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
- Robert Lau Hoi Chew, 68, Malaysian politician, Deputy Minister for Transport, liver cancer. [1]
- Gisela Karau, 78, German author, editor and columnist, after long illness. [2] (German)
- Dario Mangiarotti, 94, Italian Olympic gold (1952) and silver (1948, 1952) medal-winning fencer. [3] (Italian)
- Kenneth McKellar, 82, Scottish singer, pancreatic cancer. [4]
- Jacob O. Meyer, 75, American religion leader (Assemblies of Yahweh). [5]
- William Moisan, 84, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). [6]
- Meinhardt Raabe, 94, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), heart attack. [7]
- Peter Ramsbotham, 3rd Viscount Soulbury, 90, British diplomat and politician, Governor of Bermuda (1977–1980). [8]
- Lou Ritter, 84, American politician, Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1965–1967), cancer. [9]
- Guyford Stever, 93, American educator, President of Carnegie Mellon University (1965-1972). [10]
- Kerstin Thorvall, 84, Swedish author, illustrator and journalist, after long illness. [11]
- Valentin Turchin, 79, Russian-born American computer scientist and human rights activist. [12] (Russian)
- Zoltán Varga, 65, Hungarian footballer. [13]
- Yasunori Watanabe, 35, Japanese rugby player, hit by train. [14]
- Jack Agnew, 88, American soldier, member of the Filthy Thirteen, inspiration for The Dirty Dozen. [15]
- Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, 76, British judge and hereditary peer. [16]
- Chanan Eshel, 51, Israeli archaeologist, cancer. [17]
- Antony Flew, 87, British philosopher, after long illness. [18]
- Guy Kewney, 63, British technology journalist (Personal Computer World), colorectal cancer. [19]
- Aladár Kovácsi, 77, Hungarian modern pentathlete, Olympic gold medalist (Helsinki 1952). [20] (Hungarian)
- Andreas Kunze, 57, German actor, heart failure. [21] (German)
- Malcolm McLaren, 64, British musician and band manager (Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, Bow Wow Wow), mesothelioma. [22]
- Abel Muzorewa, 84, Zimbabwean Methodist bishop and politician, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979). [23]
- Personal Ensign, 26, American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse, natural causes. [24]
- Al Prince, 67, American-born French Polynesian journalist and tourism expert, after long illness. [25]
- Jean-Paul Proust, 70, Monégasque politician, Minister of State (2005–2010). [26] (French)
- John Schoenherr, 74, American Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [27]
- Teddy Scholten, 83, Dutch singer. [28]
- Ramchandra Siras, 62, Indian linguist and author. [29]
- Michel Türler, 65, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, cancer. [30]
- Zhang Guosheng, 54, Chinese Mayor of Putian, suicide by jumping. [31]
- Christopher Cazenove, 64, British actor (Dynasty), sepsis. [32]
- Graciela, 94, Cuban singer, renal and pulmonary failure. [33]
- Chris Limahelu, 59, American football place kicker (USC), prostate cancer. [34]
- J. Bruce Llewellyn, 82, American businessman and activist, a founder of 100 Black Men of America, renal failure. [35]
- George Nissen, 96, American gymnast, co-inventor of the trampoline, pneumonia. [36].
- Tom Ray, 90, American animation cartoonist (Warner Bros. Cartoons). [37]
- James Aubrey, 62, British actor (Lord of the Flies, Bouquet of Barbed Wire), pancreatitis. [38]
- Eddie Carroll, 76, Canadian voice actor (Jiminy Cricket). [39]
- Vinnie Chas, American bassist (Pretty Boy Floyd). [40]
- Anatoly Dobrynin, 90, Russian diplomat and politician, Soviet Ambassador to the United States (1962–1986). [41]
- Jack Flannery, 57, American off-road racer, cancer. [42]
- Takuya Kimura, 37, Japanese baseball player and coach, subarachnoid hemorrhage. [43] (Japanese)
- Guillermo Luca de Tena, 82, Spanish journalist. [44] (Spanish)
- Tony MacGibbon, 85, New Zealand cricketer. [45]
- Wilma Mankiller, 64, American activist, first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985–1995), pancreatic cancer. [46]
- Neva Morris, 114, American supercentenarian, oldest person in the United States. [47]
- Anthony Perici, 89, Maltese-born American politician, Mayor of Twinsburg, Ohio (1976–1987), cancer. [48]
- David Quayle, 73, British businessman (B&Q). [49]
- Corin Redgrave, 70, British actor and political activist, after short illness. [50]
- Hans Schröder, 79, German sculptor and painter. [51] (German)
- Sid Storey, 90, English footballer. [52]
- Luigi Waites, 82, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist. [53]
- Jerry Elliott, 73, American judge, Kansas Court of Appeals (since 1987), cancer. [54]
- Konstantin Katuschew, 82, Russian politician. [55] (Russian)
- Günther C. Kirchberger, 81, German professor and painter. [56] (German)
- Ricardo Lavié, 87, Argentine actor, after long illness. [57] (Spanish)
- William Neill, 88, British poet. [58]
- Helen Ranney, 89, American hematologist. [59]
- Molefi Sefularo, 52, South African politician, car crash. [60]
- Vitali Sevastyanov, 74, Russian Soviet cosmonaut. [61] (Russian)
- David Simons, 87, American Air Force balloonist, heart failure. [62]
- Gisela Trowe, 86, German actress. [63] (German)
- Lajos Bálint, 80, Hungarian-born Romanian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Alba Iulia (1990–1993). [64] (Hungarian)
- Sir Alec Bedser, 91, English cricketer. [65]
- Matt Cook, 22, Canadian ice sledge hockey player, bone cancer. [66]
- Clifford M. Hardin, 94, American politician, Secretary of Agriculture (1969–1971), natural causes. [67]
- Sugar Lee Hooper, 62, Dutch singer and entertainer. [68] (Dutch)
- Verna Johnston, 80, Australian Olympic athlete. [69]
- Rudy Kousbroek, 80, Dutch essayist. [70] (Dutch)
- Santi Licheri, 92, Italian judge and television personality, natural causes. [71] (Italian)
- John B. McCoy, 97, American banker (Bank One Corporation). [72]
- Kelly Moran, 49, American motorcycle speedway racer, complications from emphysema. [73]
- Abubakar Rimi, 70, Nigerian politician. [74]
- Shio Satō, 59, Japanese manga artist, brain tumor. [75]
- Henry Scarpelli, 79, American comic book artist (Archie), after long illness. [76]
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke, 87, German mathematician and professor. [77] (German)
- Wang Jiangmin, 59, Chinese programmer, creator of antivirus software, heart attack. [78]
- Erich Zenger, 70, German Roman Catholic theologian and bible scholar. [79] (German)
- Ivan Balsamadziev, 57, Bulgarian actor and singer, cancer. [80] (Bulgarian)
- Philippe Braunschweig, 82, Swiss arts patron, cancer. [81]
- Derek Crozier, 92, Irish Crosaire crossword compiler (The Irish Times). [82]
- Dávid Daróczi, 37, Hungarian journalist, suicide. [83]
- Buza Ferraz, 59, Brazilian actor and film director, cardiac arrest. [84] (Portuguese)
- Oleg Kopayev, 72, Russian footballer, Soviet Top League top scorer (1963, 1965). [85] (Russian)
- Fred Kuhlmann, 93, American CEO of St. Louis Cardinals (1989–1991). [86]
- Roland MacLeod, 74, British actor (Coronation Street, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin). [87]
- Maurizio Mosca, 69, Italian sports journalist, after long illness. [88] (Italian)
- Craig Noel, 94, American theatre producer, director and administrator of the Old Globe Theatre, natural causes. [89]
- Jim Pagliaroni, 72, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics), cancer. [90]
- Ferdinand Simoneit, 84, German journalist, author and WWII veteran. [91] (German)
- Eugène Terre'Blanche, 69, South African white separatist leader, beating. [92]
- Jesús Vásquez, 89, Peruvian singer. [93] (Spanish)
- Roman Bannwart, 90, Swiss theologian and musician. [94] (German)
- Edward Bayda, 78, Canadian jurist, Chief Justice of Saskatchewan (1981–2006). [95]
- Din Beramboi, 43, Malaysian comedian, actor and radio DJ, hemorrhagic dengue fever. [96]
- Mike Cuellar, 72, Cuban Major League Baseball player, stomach cancer. [97]
- Ashari Danudirdjo, 87, Indonesian politician and diplomat. [98] (Indonesian)
- Kelvin Henderson, 62, British country musician and radio presenter, progressive supranuclear palsy. [99]
- Chris Kanyon, 40, American professional wrestler, possible suicide by overdose of prescription painkillers. [100]
- Sonia McMahon (Lady McMahon), 77, Australian socialite, widow of former Prime Minister Sir William McMahon, cancer. [101]
- Thomas J. Moyer, 70, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1987–2010). [102]
- Carolyn Rodgers, 69, American poet, cancer. [103]
- William Soeryadjaya, 87, Indonesian businessman, founder of Astra International. [104]
- Mike Zwerin, 79, American jazz musician and jazz critic, after long illness. [105]
- Morag Beaton, 83, Scottish-born Australian operatic soprano. [106]
- Vito De Grisantis, 68, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca (2000–2010). [107]
- Mirlan Doutov, 25, Kyrgyz singer, stabbed (body found on this date). [108]
- Anders Eklund, 52, Swedish boxer. [109] (Swedish)
- John Forsythe, 92, American actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty), complications from pneumonia. [110]
- Yuri Maslyukov, 72, Russian politician, Vice Premier of Soviet Union (1988–1990) and Russia (1998–1999). [111] (Russian)
- Lek Nana, 85, Thai businessman and politician, heart failure. [112]
- Ed Roberts, 68, American computer pioneer, pneumonia. [113]
- John Thornton, 52, American Mayor of Washington Park, Illinois, shot. [114]
- Susan E. Tifft, 59, American journalist and author, uterine cancer. [115]
- Tzannis Tzannetakis, 82, Greek politician, Prime Minister (1989). [116]
- Timothy White, 35, American kidnapping victim, pulmonary embolism. [117]
- Beryl Whiteley, 93, Australian arts patron, mother of Brett Whiteley. [118]
March 2010
See Deaths in March 2010.
February 2010
January 2010
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