The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2010.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
January 2010
1 Gary Brockette, 67, American actor (The Last Picture Show) and assistant director, cancer. Chauncey H. Browning Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985). Jean Carroll, 98, American comedian (The Ed Sullivan Show). P. Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness.UPF leader Chandrasekaran dies of heart attack Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer. Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish journalist and film critic, lung cancer. *Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of Zárate-Campana (1976–1991). John Freeman, 93, American animator (The Smurfs) and animation director (My Little Pony and Friends). Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, struck by car. Adrien Gilbert, 78, Canadian Olympic weightlifter Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (The Boston Globe), brain tumor. John Lyon, 58, British cricketer. Jack Middleton, 92, British Olympic swimmer. Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (Spectreman) and karate instructor, lung cancer. Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor. Libuše Patočková, 76, Czech Olympic cross-country skier.Libuše Patočková Bio, Stats, and Results Stanisław Przybylski, 79, Polish modern pentathlete. Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999). Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (2006), cancer. Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author. Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), songwriter (Nip/Tuck theme), cystic fibrosis. Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter. John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke. Vera Zakharova, 89, first Yakut woman to fly a plane
2 Johann Frank, 71, Austrian football player (FK Austria Wien). David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (Police Story, Police Woman), heart failure. William Green, 82, British aviation writer. Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, The Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car. René Oreel, 87, Belgian cyclist. Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness. David R. Ross, 51, Scottish historian, heart attack. Rajendra Shah, 96, Indian poet.
3 Gus Alexander, 75, Scottish footballer (Workington).Obituary - Gus Alexander of Workington Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer. Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer. Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer, brain aneurysm. Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist. Otto Breg, 60, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.Otto Breg Bio, Stats, and Results Sir Ian Brownlie, 77, British barrister, traffic collision. Joyce Collins, 79, American jazz singer and pianist, pulmonary fibrosis. Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher. Francis Gillingham, 93, British neurosurgeon. Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes. Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke. John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist. Eunice W. Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure. Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia. Georges Martin, 94, French cyclist. Takis Michalos, 63, Greek Greece men's national water polo team water polo player and coach; cancer. Moti Nandi, 79, Indian writer and sports journalist. Geoffrey Reeve, 77, British film director. Isak Rogde, 62, Norwegian translator. Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer. Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
4 Olaug Abrahamsen, 81, Norwegian politician. Rosalie Abrams, 88, American feminist playwright, actress and activist, Alzheimer's disease. Paul Ahyi, 79, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo. Lew Allen, 84, American USAF general, NSA Director (1973–1977), USAF Chief of Staff (1978–1982), rheumatoid arthritis. Knox Burger, 87, American editor, writer, and literary agent. Neil Christian, 66, British singer, cancer. Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues), emphysema. Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery. Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer Hywel Teifi Edwards, 75, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness. Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980). Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot. Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), heart attack. György Mitró, 79, Hungarian Olympic swimmer. Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer.
5 Abdul Azim al-Deeb, 80, Qatari professor (Qatar University). Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure. Daniel Kubert, 62, American mathematician. Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, historian, Breton language and cultural advocate, cerebral hemorrhage. Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest. Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, kidney cancer. Courage Quashigah, 62, Ghanaian politician. Philippa Scott, 91, British conservationist. George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993). Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, bacterial infection.Toni Tecuceanu, de la Cronica Carcotasilor, a murit de gripa porcina Rolf Thieme, 65, German Olympic hockey player.Rolf Thieme Bio, Stats, and Results George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist.
6 Philippe Arthuys, 81, French composer and film director. David Giles, 83, British television director. Michael Goulder, 82, British biblical scholar. Michael Harper, 78, British priest of the Church of England and later of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the Human Potential Movement, after long illness. Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest. Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of Václav Talich and Václav Havel. Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001). Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic. Hervé Prouzet, 89, French cyclist Kittu Suresh, 64, Indian cricketer.Kittu Suresh
7 Wendall Anschutz, 71, American television newsman. Myrtle Aydelotte, 92, American nurse, professor and hospital administrator. Sándor Barcs, 97, Hungarian politician and sport executive, interim President of UEFA (1972–1973). Gerald Bordelon, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Alexander Garnet Brown, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1969–1978). Bruria Kaufman, 91, Israeli physicist. Stephen Huneck, 61, American wood carving artist, suicide by gunshot. Kamal Mahsud, Pakistani Pashto language folk singer, gas leak. Alex Parker, 74, Scottish football player (Falkirk, Everton, Southport, Scotland) and manager, heart attack. Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop. James D Robertson, 78, Scottish painter and lecturer. Blanca Sánchez, 63, Mexican actress, kidney failure. Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack. Jim White, 67, American professional wrestler, cancer. Hardy Williams, 78, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1983–1998), Alzheimer's disease.
8 Bob Blackburn, 85, American sports commentator (Seattle SuperSonics), pneumonia. Jean Charpentier, 74, Canadian journalist, press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, cancer. Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (Gumby, Davey and Goliath), bladder infection. Piero De Bernardi, 83, Italian screenwriter. Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, actor, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007), suicide by gunshot. Raymond Kamber, 79, Swiss Olympic sprint canoer. Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet. Charles Massi, 57, Central African politician and rebel leader. Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer. Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer, cancer. Gladstone Robinson, 66, Jamaican cricketer.Gladstone Robinson Is Dead Gerrit de Ruiter, 82, Dutch hockey player Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor. Hans L. Trefousse, 88, German-born American historian. Amir Vahedi, 48, Iranian-born American poker player, complications of diabetes. Sumner G. Whittier, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1953–1957).
9 Améleté Abalo, 47, Togolese national football team assistant coach, shot.Togo in three days of mourning over deaths in Cabinda attack John Ballem, 84, Canadian novelist. Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach.Amo Bessone, 'Father of Spartan Hockey' Passes Away Juan Bidegaray, 90, Uruguayan Olympic sailor Gösta Bredefeldt, 74, Swedish actor. Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness. Acúrsio Carrelo, 78, Portuguese footballer. Mark Ellidge, 69–70, British press photographer. Ken Genser, 59, American politician, mayor of Santa Monica, California, after long illness. Per N. Hagen, 73, Norwegian politician. Rupert Hamer, 39, British journalist, defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror, improvised explosive device. Fatimah Hashim, 85, Malaysian politician, first female minister in the Malaysian government. Laura Chapman Hruska, 74, American writer, co-founder and editor in chief of Soho Press, cancer. Jack Kerness, 98, American art director, natural causes. Nadav Levitan, 64, Israeli film director and screenwriter, lung disease. Ronald Moore, 84, Canadian politician.Former Members of the Legislative Assembly Obituaries Evgeni Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player. Diether Posser, 87, German politician. Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal, archbishop of Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall. Vimcy, 84, Indian sports writer. Thomas Summers West, 82, Scottish chemist.Royal Society of Edinburgh Obituary: Thomas Summers West
10 Sir Donald Acheson, 83, British physician, Chief Medical Officer of England (1983–1991). Sailadhar Baruah, 68, Indian film producer, complications of diabetes. Mina Bern, 98, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actor, heart failure. Bert Bushnell, 88, British Olympic gold medal-winning rower (1948). Carlos Bonilla Chávez, 86, Ecuadorian classical guitarist.Carlos Bonilla Chávez Simon Digby, 77, Indian-born British scholar and linguist, pancreatic cancer. Danny Fitzgerald, 49–50, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player. Jan C. Gabriel, 69, American race track announcer, complications from polycystic kidney disease. Donald Goerke, 83, American executive (Campbell's Soup Company), created SpaghettiOs, heart failure. Dick Johnson, 84, American big band clarinetist (Artie Shaw Band), after short illness. Edward Linde, 67, American businessman, founder of Boston Properties, pneumonia.Boston Properties says CEO Linde died Sunday Frances Morrell, 72, British political adviser and educationalist, cancer. Ulf Olsson, 58, Swedish murderer, suicide by hanging. Bill Patterson, 87, Australian racing driver, natural causes. Jayne Walton Rosen, 92, American singer, Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady (1940–1945), natural causes.Death Notice: Jayne Walton Rosen Moisés Saba, 47, Mexican entrepreneur, helicopter crash. Dale Shewalter, 59, American teacher, founder of the Arizona Trail, cancer. Mano Solo, 46, French singer, ruptured aneurysm.