List of Famous people who died in 2010

Ai Ogawa was an American poet and educator who won the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry for Vice: New and Selected Poems. Ai is known for her mastery of the dramatic monologue as a poetic form, as well as for taking on dark, controversial topics in her work. About writing in the dramatic monologue form, she's said: "I want to take the narrative 'persona' poem as far as I can, and I've never been one to do things in halves. All the way or nothing. I won't abandon that desire."

Rafael Muñoz Núñez was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aguascalientes in Mexico. Ordained on March 24, 1951, Muñoz Núñez was appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Zacatecas on July 20, 1972, and was ordained on September 29, 1972. He was appointed bishop of the Aguascalientes diocese on June 1, 1984, retiring on May 18, 1998.

Robert Katz was an American novelist, screenwriter, and non-fiction author.

Osama Anwar Okasha was an Egyptian screenwriter and journalist, who wrote weekly for El-Ahram newspaper. He is famous for writing some of the most popular series on Egyptian television, such as Layali el Helmeyya and El Shahd wel Demou, which are popular in Egypt and all across the Middle East.