List of Famous people who died in 2010

Christos Michas was a Greek football referee who became the first Greek to officiate a European Cup final, the 1973 European Cup Winners' Cup Final.

Maki Asakawa was a Japanese jazz and blues singer, lyricist and composer. She was an important voice of the Japanese urban counterculture.

John Paul Papanicolaou was a Greek businessman active in the shipping industry. A friend of the Onassis family, he is best known for his purchase and restoration of the Onassis yacht, Christina O, and purchase and conversion of the now decaying former Yugoslavian presidential yacht Galeb, which was the third largest yacht in the world at one time.

Fatma Rafet Angın was the first female high school teacher of Turkey. She was awarded Turkey's Teacher of the Year title in 1981.

Elliott Kastner was an American film producer, whose best known credits include Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Long Goodbye (1973), The Missouri Breaks (1976) and Angel Heart (1987).