Wednesday, December 29, 2010

The Gems we lost year... Gone but will always remain in our hearts...






January

Jean Simmons
J. D. Salinger
January 4 – Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname (born 1910)
January 4 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese dual atomic bomb survivor (born 1916)
January 9 – Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (born 1925)
January 11 – Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian (born 1909)
January 11 – Éric Rohmer, French film director (born 1920)
January 12 – Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (born 1934)
January 13 – Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B and soul singer (born 1950)
January 15 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
January 17 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (born 1914)
January 17 – Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter, and educator (born 1937)
January 18 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian folk singer (born 1946)
January 19 – Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (born 1939)
January 22 – Iskandar of Johor, 8th King of Malaysia (born 1932)
January 22 – Jean Simmons, British actress (born 1929)
January 25 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi politician and military commander (born 1941)
January 27 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and human rights activist (born 1933)
January 27 – J. D. Salinger, American author (born 1919)
January 27 – Howard Zinn, American historian (born 1922)


February

Alexander Haig
February 1 – Steingrímur Hermannsson, 19th Prime Minister of Iceland (born 1928)
February 6 – John Dankworth, British jazz musician and composer (born 1927)
February 7 – André Kolingba, 4th President of the Central African Republic (born 1936)
February 10 – Charlie Wilson, American politician (born 1933)
February 11 – Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (born 1969)
February 14 – Dick Francis, British author and jockey (born 1920)
February 17 – Kathryn Grayson, American singer (born 1922)
February 18 – Ariel Ramírez, Argentine composer (born 1921)
February 20 – Alexander Haig, 59th United States Secretary of State (born 1924)

March

Robert Culp
March 3 – Michael Foot, British politician (born 1913)
March 4 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Soviet-born politician (born 1945)
March 10 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (born 1971)
March 10 – Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (born 1928)
March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish author and journalist (born 1920)
March 14 – Peter Graves, American actor (born 1926)
March 20 – Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (born 1925)
March 21 – Wolfgang Wagner, German festival director (born 1919)
March 22 – James Black, British pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)
March 22 – Valentina Tolkunova, Soviet and Russian singer (born 1946)
March 24 – Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter and director (born 1930)
March 27 – Vasily Smyslov, Soviet-Russian chess grandmaster (born 1921)
March 28 – Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (born 1921)
March 28 – June Havoc, Canadian-born American actress (born 1912)
March 30 – Martin Sandberger, German army officer (born 1911)

April

Lech Kaczyński
Juan Antonio Samaranch
April 1 – John Forsythe, American actor (born 1918)
April 3 – Eugene Terre'Blanche, South African politician and white supremacist (born 1941)
April 5 – Vitali Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (born 1935)
April 6 – Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (born 1939)
April 8 – Malcolm McLaren, British musician and manager (born 1946)
April 8 – Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (born 1925)
April 10 – Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (born 1919)
April 10 – Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland (born 1949)
April 14 – Peter Steele, American musician (born 1962)
April 16 – Tomáš Špidlík, Czech cardinal (born 1919)
April 19 – Guru, American rapper (born 1966)
April 21 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official (born 1920)
April 25 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (born 1928)
April 30 – Paul Mayer, German cardinal (born 1911)


May

Lena Horne
Dennis Hopper
May 2 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (born 1943)
May 4 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (born 1917)
May 5 – Giulietta Simionato, Italian opera singer (born 1910)
May 5 – Umaru Yar'Adua, President of Nigeria (born 1951)
May 8 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess grandmaster (born 1911)
May 9 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (born 1917)
May 10 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (born 1928)
May 16 – Ronnie James Dio, American musician (born 1942)
May 16 – Oswaldo López Arellano, Honduran two-time former president (born 1921)
May 16 – Hank Jones, American pianist (born 1918)
May 17 – Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (born 1925)
May 17 – Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai army general (born 1951)
May 17 – Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (born 1924)
May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (born 1930)
May 22 – Martin Gardner, American science author (born 1914)
May 24 – Paul Gray, American musician (born 1972)
May 28 – Gary Coleman, American actor (born 1968)
May 29 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and film director (born 1936)
May 31 – Louise Bourgeois, French-born American sculptor (born 1911)

June

Andrey Voznesensky
June 1 – Andrey Voznesensky, Soviet-Russian poet (born 1933)
June 2 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (born 1916)
June 3 – Vladimir Arnold, Soviet-Russian mathematician (born 1937)
June 3 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (born 1934)
June 9 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (born 1908)
June 10 – Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (born 1941)
June 14 – Leonid Kizim, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut (born 1941)
June 16 – Ronald Neame, British cinematographer, producer and director (born 1911)
June 18 – Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (born 1916)
June 18 – José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
June 19 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (born 1962)
June 23 – Mohammed Mzali, former Prime Minister of Tunisia (born 1925)
June 26 – Algirdas Brazauskas, 9th President of Lithuania (born 1932)
June 28 – Robert Byrd, American politician (born 1917)


July
Harvey Pekar
July 2 – Beryl Bainbridge, British novelist (born 1934)
July 3 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian militia commander (born 1937)
July 4 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese spiritual leader (born 1935)
July 5 – Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (born 1923)
July 5 – Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian Qur'anic theologian (born 1943)
July 12 – Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (born 1939)
July 14 – Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor (born 1925)
July 17 – Bernard Giraudeau, French actor and film director (born 1947)
July 21 – Luis Corvalán, Chilean politician (born 1916)
July 24 – Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (born 1949)


August
Patricia Neal
Francisco Varallo
August 5 – Godfrey Binaisa, 5th President of Uganda (born 1920)
August 6 – Tony Judt, British historian (born 1948)
August 7 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (born 1929)
August 8 – Patricia Neal, American actress (born 1926)
August 9 – Ted Stevens, American politician (born 1923)
August 10 – Antonio Pettigrew, American athlete (born 1967)
August 12 – Guido de Marco, 6th President of Malta (born 1931)
August 16 – Nicola Cabibbo, French physicist (born 1935)
August 17 – Francesco Cossiga, 63rd Prime Minister and 8th President of Italy (born 1928)
August 18 – Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish aristrocrat (born 1930)
August 22 – Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer (born 1923)
August 23 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director (born 1963)
August 26 – Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (born 1918)
August 27 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (born 1934)
August 28 – Sinan Hasani, 10th President of Yugoslavia (born 1922)
August 30 – Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (born 1943)
August 30 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (born 1910)
August 31 – Laurent Fignon, French road bicycle racer (born 1960)

September

Tony Curtis
September 9 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess grandmaster (born 1935)
September 11 – Kevin McCarthy, American actor (born 1914)
September 12 – Claude Chabrol, French film director (born 1930)
September 22 – Eddie Fisher, American entertainer and singer (born 1928)
September 24 – Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (born 1937)
September 26 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (born 1910)
September 28 – Arthur Penn, American film director (born 1922)
September 29 – Georges Charpak, French physicist (born 1924)
September 29 – Tony Curtis, American actor (born 1925)
September 30 – Stephen J. Cannell, American writer and television producer (born 1941)


October

Benoît Mandelbrot
Nestor KirchnerOctober 4 – Norman Wisdom, British actor and comedian (born 1915)
October 7 – Milka Planinc, former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1924)
October 10 – Solomon Burke, American soul musician (born 1940)
October 10 – Hwang Jang-yop, North Korean politician and defector (born 1923)
October 11 – Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer (born 1926)
October 14 – Benoît Mandelbrot, French-American mathematician (born 1924)
October 19 – Tom Bosley, American actor (born 1927)
October 20 – Farooq Leghari, 9th President of Pakistan (born 1940)
October 23 – David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (born 1961)
October 25 – Gregory Issacs, Jamaican musician (born 1951)
October 27 – Néstor Kirchner, 54th President of Argentina (born 1950)
October 28 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (born 1938)
October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (born 1927)

November

Leslie Nielsen
November 2 – Rudolf Barshai, Soviet-Russian conductor and violist (born 1924)
November 3 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, 31st Prime Minister of Russia (born 1938)
November 5 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (born 1944)
November 5 – Hajo Herrmann, German fighter pilot and lawyer (born 1913)
November 11 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (born 1919)
November 12 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (born 1933)
November 13 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish film director (born 1921)
November 28 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (born 1926)
November 29 – Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet-Russian poet (born 1937)

December
Richard HolbrookeDecember 12 – Tom Walkinshaw, British racing car driver and team owner (born 1946)
December 13 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (born 1941)
December 15 – Blake Edwards, American film director (born 1922)
December 17 – Captain Beefheart, American musician (born 1941)
December 21 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and coach (born 1927)
December 25 – Carlos Andrés Pérez, President of Venezuela (born 1922)
December 26 – Salvador Jorge Blanco, 4th president of the Dominican Republic (born 1926)
December 26 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (born 1956)

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