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.

April 2010

7

• Christopher Cazenove, 64, British actor (Dynasty), septicemia. [1]

6

• Anatoly Dobrynin, 90, Soviet diplomat and politician, Soviet Ambassador to the United States. [2] (rus)
• Eddie Carroll, 76, Canadian-born American voice actor (Jiminy Cricket). [3]
• Takuya Kimura, 37, Japanese baseball player and coach, subarachnoid hemorrhage. [4] (Japanese)
• Guillermo Luca de Tena, 82, Spanish journalist. [5] (Spanish)
• Wilma Mankiller, 64, American activist, first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985–1995), pancreatic cancer. [6]
• Neva Morris, 114, American supercentenarian, oldest person in the United States. [7]
• Corin Redgrave, 70, British actor and political activist. [8]
• Luigi Waites, 82, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist. [9]

5

• Jerry Elliott, 73, American judge, Kansas Court of Appeals (since 1987), cancer. [10]
• Molefi Sefularo, 52, South African politician, car crash. [11]
• Vitali Sevastyanov, 74, Soviet cosmonaut. [12] (Russian)

4

• Sir Alec Bedser, 91, English cricketer. [13]
• Matt Cook, 22, Canadian ice sledge hockey player, bone cancer. [14]
• Clifford M. Hardin, 94, American politician, Secretary of Agriculture (1969–1971), natural causes. [15]
• Sugar Lee Hooper, 62, Dutch singer and entertainer. [16] (Dutch)
• Rudy Kousbroek, 80, Dutch essayist. [17] (Dutch)
• Santi Licheri, 92, Italian judge and television personality, natural causes. [18] (Italian)
• John B. McCoy, 97, American banker (Bank One Corporation). [19]
• Kelly Moran, 49, American motorcycle speedway racer, complications from emphysema. [20]
• Abubakar Rimi, 70, Nigerian politician. [21]
• Shio Satō, 59, Japanese manga artist, brain tumor. [22]
• Henry Scarpelli, 79, American comic book artist (Archie), after long illness. [23]
• Wang Jiangmin, 59, Chinese programmer, creator of antivirus software, heart attack. [24]

3

• Ivan Balsamadziev, 57, Bulgarian actor and singer, cancer. [25] (Bulgarian)
• Philippe Braunschweig, 82, Swiss arts patron, cancer. [26]
• Derek Crozier, 92, Irish Crosaire crossword compiler (The Irish Times). [27]
• Buza Ferraz, 59, Brazilian actor and film director, cardiac arrest. [28] (Portuguese)
• Oleg Kopayev, 72, Russian footballer, Soviet Top League top scorer (1963, 1965). [29] (Russian)
• Fred Kuhlmann, 93, American CEO of St. Louis Cardinals (1989–1991). [30]
• Maurizio Mosca, 69, Italian sports journalist, after long illness. [31] (Italian)
• Craig Noel, 94, American theatre producer, director and administrator of the Old Globe Theatre, natural causes. [32]
• Eugène Terre'Blanche, 69, South African white separatist leader, beating. [33]
• Yasunori Watanabe, 35, Japanese rugby player, hit by train. [34]

2

• Edward Bayda, 78, Canadian jurist, Chief Justice of Saskatchewan (1981–2006). [35]
• Din Beramboi, 43, Malaysian comedian, actor and radio DJ, hemorrhagic dengue fever. [36]
• Mike Cuellar, 72, Cuban Major League Baseball player, stomach cancer. [37]
• Dávid Daróczi, 37, Hungarian journalist, suicide. [38]
• Kelvin Henderson, 62, British country musician and radio presenter, progressive supranuclear palsy . [39]
• Chris Kanyon, 40, American professional wrestler, possible suicide by overdose of prescription painkillers. [40]
• Sonia McMahon (Lady McMahon), 77, Australian socialite, widow of former Prime Minister Sir William McMahon, cancer. [41]
• Thomas J. Moyer, 70, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1987–2010). [42]
• William Soeryadjaya, 87, Indonesian businessman, founder of Astra International. [43]
• Mike Zwerin, 79, American jazz musician and jazz critic, after long illness. [44]

1

• Vito De Grisantis, 68, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca (2000–2010). [45]
• Mirlan Doutov, Kyrgyz singer, stabbed (body found on this date). [46]
• Anders Eklund, 52, Swedish boxer. [47] (Swedish)
• John Forsythe, 92, American actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty), complications from pneumonia. [48]
• Yuri Maslyukov, 72, Russian politician, Vice Premier of Soviet Union (1988–1990) and Russia (1998–1999). [49] (Russian)
• Lek Nana, 85, Thai businessman and politician, heart failure. [50]
• Ed Roberts, 68, American computer pioneer, pneumonia. [51]
• John Thornton, 52, American Mayor of Washington Park, Illinois, shot. [52]
• Susan E. Tifft, 59, American journalist and author, uterine cancer. [53]
• Tzannis Tzannetakis, 82, Greek politician, Prime Minister (1989). [54]
• Beryl Whiteley, 93, Australian arts patron, mother of Brett Whiteley. [55]

March 2010

31

• Eugene Allen, 90, American White House butler (1952–1986), renal failure. [56]
• Jack Diesing, 92, American businessman, chairman of College World Series (1963–2002), complications from Parkinson's disease. [57]
• Paul Fry, 45, British motorcycle speedway rider. [58]
• Caresse Henry, 44, American music manager (Madonna), suicide by gunshot. [59]
• Burton Joseph, 79, American First Amendment lawyer, brain cancer. [60]
• Tina Leung, 65, Hong Kong actress. [61]
• Jerald terHorst, 87, American White House Press Secretary (1974), heart failure. [62]

30

• Thomas Angove, 92, Australian winemaker, inventor of the wine cask. [63]
• Nicola Arigliano, 86, Italian jazz and swing singer. [64] (Italian)
• John Bunch, 88, American jazz pianist, melanoma. [65]
• Juan Carlos Caballero Vega, 109, Mexican revolutionary, driver of Pancho Villa. [66]
• Jaime Escalante, 79, American mathematics teacher, inspiration for film Stand and Deliver, bladder cancer. [67]
• Peter Flinsch, 89, German-born Canadian artist. [68]
• Josef Homeyer, 80, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hildesheim (1983–2004). [69] (German)
• Morris R. Jeppson, 87, American Army Air Corps officer, assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay. [70]
• David Mills, 48, American author, journalist and television writer (NYPD Blue, The Corner, Kingpin), brain aneurysm. [71]
• Malcolm Poindexter, 84, American journalist and reporter (KYW-TV), Alzheimer's disease. [72]
• Martin Sandberger, 98, German Nazi leader and Holocaust perpetrator. [73] (French)
• Harriet Shetler, 92, American advocate, a founder of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. [74]
• Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz, 77, Polish journalist, politician and screenwriter. [75] (Polish)
• Jadin Wong, 96, American dancer, comedian and talent agent. [76]

29

• Tom Burton, American professional wrestler. [77]
• Choi Jin-young, 39, South Korean actor and singer, brother of Choi Jin Sil, suicide by hanging. [78]
• George Kosikov, 65, Russian educator (Moscow University). [79] (Russian)
• Sam Menning, 85, American character actor and photographer (My Name Is Earl, The Prestige), emphysema. [80]
• Armando Nogueira, 83, Brazilian journalist, cerebral cancer. [81] (Portuguese)
• Elliot Willensky, 66, American songwriter, stroke. [82]

28

• Aléxis Afonso, 29, Paraguayan football player, car accident. [83] (Portuguese)
• Fred Ascani, 92, American Air Force officer, test pilot, lung cancer.[84]
• David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk, 55, Scottish peer, member of the House of Lords. [85]
• Preeda Chullamondhol, 64, Thai Olympic cyclist, kidney disease. [86]
• Sir Gaven Donne, 95, New Zealand jurist, former Chief Justice of various Pacific nations. [87]
• Dan Duncan, 77, American businessman, oil company executive and billionaire, cerebral hemorrhage. [88]
• Herb Ellis, 88, American jazz guitarist, Alzheimer's disease. [89]
• Derlis Florentín, 26, Paraguayan football player, car accident. [90] (Spanish)
• Joe Gates, 55, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox) and coach (Gary SouthShore RailCats), heart failure. [91]
• June Havoc, 97, Canadian-born American actress, natural causes. [92]
• Aly Ibrahim, 38, Egyptian Olympic rower, traffic collision. [93]
• John Lawrenson, 88, British rugby league player. [94]
• Agim Qirjaqi, 59, Albanian actor and television director. [95] (Albanian)
• Zofia Romanowiczowa, 87, Polish writer and translator. [96] (Polish)
• David Slivka, 95, American sculptor. [97]
• Eric Tunney, 45, Canadian comedian (Brain Candy). [98]
• Joseph Warren, 71, American campaign adviser for Michael Dukakis, complications from a stroke. [99]

27

• Dick Giordano, 77, American comic book artist and editor (Batman, Green Lantern), complications from pneumonia. [100]
• Zbigniew Gut, 60, Polish footballer. [101] (Polish)
• Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician. [102] (German)
• Stanford Parris, 80, American politician, Representative from Virginia (1973–1975, 1981–1991), heart disease. [103]
• Vasily Smyslov, 89, Russian chess grandmaster, World Champion (1957–1958), heart failure. [104]
• Stanley Vann, 100, British organist and composer, complications following a fall. [105]
• Charlie Vergos, 84, American restaurateur, Alzheimer's disease. [106]
• Hatsumi Shibata, 57, Japanese singer, heart attack. [107]

26

• Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 41, Emirati businessman, managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, glider crash. [108]
• Franklin D. Burgess, 75, American federal judge, cancer. [109]
• Manuel de Jesús Juárez, 55, Honduran journalist, shot. [110]
• Shemuel Katz, 83, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator. [111]
• Kwon Hyi-ro, 81, Japanese-born Korean murderer, prostate cancer. [112]
• José Bayardo Mairena Ramírez, 52, Honduran journalist, shot. [113]
• Rocco Pantaleo, 53, Italian-born Australian owner of La Porchetta, motorcycle accident. [114]
• Charles Ryskamp, 81, American art collector and museum director (Frick Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library), cancer. [115]
• Max Whitehead, 87, Australian rugby league player, model and professional wrestler, complications following a hip operation. [116]

25

• Pål Bang-Hansen, 72, Norwegian film director, actor and film critic, skin cancer. [117] (Norwegian)
• Kendall Berry, 22, American football player (FIU), stabbing. [118]
• Kim Dawson, 85, American model, Alzheimer's disease. [119]
• Richard Engquist, 76, American lyricist (Kuni-Leml), lung cancer. [120]
• Dmitri Gorchev, 46, Russian writer and painter. [121] (Russian)
• Kit Horn, 80, American surfer, non-Hodgkins lymphoma. [122]
• Des Hoysted, 86, Australian radio broadcaster and horse racing commentator. [123]
• Marty Lederhandler, 92, American photographer (Associated Press), stroke. [124]
• Sture Linnér, 92, Swedish diplomat, professor and author, aide to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld. [125] (Swedish)
• John P. McGarr, 45, American actor and film producer, traffic accident. [126]
• Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist. [127] (German)
• José Antonio Peteiro Freire, 73, Moroccan Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tanger (1983–2005). [128]
• Edmund Pillsbury, 66, American museum director, heart attack. [129]
• Marshall Plummer, 62, American first Vice President of the Navajo Nation (1991–1994), lung disease. [130]
• Michael S. Rosenfeld, 75, American talent agent, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency. [131]
• Chet Simmons, 81, American sports broadcasting executive, first president of ESPN, Commissioner (USFL), natural causes. [132]
• Kyohei Ushio, 75, Japanese Olympic athlete. [133] (Japanese)
• Mohan Wagh, 81, Indian Marathi theatre producer, cardiac arrest. [134]
• Zainal Abidin Ahmad, 71, Malaysian politician, brain cancer. [135]

24

• Elijah Alexander, 39, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), multiple myeloma. [136]
• Robert Culp, 79, American actor (I Spy, The Greatest American Hero, Everybody Loves Raymond), complications following a fall. [137]
• Martin Elliott, 63, British photographer (Tennis Girl), cancer. [138]
• Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa, 93, Brazilian geneticist and academic. [139] (Portuguese)
• Ron Hamence, 94, Australian cricketer. [140]
• Colleen Kay Hutchins, 83, American actress, Miss America (1952), mother of Kiki Vandeweghe. [141]
• Johnny Maestro, 70, American singer (The Crests, The Brooklyn Bridge), cancer. [142]
• Aleksander Mankowski, 86, Polish long-distance runner. [143] (Polish)
• Jim Marshall, 74, American photographer. [144]
• William Mayne, 82, British writer of children's fiction. [145]
• Harold McGraw, Jr., 92, American businessman, CEO of McGraw-Hill (1975–1983). [146]
• Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth, 88, British spy (MI6), after long illness. [147]
• Mortimer Sackler, 93, American psychobiologist, pharmaceutical manufacturer and philanthropist. [148]
• Andrzej Sadlej, 69, Polish chemist, professor of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. [149] (Polish)
• Elena Tairova, 18, Russian chess player, woman grandmaster and international master, after long illness. [150]

23

• Midge Costanza, 77, American social and political activist, advisor to President Jimmy Carter, cancer. [151]
• Robert Goldwyn, 79, American plastic surgeon, author and editor, prostate cancer. [152]
• István Jancsó, 71, Hungarian-born Brazilian academic, kidney failure. [153] (Portuguese)
• Alan King-Hamilton, 105, British judge. [154]
• Raiha Mahuta, 67, New Zealand negotiator and Tainui leader, myelofibrosis. [155]
• Mauricio Kleiff Menache, 79, Mexican screenwriter and comedian, complications from heart surgery. [156] (Spanish)
• Lauretta Masiero, 80, Italian actress. [157] (Italian)
• Jiro Nagasawa, 78, Japanese Olympic swimmer and national coach, throat cancer. [158]
• José Maria Nunes, 80, Portuguese filmmaker. [159] (Spanish)
• Wayne Patrick, 63, American football player (Buffalo Bills), kidney disease. [160]
• Kaljo Põllu, 75, Estonian artist. [161] (Estonian)
• Kanu Sanyal, 78, Indian revolutionary, Naxal leader, suicide by hanging. [162]
• Sulaiman Daud, 77, Malaysian politician, minister (1981–1999), liver cancer. [163]
• Blanche Thebom, 94, American mezzo-soprano, pneumonia. [164]
• Fritz Wagnerberger, 72, German Olympic alpine skier. [165] (German)
• James Williamson, 26, Australian mountain biker and journalist. [166]
• Marva Wright, 62, American blues singer, complications from a stroke. [167]

22

• Sir James Black, 85, British physician, Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1988). [168]
• Özhan Canaydın, 67, Turkish basketball player, president of Galatasaray S.K. (2002–2008), pancreatic cancer. [169] (Turkish)
• Mile Cărpenişan, 34, Romanian journalist, sepsis. [170]
• Diz Disley, 78, Canadian-born British jazz guitarist. [171]
• Ella Mae Johnson, 106, American social worker and author. [172]
• Phil Johnson, 80, American journalist and broadcaster (WWL-TV), after long illness. [173]
• Leroy Matthiesen, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amarillo (1980–1997). [174]
• Patrick Mvula, Malawian footballer (Big Bullets). [175]
• Emil Schulz, 71, German boxer. [176] (German)
• Valentina Tolkunova, 63, Russian singer, People's Artist of RSFSR, cancer. [177] (Russian)

21

• István Bilek, 77, Hungarian chess grandmaster. [178] (Hungarian)
• Vivian Blake, 53, Jamaican drug lord, heart attack. [179]
• Franco Gualdrini, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia (1983–2000). [180]
• Lou Jankowski, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings). [181]
• Takeo Kimura, 91, Japanese art director. [182]
• Andrzej Kozera, 73, Polish television journalist. [183] (Polish)
• Margaret Moth, 58, New Zealand photojournalist (CNN), colorectal cancer. [184]
• Florence Poe, 112, American supercentenarian, complications from a stroke. [185]
• Roy Steinfort, 88, American journalist, vice-president of Associated Press, cancer. [186]
• Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German director (Bayreuth Festival), natural causes. [187]
• Susana, Lady Walton, 83, Argentine writer, widow of composer Sir William Walton, natural causes. [188]

20

• Harry Carpenter, 84, British sports commentator and television presenter. [189]
• Liz Carpenter, 89, American feminist author, media advisor and press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson (1963–1969), pneumonia. [190]
• Claiborne Cary, 78, American actress and cabaret performer, sister of Cloris Leachman, complications from Parkinson's disease. [191]
• Clodomiro Castilla, 50, Colombian journalist, shot. [192]
• Dorothy Corrigan, 96, Canadian politician, first female Mayor of Charlottetown (1968–1972). [193]
• Chicka Dixon, 81, Australian Aboriginal activist, asbestosis. [194]
• William Dorman, 91, American real estate columnist (Boston Herald-Traveler, The Boston Globe), heart failure. [195]
• Ebet Kadarusman, 73, Indonesian television and radio presenter, stroke. [196]
• Ray Fonseca, 56, American hula master, heart attack. [197]
• Fred Heineman, 80, American politician, Representative from North Carolina (1995–1997), natural causes. [198]
• Girija Prasad Koirala, 85, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister (four terms), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [199]
• Robin Milner, 76, British computer scientist, heart attack. [200]
• Ai Ogawa, 62, American poet, breast cancer. [201]
• Fernando Iório Rodrigues, 80, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (1985–2006). [202]
• Mikel Scicluna, 80, Canadian professional wrestler, liver cancer. [203]
• Stewart Udall, 90, American politician, Secretary of the Interior (1961–1969), natural causes. [204]
• Yang Lina, 47, Singaporean actress (Samsui Women), uterine cancer. [205]

19

• Carlo Chenis, 55, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia (since 2006). [206]
• Bob Curtis, 60, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Mansfield Town), motor neurone disease. [207]
• John Hicklenton, 42, British comics artist (2000 AD), assisted suicide. [208]
• Ted Hooper, 91, British bee keeper. [209]
• George Lane, 95, Hungarian-born British World War II commando, pneumonia. [210]
• Bill McIntyre, 80, American actor (Dallas), natural causes. [211]
• Elinor Smith, 98, American aviator. [212]
• Dottie Thompson, 88, American festival organizer, co-founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, complications from pneumonia. [213]
• Raúl de la Torre, 72, Argentine film director (Pobre mariposa, Funes, un gran amor), cardiac arrest. [214] (Spanish)

18

• Rick Abramson, 65, American music promoter, lung cancer. [215]
• Amanda Castro, 47, Honduran poet, respiratory disease. [216] (Spanish)
• Herb Denenberg, 80, American journalist (WCAU) and consumer advocate, Pennsylvania insurance commissioner, heart attack. [217]
• Konstantin Eremenko, 39, Russian futsal player, European champion (1999), heart attack. [218]
• Donald P. Kelly, 88, American leveraged buyout investor (Beatrice Foods), cancer. [219]
• Chick Lang, Sr., 83, American businessman, general manager of Maryland Jockey Club, natural causes. [220]
• Herbert Lewin, 95, American politician, candidate in the 1988 Presidential election, heart failure. [221]
• Pak Nam-gi, 76, North Korean public official, executed by firing squad. [222] (death announced on this date)
• Fess Parker, 85, American actor (Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone), natural causes. [223]
• Zygmunt Pawłowicz, 82, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Gdańsk (1985–2005). [224]
• Sean Stewart, 29, Australian bassist (HTRK). [225]
• William Wolfe, 86, Scottish politician, National Chairman of the Scottish National Party (1969–1979). [226]
• Jerry York, 71, American businessman, Executive Director for Apple Inc., cerebral hemorrhage. [227]

17

• Alex Chilton, 59, American musician (Big Star, The Box Tops), heart attack. [228]
• Wayne Collett, 60, American athlete, 1972 Summer Olympics silver medalist, cancer. [229]
• Joseph Ettedgui, 71, British fashion designer, cancer. [230]
• Sid Fleischman, 90, American children's writer, cancer. [231]
• Van Fletcher, 85, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). [232]
• Charlie Gillett, 68, British radio presenter, music writer and record producer, after long illness. [233]
• Peter Gowland, 93, American glamour photographer and actor. [234]
• Johnnie High, 80, American country music impresario, heart disease. [235]
• Tadeusz Prejzner, 85, Polish composer and pianist. [236] (Polish)
• Juan Turri, 59, Argentinian Olympic athlete, myocardial infarction. [237] (Spanish)
• Robert M. White, 85, American X-15 test pilot. [238]

16

• Herb Cohen, 77, American record company executive, manager of Frank Zappa. [239]
• Billy Hoeft, 77, American Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher. [240]
• Filip Kapisoda, 22, Montenegrin model, suicide by gunshot. [241]
• Arnold Loxam, 93, British organist. [242]
• Hachiro Maekawa, 97, Japanese baseball player (Yomiuri Giants), respiratory failure. [243]
• Ksenija Pajčin, 32, Serbian pop singer, shot. [244] (Serbian)
• Jane Sherman, 101, American writer and dancer. [245]
• Ira Skutch, 88, American television game show producer and director, lymphoma. [246]

15

• Dan Achen, 51, Canadian guitarist (Junkhouse), heart attack. [247]
• Charlie Ashcroft, 83, English footballer (Liverpool F.C.). [248]
• Emilia Boncodin, 55, Filipino public servant, whistleblower in ZTE scandal, cardiac arrest. [249]
• Joseph Galdon, 81, Filipino writer and academic. [250]
• Robert Hodgins, 89, South African artist, lung cancer. [251]
• Ashok Kumar, 53, British politician, MP for Langbaurgh (1991–1992) and Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland (1997–2010), natural causes. [252]
• Ron Lundy, 75, American radio disc jockey (WABC, WCBS-FM), heart attack. [253]
• Sam Mtukudzi, 21, Zimbabwean musician, car accident. [254]
• John Mulhern, 69, Irish horse trainer. [255]
• Heno Sarv, 56, Estonian cultural geographer and ethnologist. [256] (Estonian)
• David J. Steinberg, 45, American actor (Willow). [257]
• Patricia Wrightson, 88, Australian children's writer. [258]
• Sotiris Zakapidas, 97, Greek footballer (Iraklis Thessaloniki F.C.). [259] (Greek)

14

• Chimen Abramsky, 93, British historian, expert in Jewish studies and Hebrew literature. [260]
• Carmen Capalbo, 84, American theater director, emphysema. [261]
• Corsica Joe, 90, American professional wrestler. [262]
• Cherie DeCastro, 87, American singer (The DeCastro Sisters), pneumonia. [263]
• Edmund Dinis, 85, American prosecutor, investigated Chappaquiddick incident, complications of treatment for lymphoma. [264]
• Pat Fanning, 91, Irish hurler (Waterford), President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1970–1973). [265]
• Panos Glykofridis, 80, Greek film director. [266] (Greek)
• Peter Graves, 83, American actor (Mission: Impossible, Airplane!), heart attack. [267]
• Vinda Karandikar, 91, Indian poet and writer, after short illness. [268]
• Urpo Leppänen, 66, Finnish politician. [269] (Finnish)
• Hernán Llerena, 81, Peruvian Olympic cyclist. [270] (Spanish)
• Nahúm Elí Palacios Ortega, 36, Honduran journalist and television news director, shot. [271]
• Park Chun-seok, 80, South Korean composer, stroke. [272]
• John Powles, 61, Canadian Head of the Canada-Japan Society, Order of the Rising Sun recipient, pancreatic cancer. [273]
• Felipe Sapag, 93, Argentine politician. [274] (Spanish)
• Der Scutt, 75, American architect (Trump Tower, One Astor Plaza, Reading Public Museum), liver failure. [275]
• Janet Simpson, 65, British Olympic track and field athlete, heart attack. [276]
• Altie Taylor, 62, American football player (Detroit Lions). [277]

13

• Jerry Adler, 91, American harmonicist, prostate cancer. [278]
• Sir Michael Angus, 79, British businessman, Chairman of Unilever (1986–1992). [279]
• Sir Ian Axford, 76, New Zealand space scientist, after long illness. [280]
• Jean Ferrat, 79, French singer, after long illness. [281]
• Momcilo Gavrić, 71, Croatian-born American football player (San Francisco 49ers). [282]
• He Pingping, 21, Chinese dwarf, shortest man who was able to walk, heart complications. [283]
• Ljubomir Kapor, 78, Croatian actor, cancer. [284] (Croatian)
• Édouard Kargu, 84, French footballer. [285] (French)
• Cliff Livingston, 79, American football player (New York Giants) and stuntman, complications from Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's disease. [286]
• Leon Manley, 83, Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos). [287]
• Andrzej Marcinkowski, 81, Polish lawyer and politican, acting Minister of Justice (1991), after long illness. [288] (Polish)
• Neville Meade, 61, Jamaican-born British boxer, 1974 Commonwealth Games gold medalist, British heavyweight champion, cancer. [289]
• Gary Mittelholtz, 55, Canadian journalist (CBC Radio), heart attack. [290]
• Kevin Neill, 78, British lead guitarist (Karl Denver Trio), motor neurone disease. [291]
• Andres Ringo, 71, Estonian architect. [292] (Estonian)
• Tõnu Tuvikene, 57, Estonian astrophysicist and applied mathematician. [293] (Estonian)

12

• David Ahenakew, 76, Canadian First Nations leader and politician, cancer. [294]
• Bob Attersley, 76, Canadian ice hockey player, 1960 Winter Olympics silver medalist. [295]
• Edward Carson, 80, American banker and philanthropist, head of First Interstate Bancorp. [296]
• Arthur H. Christy, 86, American attorney, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [297]
• Carol Clerk, British rock journalist, breast cancer. [298]
• Miguel Delibes, 89, Spanish author, journalist and scholar, colorectal cancer. [299]
• Lesley Duncan, 66, British singer-songwriter, cerebrovascular disease. [300]
• Hanna-Renate Laurien, 81, German politician. [301] (German)
• Fatima Meer, 81, South African academic, screenwriter and anti-apartheid activist, stroke. [302]
• Aleksandr Minayev, 51, Russian football player and coach. [303] (Russian)
• Charles Muscatine, 89, American Chaucer scholar and advocate for education reform, lung infection. [304]
• Hugh Robertson, 70, Scottish footballer (Dundee F.C.). [305]
• Garry Sharpe-Young, 45, British rock journalist, founder of Rockdetector.com, aneurysm. [306]
• Ian Sinfield, 75, Australian Olympic athlete. [307]
• Glauco Villas Boas, 53, Brazilian cartoonist (Geraldão), shot. [308] (Portuguese)

11

• Beop Jeong, 78, South Korean Seon Buddhist monk, lung cancer. [309]
• Henri-Charles Dubourguier, 62, French microbiologist. [310] (Estonian)
• Paul Dunlap, 90, American film composer. [311]
• Carlos de Jesus Euzébio, 58, Brazilian footballer (Santos Futebol Clube), car accident. [312] (Portuguese)
• John Hill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease. [313]
• Louis Holmes, 99, British-born Canadian ice hockey player and coach. [314]
• Matilde Elena López, 91, Salvadoran poet, essayist and playwright. [315] (Spanish)
• Willie MacFarlane, 79, Scottish footballer and manager. [316]
• David Meza Montecinos, 51, Honduran journalist, shot. [317]
• Hans van Mierlo, 78, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994–1998), founder of political party D66. [318]
• Charles Moore, 79, American photographer. [319]
• Merlin Olsen, 69, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and actor (Little House on the Prairie, Father Murphy), mesothelioma. [320]
• Leena Peltonen-Palotie, 57, Finnish geneticist, bone cancer. [321]
• Brian Pitman, 78, British banker, Chairman of Virgin Money (2010) and Lloyds TSB (1997–2001), heart attack. [322]
• Sandy Scott, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, pancreatic cancer. [323]
• Édgar Valcárcel Arze, 77, Peruvian composer, esophageal cancer. [324] (Spanish)
• Colin Wells, 79, British scholar, Professor of Classical Studies at Trinity University (Texas), stroke. [325]

10

• Truddi Chase, 70, American autobiographical author. [326]
• Leeann Chin, 77, Chinese-born American restaurateur, founder of Leeann Chin restaurants, after long illness. [327]
• Antoine Choueiri, 70, Lebanese businessman and media magnate, after long illness. [328]
• Evelyn Dall, 92, American singer and actress, after long illness. [329]
• Mark Goldstein, 49, Honduran politician and businessman, plane crash. [330] (Spanish)
• Corey Haim, 38, Canadian actor (Lucas, The Lost Boys, License to Drive). [331]
• Tim Holland, 79, American backgammon player, emphysema. [332]
• Dorothy Janis, 98, American silent film actress. [333]
• Micky Jones, 63, Welsh singer and guitarist (Man), brain tumour. [334]
• Rich Koeper, 66, American football player (Green Bay Packers). [335]
• Jacek Krolak, 50, Polish journalist and graphic designer (Polityka). [336] (Polish)
• Vincent Mensah, 85, Beninese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto Novo (1970–2000). [337] (French)
• Arnall Patz, 89, American ophthalmologist, heart disease. [338]
• Gene Stoltzfus, 70, American peace activist, director of Christian Peacemaker Teams, heart failure. [339]
• Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, 81, Egyptian Muslim cleric, Grand Imam (Al-Azhar Mosque), heart attack. [340]
• Ray Tye, 87, American businessman and philanthropist, cancer. [341]
• George Webb, 92, British traditional jazz musician [342]

9

• Gheorghe Constantin, 77, Romanian footballer and manager. [343] (Romanian)
• Lionel Cox, 80, Australian road bicycle racer, pneumonia. [344]
• Willie Davis, 69, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), natural causes. [345]
• Dulmatin, 39, Indonesian terrorist, 2002 Bali bombings planner, shot. [346]
• Teresa Gutiérrez, 81, Colombian actress, natural causes. [347] (Spanish)
• Doris Haddock, 100, American political activist, complications of respiratory disease. [348]
• Ricardo Jurado, 83, Argentine broadcaster. [349] (Spanish)
• Randy Kwasniewski, 55, American executive (Hard Rock Hotel), apparent suicide by gunshot. [350]
• Bernard Narokobi, 72, Papua New Guinean politician, diplomat, lawyer and philosopher, after short illness. [351]
• Wilfy Rebimbus, 67, Indian musician, lung cancer. [352]
• Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, 83, Santomean poet. [353] (Portuguese)
• Ricardo Vidal, 79, Chilean Olympic athlete. [354] (Spanish)
• Henry Wittenberg, 91, American wrestler, 1948 Olympic gold medalist. [355]

8

• Albert P. Clark, 96, American Air Force officer. [356]
• Tony Imi, 72, British cinematographer. [357]
• David Kimche, 82, Israeli diplomat, Mossad spy (1953–1980), brain cancer. [358]
• Guy Lapébie, 93, French road bicycle racer. [359] (German)
• Ho Sanderson, 60, British businessman, hit by train. [360]
• Jerry E. Smith, 59, American author, pancreatic cancer. [361]
• Gale Thomson, 90, American First Lady of New Hampshire (1973–1979), wife of Meldrim Thomson, Jr., heart failure. [362]
• Bartholomew Yeboah, 19, Ghanaian footballer. [363]
• Georgiy Zatsepin, 92, Russian astrophysicist. [364] (Russian)

7

• Daisey Bailey, 113, American supercentenarian, second-oldest person in U.S. and fourth-oldest in world. [365]
• Sir Kenneth Dover, 89, British classicist, President of the British Academy (1978–1981). [366]
• Newton Kulundu, 61, Kenyan politician, Minister of Labour (2006–2008), after long illness. [367]
• Sergo Mikoyan, 80, Russian historian, specialist on Latin America, leukemia. [368]
• Mary Josephine Ray, 114, Canadian-born American supercentenarian, oldest person in U.S. and second-oldest in world. [369]
• Robson Rocha Costa, 23, Brazilian futsal player, haemorrhagic shock following match injury. [370]
• Richard Stites, 78, American historian and author, complications from cancer. [371]
• Patrick Topaloff, 65, French actor and humorist, heart attack. [372] (French)
• Ben Westlund, 60, American politician, Oregon State Treasurer (2009–2010), lung cancer. [373]

6

• Mansour Amirasefi, 76, Iranian Olympic footballer, cancer. [374]
• Cho Gyeong-chul, 80, South Korean astronomer, heart attack. [375]
• Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, 88, British aristocrat. [376]
• Bruce Graham, 84, American architect (Willis Tower, John Hancock Center), Alzheimer's disease. [377]
• Endurance Idahor, 25, Nigerian footballer, heart attack. [378]
• H.M. Koutoukas, 72, American playwright (Medea in the Laundromat), complications of diabetes. [379]
• Mark Linkous, 47, American singer-songwriter (Sparklehorse), suicide by gunshot. [380]
• Dener Pacheco, 28, Brazilian actor, stomach and lung cancer. [381] (Portuguese)
• Ronald Pettersson, 74, Swedish ice hockey player. [382] (Swedish)
• Jim Roland, 67, American Major League Baseball player. [383]
• Nigel Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown, 93, British diplomat. [384]

5

• Donald N. Frey, 87, American product planning manager, co-creator of Ford Mustang, stroke. [385]
• Aleksandr Grave, 89, Russian actor. [386] (Russian)
• Herta Haas, 96, Slovenian-born Yugoslav Partisan, second wife of Josip Broz Tito. [387]
• Philip Langridge, 70, British tenor, colorectal cancer. [388]
• Faqir Mohammed, 39, Pakistani militant commander (Taliban), air strike. [389]
• Andrée Peel, 105, French patriot, World War II Resistance member. [390]
• Charles B. Pierce, 71, American film director (The Legend of Boggy Creek). [391]
• Alberto Ronchey, 83, Italian politician and journalist. [392] (Italian)
• Wolfgang Schenck, 97, German airman, Luftwaffe flying ace. [393] (Portuguese)
• Richard Stapley, 86, British-born American actor (The Three Musketeers), renal failure. [394]
• Edgar Wayburn, 103, American environmentalist and conservationist. [395]

4

• Raimund Abraham, 76, Austrian-born American architect (Austrian Cultural Forum New York), car accident. [396]
• Johnny Alf, 80, Brazilian singer and composer, prostate cancer. [397]
• Vladislav Ardzinba, 64, Georgian politician, separatist President of Abkhazia (1994–2005). [398]
• Ron Banks, 58, American singer (The Dramatics), heart attack. [399]
• André Bouchard, 54, Canadian ecologist and environmentalist, heart attack. [400]
• Etta Cameron, 70, Bahamian-born Danish gospel singer, after long illness. [401]
• Hilario Chávez Joya, 82, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes (1977–2004). [402]
• Samuel J. Eldersveld, 92, American political scientist and politician. [403]
• Joaquim Fiúza, 102, Portuguese sailor, 1952 Olympic bronze medalist. [404] (Portuguese)
• Tetsuo Kondo, 80, Japanese politician, Minister of Labour (1991–1992). [405]
• Nan Martin, 82, American actress (The Drew Carey Show), emphysema. [406]
• Arthur Menzies, 93, Canadian diplomat, heart attack. [407]
• Roger Newman, 69, British-born American actor and television writer (Guiding Light, Passions), cancer. [408]
• Angelo Poffo, 84, American professional wrestler. [409]
• Tony Richards, 76, British footballer. [410]
• Joanne Simpson, 86, American meteorologist, first woman to earn a doctorate in meteorology. [411]
• Lolly Vegas, 70, American singer (Redbone), lung cancer. [412]
• Fred Wedlock, 67, British folk musician, complications from pneumonia. [413]

3

• Keith Alexander, 53, British footballer (Saint Lucia) and manager, brain aneurysm. [414]
• Johnny Allen, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins), Alzheimer's disease. [415]
• Frank Bertaina, 65, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack. [416]
• Mariya Dolina, 87, Ukrainian dive bomber pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union. [417] (Ukrainian)
• Michael Foot, 96, British politician, Leader of the Labour Party (1980–1983). [418]
• Momo Kapor, 72, Serbian writer and painter. [419]
• Big Tiny Little, 79, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show). [420]
• Cliff Livingston, 80, American football player (New York Giants). [421]
• Yuri Stepanov, 42, Russian actor, car accident. [422] (Russian)
• John Strohmeyer, 85, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, heart failure. [423]
• Oleg Tyurin, 72, Russian rower, 1964 Olympic gold medalist. [424]. (Russian)

2

• Francisco Ada, 75, Northern Mariana Islands politician, first Lieutenant Governor (1978–1982). [425]
• Syed Ali, 67, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) field hockey player. [426]
• Josef Allerberger, 85, Austrian World War II sniper. [427] (German)
• Melva Blancett, 85, American actress. [428]
• Winston Churchill, 69, British politician, MP for Stretford (1970–1983) and Davyhulme (1983–1997), prostate cancer. [429]
• Paul Drayton, 70, American athlete, 1964 Olympic gold and silver medalist, cancer. [430]
• Emil Forselius, 35, Swedish actor, suicide. [431] (Swedish)
• Don Kent, 92, American meteorologist (WBZ-TV), natural causes. [432]
• Geoff Myburgh, 81, South African Olympic sailor. [433]
• Nikolay Surov, 62, Russian Olympic rower. [434] (Russian)

1

• Perry Brooks, 55, American football player (Washington Redskins). [435]
• Kristian Digby, 32, British television presenter and director (To Buy or Not to Buy). [436]
• Clifton Forbes, 64, Jamaican Olympic athlete, after long illness. [437]
• Slavko Fras, 81, Slovenian journalist and editor. [438]
• Barry Hannah, 67, American novelist and short story writer (Geronimo Rex), heart attack. [439]
• Vladimir Ilyushin, 82, Russian test pilot. [440] (German)
• Paul Kim Ok-kyun, 84, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Girba (1985–2001). [441]
• Ruth Kligman, 80, American abstract painter, muse of Jackson Pollock. [442]
• Joseph Hernández Ochoa, 26, Honduran journalist, shot. [443]

February 2010

See Deaths in February 2010.

January 2010

See Deaths in January 2010.

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