Notable deaths on October 1

English zoologist (1934–2025)

British politician and peer (1945–2024)

American baseball player (1966–2023)

Japanese wrestler and politician (1943–2022)

Czech singer (1939–2019)

French singer and songwriter (1924–2018)

American sportscaster (1955–2017)

American mass murderer (1953–2017)

Croatian footballer (1950–2015)

American politician (1915–2015)

Iranian footballer (1985–2015)

American rabbi (1919-2015)

Cuban baseball player (1942–2014)

English singer-songwriter and record producer (1948–2014)

Venezuelan politician (1987–2014)

Israeli military officer and politician

American lawyer

American lighting designer (born 1928)

20th and 21st-century Israeli historian and Holocaust survivor

American gridiron football player (1936–2013)

Norwegian physician and politician

American author (1947–2013)

British academic historian and Marxist historiographer (1917–2012)

American judge (1950–2012)