Famous Deaths for October 1985
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Months in 1985: January February March April May June July August September November December
Results 1 - 31 of 31
1st - Charlotte White, US author (New Yorker, Charlotte's Web), dies at 86
2nd - George Savalas, actor (Kojak), dies at 58
2nd - Rock Hudson, actor (MacMillian & Wife), dies of AIDS at 59
2nd - Sidney Clute, actor (Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey), dies at 69
3rd - Charles Collingwood, newscaster (Chronicles), dies at 68
3rd - Maurice Copeland, actor (Ralph-Those Young Charmings), dies at 74
6th - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
8th - Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat
8th - Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright/poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94
9th - Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
10th - Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70
10th - Yul Brynner, [Taidje Khan], actor (King & I), dies of cancer at 65
11th - Tex Williams, country-western singer, dies at 68 of cancer
12th - Johnny Olsen, TV announcer (Price is Right), dies at 75
12th - Ricky Wilson, rock guitarist (B-52's), dies of AIDS at 32
13th - Jack Wilson, cricketer (Test for Australia, 0-39 & 1-25, DNB), dies
14th - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)
15th - Meret Oppenheim, writer, dies at 72
16th - Claude Stroud, actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78
18th - Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30
19th - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
22nd - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (b. 1894)
24th - Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (b. 1941)
24th - Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
25th - Elsa Moranet, writer, dies at 67
25th - Morton Downey, singer (Star of the Family), dies at 83
29th - John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82
30th - Kirby Grant, actor/singer (Sky King), dies in an auto accident at 74
31st - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)
31st - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907)
31st - Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (b. 1918)
