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.

September 2010

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15

Arrow, 60, Montserrat soca musician (Hot Hot Hot), complications from brain cancer. [1]
Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, 95, South African artist. [2]
Zhelyazko Hristov, 62, Bulgarian syndicalist, scientist and physician. [3]
Al LaMacchia, 89, American baseball player and executive, stroke. [4]

14

Mohammed Arkoun, 82, Algerian-born French Islamic philosopher, professor at Sorbonne University. [5]
Hugo Demartini, 79, Czech sculptor, recipient of the Medal of Merit. [6] (Czech)
John Guthrie, 70, American college basketball coach (University of Georgia, 1973–1978), natural causes. [7]
José Mohamed Janene, 54, Brazilian politician involved in Mensalão scandal, septic shock. [8] (Portuguese)
Frederick Jelinek, 77, Czech-born American speech recognition researcher. [9]
Paulo Machado de Carvalho Filho, 86, Brazilian businessman, founder of Jovem Pan Radio. [10] (Portuguese)
Ben Sékou Sylla, 57, Guinean agronomist, head of Independent National Electoral Commission. [11]
Jorge Vidal, 86, Argentine tango singer. [12] (Spanish)
James E. Winner Jr., 81, American inventor of The Club, car accident. [13]

13

Jim Greenwood, 81, Scottish rugby player. [14]
Jarosław Kukulski, 66, Polish composer, cancer. [15] (Polish)
Edwin Newman, 91, American news broadcaster (NBC), cancer.[16](announced on this date Died Aug 13.)
Robert Rompre, 81, American ice hockey player. [17]
Barbara B. Smith, 88, American religious leader, pulmonary fibrosis. [18]
Gus Williams, 73, Australian musician. [19]

12

Charles Ansbacher, 67, American conductor. [20]
Nduka Anyanwu, 30, Nigerian footballer. [21] (German)
Pietro Calabrese, 66, Italian journalist (Il Messaggero, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Panorama), lung cancer. [22] (Italian)
Claude Chabrol, 80, French film director (Madame Bovary, Story of Women). [23]
Varnette Honeywood, 59, American painter, cancer. [24]
Wesley Duke Lee, 78, Brazilian visual artist, heart failure. [25] (Portuguese)
Big John Russell, 67, Dutch soul singer. [26] (Dutch)
Swarnalatha, 37, Indian playback singer, lung infection. [27]
Claudia Vinciguerra, 87, Italian journalist, film and television critic. [28] (Italian)

11

Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, 76, British judge and Law Lord, cancer. [29]
Bärbel Bohley, 65, German artist and opposition figure, lung cancer. [30]
Luis Ceballos Lobo, Venezuelan politician. [31] (Spanish)
King Coleman, 78, American rhythm and blues singer ("Do the Mashed Potatoes"), heart failure. [32]
Guillermo García Ponce, Venezuelan politician, cancer. [33] (Spanish)
Harold Gould, 86, American actor (The Sting, Rhoda, The Golden Girls), prostate cancer. [34]
La Fiera, 49, Mexican professional wrestler, stabbed. [35]
Gunnar Hoffsten, 86, Swedish jazz musician. [36] (Swedish)
Dimitris Kamberidis, 64, Greek actor, cancer. [37] (Greek)
Ron Kramer, 75, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions). [38]
Jouko Lehtola, 46, Finnish photographer, after long illness. [39]
Kevin McCarthy, 96, American actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), natural causes. [40]
Fathi Osman, 82, Egyptian author, heart failure. [41]
Taavi Peetre, 27, Estonian shot putter, drowning. [42] (Estonian)
Diego Rodríguez Cano, 22, Uruguayan footballer (Club Nacional de Football), car accident. [43] (Spanish)
Mike Shaw, 53, American professional wrestler, heart attack. [44]
Kei Tani, 78, Japanese jazz trombonist. [45]
Opal Wilcox Barron, 95, American First Lady of West Virginia (1961–1965). [46]

10

Juan Mari Brás, 82, Puerto Rican independence advocate. [47]
Gizela Dali, 70, Greek actress, cancer. [48] (Greek)
Willian Lara, 53, Venezuelan journalist and politician, Governor of Guárico, drowned. [49] (Spanish)
Billie Mae Richards, 88, Canadian voice actress (The Care Bears Movie, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Rudolph's Shiny New Year), stroke. [50]
Rade Marković, 88, Serbian actor. [51] (Serbian)
Andrei Timoshenko, 41, Russian football player. [52] (Russian)
Edwin Charles Tubb, 90, British science fiction author. [53]
Ron Walters, 72, American scholar and civil rights activist, cancer. [54]

9

Gene Case, 72, American advertising executive, heart attack. [55]
Heriberto Correa Yepes, 94, Colombian Vicar Apostolic of Buenaventura (1973–1996). [56] (Spanish)
Bent Larsen, 75, Danish chess grandmaster. [57]
Rauno Mäkinen, 79, Finnish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist. [58] (Finnish)
Vladimir Ni, 77, Russian-born Kazakh businessman. [59]
Howard Phillips, 80, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). [60]
Mary Richard, 70, Canadian aboriginal activist and politician. [61]
Riccardo Sarfatti, 70, Italian businessman, car accident. [62] (Italian)

8

Jenny Alpha, 100, Martinique-born French actress and singer. [63] (French)
Anneliese Brost, 90, German publisher and billionaire. [64] (German)
Hadley Caliman, 78, American jazz saxophonist, liver cancer. [65]
Rich Cronin, 36, American pop singer and songwriter (LFO), stroke related to acute myelogenous leukemia. [66]
Allen Dale June, 91, American original Navajo code talker. [67]
Thomas Guinzburg, 84, American editor, co-creator and co-founder of The Paris Review, complications from heart bypass surgery. [68]
Safah Abdul Hameed, Iraqi journalist, shot. [69]
Alexander López García, Mexican politician, Mayor of El Naranjo, shot. [70]
Murali, 46, Indian Tamil actor, heart attack. [71]
Irwin Silber, 84, American writer and journalist, complications of Alzheimers disease. [72]
Israel Tal, 86, Israeli general. [73]
George C. Williams. 84, American evolutionary biologist, Parkinson's disease. [74]

7

Nana Kwaku Addai, 60, Ghanaian highlife musician. [75]
Claude Béchard, 41, Canadian politician, MNA for Kamouraska-Témiscouata (1997–2010), cancer. [76]
Eberhard von Brauchitsch, 83, German industrial manager, suicide. [77] (German)
Dzhulber Bykov, Russian federal district judge in Kabardino-Balkaria, shot. [78]
Vasilis Christodoulou, 94, Greek caricaturist. [79] (Greek)
Amar Garibović, 19, Serbian Olympic cross-country skier, car crash. [80] (Serbian)
William H. Goetzmann, 80, American historian. [81]
Barbara Holland, 77, American author, lung cancer. [82]
John Kluge, 95, German-born American entrepreneur and billionaire, richest person in the United States (1989–1990). [83]
Brendan Lyons, 83, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Bass (1982–1986). [84]
Riad al-Saray, 35, Iraqi television presenter, shot. [85]
Glenn Shadix, 58, American actor (Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas), fall. [86]
Wilebaldo Solano, 94, Spanish communist activist during the Spanish Civil War. [87] (Spanish)
Lucius Walker, 80, American pastor, heart attack. [88]

6

Clive Donner, 84, British film director (The Caretaker, What's New Pussycat?), Alzheimer's disease. [89]
Bob Jencks, 69, American football player (Chicago Bears), heart attack. [90]
John McKellar, 80, Australian comedy writer. [91]
Yvonne O'Neill, 74, Canadian politician, MPP for Ottawa–Rideau (1987–1995), cancer. [92]
John Sligo, 66, New Zealand author. [93]
Angelo Vassallo, 56, Italian politician, Mayor of Pollica, shot. [94]

5

Hedley Beare, 77, Australian education leader. [95]
David Bushnell, 86, American historian, cancer. [96] (Spanish)
Alberto Graves Chakussanga, 32, Angolan journalist, shot. [97]
Corneille, 88, Dutch artist. [98]
David Dortort, 93, American television producer and writer (Bonanza, The High Chaparral). [99]
Ludvig Eikaas, 89, Norwegian artist. [100] (Norwegian)
John Gouriet, 75, British political campaigner (The Freedom Association) and author. [101]
Elizabeth Jenkins, 104, English author. [102]
Lewis Nkosi, 73, South African writer. [103]
Sayed Hamed Noorim, 45, Afghan journalist and TV anchorman (Radio Television Afghanistan), stabbed. [104] (body found on this date)
Homi Sethna, 86, Indian nuclear scientist and chemical engineer. [105]
R. Smith Simpson, 103, American Foreign Service Officer. [106]
Jefferson Thomas, 67, American civil rights pioneer, member of the Little Rock Nine, pancreatic cancer. [107]
Shoya Tomizawa, 19, Japanese Moto2 motorcycle racer, race crash. [108]

4

Francis Gerard Brooks, 86, Northern Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dromore (1976–1999). [109]
Paul Conrad, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist (Los Angeles Times). [110]
Rudolf Pellar, 87, Czech translator, actor and singer, recipient of the State Prize for Translation (1997). [111] (Czech)

3

Larry Ashmead, 78, American book editor. [112]
Oleg Bebenin, 36, Belarusian journalist and opposition website editor, apparent suicide. [113]
Micky Burn, 97, British writer and poet. [114]
Francisco Cruz Santos, Mexican politician, Mayor-elect of Santa Catarina Juquila, plane crash. [115]
Mike Edwards, 62, English cellist (Electric Light Orchestra), car accident. [116]
Noah Howard, 67, American jazz saxophonist. [117]
Carla Souza Lima, 50, Brazilian model, lung cancer. [118] (Portuguese)
Juan Huerta Montero, Mexican deputy, plane crash. [119]
Vasundhara Patwardhan, 94, Indian writer. [120]
Robert Schimmel, 60, American stand-up comedian (The Howard Stern Show), car accident. [121]
Sir Cyril Smith, 82, British politician, Member of Parliament for Rochdale (1972–1992). [122]
José Augusto Torres, 71, Portuguese football player and coach, heart failure. [123]
Guillermo Zavaleta Rojas, 34, Mexican deputy, plane crash. [124]
Annie Turnbull, 111, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the UK. [125]
Brian R. Wood, 33, Canadian computer game designer (Company of Heroes Online), car accident. [126]

2

Jean-Michel Baron, 56, French motorcycle racer, crash [127]
Trevor Beard, 90, Australian physician. [128]
Pedro Marcos Ribeiro da Costa, 88, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saurímo (1977–1997). [129]
Germán Dehesa, 66, Mexican journalist, writer and announcer, cancer. [130]
Michael Dennison, 58, American costume designer, brain aneurysm. [131]
Shmuel Eisenstadt, 86, Israeli sociologist. [132]
Katarina Marinič, 110, Slovenian supercentenarian. [133]
Eileen Nearne, 89, British Special Operations Executive agent in World War II. [134] (body discovered on this date)
Jackie Sinclair, 67, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic, Newcastle United), cancer. [135]
Leo Trepp, 97, German-born American rabbi, last surviving German rabbinical witness to the Holocaust. [136]
Morgan White, 86, American actor and children's television host. [137]