Deaths in History
Deaths 401 - 500 of 616
- Sep 5 Francis Showering, English brewer, dies at 83
- Sep 5 John Britten, New Zealand motorcycle designer, dies at 45
- Sep 6 Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor, dies at 83
- Sep 7 Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist, dies at 51
- Sep 8 Eileen Zhang Ailing Chang, writer, dies at 73
- Sep 8 Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of Boris Pasternak, dies of cancer at 83
- Sep 8 Safa Khulusi, Iraqi writer and historian, dies at 78
- Sep 8 Halldis Moren Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (Harp and Dagger), dies at 87
- Sep 9 Jamie Whitten, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi), dies at 85
- Sep 10 Derek Meddings, special Effects technician, dies at 64
- Sep 11 Jerome Theisen, American Abbot Primate of the Benedictine order of monks, dies of a heart attack at 64
- Sep 11 Anita Harding, neurologist (b. 1952)
- Sep 12 Geoffrey Stokes, rock & roll writer, dies at 55
- Sep 12 John Stuart-Jervis, balloonist, dies
- Sep 13 Francesco Messina, Italian sculptor, dies at 94
- Sep 13 Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter, dies at 83
- Sep 14 Maurice K. Goddard, American state government official (b. 1912)
- Sep 15 Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator, dies at 83
- Sep 15 Michio Watanabe, politician, dies at 72
- Sep 15 Sam McCluskie, trade unionist, dies at 63
- Sep 16 Michael Balfour, historian, dies at 86
- Sep 17 Yehuda Meir Getz, rabbi/soldier/religious leader, dies at 71
- Sep 18 Donald Davie, English poet and critic, dies at 73
- Sep 18 Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London), dies at 64
- Sep 19 Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist, dies at 83
- Sep 19 Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 55
Orville Redenbacher
Sep 19 Orville Redenbacher, American popcorn magnate (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn), drowns in bathtub at 88

Orville Redenbacher
- Sep 19 Rudolf Peierls, German-British physicist (atomic bomb), dies at 88
- Sep 20 Monica Maurice, industrialist and Managing Director and Chairman of the Wolf Safety Lamp Company, Sheffield, dies at 87
- Sep 21 John Lapsley, British air marshal, dies at 78
- Sep 21 William Murray, British teacher and educationalist, dies at 83
- Sep 21 Rudy Perpich, American politician, 34th & 36th Governor of Minnesota, dies at 67
- Sep 22 Albert Goodwin, English historian, dies at 89
- Sep 22 Arthur Benfield, head of Cheshire CID, dies at 82
- Sep 23 Odut Joseph Olutola Oluola Oguntala, soho club owner, dies at 74
- Sep 25 Bessie [Annie Elizabeth] Delany, American dentist and civil rights pioneer, dies at 104
- Sep 27 Alison "Night Bird" Steele, DJ (WNEW-FM, WXRK-FM), dies of cancer
- Sep 28 Lynette Roberts, British poet, dies at 86
- Sep 28 Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner, dies at 77
- Sep 29 Francis Frederick Johnson, architect, dies at 84
- Sep 29 George Chesterman Phillips, British naval officer, dies at 90
- Sep 29 Karl Anton Martin Gerhard Gerd Bucerius, publisher, dies at 89
- Sep 29 Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist who opposed prayer in school, murdered at 76 along with her son Jon by David Waters
- Sep 30 Frederick Archibald Warner, British diplomat, dies at 77
- Oct 1 Aditya Biria, India's 1st global industrialist, dies of cancer at 51
- Oct 1 Rene Cloke, British illustrator, dies at 90
- Oct 1 Russ Karel, director, dies at 45
- Oct 2 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67
- Oct 3 Charles Lacy Veach, American astronaut (STS 39, STS 52), dies at 51
- Oct 4 Peter Nicholson Gunn, Australian writer (The Churches of Rome), dies at 81
- Oct 5 Fred Fehl, photographer, dies at 89
- Oct 6 Oswald Moxley Gibbs, Grenadian diplomat (High Commissioners to the United Kingdom 1974-78), dies at 67
- Oct 7 Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59
- Oct 7 Gérard de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer, dies at 77
- Oct 8 Frederick Harry Baines, painter, dies at 85
- Oct 8 John Cairncross, British civil servant and spy (5th man - Cambridge Five), dies at 82
- Oct 8 Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45
Alec Douglas-Home
Oct 9 Alec Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1963-64), dies at 92

Alec Douglas-Home
- Oct 9 John Alfred Scali, American journalist and diplomat, dies at 77
- Oct 9 Kukrit Pramoj, Thai politician (13th Prime Minister of Thailand) and scholar, dies at 84
- Oct 9 Patric Walker, American-British astrologer, dies of food poisoning at 64
- Oct 9 Phillip Oppenheimer, British diamond trader, dies at 83
- Oct 10 Jimmy Nash, record company owner, dies at 47
- Oct 10 John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31
- Oct 10 Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner, dies at 30
- Oct 10 Paolo Gucci, entrepreneur/accessories designer, dies at 64
- Oct 10 Robert Finch, American politician (8th U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare), dies at 70
- Oct 13 Henry Roth, American writer (Call it Sleep), dies at 89
- Oct 13 Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter, dies at 71
- Oct 14 Edith Pargeter, author (Brother Cadfael), dies of a stroke at 82
- Oct 14 Helen Vlachos, journalist, dies at 83
- Oct 15 Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant, dies at 82
- Oct 16 John Walker, museum director, dies at 88
- Oct 16 Murdo Alex MacLeod, Free Church of Scotland minister, dies at 60
- Oct 16 Thomas Augustine Martin, Irish academic, dies at 59
- Oct 17 Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66
- Oct 18 Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, lawyer, dies at 67
- Oct 18 Iri Maruki, Japanese artist (The Hiroshima Panels), dies at 94
- Oct 18 John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer, dies at 90
- Oct 18 Thomas Lyttle, paramilitary, dies at 56
- Oct 20 Bernadette Hingley, English priest, one of 1st women to be ordained in England, dies of cancer at 47
- Oct 21 Linda Goodman, Morgantown, West Virginia, American astrologer and poet, dies from complications of diabetes at 70
- Oct 21 Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58
- Oct 21 Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (Cuto), dies at 75
- Oct 22 Edward Totah, art Dealer, dies at 46
- Oct 22 K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50
- Oct 22 Kingsley Amis, English author (Lucky Jim), dies of injuries from a fall at 73
- Oct 22 Ralph Whitlock, English writer, dies at 81
- Oct 22 Simone Gallimard, French editor and publisher, dies at 77
- Oct 24 Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82
- Oct 24 Ronald Selby Wright, Scottish Church of Scotland minister, dies at 87
- Oct 25 Kenneth Dadzie, Ghanaian diplomat and 1st African Secretary-General of UNCTAD, dies at 65
- Oct 25 Robert Grieve, Scottish civil servant and planner, dies at 84
- Oct 26 Bernhard Heiliger, German artist and sculptor, dies at 79
- Oct 26 Georgia Neese Gray, 1st Woman Treasurer of USA, dies at 95
- Oct 28 Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79
- Oct 28 Katsumasa Sakioka, Japanese-American property tycoon, dies at 96 [1]
- Oct 30 Terry Southern, writer, dies at 71
- Oct 31 Derek Anthony Enright, British Labour politician, dies at 60
- Oct 31 Henry A Walter Richard Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, dies at 42