Photos: Those We've Lost 2010

BET.com remembers the celebrities | politicians | athletes and notable citizens we've lost this year.

Harvey Fuqua, Singer 7/27/29-7/6/10 - Singer, songwriter and record producer Harvey Fuqua, an early mentor of Marvin Gaye, died in July. Fuqua was 80. Ron Brewington of the Motown Alumni Association says Fuqua died of a heart attack at a Detroit hospital. In 1958, Fuqua added Gaye and others to a group called Harvey and the Moonglows, which scored the hit, "Ten Commandments of Love," that same year. Motown Records founder Berry Gordy later hired Fuqua to develop recording talent.
Bo Griffin, Radio Personality 1959 – 2/16/10< - Popular radio and television personality Bo Griffin died in Greenville, South Carolina at the age of 51 of intestinal cancer. Griffin began her radio career as “Bo the Party Animal” back in the 1980s and was one-half of Power 96's “Mindy and Bo Morning Show."
Walter Hawkins, Singer 5/18/49-7/11/10 - Walter Hawkins, a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor from Oakland, was 61 and died on July 11 at his home in Ripon, Calif. The gospel great, whose career spanned four decades, was behind such hits as “Oh Happy Day,” “Thank You,” “Going Up Yonder,” “Changed” and many more. Hawkins was fighting pancreatic cancer.
Raymond Haysbert, Businessman 1920 – 5/24/10</ - Former Parks Sausage Co. chief executive officer and leader in the Maryland business community, Raymond V. Haysbert Sr., died in May at the age of 90. Haysbert led the Baltimore Urban League as well as Parks Sausage, which was the first Black-owned business to go public in 1969.Passing of an Icon - The nation lost a civil rights icon, April 20, with the death of Dorothy Irene Height. She was 98. Born in 1912 in Richmond, Va. and raised in Pennsylvania, Height was admitted into Barnard College in 1929 but was turned away because the school wouldn't allow more than two Black women. She ended up going to New York University instead and earning a bachelor’s degree in 1932 and a master’s the next year.

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Bo Griffin, Radio Personality 1959 – 2/16/10< - Popular radio and television personality Bo Griffin died in Greenville, South Carolina at the age of 51 of intestinal cancer. Griffin began her radio career as “Bo the Party Animal” back in the 1980s and was one-half of Power 96's “Mindy and Bo Morning Show."

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