Deaths in 2010
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- Rammellzee, 49, American hip hop musician and graffiti artist, after long illness.
- Oswalt Kolle, 81, German sex educator.
- Gigi Campi, Italian born jazz producer.
- S. Neil Fujita, 89, American graphic designer, complications of a stroke.
- Kostas Axelos, 85, Greek philosopher.
- Jean Benoît (1922 - 2010), Canadian artist
- Bobby Farrell, 61, Aruban singer (Boney M).
- Billy Taylor, 89, American jazz pianist and composer, heart attack.
- Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, 61, French actor, cancer.
- Teena Marie, 54, American singer.
- Glen Adams, 65, Jamaican musician.
- Captain Beefheart, 69, American musician (Trout Mask Replica), complications from multiple sclerosis.
- Blake Edwards, 88, American film director, producer and screenwriter (The Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffany's), pneumonia.
- Jean Rollin, 72, French film director, actor and novelist.
- James Moody, 85, American jazz saxophone and flute player, pancreatic cancer.
- Mario Monicelli, 95, Italian film director, suicide.
- Leslie Nielsen, 84, Canadian-born American actor (Airplane!, The Naked Gun), pneumonia.
- Peter Christopherson, 55, British musician (Coil, Throbbing Gristle) and graphic artist (Hipgnosis).
- Ingrid Pitt, 73, Polish-born British actress (The Vampire Lovers).
- Julien Guiomar, 82, French film actor.
- Roberto Pregadio, 81, Italian musician, orchestra director and television personality, natural causes
- Henryk Górecki, 76, Polish composer, after long illness.
- Dino De Laurentiis, 91, Italian film producer.
- Gregory Isaacs, 59, Jamaican reggae singer, lung cancer.
- Ari Up, 48, German-born British musician (The Slits).
- Bob Guccione, 79, American publisher, founder of Penthouse, cancer.
- Solomon Burke, 70, American singer-songwriter.
- Albertina Walker, 81, American gospel music singer.
- Roy Ward Baker, 93, British film director. (The Vampire Lovers)
- Tony Curtis, 85, American actor (Some Like It Hot, The Boston Strangler, The Defiant Ones), cardiac arrest.
- Arthur Penn, 88, American film director and producer (Bonnie and Clyde, The Missouri Breaks, Penn & Teller Get Killed), heart failure.
- Claude Chabrol, 80, French film director. (Madame Bovary, Story of Women).
- Clive Donner, 84, British director.
- Corneille, 88, Dutch artist.
- Mike Edwards, 62, English musician (Electric Light Orchestra), car accident.
- Noah Howard, 67, American jazz saxophonist.
- Corinne Day, 45, British fashion photographer.
- Bruno Schleinstein, 78, German actor.
- Phelps "Catfish" Collins, 66, American guitarist (James Brown, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Parliament-Funkadelic).
- Suso Cecchi d'Amico, 96, Italian screenwriter (Bicycle Thieves, Senso).
- Tuli Kupferberg, 86, American poet, cartoonist and musician (The Fugs).
- Sugar Minott, 54, Jamaican reggae singer.
- José Saramago, 87, Portuguese Nobel-laureate novelist, playwright and journalist, cancer.
- Sebastian Horsley, 47, British artist, overdose.
- Garry Shider, 56, American musician (Parliament-Funkadelic), complications from brain and lung cancer.
- Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer, cancer.
- Joseph Strick, 86, American director and producer, heart failure.
- Louise Bourgeois, 98, French-born American artist and sculptor.
- Dennis Hopper, 74, American actor (Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now) and film director (Easy Rider, The Last Movie), prostate cancer.
- Claude Tchou, French publisher
- Shusaku Arakawa, 73, Japanese artist and architect.
- Pamela Green, 81, British actress and model, leukemia.
- Frank Frazetta, 82, American fantasy and science fiction artist, stroke.
- Lena Horne, 92, American singer and actress (Stormy Weather, The Wiz).
- Furio Scarpelli, 90, Italian Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (Big Deal on Madonna Street, Casanova 70, Il Postino).
- Joseph W. Sarno, 89, American film director and screenwriter (Sin in the Suburbs).
- Alan Sillitoe, 82, British writer (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning).
- Werner Schroeter, 65, German film director, (Malina).
- Steve Reid, 66, American jazz drummer, cancer.
- Malcolm McLaren, 64, British musician and band manager (Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, Bow Wow Wow), mesothelioma.
- Alex Chilton, 59, American musician (Big Star, The Box Tops).
- Alexander McQueen, 40, British fashion designer, apparent suicide by hanging.
- J. D. Salinger, 91, American author (The Catcher in the Rye), natural causes.
- Woody Cunningham, 61, American musician.
- Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colon cancer.
- Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer
- Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director.
- Willie Mitchell, 82, American musician and record producer.
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