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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.

November 2010

22

Peter Carrette, 63, British-born Australian paparazzo, suspected heart attack. (body discovered on this date)
Frank Fenner, 95, Australian scientist.
Julien Guiomar, 82, French film actor. (French)
Urbano Navarrete Cortés, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic Cardinal Deacon.

21

Silverio Cavazos, 41, Mexican politician, Governor of Colima (2005–2009), shot.
Takis Chasir, 90, Greek sports journalist. (Greek)
David Lam, 87, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (1988–1995), prostate cancer.
Norris Church Mailer, 61, American author and model, gastrointestinal cancer.
David Nolan, 66, American Libertarian Party founder, stroke.

20

Laurie Bembenek, 52, American convicted murderer, liver and kidney failure.
Roxana Briban, 39, Romanian soprano, apparent suicide.
Chalmers Johnson, 79, American scholar and author.
Rob Lytle, 56, American football player (Michigan Wolverines, Denver Broncos), heart attack.
Danny McDevitt, 78, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
Aimilios Metaxopoulos, 55, Greek chancellor (Panteion University), after long illness. (Greek)

19

75 Cents, 77, Croatian singer (Eurovision Song Contest 2008).
Pat Burns, 58, Canadian National Hockey League coach (Canadiens, Maple Leafs, Bruins and Devils), lung cancer.

18

Freddy Beras-Goico, 69, Dominican television producer, comedian, writer and actor, gastric cancer. (Spanish)
Jim Cruickshank, 69, Scottish footballer.
Spyros Kotsopoulos, 43, Greek actor, liver cancer. (Greek)
Samuel Kunz, 89, German Nazi death camp guard.
Brian G. Marsden, 73, British astronomer, after long illness.
Abraham Serfaty, 84, Moroccan democracy activist.
Gaye Stewart, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
Mackenzie Taylor, 32, British comedian, suicide.

17

Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, 87, Brazilian football player. (Portuguese)
Johnny Simpson, 88, New Zealand rugby player.
N. Viswanathan, 81, Indian actor, heart attack.
Harry Whitaker, 68, American jazz pianist.

16

Paul Calello, 49, American investment banker, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Britton Chance, 97, American biochemist, biophysicist and Olympic sailor.
Ronni Chasen, 64, American publicist (Hans Zimmer, Michael Douglas), shot.
Donald Nyrop, 98, American government official, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Mimi Perrin, 84, French jazz singer and pianist.
Ilie Savu, 90, Romanian footballer and coach, hepatic cirrhosis. (Romanian)

15

Nikolaos Birsimis, 93, Greek politician. (Greek)
Dan Callahan, 52, American baseball coach (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Eastern Illinois University), melanoma.
Nikol Joseph Cauchi, 81, Maltese Roman Catholic Bishop of Gozo (1972–2005).
Edmond Amran El Maleh, 93, Moroccan writer and intellectual.
Larry Evans, 78, American chess grandmaster, complications following gall bladder operation.
Fred Goldhaber, 63, American educator (Harvey Milk High School), liver cancer.
Moira Hoey, 88, Irish actor (The Riordans, Glenroe).
Tetsuroh Hoshino, 85, Japanese poet and songwriter.
Paul Jiang Taoran, 84, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Zhengding, heart disease.
Andreas Kirchner, 57, German bobsledder. (German)
Ed Kirkpatrick, 66, American baseball player (California Angels, Kansas City Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates).
Dimitris Lekkas, 70, Greek basketball player (Panellinios, national team), cancer. (Greek)
W. Howard Lester, 75, American businessman, former CEO of Williams-Sonoma, cancer.
Imre Polyák, 78, Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler. (Hungarian)
Roberto Pregadio, 81, Italian musician, orchestra director and television personality, natural causes. (Italian)
William Self, 89, American actor and television production manager (Batman, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea), heart attack.
Giorgos Seretis, 56, Greek journalist and sports editor. (Greek)

14

Hal Bamberger, 86, American baseball player (New York Giants).
Lew Carpenter, 78, American football player (Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles).
Wes Santee, 78, American Olympic athlete, cancer.
Bobbi Sykes, 67, Australian Aboriginal rights activist.
Rumen Yankov, 68, Bulgarian constitutionalist, Chairman of Supreme Court of Cassation (1994–2000) and Constitutional Court (2003, 2006–2009), after long illness.

13

Jim Deane, 82, Australian football player.
Luis García Berlanga, 89, Spanish film director, natural causes. (Spanish)
Witold Hatka, 71, Polish politician, car accident. (Polish)
Ken Iman, 71, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams).
Nathan Oliveira, 81, American painter.
Allan Sandage, 84, American astronomer, pancreatic cancer.
Richard Van Genechten, 80, Belgian cyclist. (French)

12

Des Alwi, 82, Indonesian historian, businessman, and public intellectual, adopted son of Mohammad Hatta, heart failure.
Stanisław Bobak, 54, Polish Olympic ski jumper. (Polish)
Ernst von Glasersfeld, 93, Austrian-born American philosopher.
Henryk Górecki, 76, Polish composer, after long illness.
Theodore W. Kheel, 96, American labor negotiator.
Leonidas Klados, 86, Greek cretan lyra performer. (Greek)
Karl Plutus, 106, Estonian jurist and centenarian. (Estonian)
Thodoros Sgourdeos, 80, Greek sports journalist, drowning. (Greek) (death reported on this date)

11

Carlos Edmundo de Ory, 87, Spanish poet, leukemia. (Spanish)
Tony Edwards, 78, British band manager (Deep Purple).
John Elliott, 66, American football player (New York Jets), cancer.
Daud Ibrahim, 63, Malaysian Olympic cyclist, traffic accident.
Attila Kovács, 70, Hungarian Olympic fencer. (Hungarian) (death announced on this date)
Baby Marie Osborne, 99, American silent movie actress.
Carroll Pratt, 89, American Emmy Award-winning sound engineer, natural causes.

10

Dino De Laurentiis, 91, Italian film producer.
Theo Doyer, 54, Dutch Olympic field hockey player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. (Dutch)
Giannis Drosos, 76, Greek journalist. (Greek)
Jim Farry, 56, Scottish football administrator, Chief Executive of the Scottish Football Association (1990–1999), heart attack.
Lee Harper, 65, American jazz trumpeter, heart attack.
Phillip Hoffman, 80, American surfer, pulmonary disease.
Donald S. Kellermann, 83, American journalist and opinion researcher, liver cancer.
Nikos Lambadaris, 59, Greek politician. (Greek)
Tiger Lance, 70, South African cricketer, injuries from a car accident.
Dave Niehaus, 75, American sportscaster (Seattle Mariners) and 2008 Ford C. Frick Award recipient, heart attack.
Nicolo Rizzuto, 86, Italian-born Canadian mafia leader (Rizzuto crime family), shot.
Einar Sæter, 92, Norwegian triple jumper, resistance member, newspaper editor and writer. (Norwegian)
Tony West, 72, British musician (The Searchers).

9

Gregorio Barradas Miravete, 28, Mexican politician, Mayor-elect of Rodríguez Clara, Veracruz, murdered.
Elizabeth Carnegy, Baroness Carnegy of Lour, 85, British academic and life peer.
John Jerome Cunneen, 78, New Zealand Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch (1995–2007).
Robin Day, 95, British furniture designer.
Disque Deane, 89, American financier, pnuemonia.
Robert Donatucci, 58, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (since 1980), sleep apnea.
Albert Wesley Johnson, 87, Canadian civil servant, President of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1975–1982), after long illness.
Ektor Kaknavatos, 90, Greek poet. (Greek)
Amos Lavi, 57, Israeli actor. (Hebrew)
Herman Liebaers, 91, Belgian linguist. (Dutch)
Dot Pitts, Manx politician, Mayor of Douglas (2008–2009), bowel cancer.
Lursakdi Sampatisiri, 91, Thai businesswoman and politician, first female Minister of Transport (1976–1977).
Jessica Sanso, 95, American opera singer.
Ernest Valko, 57, Slovak jurist and politician, President of the Czechoslovak Constitutional Court (1992–1993), shot.

8

Richard Bing, 101, German-born American cardiologist.
Fred Blankemeijer, 84, Dutch footballer. (Dutch)
Philip Carlo, 61, American crime author, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Quintin Dailey, 49, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers, Seattle SuperSonics), cardiovascular disease.
Jack Levine, 95, American artist.
Emilio Eduardo Massera, 85, Argentine admiral, member of the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, cardiovascular arrest.
Addison Powell, 89, American actor (Dark Shadows, The Thomas Crown Affair, Three Days of the Condor).
Mikhail Savicki, 88, Belarusian painter. (Russian)

7

George Estock, 86, American baseball player (Boston Braves).
Chris Goudge, 75, British Olympic athlete.
Domingo Maza Zavala, 88, Venezuelan economist, President of the Central Bank of Venezuela (1997–2004). (Spanish)
Yoshinobu Nishizaki, 75, Japanese anime producer (Space Battleship Yamato), fall from boat.
Smaro Stefanidou, 97, Greek actress, heart failure. (Greek)

6

Fernando Bastos de Ávila, 92, Brazilian Roman Catholic priest, Vice-Chancellor (Pontifícia Universidade Católica), member of Academy of Letters, cancer.
Ezard Haußmann, 75, German actor, cancer. (German)
Peter Hilton, 87, British mathematician.
Jo Myong-Rok, 82, North Korean military official, First Vice-Chairman of the National Defense Commission (since 2009), heart disease.
Robert Lipshutz, 88, American politician, White House Counsel (1977–1979).
Jaime Lozoya, 41, Mexican politician, Mayor of San Bernardo, Durango, heart attack following assault. (Spanish)
Gerard Overdijkink, 74, Dutch Olympic field hockey player. (Dutch)
Siddhartha Shankar Ray, 90, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972–1977), Governor of Punjab (1986–1989), renal failure.
Frieda Schmidt, 110, German supercentenarian and oldest citizen. (German)
Michael Seifert, 86, Soviet-born Nazi war criminal, complications from a fall.
Jay Van Noy, 82, American baseball player (1951 St. Louis Cardinals).
Aggelos Vlahakis, 85, Greek journalist. (Greek)

5

Martin Baum, 86, American talent agent (Creative Artists Agency), President of ABC Pictures (1968–1971).
John K. Beling, 91, American naval commander (1967 USS Forrestal fire), pneumonia.
Jutta Burggraf, 58, German Roman Catholic theologian and professor (University of Navarre).
Antonio Cárdenas Guillén, 48, Mexican drug lord, shot.
Barry Chevannes, 70, Jamaican social anthropologist (University of West Indies), expert of Rastafari, peace activist. (death reported on this date)
Jill Clayburgh, 66, American actress (An Unmarried Woman, Ally McBeal, Dirty Sexy Money), chronic leukemia.
Carlos Alberto Guajardo Romero, 37, Mexican journalist, shot.
Hajo Herrmann, 97, German Luftwaffe bomber pilot and lawyer. (German)
Paco Marsó, 63, Spanish theatrical producer, cerebral hemorrhage. (Spanish)
Charles McDowell, 84, American journalist and syndicated columnist, complications from a stroke.
Randy Miller, 39, American drummer (The Myriad), bone cancer.
Michelle Nicastro, 50, American singer, actress (When Harry Met Sally...) and voice actress (The Swan Princess), lung cancer.
Adrian Păunescu, 67, Romanian author, poet and politician.
Sid Simmons, 63, American jazz pianist, cancer.
David Steuart, 94, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan MLA (1962–1977) and Leader of the Opposition (1971–1976), Senator (1975–1991).
Henriette van Lynden-Leijten, 60, Dutch diplomat, cancer.
Shirley Verrett, 79, American operatic mezzo-soprano, heart failure.

4

Sparky Anderson, 76, American baseball player and manager (Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers), member of Baseball Hall of Fame, complications from dementia.
Eugénie Blanchard, 114, French supercentenarian, world's oldest person.
Kenneth Brown, 77, American academic, chairman of first undergraduate peace studies program in the United States (1980–2005).
Ron Cockerill, 75, English footballer (Grimsby Town, Huddersfield Town), natural causes.
Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, 76, Filipino poet, hypertension.
Antoine Duquesne, 69, Belgian politician. (French)
James Freud, 51, Australian vocalist and bassist (Models) and solo artist, suicide.
John Greene, 90, American football player (Detroit Lions), after short illness.
Sandy Hadden, 86, American baseball executive, aide to Commissioner Bowie Kuhn (1970–1985).
Rudy Regalado, 67, Venezuelan percussionist and bandleader (El Chicano), complications of pneumonia.
Charles Reynolds, 78, American magician, liver cancer.
Noel Taylor, 97, American Emmy Award-winning costume designer.

3

Petros Hanna Issa Al-Harboli, 64, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic Bishop of Zakho (since 2001).
Rubén Basoalto, 63, Argentine drummer, founder of Vox Dei, lung cancer. (Spanish)
Alfons Benedikter, 92, Austrian politician. (German)
Jerry Bock, 81, American musical theater composer (Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello!), heart failure.
Viktor Chernomyrdin, 72, Russian politician, Prime Minister (1992–1998), Ambassador to Ukraine (2001–2009), cancer.
Jim Clench, 61, Canadian bass guitarist (April Wine, Bachman–Turner Overdrive), lung cancer.
Bill Colvin, 75, Canadian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) ice hockey player.
Sylvia Davis, 100, American actress.
Harold P. Ford, 89, American CIA analyst, complications from pneumonia.
Emilio Franco, 54, Mexican actor, shot.
Hotep Idris Galeta, 69, South African jazz pianist, composer and lecturer, asthma attack.
Julien Hug, 35, American reality show contestant (The Bachelorette), suicide. (body found on this date)
P. Lal, 81, Indian writer.
Sonia Pottinger, 79, Jamaican record producer.

2

Rudolf Barshai, 86, Russian conductor and viola player.
Nick Bell, 20, American college football player (Mississippi State University), synovial sarcoma.
Sarah Doron, 88, Israeli politician and government minister.
Eddie Hazell, 76, American jazz musician.
Andy Irons, 32, American professional surfer.
Clyde King, 86, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds) and manager (New York Yankees).
Romualdas Krikšciunas, 80, Lithuanian Roman Catholic Bishop, Apostolic Administrator of Panevėžys (1973–1983). (Lithuanian)
Kalim Sharafi, 85, Indian Bengali language singer.
Jule Sugarman, 83, American creator and director of the Head Start Program, cancer.
Christos Triantis, 90, Greek union leader.

1

Mihai Chiţac, 82, Romanian general, Minister of Interior (1989–1990), after long illness.
Julia Clements, 104, English flower arranger and author.
Georgios Economou, 77, Greek journalist.
Monica Johnson, 54, American novelist and screenwriter (Lost in America, Modern Romance), esophageal cancer.
Charlie O'Donnell, 78, American announcer (Wheel of Fortune), heart failure.
Shannon Tavarez, 11, American child actress (The Lion King), leukemia.
Gaston Vandermeerssche, 89, Belgian leader of World War II Dutch underground intelligence, subject of Gaston's War, natural causes.