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.
January 2010
- George Garanian, 75, Armenian-born Russian jazz saxophone player and bandleader. [1]
- Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director. [2]
- Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007), suicide by gunshot. [3]
- Edward H. Linde, 67, American, founder of Boston Properties, pneumonia. [4]
- Ulf Olsson, 58, Swedish murderer, suicide. [5] (Swedish)
- Mano Solo, 46, French singer, ruptured aneurysm. [6]
- Torbjørn Yggeseth, 75, Norwegian ski jumping athlete and official. [7] (Norwegian)
- Améleté Abalo, Togolese national football team assistant coach, shot. [8]
- Ken Genser, 59, American politician, Mayor of Santa Monica, California. [9]
- Rupert Hamer, 39, British journalist, defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror, improvised explosive device. [10]
- Fatimah Hashim, 85, Malaysian politician, first female minister in the Malaysian government. [11]
- Stanislas Ocloo, Togolese national football team spokesperson, shot. [12]
- Yevgeny Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player. [13] (Russian)
- Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy Bishop of Mahajanga (1978–1994), Archbishop of Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall. [14]
- Attila Bagonyai, 45, Hungarian chess master, complications from swine flu. [15] (Hungarian)
- Bob Blackburn, 85, American sports commentator (Seattle SuperSonics), pneumonia. [16]
- Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (Gumby, Davey and Goliath), bladder infection. [17]
- Piero De Bernardi, 83, Italian screenwriter. [18] (Italian)
- Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet. [19] (Macedonian)
- Aleksandr Maslaev, 65, Russian actor. [20] (Russian)
- Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer. [21]
- Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer. [22]
- Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor. [23] (German)
- Amir Vahedi, 58, Iranian-born American poker player, complications of diabetes. [24]
- Yvonne Zanos, 60, American television journalist (KDKA-TV), ovarian cancer. [25]
- Sándor Barcs, 97, Hungarian football official, FIFA (1972–1974) and UEFA (1960–1978) vice-president.
- Gerald Bordelon, 47, American murderer. Executed by lethal injection. [26]
- Alexander Garnet Brown, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1969–1978). [27]
- Thomas Sam Davis, 59, British singer (Deaf School), lung disease. [28]
- Blanca Sanchez, 63, Mexican actress, kidney failure. [29]
- Stephen Huneck, 60, American wood carving artist, suicide by gunshot. [30]
- Kenneth Mosley, 51, American murderer. Execution by lethal injection. [31]
- Alex Parker, 74, Scottish football player and manager, heart attack. [32]
- Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop. [33]
- Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack. [34]
- Jim White, 67, American professional wrestler, cancer. [35]
- Hardy Williams, 78, American politician, Pennsylvania House (1971–1973; 1977–1982) and Senate (1983–1998), Alzheimer's. [36]
- Tim Davey, 58, American NFL executive, Director of Football Operations. [37]
- George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the Human Potential Movement. [38]
- Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest. [39]
- Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of Václav Talich and Václav Havel. [40] (Czech)
- Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, Mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001). [41]
- Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic. [42]
- James von Brunn, 89, American white supremacist, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting suspect. [43]
- Stuart Donnelly, 29, young winner of lotery in UK in 1997, suicide. [44] (Portuguese)
- Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure. [45]
- András Baranyecz, 63, Hungarian Olympic cyclist. [46] (Hungarian)
- Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, cerebral hemorrhage. [47] (French)
- Harold Lewis, 98, American flutist and movie studio musician. [48]
- Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest. [49]
- Giancarlo Nanni, 68, Italian stage director, after long illness. [50] (Italian)
- Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, cancer. [51]
- Courage Quashigah, 62, Ghanaian politician. [52]
- Joseph Shannon, 88, American pilot (Bay of Pigs invasion). [53]
- George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993). [54]
- Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, complications from swine flu. [55]
- George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist. [56]
- Lew Allen, 84, American general, Director of the National Security Agency (1973–1977), rheumatoid arthritis. [57]
- Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues). [58]
- Erasmo Dias, 85, Brazilian military officer and politician, cancer. [59] (Portuguese)
- Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer [60]
- Hywel Teifi Edwards, 74, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness. [61]
- Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980). [62]
- Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot. [63] (Polish)
- Casey Johnson, 30, American socialite, Johnson & Johnson heiress. [64] (body discovered on this date)
- Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels). [65]
- György Mitró, 79, Hungarian swimmer. [66] (Hungarian)
- Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery. [67]
- Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist. [68] (German)
- Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer. [69]
- Oleksiy Yeschenko, 60, Ukrainian football coach, former head coach of FC Volyn Lutsk. [70] (Ukrainian)
- Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer. [71] (Spanish)
- Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer. [72]
- Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer. [73]
- Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist. [74] (Italian)
- Ian Brownlie, 77, British barrister, traffic collision. [75]
- Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher. [76]
- Bill Gleason, 87, American sports journalist (Chicago Sun-Times, Sportswriters on TV), Parkinson's disease. [77]
- Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes. [78] (Farsi)
- Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke. [79]
- John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist. [80]
- Eunice Walker Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure. [81]
- Giorgos Kambanelis, 80, Greek actor. [82] (Greek)
- Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia. [83]
- Luisito Martí, 65, Dominican actor, comedian and entertainer, stomach cancer. [84]
- Takis Michalos, 63, Greek national team water polo player and coach, cancer. [85] (Greek)
- Roberto Roney, 70, Brazilian comedian, lung cancer. [86] (Portuguese)
- Paula Sladewski, 27, American Playboy model. [87]
- Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer. [88] (French)
- Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). [89]
- Adam Max Cohen 38, American author, Shakespeare scholar, associate professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, brain tumor. [90]
- Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish film critic (The Irish Times), after short illness. [91]
- David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (Police Story, Police Woman), heart failure. [92]
- Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car. [93]
- Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness. [94]
- Yiannis Voultepsis, 87, Greek journalist. [95] (Greek)
- Paul Ahyi, 80, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo. [96] (French)
- Gary Brockette, 62, American actor and assistant director, cancer. [97]
- Jean Carroll, 98, American comedienne (The Ed Sullivan Show). [98]
- Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness. [99]
- Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer. [100]
- Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of Zárate-Campana (1976–1991). [101]
- John Freeman, 93, American animator (The Smurfs) and animation director (My Little Pony and Friends). [102]
- Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, traffic collision. [103]
- Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (The Boston Globe), brain tumor. [104]
- Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (Spectreman) and karate instructor. [105] (Japanese)
- Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor. [106] (German)
- Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999). [107]
- Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (2006), cancer. [108]
- Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author. [109]
- Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), cystic fibrosis. [110]
- Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter. [111]
- Tom Walsh, 67, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (2003–2008), leukemia. [112]
- John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke. [113]
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