List of Famous people who died in 2010

Wahei Tatematsu was a Japanese novelist. He wrote several novels including Enrai and Dogen-Zenji, about the devout Buddhist who founded the Soto Sect of Zen Buddhism in 1227.

Dimitris Th. Tsatsos was a Greek legal scholar and former Member of the European Parliament. He was the son of the politician and lawyer Themistoklis Tsatsos (1906–1971) and a nephew of former President of Greece Konstantinos Tsatsos (1899–1987). He was the brother of Constantine Tsatsos and Annita Alevras.

Daniel Bensaïd was a philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in the student revolt of 1968, while studying at the University of Paris X: Nanterre.

Enzo Bearzot was an Italian professional football manager and former footballer, who played as a defender or midfielder. He led the Italy national team to victory in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.

Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquess of Samaranch was a Spanish sports administrator under the Franco regime (1973–1977) who served as the seventh President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1980 to 2001. Samaranch served the second-longest term as the head of the IOC, the longest being that of Pierre de Coubertin.

Konstantin Viktorovich Yeryomenko, often transliterated as Eremenko was a Russian futsal player who was named the greatest futsal player of the 20th century.

Oleg Velyky was a Ukrainian and German handball player. He was a World champion 2007 with the German national team.

Maxime Leroux (1951–2010) was a French actor.

Sepp Daxenberger was a German Green Party politician.

Hasan Muhammad di Tiro, M.S, M.A, LL.D, Ph.D., born Hasan Bin Leube Muhammad, was the founder of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), an organisation which attempted to separate Aceh from Indonesia from the 1970s. It surrendered its separatist goals and agreed to disarm as agreed to in the Helsinki peace deal of 2005. He was the maternal great-grandson of Tengku Cik di Tiro, an Indonesian national hero who was killed fighting the Dutch in 1891. In 2010 he obtained his Indonesian citizenship back shortly before his death.