space Shuttle program), designer of the Mercury space capsule, bladder cancer.[48]
- Herschel Grossman, 65, American economist.[49]
- Don McEvoy, 75, English football player and manager.[50]
- Bryan R. Wilson, 78, British author of religious books.[51]
10
- Ken Caminiti, 41, American baseball player, drug overdose.[52]
- David G. Chandler, 70, British historian.
- Kelsey Jones, 82, Canadian composer, pianist, harpsichordist, and music teacher, kidney failure.[53]
- Christopher Reeve, 52, American actor (Superman, The Remains of the Day, Deathtrap), heart failure.[54]
- Arthur H. Robinson, 89, American cartographer and geographer.[55]
- Maurice Shadbolt, 72, New Zealand novelist, playwright and journalist, Alzheimer's disease.[56]
- John William Tebbel, 91, American journalist, editor, writer, teacher, and media historian.[57]
11
- Paul Bryan, 91, British politician.
- Bobby Cook, 81, American basketball player.[58]
- Lord Nicholas Gordon-Lennox, 73, British diplomat, Ambassador to Spain (1984 - 1989).[59]
- Elisabeth Klein, 93, Hungarian-Danish pianist.
- Ben Komproe, 62, Netherlands Antilles politician, Prime Minister (2003) and Minister of Justice (2003–2004), complications from gastric surgery.[60]
- Mary Loos, 94, American actress, screenwriter, and novelist, complications from stroke.[61]
- Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 82, British peer, politician and landowner.[62]
- Keith Miller, 84, Australian cricketer, Australian rules footballer, fighter pilot and journalist.[63]
- Gulshan Rai, 80, Indian film producer and distributor.[64]
- Fernando Sabino, 80, Brazilian writer and journalist, cancer.[65]
12
13
- Mike Blyzka, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles).[70]
- Erik Bye, 78, Norwegian journalist, radio/TV host, actor, and singer/songwriter, cancer.[71]
- Enrique M. Fernando, 89, Filipino judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
- David Grose, 59, American archaeologist and classicist.[72]
- Grethe Holmer, 80, Danish actress.
- Nirupa Roy, 73, Indian film actress, heart attack.[73]
- Bernice Rubens, 76, British Booker Prize-winning novelist (The Elected Member), complications from stroke.[74]
- Ivor Wood, 72, British animator (Paddington Bear, The Wombles Postman Pat), cancer.[75]
- Tetsu Yano, 80, Japanese science fiction writer and translato, colorectal cancer.[76]
14
- Peter Adelaar, 57, Dutch Olympic judoka.[77]
- Juan Francisco Fresno, 90, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile (1983–1990).[78]
- Mohamed Zahir Ismail, 80, Malaysian lawyer and politician, kidney failure.
- Cordell Jackson, 81, American rockabilly musician.[79]
- Sheila Keith, 84, British actress.[80]
- Lokesh, 57, Indian actor.
- Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, 67, British peer, historian and member of the House of Lords, complications of emphysema.[81]
- Ivan Shamiakin, 83, Soviet Belarusian writer.[82]
- Dattopant Thengadi, 83, Indian Hindu ideologueand trade union leader.
15
- Bill Eyden, 74, British jazz drummer.[83]
- Dave Godin, 68, British soul music promoter and journalist, coined the term "northern soul".[84]
- Per Højholt, 76, Danish poet.
- Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist (Batman, The Flash, Superman).[85]
- Thiruthuraipoondi Radhakrishnan Pappa, 81, Indian music director of Tamil, Telugu and Sinhalese films.
- Tex Ritter, 80, American professional basketball player (Eastern Kentucky, New York Knicks).[86]
16
- Doug Bennett, 52, Canadian rock singer (Doug and the Slugs).[87]
- Vincent Brome, 94, British biographer and novelist.[88]
- Susana Campos, 70, Argentine actress, brain cancer.[89]
- Don Carlson, 85, American basketball player.[90]
- Harold Perkin, 77, English social historian.[91]
- Pierre Salinger, 79, American journalist and Press Secretary to John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, heart failure.[92]
- Tomasz Strzembosz, 74, Polish historian and writer.
17
- Ray Boone, 81, American Major League Baseball player, patriarch of first third-generation MLB family.[93]
- Wu Faxian, 89, Chinese revolutionary and military officer, commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force/.
- Julius Harris, 81, American actor (Live and Let Die, Super Fly, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three), heart failure.[94]
- Uzi Hitman, 52, Israeli singer, songwriter and composer, heart attack.[95]
- Bas Pease, 81, British physicist.[96]
- Franco Prosperi, 78, Italian film director and screenwriter.[97]
- Andreas Sassen, 36, German football player, stroke.[98]
18
- Nancy Carline, 94, British artist.[99]
- Edwin Arthur Hall, 95, American politician.
- Richie Lemos, 84, Mexican-American boxer.
- Elizabeth Nicholls, 58, American-Canadian paleontologist, cancer.
- Fermin Rocker, 96, British painter and book illustrator.[100]
- Veerappan, 52, Indian criminial known as "Jungle Cat", shot by Special Task Force.[101]
- Viktor Zubarev, 31, Kazakhstani football player, drug overdose.
19
- Antoine Abel, 69, Seychellois writer.[102]
- Anita Bitri, 36, Albanian pop singer, carbon monoxide poisoning.[103]
- Frank Chapple, 83, British trade unionist (General Secretary of EETPU, 1966–1984).[104]
- Kenneth E. Iverson, 84, Canadian computer scientist, inventor of the APL programming language, stroke.[105]
- Sang Lee, 51, Korean-American three-cushion billiard player, stomach cancer.[106]
- Elizabeth May McClintock, 92, American botanist.
- Veljko Milatović, 82, Montenegrin communist partisan, politician, and President (1967-1969, 1974-1982).
- Paul Nitze, 97, American diplomat and Cold War arms negotiator, pneumonia.[107]
- Calvin Ruck, 79, Canadian member of Parliament (Senate of Canada representing Nova Scotia).[108]
- Greg Shaw, 55, American rock music journalist and record label executive, heart attack.[109]
- Lewis Urry, 77, Canadian chemical engineer and inventor (alkaline battery, lithium battery).[110]
20
- William Brown, 66, American operatic tenor.[111]
- Veronika Cherkasova, 45, Belarusian journalist, stabbed.[112]
- Tevfik Gelenbe, 73, Turkish actor and comedian, complications of cancer.[113]
- Anthony Hecht, 81, American poet, lymphoma.[114]
- Chuck Hiller, 70, American Major League Baseball baseball player and coach, first National League player to hit a World Series grand slam, leukemia.[115]
- Nietzchka Keene, 52, American film director and writer, pancreatic cancer.[116]
- Lynda Lee-Potter, 69, British newspaper columnist (Daily Mail), brain tumour, brain cancer.[117]
- Ildo Lobo, 50, Cape Verdean singer.[118]
21
- Adnan al-Ghoul, Palestinian Hamas chief explosives expert, alleged "father" of the Qassam rocket, targeted killing by the IDF.[119]
- Sharifa Alkhateeb, 58, American teacher and writer, pancreatic cancer.[120]
- Jim Bucher, 93, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox).[121]
- Neil Campbell, 58, American scientist, heart attack.[122]
- Jean Dondelinger, 73, Luxembourgian diplomat and civil servant.
- Everett Rogers, 73, American communication scholar and sociologist, founder of diffusion of innovations theory.[123]
- Victoria Snelgrove, 21, American college junior, shot with pepper spray projectile by Boston Police.[124]
22
- Louis Bouyer, 91, French Catholic priest and Lutheran minister.
- Galeazzo Dondi, 89, Italian Olympic basketball player and basketball coach.[125]
- Samuel L. Gravely, Jr., 82, American naval pioneer (first African American fleet commander and admiral), complications from stroke.[126]
- Katherine Victor, 81, American cult film actress, stroke.[127]
- Pedro Vilardebo, 51, Spanish racing cyclist.[128]
23
- Edward T. Cone, 87, American composer, music theorist, pianist, and philanthropist.[129]
- Jim McDonald, 77, American baseball player.[130]
- Robert Merrill, 87, American operatic baritone, natural causes.[131]
- Bill Nicholson, 85, British football manager (Tottenham Hotspur, 1958–1974), player, coach, and scout.[132]
- George Silk, 87, New Zealand WWII photojournalist (Life), congestive heart failure.[133]
24
- Dario Di Palma, 71, Italian film cinematographer.
- Randy Dorton, 50, American engine builder (Hendrick Motorsports), plane crash.[134]
- Ricky Hendrick, 24, American NASCAR stock car driver and partial team owner, plane crash.[135]
- James Aloysius Hickey, 84, American Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Washington, D.C. (1980–2000).[136]
- Isao Imai, 90, Japanese theoretical physicist.
- Maaja Ranniku, 63, Soviet (Estonian) chess International Master, women's Soviet chess champion, ten-time Estonian women's chess champion.[137]
- Herbert Schilling, 74, German Olympic boxer (light welterweight boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[138]
25
- Thomas Kanza, 71, Congolese diplomat and ambassador, heart attack.
- Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra, 84, Indian politician (foreign minister, 1979–1980), cardiac arrest.[139]
- John Peel, 65, English radio presenter and journalist, heart attack.[140]
- Jerzy Ustupski, 93, Polish rower and Olympic medalist.[141]
26
- Bobby Ávila, 79, Mexican MLB All-Star and American League batting champion (1954), complications of diabetes.[142]
- Helen Elsie Austin, 96, American attorney, civil rights leader, and diplomat.
- Russ Derry, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals).[143]
- Robin Kenyatta, 62, American jazz alto saxophonist.[144]
- Patricia Knight, 89, American actress.
- Ricardo Odnoposoff, 90, Austrian violinist.
- Fred Paine, 78, American basketball player (Providence Steamrollers).[145]
27
- Vladimir Arkhipov, 71, Soviet army general and politician.
- Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold, 99, British aristocrat.[146]
- Claude Helffer, 82, French pianist.[147]
- Olavi Laaksonen, 83, Finnish Olympic football player.[148]
- Lester Lanin, 97, American jazz big band leader.[149]
- Lasse Nordvall, 76, Swedish Olympic cyclist (men's individual and team cycling road races at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics).[150]
- Marwell Periotti, 65, Argentine Olympic footballer (men's football at the 1960 Summer Olympics).[151]
- V. V. Raghavan, 81, Indian communist politician.
- Zdenko Runjić, 62, Croatian songwriter, stroke.
- Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, 30, Brazilian footballer (São Caetano), heart attack during match.[152]
28
- Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki, 56, Saudi traditional Sunni Islamic scholar.
- Rosalind Christie, 85, British literary guardian and the only child of Agatha Christie.[153]
- Maria Fiore, 69, Italian film and television actress, lung cancer.[154]
- Jimmy McLarnin, 96, British boxer, two-time welterweight world champion (1933, 1934).[155]
- Gil Mellé, 72, American artist, jazz saxophonist and film and television composer, heart attack.[156]
- George S. Schairer, 91, American aerodynamics expert at Boeing.[157]
- Ted Taylor, 79, Mexican-American theoretical physicist and nuclear weapon designere, coronary artery disease.[158]
- Charles F. Wheeler, 88, American cinematographer (Tora! Tora! Tora!), Alzheimer's disease.[159]
29
- Natalya Baranskaya, 95, Soviet writer of short stories and novellas.
- Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 102, British royal, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II, stroke.[160]
- Jacinto João, 60, Portuguese footballer, heart attack.[161]
- Shosei Koda, 24, Japanese backpacker, beheaded by Al-Qaeda in Iraq-terrorists.[162]
- Edward Oliver LeBlanc, 81, Dominican political leader, chief minister (1961–1967) and premier (1967–1974).[163]
- Vaughn Meader, 68, American Grammy-winning comedian and JFK impersonator, emphysema.[164]
- Gerard Ross Norton, 89, South African soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (1944),.[165]
- Ezra Stoller, 89, American architectural photographer.[166]
- Pierre Thibaud, 75, French classical trumpeter.[167]
- Peter Twinn, 88, British mathematician, codebreaker during World War II, and entomologist.[168]
30
- Brian Andre Doyle, 93, British judge, Attorney General of Fiji and Chief Justice of Zambia.[169]
- Dame Phyllis Frost, 87, Australian welfare worker and philanthropist.[170]
- David José Kohon, 75, Argentine film director and screenwriter.
- Rein Otsason, 73, Estonian economist and banker, heart failure.[171]
- Peggy Ryan, 80, American actress (All Ashore, Hawaii Five-O), singer and dancer, stroke.[172]
- David Shulman, 91, American lexicographer and cryptographer.[173]
- Ed Waters, 74, American writer for film and television.
31
- Mari Aldon, 78, Lithuanian-American actress.[174]
- Don Briscoe, 64, American stage and television actor (Dark Shadows), heart disease.[175]
- Roland Gibbs, 83, British Field Marshal.
- David Gore-Booth, 61, British diplomat.[176]
- Valentin Nikolayev, 80, Soviet Olympic wrestler (gold medal winner in men's light heavyweight wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics).[177]
- Marie Tehan, 64, Australian Liberal politician (Victorian Parliament, 1987–1999), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.[178]
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- Web site: Portuguese presenter Fialho Gouveia dies . Rodrigues . André . 3 October 2004 . ESC Today.com . 14 March 2018 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20041201135054/http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/3194 . 1 December 2004.
- Web site: McLellan . Dennis . 2004-10-05 . Norm Schachter, 90; Longtime NFL Referee Officiated at Super Bowl I . 2024-02-17 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
- Web site: American football offensive lineman and coach of the Philadelphia Eagles Nick Skorich dies . 8 October 2004 . . 14 March 2018.
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- Web site: Psycho actress Janet Leigh dies . 4 October 2004 . BBC News . 31 December 2017 . en-GB.
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20121106102649/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-100774740.html Former Rams Halfback Tommy Kalmanir Dies
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- Web site: Obituary: David F. Grose, Classics professor . 26 October 2004 . Office of News & Media Relations . . 18 December 2017 . en . March 5, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010555/https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/obituary-david-f-grose-classics-professor . dead .
- Web site: Bollywood actress Nirupa Roy dies . 14 October 2004 . BBC News . 18 December 2017 . en-GB.
- News: Bernice Rubens: Documentary film-maker who found success and satisfaction in a series of prizewinning novels . . 14 October 2004 . The Times . 14 March 2018 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070311010635/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article493988.ece . 11 March 2007.
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