List of Famous people who died in 2010
İhsan Doğramacı
Professor İhsan Doğramacı was a Turkish paediatrician, entrepreneur, philanthropist, educationalist and college administrator of Iraqi Turkmen descent born in Arbil, Iraq, then Ottoman Empire.
Mariano Ferreyra
On 20 October 2010, Argentine student and left-wing activist Mariano Ferreyra was shot dead in Buenos Aires by members of a railway workers union.
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.
Murat Akhedzhak
Murat Kazbekovich Akhedzhak was a Deputy Head of Administration of Krasnodar Krai in the 2002–2010. He was awarded Hero of Labor of Kuban medal (posthumously).
Alexander Kerst
Alexander Kerst was an Austrian television actor.
Dieter Bock
Dieter Bock was a German lawyer and tax consultant turned businessman. At the time of his death he was one of the wealthiest Germans, with a fortune of £500 million. He choked to death in the Atlantic Kempinski luxury hotel in Hamburg at the age of 71.
Said Buryatsky
Said Buryatsky aka Buryatyali was an Islamist militant leader in the Russian North Caucasus. Buryatsky had been among the most-wanted men in Russia, and he was considered an ideologue leader of the Islamist rebels in Chechnya and southern Russia. He was known in the region as a Russian counterpart of Osama bin Laden. Buryatsky had been identified in YouTube videos, wearing camouflage while preaching radical Islam with an assault rifle.
Luis Corvalán
Luis Alberto Corvalán Lepe was a Chilean politician. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh).
Natalia Lavrova
Natalia Aleksandrovna Lavrova was a dual Olympic gold medalist. Lavrova was the first group rhythmic gymnast to win two gold medals in the rhythmic gymnastics group event at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.
Tina Leung
Tina Leung Kwok-hing, also known by her stage name of Tina Ti or Di Na, was a Hong Kong actress. Her credits include A Big Mess, One Day at a Time, Dark Rendezvous and The Warlord.