List of Famous people who died in 2010

Sotigui Kouyaté was one of the first Burkinabé actors. He was the father of film director Dani Kouyaté and was a member of the Mandinka ethnic group.

Götz Kauffmann was an Austrian stage, film and television actor, cabaret artist and writer.

Bärbel Bohley was an East German opposition figure and artist.

Vladimir Yakovlevich Motyl was a Soviet and Belarussian film director and screenwriter.

Katharina Szelinski-Singer, born as Katharina Singer was a German sculptor. She lived in Berlin from 1945 until her death.

Inoue Hisashi was a leading Japanese playwright and writer of comic fiction. From 1961 to 1986, he used the pen name of Uchiyama Hisashi.

Nicola Arigliano was an Italian jazz singer, musician, and occasional actor.

Kim Hyi-ro was a second-generation Korean in Japan born in November, 1928 in Shimizu, Shizuoka, who became a national hero in South Korea after holding 18 Japanese citizens hostage in 1968.

Jacques Dacqmine (1923–2010) was a French stage, film and television actor. He was married four times, including to the actress Odile Versois.

Wilma Pearl Mankiller was an American Cherokee activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.