OK, here's my list for 2010, with five returners from 2009:
Prince Phillip
Margaret Thatcher
Dick Cheney
Michael Foot
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi
Elizabeth Taylor
Liz Dawn
David Hasselhoff
Nelson Mandela
Severiano Ballesteros
I have condemned the following to certain death this year by removing them from my list (I had Jackson in 2008 and removed him....)
Boy George
Fidel Castro
Woody Allen
Amy Winehouse