page_title: Deaths in 2010
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2010 / March
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Wassili Smyslow zum 80. Geburtstag von Juri Awerbach English: Vasili Smyslov at the 80th birthday of Juri Averbakh
context_page_description: January 1 - Lhasa de Sela, 37, Mexican-American singer-songwriter.
  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 9 - Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal.
  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 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.
context_section_description: 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 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.
caption: Vasily Smyslov 1921-2010
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