Famous People Who Died in 2010

• Bainbridge, Beryl

  The author of An Awfully Big Adventure

• Bosley, Tom

  Mr. C, the dad on TV's Happy Days

• Byrd, Robert C.

  The West Virginia Democrat who was the longest serving Member of Congress

• Coleman, Gary

  Short star of TV's Diff'rent Strokes

• Curtis, Tony

  The star of Some Like it Hot

• Daly, Mary

  The feminist professor who battled Boston College

• Haig, Alexander

  Four-star general and U.S. Secretary of State, 1981-82

• Haim, Corey

  1980s teen star who was in Lucas and The Lost Boys

• Hopper, Dennis

  The good guy in Easy Rider and the bad guy in Speed

• Horne, Lena

  Singer of the jazz standard "Stormy Weather"

• Kumaritashvili, Nodar

  The luger killed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver

• Mankiller, Wilma

  The first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation

• McQueen, Alexander

  The avant-garde fashion designer who killed himself in 2010

• Salinger, J.D.

  The author of The Catcher In the Rye

• Sorensen, Ted

  Counselor and speechwriter for John F. Kennedy

• Wilson, Charlie

  The Texas Congressman who funded Afghan rebels in the 1980s

• Zinn, Howard

  Boat-rocking U.S. historian

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