Deaths in 2010

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2010. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference, language of reference if not English.

October 2010

29

• Marcelino Camacho, 92, Spanish trade unionist. [1] (Spanish)

28

• Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto, 90, Peruvian Roman Catholic Bishop of Puno (1972–1998). [2]
• Fernando Garavito, 66, Colombian journalist and lawyer. [3] (Spanish)
• James MacArthur, 72, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, Swiss Family Robinson), natural causes. [4]
• Jonathan Motzfeldt, 72, Greenlandic politician, Prime Minister (1979–1991; 1997–2002). [5] (Danish)
• Paddy Mullins, 91, Irish horse racing trainer. [6]
• Spyros Pantazatos, 38, Greek sports photographer. [7] (Greek)
• Takeshi Shudo, 61, Japanese writer (Pokémon), subarachnoid hemorrhage. [8] (Japanese)

27

• Hugh Hayden, 66, British motor racing team owner, heart attack. [9]
• Néstor Kirchner, 60, Argentine politician, President (2003–2007), First Gentleman (2007–2010), Secretary General of UNASUR (2010), heart attack. [10]
• Charis Patsis, 97, Greek educator, writer and editor. [11] (Greek)
• Owen B. Pickett, 80, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1987–2001). [12]
• Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qassimi, 92, Emirati Emir of Ras al-Khaimah (since 1948). [13]
• James Wall, 92, American actor (Captain Kangaroo) and stage manager, after short illness. [14]

26

• Mbah Maridjan, 83, Indonesian spiritual guardian of Mount Merapi (1982–2010), pyroclastic flow from Mount Merapi. [15]
• Paul the Octopus, 2, British-born World Cup oracle octopus (Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany), natural causes. [16]
• James Phelps, 78, American gospel and R&B singer. [17]
• Ana María Romero de Campero, 67, Bolivian journalist and politician, President of the Senate of Bolivia (2010), colorectal cancer. [18]
• Bill Shannon, 69, American author and baseball historian, injuries from a fire. [19]
• Romeu Tuma, 79, Brazilian politician, Senator (1995–2010), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [20] (Portuguese)

25

• Hans Arnold, 85, Swiss-born Swedish artist. [21] (Swedish)
• Lisa Blount, 53, American actress (An Officer and a Gentleman) and Academy Award-winning film producer (The Accountant). [22]
• Gregory Isaacs, 59, Jamaican reggae singer, lung cancer. [23]
• Andreas Maurer, 91, Austrian politician, Landeshauptmann of Lower Austria (1966–1981). [24] (German)
• Vesna Parun, 88, Croatian writer. [25] (Croatian)
• Roy Skinner, 80, American college basketball coach (Vanderbilt), respiratory failure. [26]

24

• Keti Chomata, 64, Greek singer, cancer. [27] (Greek)
• Ignacio Ramírez de Haro, 92, Spanish noble, 15th Count of Bornos, Grandee of Spain, father-in-law of Esperanza Aguirre, legionella. [28] (Spanish)
• Mike Esposito, 83, American comic book artist. [29]
• Georges Frêche, 72, French politician, cardiac arrest. [30] (French)
• Linda Hargrove, 61, American country singer and songwriter ("Just Get Up and Close the Door"), complications from a bone marrow transplant. [31]
• Andy Holmes, 51, British Olympic gold (1984, 1988) and bronze (1988) medal-winning rower, leptospirosis. [32]
• Lamont Johnson, 88, American actor and television director (The Twilight Zone, The Execution of Private Slovik), heart failure. [33]
• Philibert Parnasse, 109, French centenarian, oldest man in France. [34]
• Burton B. Roberts, 88, American judge, New York Supreme Court Justice (1973–1998), respiratory failure. [35]
• Willie Rutherford, 65, Australian soccer player. [36]
• Sylvia Sleigh, 94, American painter, complications of a stroke. [37]
• Joseph Stein, 98, American playwright (Fiddler on the Roof, Zorba). [38]

23

• Vince Banonis, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions). [39]
• Ior Bock, 68, Finnish actor and tour guide, stabbing. [40] (Finnish)
• Bob Courtney, 87, South African broadcaster and actor. [41]
• Fran Crippen, 26, American swimmer, heart attack. [42]
• Leo Cullum, 68, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer. [43]
• S. Neil Fujita, 89, American graphic designer, compications of a stroke. [44]
• Dieter Heistermann, 74, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1980–1998), after short illness. [45] (German)
• Princess Irmingard of Bavaria, 87, German noblewoman. [46] (German)
• Donald Leifert, 59, American science fiction actor.[47]
• Chhewang Nima, 43, Nepalese mountaineer and guide, avalanche. [48]
• Charles Stisted, 47, British Chief Executive of the Guards Polo Club, helicopter accident. [49]
• Stanley Tanger, 87, American businessman, founder of Tanger Outlets. [50]
• David Thompson, 48, British-born Barbadian politician, Prime Minister (since 2008), pancreatic cancer. [51]

22

• Alex Anderson, 90, American cartoonist, created characters for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Crusader Rabbit. [52]
• Arthur M. Brazier, 89, American pastor and civil rights activist. [53]
• Alí Chumacero, 92, Mexican writer and poet, pneumonia. [54] (Spanish)
• Helen Hunley, 90, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (1985–1991). [55]
• Franz Raschid, 56, German footballer, pancreatic cancer. [56] (German)
• Eio Sakata, 90, Japanese professional Go player, aortic aneurysm. [57] (Japanese)
• Denis Simpson, 59, Canadian actor (Polka Dot Door) and singer, brain hemorrhage. [58]
• Kjell Stormoen, 89, Norwegian actor and theater director. [59]

21

• Antonio Alatorre, 88, Mexican philologist. [60] (Spanish)
• Uccio Aloisi, 82, Italian traditional music singer. [61] (Italian)
• Mustapha Anane, 60, Algerian footballer. [62] (French)
• A. Ayyappan, 61, Indian poet. [63]
• José Carbajal, 66, Uruguayan singer, guitarist, and composer (Los Olimareños), cardiac arrest. [64]
• Hermann Eberlein, 93, German long-distance runner, German Master (1939, 1946 & 1950). [65] (German)
• Christian Kandlbauer, 22, Austrian automotive mechanic, first human with thought-controlled bionic prosthesis, car accident. [66] (German)
• James F. Neal, 81, American jurist, prosecuted Watergate figures, cancer. [67]
• Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt, illness after a fall and complications of a broken foot. [68] (German)
• Natasha Spender, 91, British musician and writer, widow of Stephen Spender. [69]

20

• Ari Up, 48, German-born British punk musician (The Slits), cancer. [70]
• Alfred Backs, 60, German CEO of media group Merkur/tz, heart attack. [71] (German)
• Francisco Batistela, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa (1990–2009). [72]
• Otey Clark, 95, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [73]
• W. Cary Edwards, 66, American politician, New Jersey State Assemblyman (1978–1982) and Attorney General (1986–1989), cancer. [74]
• Luis María Fernández Basualdo, 62, Argentine politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies (2007–2010), cardiac arrest. [75]
• Bob Guccione, 79, American publisher, founder of Penthouse, lung cancer. [76]
• Eva Ibbotson, 85, British author. [77]
• Bill Jennings, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns). [78]
• Robert Katz, 77, American writer. [79]
• Max Kohnstamm, 96, Dutch historian and diplomat. [80] (Dutch)
• Nikos Legakis, 70, Greek physician and politician. [81] (Greek)
• Farooq Leghari, 70, Pakistani politician, President (1993–1997). [82]
• Sir George Mallet, 87, Saint Lucian politician, Governor-General (1996–1997), cancer. [83]
• Alexander Moksel, 92, German entrepreneur, founder of Moksel AG. [84] (German)
• Eduard Novák, 63, Czech Olympic silver (1976) and bronze (1972) medal-winning ice hockey player. [85] (Czech)
• Jenny Oropeza, 53, American politician, California State Assemblywoman (2000–2006) and State Senator (since 2006), after long illness. [86]
• Robert Paynter, 82, British cinematographer (Michael Jackson's Thriller). [87]
• Harvey Phillips, 80, American tuba player, Parkinson's disease. [88]
• Tony Roig, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators), after long illness. [89]
• Parthasarathy Sharma, 62, Indian Test cricketer (1974–1977), cancer. [90]
• Tikhon Stepanov, 47, Russian Orthodox bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory (since 1996), heart attack. [91] (Russian)
• Wendall Woodbury, 68, American television journalist and host (WGAL-TV), lymphoma. [92]

19

• Tom Bosley, 83, American actor (Happy Days, Father Dowling Mysteries), heart failure. [93]
• Craig Charron, 42, American ice hockey player, stomach cancer. [94]
• Graham Crowden, 87, Scottish actor (If...., Waiting For God). [95]
• Stathi Katsidis, 31, Australian jockey. [96]
• André Mahé, 90, French road bicycle racer. [97]

18

• Marion Brown, 79, American jazz saxophonist. [98]
• Consuelo Crespi, 82, American-born Italian countess, fashion model and editor, stroke. [99]
• Margaret Gwenver, American actress (Guiding Light). [100]
• Hans Hägele, 70, German footballer, jump from Koersch Valley Bridge. [101] (German)
• Mel Hopkins, 75, Welsh footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion). [102]
• Peng Chong, 95, Chinese politician, former National Committee member. [103]
• Elsie Steele, 111, British supercentenarian. [104]
• Doug Wilson, 90, British Olympic athlete. [105]

17

• Eyedea, 28, American rapper and musician (Eyedea & Abilities). [106]
• John Baird Finlay, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Oxford (1993–2004). [107]
• Adam Brodecki, 61, Polish Olympic figure skater. [108] (Polish)
• Horst Fritsch, 79, German poet, painter and politician, member of the Bundestag (1986–1987). [109] (German)
• Karlheinz Gieseler, 85, German sports official, CEO of Deutscher Sportbund (1964–1989). [110] (German)
• Rito Grado Serrano, 56, Mexican politician, Mayor of Práxedis G. Guerrero, shot. [111]
• Ted Hallaman, 83, American disc jockey, after long illness. [112]
• Emmanuel Lê Phong Thuân, 79, Vietnamese Roman Catholic Bishop of Cân Tho (since 1990). [113]
• Joe Lis, 64, American baseball player, prostate cancer. [114]
• Bruno H. Schubert, 90, German businessman and conservationist, owner of Henninger Brewery (1945–1979), co-founder of WWF Germany. [115] (German)
• Freddy Schuman, 85, American Yankees fan, heart attack. [116]
• Michael Tabor, 63, American Black Panther Party member, complications from a stroke. [117]
• Dennis Taylor, 56, American saxophonist, heart attack. [118]
• Ken Wriedt, 83, Australian politician, Senator for Tasmania (1967–1980), Leader of the Tasmanian Opposition (1982–1986). [119]

16

• Barbara Billingsley, 94, American actress (Leave It to Beaver, Airplane!). [120]
• Jack Butterfield, 91, Canadian-born sports administrator, President of the American Hockey League (1969–1994). [121]
• Chao-Li Chi, 83, Chinese-born American actor (Falcon Crest). [122]
• Giannis Dalianidis, 86, Greek film director and screenwriter (Oi Thalassies oi Hadres, O katergaris), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [123]
• Nikos Fasouras, 42, Greek basketball player (Peristeri B.C., Maroussi B.C.), cancer. [124] (Greek)
• José Angelo Gaiarsa, 90, Brazilian psychiatrist and writer. [125] (Portuguese)
• Friedrich Katz, 83, Austrian anthropologist and historian, cancer. [126]
• Ioannis Ladas, 90, Greek colonel, member of the 1967–1974 military junta. [127] (Greek)
• Aldo Maria Lazzarín Stella, 83, Italian-born Chilean Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of Aysén (1989–1998). [128]
• Valmy Thomas, 81, Puerto Rican baseball player. [129]
• Leigh Van Valen, 75, American evolutionary biologist (Red Queen's Hypothesis), respiratory infection. [130]

15

• Jim Dougal, 65, British journalist (BBC News, RTÉ, UTV). [131]
• Mildred Fay Jefferson, 84, American pro-life activist, first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School. [132].
• N. Paul Kenworthy, 85, American cinematographer (The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie), thyroid cancer. [133]
• Georges Mathé, 88, French bone marrow transplant pioneer. [134]
• Zofia Morawska, 105, Polish social worker and humanitarian. [135] (Polish)
• Vera Rózsa, 93, Hungarian voice teacher. [136]
• Johnny Sheffield, 79, American actor (Tarzan Finds a Son!, Bomba, the Jungle Boy, Knute Rockne All American), heart attack. [137]
• Adolfo Torres, 67, Argentine dentist, rector of National University of the Northeast, cardiac arrest. [138] (Spanish)

14

• Malcolm Allison, 83, English football player (West Ham United) and manager (Manchester City, Crystal Palace), after long illness. [139]
• Carla Del Poggio, 84, Italian actress. [140] (Italian)
• Louis Henkin, 92, American international human rights law expert and academic (Columbia Law School). [141]
• Alain Le Bussy, 63, Belgian science fiction author, complications following throat surgery. [142]
• Johannes Leobacher, 45, Austrian banker, head of investment (Erste Group Bank AG). [143]
• Simon MacCorkindale, 58, British actor (Falcon Crest, Death on the Nile, Manimal, Casualty), bowel cancer. [144]
• Benoît Mandelbrot, 85, Polish-born French-American mathematician, pioneer of the study of fractals, pancreatic cancer. [145]
• Carlos Quintanar, 71, Mexican Olympic basketball player. [146] (Spanish)
• Constance Reid, 92, American mathematics author and biographer. [147]
• Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1980–2010) and Right Livelihood Award laureate (1999). [148]
• Larry Siegfried, 71, American basketball player (Boston Celtics), heart attack. [149]

13

• Makis Apostolatos, 62, Greek poet, after long illness. [150] (Greek)
• Juan Carlos Arteche, 53, Spanish footballer, cancer. [151]
• Eddie Baily, 85, English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur). [152]
• Huddy Combs, American rapper (Harlem World), car accident. [153]
• General Norman Johnson, 69, American musician and record producer (Chairmen of the Board), complications of lung cancer. [154]
• Kostas Kafasis, 70, Greek actor and singer, cancer. [155] (Greek)
• Khoisan X, 55, South African political activist, stroke. [156]
• Jiri Krizan, 68, Czech screenwriter and presidential adviser, heart attack. [157]
• Mary Malcolm, 92, British BBC announcer and television personality. [158]
• Jerry Marshall, 91, American disc jockey. [159]
• Marzieh, 86, Iranian singer, cancer. [160]
• Betty S. Murphy, 77, American trial lawyer, first woman to chair the National Labor Relations Board, pneumonia. [161]
• Sol Steinmetz, 80, Hungarian-born American lexicographer and linguist, pneumonia. [162]
• Donald H. Tuck, 87, Australian science fiction bibliographer. [163]

12

• Manuel Alexandre, 92, Spanish actor, cancer. [164]
• Jorge Ardila Serrano, 85, Colombian Roman Catholic bishop of Girardot (1988–2001). [165]
• Austin Ardill, 93, British politician, member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Carrick. [166]
• Michel Hugo, 79, French-born American cinematographer (Dynasty, Melrose Place, Mission: Impossible), lung cancer. [167]
• Angelo Infanti, 71, Italian actor, cardiac arrest. [168] (Italian)
• Lionel W. McKenzie, 91, American economist. [169]
• Dick Miles, 85, American table tennis player, won 10 national championships, natural causes. [170]
• Woody Peoples, 67, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles). [171]
• Pepín, 78, Spanish international footballer. [172] (Spanish)
• Belva Plain, 95, American novelist (Evergreen). [173]
• Mark Stevens, 76, American radio personality (KLOL), Alzheimer’s disease. [174]
• Faye Williams, 84, American actress, brain tumor. [175]

11

• Nikolaos Artemiadis, 93, Greek mathematician and academic, chairman of the Athens Academy (2000). [176] (Greek)
• Carla Cohen, 74, American bookstore owner, cholangiocarcinoma. [177]
• Bill Harsha, 89, American politician. U.S. Representative from Ohio (1961–1981). [178]
• Gordon Lang, 66, British expert in ceramics, appraiser on Antiques Roadshow. [179]
• Marcel Lapierre, 60, French organic winemaker, cancer. [180]
• Janet MacLachlan, 77, American actress (Archie Bunker's Place, Sounder), cardiovascular complications. [181]
• Richard H. Morefield, 81, American hostage during Iran Hostage Crisis. [182]
• Marian P. Opala, 89, Polish-American jurist, Associate Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court (1978–2010), stroke. [183]
• Claire Rayner, 79, British author and agony aunt. [184]
• Georges Rutaganda, 51, Rwandan Hutu paramilitary and war criminal, after long illness. [185] (French)
• Robert Tishman, 94, American real estate developer (Tishman Speyer). [186]

10

• Louis F. Bantle, 81, American chairman of U.S. Tobacco Company, lung cancer and emphysema. [187]
• Solomon Burke, 70, American R&B singer-songwriter ("Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"), natural causes. [188]
• Les Gibbard, 64, New Zealand-born British political cartoonist, during routine operation. [189]
• John Graysmark, 75, British art director. Ragtime (film) [190]
• José de Jesús Gudiño Pelayo, 67, Mexican associate justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (1995–2010), heart attack. [191]
• Paul Hutchinson, 52, British murderer of Colette Aram, probable suicide by overdose. [192]
• Hwang Jang-yop, 87, North Korean politician and defector, apparent heart attack. [193]
• Eric Joisel, 53, French wet-folding origami artist, lung cancer. [194]
• Gary E. Lee, 65, American hostage during Iran Hostage Crisis. [195]
• Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton, 69, British politician. [196]
• David H. McNerney, 79, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, lung cancer. [197]
• Adán Martín Menis, 66, Spanish politician, President of the Canary Islands (2003–2007). [198] (Spanish)
• Isaia Rasila, 42, Fijian rugby player. [199]
• Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck, 87, German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of München und Freising (1972–1998). [200]
• Solly Sherman, 93, American football player (Chicago Bears). [201]
• A. Edison Stairs, 85, Canadian businessman and politician, New Brunswick MLA (1960–1978) and Minister of Finance (1974–1976), natural causes. [202]
• Walter Staley, 77, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) equestrian. [203]
• Alison Stephens, 40, British classical mandolinist, cervical cancer. [204]
• Dame Joan Sutherland, 83, Australian dramatic coloratura soprano. [205]

9

• Maurice Allais, 99, French economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1988). [206]
• S. S. Chandran, 69, Indian comic actor and politician, member of the Rajya Sabha (2001–2007), heart attack. [207]
• Edmund Chong Ket Wah, 54, Malaysian politician, Member of Parliament (since 2004), motorcycle accident. [208]
• Les Fell, 89, British football player, FA cup finalist (1946). [209]
• Aleksandr Matveyev, 84, Russian linguist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, natural causes. [210] (Russian)
• Zecharia Sitchin, 90, Azerbaijani author. [211]

8

• Antonio Jiménez Baños, 47, Mexican politician, Mayor-elect of Mártires de Tacubaya, shot. [212]
• Frank Bourgholtzer, 90, American television reporter, first full-time NBC News White House correspondent. [213]
• Oswaldo Osorio Canales, 71, Venezuelan lawyer and real estate agent, heart attack. [214] (Spanish)
• Jim Fuchs, 82, American Olympic medal-winning shot putter. [215]
• Nils Hallberg, 89, Swedish actor. [216] (Swedish)
• John Huchra, 61, American astronomer and professor, heart attack. [217]
• Ryō Ikebe, 92, Japanese actor (Gorath), blood poisoning. [218]
• David F. Musto, 74, American drug control expert, heart attack. [219]
• Maurice Neligan, 73, Irish surgeon, performed Ireland's first heart transplant. [220]
• Linda Norgrove, 36, British aid worker and Taliban hostage, killed during rescue attempt. [221]
• Mohammad Omar, Afghan Governor of Kunduz Province, bomb blast. [222]
• Pleasant Tap, 23, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized due to laminitis. [223]
• Melvin Lane Powers, 68, American real estate developer, acquitted of murdering his uncle. [224]
• Karl Prantl, 86, Austrian sculptor, stroke. [225] (German)
• Neil Richardson, 80, English composer, arranger and conductor. [226]
• Dale Roberts, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees). [227]
• Albertina Walker, 81, American gospel music singer (The Caravans), respiratory failure. [228]

7

• Metring David, 90, Filipino actress and comedian. [229]
• Gail Dolgin, 65, American Academy-Award nominated documentary filmmaker (Daughter from Danang), breast cancer. [230]
• Abe Gustin, 75, American founder of Applebee's International. [231]
• Rhys Isaac, 72, Australian historian and professor, cancer. [232]
• Ljupčo Jordanovski, 57, Macedonian seismologist and politician, Acting President (2004). [233]
• T Lavitz, 54, American musician. [234]
• Chuck Leo, 76, American football player (Boston Patriots). [235]
• Ian Morris, 53, New Zealand musician (Th' Dudes) and record producer. [236]
• Keiji Ohsawa, 78, Japanese baseball player. [237] (Japanese)
• Milka Planinc, 85, Yugoslavian politician, Prime Minister (1982–1986). [238]
• A. Venkatachalam, 55, Indian politician, stabbed. [239]

6

• Jean Debuf, 86, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) weightlifter. [240] (French)
• Serge Ermoll, 67, Australian jazz pianist and composer. [241]
• Antonie Kamerling, 44, Dutch actor and singer, suicide. [242] (Dutch)
• Ralph Kercheval, 98, American football player. [243]
• Horacio Larrosa, 66, Argentine journalist, cardiac arrest. [244] (Spanish)
• Colette Renard, 85, French singer and actress, after long illness. [245] (French)
• Jay Roberts, 68, Canadian football player, lung cancer. [246]
• Piet Wijn, 81, Dutch comics creator. [247] (Dutch)

5

• Roy Axe, 73, British car designer (Talbot Horizon, Rover 800), cancer. [248]
• Roy Ward Baker, 93, British film director (A Night To Remember). [249]
• Jack Berntsen, 69, Norwegian folk singer. [250] (Norwegian)
• Stan Bisset, 98, Australian rugby union player and World War II veteran. [251]
• Alba Bouwer, 90, South African writer of Afrikaans children's literature, natural causes. [252]
• Hanno Brühl, 73, German regisseur. [253] (German)
• Bernard Clavel, 87, French writer, natural causes. [254]
• Mary Leona Gage, 71, American pageant queen, stripped of Miss USA (1957) title, heart failure. [255]
• Moss Keane, 62, Irish rugby union player, bowel cancer. [256]
• Jānis Klovāns, 75, Latvian chess master. [257] (Latvian)
• Steve Lee, 47, Swiss musician (Gotthard), motorcycle accident. [258]
• Julio Parise Loro, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Napo (1978–1996). [259]
• Karen McCarthy, 63, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1995–2005), Alzheimer's disease. [260]
• William Shakespeare, 61, Australian glam rock singer, heart attack. [261]

4

• William Birenbaum, 87, American educator and college administrator (Antioch College), heart failure. [262]
• Henrique de Senna Fernandes, 86, Macanese author. [263] (Portuguese)
• Claude Lefort, 86, French philosopher. [264] (French)
• Gregorio Ros, 58, Spanish make-up artist, complications from a degenerative disease. [265] (Spanish)
• Alberto Alves da Silva, 89, Brazilian artist and musician, respiratory failure. [266] (Portuguese)
• Peter Warr, 72, British racing driver and Formula One team principal (Lotus), heart attack. [267]
• Sir Norman Wisdom, 95, British comedian and actor, after long illness. [268]

3

• Maury Allen, 78, American sportswriter (The New York Post), lymphoma. [269]
• Aécio Ferreira da Cunha, 83, Brazilian politician, father of Aécio Neves. [270] (Portuguese)
• Eric Establie, 45, French cave diver. [271]
• Philippa Foot, 90, British philosopher. [272]
• Campbell Scotty Hood, 76, American jazz bassist. [273]
• Sir Louis Le Bailly, 95, British admiral, Director-General of Intelligence. [274]
• Franz Mack, 89, German entrepreneur, owner of MACK Rides and founder of Europa-Park. [275] (German)
• Ben Mondor, 85, American baseball executive (Pawtucket Red Sox). [276]
• Walter Nones, 39, Italian mountaineer and extreme climber, climbing accident. [277]
• Eddie Platt, 88, American saxophonist. [278]
• Steve Richko, 33, American jazz pianist. [279]
• Abraham Sarmiento, 88, Filipino lawyer, Supreme Court Associate Justice (1987–1991). [280]
• Dianne Whalen, 59, Canadian politician, Newfoundland and Labrador MHA for Conception Bay East and Bell Island (2003–2010), cancer. [281]
• Ed Wilson, 65, Brazilian singer-songwriter, founder of Renato e Seus Blue Caps, cancer. [282] (Portuguese)

2

• Trevor Fleming, Northern Irish guitarist (Sweet Savage), after long illness. [283]
• Maurice Foster, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Algoma (1968–1993), pulmonary fibrosis. [284]
• Robert Goodnough, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, pneumonia. [285]
• Jill Gorsuch, 45, American vascular surgeon. [286]
• Art Jarvinen, 54, American composer, teacher and musician (The California EAR Unit). [287]
• Kwa Geok Choo, 89, Singaporean lawyer, wife of Lee Kuan Yew, mother of Lee Hsien Loong. [288]
• David Le Cluse, 44, English chairman (Croydon Athletic), gunshot wound. [289]
• Sam Lesser, 95, British journalist. [290]
• Gillian Lowndes, 74, British ceramicist. [291]
• Kristaps Streičs, 40, Latvian film director, Delta plane crash. [292] (Latvian)
• Kjell Westling, 67, Swedish musician (Blå Tåget), after short illness. [293] (Swedish)

1

• Georgy Arbatov, 87, Russian political scientist. [294]
• Dezső Bundzsák, 82, Hungarian football player and coach. [295] (Hungarian)
• Ian Buxton, 72, English footballer and cricketer, natural causes. [296]
• Charles Caruana, 77, Gibraltarian Roman Catholic bishop of Gibraltar (1998–2010), complications from a fall. [297] (Spanish)
• Audouin Dollfus, 85, French astronomer. [298] (French)
• Marshall Flaum, 85, American Emmy Award-winning director (The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau), complications from hip surgery. [299]
• Kilian Hennessy, 103, Irish patriarch of the Hennessy cognac company. [300]
• Gerard Labuda, 93, Polish historian. [301] (Polish)
• Michel Mathieu, 66, French diplomat, cancer. [302] (French)
• William Norton, 85, American screenwriter (Gator, Brannigan), heart attack. [303]
• William C. Patrick III, 84, American scientist, expert on germs, bladder cancer. [304]
• Roger A. Peterson, 89, American television producer (I've Got a Secret, To Tell the Truth, What's My Line?). [305]
• Mikhail Roshchin, 77, Russian playwright. [306] (Russian)
• Phillips Talbot, 95, American diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1965–1969), President of the Asia Society (1970–1981). [307]
• Giorgos Tziotzios, 56, Greek film critic and film magazine executive, cancer. [308]. (Greek)
• Collette Wood, 70, American theater critic, NAACP executive, lung cancer. [309]

September 2010

See Deaths in September 2010.

August 2010

See Deaths in August 2010.

July 2010

See Deaths in July 2010.

June 2010

See Deaths in June 2010.

May 2010

See Deaths in May 2010.

April 2010

See Deaths in April 2010.

March 2010

See Deaths in March 2010.

February 2010

See Deaths in February 2010.

January 2010

See Deaths in January 2010.

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• Dutch obituaries
  • NRC Handelsblad (Dutch)
• German obituaries
  • Der Tagesspiegel (German)

• South African obituaries
  • Mail & Guardian
• United Kingdom obituaries
  • The Guardian
  • The Independent
  • The Scotsman
  • The Telegraph

• United States obituaries
  • The Boston Globe
  • Los Angeles Times
  • The New York Times
  • The Washington Post

For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2009, Deaths in 2008, Deaths in 2007, Deaths in 2006, Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, Deaths in 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, ...