List of Famous people who died in 2010

Emilio Quincy Daddario was an American Democratic politician from Connecticut. He served as a member of the 86th through 91st United States Congresses.

Gösta Johan Harwey Bredefeldt was a Swedish actor. He appeared in 61 films and television shows between 1961 and 2009. He starred in the 1974 film A Handful of Love, which was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.

James Mitchell was an American actor and dancer. Although he is best known to television audiences as Palmer Cortlandt on the soap opera All My Children (1979–2010), theatre and dance historians remember him as one of Agnes de Mille's leading dancers. Mitchell's skill at combining dance and acting was considered something of a novelty; in 1959, the critic Olga Maynard singled him out as "an important example of the new dancer-actor-singer in American ballet", pointing to his interpretive abilities and "masculine" technique.

Władysław Augustyn Stasiak was a senior official and politician of the Republic of Poland.

Tadeusz Płoski D.Sc., Ph.D. was a Polish military bishop and Major General. He was born in Lidzbark Warmiński.

Palle Huld was a Danish film actor and writer. He appeared in 40 films between 1933 and 2000. He was born in Hellerup in Denmark. His journey around the world at the age of 15 in 1928 reportedly inspired Hergé to create Tintin.

Joseph Ezekiel Strick was an American director, producer and screenwriter.

Kihachirō Kawamoto was a Japanese puppet designer and maker, independent film director, screenwriter and animator and president of the Japan Animation Association from 1989, succeeding founder Osamu Tezuka, until his own death. He is best-remembered in Japan as designer of the puppets for the long-running NHK live action television series of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the early 1980s and The Tale of the Heike in the 1990s but better-known internationally for his own animated short films, the majority of which are model animation but which also include the cutout animation Tabi and Shijin no Shōgai and mixed media, French-language Farce anthropo-cynique.

Ştefan Gheorghiu was a Romanian musician, violinist and teacher, born in Galați, Romania.

Julio San Emeterio was a Spanish professional racing cyclist. He rode in five editions of the Tour de France.