Friend To The Stars Since 1976

... and Some In Memoriam from Other Years.


DECEMBER
December 1st, 2010
Adriaan Blaauw, 96
Dutch astronomer


Helen Boatwright, 94
American soprano

Ioannis Fourakis, 73
Greek author, journalist, researcher and philosopher

Shahla Jahed, 39
Iranian murderer, hanged

Charles N Millican, 94
American academic, founding president of the University of Central Florida

Richard P Myers, 62
American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1995 – 2010)

Alojz Srebotnjak, 79
Slovenian composer

December 2nd, 2010
Michael Bunluen Mansap, 81
Thai Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ubon Ratchathani (1976 – 2006)

Abu Bakarr Gaye, 56
Gambian politician, Minister of Health (since 2009)

John Bowring, 87
British RAF engineering officer

Michele Giordano, 80
Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Naples (1987 – 2006)

Chane’t Johnson, 34
American actress, heart attack

Lee Huan, 93
Taiwanese politician, Premier of the Republic of China (1989 – 1990), cardiopulmonary failure

Ernâni Lopes, 68
Portuguese politician, Minister of Finance (1983 – 1985)

Juan de Jesús Madrid Deras, 35
Honduran politician, shot

Ron Santo, 70
American baseball player and broadcaster (Chicago Cubs)

December 3rd, 2010
Marvin Bass, 91
American college football player and coach

Hugues Cuénod, 108
Swiss tenor

King Curtis Iaukea, 73
American professional wrestler

Phil Jasner, 68
American sportswriter

Elaine Kaufman, 81
American restaurateur, founder of Elaine’s

José Ramos Delgado, 75
Argentine footballer and coach

Skip Young, 59
American professional wrestler

December 4th, 2010
Manish Acharya, 40
Indian film director and actor

Lia Dorana, 92
Dutch actress and comedienne

Sandra Ellis-Troy, 68
American stage actress

Cathy Harvin, 56
American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (since 2006)

Jacques Lafleur, 78
French politician, leader of New Caledonia anti-independence movement

Jack Morris, 88
Polish-born American newscaster (KTUL, KJRH)

Stu Olds, 60
American media executive

Heather Stilwell, 66
Canadian anti-abortion activist and politician

Dagoberto Suárez Melo, 35
Colombian politician, governor of Guaviare

December 5th, 2010
Alan Armer, 88
American Emmy Award-winning television producer (The Fugitive, The Untouchables)

Shamil Burziyev, 25
Russian footballer

David French, 71
Canadian playwright

María Esther Gatti, 92
Uruguayan human rights activist


Salomón Jauli Dávila, 62
Mexican athlete, politician and sports promoter

John Leslie, 65
American pornographic film actor

Donald Lineberger, 71
American banjo player

Don Meredith, 72
American football player (Dallas Cowboys) and commentator (Monday Night Football)

Almir Lira Sobrinho, 54
Brazilian politician, Alagoas State Deputy-elect, former mayor of Feira Grande

John Thomas Steinbock, 73
American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santa Rosa (1987 – 1991) and Fresno (since 1991)

Virgilio Teixeira, 93
Portuguese actor (Return of the Seven, The Fall of the Roman Empire, El Cid)

December 6th, 2010
Richard Abruzzo, 47
American balloonist (body found on this date)

Mark Dailey, 57
American-born Canadian television journalist and announcer

Ambrosio Echebarria Arroita, 88
Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Barbastro-Monzón (1974 – 1999)

Bob Fox, 62
American concert promoter

Norman Hetherington, 89
Australian cartoonist and television personality

Ferenc Keszthelyi, 82
Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vác (1992 – 2003)

James Thomas Lynn, 83
American politician, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1973 – 1975)

Vic Lynn, 85
Canadian ice hockey player (Bruins, Blackhawks, Red Wings, Canadiens, Rangers, Maple Leafs)

Imre Mathesz, 73
Hungarian footballer and coach

Art Quimby, 77
American college basketball player (UConn)

Hank Raymonds, 86
American college basketball coach (Marquette)

Carol Rymer Davis, 65
American balloonist (body found on this date)

T E Srinivasan, 60
Indian cricketer

Júlio Tavares Rebimbas, 88
Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Porto (1982 – 1997)

December 7th, 2010
Hendrik Coetzee, 35
South African kayaker and adventurer

Elizabeth Edwards, 61
American author, lawyer and political activist

Fan Yew Teng
Malaysian politician and human rights activist


Art Mahan, 97
American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and college baseball coach (Villanova)

Gus Mercurio, 82
American-born Australian boxer and actor


Allan Robinson, 75
British Olympic weightlifter

Kari Tapio, 65
Finnish schlager singer

Federico Vairo, 80
Argentine footballer and coach

December 8th, 2010
John Lennon, 40
British Lead Singer, Beatles; Activitst, Spritualist, Shot, 1980


Murray Armstrong, 94
Canadian ice hockey player (Red Wings, Maple Leafs) and coach (University of Denver)

John James, 76
Australian footballer, Brownlow Medallist

Giorgos Lebesis, 80
Greek theatre entrepreneur

December 9th, 2010
Sylvie Cachay, 33
American fashion designer

John Eleuthère du Pont, 72
American millionaire, member of du Pont family, murderer of Dave Schultz

Chuck Jordan, 83
American design chief (General Motors)

Alexander Kerst, 86
Austrian actor

James Moody, 85
American jazz saxophone and flute player

Nazario Moreno González, 40
Mexican drug lord (La Familia Michoacana)

Dov Shilansky, 86
Israeli politician, Speaker of the Knesset (1988 – 1992)

Jacin Sinclair, 38
Australian rugby league player (body found on this date)

Thorvald Strömberg, 79
Finnish Olympic sprint canoer

Boris Tishchenko, 71
Russian composer

December 10th, 2010
Marcel Domingo, 86
French footballer

John Bennett Fenn, 93
American chemist and Nobel laureate

J Michael Hagopian, 97
Armenian-born American documentary filmmaker

Wolfgang Holst, 88
German sports official, President of Hertha BSC (1979 – 1985)

Scott Lang, 41
American basketball coach (La Roche College), youngest NCAA basketball coach

Matthew Stewardson, 35
South African actor and television presenter

Jacques Swaters, 84
Belgian racing driver

Dick Turpin, 91
Turkish-born American newspaper editor (Los Angeles Times), Pulitzer-Prize winner

December 11th, 2010
José dos Santos Garcia, 97
Portuguese-born Mozambican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto Amélia (1957 – 1975)

Mark Madoff, 46
American businessman, son of Bernard Madoff

MacKenzie Miller, 89
American racehorse trainer, owner and breeder, Hall of Famer

Marina Nemet, 50
Croatian actress

Roger Nicole, 95
Swiss-born American Evangelical Christian theologian

Peter Risi, 60
Swiss footballer

Jordy Walker, 71
Bermudan Olympic sailor

December 12th, 2010
Manuel Caballero, 79
Venezuelan historian, journalist and author

Lachhiman Gurung, 92
Nepalese-born British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross

Emmanuel Ogoli
Nigerian footballer

Silvano Simeon, 65
Italian Olympic athlete

William Thompson, 71
British politician, MP for West Tyrone (1997 – 2001)

Tom Walkinshaw, 64
British engineer and racing team owner (Tom Walkinshaw Racing, Arrows)

December 13th, 2010
James Dibble, 87
Australian television news presenter

Rick Griffiths
Australian Aboriginal activist and ATSIC commissioner

Richard Holbrooke, 69
American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (1993 – 1994) and United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1999 – 2001)

Enrique Morente, 67
Spanish flamenco singer

Remmy Ongala, 63
Tanzanian singer

Aldo Sassi, 51
Italian cycling coach

Woolly Wolstenholme, 63
British progressive rock musician (Barclay James Harvest)

December 14th, 2010
Bernard Patrick Devlin, 89
Irish-born Roman Catholic Bishop of Gibraltar (1985 – 1998)

Timothy Davlin, 53
American politician, Mayor of Springfield, Illinois (since 2003)

Neva Patterson, 90
American actress (An Affair to Remember, All the President’s Men)

Dale Roberts, 24
English footballer, (Rushden & Diamonds)

Alberto Segado, 66
Argentine actor (Asesinato en el Senado de la Nación)

December 15th, 2010
Ken Ablack, 91
Trinidadian cricket player

Gonzalo Meza Allende, 45
Chilean political scientist, grandson of Salvador Allende)

Teclaireille Bille, 22
Equatorial Guinean football player

Domini Blythe, 63
British-born Canadian stage and film actress (Mount Royal, Search for Tomorrow)

Peter O Chotjewitz, 76
German author

Carlos Pinto Coelho, 66
Portuguese journalist and television personality

Bernard Patrick Devlin, 89
Irish-born Roman Catholic Bishop of Gibraltar (1985 – 1998)

Blake Edwards, 88
American film director, producer and screenwriter (The Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

Bob Feller, 92
American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), member of Baseball Hall of Fame

Stan Heal, 90
Australian footballer, member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame

Anas Pshikhachev, 43
Russian mufti of Kabardino-Balkaria, shot

Jean Rollin, 72
French film director, actor and novelist

Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, 70
American social theorist and psychoanalyst, professor of political science (UCLA)

Stephanie Young, 48
American jockey

December 16th, 2010
John David Duty, 58
American murderer, first death row inmate executed by pentobarbital, execution by lethal injection

Sterling Lyon, 83
Canadian politician, Premier of Manitoba (1977 – 1981)

Ruth Park, 93
New Zealand-born Australian novelist

December 17th, 2010
Captain Beefheart, 69
American musician and artist


Ralph Coates, 64
English footballer (Burnley, Tottenham Hotspur, Leyton Orient, England)

Walt Dropo, 87
American baseball player (Red Sox, Tigers, White Sox)

Sulaiman Taha
Malaysian politician, member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly

Mikhail Umansky, 58
Russian chess grandmaster

December 18th, 2010
Armando Borrajo, 34
Argentine cyclist and former national champion

John Bukovsky, 86
Slovakian-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Romania (1990 – 1994) and Russia (1994 – 2000)

Phil Cavarretta, 94
American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox)

Clay Cole, 72
American television host (The Clay Cole Show) and DJ

Norberto Díaz, 57
Argentine actor

Max Jammer, 95
Israeli physicist

Tasso Kavadia, 89
Greek actress and artist

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, 70
Italian banker and politician, Minister of Economy and Finance (2006 – 2008), proponent of the Euro

Jacqueline de Romilly, 97
French philologist

Rodica Tapalaga, 71
Romanian actress

December 19th, 2010
Lupe Gigliotti, 84
Brazilian actress

Anthony Howard, 76
British journalist

Murali Kuttan, 56
Indian athlete, Asian Games medalist

Trudy Pitts, 78
American jazz organist, pianist and vocalist

December 20th, 2010
John Alldis, 81
British chorus master and conductor

Aamer Bashir, 38
Pakistani cricketer

Brian Hanrahan, 61
British journalist

Steve Landesberg, 74
American actor (Barney Miller, Forgetting Sarah Marshall)

Jean-Pierre Leloir, 79
French photographer

James Robert Mann, 90
American politician US Congressman from South Carolina (1969 – 1979)

Magnolia Shorty, 28
American rapper, shot

Patricia Thompson, 63
American television producer, Emmy Award-winning documentary director

December 21st, 2010
Hércules Barsotti, 96
Brazilian painter and visual artist

Enzo Bearzot, 83
Italian World Cup-winning football manager and player

W Pete Cunningham, 81
American politician, Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (1987 – 2008)

Giovanni Ferrofino, 98
Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti (1960 – 1965) and to Ecuador (1965 – 1970)

Nikos Giannopoulos, 64
Greek union leader

David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham, 78
British politician and television executive

Oleksandr Kovalenko, 34
Ukrainian footballer (Dnipro, Shakhtar) and referee

Marcia Lewis, 72
American musical theatre actress and singer

Pôncio Monteiro, 70
Portuguese sports official (FC Porto and Portuguese Football Federation)

Catalina Speroni, 72
Argentine actress

December 22nd, 2010
Jean Chamant, 97
French minister, senator (1977 – 1995)

Fred Foy, 89
American radio and television announcer (The Lone Ranger)

Dimitris Marinopoulos, 91
Greek businessman and investor (Carrefour Marinopoulos)

December 23rd, 2010
Jayaben Desai, 77
Indian-born British trade unionist (Grunwick dispute)

Fred Hargesheimer, 94
American USAAF pilot and philanthropist

Ibrahim Ismail, 88
Malaysian soldier, Chief of the Malaysian Defence Force (1970 – 1977)

K Karunakaran, 92
Indian politician, Chief Minister of Kerala (1977; 1981 – 1987; 1991 – 1995)

Kenneth B Lee, 88
American politician, Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1967 – 1968; 1973 – 1974)

Janine Pommy Vega, 68
American Beat Generation poet

December 24th, 2010
Elisabeth Beresford, 84
British children’s author, creator of The Wombles


Jean-Marie Charpentier, 71
French architect and urban planner

Frans de Munck, 88
Dutch footballer

Roy Neuberger, 107
American financier and arts patron

José Orlandis, 92
Spanish church historian and priest

Johann Parzer, 61
Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer

Orestes Quércia, 72
Brazilian politician, Governor of São Paulo (1987 – 1991)

Neil Rogers, 68
American radio personality

Myrna Smith, 69
American singer and songwriter (Sweet Inspirations)

Eino Tamberg, 80
Estonian composer

John Warhola, 85
American museum founder (The Andy Warhol Museum) & brother of Andy Warhol

Bill Wilhelm, 81
American college baseball coach

Fernando Zarif, 50
Brazilian plastic artist

December 25th, 2010
Gavin Brown, 68
Australian academic, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney (1996 – 2008)

John Bulaitis, 77
British-born Lithuanian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Albania (1997 – 2008)

Mita Dunchovska, 90
Bulgarian professor, natural causes

Luis Manresa Formosa, 95
Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán (1955 – 1979)

Bud Greenspan, 84
American Olympic filmmaker

Dorothy Jones, 76
American singer (The Cookies)

Artemis Kapasakali, 73
Greek theater entepreneur and film producer (Evdokia)

Eric Laakso, 54
American football player (Miami Dolphins)

Jorge Mayer, 95
Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Bahía Blanca (1972 – 1991)

Iain Noble, 3rd Baronet, 75
Scottish businessman

Carlos Andrés Pérez, 88
Venezuelan politician, President (1974 – 1979; 1989 – 1993)

Maurice Rioli, 53
Australian VFL player and politician, member of the NT Legislative Assembly for Arafura (1992 – 2001)

Ghandi Sahmarani, 45
Lebanese militant (Jund al-Sham), shot

December 26th, 2010
Salvador Jorge Blanco, 84
Dominican politician, President (1982 – 1986)

Wade Crane, 66
American pool player

Miguel Maria Giambelli, 90
Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bragança do Pará (1980 – 1996)

Teena Marie, 54
American singer and composer

Dary Reis, 84
Brazilian actor

Dino Santana, 70
Brazilian actor

Bernard Wilson, 64
American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes)

December 27th, 2010
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, 61
French actor

Joseph Grech, 62
Maltese-born Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sandhurst

Alfred E Kahn, 93
American economist

Jack Leslie, 90
Canadian politician, Mayor of Calgary (1965 – 1969)

Luis Mariñas, 63
Spanish journalist

Michael O’Pake, 70
American politician, longest serving member of the Pennsylvania State Senate (since 1972)

December 28th, 2010
Ali-Reza Asgari, 58
Iranian politican and general, Deputy Minister of Defense (1997 – 2005)

Denis Dutton, 66
American entrepreneur and philosopher, creator of Arts & Letters Daily and Bad Writing Contest

Bill Lajoie, 76
American baseball scout and executive)

December 29th, 2010
Vladan Batic, 61
Serbian politician and lawyer, Minister of Justice (2001 – 2003)

Steve Boros, 74
American baseball player (Tigers) and manager (Athletics, Padres)

Brigitte Burdine, 48
American video game developer (World of Warcraft, Killzone 2)

Jimmy Coffey, 101
Irish hurler

Avi Cohen, 54
Israeli footballer

John Doyle, 80
Irish hurler

Mondine Garcia, 75
French Gypsy jazz guitarist

Pavel Kolchin, 80
Russian Olympic gold (1956) and bronze (1956, 1964) medal-winning cross-country skier

Sören Wibe, 64
Swedish economist and politician, Junilistan party leader, member of the European Parliament and the Riksdag

December 30th, 2010
Paul Calle, 82
American artist, postage stamp designer

Sir Ellis Clarke, 93
Trinidadian politician, President (1976 – 1987)

Chris Colmer, 30
American college football player (NC State)

Bobby Farrell, 61
Aruban-born dancer and entertainer (Boney M)

Roger Milliken, 95
American textile executive (Milliken & Co)

Tony Proudfoot, 61
Canadian CFL football player

Nick Santo, 69
American doo-wop singer (The Capris)

Eric Teed, 84
Canadian politician, Mayor of Saint John, New Brunswick (1960 – 1964)

Tom Vandergriff, 84
American politician, Mayor of Arlington, Texas (1951 – 1977) and US Congressman from Texas (1983 – 1985)

Jenny Wood-Allen, 99
Scottish athlete and politician, world record holder for the oldest female marathon finisher

December 31st, 2010
Rick Nelson, 45
Adventures Of Ozzie and Harriet, Musician, Plane Crash, 1985


Raymond Impanis, 85
Belgian professional cyclist

Flemming Jørgensen, 63
Danish actor and musician (Bamses Venner)

Onie Ponder, 112
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... and Some In Memoriam from Other Years.


OCTOBER
October 1st, 2010
Georgy Arbatov, 87
Russian political scientist

Dezso Bundzsák, 82
Hungarian football player and coach

Gerard Labuda, 93
Polish historian

Mikhail Roshchin, 77
Russian playwright

October 2nd, 2010
Maurice Foster, 77
Canadian politician, MP for Algoma (1968 – 1993)

Kwa Geok Choo, 89
Singaporean lawyer, wife of Lee Kuan Yew, mother of Lee Hsien Loong

David Le Cluse, 44
English chairman (Croydon Athletic), implicated in cricket spot-fixing controversy

Kristaps Streics, 40
Latvian film director

October 3rd, 2010
Maury Allen, 78
American sportswriter (The New York Post)

Aécio Ferreira da Cunha, 83
Brazilian politician, father of Aécio Neves

Ben Mondor, 85
American baseball executive (Pawtucket Red Sox)

Walter Nones, 39
Italian mountaineer and extreme climber


Abraham Sarmiento, 88
Filipino lawyer, Supreme Court Associate Justice (1987 – 1991)

Dianne Whalen, 59
Canadian politician, Newfoundland and Labrador MHA for Conception Bay East and Bell Island (2003 – 2010)

October 4th, 2010
Alberto Alves da Silva, 89
Brazilian artist and musician

Claude Lefort, 86
French philosopher

Gregorio Ros, 58
Spanish make-up artist

Peter Warr, 72
British racing driver and Formula One team principal (Lotus)

Sir Norman Wisdom, 95
British comedian and actor

October 5th, 2010
William Shakespeare, 61
Australian glam rock singer

Stan Bisset, 98
Australian rugby union player

Bernard Clavel, 87
French writer

Mary Leona Gage, 71
American pageant queen, stripped of Miss USA (1957) title

Moss Keane, 62
Irish rugby union player

Steve Lee, 47
Swiss musician (Gotthard)

Karen McCarthy, 63
American politician, US Representative from Missouri (1995 – 2005)

October 6th, 2010
Ralph Kercheval, 98
American football player

Horacio Larrosa, 66
Argentine journalist

Colette Renard, 86
French singer and actress

October 7th, 2010
Metring David, 90
Filipino actress and comedian

Abe Gustin, 75
American founder of Applebee’s International

Rhys Isaac, 72
Australian historian and professor

Ljupco Jordanovski, 57
Macedonian seismologist and politician, Acting President (2004)

Ian Morris, 53
New Zealand musician (Th’ Dudes) and record producer

Milka Planinc, 85
Yugoslavian politician, Prime Minister (1982 – 1986)

A Venkatachalam, 55
Indian politician

October 8th, 2010
Antonio Jiménez Baños, 47
Mexican politician, Mayor-elect of Mártires de Tacubaya

Maurice Neligan, 73
Irish surgeon, performed Ireland's first heart transplant

Linda Norgrove, 36
British aid worker and Taliban hostage, killed during rescue attempt

Mohammad Omar
Afghan Governor of Kunduz Province

Pleasant Tap, 23
American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized due to laminitis

Neil Richardson, 70
English composer, arranger and conductor

Albertina Walker, 81
American gospel music singer (The Caravans)

October 9th, 2010
Maurice Allais, 99
French economist, Nobel Prize winner (1988)

Edmund Chong Ket Wah, 54
Malaysian politician, Member of Parliament (since 2004)

Aleksandr Matveyev, 84
Russian linguist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

October 10th, 2010
Solomon Burke, 70
American R&B singer-songwriter

Les Gibbard, 64
New Zealand-born British political cartoonist

Adán Martín Menis, 66
Spanish politician, President of the Canary Islands (2003 – 2007)

A Edison Stairs, 85
Canadian businessman and politician

Dame Joan Sutherland, 83
Australian dramatic coloratura soprano

October 11th, 2010
Nikolaos Artemiadis, 93
Greek mathematician and academic, chairman of the Athens Academy (2000)

Marcel Lapierre, 60
French organic winemaker

Marian P Opala, 89
American jurist, Associate Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court (1978 – 2010)

Claire Rayner, 79
British author and advice columnist

October 12th, 2010
Manuel Alexandre, 92
Spanish actor

Austin Ardill, 93
British politician, member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Carrick

Angelo Infanti, 71
Italian actor

Lionel W McKenzie, 91
American economist

October 13th, 2010
Makis Apostolatos, 62
Greek poet

Juan Carlos Arteche, 53
Spanish footballer

Eddie Baily, 85
English footballer

Huddy Combs
American rapper (Harlem World)

General Norman Johnson, 67
American singer (Chairmen of the Board)

Kostas Kafasis, 70
Greek actor and singer

Khoisan X, 55
South African political activist

Jiri Krizan, 68
Czech screenwriter and presidential adviser

Jerry Marshall, 91
American disc jockey

Marzieh, 84
Iranian singer, cancer

Donald H Tuck, 87
Australian science fiction bibliographer

October 14th, 2010
Malcolm Allison, 83
English football manager (Manchester City)

Carla Del Poggio, 84
Italian actress

Alain Le Bussy, 63
Belgian science fiction author

Johannes Leobacher, 45
Austrian banker, head of investment (Erste Group Bank AG)

Simon MacCorkindale, 58
British actor (Manimal, Casualty, Falcon Crest)


Benoît Mandelbrot, 85
Polish-born French-American mathematician, pioneer of the study of fractals


Hermann Scheer, 66
German politician, member of the Bundestag (1980 – 2010) and Right Livelihood Award laureate (1999)

Larry Siegfried, 71
American basketball player (Boston Celtics)

October 15th, 2010
Jim Dougal, 65
British journalist (BBC News, RTÉ, UTV)

Adolfo Torres, 67
Argentine dentist, rector of National University of the Northeast

October 16th, 2010
Barbara Billingsley, 94
American actress (Leave It to Beaver, Airplane!)


Jack Butterfield, 91
Canadian-born President of the American Hockey League (1969 – 1994)

Giannis Dalianidis, 86
Greek film director and screenwriter (Oi Thalassies oi Hadres, O katergaris)

Nikos Fasouras, 42
Greek basketball player (Peristeri BC, Maroussi BC)

José Angelo Gaiarsa, 90
Brazilian psychiatrist and writer

Friedrich Katz, 83
Austrian anthropologist and historian

October 17th, 2010
Eyedea, 28
American rapper and musician (Eyedea & Abilities)

John Baird Finlay, 81
Canadian politician, MP for Oxford (1993 – 2004)

Rito Grado Serrano, 56
Mexican politician, Mayor of Práxedis G Guerrero

Ted Hallaman, 83
American disc jockey

Joe Lis, 66
American baseball player

Freddy Schuman, 85
American Yankees fan

Michael Tabor, 63
American Black Panther Party member

Dennis Taylor, 56
American saxophonist

Ken Wriedt, 83
Australian politician, Senator for Tasmania (1967 – 1980), Leader of the Tasmanian Opposition (1982 – 1986)

October 18th, 2010
Marion Brown, 79
American jazz saxophonist

Consuelo Crespi, 82
American-born Italian countess, fashion model and editor

Margaret Gwenver
American actress (Guiding Light)

Mel Hopkins, 75
Welsh footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion)

Peng Chong, 95
Chinese politician, former National Committee member

Elsie Steele, 111
British supercentenarian

October 19th, 2010
Tom Bosley, 83
American actor (Happy Days, Father Dowling Mysteries)

Craig Charron, 42
American ice hockey player

Graham Crowden, 87
Scottish actor (A Very Peculiar Practice, Waiting For God)

Stathi Katsidis, 31
Australian jockey

André Mahé, 90
French road bicycle racer

October 20th, 2010
Ari Up, 48
German-born British punk musician (The Slits)

Francisco Batistela, 79
Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa (1990 – 2009)

Otey Clark, 95
American baseball player (Boston Red Sox)

W Cary Edwards, 66
American politician, New Jersey State Assemblyman (1978 – 1982) and Attorney General (1986 – 1989)

Luis María Fernández Basualdo, 62
Argentine politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies (2007 – 2010)

Bob Guccione, 79
American publisher, founder of Penthouse

Eva Ibbotson, 85
British author

Bill Jennings, 85
American baseball player (St Louis Browns)

Robert Katz, 77
American writer

Max Kohnstamm, 96
Dutch historian and diplomat

Nikos Legakis, 70
Greek physician and politician

Farooq Leghari, 70
Pakistani politician, President (1993 – 1997)

Sir George Mallet, 87
Saint Lucian politician, Governor-General (1996 – 1997)

Alexander Moksel, 92
German entrepreneur, founder of Moksel AG

Eduard Novák, 63
Czech Olympic silver (1976) and bronze (1972) medal-winning ice hockey player

Jenny Oropeza, 53
American politician, California State Assemblywoman (2000 – 2006) and State Senator (since 2006)

Robert Paynter, 82
British cinematographer (Michael Jackson’s Thriller)

Harvey Phillips, 80
American tuba player, Parkinson’s disease

Tony Roig, 81
American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators)

Parthasarathy Sharma, 62
Indian Test cricketer (1974 – 1977)

Wendall Woodbury, 68
American television journalist and host (WGAL-TV)

October 21st, 2010
Antonio Alatorre, 88
Mexican philologist


Uccio Aloisi, 82
Italian traditional music singer

Mustapha Anane, 60
Algerian footballer

A Ayyappan, 61
Indian poet

José Carbajal, 66
Uruguayan singer, guitarist, and composer (Los Olimareños)

Hermann Eberlein, 93
German long-distance runner, German Master (1939, 1946 & 1950)

Christian Kandlbauer, 22
Austrian automotive mechanic, first human with thought-controlled bionic prosthesis

James F Neal, 81
American jurist, prosecuted Watergate figures

Loki Schmidt, 91
German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt

Natasha Spender, 91
British musician and writer, widow of Stephen Spender

October 22nd, 2010
Alex Anderson, 90
American cartoonist, created characters for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Crusader Rabbit

Arthur M Brazier, 89
American pastor and civil rights activist

Alí Chumacero, 92
Mexican writer and poet

Helen Hunley, 90
Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (1985 – 1991)

Franz Raschid, 56
German footballer

Denis Simpson, 59
Canadian actor (Polka Dot Door) and singer

October 23rd, 2010
Vince Banonis, 89
American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions)

Ior Bock, 68
Finnish actor and tour guide, stabbing

George Cain, 66
American author, kidney failure

Fran Crippen, 26
American swimmer, heart attack

Leo Cullum, 68
American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer

Robert Fitzpatrick, 73
American manager and actor, lung cancer

S Neil Fujita, 89
American graphic designer, complications of a stroke

Princess Irmingard of Bavaria, 87
German noblewoman

Donald Leifert, 59
American science fiction actor

Chhewang Nima, 43
Nepalese mountaineer and guide, avalanche

Stanley Tanger, 87
American businessman, founder of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers

David Thompson, 48
British-born Barbadian politician, Prime Minister (since 2008), pancreatic cancer

Tom Winslow, 69
American folk musician, complications from a stroke

October 24th, 2010
Bob Courtney, 87
British-born South African broadcaster and actor

Mike Esposito, 83
American comic book artist

Georges Frêche, 72
French politician, cardiac arrest

Fritz Grösche, 69
German footballer and coach, cancer

Andy Holmes, 51
British Olympic gold (1984, 1988) and bronze (1988) medal-winning rower, leptospirosis

Franciszek Jarecki, 79
Polish-born American jet pilot and defector

Lamont Johnson, 88
American actor and television director (The Twilight Zone, The Execution of Private Slovik), heart failure

Alex Oakley, 84
Canadian Olympic race walker

Pan Jin-yu, 96
Taiwanese last speaker of the Pazeh language

Philibert Parnasse, 109
French centenarian, oldest man in France and Guadeloupe

Ignacio Ramírez de Haro, 15th Count of Bornos, 92
Spanish noble, Grandee of Spain, father-in-law of Esperanza Aguirre, legionella

Burton B Roberts, 88
American judge, New York Supreme Court Justice (1973 – 1998), respiratory failure

Willie Rutherford, 65
Australian soccer player

Sylvia Sleigh, 94
American painter, complications of a stroke

David Stahl, 60
American conductor, lymphoma

Joseph Stein, 98
American playwright (Fiddler on the Roof, Zorba)

October 25th, 2010
Hans Arnold, 85
Swiss-born Swedish artist

Lisa Blount, 53
American actress (An Officer and a Gentleman) and Academy Award-winning film producer (The Accountant)

David Burgess, 63
British immigration lawyer

Jeff Carter, 82
Australian photographer and author

Richard T Gill, 82
American opera singer, heart failure

Gregory Isaacs, 59
Jamaican reggae singer, lung cancer

Andreas Maurer, 91
Austrian politician, Landeshauptmann of Lower Austria (1966 – 1981)

Vesna Parun, 88
Croatian writer

Rudy Rufer, 84
American baseball player (New York Giants)

Roy Skinner, 80
American college basketball coach (Vanderbilt), respiratory failure

October 26th, 2010
Glen Little, 84
American circus performer (Frosty the Clown)

Mbah Maridjan, 83
Indonesian spiritual guardian of Mount Merapi (1982 – 2010), pyroclastic flow from Mount Merapi

Ricardo Montez, 87
Gibraltarian character actor

Paul the Octopus, 2
British-born World Cup oracle octopus (Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany), natural causes

James Phelps, 78
American gospel and R&B singer, complications of diabetes

Ana María Romero de Campero, 67
Bolivian journalist and politician, President of the Senate of Bolivia (2010), colorectal cancer

Billy Ruane, 52
American concert promoter and manager, heart attack

Romeu Tuma, 79
Brazilian politician, Senator (1995 – 2010), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

October 27th, 2010
Mary Emma Allison, 93
American co-creator of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF

Denise Borino-Quinn, 46
American actress (The Sopranos), liver cancer

Chris Gulker, 59
American photographer, programmer and writer

Hugh Hayden, 66
British motor racing team owner

Néstor Kirchner, 60
Argentine politician, President (2003 – 2007), First Gentleman (2007 – 2010), Secretary General of UNASUR (2010)

Paul Kolton, 87
American chairman of the American Stock Exchange (1972 – 1977)

Luigi Macaluso, 62
Italian businessman, President and Chairman of the Sowind Group

Ehud Netzer, 76
Israeli archaeologist

Charis Patsis, 97
Greek educator, writer and editor

Owen B Pickett, 80
American politician, US Representative from Virginia (1987 – 2001)

Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qassimi, 92
Hakim (1948 – 2010) and Emir (1951 – 2010) of Ras al-Khaimah

Hall Thompson, 87
American developer of a country club that did not allow black members

James Wall, 92
American actor (Captain Kangaroo) and stage manager

October 28th, 2010
Isabella Abbott, 91
American ethnobotany professor, first native Hawaiian to receive a doctorate in science

Jack Brokensha, 84
Australian jazz musician, composer and arranger

Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto, 90
Peruvian Roman Catholic Bishop of Puno (1972 – 1998)

Erling Fløtten, 72
Norwegian politician

Fernando Garavito, 66
Colombian journalist and lawyer

Watts Humphrey, 83
American software engineer

Gerard Kelly, 51
British actor (City Lights)

Liang Congjie, 78
Chinese environmentalist (Friends of Nature)


James MacArthur, 72
American actor (Hawaii Five-O, Swiss Family Robinson)

Yertward Mazmanian, 85
Armenian-born American hippie

Jonathan Motzfeldt, 72
Greenlandic politician, Prime Minister (1979 – 1991; 1997 – 2002)

Paddy Mullins, 91
Irish racehorse trainer

Walter Payton Jr, 68
American jazz bassist and sousaphonist

Yiannis Sakellarakis, 74
Greek archaeologist

Jängy Schmit, 79
Luxembourgian Olympic cyclist

Johnny van Rensburg, 78
South African Olympic boxer

October 29th, 2010
Marcelino Camacho, 92
Spanish trade unionist

Ronnie Clayton, 76
English footballer (Blackburn Rovers)

Yevgeny Golovin, 72
Russia writer and philosopher

George Hickenlooper, 47
American documentary filmmaker

Jim Hunter, 71
American NASCAR official

Yisrael Katz, 82
Israeli public servant and government minister

Antonio Mariscal, 95
Mexican Olympic diver

Karlo Sakandelidze, 82
Georgian actor

Takeshi Shudo, 61
Japanese writer (Pokémon)

October 30th, 2010
Kirk Abella, 32
Filipino actor, shot

Leopoldo Alfredo Bravo, 50
Argentine ambassador to Russia

John Benson, 67
Scottish football player and manager

Édouard Carpentier, 84
French-Canadian professional wrestler

Ina Clare, 77
British actress (EastEnders)

Arthur Bernard Lewis, 84
American television producer and writer (Dallas)

Ananías Maidana, 86
Paraguayan teacher and politician, prostate cancer

Harry Mulisch, 83
Dutch writer (The Assault, The Discovery of Heaven)

Nachi Nozawa, 72
Japanese voice actor, lung cancer

Simos Varsamidis, 68
Greek television and documentary film director

October 31st, 2010
Maurice Lucas, 58
American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Lakers)

Ted Sorensen, 82
American White House counsel (1961 – 1964)

Artie Wilson, 90
American baseball player (New York Giants, Birmingham Black Barons) [/align]