25 December 2010 Last updated at 19:31 ET

Audio slideshow: We remember... in 2010

The past 12 months have seen the deaths of sporting legends, Hollywood stars and political heavyweights. Here - at the end of another year - we pay tribute to some of the famous faces no longer with us.

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Images courtesy Getty Images, PA, Rex Features and Allstar Picture Library. Music by Steppenwollf, Lena Horne, The Douglas Wood Group, The Tony Hatch Orchestra, the themes to Dynasty and Police Squad!, the Sex Pistols, Teddy Pendergrass, Dame Joan Sutherland and KPM Music.

Slideshow production by Paul Kerley and Natasha Gruneberg. Publication date 26 December 2010.

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