The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2020.
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 2020
1
Simonluca Agazzone, 39, Italian footballer (SPAL, Carrarese, Novara), traffic collision. Serhiy Atelkin, 48, Ukrainian footballer (Shakhtar Donetsk, Lecce, national team), heart attack. Arnie Bench, 89, Australian footballer (Fitzroy). Tony Blue, 84, Australian Olympic athlete (1960, 1964). Gord Brooks, 70, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues, Washington Capitals). Robbie Brunton, 47, Irish footballer (Sligo Rovers, Coleraine, Bohemians). Joe DeMeo, 79, American wrestling coach. Glen Despins, 56, Canadian curler, traffic collision. Zef Eisenberg, 47, British motorcycle racer, health supplement executive and television presenter, offroad racing crash. Hans Eriksen, 84, Norwegian Sámi politician, teacher, and radio broadcaster (NRK Sámi Radio), member of the Sámi Parliament of Norway (2009–2013). Michel Forget, 93, French aviator. Khurto Hajji Ismail, 87, Iraqi Yazidi religious leader. Maud Hansson, 82, Swedish actress (Emil i Lönneberga). Gary Hayman, 69, American football player (Buffalo Bills). Maurice Houdayer, 89, French Olympic rower (1956). Franck André Jamme, 72, French poet. Lou Johnson, 86, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers). Derek Mahon, 78, Irish poet. Barry Mahy, 78, English-American soccer player (New York Generals, New York Cosmos, U.S. national team). Alfredo Marañon, 84, Filipino politician, mayor of Sagay City (2001–2010) and Governor of Negros Occidental (2010–2019), heart disease. Dan Muhlbauer, 62, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (2011–2015). Winfred Peppinck, 74, Dutch-born Australian author and diplomat. Murray Schisgal, 93, American playwright (Luv, Jimmy Shine) and screenwriter (Tootsie). Michael Spivak, 80, American mathematician. Ray Styles, 31, Ghanaian pencil artist, liver cancer.
2
Shaher Abdulhak, 81–82, Yemeni businessman. Fadma Abi, Moroccan surgeon and professor, COVID-19. Alan Abraham, 89, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1984–1989). John Joseph Campion, 57, Irish-American entrepreneur, leukemia. Héctor Cavallero, 81, Argentine politician, mayor of Rosario, Santa Fe (1989–1995) and Deputy (1999–2003). Riley Darnell, 80, American politician, Tennessee Secretary of State (1993–2009), member of the Tennessee Senate (1981–1993) and House of Representatives (1971–1981). Zeki Ergezen, 70, Turkish politician, Minister of Public Works and Housing (2002–2005). Edward S. Feldman, 91, American film producer (Witness, The Truman Show, The Golden Child). Bob Gibson, 84, American Hall of Fame baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), Cy Young Award (1968, 1970), World Series champion (1964, 1967), pancreatic cancer. Bette Greene, 86, American novelist (Summer of My German Soldier, Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe), heart failure. Martin Havelka, 62, Czech actor. Anne-Marie Hutchinson, 63, British lawyer. Seiuemon Inaba, 95, Japanese roboticist. Heinz Kördell, 88, German footballer (Schalke 04, Schwarz-Weiß Essen, West Germany national team). Liew Vui Keong, 60, Malaysian politician, MP (2008–2013, since 2018) and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (2018–2020), pneumonia. Danny Malloy, 91, Scottish boxer. Ron Perranoski, 84, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins) and coach (San Francisco Giants), World Series champion (1963, 1965, 1981, 1988). Mukarrama Qosimova, 87, Tajik linguist and academic. Irina Slavina, 47, Russian news editor (Open Russia), suicide by self-immolation. Sprangalang, 71, Trinidadian actor (Lord Have Mercy!, A Winter Tale) and comedian. Claude Vigée, 99, French poet. Victor Zalgaller, 99, Russian-Israeli mathematician.