Deaths in October 2009

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, 76, Georgian writer, heart failure.[http://www.interpressnews.ge/ge/index.php/permalink/111310.html&hd_line=1 Interpressnews] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004201749/http://www.interpressnews.ge/ge/index.php/permalink/111310.html%26hd_line%3D1 |date=2011-10-04}}
André-Philippe Futa, 66, Congolese politician, Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade (since 2002).{{cite web |url=http://en.afrik.com/news12914.html |title=DRC: Minister of Economy Andre Philippe Futa dies in Paris Hotel room |website=Afrik-news.com |access-date=November 7, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003020730/http://en.afrik.com/news12914.html |archive-date=October 3, 2009 |url-status=dead}}
Gunnar Haarberg, 92, Norwegian television presenter.{{cite web |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/article3301686.ece |title=Norges første TV-kjendis er død |language=no |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091007154912/http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/article3301686.ece |archive-date=2009-10-07}}
Syed Kamal, 72, Pakistani actor.{{cite news |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/923125/film-star-syed-kamal-passes-away |title=Film star Syed Kamal passes away |newspaper=Dawn}}
Lou Moro, 91, Canadian soccer player and coach.{{cite web |url=https://www.whitecapsfc.com/post/2009/10/01/luigi-lou-moro-passes-away-91 |title=Luigi "Lou" Moro passes away at 91 |date=October 1, 2009 |access-date=December 18, 2018}}
V. M. Muddiah, 80, Indian cricketer, stroke.{{cite web |url=http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/427925.html |title=Former India offspinner Muddiah dies |website=ESPNcricinfo |date=October 2, 2009}}
Bhandit Rittakol, 58, Thai film director, producer and screenwriter, heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30113509/Boonchoo-directors-dies= |title=Boonchoo director dies |work=The Nation |location=Thailand}}{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
Cintio Vitier, 88, Cuban poet.{{cite web |url=http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=344912&CategoryId=13003 |title=Cuban Intellectual Cintio Vitier Passes Away at 88 |work=Latin America Herald Tribune |access-date=November 7, 2009 |archive-date=December 28, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228214149/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=344912&CategoryId=13003 |url-status=dead }}

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Alain Bernheim, 86, French-born American film producer, complications from dialysis.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/10/06/alain_bernheim_producer_sued_studio/ |title=Alain Bernheim; producer sued studio |first=Corina |last=Knoll |date=6 October 2009 |work=Boston Globe}}
Marek Edelman, 86, Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/6259900/Marek-Edelman.html |title=Marek Edelman |work=The Daily Telegraph}}
Jack Evans, 80, Australian politician, Senator (1983–1984), co-founder of the Australian Democrats, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/02/2703521.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004222642/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/02/2703521.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 4, 2009 |title=Democrats pioneer Evans dies |date=2 October 2009 |website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation}}
Nat Finkelstein, 76, American photographer and photojournalist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/arts/13finkelstein.html |title=Nat Finkelstein, 'Court Photographer' of Andy Warhol's Factory, Dies at 76 |date=13 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Jørgen Jensen, 65, Danish Olympic runner.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418054548/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/je/jorgen-jensen-4.html Jørgen Jensen]
John "Mr. Magic" Rivas, 53, American radio personality, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2576818/mr-magic/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213164304/http://www.mtv.com/news/2576818/mr-magic/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 13, 2017 |title=Legendary New York Hip-Hop DJ Mr. Magic Dies |date=October 2, 2009 |website=MTV}}
Saleh Meki, 61, Eritrean cabinet minister and politician, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.shaebia.org/artman/publish/article_5964.shtml |title=A hero… "When you go home tell them of us and say: 'for your tomorrow we gave our today'." |access-date=2009-10-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101003085738/http://www.shaebia.org/artman/publish/article_5964.shtml |archive-date=2010-10-03}}
Peg Mullen, 92, American author, subject of film Friendly Fire.[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-ia-obit-mullen,0,3809183.story Obituary: Peg Mullen]{{dead link|date=December 2018}}
Desmond Plummer, Baron Plummer of St. Marylebone, 95, British politician, leader of Greater London Council (1967–1973).{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/6263154/Lord-Plummer-of-St-Marylebone.html |title=Lord Plummer of St Marylebone |work=The Daily Telegraph|date=October 5, 2009 }}
Rolf Rüssmann, 58, German football manager, prostate cancer.{{cite web |url=http://bundesliga.de/en/liga/news/2008/meldung.php?f%3D0000137487.php |title=Bundesliga legend Rüssmann dies |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718205602/http://bundesliga.de/en/liga/news/2008/meldung.php?f=0000137487.php |archive-date=2011-07-18}}
Herman D. Stein, 92, American professor (Case Western Reserve University).{{cite web |url=http://www.cleveland.com/obituaries/index.ssf/2009/10/herman_d_stein_case_western_pr.html |title=Herman D. Stein, Case Western provost, social work leader |work=The Plain Dealer|date=October 2, 2009 }}
Harvey Veniot, 93, Canadian MLA for Pictou West (1956–1974), Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1961–1968).{{cite web |url=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/091004/canada/canada_novascotia_ns_harvey_veniot |title=Harvey Veniot, former N.S. judge and politician, dies |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009183557/http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/091004/canada/canada_novascotia_ns_harvey_veniot |archive-date=2009-10-09}}
Shaun Wylie, 96, British mathematician and World War II codebreaker.{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/shaun-wylie-member-of-bletchley-park-code-breaking-team-gvm3cnrncjz |title=Shaun Wylie: member of Bletchley Park code breaking team |newspaper=The Times |access-date=2020-03-01}}

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Aleksandre Basilaia, 67, Georgian composer.[http://www.interpressnews.ge/en/index.php/permalink/11852.html&hd_line=1 InterpressNews] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004201744/http://www.interpressnews.ge/en/index.php/permalink/11852.html%26hd_line%3D1 |date=2011-10-04}}
Vladimir Beekman, 80, Estonian writer and translator.{{cite web |url=http://uudised.err.ee/index.php?06179640 |title=Suri Vladimir Beekman |language=et |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722042043/http://uudised.err.ee/index.php?06179640 |archive-date=2011-07-22}}
Fernando Caldeiro, 51, Argentine-born American astronaut, brain cancer.{{cite news |url=http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?wcd=145117 |title=Fernando 'Frank' Caldeiro |date=28 September 2011 |newspaper=Galveston Daily News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928060948/http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?wcd=145117 |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 September 2011}}
Fatimah el-Sharif, 98, Libyan Queen of Libya (1951–1969), widow of King Idris I.{{cite web |url=http://www.libya-al-mostakbal.org/taazi2009/031009_queen_fatema.html |title=تعازي الى الأسرة السنوسية والشعب الليبي |language=ar |access-date=2009-10-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006074159/http://libya-al-mostakbal.org/taazi2009/031009_queen_fatema.html |archive-date=2009-10-06}}
Myrtle K. Hilo, 80, Hawaiian taxicab driver and radio personality.{{cite news|title=Obits - Healani Georgiana Hilo Pepee|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/265085091/?terms=Myrtle+K.+Hilo|access-date=June 11, 2018|work=The Honolulu Advertiser |via=Newspapers.com|date=June 8, 1994|page=34}}
Will Inman, 86, American poet, Parkinson's disease.{{Citation|last=Matas |first=Kimberly |title='Community poet' Inman dies at 86; he had unique style |newspaper=The Arizona Daily Star |date=2009-10-06 |url=http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/311993 |accessdate=2009-10-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012033741/http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/311993 |archivedate=October 12, 2009 }}
Robert Kirby, 61, British folk rock arranger.{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/nick-drake-9-1319669 |title=Nick Drake's string arranger Robert Kirby dies |date=8 October 2009 |work=NME}}
Ernie Lopez, 64, American boxer, complications from dementia.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/10/06/ernie_lopez_64_boxer_filled_arenas_with_aggressive_style/ |title=Ernie Lopez, 64; boxer filled arenas with aggressive style |first=Keith |last=Thursby |date=6 October 2009 |work=Boston Globe}}
Reinhard Mohn, 88, German entrepreneur and publisher, founder of Bertelsmann Foundation.{{cite web |url=https://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/news/tod-von-reinhard-mohn-der-bertelsmann-3447134.html |title=Tod von Reinhard Mohn: Der Bertelsmann |work=Stern |date=October 4, 2009 |language=de}}
Michel Nédélec, 69, French Olympic cyclist.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ne/michel-nedelec-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417193433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ne/michel-nedelec-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Michel Nédélec Bio, Stats, and Results}}
Vasile Louis Puscas, 94, American Bishop of St George's in Canton in the Romanian Catholic Church.{{Cite web |url=http://www.romaniancatholic.org/2019/10/a-decade-since-the-passing-of-bishop-louis-puscas/ |title=A decade since the passing of Bishop Louis Puscas |access-date=March 1, 2020 |archive-date=March 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301230118/http://www.romaniancatholic.org/2019/10/a-decade-since-the-passing-of-bishop-louis-puscas/ |url-status=dead }}
Frank Zoppetti, 93, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/inquirer/133967495|title=FRANK ZOPPETTI Obituary (2009) - The Philadelphia Inquirer|website=www.legacy.com}}

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Koichi Haraguchi, 68, Japanese chief of staff, Imperial House of Japan, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/10/06/news/senior-imperial-agency-official-dies-while-climbing-in-niigata/ |title=Senior Imperial agency official dies while climbing in Niigata |date=6 October 2009 |work=The Japan Times}}
Veikko Huovinen, 82, Finnish writer.{{Cite web |url=http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2009/10/veikko-huovinen-1927%E2%80%932009-in-memoriam/ |title=Veikko Huovinen (1927–2009) in memoriam |access-date=2019-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218193406/http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2009/10/veikko-huovinen-1927%E2%80%932009-in-memoriam/ |archive-date=2018-12-18 |url-status=dead}}
Fred Kaan, 80, Dutch-born British clergyman and hymn writer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/25/rev-fred-kaan-obituary |title=The Rev Fred Kaan obituary |first=Paul |last=Oestreicher |date=25 October 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Gerhard Kaufhold, 80, German footballer.{{cite web|url=http://www.op-online.de/sport/kickers-offenbach/kickers-trauern-ehrenspielfuehrer-kaufhold-486120.html|title=Die Kickers trauern um Ehrenspielführer Kaufhold|language=German|work=Offenbach-Post|date=6 October 2009|accessdate=21 February 2012}}
Grace Keagy, 87, American actress, ovarian cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/133558-Grace-Keagy-Stage-Actress-of-Woman-of-the-Year-and-Carmelina-Dies-at-87 |title=Grace Keagy, Stage Actress of Woman of the Year and Carmelina, Dies at 87 |date=6 October 2009 |website=Playbill |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121209103523/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/133558-Grace-Keagy-Stage-Actress-of-Woman-of-the-Year-and-Carmelina-Dies-at-87 |archive-date=9 December 2012}}
Ernő Kolczonay, 56, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning fencer (1980, 1992).{{cite web |url=http://www.origo.hu/sport/egyeb/vivas/20091004-elhunyt-kolczonay-erno-a-magyar-vivosport-kiemelkedo-alakja.html |title=Elhunyt Kolczonay Ernő olimpiai ezüstérmes vívó |website=Origo |language=hu}}

*James Lin Xili, 91, Chinese underground first Bishop of Wenzhou (since 1992), Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=14933 |title=China: underground Bishop of Wenzhou dies |date=5 October 2009 |website=Independent Catholic News}}

Shōichi Nakagawa, 56, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (2008–2009).{{cite web |url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat%3D17%26art_id%3D88700%26sid%3D25596416%26con_type%3D3 |title=Disgraced ex-minister found dead |access-date=2009-10-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604140515/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=17&art_id=88700&sid=25596416&con_type=3 |archive-date=2011-06-04}}
Nikiforos of Didymoteicho, 78, Greek bishop of Didymoteicho.{{cite web |url=http://www.in.gr/news/article.asp?lngEntityID=1060104&lngDtrID=244 |title=Εκοιμήθη ο μητροπολίτης Διδυμοτείχου, Ορεστιάδας και Σουφλίου Νικηφόρος |language=el |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006222536/http://www.in.gr/news/article.asp?lngEntityID=1060104&lngDtrID=244 |archive-date=2009-10-06}}
Günther Rall, 91, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.warbirds-eaa.org/news/2009%20-%2010_06%20-%20Famed%20German%20Ace%20Gunther%20Rall%20Passes%20Away.html |title=Famed German Ace Gunther Rall Passes Away |access-date=November 7, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924221118/http://www.warbirds-eaa.org/news/2009%20-%2010_06%20-%20Famed%20German%20Ace%20Gunther%20Rall%20Passes%20Away.html |archive-date=September 24, 2011 |url-status=dead}}
Mercedes Sosa, 74, Argentinian folk singer, liver failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.france24.com/en/20091004-legendary-folk-singer-mercedes-sosa-dies-74-argentina-entertainment-music |title=Legendary folk singer Mercedes Sosa dies at 74 |website=France 24|date=October 4, 2009 }}
Bronisław Żurakowski, 98, Polish aerospace engineer.{{cite web |url=http://nekrologi.wyborcza.pl/0,11,,5796,Bronis%C5%82aw-%C5%BBurakowski-nekrolog.html |title=Nekrologi: Bronisław Żurakowski |language=pl |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301181652/http://nekrologi.wyborcza.pl/0%2C11%2C%2C5796%2CBronis%C5%82aw-%C5%BBurakowski-nekrolog.html |archive-date=2012-03-01}}

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Armando Acosta Cordero, 88, Cuban guerrilla.{{Cite web|url=http://www.granma.cu/granmad/2009/10/06/nacional/artic08.html|title=Falleció el Comandante del Ejército Rebelde Armando Acosta Cordero}}
Tommy Capel, 87, English footballer (Nottingham Forest).{{cite web |url=http://www.nottinghampost.com/Death-Forest-striker-Tommy-Capel/story-12216775-detail/story.html |title=Death of former Forest striker Tommy Capel |date=6 October 2009 |newspaper=Nottingham Post |access-date=2013-09-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150728065957/http://www.nottinghampost.com/Death-Forest-striker-Tommy-Capel/story-12216775-detail/story.html |archive-date=2015-07-28|url-status=dead}}
Leon Clarke, 76, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), pancreatitis.[https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-passings9-2009oct09-story.html Passings: Leon Clarke]
James Duesenberry, 91, American economist.{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=james-stemble-duesenberry&pid=134117473 |title=James Stemble Duesenberry's Obituary in Boston Globe |website=legacy.com}}
Ron Finley, 76, American football coach (Campbellsville Tigers).[https://www.campbellsville.edu/uncategorized/cu-coach-ron-finley-dies-at-76/ CU Coach Ron Finley Dies at 76]
Israel Gelfand, 96, Russian mathematician.[https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-me-israel-gelfand11-2009oct11-story.html Israel Gelfand dies at 96; Russian mathematician]
Gino Giugni, 82, Italian minister of labor and social security (1993–1994).[https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Giugni_Gino Gino Giugni]
Giselher Klebe, 84, German composer.{{cite web |url=https://www.focus.de/kultur/diverses/musik-komponist-giselher-klebe-gestorben_aid_442072.html |title=Komponist Giselher Klebe gestorben |language=de |website=FOCUS Online}}
David Lake, 66, American winemaker.{{cite web |url=http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2010040677_davidlake11m.html |title=Washington wine pioneer Lake dies at 66 |access-date=2015-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210124524/http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2010040677_davidlake11m.html |archive-date=2015-02-10}}
Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 87, British classical scholar.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/6263156/Professor-Sir-Hugh-Lloyd-Jones.html |title=Professor Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones |work=The Daily Telegraph}}
Brian Powell, 35, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.{{cite web |url=http://www.thepostsearchlight.com/news/2009/oct/06/baseball-star-powell-dead-35/ |title=Baseball star Powell dead at 35 |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012105703/http://www.thepostsearchlight.com/news/2009/oct/06/baseball-star-powell-dead-35/ |archive-date=2009-10-12}}
René Sommer, 58, Swiss inventor, co-inventor of the computer mouse.{{cite web |url=http://worldradio.ch/wrs/news/wrsnews/computer-mouse-inventor-dies-in-vaud.shtml?16283 |title=Computer mouse inventor dies in Vaud |access-date=2009-10-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707010602/http://worldradio.ch/wrs/news/wrsnews/computer-mouse-inventor-dies-in-vaud.shtml?16283 |archive-date=2011-07-07}}
Johnny Williams, 77, English rugby union player.{{cite web |url=http://en.espn.co.uk/england/rugby/player/5808.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415113641/http://en.espn.co.uk/england/rugby/player/5808.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 15, 2016 |title=John Edward Williams |website=ESPN}}

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Jimmy Bates, 99, Australian football player, oldest living Australian Football League player.[https://web.archive.org/web/20150706140340/http://www.essendonfc.com.au/our-club/history/past-player-profiles/past-player-profiles---b Past player profiles: Bates, Jimmy E.]
Pamela Blake, 94, American actress, natural causes.{{cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings10-2009oct10,0,3848402.story |title=Passings: Pamela Blake, Ben Ali |newspaper=Chicago Tribune}}
Douglas Campbell, 87, Scottish-born Canadian actor, complications of diabetes and heart disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Renowned_Actor_Douglas_Campbell_Dead_at_87_20091009 |title=Renowned Actor Douglas Campbell Dead at 87 |website=Broadway World |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091010144053/http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Renowned_Actor_Douglas_Campbell_Dead_at_87_20091009 |archive-date=2009-10-10}}
Raymond Federman, 81, French-born American writer and academic, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/books/13federman.html |title=Raymond Federman, Avant-Garde Novelist and Beckett Scholar, Dies at 81 |date=13 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Aengus Finucane, 77, Irish priest, chief executive of Concern Worldwide (1981–1997).{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1006/finucanea.html |title=Concern's Fr Aengus Finucane dies |website=RTÉ.ie |date=6 October 2009}}
Pyarelal Khandelwal, 84, Indian politician, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.dailyindia.com/show/337887.php |title=Senior BJP leader Pyarelal Khandelwal passes away |work=DailyIndia.com |access-date=November 7, 2009 |archive-date=November 30, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130193448/http://www.dailyindia.com/show/337887.php |url-status=dead }}
Ruth L. Kirschstein, 82, American pathologist.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/16/AR2009101603472.html "Pathologist Helped Ensure Vaccines' Safety"], October 17, 2009, Washington Post
Werner Maihofer, 90, German Minister of the Interior (1974–1978).{{cite web |url=http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news339778 |title=Alt-Rektor der Universität des Saarlandes Professor Werner Maihofer verstorben |website=Informationsdienst Wissenschaft |language=de}}
Donna Mae Mims, 82, American race driver, first female SCCA champion, stroke.[https://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/14/donna-mae-mims-first-female-scca-winner-and-cannonball-run-vet/ Donna Mae Mims, first female SCCA winner and Cannonball Run vet, dead at 82]
Ramanna Rai, 79, Indian politician.{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/former-mp-m-ramanna-rai-passes-away/article29885.ece |title=Former MP M. Ramanna Rai passes away |work=The Hindu}}
Gilberto Zaldívar, 75, American founder of the Repertorio Español, complications of dementia with Lewy bodies.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/arts/08zaldivar.html |title=Gilberto Zaldívar, a Theater Founder, Dies at 75 |date=8 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}

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Ben Ali, 82, American restaurateur (Ben's Chili Bowl), heart failure.
Bikram Keshari Deo, 58, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.{{cite web |url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/senior-orissa-bjp-leader-ex-mp-bk-deo-dead_100257319.html |title=Senior Orissa BJP leader, ex-MP B.K. Deo dead |website=thaindian.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006122704/http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/senior-orissa-bjp-leader-ex-mp-bk-deo-dead_100257319.html |archive-date=2012-10-06}}
Irving Penn, 92, American fashion photographer (Vogue).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/arts/design/08penn.html |title=Irving Penn, Fashion Photographer, Is Dead at 92 |date=8 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Shelby Singleton, 77, American record producer and record label owner (Sun Records), brain cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-shelby-singleton9-2009oct09-story.html |title=Shelby Singleton dies at 77; maverick country music mogul |first=Randy |last=Lewis |work=Los Angeles Times|date=October 9, 2009 }}
Helen Watts, 81, British contralto.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/oct/15/helen-watts-obituary |title=Helen Watts obituary |first=Patrick |last=O'Connor |date=15 October 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Pedro E. Zadunaisky, 91, Argentinian astronomer and mathematician.{{Cite web |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Astronomy-pioneer-Pedro-Elias-Zadunaisky-dies-3213992.php |title=Astronomy pioneer Pedro Elias Zadunaisky dies |date=October 9, 2009 |access-date=2020-03-01}}

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Gordon Boyd, 86, British-born Australian television personality.{{cite web |url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/tv/aussie-tv-great-dies/story-e6frexlr-1225785741885 |title=Aussie TV great dies |work=The Daily Telegraph}}
James Delgrosso, 66, American politician, mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (2003–2004), leukemia.[http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/all-delgrosso-dead-1008cn,0,3231048.story Bethlehem loses longtime leader, James Delgrosso] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091010013030/http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/all-delgrosso-dead-1008cn%2C0%2C3231048.story |date=2009-10-10}}
Gerald Ferguson, 72, American-born Canadian artist.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/conceptual-artist-gerald-ferguson-dies-1.804684 Conceptual artist Gerald Ferguson dies]
Juan Carlos Mareco, 83, Uruguayan actor.{{cite web |url=http://ww17.momento24.com/en/2009/10/08/juan-carlos-mareco-dies-aged-83/ |title=Juan Carlos Mareco dies aged 83 |website=Momento24.com}}
Alex McCrae, 89, Scottish football player (Middlesbrough) and manager (Falkirk).{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alex-mccrae-striker-who-remains-the-last-man-to-score-20-topflight-league-goals-in-a-season-for-middlesbrough-1804387.html |title=Alex McCrae: Striker who remains the last man to score 20 top-flight League goals in a season for Middlesbrough |date=17 October 2009 |work=The Independent}}
Torsten Reißmann, 53, German Olympic judoka.{{Cite web |url=http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/11627719/62449/Torsten-Reissmann-gestorben-JUDO.html |title=Torsten Reissmann gestorben |language=de |access-date=2009-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012033613/http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/11627719/62449/Torsten-Reissmann-gestorben-JUDO.html |archive-date=2009-10-12 |url-status=dead}}
Jean Sage, 68, French racing driver, former sporting director of the Renault F1 team.{{cite web |url=http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21903.html |title=Jean Sage |date=October 8, 2009 |website=Grandprix.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407230916/http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns21903.html |archive-date=2016-04-07}}
Michael Angelo Saltarelli, 77, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilmington (1995–2008), bone cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsalt.html |title=Bishop Michael Angelo Saltarelli Deceased |access-date=December 18, 2018}}
Abu Talib, 70, American blues musician, cancer.[http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/10/11/abu_talib_70_bluesman_who_recorded_as_freddy_robinson/ Abu Talib, 70, bluesman who recorded as Freddy Robinson]
Sir Sydney Walling, 102, Antiguan cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/html/20091010T190000-0500_161495_OBS_ANTIGUA_CRICKETER_SIR_SYDNEY_WALLING_DIES.asp |title=Antigua cricketer Sir Sydney Walling dies |date=14 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091014235221/http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/html/20091010T190000-0500_161495_OBS_ANTIGUA_CRICKETER_SIR_SYDNEY_WALLING_DIES.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 October 2009}}

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Arne Bakker, 79, Norwegian football and bandy player.{{cite web |url=http://www.budstikka.no/sec_sport/article267065.ece |title=Arne Bakker er død |language=no |access-date=2009-10-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20091017033818/http://www.budstikka.no/sec_sport/article267065.ece |archive-date=2009-10-17}}
Francis Baldacchino, 73, Maltese-born Bishop of Malindi, Kenya.{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbald.html |title=Bishop Francis Baldacchino |first=David M. |last=Cheney |work=Catholic-Hierarchy}}
Raymond A. Brown, 94, American lawyer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/nyregion/12brown.html |title=Raymond A. Brown, Civil Rights Lawyer, Dies at 94 |date=12 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Aldo Buzzi, 99, Italian author and architect.{{cite web |url=http://operachic.typepad.com/opera_chic/2009/10/aldo-buzzi-19102009.html |title=Aldo Buzzi, 1910-2009 |website=Opera Chic |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716145143/http://operachic.typepad.com/opera_chic/2009/10/aldo-buzzi-19102009.html |archive-date=2011-07-16}}
Arturo "Zambo" Cavero, 68, Peruvian folk singer, complications from sepsis.{{cite web |url=http://www.livinginperu.com/news/10330 |title=Peru's singer Arturo "Zambo" Cavero died today in Lima |website=Living in Peru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091011044142/http://www.livinginperu.com/news/10330 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-10-11}}
Jacques Chessex, 75, Swiss author, first non-French recipient of the Prix Goncourt, heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/author-jacques-chessex-dies-at-75/31142 |title=Author Jacques Chessex dies at 75|date=October 10, 2009 }}
Anne Friedberg, 57, American professor (USC School of Cinematic Arts), colorectal cancer{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295123/bio |title=Anne Friedberg |website=IMDb}}
Vyacheslav Ivankov, 69, Russian crime figure, gunshot wounds.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/world/europe/14mobster.html |title=For a Departed Mobster, Wreaths and Roses but No Tears |date=14 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Stuart M. Kaminsky, 75, American mystery writer, hepatitis.{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20091011/News/605229340/SH/ |title=Writer placed series in Sarasota |first=Susan L. |last=Rife |website=Herald-Tribune |access-date=March 1, 2020 |archive-date=March 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301230128/https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20091011/News/605229340/SH/ |url-status=dead }}
Barry Letts, 84, British television actor, director and producer (Doctor Who).{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2009/oct/12/barry-letts-obituary |title=Barry Letts obituary |first=Gavin |last=Gaughan |date=12 October 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
John Daido Loori, 78, American Zen Buddhist monk, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.mro.org/daido/ |title=John Daido Loori, Roshi |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091013173733/http://www.mro.org/daido/ |archive-date=2009-10-13}}
Hermann Raich, 75, Austrian Roman Catholic Bishop of Wabag (1982–2008).{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/braich.html |title=Bishop Hermann Raich |first=David M. |last=Cheney |work=Catholic-Hierarchy}}
Louis Sanmarco, 97, French administrator, governor (1954–1957) and High Commissioner (1957–1958) of Ubangi-Shari.{{cite web |url=http://rulers.org/2009-10.html |title=October 2009 |website=rulers.org}}
Richard Sonnenfeldt, 86, German-born American interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from a stroke.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/10/13/richard_sonnenfeldt_nuremberg_interpreter_dies/ |title=Nuremberg war crimes interpreter Sonnenfeldt dies |date=13 October 2009 |work=Boston Globe}}
Dré Steemans, 55, Belgian television and radio host, cardiac arrest.{{cite web |url=http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20091009_012 |title=Felice overleden aan hartinfarct |date=October 8, 2009 |language=nl}}
Horst Szymaniak, 75, German footballer.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.kicker.de/trauer-um-horst-szymaniak-515652/artikel |title=Trauer um Horst Szymaniak |magazine=Kicker Online |language=de}}
Rusty Wier, 65, American country music singer-songwriter, cancer.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rustywier.com/updates.htm |title=Rusty Wier Tribute |access-date=2009-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091122012841/http://www.rustywier.com/updates.htm |archive-date=2009-11-22 |url-status=usurped}}

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Luis Aguilé, 73, Argentine singer and songwriter, stomach cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/10/ap/europe/main5376163.shtml |title=Singer Luis Aguile Has Died |website=CBS News |access-date=2011-04-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130194248/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/10/ap/europe/main5376163.shtml |archive-date=2011-01-30}}
Paul Bloom, 70, American lawyer, recovered $6 billion for the Department of Energy, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/us/13bloom.html |title=Paul L. Bloom, Who Tackled Overcharging by Oil Companies, Dies at 70 |date=13 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Sonny Bradshaw, 83, Jamaican jazz musician, stroke.{{cite web |url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091011T190000-0500_161611_OBS_SONNY_BRADSHAW_IS_DEAD_.asp |title=Sonny Bradshaw Is Dead |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015065034/http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20091011T190000-0500_161611_OBS_SONNY_BRADSHAW_IS_DEAD_.asp |archive-date=2009-10-15}}
Stephen Gately, 33, Irish pop singer (Boyzone), pulmonary edema.{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie:80/news/2009/1013/gatelys.html |title=Boyzone singer died of natural causes |work=RTÉ News |date=16 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016003644/http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1013/gatelys.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 October 2009}}
Larry Jansen, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds), heart failure and pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=4555000 |title=Jansen, winning pitcher in key '51 game, dies |date=13 October 2009 |website=ESPN}}
Joan Orenstein, 85, British-born Canadian actress.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/stage-great-joan-orenstein-dies-at-85-1.821659 Stage great Joan Orenstein dies at 85]
Lionel Pincus, 78, American businessman, founder of Warburg Pincus.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/13/AR2009101303325.html |title=Company Founder Lionel I. Pincus Dies at 78 |date=14 October 2009 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}
Jack Rose, 92, British WWII fighter pilot and colonial administrator.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/6539181/Wing-Commander-Jack-Rose.html |title=Wing Commander Jack Rose |date=10 November 2009 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}
Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, 66, American psychologist, breast cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-carol-tomlinson-keasey13-2009oct13-story.html |title=Carol Tomlinson-Keasey dies at 66; founding chancellor of UC Merced |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |work=Los Angeles Times}}

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Joan Martí i Alanis, 80, Spanish archbishop, Bishop of Urgell and co-Prince of Andorra (1971–2003).{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmaral.html |title=Archbishop Juan Martí Alanis |first=David M. |last=Cheney |work=Catholic-Hierarchy}}
Peter Callanan, 74, Irish politician, member of the Seanad (since 1997).{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1011/callananp.html |title=FF Senator Callanan dies in Co. Cork |website=RTÉ.ie |date=11 October 2009}}
Patrick Hannan, 68, British broadcaster, author and journalist.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8301704.stm |title=Broadcaster Hannan dies aged 68 |website=BBC News}}
Gustav Kral, 26, Austrian footballer, car accident.{{cite web |url=http://www.kleinezeitung.at/nachrichten/chronik/2162846/patricia-kaiser-gustav-kral-verunglueckten-bei-unfall.story |title=Patricia Kaiser überlebt Unfall - ihr Freund stirbt |language=de |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091118054136/http://www.kleinezeitung.at/nachrichten/chronik/2162846/patricia-kaiser-gustav-kral-verunglueckten-bei-unfall.story |archive-date=2009-11-18}}
Abigail McLellan, 40, Scottish artist, multiple sclerosis.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/abigail-mclellan-scottish-artist-celebrated-for-her-use-of-intense-colour-and-pareddown-images-1806204.html |title=Abigail McLellan: Scottish artist celebrated for her use of intense colour and pared-down images |date=21 October 2009 |work=The Independent}}
Veronika Neugebauer, 40, German voice actress, colorectal cancer.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100228075814/http://www.intro.de/news/newsfeatures/23057055/veronika-neugebauer-ist-tot-nachruf-gaby-glockners-stimme-verstummt Veronika Neugebauer ist Tot]
Alan Peters, 76, British furniture designer.{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/node/14793121 |title=Alan Peters, furniture-maker, died on October 11th, aged 76 |access-date=2019-01-18 |newspaper=The Economist |date=2009-11-07}}
Halit Refiğ, 75, Turkish film director, cholangiocarcinoma.{{cite news |url=https://www.milliyet.com.tr/gundem/unlu-yonetmen-halit-refig-yasamini-yitirdi-1148905 |title=Ünlü yönetmen Halit Refiğ yaşamını yitirdi |newspaper=Milliyet |language=tr}}

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Samy Abu Zaid, 30, Egyptian footballer, car accident.{{Cite web |url=http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=60478 |title=FilGoal | News |Asyut captain Abou-Zeid dies in car crash |access-date=September 9, 2021 |archive-date=March 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307184848/http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=60478 |url-status=dead }}
Maurice Agis, 77, British sculptor.{{cite news |url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/breaking-news/2009/10/15/dreamspace-creator-maurice-agis-dies-in-spain-72703-24938842/ |title=Dreamspace creator Maurice Agis dies in Spain |date=15 October 2009 |newspaper=Evening Chronicle}}
Dietrich von Bothmer, 90, German-born American art historian, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/arts/15bothmer.html Dietrich von Bothmer, Curator and Art Historian, Dies at 90]
Alberto Castagnetti, 66, Italian Olympic swimmer, complications from cardiac surgery.{{cite news |url=http://www.gazzetta.it/Sport_Vari/Altri_Sport/Nuoto/12-10-2009/-morto-alberto-castagnetti-501596194838.shtml |title=E' morto Alberto Castagnetti Pellegrini: "Sono sconvolta" |newspaper=La Gazzetta dello Sport |language=it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015094457/http://www.gazzetta.it/Sport_Vari/Altri_Sport/Nuoto/12-10-2009/-morto-alberto-castagnetti-501596194838.shtml |archive-date=2009-10-15}}
Mildred Cohn, 96, American biochemist.{{cite news |url=http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Mildred-Cohn-Biochemist.5826124.jp |title=Mildred Cohn, Biochemist |newspaper=The Scotsman |date=15 November 2009 |access-date=2018-12-18}}
Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 50, Russian film director, script writer and producer, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/9039/ |title=Film Director Mikheil Kalatozishvili Dies of Heart Attack |website=Russia-InfoCentre}}
Donald Kaufman, 79, American toy car collector, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/nyregion/18kaufman.html |title=Donald Kaufman, Collector of Toy Cars, Dies at 79 |date=18 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Brendan Mullen, 60, American punk impresario and club owner (The Masque), stroke.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-brendan-mullen13-2009oct13-story.html |title=Brendan Mullen dies at 60; founder of influential Masque punk rock club |first=Randy |last=Lewis |work=Los Angeles Times}}
Stan Palk, 87, English footballer (Liverpool, Port Vale).{{cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N166087091015-1433.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091126104332/http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N166087091015-1433.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-11-26 |title=RIP Stan Palk: A Former Red Dies |website=Liverpool FC}}
Dickie Peterson, 63, American rock singer (Blue Cheer), liver cancer.{{cite web |url=http://inlog.org/2009/10/12/rip-richard-dickie-peterson-1948-2009/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016113605/http://inlog.org/2009/10/12/rip-richard-dickie-peterson-1948-2009/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 October 2009 |title=R.I.P. Richard 'Dickie' Peterson (Blue Cheer) (1948–2009) |date=12 October 2009 |website=Incubate blog}}
Joe Rosen, 88, American Golden Age comic book letterer.{{cite web |url=http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/joe_rosen_1920_2009/ |title=Joe Rosen, 1920-2009 |website=The Comics Reporter}}
Frank Vandenbroucke, 34, Belgian cyclist, pulmonary embolism.[http://www.bicycling.com/article/0,6610,s1-3-9-21081-1,00.html Frank Vandenbrouke Dead at 34] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208120835/http://bicycling.com/article/0%2C6610%2Cs1-3-9-21081-1%2C00.html |date=2010-02-08}}
Ian Wallace, 90, British bass-baritone singer.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/10/the_death_of_ian_wallace.shtml |title=PM: The death of Ian Wallace |first=Eddie |last=Mair |website=BBC Radio 4}}

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Stephen Barnett, 73, American legal scholar, opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/us/22barnett.html |title=Stephen Barnett, a Leading Legal Scholar, Dies at 73 |date=22 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Cullen Bryant, 58, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), natural causes.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-cullen-bryant16-2009oct16-story.html |title=Cullen Bryant dies at 58; former L.A. Rams running back |first=Sam |last=Farmer |work=Los Angeles Times}}
Rodger Doxsey, 62, American physicist and astronomer, cancer.[http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/10/20/rodger_doxsey_62_helped_extend_hubble_telescopes_life/ Rodger Doxsey, 62; helped extend Hubble telescope's life]
Richard Foster, 63, American member of the Alaska House of Representatives, heart and kidney disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.adn.com/2009/10/13/972725/longtime-nome-legislator-richard.html |title=Longtime Nome legislator Richard Foster dies in Seattle |date=29 July 2012 |newspaper=Anchorage Daily News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729183529/http://www.adn.com/2009/10/13/972725/longtime-nome-legislator-richard.html |archive-date=29 July 2012}}
Eugene Maxwell Frank, 101, American bishop of The Methodist Church.{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kansascity/obituary-preview.aspx?n=eugene-maxwell-frank&pid=134414924 |title=Eugene Maxwell Frank's Obituary in Kansas City Star |website=legacy.com}}
Atle Jebsen, 73, Norwegian shipowner and businessman, traffic collision.{{cite news |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3319767.ece |title=Skipsreder Atle Jebsen omkom i bilulykke |language=no |access-date=2009-10-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017062751/http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3319767.ece |archive-date=2009-10-17}}
William Wayne Justice, 89, American federal judge.[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/us/16justice.html William Wayne Justice, Judge Who Remade Texas, Dies at 89]

*Lü Zhengcao, 104, Chinese general, last survivor of the original Shang Jiang.{{cite web |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/14/content_12226766.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021043043/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/14/content_12226766.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-10-21 |title=Last of New China's first generals passes away |website=Xinhua News Agency}}

Winston Mankunku Ngozi, 66, South African saxophonist{{cite news |url=http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-10-13-jazz-maestro-winston-mankunku-ngozi-dies-aged-66 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015091522/http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-10-13-jazz-maestro-winston-mankunku-ngozi-dies-aged-66 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-10-15 |title=Jazz maestro Winston Mankunku Ngozi dies aged 66 |first=Niren |last=Tolsi |work=Mail & Guardian}}
Al Martino, 82, American singer and actor (The Godfather), first person to top the UK Singles Chart.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/arts/music/15martino.html |title=Al Martino, Singer of Pop Ballads, Is Dead at 82 |work=The New York Times|date=October 14, 2009 |last1=Velez |first1=A. E. }}
Daniel Melnick, 77, American studio executive, film producer and television producer, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-daniel-melnick15-2009oct15-story.html |title=Daniel Melnick dies at 77; film and TV producer helped launch 'Get Smart,' 'Network,' 'Kramer vs. Kramer' |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}
Paul Barbă Neagră, 80, Romanian film director and essayist.{{cite web |url=http://www.evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/871518/A-murit-Paul-Barbaneagra/ |title=A murit Paul Barbăneagră |language=ro |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016052409/http://www.evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/871518/A-murit-Paul-Barbaneagra |archive-date=2009-10-16}}
Roger Nixon, 88, American composer, complications from leukemia.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/17/BAEC1A69I9.DTL |title=SFSU composer Roger Nixon dies |work=San Francisco Chronicle}}
Nan C. Robertson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, heart disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/nyregion/15robertson.html |title=Nan Robertson, Pulitzer-Winning Times Reporter, Dies at 83 |date=15 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Orane Simpson, 26, Jamaican football player, stabbed.{{cite news |url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/power/13453 |title=Tivoli Baller Orane Simpson Is Dead |newspaper=The Gleaner |access-date=2020-03-01}}
Richard T. Whitcomb, 88, American aeronautical engineer, pneumonia{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125556173987086009 |title=He Sparked Supersonic Flight With a Coke Bottle and File |first=Stephen |last=Miller |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=October 15, 2009}}
Werner Zandt, 81, German Olympic sprinter.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/za/werner-zandt-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417224402/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/za/werner-zandt-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Werner Zandt |website=Sports-reference.com |access-date=2019-01-18}}

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Lou Albano, 76, American professional wrestler and manager, actor (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.gmanews.tv:80/story/174674/pro-wrestler-music-video-icon-albano-dies-at-76 |title=Pro wrestler, music video icon Albano dies at 76 |work=GMA News |date=19 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019113744/http://www.gmanews.tv/story/174674/pro-wrestler-music-video-icon-albano-dies-at-76 |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 October 2009}}
Wilf K. Backhaus, 62, Canadian role-playing game designer.{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/calgaryherald/obituary.aspx?n=wilfried-backhaus&pid=134479022 |title=Wilfried Backhaus's Obituary in Calgary Herald |website=legacy.com}}
Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche, 82, Brazilian Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Maria (1969–1971) and Porto Alegre (1971–2001).{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcheuiche.html |title=Bishop Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche |first=David M. |last=Cheney |work=Catholic-Hierarchy}}
Fred Cress, 71, British-born Australian artist, Archibald Prize winner (1988), pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/15/2714521.htm?section=australia |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722033938/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/15/2714521.htm?section=australia |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 22, 2012 |title=Renowned artist Cress dies at 71 |date=15 October 2009 |website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation}}
Roy Lane, 74, British hillclimbing competitor, peritonitis.{{cite web |url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79454 |title=British hillclimb legend Roy Lane dies |first=Kevin |last=Turner |work=Autosport}}
C. B. Muthamma, 85, Indian first female diplomat and ambassador.{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/C-B-Muthamma-passes-away/articleshow/5125226.cms |title=C B Muthamma passes away |newspaper=The Times of India}}
Willard Varnell Oliver, 88, American Navajo code talker.{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_code_talker_oliver |title=Navajo Nation mourns passing of Code Talker |access-date=2017-01-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091020014439/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_code_talker_oliver |archive-date=2009-10-20}}
Martyn Sanderson, 71, New Zealand actor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring).{{cite web |url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0910/S00279.htm |title=Well loved NZ Actor – Martyn Sanderson Dies |access-date=2020-03-01}}
Bruce Wasserstein, 61, American investment banker and businessman, arrhythmia.{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125555000403285585 |title=Wasserstein Dies, Leaves Deal-Making Legacy |first1=Dennis K. |last1=Berman |first2=Jeffrey |last2=McCracken |first3=Randall |last3=Smith |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=October 15, 2009}}
Collin Wilcox, 74, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird), brain cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/arts/television/22wilcox.html |title=Collin Wilcox, Actress in 'Mockingbird', Dies at 74 |date=22 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Leo Williams, 68, Australian rugby union official.{{cite news |url=http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-sport/former-rugby-official-leo-williams-dies-20091015-gz31.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026194021/http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-sport/former-rugby-official-leo-williams-dies-20091015-gz31.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-10-26 |title=Former rugby official Leo Williams dies |work=Brisbane Times}}

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George P. Jenkins, 94, American chairman of Metlife, assisted expansion of ABC and Pan Am, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/business/17jenkins.html |title=George P. Jenkins, 94, Former MetLife Chairman, Dies |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=16 October 2009 |newspaper=The New York Times}}
Josias Kumpf, 84, Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard.{{cite web |url=http://www.profil.at/articles/0942/560/253597/exklusiv-kz-waechter-josias-kumpf-wiener-spital |title=Exklusiv: KZ-Wächter Josias Kumpf in Wiener Spital verstorben |work=Profil |language=de |date=16 October 2009 |access-date=November 7, 2009 |archive-date=October 20, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091020092857/http://www.profil.at/articles/0942/560/253597/exklusiv-kz-waechter-josias-kumpf-wiener-spital |url-status=dead }}
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 70, American New Age religious leader, co-founder of The Summit Lighthouse, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/us/17prophet.html |title=Elizabeth Prophet, 70, Church Founder, Is Dead |date=17 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Tollak B. Sirnes, 86, Norwegian physician, psychiatrist and pharmacologist.{{cite web |url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Tollak_B_Sirnes/utdypning |title=Tollak B. Sirnes |work=Norsk biografisk leksikon |language=no |date=September 29, 2014}}
George Tuska, 93, American comic book artist (Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Teen Titans).{{cite web |url=http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/george_tuska_1916_2009/ |title=George Tuska, 1916-2009 |website=The Comics Reporter}}
Heinz Versteeg, 70, Dutch football player, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/xanten/770540/Heinz-Versteeg-gestorben.html |title=Fußball: Heinz Versteeg gestorben |work=Rheinische Post |language=de |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130220174313/http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/xanten/770540/Heinz-Versteeg-gestorben.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-20}}
Philip L. White, 86, American historian, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/2009/10/17/1017white.html?cxtype%3Drss%26cxsvc%3D7%26cxcat%3D52 |title=Philip White was 'unsung hero' in transforming city's Democratic politics |work=Austin American-Statesman |access-date=2012-02-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607061128/http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/2009/10/17/1017white.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=52 |archive-date=2011-06-07}}

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Bob Davis, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative for Michigan (1979–1993), heart and kidney failure.[https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/63445-former-rep-bob-davis-dies-at-77 Former Rep. Bob Davis dies at 77]
Inglis Drever, 10, British hurdles racehorse, euthanised.{{cite news |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/other/2009/1016/1224256865840.html |title=Hurdle champion Inglis Drever dies |newspaper=The Irish Times}}
Jose Herrera, 67, Venezuelan baseball player.{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/h/herrejo01.shtml |title=José Herrera |website=Baseball-reference.com}}
Meilė Lukšienė, 96, Lithuanian cultural historian, member of the Sąjūdis.{{cite web |url=http://m.lrytas.lt/-12556801411254590040-mir%C4%97-literat%C5%ABrolog%C4%97-kult%C5%ABros-istorik%C4%97-edukolog%C4%97-m-j-luk%C5%A1ien%C4%97.htm |title=Mirė literatūrologė, kultūros istorikė, edukologė M.J.Lukšienė |language=lt |access-date=2009-11-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722151654/http://m.lrytas.lt/-12556801411254590040-mir%C4%97-literat%C5%ABrolog%C4%97-kult%C5%ABros-istorik%C4%97-edukolog%C4%97-m-j-luk%C5%A1ien%C4%97.htm |archive-date=2011-07-22}}
Andrés Montes, 53, Spanish sports commentator.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A58463201 |title=Andrés Montes dies aged 53 |website=BBC 606 |access-date=11 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223231220/http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A58463201 |archive-date=23 February 2017 |url-status=dead}}
Marian Przykucki, 85, Polish Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień (1992–1999).{{cite web |url=http://www.szczecin.kuria.pl/index.php?art_id=711 |title=Zmarł Ksiądz Arcybiskup Senior Marian Przykucki |website=Kuria Metropolitalna Szczecińsko-Kamieńska |language=pl}}
John Ramsden, 61, British historian.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/6399885/Professor-John-Ramsden.html |title=Professor John Ramsden |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=October 21, 2009}}

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Dame Doreen Blumhardt, 95, New Zealand potter.{{cite web |url=http://www.tributes.co.nz/PrintTribute.aspx?id=4480 |title=In Memory of Dame Vera Doreen Blumhardt |website=Tributes Online}}
Carla Boni, 84, Italian singer.{{cite news |url=http://roma.corriere.it/roma/notizie/cronaca/09_ottobre_17/addio_carla_boni_mambo_italiano-1601889252821.shtml |title=Addio Carla Boni, regina del Mambo italiano |newspaper=Corriere della Sera |language=it}}
Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, 88, British diplomat and politician.{{cite web |title=Baroness Elles |website=The Daily Telegraph |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211014420/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/6462457/Baroness-Elles.html |archive-date=2022-12-11 |url-status=live |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/6462457/Baroness-Elles.html}}
Ian Hagemoen, 68, Canadian football player (death announced on this date).{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/vancouversun/obituary.aspx?n=ian-roger-hagemoen&pid=134523467|title = Ian Hagemoen Obituary (2009) - the Vancouver Sun}}
Jay Johnson, 66, American U.S. Representative for Wisconsin (1997–1999), U.S. Mint Director (2000–2001), heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/local/green_bay/local_wluk_greenbay_former_congressman_dies_101820091606_rev1 |title=Former Congressman Jay Johnson dies |access-date=2009-10-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091020134037/http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/local/green_bay/local_wluk_greenbay_former_congressman_dies_101820091606_rev1 |archive-date=2009-10-20}}
Vladimir Kashpur, 82, Russian film actor, People's Artist of Russia.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/entertainment/2009/10/091018_kashpur.shtml |title=Умер российский актер Владимир Кашпур |language=ru |website=BBC Russian Service|date=October 18, 2009 }}
Kazuhiko Katō, 62, Japanese musician (The Folk Crusaders, Sadistic Mika Band), suicide by hanging.{{cite web |url=http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=465626 |title=Musician Kazuhiko Kato found hanged at Karuizawa hotel |website=Kyodo News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021052402/http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=465626 |archive-date=2009-10-21}}
Louisa Mark, 49, British lovers rock singer, complications from a stomach ulcer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/nov/04/louisa-mark-obituary |title=Louisa Mark obituary |first=David |last=Katz |date=4 November 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Norma Fox Mazer, 78, American author, brain cancer.{{cite web |url=http://jacketknack.blogspot.com/2009/10/norma-fox-mazer-1931-2009.html |title=Norma Fox Mazer 1931-2009 |author=Julie |date=17 October 2009 |website=Jacket Knack |access-date=November 7, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708043410/http://jacketknack.blogspot.com/2009/10/norma-fox-mazer-1931-2009.html |archive-date=July 8, 2011 |url-status=dead}}
Vic Mizzy, 93, American composer (The Addams Family, Green Acres).{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2009/music/markets-festivals/composer-vic-mizzy-dies-at-93-1118010124/ |title=Composer Vic Mizzy dies at 93 |first=Jon |last=Burlingame |date=20 October 2009 |work=Variety}}
Rosanna Schiaffino, 69, Italian film actress, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/nov/17/rosanna-schiaffino-obituary |title=Rosanna Schiaffino obituary |first=John Francis |last=Lane |date=17 November 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Sheldon Segal, 83, American reproductive biologist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/health/21segal.html |title=Sheldon J. Segal, Developer of Contraceptives Like Norplant, Dies at 83 |first=William |last=Grimes |date=20 October 2009 |newspaper=The New York Times}}
Michael Shea, 71, British diplomat, press secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1978–1987), dementia.{{cite web |title=Michael Shea obituary |date=2009-10-21 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221109171537/https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/oct/21/michael-shea-obituary |archive-date=2022-11-09 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/oct/21/michael-shea-obituary}}
Brian Campbell Vickery, 91, British information scientist.{{cite web |url=http://www.soic.indiana.edu/news/story.html?ils_id=2132 |title=Remembering a Colleague: Brian Vickery |website=Indiana University School of Informatics |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105015626/http://www.soic.indiana.edu/news/story.html?ils_id=2132 |archive-date=2014-11-05}}

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Ion Cojar, 78, Romanian actor and film director, Parkinson's disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.realitatea.net/a-murit-actorul-si-regizorul-ion-cojar_643566.html |title=A murit actorul şi regizorul Ion Cojar |website=Realitatea.net |date=October 18, 2009 |language=ro}}
Ruth Duckworth, 90, American sculptor.{{Cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obit-duckworth-21-oct21,0,2021310.story |title=Ruth Duckworth, 1919-2009: Sculptor whose works adorn University of Chicago, Art Institute |access-date=2009-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091024061142/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obit-duckworth-21-oct21,0,2021310.story |archive-date=2009-10-24 |url-status=dead}}
Ha Bik Chuen, 83-84, Hong Kong painter.{{Cite web|url=http://www.aaa.org.hk/Collection/CollectionOnline/SpecialCollectionFoldero/2512|title=Asia Art Archive - Ha Bik Chuen Archive}}
Jasper Howard, 20, American football player, stabbed.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=4576659 |title=Teammates tended to UConn CB after stabbing |date=19 October 2009 |website=ESPN}}
Lenore Kandel, 77, American poet, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/21/BAN61A8O9A.DTL |title=Lenore Kandel - 'The Love Book' author - dies |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=October 22, 2009}}
Leonard B. Keller, 62, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, motorcycle accident.{{Cite news |url=http://www.pnj.com/article/20091019/NEWS01/91019020 |title=Milton Medal of Honor winner killed in bike crash |newspaper=Pensacola News Journal |access-date=2009-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022074449/http://pnj.com/article/20091019/NEWS01/91019020 |archive-date=2009-10-22 |url-status=dead}}
Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 89, British author and journalist, pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/6374967/Sir-Ludovic-Kennedy.html |title=Sir Ludovic Kennedy |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=19 October 2009 |access-date=19 January 2019}}
Adriaan Kortlandt, 91, Dutch biologist.{{cite news |url=http://www.nrc.nl/necrologieen/2009/article2393990.ece/Adriaan_Kortlandt_1918-2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091030114930/http://www.nrc.nl/necrologieen/2009/article2393990.ece/Adriaan_Kortlandt_1918-2009 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-10-30 |title=Adriaan Kortlandt (1918-2009): Enfant terrible van de gedragsbiologie |newspaper=NRC Handelsblad |language=nl}}
Ovidiu Mușetescu, 54, Romanian politician, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.realitatea.net/ovidiu-musetescu--fostul-ministru-al-privatizarii-in-guvernul-nastase--a-murit-in-aceasta-dupa-masa_643702.html |title=Ovidiu Muşetescu, fostul ministru al Privatizării în Guvernul Năstase, a murit duminică după-masă |website=Realitatea.net |date=October 18, 2009 |language=ro}}
Ignacio Ponseti, 95, Spanish physician and inventor (Ponseti method).[https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-me-ignacio-ponseti27-2009oct27-story.html Dr. Ignacio Ponseti dies at 95; invented nonsurgical treatment for clubfoot]
Nancy Spero, 83, American artist, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/arts/design/20spero.html |title=Nancy Spero, Artist of Feminism, Is Dead at 83 |date=20 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Basie Vivier, 82, South African rugby union player, captain of the Springboks (1956).{{cite news |url=http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global%5B_id%5D=29718 |title=Former Bok captain Basie Vivier dies after notable career |newspaper=The Witness |access-date=November 7, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716055114/http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global%5B_id%5D=29718 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |url-status=dead}}

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Moni Fanan, 63, Israeli basketball team manager, suicide by hanging.{{cite web |url=https://www.jpost.com/Sports/Mac-TA-icon-Fanan-commits-suicide-157944 |title=Mac TA icon Fanan commits suicide |access-date=December 18, 2018}}
Werner Heubeck, 85, German-born British managing director of Ulsterbus and Citybus, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8315235.stm |title=Boss who took bombs off buses dies |website=BBC News}}
Joe Hutton Jr., 81, American basketball player, heart attack.[https://www.twincities.com/2009/10/22/joe-hutton-jr-former-minneapolis-lakers-standout-and-high-school-basketball-coach-dies-at-81/ Joe Hutton Jr., former Minneapolis Lakers standout and high school basketball coach, dies at 81]
Sushila Kerketta, 71, Indian politician, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/jharkhand/sushila-kerketta-passes-away/cid/584323 |title=Sushila Kerketta passes away |newspaper=The Telegraph}}
Vladimír Klokočka, 80, Czech politician and jurist, signatory to Charter 77 manifesto.{{cite web |url=http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/czech-legal-expert-charter-77-signatory-klokocka-dies/403375 |title=Czech legal expert, Charter 77 signatory Klokocka dies}}
Shlomo Lorincz, 91, Hungarian-born Israeli politician, heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133932 |title=Long-time Agudat Yisrael MK Rabbi Shlomo Lorentz has passed away at the age of 91 |date=October 19, 2009 |access-date=December 18, 2018}}
Milun Marović, 62, Serbian Olympic basketball player.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/milun-marovic-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418100132/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/milun-marovic-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Milun Marović Bio |website=Sports-reference.com}}
Reg McKay, 56, British journalist and crime fiction writer, brain and lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2009/10/20/crimewriter-and-daily-record-columnist-reg-mckay-dies-of-cancer-aged-56-86908-21760230/ |title=Crimewriter and Daily Record columnist Reg McKay dies of cancer aged 56 |first=Chris |last=Musson |date=19 October 2009 |work=Daily Record}}
Angelo Musi, 91, American basketball player.{{cite web |url=http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Angelo-Musi-87001518 |title=Angelo Musi |website=Tributes.com}}
Nimma Raja Reddy, 72, Indian politician.{{cite web |url=http://thatstelugu.oneindia.in/news/2009/10/19/ex-minister-nimma-raji-reddy-dead-191009.html |title=మాజీ మంత్రి నిమ్మ రాజిరెడ్డి మృతి |language=te |date=October 19, 2009 |access-date=May 30, 2010 |archive-date=October 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002115536/http://thatstelugu.oneindia.in/news/2009/10/19/ex-minister-nimma-raji-reddy-dead-191009.html |url-status=dead }}
Alberto Testa, 82, Italian composer and lyricist.{{cite web |url=http://www.lastampa.it/redazione/cmsSezioni/spettacoli/200910articoli/48525girata.asp |title=Testa? Grande grande grande |language=it |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025075337/http://www.lastampa.it/redazione/cmsSezioni/spettacoli/200910articoli/48525girata.asp |archive-date=2009-10-25}}
Radu Timofte, 60, Romanian intelligence officer, director of the Serviciul Român de Informaţii (2001–2006), leukemia.{{cite web |url=http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1085434&lang=eng_news |title=Former Romanian spy chief Radu Timofte dies |website=Taiwan News |access-date=November 7, 2009 |archive-date=June 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604131732/http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1085434&lang=eng_news |url-status=dead }}
Howard Unruh, 88, American spree killer.{{cite news |url=http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20091019_Notorious_Camden_killer_Unruh_dies_at_88.html |title=Notorious Camden killer Unruh dies at 88 |first1=Joseph A. |last1=Gambardello |first2=Barbara |last2=Boyer |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer}}
Joseph Wiseman, 91, Canadian actor (Dr. No).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/arts/20wiseman.html |title=Joseph Wiseman, James Bond's Dr. No, Dies at 91 |date=20 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}

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Margaret Bisbrown, 90, British Olympic diver.{{Cite web|url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/46978|title = Olympedia – Margaret Bisbrown}}
Yvonne Carter, 50, British general practitioner and medical academic, breast cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/newsandevents/warwickpeople/profyvonnecarter |title=Professor Yvonne Carter|website=University of Warwick}}
Attila Dargay, 83, Hungarian animator.{{cite web |url=http://index.hu/kultur/cinematrix/ccikkek/2009/10/22/meghalt_dargay_attila/ |title=Meghalt Dargay Attila |website=Index |language=hu |date=October 22, 2009}}
Colin Douglas-Smith, 91, Australian Olympic rower.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/do/colin-douglas-smith-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418072137/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/do/colin-douglas-smith-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Colin Douglas-Smith Bio, Stats, and Results |website=Sports-reference.com |access-date=2019-01-19}}
Clifford Hansen, 97, American politician, Governor of Wyoming (1963–1967) and U.S. Senator (1967–1978).{{cite web |url=http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com:80/archive/2009/10/21/2105191.aspx |title=Remembering Cliff Hansen |website=MSNBC First Read |date=25 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025103726/http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/10/21/2105191.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 October 2009}}
Robert C. Lautman, 85, American architectural photographer.{{cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=robert-c-lautman&pid=135417421 |title=Robert C. Lautman |website=Legacy.com}}
Carl Fredrik Lowzow, 82, Norwegian politician.{{cite web |url=http://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=CALO&tab=Biography |title=Lowzow, Carl Fredrik (1927-2009) |website=Stortinget |date=March 9, 2008 |language=no}}
Charles Mills, 88, American painter.[http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fort-lauderdale/sfl-mills-obit-b102109,0,6474487.story Painter of black experience Charles Mills dies] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091024000146/http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fort-lauderdale/sfl-mills-obit-b102109%2C0%2C6474487.story |date=2009-10-24}}
Doreen Reid Nakamarra, 54, Australian Aboriginal artist, pneumonia.{{Cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26279269-5006789,00.html |title=Celebrated Aboriginal artist dead at 50 |newspaper=The Australian |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121215181646/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26279269-5006789,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-15}}
Jef Nys, 82, Belgian comic book artist (Jommeke).{{cite web |url=http://www.knack.be/kanaal/mensen/striptekenaar-jef-nys-overleden/site72-section9-article41203.html |title=Stripauteur Jef Nys overleden |language=nl |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023071824/http://www.knack.be/kanaal/mensen/striptekenaar-jef-nys-overleden/site72-section9-article41203.html |archive-date=2009-10-23}}
Sultan Pepper, 47, American comedy writer, Emmy Award winner (The Ben Stiller Show).{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/comedy-writer-sultan-pepper-dies-91092 |title=Comedy writer Sultan Pepper dies |work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=November 9, 2009 }}
Yuri Ryazanov, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, traffic collision.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/gymnastics/8316898.stm |title=Gymnast Ryazanov killed in crash |website=BBC Sport|date=October 20, 2009 }}
Winai Senniam, 51, Thai parliamentarian, liver and colon cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/157593/democat-mp-winai-senniam-dies |title=Democrat MP Winai Senniam dies |date=October 20, 2009 |work=Bangkok Post |access-date=January 19, 2019}}

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Andrey Balashov, 63, Russian Olympic silver (1976) and bronze (1980) medal-winning sailor.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/andrey-balashov-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418074856/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/andrey-balashov-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Andrey Balashov Bio, Stats, and Results}}
Louise Cooper, 57, British novelist, aneurysm.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/12/louise-cooper-obituary |title=Louise Cooper obituary |first=Emily |last=Thomas |date=12 November 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Lionel Davidson, 87, British novelist, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/arts/01davidson.html |title=Lionel Davidson, British Writer of Well-Traveled Thrillers, Dies at 87 |date=1 November 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Clinton Ford, 77, British singer.{{cite web |url=http://www.isleofman.com/news/article.aspx?article=21523&area=2 |title=Death of Island resident Clinton Ford |website=Isle of Man News}}
John Jarman, 78, Welsh football player (Barnsley, Walsall) and coach.{{cite web |url=http://www.mansfieldtown.net/page/NewsDetail/0,,10325~1834730,00.html |title=Minute's silence for Mr Jarman tomorrow |date=5 August 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805112030/http://www.mansfieldtown.net/page/NewsDetail/0,,10325~1834730,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 August 2012}}
Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail, 71, British judge and legal scholar.[https://www.sln.law.ed.ac.uk/2009/10/25/lord-macphail/ Lord Macphail]
Paul Massey, 83, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) rower.{{cite web |url=https://funeral-notices.co.uk/West+Midlands-West+Midlands-Birmingham/death-notices/notice/MASSEY/1224010 |title=Paul Massey |website=Funeral Notices.co.uk}}
Yōko Minamida, 76, Japanese actress.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2009/biz/news/yoko-minamida-dies-at-76-1118010614/ |title=Yoko Minamida dies at 76 |date=October 29, 2009 |last=Saperstein |first=Pat |work=Variety |access-date=19 January 2019}}
Jack Nelson, 80, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (1960), pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jack-nelson22-2009oct22-story.html |title=Jack Nelson dies at 80; Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter helped raise L.A. Times to national prominence |first=Elaine |last=Woo |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 16, 2014}}
Redmond O'Neill, 55, British political activist.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/oct/27/redmond-oneill-obituary |title=Redmond O'Neill obituary |first=Ken |last=Livingstone |date=27 October 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Sirone, 69, American jazz musician.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2009/10/sirone_revolutionary_bassist_d.html |title=Sirone, 'Revolutionary' Bassist, Dies |website=NPR|date=October 23, 2009 |last1=Gotrich |first1=Lars }}
Ted Sizer, 77, American education reformer, colorectal cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/education/23sizer.html |title=Theodore R. Sizer, Leading Education-Reform Advocate, Dies at 77 |date=23 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Giuliano Vassalli, 94, Italian politician.{{cite news |url=http://www.corriere.it/cronache/09_ottobre_23/vassalli-giurista-deceduto_61fcd646-bfad-11de-856b-00144f02aabc.shtml |title=È morto Giuliano Vassalli |newspaper=Corriere della Sera |language=it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026085632/http://www.corriere.it/cronache/09_ottobre_23/vassalli-giurista-deceduto_61fcd646-bfad-11de-856b-00144f02aabc.shtml |archive-date=2009-10-26}}

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Maryanne Amacher, 66, American experimental composer, sound artist, and installation artist, complications from a stroke.{{cite news |url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2009/10/23/radical-sound-artist-maryanne-amacher-dies |title=Radical Sound Artist Maryanne Amacher Dies |first=Peter |last=Margasak |newspaper=Chicago Reader}}
Paul Andrews, 53, Australian politician, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,26250095-5017005,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091030121017/http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,26250095-5017005,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-10-30 |title=Labor pays tribute to MP Paul Andrews |website=Perth Now}}
Nicholas Atkin, 49, British historian, meningitis.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-nick-atkin-celebrated-scholar-of-french-and-catholic-history-1823797.html |title=Professor Nick Atkin: Celebrated scholar of French and Catholic history |date=20 November 2009 |work=The Independent}}
Daniel Bekker, 77, South African boxer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.{{cite web |url=http://www.fightnews.com/?p=27361#more-27361 |title=SA super amateur passes |date=23 October 2009 |website=Fightnews.com |archive-date=30 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730083623/http://www.fightnews.com/?p=27361%23more-27361 |url-status=dead}}
Ray B. Browne, 87, American educator, scholar of popular culture.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110604033439/http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/ohio-prof-who-pioneered-study-of-pop-culture-dies-363420.html Ohio prof who pioneered study of pop culture dies]
Pierre Chaunu, 86, French historian.{{cite news |url=https://next.liberation.fr/culture/2009/10/24/deces-de-l-historien-pierre-chaunu_589796 |title=Décès De L'Historien Pierre Chaunu |newspaper=Libération |language=fr}}
Howard Darwin, 78, Canadian sports promoter, founder of the Ottawa 67's, complications from heart surgery.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-67s-hockey-founder-howard-darwin-dies-1.849215 Ottawa '67s hockey founder Howard Darwin dies]
Luther Dixon, 78, American songwriter.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/nov/11/luther-dixon-obituary |title=Luther Dixon obituary |first=Garth |last=Cartwright |date=11 November 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Evert Heinström, 97, Finnish Olympic athlete.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/he/evert-heinstrom-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181905/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/he/evert-heinstrom-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Evert Heinström Bio, Stats, and Results |website=Sports-reference.com |access-date=2019-01-20}}
Ray Lambert, 87, Welsh footballer (Liverpool, Wales).{{cite news |url=http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2009/10/22/former-liverpool-fc-league-title-winner-ray-lambert-dies-100252-24994367/ |title=Former Liverpool FC league title winner Ray Lambert dies |newspaper=Liverpool Daily Post}}
Don Lane, 75, American-born Australian entertainer, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/don-lane-dead-at-75-20091022-hane.html |title=Tributes flow for entertainer who reinvented variety |work=Brisbane Times}}
Don Ivan Punchatz, 73, American science fiction artist, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/arts/02punchatz.html |title=Don Ivan Punchatz, Fantasy Illustrator, Dies at 73 |newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 2, 2009 |last1=Heller |first1=Steven }}
Herman Reich, 91, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians).{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nctimes/obituary.aspx?n=herman-charles-reich&pid=135114949 |title=Herman Reich Obituary |website=Legacy.com |access-date=2018-12-18}}
Maciej Rybiński, 64, Polish journalist and publicist.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1329532/bio |title=Maciej Rybinski |website=IMDb}}
Soupy Sales, 83, American comedian and television host, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/6693846/Soupy-Sales.html |title=Soupy Sales |date=2009-11-30 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=2019-01-20}}
Enver Shehu, 75, Albanian football player and manager.[https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=19107 Enver Shehu]

*Suchart Chaovisith, 69, Thai politician, Finance Minister (2003–2004) and Deputy Prime Minister (2004), laryngeal cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/26113/suchart-69-dies-of-cancer |title=Suchart, 69, dies of cancer |date=23 October 2009 |newspaper=Bangkok Post}}

Libero Tresoldi, 88, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Crema.{{cite news |url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/milano/è_morto_monsignor_tresoldi_anni_abate_santambrogio/comune_milano-attualitã-tettamanzi-ambrogio/22-10-2009/articolo-id=393046-page=0-comments=1 |title=È morto monsignor Tresoldi, per anni abate di Sant'Ambrogio |newspaper=Il Giornale |language=it}}
Albert Watson, 91, English footballer (Huddersfield Town, Oldham Athletic).{{cite web |url=http://announce.jpress.co.uk/3032569 |title=Albert Watson : Obituary |access-date=2010-01-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728031959/http://announce.jpress.co.uk/3032569 |archive-date=2011-07-28}}
Elmer Winter, 97, American founder of Manpower Inc.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/business/30winter.html |title=Elmer Winter, 97, Co-Founder of Manpower Temp Agency, Dies |date=30 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
George Patrick Ziemann, 68, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Santa Rosa.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-patrick-ziemann23-2009oct23-story.html |title=G. Patrick Ziemann dies at 68; embattled former Roman Catholic bishop of Santa Rosa diocese |first=Duke |last=Helfand |work=Los Angeles Times}}

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Linda Day, 71, American television director, leukemia and breast cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tv-director-linda-day-dies-90512 |title=TV director Linda Day dies |work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=October 26, 2009 }}
Trevor Denning, 86, British artist.{{cite news |url=https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/birmingham-born-artist-trevor-denning-dies-3938782 |title=Birmingham-born artist Trevor Denning dies |newspaper=Birmingham Post}}
Suhrab Faqir, 75, Pakistani folk singer, kidney disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page%3D2009%5C10%5C24%5Cstory_24-10-2009_pg12_6 |title=Folk singer passes away |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607035640/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C10%5C24%5Cstory_24-10-2009_pg12_6 |archive-date=2011-06-07}}
Chris Hawk, 58, American surfer, oral cancer.{{cite web |url=http://cbs2.com/local/Chris.Hawk.Surfer.2.1269130.html |title=Legendary Surfer Chris Hawk Dies At 58 |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028021110/http://cbs2.com/local/Chris.Hawk.Surfer.2.1269130.html |archive-date=2009-10-28}}
Lou Jacobi, 95, Canadian-born American actor (The Diary of Anne Frank).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/nyregion/25jacobi.html |title=Lou Jacobi, Critically Acclaimed Actor of Film and Stage, Dies at 95 |date=25 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Ture Kailo, Vanuatuan politician and member of parliament.{{cite web |url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=49868 |title=Vanuatu MP Cailo dies in Australia |date=23 October 2009 |website=RNZI |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531163534/http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=49868 |archive-date=31 May 2012}}
John Kenley, 103, American summer theater producer, complications of pneumonia.{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_en_ot/us_obit_kenley |title=Summer theater producer John Kenley dies at 103 |date=1 November 2009 |website=Yahoo! News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091101070643/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_en_ot/us_obit_kenley |archive-date=2009-11-01}}
Ken Perkins, 83, British army general.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/6539178/Major-General-Ken-Perkins.html Major-General Ken Perkins]
Jack Poole, 76, Canadian real estate developer, pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-olympic-chairman-poole-dies-1.805811 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091024172316/https://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/10/23/jack-poole-obit.html |url-status=live |archive-date=2009-10-24 |title=Vancouver Olympic chairman Poole dies |website=CBC}}
Ron Sobieszczyk, 75, American basketball player (DePaul Blue Demons, New York Knicks), degenerative brain disease.{{Cite web |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obit-sobieszczyk-25oct25,0,3672470.story |title=Ron Sobieszczyk, 1934-2009: Former DePaul basketball standout, played in NBA |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=2009-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091102195359/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obit-sobieszczyk-25oct25,0,3672470.story |archive-date=2009-11-02 |url-status=dead}}

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Bill Chadwick, 94, American hockey official and broadcaster.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/sports/hockey/27chadwick.html |title=Bill Chadwick, Hockey Referee and Broadcaster, Dies at 94 |date=27 October 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Yasuo Iwata, 67, Japanese actor, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://mainichi.jp/select/person/news/20091026k0000m060028000c.html |title=訃報：岩田安生さん６７歳＝俳優 |language=ja |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029083542/http://mainichi.jp/select/person/news/20091026k0000m060028000c.html |archive-date=2009-10-29}}
Norman Levitt, 66, American mathematician.{{Citation

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Karl Reisinger, 73, Austrian Olympic judoka.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/re/karl-reisinger-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418064205/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/re/karl-reisinger-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Karl Reisinger Bio, Stats, and Results |website=Sports-reference.com |access-date=2019-01-20}}

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Yoshiteru Abe, 68, Japanese professional Go player.{{Cite web |url=http://www.asahi.com/obituaries/update/1026/TKY200910250353.html |title=囲碁棋士九段、安倍吉輝さん死去 |language=ja |access-date=2010-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029150228/http://www.asahi.com/obituaries/update/1026/TKY200910250353.html |archive-date=2009-10-29 |url-status=dead}}
Dee Anthony, 83, American music manager, pneumonia.{{cite news |url=http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20091028_Dee_Anthony___Managed_musicians__83.html |title=Dee Anthony - Managed musicians, 83 |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer}}
Maksharip Aushev, 43, Russian political activist and opposition leader in Ingushetia, businessman (Ingushetia.org), shot.{{cite news |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/russia/opposition-head-killed-in-russias-ingushetia-51274.html |title=Opposition head killed in Russia's Ingushetia |date=25 October 2009 |newspaper=Kyiv Post}}
Adoor Bhavani, 82, Indian actress.[https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/Adoor-Bhavani-passes-away/article16888528.ece Adoor Bhavani passes away]
Billy Bibit, 59, Filipino soldier and coup d'état leader, complications from a stroke.{{cite web |url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/10/26/09/ex-coup-leader-billy-bibit-dies |title=Ex-coup leader Billy Bibit dies |website=ABS-CBN News|date=October 26, 2009 }}
Camillo Cibin, 83, Italian former commander of the Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City.{{cite web |url=http://www.kathnews.de/content/index.php/2009/10/25/schutzengel-des-papstes-gestorben/ |title="Schutzengel" des Papstes gestorben: Camillo Cibin ist tot |language=de |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719051512/http://www.kathnews.de/content/index.php/2009/10/25/schutzengel-des-papstes-gestorben/ |archive-date=2011-07-19}}
Fritz Darges, 96, German World War II Waffen-SS officer.{{cite news |url=http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/2009/10/29/adolf-hitlers-letzter-adjutant/fritz-darges-ist-tot.html |title=Adolf Hitlers letzter Adjutant Fritz Darges ist tot |newspaper=Bild |language=de |access-date=November 7, 2009 |archive-date=October 31, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091031063028/http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/2009/10/29/adolf-hitlers-letzter-adjutant/fritz-darges-ist-tot.html |url-status=dead }}
Seymour Fromer, 87, American founder of Judah L. Magnes Museum.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-seymour-fromer8-2009nov08-story.html |title=Seymour Fromer dies at 87; founder of Jewish museums |first=Elaine |last=Woo |work=Los Angeles Times}}
Leslie A. Geddes, 88, American electrical engineer and physiologist.[https://archive.today/20130127030438/http://www.indystar.com/article/20091026/BUSINESS/91026010/Purdue+biomedical+pioneer+dies Purdue biomedical pioneer dies]
Lawrence Halprin, 93, American architect (Ghirardelli Square, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial).{{Cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2009%2F10%2F26%2FBA8O1AAR25.DTL |title=Lawrence Halprin - landscape architect - dies |access-date=2019-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620111008/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2009%2F10%2F26%2FBA8O1AAR25.DTL |archive-date=2012-06-20 |url-status=dead}}
Gerhard Knoop, 88, Norwegian theatre director.{{cite web |url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Gerhard_H_Knoop/utdypning |title=Gerhard H Knoop |website=Norsk biografisk leksikon |date=February 25, 2020 |language=no}}
Chittaranjan Kolhatkar, 86, Indian actor, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_veteran-marathi-actor-kolhatkar-dies-at-86_1303128 |title=Veteran Marathi actor Kolhatkar dies at 86 |date=26 October 2009 |work=Daily News and Analysis}}
S. Ashok Kumar, 62, Indian jurist.{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article169351.ece |title=Former judge Ashok Kumar dead |work=The Hindu}}
René Marigil, 81, Spanish cyclist.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=3478 |title=René Marigil Domingo |website=Cycling Archives}}
Mike McQueen, 52, American journalist, Associated Press bureau chief for Louisiana and Mississippi, cancer.[http://www.sfltimes.com/news/top-notch-journalist-mike-mcqueen-remembered "Top-Notch Journalist" Mike Mcqueen Remembered]
Ingeborg Mello, 90, Argentinian Olympic athlete.{{cite web |url=http://www.cada-atletismo.org/noticias.php?id%3D466%26categoria%3Ddetalle |title=El adiós a Ingeborg Mello |language=es |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091112193018/http://www.cada-atletismo.org/noticias.php?id=466&categoria=detalle |archive-date=2009-11-12}}
Heinz-Klaus Metzger, 77, German music critic.[https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buehne-und-konzert/zum-tod-von-heinz-klaus-metzger-er-war-ein-schriftgelehrter-im-grandhotel-abgrund-1870721.html Zum Tod von Heinz-Klaus Metzger: Er war ein Schriftgelehrter im Grandhotel Abgrund] {{in lang|de}}
Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya.[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bperez.html Bishop Lázaro Pérez Jiménez]
Alexander Piatigorsky, 80, Russian-born British philosopher.{{cite news |url=http://www.svoboda.org/a/1860754.html |title=Александр Пятигорский искал "адекватную форму существования для своего мышления" |newspaper=Радио Свобода |date=October 26, 2009 |language=ru}}
Jeffry Picower, 67, American philanthropist, associate of Bernard Madoff, drowned after heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_bi_ge/us_madoff_associate_death |title=Police: Madoff associate Jeffry Picower dies at 67 |access-date=2017-01-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028030014/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_bi_ge/us_madoff_associate_death |archive-date=2009-10-28}}
Kamala Sankrityayan, 89, Indian writer and litterateur.{{Cite web |url=http://www.darjeelingtimes.com/news/News/Dr-Kamala-Sanskritayan-passes-away.html |title=Dr. Kamala Sanskritayan passes away |access-date=2009-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004173359/http://www.darjeelingtimes.com/news/News/Dr-Kamala-Sanskritayan-passes-away.html |archive-date=2011-10-04 |url-status=dead}}
Tangi Satyanarayana, 78, Indian politician, speaker of the Vidhan Sabha of Andhra Pradesh (1983–1985).{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Former-speaker-Satyanaryana-dies/articleshow/5161478.cms |title=Former speaker Satyanaryana dies |newspaper=The Times of India}}
Thea Segall, 80, Romanian photographer who lived in Venezuela since 1958 until her death.{{cite book|title=Thea Segall. Tiempo, memoria e imagen|date=29 October 2017|publisher=Fundación Trasnocho Cultural|isbn=978-980-6654-56-3|page=3}}
Kevin Widemond, 23, American basketball player, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/kevin_widemond_basketball_play.html |title=Kevin Widemond, basketball player from Newark, dies during game in Portugal |work=The Star-Ledger}}

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Daniel Acharuparambil, 70, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop of Verapoly (since 1996), kidney failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/article38639.ece |title=Archbishop passes away |work=The Hindu}}
Teel Bivins, 61, American member of the Texas Senate (1989–2004), Ambassador to Sweden (2004–2006).[https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2009/10/26/former-sen-teel-bivins-dead-at-61/ Former Sen. Teel Bivins dead at 61]
Sabino Fernández Campo, 1st Count of Latores, 91, Spanish Chief of the Royal House, key figure in failed 23-F coup d'état.[https://elpais.com/elpais/2009/10/26/actualidad/1256548617_850215.html Muere Sabino Fernández Campo, fiel consejero del Rey durante el 23-F]
Lea Fite, 54, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (since 2002), apparent seizure.{{cite web |url=http://blog.al.com/live/2009/10/alabama_rep_lea_fite_of_jackso.html |title=Alabama Rep. Lea Fite of Jacksonville dies after apparent seizure |website=Al.com|date=October 26, 2009 }}
Bill Kirk, 75, American baseball player.[http://www.thedeadballera.com/passings.html The Dead Ball Era] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710061458/http://www.thedeadballera.com/passings.html |date=2010-07-10 }}
Fred McCarthy, 91, American cartoonist.{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/palmbeachpost/obituary.aspx?n=frederick-f-mccarthy&pid=135061212 |title=Frederick F. McCarthy's Obituary in The Palm Beach Post |website=Legacy.com}}
Yoshirō Muraki, 85, Japanese film production designer and art director, heart failure.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0613499/ Yoshirō Muraki]
George Naʻope, 81, American musician and hula expert, founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2009/10october/20091027napoe.htm |title=Hawaiian legend George Na'ope passes away |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029190608/http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2009/10october/20091027napoe.htm |archive-date=2009-10-29}}
Troy Smith, 87, American businessman, founder of Sonic Drive-In chain, natural causes.{{cite news |url=http://newsok.com/sonic-founder-troy-smith-dies-at-87/article/3412576 |title=Sonic founder Troy Smith dies at 87 |date=28 October 2009 |newspaper=The Oklahoman}}

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Tapani Aartomaa, 75, Finnish professor and graphic designer.{{cite web |url=http://www.marmai.fi/uutiset/article341934.ece |title=Tapani Aartomaa on kuollut |language=fi |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091101134224/http://www.marmai.fi/uutiset/article341934.ece |archive-date=2009-11-01}}
Frank Brady Jr., 64, Irish footballer (Shamrock Rovers), cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/1027/bradyf.html |title=Death of '68 Cup winner Frank Brady |website=RTÉ.ie |access-date=2009-10-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091030043445/http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/1027/bradyf.html |archive-date=2009-10-30}}
John David Carson, 57, American actor (Falcon Crest).{{cite web |url=http://www.famousmonstersoffilmland.com/empire-of-the-ants-actor-john-david-carson-dies/ |title='Empire of the Ants' Actor John David Carson Dies |access-date=2010-01-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710224244/http://www.famousmonstersoffilmland.com/empire-of-the-ants-actor-john-david-carson-dies/ |archive-date=2011-07-10}}
August Coppola, 75, American writer, literature professor and father of Nicolas Cage, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-august-coppola30-2009oct30-story.html |title=August Coppola dies at 75; professor was father of Nicolas Cage and brother of Francis Ford Coppola |first=Claire |last=Noland |work=Los Angeles Times}}
Roy DeCarava, 89, American photographer.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-me-roy-decarava29-2009oct29-story.html |title=Roy DeCarava dies at 89; art photographer depicted the African American experience |first=Mary |last=Rourke |work=Los Angeles Times}}
Alex Harris, 34, Australian paralympian swimmer, gold medalist (2004), suicide by train.{{Cite news |url=http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2009/10/28/116025_opinion.html |title=Tragic end to a brave life |access-date=2009-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091031092400/http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2009/10/28/116025_opinion.html |archive-date=2009-10-31 |url-status=dead}}
David Shepherd, 68, British cricketer and umpire, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/6452514/David-Shepherd-Test-cricket-umpire-dies-at-68.html |title=David Shepherd, Test cricket umpire, dies at 68 |first=Simon |last=Briggs |work=The Daily Telegraph}}
Paul Zamecnik, 96, American molecular biologist.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/6545715/Lives-Remembered.html |title=Lives Remembered: Paul Zamecnik |work=The Daily Telegraph}}

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Olga Kevelos, 85, British motorcycle trials rider.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/sport-obituaries/6664072/Olga-Kevelos.html |title=Olga Kevelos |work=The Daily Telegraph}}
Leslie King, 59, Trinidadian Olympic cyclist.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ki/leslie-king-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418121907/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ki/leslie-king-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Leslie King Bio, Stats, and Results |website=Sports-reference.com}}
Paul Manz, 90, American Lutheran organist and composer.{{cite web |url=http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/67394222.html |title=Organist Manz was the 'dean of church music' |website=Star Tribune |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091103111912/http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/67394222.html |archive-date=2009-11-03}}
Taylor Mitchell, 19, Canadian singer–songwriter, coyote attack.{{Cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/coyote-attack-silences-emerging-toronto-talent-1.808491 |title=Coyote attack silences emerging Toronto talent |access-date=2009-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091031124428/https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/coyote-attack-silences-emerging-toronto-talent-1.808491 |archive-date=2009-10-31 |url-status=dead}}
Jerry Morris, 99, British epidemiologist.{{cite news |url=http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Jeremy-Morris-epidemiologist.5853982.jp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091127053023/http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Jeremy-Morris-epidemiologist.5853982.jp |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-11-27 |title=Jeremy Morris, epidemiologist |newspaper=The Scotsman |access-date=2018-12-18}}
Ted Nebbeling, 65, Dutch-born Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA (1996–2005), Mayor of Whistler, colon cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.dailyxtra.com/ted-nebbeling-dies-11744 |title=Ted Nebbeling dies |website=Daily Xtra}}

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Russell L. Ackoff, 90, American organizational theorist, complications from surgery.{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-brant/russell-ackoff---the-eins_b_341349.html |title=Russell Ackoff, "Einstein of Problem Solving," Has Died |first=Steven |last=Brant |date=1 November 2009 |work=The Huffington Post}}

*Bei Shizhang, 106, Chinese biologist and educator.{{cite web |url=http://english.ibp.cas.cn/ns/es/200910/t20091030_46517.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221020706/http://english.ibp.cas.cn/ns/es/200910/t20091030_46517.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 21, 2010 |title=Obituary: Shizhang Bei, 106 |website=Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences }}

Jean-François Bergier, 77, Swiss historian.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/6502884/Jean-Francois-Bergier.html |title=Jean-Francois Bergier |work=The Daily Telegraph}}
Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak, 86, Polish Olympic skier.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/jan-gasienica-ciaptak-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418094334/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/jan-gasienica-ciaptak-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak Bio, Stats, and Results |website=Sports-reference.com |access-date=2019-01-21}}
Charles E. Conrad, 84, American acting coach, kidney failure.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/acting-teacher-charles-conrad-dies-1118011129/ |title=Acting teacher Charles Conrad dies |date=10 November 2009 |work=Variety}}
San'yūtei Enraku V, 76, Japanese comedian (Shōten), lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.themoneytimes.com/20091102/comedian-sanyutei-enraku-dead-76-id-1089549.html |title=Comedian Sanyutei Enraku dead at 76 |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721203736/http://www.themoneytimes.com/20091102/comedian-sanyutei-enraku-dead-76-id-1089549.html |archive-date=2011-07-21}}
Gino Fracas, 79, Canadian football player.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/former-cfler-gino-fracas-dies-at-79-1.806122 |title=Former CFLer Gino Fracas dies at 79 |website=CBC}}
Olav Hodne, 88, Norwegian missionary.[https://snl.no/Olav_Hodne Olav Hodne] {{in lang|no}}
June Maule, 92, American businesswoman, owner of Maule Air.{{cite web |url=http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2009/091030maule.html |title=Matriarch of Maule Air dies at 92 |date=30 October 2009 |website=AOPA}}
John O'Quinn, 68, American lawyer, traffic collision.{{cite web |url=http://www.law.com/jsp/tx/PubArticleTX.jsp?id=1202435034392&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1 |title=Legal Community Stunned By Death Of John O'Quinn |website=Law.com}}
Norman Painting, 85, British radio actor (The Archers), heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6462279/Norman-Painting-star-of-The-Archers-dies-aged-85.html |title=Norman Painting, star of The Archers, dies aged 85 |work=The Daily Telegraph}}
Jürgen Rieger, 63, German lawyer and politician (NPD), stroke.{{cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/prominenter-rechtsextremist-npd-vizechef-rieger-ist-tot-a-658206.html |title=Prominenter Rechtsextremist: NPD-Vizechef Rieger ist tot |website=Spiegel Online |date=October 29, 2009 |language=de|last1=Röbel |first1=Sven }}
Beat Rüedi, 89, Swiss Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) ice hockey player.{{cite web |url=http://www.hockeyfans.ch/news/datum/2009/10/30/25228 |title=Beat Rüedi gestorben |website=Hockeyfans.ch |language=de}}
Alexander Schure, 89, American academic, founder of NYIT, Chancellor of NSU (1970–1985), Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-schure-obit-20091123,0,1622342.story |title=NSU's former chancellor, Alexander Schure, dies |newspaper=Sun-Sentinel |access-date=November 24, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012152211/http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-schure-obit-20091123,0,1622342.story |archive-date=October 12, 2012 |url-status=dead}}
Dave Treen, 81, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (1980–1984), respiratory disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.wdsu.com/politics/21462922/detail.html |title=Former Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen Dead At 81 |access-date=2009-10-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927230211/http://www.wdsu.com/politics/21462922/detail.html |archive-date=2011-09-27}}

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Juvenal Amarijo, 85, Brazilian football player, respiratory failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.listown.com/answer/juvenal-amarijo-died-at-86-291 |title=Juvenal Amarijo died at 86 |website=ListOwn.com |access-date=2009-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091228113645/http://www.listown.com/answer/juvenal-amarijo-died-at-86-291 |archive-date=2009-12-28 |url-status=dead}}
Norton Buffalo, 58, American singer-songwriter, blues harmonica player (Steve Miller Band), lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091101/ENTERTAINMENT/911019986/1320?Title%3DLocal-harmonica-legend-Norton-Buffalo-dies |title=Local harmonica legend Norton Buffalo dies |access-date=2009-11-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930090154/http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091101/ENTERTAINMENT/911019986/1320?Title=Local-harmonica-legend-Norton-Buffalo-dies |archive-date=2011-09-30}}
Ramata Diakité, 32–33, Malian Wassoulou musician, hepatitis A.{{cite web |url=http://worldmusic.about.com/b/2009/11/02/ramata-diakite-1976-2009.htm |title=Ramata Diakite, 1976-2009 |website=worldmusic.about.com |access-date=2009-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091110120648/http://worldmusic.about.com/b/2009/11/02/ramata-diakite-1976-2009.htm |archive-date=2009-11-10 |url-status=dead}}
Forest Evashevski, 91, American football coach (Iowa Hawkeyes), cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=4611947 |title=Former Iowa football coach Evashevski dies |date=1 November 2009 |website=ESPN}}
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, French anthropologist and author.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/europe/04levistrauss.html |title=Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, Dies; Altered Western Views of the 'Primitive' |date=4 November 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Michelle Triola Marvin, 76, American plaintiff in landmark 'palimony' lawsuit (Marvin v. Marvin), lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-michelle-triola-marvin31-2009oct31-story.html |title=Michelle Triola Marvin dies at 75; her legal fight with ex-lover Lee Marvin added 'palimony' to the language |first=Elaine |last=Woo |work=Los Angeles Times}}
June Middleton, 83, Australian with polio, world's longest survivor in an iron lung.{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/iron-lung-woman-dies/news-story/562a1a95d64fbe2e211689502a8322ac |title=Iron lung woman dies |date=31 October 2009 |newspaper=Herald Sun}}
Alick Rowe, 70, British television and radio writer, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/4747540.Writer__Alick_Rowe__dies_in_Thailand/ |title=Writer, Alick Rowe, dies in Thailand |newspaper=Hereford Times}}
Howie Schultz, 87, American baseball and basketball player, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.startribune.com/obituaries/67634007.html |title=Former Hamline standout played pro baseball and basketball |date=3 February 2013 |newspaper=Star Tribune |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203023021/http://www.startribune.com/obituaries/67634007.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 February 2013}}
František Veselý, 65, Czech football player.{{cite web|url=http://www.radio.cz/en/section/news/football-legend-frantisek-vesely-dies-at-65 |title=Football legend František Veselý dies at 65 |website=Radio Prague|date=October 30, 2009 }}
Igor Vyazmikin, 43, Russian ice hockey player.{{cite web |url=http://www.fhr.ru/content/news/4697.html |title=Игорь Вязьмикин Умер |website=Ice Hockey Federation of Russia |language=ru |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091107063005/http://www.fhr.ru/content/news/4697.html |archive-date=2009-11-07}}
Eugenia A. Wordsworth-Stevenson, Liberian diplomat.{{cite web |last=|first=|title=AMBASSADOR EUGENIA WORDSWORTH STEVENSON|publisher=TLC Africa|date=|url=https://www.tlcafrica2.com/death_stevenson_eugenia.htm |accessdate=August 10, 2022}}

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Roque Antonio Adames Rodríguez, 81, Dominican Roman Catholic Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros.{{cite web |url=http://www.elnacional.com.do/nacional/2009/10/31/30613/Fallece-monsenor-Roque-Adames-tenia-81-anos |title=Fallece monseñor Roque Adames, tenia 81 años |language=es |access-date=2009-11-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091104043448/http://www.elnacional.com.do/nacional/2009/10/31/30613/Fallece-monsenor-Roque-Adames-tenia-81-anos |archive-date=2009-11-04}}
Tim Bickerstaff, 67, New Zealand radio personality.{{cite web |url=http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/talkback-personality-tim-bickerstaff-dies-3105959 |title=Radio talkback personality Tim Bickerstaff dies |date=4 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604081306/http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/talkback-personality-tim-bickerstaff-dies-3105959 |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 June 2010}}

*Chen Lin, 39, Chinese pop singer, suicide by jumping.{{cite news |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2009/11/178_54675.html |title=China's Top Singer Jumps to Death |date=1 November 2009 |work=The Korea Times}}

Hugh Dinwiddy, 97, British cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/432679.html |title=Hugh Dinwiddy dies aged 97 |website=ESPNcricinfo}}
Stanley Ellis, 83, British linguistics scholar.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/nov/13/stanley-ellis-obituary |title=Stanley Ellis obituary |first=Jack Windsor |last=Lewis |date=13 November 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Harry Gauss, 57, Canadian soccer coach, brain cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/remembering/obituary.aspx?pid=135250728 |title=Harry Paul Gauss |website=Legacy.com |date=October 31, 2009 |access-date=2020-03-01}}
Pat Keysell, 83, British television presenter.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/dec/18/pat-keysell-obituary |title=Pat Keysell obituary |first=Alistair |last=McGown |date=18 December 2009 |work=The Guardian}}

*Lee Hu-rak, 85, South Korean spy chief, Director of the National Intelligence Service (1970–1973), brain tumor.{{cite news |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/11/113_54621.html |title=Ex-Spy Chief Lee Dies at 85 |date=31 October 2009 |work=The Korea Times}}

Mustafa Mahmoud, 87, Egyptian scientist, author and philosopher.{{cite web |url=http://ara.reuters.com/article/topNews/idARACAE59U09U20091031 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091103074046/http://ara.reuters.com/article/topNews/idARACAE59U09U20091031 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-11-03 |title=وفاة المفكر والكاتب المصري مصطفى محمود عن 88 عاما |website=Reuters |language=ar}}
John Mason, 89, British historian and librarian.{{cite journal |url=http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/newsletter-mich-2009.pdf |title=In Memoriam John Mason: Librarian of Christ Church 1962-1987 |journal=Christ Church Library Newsletter |volume=6 |issue=1 |date=2009 |issn=1756-6797 |access-date=2018-12-18 |archive-date=April 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426042745/http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/newsletter-mich-2009.pdf |url-status=dead }}

*Qian Xuesen, 97, Chinese scientist and co-founder of the JPL.{{cite web |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/31/content_12365319.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091103071526/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/31/content_12365319.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-11-03 |title=China's "father of space technology" dies at 98 |website=Xinhua News Agency}}

Steve Reid, 94, American football player (Northwestern Wildcats).[http://nusports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/103109aaa.html College Football Hall of Famer Steve Reid, 94, Dies Saturday] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091105044417/http://nusports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/103109aaa.html |date=2009-11-05}}
Neguinho do Samba, 54, Brazilian percussionist, founder of Olodum, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/arts/music/10souza.html |title=Antonio Luis Alves de Souza, Brazilian Drummer, Dies at 54 |date=10 November 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Jan Wejchert, 59, Polish businessman and media mogul, co-founder of ITI Group, co-owner of TVN, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/2069930,11,zmarl_jan_wejchert,item.html |title=Zmarł Jan Wejchert |language=pl |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091103082808/http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/2069930%2C11%2Czmarl_jan_wejchert%2Citem.html |archive-date=2009-11-03}}
Tom Wheatcroft, 87, British businessman, owner of Donington Park race circuit.{{cite web |url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79938 |title=Donington owner Tom Wheatcroft dies |first=Edd |last=Straw |work=Autosport|date=November 2009 }}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2009-10-01,2009-10-31&adult=include List of October 2009 deaths] at IMDb

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