The Recently Dead List 2010

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Celebrity
Died
Age
Comments
Erich Segal
17 jan 2010
72
Novelist and screen-writer. Wrote 'Love Story'
Kate McGarrigle
18 jan 2010
63
Folk singer.
Bill McLaren
19 jan 2010
86
Sports commentator.
J D Salinger
27 jan 2010
91
Author of Catcher in the Rye.
Ian Carmichael
5 feb 2010
89
Actor from the 50s and 60s.
Dick Francis
14 feb 2010
89
Former jockey turned author.
Rose Gray
28 feb 2010
71
Co-founder of the River Cafe restaurant in London
Michael Foot
3 mar 2010
96
Former leader of the labour party.
Mark Linkous
6 mar 2010
47
Lead singer of Sparklehorse.
Cory Haim
10 mar 2010
38
Actor - appeared in The Lost Boys.
Peter Graves
14 mar 2010
83
Actor. Appeared in the Mission Impossible tv series
Harry Carpenter
20 mar 2010
84
Boxing comentator. Did a lot of TV with Frank Bruno
John Forsythe
1 apr 2010
92
Actor. Appeared in Dynasty
Corin Redgrave
6 apr 2010
70
Actor. Member of the Redgrave acting family.
Christopher Cazenove
7 apr 2010
66
The second Dynasty actor to die this month.
Malcolm McLaren
8 apr 2010
64
Manager of the Sex Pistols.
Ronnie James Dio
16 may 2010
67
Heavy metal singer.
Ray Alan
24 may 2010
79
TV ventriloquist.
Gary Coleman
28 may 2010
42
Actor
Dennis Hopper
29 may 2010
74
Actor. Starred in (and directed) Easy Rider.
Rue McClanahan
3 jun 2010
76
Actress. Star of TV series Golden Girls
Stuart Cable
7 jun 2010
39
Former drummer with the Stereophonics.
Egon Ronay
12 jun 2010
94
Chef turned food critic.
Jimmy Dean
13 jun 2010
81
Singer - had a hit with the song 'Big Bad John'.
Ronald Neame
16 jun 2010
99
Film director
Chris Sievey
21 jun 2010
54
Better known as Frank Sidebottom
Beryl Bainbridge
2 jul 2010
77
Novelist.
Alex Higgins
24 jul 2010
61
Former Snooker world champion.
Sir Cyril Smith
3 sep 2010
82
'Larger than life' MP for Rochdale.
Eddie Fisher
22 sep 2010
82
Singer. Had some hits in the 50s.
Tony Curtis
29 sep 2010
85
Actor
Norman Wisdom
4 oct 2010
95
Comedy actor
Joan Sutherland
10 oct 2010
83
Opera singer.
Claire Rayner
11 oct 2010
79
Agony Aunt and campaigner for the NHS
Tom Bosley
19 oct 2010
83
Actor. Played Richie Cunningham's dad in Happy Days.
Dino De Laurentiis
11 nov 2010
91
Film producer. Responsible for such films as Blue Velvet
Bernard Matthews
25 nov 2010
80
Turkey farmer.
Irvin Kershner
27 nov 2010
87
Directed The Empire Strikes Back
Leslie Nielsen
28 nov 2010
84
Actor - star of Airplane and the Naked Gun films.
Blake Edwards
15 dec 2010
88
Directed the Pink Panther films
Captain Beefheart
17 dec 2010
69
American musician.
Bobby Farrell
30 dec 2010
61
Singer and Dancer with Boney M.

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