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.

December 2010

22

• Jean Chamant, 97, French minister, then senator (1977–1995). [1] (French)
• Fred Foy, 89, American radio and television announcer (The Lone Ranger), natural causes. [2]
• Dimitris Marinopoulos, 91, Greek businessman and investor (Carrefour Marinopoulos). [3]. (Greek)

21

• Enzo Bearzot, 83, Italian World Cup-winning football manager and player. [4] (Italian)
• W. Pete Cunningham, 81, American politician, Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (1987–2008). [5]
• Giovanni Ferrofino, 98, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti (1960–1965) and to Ecuador (1965–1970) [6]
• Nikos Giannopoulos, 64, Greek union leader. [7] (Greek)
• Oleksandr Kovalenko, 34, Ukrainian footballer (Dnipro, Shakhtar) and referee, suicide by jumping. [8] (Russian)
• Marcia Lewis, 72, American musical theatre actress and singer, cancer. [9]
• Pôncio Monteiro, 70, Portuguese sports official (F.C. Porto and Portuguese Football Federation), stroke. [10] (Portuguese)
• James Pickles, 85, English circuit judge and tabloid columnist. [11] (death announced on this date)
• Catalina Speroni, 72, Argentine actress. [12] (Spanish)

20

• John Alldis, 81, British chorus master and conductor. [13]
• Aamer Bashir, 38, Pakistani cricketer, cancer. [14]
• Brian Hanrahan, 61, British journalist, cancer. [15]
• Steve Landesberg, 74, American actor (Barney Miller, Forgetting Sarah Marshall), cancer. [16]
• Jean-Pierre Leloir, 79, French photographer. [17] (French)
• James Robert Mann, 90, American politician. Representative from South Carolina (1969–1979). [18]
• Magnolia Shorty, 28, American rapper, shot. [19]
• Patricia Thompson, 63, American television producer and Emmy Award-winning documentary director; cerebral hemorrhage. [20]

19

• Lupe Gigliotti, 84, Brazilian actress, lung cancer. [21] (Portuguese)
• Anthony Howard, 76, British journalist. [22]
• Murali Kuttan, 56, Indian athlete, Asian Games medalist. [23]
• Trudy Pitts, 78, American jazz organist, pianist and vocalist, pancreatic cancer. [24]
• Mark A. Smith, 45, British-born American professor of pathology, traffic accident. [25]

18

• Armando Borrajo, 34, Argentine cyclist and former national champion, suicide by jumping. [26]
• John Bukovsky, 86, Slovak-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Romania (1990–1994) and Russia (1994–2000). [27]
• Phil Cavarretta, 94, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox), complications from a stroke. [28]
• Clay Cole, 72, American television host (The Clay Cole Show) and DJ. [29]
• Norberto Díaz, 57, Argentine actor. [30] (Spanish)
• Rafael Luis Fernández Álvarez, 97, Spanish politician, President of the Regional Council (1978–1981), President of the Asturias government (1981–1983). [31] (Spanish)
• Max Jammer, 95, Israeli physicist. [32] (Hebrew)
• Tasso Kavadia, 89, Greek actress and artist. [33] (Greek)
• Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, 70, Italian banker and politician, Minister of Economy and Finance (2006–2008), proponent of the Euro, heart attack. [34] (Italian)
• Nikos Papatakis, 92, Greek film director. [35] (Italian)
• Nash Roberts, 92, American television meteorologist. [36]
• Jacqueline de Romilly, 97, French philologist. [37] (French)
• Eric Schmertz, 84, American labor negotiator and dean of the Hofstra University School of Law, undisclosed causes.[38]
• Rodica Tapalagă, 71, Romanian actress, after long illness. [39]

17

• Glen Adams, 65, Jamaican musician. [40]
• Captain Beefheart, 69, American musician and artist, complications from multiple sclerosis. [41]
• Ralph Coates, 64, English footballer (Burnley, Tottenham Hotspur, Leyton Orient, England), stroke. [42]
• Charles DeVoe, 28, American model, complications from surfing accident. [43]
• Walt Dropo, 87, American baseball player (Red Sox, Tigers, White Sox). [44]
• Eugene Goldwasser, 88, American scientist, discovered EPO, cancer. [45]
• Martti Pennanen, 87, Finnish film and stage actor. [46] (Finnish)
• Sulaiman Taha, Malaysian politician, member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly. [47]
• Mikhail Umansky, 58, Russian-born German chess grandmaster. [48] (German)

16

• Melvin E. Biddle, 87, American Medal of Honor recipient. [49]
• John David Duty, 58, American murderer, first death row inmate executed by pentobarbital, execution by lethal injection. [50]
• François Gayot, 83, Haitian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien (1974–2003). [51]
• Sterling Lyon, 83, Canadian politician, Premier of Manitoba (1977–1981). [52]
• E. Gene Smith, 74, American Tibetologist. [53]
• Karen Tuttle, 90, American viola teacher, after long illness. [54]

15

• Ken Ablack, 91, Trinidadian cricket player. [55]
• Gonzalo Meza Allende, 45, Chilean political scientist, grandson of Salvador Allende, suicide. [56] (Spanish)
• Teclaireille Bille, 22, Equatorial Guinean football player, road accident. [57]
• Domini Blythe, 63, British-born Canadian stage and film actress (Mount Royal, Search for Tomorrow), cancer. [58]
• Rachel Bromwich, 95, British scholar. [59]
• Peter O. Chotjewitz, 76, German author. [60] (German)
• Carlos Pinto Coelho, 66, Portuguese journalist and television personality, complications from aortic surgery. [61] (Portuguese)
• Bernard Patrick Devlin, 89, Irish-born Roman Catholic Bishop of Gibraltar (1985–1998). [62]
• Blake Edwards, 88, American film director, producer and screenwriter (The Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffany's), pneumonia. [63]
• Bob Feller, 92, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), member of Baseball Hall of Fame, leukemia. [64]
• Stan Heal, 90, Australian footballer, member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame. [65]
• Anas Pshikhachev, 43, Russian mufti of Kabardino-Balkaria, shot. [66]
• Tom Newnham, 84, New Zealand political activist and educationalist, cancer. [67]
• Jean Rollin, 72, French film director, actor and novelist, after long illness. [68]
• Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, 70, American social theorist and psychoanalyst, professor of political science (UCLA), cancer. [69]
• Stephanie Young, 48, American jockey, cancer. [70]

14

• Håkon Christie, 88, Norwegian architect. [71]
• Timothy Davlin, 53, American politician, Mayor of Springfield, Illinois (since 2003), suicide by gunshot. [72]
• Robyn Dawes, 74, American psychologist and professor. [73]
• Clay Duke, 56, American gunman, suicide by gunshot. [74]
• Adalbert Eledui, 62, Palauan senator and conservationist, after long illness. [75]
• Ruth Park, 93, New Zealand-born Australian novelist. [76]
• Neva Patterson, 90, American actress (An Affair to Remember, All the President's Men), complications from a broken hip. [77]
• Pascal Rakotomavo, 76, Malagasy politician, Prime Minister (1997–1998), cardiovascular attack. [78]
• Dale Roberts, 24, English footballer (Rushden & Diamonds), suicide by hanging. [79]
• Alberto Segado, 66, Argentine actor (Asesinato en el Senado de la Nación). [80] (Spanish)

13

• Tony Castillo, 64, Singaporean child actor, jazz trumpet player, bandleader and music activist, liver cancer [81]
• James Dibble, 87, Australian television news presenter, cancer. [82]
• Maynard W. Glitman, 77, American diplomat, negotiator of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, complications from dementia. [83]
• Rick Griffiths, Australian Aboriginal activist and ATSIC commissioner. [84]
• Richard Holbrooke, 69, American diplomat, Ambassador to Germany (1993–1994) and United Nations (1999–2001), complications from aortic dissection. [85]
• Enrique Morente, 67, Spanish flamenco singer. [86]
• Remmy Ongala, 63, Tanzanian singer. [87]
• Aldo Sassi, 51, Italian cycling coach, brain cancer. [88]
• Takeshi Watabe, 74, Japanese voice actor, pneumonia. [89]
• Woolly Wolstenholme, 63, British progressive rock musician (Barclay James Harvest), suicide. [90]

12

• Manuel Caballero, 79, Venezuelan historian, journalist and author, complications following prostate surgery. [91] (Spanish)
• Lachhiman Gurung, 92, Nepalese-born British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross. [92]
• Raymond Kalisz, 83, American-born Papuan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wewak (1980–2002). [93]
• Timothée Malendoma, 75, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1992–1993). [94] (French)
• Ros Mey, 85, Cambodian-born American Buddhist monk and community leader, survivor of Khmer Rouge regime. [95]
• Emmanuel Ogoli, 21, Nigerian footballer. [96]
• Helen Roberts, 98, British singer and actress. [97]
• Silvano Simeon, 65, Italian Olympic athlete. [98] (Italian)
• William Thompson, 71, British politician, MP for West Tyrone (1997–2001). [99]
• Tom Walkinshaw, 64, British engineer and racing team owner (Tom Walkinshaw Racing, Arrows), cancer. [100]

11

• José dos Santos Garcia, 97, Portuguese-born Mozambican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto Amélia (1957–1975). [101] (Portuguese)
• Dick Hoerner, 88, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), stroke. [102]
• Mark Madoff, 46, American businessman, son of Bernard Madoff, suicide by hanging. [103]
• Ronnie McMahon, 69, Irish Olympic equestrian. [104]
• MacKenzie Miller, 89, American racehorse trainer, owner and breeder, Hall of Famer, complications of a stroke. [105]
• Urszula Modrzyńska, 82, Polish actress. [106] (Polish)
• Marina Nemet, 50, Croatian actress. [107] (Croatian)
• Roger Nicole, 95, Swiss-born American Evangelical Christian theologian. [108]
• Peter Risi, 60, Swiss footballer, after long illness. [109] (German)
• Jordy Walker, 71, Bermudan Olympic sailor, cancer. [110]

10

• Marcel Domingo, 86, French footballer. [111] (French)
• John Bennett Fenn, 93, American chemist and Nobel laureate. [112]
• J. Michael Hagopian, 97, Turkish-born American documentary filmmaker. [113]
• Wolfgang Holst, 88, German sports official, President of Hertha BSC (1979–1985). [114] (German)
• Scott Lang, 41, American basketball coach (La Roche College), youngest NCAA basketball coach. [115]
• John M. Parish, 87, American columnist (The Jackson Sun), press secretary to Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander (1979–1987). [116]
• George Pickow, 88, American photographer, filmmaker und music producer. [117]
• Matthew Stewardson, 35, South African actor and television presenter. [118]
• Jacques Swaters, 84, Belgian racing driver. [119]
• Dick Turpin, 91, Turkish-born American newspaper editor (Los Angeles Times), Pulitzer-Prize winner, after long illness. [120]

9

• Andy Anderson, 97, American retired Major General, Mayor of Naples, Florida (1978–1982). [121]
• Sylvie Cachay, 33, American fashion designer. [122]
• John du Pont, 72, American millionaire and murderer. [123]
• Chuck Jordan, 83, American automobile designer (General Motors). [124]
• Alexander Kerst, 86, Austrian actor. [125] (German)
• James Moody, 85, American jazz saxophonist and flautist, pancreatic cancer. [126]
• Nazario Moreno González, 40, Mexican drug lord (La Familia Michoacana), shot. [127]
• Fausto Sarli, 83, Italian fashion designer. [128]
• Tony Schilder, 73, South African jazz pianist, bandleader and composer. [129]
• Dov Shilansky, 86, Israeli politician, Speaker of the Knesset (1988–1992). [130]
• Jacin Sinclair, 38, Australian rugby league player. [131] (body found on this date)
• Thorvald Strömberg, 79, Finnish Olympic sprint canoeist. [132] (Finnish)
• Boris Tishchenko, 71, Russian composer. [133] (Russian)

8

• Murray Armstrong, 94, Canadian ice hockey player (Red Wings, Maple Leafs) and coach (University of Denver), complications from a stroke. [134]
• Marian Gibbons, 89, American philanthropist, co-founder of the Hollywood Heritage Museum, lung cancer. [135]
• Walter Haeussermann, 96, German-born American rocket scientist, complications from a fall. [136]
• Christopher Hibler, 68, American television director (Diagnosis: Murder, Matlock). [137]
• John James, 76, Australian footballer, Brownlow Medallist, stroke. [138]
• Giorgos Lebesis, 80, Greek theatre entrepreneur, after long illness. [139] (Greek)

7

• Peter Andry, 83, Australian-born British record producer (Decca Records, EMI Classics), cancer. [140]
• Hendrik Coetzee, 35, South African kayaker and adventurer, crocodile attack. [141]
• Elizabeth Edwards, 61, American author, lawyer and political activist, breast cancer. [142]
• Fan Yew Teng, Malaysian politician and human rights activist. [143]
• John A. Ferraro, 64, American television actor and director, colon cancer. [144]
• Art Mahan, 97, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and college baseball coach (Villanova), heart failure. [145]
• Gus Mercurio, 82, American-born Australian boxer and actor. [146]
• Allan Robinson, 75, British Olympic weightlifter. [147]
• Kari Tapio, 65, Finnish schlager singer, heart attack. [148]
• Federico Vairo, 80, Argentine footballer and coach, stomach cancer. [149] (Spanish)
• Armin Weiß, 83, German chemist and politician. [150] (German)

6

• Richard Abruzzo, 47, American balloonist. [151] (body found on this date)
• Mark Dailey, 57, American-born Canadian television journalist and announcer, cancer. [152]
• Danny Daniels, 83, Guyanese character actor. [153]
• Carol Rymer Davis, 65, American balloonist. [154] (body found on this date)
• Ambrosio Echebarria Arroita, 88, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Barbastro-Monzón (1974–1999). [155]
• Bob Fox, 62, American concert promoter, suspected heart attack. [156]
• René Hauss, 82, French footballer. [157] (French)
• Norman Hetherington, 89, Australian cartoonist and television personality. [158]
• Ferenc Keszthelyi, 82, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vác (1992–2003). [159]
• James Thomas Lynn, 83, American politician, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1973–1975), complications from a stroke. [160]
• Vic Lynn, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (Bruins, Blackhawks, Red Wings, Canadiens, Rangers, Maple Leafs). [161]
• Imre Mathesz, 73, Hungarian footballer and coach, car crash. [162] (Hungarian)
• Art Quimby, 77, American college basketball player (UConn). [163]
• Hank Raymonds, 86, American college basketball coach (Marquette), cancer. [164]
• Roy R. Rubottom, Jr., 98, American diplomat. [165]
• Martin Russ, 79, American author and former United States Marine. [166]
• T. E. Srinivasan, 60, Indian cricketer, brain cancer. [167]
• Júlio Tavares Rebimbas, 88, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Porto (1982–1997). [168]
• Ellen Ugland, 57, Norwegian billionaire. [169]

5

• Alan Armer, 88, American Emmy Award-winning television producer (The Fugitive), colon cancer. [170]
• Shamil Burziyev, 25, Russian footballer, car crash. [171] (Russian)
• David French, 71, Canadian playwright, cancer. [172]
• María Ester Gatti, 92, Uruguayan human rights activist. [173]
• Salomón Jauli Dávila, 62, Mexican athlete, politician and sports promoter, suicide. [174] (Spanish)
• Heda Margolius Kovály, 91, Czech author and Holocaust survivor. [175]
• John Leslie, 65, American pornographic film actor, heart attack. [176]
• Donald Lineberger, 71, American banjo player, injuries from a fire. [177]
• Don Meredith, 72, American football player (Dallas Cowboys) and commentator (Monday Night Football), brain hemorrhage. [178]
• Almir Lira Sobrinho, 54, Brazilian politician, Alagoas State Deputy-elect, former mayor of Feira Grande, stroke. [179] (Portuguese)
• John Thomas Steinbock, 73, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santa Rosa (1987–1991) and Fresno (since 1991), lung cancer. [180]
• Virgilio Teixeira, 93, Portuguese actor (Return of the Seven, The Fall of the Roman Empire, El Cid). [181] (Portuguese)

4

• Manish Acharya, 40, Indian film director and actor, fall from horse. [182]
• Lia Dorana, 92, Dutch actress and comedienne. [183] (Dutch)
• Sandra Ellis-Troy, 68, American stage actress. [184]
• Cathy Harvin, 56, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (since 2006), breast cancer. [185]
• Jacques Lafleur, 78, French politician, leader of New Caledonia anti-independence movement. [186] (French)
• Jack Morris, 88, Polish-born American newscaster (KTUL, KJRH). [187]
• Stu Olds, 60, American media executive, myelodysplastic syndrome. [188]
• Heather Stilwell, 66, Canadian anti-abortion activist and politician, breast cancer. [189]
• Dagoberto Suárez Melo, 35, Colombian politician, governor of Guaviare, car crash. [190] (Spanish)

3

• Marvin Bass, 91, American college football player and coach. [191]
• Hugues Cuénod, 108, Swiss tenor. [192]
• Marcel Flückiger, 81, Swiss footballer. [193] (German) (death announced on this date)
• King Curtis Iaukea, 73, American professional wrestler, after long illness. [194]
• Phil Jasner, 68, American sportswriter, cancer. [195]
• Elaine Kaufman, 81, American restaurateur, founder of Elaine's, emphysema and pulmonary hypertension. [196]
• José Ramos Delgado, 75, Argentine footballer and coach, Alzheimer's disease. [197] (Spanish)
• Skip Young, 59, American professional wrestler. [198]

2

• Michael Bunluen Mansap, 81, Thai Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ubon Ratchathani (1976–2006). [199]
• Abu Bakarr Gaye, 56, Gambian politician, Minister of Health (since 2009). [200]
• John Bowring, 87, British air force officer. [201]
• Michele Giordano, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Naples (1987–2006). [202]
• Chane't Johnson, 34, American actress, heart attack. [203]
• Lee Huan, 93, Taiwanese politician, Premier of the Republic of China (1989–1990), cardiopulmonary failure. [204]
• Ernâni Lopes, 68, Portuguese politician, Minister of Finance (1983–1985). [205] (German)
• Juan de Jesús Madrid Deras, 35, Honduran politician, shot. [206] (Spanish)
• Ron Santo, 70, American baseball player and broadcaster (Chicago Cubs), complications from diabetes and bladder cancer. [207]

1

• Adriaan Blaauw, 96, Dutch astronomer. [208] (Dutch)
• Helen Boatwright, 94, American soprano, complications from a fall. [209]
• Hillard Elkins, 81, American talent manager and film producer (Alice's Restaurant, Richard Pryor: Live in Concert), heart attack. [210]
• Ioannis Fourakis, 73, Greek author, journalist, researcher and philosopher, stroke. [211] (Greek)
• Shahla Jahed, 39, Iranian murderer, hanged. [212]
• Reeta Jones, 112, American supercentenarian, oldest person in Tennessee, stroke. [213]
• Charles N. Millican, 94, American academic, founding president of the University of Central Florida. [214]
• Richard P. Myers, 62, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1995–2010), prostate cancer. [215]
• Alojz Srebotnjak, 79, Slovenian composer. [216] (Slovenian)

November 2010

See Deaths in November 2010.

October 2010

See Deaths in October 2010.

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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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, ...