October 12 – John Denver, American musician (b. 1943) October 13 – Adil Çarçani, Albanian politician (b. 1922) October 14 – Harold Robbins, American writer (b. 1916) October 16 Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (b. 1903) Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918) James A. Michener, American writer (b. 1907) October 19 Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947) Pilar Miró, Spanish screenwriter and film director (b. 1940) October 23 Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916) Luther Simjian, Armenian-American inventor (b. 1905) October 29 – Anton LaVey, American author, musician, and occultist (b. 1930) October 30 – Samuel Fuller, American screenwriter and director (b. 1912) November November 2 – Shōshin Nagamine, Japanese author and soldier, police officer, and karate master (b. 1907) November 5 – Isaiah Berlin, Russian-British social and political theorist (b. 1909) November 8 – Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Iranian author (b. 1892) November 9 - Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (b. 1905) November 11 – Rod Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950) November 16 - George O. Petrie, American actor and director (b. 1912) November 21 – Robert Simpson, English composer (b. 1921) November 22 Joanna Moore, American actress (b. 1934) Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1960) November 24 – Barbara, French singer (b. 1930) November 25 – Hastings Banda, 1st President of Malawi (b. 1898) November 30 – Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947) December December 1 – Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908) December 2 – Michael Hedges, American composer and guitarist (b. 1953) December 7 – Billy Bremner, British footballer (b. 1942) December 14 Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918) Owen Barfield, British philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1898) December 16 Lillian Disney, American artist (b. 1899) Nicolette Larson, American pop singer (b. 1952) December 18 – Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (b. 1964) December 19 Masaru Ibuka, Japanese electronics industrialist (b. 1908) Jimmy Rogers, American musician (b. 1924) December 20 Juzo Itami, Japanese film director (b. 1933) Denise Levertov, English-born American poet (b. 1923) December 23 – Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (b. 1908) December 24 – Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (b. 1920) December 25 Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920) Anita Conti, French explorer and photographer (b. 1899) Anatoli Boukreev, Russian mountain climber (b. 1958) December 31 – Billie Dove, American actress (b. 1903) Nobel Prizes Chemistry – Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou Economics –