Biographies: Deaths of 2010

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Deaths of 2010

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• Anderson, Sparky, baseball manager
• Auchincloss, Louis, novelist
• Bol, Manute, basketball player
• Baker, Vernon, U.S. Army soldier
• Billingsley, Barbara, actress
• Bosley, Tom, actor
• Bourgeois, Louise, sculptor
• Byrd, Robert, U.S. senator
• Carter, Dixie, actress
• Chabrol, Claude, director
• Clayburgh, Jill, actress
• Coleman, Gary, actor
• Culp, Robert, actor
• Curtis, Tony, actor
• Dean, Jimmy, musician
• Blake Edwards, director
• Edwards, Elizabeth, lawyer, political spouse

• Foot, Michael, British politician
• Francis, Dick, jockey, novelist
• Gies, Miep, Anne Frank's protector
• Gates, Daryl, law enforcement official
• Guru, rapper
• Haig, Alexander, former U.S. Secretary of State
• Haim, Corey, actor
• Height, Dorothy, civil-rights activist
• Hickel, Walter, government official
• Holbrooke, Richard, government official, diplomat
• Hooks, Benjamin, civil-rights activist
• Hopper, Dennis, actor
• Horne, Lena, singer, actress
• Kaczynski, Lech , Polish politician
• Kirchner, Néstor Carlos, Argentinean politician

• Mandelbrot, Benoit, French mathematician
• Mankiller, Wilma, former chief of the Cherokee Nation
• McClanahan, Rue, actress
• McQueen, Alexander, fashion designer
• Murtha, John, U.S. Representative
• Neal, Patricia, actress
• Nielsen, Leslie, actor
• Nirenberg, Marshall, biochemist
• Olsen, Merlin, professional football player, actor
• Parker, Fess, actor
• Parker, Robert, mystery writer
• Pendergrass, Teddy, singer
• Penn, Arthur, director
• Post, Elizabeth, writer, etiquette expert

• Rostenkowski, Dan, U.S. politician
• Redgrave, Lynn, actress
• Salinger, J. D., writer
• Schorr, Daniel, journalist
• Smith, Elinor, aviator
• Segal, Erich, writer
• Simmons, Jean, actress
• Steinbrenner, George, businessman and owner of the New York Yankees
• Stevens, Ted, U.S. senator
• Sutherland, Joan, Australian soprano
• Thomson, Bobby, baseball player
• Udall, Stewart, former government official
• Wilson, Charlie, former U.S. Representative
• Wooden, John, college basketball coach
• Zinn, Howard, historian and writer