Deaths in 2010
Appearance
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
- Manuel Alexandre, 92, Spanish actor, cancer. [1] Template:Es icon
- Austin Ardill, 93, Irish politician. [2]
- Angelo Infanti, 71, Italian actor, cardiac arrest. [3] Template:It icon
- Lionel W. McKenzie, 91, American economist. [4]
- Nikolaos Artemiadis, 93, Greek mathematician and academic, chairman of the Athens Academy (2000). [5] (Greek)
- Marcel Lapierre, 60, French organic winemaker, cancer. [6]
- Marian P. Opala, 89, American jurist, Associate Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court (1978–2010), stroke. [7]
- Claire Rayner, 79, British author and advice columnist. [8]
- Solomon Burke, 70, American R&B singer-songwriter, natural causes. [9]
- Les Gibbard, 64, New Zealand-born British political cartoonist, during routine operation. [10]
- Hwang Jang-yop, 87, North Korean politician and defector, apparent heart attack. [11]
- David H. McNerney, 79, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, lung cancer. [12]
- Adán Martín Menis, 66, Spanish politician, President of the Canary Islands (2003–2007). [13] (Spanish)
- A. Edison Stairs, 85, Canadian businessman and politician, natural causes. [14]
- Walter Staley, 79, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) equestrian. [15]
- Dame Joan Sutherland, 83, Australian dramatic coloratura soprano. [16]
- Maurice Allais, 99, French economist, Nobel Prize winner (1988). [17]
- Edmund Chong Ket Wah, 54, Malaysian politician, Member of Parliament (since 2004), motorcycle accident. [18]
- Aleksandr Matveyev, 84, Russian linguist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, natural causes. [19]
- Antonio Jiménez Baños, 47, Mexican politician, Mayor-elect of Mártires de Tacubaya, shot. [20]
- Frank Bourgholtzer, 90, American television reporter, first full-time NBC News White House correspondent. [21]
- Oswaldo Osorio Canales, 71, Venezuelan lawyer and real estate agent, heart attack. [22] (Spanish)
- John Huchra, 61, American astronomer and professor. [23]
- Ryō Ikebe, 92, Japanese actor (Gorath), sepsis. [24]
- Maurice Neligan, 73, Irish surgeon, performed Ireland's first heart transplant. [25]
- Linda Norgrove, 36, British aid worker and Taliban hostage, killed during rescue attempt. [26]
- Mohammad Omar, Afghan Governor of Kunduz Province, bomb blast. [27]
- Pleasant Tap, 23, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized due to laminitis. [28]
- Neil Richardson, 80, English composer, arranger and conductor. [29]
- Albertina Walker, 81, American gospel music singer (The Caravans), respiratory failure. [30]
- Metring David, 90, Filipino actress and comedian. [31]
- Abe Gustin, 75, American founder of Applebee's International. [32]
- Rhys Isaac, 72, Australian historian and professor, cancer. [33]
- Ljupčo Jordanovski, 57, Macedonian seismologist and politician, Acting President (2004). [34]
- T Lavitz, 54, American musician. [35]
- Ian Morris, 53, New Zealand musician (Th' Dudes) and record producer. [36]
- Keiji Ohsawa, 78, Japanese baseball player. [37] (Japanese)
- Milka Planinc, 85, Yugoslavian politician, Prime Minister (1982–1986). [38]
- A. Venkatachalam, 55, Indian politician, stabbed. [39]
- Jean Debuf, 86, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) weightlifter. [40] (French)
- Antonie Kamerling, 44, Dutch actor and singer, suicide. [41] (Dutch)
- Ralph Kercheval, 98, American football player. [42]
- Horacio Larrosa, 66, Argentine journalist, cardiac arrest. [43] (Spanish)
- Colette Renard, 85, French singer and actress, after long illness. [44] (French)
- Piet Wijn, 81, Dutch comics creator. [45] (Dutch)
- Roy Axe, 73, British car designer (Talbot Horizon, Rover 800), cancer. [46]
- Roy Ward Baker, 93, British film director (A Night To Remember). [47]
- Jack Berntsen, 69, Norwegian folk singer. [48] (Norwegian)
- Stan Bisset, 98, Australian rugby union player and World War II veteran. [49]
- Alba Bouwer, 90, South African writer of Afrikaans children's literature, natural causes. [50]
- Bernard Clavel, 87, French writer, natural causes. [51] (French)
- Mary Leona Gage, 71, American pageant queen, stripped of Miss USA (1957) title. [52]
- Moss Keane, 62, Irish rugby union player, bowel cancer. [53]
- Jānis Klovāns, 75, Latvian chess master. [54] (Latvian)
- Steve Lee, 47, Swiss musician (Gotthard), motorcycle accident. [55]
- Karen McCarthy, 63, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1995–2005), Alzheimer's disease. [56]
- William Shakespeare, 61, Australian glam rock singer, heart attack. [57]
- William Birenbaum, 87, American educator and college administrator (Antioch College), heart failure. [58]
- Henrique de Senna Fernandes, 86, Macanese author. [59] (Portuguese)
- Claude Lefort, 86, French philosopher. [60] (French)
- Gregorio Ros, 58, Spanish make-up artist, complications from a degenerative disease. [61] (Spanish)
- Alberto Alves da Silva, 89, Brazilian artist and musician, respiratory failure. [62] (Portuguese)
- Peter Warr, 72, British racing driver and Formula One team principal (Lotus), heart attack. [63]
- Sir Norman Wisdom, 95, British comedian and actor, after long illness. [64]
- Maury Allen, 78, American sportswriter (The New York Post), lymphoma. [65]
- Aécio Ferreira da Cunha, 83, Brazilian politician, father of Aécio Neves. [66] (Portuguese)
- Philippa Foot, 90, British philosopher. [67]
- Campbell Scotty Hood, 76, American jazz bassist. [68]
- Sir Louis Le Bailly, 95, British admiral, Director-General of Intelligence. [69]
- Ben Mondor, 85, American baseball executive (Pawtucket Red Sox). [70]
- Walter Nones, 39, Italian mountaineer and extreme climber, climbing accident. [71]
- Eddie Platt, 88, American saxophonist. [72]
- Steve Richko, 33, American jazz pianist. [73]
- Abraham Sarmiento, 88, Filipino lawyer, Supreme Court Associate Justice (1987–1991). [74]
- Dianne Whalen, 59, Canadian politician, Newfoundland and Labrador MHA for Conception Bay East and Bell Island (2003–2010), cancer. [75]
- Ed Wilson, 65, Brazilian singer-songwriter, founder of Renato e Seus Blue Caps, cancer. [76] (Portuguese)
- Trevor Fleming, Northern Irish guitarist (Sweet Savage), after long illness. [77]
- Maurice Foster, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Algoma (1968–1993), pulmonary fibrosis. [78]
- Art Jarvinen, 54, American composer, teacher and musician (The California EAR Unit). [79]
- Kwa Geok Choo, 89, Singaporean lawyer, wife of Lee Kuan Yew, mother of Lee Hsien Loong. [80]
- David Le Cluse, 44, English chairman (Croydon Athletic), implicated in cricket spot-fixing controversy, apparent suicide by gunshot. [81] (body found on this date)
- Kristaps Streičs, 40, Latvian film director, Delta plane crash. [82] (Latvian)
- Georgy Arbatov, 87, Russian political scientist. [83]
- Dezső Bundzsák, 82, Hungarian football player and coach. [84] (Hungarian)
- Ian Buxton, 72, English footballer and cricketer, natural causes. [85]
- Charles Caruana, 77, Gibraltarian Roman Catholic bishop of Gibraltar (1998–2010), complications from a fall. [86] (Spanish)
- Audouin Dollfus, 85, French rocketry pioneer. [87] (French)
- Marshall Flaum, 85, American Emmy Award-winning director (The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau), complications from hip surgery. [88]
- Kilian Hennessy, 103, Irish patriarch of the Hennessy cognac company. [89]
- Gerard Labuda, 93, Polish historian. [90] (Polish)
- Michel Mathieu, 66, French diplomat, cancer. [91] (French)
- William Norton, 85, American screenwriter (Gator, Brannigan), heart attack. [92]
- William C. Patrick III, 84, American scientist, expert on germs, bladder cancer. [93]
- Roger A. Peterson, 89, American television producer (I've Got a Secret, To Tell the Truth, What's My Line?). [94]
- Mikhail Roshchin, 77, Russian playwright. [95] (Russian)
- Phillips Talbot, 95, American diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1965–1969), President of the Asia Society (1970–1981). [96]
- Giorgos Tziotzios, 56, Greek film critic and film magazine executive, cancer. [97]. (Greek)
- Collette Wood, 70, American theater critic, NAACP executive, lung cancer. [98]
September 2010
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
January 2010
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