2010 Celebrity Deaths

January Miep Gies Jean Simmons January 4 Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname (b. 1910) Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese dual atomic bomb survivor (b. 1916) January 9 – Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (b. 1925) January 11 Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian (b. 1909) Éric Rohmer, French film director (b. 1920) January 12 – Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (b. 1934) January 13 – Teddy Pendergrass, African-American R&B and soul singer (b. 1950) January 15 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) January 17 Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914) Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter, and educator (b. 1937) Daisuke Gōri, Japanese voice actor (b. 1952) January 18 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian folk singer (b. 1946) January 19 – Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (b. 1939) January 22 Iskandar of Johor, 8th King of Malaysia (b. 1932) Jean Simmons, British actress (b. 1929) January 25 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi politician and military commander (b. 1941) January 27 Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and human rights activist (b. 1933) J. D. Salinger, American author (b. 1919) Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922) February Alexander Haig February 1 – Steingrímur Hermannsson, 19th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1928) February 6 – John Dankworth, British jazz musician and composer (b. 1927) February 7 – André Kolingba, 4th President of the Central African Republic (b. 1936) February 10 – Charlie Wilson, American politician (b. 1933) February 11 – Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (b. 1969) February 14 – Dick Francis, British author and jockey (b. 1920) February 17 – Kathryn Grayson, American singer (b. 1922) February 18 – Ariel Ramírez, Argentine composer (b. 1921) February 20 – Alexander Haig, 59th United States Secretary of State (b. 1924) February 26 – Jun Seba, Japanese hip hop producer, DJ (b. 1974) March Michael Foot Robert Culp March 3 – Michael Foot, British politician (b. 1913) March 4 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Soviet-born politician (b. 1945) March 10 Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971) Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (b. 1928) March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish author and journalist (b. 1920) March 14 – Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926) March 20 – Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (b. 1925) March 21 – Wolfgang Wagner, German festival director (b. 1919) March 22 James Black, British pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924) Valentina Tolkunova, Soviet and Russian singer (b. 1946) March 24 – Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1930) March 27 – Vasily Smyslov, Soviet-Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1921) March 28 Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921) June Havoc, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1912) March 30 – Martin Sandberger, German army officer (b. 1911) April Lech Kaczyński Juan Antonio Samaranch April 1 – John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918) April 3 – Eugène Terre'Blanche, South African politician and white supremacist (b. 1941) April 5 – Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935) April 6 – Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (b. 1939) April 8 Malcolm McLaren, British musician and manager (b. 1946) Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1925) April 10 Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (b. 1919) Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland (b. 1949) April 14 – Peter Steele, American musician (b. 1962) April 16 – Tomáš Špidlík, Czech cardinal (b. 1919) April 19 – Guru, American rapper (b. 1966) April 21 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official (b. 1920) April 25 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (b. 1928) April 30 – Paul Mayer, German cardinal (b. 1911) May Lena Horne Gary Coleman Dennis Hopper May 2 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943) May 4 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (b. 1917) May 5 Giulietta Simionato, Italian opera singer (b. 1910) Umaru Yar'Adua, President of Nigeria (b. 1951) May 8 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1911) May 9 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917) May 10 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928) May 15 – Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (b. 1987) May 16 Ronnie James Dio, American musician (b. 1942) Oswaldo López Arellano, Honduran two-time former president (b. 1921) Hank Jones, American pianist (b. 1918) May 17 Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (b. 1925) Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai army general (b. 1951) Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (b. 1924) May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (b. 1930) May 22 – Martin Gardner, American science author (b. 1914) May 24 Paul Gray, American musician (b. 1972) Anneliese Rothenberger, German singer (b. 1924) May 28 – Gary Coleman, American actor, voice artist and comedian (b. 1968) May 29 – Dennis Hopper, American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist (b. 1936) May 31 – Louise Bourgeois, French-born American sculptor (b. 1911) June Andrei Voznesensky José Saramago Algirdas Brazauskas June 1 – Andrei Voznesensky, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1933) June 2 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (b. 1916) June 3 Vladimir Arnold, Soviet-Russian mathematician (b. 1937) Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934) June 9 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (b. 1908) June 10 – Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (b. 1941) June 14 – Leonid Kizim, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut (b. 1941) June 16 – Ronald Neame, British cinematographer, producer and director (b. 1911) June 18 Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (b. 1916) José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922) June 19 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962) June 23 – Mohammed Mzali, former Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1925) June 26 – Algirdas Brazauskas, 9th President of Lithuania (b. 1932) June 28 – Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917) July Harvey Pekar July 2 – Beryl Bainbridge, British novelist (b. 1934) July 3 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian militia commander (b. 1937) July 4 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese spiritual leader (b. 1935) July 5 Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (b. 1923) Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian Qur'anic theologian (b. 1943) July 12 – Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (b. 1939) July 14 – Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor (b. 1925) July 17 – Bernard Giraudeau, French actor and film director (b. 1947) July 21 – Luis Corvalán, Chilean politician (b. 1916) July 24 – Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949) August Patricia Neal Francesco Cossiga Francisco Varallo August 5 – Godfrey Binaisa, 5th President of Uganda (b. 1920) August 6 – Tony Judt, British historian (b. 1948) August 7 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (b. 1929) August 8 – Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926) August 9 – Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923) August 10 – Antonio Pettigrew, American athlete (b. 1967) August 12 – Guido de Marco, 6th President of Malta (b. 1931) August 13 – Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (b. 1980) August 16 – Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (b. 1935) August 17 – Francesco Cossiga, 63rd Prime Minister and 8th President of Italy (b. 1928) August 18 – Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1930) August 22 – Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer (b. 1923) August 23 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director (b. 1963) August 26 William Lenoir, American astronaut (b. 1939) Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (b. 1918) August 27 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (b. 1934) August 28 – Sinan Hasani, 10th President of Yugoslavia (b. 1922) August 30 Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (b. 1943) Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910) August 31 – Laurent Fignon, French road bicycle racer (b. 1960) September Tony Curtis September 5 – Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese MotoGP racer (b. 1990) September 9 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess grandmaster (b. 1935) September 11 – Kevin McCarthy, American actor (b. 1914) September 12 – Claude Chabrol, French film director (b. 1930) September 22 – Eddie Fisher, American entertainer and singer (b. 1928) September 24 – Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician; mastermind of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt (b. 1937) September 26 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910) September 28 – Arthur Penn, American film director (b. 1922) September 29 Georges Charpak, French Nobel physicist (b. 1924) Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925) September 30 – Stephen J. Cannell, American writer and television producer (b. 1941) October Benoit Mandelbrot Néstor Kirchner October 4 – Norman Wisdom, British actor and comedian (b. 1915) October 7 – Milka Planinc, former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924) October 9 – Maurice Allais, French Nobel economist (b. 1911) October 10 Solomon Burke, American soul musician (b. 1940) Hwang Jang-yop, North Korean politician and defector (b. 1923) October 11 – Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer (b. 1926) October 14 – Benoît Mandelbrot, French-American mathematician (b. 1924) October 16 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915) October 19 – Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927) October 20 – Farooq Leghari, 9th President of Pakistan (b. 1940) October 23 – David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1961) October 25 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951) October 27 – Néstor Kirchner, 54th President of Argentina (b. 1950) October 28 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938) October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927) November Leslie Nielsen November 2 – Rudolf Barshai, Soviet-Russian conductor and violist (b. 1924) November 3 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, 31st Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1938) November 5 Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944) Hajo Herrmann, German fighter pilot and lawyer (b. 1913) November 10 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919) November 12 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933) November 13 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish film director (b. 1921) November 17 – Isabelle Caro, French model and actress (b. 1980) November 27 – Irvin Kershner, American film director (b. 1923) November 28 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1926) November 29 Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1937) Mario Monicelli, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1915) December Richard Holbrooke December 10 – John B. Fenn, American Nobel chemist (b. 1917) December 12 – Tom Walkinshaw, British racing car driver and team owner (b. 1946) December 13 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (b. 1941) December 15 – Blake Edwards, American film director (b. 1922) December 17 – Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941) December 21 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1927) December 25 – Carlos Andrés Pérez, 55th President of Venezuela (b. 1922) December 26 Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926) Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956) December 30 Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1917) Bobby Farrell, West Indian-born Dutch dancer (Boney M.) (b. 1949)