Deaths in 2010  

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2010, notable deaths

• Ingrid Pitt, 73, Polish-born British actress (Countess Dracula, The House That Dripped Blood) and Holocaust survivor.
• Julien Guiomar, 82, French film actor.
• Roberto Pregadio, 81, Italian musician, orchestra director and television personality, natural causes
• Henryk Górecki, 76, Polish composer, after long illness.
• Dino De Laurentiis, 91, Italian film producer.
• Gregory Isaacs, 59, Jamaican reggae singer, lung cancer.
• Ari Up, 48, German-born British musician (The Slits).
• Bob Guccione, 79, American publisher, founder of Penthouse, cancer.
• Solomon Burke, 70, American singer-songwriter.
• Albertina Walker, 81, American gospel music singer.
• Roy Ward Baker, 93, British film director. (The Vampire Lovers)
• Tony Curtis, 85, American actor (Some Like It Hot, The Boston Strangler, The Defiant Ones), cardiac arrest.
• Arthur Penn, 88, American film director and producer (Bonnie and Clyde, The Missouri Breaks, Penn & Teller Get Killed), heart failure.
• Claude Chabrol, 80, French film director. (Madame Bovary, Story of Women).
• Clive Donner, 84, British director.
• Corneille, 88, Dutch artist.
• Mike Edwards, 62, English musician (Electric Light Orchestra), car accident.
• Noah Howard, 67, American jazz saxophonist.
• Corinne Day, 45, British fashion photographer.
• Bruno Schleinstein, 78, German actor.
• Phelps "Catfish" Collins, 66, American guitarist (James Brown, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Parliament-Funkadelic).
• Suso Cecchi d'Amico, 96, Italian screenwriter (Bicycle Thieves, Senso).
• Tuli Kupferberg, 86, American poet, cartoonist and musician (The Fugs).
• Sugar Minott, 54, Jamaican reggae singer.
• José Saramago, 87, Portuguese Nobel-laureate novelist, playwright and journalist, cancer.
• Sebastian Horsley, 47, British artist, overdose.
• Garry Shider, 56, American musician (Parliament-Funkadelic), complications from brain and lung cancer.
• Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer, cancer.
• Joseph Strick, 86, American director and producer, heart failure.
• Louise Bourgeois, 98, French-born American artist and sculptor.
• Dennis Hopper, 74, American actor (Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now) and film director (Easy Rider, The Last Movie), prostate cancer.
• Claude Tchou, French publisher
• Shusaku Arakawa, 73, Japanese artist and architect.
• Pamela Green, 81, British actress and model, leukemia.
• Frank Frazetta, 82, American fantasy and science fiction artist, stroke.
• Lena Horne, 92, American singer and actress (Stormy Weather, The Wiz).
• Furio Scarpelli, 90, Italian Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (Big Deal on Madonna Street, Casanova 70, Il Postino).
• Joseph W. Sarno, 89, American film director and screenwriter (Sin in the Suburbs).
• Alan Sillitoe, 82, British writer (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning).
• Werner Schroeter, 65, German film director, (Malina).
• Steve Reid, 66, American jazz drummer, cancer.
• Malcolm McLaren, 64, British musician and band manager (Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, Bow Wow Wow), mesothelioma.
• Alex Chilton, 59, American musician (Big Star, The Box Tops).
• Alexander McQueen, 40, British fashion designer, apparent suicide by hanging.
• J. D. Salinger, 91, American author (The Catcher in the Rye), natural causes.
• Woody Cunningham, 61, American musician.
• Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colon cancer.
• Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer
• Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director.
• Willie Mitchell, 82, American musician and record producer.

Deaths in 2009