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Ernst von Glasersfeld (March 8, 1917 – November 12, 2010) was a philosopher, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, Research Associate at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was a member of the Board of Trustees, American Society of Cybernetics, from which he received the McCulloch Memorial Award in 1991. He was a member of the Scientific Board, Instituto Piaget, Lisbon.
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (December 6, 1933 – November 12, 2010)[1][2] was a composer of contemporary classical music. His Webernian-influenced serialist works of the 1950s and 1960s were characterized by adherence to dissonant modernism and drew influence from Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen,[5] Krzysztof Penderecki and Kazimierz Serocki.[6] He continued in this direction throughout the 1960s, but by the mid 1970s had changed to a less complex sacred minimalist sound, exemplified by the transitional Symphony No. 2 and the hugely popular Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). This later style developed through several other distinct phases, from such works as his 1979 Beatus Vir,[7] to the choral 1981 hymn Miserere, the 1993 Kleines Requiem für eine Polka[8] and his requiem Good Night.[9]
Agostino De Laurentiis (8 August 1919 – 10 November 2010), usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis, was an Italian film producer.
Michael Seifert (March 16, 1924 – November 6, 2010) was an SS guard in Italy during World War II.
He was an ethnic German[1] born in Landau (present-day Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine). Dubbed the "Beast of Bolzano", he was convicted in absentia in 2000 by a military tribunal in Verona, Italy, on nine counts of murder, committed while he was an SS guard at the Bolzano Transit Camp, northern Italy.
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Georges Charpak (August 1, 1924 – September 29, 2010) was a French physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate in 1992.
Romina Yankelevich De Giaccomi (5 September 1974 – 28 September 2010[1][2][3])
James William "Jimi" Heselden[1] OBE (1948 – 26 September 2010)[2] was a British entrepreneur. In 2010 he bought Segway Inc., maker of the Segway personal transport system.[3] Heselden was killed in 2010 from injuries apparently sustained from riding a Segway over a cliff.
Teresa Lewis (April 26, 1969 – September 23, 2010)[6] was an American murderer and, prior to her execution, the only woman on death row in Virginia.
Víctor Julio Suárez Rojas, alias Jorge Briceño Suárez o "Mono Jojoy" (n. Cabrera, Cundinamarca; 5 de febrero de 1953 - † La Macarena, Meta; 22 de septiembre de 2010) fue un guerrillero colombiano, comandante en jefe de las operaciones militares y miembro del Secretariado de las FARC,[7] grupo calificado por la Unión Europea, Estados Unidos, OEA, ONU, y otros países como terrorista.
Jorge González (January 31, 1966 – September 22, 2010)[5][6] was an Argentinian basketball player and professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances in World Championship Wrestling under the ring name El Gigante between 1989 and 1992 and in the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name Giant González in 1993.
Don Partridge (27 October 1941 – 21 September 2010)[1][2] was an English singer and songwriter, known as the "king of the buskers".[3] He performed from the early 1960s as a busker and one-man band, and achieved unexpected commercial success in the UK in the late 1960s with the songs "Rosie" and "Blue Eyes".
Robert J. White (1925 – 16 September 2010) was an American surgeon, best known for his head transplants on monkeys.
Professor Mohammed Arkoun (Arabic: محمد أركون) (February 1, 1928 – September 14, 2010) was considered at the time of his death to have been one of the most influential scholars in Islamic studies contributing to contemporary islamic reform.[1]. 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 and humanism.
Frederick Jelinek (born as Bedřich Jelínek; 18 November 1932 – 14 September 2010) was a researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. Jelinek's early career produced fundamental contributions to information theory and coding. He later became a pioneer in applying statistical modeling to speech recognition and natural language processing. He and his colleagues were the first to apply hidden Markov models to these tasks and also the first to build statistical models for machine translation. His special interest was language modeling, and much of his recent work had to do with moving beyond n-gram models to take advantage of long distance and syntactic regularities.
James Earl "Jim" Winner, Jr. (July 1929 – September 14, 2010) was an American entrepreneur and chairman of Winner International who creted The Club, an anti-theft device that is attached and locked on to a car's steering wheel, making it more difficult for car thieves to steal the car. By 1994, sales of the device had reached 14 million units.
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Williams was a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was best known for his vigorous critique of group selection. The work of Williams in this area, along with W. D. Hamilton, John Maynard Smith and others led to the development of a gene-centric view of evolution in the 1960s.
Robert George "Bob" Schimmel (January 16, 1950 – September 3, 2010) was an American stand-up comedian whose material was often X-rated and controversial.[1] He was perhaps best known for his comedy albums and his appearances on HBO and The Howard Stern Show.
Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (Hebrew: שמואל נח אייזנשטדט) (September 10, 1923 – September 2, 2010) was an Israeli sociologist. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1990 until his death in September of 2010 he had been a professor emeritus.
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Franklin José Brito Rodríguez (5 September 1960[1] – 31 August 2010) was a Venezuelan agricultural producer and biologist. He died due to a hunger strike in protest of what he described as the government's confiscation of part of his farm.
Francisco Antonio Varallo (5 February 1910 – 30 August 2010), nicknamed Pancho, was an Argentine football forward. He played for the Argentine national team from 1930 to 1937, playing the 1930 FIFA World Cup in the process. At his death, Varallo was the last surviving player of the 1930 World Cup.
Lynn Turner (born Julia Lynn Womack; July 13, 1968 – August 30, 2010), was an American convicted murderer. She was convicted on March 24, 2007 for the second of two murders she committed by poisoning her victims with antifreeze.
Satoshi Kon (今 敏 Kon Satoshi, October 12, 1963 – August 24, 2010) was a Japanese director of anime films. Kon started his career as a manga artist and editor in Young Magazine, and then made his screenwriting debut with "Magnetic Rose", a section of the anthology film Memories. Kon made his directorial debut film, Perfect Blue, in 1997, followed by Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika and the television series Paranoia Agent.
George David Weiss (April 9, 1921, New York City, New York – August 23, 2010) was an American songwriter and former President of the Songwriters Guild of America.
Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill (1941, Buenos Aires – August 21, 2010), who normally went by just his surname, Fogwill, was an Argentine sociologist, short story writer, and novelist. He is distantly related to the novelist, Charles Langbridge Morgan. Fogwill died on August 21st, 2010 from a pulmonar disfunction caused by his addiction to smoking.
Mary Anne Warren (died August 9, 2010) was an American writer and philosophy professor. She was noted for her writings on the issue of abortion. Frequently her essays are required readings in academic courses dealing with the abortion debate and they are frequently cited in major publications like Peter Singer's The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature and Bernard Gert's Bioethics: A Systematic Approach.
José María López Piñero (Mula, Murcia, 14 de junio de 1933 – Valencia, 8 de agosto de 2010) fue un historiador de la ciencia español y un destacado especialista en el campo de la bibliometría médica. Especialista en Historia de la Medicina, fue discípulo de Pedro Laín Entralgo.[1
Tony Robert Judt FBA (2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010)[1] was a British historian, author and university professor.[2] He specialized in European history and was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University and Director of NYU's Erich Maria Remarque Institute.
Marilyn Jean Buck (December 13, 1947 – August 3, 2010) was an American communist revolutionary, convict, and poet who was imprisoned for her participation in the 1979 prison break of Assata Shakur, the 1981 Brinks robbery[1] and the 1983 U.S. Senate bombing. Buck received an 80-year sentence, which she served in Federal prison. She was released on July 15, 2010, less than a month before her death at age 62 from cancer.
Ole Ivar Løvaas, Ph.D. (1927 – 2 August 2010) was[1] a clinical psychologist considered to be one of the fathers of applied behavior analysis therapy for autism through his development of the Lovaas technique and the first to provide evidence that the behavior of autistic children can be modified through teaching.
Xosé Luís de Dios (Orense, 1943 - Tuy, 2 de agosto de 2010[1] ) fue un pintor vanguardista de Galicia, España, que se denominó a sí mismo como "un literato que pinta".
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Wesley C. Skiles (March 6, 1958 – July 21, 2010) was an active cave diving pioneer, explorer, and underwater cinematographer.[1] Skiles lived in High Springs, Florida.
Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, ( 17 November 1925 – 14 July 2010) was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart. The first Australian chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Robert Neil Butler (January 21, 1927 – July 4, 2010) was a physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who was the first director of the National Institute on Aging. Butler is known for his work on the social needs and the rights of the elderly and for his research on healthy aging and the dementias.
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Fergus (also Feargus) Gwynplaine MacIntyre (1948-June 25, 2010[1]) was a Scottish-born journalist, novelist, poet and illustrator, who lived in Wales and New York City. MacIntyre's writings include the science-fiction novel The Woman Between the Worlds[2] and his anthology of verse and humor pieces MacIntyre's Improbable Bestiary.
Wu Guanzhong (吳冠中; August 29, 1919 – June 25, 2010)[1] was a contemporary Chinese painter.
Jack A. Tobin, Ph.D. (? - June 19, 2010) was an American anthropologist who devoted much of his life to the people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Carlos Monsiváis Aceves (May 4, 1938 – June 19, 2010) was a Mexican writer, critic, political activist,[2] and journalist.
Anthony Meredith Quinton, Baron Quinton (March 25, 1925[1] – June 19, 2010[2]) was a British political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind.
José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ sɐɾɐˈmaɡu]; (November 16, 1922 – June 18, 2010) was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor.
Ronnie Lee Gardner (January 16, 1961 – June 18, 2010) was a convicted murderer who was executed by firing squad by the state of Utah on June 18, 2010.[3]
Anne MacKaye Chapman (1922 – June 12, 2010) was a Franco-American ethnologist. She studied the Mesoamerican civilizations and especially the Tolupan (Jicaque) people of Honduras. She also visited Magallanes and Tierra del Fuego many times, since 1965, to study the Fuegian peoples in depth, especially the Selk’nam and Yahgan.
Arne Nordheim (20 June 1931 - 5 June 2010) was a Norwegian composer who had since 1982 been living in the Norwegian State's honorary residence, Grotten, next to the Royal Palace in Oslo. Nordheim received numerous prizes for his compositions, and was elected an honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1997.
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Rubén Juárez (Ballesteros, (Córdoba), 5 de noviembre de 1947 – Buenos Aires, 31 de mayo de 2010) fue un bandoneonista y cantautor argentino de tangos.
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist.
Paul Dedrick Gray (April 8, 1972 – May 24, 2010) was an American musician, best known as the bassist of the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Slipknot.
Irwin Rosten (1924–May 23, 2010) was an American documentary filmmaker. He is best known for his 1975 film The Incredible Machine.
Yvonne Loriod (20 January 1924 – 17 May 2010) was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod.
Richard Langton Gregory, CBE, MA, D.Sc., FRSE, FRS (24 July 1923 – 17 May 2010) was a British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol.
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.
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Stanley Greenspan (June 1, 1941 - April 27, 2010) was a clinical professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Science, and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and a practicing child psychiatrist.
Jan Balabán (29 January 1961 – 23 April 2010) was a Czech writer, journalist, and translator. He was considered an existentialist whose works often dealt with the wretched and desperate aspects of the human condition.
Franz Kamin (May 25, 1941 – April 11, 2010) was a prolific American author, composer, and pianist whose works were modelled on topology, General Systems Theory, meditational processes, and chance operations.
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English performer, impresario, self-publicist and former manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls.
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William Alexander "Alex" Chilton (December 28, 1950 – March 17, 2010) was an American songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer best known for his work with the pop-music bands the Box Tops and Big Star.
Mark Linkous (September 9, 1962 – March 6, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter and musician, best-known as leader of Sparklehorse. He was also known for his collaborations with such notable artists as Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Daniel Johnston, Radiohead, Nina Persson, David Lynch, and Danger Mouse
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Feb 26 - Séverin Blanchet, 66, French filmmaker, terrorist attack.
Orlando Zapata Tamayo (May 15, 1967 – February 23, 2010) was a Cuban mason, plumber, and political activist who died after fasting for more than 80 days.
Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (n. 2 de diciembre de 1924 - 20 de febrero de 2010) Militar y político estadounidense. General retirado de cuatro estrellas, fue Jefe de Gabinete de la Casa Blanca (1973-1974), y Secretario de Estado (1981-1982).
Ariel Ramírez (n. Santa Fe, 4 de septiembre de 1921 – Buenos Aires, 18 de febrero de 2010), fue un músico, pianista, concertista, compositor y director argentino de un vastísimo trabajo musical. Presidente de SADAIC (Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música).
Walter Fredrick "Fred" Morrison (January 23, 1920 – February 9, 2010) was best known as the inventor of the Frisbee.
Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010), known in his early career as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist. He was the husband of jazz singer Cleo Laine.
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Film editor Karen Schmeer, who collaborated with Errol Morris‘ on the Oscar-winning documentary The Fog of War, died Friday (Jan. 22) after being struck by a car fleeing from a Manhattan drugstore robbery.
Jerome David "J. D." Salinger (January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980.
Andrew E. Lange (July 23, 1957 – January 22, 2010) was an astrophysicist and Goldberger Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Lange came to Caltech in 1993 and was most recently the chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. Caltech's president Jean-Lou Chameau called him "a truly great physicist and astronomer who had made seminal discoveries in observational cosmology"
Jacques Martin (25 September 1921 – 21 January 2010) was a French writer and artist of comics. He was one of the classic artists of Le Journal de Tintin magazine, alongside Edgar P. Jacobs and Hergé, of whom he was a longtime collaborator. He is best known for his series Alix.
1 de enero: Billy Arjan Singh, escritor y naturalista indio (n. 1917)
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