Notable deaths on October 2

Indonesian actress (1962–2024)

American professional golfer (1941–2024)

English footballer (1944–2023)

American actress and activist (1946–2022)

American professional ten-pin bowler (1940–2021)

Irish lawyer (1957–2020)

Saudi journalist and dissident (1958–2018)

American rock musician (1950–2017)

English conductor and violinist (1924–2016)

Irish dramatist, author and theatre director (1929–2015)

British Jamaican-born jazz bassist (1914–2015)

Scottish footballer, snooker referee

Australian rules footballer

American mathematician (1918–2013)

Canadian civil rights lawyer and activist

Canadian psychologist and author (1943–2012)

Vietnamese-American dissident, activist and poet

Singaporean lawyer (1920–2010)

Irish republican (1902–2007)

American actor (1928–2007)

American gridiron football player (1924–2007)

American politician (1938–2006)

Hungarian-American mathematician (1916–2006)

American playwright (1945–2005)