Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Bernard Giraudeau

Bernard René Giraudeau

France

1947 – 2010 (63 years old)

Versatile French actor, director, and maritime novelist whose charismatic screen presence graced films from Le Crabe-Tambour to Ridicule and Une affaire de goût.

La Rochelle, France

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Sports & Athletics

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George Steinbrenner

George Michael Steinbrenner III

United States

1930 – 2010 (80 years old)

Iconic and demanding principal owner of the New York Yankees from 1973 to 2010, who restored the franchise to glory, winning seven World Series championships.

Trinity, United States

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Arts & Music

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Laurent Terzieff

Laurent Didier Alex Terzieff

France

1935 – 2010 (75 years old)

Towering figure of French theater and cinema who championed contemporary playwrights (Beckett, Albee, Schisgal) and starred in films by Carné, Pasolini, and Buñuel.

Paris, France

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Beryl Bainbridge

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge

Great Britain

1932 – 2010 (77 years old)

Acclaimed English novelist nominated five times for the Booker Prize, celebrated for her razor-sharp dark humor, macabre plots, and vivid historical novels.

London, United Kingdom

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Philosophy & Thought

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Dr. Abdelkader Djeghloul

عبد القادر جغلو

Algeria

1946 – 2010 (64 years old)

Prominent Algerian sociologist and historian whose works examined the origins of Algerian modern identity, Ibn Khaldun's sociology, and Maghreb cultural mutations.

Oran, Algeria

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Robert Byrd

Robert Carlyle Byrd

United States

1917 – 2010 (92 years old)

Longest-serving United States Senator in American history, representing West Virginia for over 51 years, renowned as a staunch defender of Senate traditions and constitutional checks.

Arlington, United States

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Sports & Athletics

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Manute Bol

🌐 South Sudan

1962 – 2010 (47 years old)

South Sudanese-born NBA basketball player celebrated as one of the greatest shot-blockers in history, who donated nearly all his athletic earnings to humanitarian relief in war-torn Sudan.

Turalei, South Sudan

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Military Leaders & Strategists

Carlos Monsiváis

Carlos Monsiváis Aceves

Mexico

1938 – 2010 (72 years old)

Celebrated Mexican chronicler, essayist, and public intellectual whose sharp wit documented popular culture, urban social movements, and human rights in modern Mexico.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Marcel Bigeard

Marcel-Maurice Bigeard

France

1916 – 2010 (94 years old)

One of the most decorated soldiers in modern French history, a World War II French Resistance fighter and paratrooper commander at Dien Bien Phu and in Algeria.

Fréjus, France

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José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago

Portugal

1922 – 2010 (87 years old)

Portuguese author awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, acclaimed for subversive allegories, luminous prose, and masterworks such as Blindness and Baltasar and Blimunda.

Lisbon, Portugal

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Music

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

Maureen Forrester

Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester

Canada

1930 – 2010 (79 years old)

One of the greatest operatic contraltos of the twentieth century, celebrated worldwide for her rich, opulent interpretations of Gustav Mahler under conductor Bruno Walter, and Chair of the Canada Council.

Montreal, Canada

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Hassine Ghali

حسين غالي

Tunisia

1925 AD – 2010 (85 years old)

Pioneering pedagogue who authored foundational national school curricula and Arabic language reading manuals that educated millions of Tunisian schoolchildren after independence.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Ferdinand Oyono

Ferdinand Leopold Oyono

Cameroon

1929-09-14 – 2010-06-10 (80 years old)

Brilliant satirical novelist whose anti-colonial masterworks 'Houseboy' and 'The Old Man and the Medal' exposed the hypocrisy of colonial rule, later serving as Cameroon's Foreign Minister.

Ngoulemakong, Cameroon

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Sports & Athletics

John Wooden

John Robert Wooden

United States

1910 – 2010 (99 years old)

Legendary UCLA basketball coach known as the 'Wizard of Westwood' who won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year span, including an unprecedented seven in a row.

Los Angeles, United States

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Arts & Music

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Rue McClanahan

Eddi-Rue McClanahan

United States

1934 – 2010 (76 years old)

Emmy-winning American comedic actress celebrated for her legendary role as the man-crazy Southern belle Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls.

New York City, United States

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Sciences & Discovery

Vladimir Arnold

Владимир Игоревич Арнольд

Ukraine

1937 – 2010 (72 years old)

Soviet-Russian mathematical genius celebrated for the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) theorem in dynamical systems and deep insights across classical mechanics and singularity theory.

Moscow, Russia

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