Notable Deaths of 2010 (43 images)

Dennis Hopper, who directed and starred in the 1969 film "Easy Rider," which ushered in a new era for the U.S. movie industry, died May 29, 2010 of cancer. While Hopper was identified with the 1960s counter-culture, he was politically conservative. But in 2008 he supported Barack Obama for president, telling an ABC interviewer on election day he rejected the Republicans because of their choice of Sarah Palin for vice president. (UPI Photo/HUGO PHILPOTT)

Dennis Hopper, who directed and starred in the 1969 film "Easy Rider," which ushered in a new era for the U.S. movie industry, died May 29, 2010 of cancer. While Hopper was identified with the 1960s counter-culture, he was politically conservative. But in 2008 he supported Barack Obama for president, telling an ABC interviewer on election day he rejected the Republicans because of their choice of Sarah Palin for vice president. (UPI Photo/HUGO PHILPOTT)

Dennis Hopper, who directed and starred in the 1969 film "Easy Rider," which ushered in a new era for the U.S. movie industry, died May 29, 2010 of cancer. While Hopper was identified with the 1960s counter-culture, he was politically conservative. But in 2008 he supported Barack Obama for president, telling an ABC interviewer on election day he rejected the Republicans because of their choice of Sarah Palin for vice president. (UPI Photo/HUGO PHILPOTT)

Gary Coleman, known to American TV viewers as the precocious Arnold Jackson on "Diff'rent Strokes," died at the age of 42 on May 28th of a brain hemorrhage. [Photo: First Lady Nancy Reagan rehearses with Gary Coleman, star of "Different Strokes," the TV television series she agreed to do a guest appearance on to help communicate the danger of drug abuse to children] (UPI PHOTO/Larry Rubenstein/FILES)

U.S. actress Rue McClanahan died from a stroke on June 3rd. She was 76. The Oklahoma native is best known for her work on the television comedies "Maude," "Mama's Family" and "The Golden Girls." (Ezio Petersen/UPI)

Memphis Grizzlies center Lorenzen Wright dunks against the Charlotte Bobcats at the Charlotte Bobcats Arena in Charlotte, N.C. on April 12, 2006. (UPI Photo/Nell Redmond)