Deaths Died in October 2016
Kevin Meaney
59 · 22 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 22 · Other
Per Rune Wølner
Norwegian footballer (Strømsgodset) · 22 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 22 · Wølner
Simone Schaller
American hurdler · 22 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 22 · Other
Walter Argus
New Zealand rugby union player (All Blacks) · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21
Morris Stroud
American football player (Kansas City Chiefs) · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21
George Konik
Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins) · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21
Drew Sharp
American sports journalist (Detroit Free Press) · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21
Stan Hilton
last British veteran of the Spanish Civil War · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21 · Other
Frenchy Martin
Canadian professional wrestler and manager · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21
Moscow Flyer
Irish racehorse · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21 · Other
Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer
British socialite and politician · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21 · Spencer
Teodor Kufel
Polish general · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21 · Other
Colin George
Welsh actor and director · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21
Richard Nicoll
Australian-born British fashion designer · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21 · Other
William Gilbert Chaloner
British palaeobotanist · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21 · Chaloner · Other
Bobby Ellis
Jamaican trumpeter · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21 · Other
Carl Portale
American magazine publisher (Elle · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21
Walter Greiner
German theoretical physicist · 21 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 21
Huw Jones
Welsh Anglican bishop · 20 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 20 · Other
David Bunnell
American pioneer of the personal computing industry · 20 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 20 · Other
Anthony Addabbo
American actor (Guiding Light · 20 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 20
Tommy Bartlett
American tennis and basketball coach · 20 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 20
Erna Djurhuus
Faroese-born Norwegian Salvation Army officer · 20 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 20 · Other
Vadim Mișin
moldovian politician · 20 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 20
Fergus O’Brien
Irish Fine Gael politician · 20 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 20 · O'Brien
Safet Berisha
Albanian footballer (Partizani Tirana) · 20 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 20
Rough Quest
British racehorse · 20 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 20 · Other
Luis María Echeberría
Spanish footballer (Athletic Bilbao · 20 October 2016 · October 2016 · Echeberría · October 20
Roger Lallemand
Walloon-Belgian lawyer and socialist politician · 20 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 20
Yvette Chauviré
French prima ballerina · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19 · Other
Lawrence S. Hamilton
Canadian-born American forestry academic and conservationist · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19 · Hamilton
Marianne de Trey
British potter · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19 · Marianne, · Other · Trey
Sergei Likhachev
Azeri-born Russian tennis player and coach · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19
Ray William Clough
American engineer · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19 · Clough · Other
Gary Sprake
Welsh football player (Leeds United · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19
Dave Colclough
Welsh professional poker player · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19
Phil Chess
Polish-born American record producer and company executive · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19
Valerie Hunter Gordon
British inventor (disposable nappies) · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19 · Gordon · Other
Richard A. Pittman
American soldier · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19 · Pittman · Other
Izu Joseph
Nigerian footballer (Shooting Stars) · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19
Sir Sigmund Sternberg
British philanthropist · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19 · Sternberg · Other
Robert Edwards
American singer (The Intruders) · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19
Pedals
bipedal American black bear · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19 · Other
Eddie Applegate
American actor (The Patty Duke Show) · 19 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 19
Edgar Fleisher Gross
American entertainment lawyer (Richard Gere · 18 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 18 · Gross
Jossy Mansur
Aruban editor · 18 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 18
Adhil Bakeer Markar
Sri Lankan political activist · 18 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 18 · Markar · Other
Calvin Gotlieb
Canadian professor and computer scientist · 18 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 18
Delia Davin
pioneer of Chinese women's studies · 18 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 18 · Other
Jeffrey Slonim
American journalist (Allure · 18 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 18
Rufin Anthony
Pakistani Roman Catholic prelate · 18 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 18 · Other
Laurie Dwyer
Australian football player (North Melbourne) · 18 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 18
Rémy Vogel
French international football midfielder · 17 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 17 · Other
Klaus Kertess
American art curator and gallerist · 17 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 17 · Other
Ted V. Mikels
American filmmaker (Girl in Gold Boots · 17 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 17 · Mikels · Other
Tina Wanner
American stunt performer (The Hunger Games · 17 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 17
George Peebles
Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic · 17 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 17
Danny Champagne
Jamaican music producer · 17 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 17
Teodor Laço
Albanian politician · 17 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 17
Cephas Msipa
Zimbabwean politician · 17 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 17
Kudzai Mbudzi
Zimbabwean politician · 17 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 17
Arsen Pavlov
Russian soldier and participant in the War in Donbass · 17 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 17 · Other
Kigeli V
Rwandan monarch · 16 October 2016 · October 2016 · October 16 · Other