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| Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie Louvin at Banjo Jim's in NYC on 2008-10-24. (Photographer: Anthony Pepitone) |
* Virgil Akins, 82, American boxer, world welterweight champion (1958).
* Solange Bertrand, 97, French artist. (French)
* Sir Chandos Blair, 91, British army general.
* Ralph Felton, 78, American football player (Washington Redskins).
* Aslam Khokhar, 91, Pakistani cricketer.
* John Muir Mason, 71, Scottish lawyer, musician and composer, founder of Scottish Fiddle Orchestra, long illness.
* Cristino Nicolaides, 86, Argentine army commander and criminal, pulmonary complications.
* Park Wan-suh, 79, South Korean novelist. (German)
* Bobby Poe, 77, American pop singer, songwriter and promoter, blood clot.
* William Schreyer, 83, American Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch (1985–1993).
* Lois Smith, 81, Canadian dancer (National Ballet of Canada).
* Tullia Zevi, 91, Italian journalist and writer.
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* Elizabeth Buhler, 111, Canadian supercentenarian.
* Howard Dahnert, 92, American Drum Corps International Hall of Fame member.
* Ed Dyas, 71, American football player (Auburn Tigers), member of the College Football Hall of Fame, stomach cancer.
* Peter Gibb, 56, Australian criminal, heart attack.
* Ole Kopreitan, 73, Norwegian political activist. (Norwegian)
* Jack LaLanne, 96, American fitness and nutritional expert, pneumonia.
* Poppa Neutrino, 77, American adventurer, heart failure.
* Louise Raggio, 91, American lawyer.
* Novica Tadić, 62, Yugoslavian poet. (Serbian)
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* Alec Boden, 85, Scottish footballer (Celtic).
* Bernd Eichinger, 61, German film producer and director (The NeverEnding Story), heart attack.
* Phil Gallie, 71, British politician, MP for Ayr (1992–1997), MSP for South of Scotland (1999–2007).
* Barrie Lee Hall, Jr., 61, American jazz trumpeter and band leader (Duke Ellington).
* Bhimsen Joshi, 88, Indian musician, Bharat Ratna laureate.
* José María Luevano, 37, Mexican torero, traffic accident. (Spanish)
* Francisco Mata, 78, Venezuelan folk singer and composer. (Spanish)
* Samuel Ruiz, 86, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Cristóbal de las Casas (1959–2000). (Spanish)
* Audun Tylden, 62, Norwegian music executive and record producer, heart failure. (Norwegian)
* Chief White Eagle, 93, Canadian-born American actor and stuntman.
* Anna Yablonskaya, 29, Ukrainian playwright, bombing. (Russian)
* Peter-Paul Zahl, 66, German author. (German)
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* Daniel Bell, 91, American sociologist.
* Audrey Best, 50, Canadian lawyer, ex-wife of politician and lawyer Lucien Bouchard, breast cancer.
* Vincent Cronin, 86, British writer.
* Bill Holden, 82, English footballer.
* Arto Javanainen, 51, Finnish ice hockey player, after long illness. (Finnish)
* Vasilis Konstantakopoulos, 76, Greek ship owner and businessman, cancer. (Greek)
* Betty Smith, 81, British jazz saxophonist, singer and bandleader.
* Ganga Bahadur Thapa, 80, Nepalese Olympic athlete, brain hemorrhage.
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* Robert Crook, 81, American politician, Mississippi state senator (1964–1992).
* John Herbert, 81, Brazilian actor, emphysema. (Portuguese)
* Gladys Horton, 65, American R&B singer (The Marvelettes), complications from a stroke.
* David Kato, 40s, Ugandan gay rights activist, beating.
* R. F. Langley, 72, British poet and diarist.
* Charlie Louvin, 83, American country music singer (The Louvin Brothers), pancreatic cancer.
* Shawn McGrath, 34, American professional wrestler, suicide.
* María Mercader, 92, Spanish actress. (Spanish)
* Jesús Romero Anselmi, Venezuelan journalist, President of Venezolana de Televisión (2001–2003). (Spanish)
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* Charlie Callas, 83, American comedian and actor (Silent Movie, Switch).
* Tony DiPardo, 98, American bandleader and music director (Kansas City Chiefs), brain aneurysm.
* Liana Dumitrescu, 38, Romanian politician, stroke. (Romanian)
* Mārtiņš Freimanis, 33, Latvian musician (F.L.Y.) and actor, performed at Eurovision Song Contest 2003, influenza. (Latvian)
* Paco Maestre, 53, Spanish actor, heart attack.
* Svein Mathisen, 58, Norwegian footballer (IK Start), cancer. (Norwegian)
* Henrik Ostergaard, 47, Danish-born American singer (Dirty Looks), natural causes.
* Tøger Seidenfaden, 53, Danish newspaper editor-in-chief (Politiken), cancer.
* Michael Van Rooy, 42, Canadian author, heart attack.
* Guy Velella, 66, American politician and ex-convict, New York State Assemblyman (1973–1982) and State Senator (1986–2004), lung cancer.
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* Sushil Kumar Dhara, 99, Indian revolutionary.
* Dame Margaret Price, 69, Welsh soprano.
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