The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2010.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists informitive in which we can use in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
October 2010
1
Georgy Arbatov, 87, Russian political scientist. Dezső Bundzsák, 82, Hungarian football player and coach. Ian Buxton, 72, English footballer and cricketer, natural causes. Charles Caruana, 77, Gibraltarian Roman Catholic bishop of Gibraltar (1998–2010), complications from a fall. Bobby Craig, 75, Scottish footballer. Audouin Dollfus, 85, French astronomer. Marshall Flaum, 85, American Emmy Award-winning director (The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau), complications from hip surgery. Kilian Hennessy, 103, Irish patriarch of the Hennessy cognac company. Gerard Labuda, 93, Polish historian. Michel Mathieu, 66, French diplomat, cancer. David Aldrich Nelson, 78, American jurist, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. William W. Norton, 85, American screenwriter (Gator, Brannigan), heart attack. William C. Patrick III, 84, American scientist, expert on germs, bladder cancer. Pamela Rooks, Indian film director and screenwriter. Mikhail Roshchin, 77, Russian playwright. Phillips Talbot, 95, American diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1965–1969), President of the Asia Society (1970–1981). Lan Wright, 87, British science fiction writer.
2
David M. Bailey, 44, American singer-songwriter, glioblastoma. Brenda Cowling, 85, British actress. Maurice Foster, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Algoma (1968–1993), pulmonary fibrosis. Robert Goodnough, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, pneumonia. Stephen Griew, 82, Canadian gerontologist. Ruby Heafner, 86, American baseball player. Art Jarvinen, 54, American composer, teacher and musician (The California EAR Unit). *Kwa Geok Choo, 89, Singaporean lawyer, wife of Lee Kuan Yew, mother of Lee Hsien Loong. Sam Lesser, 95, British journalist. Gillian Lowndes, 74, British ceramicist.
3
Maury Allen, 78, American sportswriter (The New York Post), lymphoma. João Costa, 90, Portuguese Olympic fencer. Philippa Foot, 90, British philosopher. Sir Louis Le Bailly, 95, British admiral, Director-General of Intelligence. Claude Lefort, 86, French philosopher. Ben Mondor, 85, American baseball executive (Pawtucket Red Sox). Eddie Platt, 88, American saxophonist. Abraham Sarmiento, 88, Filipino jurist, Supreme Court Associate Justice (1987–1991). Dianne Whalen, 59, Canadian politician, Newfoundland and Labrador MHA for Conception Bay East and Bell Island (2003–2010), cancer. Ed Wilson, 65, Brazilian singer-songwriter, founder of Renato e Seus Blue Caps, cancer.
4
William Birenbaum, 87, American educator (Antioch College), heart failure. Maurice Broomfield, 94, British photographer. Henrique de Senna Fernandes, 86, Macanese author. Gordon Lewis, 86, British aeronautical engineer. Rajan Mehra, 76, Indian cricket umpire. Reinhard Oehme, 82, German-born American particle physicist. (body found on this date) Peter Warr, 72, British racing driver and Formula One team principal (Lotus), heart attack. Brian Williams, 54, British fantasy illustrator Sir Norman Wisdom, 95, British comedian and actor, after long illness.
5
Yakov Alpert, 99, Soviet-born American physicist. Roy Axe, 73, British car designer (Talbot Horizon, Rover 800), cancer. Roy Ward Baker, 93, British film director (A Night To Remember). Jack Berntsen, 69, Norwegian folk singer. Stan Bisset, 98, Australian rugby union player and World War II veteran. Alba Bouwer, 90, South African writer (Afrikaans children's literature), natural causes. Bernard Clavel, 87, French writer, natural causes. Mary Leona Gage, 71, American pageant queen, stripped of Miss USA (1957) title, heart failure. Karel Hardeman, 96, Dutch Olympic rower. Josephine Drivinski Hunsinger, 95, American politician. Member of the Michigan House of Representatives for District 1 (1973-1976). Moss Keane, 62, Irish rugby union player, bowel cancer. Jānis Klovāns, 75, Latvian chess master. Steve Lee, 47, Swiss musician (Gotthard), motorcycle accident. Julio Parise Loro, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Napo (1978–96). Karen McCarthy, 63, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1995–2005), Alzheimer's disease. Børge Raahauge Nielsen, 90, Danish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) rower. William Shakespeare, 61, Australian glam rock singer, heart attack.