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.

June 2010

26

• Algirdas Brazauskas, 77, Lithuanian president (1993-1998), prime minister (2001-2006), cancer. [1] (Lithuanian)
• Alberto Guzik, 66, Brazilian actor and writer, stomach cancer. [2] (Portuguese)
• Adoor Pankajam, 85, Indian actress. [3]
• D. Sudarsanam, 68, Indian politician, multiple organ failure. [4]
• Vasyl Yevseyev, 47, Ukrainian football coach, car accident. [5] (Russian)

25

• Viveka Babajee, 37, Mauritian-born Indian model and actress, suicide by hanging. [6]
• Alan Plater, 75, English television writer, cancer. [7]
• Wu Guanzhong, 91, Chinese painter. [8] (Chinese)

24

• Fred Anderson, 81, American jazz saxophonist. [9]
• JoJo Billingsley, 58, American back-up singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd), cancer. [10]
• Digvijay Singh, 54, Indian politician. [11]
• Francis Dreyfus, 70, French record producer (Disques Dreyfus) [12] (French)
• Kazimierz Paździor, 75, Polish Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) boxer. [13] (Polish)
• Walter Shorenstein, 95, American real estate developer and baseball team owner (San Francisco Giants), natural causes. [14]
• Ben Sonnenberg, 73, American journalist (Literary Journal), multiple sclerosis. [15]
• Jean-Luc Tricoire, 57, French Olympic shooter, liver failure. [16] (French)

23

• Ron Atchison, 80, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders), heart failure. [17]
• Jörg Berger, 65, German football manager, bowel cancer. [18] (German)
• Prescott S. Bush, Jr., 87, American politician, member of the Bush family, after long illness. [19]
• Dermot Earley, 62, Irish Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces (2004–2010), after short illness. [20]
• Frank Giering, 38, German actor (Funny Games). [21] (German)
• Garrison James, 77, Canadian politician, senior member of Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, surgical complications. [22]
• Pavel Lyubimov, 71, Russian film director. [23] (Russian)
• Mohammed Mzali, 84, Tunisian politician, Prime Minister (1980–1986). [24] (French)
• Hiromu Naruse, 66, Japanese chief test driver for Toyota Motor Company, car crash. [25]
• Pete Quaife, 66, British bassist (The Kinks). [26]
• Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, 78, British politician and life peer, MP for Worcester (1961–1992), cancer. [27]

22

• Robin Bush, 67, British historian (Time Team). [28]
• Gerald Heaney, 92, American judge, United States Court of Appeals (1966–2006). [29]
• Marie-Luise Jahn, 92, German member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose. [30] (German)
• Robin Mortimer, 58, British racing car driver and race team owner. [31]
• Pennant Roberts, 69, British television director. [32]
• Manfred Römbell, 68, German writer, after long illness. [33] (German)
• Levern Tart, 68, American basketball player (Oakland Oaks, New York Nets). [34]
• Tracy Wright, 50, Canadian actress, pancreatic cancer. [35]

21

• Irwin Barker, 54, Canadian comedian and television writer (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Rick Mercer Report), leiomyosarcoma. [36]
• Wilfried Feldenkirchen, 62, German professor and economic historian, project manager (Siemens), car crash. [37] (German)
• Rosemary Gillespie, 69, Australian human rights activist and lawyer, stroke. [38]
• Hector Laing, Baron Laing of Dunphail, 87, British businessman and life peer. [39]
• Stanley Lucas, 110, British supercentenarian, oldest man in Europe. [40]
• Inge Pertmayr, 63, Austrian Olympic diver. [41] (German)
• Henrique Walter Pinotti, 81, Brazilian physician, cancer. [42] (Portuguese)
• William S. Richardson, 90, American judge and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (1962–1966), Chief Justice (Hawaii Supreme Court, 1966–1982). [43]
• Hermann Schatzmayr, 75, Brazilian virologist, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz researcher, multiple organ failure. [44] (Portuguese)
• İlhan Selçuk, 85, Turkish lawyer, journalist and writer, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, multiple organ failure. [45]
• Chris Sievey, 54, British comedian and musician (Frank Sidebottom), lung cancer. [46]
• Tam White, 67, British musician and actor. [47]
• Larry Jon Wilson, 69, American songwriter and musician, stroke. [48]

20

• Dwight Armstrong, 58, American anti-Vietnam War bomber, lung cancer. [49]
• Vladimír Dlouhý, 52, Czech actor. [50] (Czech)
• El Pery, 21, Honduran reggaeton musician, shot. [51] (Spanish)
• Lai Sun Cheung, 59, Hong Kong football coach, lung cancer. [52] (Chinese)
• Bobby Meide, 59, American drummer, Korsakoff's syndrome. [53]
• Raymond Parks, 96, American auto racer, two-time NASCAR car owner points champion. [54]
• Abdolmalek Rigi, 31, Iranian Sunni Islamist militant, leader of Jundallah, execution by hanging. [55]
• Roberto Rosato, 66, Italian footballer. [56] (Italian)
• Edith Shain, 92, American nurse, subject of V–J day in Times Square photograph, cancer. [57]
• Gundibail Sunderam, 80, Indian cricketer, after short illness. [58]
• Ken Talbot, 59, Australian businessman, CEO of Macarthur Coal (1995–2008), plane crash. [59]

19

• Manute Bol, 47, Sudanese basketball player and activist, kidney failure and Stevens–Johnson syndrome. [60]
• Anwar Chowdhry, 86, Pakistani sports official, President of the International Boxing Association (1986–2006), heart attack. [61]
• Jack Cloud, 85, American football player. [62]
• John Ferruggio, 84, American in-flight director, led evacuation of Pan Am Flight 93, organ failure. [63]
• Mohammed Ali Hammadi, 46, Lebanese Hezbollah member, drone strike. [64]
• Robin Matthews, 83, British economist and chess problemist. [65]
• Carlos Monsiváis, 72, Mexican writer and journalist, respiratory failure. [66] (Spanish)
• Vince O'Brien, 91, American character actor (Dark Shadows, Guiding Light, Law & Order). [67]
• Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, 85, British philosopher and life peer. [68]
• Manuel Lara Rodríguez, 48, Mexican politician, Mayor of Guadalupe, Chihuahua, shot. [69]
• Dame Angela Rumbold, 77, British politician, MP for Mitcham and Morden (1982–1997). [70]
• Nico Smith, 81, South African minister, anti-apartheid activist, heart attack. [71]
• Ursula Thiess, 86, German actress. [72]
• Chris Welles, 72, American business journalist, Alzheimer's disease. [73]

18

• Trent Acid, 29, American professional wrestler. [74]
• Marcel Bigeard, 94, French general. [75]
• Bogdan Bogdanović, 87, Serbian architect and urbanist, Mayor of Belgrade (1982–1986), heart attack. [76] (German)
• Waldemar Ciesielczyk, 51, Polish Olympic fencer. [77] (Polish)
• Joe Deal, 62, American photographer. [78]
• Ronnie Lee Gardner, 49, American murderer, executed by firing squad. [79]
• Tom Leahy, 87, American children's television host (Major Astro). [80]
• Tom Nicon, 22, French model, fall from building. [81]
• José Saramago, 87, Portuguese Nobel-laureate novelist, playwright and journalist, cancer. [82] (Portuguese)
• Hans Joachim Sewering, 94, German physician, member of the Waffen SS (1933–1945). [83] (German)

17

• Abdul Aziz Al-Hammad, Saudi Arabian actor, cancer. [84] (Arabic)
• Basel Al-Sabah, 52, Kuwaiti royal, shot. [85]
• Hannah Atkins, 86, American politician, Secretary of State of Oklahoma (1987–1991) and State Representative (1969–1981), cancer. [86]
• Elżbieta Czyżewska, 72, Polish-born American actress, esophageal cancer. [87]
• Hans Dichand, 89, Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher. [88] (German)
• Sebastian Horsley, 47, British artist, heroin overdose. [89]
• Anjali Mendes, 64, Indian model. [90]
• K. S. Rajah, 80, Singaporean senior counsel, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court, cancer. [91]
• Andy Ripley, 62, British rugby player, prostate cancer. [92]
• Walter Rodriguez, 65, Puerto Rican actor and playwright, bone cancer. [93] (Spanish)

16

• Marc Bazin, 78, Haitian politician, Acting President and Prime Minister (1992–1993). [94]
• Peter Brunette, 66, American film critic (The Hollywood Reporter), heart attack. [95]
• Bill Dixon, 84, American jazz musician. [96]
• Maureen Forrester, 79, Canadian opera singer, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [97]
• Amedeo Guillet, 101, Italian army officer. [98] (Italian)
• Bob Hartman, 72, American baseball player, post-surgical infection. [99]
• Allen Hoey, 57, American poet, Pulitzer Prize nominee, heart attack. [100]
• Ronald Neame, 99, British film director (The Poseidon Adventure) and screenwriter. [101]
• Corso Salani, 48, Italian actor and film director, stroke. [102] (Italian)
• Garry Shider, 56, American musician (Parliament-Funkadelic), complications from brain and lung cancer. [103]
• P. G. Viswambharan, 69, Indian film director, after long illness. [104]

15

• Thomas W. L. Ashley, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative for Ohio (1955–1981). [105]
• Richard Bailey, 52, Australian fashion photographer, cancer. [106]
• Bekim Fehmiu, 74, Serbian actor (I Even Met Happy Gypsies), suspected suicide by gunshot. [107]
• Phil Gordon, 94, American character actor and dialect coach (The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction). [108]
• Jānis Grodums, 52, Latvian musician (Līvi). [109] (Latvian)
• Charles Hickcox, 63, American Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1968) swimmer, cancer. [110]
• Yuri Ilyenko, 73, Ukrainian film director and cinematographer (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors). [111] (Russian)
• Heidi Kabel, 95, German stage actress. [112] (German)
• Tadashi Kawashima, 41, Japanese mangaka (Alive: The Final Evolution), liver cancer. [113]
• Busi Mhlongo, 62, South African musician, cancer. [114]
• Natalia Tolstaya, 67, Russian writer and translator. [115] (Russian)

14

• Oscar Azócar, 45, Venezuelan baseball player (New York Yankees, San Diego Padres). [116]
• Teshome H. Gabriel, 70, Ethiopian-born American cinema scholar, cardiac arrest. [117]
• Richard Herrmann, 90, British-born Norwegian journalist, writer and radio personality (NRK), after long illness. [118] (Norwegian)
• Leonid Kizim, 68, Ukrainian Soviet cosmonaut. [119] (Russian)
• Manohar Malgonkar, 96, Indian author. [120]
• Luis Arturo Mondragón, 53, Honduran journalist, shot. [121]
• Thomas Roggeman, 47, American college football player (Notre Dame) and assistant coach (East Carolina), non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [122]
• Jaroslav Škarvada, 85, Czech Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Prague (1982–2002). [123] (Czech)

13

• Jimmy Dean, 81, American country music singer (Big Bad John), actor and businessman (Jimmy Dean Foods), natural causes. [124]
• Ernest Fleischmann, 85, German-born American impresario, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. [125]
• Ernie Johnson, 84, American football and basketball player (UCLA). [126]
• Will Koch, 48, American amusement park owner (Holiday World & Splashin' Safari), drowning due to possible complications from diabetes. [127]
• F. James McDonald, 87, American businessman, President of General Motors (1981–1987). [128]
• Emilio Macias, 76, Filipino politician, Governor of Negros Oriental, liver cancer. [129]
• David Martinez, 67, American pastor, heart attack. [130]
• Tom Stith, 71, American basketball player (New York Knicks). [131]
• Nelson Wallulatum, 84, American chief of the Wasco Indians (since 1959), founder of The Museum at Warm Springs. [132]
• Jonathan Wolken, 60, American artistic director, co-founder of Pilobolus, complications from stem cell transplant. [133]

12

• Andres Bergmann, 51, Estonian businessman and banker. [134] (Estonian)
• Anne Chapman, 88, American-born French ethnologist. [135] (Spanish)
• Daisy D'ora, 97, German actress and socialite. [136] (German)
• Felix Maldonado, 72, American baseball player and scout (Boston Red Sox), cancer. [137]
• Fuat Mansurov, 82, Kazakh-born Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre). [138] (Russian)
• Les Richter, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and NASCAR head of operations, brain aneurysm. [139]
• Egon Ronay, 94, Hungarian-born British restaurateur and restaurant critic. [140]
• Grizzly Smith, 77, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease. [141]
• Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, 88, Polish screenwriter and film director. [142] (Polish)
• J. Wallace Tutt III, 53, American interior designer. [143]
• Al Williamson, 79, American comic book artist (Secret Agent X-9, Star Wars). [144]

11

• Henri Cuq, 68, French politician. [145] (French)
• Shunsuke Ikeda, 68, Japanese actor (Kikaider 01, Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers), complications from diabetes. [146]
• Ami Jordan, 19, American pornographic actress and model, accidental overdose. [147]
• Norman Macrae, 86, British journalist, deputy editor of The Economist (1965–1988). [148]
• William J. Mitchell, 65, American architect and urban designer (MIT Media Lab). complications of cancer. [149]
• Johnny Parker, 80, British jazz pianist ("Bad Penny Blues"). [150]
• Neal Parker, 58, American NHRA dragster driver, race crash. [151]
• Andrzej Piątkowski, 75, Polish sabreur, Olympic medallist (1956, 1960 and 1964). [152] (Polish)
• Fred Plum, 86, American neurologist, developed the term "persistent vegetative state", primary progressive aphasia. [153]
• Evgeniy Raykov, 73, Russian opera singer, People's Artist of USSR. [154] (Russian)
• Manuel Graterol Santander, 74, Venezuelan humorist, pneumonia. [155] (Spanish)

10

• Paul Dobbs, 39, New Zealand motorcycle racer, race crash. [156]
• Ginette Garcin, 82, French actress, cancer. [157] (French)
• Martin Loicht, 48, Austrian motorcycle racer, race crash. [158]
• Vlaho Orlić, 76, Serbian water polo player and coach, after long illness [159]
• Ferdinand Oyono, 80, Cameroonian writer and government minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992–1997). [160] (French)
• Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer, cancer. [161]
• Basil Schott, 70, American friar, Metropolitan of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (since 2002), cancer. [162]
• Yiannis Spanoudakis, 79, Greek basketball player and coach (Olympiacos), after long illness. [163] (Greek)

9

• Epaminondas José de Araújo, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (1978–1984). [164] (Portuguese)
• Fadzil Mahmood, 73, Malaysian politician, Speaker of the Perlis State Assembly (1986–1990). [165]
• Melbert Ford, 50, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [166]
• Kristin Hoke, 42, American television news anchor (WPBF), breast cancer. [167]
• Christine Johnson, 98, American opera singer and actress. [168]
• Bobby Kromm, 82, Canadian ice hockey coach (Detroit Red Wings, Winnipeg Jets), complications from colorectal cancer. [169]
• Joseph McKinney, 81, American Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Grand Rapids (1968–2001). [170]
• Jean Perniceni, 80, French Olympic basketball player. [171] (French)
• Antony Pinheiro, 61, Indian Discalced Carmelite friar and priest, ischaemic heart disease. [172] (Italian)
• Marina Semyonova, 101, Russian prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet). [173]
• Oleksandr Zinchenko, 53, Ukrainian politician. [174]

8

• Tony Cennamo, 76, American disc jockey (WBUR), after long illness. [175]
• Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn, 94, British politician and life peer. [176]
• Dan R. Eastman, 64, American politician and businessman, Utah State Senator (2000–2008), heart failure. [177]
• Joan Hinton, 88, American nuclear physicist, abdominal aneurysm. [178]
• Porfi Jiménez, 82, Dominican-born Venezuelan musician, arranger, composer and bandleader. [179] (Spanish)
• Plamen Maslarov, 60, Bulgarian film director. [180]
• Stephen Rivers, 55, American publicist and political activist, prostate cancer. [181]
• Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero, 96, Paraguayan Archbishop of Asunción (1970–1989). [182]
• Crispian St. Peters, 71, British pop singer ("The Pied Piper", "You Were on My Mind"), after long illness. [183]
• Andréas Voutsinas, 77, Greek actor and stage director. [184]

7

• José Albi, 88, Spanish poet. [185] (Spanish)
• Paul Bell, 59, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (since 1993), stomach cancer. [186]
• Stuart Cable, 40, Welsh drummer (Stereophonics). [187]
• Chai Zemin, 93, Chinese diplomat. [188] (Chinese)
• Mordechai Eliyahu, 81, Israeli rabbi, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel (1983–1993). [189]
• Jorge Ginarte, 70, Argentine football manager. [190] (Spanish)
• Ndoc Gjetja, 66, Albanian poet, after long illness. [191] (Albanian)
• Maury High, American professional wrestler, sepsis. [192]
• Arsen Naydyonov, 68, Russian football coach (Zhemchuzhina, Novorossiysk). [193] (Russian)
• Oliver N'Goma, 51, Gabonese singer and guitarist, renal failure. [194]
• Omar Rayo, 82, Colombian painter and sculptor, heart attack. [195] (Spanish)
• Viana Júnior, 68, Brazilian comedian, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [196] (Portuguese)
• Adriana Xenides, 54, Argentine-born Australian television personality (Wheel of Fortune), ruptured intestine. [197]

6

• Mabi de Almeida, 46, Angolan football manager, after long illness. [198]
• Jack Beeson, 88, American composer of contemporary classical music, heart failure.[199]
• Marvin Isley, 56, American bassist (The Isley Brothers, Isley-Jasper-Isley), complications of diabetes. [200]
• Dana Key, 56, American musician (DeGarmo and Key), ruptured blood clot. [201]
• Abraham Nathanson, 80, American artist and author, co-inventor of Bananagrams, cancer. [202]
• Robert B. Radnitz, 85, American film producer (Cross Creek, My Side of the Mountain, Sounder), complications from a stroke. [203]
• Ladislav Smoljak, 78, Czech film and theatre director, after long illness. [204]
• Jerry Stephenson, 66, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), lung cancer. [205]

5

• Esma Agolli, 81, Albanian actress, cardiac arrest. [206] (Albanian)
• Sir Neil Anderson, 83, New Zealand admiral, Chief of Defence Staff (1980–1983). [207]
• Robert Bergenheim, 86, American founder of Boston Business Journal. [208]
• Angus Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton, 71, British peer and racing driver, dementia. [209]
• Robert L. Healy, 84, American journalist and executive editor (The Boston Globe), stroke. [210]
• Stephen Clancy Hill, 34, American pornographic actor and murder suspect, suicide by jumping from cliff. [211]
• Jacob Milgrom, 87, American rabbi and biblical scholar, brain hemorrhage. [212]
• Finian Monahan, 86, Irish Discalced Carmelite friar and priest, Superior General (1973–1979), pneumonia. [213]
• Arne Nordheim, 78, Norwegian contemporary classical composer. [214] (Norwegian)
• Tony Peluso, 60, American musician and record producer (The Carpenters), heart disease. [215]
• Steven Reuther, 58, American film producer, cancer. [216]
• Nelson Stokley, 66, American college football coach (Louisiana-Lafayette), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [217]
• Robert Wussler, 73, American co-founder of CNN, after long illness. [218]

4

• Raymond Allchin, 86, British archaeologist. [219]
• Bill Ashenfelter, 85, American Olympic athlete, stroke. [220]
• Frank Ballard, 80, American puppeteer, Parkinson's disease. [221]
• Himan Brown, 99, American radio producer (CBS Radio Mystery Theater). [222]
• Jim Copeland, 65, American football player, cancer. [223]
• Richard Dunn, 75, American character actor (Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!), stroke. [224]
• Jack Harrison, 97, British last survivor of Stalag Luft III. [225]
• Hakan Karadağ, 40, Turkish lawyer for Hrant Dink, probable suicide by hanging. [226]
• Richard P. Lindsay, 84, American religious leader (LDS Church) and politician (Utah House of Representatives, 1972–1977), cancer. [227]
• David Markson, 82, American writer (Wittgenstein's Mistress). [228]
• William Miranda Marín, 69, Puerto Rican Mayor of Caguas (1997–2010), pancreatic cancer. [229] (Spanish)
• Andi Meriem Matalatta, 52, Indonesian pop singer, complications from diabetes. [230]
• Carlos Francisco Martins Pinheiro, 85, Portuguese Roman Catholic Bishop. [231] (Portuguese)
• Hennadiy Popovych, 37, Ukrainian football player (Zenit, Shakhtar), cardiac arrest. [232] (Russian)
• Ray Smith, 80, Australian Olympic athlete. [233]
• Chuck Tatiano, 65, American Marine, featured on recruitment poster, multiple myeloma. [234]
• Eddie Washington, 56, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (2003–2010), heart attack. [235]
• Jan Wauters, 71, Belgian sports journalist, heart attack. [236] (Dutch)
• John Wooden, 99, American basketball player (Purdue, Indianapolis Kautskys) and coach (UCLA, 1948–1975). [237]

3

• João Aguiar, 66, Portuguese writer and journalist. [238] (Portuguese)
• Vladimir Arnold, 72, Russian mathematician, peritonitis. [239]
• Arne Backstrom, 29, American professional freeskier, skiing accident. [240]
• Isabelle Brandon, 61, Belgian attorney, Governor of the Ernest Allard Tribunal, shot. [241] (French)
• Bill Clark, 80, New Zealand rugby player, after long illness. [242]
• Frank E. Evans, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado (1965–1979). [243]
• Joe Gardi, 71, American football coach, stroke. [244]
• Robert Hudson, 90, British broadcaster. [245]
• Paul Malliavin, 84, French mathematician, creator of Malliavin calculus. [246] (French)
• Rue McClanahan, 76, American actress (The Golden Girls, Maude), stroke. [247]
• Luigi Padovese, 63, Italian Vicar of Anatolia, Chairman of the Turkish Bishops' Conference (since 2004), stabbed. [248]
• Pance Pondaag, 59, Indonesian pop singer and songwriter, complications from a stroke. [249]
• Pétur Sigurgeirsson, 91, Icelandic Bishop of Iceland (1981–1989). [250] (Icelandic)
• Hasan di Tiro, 84, Indonesian politician, founder of the Free Aceh Movement, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [251]
• Charlie Wedemeyer, 64, American football player and coach, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [252]

2

• Ella Braginskaya, 84, Russian translator. [253] (Russian)
• Floribert Chebeya, 46, Congolese human rights activist. [254]
• Josefa Cotillo, 66, Spanish Flamenco dancer and actress, lung cancer. [255] (Spanish)
• Dorothy DeBorba, 85, American actress (Our Gang), emphysema and lung disease. [256]
• Tony DiPreta, 88, American cartoonist, (Joe Palooka, Rex Morgan, M.D.), respiratory and cardiac arrest. [257]
• John W. Douglas, 88, American civil rights advocate, complications from a stroke. [258]
• Eduard Khrutsky, 77, Russian detective writer. [259] (Russian)
• Kovilan, 86, Indian novelist, respiratory disease. [260]
• Garry Purdham, 31, English rugby league player (Workington Town), shot.[261]
• Ri Je-gang, 80, North Korean politician, First Deputy Director of the Workers' Party Organization and Guidance Department, car accident. [262]
• John Richardson, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Perth—Wellington—Waterloo (1993–1997); Perth—Middlesex (1997–2002), Alzheimer’s disease. [263]
• António Alva Rosa Coutinho, 84, Portuguese admiral and politician, Governor-General of Angola, after long illness. [264]
• Michael Schildberger, 72, Australian journalist, prostate cancer. [265]
• Gabriele Sella, 47, Italian Olympic cyclist, motorcycle accident. [266] (Italian)
• Giuseppe Taddei, 93, Italian opera singer. [267]

1

• Freddie Burdette, 73, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). [268]
• Vladimír Bystrov, 74, Czech writer and translator, recipient of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. [269] (Czech)
• Barbara Greenspun, 88, American publisher (Las Vegas Sun). [270]
• John Hagart, 72, Scottish football player and manager. [271]
• Cliff Johnson, British car racing team owner in BTCC. [272] (death announced on this date)
• Arthur A. Link, 96, American politician. U.S. Representative (1971–1973), Governor of North Dakota (1973–1981). [273]
• Roger Manderscheid, 77, Luxembourgian author. [274] (German)
• Miss Ellie, 17, American Chinese Crested Dog, winner of title World’s Ugliest Dog. [275]
• Kazuo Ohno, 103, Japanese dancer, respiratory failure. [276]
• Robert O. Smith, 67, American radio personality and voice actor (Ranma ½), pancreatic and liver cancer. [277]
• Joseph Strick, 86, American film director and producer, heart failure. [278]
• Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Russian poet. [279] (Russian)
• Herbert Hin Wong, 30, American pornographic actor, stabbing. [280]

May 2010

See Deaths in May 2010.

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.

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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, Deaths in 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, ...