Deaths in 2010: Difference between revisions

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.

• Raimondo Vianello, 87, Italian comedian and television personality. [1] (Italian)

• Israr Ahmed, 77, Indian-born Pakistani religious scholar, cardiac arrest. [2]
• Gene Kiniski, 82, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer. [3]
• Lars Jacob Krogh, 71, Norwegian anchorman and television presenter. [4] (Norwegian)
• Mississippi Slim, 66, American blues singer. [5]
• Greville Starkey, 70, British jockey, cancer. [6]

• Alper Balaban, 22, German-born Turkish footballer, car accident. [7] (Turkish)
• Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, 74, British television executive and life peer. [8]
• Santhosh Jogi, 35, Indian actor, suicide by hanging. [9]
• Bernie Kilgariff, 86, Australian politician, Senator (1975–1987). [10]
• Nahid al-Rayyis, 73, Palestinian politician and poet. [11]
• Steve Reid, 66, American jazz drummer, cancer. [12]
• Manos Xydous, 57, Greek singer-songwriter, musician and record producer, cardiac arrest. [13] (Greek)

• María Aurelia Bisutti, 79, Argentine actress, dementia. [14] (Spanish)
• Michel Chartrand, 93, Canadian activist, kidney cancer. [15] [16] (French)
• Eduard Chuvashov, 47, Russian politician and judge, shot. [17]
• Miguel Cinches, 78, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Surigao (1973–2001). [18]
• Peter Haskell, 75, American actor. [19]
• Edward Huniehu, Solomon Islander politician, after long illness. [20]
• Mamie Koko, 48, Ivorian politican and feminist, after long illness. [21] (French)
• Charles Meade, 93, American religious leader (Meade Ministries). [22] (death announced on this date)
• Palito, 75, Filipino comedian, respiratory disease. [23]
• Al Reser, 74, American businessman, founder and CEO of Reser's Fine Foods. [24]
• Stuart Robbins, 33, British basketball player. [25] (body discovered on this date)
• Carlo Alberto Rossi, 88, Italian composer and music executive. [26] (Italian)
• Werner Schroeter, 65, German film director, after long illness. [27] (Portuguese)
• Arnold Spohr, 86, Canadian artistic director (Royal Winnipeg Ballet), chronic kidney disease. [28]

• Edmondo Berselli, 59, Italian writer and journalist, after long illness. [29] (Italian)
• Jean Boiteux, 76, French Olympic gold and bronze (1952) medal-winning swimmer, fall from a tree. [30]
• Juan Manuel Gozalo, 65, Spanish journalist, cancer. [31] (Spanish)
• Carlos Imperial, 79, Filipino politician, Representative, 2nd District of Albay (four terms), pneumonia. [32]
• Ruben Mendoza, 78, American football player, cerebral hemorrhage. [33]
• Alekos Tzanetakos, 73, Greek actor and screenwriter, abdominal aorta failure. [34] (Greek)
• Nikolai Valchinov, 59, Bulgarian actor, screenwriter and film director. [35] (Bulgarian)
• Paz Yrarrázaval, 78, Chilean actress, rheumatoid arthritis. [36] (Spanish)

• Dixie Carter, 70, American actress (Designing Women, Diff'rent Strokes), endometrial cancer. [37]
• Arthur Mercante, Sr., 90, American boxing referee. [38]
• Hiro Muramoto, 43, Japanese news cameraman (Reuters), shot. [39]
• William Walker, 78, American opera singer. [40]

Notable passengers on board Polish Air Force Tu-154. [41]

• Joanna Agacka-Indecka, 45, Polish attorney, President of the Bar Council (since 2007).
• Andrzej Błasik, 47, Polish general, Chief of the Air Force (since 2007).
• Krystyna Bochenek, 56, Polish senator, vice president of Senate.
• Tadeusz Buk, 49, Polish general, head of Land Forces.
• Miron Chodakowski, 52, Polish Orthodox prelate, Archbishop of Military ordinariate of Poland (since 1998).
• Leszek Deptuła, 57, Polish member of the Sejm.
• Grzegorz Dolniak, 50, Polish member of the Sejm.
• Janina Fetlińska, 57, Polish senator.
• Franciszek Gągor, 58, Polish general, Chief of the General Staff (since 2006).
• Grażyna Gęsicka, 58, Polish politician, Minister of Regional Development (2006–2007).
• Kazimierz Gilarski, 54, Polish Commander of the Warsaw Garrison.
• Przemysław Gosiewski, 45, Polish member of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister (2007).
• Mariusz Handzlik, 44, Polish diplomat, Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President.
• Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, 59, Polish member of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister (2004–2005).
• Ryszard Kaczorowski, 90, Polish politician, President in exile (1989–1990).
• Maria Kaczyńska, 67, First Lady of Poland (since 2005), wife of Lech Kaczyński.
• Lech Kaczyński, 60, President of Poland (since 2005).
• Sebastian Karpiniuk, 37, Polish member of the Sejm.
• Andrzej Karweta, 51, Polish Vice Admiral, commander-in-chief of the Navy.
• Mariusz Kazana, 49, Polish diplomat, Director of Diplomatic Protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• Janusz Kochanowski, 69, Polish lawyer and diplomat, Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection (Ombudsman) (since 2006).
• Stanisław Komornicki, 85, Polish general, Chancellor of the Order Virtuti Militari.
• Stanisław Komorowski, 56, Polish Deputy Defense Minister (since 2007), Ambassador to Holland (1994–1998) and UK (1999–2004).
• Andrzej Kremer, 48, Polish lawyer and diplomat, Deputy Foreign Minister (since 2008).
• Janusz Kurtyka, 49, Polish historian, president of the Institute of National Remembrance.
• Bronisław Kwiatkowski, 59, Polish general, Commander of the Armed Forces Operational Command.
• Tomasz Merta, 44, Polish Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
• Aleksandra Natalli-Świat, 51, Polish member of the Sejm.
• Piotr Nurowski, 64, Polish sports administrator, head of the Polish Olympic Committee (since 2005).
• Maciej Płażyński, 52, Polish member of the Sejm.
• Tadeusz Płoski, 54, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Military ordinariate of Poland (since 2004).
• Włodzimierz Potasiński, 53, Polish Commander of the Special Forces.
• Andrzej Przewoźnik, 46, Polish Secretary-General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites.
• Krzysztof Putra, 52, Polish member of the Sejm.
• Ryszard Rumianek, 62, Polish rector of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.
• Arkadiusz Rybicki, 57, Polish member of the Sejm.
• Wojciech Seweryn, 70, Polish-born U.S. sculptor.
• Sławomir Skrzypek, 46, Polish banker, President of National Bank of Poland.
• Władysław Stasiak, 44, Polish Chief of the Office of the President.
• Aleksander Szczygło, 46, Polish politician, Minister of Defence (2007), chief of the National Security Bureau (since 2009).
• Jerzy Szmajdziński, 58, Polish politician, Minister of Defence (2001–2005), Vice-Marshal of the Sejm (since 2007).
• Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, 55, Polish member of the Sejm.
• Anna Walentynowicz, 80, Polish trade unionist whose 1980 firing led to the creation of the Solidarity movement.
• Zbigniew Wassermann, 60, Polish member of the Sejm.
• Wiesław Woda, 63, Polish member of the Sejm.
• Edward Wojtas, 55, Polish member of the Sejm.
• Paweł Wypych, 42, Polish politician, Secretary of State (since 2009).
• Stanisław Zając, 60, Polish senator.
• Janusz Zakrzeński, 74, Polish actor.

• Daniel Robert de Jesus, 28, Brazilian footballer, heart attack. [42]
• Vic Frank, 83, American Olympic athlete. [43]
• Bob Franks, 58, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey (1993–2001), cancer. [44]
• Hisashi Inoue, 75, Japanese pacifist playwright, lung cancer. [45]
• Meir Just, 101, Dutch Chief Rabbi. [46]
• Robert Lau Hoi Chew, 68, Malaysian politician, Deputy Minister for Transport, liver cancer. [47]
• Dario Mangiarotti, 94, Italian Olympic gold (1952) and silver (1948, 1952) medal-winning fencer. [48] (Italian)
• Kenneth McKellar, 82, Scottish singer, pancreatic cancer. [49]
• Jacob O. Meyer, 75, American religion leader (Assemblies of Yahweh). [50]
• Meinhardt Raabe, 94, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), heart attack. [51]
• Peter Ramsbotham, 3rd Viscount Soulbury, 90, British diplomat and politician, Governor of Bermuda (1977–1980). [52]
• Lou Ritter, 84, American politician, Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1965–1967), cancer. [53]
• Guyford Stever, 93, American educator, President of Carnegie Mellon University (1965-1972). [54]
• Valentin Turchin, 79, Russian-born American computer scientist and human rights activist. [55] (Russian)
• Zoltán Varga, 65, Hungarian footballer. [56]
• Yasunori Watanabe, 35, Japanese rugby player, hit by train. [57]

• Jack Agnew, 88, American soldier, member of the Filthy Thirteen, inspiration for The Dirty Dozen. [58]
• Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, 76, British judge and hereditary peer. [59]
• Chanan Eshel, 51, Israeli archaeologist, cancer. [60]
• Antony Flew, 87, British philosopher, after long illness. [61]
• Guy Kewney, 63, British technology journalist (Personal Computer World), colorectal cancer. [62]
• Aladár Kovácsi, 77, Hungarian modern pentathlete, Olympic gold medalist (Helsinki 1952). [63] (Hungarian)
• Malcolm McLaren, 64, British musician and band manager (Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, Bow Wow Wow), mesothelioma. [64]
• Abel Muzorewa, 84, Zimbabwean Methodist bishop and politician, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979). [65]
• Personal Ensign, 26, American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse, natural causes. [66]
• Al Prince, 67, American-born French Polynesian journalist and tourism expert, after long illness. [67]
• Jean-Paul Proust, 70, Monégasque politician, Minister of State (2005–2010). [68] (French)
• John Schoenherr, 74, American science fiction artist. [69]
• Teddy Scholten, 83, Dutch singer. [70]
• Michel Türler, 65, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, cancer. [71]
• Zhang Guosheng, 54, Chinese Mayor of Putian, suicide by jumping. [72]

• Christopher Cazenove, 64, British actor (Dynasty), sepsis. [73]
• Graciela, 94, Cuban singer, renal and pulmonary failure. [74]
• Chris Limahelu, 59, American football place kicker (USC), prostate cancer. [75]
• J. Bruce Llewellyn, 82, American businessman and activist, a founder of 100 Black Men of America, renal failure. [76]
• George Nissen, 96, American gymnast, inventor of the trampoline, pneumonia. [77].
• Tom Ray, 90, American animation cartoonist (Warner Bros. Cartoons). [78]

• James Aubrey, 62, British actor (Lord of the Flies, Bouquet of Barbed Wire). [79]
• Eddie Carroll, 76, Canadian voice actor (Jiminy Cricket). [80]
• Anatoly Dobrynin, 90, Russian diplomat and politician, Soviet Ambassador to the United States (1962–1986). [81]
• Jack Flannery, 57, American off-road racer, cancer. [82]
• Takuya Kimura, 37, Japanese baseball player and coach, subarachnoid hemorrhage. [83] (Japanese)
• Guillermo Luca de Tena, 82, Spanish journalist. [84] (Spanish)
• Tony MacGibbon, 85, New Zealand cricketer. [85]
• Wilma Mankiller, 64, American activist, first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985–1995), pancreatic cancer. [86]
• Neva Morris, 114, American supercentenarian, oldest person in the United States. [87]
• Corin Redgrave, 70, British actor and political activist, after short illness. [88]
• Sid Storey, 90, English footballer. [89]
• Luigi Waites, 82, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist. [90]

• Jerry Elliott, 73, American judge, Kansas Court of Appeals (since 1987), cancer. [91]
• Ricardo Lavié, 87, Argentine actor, after long illness. [92] (Spanish)
• Molefi Sefularo, 52, South African politician, car crash. [93]
• Vitali Sevastyanov, 74, Russian Soviet cosmonaut. [94] (Russian)

• Lajos Bálint, 80, Hungarian-born Romanian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Alba Iulia (1990–1993). [95] (Hungarian)
• Sir Alec Bedser, 91, English cricketer. [96]
• Matt Cook, 22, Canadian ice sledge hockey player, bone cancer. [97]
• Clifford M. Hardin, 94, American politician, Secretary of Agriculture (1969–1971), natural causes. [98]
• Sugar Lee Hooper, 62, Dutch singer and entertainer. [99] (Dutch)
• Verna Johnston, 80, Australian Olympic athlete. [100]
• Rudy Kousbroek, 80, Dutch essayist. [101] (Dutch)
• Santi Licheri, 92, Italian judge and television personality, natural causes. [102] (Italian)
• John B. McCoy, 97, American banker (Bank One Corporation). [103]
• Kelly Moran, 49, American motorcycle speedway racer, complications from emphysema. [104]
• Abubakar Rimi, 70, Nigerian politician. [105]
• Shio Satō, 59, Japanese manga artist, brain tumor. [106]
• Henry Scarpelli, 79, American comic book artist (Archie), after long illness. [107]
• Wang Jiangmin, 59, Chinese programmer, creator of antivirus software, heart attack. [108]

• Ivan Balsamadziev, 57, Bulgarian actor and singer, cancer. [109] (Bulgarian)
• Philippe Braunschweig, 82, Swiss arts patron, cancer. [110]
• Derek Crozier, 92, Irish Crosaire crossword compiler (The Irish Times). [111]
• Dávid Daróczi, 37, Hungarian journalist, suicide. [112]
• Buza Ferraz, 59, Brazilian actor and film director, cardiac arrest. [113] (Portuguese)
• Oleg Kopayev, 72, Russian footballer, Soviet Top League top scorer (1963, 1965). [114] (Russian)
• Fred Kuhlmann, 93, American CEO of St. Louis Cardinals (1989–1991). [115]
• Maurizio Mosca, 69, Italian sports journalist, after long illness. [116] (Italian)
• Craig Noel, 94, American theatre producer, director and administrator of the Old Globe Theatre, natural causes. [117]
• Jim Pagliaroni, 72, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics), cancer. [118]
• Eugène Terre'Blanche, 69, South African white separatist leader, beating. [119]

• Edward Bayda, 78, Canadian jurist, Chief Justice of Saskatchewan (1981–2006). [120]
• Din Beramboi, 43, Malaysian comedian, actor and radio DJ, hemorrhagic dengue fever. [121]
• Mike Cuellar, 72, Cuban Major League Baseball player, stomach cancer. [122]
• Kelvin Henderson, 62, British country musician and radio presenter, progressive supranuclear palsy. [123]
• Chris Kanyon, 40, American professional wrestler, possible suicide by overdose of prescription painkillers. [124]
• Sonia McMahon (Lady McMahon), 77, Australian socialite, widow of former Prime Minister Sir William McMahon, cancer. [125]
• Thomas J. Moyer, 70, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1987–2010). [126]
• William Soeryadjaya, 87, Indonesian businessman, founder of Astra International. [127]
• Mike Zwerin, 79, American jazz musician and jazz critic, after long illness. [128]

• Vito De Grisantis, 68, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca (2000–2010). [129]
• Mirlan Doutov, 25, Kyrgyz singer, stabbed (body found on this date). [130]
• Anders Eklund, 52, Swedish boxer. [131] (Swedish)
• John Forsythe, 92, American actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty), complications from pneumonia. [132]
• Yuri Maslyukov, 72, Russian politician, Vice Premier of Soviet Union (1988–1990) and Russia (1998–1999). [133] (Russian)
• Lek Nana, 85, Thai businessman and politician, heart failure. [134]
• Ed Roberts, 68, American computer pioneer, pneumonia. [135]
• John Thornton, 52, American Mayor of Washington Park, Illinois, shot. [136]
• Susan E. Tifft, 59, American journalist and author, uterine cancer. [137]
• Tzannis Tzannetakis, 82, Greek politician, Prime Minister (1989). [138]
• Timothy White, 35, American kidnapping victim, pulmonary embolism. [139]
• Beryl Whiteley, 93, Australian arts patron, mother of Brett Whiteley. [140]

See Deaths in March 2010.

See Deaths in February 2010.

See Deaths in January 2010.

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