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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....

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Deaths in December 2009
Deaths in 2009 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2009.-31:...

 – January
Deaths in January 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2010.-31:...

 – February
Deaths in February 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2010.-28:*Martin Benson, 91, British stage actor....

 – March – April
Deaths in April 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2010.-30:...

 – May
Deaths in May 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2010.-31:...

 – June
Deaths in June 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2010.-30:* Alf Carretta, 93, British vocalist ....

 – July
Deaths in July 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2010.-31:...

  – August
Deaths in August 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2010.-31:*Vance Bourjaily, 87, American novelist....

 – September
Deaths in September 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2010.-30:...

 – October
Deaths in October 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2010.-31:...

 – November
Deaths in November 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2010.-30:...

 – December – →
Deaths in January 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2011.-31:...



The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2010.

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  • Jesús María Coronado Caro
    Jesús María Coronado Caro
    Jesús María Coronado Caro S.D.B. was a Colombian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Cienega, Colombia and ordained a priest on August 31, 1947 from the religious order of Salesians of Don Bosco. He was appointed as prefect to the Ariari on January 19, 1964 and as bishop of the...

    , 92, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Girardot (1973–1981) and Duitama–Sogamoso (1981–1994). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcorc.html
  • Raymond Impanis
    Raymond Impanis
    Raymond Impanis was a Belgian professional cyclist from 1947 to 1963. He won Paris–Roubaix, the Ronde van Vlaanderen, Gent–Wevelgem and three stages in Tour de France. He has been made an honorary citizen of the town of Kampenhout.Impanis died on 31 December 2010, aged 85, following a long...

    , 85, Belgian professional cyclist. http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/6927/Raymond-Impanis-dies-aged-85.aspx
  • Tove Maës
    Tove Maës
    Tove Maës was a Danish actress of stage, television and film best known for her starring roles in the series of "Morten Korch" films, in particular The Red Horses. Maës was a three-time recipient of the Bodil Award for Best Actress, winning in 1954, 1971, and 1983.-Career:Maës was born in...

    , 89, Danish actress. http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Kultur/2011/01/03/143628.htm (Danish)
  • Onie Ponder
    Onie Ponder
    Onezima Cecelia "Onie" Ponder was an American supercentenarian. At the age of 112 years, 119 days, she was the 21st oldest person in the world at her death on December 31, 2010 and the oldest living person in the U.S state of Florida.- Family :Onezima Cecelia "Onie" Ponder was born in Ocala,...

    , 112, American supercentenarian. oldest living Floridian
    Florida
    Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

    . http://www.ocala.com/article/20101231/ARTICLES/101239921/1439%3FTitle=Onie-Ponder-world-s-21st-oldest-person-dies-at-112
  • Shi Tiesheng
    Shi Tiesheng
    Shi Tiesheng was a Chinese novelist, known for his story which was the basis of the film Life on a String. The China Daily stated regarding his essay about the park near where he lived, "Many critics have considered I and the Temple of Earth as one of the best Chinese prose essays of the 20th...

    , 59, Chinese writer, cerebral hemorrhage. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/xinhua/2010-12-31/content_1500722.html
  • Syd Ward
    Syd Ward
    Sydney William "Syd" Ward was an Australian-born New Zealand cricketer. Ward was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace...

    , 103, New Zealand cricketer. http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/cricket/news/article/-/8607580/worlds-oldest-first-class-cricketer-dies/
  • John P. Wheeler III
    John P. Wheeler III
    John Parsons Wheeler, III, known as Jack Wheeler , was a chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, senior planner for Amtrak , official of the Securities and Exchange Commission , chief executive and CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, consultant to the Mitre Corporation , member of the...

    , 66, American presidential aide, first chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
    Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
    The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. , was a non-profit organization established on April 27, 1979, by Jan Scruggs, Jack Wheeler, and several other Vietnam War veterans, finance the construction of a memorial to those Americans who died or were killed during the Vietnam War. The memorial was...

    . http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/former_bush_reagan_official_found_dead_in_landfill.php (body found on this date)

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  • Paul Calle
    Paul Calle
    Paul Calle was an American artist who was best known for the designs he created for postage stamps, including 40 that were released by the United States Postal Service, and others for stamps issued by the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Sweden and the United Nations...

    , 82, American artist, postage stamp designer, melanoma. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/arts/design/31calle.html
  • Donald Carroll
    Donald Carroll
    Donald Carroll was an American author, editor, poet, columnist and humourist.-Early life:Born in Dallas, Texas in 1940, he was educated at the University of Texas, where he founded the poetry quarterly Quagga - which published the work of Richard Wilbur, e.e...

    , 70, American author. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/obituary.aspx?n=donald-carroll&pid=147595042
  • Sir Ellis Clarke
    Ellis Clarke
    Sir Ellis Emmanuel Innocent Clarke, TC, GCMG was the second and last Governor-General of Trinidad and Tobago and the first President of Trinidad and Tobago. Clarke was one of the main architects of Trinidad and Tobago's 1962 Independence constitution.Clarke attended Saint Mary's College, winning...

    , 93, Trinidadian politician, Governor-General (1972–1976) and President
    President of Trinidad and Tobago
    The President of Trinidad and Tobago is the head of state of Trinidad and Tobago, and the commander in chief of its armed forces. The office was established when the country became a republic in 1976, before which the head of state was Queen Elizabeth II...

     (1976–1987), complications from a stroke. http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,133297.html
  • Chris Colmer
    Chris Colmer
    Chris Colmer was an American football offensive lineman.-Early years:Chris Colmer graduated from Earl L. Vandermeulen High School located in his hometown of Port Jefferson, New York. He was named to the All-Long Island squad and the Golden 50 All-State team, where he was a team captain playing...

    , 30, American college football player (NC State
    North Carolina State University
    North Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Commonly known as NC State, the university is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution...

    ). http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/31/890864/former-ncsu-lineman-dies.html
  • Bobby Farrell
    Bobby Farrell
    Roberto "Bobby" Alfonso Farrell was an Aruban dancer and performer, best known as the male member of the successful 1970s pop and disco group Boney M.-Early years:...

    , 61, Aruba-born dancer and entertainer (Boney M.). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12094005
  • Thomas Funck
    Thomas Funck
    Thomas Fredrik Georg Funck was a Swedish baron , author of children's literature, radio personality and voice artist, most famous for his stories about Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball .-Early career:Funck, who started out writing literature aimed for adults, has claimed to never have had...

    , 91, Swedish author, composer and director. http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/thomas-funck-har-avlidit (Swedish)
  • Miranda Guinness
    Miranda Guinness
    Miranda Guinness, Countess of Iveagh was the daughter of Major Michael Smiley, of Castle Fraser, Kenmay, Aberdeen.-Marriage and issue:...

    , 71, British aristocrat. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8239702/Lives-Remembered.html
  • Roger Milliken
    Roger Milliken
    Roger Milliken was a U.S. textile heir and businessman. He served as President and then CEO of his family's company, Milliken & Company, from 1947 until 2005...

    , 95, American textile executive (Milliken & Co.
    Milliken & Co.
    Milliken & Company is an innovation company that has been exploring, discovering, and creating ways to enhance people’s lives since 1865. With corporate headquarters is located in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the company has expertise across a breadth of disciplines including specialty chemical,...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/us/01milliken.html
  • Per Oscarsson
    Per Oscarsson
    - External links :...

    , 83, Swedish actor, injuries sustained in a fire. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/swedish-police-identify-oscarsson-s-68646
  • Tony Proudfoot
    Tony Proudfoot
    John A. "Tony" Proudfoot was an All-Star defensive back in the Canadian Football League, teacher, coach, broadcaster and journalist....

    , 61, Canadian CFL football player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/news/item/?item_id=170349
  • Eric Teed, 84, Canadian politician, Mayor of Saint John, New Brunswick
    Saint John, New Brunswick
    City of Saint John , or commonly Saint John, is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick, and the first incorporated city in Canada. The city is situated along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at the mouth of the Saint John River. In 2006 the city proper had a population of 74,043...

     (1960–1964). http://www.news889.com/news/local/article/163364--former-saint-john-mayor-passes-away
  • Tom Vandergriff
    Tom Vandergriff
    Tommy Joe Vandergriff was a politician from Texas. He served as Mayor of Arlington from 1951 to 1977, as a U.S. Representative from from 1983 to 1985, and as County Judge of Tarrant County from 1991 to 2007...

    , 84, American politician, Mayor of Arlington, Texas (1951–1977) and U.S. Congressman
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     from Texas (1983–1985). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/sports/baseball/01van.html
  • Gina Wilkinson
    Gina Wilkinson
    Gina Wilkinson was a Canadian actress of stage, film and television, as well as a playwright and stage director. She died on December 30, 2010 from cervical cancer, aged 50. She was married to actor Tom Rooney until her death in 2010.-External links:...

    , 50, Canadian actress (Hangin' In
    Hangin' In
    Hangin' In is a Canadian television sitcom which aired on CBC from 1981 to 1987. It also aired briefly in syndication in the United States. Canadian producer Jack Humphrey developed Hangin' In and served as executive producer for the show.-Synopsis:...

    ), cervical cancer. http://www.vancouversun.com/business/technology/Gina+Wilkinson+actor+director+dies/4047074/story.html
  • Jenny Wood-Allen
    Jenny Wood-Allen
    Jenny Wood-Allen MBE was a Scottish marathon runner and Guinness World Record holder, running in over 30 marathons since 1983 and earning more than £70,000 for charity.-Career:...

    , 99, Scottish athlete and politician, world record holder for the oldest female marathon finisher. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/Community/Obituaries/article/9171/record-breaking-marathon-runner-jenny-wood-allen.html
  • Barry Zorthian
    Barry Zorthian
    Barry Zorthian was an American diplomat, most notably press officer for years during the Vietnam war, media executive and lobbyist. "By his own reckoning, Zorthian was the last surviving member of the original cadre of U.S...

    , 90, American press officer during Vietnam War. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/world/asia/06zorthian.html

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  • Vladan Batić
    Vladan Batic
    Vladan Batić was a Serbian politician. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. He was the Minister of Justice in the Serbian Government from 2000 to 2003. It 2001, Batić announced that warrants would be made for the arrests of former persons in power before the 5 October...

    , 61, Serbian politician and lawyer, Minister of Justice (2001–2003), throat cancer. http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=12&dd=29&nav_id=71826
  • Steve Boros
    Steve Boros
    Stephen Boros Jr. was an American infielder, coach, manager, advance scout, and farm system official in Major League Baseball....

    , 74, American baseball player (Tigers
    Detroit Tigers
    The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...

    ) and manager (Athletics
    Oakland Athletics
    The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....

    , Padres
    San Diego Padres
    The San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California. They play in the National League Western Division. Founded in 1969, the Padres have won the National League Pennant twice, in 1984 and 1998, losing in the World Series both times...

    ), complications from multiple myeloma. http://www.freep.com/article/20101230/SPORTS02/101230092/Ex-Tiger-Steve-Boros-dies-at-74
  • Jimmy Coffey
    Jimmy Coffey
    Jimmy 'Butler' Coffey was an Irish sportsperson. He was born in Newport, County Tipperary. He played hurling with his local Newport club and was a member of the Tipperary senior inter-county team from 1931 until 1940...

    , 101, Irish hurler. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2010/1230/1224286494539.html
  • Avi Cohen
    Avi Cohen
    Avraham "Avi" Cohen was an Israeli footballer who played as a defender. He was best known for his spell playing for Liverpool in England. After retirement from active football and management, he was the chairman of the Israel Professional Footballers Association for over five years until he was...

    , 54, Israeli footballer, motorcycle accident. http://www.haaretz.com/news/sports/israeli-soccer-giant-avi-cohen-dies-of-injuries-after-motorcycle-crash-1.334032
  • John Doyle
    John Doyle (hurler)
    John Doyle was an Irish sportsperson and politician, hailed as one of the best defenders in hurling and his county's most iconic player upon his death. He played hurling with his local Holycross-Ballycahill club from the 1940s until the 1970s and was a member of the Tipperary senior inter-county...

    , 80, Irish hurler. http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/legendary-hurler-john-doyle-dies-aged-80-2478028.html
  • Bill Erwin
    Bill Erwin
    William Lindsey "Bill" Erwin was an American film, stage and television actor with over 250 television and film credits...

    , 96, American actor (Seinfeld
    Seinfeld
    Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...

    , Falcon Crest
    Falcon Crest
    Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced....

    , The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...

    ). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20110101,0,2188022.story?track=rss
  • Mondine Garcia
    Mondine Garcia
    Mondine Garcia , was a French, Parisienne guitarist who specialized in playing traditional French gypsy jazz.-Career:...

    , 75, French Gypsy jazz guitarist. http://www.djangostation.com/Deces-de-Mondine-Garcia,1360.html
  • Pavel Kolchin
    Pavel Kolchin
    Pavel Konstantinovich Kolchin was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed during the 1950s and 1960s, training at Dynamo in Moscow. He was born in Yaroslavl....

    , 80, Russian Olympic gold (1956
    1956 Winter Olympics
    The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. This celebration of the Games was held from 26 January to 5 February 1956. Cortina, which had originally been awarded the 1944 Winter Olympics, beat out...

    ) and bronze (1956, 1964
    1964 Winter Olympics
    The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck, Austria, from January 29 to February 9, 1964...

    ) medal-winning cross-country skier. http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=418126&cid=9 (Russian)
  • Ramón Montesinos
    Ramón Montesinos
    Ramón Montesinos Calaf was a Spanish footballer, who played as a midfielder.-External links:*...

    , 67, Spanish footballer. http://www.fcbarcelona.cat/web/catala/noticies/club/temporada10-11/12/30/n101230114859.html (Catalan)
  • Sören Wibe
    Sören Wibe
    Sören Axel Wibe was a Swedish economist and eurosceptic politician, born in Östersund, who was formerly a social democratic Member of the European Parliament 1995–1999, member of the Riksdag 2002–2006, and who since 6 July 2008 was party leader of the June List...

    , 64, Swedish economist and politician, Junilistan party leader, member of the European Parliament
    European Parliament
    The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

     and the Riksdag
    Parliament of Sweden
    The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...

    . http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/1.2272674/soren-wibe-dod (Swedish)

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  • Atina Bojadži
    Atina Bojadži
    Atina Bojadzi was a Macedonian marathon swimmer who became one of Macedonia's most popular athletes after successfully crossing the English Channel in 1969. Atina's parents were of Albanian descent....

    , 66, Macedonian marathon swimmer, first Yugoslavian woman to swim across the English Channel. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2010-12-29-2206891105_x.htm
  • Frank Bonilla
    Frank Bonilla
    Professor Frank Bonilla was an American academic of Puerto Rican descent who became a leading figure in Puerto Rican Studies...

    , 85, American academic of Puerto Rican descent, long illness. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/nyregion/07bonilla.html?_r=1
  • Bennie Briscoe
    Bennie Briscoe
    "Bad" Bennie Briscoe was the quintessential Philadelphia boxer."Bad" Bennie fought from 1962 to 1982, and retired with a career record of 66 wins 24 losses and 5 draws. Briscoe was a top-rated Middleweight contender during the 1970s, unsuccessfully challenging for the World Title on three...

    , 67, American boxer. http://www.boxinginsider.com/headlines/r-i-p-bennie-briscoe/
  • Denis Dutton
    Denis Dutton
    Denis Dutton was an academic, web entrepreneur and libertarian media commentator/activist. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand...

    , 66, American-born entrepreneur and philosopher, creator of Arts & Letters Daily
    Arts & Letters Daily
    Arts & Letters Daily is a web portal owned by The Chronicle of Higher Education. It features links to a diverse array of news stories, features and reviews from throughout the online Anglosphere, each introduced with a short blurb or teaser...

     and Bad Writing Contest, prostate cancer. http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/web-entrepreneur-dies-3987918
  • Joseph Grech
    Joseph Grech
    Joseph Angelo Grech was a Roman Catholic bishop in Australia.Grech was born in Balzan, Malta on 10 December 1948. After studies in the local schools, he moved to Melbourne, Australia, where he continued his studies. He was ordained a priest on 30 November 1974 in his home town, before returning to...

    , 62, Maltese-born Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sandhurst
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Sandhurst
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sandhurst is a suffragan Latin rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Melbourne, erected in 1874, covering the central and north-east regions of Victoria, Australia, including Bendigo.-History:...

     (since 2001), blood disorder http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgrech.html
  • Fred Heron
    Fred Heron
    Frederick Roger Heron was a professional American football defensive lineman in the National Football League. He played seven seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals....

    , 66, American football player (St. Louis Cardinals
    Arizona Cardinals
    The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ). http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110110/A_NEWS21/301109999
  • Lena Ingelsrudøya
    Lena Ingelsrudøya
    Lena Ingelsrudøya was a Norwegian woman footballer.Ingelsrudøya began her career in a boys' team at Tobøl and then played on a girls' team at Skotterud. She later played for Swedish clubs Eda IF in Charlottenberg and Mariedals IK in Borås, before studying in the United States, where she played...

    , 37, Norwegian footballer, amniotic fluid embolism
    Amniotic fluid embolism
    Amniotic fluid embolism is a rare and incompletely understood obstetric emergency in which amniotic fluid, fetal cells, hair, or other debris enters the mother's blood stream via the placental bed of the uterus and triggers an allergic reaction. This reaction then results in cardiorespiratory ...

    . http://www.rb.no/lokal_sport/article5428701.ece (Norwegian)
  • Brandon Joyce
    Brandon Joyce
    Brandon Joyce was a gridiron football offensive tackle. He was the son of former NFL punter Terry Joyce....

    , 26, American football player (St. Louis Rams
    St. Louis Rams
    The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...

    , Minnesota Vikings
    Minnesota Vikings
    The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...

    ), shot. http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=235187&catid=3
  • Gene Kelton
    Gene Kelton
    Gene Kelton was an American guitarist, harmonica player and singer-songwriter, based in Houston, Texas. He played Americana, blues-rock, Southern rock and rockabilly music.-Blues roots:...

    , 55, American blues, rock and rockabilly singer and guitarist, multiple injuries from vehicle collision. http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/12/29/2733843/guitarist-mean-gene-kelton-killed.html
  • Bill Lajoie
    Bill Lajoie
    William Richard "Bill" Lajoie was an American professional baseball player, manager, scout and front-office executive...

    , 76, American baseball scout and executive (Detroit Tigers
    Detroit Tigers
    The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...

    ). http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2010-12-29-bill-lajoie-obit_N.htm
  • Zeferino Nandayapa
    Zeferino Nandayapa
    Zeferino Nandayapa was a Mexican folk and classical marimba player...

    , 79, Mexican classical marimbist
    Marimba
    The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...

    , injuries from a fall. http://www.informador.com.mx/cultura/2010/259933/6/la-marimba-pierde-a-uno-de-sus-exponentes-zeferino-nandayapa.htm (Spanish)
  • Hideko Takamine
    Hideko Takamine
    was a Japanese actress who began as a child actor and maintained her fame in a career that spanned nine decades.-Life and career:Born in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan, Takamine's first role was in the Shochiku studio's 1929 film Mother , which brought her tremendous popularity as a child actor. Soon...

    , 86, Japanese actress. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118029575?refCatId=19
  • Billy Taylor
    Billy Taylor
    Billy Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and since 1994, he was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in...

    , 89, American jazz pianist and composer (I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free), heart attack. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/29/AR2010122904818.html
  • Jeff Taylor
    Jeff Taylor (footballer)
    Jeffrey Neilson "Jeff" Taylor was a professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town, Fulham and Brentford.His younger brother, Ken Taylor also played football for Huddersfield...

    , 80, English footballer. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jeff-taylor-footballer-who-went-on-to-forge-a-career-as-a-popular-singer-and-inspirational-teacher-2197814.html
  • Agathe von Trapp
    Agathe von Trapp
    Agathe Johanna Erwina Gobertina von Trapp was the eldest daughter of Georg von Trapp and Agathe Whitehead. She was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the play and film The Sound of Music...

    , 97, Austrian-born American singer, member of the Trapp family (The Sound of Music
    The Sound of Music
    The Sound of Music is a musical by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers...

    ). http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-breaking-news/maryland/woman-whose-family-inspired-th.html
  • Peter Knight Walker
    Peter Knight Walker
    Peter Knight Walker was an Anglican bishop.Walker was educated at Leeds Grammar School and The Queen's College, Oxford. During the Second World War he served in the RNVR and was then a teacher at The King's School, Peterborough and Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood before ordination in 1954...

    , 91, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Ely
    Bishop of Ely
    The Bishop of Ely is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese roughly covers the county of Cambridgeshire , together with a section of north-west Norfolk and has its see in the City of Ely, Cambridgeshire, where the seat is located at the...

     (1977–1989). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/8244449/The-Right-Reverend-Peter-Walker.html

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  • Salvador Jorge Blanco
    Salvador Jorge Blanco
    José Salvador Omar Jorge Blanco was a politician, lawyer and a writer. He was the 48th President of the Dominican Republic, from 1982 –1986. He was a Senator running for the PRD party...

    , 84, Dominican Republic politician, President (1982–1986). http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/3027955-418/jorge-blanco-president-dominican-died.html
  • Wade Crane
    Wade Crane
    Wade Arlyn Crane was an American professional pool player, nicknamed "Boom-Boom" because of the cannonball sound that emanated from his powerful break. Crane also played under the alias of "Billy Johnson."...

    , 66, American pool player, automobile accident. http://www.ajc.com/news/pro-pool-player-killed-788914.html
  • Geraldine Doyle
    Geraldine Doyle
    Geraldine Hoff Doyle was the real-life model for the World War II era "We Can Do It" posters, an embodiment of the iconic World War II character Rosie the Riveter....

    , 86, American metal presser, inspiration for Rosie the Riveter
    Rosie the Riveter
    Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military...

    . http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20101230/NEWS01/12300334/1001/NEWS/Lansing-s--Rosie--dies-at-age-86
  • Jonas Falk
    Jonas Falk
    Jonas Emanuel Falk was a Swedish actor and brother to Niklas Falk.Falk was born in Örgryte, Gothenburg. He had belonged to Stockholm City Theatre's fixed ensemble since 1987. Apart from the City Theatre, he appeared in many of Lars Norén's productions on Sveriges Television...

    , 66, Swedish character actor. http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/jonas-falk-har-avlidit_5845785.svd (Swedish)
  • Eugene K. Garfield
    Eugene K. Garfield
    Eugene Kerik Garfield was an American lawyer who founded the Auto-Train Corporation. Auto-Train became what is now known as Amtrak's Auto Train...

    , 74, American founder of the Auto-Train Corporation
    Auto-Train Corporation
    Auto-Train Corporation was a privately owned railroad which used its own rolling stock, and traveled on rails leased from major railroads along the route of its trains, serving central Florida from points in the Mid-Atlantic region near Washington, DC, and the Mid-West near Louisville, Kentucky,...

    , esophageal cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/business/30garfield.html
  • Albert Ghiorso
    Albert Ghiorso
    Albert Ghiorso was an American nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. His research career spanned five decades, from the early 1940s to the late 1990s.-Early life:...

    , 95, American nuclear scientist, co-discovered twelve chemical elements. http://berkeleyhomes.com/blog/2010/12/27/things-to-do/whats-happening/memorial/rest-in-peace-albert-ghiorso-our-neighbor-and-co-discover-of-12-elements/
  • Miguel Maria Giambelli
    Miguel Maria Giambelli
    Miguel Maria Giambelli, was a Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.Giambelli was born in Flero, Italy and was ordained a priest on July 4, 1943 from the Roman Catholic religious order Clerics Regular of Saint Paul. He was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Guamá on April 21, 1980 and was...

    , 90, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bragança do Pará
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Bragança do Pará
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bragança do Pará is a diocese located in the city of Bragança do Pará in the Ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará in Brazil.-History:...

     (1980–1996). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgiamb.html
  • Bill Jones
    Bill Jones (footballer)
    William Henry "Bill" Jones was an English international footballer who played for Liverpool F.C..-Life and playing career:...

    , 89, English international footballer, natural causes. http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/former-red-bill-jones-dies
  • Matthew Lipman
    Matthew Lipman
    Matthew Lipman is recognized as the founder of Philosophy for Children. His decision to bring philosophy to young people came from his experience as a professor at Columbia University, where he witnessed underdeveloped reasoning skills in his students...

    , 87, American educator. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/education/15lipman.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
  • Robert Macauley
    Robert Macauley
    Robert Conover "Bob" Macauley was an American businessman who shifted from his paper company to create the charity AmeriCares, which he established in 1982 and which has provided billions of dollars of aid to needy people in crisis situations in countries around the world...

    , 87, American manufacturer, founder of AmeriCares
    AmeriCares
    AmeriCares is a non-profit disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization providing immediate response to emergency medical needs and supporting long-term health care initiatives for people in the United States and around the world. Since its founding in 1982, AmeriCares has provided more than...

    , emphysema. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/business/30macauley.html
  • Teena Marie
    Teena Marie
    Mary Christine Brockert, better known by her stage name Teena Marie, was an American singer, songwriter and producer...

    , 54, American singer and composer. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/arts/music/28marie.html
  • Jessie Rae Scott
    Jessie Rae Scott
    Jessie Rae Scott was the First Lady of North Carolina from 1969 to 1973 and the widow of former North Carolina Governor Robert W. Scott....

    , 81, American gubernatorial First Lady
    First Lady
    First Lady or First Gentlemanis the unofficial title used in some countries for the spouse of an elected head of state.It is not normally used to refer to the spouse or partner of a prime minister; the husband or wife of the British Prime Minister is usually informally referred to as prime...

     (1969–1973), widow of North Carolina governor
    Governor of North Carolina
    The Governor of North Carolina is the chief executive of the State of North Carolina, one of the U.S. states. The current governor is Bev Perdue, North Carolina's first female governor.-Powers:...

     Bob Scott
    Robert W. Scott
    Robert Walter "Bob" Scott was the 67th Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1969 to 1973. He was born in Haw River, North Carolina.The son of North Carolina Governor W...

    , after long illness. http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/27/883216/former-first-lady-scott-dies-at.html
  • Bernard Wilson
    Bernard Wilson (singer)
    Bernard Wilson was a second tenor and baritone R&B, funk and soul music vocalist, who was a member of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, and thus helped to define the “Sound of Philadelphia” in the 1970s.-Early career:...

    , 64, American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
    Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
    Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American singing group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco...

    ), stroke and heart attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/arts/music/29wilson.html

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  • Aron Abrams
    Aron Abrams
    Aron Abrams, was an American screenwriter and television producer whose works ranged from Everybody Hates Chris to Grounded for Life....

    , 50, American screenwriter and television producer (Everybody Hates Chris
    Everybody Hates Chris
    Everybody Hates Chris is an African American television period sitcom inspired by the teenage experiences of comedian Chris Rock , while growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York . The show is set from 1982 to 1987; however, Rock himself was a teenager during years...

    , Bob's Burgers
    Bob's Burgers
    Bob's Burgers is an American animated television sitcom, which premiered on January 9, 2011 on the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series was created by Loren Bouchard and focuses on the Belcher family, who runs a hamburger restaurant. On April 7, 2011, Bob's Burgers was renewed for a second season...

    ). http://ca.news.yahoo.com/hawaii-police-investigating-death-los-angeles-tv-writer-20101229-131847-104.html
  • Kevin Boyle
    Kevin Boyle (political activist)
    Christopher Kevin Boyle was a Northern Ireland-born human rights activist, barrister and educator.Born and brought up in Newry, he was a lecturer in law at Queen's University Belfast. He took part in the 1969 People’s Democracy march from Belfast to Derry which was attacked by loyalists at...

    , 67, Northern Irish law professor and human rights activist, cancer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/jan/02/kevin-boyle-obituary
  • Gavin Brown
    Gavin Brown (academic)
    Gavin Brown, AO was a Scottish-born mathematician, and the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney....

    , 68, Australian academic, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

     (1996–2008). http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/sydney-uni-don-dies-of-heart-attack-at-christmas-20101227-198ll.html
  • John Bulaitis
    John Bulaitis
    John Bulaitis was the Roman Catholic Apostolic Nuncio to Albania.Born in London, United Kingdom, Bulaitis was ordained a priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kaišiadorys, Lithuania, in 1958...

    , 77, British-born Lithuanian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Albania (1997–2008). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbulaitis.html
  • Bud Greenspan, 84, American Olympic filmmaker, Parkinson's disease. http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/26/greenspan.olympics.obit/
  • Eric Laakso
    Eric Laakso
    Eric Henry Laakso was a retired NFL offensive tackle and guard who played seven seasons with the Miami Dolphins, a tenure which included two Super Bowls...

    , 54, American football player (Miami Dolphins
    Miami Dolphins
    The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ), natural causes. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/dolphins/eric-laakso-dolphins-starting-right-tackle-in-super-1149012.html (body found on this date)
  • Luis Manresa Formosa
    Luis Manresa Formosa
    Luis Manresa Formosa, S.J. was a Guatemalan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.Luis Manresa Formosa born in Guatemala City, Guatemala in Spring of 1915 was ordained a priest on July 29, 1948 from Roman Catholic religious order Society of Jesus.Appointed bishop of the Diocese of Los Altos...

    , 95, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán is a metropolitan archdiocese in Guatemala. It was erected on 27 July 1921 as the Diocese of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos, and elevated and renamed to Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán on 13 February 1996...

     (1955–1979). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmanresa.html
  • Jorge Mayer
    Jorge Mayer
    Jorge Mayer was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina from 1972 to 1991....

    , 95, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Bahía Blanca (1972–1991). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmayer.html
  • Sir Iain Noble, 3rd Baronet, 75, Scottish businessman. http://news.scotsman.com/news/Banker-Sir-Iain-Noble-champion.6671995.jp
  • Carlos Andrés Pérez
    Carlos Andrés Pérez
    Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez , also known as CAP and often referred to as El Gocho , was a Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993. His first presidency was known as the Saudi Venezuela due to its economic and social prosperity thanks to...

    , 88, Venezuelan politician, President (1974–1979; 1989–1993), heart attack. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12079724
  • Qian Yunhui
    Qian Yunhui
    Qian Yunhui , a 53-year-old elected and popular eastern Zhejiang province village head who had a long history of petitioning against alleged abuses by local government, died on December 25, 2010 after being crushed by the front wheel of a truck loaded with crushed rocks for a nearby building site...

    , 53, Chinese dissident. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/world/asia/29china.html
  • A. N. Ray
    A. N. Ray
    Ajit Nath Ray was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India from 25 April 1973 until his retirement on 28 January 1977.-Controversial Appointment:...

    , 98, Indian jurist, Chief Justice
    Chief Justice of India
    The Chief Justice of India is the highest-ranking judge in the Supreme Court of India, and thus holds the highest judicial position in India. As well as presiding in the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice also head its administrative functions....

     of the Supreme Court of India
    Supreme Court of India
    The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal as established by Part V, Chapter IV of the Constitution of India...

     (1973–1977). http://lawandotherthings.blogspot.com/2011/01/obituary-former-chief-justice-of-india.html
  • Maurice Rioli
    Maurice Rioli
    Maurice Rioli was an Australian rules football player best known for his time spent with the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League...

    , 53, Australian VFL
    Australian Football League
    The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

     player and politician, member of the NT Legislative Assembly
    Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
    The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory is the unicameral parliament of the Northern Territory in Australia. It sits in Parliament House, located on State Square, close to the centre of the city of Darwin.-History:...

     for Arafura
    Electoral division of Arafura
    Arafura is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was first created in 1983, and takes its name from the Arafura Sea, which adjoins the electorate. The electorate is predominantly rural, encompassing in western Arnhem Land and the Tiwi Islands, and...

     (1992–2001), heart attack. http://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/football-legend-maurice-rioli-dead-from-suspected-heart-attack/story-e6frg1wu-1225976163098

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  • Enzo Bearzot
    Enzo Bearzot
    Vincenzo "Enzo" Bearzot was an Italian association football player and manager. He is best known for having led the Italian national football team to a triumph in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.-Playing career:...

    , 83, Italian World Cup-winning football manager and player. http://www.repubblica.it/sport/calcio/nazionale/2010/12/21/news/morto_enzo_bearzot-10446187/ (Italian)
  • W. Pete Cunningham
    W. Pete Cunningham
    William Pete Cunningham was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the 107th House district, including constituents in Mecklenburg county. He resigned on December 31, 2007 in his 11th term.Cunningham worked with Robert F. Williams and the Monroe County chapter of...

    , 81, American politician, Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
    North Carolina House of Representatives
    The North Carolina House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. The House is a 120-member body led by a Speaker of the House, who holds powers similar to those of the President pro-tem in the state senate....

     (1987–2008). http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/12/21/1926145/ex-rep-pete-cunningham-dies.html
  • Elmo Gideon
    Elmo Gideon
    Elmo Clifford Gideon was an American painter and sculptor of the 20th and 21st centuries.Thursday, April 12, 2001 was declared “Gideon Day” with an official Proclamation by the Miami-Dade County Office of the Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. -External links:* *...

    , 86, American artist and sculptor. http://www.gideonart.com
  • David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham
    David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham
    David James George Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham and Baron Hennessy, CVO, PC, FBA was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who held visiting professorships at various universities....

    , 78, British politician and television executive. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/8222824/Lord-Windlesham.html
  • Oleksandr Kovalenko
    Oleksandr Kovalenko
    Oleksandr Kovalenko was a Ukrainian professional football player and later a football referee.-Career:Kovalenko made his professional debut in the Ukrainian Second League in 1993 for FC Metalurh Kostyantynivka...

    , 34, Ukrainian footballer (Dnipro, Shakhtar) and referee, suicide by jumping. http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/news/4d11d47b.html (Russian)
  • Marcia Lewis
    Marcia Lewis
    Marcia Lewis was an American character actress and singer. She has been nominated twice for the Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical and twice for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical .-Biography:Lewis was born in Melrose, Massachusetts and raised in...

    , 72, American musical theatre actress and singer, cancer. http://www.broadway.com/shows/chicago/buzz/154718/two-time-tony-award-nominee-marcia-lewis-dies-at-72/
  • Catalina Speroni
    Catalina Speroni
    Catalina Speroni was an Argentine film, stage and television actress whose career spanned more than 40 years.Her film credits included Felicidades, Cómpices, Tatuado and El despertar de L...

    , 72, Argentine actress. http://entretenimiento.terra.com.ar/famosos/murio-la-actriz-catalina-speroni,71893d9b9aa0d210VgnVCM3000009af154d0RCRD.html (Spanish)
  • Jack Tracy
    Jack Tracy
    Jack Tracy was an American jazz producer and journalist.- Early years :...

    , 83, American editor (Down Beat
    Down Beat
    Down Beat is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond" to indicate its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois...

    ) and music producer (Chess
    Chess Records
    Chess Records was an American record label based in Chicago, Illinois. It specialized in blues, R&B, soul, gospel music, early rock and roll, and occasional jazz releases....

    , Mercury
    Mercury Records
    Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...

    ). http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?page=lifestory&personid=147482607

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  • John Alldis
    John Alldis
    John Alldis was an English chorus-master and conductor.After his education at Felsted, Alldis studied as a choral scholar under Boris Ord at King's College, Cambridge, from 1949 to 1952....

    , 81, British chorus master and conductor. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/8217729/John-Alldis.html
  • Donna Atwood
    Donna Atwood
    Donna Atwood was an American figure skater. She competed in pair skating and won the gold medal at the 1941 United States Figure Skating Championships with partner Eugene Turner. In 1949, she married John H. Harris, the first owner of the Ice Capades, with whom she had two children...

    , 85, American figure skater, respiratory problems. http://www.kansascity.com/2011/01/20/2598776/donna-atwood-longtime-ice-capades.html
  • Aamer Bashir
    Aamer Bashir
    Aamer Bashir was a Pakistani first class cricketer.- Cricket career :He debuted in the 1989/90 season. He was a right-handed batsman who made over 8,000 runs in his career...

    , 38, Pakistani cricketer, cancer. http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/story/493597.html
  • Jacqueline Courtney
    Jacqueline Courtney
    Jacqueline Courtney was an American actress best known for her work on daytime soap operas.After short stints on The Edge of Night and Our Five Daughters, Courtney became famous for her role as Alice Matthews Frame on Another World; she played the role from the show's debut in May 1964 until July...

    , 64, American actress (Another World
    Another World (TV series)
    Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...

    , One Life to Live
    One Life to Live
    One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...

    ), metastatic melanoma. http://www.welovesoaps.net/2010/12/jacqueline-courtney-has-passed-away.html
  • Giovanni Ferrofino
    Giovanni Ferrofino
    Giovanni Ferrofino was an Italian Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church.-Early life and ordination:Ferrofino was born in 1912 in the city of Alessandria in north-west Italy...

    , 98, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti (1960–1965) and to Ecuador (1965–1970) http://www.catholic.net/index.php?option=zenit&id=31331
  • Brian Hanrahan
    Brian Hanrahan
    Brian Hanrahan was the Diplomatic Editor for BBC News and a well known correspondent. He also presented The World at One on BBC Radio Four and appeared on regular cover shifts on the rolling news channel BBC News 24...

    , 61, British journalist, cancer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12037973
  • Steve Landesberg
    Steve Landesberg
    Steve Landesberg was an American actor, comedian, and voice actor known for his role as the erudite, unflappable police detective Arthur P...

    , 74, American actor (Barney Miller
    Barney Miller
    Barney Miller is a situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker...

    , Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a 2008 American romantic comedy film directed by Nicholas Stoller and starring Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis and Russell Brand...

    ), colorectal cancer. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-steve-landesberg-20101221,0,6445609.story
  • James R. Mann
    James Robert Mann (South Carolina)
    James Robert Mann was a soldier, lawyer and a United States Representative from South Carolina.-Early life and career:...

    , 90, American politician, U.S. Representative
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     from South Carolina (1969–1979), Alzheimer's disease. http://www.abcnews4.com/Global/story.asp?S=13719551
  • Magnolia Shorty
    Magnolia Shorty
    Renetta Yemika Lowe-Bridgewater , known by the stage name Magnolia Shorty, was an American rapper in the New Orleans-based bounce music scene. She and Ms. Tee were the first women signed to Cash Money Records...

    , 28, American rapper, shot. http://www.wdsu.com/r/26201630/detail.html
  • Patricia Thompson
    Patricia Thompson
    Patricia Thompson was a Paris-based American television producer and documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Thompson began her career at the NBC Chicago station WMAQ-TV in the 1970s...

    , 63, American television producer, Emmy Award
    Emmy Award
    An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

    -winning documentary director, cerebral hemorrhage. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/arts/television/22thompson.html

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  • John Bukovsky
    John Bukovsky
    Archbishop John Bukovsky SVD, was a naturalized United States citizen, born in Cerova-Lieskové, Slovakia, and a Vatican diplomat; he was a member of the Society of the Divine Word since 1950. He was ordained as a priest on 3 December 1950 in Techny, Illinois. Priest of Divine Word Missionaries...

    , 86, Slovak-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Romania (1990–1994) and Russia (1994–2000). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbukovsky.html
  • Phil Cavarretta
    Phil Cavarretta
    Philip Joseph Cavarretta was an American Major League Baseball first baseman, outfielder, and manager.Cavarretta spent almost his entire baseball career with the Chicago Cubs. He was voted the National League Most Valuable Player after leading the Cubs to the pennant while winning the batting...

    , 94, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs
    Chicago Cubs
    The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago . The Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the National...

    , Chicago White Sox
    Chicago White Sox
    The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...

    ), complications from a stroke. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baseball/cubs-slugger-phil-cavarretta-dies/article1843759/
  • Morris L. Cohen
    Morris L. Cohen
    Morris Leo Cohen was an American attorney who left the practice of law to become a law librarian and professor of law at the University of Buffalo, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Law School and Yale Law School...

    , 83, American legal librarian, leukemia. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/us/26mcohen.html
  • Clay Cole
    Clay Cole
    Clay Cole was an American host and disk jockey, best known for his eponymous television dance program, The Clay Cole Show, which aired in New York City on WNTA-TV and WPIX-TV from 1959 to 1968.-Origins:...

    , 72, American television host (The Clay Cole Show) and DJ. http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/ode-to-1960s-tv-host-clay-cole-dies_b23785
  • Norberto Díaz
    Norberto Díaz
    Norberto Díaz , who was called Gallego by others in the entertainment industry, was an Argentine actor....

    , 57, Argentine actor. http://cineymedios.com.ar/noticia.php?id=2201 (Spanish)
  • Rafael Fernández Álvarez
    Rafael Fernández Álvarez
    Rafael Luis Fernández Álvarez was a Spanish politician and former political exile. Fernández served as the President of the Regional Council of Asturias from 1978 until 1981 before becoming the first President of the Principality of Asturias from 1881 until May 1983...

    , 97, Spanish politician, President of the Regional Council (1978–1981), first President of Asturias
    Asturias
    The Principality of Asturias is an autonomous community of the Kingdom of Spain, coextensive with the former Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages...

     (1981–1983). http://www.rtpa.es/asturias:El-Parlamento-asturiano-expresa-su-pesar-y-dolor-por-el-fallecimiento-de-Rafael-Fernandez_111292677010.html (Spanish)
  • Steven W. Fisher
    Steven W. Fisher
    Steven William Fisher was an American attorney who served on the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division and had presided over the trial in the Wendy's massacre while serving on New York State Supreme Court in which the defendant was the last to be assessed the death penalty.Fisher was born in...

    , 64, American judge, cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/nyregion/29fisher.html
  • Max Jammer, 95, Israeli physicist. http://www1.biu.ac.il/index.php?id=3&pt=20&pid=4&level=1&cPath=4&type=1&news=1219 (Hebrew)
  • Tasso Kavadia
    Tasso Kavadia
    -Biography:Kavadia was born on 10 January 1921 in Patras. She studied piano in Athens, writing and decoration in Paris, scenario and clothing with Giannis Tsarouchis, and acting at the Drama School at the Art School with Karolos Coon....

    , 89, Greek actress and artist. http://news.in.gr/culture/article/?aid=1231071455 (Greek)
  • Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
    Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
    Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa , Knight Grand Cross was a well-known pro-European Italian banker and economist who was Italy's Minister of Economy and Finance from May 2006 until May 2008...

    , 70, Italian banker and politician, Minister of Economy and Finance (2006–2008), proponent of the Euro
    Euro
    The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...

    , heart attack. http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/politica/articoli/articolo498583.shtml (Italian)
  • James Pickles
    James Pickles
    Judge James Pickles was an English Circuit judge famed for his "no nonsense" approach and many controversial decisions, who later became a tabloid columnist.-Early life:...

    , 85, English circuit judge and tabloid columnist. http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/39Nononsense39-Judge-James-Pickles-dies.6668477.jp
  • Nash Roberts
    Nash Roberts
    Nash Charles Roberts Jr. was a New Orleans, Louisiana-based meteorologist widely known for the accuracy of his hurricane forecasts....

    , 92, American television meteorologist. http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=13712854
  • Jacqueline de Romilly
    Jacqueline de Romilly
    Jacqueline Worms de Romilly, née David was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. Because she was of Jewish ancestry, the Vichy government suspended her from her teaching duties during the Occupation of France. she was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in...

    , 97, French philologist. http://www.rue89.com/2010/12/18/jacqueline-de-romilly-est-morte-a-lage-de-97-ans-181419 (French)
  • Eric Schmertz
    Eric Schmertz
    Eric Joseph Schmertz was an American lawyer who specialized in labor negotiation, helping reach agreements between workers and management in many strikes and other threatened union actions in New York City, including actions by the city's taxi drivers and other municipal workers, as well as...

    , 84, American labor negotiator, Dean of the Hofstra University School of Law
    Hofstra University School of Law
    The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University is located in Hempstead, New York. Founded in 1970 and accredited by the ABA in 1971, the school offers a JD, a joint JD/MBA degree, and LL.M degrees in American Law and Family law...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/nyregion/22schmertz.html

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  • Glen Adams
    Glen Adams
    Glen Adams was a Jamaican musician, composer, arranger, engineer, producer, based since the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, New York.-Career:...

    , 65, Jamaican musician. http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20101220/ent/ent3.html
  • Captain Beefheart
    Captain Beefheart
    Don Van Vliet January 15, 1941 December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter and artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, active between 1965 and 1982, with whom he recorded 12...

    , 69, American rock musician and artist (Trout Mask Replica
    Trout Mask Replica
    Trout Mask Replica is the third album by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, released in June 1969. Produced by Beefheart's friend and former schoolmate Frank Zappa, it was originally released as a double album on Zappa's Straight Records label...

    ), complications from multiple sclerosis
    Multiple sclerosis
    Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms...

    . http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/captain-beefheart-dead-at-age-69-20101217
  • Ralph Coates
    Ralph Coates
    Ralph Coates was an English footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a winger. Coates played for Burnley, Tottenham Hotspur and Leyton Orient, making 480 appearances in the Football League. Coates also earned four caps for England between 1970 and 1971.-Club...

    , 64, English footballer (Burnley
    Burnley F.C.
    Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...

    , Tottenham Hotspur
    Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
    Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....

    , Leyton Orient
    Leyton Orient F.C.
    Leyton Orient F.C. are an English professional football club in East London. They currently play in Football League One and are known to their fans as the O's.Leyton Orient have spent one season in the top flight of English football, in 1962–63...

    , England
    England national football team
    The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...

    ), stroke. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/9298154.stm
  • Walt Dropo
    Walt Dropo
    Walter Dropo , nicknamed "Moose", was an American college basketball standout and a professional baseball first baseman...

    , 87, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox
    Boston Red Sox
    The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...

    , Baltimore Orioles
    Baltimore Orioles
    The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...

    ). http://www.courant.com/sports/baseball/hc-walt-dropo-obituary-1219-20101218-1,0,5711855.story
  • Eugene Goldwasser
    Eugene Goldwasser
    Eugene Goldwasser was an American biochemist at the University of Chicago who identified erythropoietin , a hormone that plays a vital role in the synthesis of red blood cells...

    , 88, American scientist, first to purify EPO
    Erythropoietin
    Erythropoietin, or its alternatives erythropoetin or erthropoyetin or EPO, is a glycoprotein hormone that controls erythropoiesis, or red blood cell production...

     extracts, prostate cancer. http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/obituaries/ct-met-goldwasser-obit-1222-20101221,0,3169728.story
  • Nikos Papatakis, 92, Greek film director. http://eu.greekreporter.com/2010/12/25/greek-film-director-nikos-papatakis-died-at-the-age-of-92/
  • Martti Pennanen
    Martti Pennanen
    Martti Pennanen was a Finnish film and stage actor.Pennanen began acting relatively late in life in his late 40s in 1970 and has made many appearances in Finnish film throughout the 1970s and 1980s, appearing in many films such as the 1983 James Bond spoof Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit where he...

    , 87, Finnish film and stage actor. http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2010121912888811_uu.shtml (Finnish)
  • Lina Romay, 91, American actress and singer. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/arts/music/28romay.html
  • Sulaiman Taha
    Sulaiman Taha
    Datuk Sulaiman Taha was a Malaysian politician. He was a member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly from 2004 until his death in 2010...

    , 59, Malaysian politician, member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly. http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/12/17/nation/7642035
  • Mikhail Umansky
    Mikhail Umansky
    Mikhail Markovich Umansky , born January 21, 1952 in Stavropol, then USSR, was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, who was the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998...

    , 58, Russian-born German chess grandmaster. http://www.schachverbandschwaben.de/aktuelles.html (German)

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15

  • Ken Ablack
    Ken Ablack
    Robert Kenneth Ablack was a first class cricketer. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad he was a left-arm orthodox spinner who appeared for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club between 1946 and 1949. He also appeared for a West Indies XI in 1944 and for Learie Constantine's XI in 1944 and 1945...

    , 91, Trinidad
    Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

    ian cricket player. http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/8654.html
  • Téclaire Bille, 22, Equatoguinean
    Equatorial Guinea
    Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea where the capital Malabo is situated.Annobón is the southernmost island of Equatorial Guinea and is situated just south of the equator. Bioko island is the northernmost point of Equatorial Guinea. Between the two islands and to the...

     football player, road accident. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/9291695.stm
  • Domini Blythe
    Domini Blythe
    Domini Blythe was a British-born Canadian actress. Her numerous stage and television credits included Search for Tomorrow and Mount Royal....

    , 63, British-born Canadian stage and film actress (Mount Royal
    Mount Royal (TV series)
    Mount Royal was a Canadian prime time television soap opera that aired on CTV. It premiered January 3, 1988 with a two-hour episode. The series starred Patrick Bauchau and Domini Blythe. It is said to be Canada's answer to the American soap opera Dynasty.-Setting:The series was set in an upscale...

    , Search for Tomorrow
    Search for Tomorrow
    Search for Tomorrow is an American soap opera which premiered on September 3, 1951 on CBS. The show was moved from CBS to NBC on March 29, 1982. It continued on NBC until the final episode aired on December 26, 1986, a run of thirty-five years. At the time of its final broadcast it was the...

    ), cancer. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/theatre/article/908152--domini-blythe-star-of-stratford-and-shaw-dies-at-63?bn=1
  • Rachel Bromwich
    Rachel Bromwich
    Rachel Bromwich was a British scholar. Her focus was on medieval Welsh literature, and was Emeritus Reader in Celtic Languages and Literature at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge until her death...

    , 95, British scholar. http://hefenfelth.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/rachel-bromwich-1915-2010/
  • Carlos Pinto Coelho
    Carlos Pinto Coelho
    Carlos Pinto Coelho was a Portuguese journalist, writer, photographer and media personality.-Life and career:Carlos Pinto Coelho was born in Lisbon and lived until he was 19 in Mozambique, African Portuguese colony...

    , 66, Portuguese journalist and television personality, complications from aortic surgery. http://www.publico.pt/Media/morreu-carlos-pinto-coelho-o-senhor-acontece_1471172 (Portuguese)
  • Bernard Patrick Devlin, 89, Irish-born Roman Catholic Bishop of Gibraltar
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Gibraltar
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gibraltar is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The Latin name for the diocese is Gibraltariensis. About twenty priests and nine sisters serve in the diocese...

     (1985–1998). http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=20736
  • Blake Edwards
    Blake Edwards
    Blake Edwards was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.Edwards' career began in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia Pictures...

    , 88, American film director, producer and screenwriter (The Pink Panther
    The Pink Panther
    The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bungling French police detective Jacques Clouseau that began in 1963 with the release of the film of the same name. The role was originated by, and is most closely associated with, Peter Sellers...

    , Breakfast at Tiffany's), pneumonia. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/blake-edwards-prolific-comedy-director-has-died/
  • Anthony Enahoro
    Anthony Enahoro
    Chief Anthony Enahoro, was Nigeria’s foremost anti-colonial and pro-democracy activists. He was born the eldest of twelve children in Uromi in the present Edo State of Nigeria. His Esan parents were Anastasius Okotako Enahoro and Fidelia Inibokun née Ogbidi Okojie...

    , 87, Nigerian political activist. http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/5654169-147/nigeriansmourn_enahoro____.csp
  • Pablo Ndong Esi
    Pablo Ndong Esi
    Pablo Ndong Esi , better known as Boyas, was an Equatoguinean football goalkeeper and manager.-International career:...

    , 41, Equatoguinean
    Equatorial Guinea
    Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea where the capital Malabo is situated.Annobón is the southernmost island of Equatorial Guinea and is situated just south of the equator. Bioko island is the northernmost point of Equatorial Guinea. Between the two islands and to the...

     football player and manager, road accident. http://www.cameroon-tribune.cm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62470:edea-une-prado-entre-sous-une-remorque-trois-morts&catid=35:sport&Itemid=4#contenu (French)
  • Bob Feller
    Bob Feller
    On December 8, 1941, Feller enlisted in the Navy, volunteering immediately for combat service, becoming the first Major League Baseball player to do so following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7. Feller served as Gun Captain aboard the USS Alabama, and missed four seasons during his service...

    , 92, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians
    Cleveland Indians
    The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...

    ), member of Baseball Hall of Fame
    National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
    The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests serving as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, the display of...

    , leukemia. http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-bob-feller-passes-120910,0,2820382.story
  • Stan Heal
    Stan Heal
    Stan "Pops" Heal was an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League as well as West Perth in the West Australian National Football League during the 1940s and early 1950s.Heal played his best football as a wingman but was also used on occasions as a rover...

    , 90, Australian footballer, member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame
    Australian Football Hall of Fame
    The Australian Football Hall of Fame was established in 1996, the Centenary year of the Australian Football League, to help recognise the contributions made to the sport of Australian rules football by players, umpires, media personalities, coaches and administrators. It was initially established...

    . http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/demon-star-stan-pops-heal-dies-at-90/story-e6frf9jf-1225971352888
  • Solange Michel
    Solange Michel
    Solange Michel was a French classical mezzo-soprano who sang in concerts, recitals, and operas from the 1930s to the 1970s...

    , 98, French mezzo-soprano
    Mezzo-soprano
    A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...

    . http://www.forumopera.com/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=2227&cntnt01returnid=34 (French)
  • Tom Newnham
    Tom Newnham
    Thomas Oliver "Tom" Newnham QSO was a New Zealand political activist and former educationalist. He was involved in several left wing causes: attacking institutional racism in New Zealand, and opposing the 1981 Springbok Tour and apartheid in general .He spoke Cantonese and Mandarin fluently after...

    , 84, New Zealand political activist and educationalist, cancer. http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/anti-apartheid-fighter-tom-newnham-dies-3978124
  • Jean Rollin
    Jean Rollin
    Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort .-Early life:Jean Rollin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France to...

    , 72, French film director, actor and novelist, after long illness. http://www.fangoria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2901:rip-jean-rollin&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=167
  • Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
    Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
    Eugene Victor Wolfenstein was an American social theorist, practicing psychoanalyst, and a professor of political science at University of California, Los Angeles.-Early life and education:...

    , 70, American social theorist and psychoanalyst, professor of political science (UCLA), cancer. http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/political-scientist-eugene-v--wolfenstein-is-dead-at-74.aspx

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  • Håkon Christie
    Håkon Christie
    Håkon Andreas Christie was a Norwegian architect. Christie was a scholar of the history of church architecture, particularly stave churches. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.-References:...

    , 88, Norwegian architect. http://www.riksantikvaren.no/?module=Articles;action=Article.publicShow;ID=123568
  • Timothy Davlin
    Timothy Davlin
    Timothy J. Davlin was the mayor of the U.S. city of Springfield, Illinois, from April 2003 until his suicide in December 2010. Though the Mayor's office is officially non-partisan, the Illinois capital has a strong tradition of partisanship, even for municipal races, and both major parties of...

    , 53, American politician, Mayor of Springfield, Illinois
    Springfield, Illinois
    Springfield is the third and current capital of the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 117,400 , making it the sixth most populated city in the state and the second most populated Illinois city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area...

     (since 2003), suicide by gunshot. http://www.sj-r.com/carousel/x860701239/Visitation-funeral-arrangements-announced-for-Davlin
  • Robyn Dawes
    Robyn Dawes
    Robyn Mason Dawes was an American psychologist who specialized in the field of human judgment. His research interests included human irrationality, human cooperation, intuitive expertise, and the United States AIDS policy...

    , 74, American psychologist and professor. http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2010/December/dec15_dawesobituary.shtml
  • Adalbert Eledui
    Adalbert Eledui
    Adalbert Eledui was a member of the Senate of Palau until his death in office.-Notes:...

    , 62, Palau
    Palau
    Palau , officially the Republic of Palau , is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Philippines and south of Tokyo. In 1978, after three decades as being part of the United Nations trusteeship, Palau chose independence instead of becoming part of the Federated States of Micronesia, a...

    an senator and conservationist, after long illness. http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2010/December/12-17-00.htm
  • Ruth Park
    Ruth Park
    Ruth Park, AM was a New Zealand-born author, who spent most of her life in Australia. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow , and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat , which also spawned a book series .-Personal history:Park was born in...

    , 93, New Zealand-born Australian novelist. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/sydneys-dickens-ruth-park-dies-leaving-her-mark-on-nations-psyche/story-e6frg6nf-1225972951293
  • Neva Patterson
    Neva Patterson
    Neva Louise Patterson was an American character actress.Born on a farm near Nevada in Story County in central Iowa, she and her parents moved to New York City in 1938. She made her Broadway debut in 1947's The Druid Circle. In 1952, she played "Helen Sherman" in The Seven Year Itch...

    , 90, American actress (An Affair to Remember
    An Affair to Remember
    An Affair to Remember is a 1957 film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, and directed by Leo McCarey. It was distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation....

    , All the President's Men
    All the President's Men (film)
    All the President's Men is a 1976 Academy Award-winning political thriller film based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post...

    ), complications from a broken hip. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-neva-patterson-20101216,0,5006111.story
  • Pascal Rakotomavo
    Pascal Rakotomavo
    Pascal Joseph Rakotomavo was a Malagasy politician. He was the Prime Minister of Madagascar from 21 February 1997 to 23 July 1998....

    , 76, Malagasy politician, Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Madagascar
    This page contains a list of the Prime Ministers of Madagascar.-Prime Ministers of Madagascar :-Affiliations:*PSD - Social Democratic Party of Madagascar and the Comoros...

     (1997–1998), cardiovascular attack. http://www.africareview.com/News/Former%20Malagasy%20PM%20dead/-/979180/1072852/-/10b55vq/-/
  • Dale Roberts
    Dale Roberts (footballer born 1986)
    Dale Roberts was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper.Roberts started his career in his native North-East with the academy sides at Sunderland and Middlesbrough before he moved to Nottingham Forest. He failed to make Forest's first team and had loans spells with Eastwood Town and...

    , 24, English footballer (Rushden & Diamonds
    Rushden & Diamonds F.C.
    Rushden & Diamonds Football Club was an association football club based in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, England. Formed by a merger of Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds in 1992, the club played in the Conference National following a short spell in the Football League at the start of...

    ), suicide by hanging. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338852/Rushden-Diamonds-goalkeeper-Dale-Roberts-hung-fiances-affair.html
  • Alberto Segado
    Alberto Segado
    Albert Segado was an Argentine actor whose stage and film credits included Asesinato en el Senado de la Nación and I Don't Want to Talk About It....

    , 66, Argentine actor (Asesinato en el Senado de la Nación
    Asesinato en el Senado de la Nación
    Asesinato en el senado de la nación is a 1984 Argentine historical crime drama film directed by Juan José Jusid and written by Carlos Somigliana. The film starred José Soriano, Miguel Ángel Solá and Oscar Martínez and premiered on 13 September 1984 in Buenos Aires...

    ). http://www.telam.com.ar/vernota.php?tipo=N&idPub=206384&id=392218&dis=1&sec=1 (Spanish)

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  • James Dibble
    James Dibble
    James Edward Dibble AM MBE was an Australian television presenter, best known as the presenter of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Sydney news, reading the first news bulletin in 1956, and remaining with the ABC for 27 years up until his retirement in 1983.-Career:Dibble joined the ABC...

    , 87, Australian television news presenter, cancer. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/13/3092176.htm
  • Maynard W. Glitman
    Maynard W. Glitman
    Maynard Wayne Glitman was an American diplomat.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Glitman negotiated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987. Later, Glitman served as the United States Ambassador to Belgium 1988-1991.Glitman died at the age of 77 on December 13 after a struggle with...

    , 77, American diplomat, negotiator of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
    Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
    The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. Signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on December 8, 1987, it was ratified by the United States Senate on May 27, 1988 and...

    , complications from dementia. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/world/16glitman.html
  • Rick Griffiths
    Rick Griffiths
    Rick Griffiths was an Australian Aboriginal activist and representative. He was the CEO of the Mindaribba Local Aboriginal Land Council and one of the final Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commissioners prior to the abolition of the Commission.-Background:Griffiths was born in 1948 in the...

    , Australian Aboriginal activist and ATSIC commissioner. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/14/3093251.htm
  • Richard Holbrooke
    Richard Holbrooke
    Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, and investment banker....

    , 69, American diplomat, Ambassador to Germany
    United States Ambassador to Germany
    The United States has had diplomatic relations with the nation of Germany and its predecessor nation, the Kingdom of Prussia, since 1835. These relations were broken twice while Germany and the United States were at war...

     (1993–1994) and United Nations
    United States Ambassador to the United Nations
    The United States Ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the U.S. delegation, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. The position is more formally known as the "Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador...

     (1999–2001), complications from aortic dissection
    Aortic dissection
    Aortic dissection occurs when a tear in the inner wall of the aorta causes blood to flow between the layers of the wall of the aorta and force the layers apart. The dissection typically extends anterograde, but can extend retrograde from the site of the intimal tear. Aortic dissection is a medical...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/world/14holbrooke.html
  • Enrique Morente
    Enrique Morente
    Enrique Morente Cotelo, known as Enrique Morente, was a flamenco singer and a controversial figure within the world of contemporary flamenco...

    , 67, Spanish flamenco singer. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=12383182
  • Remmy Ongala
    Remmy Ongala
    Ramadhani "Remmy" Mtoro Ongala was a Tanzanian guitarist and singer. Ongala was born in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo....

    , 63, Tanzanian singer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11984676
  • Karen Sorito, 49, American movie marketing executive, cancer. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/15/local/la-me-karen-sortito-20101215
  • Takeshi Watabe
    Takeshi Watabe
    was a Japanese voice actor. He was born in Kōchi Prefecture. He usually played villains and performed the voices for many anime characters and tokusatsu villains. He is most famous for voicing Kaminari in Doraemon...

    , 74, Japanese voice actor, pneumonia. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-12-16/voice-actor-takeshi-watabe-passes-away-at-74
  • Woolly Wolstenholme
    Woolly Wolstenholme
    Stuart John Wolstenholme, usually known as Woolly Wolstenholme was vocalist and keyboard player with the British progressive rock band Barclay James Harvest.-Biography:...

    , 63, British progressive rock
    Progressive rock
    Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

     musician (Barclay James Harvest
    Barclay James Harvest
    Barclay James Harvest are an English progressive rock band. They were founded in Saddleworth, Lancashire, in September 1966 by John Lees, Les Holroyd, Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme , and Mel Pritchard .-History:...

    ), suicide. http://www.woollywolstenholme.co.uk/news.htm

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  • Manuel Caballero
    Manuel Caballero
    Manuel Antonio Caballero Agüero was a notable Venezuelan historian, journalist, best-selling author and professor of contemporary Venezuelan History at the Central University of Venezuela....

    , 79, Venezuelan historian, journalist and author, complications following prostate surgery. http://www.letralia.com/243/1212caballero.htm (Spanish)
  • Lachhiman Gurung
    Lachhiman Gurung
    Lachhiman Gurung VC was a Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...

    , 92, Nepalese-born British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
    Victoria Cross
    The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/gurkha-obituaries/8199764/Havildar-Lachhiman-Gurung-VC.html
  • Raymond Kalisz
    Raymond Kalisz
    Raymond Philip Kalisz was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wewak, Papua New Guinea....

    , 83, American-born Papuan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wewak
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Wewak
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Wewak is a suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madang. It was elevated to a diocese in 1966.-Bishops of Wewak:*Camisio Teodoro Gellings, SS.CC. *Adalberto Ottone Rielander, SS.CC....

     (1980–2002). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkalisz.html
  • Timothée Malendoma
    Timothée Malendoma
    Timothée Malendoma was a Central African politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 4 December 1992 to 26 February 1993...

    , 75, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1992–1993). http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20101214-centrafrique-deces-ex-premier-ministre-opposant-timothee-malendoma (French)
  • Ros Mey
    Ros Mey
    Venerable Ros Mey was a Cambodian-born American Buddhist monk and survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime. Mey was the Chov Atika, or head monk, of Wat Thormikaram, the first ethnic Khmer Buddhist temple in the United States, which is located in Providence, Rhode Island.- Early Life in Cambodia :Mey...

    , 85, Cambodian-born American Buddhist monk and community leader, survivor of Khmer Rouge
    Khmer Rouge
    The Khmer Rouge literally translated as Red Cambodians was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan...

     regime. http://www.projo.com/news/content/MONK_DIES_12-15-10_09LFOTP_v16.2ec57ae.html
  • Carleton Naiche-Palmer
    Carleton Naiche-Palmer
    Carleton A. Naiche-Palmer was elected president of the Mescalero Apache Tribe in 2008. He served one term, until early 2010.-Early life and education:...

    , 63, American tribal leader, President of the Mescalero Apache (2008–2010). http://www.webcitation.org/5vKEs18Bc
  • Emmanuel Ogoli
    Emmanuel Ogoli
    Emmanuel Ogoli was a Nigerian professional footballer who played as a left back.-Career:Ogoli played club football for Bayelsa United and Ocean Boys. On 12 December 2010, Ogoli collapsed on the pitch while playing for Ocean Boys, and died later in hospital. Ogoli had earlier received a "horror...

    , 21, Nigerian footballer. http://www.supersport.com/football/nigeria/news/101212/Ocean_Boys_defender_Ogoli_is_dead
  • B. S. Ranga
    B. S. Ranga
    Bindinganavale Srinivas Iyengar Ranga was born in Magadi Village in the erstwhile princely state of Mysore . After an art-enriched childhood wherein he interacted with many stage personalities, B.S.Ranga entered the field of photography...

    , 93, Indian film director. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article948381.ece
  • Helen Roberts
    Helen Roberts
    Helen Florence Roberts , later known by her married name, Betty Walker, was an English singer and actress, best known for her performances in soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company....

    , 98, British singer and actress. http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/whowaswho/R/RobertsHelen.htm
  • William Thompson, 71, British politician, MP for West Tyrone
    West Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)
    West Tyrone is a county constituency in Northern Ireland, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post voting system.-Boundaries:...

     (1997–2001). http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/former-unionist-mp-willie-thompson-dies-15028326.html
  • Tom Walkinshaw
    Tom Walkinshaw
    Tom Walkinshaw was a Scottish racing car driver and the founder of the racing team Tom Walkinshaw Racing...

    , 64, British engineer and racing team owner (Tom Walkinshaw Racing
    Tom Walkinshaw Racing
    Tom Walkinshaw Racing , was an auto racing team and engineering firm founded in 1976 by touring car racer Tom Walkinshaw.-History:TWR started by modifying BMW 3.0 CSLs, but soon was contracted to head Mazda's works program in the British Touring Car Championship. The TWR developed RX-7, with Win...

    , Arrows
    Arrows
    Arrows Grand Prix International was a British Formula One team active from to . For a period of time, it was also known as Footwork.-Origins :...

    ), cancer. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/88672

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  • José dos Santos Garcia
    José dos Santos Garcia
    José dos Santos Garcia S.M.P. was a Portuguese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. At the age of 97, he was one of the oldest Roman Catholic bishops and the oldest Mozambican bishop at the time of his death....

    , 97, Portuguese-born Mozambican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto Amélia (1957–1975). http://www.agencia.ecclesia.pt/cgi-bin/noticia.pl?id=83222 (Portuguese)
  • Dick Hoerner
    Dick Hoerner
    Lester Junior "Dick" Hoerner was an American football player. He played fullback for the University of Iowa in 1942 and 1946 and for the Los Angeles Rams from 1947 to 1951...

    , 88, American football player (Los Angeles Rams
    St. Louis Rams
    The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...

    ), stroke. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20101215,0,2712316.story
  • MacKenzie Miller
    MacKenzie Miller
    Mackenzie Todd Miller was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and owner/breeder. During his forty-six year career, he conditioned seventy-two stakes winners, including four Eclipse Award champions....

    , 89, American racehorse trainer, owner and breeder, Hall of Famer
    National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
    The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers...

    , complications of a stroke. http://www.drf.com/news/hall-fame-trainer-mack-miller-dies-age-89-0
  • Urszula Modrzyńska
    Urszula Modrzynska
    Urszula Modrzyńska was a Polish stage and film actress.Modrzyńska began her career on stage in 1949 in Wilam Horzyca Theater in Toruń. In the 1950s and 1960 she played several memorable parts in movies by Polish directors, namely by Andrzej Wajda ) and Aleksander Ford .In the 1970s she played only...

    , 82, Polish actress. http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/ (Polish)
  • Roger Nicole
    Roger Nicole
    Roger R. Nicole was a native Swiss Reformed theologian and a Baptist, long regarded as one of the preeminent theologians in America. He was a Christian Egalitarian and Biblical Inerrantist. He was an associate editor for the New Geneva Study Bible and assisted in the translation of the New...

    , 95, Swiss-born American Evangelical Christian theologian. http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2010/12/11/roger-nicole-1915-2010
  • Peter Risi
    Peter Risi
    Peter Risi was a Swiss footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a striker.-Career:...

    , 60, Swiss footballer, after long illness. http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/sport/agenturen-ticker/Peter-Risi-60-gestorben/story/17155223 (German)

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9


8

  • Murray Armstrong
    Murray Armstrong
    Murray Alexander Armstrong was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and NCAA hockey coach.-Playing career:...

    , 94, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings
    Detroit Red Wings
    The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York...

    , Toronto Maple Leafs
    Toronto Maple Leafs
    The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

    ) and coach (University of Denver
    University of Denver
    The University of Denver is currently ranked 82nd among all public and private "National Universities" by U.S. News & World Report in the 2012 rankings....

    ), complications from a stroke. http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_16817752
  • Walter Haeussermann
    Walter Haeussermann
    Walter Haeussermann was a German-American aerospace engineer and member of the "von Braun rocket group", both at Peenemünde and later at Marshall Space Flight Center, where he was the director of the guidance and control laboratory...

    , 96, German-born American rocket scientist, complications from a fall. http://blog.al.com/space-news/2010/12/rocket_pioneer_von_braun_team.html
  • John James, 76, Australian footballer, Brownlow Medal
    Brownlow Medal
    The Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...

    list, stroke. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/blues-champion-john-james-dies/story-e6freck3-1225967565343
  • Trev Thoms
    Trev Thoms
    Trev Thoms also known as Judge Trev Thoms and Judge Trev was a British guitarist.In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he played in a blues-rock group with hints of progressive rock and heavy rock called Iron Maiden - not the famous group of the same name - along with Barry Skeels, who later played...

    , 60, British guitarist (Inner City Unit
    Inner City Unit
    Inner City Unit is a British punk/space rock band fronted by ex-Hawkwind founder Nik Turner on saxophone with Judge Trev Thoms or Steve Pond , Dead Fred , Baz Magneto, Dave Anderson or Nazar Ali Khan , and Mick Stupp or Dino Ferari on drums.-History:Thoms and Ferrari were both key members of...

    , Atomgods
    Atomgods
    Atomgods were a UK heavy rock band from late 1980s.The band were formed by former Inner City Unit guitarist Judge Trev Thoms, the first recording lineup consisting of Hiro Sasaki and Kofi Baker...

    ), pancreatic cancer. http://www.theargus.co.uk/announcements/deaths/8735913.Judge_Trev/

7

  • Peter Andry
    Peter Andry (record producer)
    Peter Andry was an German-born British record producer of classical music and former head of EMI's classical division....

    , 83, Australian-born British record producer (Decca Records
    Decca Records
    Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....

    , EMI Classics
    EMI Classics
    EMI Classics is a record label of EMI, formed in 1990 in order to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogs for internationally distributed classical music releases....

    ), cancer. http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/obituary-peter-andry
  • John E. Baldwin
    John E. Baldwin
    John Evan Baldwin FRS has worked at the Cavendish Astrophysics Group since 1954. He played a pivotal role in the development of interferometry in Radio Astronomy, and later astronomical optical interferometry and lucky imaging...

    , 79, British astronomer. http://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/notices-2010/
  • Hendrik Coetzee
    Hendrik Coetzee
    Hendrik "Hendri" Coetzee was a renowned South African outdoorsman and author. He was killed after being taken by a crocodile in December 2010....

    , 35, South African kayaker and adventurer, crocodile attack. http://www.smh.com.au/world/a-life-of-extremes-whitewater-legend--taken-by-maneater-20101210-18s07.html
  • Elizabeth Edwards
    Elizabeth Edwards
    Elizabeth Anania Edwards was an American attorney, a best-selling author and a health care activist. She was married to John Edwards, the former U.S...

    , 61, American author, lawyer and political activist, breast cancer. http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5573188/
  • Fan Yew Teng
    Fan Yew Teng
    Fan Yew Teng was former Acting Secretary-General of the Democratic Action Party, Malaysia, former Member of Parliament for Kampar and Menglembu , and former Selangor State Assemblyman for Petaling Jaya...

    , Malaysian politician and human rights activist. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/12/7/nation/20101207193647&sec=nation
  • John A. Ferraro
    John A. Ferraro
    John A. Ferraro was an American actor, academic, stage director and television director. His credits as a director included Sesame Street, as well as Broadway and off-Broadway plays....

    , 64, American television actor and director, colon cancer. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20101215,0,2712316.story
  • Samuel Pailthorpe King
    Samuel Pailthorpe King
    Samuel Pailthorpe King was an American lawyer and judge. Since 1972 he served as judge on the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.-Life:...

    , 94, American district court judge (District of Hawaii
    United States District Court for the District of Hawaii
    The United States District Court for the District of Hawaii is the principal trial court of the United States Federal Court System in the state of Hawaii. It is located at the Prince Kuhio Federal Building in downtown Honolulu, fronting the Aloha Tower and Honolulu Harbor. The court hears both...

    , 1972–1984), injuries from a fall. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/18/local/la-me-samuel-king-20101218
  • Art Mahan
    Art Mahan
    Arthur Leo Mahan was a former professional baseball player, who played as a first baseman in the major leagues for the Philadelphia Phillies during the season. Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, he batted and threw left-handed.Mahan played in the Boston Red Sox organization from 1936 until he...

    , 97, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies
    Philadelphia Phillies
    The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...

    ) and college baseball coach (Villanova
    Villanova Wildcats
    The Villanova Wildcats is the name of the athletic teams of Villanova University. They compete in the Big East for every sport except football, where they compete in the Colonial Athletic Association .-Men's basketball:The Villanova Wildcats compete in the Big EAST and are currently coached by Jay...

    ), heart failure. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/sports_breaking/20101208_Former_Phillie_Art_Mahan_dies_at_97.html
  • Gus Mercurio
    Gus Mercurio
    Augustino Eugenio "Gus" Mercurio was an American-born Australian character actor who appeared on both film and television.-Early life :...

    , 82, American-born Australian boxer and actor. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/07/3087306.htm?section=entertainment
  • Kari Tapio
    Kari Tapio
    Kari Tapani Jalkanen , better known by his stage name Kari Tapio, was a Finnish schlager and country & western singer. He was one of the most popular singers in Finland for decades, selling over 826,000 certified records during his career and posthumously.Tapio was born in Suonenjoki, Finland...

    , 65, Finnish schlager
    Schlager
    Schlager music is a style of popular music prevalent in Central and Northern Europe and the Balkans and also in France and Poland. In Portugal, it was adapted and became pimba music...

     singer, heart attack. http://www.oikotimes.com/v2/index.php?file=articles&id=9359
  • Federico Vairo
    Federico Vairo
    Federico Vairo was an Argentine football defender who won three consecutive league titles with River Plate and represented Argentina at the 1958 World Cup....

    , 80, Argentine footballer and coach, stomach cancer. http://www.rosario3.com/deportes/noticias.aspx?idNot=82605 (Spanish)
  • Armin Weiss, 83, German chemist and politician. http://www.gruene-fraktion-bayern.de/cms/presse/dok/364/364369.sein_herzensthema_war_der_kampf_gegen_di.html (German)
  • Arnold Weiss
    Arnold Weiss
    Arnold Hans Weiss was a German-born refugee from Nazi Germany who emigrated to the United States where he became an intelligence officer working for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and played a key role in the discovery of the last will and testament of Adolf Hitler, dictated...

    , 86, German-born American soldier, helped discover Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

    's will, pneumonia. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/world/02weiss.html?ref=obituaries

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5

  • Alan Armer
    Alan Armer
    Alan A. Armer was an American television writer, producer, and director.Born in Los Angeles, Armer received a bachelor's degree in speech and drama from Stanford University, a master's in theatre arts from UCLA and an honorary doctor's degree from California State University, Northridge.After...

    , 88, American Emmy Award-winning television producer (The Fugitive
    The Fugitive (TV series)
    The Fugitive is an American drama series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen stars as Richard Kimble, a doctor from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana, who is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death...

    ), colon cancer. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-alan-armer-20101209,0,1290060.story
  • Shamil Burziyev
    Shamil Burziyev
    Shamil Gasanovich Burziyev was a Russian professional football player.-Club career:Dagestan- born Burziyev played the majority of his career in the lower leagues of Russian football. With Anzhi he also featured in the Russian Premier League and helped them to avoid relegation after reaching the...

    , 25, Russian footballer, car crash. http://www.fc-anji.ru/news.php?id=1083 (Russian)
  • David French, 71, Canadian playwright, cancer. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2010/12/05/david-french.html
  • María Ester Gatti
    María Ester Gatti
    María Ester Gatti de Islas was a Uruguayan teacher and human rights activist.She founded Madres y Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos, following the abduction and disappearance of her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter during the Dirty War in neighboring Argentina in...

    , 92, Uruguayan human rights activist. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/world/americas/07islas.html
  • Heda Margolius Kovály
    Heda Margolius Kovály
    Heda Margolius Kovály was a Czech writer.- Early life :She was born Heda Bloch to Jewish parents in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where she lived until 1941 when her family was rounded up along with the rest of the city's Jewish population and taken to the Lodz Ghetto in central Poland.-...

    , 91, Czech author and Holocaust survivor. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/8192521/Heda-Kovaly.html
  • John Leslie, 65, American pornographic film actor and director, heart attack. http://business.avn.com/articles/Industry-Veteran-John-Leslie-Passes-Away-of-Apparent-Heart-Attack-418821.html
  • Don Meredith
    Don Meredith
    Joseph Don "Dandy Don" Meredith was an American football quarterback, sports commentator and actor. He spent all nine seasons of his professional playing career with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League . He was named to the Pro Bowl in each of his last three years as a player...

    , 72, American football player (Dallas Cowboys
    Dallas Cowboys
    The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...

    ) and commentator (Monday Night Football
    Monday Night Football
    Monday Night Football is a live broadcast of the National Football League on ESPN. From to it aired on ABC. Monday Night Football was, along with Hallmark Hall of Fame, and the Walt Disney anthology television series, one of the longest running prime time commercial network television series...

    ), brain hemorrhage. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/120610dnspomeredithobit.8ac4895.html
  • John Thomas Steinbock
    John Thomas Steinbock
    John Thomas Steinbock was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the fourth Bishop of Fresno.-Biography:...

    , 73, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santa Rosa
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States, named in honor of St. Rose of Lima. It comprises the Counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa and...

     (1987–1991) and Fresno
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno is a particular church of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the western region of the United States, in the State of California. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles...

     (since 1991), lung cancer. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16784703
  • Virgilio Teixeira
    Virgilio Teixeira (actor)
    Virgilio Delgado Teixeira was a Portuguese film, television and stage actor, known for roles in both Portuguese and American films. He was known as a Portuguese "hearthrob" and a leading actor during the 1940s and 1950s....

    , 93, Portuguese actor (Return of the Seven
    Return of the Seven
    Return of the Seven , is the first sequel to the 1960 western, The Magnificent Seven. Made in 1966, Yul Brynner is the sole returning cast member from the first film, portraying Chris Adams....

    , The Fall of the Roman Empire
    The Fall of the Roman Empire (film)
    The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 1964 English-language epic film produced by Samuel Bronston Productions and the Rank Organisation, and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston with Jaime Prades and Michal Waszynski as associate producers. The...

    , El Cid
    El Cid (film)
    El Cid is a historical epic film, a romanticized story of the life of the Christian Castilian knight Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called "El Cid" who in the 11th century fought the North African Almoravides and ultimately contributed to the unification of Spain.Made by Samuel Bronston Productions in...

    ). http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/detalhe/noticias/ultima-hora/actor-virgilio-teixeira-morre-aos-93-anos (Portuguese)

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  • Manish Acharya
    Manish Acharya
    Manish Acharya was an Indian film director and actor. Acharya was best known for Loins of Punjab Presents, which marked Acharya's debut as a film director. Loins of Punjab Presents, which was released in 2007, starred Shabana Azmi...

    , 40, Indian film director and actor, fall from horse. http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?ID=ENTEN20100162222&keyword=bollywood&subcatg=MOVIESINDIA
  • Pamela Bryant
    Pamela Bryant
    Pamela Jean Bryant was an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1978 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley....

    , 51, American model, actress (H.O.T.S.
    H.O.T.S.
    H.O.T.S. is a 1979 sex comedy about a sorority named H.O.T.S. The film stars three Playboy Playmates-- Susan Kiger , Pamela Bryant and Sandy Johnson -- as well as former Miss USA of 1972, Lindsay Bloom, sexploitation actress Angela Aames and B-movie veteran Lisa London...

    ), and Playboy
    Playboy
    Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

     Playmate of the Month (April 1978), natural causes. http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=bryant%2C+pamela+jean&limit=0
  • Pierre de Beaumont
    Pierre de Beaumont
    Count Wolston Pierre Stuart de Beaumont, aka Pete de Beaumont was an American mechanical engineer who was a founder of Brookstone, a chain of specialty stores.-Birth and childhood:...

    , 96, Franco-American founder of Brookstone
    Brookstone
    Brookstone is a chain of retail stores in the United States. Its first store was opened in 1973 in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Its headquarters are currently located in Merrimack, New Hampshire....

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/business/19beaumont.html
  • Lia Dorana
    Lia Dorana
    Lia Dorana was a Dutch comedian and actress. Dorana was born Beppy van Werven in The Hague on July 18, 1918. She was discovered by Dutch singer and cabaret singer Wim Sonneveld, with whom she launched her early career...

    , 92, Dutch actress and comedienne. http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/8413619/__Lia_Dorana_overleden__.html (Dutch)
  • Cathy Harvin
    Cathy Harvin
    Cathy Jane Harvin was an American Democratic politician and legislator from South Carolina.Born to Janet A. and Hyman J. Brand in Quantico, Virginia, she graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1975...

    , 56, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
    South Carolina House of Representatives
    The South Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly, the upper house being the South Carolina Senate. It consists of 124 Representatives elected to two year terms at the same time as US Congressional elections...

     (since 2006), breast cancer. http://www.theitem.com/news/article_e2aedb77-8739-5e69-bd34-ad1b49fce32f.html
  • Torodd Hauer
    Torodd Hauer
    Torodd Hauer was a Norwegian speed skater who competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics.In 1948 he finished sixth in the 500 metres competition.-External links:* *...

    , 88, Norwegian Olympic speed skater. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/torodd-hauer-1.html
  • King Curtis Iaukea
    King Curtis Iaukea
    Curtis Piehau Iaukea, III was a professional wrestler better known as King Curtis Iaukea. Iaukea won championships in several of the major regional US promotions, both as a single and in various tag team combinations, during the 1960s. He then competed in the World Wrestling Federation where he...

    , 73, American professional wrestler, after long illness. http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports/20101205_former_pro_wrestler_iaukea_dies_at_age_73.html
  • Jacques Lafleur
    Jacques Lafleur
    Jacques Lafleur was a French politician born in Nouméa, New Caledonia.Lafleur was a onetime leader of one of the two anti-independence parties in New Caledonia, the RPCR . He was a signatory to the Matignon Accords in 1988 and the Nouméa Accord in 1998...

    , 78, French politician, leader of New Caledonia
    New Caledonia
    New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...

     anti-independence movement. http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=57471
  • Ken Lehman
    Ken Lehman
    Kenneth Karl Lehman was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who pitched for three different teams between the 1952 and 1961 seasons...

    , 82, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/huskies/2013762290_lehmanobit26.html
  • Heather Stilwell
    Heather Stilwell
    Heather Stilwell was a political activist and former school trustee in Surrey, British Columbia. A staunch Roman Catholic, she was well-known for her opinions opposing homosexuality, abortion, and sex education....

    , 66, Canadian anti-abortion activist and politician, leader of the Christian Heritage Party
    Christian Heritage Party of Canada
    The Christian Heritage Party of Canada, also referred to as CHP Canada, is a federal political party that advocates that Canada be governed according to Biblical principles...

     (1993–1994), breast cancer. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Heather+Stilwell+former+Surrey+school+board+chair+dies+cancer/3935916/story.html
  • Dagoberto Suárez Melo
    Dagoberto Suárez Melo
    Dagoberto Suárez Melo was a Colombian politician who served as the Governor of Guaviare Department in 2010.Suárez's predecessor as the Governor of Guaviare, Oscar López Cadavid, resigned from office due to an investigation over his alleged ties to drug traffickers and Pedro "Cuchillo" Oliveiro...

    , 35, Colombian politician, Governor of Guaviare
    Guaviare Department
    Guaviare is a department of Colombia. It is in the southern central region of the country. Its capital is San José del Guaviare. Guaviare was created on July 4, 1991 by the new Political Constitution of Colombia...

     (2010), car crash. http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/llano/en-grave-estado-de-salud-est-gobernador-del-guaviare_8518620-4 (Spanish)

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  • Marvin Bass
    Marvin Bass
    Marvin Crosby Bass was the head coach of The College of William & Mary's football team in 1951 and 1952. He compiled an 11–8 overall record. He also coached the South Carolina Gamecocks football team for five seasons....

    , 91, American college football
    College football
    College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

     player and coach. http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13612705
  • Hugues Cuénod
    Hugues Cuénod
    Hugues-Adhémar Cuénod was a Swiss tenor known for his performances in opera, operetta, both traditional and musical theatre, and on the concert stage, where he was particularly known for his light, romantic and expressive interpretation of mélodie...

    , 108, Swiss tenor. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/8187377/Hugues-Cuenod.html
  • Phil Jasner
    Phil Jasner
    Phil Jasner , was an award-winning sports journalist in Philadelphia.Phil Jasner joined the staff of the Philadelphia Daily News in 1972. Jasner covered the 76ers and the NBA on a full-time basis from 1981 up until his death...

    , 68, American sportswriter, cancer. http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/sixers/20101204_Phil_Jasner_dies__was_DN_reporter.html
  • Elaine Kaufman
    Elaine Kaufman
    Elaine Edna Kaufman was a restaurateur whose Manhattan restaurant Elaine's attracted a following among prominent actors, writers, and other celebrities.-Life and career:...

    , 81, American restaurateur, founder of Elaine's
    Elaine's
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    , emphysema and pulmonary hypertension. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/famed_restaurateur_elaine_kaufman_PgECgjphIh5HMITFO9cQNM
  • Donald Pass
    Donald Pass
    Donald Pass is a British painter whose art has been compared to that of William Blake by a reviewer in an Oxford newspaper, among others. He is known for work based on a vision he experienced, which has been interpreted as the Resurrection of the Dead...

    , 80, British abstract painter. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/mar/27/donald-pass-obituary
  • José Ramos Delgado
    José Ramos Delgado
    José Manuel Ramos Delgado was an Argentine footballer and manager. He played for the Argentine national team in two World Cups and had a successful tenure in Brazilian football with Santos. He went on to become a football manager, working in Argentina and Peru.-Club:Ramos Delgado started his...

    , 75, Argentine footballer and coach, Alzheimer's disease. http://www.urgente24.com/noticias/val/902/murio-el-negro-ramos-delgado-el-argentino-que-jugo-con-pele.html (Spanish)
  • Ron Santo
    Ron Santo
    Ronald Edward Santo was an American professional baseball player and long-time radio sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball from 1960 to 1974, most notably as the third baseman for the Chicago Cubs. A nine-time All-Star, he was a powerful hitter who was also a good defensive...

    , 70, American baseball player and broadcaster (Chicago Cubs
    Chicago Cubs
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    ), complications from diabetes and bladder cancer. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20101224/sports/712259923/
  • Skip Young
    Skip Young
    Galton W. Young, better known as Skip Young and Sweet Brown Sugar was an American professional wrestler who competed on the Southeastern regional promotions during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s in Florida Championship Wrestling, World Class Championship Wrestling and the National...

    , 59, American professional wrestler. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2010/12/08/16479471.html

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