Deaths in 2010

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2010.

January 

 January 1 - Freya von Moltke, 98, Germany Scholar.
 January 1 - Lhasa de Sela, 37, Mexican-American singer-songwriter.
 January 3 - Mary Daly, 81, American theologian.
 January 3 - Lous Haasdijk, 71, Dutch television presenter.
 January 4 - Sandro de América, 64, Argentine singer.
 January 4 - Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.
 January 4 - Casey Johnson, 30, American socialite.
 January 4 - Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese President.
 January 5 - Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian actor, complications from swine flu.
 January 5 - Kenneth Noland, 85, American painter.
 January 8 - Art Clokey, 88, American cartoonist.
 January 9 - Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal.
 January 10 - Crispin Sorhaindo, 78, Dominica President.
 January 11 - Eric Rohmer, 89, French movie director.
 January 11 - Miep Gies, 100, Dutch woman who hid Anne Frank.
 January 12 - Zilda Arns, 75, Brazilian Pediatrician and aid worker, Earthquake
 January 13 - Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American singer-songwriter.
 January 14 - Petra Schürmann, 76, Germany actress.
 January 15 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist, won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 84.
 January 17 - Erich Segal, 72, American author.
 January 17 - Jyoti Basu, 95, Indian politician.
 January 18 - Kate McGarrigle, 63, Canadian singer.
 January 19 - Panajot Pano, 70, Albanian footballer.
 January 19 - Bill McLaren, 86, Scottish rugby commentator.
 January 22 - Iskandar of Johor, 77, Malaysian politician.
 January 22 - Jean Simmons, 80, Anglo-American actress, lung cancer.
 January 23 - Earl Wild, 94, American pianist.
 January 24 - Pernell Roberts, 81, American actor.
 January 25 - Ali Hassan al-Majid, 68, Iraqi politician and mass murderer, execution by hanging.
 January 26 - Geoffrey Burbidge, 84, British astrophysicist.
 January 27 - Howard Zinn, 87, American historian.
 January 27 - J. D. Salinger, 91, American writer.
 January 27 - Zelda Rubinstein, 76, American actress and activist.

February 

 February 1 - David Brown, 93, American producer, renal failure.
 February 1 - Justin Mentell, 27, American actor.
 February 1 - Steingrímur Hermannsson, 81, Icelandic politician.
 February 4 - Philip Martin, 83, American chieftain.
 February 5 - Harry Schwarz, 85, South African lawyer and politician.
 February 6 - John Dankworth, 82, British jazz musician.
 February 7 - Franco Ballerini, 45, Italian road racing cyclist.
 February 7 - Andre Kolingba, 73, Central African politician.
 February 8 - John Murtha, 77, American politician.
 February 10 - Charles Wilson, 76, American politician.
 February 11 - Alexander McQueen, 40, British fashion designer, hanging.
 February 11 - Irina Arkhipova, 85, Russian singer, heart attack.
 February 12 - Leroy Nash, 94, American, oldest inmate on death row in the US.
 February 12 - Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, Georgian luger, accident while practicing for Winter Olympics.
 February 14 - Dick Francis, 89, British jockey-turned-novelist.
 February 17 - Kathryn Grayson, 88, American actress and singer.
 February 18 - Ariel Ramirez, 88, Argentine composer.
 February 18 - John Babcock, 109, Canadian World War I veteran.
 February 19 - Lionel Jeffries, 83, British actor.
 February 20 - Alexander Haig, 85, American politician, infection.
 February 23 - Orlando Zapata, 42, Cuban dissident, hunger strike.
 February 25 - Andrew Koenig, 41, American actor, suicide.
 February 27 - Wendy Toye, 92, British actress.

March 

 March 1 - Vladimir Ilyushin, 82, Russian pilot.
 March 2 - Winston Spencer Churchill, 69, British politician, grandson of former Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
 March 3 - Michael Foot, 96, British politician.
 March 3 - Keith Alexander, 53, English footballer.
 March 4 - Vladislav Ardzinba, 64, Abkhazian politician.
 March 5 - Philip Langridge, 70, British tenor.
 March 7 - Kenneth Dover, 89, British classicist.
 March 9 - Granny D, 100, American political activist.
 March 10 - Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, 81, Egyptian Muslim cleric.
 March 10 - Corey Haim, 38, Canadian actor, drug overdose.
 March 10 - Dorothy Janis, 100, American actress.
 March 12 - Miguel Delibes, 89, Spanish author and journalist, cancer.
 March 14 - Peter Graves, 83, American actor, heart attack.
 March 16 - Ksenija Pajcin, 32, Serbian musician.
 March 17 - Alex Chilton, 59, American musician.
 March 18 - Fess Parker, 85, American actor.
 March 20 - Stewart Udall, 90, American politician.
 March 20 - Girija Prasad Koirala, 85, Nepalese politician.
 March 20 - Harry Carpenter, 84, British sports commentator.
 March 21 - Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German opera director, grandson of Richard Wagner, great-grandson of Franz Liszt.
 March 22 - Valentina Tolkunova, 63, Russian singer, cancer.
 March 22 - Sir James W. Black, 85, British physician, winner 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
 March 24 - Robert Culp, 79, American actor, injuries from a fall.
 March 25 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist.
 March 27 - Stanley Vann, 100, British church musician.
 March 27 - Vasily Smyslov, 89, Soviet, world chess champion.
 March 27 - Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician.
 March 27 - Dick Giordano, 77, American comic book artist.
 March 28 - June Havoc, 97, American actress.
 March 28 - Herb Ellis, 88, American musician. 
 March 30 - Martin Sandberger, 98, German military officer.

April 

 April 1 - Ed Roberts, 68, American computer pioneer.
 April 1 - John Forsythe, 92, American actor, pneumonia.
 April 3 - Eugene Terre'Blanche, 69, South African political activist, beaten.
 April 5 - Vitaly Sevastyanov, 74, Soviet cosmonaut.
 April 6 - Corin Redgrave, 70, British political activist.
 April 7 - Christopher Cazenove, 64, British actor, sepsis.
 April 8 - Malcolm McLaren, 64, British music manager, mesothelioma.
 April 8 - Abel Muzorewa, 84, former bishop and Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
 April 9 - Meinhardt Raabe, 94, American actor.
 April 10 - Maria Kaczyńska, 67, First Lady of Poland, plane crash.
 April 10 - Lech Kaczynski, 60, President of Poland, plane crash.
 April 10 - Ryszard Kaczorowski, 90, Polish politician, plane crash.
 April 10 - Dixie Carter, 70, American actress, cancer.
 April 12 - Werner Schroeter, 65, German movie director.
 April 14 - Israr Ahmed, 77, Pakistani Islamic scholar, heart attack.
 April 14 - Peter Steele, 48, American gothic metal musician, heart attack.
 April 16 - Carlos Franqui, 88, Cuban writer and political activist.
 April 16 - Tomas Spidlik, 90, Czech cardinal
 April 19 - Guru, 48, American rapper, multiple myeloma.
 April 20 - Dorothy Height, 98, American civil rights activist.
 April 21 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, 89, Spanish former President of the International Olympic Committee
 April 25 - Alan Sillitoe, 82, British writer.
 April 26 - Prabha Rau, 75, Indian politician, heart attack.
 April 30 - Paul Mayer, 98, German cardinal.

May 

 May 2 - Kama Chinen, 114, Japanese supercentenarian, officially the oldest person in the world at the time of her death.
 May 2 - Lynn Redgrave, 67, Anglo-American actress, breast cancer.
 May 3 - Florencio Campomanes, 83, Filipino chessplayer & President of FIDE.
 May 3 - Guenter Wendt, 86, German-American NASA engineer.
 May 4 - Luigi Poggi, 92, Italian cardinal.
 May 4 - Michael Thalbourne, 55, Australian physician
 May 5 - Giulietta Simionato, 99, Italian opera singer.
 May 5 - Umaru Yar'Adua, 58, President of Nigeria, after long illness.
 May 7 - Wally Hickel, 90, American politician, 2nd Governor of Alaska.
 May 8 - Andor Lilienthal, 99, Hungarian chess player.
 May 9 - Lena Horne, 92, American singer and actress.
 May 9 - Acharya Mahapragya, 89, Indian religious leader (Jainism), heart attack.
 May 10 - Frank Frazetta, 82, American artist.
 May 15 - Besian Idrizaj, 22, Austrian football player, heart attack.
 May 15 - Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 86, former Vice-President of India.
 May 15 - John Shepherd-Barron, 84, Scottish inventor, invented the ATM.
 May 16 - Oswaldo López Arellano, 88, former President of Honduras.
 May 16 - Hank Jones, 91, American jazz pianist.
 May 16 - Ronnie James Dio, 67, American heavy metal musician, stomach cancer.
 May 17 - Yvonne Loriod, 86, French pianist.
 May 17 - Khattiya Sawasdipol, 58, Thai General, shot.
 May 17 - Bobbejaan Schoepen, 85, Belgian singer.
 May 18 - Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, Italian writer.
 May 20 - Walter Rudin, 89, Austrian-born mathematician.
 May 22 - Martin Gardner, 95, American author.
 May 23 - Leonida Georgievna, 95, Russian Grand Duchess.
 May 24 - Paul Gray, 38, American musician (Slipknot).
 May 25 - Siphiwo Ntshebe, 35, South African singer.
 May 26 - Art Linkletter, 97, Canadian-American television personality.
 May 27 - John William Finn, 100, American Navy officer.
 May 28 - Gary Coleman, 42, American actor, cerebral hemorrhage.
 May 29 - Dennis Hopper, 74, American actor, prostate cancer.
 May 31 - Louise Bourgeois, 98, French-American artist and sculptor.

June 

 June 1 - Kazuo Ohno, 103, Japanese dancer.
 June 1 - Andrey Voznesensky, 77, Russian poet.
 June 2 - Giuseppe Taddei, 93, Italian opera singer.
 June 3 - Vladimir Arnold, 72, Russian mathematician.
 June 3 - Rue McClanahan, 76, American actress, stroke.
 June 4 - John Wooden, 99, American basketball player and coach, natural causes.
 June 7 - Mordechai Eliyahu, 81, Israeli rabbi.
 June 7 - Stuart Cable, 40, British drummer.
 June 9 - Marina Semyonova, 101, Russian ballerina.
 June 10 - Ferdinand Oyono, 80, Cameroonian writer.
 June 10 - Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter.
 June 13 - Jimmy Dean, 81, American country music singer.
 June 14 - Leonid Kizim, 68, Soviet cosmonaut.
 June 15 - Heidi Kabel, 95, German actress.
 June 16 - Ronald Neame, 99, British movie director.
 June 18 - Marcel Bigeard, 94, French military officer.
 June 18 - José Saramago, 87, Portuguese writer, winner 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.
 June 19 - Manute Bol, 47, Sudanese basketball player, kidney failure.
 June 19 - Carlos Monsivais, 72, Mexican writer and journalist.
 June 20 - Roberto Rosato, 66, Italian footballer.
 June 21 - Stanley Lucas, 110, British supercentenarian, oldest man in Europe at the time of his death.
 June 23 - Mohamed Mzali, 84, former Prime Minister of Tunisia.
 June 26 - Algirdas Brazauskas, 77, former President of Lithuania.
 June 28 - Robert Byrd, 92, American senator.

July 

 July 2 - Beryl Bainbridge, 77, British writer, cancer.
 July 3 - Abu Daoud, 73, Palestinian politician and military commander.
 July 3 - Herbert Erhardt, 79, German footballer.
 July 4 - Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, 74, Lebanese spiritual leader.
 July 5 - David Fanshawe, 68, British composer and explorer.
 July 5 - Bob Probert, 45, Canadian ice hockey player.
 July 5 - Cesare Siepi, 87, Italian opera singer.
 July 5 - Nasr Abu Zayd, 66, Egyptian-Dutch academic.
 July 6 - Werner Schmalenbach, 89, German art historian and curator.
 July 10 - Sugar Minott, 54, Jamaican reggae singer.
 July 10 - Raoul Moat, 37, British murderer, suicide by gunshot.
 July 11 - Bob Sheppard, 99, American public address and baseball announcer, natural causes.
 July 12 - Günter Behnisch, 88, German architect.
 July 12 - Harvey Pekar, 70, American comic, writer, and music critic.
 July 13 - George Steinbrenner, 80, American baseball team owner, heart attack.
 July 14 - Charles Mackerras, 84, Australian conductor.
 July 14 - Madalina Manole, 43, Romanian singer.
 July 17 - Bernard Giraudeau, 63, French actor, director and writer.
 July 19 - David Warren, 85, Australian inventor.
 July 20 - Benedikt Sigurdsson Grondal, 86, Icelandic politician.
 July 21 - Luis Corvalan, 93, Chilean politician.
 July 21 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, 69, British operatic tenor
 July 24 - Theo Albrecht, 88, German businessman (Aldi Nord).
 July 24 - Alex Higgins, 61, Northern Irish snooker player, throat cancer.
 July 25 - Vasco de Almeida e Costa, 77, Portuguese politician.
 July 27 - Maury Chaykin, 61, Canadian actor.
 July 27 - Wallace Souza, 51, Brazilian entertainer, politician, and criminal.
 July 29 - Zheng Ji, 110, Chinese supercentenarian, nutritionist and biochemist.
 July 31 - Suso Cecchi d'Amico, 96, Italian screenwriter.
 July 31 - Mitch Miller, 99, American music executive and television host.

August 

 August 5 - Godfrey Binaisa, 90, Ugandan politician and former President.
 August 6 - Catfish Collins, 66, American guitarist (James Brown, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Parliament-Funkadelic), cancer.
 August 6 - Fredrik Ericsson, 35, Swedish climber, fall on K2.
 August 6 - Tony Judt, 62, British historian.
 August 7 - Bruno Cremer, 80, French actor.
 August 8 - Patricia Neal, 84, American actress, lung cancer.
 August 8 - Massamasso Tchangai, 32, Togolese footballer, heart attack.
 August 9 - Ted Stevens, 86, United States Senator, plane crash.
 August 10 - Antonio Pettigrew, 42, American athlete.
 August 12 - Guido de Marco, 79, former President of Malta.
 August 13 - Lance Cade, 29, American wrestler.
 August 14 - Abbey Lincoln, 80, American jazz singer and actress.
 August 15 - Lionel Regal, 37, French hillclimbing racer.
 August 16 - Nicola Cabibbo, 75, Italian physicist.
 August 16 - Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, Greek military officer.
 August 17 - Francesco Cossiga, 82, 8th President of Italy.
 August 18 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, 80, Spanish aristocrat, cancer.
 August 19 - Ahna Capri, 66, American Actress, car accident.
 August 21 - Christoph Schlingensief, 49, German movie and theatre director, lung cancer.
 August 22 - Stjepan Bobek, 86, Croatian footballer.
 August 23 - Satoshi Kon, 46, Japanese movie director, pancreatic cancer.
 August 26 - William B. Lenoir, 71, American astronaut, died from head injuries caused by a bicycle accident.
 August 26 - Raimon Panikkar, 91, Indian-Spanish theologian.
 August 27 - Anton Geesink, 76, Dutch judoka.
 August 28 - Sinan Hasani, 88, 10th President of Yugoslavia.
 August 30 - J. C. Bailey, 27, American professional wrestler.
 August 30 - Alain Corneau, 67, French filmmaker, cancer.
 August 30 - Francisco Varallo, 100, Argentine footballer.
 August 31 - Laurent Fignon, 50, French road bicycle racer, cancer.

September 

 September 2 - Shmuel Eisenstadt, 86, Israeli sociologist.
 September 5 - Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, 88, Dutch painter.
 September 5 - Shoya Tomizawa, 19, Japanese motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident.
 September 7 - Amar Garibovic, 19, Serbian skier, car crash.
 September 8 - Israel Tal, 85, Israeli general.
 September 9 - Bent Larsen, 75, Danish chess player.
 September 11 - Kevin McCarthy, 96, American actor.
 September 12 - Claude Chabrol, 80, French movie director.
 September 18 - Egon Klepsch, 80, German politician.
 September 20 - Fud Leclerc, 86, Belgian singer.
 September 22 - Eddie Fisher, 82, American singer.
 September 22 - Jorge Gonzalez, 44, Argentine basketball player and wrestler, diabetes.
 September 24 - Gennady Yanayev, 73, Soviet politician.
 September 25 - Art Gilmore, 98, American radio, television announcer.
 September 26 - Gloria Stuart, 100, American actress.
 September 28 - Arthur Penn, 88, American director and producer.
 September 29 - Tony Curtis, 85, American actor.
 September 29 - Georges Charpak, 86, Polish-born French physicist.
 September 29 - Greg Giraldo, 44, American comedian, overdose on prescription medication.
 September 30 - Stephen J. Cannell, 69, American television producer and writer.

October 

 October 3 - Philippa Foot, 90, British philosopher.
 October 4 - Norman Wisdom, 95, British actor and comedian.
 October 5 - Bernard Clavel, 87, French writer.
 October 7 - Milka Planinc, 85, Yugoslavian politician, former Prime Minister.
 October 9 - Maurice Allais, 99, French economist, winner 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, natural causes.
 October 10 - Solomon Burke, 70, American singer-songwriter, natural causes.
 October 10 - Hwang Jang-yop, 87, North Korean politician and defector.
 October 10 - Joan Sutherland, 83, Australian soprano.
 October 12 - Manuel Alexandre, 92, Spanish actor, cancer.
 October 14 - Simon MacCorkindale, 58, British actor, bowel cancer.
 October 14 - Benoit Mandelbrot, 85, French-American mathematician, pancreatic cancer.
 October 14 - Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician, heart failure.
 October 16 - Barbara Billingsley, 94, American actress, polymyalgia.
 October 19 - Tom Bosley, 83, American actor, heart failure.
 October 20 - Bob Guccione, 79, American founder of Penthouse magazine, lung cancer.
 October 20 - Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari, 70, former President of Pakistan.
 October 21 - Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist and wife of former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, illness after fall.
 October 23 - David Thompson, 48, Prime Minister of Barbados, pancreatic cancer.
 October 25 - Gregory Isaacs, 59, Jamaican musician, lung cancer.
 October 26 - Paul the Octopus, 2, FIFA World Cup oracle, natural causes.
 October 27 - Néstor Kirchner, 60, former President of Argentina, heart attack.
 October 28 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, 72, Greenlandic politician, two-time former Prime Minister, cancer.
 October 30 - Harry Mulisch, 83, Dutch writer, cancer.

November 

 November 1 - Ed Litzenberger, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
 November 2 - Rudolf Barshai, 86, Russian conductor.
 November 3 - Viktor Chernomyrdin, 72, Russian politician, former Prime Minister, cancer.
 November 4 - Eugenie Blanchard, 114, French-Caribbean supercentenarian, world's oldest living person.
 November 5 - Hajo Herrmann, 97, German Luftwaffe pilot.
 November 5 - Jill Clayburgh, 66, American actress, chronic leukemia.
 November 8 - Emilio Eduardo Massera, 85, Argentine military officer.
 November 10 - Dino De Laurentiis, 91, Italian movie producer.
 November 12 - Henryk Gorecki, 76, Polish composer, after long illness.
 November 13 - Luis Garcia Berlanga, 89, Spanish movie director.
 November 15 - Larry Evans, 78, American chess player.
 November 17 - Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, 87, Brazilian footballer, cancer.
 November 18 - Gaye Stewart, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
 November 21 - David Nolan, 66, American activist and politician.
 November 22 - Frank Fenner, 95, Australian scientist.
 November 23 - Ingrid Pitt, 73, Polish-born British actress.
 November 24 - Huang Hua, 97, Chinese politician.
 November 27 - Irvin Kershner, 87, American movie director, after long illness.
 November 28 - Leslie Nielsen, 84, Canadian-born American actor, complications from pneumonia.
 November 29 - Mario Monicelli, 95, Italian movie director, suicide.
 November 29 - Maurice Wilkes, 97, British computer scientist.
 November 29 - Bella Akhmadulina, 73, Russian poet.

December 

 December 1 - Adriaan Blaauw, 96, Dutch astronomer.
 December 2 - Ron Santo, 70. American baseball player, cancer.
 December 2 - Lee Huan, 93, Taiwanese politician, former Premier of the Republic of China.
 December 3 - Hugues Cuenod, 108, Swiss tenor.
 December 5 - Don Meredith, 72, American football player and television announcer, brain hemorrhage.
 December 9 - James Moody, 85, American jazz musician, pancreatic cancer.
 December 10 - John Bennett Fenn, 93, American chemist, Nobel laureate.
 December 12 - Tom Walkinshaw, 64, British engineer and racing team owner.
 December 13 - Richard Holbrooke, 69, American diplomat, complications from a torn aorta.
 December 15 - Blake Edwards, 88, American movie director, complications from pneumonia
 December 15 - Bob Feller, 92, American baseball player.
 December 15 - Jean Rollin, 72, French movie director, actor and writer.
 December 17 - Captain Beefheart, 69, American musician.
 December 18 - Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, 70, Italian banker and politician.
 December 20 - Brian Hanrahan, 61, British journalist, cancer.
 December 21 - Enzo Bearzot, 83, Italian footballer and coach.
 December 23 - K. Karunakaran, 92, Indian-Keralan politician, stroke.
 December 24 - Elisabeth Beresford, 84, British author.
 December 24 - Roy Neuberger, 107, American banker and art collector.
December 24 - Eino Tamberg, 80, Estonian composer.
 December 25 - Carlos Andrés Pérez, 88, 55th President of Venezuela, cardiac arrest.
 December 26 - Teena Marie, 54, American singer-songwriter.
December 26 - Salvador Jorge Blanco, 84, 48th President of the Dominican Republic, complications from fall.
 December 27 - Ronald Lee Herrick, 79, first organ donor, complications from heart surgery.
 December 28 - Billy Taylor, 89, American jazz musician, cardiac arrest.
December 29 - Avi Cohen, 54, Israeli footballer, complications of head injuries.
December 30 - Bobby Farrell, 61, Aruban performer.
December 30 - Ellis Clarke, 93, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago, complications from a stroke.
December 31 - Syd Ward, 103, New Zealand cricketer.

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