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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1985.

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 1985

1

• William Allen, 66, Canadian politician.
• J. Grant Anderson, 88, Scottish theatre director and actor.
• Warren Ashby, 65, American philosopher.
• Michele Avila, 17, American murder victim, drowned.
• Barney Brown, 77, American baseball player.
• Bland Cox Bruns, 84, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1950–1956). ^[1]
• Terry Duffy, 63, British trade unionist.
• George Gooma, 67, Australian cricketer.
• Charlotte Posenenske, 54, German artist.
• Ninian Sanderson, 60, Scottish racing driver, leukemia. ^[2]
• Bill Springsteen, 85, American football player.
• Gordon Strutt, 73, English Anglican prelate.
• Giovanni Tosi, 86, Italian Olympic sprinter (1920).
• Earl Vann, 71, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1967–1976).
• Kong Visudharomn, 78, Thai physical educator.
• Emil Vogel, 91, German general.
• E. B. White, 86, American author ( Charlotte's Web , Stuart Little , The Trumpet of the Swan ), complications from Alzheimer's disease. ^[3]

2

• Harry Bohrer, 69, Czechoslovak journalist ( Der Spiegel ), heart failure. ^[4]
• Rebecca Caudill, 86, American author ( Tree of Freedom ). ^[5]
• Sidney Clute, 69, American actor ( Cagney & Lacey , McCloud ), cancer. ^[6]
• Noel Cox, 74, American politician.
• Rock Hudson, 59, American actor ( Giant , Pillow Talk , McMillan & Wife ), AIDS. ^[7]
• Salomón Ibarra Mayorga, 98, Nicaraguan lyricist ("Salve a ti, Nicaragua").
• Eric Jones, 70, English footballer.
• Alex Möller, 82, German politician.
• George Savalas, 60, American actor ( Kojak ), leukemia. ^[8]
• Daramyn Tömör-Ochir, 64, Mongolian politician, murdered.

3

• Charles Collingwood, 68, American journalist, cancer. ^[9]
• Maurice Copeland, 74, American actor.
• Harry Cowans, 52, British politician, MP (since 1976).
• Arthur Froehlich, 76, American architect, cancer. ^[10]
• John Pallett, 64, Canadian politician, MP (1954–1962).
• Yngve Stoor, 73, Swedish singer.

4

• Josie Bennett, 82, American rodeo manager.
• Arthur J. Bidwill, 82, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate (1934–1935, 1938–1972). ^[11]
• Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, 87, Bulgarian royal.
• Fred Foster, 39, American basketball player.
• Enzo Giudici, 65, Italian literary scholar.
• Norm Harris, 79, Australian footballer.
• Jozef Herda, 75, Czechoslovak Olympic wrestler (1936).
• François Hertel, 80, Canadian Olympic writer (1948).
• Ludvig Lindblom, 75 Swedish Olympic wrestler (1932, 1936).
• Franklin Merrell-Wolff, 98, American esoteric philosopher.
• Laurence Reavell-Carter, 71, English Olympic discus thrower (1936, 1948).
• Jim Robertson, 82, Australian footballer.
• Geoffrey Sladen, 81, English rugby player and naval officer.
• Werner Stark, 75, Austrian-English sociologist.
• Gleb Strizhenov, 60, Soviet actor.
• Frederic Virtue, 88, British Olympic boxer (1920).
• Trond Halvorsen Wirstad, 81, Norwegian politician.

5

• Caroline Bancroft, 85, American journalist.
• Harald Cramér, 92, Swedish mathematician.
• Cyril Edge, 68, English cricketer.
• Joachim Helbig, 70, German fighter pilot, traffic collision.
• Glynn Isaac, 47, South African archaeologist. ^[12]
• Serge Jaroff, 89, Russian-born American choir conductor (Don Cossack Choir). ^[13]
• Ben Jeby, 75, American boxer.
• Brian Keenan, 42, American drummer (The Chambers Brothers), heart attack. ^[14]
• Joseph Kushner, 62, Polish-born American real estate developer.
• Liang Xingchu, 72, Chinese general.
• Karl Menger, 83, Austrian-American mathematician.
• Vic Nankervis, 66, Australian footballer.
• Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, 85, German-born American theoretical physicist.
• Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri, 76, Indian writer.
• Walter Wallace Sackett Jr., 79, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1972–1976). ^[15]
• Abdus Sattar, 79, Bangladeshi politician, president (1981–1982). ^[16]
• Holbrook Working, 90, American economist.

6

• Torsten Aminoff, 75, Finnish politician.
• Roy Atkins, 77, Australian footballer.
• Fred Colledge, 70, Scottish cricketer. ^[17]
• Enrique Fernández, 73, Uruguayan footballer.
• Lola Gjoka, 75, Albanian pianist.
• Walter Gordy, 76, American physicist. ^[18]
• Jack Harkness, 78, Scottish footballer.
• Vilém Klíma, 79, Czechoslovak electrical engineer.
• Lauri Kokkonen, 67, Finnish playwright.
• James Chalmers McRuer, 95, Canadian judge.
• Nelson Riddle, 64, American songwriter and composer, heart and kidney failure. ^[19]
• Martha Schlamme, 62, Austrian-born American actress and singer, complications from a stroke. ^[20]
• Karl Zischek, 75, Austrian footballer.

7

• Leopold Bode, 91, Austrian footballer.
• Frank Curran, 75, Australian rugby player.
• Lucile Czarnowski, 90, American dance educator.
• Albert Downs, 80, Australian footballer.
• Joe Flanagan, 87, Australian footballer.
• Leroy Holmes, 72, American baseball player.
• John A. Kent, 71, Canadian-English flying ace.
• Wolfgang Kieling, 61, German actor.
• Kaare Langlo, 72, Norwegian meteorologist.
• Dmitry Lukyanov, 85, Soviet general.
• Noah Mozes, 73, Israeli newspaper publisher.
• Cemal Reşit Rey, 80, Turkish pianist and composer.
• Gordon Arthur Riley, 74, American marine biologist.
• Silvestre Vargas, 83, Mexican mariachi musician.
• Len Webster, 78, Australian footballer.

8

• Riccardo Bacchelli, 94, Italian writer. ^[21]
• Kenneth Bagshaw, 64, Australian cricketer.
• Roger Blough, 81, American steel executive. ^[22]
• William L. Borden, 65, American congressional staffer (United States Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy), heart attack. ^[23]
• Subby Byas, 75, American baseball player.
• Diatome, 23, British Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Amalia Celia Figueredo, 90, Argentine aviator.
• Theresa Harris, 78, American actress.
• Marcelino Huerta, 60, American football player and coach, heart attack. ^[24]
• Leon Klinghoffer, 69, American businessman, shot. ^[25]
• Marta Lynch, 60, Argentine writer, suicide.
• Pedro Mathey, 57, Peruvian Olympic cyclist (1948).
• August Mortelmans, 84, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Malcolm Ross, 68, American balloonist.
• Giorgio Santelli, 87, Italian-American Olympic fencer (1920). ^[26]
• Francesco Saverio Starrabba Barbera, 84, Italian lawyer and politician.
• John Wesley Snyder, 90, American businessman and politician, secretary of the treasury (1946–1953). ^[27]
• Clive Sullivan, 42, Welsh rugby player, cancer.
• Gordon Welchman, 79, English-American mathematician.

9

• John Kameaaloha Almeida, 87, American musician. ^[28]
• Cecil Closenberg, 78, South African cricketer.
• Ludo Coeck, 30, Belgian footballer, complications from a traffic collision.
• Karel De Baere, 60, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Lionel George Higgins, 94, British lepidopterist.
• Edward Highton, 61, English cricketer.
• Dar Hutchins, 69, American basketball player.
• Manuel Flores Leon Guerrero, 70, Guamanian politician, governor (1963–1969).
• Emílio Garrastazu Médici, 79, Brazilian politician, president (1969–1974), kidney failure. ^[29]
• Rusty Yarnall, 82, American baseball player.

10

• S. S. Apte, 78, Indian journalist.
• Vera Bogetti, 83, British actress.
• Yul Brynner, 65, Russian-born American actor ( The Ten Commandments , The King and I , The Magnificent Seven ), lung cancer. ^[30]
• Bettina Ehrlich, 82, Austrian-English painter and illustrator.
• Hedley Powell Jacobs, 81, English-Jamaican journalist and writer.
• Alice Melin, 85, Belgian politician.
• Doris Reynolds, 86, British geologist.
• Don Schlundt, 52, American basketball player. ^[31]
• Suvadhana, 80, Thai royal, princess consort (1925).
• David Van Alstyne, 88, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (1943–1953), heart attack. ^[32]
• Hans Vatne, 62, Norwegian newspaper editor.
• Orson Welles, 70, American actor, director ( Citizen Kane , Touch of Evil ), and broadcaster ("The War of the Worlds"), heart attack. ^[33]

11

• Frank G. Anderson, 93, American football player and coach.
• Todd Andrews, 84, Irish public servant.
• Blanche Charlet, 87, French Allied spy.
• Viktor Gurjev, 71, Estonian opera singer.
• Jussi Jalas, 77, Finnish composer.
• Alex La Guma, 61, South African novelist, heart attack. ^[34]
• Sew Leeka, 78, American basketball player.
• Edward Lowinsky, 77, American musicologist. ^[35]
• Ted Mitchell, 80, American football player.
• Ingvard Nørregaard, 71, Danish Olympic canoeist (1952).
• Alex Odeh, 41, Palestinian peace activist, assassination by bombing.
• Dorothy O'Grady, 87, English saboteur.
• Bernard Privat, 70, French writer.
• Elwood Ullman, 82, American writer.
• Tex Williams, 68, American singer ("Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)"), pancreatic cancer. ^[36]

12

• Blind John Davis, 71, American musician. ^[37]
• Duke Dinsmore, 72, American racing driver.
• Paul DuCharme, 68, American basketball player.
• Grant Heckenlively, 69, American football player and coach.
• Norman James, 77, English footballer.
• Judy Lee Klemesrud, 46, American journalist, breast cancer. ^[38]
• Numa F. Montet, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1929–1937). ^[39]
• Johnny Olson, 75, American radio and television announcer ( The Price Is Right , What's My Line? , Match Game ), stroke. ^[40]
• Sergei Osipov, 70, Soviet artist.
• Victor Salazar, 74, American politician.
• Ricky Wilson, 32, American guitarist (The B-52s), AIDS.

13

• Herb Aach, 62, German-born American painter.
• Maurice Austin, 68, Australian soldier and military historian.
• Francesca Bertini, 93, Italian actress.
• Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz, 91, Polish general.
• Tage Danielsson, 57, Swedish actor and comedian, skin cancer.
• Paolo De Stefano, unknown, Italian mobster, murdered.
• Theodore Epp, 78, American radio evangelist.
• Sir Neville Faulks, 77, English barrister
• Richard E. Ferrario, 54, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1959–1964).
• Pierre-Étienne Guyot, 80, French sports executive.
• Calvin D. Johnson, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1945).
• Eiji Kanie, 43, Japanese actor and voice actor, stroke.
• Florence Luscomb, 98, American architect and suffragist. ^[41]
• Saul Mielziner, 80, American football player.
• Herbert Nebe, 86, German racing cyclist.
• Tassos, 71, Greek engraver.
• Jack Wilson, 64, Australian cricketer.

14

• Ossie Bluege, 84, American baseball player and manager, stroke. ^[42]
• Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock, 77, British barrister.
• Artur Dyson, 73, Portuguese footballer.
• Harry Friedauer, 58, German singer and actor.
• Parimal Ghosh, 68, Indian politician and diplomat, MP (1967–1971).
• Emil Gilels, 68, Soviet pianist. ^[43]
• Paul B. Johnson Jr., 69, American politician, governor of Mississippi (1964–1968), heart attack. ^[44]
• Ludwig Landen, 76, German Olympic canoeist (1936).
• Emil Naclerio, 70, American surgeon.
• Doris Odlum, 95, English psychiatrist.
• Sir Gerald Reece, 88, British colonial administrator, governor of British Somaliland (1948–1954).
• Mustafa Selimov, 75, Soviet politician and civil rights activist.
• Floyd E. Shurbert, 84, American politician.
• Pál Teleki, 79, Hungarian footballer.
• Edwin B. Wheeler, 67, American general, heart attack.

15

• Sandro Angiolini, 65, Italian cartoonist.
• Alice C. Browning, 77, American writer. ^[45]
• Bruno Fattori, 94, Italian poet.
• Gus Rivers, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). ^[46]
• Frank Shoofey, 44, Canadian lawyer, shot.
• Ted Steele, 68, American bandleader.
• Damon Wetzel, 74, American football player.
• Max Zaslofsky, 59, American basketball player and coach, leukemia. ^[47]

16

• Khalekdad Chowdhury, 78, Bangladeshi writer.
• Antoni Gronowicz, 72, Polish-American novelist, heart attack. ^[48]
• James Hutton, 79, Scottish rugby player.
• Sir Bruce Levy, 93, New Zealand botanist.
• Franklin Milton, 78, American sound engineer ( Ben-Hur , Doctor Zhivago , How the West Was Won ).
• Archie McQuilken, 52, Northern Irish cricketer, traffic collision.
• George Odey, 85, British politician and businessman, MP (1947–1955).
• Fred L. Peterson, 89, American politician, mayor of Portland, Oregon (1953–1957).
• Alexander Doniphan Wallace, 80, American mathematician.
• Burton Wilkinson, 85, American-born English cricketer.
• Paul A. Zahl, 75, American biologist.

17

• Trevor Aston, 60, British historian, drug overdose.
• Omero Bonoli, 76, Italian Olympic gymnast (1932).
• Asbjørn Engen, 67, Norwegian newspaper editor.
• John Ericksen, 82, American Olympic skier (1932).
• Jimmy Fowler, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Ottar Gravås, 63, Norwegian politician.
• Helmi Juvonen, 82, American artist, diabetes.
• Wiktor Kemula, 82, Polish electrochemist.
• Simone Le Bargy, 108, French actress.
• Peeter Pedaja, 54, Estonian-born Australian sculptor and sailor, liver failure.
• Abdelmunim Rifai, 68, Jordanian politician, prime minister (1969, 1970).
• Joseph Rosenstock, 90, Polish-American conductor. ^[49]
• Bud Sheely, 64, American baseball player.

18

• Stefan Askenase, 89, Polish-Belgian pianist. ^[50]
• George Darling, 80, British politician, MP (1950–1974).
• Medardo Galli, 78, Italian Olympic rower (1928).
• Bryn Jones, 73, Welsh footballer.
• Jack Kent, 65, American cartoonist ( King Aroo ), leukemia.
• Benjamin Moloise, 30, South African poet and political activist, execution by hanging.
• Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 84, Austrian royal.
• K. R. Ramsingh, 70, Indian actor.
• Tish Sommers, 71, American author and feminist, cancer. ^[51]
• Jun Tazaki, 72, Japanese actor.
• Janwillem van den Berg, 64, Dutch speech scientist.

19

• Jean-Roger Caussimon, 67, French singer and actor.
• Anton Christoforidis, 68, Greek boxer, heart attack.
• Charlie Hazelton, 68, Australian rugby league footballer. ^[52]
• Lincoln LaPaz, 88, American astronomer.
• Aage Nielsen-Edwin, 87, Danish sculptor.
• Alfred Rouleau, 70, Canadian businessman.
• Johnny Williams, 79, American drummer.

20

• Granny Alston, 77, English cricketer.
• Hal Goldsmith, 87, American baseball player.
• Abraham M. Halpern, 71, American linguist and anthropologist.
• Knut Hultgren, 75, Norwegian actor.
• Mary Aquinas Kinskey, 91, American religious sister and pilot, heart attack. ^[53]
• Knud Børge Overgaard, 67, Danish footballer.
• Jean Riboud, 65, French oil executive, cancer. ^[54]
• Kirio Urayama, 54, Japanese filmmaker.
• Harry Wragg, 83, British jockey and horse trainer.

21

• Victor Barthélemy, 79, French political activist.
• Creed Burlingame, 80, American naval admiral. ^[55]
• Florence Jaffy, 68, American economist.
• Jens Lambæk, 86, Danish Olympic gymnast (1920).
• Masuiyama Daishirō I, 65, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Hillman Howard Sersland, 79, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (1952–1965).
• Diane Thomas, 39, American screenwriter ( Romancing the Stone ), traffic collision. ^[56]
• Dan White, 39, American politician and convicted murderer (Moscone–Milk assassinations), suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. ^[57]

22

• Anthony T. Augelli, 83, American judge. ^[58]
• Leo Baron, 69, British lawyer and jurist.
• Arthur Coadou, 88, French WW1 flying ace.
• Edward William Day, 84, American judge.
• Dorothy Hartley, 92, English social historian and author ( Food in England ).
• Les Hughson, 78, Australian footballer.
• Albena Lake-Hodge, 64-65, Anguillan politician and educator.
• Norbert Poehlke, 34, German serial killer, suicide by gunshot.
• Stefano Satta Flores, 48, Italian actor and dubber ( Star Wars , Alien ), leukemia.
• Viorica Ursuleac, 91, Romanian singer.
• Richard G. Weede, 74, American general.
• Xu Shiyou, 78-79, Chinese general.

23

• Bernhard Bauknecht, 85, German politician.
• Thena Mae Farr, 57, American rodeo rider.
• Robert George, 92, French ice hockey player.
• Norman Lind, 64, Norwegian-British military officer, plane explosion.
• Mario Prassinos, 69, French writer and painter.
• Don Quartermain, 77, Australian footballer.
• Bruno Gustav Scherwitz, 89, German politician.
• John Greenlees Semple, 81, British mathematician.
• Barbara Thorne Stevenson, 75, American singer.
• Merle Watson, 36, American guitarist, traffic collision. ^[59]
• Martin Wierstra, 57, Dutch racing cyclist.

24

• László Bíró, 86, Hungarian-Argentine inventor of the ballpoint pen. ^[60]
• Gábor Bódy, 39, Hungarian filmmaker.
• Richie Evans, 44, American racing driver, racing crash. ^[61]
• Muhammad Mustafa Jauhar, 90, Pakistani religious scholar.
• William Rudolph Kanne, 72, American physicist.
• Wilhelm Klemm, 89, Polish chemist.
• Masaichi Nagata, 79, Japanese film producer ( Rashomon , Gamera, the Giant Monster ). ^[62]
• Daniele Pace, 50, Italian composer and songwriter, heart attack.
• Maurice Roy, 80, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Hermann Teuber, 91, German painter.

25

• Brian Barker, 77, British journalist.
• Felixberto Camacho Flores, 64, Guamanian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Morton Downey, 83, American singer, stroke. ^[63]
• Ann Forrest, 90, Danish-born American actress.
• Jimmy Frew, 90, Scottish footballer.
• Gary Holton, 33, British musician (Heavy Metal Kids), drug overdose.
• Huub Huizenaar, 76, Dutch Olympic boxer (1924).
• Doug Johnstone, 82, Australian footballer.
• Blair Lee III, 69, American politician, acting governor of Maryland (1977–1979), lung cancer. ^[64]
• Viktor Makeyev, 61, Soviet rocket scientist.
• Olier Mordrel, 84, French Breton nationalist and Nazi collaborator.
• Ludwig Ott, 79, German theologian.
• Hans Trauttenberg, 76, Austrian ice hockey player.
• Fritz Konrad Ernst Zumpt, 77, German entomologist.

26

• Cecil Langley Doughty, 71, British illustrator.
• Sheldon Fitts, 85, American football player and lawyer. ^[65]
• Emilio Guinea, 78, Spanish botanist.
• Dimitri Jorjadze, 87, Georgian aristocrat, hotelier and racing driver.
• Kikuko Kawakami, 81, Japanese writer.
• Liu Woying, 78-79, Chinese politician.
• Neil O'Reilly, 60, Australian footballer.
• Svetozar Popović, 83, Yugoslav footballer.
• Mieczysław Połukard, 55, Polish racing cyclist, racing collision.
• Bob Scheffing, 72, American baseball player and manager. ^[66]
• J. Norman Shade, 83, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1954–1970)
• Louis Weichardt, 91, South African politician and fascist organizer (South African Gentile National Socialist Movement).

27

• Thomas Townsend Brown, 80, American electrical engineer.
• Andreas Gruentzig, 46, German cardiologist, plane crash. ^[67]
• Robert Jephson Jones, 80, British soldier.
• Tola Mankiewiczówna, 85, Polish singer and actress.
• William C. Perry, 85, American jurist.
• Walter Segal, 78, German-English architect.
• Phoney Smith, 80, American football player.
• Kurt Vogel, 97, German mathematics historian.

28

• William McPherson Allen, 85, American aviation executive, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• William Bramley, 57, American actor. ^[68]
• Elga Brink, 80, German actress.
• Eric Coy, 74, Canadian Olympic discus thrower (1948).
• Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek, 81, British politician, MP (1945–1970) and member of the House of Lords (since 1970).
• Joseph L. Donovan, 92, American politician.
• Arletta Duncan, 70, American actress.
• Horace Gillom, 64, American football player, heart attack.
• Leslie Harris, 70, Welsh cricketer.
• Carry Hauser, 90, Austrian painter and stage designer.
• Joachim Knychała, 33, Polish serial killer, execution by hanging.
• Ruby Hart Phillips, 86, American journalist. ^[69]
• Axel Thue, 81, Norwegian actor.
• Ángel Zubieta, 67, Spanish footballer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

29

• Sjur Bygd, 96, Norwegian novelist.
• Michael Carey, 70, English Anglican priest.
• Robert Edward Chambliss, 81, American terrorist (16th Street Baptist Church bombing). ^[70]
• Charles Douglas-Home, 48, Scottish journalist, cancer. ^[71]
• Lucien Dugas, 87, Canadian politician.
• Evgeny Lifshitz, 70, Soviet physicist.
• John Davis Lodge, 82, American politician, diplomat and actor, governor of Connecticut (1951–1955), member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1951), heart attack. ^[72]
• Lola Prusac, 90, Polish-born French fashion designer.
• Alice Roberts, 79, Belgian actress.
• Pavle Stefanović, 84, Yugoslav writer and philosopher.

30

• Lucien Berthelot, 81, French philatelist.
• Edgar Bruun, 80, Norwegian racewalker.
• Aimé Dossche, 83, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Kirby Grant, 73, American actor ( Sky King ), traffic collision. ^[73]
• Vic Grigg, 64, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Raul Hellberg, 84, Finnish racing cyclist.
• Nils Hjelmtveit, 93, Norwegian educator and politician.
• Fazle Lohani, 56, Bangladeshi journalist and television presenter.
• David Oxley, 64, English actor, stroke.
• Guy Pentreath, 83, British Anglican priest and academic administrator.

31

• Ellis Ashton, 65, English theatre historian.
• Nikos Engonopoulos, 78, Greek painter. ^[74]
• Frank Handley, 75, English Olympic runner (1936).
• Harry N. Jonah, 89, Canadian politician.
• Qanate Kurdo, 76, Soviet philologist.
• Hardit Malik, 90, Indian diplomat. ^[75]
• John H. Michaelis, 73, American general, heart failure. ^[76]
• Poul Reichhardt, 72, Danish actor.
• Bill Schwartau, 59, American recording engineer.
• Bill Spokes, 72, Australian footballer.
• Jamasie Teevee, 75, Canadian Inuk artist.
• Rosalie Van der Gucht, 77, British-South African theatre director.

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67. ANDRES GRUENTZIG DIES IN AIR CRASH
68. William Bramley, 57, actor
69. R. HART PHILLIPS, TIMES REPORTER WHO COVERED CASTRO'S REVOLUTION
70. Robert E. Chambliss, Figure in '63 Bombing
71. CHARLES DOUGLAS-HOME, 48, EDITOR OF TIMES OF LONDON
72. JOHN DAVIS LODGE, 82, EX-ENVOY AND CONNECTICUT GOVERNOR, DIES
73. Kirby Grant Is Dead at 73; TV Star of 'Sky King' in 50's
74. Nikos Engonopoulos, 75, Greece’s foremost surrealist painter,…
75. Sardar H.S. Malik, 90; Former Indian Official
76. Retired Gen. ‘Iron Mike’ Michaelis Dies : Veteran of WWII, Korea Was Eisenhower Aide, West Point Chief

External links

• List of October 1985 deaths at IMDb