2010

See also: 2010s political history

2010 (MMX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2010th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 10th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2010s decade.

From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion and subsequent oil spill becomes the worst marine oil spill in history; Spectators watch a football match with their famous vuvuzelas during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which was held in South Africa; people entering the White House in Bishkek on 7 April during the Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010; the remains of Tu-154 after crash on April 10, 2010 that killed Polish president Lech Kaczyński; a child is treated for injuries following 2010 Haitian earthquake which killed an estimated 100,000 - 250,000 people.

This article is about the year 2010. For other uses, see 2010 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century 21st century 22nd century
Decades:	1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years:	2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

2010 by topic:

Arts

Animation (Anime) – Architecture – Comics – Film (Horror, Science fiction) – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea) – Radio – Photo – Television – Video games

Politics and government

Elections – International leaders – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors

Science and technology

Archaeology – Biotechnology – Computing – Palaeontology – Quantum computing and communication – Senescence research – Space/Astronomy – Spaceflight – Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

Birding/Ornithology – Climate change – Weather

Transportation

Aviation – Rail transport – Transportation technology

Sports

American football – Association football – Athletics (sport) – Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Chess – Combat sports – Cricket – Cycling – Golf – Ice hockey – Rugby union – Swimming – Tennis – Volleyball

By place

Afghanistan – Albania – Algeria – Andorra – Angola – Antarctica – Antigua and Barbuda – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – The Bahamas – Bahrain – Barbados – Belarus – Belgium – Belize – Benin – Bhutan – Bolivia – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Botswana – Brazil – Brunei – Bulgaria – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Cambodia – Cameroon – Canada – Cape Verde – Central African Republic – Chad – Chile – China – Colombia – Costa Rica – Comoros – Congo – D.R. Congo – Croatia – Cuba – Cyprus – Czech Republic – Denmark – Djibouti – Dominica – Dominican Republic – East Timor – Ecuador – Egypt – El Salvador – Eritrea – Estonia – Ethiopia – Eswatini – Equatorial Guinea – Fiji – Finland – France – Gabon – The Gambia – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Grenada – Guatemala – Guinea – Guinea-Bissau – Guyana – Haiti – Honduras – Hong Kong – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iran – Iraq – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Ivory Coast – Jamaica – Japan – Jordan – Kazakhstan – Kenya – Kiribati – Kosovo – Kuwait – Kyrgyzstan – Laos – Latvia – Lebanon – Lesotho – Liberia – Liechtenstein – Libya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Macau – Madagascar – Marshall Islands – Malawi – Malaysia – Maldives – Mali – Malta – Mauritania – Mauritius – Mexico – Micronesia – Moldova – Monaco – Mongolia – Montenegro – Morocco – Mozambique – Myanmar – Nauru – Namibia – Nepal – Netherlands – New Zealand – Nicaragua – Niger – Nigeria – North Korea – North Macedonia – Norway – Oman – Pakistan – Palau – Palestine – Panama – Papua New Guinea – Paraguay – Peru – Philippines – Poland – Portugal – Qatar – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Saint Kitts and Nevis – Saint Lucia – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Samoa – San Marino – São Tomé and Príncipe – Saudi Arabia – Senegal – Serbia – Seychelles – Sierra Leone – Singapore – Slovakia – Slovenia – Somalia – Somaliland – South Africa – Solomon Islands – South Korea – South Sudan – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sudan – Suriname – Sweden – Switzerland – Syria – Taiwan – Tajikistan – Tanzania – Thailand – Togo – Tonga – Trinidad and Tobago – Tunisia – Turkey – Turkmenistan – Tuvalu – Uganda – Ukraine – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Uruguay – Uzbekistan – Vanuatu – Vatican City – Venezuela – Vietnam – Yemen – Zambia – Zimbabwe

Other topics

Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

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2010 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2010 MMX
Ab urbe condita	2763
Armenian calendar	1459 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԹ
Assyrian calendar	6760
Baháʼí calendar	166–167
Balinese saka calendar	1931–1932
Bengali calendar	1417
Berber calendar	2960
British Regnal year	58 Eliz. 2 – 59 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2554
Burmese calendar	1372
Byzantine calendar	7518–7519
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4706 or 4646     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4707 or 4647
Coptic calendar	1726–1727
Discordian calendar	3176
Ethiopian calendar	2002–2003
Hebrew calendar	5770–5771
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2066–2067
- Shaka Samvat	1931–1932
- Kali Yuga	5110–5111
Holocene calendar	12010
Igbo calendar	1010–1011
Iranian calendar	1388–1389
Islamic calendar	1431–1432
Japanese calendar	Heisei 22 (平成２２年)
Javanese calendar	1942–1943
Juche calendar	99
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4343
Minguo calendar	ROC 99 民國99年
Nanakshahi calendar	542
Thai solar calendar	2553
Tibetan calendar	阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 2136 or 1755 or 983     — to — 阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 2137 or 1756 or 984
Unix time	1262304000 – 1293839999

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2010.

2010 was designated as:

• International Year of Biodiversity
• International Year of Youth
• 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
• International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures^[1]

Pronunciation

There is a debate among experts and the general public on how to pronounce specific years of the 21st century in English. The year 2010 is pronounced either "twenty-ten" or "two thousand [and] ten".^[2] 2010 was the first year to have a wide variation in pronunciation, as the years 2000 to 2009 were generally pronounced "two thousand (and) one, two, three, etc." as opposed to the less common "twenty-oh-_".

Events

January

• January 4 – The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened.^[3][4][5]
• January 8 – The Togo national football team is attacked in Cabinda Province, Angola, and as a result withdraws from the Africa Cup of Nations. The attack was perpetrated by the FLEC, their first since the Angolan Civil War.^[6]
• January 10—Religious violence erupts in Jos Nigeria, which left scores dead, and many injured.
• January 12 – A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince. With a confirmed death toll over 316,000^{[7][8][9][failed verification]} It is one of the deadliest earthquakes on record.
• January 14 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
• January 15
  • The longest annular solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs.^[10][11][12]
  • The Chadian Civil War officially ends.^[13]
  • Honduras withdraws from ALBA.
• January 19 - North Caucasian Federal District was split from Southern Federal District by decree of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
• January 25 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean shortly after take-off from Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on board.

February

• February 3 – The sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti sells in London for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.^[14][15]
• February 10 – The Australian government is hit by cyberattacks from freedom of expression activists, following recent Australian pornography restrictions.^[16][17]
• February 12–28 – The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada.
• February 15 – Two trains collide in the Halle train collision in Halle, Belgium, killing 19 and injuring 171 people.
• February 18 – The President of Niger, Mamadou Tandja, is overthrown after a group of soldiers storms the presidential palace^[18] and form a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy headed by chef d'escadron Salou Djibo.^[19]
• February 27 – An 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing at least 525.^[20] The earthquake is one of the largest in recorded history.

March

• March 16 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.^[21]
• March 22 – Four-year-old Paulette Gebara Farah disappears from her family's home located in Huixquilucan, State of Mexico.^[22]
• March 26 – The ROKS Cheonan, a South Korean Navy ship carrying 104 personnel, sinks off the country's west coast, killing 46. In May, an independent investigation 2010 like a 2011 one. blames North Korea, which denies the allegations.^[23][24]

April

• April 3 – The first iPad was released.^[25]
• April 7 – Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees the country amid fierce anti-government riots in the capital, Bishkek.^[26]
• April 5 – Julian Assange leaks footage of a 2007 airstrike in Iraq titled "Collateral Murder" on the website WikiLeaks.^[27]
• April 10 – The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes near Smolensk, Russia.^[28][29]
• April 14 – Volcanic ash from one of several eruptions beneath Mount Eyjafjallajökull, an ice cap in Iceland, begins to disrupt air traffic across northern and western Europe.^[30][31][32]
• April 20 – The Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers. The resulting Horizon oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline, and prompting international debate and doubt about the practice and procedures of offshore drilling.^[33][34]
• April 27 – Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk 4 days after the activation of a €45-billion EU–IMF bailout, triggering the decline of stock markets worldwide and of the euro's value,^[35][36][37] and furthering a European sovereign debt crisis.

May

• May 1 – Expo 2010 is held in Shanghai, China.
• May 2 – The eurozone and the International Monetary Fund agree to a €110 billion bailout package for Greece. The package involves sharp Greek austerity measures.^[38]
• May 4 – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso sells in New York for US$106.5 million, setting another new world record for a work of art sold at auction.^[39][40][41]
• May 6 – The 2010 Flash Crash, a trillion-dollar stock market crash, occurs over 36 minutes, initiated by a series of automated trading programs in a feedback loop.^[42]
• May 7
  • Chile becomes the 31st member of the OECD.^[43]
  • Scientists conducting the Neanderthal genome project announce that they have sequenced enough of the Neanderthal genome to suggest that Neanderthals and humans may have interbred.^[44][45]
• May 12 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes at runway at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, killing 103 of the 104 people on board.^[46]
• May 19 – Protests in Bangkok, Thailand, end with a bloody military crackdown, killing 91 and injuring more than 2,100.^[47][48]
• May 20
  • Scientists announced that they have created a functional synthetic genome.^[49]
  • Five paintings worth €100 million are stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.^[50][51]
• May 22 – Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway at Mangalore International Airport in India, killing 158 and leaving 8 survivors.^[52]
• May 25–29 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2010 takes place in Oslo, Norway, and is won by German entrant Lena with the song "Satellite".
• May 28 – the 2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, killed 94 people during Friday prayers at two mosques.^[53]
• May 31 – Nine activists are killed in a clash with soldiers when Israeli Navy forces raid and capture a flotilla of ships attempting to break the Gaza blockade.^[54][55]

June

• June 9 – The Chicago Blackhawks win their first Stanley Cup since 1961.
• June 10–14 – Ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks result in the deaths of hundreds.^[56]
• June 11 – July 11 – The 2010 FIFA World Cup is held in South Africa, and is won by Spain.
• June 18 – Toy Story 3, the highest-grossing film of the year, is released by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios.
• June 24 – Julia Gillard is elected unopposed in a Labor Party leadership ballot and sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Australia following the resignation of Kevin Rudd.^[57]

July

• July 8 – The first 24-hour flight by a solar-powered plane is completed by the Solar Impulse.^[58]
• July 13 – Microsoft ends extended support for Windows 2000.
• July 16 – First (test) Instagram posts made by co-developers Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom in San Francisco;^[59] the service launches publicly on October 6.
• July 21 – Slovenia becomes the 32nd member of the OECD.^[60]
• July 23 – British-Irish boyband One Direction is formed.
• July 25 – WikiLeaks, an online publisher of anonymous, covert, and classified material, leaks to the public over 90,000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.^[61]
• July 28 – Airblue Flight 202 crashes near Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people on board.
• July 29 – Heavy monsoon rains begin to cause widespread flooding in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Over 1,600 are killed, and more than one million are displaced by the floods.^[62]
• PDVAL affair, also known as the Pudreval affair, political scandal in Venezuela where tons of rotten food supplies were found torrent, which imported during Hugo Chávez's government through subsidies of state-owned enterprise PDVAL.^[63]

August

• August 10 – The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns.^[64]
• August 16 – AIRES Flight 8250, A Boeing 737-700, crashed on landing at San Andrés, Colombia.
• August 21 – 2010 Australian federal election: Julia Gillard's Labor Government is re-elected, narrowly defeating^[65] the Liberal/National Coalition led by Tony Abbott.^[66]

September

• September 4 – A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks Christchurch, New Zealand causing large amounts of damage but no direct fatalities.^[67] It is the first in a series of earthquakes between 2010 and 2012 that resulted in the deaths of 187 people and over $40 billion worth of damage.^[68][69] Seismologists noted that the earthquake sequence was highly unusual, and likely to never happen again anywhere else in the world.^[70]
• September 7 – Israel becomes the 33rd member of the OECD.^[71]
• September 22 – Anonymous initiates Operation Payback, a coordinated cyberattack on multiple corporations, law firms, and politicians over the banning of file-sharing websites such as LimeWire and The Pirate Bay and also the politicians and financial institutions against WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website.^{[72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81]}

October

• October 3 – Germany makes final reparation payment for World War I.^[82]
• October 3–14 – 2010 Commonwealth Games takes place in Delhi, India.
• October 4 – An industrial accident at a caustic waste reservoir chain took place at the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant in Ajka, Veszprém County, in western Hungary.[3][4] On 4 October 2010, at 12:25 CEST (10:25 UTC), the northwestern corner of the dam of reservoir number 10 collapsed, freeing approximately one million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid waste from red mud lakes. The mud was released as a 1–2 m (3–7 ft) wave, flooding several nearby localities, including the village of Kolontár and the town of Devecser.[Ten people died, and 150 people were injured. About 40 square kilometres (15 sq mi) of land were initially affected. The spill reached the Danube on 7 October 2010.
• October 6 – Instagram was launched.^[83]
• October 10 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved, with the islands being split up and given a new constitutional status.^[84]
• October 12 – The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program featured controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which led to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.^[85][86][87]
• October 22
  • The International Space Station surpasses the record for the longest continuous human occupation of space, having been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 (3641 days).^[88][89]
  • The 2010 Iraq War Documents leak occurs, being deemed the biggest US government leak in history. WikiLeaks being responsible for revealing 391832 documents concerning the 2003 Iraq War which revealed approximately 60% of the Iraqi deaths were civilian casualties, the Iraq War body count project showing the casualty percentage is closer to 80%.^{[90][91][92][93][94][95]}
• October 23 – In preparation for the Seoul summit, finance ministers of the G-20 agree to reform the International Monetary Fund and shift 6% of the voting shares to developing nations and countries with emerging markets.^[96]
• October 25 – An earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, kills over 400 people and leaves hundreds missing.^[97]
• October 26 – Repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi volcano in Central Java, Indonesia, and accompanying pyroclastic flows of scalding gas, pumice, and volcanic ash descending the erupting volcano kill 353 people and force hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate.^{[98][99][100]}
• October 28 – Dilma Rousseff is elected, becoming the first (and, so far, the only) female president from Brazil.
• October 31 – Expo 2010 concludes in Shanghai, China.

November

• November 4 – Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.^[101]
• November 11–12 – The G-20 summit is held in Seoul, South Korea. Korea becomes the first non-G8 nation to host a G-20 leaders summit.^[102]
• November 13 – Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from her house arrest after being incarcerated since 1989.^[103]
• November 14 – Sebastian Vettel became the youngest F1 Champion after a 4 way championship fight
• November 17 – Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter.^[104]
• November 20 – Participants of the 2010 NATO Lisbon summit issue the Lisbon Summit Declaration.
• November 21 – Eurozone countries agree to a rescue package for the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the country's financial crisis.^{[105][106][107]}
• November 23 – North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea. The incident causes an escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula and prompts widespread international condemnation. The United Nations declares it to be one of the most serious incidents since the end of the Korean War.^{[108][109][110]}
• November 28 – WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked "secret" or "confidential".^[111][112]
• November 29 – The European Union agree to an €85 billion rescue deal for Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility, the International Monetary Fund and bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden.^[113]
• November 29 – December 10 – The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Cancún, Mexico. Also referred to as the 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it serves too as the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6).^[114][115]

December

• December – Comet Hale Bopp was found again around 30.7 AU away from the Sun. The previous time the Comet was found was in April 1997.
• December 9 – Estonia becomes the 34th member of the OECD.^[116]
• December 17 – The attempted suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Tunisia, triggers the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring throughout the Arab world.^[117]
• December 21 – The first total lunar eclipse to occur on the day of the Northern winter solstice and Southern summer solstice since 1638 takes place.^[118][119]

Full date unknown

• D'Wäschfra (2010) satire newspaper is published in Luxembourg.^[120]

Births

• May 20 – Lady Cosima Windsor, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Ulster.^[121]

Deaths

Further information: Category:2010 deaths

January

Main article: Deaths in January 2010

 

Miep Gies

 

Jean Simmons

• January 1 – Lhasa de Sela, American-born singer-songwriter (b. 1972)^[122]
• January 3 – Mary Daly, American feminist philosopher and theologian (b. 1928)^[123]
• January 4
  • Sandro de América, Argentine singer and actor (b. 1945)^[124]
  • Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname (b. 1910)^[125]
  • Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese dual atomic bomb survivor (b. 1916)^[126]
• January 10 – Crispin Sorhaindo, 4th President of Dominica (b. 1931)^[127]
• January 11
  • Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian (b. 1909)^[128]
  • Éric Rohmer, French film director (b. 1920)^[129]
• January 13 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)^[130]
• January 15 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)^[131]
• January 17
  • Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)^[132]
  • Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter, and educator (b. 1937)^[133]
• January 22
  • Iskandar of Johor, 8th King of Malaysia (b. 1932)^[134]
  • Jean Simmons, British actress (b. 1929)^[135]
• January 24 – Pernell Roberts, American actor (b. 1928)^[136]
• January 25 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi politician and military commander (b. 1941)
• January 27
  • Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and human rights activist (b. 1933)
  • J. D. Salinger, American author (b. 1919)^[137]
  • Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922)^[138]

February

Main article: Deaths in February 2010

 

José Joaquín Trejos Fernández

• February 1
  • David Brown, American film producer and writer (b. 1916)
  • Steingrímur Hermannsson, 19th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1928)
  • Justin Mentell, American artist and actor (b. 1982)
• February 3 – Frances Reid, American actress (b. 1914)
• February 5 – Ian Carmichael, English actor (b. 1920)
• February 7 – André Kolingba, 4th President of the Central African Republic (b. 1936)
• February 10
  • Charlie Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
  • José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, 35th President of Costa Rica (b. 1916)
• February 11 – Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (b. 1969)
• February 14 – Dick Francis, British author and jockey (b. 1920)
• February 17 – Kathryn Grayson, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• February 18 – Ariel Ramírez, Argentine composer (b. 1921)
• February 19 – Lionel Jeffries, English actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• February 20 – Alexander Haig, 59th United States Secretary of State (b. 1924)

March

Main article: Deaths in March 2010

 

Girija Prasad Koirala

 

Robert Culp

• March 4 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Soviet-born politician (b. 1945)
• March 6 – Mark Linkous, American singer-songwriter (b. 1962)
• March 10
  • Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
  • Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (b. 1928)
• March 11 – Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (b. 1940)
• March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish author and journalist (b. 1920)
• March 14 – Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)
• March 17 – Alex Chilton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
• March 18 – Fess Parker, American actor (b. 1924)
• March 20 – Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (b. 1924)
• March 21 – Wolfgang Wagner, German festival director (b. 1919)
• March 22
  • James Black, British pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
  • Valentina Tolkunova, Soviet and Russian singer (b. 1946)
• March 24 – Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1930)
• March 25 – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist (b. 1916)
• March 27 – Vasily Smyslov, Soviet-Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1921)
• March 28
  • Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
  • June Havoc, Canadian-American actress (b. 1912)
• March 30 – Martin Sandberger, German army officer (b. 1911)

April

Main article: Deaths in April 2010

 

Ryszard Kaczorowski

 

Lech Kaczyński

 

Juan Antonio Samaranch

• April 1
  • John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918)
  • Tzannis Tzannetakis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1928)
• April 2 – Chris Kanyon, American professional wrestler (b. 1970)
• April 3 – Eugène Terre'Blanche, South African politician and white supremacist (b. 1941)
• April 6
  • Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet diplomat and politician (b. 1919)
  • Corin Redgrave, English actor and activist (b. 1939)
• April 7 – Christopher Cazenove, English actor (b. 1943)
• April 8
  • Malcolm McLaren, British musician and manager (b. 1946)
  • Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1925)
• April 10
  • Dixie Carter, American actress (b. 1939)
  • Killed in plane crash near Smolensk:
    • Krystyna Bochenek, Polish journalist, and politician (b. 1953)
    • Ryszard Kaczorowski, 9th President of Poland (b. 1919)
    • Lech Kaczyński, 13th President of Poland (b. 1949)
    • Maria Kaczyńska, First Lady of Poland (b. 1942)
    • Janusz Kurtyka, Polish historian (b. 1960)
    • Tadeusz Płoski, Polish bishop (b. 1956)
    • Sławomir Skrzypek, President of the National Bank of Poland (b. 1963)
    • Jerzy Szmajdziński, Polish politician (b. 1952)
• April 11 – Vicki Draves, American Olympic athlete (b. 1924)
• April 14 – Peter Steele, American musician (b. 1962)
• April 15
  • Michael Pataki, American actor (b. 1938)
  • Jack Herer, American activist and author (b. 1939)
• April 16 – Tomáš Špidlík, Czech cardinal (b. 1919)
• April 19 – Guru, American rapper (b. 1961)
• April 20 – Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist and educator (b. 1912)
• April 21 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official (b. 1920)
• April 25 – Alan Sillitoe, British novelist (b. 1928)^[139]
• April 30 – Paul Mayer, German cardinal (b. 1911)

May

Main article: Deaths in May 2010

 

Lynn Redgrave

 

Dennis Hopper

• May 2 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943)
• May 4 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (b. 1917)
• May 5
  • Giulietta Simionato, Italian opera singer (b. 1910)
  • Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, 13th President of Nigeria (b. 1951)
• May 8 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1911)
• May 9 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
• May 10 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928)
• May 11 – Doris Eaton Travis, American dancer and actress (b. 1904)
• May 14 – Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1918)
• May 16
  • Ronnie James Dio, American musician (b. 1942)
  • Oswaldo López Arellano, Honduran two-time former president (b. 1921)
  • Hank Jones, American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer (b. 1918)
• May 17
  • Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (b. 1925)
  • Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (b. 1924)
• May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (b. 1930)
• May 22
  • Hasri Ainun, 3rd First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1937)
  • Martin Gardner, American science author (b. 1914)
• May 24 – Paul Gray, American musician (b. 1972)
• May 28 – Gary Coleman, American actor, voice artist and comedian (b. 1968)
• May 29 – Dennis Hopper, American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist (b. 1936)
• May 31 – Louise Bourgeois, French-born American sculptor (b. 1911)

June

Main article: Deaths in June 2010

 

José Saramago

 

Algirdas Brazauskas

• June 1 – Andrei Voznesensky, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1933)^[140]
• June 2 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (b. 1916)
• June 3
  • Vladimir Arnold, Soviet-Russian mathematician (b. 1937)
  • Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
• June 10 – Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (b. 1941)
• June 13 – Jimmy Dean, American singer, actor, and businessman (b. 1928)
• June 14 – Leonid Kizim, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut (b. 1941)
• June 15 – Bekim Fehmiu, Yugoslavian actor (b. 1936)
• June 16
  • Marc Bazin, 4th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1932)
  • Ronald Neame, English film producer, director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• June 18
  • Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (b. 1916)
  • José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
• June 19 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
• June 23
  • Mohammed Mzali, former Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1925)
  • Pete Quaife, English musician, artist and author (b. 1943)
• June 26 – Algirdas Brazauskas, 9th President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
• June 27 – Dolph Briscoe, American politician (b. 1923)
• June 28 – Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917)

July

Main article: Deaths in July 2010

 

Alex Higgins

• July 1 – Ilene Woods, American actress and singer (b. 1929)^[141]
• July 5
  • Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (b. 1923)
  • Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian Qur'anic theologian (b. 1943)
• July 9 – Vonetta McGee, American actress (b. 1945)^[142]
• July 13 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman and owner of the New York Yankees (b. 1930)
• July 14 – Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor (b. 1925)
• July 19 – Lorenzen Wright, professional basketball player (b. 1975)^[143]
• July 24 – Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949)
• July 27 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (b. 1949)
• July 29 – Zheng Ji, Chinese nutritionist and biochemist (b. 1900)
• July 31
  • Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Italian screenwriter and actress (b. 1914)
  • Mitch Miller, American oboist and record producer (b. 1911)

August

Main article: Deaths in August 2010

 

Patricia Neal

 

Francesco Cossiga

• August 5 – Godfrey Binaisa, 5th President of Uganda (b. 1920)
• August 6 – Tony Judt, British historian (b. 1948)
• August 7 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (b. 1929)
• August 8 – Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
• August 9 – Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923)
• August 12 – Guido de Marco, 6th President of Malta (b. 1931)
• August 13 – Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (b. 1981)
• August 14 – Abbey Lincoln, American jazz vocalist and civil rights advocate (b. 1930)
• August 16 – Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (b. 1935)
• August 17 – Francesco Cossiga, 63rd Prime Minister and 8th President of Italy (b. 1928)
• August 18 – Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1930)
• August 22 – Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer (b. 1923)
• August 23 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director (b. 1963)
• August 26
  • William Lenoir, American astronaut (b. 1939)
  • Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (b. 1918)
• August 27 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (b. 1934)
• August 28 – Sinan Hasani, 10th President of Yugoslavia (b. 1922)
• August 30
  • Alain Corneau, French film director and writer (b. 1943)
  • Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910)
• August 31 – Laurent Fignon, French road bicycle racer (b. 1960)

September

Main article: Deaths in September 2010

 

Claude Chabrol

 

Gloria Stuart

 

Tony Curtis

• September 5 – Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1990)
• September 7 – Glenn Shadix, American actor (b. 1952)
• September 9 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess grandmaster (b. 1935)
• September 11
  • Harold Gould, American actor (b. 1923)
  • Kevin McCarthy, American actor (b. 1914)
• September 12 – Claude Chabrol, French film director (b. 1930)
• September 14
  • Caterina Boratto, Italian actress (b. 1915)
  • Clive Donner, English film director (b. 1926)
• September 18 – Egon Klepsch, German politician (b. 1930)
• September 22
  • Jackie Burroughs, English-born Canadian actress (b. 1939)
  • Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor (b. 1928)
• September 24 – Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician; mastermind of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt (b. 1937)
• September 26 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910)
• September 28 – Arthur Penn, American film director (b. 1922)
• September 29
  • Georges Charpak, French Nobel physicist (b. 1924)
  • Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925)
• September 30 – Stephen J. Cannell, American director and producer (b. 1941)

October

Main article: Deaths in October 2010

 

Maurice Allais

 

Benoit Mandelbrot

 

Néstor Kirchner

• October 4 – Norman Wisdom, British actor and comedian (b. 1915)
• October 7 – Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1986 (b. 1924)
• October 9 – Maurice Allais, French Nobel economist (b. 1911)
• October 10 –
  • Solomon Burke, American soul musician (b. 1940)
  • Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer (b. 1926)
• October 13 – Mary Malcolm, British BBC television personality (b. 1918)
• October 14 – Benoit Mandelbrot, French-American mathematician (b. 1924)
• October 16 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)^[144]
• October 18 – Billy Raimondi, American baseball player (b. 1912)
• October 19 – Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927)
• October 20
  • Bob Guccione, American photographer (b. 1930)
  • Farooq Leghari, 9th President of Pakistan (b. 1940)
• October 23 – David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1961)
• October 25 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951)
• October 27
  • Lisa Blount, American actress (b. 1957)
  • Néstor Kirchner, 54th President of Argentina (b. 1950)
• October 28
  • James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937)
  • Jonathan Motzfeldt, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938)
• October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927)
• October 31 – Ted Sorensen, American lawyer, speechwriter (b. 1928)

November

Main article: Deaths in November 2010

 

Leslie Nielsen

 

Mario Monicelli

• November 2 – Rudolf Barshai, Soviet-Russian conductor and violist (b. 1924)
• November 3
  • Jerry Bock, American composer (b. 1928)
  • Viktor Chernomyrdin, 31st Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1938)
• November 5
  • Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
  • Hajo Herrmann, German fighter pilot and lawyer (b. 1913)
• November 6 – Jo Myong-rok, North Korean military officer (b. 1928)
• November 8 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentinian admiral (b. 1925)
• November 10 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
• November 12
  • Stanisław Bobak, Polish ski jumper (b. 1956)
  • Ernst von Glasersfeld, Austrian-born American philosopher (b. 1917)
  • Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
• November 13 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• November 19 – Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1952)
• November 25 – Peter Christopherson, English musician and artist (b. 1955)
• November 27 – Irvin Kershner, American film director (b. 1923)
• November 28 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1926)
• November 29
  • Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1937)
  • Mario Monicelli, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1915)

December

Main article: Deaths in December 2010

 

Captain Beefheart

 

Ellis Clarke

• December 7 – Kari Tapio, Finnish singer (b. 1945)
• December 10 – John B. Fenn, American Nobel chemist (b. 1917)
• December 12
  • Timothée Malendoma, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1935)
  • Tom Walkinshaw, British racing car driver and team owner (b. 1946)
• December 13 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (b. 1941)
• December 14 – Pascal Rakotomavo, 10th Prime Minister of Madagascar (b. 1934)
• December 15 – Blake Edwards, American film director (b. 1922)
• December 17 – Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941)
• December 20 – Avraham Tamir, Israeli major-general (b. 1924)^[145]
• December 21 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1927)
• December 23 – Celestino Rocha da Costa, 2nd Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (b. 1938)
• December 25 – Carlos Andrés Pérez, 55th President of Venezuela (b. 1922)
• December 26
  • Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926)
  • Albert Ghiorso, American nuclear scientist (b. 1915)^[146]
  • Teena Marie, American musician, songwriter and producer (b. 1956)^[147]
• December 29
  • Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1956)^[148]
  • Pavel Kolchin, Soviet cross-country skier (b. 1930)
• December 30
  • Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1917)
  • Bobby Farrell, Dutch musician and performing artist from Aruba (b. 1949)
• December 31 – Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (b. 1927)

Nobel Prizes

 

• Chemistry – Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki
• Economics – Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides
• Literature – Mario Vargas Llosa
• Peace – Liu Xiaobo
• Physics – Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov
• Physiology or Medicine – Robert G. Edwards

New English words and terms

• Arab spring
• gamification^[149]
• libfix

See also

•   2010s portal

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