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.
September 2010
- Rauno Mäkinen, 79, Finnish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist. [1] (Finnish)
- Jenny Alpha, 100, Martinique-born French actress and singer. [2] (French)
- Rich Cronin, 35, American pop singer and songwriter (LFO), stroke related to acute myelogenous leukemia. [3]
- John Kluge, 95, American entrepreneur and billionaire, richest person in the United States (1989–1990). [4]
- Alexander López García, Mexican politician, mayor of El Naranjo, shot. [5]
- Murali, 46, Indian Tamil actor, heart attack. [6]
- Israel Tal, 86, Israeli general. [7]
- Claude Béchard, 41, Canadian politician, MNA for Kamouraska-Témiscouata (1997–2010), cancer. [8]
- Vasilis Christodoulou, 94, Greek caricaturist. [9] (Greek)
- Clive Donner, 84, British film director. [10]
- Amar Garibović, 19, Serbian Olympic cross-country skier, car crash. [11] (Serbian)
- Brendan Lyons, 83, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Bass (1982–1986). [12]
- Riad al-Saray, 35, Iraqi television presenter, shot. [13]
- Glenn Shadix, 58, American actor (Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas), fall. [14]
- Wilebaldo Solano, 94, Spanish communist activist during the Spanish Civil War. [15] (Spanish)
- Yvonne O'Neill, 74, Canadian politician, MPP for Ottawa–Rideau (1987–1995), cancer. [16]
- John Sligo, 66, New Zealand author. [17]
- Angelo Vassallo, 56, Italian politician, Mayor of Pollica, shot. [18]
- David Bushnell, 86, American historian, cancer. [19] (Spanish)
- Corneille, 88, Dutch artist. [20]
- David Dortort, 93, American television producer and writer (Bonanza, The High Chaparral). [21]
- Ludvig Eikaas, 89, Norwegian artist. [22] (Norwegian)
- John Gouriet, 75, British political campaigner (The Freedom Association) and author. [23]
- Elizabeth Jenkins, 104, English author. [24]
- Lewis Nkosi, 73, South African writer. [25]
- Sayed Hamed Noorim, 45, Afghan journalist and TV anchorman (Radio Television Afghanistan), stabbed. [26] (body found on this date)
- Homi Sethna, 86, Indian nuclear scientist and chemical engineer. [27]
- Jefferson Thomas, 67, American civil rights pioneer, member of the Little Rock Nine, pancreatic cancer. [28]
- Shoya Tomizawa, 19, Japanese Moto2 motorcycle racer, race crash. [29]
- Francis Gerard Brooks, 86, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dromore (1976–1999). [30]
- Paul Conrad, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist (Los Angeles Times). [31]
- Rudolf Pellar, 87, Czech translator, actor and singer, recipient of the State Prize for Translation (1997). [32] (Czech)
- Larry Ashmead, 78, American book editor. [33]
- Oleg Bebenin, 36, Belarusian journalist and opposition website editor, apparent suicide. [34]
- Micky Burn, 97, British writer and poet. [35]
- Francisco Cruz Santos, Mexican politician, Mayor-elect of Santa Catarina Juquila, plane crash. [36]
- Mike Edwards, 62, English cellist (Electric Light Orchestra), car accident. [37]
- Noah Howard, 67, American jazz saxophonist. [38]
- Carla Souza Lima, 50, Brazilian model, lung cancer. [39] (Portuguese)
- Juan Huerta Montero, Mexican deputy, plane crash. [40]
- Vasundhara Patwardhan, 94, Indian writer. [41]
- Robert Schimmel, 60, American stand-up comedian (The Howard Stern Show), car accident. [42]
- Sir Cyril Smith, 82, British politician, Member of Parliament for Rochdale (1972–1992). [43]
- José Augusto Torres, 71, Portuguese football player and coach, heart failure. [44]
- Guillermo Zavaleta Rojas, 34, Mexican deputy, plane crash. [45]
- Brian R. Wood, 33, Canadian computer game designer (Company of Heroes Online), car accident. [46]
- Jean-Michel Baron, 56, French motorcycle racer, crash [47]
- Trevor Beard, 90, Australian physician. [48]
- Germán Dehesa, 66, Mexican journalist, writer and announcer, cancer. [49]
- Shmuel Eisenstadt, 86, Israeli sociologist. [50]
- Katarina Marinič, 110, Slovenian supercentenarian. [51]
- Pedro Marcos Ribeiro da Costa, 88, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saurimo (1977–1997). [52]
- Jackie Sinclair, 67, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic, Newcastle United), cancer. [53]
- Leo Trepp, 97, German-born American rabbi, last surviving rabbinical witness to the Holocaust. [54]
- Annie Turnbull, 111, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the UK. [55]
- Morgan White, 86, American actor and children's television host. [56]
- Tomás Pedro Barbosa da Silva Nunes, 67, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa (since 1998). [57]
- Wakanohana Kanji I, 82, Japanese sumo wrestler, kidney cancer. [58]
- Cammie King, 76, American actress (Gone with the Wind), lung cancer. [59]
- Herb Larson, 83, Canadian professional wrestler. [60]
- James Jay Lee, 43, American hostage-taker (Discovery Communications headquarters hostage crisis). [61]
- Jean Nelissen, 74, Dutch cycling journalist. [62] (Dutch)
- Ken Orsatti, 78, American director of the Screen Actors Guild (1981–2000), pulmonary disease. [63]
August 2010
See Deaths in August 2010.
July 2010
See Deaths in July 2010.
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
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, ...