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

23

Malcolm Douglas, 69, Australian bushman and documentary maker, traffic collision. [1]
Eddie Fisher, 82, American entertainer. [2]
César Mercado, 34, Nicaraguan consulate official, cut throat. [3]
Teresa Lewis, 41, American murderer, execution. [4]

22

Jackie Burroughs, 71, English-born Canadian actress (Road to Avonlea, The Care Bears Movie, Willard), stomach cancer. [5]
Mike Celizic, 61, American sportswriter and author, T-cell lymphoma. [6]
Eleuterio Fortino, 72, Italian Eastern Catholic prelate (Eparchy of Lungro degli Albanesi), Under Secretary of PCPCU (1987–2010). [7] (Italian)
Graeme Hunt, 58, New Zealand journalist. [8]
Alan Rudkin, 68, British boxing champion. [9]
Víctor Julio Suárez Rojas, 47, Colombian member of the FARC, air strike. [10] (Spanish)

21

Grace Bradley, 97, American actress (The Big Broadcast of 1938), widow of William Boyd. [11]
Ralph Broad, 84, British motorsport team owner, founder of Broadspeed. [12]
Geoffrey Burgon, 69, British composer. [13]
Vinnie Doyle, 72, Irish journalist, editor of the Irish Independent, after short illness. [14]
Bernard Genoud, 68, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (1999-2010), lung cancer. [15]
Sindi Hawkins, 52, Canadian politician, MLA for Okanagan West (1996–2001) and Kelowna-Mission (2001–2009), leukemia. [16]
James Edward Michaels, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston (1973–1987) [17]
Sandra Mondaini, 79, Italian actress, after long illness. [18] (Italian).
Don Partridge, 68, British musician and one-man band, heart attack. [19]
Shabtai Rosenne, 93, Israeli jurist and diplomat, cardiac arrest. [20]
Sir Archie Taiaroa, 73, New Zealand Māori leader, stroke. [21]

20

Fud Leclerc, 86, Belgian singer, first person to score nul points at the Eurovision Song Contest. [22]
Jakob Mayr, 86, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Salzburg. [23] (German)
Kenny McKinley, 23, American football player (Denver Broncos), reported suicide. [24]
Jennifer Rardin, 45, American author, known for the Jaz Parks series of fantasy novels. [25]
Leonard Skinner, 77, American school teacher, namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Alzheimer's disease. [26]
Kenneth Weaver, 94, American science writer (National Geographic Magazine). [27]

19

Sixto Antonio Cabana Guillén, 45, Colombian guerrilla (FARC), air strike. [28]
Mike Caranda, 92, American big band leader, lung cancer. [29]
Buddy Collette, 89, American jazz saxophonist. [30]
José de Jesús Gudiño Pelayo, 67, Mexican jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, heart attack. [31]
Rolf Jetzer, 59, Swiss chairman of Swiss International Air Lines, heart failure. [32]
Chrysostomos II Kioussis, 89, Greek Archbishop of Athens and of all Greece (Old Calendarists). [33]
José Antonio Labordeta, 75, Spanish songwriter, professor, writer, presenter and politician. [34] (Spanish)
László Polgár, 63, Hungarian opera singer, Grammy Award winner. [35] (Hungarian)
Irving Ravetch, 89, American Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (Hud, Norma Rae), pneumonia. [36]
Murray Sayle, 84, Australian journalist and war correspondent, Parkinson's disease. [37]

18

James Bacon, 96, American author, journalist and actor (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Meteor), heart failure. [38]
Ray Coleman, 88, American baseball player (Browns, Philadelphia A's, White Sox). [39]
Øystein Gåre, 56, Norwegian football coach (Bodø/Glimt, Norway U21), after short illness. [40] (Norwegian)
Jill Johnston, 81, American lesbian feminist and writer, stroke. [41]
Egon Klepsch, 80, German politician, President of the European Parliament (1992–1994). [42] (German)
Irving Schwartz, 81, Canadian businessman. [43]
Bobby Smith, 77, English footballer (Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur). [44]
Inge Steensland, 86, Norwegian resistance leader and shipping magnate, complications from a stroke. [45] (Norwegian)
Ingjald Ørbeck Sørheim, 73, Norwegian jurist and politician, complications from a stroke. [46] (Norwegian)
Wallace Turner, 89, American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter (The Oregonian). [47]
Walter Womacka, 84, German painter. [48]

17

Robert Babington, 90, British politician, member of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for North Down (1969–1972). [49]
Marilyn Cantor Baker, 89, American television writer (Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend) and actress. [50]
Graham Bool, 62, British paralympic athlete and sport photographer. [51]
Puttaraj Gawai, 96, Indian Hindustani singer. [52]
Bill Littlejohn, 96, American animator (Tom and Jerry, Peanuts), natural causes. [53]
Jean-Marcel Jeanneney, 99, French politician, Minister of Justice (1969). [54] (French)
Vojteh Ravnikar, 67, Slovenian architect. [55]
Iyad Shilbayeh, 38, Palestinian Hamas member, shot. [56]
Dobrin Spasov, 84, Bulgarian politician and philosopher. [57] (Bulgarian)

16

Victor Adibe Chikwe, 72, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, first Bishop of Ahiara (since 1988). [58]
Helen Escobedo, 76, Mexican artist and sculptor, cancer. [59] (Spanish)
Imran Farooq, 50, Pakistani politician (1992–2010), stabbed. [60]
Werner Hardmo, 93, Swedish Olympic athlete. [61] (Swedish)
Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, 86, German Head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (since 1965). [62] (German)
John D. Goeken, 80, American entrepreneur, founder of MCI Communications, cancer. [63]
Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, 75, British politician, Member of Parliament for Brecon and Radnorshire (1985–1992; 1997–2001). [64]
Mickey Mangham, 71, American football player. [65]
George N. Parks, 57, American college band director (University of Massachusetts), heart attack. [66]
Mario Rodríguez Cobos, 72, Argentine politician, writer and religious leader. [67] (Spanish)
Martin Štěpánek, 63, Czech actor and politician, suicide. [68] (Czech)
Noble Threewitt, 99, American racehorse trainer. [69]
Jim Towers, 76, English footballer, Brentford record goalscorer. [70]
Wayne Twitchell, 62, American baseball player (Brewers, Phillies, Expos, Mets, Mariners), cancer. [71]
Robert J. White, 84, American neurosurgeon. [72]

15

Arrow, 60, Montserratian soca musician ("Hot Hot Hot"), complications from brain cancer. [73]
Angidi Chettiar, 82, Mauritian politician, President (2002) and Vice President (1997–2002; since 2007). [74]
Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, 95, South African artist, natural causes. [75]
Berni Collas, 56, Belgian politician, Senator (since 2007). [76] (Russian)
Zhelyazko Hristov, 62, Bulgarian trade unionist, scientist and physician. [77]
Shama Khalid, 60, Pakistani politician, Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan (2010), cancer. [78]
Alvin I. Krenzler, 89, American judge and real estate developer. [79]
Al LaMacchia, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns) and executive, stroke. [80]
Ahmad Salaheldeen, 79, American jazz saxophone player. [81]
Raúl Trapero, 47, Spanish Olympic boxer, traffic accident. [82] (Spanish)

14

Mohammed Arkoun, 82, Algerian-born French Islamic philosopher, professor at Sorbonne. [83]
Caterina Boratto, 95, Italian film actress. [84] (Italian)
Hugo Demartini, 79, Czech sculptor, recipient of the Medal of Merit. [85] (Czech)
Gennadi Gerasimov, 80, Russian diplomat, Soviet Ambassador to Portugal (1990–1995). [86] (Russian)
John Guthrie, 70, American college basketball coach (University of Georgia, 1973–1978), natural causes. [87]
José Janene, 55, Brazilian politician involved in Mensalão scandal, septic shock. [88] (Portuguese)
Frederick Jelinek, 77, Czech-born American speech recognition researcher. [89]
Paulo Machado de Carvalho Filho, 86, Brazilian businessman, founder of Jovem Pan Radio. [90] (Portuguese)
Francis Mansour Zayek, 89, American Maronite Catholic prelate, founding Archbishop of Saint Maron of Brooklyn. [91]
Dodge Morgan, 78, American businessman, fourth person in history to circumnavigate globe alone, cancer. [92]
Francisco Ribeiro, 45, Portuguese musician (Madredeus), liver cancer. [93] (Portuguese)
Ben Sékou Sylla, 57, Guinean agronomist, head of Independent National Electoral Commission. [94]
Jorge Vidal, 86, Argentine tango singer. [95] (Spanish)
James E. Winner Jr., 81, American entrepreneur, inventor of The Club, car accident. [96]

13

Jim Greenwood, 81, Scottish rugby player. [97]
Joseph Harsh, 69, American Civil War historian and author. [98]
Jarosław Kukulski, 66, Polish composer, cancer. [99] (Polish)
Robert Rompre, 81, American ice hockey player. [100]
Barbara B. Smith, 88, American religious leader, pulmonary fibrosis. [101]
Gus Williams, 73, Australian Aboriginal leader and country music singer. [102]

12

Charles Ansbacher, 67, American conductor. [103]
Nduka Anyanwu, 30, Nigerian footballer. [104] (German)
Val Belcher, 56, American-born Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders), heart failure. [105]
Pietro Calabrese, 66, Italian journalist (Il Messaggero, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Panorama), lung cancer. [106] (Italian)
Claude Chabrol, 80, French film director (Madame Bovary, Story of Women). [107]
Varnette Honeywood, 59, American painter, cancer. [108]
Argiris Kavidas, 34, Greek actor (Strella), cardiac arrest. [109] (Greek)
Wesley Duke Lee, 78, Brazilian visual artist, heart failure. [110] (Portuguese)
Judith Merkle Riley, 68, American professor and author, ovarian cancer. [111]
Big John Russell, 67, Dutch soul singer. [112] (Dutch)
Swarnalatha, 37, Indian playback singer, lung infection. [113]
Claudia Vinciguerra, 87, Italian journalist, film and television critic. [114] (Italian)

11

Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, 76, British judge and Law Lord, cancer. [115]
Bärbel Bohley, 65, German artist and opposition figure, lung cancer. [116]
Luis Ceballos Lobo, Venezuelan politician. [117] (Spanish)
King Coleman, 78, American rhythm and blues singer ("Do the Mashed Potatoes"), heart failure. [118]
Guillermo García Ponce, Venezuelan politician, cancer. [119] (Spanish)
Harold Gould, 86, American actor (The Sting, Rhoda, The Golden Girls), prostate cancer. [120]
La Fiera, 49, Mexican professional wrestler, stabbed. [121]
Gunnar Hoffsten, 86, Swedish jazz musician. [122] (Swedish)
Dimitris Kamberidis, 64, Greek actor, cancer. [123] (Greek)
Ron Kramer, 75, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions), heart attack. [124]
Jouko Lehtola, 46, Finnish photographer, after long illness. [125]
Kevin McCarthy, 96, American actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), natural causes. [126]
Fathi Osman, 82, Egyptian author, heart failure. [127]
Taavi Peetre, 27, Estonian shot putter, drowning. [128] (Estonian)
Diego Rodríguez Cano, 22, Uruguayan footballer (Club Nacional de Football), car accident. [129] (Spanish)
Mike Shaw, 53, American professional wrestler, heart attack. [130]
Kei Tani, 78, Japanese comedian. [131]
Opal Wilcox Barron, 95, American First Lady of West Virginia (1961–1965). [132]

10

Eugeniusz Biskupski, 62, Polish Olympic athlete. [133] (Polish)
Juan Mari Brás, 82, Puerto Rican independence advocate. [134]
Gizela Dali, 70, Greek actress, cancer. [135] (Greek)
Willian Lara, 53, Venezuelan journalist and politician, Governor of Guárico, drowned. [136] (Spanish)
Billie Mae Richards, 88, Canadian voice actress (The Care Bears Movie, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Rudolph's Shiny New Year), stroke. [137]
Rade Marković, 88, Serbian actor. [138] (Serbian)
Fridrikh Maryutin, 85, Russian Olympic footballer. [139] (Russian)
Andrei Timoshenko, 41, Russian football player. [140] (Russian)
Edwin Charles Tubb, 90, British science fiction author. [141]
Ron Walters, 72, American scholar and civil rights activist, cancer. [142]

9

Gene Case, 72, American advertising executive, heart attack. [143]
Heriberto Correa Yepes, 94, Colombian Vicar Apostolic of Buenaventura (1973–1996). [144] (Spanish)
Bent Larsen, 75, Danish chess grandmaster. [145]
Rauno Mäkinen, 79, Finnish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist. [146] (Finnish)
Vladimir Ni, 77, Russian-born Kazakh businessman. [147]
Eddie Phillips, 80, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). [148]
Mary Richard, 70, Canadian aboriginal activist and politician. [149]
Riccardo Sarfatti, 70, Italian businessman, car accident. [150] (Italian)
Kamilla Składanowska, 62, Polish Olympic fencer. [151] (Polish)
Bunny Summers, 86, American actress (Re-Animator, The Last Starfighter), after brief illness. [152]

8

Jenny Alpha, 100, Martinique-born French actress and singer. [153] (French)
Anneliese Brost, 90, German publisher and billionaire. [154] (German)
Hadley Caliman, 78, American jazz saxophonist, liver cancer. [155]
Rich Cronin, 36, American pop singer and songwriter (LFO), stroke related to acute myelogenous leukemia. [156]
Allen Dale June, 91, American original Navajo code talker. [157]
Thomas Guinzburg, 84, American editor, co-creator and co-founder of The Paris Review, complications from heart bypass surgery. [158]
Safah Abdul Hameed, Iraqi journalist, shot. [159]
Alexander López García, Mexican politician, Mayor of El Naranjo, shot. [160]
Murali, 46, Indian Tamil actor, heart attack. [161]
Irwin Silber, 84, American writer and journalist, complications of Alzheimers disease. [162]
Israel Tal, 86, Israeli general. [163]
George C. Williams. 84, American evolutionary biologist, Parkinson's disease. [164]

7

Nana Kwaku Addai, 60, Ghanaian highlife musician. [165]
Claude Béchard, 41, Canadian politician, MNA for Kamouraska-Témiscouata (1997–2010), cancer. [166]
Eberhard von Brauchitsch, 83, German industrial manager, suicide. [167] (German)
Dzhulber Bykov, Russian federal district judge in Kabardino-Balkaria, shot. [168]
Vasilis Christodoulou, 94, Greek caricaturist. [169] (Greek)
Amar Garibović, 19, Serbian Olympic cross-country skier, car crash. [170] (Serbian)
William H. Goetzmann, 80, American historian. [171]
Barbara Holland, 77, American author, lung cancer. [172]
John Kluge, 95, German-born American entrepreneur and billionaire, richest person in the United States (1989–1990). [173]
Brendan Lyons, 83, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Bass (1982–1986). [174]
Riad al-Saray, 35, Iraqi television presenter, shot. [175]
Glenn Shadix, 58, American actor (Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas), fall. [176]
Wilebaldo Solano, 94, Spanish communist activist during the Spanish Civil War. [177] (Spanish)
Lucius Walker, 80, American pastor, heart attack. [178]

6

Clive Donner, 84, British film director (The Caretaker, What's New Pussycat?), Alzheimer's disease. [179]
Bob Jencks, 69, American football player (Chicago Bears), heart attack. [180]
John McKellar, 80, Australian comedy writer. [181]
Yvonne O'Neill, 74, Canadian politician, MPP for Ottawa–Rideau (1987–1995), cancer. [182]
Hachiro Okazaki, 88, American restorative massage practitioner. [183]
John Sligo, 66, New Zealand author. [184]
Angelo Vassallo, 56, Italian politician, Mayor of Pollica, shot. [185]

5

Hedley Beare, 77, Australian education leader. [186]
David Bushnell, 86, American historian, expert on Colombia, cancer. [187] (Spanish)
Alberto Graves Chakussanga, 32, Angolan journalist, shot. [188]
Corneille, 88, Dutch artist. [189]
David Dortort, 93, American television producer and writer (Bonanza, The High Chaparral). [190]
Ludvig Eikaas, 89, Norwegian artist. [191] (Norwegian)
John Gouriet, 75, British political campaigner (The Freedom Association) and author. [192]
Elizabeth Jenkins, 104, English author. [193]
Lewis Nkosi, 73, South African writer. [194]
Sayed Hamed Noorim, 45, Afghan journalist and TV anchorman (Radio Television Afghanistan), stabbed. [195] (body found on this date)
Homi Sethna, 86, Indian nuclear scientist and chemical engineer. [196]
R. Smith Simpson, 103, American Foreign Service Officer. [197]
Jefferson Thomas, 67, American civil rights pioneer, member of the Little Rock Nine, pancreatic cancer. [198]
Shoya Tomizawa, 19, Japanese Moto2 motorcycle racer, race crash. [199]

4

Francis Gerard Brooks, 86, Northern Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dromore (1976–1999). [200]
Paul Conrad, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist (Los Angeles Times). [201]
Rudolf Pellar, 87, Czech translator, actor and singer, recipient of the State Prize for Translation (1997). [202] (Czech)

3

Larry Ashmead, 78, American book editor. [203]
Oleg Bebenin, 36, Belarusian journalist and opposition website editor, apparent suicide. [204]
Micky Burn, 97, British writer and poet. [205]
Francisco Cruz Santos, Mexican politician, Mayor-elect of Santa Catarina Juquila, plane crash. [206]
Mike Edwards, 62, English cellist (Electric Light Orchestra), car accident. [207]
Noah Howard, 67, American jazz saxophonist. [208]
Carla Souza Lima, 50, Brazilian model, lung cancer. [209] (Portuguese)
Juan Huerta Montero, Mexican deputy, plane crash. [210]
Vasundhara Patwardhan, 94, Indian writer. [211]
Robert Schimmel, 60, American stand-up comedian (The Howard Stern Show), car accident. [212]
Sir Cyril Smith, 82, British politician, Member of Parliament for Rochdale (1972–1992). [213]
José Augusto Torres, 71, Portuguese football player and coach, heart failure. [214]
Guillermo Zavaleta Rojas, 34, Mexican deputy, plane crash. [215]
Annie Turnbull, 111, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the UK. [216]
Brian R. Wood, 33, Canadian computer game designer (Company of Heroes Online), car accident. [217]

2

Jean-Michel Baron, 56, French motorcycle racer, crash [218]
Trevor Beard, 90, Australian physician. [219]
Pedro Marcos Ribeiro da Costa, 88, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saurímo (1977–1997). [220]
Germán Dehesa, 66, Mexican journalist, writer and announcer, cancer. [221]
Michael Dennison, 58, American costume designer, brain aneurysm. [222]
Shmuel Eisenstadt, 86, Israeli sociologist. [223]
Katarina Marinič, 110, Slovenian supercentenarian. [224]
Eileen Nearne, 89, British Special Operations Executive agent in World War II. [225] (body discovered on this date)
Jackie Sinclair, 67, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic, Newcastle United), cancer. [226]
Leo Trepp, 97, German-born American rabbi, last surviving German rabbinical witness to the Holocaust. [227]
Morgan White, 86, American actor and children's television host. [228]