Celebrity Deaths

Melvin Harrison "Mel" Turpin (December 28, 1960 – July 8, 2010) was an American professional basketball player.

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June 2010
30

* Arto Apartian, 54, Greek actor. [1] (Greek)
* Paul Bristow, 59, British football director (Torquay United), heart attack. [2]
* Ditta Zusa Einzinger, 79, Austrian singer, cancer. [3] (German)
* Elliott Kastner, 80, American film producer (Where Eagles Dare), cancer. [4]
* Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké, 85, Senegalese Grand Marabout of the Mourides. [5]
* Park Yong-ha, 32, South Korean actor and singer, suicide by hanging. [6]
* Allan Robb, 49, British journalist, radio and television presenter, multiple sclerosis. [7]

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Park Yong-ha (August 12, 1977 – June 30, 2010) was a Korean actor and singer.

Career

At seventeen, Park was noted for his acting and musical skills, as well as his good looks which earned him popularity with fans. After his debut in MBC drama Theme Theater (1994), Park appeared a range of TV dramas and films. In 2002, Park co-starred in Winter Sonata with Bae Yong Joon and Choi Ji-woo, which brought him fame in Japan.

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* Tadahiro Ando, 69, Japanese politician, Governor of Miyazaki Prefecture (2003–2006), lymphoma. [10]
* Vasily Bukhtienko, Russian businessman, founder of Volgograd Stalin museum, beaten. [11]
* Carmelita González, 81, Mexican actress, pneumonia. [12] (Spanish)
* Jordi Estadella, 61, Spanish voice actor, radio and television personality, after long illness. [13] (Spanish)
* José Fragelli, 95, Brazilian politician, Governor of Mato Grosso (1970–1974) and Senate president (1985–1987). [14] (Portuguese)
* Khalid Khawaja, Pakistani military and intelligence officer, shot. [15] (body found on this date)
* Peter Lopez, 60, American attorney, legal counsel to Michael Jackson, suspected suicide by gunshot. [16]
* Paul Mayer, 98, German Roman Catholic cardinal. [17] (German)
* Owsley, 44, American musician, apparent suicide. [18]
* Add Penfield, 91, American sports commentator (Duke Blue Devils, 1938–1976). [19]
* Gerry Ryan, 53, Irish disc jockey and radio/television presenter. [20]

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March 2010

31

* Eugene Allen, 90, American White House butler (1952-1986), renal failure. [12]
* Jack Diesing, 92, American businessman, chairman of College World Series (1963–2002), complications from Parkinson's disease. [13]
* Caresse Henry, 44, American music manager (Madonna), self-inflicted gunshot. [14] [15]
* Jerald terHorst, 87, American White House Press Secretary (1974), heart failure. [16]

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Marie Osmond's son, Michael Blosil, who struggled with depression, was one of eight children Osmond raised with ex-husband Brian Blosil. He jumped from his apartment in downtown L.A. shortly after 9:00 p.m. friday night and died.