Notable Deaths of 2010 (April)

… and Some In Memoriam from Other Years.

APRIL
April 1st, 2010
Timothy White, 35
American Kidnapping Victim 1980 Pulmonary Embolism

Morag Beaton, 83
Scottish-born Australian operatic soprano

Vito De Grisantis, 68
Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca (2000 –2010)

Anders Eklund, 52
Swedish boxer

John Forsythe, 92
American actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty)

Yuri Maslyukov, 72
Russian politician, Vice Premier of Soviet Union (1988 – 1990) and Russia (1998 – 1999)

Lek Nana, 85
Thai businessman and politician

Ed Roberts, 68
American computer pioneer

Tzannis Tzannetakis, 82
Greek politician, Prime Minister (1989)

Beryl Whiteley, 93
Australian arts patron, mother of Brett Whiteley

April 2nd, 2010
Roman Bannwart, 90
Swiss theologian and musician

Edward Bayda, 78
Canadian jurist, Chief Justice of Saskatchewan (1981 – 2006)

Din Beramboi, 43
Malaysian comedian, actor and radio DJ

Mike Cuellar, 72
Cuban Major League Baseball player

Dávid Daróczi, 37
Hungarian journalist

Chris Kanyon, 40
American professional wrestler

Sonia McMahon (Lady McMahon), 77
Australian socialite, widow of former Prime Minister Sir William McMahon

Thomas J Moyer, 70
American jurist, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1987 – 2010)

Carolyn Rodgers, 69
American poet

William Soeryadjaya, 87
Indonesian businessman, founder of Astra International

Mike Zwerin, 79
American jazz musician and jazz critic

April 3rd, 2010
Oleg Kopayev, 72
Russian footballer, Soviet Top League top scorer (1963, 1965)

Roland MacLeod, 74
British actor (Coronation Street, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin)

Craig Noel, 94
American theatre producer, director and administrator of the Old Globe Theatre

Jim Pagliaroni, 72
American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics)

Ferdinand Simoneit, 84
German journalist, author and WWII veteran

Eugène Terre'Blanche, 69
South African white separatist leader, beating

Jesús Vásquez, 89
Peruvian singer

April 4th, 2010
Lajos Bálint, 80
Hungarian-born Romanian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Alba Iulia (1990 – 1993)

Sir Alec Bedser, 91
English cricketer

Matt Cook, 22
Canadian ice sledge hockey player

Clifford M Hardin, 94
American politician, Secretary of Agriculture (1969 – 1971)

Rudy Kousbroek, 80
Dutch essayist

John B McCoy, 97
American banker (Bank One Corporation)

Kelly Moran, 49
American motorcycle speedway racer

Abubakar Rimi, 70
Nigerian politician

Shio Sato, 59
Japanese manga artist

Henry Scarpelli, 79
American comic book artist (Archie), after long illness

Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke, 87
German mathematician and professor

Erich Zenger, 70
German Roman Catholic theologian and bible scholar

April 5th, 2010
Jerry Elliott, 73
American judge, Kansas Court of Appeals (since 1987)

Earle Hackett, 88
Irish-born Australian pathologist, broadcaster and arts administrator

Konstantin Katuschew, 82
Russian politician

Günther C Kirchberger, 81
German professor and painter

Ricardo Lavié, 87
Argentine actor

William Neill, 88
British poet

Kalahasti Parvatheeswara Prasad, 66
Indian professor of electrical engineering, Humboldt Fellow

Helen Ranney, 89
American hematologist

Molefi Sefularo, 52
South African politician

Vitali Sevastyanov, 74
Russian Soviet cosmonaut

David Simons, 87
American Air Force balloonist

Gisela Trowe, 86
German actress

April 6th, 2010
James Aubrey, 62
British actor (Lord of the Flies, Bouquet of Barbed Wire)

Eddie Carroll, 76
Canadian voice actor (Jiminy Cricket)

Vinnie Chas
American bassist (Pretty Boy Floyd)

Anatoly Dobrynin, 90
Russian diplomat and politician, Soviet Ambassador to the United States (1962 – 1986)

Jack Flannery, 57
American off-road racer

Takuya Kimura, 37
Japanese baseball player and coach

Guillermo Luca de Tena, 82
Spanish journalist

Tony MacGibbon, 85
New Zealand cricketer

Wilma Mankiller, 64
American activist, first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985 – 1995)

Neva Morris, 114
American supercentenarian, oldest person in the United States

Anthony Perici, 89
Maltese-born American politician, Mayor of Twinsburg, Ohio (1976 – 1987)

David Quayle, 73
British businessman (B&Q)

Corin Redgrave, 70
British actor and political activist

Hans Schröder, 79
German sculptor and painter

Sid Storey, 90
English footballer

Luigi Waites, 82
American jazz drummer and vibraphonist

April 7th, 2010
Christopher Cazenove, 64
British actor (Dynasty)

Graciela, 94
Cuban singer

Chris Limahelu, 59
American football place kicker (USC)

J Bruce Llewellyn, 82
American businessman and activist, a founder of 100 Black Men of America

George Nissen, 96
American gymnast, co-inventor of the trampoline

Tom Ray, 90
American animation cartoonist (Warner Bros Cartoons)

April 8th, 2010
Jack Agnew, 88
American soldier, member of the Filthy Thirteen, inspiration for The Dirty Dozen

Mark Colville, 76
4th Viscount Colville of Culross, British judge and hereditary peer

Chanan Eshel, 51
Israeli archaeologist

Antony Flew, 87
British philosopher

Guy Kewney, 63
British technology journalist (Personal Computer World)

Aladár Kovácsi, 77
Hungarian modern pentathlete, Olympic gold medalist (Helsinki 1952)

Andreas Kunze, 57
German actor

Malcolm McLaren, 64
British musician and band manager (Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, Bow Wow Wow)

Abel Muzorewa, 84
Zimbabwean Methodist bishop and politician, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979)

Personal Ensign, 26
American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse, natural causes

Al Prince, 67
American-born French Polynesian journalist and tourism expert

Jean-Paul Proust, 70
Monégasque politician, Minister of State (2005 – 2010)

John Schoenherr, 74
American Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator

Teddy Scholten, 83
Dutch singer

Ramchandra Siras, 62
Indian linguist and author

Michel Türler, 65
Swiss Olympic ice hockey player

Zhang Guosheng, 54
Chinese Mayor of Putian

April 9th, 2010
Daniel Robert de Jesus, 28
Brazilian footballer

Vic Frank, 83
American Olympic athlete

Bob Franks, 58
American politician, member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey (1993 – 2001)

Hisashi Inoue, 75
Japanese pacifist playwright

Meir Just, 101
Dutch Chief Rabbi

Robert Lau Hoi Chew, 68
Malaysian politician, Deputy Minister for Transport

Gisela Karau, 78
German author, editor and columnist

Dario Mangiarotti, 94
Italian Olympic gold (1952) and silver (1948, 1952) medal-winning fencer

Kenneth McKellar, 82
Scottish singer

Jacob O Meyer, 75
American religion leader (Assemblies of Yahweh)

William Moisan, 84
American baseball player (Chicago Cubs)

Meinhardt Raabe, 94
American actor (The Wizard of Oz)

Peter Ramsbotham, 90
3rd Viscount Soulbury, British diplomat and politician, Governor of Bermuda (1977 – 1980)

Lou Ritter, 84
American politician, Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1965 – 1967)

Guyford Stever, 93
American educator and science adviser, President of Carnegie Mellon University (1965 – 1972)

Kerstin Thorvall, 84
Swedish author, illustrator and journalist

Valentin Turchin, 79
Russian-born American computer scientist and human rights activist

Zoltán Varga, 65
Hungarian footballer

Yasunori Watanabe, 35
Japanese rugby player

April 10th, 2010
Dixie Carter, 70
American actress (Designing Women, Diff’rent Strokes), endometrial cancer

Arthur Mercante, Sr., 90
American boxing referee

Hiro Muramoto, 43
Japanese news cameraman (Reuters), shot

Manfred Reichert, 69
German footballer

Sir Gordon Shattock, 81
British politician, survivor of the Brighton hotel bombing

William Walker, 78
American opera singer

Notable Polish People Killed in the Polish Air Force Tu-154 Plane Crash
Joanna Agacka-Indecka, 45
Attorney, President of the Bar Council (since 2007)

Andrzej Blasik, 47
General, Chief of the Air Force (since 2007)

Krystyna Bochenek, 56
Senator, vice president of Senate

Tadeusz Buk, 49
General, head of Land Forces

Miron Chodakowski, 52
Orthodox prelate, Archbishop of Military ordinariate of Poland (since 1998)

Czeslaw Cywinski, 84
President of the Association of Armia Krajowa Soldiers

Leszek Deptula, 57
Member of the Sejm

Grzegorz Dolniak, 50
Member of the Sejm

Janina Fetlinska, 57
Senator

Franciszek Gagor, 58
General, Chief of the General Staff (since 2006)

Grazyna Gesicka, 58
Politician, Minister of Regional Development (2006 – 2007)

Kazimierz Gilarski, 54
Commander of the Warsaw Garrison

Przemyslaw Gosiewski, 45
Member of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister (2007)

Mariusz Handzlik, 44
Diplomat, Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President

Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, 59
Member of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister (2004 – 2005)

Ryszard Kaczorowski, 90
Politician, President in exile (1989 – 1990)

Maria Kaczynska, 67
First Lady of Poland (since 2005), wife of Lech Kaczynski

Lech Kaczynski, 60
President of Poland (since 2005)

Sebastian Karpiniuk, 37
Member of the Sejm

Andrzej Karweta, 51
Vice Admiral, commander-in-chief of the Navy

Mariusz Kazana, 49
Diplomat, Director of Diplomatic Protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Janusz Kochanowski, 69
Lawyer and diplomat, Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection (Ombudsman) (since 2006)

Stanislaw Komornicki, 85
General, Chancellor of the Order Virtuti Militari

Stanislaw Komorowski, 56
Deputy Defense Minister (since 2007), Ambassador to Holland (1994 – 1998) and UK (1999 – 2004)

Andrzej Kremer, 48
Lawyer and diplomat, Deputy Foreign Minister (since 2008)

Janusz Kurtyka, 49
Historian, president of the Institute of National Remembrance

Bronislaw Kwiatkowski, 59
General, Commander of the Armed Forces Operational Command

Tomasz Merta, 44
Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage

Aleksandra Natalli-Swiat, 51
Member of the Sejm

Piotr Nurowski, 64
Sports administrator, head of the Polish Olympic Committee (since 2005)

Maciej Plazynski, 52
Member of the Sejm

Tadeusz Ploski, 54
Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Military ordinariate of Poland (since 2004)

Wlodzimierz Potasinski, 53
Commander of the Special Forces

Andrzej Przewoznik, 46
Secretary-General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites

Krzysztof Putra, 52
Politician, Vice-Marshal of the Sejm (since 2007)

Ryszard Rumianek, 62
Rector of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw

Arkadiusz Rybicki, 57
Member of the Sejm

Wojciech Seweryn, 70
Polish-born American sculptor

Slawomir Skrzypek, 46
Banker, President of National Bank of Poland

Wladyslaw Stasiak, 44
Chief of the Office of the President

Aleksander Szczyglo, 46
Politician, Minister of Defence (2007), chief of the National Security Bureau (since 2009)

Jerzy Szmajdzinski, 58
Politician, Minister of Defence (2001 – 2005), Vice-Marshal of the Sejm (since 2007)

Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, 55
Member of the Sejm

Anna Walentynowicz, 80
Trade unionist whose 1980 firing led to the creation of the Solidarity movement

Zbigniew Wassermann, 60
Member of the Sejm

Wieslaw Woda, 63
Member of the Sejm

Edward Wojtas, 55
Member of the Sejm

Pawel Wypych, 42
Politician, Secretary of State (since 2009)

Stanislaw Zajac, 60
Senator

Janusz Zakrzenski, 74
Actor

April 11th, 2010
John Batchelor, 51
British racing driver and politician

Edmondo Berselli, 59
Italian writer and journalist

Jean Boiteux, 76
French Olympic gold and bronze (1952) medal-winning swimmer

James Brody, 68
American composer

Rosa Roberto Carter, 80
Guamanian educator, President of the University of Guam (1977 – 1983)

Vicki Draves, 85
American Olympic diver

Gerhard Geise, 80
German mathematician

Juan Manuel Gozalo, 65
Spanish journalist

Hans-Joachim Göring, 86
German footballer and coach

Gert Haller, 65
German manager, lobbyist and politician

Theodor Homann, 61
German footballer

Egon Hugenschmidt, 84
German jurist and politician

Carlos Imperial, 79
Filipino politician, Representative, 2nd District of Albay (four terms)

Franz Kamin, 68
American composer

Ruben Mendoza, 78
American soccer player

Alekos Tzanetakos, 73
Greek actor and screenwriter

Nikolai Valchinov, 59
Bulgarian actor, screenwriter and film director

Paz Yrarrázaval, 78
Chilean actress

April 12th, 2010
Alper Balaban, 22
German-born Turkish footballer

María Aurelia Bisutti, 79
Argentine actress

Andrea Cassone, 81
Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Rossano-Cariati (1992 – 2006)

Michel Chartrand, 93
Canadian activist

Eduard Chuvashov, 47
Russian judge, shot

Miguel Cinches, 78
Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Surigao (1973 – 2001)

Leo Corcoran, 85
American founder of Caritas Communities

Ambrosius Eßer, 76
German Dominican clergy and church historian

Wolfgang Graßl, 40
German skier and coach

Peter Haskell, 75
American actor (Child’s Play 2)

Christian Hauschild, 70
German choral conductor and professor

Edward Huniehu
Solomon Islander politician

Mamie Koko, 48
Ivorian politician and feminist

James F Masterson, 84
American psychiatrist

Charles Meade, 93
American religious leader (Meade Ministries) (death announced on this date)

Palito, 75
Filipino comedian, respiratory disease

Robert Pound, 90
Canadian-born American physicist

Al Reser, 74
American businessman, founder and CEO of Reser’s Fine Foods

Stuart Robbins, 33
British basketball player (body discovered on this date)

Carlo Alberto Rossi, 88
Italian composer and music executive

Werner Schroeter, 65
German film director

Arnold Spohr, 86
Canadian artistic director (Royal Winnipeg Ballet)

David B Stone, 82
American principal founder of the New England Aquarium

Charlie Timmins, 87
English footballer (Coventry City)

Udaya Wickramasinghe, 70
Sri Lankan cricket umpire

April 13th, 2010
André Bedoglouyan, 90
Lebanese Eastern Catholic prelate, Bishop of Comana Armeniae (1971 – 1994)

Alexander Bernstein, 74
Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, British television executive and life peer

Jorge Bontemps, 32
Argentine footballer

Luis Antonio Chavez, 22
Honduran journalist and children’s radio host, shot

Robert Hicks, 81
American civil rights protester

Santhosh Jogi, 35
Indian actor, suicide

Bernie Kilgariff, 86
Australian politician, Senator (1975 – 1987)

Nahid al-Rayyis, 73
Palestinian politician and poet

Steve Reid, 66
American jazz drummer

Gerald Stapleton, 89
British RAF fighter ace

Manos Xydous, 57
Greek singer-songwriter, musician and record producer

April 14th, 2010
Israr Ahmed, 77
Indian-born Pakistani religious scholar, cardiac arrest

Erika Burkart, 88
Swiss author

Tom Ellis, 86
British politician, MP for Wrexham (1970 – 1983), founding member of the SDP

Gene Kiniski, 81
Canadian professional wrestler

Lars Jacob Krogh, 71
Norwegian anchorman and television presenter

Alice Miller, 87
Polish-born Swiss author and psychologist

Russell Olson, 86
American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin (1979 – 1983)

Stefan Schmitt, 46
German jurist and politician

Mississippi Slim, 66
American blues singer

Greville Starkey, 70
British jockey

Peter Steele, 48
American lead singer and bassist (Type O Negative), heart failure

Gerhard Zemann, 70
Austrian actor

April 15th, 2010
Joseph Azzolina, 84
American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1992 – 2006)

Raymond Grayston, 91
British World War II Dambuster

Jack Herer, 70
American cannabis activist, complications from heart attack

Benjamin Hooks, 85
American civil rights leader, executive director of the NAACP (1977 – 1992)

Wilhelm Huxhorn, 54
German footballer

Lewis Marks Jr., 78
American founder of School Without Walls

Michael Pataki, 72
American character actor and voice actor (George Liquor)

Peter-Josef Schallberger, 78
Swiss farmer and politician

Raimondo Vianello, 87
Italian comedian and television personality

Spann Watson, 93
American Tuskegee airman and civil rights advocate

Sir Edward Woodward, 81
Australian judge

April 16th, 2010
Bob Cannon, 62
American radio host (WUMB) and USPS Boston spokesperson

Sid Conrad, 86
American actor (The Young and the Restless)

Rasim Delic, 61
Bosnian Army Chief of Staff

Carlos Franqui, 89
Cuban writer and activist

Daryl Gates, 83
American chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (1978 – 1992)

Bryn Knowelden, 90
British rugby league player

Marion Ladewig, 95
American professional bowler

Norman Francis McFarland, 88
American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Reno (1976 – 1986) and Orange (1986 – 1998)

Grigory Nemtsov, 61
Latvian politician, Vice Mayor of Daugavpils, shot

Muhammad Noer, 92
Indonesian Governor of East Java (1967 – 1976)

Mal Perry, 70
British singer

Péter Popper, 76
Hungarian psychologist

C K Prahalad, 68
Indian consultant and management theorist

C P Rele, 82
Indian classical singer

Tomáš Špidlík, 90
Czech Roman Catholic Cardinal

Gennadi Tereschtschenko, 68
Russian chemist

April 17th, 2010
Eddie Cochran, 21 (Head injuries sustained following car crash in England)
American rock and roll pioneer, 1960

Dede Allen, 86
American film editor (Bonnie and Clyde, Dog Day Afternoon)

Myron Davis, 90
American photographer (Life)

Edmund Fitzgibbon, 85
Irish-born Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Warri (1991 – 1997)

Josef W Janker, 87
German author, journalist and WWII veteran

Anna Kalouta, 92
Greek actress and entertainer

Sotigui Kouyaté, 74
Malian-born Burkinabé actor

Carl Macek, 58
American anime writer and producer (Robotech)

Thomas Mikolajcik, 63
American air force general (1992 – 1996)

Alexandru Neagu, 61
Romanian footballer (FC Rapid Bucuresti)

Alejandro Robaina, 91
Cuban tobacco grower

Ralph Snodsmith, 70
American gardener and radio host

Jaime Troncoso, 52
Chilean fashion designer

John Carl Warnecke, 91
American architect (John F Kennedy Eternal Flame)

Axel Weishaupt, 64
German ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2007 – 2010)

April 18th, 2010
Royce Doherty, 72
Family Friend Lung Cancer

Michael Adams, 60
American actor and stunt coordinator

Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi
Iraqi Al-Qaeda terrorist, airstrike

Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Egyptian Al-Qaeda terrorist, airstrike

William Grant Bangerter, 91
American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Louis Bullard, 53
American football player (Seattle Seahawks, Cleveland Browns)

Mieczyslaw Cieslar, 60
Polish Lutheran bishop

Devon Clifford, 30
Canadian drummer (You Say Party! We Say Die!)

Thomas H Connell III, 67
American stage manager (Metropolitan Opera)

Ambrose D’Mello, 87
Indian Jesuit, first Jesuit Provincial of India

Tom Fleming, 82
Scottish actor

Noel Hall, 96
Australian Olympic sport shooter

Edgar Rosenblum, 78
American arts executive (Long Wharf Theatre)

Jørgen Bernhard Rustad, 109
Norwegian centenarian, oldest man in Norway

Allen Swift, 86
American voice actor (Underdog, Howdy Doody)
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Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised following a twisted bowel

William Yates, 88
British-born Australian politician

April 19th, 2010
Devorah Bertonov, 95
Israeli dancer and choreographer

William Donald Borders, 96
American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Baltimore (1974 – 1989)

Wassyl Borodai, 92
Ukrainian sculptor

Manuel Fernández Álvarez, 88
Spanish historian

Guru, 48
American rapper (Gang Starr)

Dylan Meier, 26
American college football player

György Schwajda, 67
Hungarian dramatist and theatre director

George H Scithers, 80
American Hugo Award winning science fiction editor

Edwin Valero, 28
Venezuelan boxer

Carl Williams, 39
Australian criminal, prison assault

Azizollah Yarmal
Afghan Deputy Mayor of Kandahar, shot

Melvyn Zerman, 79
American publisher

Dick Zimmer, 77
American politician, City Commissioner (Dayton, Ohio)

April 20th, 2010
Ahmed al-Obeidi
Iraqi Al-Qaeda terrorist, airstrike

Sarantos Antonakos, 73
Greek politician, Mayor of Sparti

Arkadi Bartow, 69
Russian author

Piotr Dejmek, 56
Polish actor

Floyd Dominy, 100
American commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation (1959 – 1969)

Heinz Gappmayr, 84
Austrian artist

Dorothy Height, 98
American civil rights activist

Mr Hito, 67
Japanese professional wrestler

M K Kamalam, 86
Indian actress

Biljana Kovacevic-Vuco, 58
Serbian human rights activist

Keli McGregor, 47
American baseball executive (Colorado Rockies)

Walter F Murphy, 80
American political scientist and author

Robert Natkin, 79
American abstract painter

Georgino Orellana, 48
Honduran journalist, shot

James A Paisley, 81
American Mayor of Hazleton, Pennsylvania (1977 – 1985)

Ahmad Sa’d, 64
Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1996 – 1999)

Michalis Stamatelatos, 64
Greek banker, President of Panionios FC

George Torode, 63
Guernseyan author

Myles Wilder, 77
American television comedy writer, diverticulitis

Lorette Wood, 94
American politician, first female mayor of Santa Cruz, California

Purvis Young, 67
American painter

April 21st, 2010
Sammy Baird, 79
Scottish football player and manager

George Grant, 85
American professional wrestler

Whitney Harris, 97
American lawyer, last surviving American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials

Tony Ingham, 85
English footballer

Manfred Kallenbach, 68
German footballer

Paul King, 79
British welterweight boxer

Gustav Lorentzen, 62
Norwegian singer and entertainer (Knutsen & Ludvigsen)

Sir Laurence Muir, 85
Australian philanthropist and businessman

Edward P Nemeth, 62
American Sheriff of Mahoning County, Ohio (1984 – 1996)

Juan Antonio Samaranch, 89
Spanish President of the International Olympic Committee (1980 – 2001)

Ron Scalera, 49
American marketing and promotion executive (CBS)

Tomio Tada, 76
Japanese immunologist and playwright

April 22nd, 2010
Richard Barrett, 67
American lawyer and white nationalist, stabbed

Lowry Burton, 72
British motorcycle racer, Isle of Man TT winner (1986, 1987)

Pete Castiglione, 89
American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)

Shay Duffin, 79
Irish-born American character actor

Bennett Howe, 77
South African rugby union player

Ataollah Jangouk, 63
Iranian musician

Gene Lees, 82
Canadian jazz historian and critic

Jaime Marco, 90
Spanish torero

Lina Marulanda, 29
Colombian model

Victor Nurenberg, 79
Luxembourgian footballer

Ambrose Olsen, 24
American fashion model

Fred Panopio, 71
Filipino folk singer

Alicia Parlette, 28
American journalist and copy editor

Anthony Patrick, 83
Indian football player

Piet Steenbergen, 81
Dutch footballer (Feyenoord and The Netherlands)

Jean Vergnes, 88
French-born American chef

Ann Vervoort, 33
Belgian singer (Milk Inc)

Arthur Winograd, 90
American cellist and music director

April 23rd, 2010
Lorne Atkinson, 88
Canadian Olympic cyclist

Jan Balabán, 49
Czech writer, recipient of the Magnesia Litera award

Christophe Hissette, 29
Belgian racing driver

Natalia Lavrova, 25
Russian rhythmic gymnast, Olympic gold medalist (2000, 2004)

Georgia Lee, 89
Australian jazz and blues singer

Edward Lyons, 83
British politician, MP for Bradford East (1966 – 1974) and Bradford West (1974 – 1983)

Fouad Sadeq Mufti, 71
Saudi diplomat, Ambassador to Lebanon

Peter Porter, 81
Australian-born British poet

Alan Rich, 85
American classical music critic

Clare Sabatini, 77
American restaurateur, plaintiff in landmark eminent domain case

Sreenath, 52
Indian actor (body discovered on this date)

George Townshend, 93
7th Marquess Townshend, British peer and businessman

Engin Yörükoglu, 65
Turkish drummer (Mogollar)

April 24th, 2010
Harry Conroy, 67
British journalist and trade unionist

Pierre Hadot, 88
French philosopher

Bo Hansson, 67
Swedish keyboardist

Antonio Izquierdo, 72
Spanish spree killer, suicide by hanging

Leo Löwenstein, 43
German racing driver

Angus Maddison, 84
British economist

Alberto Mariscal
Mexican film director

Giuseppe Panza, 87
Italian art collector

Elizabeth Post, 89
American etiquette expert

Paul Schäfer, 88
German sect founder and former Nazi

Wojciech Siemion, 81
Polish actor and film director (The Promised Land, Heroism)

Dudley Strasburg, 84
American soldier, witness to Gestapo Wenzelnberg massacre site

Dimitrios Tsatsos, 77
Greek academic, constitutionalist and politician

W Willard Wirtz, 98
American politician, Secretary of Labor (1962 – 1969), last surviving member of the Kennedy Cabinet

April 25th, 2010
Joseph Bessala, 69
Cameroonian Olympic silver medal-winning (1968) welterweight boxer

Ian Lawther, 70
Northern Irish footballer (Sunderland, Blackburn Rovers)

Franklin Mieuli, 89
American businessman, owner of the Golden State Warriors (1962 – 1985)

Dorothy Provine, 75
American actress, (It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)

Susan Reed, 84
American folk singer and actress

Kevin Restani, 58
American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks)

Alan Sillitoe, 82
British writer (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning)

Gareth Swift, 19
British rugby league player (Featherstone Rovers)

Jeremaia Waqanisau, 62
Fijian soldier and diplomat

April 26th, 2010
Daniel Aleksandrov, 79
American ROCOR Titular Bishop of Erie

Leslie Buck, 87
American Anthora coffee cup designer, Parkinson’s disease

Willy Caron, 75
Dutch opera singer

Denzil Freeth, 85
British politician, MP for Basingstoke (1955 – 1964)

Melanie Grinstead-Hanak, 54
American politician, Mayor of Lake Havasu City, Arizona (1998 – 2001)

Luigi Gui, 95
Italian politician, Minister of the Interior (1974 – 1976)

Fred Halliday, 64
Irish scholar of international relations

Varkala Radhakrishnan, 82
Indian politician

Prabha Rau, 75
Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan (since 2009)

Joseph W Sarno, 89
American film director and screenwriter

László Várkonyi, 54
Hungarian mountain climber

Alberto Vitoria, 54
Spanish footballer

Yuri Vshivtsev, 70
Russian footballer

April 27th, 2010
Peter Cheeseman, 78
British theatre director

Mick English, 77
Irish rugby union player

Stanley Greenspan, 68
American clinical professor of psychiatry

Morris Pert, 62
British musician

Nossrat Peseschkian, 76
Iranian-born German psychotherapist

Armando Sanchez, 57
Filipino politician, Governor of Batangas (2004 – 2007)

April 28th, 2010
Connie Codarini, 80
Canadian pop and gospel singer (The Four Lads)

Evelyn Cunningham, 94
American journalist

Stefania Grodzienska, 95
Polish writer and actress

Elma Maua, 61
Cook Islands-born New Zealand journalist and editor

Pierre-Jean Rémy, 73
French writer and diplomat

Furio Scarpelli, 90
Italian Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (Big Deal on Madonna Street, Casanova 70, Il Postino)

April 29th, 2010
Avigdor Arikha, 81
Romanian-born Israeli painter

Tolo Calafat, 39
Spanish climber

Kevin Humphreys, 80
Australian rugby league administrator

Andy Kozar, 79
American football player (Tennessee Volunteers)

Priscilla McGruder, 61
American singer

Hannsheinz Porst, 87
German millionaire, Marxist and spy

April 30th, 2010
Tadahiro Ando, 69
Japanese politician, Governor of Miyazaki Prefecture (2003 – 2006)

Eric Breininger, 22
German mujahid, shot

Vasily Bukhtienko
Russian businessman, founder of Volgograd Stalin museum, beaten

Jordi Estadella, 61
Spanish voice actor, radio and television personality

Ron Fimrite, 79
American sports journalist (Sports Illustrated)

José Fragelli, 95
Brazilian politician, Governor of Mato Grosso (1970 – 1974) and Senate president (1985 – 1987)

Carmelita González, 81
Mexican actress

Khalid Khawaja
Pakistani military and intelligence officer, shot (body found on this date)

Peter Lopez, 60
American attorney, legal counsel to Michael Jackson, suspected suicide by gunshot

Ahmet M
German-born Turkish mujahid, shot

Paul Mayer, 98
German Roman Catholic cardinal

Owsley, 44
American musician

Add Penfield, 91
American sports commentator (Duke Blue Devils, 1938 – 1976) [/align]