Friday, December 30, 2011

Deaths in October 2011

October 31st
* Liz Anderson, 81, American country music singer-songwriter, mother of Lynn Anderson, complications from heart and lung disease.
* Mick Anglo, 95, British comic book writer and artist, creator of Marvelman.
* Gilbert Cates, 77, American film director and producer (Academy Awards Telecast, Oh, God! Book II), founder of Geffen Playhouse.

October 30th* Tom Keith, 64, American radio personality (A Prairie Home Companion).
* Phyllis Love, 85, American actress (Friendly Persuasion, The Young Doctors), Alzheimer's disease.
* David Utz, 87, American surgeon, removed Ronald Reagan's prostate, heart failure.

October 28th
* Ed Walker, 94, American World War II veteran and writer, last surviving member of Castner's Cutthroats.

October 27th* T. Max Graham, 70, American actor (Article 99, Eraserhead), cancer.
* Robert Pritzker, 85, American billionaire industrialist, Parkinson's disease.

October 26th
* Daniel Burke, 82, American television executive, President of ABC (1986–1994), complications of diabetes.

October 25th
* Wyatt Knight, 56, American actor (Porky's), suicide by gunshot.

October 24th
* Bob Beaumont, 79, American electric automobile manufacturer (Citicar), emphysema.

October 23rd
* Nusrat Bhutto, 82, Iranian-born Pakistani First Lady, widow of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and mother of Benazir Bhutto.

October 22nd* Robert Pierpoint, 86, American broadcast journalist, complications from surgery.
* Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, 83, Saudi royal, Minister of Defense and Aviation (since 1962) and Crown Prince (since 2005).

October 21st
* Thomas Dillon, 61, American serial killer.

October 20th
* Jerzy Bielecki, 90, Polish social worker, survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp, Polish Righteous among the Nations recipient.
* Barry Feinstein, 80, American photographer and photojournalist.
* Moatassem Gaddafi, 34, Libyan Army officer, fifth son of Muammar Gaddafi, shot.
* Muammar Gaddafi, 69, Libyan leader (1969–2011), shot.

October 18th* Bob Brunning, 68, British blues musician (Fleetwood Mac), heart attack.

October 17th
* Carl Lindner, Jr., 92, American businessman (United Dairy Farmers, Cincinnati Reds), cardiac arrest.
* Piri Thomas, 83, American writer (Down These Mean Streets) and poet, pneumonia.
* Edgar Villchur, 94, American inventor of the acoustic suspension loudspeaker.

October 16th
* Virginia Knauer, 96, American consumer advocate and government official.
* Pete Rugolo, 95, Italian-born American film and television composer (Kiss Me Kate, The Fugitive).

October 14th
* Chuck Ruff, 60, American drummer (Edgar Winter, Sammy Hagar), after long illness.

October 13th
* Sheila Allen, 78, British actress (Love Actually).
* Barbara Kent, 103, Canadian-born American silent film actress.
* Tufele Liamatua, 71, American Samoan politician and paramount chief, first elected Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa (1978–1985).

October 12th
* Patricia Breslin, 80, American actress (The People's Choice, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone), wife of Art Modell, pancreatitis.
* Joel DiGregorio, 67, American keyboardist (The Charlie Daniels Band), car crash.
* Paul Leka, 68, American pianist, arranger and songwriter ("Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", "Green Tambourine").
* Dennis Ritchie, 70, American computer scientist, developer of the C programming language and the Unix operating system. (body discovered on this date)

[October 11th
* George "Mojo" Buford, 81, American blues harmonica player.
* Bob Galvin, 89, American businessman, CEO of Motorola (1959–1986).
* Freddie Gruber, 84, American jazz drummer.

October 10th
* Ray Aghayan, 83, Iranian-born American costume designer (Funny Lady, Doctor Dolittle).
* Alan Fudge, 67, American actor (7th Heaven, Matlock, Hawaii 5-O), lung and liver cancer.

October 9th
* Ray Aranha, 72, American actor (Dead Man Walking, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Married People).
* Chauncey Hardy, 23, American basketball player, heart attack following beating.

October 8th * Al Davis, 82, American football coach and team owner (Oakland Raiders), heart failure.
* David Hess, 75, American actor (The Last House on the Left), singer and songwriter, heart attack.
* Mikey Welsh, 40, American artist and musician (Weezer).
* Roger Williams, 87, American pianist (Autumn Leaves), pancreatic cancer.

October 7th
* Paul Kent, 80, American actor (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Three's Company), multiple myeloma.
* Milan Puskar, 77, American pharmacist, co-founder of Mylan, cancer.
* Mildred Savage, 92, American author (Parrish).

October 6th
* William S. Dietrich II, 73, American industrialist and philanthropist.

October 5th
* Anita Caspary, 95, American Catholic nun, founder of the Immaculate Heart Community.
* Steve Jobs, 56, American computer entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Apple Inc., pancreatic cancer.
* Charles Napier, 75, American actor (The Silence of the Lambs, The Blues Brothers).
* Fred Shuttlesworth, 89, American civil rights leader.

October 4th
* Doris Belack, 85, American actress (Law & Order, One Life to Live, Tootsie), natural causes.
* Ruth Currier, 85, American dancer, choreographer and dance teacher.

October 2nd
* Don Lapre, 47, American television pitchman, suicide by cutting throat.

October 1st
* Butch Ballard, 92, American jazz drummer.
* Robert Finigan, 68, American wine critic.

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