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
- Art Clokey, 88, American animator, creator of Gumby, Davey and Goliath. [1]
- Aleksandr Maslaev, 65, Russian actor. [2] (Russian)
- Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer. [3]
- Blanca Sanchez, 63, Mexican actress, heart attack. [4]
- Yvonne Zanos, 60, American television journalist (KDKA-TV), ovarian cancer. [5]
- Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop. [6]
- Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack. [7] (French)
- Tim Davey, 58, American NFL executive, Director of Football Operations (New York Jets). [8]
- George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the Human Potential Movement. [9]
- Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest. [10]
- Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of Václav Talich and Václav Havel. [11] (Czech)
- Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, Mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001). [12]
- Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic. [13]
- James von Brunn, 89, American white supremacist, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting suspect. [14]
- Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, cerebral hemorrhage. [15] (French)
- Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest. [16]
- Giancarlo Nanni, 68, Italian stage director, after long illness. [17] (Italian)
- Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, cancer. [18]
- Courage Quarshigah, 62, Ghanaian politician. [19]
- George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993). [20]
- Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, complications from swine flu. [21]
- Lew Allen, 84, American general, Director of the National Security Agency (1973–1977), rheumatoid arthritis. [22]
- Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues). [23]
- Erasmo Dias, 85, Brazilian military officer and politician, cancer. [24] (Portuguese)
- Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer [25]
- Hywel Teifi Edwards, 74, Welsh historian and writer. [26]
- Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980). [27]
- Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot. [28] (Polish)
- Casey Johnson, 30, American socialite, Johnson & Johnson heiress. [29] (body discovered on this date)
- Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels). [30]
- György Mitró, 79, Hungarian swimmer. [31] (Hungarian)
- Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery. [32]
- Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer. [33]
- Oleksiy Yeschenko, 60, Ukrainian football coach, former head coach of FC Volyn Lutsk. [34] (Ukrainian)
- Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer. [35] (Spanish)
- Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer. [36]
- Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer. [37]
- Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist. [38] (Italian)
- Ian Brownlie, British barrister, traffic collision. [39]
- Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher. [40]
- Bill Gleason, 87, American sports journalist (Chicago Sun-Times, Sportswriters on TV), Parkinson's disease. [41]
- Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes. [42] (Farsi)
- Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke. [43]
- Eunice Walker Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure. [44]
- Giorgos Kambanelis, 80, Greek actor. [45] (Greek)
- Luisito Martí, 65, Dominican actor, comedian and entertainer, stomach cancer. [46]
- Takis Michalos, 63, Greek national team water polo player and coach, cancer. [47] (Greek)
- Roberto Roney, 70, Brazilian comedian, lung cancer. [48] (Portuguese)
- Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer. [49] (French)
- Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish film critic (The Irish Times), after short illness. [50]
- David Gerber, 86, American executive producer. [51]
- Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car. [52]
- Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness. [53]
- Yiannis Voultepsis, 87, Greek journalist. [54] (Greek)
- Paul Ahyi, 80, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo. [55] (French)
- Gary Brockette, 62, American actor and assistant director, cancer. [56]
- Jean Carroll, 98, American comedienne (The Ed Sullivan Show). [57]
- Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness. [58]
- Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer. [59]
- Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of Zárate-Campana (1976–1991). [60]
- Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (The Boston Globe), brain tumor. [61]
- Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (Spectreman) and karate instructor. [62] (Japanese)
- Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor. [63] (German)
- Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999). [64]
- Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (2006), cancer. [65]
- Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author. [66]
- Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), cystic fibrosis. [67]
- Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter. [68]
- John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke. [69]
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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, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, ...