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.
July 2010
- Günter Behnisch, 88, German architect. [1] (German)
- Harvey Pekar, 70, American comic book writer (American Splendor) and critic. [2]
- Idham Chalid, 88, Indonesian cleric and politician, head of Nahdlatul Ulama (1956–1984), Chairman of MPR (1971–1977), after long illness. [3]
- Walter Hawkins, 61, American gospel music singer, pancreatic cancer. [4]
- Ferenc Kállai, 85, Hungarian actor.
- Bob Sheppard, 99, American sports announcer (New York Yankees, New York Giants). [5]
- Rudi Strittich, 88, Austrian football player and coach. [6] (German)
- Mimis Gioulekas, 65, Greek singer. [7] (Greek)
- Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus, 82, Irish politician and lawyer, TD for Dublin North East (1981–1982). [8]
- Sugar Minott, 54, Jamaican reggae singer. [9]
- Raoul Moat, 37, British fugitive (Northumbria shootings), alleged suicide by gunshot. [10]
- Aldo Sambrell, 79, Spanish actor, stroke. [11] (Spanish)
- Robert Spillane, 45, American actor (EZ Streets), son of mobster Mickey Spillane, fall. [12]
- Kohei Tsuka, 62, Japanese playwright, lung cancer. [13]
- Yehuda Amital, 85, Israeli rabbi and politician. [14]
- Basil Davidson, 95, British journalist and historian. [15]
- Glenna Evans, 27, Canadian longboarder, longboard crash. [16]
- Milt Morin, 67, American football player (Cleveland Browns), heart attack. [17]
- Nobuyoshi Tamura, 77, Japanese aikidoka. [18]
- Anders Bratholm, 90, Norwegian jurist. [19] (Norwegian)
- Robert Freitag, 94, Austrian actor. [20] (German)
- Maje McDonnell, 89, American baseball coach and official (Philadelphia Phillies). [21]
- Achdiat Karta Mihardja, 99, Indonesian novelist and playwright, stroke. [22]
- Patrick Rice, 64, Irish human rights activist. [23]
- Juan Carlos Rousselot, 75, Argentine politician, Mayor of Morón (1987–1989; 1991–1998), cancer. [24] (Spanish)
- Maria Olivia da Silva, 130?, Brazilian supercentenarian and oldest citizen claimant. [25] (Portuguese)
- Melvin Turpin, 49, American basketball player, suicide by gunshot. [26]
- Peter Walker, 68, Australian football player, cancer. [27]
- Emilio Q. Daddario, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative for Connecticut (1959–1971), heart failure. [28]
- Horacio del Bosque Dávila, 56, Mexican politician, Deputy for Coahuila (2006–2009), plane crash. [29] (Spanish)
- John Henning, 73, American newscaster (WNAC, WCVB, WBZ), complications from leukemia. [30]
- Satyendra Singh Jamwal, 51, Indian Rear Admiral, Chief of Staff (Southern Naval Command), accidental discharge. [31]
- Robbie Jansen, 60, South African jazz musician, after long illness. [32]
- Lelio Luttazzi, 87, Italian musician and singer, peripheral neuropathy. [33] (Italian)
- José Manuel Maldonado Maldonado, 48, Mexican politician, Mayor of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, plane crash. [34] (Spanish)
- Ezequiel Neves, 74, Brazilian record producer and journalist, after long illness. [35] (Portuguese)
- Sándor Páll, 56, Serbian politician, leader of Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians. [36] (Hungarian)
- Bill Porter, 79, American sound engineer. [37]
- Luz Sapag, 66, Argentine politician, Mayor of San Martín de los Andes (2007–2010), car crash. [38] (Spanish)
- Nathan Slewett, 97, American philantropist and researcher of Parkinson's Disease, natural causes.[39]
- Roy Waller, 69, English radio presenter, liver disease. [40]
- Wen Qiang, 54, Chinese judge and deputy police chief, executed. [41]
- Matilde Rosa Araújo, 89, Portuguese writer. [42] (Portuguese)
- Jan Blokker, 83, Dutch journalist. [43] (Dutch)
- Harvey Fuqua, 80, American rhythm and blues singer (The Moonglows) and record producer (Marvin Gaye), heart attack. [44]
- Kristofer Leirdal, 94, Norwegian sculptor. [45] (Norwegian)
- Stanislaus Tobias Magombo, 42, Malawian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Lilongwe (2009–2010). [46]
- A. T. Mahmud, 80, Indonesian composer and television host, pneumonia. [47]
- Igor Misko, 23, Russian ice hockey player, cardiac arrest. [48]
- John North, 89, American football player (Baltimore Colts) and coach (New Orleans Saints), after long illness. [49]
- José Rico Pérez, 92, Spanish businessman, President of Hércules CF. [50] (Spanish)
- Ramon Eduardo Ruiz, 88, American historian, complications from a fall. [51]
- Werner Schmalenbach, 89, German art historian. [52] (German)
- Rebecca Spikings-Goldsman, 42, American film producer, heart attack. [53]
- Simion Stanciu, 60, Romanian pan flautist, after long illness. [54]
- Roberto Suárez, 82, Cuban-born American newspaper publisher (El Nuevo Herald), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [55]
- Fritz Teufel, 67, German publicist and activist. [56] (German)
- Tone Wraber, 72, Slovenian botanist. [57] (Slovenian)
- Nasr Abu Zayd, 66, Egyptian Qur'anic theologian, brain infection. [58]
- Francis Ahearn, 53, American comedy club manager, complications of strokes. [59]
- Jim Bohlen, 84, American-born Canadian environmentalist, founder of Greenpeace. [60]
- William R. Callahan, 78, American priest, challenged policies of the Vatican, Parkinson's disease. [61]
- Les Eathorne, 86, American college basketball coach, heart failure. [62]
- David Fanshawe, 68, British composer (African Sanctus), explorer and ethnomusicologist, stroke. [63]
- Jia Hongsheng, 43, Chinese actor, suicide by jumping. [64]
- Andriy Horak, 64, Ukrainian Metropolitan of Lviv and Sokal in UOC-KP (since 1993), after long illness. [65] (Ukrainian)
- Juanita M. Kreps, 89, American economist, Secretary of Commerce (1977–1979), Alzheimer's disease. [66]
- Bea Moss, 85, American columnist (The Miami Herald), post-surgical infection. [67]
- Ioannis Papaspyrou, 88, Greek politician, Mayor of Piraeus (1982–1986), cardiac arrest. [68]. (Greek)
- Bob Probert, 45, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks), suspected heart attack. [69]
- Cesare Siepi, 87, Italian opera singer, respiratory failure. [70]
- Elton Younger, 91, British general. [71]
- Robert Neil Butler, 83, American physician, Pulitzer Prize winner (Why Survive? Being Old in America), founder of NIA, leukemia. [72]
- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, 74, Lebanese spiritual leader to Hezbollah. [73]
- John Hampton, 103, American co-founder of Toys for Tots. [74]
- Alf Howard, 104, Australian explorer. [75]
- Huang You-di, 98, Taiwanese musician and composer. [76]
- Oscar Kruger, 77, Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos), after long illness. [77]
- Lattie Moore, 85, American rockabilly singer. [78]
- Carlo Aymonino, 83, Italian architect. [79] (Italian)
- Dave E. Chapman, 81, American jazz musician and labor leader. [80]
- Murray Chercover, 80, Canadian broadcaster and CEO (CTV Television), complications from pneumonia. [81]
- Abu Daoud, 73, Palestinian politician and military commander, planned 1972 Summer Olympics Munich massacre, kidney failure. [82]
- William Dougherty, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota (1971–1975), cancer. [83]
- Herbert Erhardt, 79, German footballer, FIFA World Cup winner 1954 [84] (German)
- Colin Gardner, 69, British football manager, brain cancer. [85]
- Kirsten Heisig, 48, German politician and juvenile magistrate, suicide. [86] (body discovered on this date)
- Israel Hicks, 66, American stage director (Pittsburgh Cycle), pancreatic cancer. [87]
- Günther Hummelt, 78, Austrian President of World Curling Federation (1990–2000). [88] (German)
- Carlos Juárez, 94, Argentine politician, Governor of Santiago del Estero Province, cardiac arrest. [89] (Spanish)
- Ed Limato, 73, American talent agent, after long illness. [90]
- Al Mazza, 73, American politician and fire chief, former Mayor of Sonoma, California, cancer. [91]
- Clara Claiborne Park, 86, American author, (Exiting Nirvana), complications from a fall.[92]
- Roberto Piva, 72, Brazilian poet and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease. [93] (Portuguese)
- Sir Frederick Warner, 100, British chemical engineer. [94]
- Dame Beryl Bainbridge, 77, English novelist (Harriet Said..., An Awfully Big Adventure), cancer. [95]
- Mahfoud Ali Beiba, 57, Sahrawi politician and negotiator, President of Sahrawi National Council (2003–2010), heart attack. [96]
- Frank Colacurcio, Sr., 93, American organized crime figure. [97]
- Stephen Kanner, 54, American architect, co-founder of the A+D Museum, cancer. [98]
- Simon Kornblit, 76, Belgian-born American studio executive (Universal Studios) and actor, myeloid leukemia. [99]
- Rosa Maria Lladró, 56, Spanish businesswoman, former Lladró executive, after long illness. [100] (Spanish)
- Fred Maryanski, 63, American educator, President of Nevada State College (2005–2010). [101]
- Carl Adam Petri, 83, German computer scientist. [102] (German)
- Félix Pons, 68, Spanish politician, President of the Congress of Deputies (1986–1996), cancer. [103] (Spanish)
- M. G. Radhakrishnan, 70, Indian music director, liver disease. [104]
- Johnny Sellers, 72, American jockey. [105]
- Tommy Tabermann, 62, Finnish poet and politician, Member of Parliament (2007–2010), brain tumour. [106]
- Laurent Terzieff, 75, French actor, lung complications. [107]
- Ann Waldron, 85, American writer and biographer, heart failure. [108]
- Black Tie Affair, 24, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. [109]
- Francisco F. Claver, 84, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Malaybalay (1969–1984). [110]
- Don Coryell, 85, American football coach (San Diego Chargers, St. Louis Cardinals). [111]
- Arnold Friberg, 96, American painter. [112]
- Geoffrey Hutchings, 71, English actor, viral infection. [113]
- Lele, 24, Puerto Rican rapper, shot. [114] (Spanish)
- Aurelio Macchi, 94, Argentine sculptor. [115] (Spanish)
- Eleanor Morse, 97, American co-founder of the Salvador Dali Museum, after long illness. [116]
- Eddie Moussa, 26, Swedish footballer (Assyriska Föreningen), shot. [117]
- Omar Yoke Lin Ong, 92, Malaysian politician, minister and ambassador, founder of the Malaysian Chinese Association. [118]
- John Rinne, 86, Finnish Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland (1987–2001). [119]
- Ilene Woods, 81, American singer and actress (Cinderella), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [120]
- Betty Lou Young, 91, American writer and conservationist, after short illness. [121]
June 2010
See Deaths in June 2010.
May 2010
See Deaths in May 2010.
April 2010
See Deaths in April 2010.
March 2010
See Deaths in March 2010.
February 2010
January 2010
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