List of Famous people who died in 2010

Giovanni Prodi was an Italian mathematician, also known for many activities concerning the teaching of mathematics.

Thomas Christoph Harlan was a German author and director of French-language films.

David James George Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham and Baron Hennessy,, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who held visiting professorships at various universities.

Edna May Healey, Baroness Healey was a British writer, lecturer and filmmaker.

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, OMRI was an Italian banker and economist who was Italy's Minister of Economy and Finances from May 2006 until May 2008. He is considered as a founding father of the European single currency. He is a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.

Richard Gerald Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton, Baron Acton of Bridgnorth was a British Labour Party politician and peer.

Mohammed Arkoun was an Algerian scholar and thinker. He was considered to have been one of the most influential secular scholars in Islamic studies contributing to contemporary intellectual Islamic reform. In a career of more than 30 years, he had been a critic of the tensions embedded in his field of study, advocating Islamic modernism, secularism, and humanism. During his academic career, he wrote his numerous books mostly in French, and occasionally in English and Arabic. He appeared on numerous occasions on French TV and magazines, on Berbère Télévision speaking in Tamazight, his mother tongue, and on Al Jazeera speaking in Arabic.