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===1901–present=== *[[1928]] – [[Larry Semon]], American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1889) *[[1931]] – [[John Monash]], Australian general and engineer (born 1865) *[[1936]] – [[Premchand]], Indian author and screenwriter (born 1880) * 1936 – [[Red Ames]], American baseball player and manager (born 1882) * 1936 – [[Ahmet Tevfik Pasha]], Ottoman politician, 292nd [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] (born 1845) * 1936 – [[William Henry Stark]], American businessman (born 1851) *[[1942]] – [[Sergey Chaplygin]], Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (born 1869) *[[1944]] – [[Wendell Willkie]], American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1892) *[[1945]] – [[Felix Salten]], Austrian author and critic (born 1869) *[[1952]] – [[Joe Adams (baseball)|Joe Adams]], American baseball player and manager (born 1877) *[[1953]] – [[Nigel Bruce]], British actor (born 1895) * 1953 – [[Kathleen Ferrier]], English soprano (born 1912) *[[1955]] – [[Iry LeJeune]], American accordion player (born 1928) *[[1958]] – [[Ran Bosilek]], Bulgarian author and translator (born 1886) *[[1963]] – [[Remedios Varo]], Spanish-Mexican painter (born 1908) *[[1967]] – [[Clement Attlee]], English soldier, lawyer, and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (born 1883) *[[1970]] – [[Jean Giono]], French author and poet (born 1895) *[[1973]] – [[Gabriel Marcel]], French philosopher, playwright, and critic (born 1889) *[[1977]] – [[Giorgos Papasideris]], Greek singer-songwriter (born 1902) *[[1978]] – [[Bertha Parker Pallan]], American archaeologist (born 1907) *[[1979]] – [[Brian Edmund Baker]], English air marshal (born 1896) * 1979 – [[Jayaprakash Narayan]], Indian politician (born 1902) *[[1982]] – [[Fernando Lamas]], Argentinian-American actor and director (born 1916) * 1982 – [[Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker]], English runner and politician, [[Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1889) *[[1983]] – [[Joan Hackett]], American actress (born 1934) *[[1985]] – [[Malcolm Ross (balloonist)|Malcolm Ross]], American captain, physicist, and balloonist (born 1919) * 1985 – [[Gordon Welchman]], English-American mathematician and scholar (born 1906) *[[1987]] – [[Konstantinos Tsatsos]], Greek scholar and politician, 2nd [[President of Greece]] (born 1899) *[[1992]] – [[Willy Brandt]], German lawyer and politician, 4th [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic)|Chancellor of Germany]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1913) *1992 – [[Robert Berdella]], American serial killer, torturer, and rapist (born 1949)<ref>{{cite web|title=KC True Crime Bob Berdella|work=[[The Kansas City Star]]|date=2014-07-10|url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/kc-true-crime/article704522.html|access-date=18 August 2024}}</ref> *[[1994]] – [[Oscar M. Ruebhausen]], American lawyer (born 1912) *[[1995]] – [[Christopher Keene]], American conductor and educator (born 1946) *[[1997]] – [[Bertrand Goldberg]], American architect, designed the [[Marina City|Marina City Building]] (born 1913) *[[1999]] – [[John McLendon]], American basketball player and coach (born 1915) *[[2000]] – [[Charlotte Lamb]], English author (born 1937) *[[2001]] – [[Dmitry Polyansky]], [[First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union]] (born 1917) *[[2002]] – [[Phyllis Calvert]], English actress (born 1915)<ref>{{cite web |title=Phyllis Calvert {{!}} British actress |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phyllis-Calvert |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=28 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref> * 2002 – [[Jacques Richard]], Canadian ice hockey player (born 1952) *[[2004]] – [[James Chace]], American historian and author (born 1931) *[[2006]] – [[Mark Porter (racing driver)|Mark Porter]], New Zealand race car driver (born 1974) *[[2007]] – [[Constantine Andreou]], Greek painter and sculptor (born 1917) *[[2008]] – [[Ângelo Carvalho]], Portuguese footballer (born 1925) * 2008 – [[Bob Friend (newscaster)|Bob Friend]], English journalist (born 1938) * 2008 – [[Eileen Herlie]], Scottish-American actress (born 1918) * 2008 – [[George Emil Palade]], Romanian-American biologist and physician, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1912) *[[2010]] – [[Frank Bourgholtzer]], American journalist (born 1919) * 2010 – [[Eileen Crofton]], British physician and author (born 1919)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Lady Eileen Crofton, MBE, Doctor and founder of Action on Smoking and Health |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-lady-eileen-crofton-mbe-doctor-and-founder-of-action-on-smoking-and-health-1-824570 |website=www.scotsman.com |access-date=9 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[2011]] – [[Al Davis]], American football player, coach, and manager (born 1929) * 2011 – [[Mikey Welsh]], American guitarist and painter (born 1971) * 2011 – [[Roger Williams (pianist)|Roger Williams]], American pianist (born 1924) *[[2012]] – [[Varsha Bhosle]], Indian singer and journalist (born 1956) * 2012 – [[Marilou Diaz-Abaya]], Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1955) * 2012 – [[Eric Lomax]], Scottish captain and author (born 1919) * 2012 – [[Nawal Kishore Sharma]], Indian politician, 20th [[List of Governors of Gujarat|Governor of Gujarat]] (born 1925) *[[2013]] – [[Philip Chevron]], Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1957) * 2013 – [[Paul Desmarais]], Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1927) * 2013 – [[Rod Grams]], American journalist and politician (born 1948) * 2013 – [[Rodolphe Kasser]], Swiss archaeologist and philologist (born 1927) * 2013 – [[Andy Pafko]], American baseball player and manager (born 1921) * 2013 – [[Akong Rinpoche]], Tibetan-Chinese spiritual leader (born 1939) *[[2014]] – [[Morris Lurie]], Australian author and playwright (born 1938) * 2014 – [[Alden E. Matthews]], American missionary (born 1921) * 2014 – [[Harden M. McConnell]], American chemist and academic (born 1927) * 2014 – [[Zilpha Keatley Snyder]], American author (born 1927) * 2014 – [[Jeen van den Berg]], Dutch speed skater (born 1928) *[[2015]] – [[Richard Davies (Welsh actor)|Richard Davies]], Welsh-English actor (born 1926) * 2015 – [[Jim Diamond (singer)|Jim Diamond]], Scottish singer-songwriter (born 1951) * 2015 – [[Dennis Eichhorn]], American author and illustrator (born 1945) * 2015 – [[Lindy Infante]], American football player and coach (born 1940) * 2015 – [[Paul Prudhomme]], American chef and author (born 1940) *[[2020]] – [[Whitey Ford]], American professional baseball pitcher (born 1928)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://uk.reuters.com/news/picture/notable-deaths-in-2020-idUSRTS30YSX|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408210155/https://uk.reuters.com/news/picture/notable-deaths-in-2020-idUSRTS30YSX|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-08|title= Notable deaths in 2020|website=Reuters|access-date=2020-10-23}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Pat Fischer]], American football player (born 1940)<ref name="Shapiro">{{cite news |last=Shapiro |first=Leonard |date=October 8, 2024 |title=Pat Fischer, undersized NFL defensive back, dies at 84 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/10/08/pat-fischer-obituary/ |url-access=limited |accessdate=October 9, 2024 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> *2024 – [[Tim Johnson (South Dakota politician)|Tim Johnson]], American lawyer and politician (born 1946)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Risen |first=Clay |date=October 10, 2024 |title=Tim Johnson, Senator Who Came Back From an Aneurysm, Dies at 77 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/us/politics/tim-johnson-dead.html |access-date=October 11, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> *2024 – [[Luis Tiant]], Cuban baseball player (born 1940)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Close |first=David |last2=Schlachter |first2=Thomas |date=October 8, 2024 |title=Famed Cuban, MLB pitcher Luis Tiant dies at 83 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/sport/cuban-mlb-pitcher-luis-tiant-dies-spt-intl/index.html |access-date=October 9, 2024 |website=[[CNN]] |language=en}}</ref>
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