The following is a list of deaths in October 2009.
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 2009
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Otar Chiladze
Otar Chiladze ( ka, ოთარ ჭილაძე; March 20, 1933 — October 1, 2009) was a Georgian writer who played a prominent role in the resurrection of Georgian prose in the post-Joseph Stalin era. His novels characteristically fuse Sum ...
, 76, Georgian writer, heart failure.
* André-Philippe Futa, 66, Congolese politician, Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade (since 2002).
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Syed Kamal
Syed Kamal or simply called Kamal ( ur, ; (27 April 1937 – 1 October 2009) was a Pakistani film and TV actor, producer and director. He had worked in 4 Bollywood films before migrating to Pakistan in 1956.
Early life and career
Syed K ...
, 72, Pakistani actor.
* Lou Moro, 91, Canadian soccer player and coach.
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V. M. Muddiah
Venkatappa Musandra Muddiah (8 June 1929 – 1 October 2009) was an Indian cricketer who played in 2 Tests from 1959 to 1960.
Born in Bangalore, Mysore, Muddiah came up through the Mysore University and Mysore State 'B' team. He studied in the ...
, 80, Indian cricketer, stroke.
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Bhandit Rittakol
Bhandit Rittakol ( th, บัณฑิต ฤทธิ์ถกล, b. 21 March 1951 in Ayutthaya Province, Thailand d. 1 October 2009 in Bangkok) was an award-winning Thai film director, producer and screenwriter. His films include the controve ...
, 58, Thai film director, producer and screenwriter, heart failure.
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Cintio Vitier
Cintio Vitier (September 25, 1921 – October 1, 2009) was a Cuban poet, essayist, and novelist. Upon selecting him for the Juan Rulfo Prize, the award jury called him "one of the most important writers of his generation".
Early life
Cintio Viti ...
, 88, Cuban poet.
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Alain Bernheim
Alain Bernheim (23 May 1931 – 26 December 2022) was a French classical pianist who performed internationally. In 1980, he turned to research of the history of Freemasonry in France, Switzerland and Germany and published books and encyclopedic ...
, 86, French-born American film producer, complications from dialysis.
* Marek Edelman, 86, Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
* Jack Evans, 80, Australian politician, Senator (1983–1984), co-founder of the Australian Democrats, cancer.
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Nat Finkelstein
Nathan Louis "Nat" Finkelstein (January 16, 1933 – October 2, 2009) was an American photographer and photojournalist. Finkelstein studied photography under Alexey Brodovitch, the art director of ''Harper's Bazaar'' and worked as a photojournali ...
, 76, American photographer and photojournalist.
* Jørgen Jensen, 65, Danish Olympic runner.
* John "Mr. Magic" Rivas, 53, American radio personality, heart attack.
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Saleh Meki
Saleh Meki (1948 – October 2, 2009) was an Eritrean politician and government minister. He was a member of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, which had offices in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States, during the period of the Erit ...
, 61, Eritrean cabinet minister and politician, heart attack.
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Peg Mullen
Margaret Ellen Mullen (née Goodyear; June 11, 1917 – October 2, 2009) was an American antiwar activist who was motivated to protest after her son was killed in Vietnam by shrapnel fired from friendly artillery in 1970. She became an active o ...
Rolf Rüssmann
Rolf Rüssmann (13 October 1950 – 2 October 2009) was a German international footballer who played as a defender for FC Schalke 04, Club Brugge and Borussia Dortmund.
Player bio
In 1969, FC Schalke 04 paid FC Schwelm 06 38,000 Deutsche Ma ...
, 58, German football manager, prostate cancer.
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Herman D. Stein Herman D. Stein, DSW (August 13, 1917 – October 2, 2009) was Dean of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and University Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. A pioneer of social work profession, he ...
, 92, American professor (
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reser ...
).
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Harvey Veniot
Harvey Alfred Veniot, (November 18, 1915 – October 2, 2009) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Pictou West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1956 to 1974 as a Progressive Conservative ...
, 93, Canadian MLA for
Pictou West
Pictou West is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
Its Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since 2013 has been Karla MacFarlane of the Progressive Conserva ...
Aleksandre Basilaia
Alexander Basilaia () (March 11, 1942 – October 3, 2009) was a Georgian composer and songwriter of popular music and film scores. He led the popular musical group Iveria since its founding in 1968 through the mainstream success in the 1970s and 1 ...
, 67, Georgian composer.
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Vladimir Beekman
Vladimir Beekman (23 August 1929 – 3 October 2009) was an Estonian writer, poet and translator.
Early life and education
After completing his primary education, he attended the Tallinn University of Technology and graduated in 1953 with a degre ...
, 80, Estonian writer and translator.
* Fernando Caldeiro, 51, Argentine-born American astronaut, brain cancer.
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Fatimah el-Sharif
Sayyida Fatimah el-Sharif ( ar, فاطمة الشريف); after marriage, Fatimah as-Senussi (), 2 April 1911 – 3 October 2009), was queen consort of Libya by marriage to King Idris from 1951 until the 1969 Libyan coup d'état.
Early life
F ...
, 98, Libyan Queen of Libya (1951–1969), widow of King Idris I.
* Myrtle K. Hilo, 80, Hawaiian taxicab driver and radio personality.
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Will Inman
William Bentley Inman (born February 6, 1987 in Danville, Virginia) is an American professional baseball pitcher.
Career
Inman is from Danville, Virginia. Prior to playing professionally, he attended Tunstall High School in Dry Fork, Virginia ...
, 86, American poet, Parkinson's disease.
* Robert Kirby, 61, British folk rock arranger.
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Ernie Lopez
Ernie "Indian Red" Lopez (September 24, 1945 – October 3, 2009) was an American professional boxer. He twice fought for the world welterweight boxing title, losing title bouts to José Nápoles in 1970 and 1973. He was a missing person from 199 ...
, 64, American boxer, complications from dementia.
* Reinhard Mohn, 88, German entrepreneur and publisher, founder of
Bertelsmann Foundation
The Bertelsmann Stiftung is an independent foundation under private law, based in Gütersloh, Germany. It was founded in 1977 by Reinhard Mohn as the result of social, corporate and fiscal considerations. As the Bertelsmann Stiftung itself h ...
Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in , the Steel ...
).
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Koichi Haraguchi
was a former Japanese diplomat and the Grand Master of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency.
Biography
Haraguchi was born in 1940 in Tokyo. He attended Hibiya High School, and attended college at the University of Tokyo. After gradua ...
, 68, Japanese chief of staff, Imperial House of Japan, heart attack.
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Veikko Huovinen
Veikko Huovinen (7 May 1927 – 4 October 2009) was a Finnish novelist and forester. As a novelist, his writing was known for its realism, pacifism, sharp intellect, and peculiar humor. He wrote 37 books, and one of his best-known humorous novels ...
, 82, Finnish writer.
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Fred Kaan
The Reverend Frederik Hermanus Kaan (27 July 1929 — 4 October 2009) was a clergyman of Dutch origin who served in the Congregational Church in Britain (subsequently part of the United Reformed Church) and a prodigious hymnwriter.
Early lif ...
, 80, Dutch-born British clergyman and hymn writer.
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Gerhard Kaufhold
Gerhard Kaufhold (2 December 1928 – 4 October 2009) was a German footballer who spent his entire career at Kickers Offenbach. He played a total of 396 games in the Oberliga Süd for the club, scoring 112 goals. He also represented West Germany ...
, 80, German footballer.
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Grace Keagy
Grace Keagy (née Stambaugh; December 16, 1921 – October 4, 2009) was an American actress, best known for her work on the stage in character roles. She is best known for her Drama Desk Award-nominated performance as "Rosa" in the origina ...
, 87, American actress, ovarian cancer.
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Ernő Kolczonay
Ernő Kolczonay (15 May 1953 – 3 October 2009) was a Hungarian épée fencer, who won two Olympic silver medals in the Épée competitions. He was a member of the Hungarian fencing team that won the world championship in Hamburg, 1978. H ...
1980
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* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
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James Lin Xili James Lin Xili (林錫黎; October 19, 1918 – October 4, 2009) was a Chinese underground Roman Catholic bishop of Wenzhou. His 1992 ordination as the First Bishop of Wenzhou was never recognized by the government of the People's Republic of C ...
, 91, Chinese underground first Bishop of Wenzhou (since 1992), Alzheimer's disease.
* Shōichi Nakagawa, 56, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (2008–2009).
* Nikiforos of Didymoteicho, 78, Greek bishop of Didymoteicho.
* Günther Rall, 91, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II, heart attack.
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Mercedes Sosa
Haydée Mercedes Sosa (; 9 July 1935 at BrainyHistory.com – 4 October 2009), sometimes known as ' ...
, 74, Argentinian folk singer, liver failure.
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Bronisław Żurakowski
Bronisław Żurakowski (26 June 1911 – 4 October 2009) was a Polish engineer, aeroplane constructor, and glider test pilot.
Before the war Żurakowski worked in the RWD bureau, where he designed aircraft RWD-17, RWD-17W, RWD-20 and made ...
Tommy Capel
Thomas Arthur Capel (27 June 1922 – 5 October 2009) was an English professional footballer who scored 120 goals from 276 appearances in the Football League playing for Manchester City, Chesterfield, Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Coventry ...
Leon Clarke
Leon Marvin Clarke (born 10 February 1985) is an English professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), striker.
Clarke began his career with Wolves but then played for eleven different clubs – i ...
, 76, American football player (
Los Angeles Rams
The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Rams compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The Rams play ...
Campbellsville Tigers
Campbellsville University (CU) is a private Christian university in Campbellsville, Kentucky. It was founded as Russell Creek Academy and enrolls more than 12,000 students. The university offers associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees.
I ...
Gino Giugni
Gino Giugni (1 August 1927 – 5 October 2009) was an Italian academic and politician. He served as the minister of labor and social security in the period 1993–1994.
Early life and education
Giugni was born in Genoa on 1 August 1927. He g ...
, 82, Italian minister of labor and social security (1993–1994).
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Giselher Klebe
Giselher Wolfgang Klebe (28 June 19255 October 2009) was a German composer, and an academic teacher. He composed more than 140 works, among them 14 operas, all based on literary works, eight symphonies, 15 solo concerts, chamber music, piano w ...
, 84, German composer.
* David Lake, 66, American winemaker.
* Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 87, British classical scholar.
* Brian Powell, 35, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.
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René Sommer
René Sommer (1951 – 5 October 2009) was a Swiss inventor and computer programmer, credited as a co-inventor of the computer mouse.
Along with Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud and André Guignard, Sommer helped invent the computer mouse at the Sw ...
Jimmy Bates
Thomas James Edward Bates (25 June 1910 – 6 October 2009) was an Australian rules footballer for the Essendon Football Club and a boundary umpire in the Victorian Football League.
Playing career
Bates played just one game in the VFL. R ...
, 99, Australian football player, oldest living Australian Football League player.
* Pamela Blake, 94, American actress, natural causes.
* Douglas Campbell, 87, Scottish-born Canadian actor, complications of diabetes and heart disease.
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Raymond Federman
Raymond Federman (May 15, 1928 – October 6, 2009) was a French–American novelist and academic, known also for poetry, essays, translations, and criticism. He held positions at the University at Buffalo from 1973 to 1999, when he was app ...
, 81, French-born American writer and academic, cancer.
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Aengus Finucane
Aengus Finucane (26 April 1932 – 6 October 2009) was a Roman Catholic missionary of the Spiritan Fathers order, who organized food shipments from Ireland to the Igbo people during the Nigerian Civil War. His younger brother Jack Finuca ...
, 77, Irish priest, chief executive of
Concern Worldwide
Concern Worldwide (often referred to as Concern) is Ireland's largest aid and humanitarian agency. Since its foundation 50 years ago it has worked in 50 countries. According to its latest annual report, Concern helped 28.6 million of the world's ...
Ruth L. Kirschstein
Ruth Lillian Kirschstein (12 October 1926 – 6 October 2009) was an American pathologist and science administrator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Kirschstein served as director of the National Institute of General Medical Scienc ...
Donna Mae Mims
Donna Mae Mims (July 1, 1927 – October 6, 2009) was an American race car driver. She was the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) national championship. Mims won the SCCA Class H championship in 1963. She was known as the "Pin ...
, 82, American race driver, first female SCCA champion, stroke.
* Ramanna Rai, 79, Indian politician.
* Gilberto Zaldívar, 75, American founder of the
Repertorio Español
Repertorio Español was founded in 1968 by Producer Gilberto Zaldívar and Artistic Director René Buch to introduce the best of Latin American, Spanish, and Hispanic American theater to broad-ranging audiences in New York City and around the cou ...
Ben's Chili Bowl
Ben's Chili Bowl is a landmark restaurant in Washington, D.C., located at 1213 U Street Corridor, U Street, next to Lincoln Theatre (Washington, D.C.), Lincoln Theatre, in the U Street Corridor (a.k.a. Cardozo/Shaw neighborhood) of Northwest, W ...
Irving Penn
Irving Penn (June 16, 1917October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at ''Vogue'' magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Is ...
, 92, American fashion photographer ('' Vogue'').
* Shelby Singleton, 77, American record producer and record label owner ( Sun Records), brain cancer.
* Helen Watts, 81, British contralto.
* Pedro E. Zadunaisky, 91, Argentinian astronomer and mathematician.
, 86, British-born Australian television personality.
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James Delgrosso
James A. Delgrosso (June 30, 1943 – October 8, 2009) was an American politician. He served as a longtime city councilman from 1982 until 2003, as well as the interim Mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for 10 months from 2003 until 2004.
Ear ...
Gerald Ferguson
Gerald Ferguson (January 29, 1937 – October 8, 2009) was a conceptual artist and painter who lived and taught in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born in Cincinnati he was both a Canadian and US citizen.
Background
After receiving his MFA from Ohio Un ...
, 72, American-born Canadian artist.
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Juan Carlos Mareco
Juan Carlos Mareco (January 20, 1926October 8, 2009) was a Uruguayan actor and radio and television talk show host. He achieved fame in Spain, Chile and Argentina from the 1960s onwards in comedy roles and as a television host in a variety of genr ...
, 83, Uruguayan actor.
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Alex McCrae
Alexander McCrae (2 January 1920 – 8 October 2009) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Hearts, Charlton Athletic, Middlesbrough and Falkirk during his career.
Playing career
McCrae began his career at Hearts in 1941. He later moved to ...
, 89, Scottish football player ( Middlesbrough) and manager (
Falkirk
Falkirk ( gd, An Eaglais Bhreac, sco, Fawkirk) is a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, northwest of Edinburgh and northeast of Glasgow.
Falkirk had a ...
Michael Angelo Saltarelli
Michael Angelo Saltarelli (January 17, 1932 – October 8, 2009) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Wilmington from 1995 to 2008. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Newar ...
, 77, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilmington (1995–2008), bone cancer.
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* Abu Talib ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib (549-619), Arab leader and head of the Banu Hashim clan
* Abu Talib al-Makki (died 996), Arab scholar, jurist and mystic
* Abu Taleb Rostam (997–1029), Buyid amir of Ray, Ir ...
, 70, American blues musician, cancer.
* Sir Sydney Walling, 102, Antiguan cricketer.
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Arne Bakker
Arne Bakker (18 February 1930 – 9 October 2009) was a Norwegian footballer and bandy player.
Football career
He was born in Bærum. He started his career in Fossum IF, joined Stabæk Fotball, Stabæk IF in 1946 and Asker Fotball, Asker SK in 1 ...
, 79, Norwegian football and bandy player.
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Francis Baldacchino
Francis Baldacchino (June 6, 1937 – October 9, 2009) was a Capuchin and the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Malindi], Kenya.
Biography
Born in Marsa, Malta, Baldacchino was ordained to the priesthood for the Friars Minor Cap ...
Raymond A. Brown
Raymond A. Brown (1915 – October 9, 2009) was an American criminal defense lawyer who represented a wide variety of high-profile clients, ranging from politicians to accused spies, including New Jersey state senator Angelo Errichetti (convict ...
, 94, American lawyer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Aldo Buzzi
Aldo Buzzi (10 August 1910 – 9 October 2009) was an author and architect.
Born in Como, Italy, Buzzi graduated from the Milan School of Architecture in 1938. Though primarily an author of travel and gastronomy books, he also worked as an arch ...
, 99, Italian author and architect.
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Arturo "Zambo" Cavero
Arturo Cavero Velásquez (29 November 1940 – 9 October 2009), better known by the pseudonym "Zambo Cavero", was a Peruvian singer, representative of Afro-Peruvian identity.
Biography
Born in Lima, Peru, he was the son of Juan Cavero, of Huara ...
Vyacheslav Ivankov
Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov (russian: Вячесла́в Кири́ллович Иванько́в) (January 2, 1940 – October 9, 2009) was a Russian mafia boss and thief in law who was believed to have connections with Russian state intelli ...
, 69, Russian crime figure, gunshot wounds.
* Stuart M. Kaminsky, 75, American mystery writer, hepatitis.
* Barry Letts, 84, British television actor, director and producer (''
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...
'').
* John Daido Loori, 78, American Zen Buddhist monk, lung cancer.
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Hermann Raich
Hermann Raich (2 May 1934 – 9 October 2009) was the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wabag in Papua New Guinea.
Born in Jerzens, Austria, Raich was ordained to the priesthood on 29 April 1962. On 8 March 1982, Po ...
, 75, Austrian Roman Catholic Bishop of Wabag (1982–2008).
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Louis Sanmarco
Louis Sanmarco (April 7, 1912 – October 9, 2009) was a French colonial administrator of Italian origin. He served as the governor of the colony of Ubangi-Shari from 1954 until 1957, and served as Governor of Gabon from 29 January 1958 to 28 ...
Richard Sonnenfeldt Richard Wolfgang Sonnenfeldt (23 July 1923 Berlin, Germany – 9 October 2009, Port Washington, New York) was a Jewish American engineer and corporate executive most notable for being the U.S. prosecution team's chief interpreter in 1945 prior to t ...
, 86, German-born American interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from a stroke.
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Dré Steemans
Dré Steemans (better known by his stage name Felice; 1 October 1954 – 9 October 2009) was a Belgian TV and radio host.
Career
Steemans made his broadcast debut on 1 September 1985 in the radioshow ''Het Genootschap'' of Luk Saffloer, in wh ...
, 55, Belgian television and radio host, cardiac arrest.
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Horst Szymaniak
Horst "Schimmi" Szymaniak (29 August 1934 – 9 October 2009) was a German footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Szymaniak was born in Oer-Erkenschwick. The clubs he played for include: SpVgg Erkenschwick, Wuppertaler SV, Karlsr ...
, 75, German footballer.
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Rusty Wier
Russell Allen "Rusty" Wier (May 3, 1944 – October 9, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas.
Wier's career dates back to the 1960s and covers multiple music genres. Wier was the drummer in the Austin garage rock band The Wi ...
, 65, American country music singer-songwriter, cancer.
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Luis Aguilé
Luis María Aguilera Picca (24 February 1936 – 10 October 2009) was an Argentine singer, songwriter and actor, best known for worldwide hit song '"Cuando salí de Cuba" ("When I Left Cuba"). This song become the unofficial anthem for Cuban ex ...
, 73, Argentine singer and songwriter, stomach cancer.
* Paul Bloom, 70, American lawyer, recovered $6 billion for the Department of Energy, pancreatic cancer.
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Sonny Bradshaw
Cecil "Sonny" Bradshaw CD (28 March 1926 – 10 October 2009), known as the "dean of Jamaican music", and the "musician's musician", was a Jamaican bandleader, trumpeter, broadcaster, and promoter who was a major figure in Jamaican music for m ...
, 83, Jamaican jazz musician, stroke.
* Stephen Gately, 33, Irish pop singer ( Boyzone), pulmonary edema.
* Larry Jansen, 89, American baseball player (
New York Giants
The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. ...
,
Cincinnati Reds
The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division and were a charter member of ...
), heart failure and pneumonia.
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Joan Orenstein
Joan Orenstein (December 4, 1923 – October 10, 2009) was a British-born Canadian actress, primarily on stage, although she performed in other media. One of her best-known roles was in the 1997 film '' The Hanging Garden'' as the dotty old g ...
, 85, British-born Canadian actress.
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Lionel Pincus
Lionel I. Pincus (March 2, 1931 — October 10, 2009) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of the private equity firm Warburg Pincus, running it from 1966 to 2002, and later became the chairman emeritus of the compa ...
, 78, American businessman, founder of Warburg Pincus.
* Jack Rose, 92, British WWII fighter pilot and colonial administrator.
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Carol Tomlinson-Keasey
Carol Tomlinson-Keasey (1942–2009) was the first female founding chancellor of a University of California campus when she was named to head University of California, Merced in 1999. She was a developmental psychologist by training.
Life and wo ...
, 66, American psychologist, breast cancer.
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Joan Martí i Alanis
Joan Martí i Alanis (29 November 1928 – 11 October 2009) was a former Bishop of Urgell and hence former co-Prince of Andorra. He was Bishop of Urgell from 1971 to 2003. He was a co-signatory, along with François Mitterrand, of Andorra's ...
, 80, Spanish archbishop, Bishop of Urgell and co-Prince of Andorra (1971–2003).
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Peter Callanan
Peter Callanan (29 June 1935 – 11 October 2009) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and served as a member of Seanad Éireann from 1997 until his death in 2009.
Born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Callanan was educated in Mount Melleray College, ...
, 74, Irish politician, member of the Seanad (since 1997).
* Patrick Hannan, 68, British broadcaster, author and journalist.
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Gustav Kral
Gustav Kral (4 June 1983 - 11 October 2009) was an Austrian football player.
Career
Kral played in his career for Admira Wacker, Austria Wien, DSV Leoben, SK Schwadorf, Trenkwalder Admira, SV Neuberg and last for UFC Purbach.
Death
Kral died o ...
, 26, Austrian footballer, car accident.
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Abigail McLellan
Abigail McLellan (11 July 1969 – 11 October 2009) was a Scottish artist. She primarily showed her work at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery and the Glasgow Print Studio.
Biography
McLellan was born in Middlesbrough, where her father was an eng ...
, 40, Scottish artist, multiple sclerosis.
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Veronika Neugebauer
Veronika Aryana Neugebauer (27 November 1968 – 11 October 2009) was a German actress who specialized in dubbing.
Neugebauer was born in Munich to voice actor Hartmut Neugebauer. She was best known for dubbing Ash Ketchum in the German-Languag ...
, 40, German voice actress, colorectal cancer.
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Alan Peters
Alan George Peters OBE (17 January 1933 – 11 October 2009) was a British furniture designer maker and one of the very few direct links with the Arts and Crafts Movement, having apprenticed to Edward Barnsley. He set up his own workshop in the ...
, 76, British furniture designer.
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Halit Refiğ
Halit Refiğ (5 March 1934 – 11 October 2009) was a Turkish film director, film producer, screenwriter and writer. He made around sixty films, including feature films, documentaries and TV serials. He is considered to be the pioneer of the N ...
Stan Palk
Stanley Palk (28 October 1921 – 12 October 2009) was an English footballer. An inside-forward, he moved from South Liverpool to Liverpool in 1940. He remained at the club throughout World War II, whilst also serving with the Royal Navy in Mom ...
Port Vale
Port Vale Football Club are a professional football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, which compete in . Vale are the only English Football League club not to be named after a place; their name being a reference to the valley o ...
).
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Dickie Peterson
Richard Allan Peterson (September 12, 1946 – October 12, 2009)Blue Cheer), liver cancer.
* Joe Rosen, 88, American Golden Age comic book letterer.
* Frank Vandenbroucke, 34, Belgian cyclist, pulmonary embolism.
* Ian Wallace, 90, British bass-baritone singer.
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Stephen Barnett
Stephen Roger Barnett (December 25, 1935 – October 13, 2009) was an American law professor and legal scholar who campaigned against the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 and the effects its antitrust exemptions had on newspaper consolidation. ...
Los Angeles Rams
The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Rams compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The Rams play ...
), natural causes.
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Rodger Doxsey
Rodger Evans Doxsey (March 11, 1947 – October 13, 2009)Overbye, Dennis ''The New York Times'', October 18, 2009. Accessed October 20, 2009. was an American physicist and astronomer who made major contributions to the scientific and operational s ...
, 62, American physicist and astronomer, cancer.
* Richard Foster, 63, American member of the Alaska House of Representatives, heart and kidney disease.
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Eugene Maxwell Frank Eugene Maxwell Frank (December 11, 1907 – October 13, 2009) was an American bishop of the Methodist and United Methodist Churches, elected in 1956. He was notable for his passion for racial equality in the Church and beyond. He also disting ...
, 101, American bishop of The Methodist Church.
* Atle Jebsen, 73, Norwegian shipowner and businessman, traffic collision.
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William Wayne Justice
William Wayne Justice (February 25, 1920 – October 13, 2009) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Education and career
Born in Athens, Texas, Justice received a Bachelor of ...
, 89, American federal judge.
* Lü Zhengcao, 104, Chinese general, last survivor of the original Shang Jiang.
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Winston Mankunku Ngozi
Winston Monwabisi "Mankunku" Ngozi (21 June 1943 – 13 October 2009) was a famous South African tenor saxophone player.
, 66, South African saxophonist
* Al Martino, 82, American singer and actor ('' The Godfather''), first person to top the UK Singles Chart.
* Daniel Melnick, 77, American studio executive, film producer and television producer, lung cancer.
* Paul Barbă Neagră, 80, Romanian film director and essayist.
* Roger Nixon, 88, American composer, complications from leukemia.
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Nan C. Robertson
Nan C. Robertson (July 11, 1926 – October 13, 2009) was an American journalist, author and instructor in journalism. Her awards included a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
Five decades in journalism
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Robertson atten ...
, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, heart disease.
* Orane Simpson, 26, Jamaican football player, stabbed.
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Richard T. Whitcomb
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Biography
Whitcomb was born in Evanston, Illinois. His father, who had ...
, 88, American aeronautical engineer, pneumonia
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Werner Zandt
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, 81, German Olympic sprinter.
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* Lou Albano, 76, American professional wrestler and manager, actor (''
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''), heart attack.
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Wilf K. Backhaus
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Career
Wilf K. Backhaus and Edward E. Simbalist designed a role-playing game called ''Chevalier'', which they brought ...
, 62, Canadian role-playing game designer.
*
Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche
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Fred Cress
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Cress was born in Pune, Poona, British Raj, but w ...
, 71, British-born Australian artist, Archibald Prize winner (1988), pancreatic cancer.
* Roy Lane, 74, British hillclimbing competitor, peritonitis.
*
C. B. Muthamma
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, 85, Indian first female diplomat and ambassador.
*
Willard Varnell Oliver
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George P. Jenkins
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, 94, American chairman of
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, assisted expansion of
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
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** Disney–ABC Television ...
and Pan Am, heart failure.
* Josias Kumpf, 84, Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard.
* Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 70, American New Age religious leader, co-founder of
The Summit Lighthouse
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, Alzheimer's disease.
*
Tollak B. Sirnes
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Sirnes was born in Haugesund, and had eleven siblings of whom ten were older. He finished his secondary education in Hauges ...
, 86, Norwegian physician, psychiatrist and pharmacologist.
* George Tuska, 93, American comic book artist (''
Iron Man
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Heinz Versteeg
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Meidericher Spielverein 02 e. V. Duisburg, commonly known as simply MSV Duis ...
, 70, Dutch football player, cancer.
*
Philip L. White
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, 86, American historian, cancer.
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* Bob Davis, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative for Michigan (1979–1993), heart and kidney failure.
*
Inglis Drever
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, 10, British hurdles racehorse, euthanised.
* Jose Herrera, 67, Venezuelan baseball player.
*
Meilė Lukšienė
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Educated at Vytautas Magnus University, Lukšienė became a professor of literature in 194 ...
, 96, Lithuanian cultural historian, member of the Sąjūdis.
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Andrés Montes
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Biography
He was born in Madrid on 27 November 1955 to Antonio Montes Seoane, a Galician merchant from Vigo (father) and Cuban pianist Zenaid ...
, 53, Spanish sports commentator.
*
Marian Przykucki
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Background
Born in Skoki in 1924, Marian Przykucki was ordained a parish pr ...
, 85, Polish Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień (1992–1999).
* John Ramsden, 61, British historian.
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* Dame Doreen Blumhardt, 95, New Zealand potter.
* Carla Boni, 84, Italian singer.
* Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, 88, British diplomat and politician.
* Ian Hagemoen, 68, Canadian football player (death announced on this date).
* Jay Johnson, 66, American U.S. Representative for Wisconsin (1997–1999), U.S. Mint Director (2000–2001), heart attack.
* Vladimir Kashpur, 82, Russian film actor, People's Artist of Russia.
*
Kazuhiko Katō
, nicknamed , was a Japanese record producer, songwriter and singer. He sometimes used the spelling of "Kazuhiko Katoh".
History
As a member of the Folk Crusaders, Katō launched his recording career in the mid-1960s. "Kaettekita Yopparai (I O ...
Sadistic Mika Band
was a Japanese rock band formed in 1972. Its name is a parody of the late 60s band Plastic Ono Band. Produced by Masatoshi Hashiba on Toshiba-EMI Records (now EMI Music Japan), the band was led by guitarist Kazuhiko Katō and singer , who were a ...
), suicide by hanging.
*
Louisa Mark
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, 49, British lovers rock singer, complications from a stomach ulcer.
* Norma Fox Mazer, 78, American author, brain cancer.
*
Vic Mizzy
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Green Acres
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Sheldon Segal
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, 83, American reproductive biologist.
* Michael Shea, 71, British diplomat, press secretary to
Queen Elizabeth II
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* Ion Cojar, 78, Romanian actor and film director, Parkinson's disease.
*
Ruth Duckworth
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, 90, American sculptor.
* Ha Bik Chuen, 83-84, Hong Kong painter.
*
Jasper Howard
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, 20, American football player, stabbed.
* Lenore Kandel, 77, American poet, lung cancer.
*
Leonard B. Keller
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Biography
A native of Rock ...
, 62, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, motorcycle accident.
*
Sir Ludovic Kennedy
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, 89, British author and journalist, pneumonia.
* Adriaan Kortlandt, 91, Dutch biologist.
* Ovidiu Mușetescu, 54, Romanian politician, cancer.
*
Ignacio Ponseti Ignacio Ponseti (3 June 1914 – 18 October 2009) was a Spanish-American physician, specializing in orthopedics. He was born on 3 June 1914 in Menorca, part of the Balearic Islands, Spain, Ponseti was the son of a watchmaker and spent his child ...
, 95, Spanish physician and inventor ( Ponseti method).
* Nancy Spero, 83, American artist, heart failure.
*
Basie Vivier
Stefanus Sebastian "Basie" Vivier (1 March 1927 – 18 October 2009) was a South African rugby union player. He was capped for South Africa five times in 1956, though he was first selected to play for the Springboks on the 1951–52 South Africa ...
, 82, South African rugby union player, captain of the Springboks (1956).
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Moni Fanan
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Managerial career
Fanan began his career with Maccabi in the club's football team as chairman of the youth ...
, 63, Israeli basketball team manager, suicide by hanging.
*
Werner Heubeck
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and Citybus, cancer.
* Joe Hutton Jr., 81, American basketball player, heart attack.
*
Sushila Kerketta
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She held several important portfolios in the Bihar government. She was minister of state for irri ...
, 71, Indian politician, heart attack.
*
Vladimír Klokočka
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, 80, Czech politician and jurist, signatory to Charter 77 manifesto.
*
Shlomo Lorincz
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Biography
Born i ...
Milun Marović
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Career
Marović spent entire playing career with Radnički Belgrade of the Yugos ...
, 62, Serbian Olympic basketball player.
*
Reg McKay
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, 56, British journalist and crime fiction writer, brain and lung cancer.
* Angelo Musi, 91, American basketball player.
* Nimma Raja Reddy, 72, Indian politician.
*
Alberto Testa Alberto Testa may refer to:
*Alberto Testa (dancer) (1922–2019), Italian dancer
*Alberto Testa (lyricist) (1927–2009), Italian composer and lyricist
{{Hndis, Testa, Alberto ...
, 82, Italian composer and lyricist.
* Radu Timofte, 60, Romanian intelligence officer, director of the
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* Margaret Bisbrown, 90, British Olympic diver.
* Yvonne Carter, 50, British general practitioner and medical academic, breast cancer.
*
Attila Dargay
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Life
He began working as a scenery painter for the Hungarian National Theatre in the late 1940s. He dire ...
, 83, Hungarian animator.
*
Colin Douglas-Smith
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, 91, Australian Olympic rower.
*
Clifford Hansen
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*
Robert C. Lautman Robert Clayton Lautman (November 8, 1923 - October 20, 2009) was an American architectural photographer.
Born in Butte, Montana, his first photographs were made with a box camera for his junior high school yearbook. After attending Montana State ...
, 85, American architectural photographer.
*
Carl Fredrik Lowzow
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He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus in 1977, and was re-elected on two occasions.
On the local level ...
, 82, Norwegian politician.
* Charles Mills, 88, American painter.
*
Doreen Reid Nakamarra
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, 54, Australian Aboriginal artist, pneumonia.
*
Jef Nys
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Biography Early years
Jozef Nys was born in Berchem, Belgium in 1927.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Jef Nys ...
, 82, Belgian comic book artist ('' Jommeke'').
* Sultan Pepper, 47, American comedy writer, Emmy Award winner (''
The Ben Stiller Show
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Winai Senniam
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, 51, Thai parliamentarian, liver and colon cancer.
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Andrey Balashov
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, 63, Russian Olympic silver (
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
) and bronze (
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
) medal-winning sailor.
*
Louise Cooper
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Cooper was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire. She began writing stories when she was at school to entertain her ...
, 57, British novelist, aneurysm.
*
Lionel Davidson
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Life and career
Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull in Yorkshire, one of nine children of an immigrant Jewish tailor. He left school ...
, 87, British novelist, lung cancer.
* Clinton Ford, 77, British singer.
*
John Jarman
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Early life and career
Jarman was born in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, on July 17, 1915, and graduate ...
, 78, Welsh football player (
Barnsley
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Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail
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Early life
Macphail was educated at the independent George Watson ...
, 71, British judge and legal scholar.
* Paul Massey, 83, British Olympic silver medal-winning (
1948
Events January
* January 1
** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated.
** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect.
** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...
) rower.
* Yōko Minamida, 76, Japanese actress.
* Jack Nelson, 80, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Ja ...
), pancreatic cancer.
*
Redmond O'Neill
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Born in London to an Irish family from County Tipperary, O'Neill studied at Sussex University, where he joined the Trotskyist International Marxist Grou ...
, 55, British political activist.
* Sirone, 69, American jazz musician.
*
Ted Sizer
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, 77, American education reformer, colorectal cancer.
*
Giuliano Vassalli
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Life
He was born in Perugia, son of Filippo Vassalli, a famous lecturer and lawyer. During World War II Vassalli was imprisoned by Nazi forces ...
, 94, Italian politician.
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* Maryanne Amacher, 66, American experimental composer, sound artist, and installation artist, complications from a stroke.
* Paul Andrews, 53, Australian politician, cancer.
*
Nicholas Atkin
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Early life
Nicholas James Atkin was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, on 18 September 1960.
, 49, British historian, meningitis.
*
Daniel Bekker
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, 77, South African boxer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
*
Ray B. Browne
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, 87, American educator, scholar of popular culture.
*
Pierre Chaunu
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, 86, French historian.
*
Howard Darwin Howard Joseph Darwin (September 10, 1931 – October 22, 2009) was a Canadian businessman and sports team owner. Among his businesses, he owned the Ottawa 67's, London Knights and Ottawa Lynx sports franchises.
Personal life
He was born and gre ...
, 78, Canadian sports promoter, founder of the Ottawa 67's, complications from heart surgery.
* Luther Dixon, 78, American songwriter.
* Evert Heinström, 97, Finnish Olympic athlete.
*
Ray Lambert
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Life and playing career
Born in Bagillt, Flintshire, Wales, Lambert joined the Reds as an amateur ...
, 87, Welsh footballer ( Liverpool, Wales).
* Don Lane, 75, American-born Australian entertainer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Don Ivan Punchatz, 73, American science fiction artist, cardiac arrest.
*
Herman Reich
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Chicago Cubs
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Enver Shehu
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Club career
Shehu was joint top scorer in the 1958 season, along with Partizani's Refik Resmja, both scoring six ...
, 75, Albanian football player and manager.
*
Suchart Chaovisith
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, 69, Thai politician, Finance Minister (2003–2004) and Deputy Prime Minister (2004),
laryngeal cancer
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Cancer can develop in any part of the larynx. The prognosis is affected by the location of the tumour. For the purposes of staging, ...
.
*
Libero Tresoldi Libero Tresoldi (21 January 1921 – 22 October 2009) was an Italian prelate, who was the bishop of Crema.
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Elmer Winter
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, 97, American founder of
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*
George Patrick Ziemann
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Born in Pasadena, California, Ziemann was ordained a Roman Catholic priest for the Roma ...
, 68, American Roman Catholic Bishop of
Santa Rosa
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Santa Rosa may also refer to:
Places Argentina
*Santa Rosa, Mendoza, a city
* Santa Rosa, Tinogasta, Catamarca
* Santa Rosa, Valle Viejo, Catamarca
*Santa Rosa, La Pampa
* Sa ...
.
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Linda Day
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*
Suhrab Faqir
Sohrab Fakir Manganhar, also known as Sohrab Fakir, ( sd, سُهراب فقير صوفي, 1934 – 23 October 2009) was a Sufi-singer from Sindh, Pakistan.
Early life
He was born in 1936 in Talpur Wada village of Kot Diji town, in Khairpur ...
, 75, Pakistani folk singer, kidney disease.
*
Chris Hawk
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Hawk was born in Maywood, California in 1951. During the 1980s, he became a surfboard shaper, and his boards were popular among locals in ...
, 58, American surfer, oral cancer.
* Lou Jacobi, 95, Canadian-born American actor (''
The Diary of Anne Frank
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'').
*
Ture Kailo
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, Vanuatuan politician and member of parliament.
*
John Kenley
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, 103, American summer theater producer, complications of pneumonia.
* Ken Perkins, 83, British army general.
*
Jack Poole
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He died of pancreatic cancer shortly afte ...
, 76, Canadian real estate developer, pancreatic cancer.
*
Ron Sobieszczyk
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Sobieszczyk played for coach Ray Meyer at DePaul University from 1953 to 1956. He scored 1,222 points in his ...
, 75, American basketball player (
DePaul Blue Demons
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DePaul’s Athletic Director is DeWayne ...
,
New York Knicks
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), degenerative brain disease.
24
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Bill Chadwick
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, 94, American hockey official and broadcaster.
*
Yasuo Iwata
was a Japanese voice actor from Iwate, most known for his role as Nanbutsu Isasaka in ''Sazae-san''.
Death
Yasuo Iwata died from lung cancer on October 24, 2009, aged 67.
Voice roles
* Cosmic Baton Girl Comet-san (King, Mago-Consigliere)
* Heat ...
, 67, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
* Norman Levitt, 66, American mathematician.
* Karl Reisinger, 73, Austrian Olympic judoka.
Dee Anthony
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, 83, American music manager, pneumonia.
*
Maksharip Aushev
Maksharip Magometovich Aushev (russian: Макшарип Магометович Аушев; 16 February 1966 – 25 October 2009) was an Ingush businessman and opposition leader in the Republic of Ingushetia, a federal subject of the Russian Fe ...
, 43, Russian political activist and opposition leader in
Ingushetia
Ingushetia (; russian: Ингуше́тия; inh, ГӀалгӏайче, Ghalghayče), officially the Republic of Ingushetia,; inh, Гӏалгӏай Мохк, Ghalghay Moxk is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe. ...
, businessman (
Ingushetia.org
Ingushetia.org (''Ингушетия.org''; formerly ''ingushetiya.ru'') is a non-government Ingush news agency and web site and was owned by Magomed Yevloyev. Its server is located in the United States.Adoor Bhavani, 82, Indian actress.
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Billy Bibit
Billy C. Bibit (March 10, 1950 – October 25, 2009) was a Filipino retired colonel and a Philippine Constabulary lieutenant colonel who led a series of attempted coups against former President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino during the 1980s a ...
, 59, Filipino soldier and coup d'état leader, complications from a stroke.
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Camillo Cibin
Camillo Cibin (3 June 1926 – 25 October 2009) was a Papal bodyguard and Inspector General of the Corpo della Gendarmeria, the security and police force of Vatican City. He retired in 2006 after 58 years of service in the security force, and ...
Seymour Fromer
Seymour Fromer (October 3, 1922 – October 25, 2009) was an American co-founder of the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California. Fromer co-founded the museum, which houses 11,000 Jewish artifacts, one of the largest collections in the Unit ...
, 87, American founder of
Judah L. Magnes Museum
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.
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Leslie A. Geddes
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
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S. Ashok Kumar
Justice S. Ashok Kumar (20 July 1947 – 25 October 2009) was a judge of the Madras High Court and the Andhra Pradesh High Court in India.
Early life and career
He was born on 20 July 1947 to a teacher couple, the late Mr. S. Santiago and the ...
, 62, Indian jurist.
* René Marigil, 81, Spanish cyclist.
* Mike McQueen, 52, American journalist, Associated Press bureau chief for Louisiana and Mississippi, cancer.
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Ingeborg Mello
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Celaya
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Kamala Sankrityayan
Kamala Sankrityayan (; 1920-2009) was a 20th century Indian writer, editor and scholar of Hindi and Nepali literature. She was the wife of the renowned historian Rahul Sankrityayan.
Biography
Kamala Sankrityayan was born on 15 August 1920 in ...
, 89, Indian writer and litterateur.
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Tangi Satyanarayana
Tangi Satyanarayana ( te, తంగి సత్యనారాయణ) (1931 – 25 October 2009) was an Indian politician.
He was elected as an Independent candidate from Srikakulam in 1967. Later he joined the Telugu Desam Party and was ...
Thea Segall
Thea Segall Rubin (13 May 1929 – 25 October 2009) was a Romanian photographer who lived in Venezuela from 1958 until her death. She was winner of the 2003 National Photography Award of Venezuela, editor of numerous publications and direct ...
, 80, Romanian photographer who lived in Venezuela since 1958 until her death.
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Kevin Widemond
Kevin Widemond (December 24, 1985 – October 25, 2009) was an American basketball player. After starring at Texas A&M University–Commerce he went on to play professionally in Portugal where he collapsed and later died after suffering a heart a ...
, 23, American basketball player, heart attack.
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Daniel Acharuparambil
Daniel Acharuparambil (12 May 1939 – 26 October 2009) was a Roman Catholic Indian Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Verapoly in Kerala. Ordained to the priesthood on 14 March 1966, he was named Archbishop and was consecrated on 3 ...
, 70, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop of
Verapoly
Varappuzha, , (also known by its former name Verapoly) is a northern suburb of the city of Kochi. It is a census town in Paravur Taluk, Ernakulam district in the Indian state of Kerala. Situated around 15 km (9 mi) from the city centre ...
(since 1996), kidney failure.
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Teel Bivins
Miles Teel Bivins (November 22, 1947 – October 26, 2009) was an American diplomat and politician. He served as a Republican member for the 31st district of the Texas Senate, and also as the 18th United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of ...
, 61, American member of the Texas Senate (1989–2004), Ambassador to Sweden (2004–2006).
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Sabino Fernández Campo, 1st Count of Latores
Sabino Fernández Campo, 1st Count of Latores (March 17, 1918, Oviedo - October 26, 2009, Madrid) was Head of the Royal Household of Spain under Juan Carlos I, from 1990 to 1993, and a key figure during the failed 23-F coup d'état in 1981.
In t ...
, 91, Spanish Chief of the Royal House, key figure in failed
23-F 3F or 3-F may refer to:
* Fagligt Fælles Forbund
* Fangio, Farina, Fagioli - drivers of the Alfa Romeo factory team
* 3 Fonteinen - Belgian brewery, specializing in gueuze and kriek
* 0x3F, ASCII code for question mark
The question mark (al ...
coup d'état.
*
Lea Fite
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, 54, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (since 2002), apparent seizure.
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Bill Kirk
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, 75, American baseball player.The Dead Ball Era
* Fred McCarthy, 91, American cartoonist.
* Yoshirō Muraki, 85, Japanese film production designer and art director, heart failure.
*
George Naʻope
George Lanakilakeikiahialii Naope (February 25, 1928 – October 26, 2009), born in Kalihi, Hawaii and raised in Hilo, was a celebrated kumu hula, master Hawaiian chanter, and leading advocate and preservationist of native Hawaiian culture ...
, 81, American musician and hula expert, founder of the
Merrie Monarch Festival
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, cancer.
* Troy Smith, 87, American businessman, founder of
Sonic Drive-In
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chain, natural causes.
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Tapani Aartomaa
Tapani Olavi Aartomaa (7 May 1934 – 27 October 2009) was a Finnish graphic designer, who received much attention in Poland.
Aartomaa operated his own graphic design studio and lectured for years at the Institute of Design in Helsinki and Lahti I ...
, 75, Finnish professor and graphic designer.
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Frank Brady Jr.
Frank Brady (born 1948- died 27 October 2009) was an Irish football player who played as a centre half. He was the brother of Liam Brady.
Brady was born in Dublin. After initially playing for Stella Maris
, he joined Shamrock Rovers in July 1 ...
, 64, Irish footballer (
Shamrock Rovers
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Falcon Crest
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'').
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August Coppola
August Floyd Coppola (February 16, 1934 – October 27, 2009) was an American academic, author, film executive, and advocate for the arts. He was the brother of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, and the father of actor Nicolas ...
, 75, American writer, literature professor and father of Nicolas Cage, heart attack.
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Roy DeCarava
Roy Rudolph DeCarava (December 9, 1919 – October 27, 2009) was an American artist. DeCarava received early critical acclaim for his photography, initially engaging and imaging the lives of African Americans and jazz musicians in the communi ...
suicide by train
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.
* David Shepherd, 68, British cricketer and umpire, lung cancer.
*
Paul Zamecnik
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, 96, American molecular biologist.
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Olga Kevelos
Olga Kevelos (6 November 1923 – 28 October 2009) was an English Motorcycle trials and enduro rider who won a Gold Medal at the International Six-Day Trial.Leslie King, 59, Trinidadian Olympic cyclist.
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Paul Manz
Paul Otto Manz (May 10, 1919 – October 28, 2009), was an American composer for choir and organ. His most famous choral work is the Advent motet "E'en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come", which has been performed at the Nine Lessons and Carols, Fe ...
, 90, American Lutheran organist and composer.
* Taylor Mitchell, 19, Canadian singer–songwriter, coyote attack.
* Jerry Morris, 99, British epidemiologist.
* Ted Nebbeling, 65, Dutch-born Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA (1996–2005), Mayor of Whistler, colon cancer.
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Russell L. Ackoff
Russell Lincoln Ackoff (February 12, 1919 – October 29, 2009) was an American organizational theorist, Management consulting, consultant, and Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylva ...
, 90, American organizational theorist, complications from surgery.
*
Bei Shizhang
Bei Shizhang (; October 10, 1903 – October 29, 2009), or Shi-Zhang Bei, was a Chinese biophysicist, embryologist, politician, and writer. He was an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He was born in Zhenhai District, Zhenhai, Zhej ...
, 106, Chinese biologist and educator.
* Jean-François Bergier, 77, Swiss historian.
*
Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak
Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak (17 December 1922 – 29 October 2009) was a Polish alpine skier. He competed at the 1948, 1952 and the 1956 Winter Olympics
The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games ( it, VII G ...
, 86, Polish Olympic skier.
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Charles E. Conrad
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Born in New York City, the only child of German immigrants, Charles Conrad spent his early years growing up in New York City. At the age of 17, he jo ...
, 84, American acting coach, kidney failure.
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San'yūtei Enraku V
was a Japanese rakugo comedian best known for Master of Ceremonies, hosting the ''Shōten'' comedy show on Nippon TV. His comedic career spanned several decades.
He was born and at the time used Enraku as his stage name. He was known using t ...
, 76, Japanese comedian (''
Shōten
is a Japanese TV comedy program that has been continuously broadcast on Sunday evenings on Nippon TV since 15 May 1966, making it the second-longest running variety TV show in Japan.
Format
The show is based on the Ogiri style of ''rakugo'', ...
''), lung cancer.
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Gino Fracas
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Early years
Fracas was born in ...
, 79, Canadian football player.
* Olav Hodne, 88, Norwegian missionary.
*
June Maule
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, 92, American businesswoman, owner of Maule Air.
*
John O'Quinn
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, 68, American lawyer, traffic collision.
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Norman Painting
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, 85, British radio actor ('' The Archers''), heart failure.
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Jürgen Rieger
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, 63, German lawyer and politician ( NPD), stroke.
* Beat Rüedi, 89, Swiss Olympic bronze medal-winning (
1948
Events January
* January 1
** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated.
** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect.
** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...
) ice hockey player.
* Alexander Schure, 89, American academic, founder of NYIT, Chancellor of NSU (1970–1985), Alzheimer's disease.
* Dave Treen, 81, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (1980–1984), respiratory disease.
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Juvenal Amarijo
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Career
Juvenal Amarijo started his career with Cruzeiro-RS, joining Flamengo in 1949, then Palmeiras in 19 ...
, 85, Brazilian football player, respiratory failure.
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Norton Buffalo
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, 58, American singer-songwriter, blues harmonica player ( Steve Miller Band), lung cancer.
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Ramata Diakité
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Iowa Hawkeyes
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Marvin v. Marvin
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''), lung cancer.
* June Middleton, 83, Australian with polio, world's longest survivor in an iron lung.
* Alick Rowe, 70, British television and radio writer, heart attack.
* Howie Schultz, 87, American baseball and basketball player, cancer.
*
František Veselý
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He played for Czechoslo ...
, 65, Czech football player.
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Igor Vyazmikin
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Roque Antonio Adames Rodríguez
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Ordained on April 17, 1954, Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI ( la, P ...
Hugh Dinwiddy
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, 97, British cricketer.
* Stanley Ellis, 83, British linguistics scholar.
* Harry Gauss, 57, Canadian soccer coach, brain cancer.
*
Pat Keysell
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Early life
Keysell was born in Tooting, London and brought ...
, 83, British television presenter.
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Lee Hu-rak
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, 85, South Korean spy chief, Director of the National Intelligence Service (1970–1973), brain tumor.
* Mustafa Mahmoud, 87, Egyptian scientist, author and philosopher.
* John Mason, 89, British historian and librarian.
* Qian Xuesen, 97, Chinese scientist and co-founder of the
JPL
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Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ...
.
*
Steve Reid
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Biography
Born ...
Neguinho do Samba
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, 54, Brazilian percussionist, founder of Olodum, heart failure.
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Jan Wejchert
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, 59, Polish businessman and media mogul, co-founder of
ITI Group
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Tom Wheatcroft
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, 87, British businessman, owner of
Donington Park
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