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

19

• Vladimir Karpov, 87, Russian writer, Chairman of the USSR Union of Writers (1986–1991). [1] (Russian)
• Ida Mae Martinez, 78, American professional wrestler. [2]
• Bill McLaren, 86, Scottish rugby union commentator. [3]
• Cerge Remonde, 51, Filipino press secretary, heart attack. [4]

18

• Cyril Burke, 84, Australian rugby union player. [5]
• Kate McGarrigle, 63, Canadian folk singer, clear cell sarcoma. [6]
• Robert B. Parker, 77, American detective writer (Spenser series, Jesse Stone novels). [7]
• Jørgen Philip-Sørensen, 71, Danish businessman. [8]

17

• Gaines Adams, 26, American football player (Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cardiac arrest. [9]
• Maki Asakawa, 67, Japanese singer, heart failure. [10] (Japanese)
• Jyoti Basu, 95, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977–2000), complications from pneumonia. [11]
• Thomas F. Cowan, 82, American politician, New Jersey State Senator (1984–1994). [12]
• Daisuke Gōri, 57, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, Kinnikuman, Mobile Suit Gundam), suicide by wrist cutting. [13] (Japanese)
• Shigeru Kobayashi, 57, Japanese baseball player, heart failure. [14] (Japanese)
• Michalis Papakonstantinou, 91, Greek politician and author, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1992–1993). [15] (Greek)
• Clinton Rabb, 60, American head of the United Methodist office, injuries from 2010 Haitian earthquake.
• Loit Reintam, 80, Estonian soil scientist. [16] (Estonian)
• Robert D. Rowley, Jr., 68, American Episcopal Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania (1991–2007) [17]
• Erich Segal, 72, American author (Love Story) and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine), heart attack. [18]

16

• Glen Bell, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell. [19]
• Judi Chamberlin, 65, American anti-psychiatry activist, lung disease. [20]
• Sam Dixon, 60, American minister, Deputy General Secretary of UMCOR (since 2007), earthquake. [21]
• George Jellinek, 90, American radio personality. [22]
• Takumi Shibano, 83, Japanese novelist, pneumonia. [23] (Japanese)
• Katsuhisa Shibata, 66, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart attack. [24] (Japanese)
• Carl Smith, 82, American country singer-songwriter. [25]

15

• Asim Butt, 31, Pakistani artist (Stuckism art movement), suicide by hanging. [26]
• Ed Chuman, 62, American wrestling promoter, after long illness. [27]
• Florence-Marie Cooper, 69, American federal judge, lymphoma. [28]
• Francene Cucinello, 43, American radio personality (WHAS), brain aneurysm. [29]
• Bahman Jalali, 65, Iranian photographer, pancreatic cancer. [30]
• Voldemar Kann, 90, Estonian graphic artist. [31] (Estonian)
• Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer. [32] (German)
• Marshall Warren Nirenberg, 82, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (1968), cancer. [33]
• Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim, 44, Palestinian Al Qaeda ANO terrorist, airstrike. [34]
• Ernest Sparkman, 84, American radio personality (WSGS). [35]
• Toshiaki Takemiya, 88, Japanese baseball player, pancreatitis. [36] (Japanese)

14

• Bobby Charles, 71, American songwriter ("See You Later, Alligator", "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do"). [37]
• Antonio Fontan, 86, Spanish politician and journalist. [38] (Spanish)
• Béla Kamocsa, 66, Hungarian-born Romanian singer. [39] (Romanian)
• Charles Nolte, 86, American actor, playwright and educator, prostate cancer. [40]
• Otto, 20, British dachshund-terrier, world's oldest dog, euthanised following stomach tumour. [41]
• P. K. Page, 93, Canadian poet. [42]
• Chilton Price, 96, American songwriter ("Slow Poke", "You Belong to Me"). [43]
• James W. Rutherford, 84, American Mayor of Flint, Michigan (1975–1983, 2002–2003). [44]
• Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, after long illness. [45] (German)
• Antonio Vilaplana Molina, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of León (1987–2002), renal failure. [46] (Spanish)

13

• Mick Leahy, 74, British boxer, British middleweight champion (1963–1964). [47]
• Abdullah Mehdar, Yemeni Al-Qaeda terrorist, shot. [48]
• Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colon cancer. [49]
• Jay Reatard, 29, American garage punk musician. [50]
• Tommy Sloan, 84, British footballer. [51]
• Isamu Tanonaka, 77, Japanese seiyū (GeGeGe no Kitaro), heart attack. [52]
• Ed Thigpen, 79, American jazz drummer, after long illness. [53]
• Edgar Vos, 78, Dutch fashion designer, heart attack. [54]

12

• Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast. [55]
• Georges Anglade, 65, Haitian professor and cabinet minister, co-founder of Universite du Quebec a Montreal, earthquake. [56]
• Hédi Annabi, 65, Tunisian diplomat, head of MINUSTAH, earthquake. [57]
• Zilda Arns, 75, Brazilian pediatrician and humanitarian, earthquake. [58] (Portuguese)
• Miloslav Bělonožník, 91, Czech Olympic ski jumper. [59] (Czech)
• Daniel Bensaïd, 63, French philosopher and Trotskyist activist. [60] (French)
• Ken Colbung, 78, Australian Aboriginal elder, after short illness. [61]
• Luiz Carlos da Costa, 60, Brazilian diplomat, deputy head of MINUSTAH, earthquake. [62] (Portuguese)
• Brian Damage, 46, American punk and rock drummer (Misfits), complications of colon cancer. [63]
• Miguel Ángel de la Flor, 85, Peruvian army officer and politician. [64] (Spanish)
• Paul Denis, Haitian politician, earthquake. [65]
• Dannie Flesher, 58, American co-founder of Wax Trax! Records, pneumonia. [66]
• Michel Gaillard, Haitian politician, earthquake. [67]
• Krisda Arunwong na Ayutthaya, 78, Thai architect, Governor of Bangkok (1996–2001), coronary artery disease. [68]
• Fred Krone, 79, American stuntman, cancer. [69]
• Hillis Layne, 91, American Major League Baseball player (1941, 1944–1945). [70]
• Allen McClay, 77, British founder of pharmaceutical company Almac, cancer. [71]
• Flo McGarrell, 35, Italian-born American artist, earthquake. [72]
• Joseph Serge Miot, 63, Haitian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, earthquake. [73]
• Elizabeth Moody, 70, New Zealand actress and theatre director, pneumonia. [74]
• Jimmy O, 35, Haitian hip hop musician, earthquake. [75]
• Art Rust, Jr., 82, American sports commentator, Parkinson's disease. [76]
• Vanda Skuratovich, 84, Belarusian Roman Catholic activist. [77] (Russian)
• Dewey Tucker, 24, American bassist and smooth jazz performer, shot. [78]
• Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer. [79]

11

• Juliet Anderson, 71, American pornographic actress. [80]
• Francisco Benkö, 99, German-born Argentine chess master. [81] (Spanish)
• Fina de Calderón, 82, Spanish poet. [82] (Spanish)
• Robben Wright Fleming, 93, American president of the University of Michigan (1968–1978). [83]
• George Garanian, 75, Russian jazz saxophonist and bandleader, cardiac arrest. [84]
• Dorothy Geeben, 101, American Mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida (since 2001), oldest active mayor in the United States. [85]
• Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian, protector of Anne Frank and her family during World War II, complications following a fall. [86]
• Mick Green, 65, British rock and roll guitarist (Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas). [87]
• Andis Hadjicostis, 43, Cypriot CEO of Sigma TV, shot. [88] (Greek)
• Harry Männil, 89, Estonian-born Venezuelan businessman. [89]
• Vasilis Patsouris, 51, Greek chief police officer of Zakynthos, suicide. [90] (Greek)
• Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director. [91]
• Joe Rollino, 104, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer, struck by car. [92]
• Dennis Stock, 81, American photographer (Magnum Photos), liver cancer. [93]
• Gordon Van Tol, 49, Canadian Olympic water polo player, heart attack. [94]
• Sandra Wright, 61, American blues and gospel singer, natural causes. [95]

10

• Sir Donald Acheson, 83, British physician, Chief Medical Officer of England (1983–1991). [96]
• Sailadhar Baruah, 68, Indian film producer, complications of diabetes. [97]
• Mina Bern, 98, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actor, heart failure. [98]
• Garland English, 28, American soldier and activist, rappelling accident. [99]
• Jan C. Gabriel, 69, American race track announcer, complications from polycystic kidney disease. [100]
• Donald Goerke, 83, American executive (Campbell's Soup Company), created SpaghettiOs, heart failure. [101]
• Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007). [102]
• Dick Johnson, 84, American big band clarinetist (Artie Shaw Band), after short illness. [103]
• Nadav Levitan, 64, Israeli film director and screenwriter, lung disease. [104]
• Edward Linde, 67, American businessman, founder of Boston Properties, pneumonia. [105]
• Frances Morrell, 72, British political adviser and educationalist, cancer. [106]
• Ulf Olsson, 58, Swedish murderer, suicide by hanging. [107] (Swedish).
• Bill Patterson, 87, Australian racing driver, natural causes. [108]
• Jayne Walton Rosen, 92, American singer, Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady (1940–1945), natural causes. [109]
• Moisés Saba Masri, 46, Mexican businessman, helicopter accident. [110] (Spanish)
• Dale Shewalter, 59, American teacher, founder of the Arizona Trail, cancer. [111]
• Mano Solo, 46, French singer, ruptured aneurysm. [112]
• Bojidar Spiriev, 78, Bulgarian-born Hungarian hydrologist and statistician, creator of IAAF scoring tables. [113]
• Torbjørn Yggeseth, 75, Norwegian ski jumping athlete and official. [114] (Norwegian)

9

• Améleté Abalo, 47, Togolese national football team assistant coach, shot. [115]
• Christopher Shaman Abba, 74, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Yola (since 1996), Bishop of Minna (1973–1996). [116]
• Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach. [117]
• Artur Beul, 94, Swiss songwriter and painter, widower of singer Lale Andersen. [118] (German)
• Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF. [119]
• Mark Ellidge, British press photographer. [120]
• Ken Genser, 59, American politician, Mayor of Santa Monica, California, after long illness. [121]
• Per N. Hagen, 73, Norwegian politician. [122] (Norwegian)
• Rupert Hamer, 39, British journalist, defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror, improvised explosive device. [123]
• Fatimah Hashim, 85, Malaysian politician, first female minister in the Malaysian government. [124]
• Jack Kerness, 98, American art director, natural causes. [125]
• Stanislas Ocloo, Togolese national football team spokesperson, shot. [126]
• Yevgeny Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player. [127] (Russian)
• Diether Posser, 87, German politician. [128] (German)
• Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal, Archbishop of Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall. [129]
• Venda Tammann, 77, Estonian accordionist and music pedagogue. [130] (Estonian)
• Vimcy, 84, Indian sports writer. [131]
• Osvaldo Zotto, 46, Argentine tango dancer, heart attack. [132] (Spanish)

8

• Attila Bagonyai, 45, Hungarian chess master, complications from swine flu. [133] (Hungarian)
• Bob Blackburn, 85, American sports commentator (Seattle SuperSonics), pneumonia. [134]
• Jean Charpentier, 74, Canadian journalist, press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, cancer. [135]
• Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (Gumby, Davey and Goliath), bladder infection. [136]
• Piero De Bernardi, 83, Italian screenwriter. [137] (Italian)
• Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet. [138] (Macedonian)
• Aleksandr Maslaev, 65, Russian actor. [139] (Russian)
• Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer. [140]
• Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer, cancer. [141]
• Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor. [142] (German)
• Amir Vahedi, 48, Iranian-born American poker player, complications of diabetes. [143]
• Sumner G. Whittier, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1953–1957). [144]
• Yvonne Zanos, 60, American television journalist (KDKA-TV), ovarian cancer. [145]

7

• Sándor Barcs, 97, Hungarian football official, FIFA (1972–1974) and UEFA (1960–1978) vice-president. [146]
• Alexander Garnet Brown, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1969–1978). [147]
• Thomas Sam Davis, 59, British singer (Deaf School), lung disease. [148]
• Stephen Huneck, 60, American wood carving artist, suicide by gunshot. [149]
• Alex Parker, 74, Scottish football player and manager, heart attack. [150]
• Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop. [151]
• Blanca Sánchez, 63, Mexican actress, kidney failure. [152]
• Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack. [153]
• Jim White, 67, American professional wrestler, cancer. [154]
• Hardy Williams, 78, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1983–1998), Alzheimer's disease. [155]

6

• Tim Davey, 58, American NFL executive, director of football operations. [156]
• Michael Harper, 78, British priest of the Church of England and later of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. [157]
• George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the Human Potential Movement, after long illness. [158]
• Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest. [159]
• Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of Václav Talich and Václav Havel. [160] (Czech)
• Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, Mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001). [161]
• Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic. [162]
• James von Brunn, 89, American white supremacist, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting suspect. [163]

5

• Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure. [164]
• András Baranyecz, 63, Hungarian Olympic cyclist. [165] (Hungarian)
• Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, cerebral hemorrhage. [166] (French)
• Harold Lewis, 98, American flautist and movie studio musician. [167]
• Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest. [168]
• Giancarlo Nanni, 68, Italian stage director, after long illness. [169] (Italian)
• Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, kidney cancer. [170]
• Courage Quashigah, 62, Ghanaian politician. [171]
• Philippa Scott, 91, British conservationist. [172]
• Joseph Shannon, 88, American pilot (Bay of Pigs invasion), after short illness. [173]
• George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993). [174]
• Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, complications from swine flu. [175]
• George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist. [176]

4

• Paul Ahyi, 79, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo. [177] (French)
• Lew Allen, 84, American general, Director of the National Security Agency (1973–1977), rheumatoid arthritis. [178]
• Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues). [179]
• Erasmo Dias, 85, Brazilian military officer and politician, cancer. [180] (Portuguese)
• Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer [181]
• Hywel Teifi Edwards, 74, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness. [182]
• Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980). [183]
• Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot. [184] (Polish)
• Casey Johnson, 30, American socialite, Johnson & Johnson heiress. [185] (body discovered on this date)
• Erich Lipstok, 97, Estonian diplomat. [186] (Estonian)
• Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels). [187]
• György Mitró, 79, Hungarian swimmer. [188] (Hungarian)
• Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery. [189]
• Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist. [190] (German)
• Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer. [191]
• Oleksiy Yeschenko, 60, Ukrainian football coach, former head coach of FC Volyn Lutsk. [192] (Ukrainian)

3

• Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer. [193] (Spanish)
• Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer. [194]
• Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer. [195]
• Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist. [196] (Italian)
• Otto Breg, 60, Austrian bobsledder. [197] (German)
• Sir Ian Brownlie, 77, British barrister, traffic collision. [198]
• Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher. [199]
• Bill Gleason, 87, American sports journalist (Chicago Sun-Times, Sportswriters on TV), Parkinson's disease. [200]
• Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes. [201] (Farsi)
• Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke. [202]
• John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist. [203]
• Eunice Walker Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure. [204]
• Giorgos Kambanelis, 80, Greek actor. [205] (Greek)
• Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia. [206]
• Luisito Martí, 65, Dominican actor, comedian and entertainer, stomach cancer. [207]
• Takis Michalos, 63, Greek national team water polo player and coach, cancer. [208] (Greek)
• Isak Rogde, 62, Norwegian translator. [209] (Norwegian)
• Roberto Roney, 70, Brazilian comedian, lung cancer. [210] (Portuguese)
• Paula Sladewski, 27, American Playboy model. [211]
• Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer. [212] (French)
• Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). [213]

2

• Adam Max Cohen 38, American author, Shakespeare scholar, associate professor (UMD), brain tumor. [214]
• Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish film critic (The Irish Times), after short illness. [215]
• David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (Police Story, Police Woman), heart failure. [216]
• Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car. [217]
• Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness. [218]
• Yiannis Voultepsis, 87, Greek journalist. [219] (Greek)

1

• Gary Brockette, 62, American actor and assistant director, cancer. [220]
• Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985). [221]
• Jean Carroll, 98, American comedienne (The Ed Sullivan Show). [222]
• Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness. [223]
• Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer. [224]
• Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of Zárate-Campana (1976–1991). [225]
• John Freeman, 93, American animator (The Smurfs) and animation director (My Little Pony and Friends). [226]
• Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, traffic collision. [227]
• Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (The Boston Globe), brain tumor. [228]
• Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (Spectreman) and karate instructor. [229] (Japanese)
• Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor. [230] (German)
• Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999). [231]
• Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (2006), cancer. [232]
• Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author. [233]
• Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), cystic fibrosis. [234]
• Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter. [235]
• Tom Walsh, 67, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (2003–2008), leukemia. [236]
• John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke. [237]

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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, ...