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.

May 2010

26

• Art Linkletter, 97, Canadian-American television personality, natural causes. [1]
• Jean Constantin, 81, Romanian actor, natural causes. [2]
• Kieran Phelan, 60, Irish senator. [3]
• Jarvis Williams, 45, American football player (Miami Dolphins, New York Giants), heart attack. [4]

25

• Alexander Belostenny, 51, Ukrainian basketball player, lung cancer. [5]
• Alan Hickinbotham, 84, Australian football player and businessman. [6]
• Michael H. Jordan, 73, American business executive, complications related to cancer. [7]
• Silvius Magnago, 96, Italian politician, Governor of the Province of Bolzano-Bozen (1960–1989). [8] (German)
• Siphiwo Ntshebe, 34, South African opera singer, meningitis. [9]
• Gabriel Vargas, 95, Mexican cartoonist. [10]

24

• Ray Alan, 79, British ventriloquist, respiratory failure. [11]
• Virendra Bhatia, 63, Indian politician, after short illness. [12]
• Tapen Chatterjee, 72, Indian actor (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne), cardiac arrest. [13]
• Paul Gray, 38, American heavy metal bassist (Slipknot). [14]
• Sandra Herold, 72, American owner of chimpanzee Travis, ruptured aortic aneurysm. [15]
• Petr Muk, 45, Czech pop singer. [16] (Czech)
• Anneliese Rothenberger, 83, German opera singer. [17]

23

• Beaver, 59, New Zealand jazz singer, sarcoma. [18]
• Beto, 43, Portuguese singer, stroke. [19] (Portuguese)
• Leonida Georgievna, 95, Russian Grand Duchess. [20]
• David Ginsburg, 98, American lawyer and political insider, heart failure. [21]
• Vincent Kinchin, 42, British grasstrack rider, race crash. [22]
• José Lima, 37, Dominican baseball player, heart attack. [23]
• Simon Monjack, 39, British screenwriter, suspected heart attack. [24]
• Mikhail Shatrov, 78, Russian screenwriter and playwright. [25]
• Gane Todorovoski, 81, Macedonian writer and academician. [26]
• Wee Willie Webber, 80, American radio and television personality, heart attack. [27]

22

• Martin Gardner, 95, American mathematics and science author. [28]
• Hasri Ainun Habibie, 72, Indonesian First Lady (1998–1999), cervical cancer. [29]
• Peter Hall, 88, New Zealand flying ace. [30]
• Keith Jessop, 77, British deep sea diver and marine treasure hunter. [31]
• Josef Koukl, 83, Czech Roman Catholic Bishop of Litoměřice (1989–2003). [32]
• Michael Kuchwara, 63, American theater critic (Associated Press), idiopathic ischemic lung disease. [33]
• Buz Lukens, 79, American politician, U.S. Representative for Ohio (1967–1971; 1987–1990), cancer. [34]
• Lwandile Zwelenkosi Matanzima, 39, South African clan leader, ruler of Western Thembuland. [35]
• Veturi Sundararama Murthy, 74, Indian poet and lyricist, cardiac arrest. [36]

21

• Adrian Cruickshank, 73, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1984–1999). [37]
• Stan Jones, 78, American football player (Chicago Bears), complications from a stroke. [38]
• Howard Post, 83, American cartoonist and animator. [39]
• Robert Gordon Rogers, 90, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (1983–1988). [40]
• Madan Tamang, 62, Nepali politician, President of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, stabbed. [41]
• Driek van Wissen, 66, Dutch poet, intracranial hemorrhage. [42] (Dutch)

20

• Karin Iten, 53, Swiss figure skater. [43] (German)
• Kennedy Kiliku, 57, Kenyan politician. [44]
• Gesang Martohartono, 92, Indonesian singer-songwriter. [45] (Indonesian)
• Breandán Ó Buachalla, 74, Irish academic, Irish language scholar, heart attack. [46]
• Walter Rudin, 89, Austrian-born American mathematician, Parkinson’s disease. [47]
• Alberto Valcárcel Acuña, 65, Peruvian poet, after long illness. [48] (Spanish)
• Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, 82, British businessman, philanthropist and life peer. [49].

19

• Martin Cohan, 77, American television writer (Silver Spoons, Who's the Boss?), large cell lymphoma. [50]
• Fabio Polenghi, 48, Italian photojournalist, shot. [51]
• Horácio Roque, 66, Portuguese financier, founder of Banco Internacional do Funchal, stroke. [52]
• Moishe Rosen, 78, American Baptist minister, founder of Jews for Jesus, after long illness. [53]
• Harry Vos, 63, Dutch footballer, cancer. [54] (Dutch)

18

• Shusaku Arakawa, 73, Japanese artist and architect. [55]
• Martha Bielish, 94, Canadian politician, Senator (1979–1990). [56]
• Don Day, 86, Australian politician, New South Wales Minister for Agriculture (1978–1980). [57]
• Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, Italian poet, complications following abdominal aneurysm surgery. [58]
• Jim Selim, 68, Australian businessman, founder of Pan Pharmaceuticals, leukaemia. [59]
• Willie Zapalac, 89, American football coach. [60]

17

• Víctor Selvino Arenhart, 61, Argentine Roman Catholic Bishop of Oberá (since 2009). [61]
• Bob Breitbard, 91, American sports team owner (San Diego Rockets, San Diego Gulls), natural causes. [62]
• Ludwig von Friedeburg, 85, German politician and sociologist, Hesse Minister for Education (1969–1974). [63] (German)
• Richard Gregory, 86, British psychologist. [64]
• Dorothy Kamenshek, 84, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 1943–1952). [65]
• Yvonne Loriod, 86, French pianist, composer and teacher, widow of Olivier Messiaen. [66]
• Mukhran Machavariani, 81, Georgian poet, heart attack. [67]
• Rafael Nantes, 53, Filipino politician, helicopter crash. [68]
• Khattiya Sawasdipol, 58, Thai renegade general, advisor to the Red Shirts, shot. [69]
• Bobbejaan Schoepen, 85, Belgian singer-songwriter and entrepreneur, cardiac arrest. [70]
• Fritz Sennheiser, 98, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser. [71]
• George Terlep, 87, American football player (Buffalo Bills) and head coach. [72]
• Carla Zilbersmith, 47, Canadian-born American actress, singer and comedian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [73]

16

• Andre Baker, 45, British professional wrestler and promoter (NWA UK Hammerlock). [74]
• Bernard Bihari, 78, American physician, proponent of alternative medicine. [75]
• Juan José Carbó, 83, Spanish cartoonist. [76] (Spanish)
• Ronnie James Dio, 67, American heavy metal singer (Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio), stomach cancer. [77]
• Alfonso Escámez, 94, Spanish banker. [78] (Spanish)
• Hank Jones, 91, American jazz pianist. [79]
• Oswaldo López Arellano, 88, Honduran politician, President (1963–1971, 1972–1975), prostate cancer. [80]
• Jack Lupton, 83, American Coca-Cola Bottling Co. heir and Lyndhurst Foundation philanthropist, complications of a stroke. [81]

15

• Harry Aleman, 71, American mobster and convicted murderer, lung cancer. [82]
• Gabriel Bien-Aimé, Haitian politician, Minister of Education (2006–2008), heart attack. [83]
• Jim Burnett, 62, American chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (1982–1988), complications of diabetes. [84]
• Armand Caouette, 64, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament (1974–1980). [85] (French)
• Moshe Greenberg, 81, American rabbi. [86]
• Besian Idrizaj, 22, Austrian footballer, heart attack. [87]
• Loris Kessel, 60, Swiss racing driver, leukemia. [88] (German)
• Archduke Rudolf of Austria, 90, Austrian nobleman, youngest son of Emperor Charles I and Zita of Bourbon-Parma. [89] (German)
• John Shepherd-Barron, 84, British inventor of the ATM. [90]
• Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 86, Indian politician, Vice-President (2002–2007), respiratory infection. [91]

14

• Frank J. Dodd, 72, American politician, President of the New Jersey Senate (1974–1975). [92]
• Goh Keng Swee, 91, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1968–1985), after long illness. [93]
• Norman Hand, 37, American football player (San Diego Chargers, New Orleans Saints), heart disease. [94]
• David Maimon, 81, Israeli general, head of Israel Prison Service. [95]
• Fred O'Donovan, 80, Irish theatre producer, Chairman of RTÉ Authority (1981–1985). [96]
• Skip Away, 17, American thoroughbred racehorse, heart attack. [97]
• Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, 70, South African politician, complications from liver disease. [98]

13

• Rafael Sanus Abad, 78, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia (1989–2000). [99]
• Ashaari Mohammad, 73, Malaysian spiritual leader, respiratory infection. [100]
• Eddie Garrett, 82, American actor (Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Quincy M.E.). [101]
• Cinthia Régia Gomes do Livramento, 46, Brazilian politician, Education Secretary (Amazonas), air crash. [102]
• Klaus Kotter, 75, German bobsleigh official. [103] (German)
• Dick Movitz, 84, American Olympic alpine skier. [104]
• Peter Provan, 73, Australian rugby league footballer, Balmain Tigers premiership captain (1969), after long illness. [105]
• Rosa Rio, 107, American organist (Tampa Theater). [106]

12

• Phyllis Hodges Boyce, 73, American actress (Gone with the Wind, Star Trek). [107]
• Frans Dreyer, 50, Dutch businessman, CEO of VAStech, air crash. [108]
• Charlie Francis, 61, Canadian track coach, lymphoma. [109]
• Antonis Karkayiannis, 78, Greek journalist and newspaper publisher (Kathimerini). [110] (Greek)
• Ray Laurent, 79, New Zealand Olympic rower. [111]
• Sione Manu'uli Luani, 50, Tongan politician, Governor of Vava'u (since 2009). [112]
• Allan Manings, 86, American television writer (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Good Times), cardiac arrest. [113]
• Joëlle van Noppen, 30, Dutch singer, air crash. [114]
• Bree O'Mara, 42, South African novelist, air crash. [115]
• Antonio Ozores, 81, Spanish actor, cancer. [116] (Spanish)
• Mel Perry, 75, Canadian curler. [117]
• Norbert Taferner, 70, Austrian general manager of Global Aviation, air crash. [118]
• Berry van Assouw, 49, Dutch businessman, air crash. [119]

11

• Robert H. Burris, 96, American biochemist. [120]
• Tim Grubb, 55, British-born American show jumper, Olympic silver medallist, heart failure. [121]
• Rauf Jabbarov, 74, Azerbaijani boxing manager, myocardial infarction. [122] (Azerbaijani)
• Maciej Kozłowski, 52, Polish actor, complications of hepatitis C. [123] (Polish)
• Richard LaMotta, 67, American creator of the Chipwich ice cream sandwich, heart attack. [124]
• Jeff Leadley, 55, English sports car racer, race crash. [125]
• Bud Mahurin, 91, American flying ace, complications from a stroke. [126]
• Emmanuel Ngobese, 29, South African footballer, tuberculosis. [127]
• Jeff Shaw, 60, Australian politician and jurist, NSW Attorney General (1995–2000), Supreme Court judge (2003–2004), pneumonia. [128]
• Doris Eaton Travis, 106, American performer, last surviving Ziegfeld girl, aneurysm. [129]
• Bob Watt, 82, Canadian Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) ice hockey player. [130]

10

• Ike Franklin Andrews, 84, American politician, U.S. Representative from North Carolina (1973–1985). [131]
• Albert W. Barney, 89, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (1974–1982). [132]
• Giuliana Camerino, 90, Italian handbag designer. [133]
• Charles Currey, 94, British sailor, silver medallist at the 1952 Summer Olympics. [134]
• Frank Frazetta, 82, American fantasy and science fiction artist, stroke. [135]
• Bill Hook, 84, American-born chess player for British Virgin Islands. [136]
• Margit Hvammen, 77, Norwegian Olympic Alpine skier. [137] (Norwegian)
• Mac Mohan, 71, Indian actor (Sholay), lung cancer. [138]
• Volodymyr Ploskina, 55, Ukrainian football manager and former footballer. [139]

9

• Danger Ashipala, 62, Namibian police advisor. [140]
• Erica Blasberg, 25, American professional golfer. [141]
• Raymond Bouchex, 83, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Avignon (1978–2002). [142]
• Dean Cetrulo, 91, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) fencer. [143]
• Rita Childers, 95, Irish politician, wife of President Erskine Hamilton Childers. [144]
• Zosima Davydov, 46, Russian Orthodox Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk (since 2004), heart attack. [145] (Russian)
• Hans Dijkstal, 67, Dutch politician, Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister (1994-1998), cancer. [146] (Dutch)
• Francisco Andrés Escobar, 67, Salvadorian actor, journalist and writer. [147] (Spanish)
• Lena Horne, 92, American singer and actress (Stormy Weather, The Wiz). [148]
• Signe Johansson-Engdahl, 104, Swedish Olympic diver. [149] (Swedish)
• Farzad Kamangar, 32, Iranian activist, execution. [150]
• Simon Gatiba Karanja, 56, Kenyan police officer, director of CID, respiratory failure. [151]
• Craig Kauffman, 78, American painter and sculptor, complications from a stroke and pneumonia. [152]
• Teruji Kogake, 77, Japanese Olympic athlete, liver failure. [153]
• Acharya Mahapragya, 89, Indian Jain religious leader, supreme head of Svetambar Terapanth, cardiac arrest. [154]
• Otakar Motejl, 77, Czech Ombudsman (since 2000), after short illness. [155]
• Bill Passell, 79, American Grand Life Master bridge player, multiple myeloma. [156]
• Bill Stanton, 86, American-born Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders). [157]
• Edward Uhl, 92, American co-inventor of the bazooka, heart failure. [158]

8

• Bruce Alford, Sr., 87, American football player (New York Yanks), and line judge, cancer. [159]
• Florrie Baldwin, 114, British supercentenarian. [160]
• Shadreck Biemba, 45, Zambian footballer, cancer. [161]
• Joaquín Capilla, 81, Mexican Olympic diving four-time medalist, heart failure. [162]
• Sir Cecil Clothier, 90, Manx judge and public servant. [163]
• Ken Haynes, 76, Scottish radio presenter and disc jockey, after short illness [164]
• Stefanos Lazaridis, 67, British stage designer, cancer. [165]
• Andor Lilienthal, 99, Russian-born Hungarian chess grandmaster. [166] (Hungarian)
• Carlos Humberto Salinas Midence, 54, Honduran journalist, shot. [167] (Spanish)
• Mark Shannon, 58, American radio personality (KTOK), lymphoid leukemia. [168]
• Feodor Skripchenko, 74, Moldovan chess player, cancer. [169]
• Alan Watkins, 77, British political journalist, renal failure. [170]

7

• Francisco Aguabella, 84, Cuban-born American jazz percussionist, cancer. [171]
• Juan Arcocha, 83, Cuban writer. [172] (Spanish)
• Rane Arroyo, 55, American poet, cerebral hemorrhage. [173]
• Anders Buraas, 94, Norwegian journalist. [174] (Norwegian)
• Babz Chula, 64, American actress, cancer. [175]
• Dave Fisher, 69, American folk singer (The Highwaymen), myelofibrosis. [176]
• Pamela Green, 81, British actress and model, leukemia. [177]
• Wally Hickel, 90, American politician, Secretary of the Interior (1969–1970), Governor of Alaska (1966–1969, 1990–1994), natural causes. [178]
• Billy Kelly, 78, British boxer, after long illness. [179]
• Zoran Kurteš, 44, Serbian handball player and coach, cardiac arrest. [180] (Romanian)
• Adele Mara, 87, American actress (Sands of Iwo Jima), natural causes. [181]
• Rodolfo Paredes, 46, Chilean journalist and television presenter, heart attack. [182] (Spanish)
• Flora L. Thornton, 96, American arts patron and philanthropist, pulmonary disease. [183]
• Dennis Tinerino, 64, American bodybuilder, actor, and evangelist, stomach cancer. [184]

6

• Hoàng Cầm, 88, Vietnamese poet and playwright. [185] (Vietnamese)
• Rhonda Copelon, 65, American attorney, ovarian cancer. [186]
• David E. Durston, 88, American film director and screenwriter (I Drink Your Blood), complications from pneumonia. [187]
• Nina King, 68, American editor (The Washington Post), complications from Parkinson's disease. [188]
• Nikolaos Matsaniotis, 85, Greek professor of paediatrics, General Secretary of Academy of Athens (1998–2010). [189] (Greek)
• Guillermo Meza, 21, Mexican footballer (Pumas Morelos), shot. [190] (Spanish)
• Giacomo Neri, 94, Italian footballer. [191] (Italian)
• Mildred Ellen Orton, 99, American co-founder of the Vermont Country Store. [192]
• Romain Poté, 74, Belgian Olympic athlete. [193] (German)
• Robin Roberts, 83, American baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies), natural causes. [194]
• Robert J. Serling, 92, American author, brother of Rod Serling. [195]

5

• Lucho Barrios, 76, Peruvian bolero singer. [196] (Spanish)
• Ray Blum, 91, American Olympic speed skater. [197]
• Danny Chandler, 50, American motocross rider. [198]
• Marcello Costalunga, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Aquileia (1991–2001). [199]
• Joseph Kearney, 83, American athletic director, pancreatic cancer. [200]
• André Lamy, 77, Canadian film producer, Chairman of the National Film Board (1975–1979). [201]
• Armando Lucero, 68, Argentine sex offender, respiratory infection. [202]
• Jack MacDonald, 82, Canadian politician, Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario (1977-1980), after long illness. [203]
• Gul Makai Osmani, Afghan lawmaker and politician, shot. [204]
• Max Palevsky, 85, American entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector. [205]
• Nyleptha Roberts, 112, American supercentenarian. [206]
• Giulietta Simionato, 99, Italian mezzo-soprano singer. [207]
• Gwyn "Jocko" Thomas, 96, Canadian crime reporter (Toronto Star), natural causes. [208]
• Umaru Yar'Adua, 58, Nigerian politician, President (2007–2010), after long illness. [209]

4

• David Apter, 85, American political scientist, complications of cancer. [210]
• Brita Borg, 83, Swedish actress, singer and variety show artist. [211] (Swedish)
• Roy Carrier, 63, American zydeco musician, complications from lung cancer. [212]
• Ángel Cristo, 65, Spanish animal tamer and circus promoter, cardiac arrest. [213] (Spanish)
• Sheena Duncan, 77, South African anti-apartheid campaigner, after long illness. [214]
• Ernie Harwell, 92, American baseball sportscaster (Detroit Tigers), cancer. [215]
• Peter Heathfield, 81, British trade unionist. [216]
• Freddy Kottulinsky, 77, German-born Swedish racing driver. [217] (German)
• William Lubtchansky, 73, French cinematographer, heart disease. [218]
• Luigi Poggi, 92, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. [219] (Italian)
• Nick Rogers, 30, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), auto accident. [220]
• Dustin Shuler, 61, American sculptor (Spindle), pancreatic cancer. [221][222]
• Hadi Soesastro, 65, Indonesian economist and public intellectual, brain hemorrhage. [223]
• El Supremo, 59, Mexican professional wrestler. [224] (Spanish)
• Peter Varvaressos, 63, Greek-born Australian footballer, director of Sydney Olympic. [225]

3

• Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, 73, Moroccan philosopher and writer. [226] (French)
• Luigi Amaducci, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ravenna-Cervia (1990–2000). [227]
• Charles C. Barham, 75, American politician, Louisiana State Senator (1964–1972, 1976–1988), cancer. [228]
• Kirt Bennett, 42, American businessman, stroke. [229]
• Florencio Campomanes, 83, Filipino chess player, President of FIDE (1982–1995). [230]
• Jack Friedman, 70, American businessman, co-founder of Jakks Pacific. [231]
• Jimmy Gardner, 85, British character actor. [232]
• Karl Kasten, 94, American painter. [233]
• Stephen Ledogar, 80, American arms control negotiator, bladder cancer. [234]
• James Leeson, Jr., 79, American journalist, suicide by gunshot. [235]
• Merv McIntosh, 87, Australian football player, heart attack. [236]
• Peter O'Donnell, 90, British writer (Modesty Blaise). [237]
• Kinji Shibuya, 88, American professional wrestler and actor (Mr. T and Tina), natural causes. [238]
• Guenter Wendt, 85, German-born American NASA spacecraft engineer, heart failure and stroke. [239]

2

• Ann Aldrich, 82, American federal judge. [240]
• Kama Chinen, 114, Japanese supercentenarian, verified oldest living person. [241] (Japanese)
• Moshe Hirsch, 86, Israeli anti-Zionist Neturei Karta rabbi, Palestinian National Authority Minister for Jewish Affairs, after long illness. [242]
• Andrew McFarlane, 32, Australian motocross racer, accident during practice. [243]
• Bohumil Němeček, 72, Czech boxer, Olympic gold medalist (1960). [244]
• Murray Nicoll, 66, Australian journalist and broadcaster, Ash Wednesday fires commentator, leukaemia. [245]
• Lynn Redgrave, 67, English actress (Georgy Girl, Gods and Monsters), breast cancer. [246]

1

• Danny Aiello III, 53, American stunt performer, pancreatic cancer. [247]
• T. M. Aluko, 91, Nigerian writer. [248]
• Don Caruth, 59, American politician, minority leader of the West Virginia Senate, brain cancer. [249]
• Jean-Louis Dumas, 72, French businessman, Hermès group chairman (1978–2006). [250]
• Antoine Hayek, 81, Lebanese Melkite prelate, Archbishop of Baniyas (1989–2006). [251]
• Zygmunt Kamiński, 77, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień (1999–2009). [252]
• Rob McConnell, 75, Canadian jazz musician, cancer. [253]
• Lawrence Paul, 84, Canadian Mi'kmaq leader, chief of the Membertou First Nation (1967–1969). [254]
• Alexey Sisakyan, 65, Russian physicist, head of Dubna Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. [255] (Russian)
• Robert Vines, 45, American basketball executive (Boston Celtics), cardiac arrest. [256]
• Helen Wagner, 91, American actress (As the World Turns). [257]

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.

External links

• General obituaries
  • Legacy.com/Associated Press
  • Variety magazine
• Australian obituaries
  • The Sydney Morning Herald
• Dutch obituaries
  • NRC Handelsblad (Dutch)
• German obituaries
  • Der Tagesspiegel (German)

• South African obituaries
  • Mail & Guardian
• United Kingdom obituaries
  • The Guardian
  • The Independent
  • The Scotsman
  • The Telegraph
  • The Times

• United States obituaries
  • The Boston Globe
  • Los Angeles Times
  • The New York Times
  • The Washington Post

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, ...