Famous people died in October - page 6

Rock Hudson was a prominent American actor of the Hollywood Golden Age

Liaquat Ali Khan was the first Prime Minister of Pakistan

Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer and actor considered a master of the modern chanson

Sir Douglas Mawson was an Australian explorer, geologist and academic

Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, more famously known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan politician and stateswoman

Edward Hammond Hargraves was one of the most famed and colorful explorers of gold during the gold rush era

Sir Martin Ryle was a British astronomer who was one of the joint winners of Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974

Jayaprakash Narayan was an Indian independence activist and political leader

Edith Clarke was the first woman to earn an electrical engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Al Lopez was an American professional baseball player and baseball team manager