Recent deaths
Notable deaths in the last 30 days, from Wikipedia’s running list. Last checked 6 minutes ago. A skull means someone in a pool had them.
Tuesday, October 27
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Tetsuya Chiba, 87
Japanese manga artist (Ashita no Joe)
Monday, October 26
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American actress (It Takes a Thief, McMillan & Wife, Kate & Allie), pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer
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David Rigert, 79
Russian weightlifter, Olympic champion (1976)
Sunday, October 25
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Walter Koenig, 90
American actor (Star Trek, Babylon 5, Moontrap)
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Eric Bauza, 46
Canadian voice actor (Looney Tunes, The Fairly OddParents, Uncle Grandpa)
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Paolo Romeo, 88
Italian priest
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Spanish film director (Habla, mudita, The House Must Be Unmade, Dearest Maria)
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Józef Lipień, 77
Polish wrestler, Olympic silver medalist (1980)
Saturday, October 24
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John Cordts, 91
Canadian racing driver
Friday, October 23
Thursday, October 22
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Yasuo Fukuda, 90
Japanese politician, prime minister (2007–2008), chief cabinet secretary (2000–2004), and MP (1990–2012)
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French physicist (Quantum Mechanics), Nobel Prize laureate (1997)
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Tetsuya Chiba, 87
Japanese manga artist (Ashita no Joe)
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Motswana Olympic sprinter (2016)
Wednesday, October 21
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Tom Skerritt, 93
American actor (Alien, Picket Fences, M*A*S*H), Emmy winner (1993)
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Georgi Nemsadze, 54
Georgian footballer (Dinamo Tbilisi, Dundee, national team), heart attack
Heart attack
Monday, October 19
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Mária Szolnoki, 79
Hungarian fencer, Olympic silver medallist (1972)
Sunday, October 18
Saturday, October 17
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Ryū Murakami, 74
Japanese novelist (Almost Transparent Blue, Audition, In the Miso Soup)
Friday, October 16
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Chiaki Ishii, 85
Japanese-born Brazilian judoka, Olympic bronze medallist (1972)
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Mariusz Strzałka, 67
Polish fencer, Olympic silver medallist (1980)
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Mária Szolnoki, 79
Polish Olympic fencer (1972)
Thursday, October 15
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Bo Johansson, 83
Swedish football manager (Silkeborg IF, Östers IF, Danish national team)
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Richard Riehle, 78
American actor (Office Space, Glory, Grounded for Life)
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Cliff Hagan, 94
American Hall of Fame basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats, St. Louis Hawks)
Wednesday, October 14
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Michael Forest, 97
American actor (Beast from Haunted Cave, Texhnolyze, Atlas)
Tuesday, October 13
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Martina Arroyo, 90
American operatic soprano
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David Surkamp, 73
American progressive rock singer, guitarist and songwriter (Pavlov's Dog)
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David Surkamp, 73
American progressive rock singer, guitarist and songwriter (Pavlov's Dog)
Monday, October 12
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RJ Mitte, 34
American actor (Breaking Bad, Switched at Birth, The Guardians of Justice), suicide
Suicide
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British theoretical physicist
Sunday, October 11
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Hiroshi Tsuchida, 54
Japanese actor (Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, Attack on Titan, Soulcalibur III), heart failure
Heart failure
Saturday, October 10
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Wilfredo Gómez, 69
Puerto Rican Hall of Fame boxer
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Pierre Joliot, 94
French biologist, member of the French Academy of Sciences
Friday, October 9
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Mike Ditka, 86
American Hall of Fame football player and coach (Chicago Bears), Super Bowl champion (1986)
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Chris Wickham, 76
British historian and academic
Thursday, October 8
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Henk Cornelisse, 85
Dutch Olympic cyclist, Bronze medalist (1964)
Tuesday, October 6
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Eva Marie Saint, 102
American actress (On the Waterfront, North by Northwest, A Hatful of Rain), Oscar winner (1955)
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Jacek Ziober, 60
Polish football player
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Anwar Shaikh, 80
Pakistani-born American heterodox economist
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Ila Arab Mehta, 88
Indian writer
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Cameroonian footballer
Monday, October 5
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Brazilian footballer (Coritiba, Botafogo, national team)
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Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, 86
British politician and author (Kane and Abel, Only Time Will Tell, A Prison Diary), MP (1969–1974) and member of the House of Lords (1992–2024)
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Dennis Hastert, 84
American politician, member (1987–2007) and speaker (1999–2007) of the U.S. House of Representatives
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George Fenton, 76
English film and television composer (Gandhi, The Fisher King, Planet Earth)
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Lothar Milde, 91
German discobolus
Sunday, October 4
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Ángel Arroyo, 70
Spanish racing cyclist
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Georgian gymnast
Saturday, October 3
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Dennis Hastert, 84
American politician, member (1987–2007) and speaker (1999–2007) of the U.S. House of Representatives
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Senegalese writer (L'Aventure ambiguë)
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Ukrainian-born Russian psychotherapist, hypnotist and politician, MP (1993–1995)
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Georgian gymnast, Olympic champion (1988)
Friday, October 2
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İoanna Kuçuradi, 89
Turkish philosopher and academic
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Marjoe Gortner, 82
American actor and evangelist
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Cesar Virata, 95
Filipino politician
Thursday, October 1
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Biljana Plavšić, 96
Bosnian Serb politician
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Conrad Lant, 63
British musician (Venom) and songwriter ("In League with Satan", "Bloodlust")
Wednesday, September 30
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Pat Saiki, 96
American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1987–1991) from Hawaii, natural causes
Natural causes
Tuesday, September 29
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Conrad Lant, 63
English musician (Venom) and songwriter ("In League with Satan", "Bloodlust")
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Gonzalo Suárez, 92
Spanish film director (Rowing with the Wind, Epilogue, The Detective and Death)
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Şükrü Ersoy, 95
Turkish footballer (Vefa S.K., Fenerbahçe, national team)
Monday, September 28
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spouse of Mahathir Mohamad
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Peter May, 74
Scottish television screenwriter, novelist, and crime writer