Deaths in 2009

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2009. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

Deaths of notable animals (that is, those with their own Wikipedia articles) are also reported here.

A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

June 2009

4

• Tony Maggs, 72, South African racing driver. cancer [1]
• Shitsuko Araki, 111, Japanese supercentenarian. [2] (Japanese)
• Frank G. Harrison, 69, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1983–1985). [3]
• Jean Sagadeev, 42, Russian musician (E.S.T.), suspected suicide by hanging. [4] (Russian)
• Shih Kien, 96, Hong Kong actor (Enter the Dragon). [5]

3

• Geoffrey Bingham, 90, Australian evangelical Christian writer. [6]
• David Bromige, 75, British-born Canadian poet, winner of the Pushcart Prize. [7]
• Sam Butera, 81, American saxophonist, after long illness. [8]
• David Carradine, 72, American actor (Kung Fu, Kill Bill), suicide by hanging. [9]
• Sam George, 56, Canadian activist, native rights campaigner involved with the Ipperwash Crisis, pancreatic and lung cancer. [10]
• Thomas Gill, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1963–1965). [11]
• Nikandros Kepesis, 95, Greek politician, natural causes. [12] (Greek)
• Benoit Marleau, 72, Canadian actor, cancer. [13]
• Bruce McLachlan, 67, Australian horse racing trainer, heart attack. [14]
• John Campbell Ross, 110, Australian supercentenarian, last surviving Australian veteran of World War I. [15]
• Koko Taylor, 80, American blues musician, complications from gastrointestinal surgery. [16]
• Moloko Temo, 134?, South African supercentenarian, claimant to the world's oldest person title. [17]
• Peter Landin, ?, British computer scientist. [18]

2

• David Eddings, 77, American fantasy author. [19]
• Palghat R. Raghu, 81, Burmese-born Indian musician, cardiac arrest. [20]
• Horst Siebert, 71, German economist. [21] (German)

1

• Alaa Abdel-Wahab, 37, Iraqi sports journalist, bomb attack. [22]
• Bob Christie, 85. American racing driver, pulmonary fibrosis. [23]
• Vincent O'Brien, 92, Irish race horse trainer. [24]
• Jerry Rosenberg, 72, American jailhouse lawyer, natural causes. [25]
• Dirk du Toit, 65, South African politician. [26]
• Alexander S. Potupa, 64, Belarussian politician, physicist, economist and writer, natural causes. [27]

May 2009

31

• Torsten Andersson, 82, Swedish painter. [28] (Swedish)
• Kamala Das, 75, Indian writer, after long illness. [29]
• Millvina Dean, 97, British woman, last living passenger aboard the Titanic, pneumonia. [30]
• Brian Edrich, 86, British cricketer. [31]
• Sir John Holland, 94, Australian engineer, construction magnate. [32]
• Danny La Rue, 81, Irish-born British female impersonator and singer, prostate cancer. [33]
• Vyacheslav Nevinny, 74, Russian actor, diabetes. [34] (Russian)
• George Tiller, 67, American physician and abortion provider, shot. [35]

30

• Luís Cabral, 78, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1973–1980). [36]
• Susanna Haapoja, 42, Finnish politician, cerebral haemorrhage. [37]
• Eric Hammond, 79, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the EETPU. [38]
• Ephraim Katzir, 93, Israeli biophysicist and politician, President (1973–1978). [39]
• Waldemar Matuška, 76, Czech singer, pneumonia and heart failure. [40] (Czech)
• Nell Meadows, 110, American supercentenarian. [41]
• Gaafar Nimeiry, 79, Sudanese politician, President (1969–1985). [42]
• Niki Typaldou, 64, Greek photographer and journalist, cancer. [43] (Greek)

29

• Hank Bassen, 76, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack. [44]
• Kevin Beurle, 53, British scientist, hot air balloon accident. [45]
• Jonny Dollar, 45, British music producer, cancer. [46]
• Susan Jordan, 67, American lawyer and activist, plane crash. [47]
• Ed Murray, 80, American politician, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1987–1991). [48]
• Nikos Panayiotidis, 56, Greek actor, heart attack. [49] (Greek)
• Bill Perkins, 89, Australian footballer (Richmond). [50]
• Viktor Petrov, 89, Russian clarinetist and educator, professor at Moscow Conservatory. [51] (Russian)
• Karine Ruby, 31, French snowboarder, fall. [52]

28

• Mort Abrahams, 93, American film and television producer (Planet of the Apes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), natural causes. [53]
• Terence Alexander, 86, British film and television actor (Bergerac). [54]
• Terry Barr, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions), Alzheimer's disease. [55]
• Marcel Béliveau, 69, Canadian television host, producer and comedian, cancer. [56] (French)
• Manuel Collantes, 91, Filipino diplomat, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984), cardiac arrest. [57]
• Paul Haney, 80, American public servant, information officer for NASA ("Voice of Mission Control"), cancer. [58]
• Roger Kaffer, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliet. [59]
• Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bilbao. [60] (Spanish)
• Lambros Papantoniou, 64, Greek journalist, after long illness. [61] (Greek)
• Lenrie Peters, 76, Gambian surgeon and novelist, after short illness. [62]
• Ercole Rabitti, 87, Italian footballer and trainer. [63] (Italian)
• Oleg Shenin, 71, Russian politician, member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1990–1991). [64]
• Betty Tancock, 98, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1932). [65]
• John Tolos, 78, Canadian professional wrestler, renal failure. [66]

27

• Ammo Baba, 74, Iraqi footballer and trainer, diabetes. [67].
• E. D. Doyle, 90, Irish military officer and analyst. [68]
• Clive Granger, 74, British economist, Nobel Prize winner for economics. [69]
• Mona Grey, 98, British public servant, Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland. [70].
• Abram Hoffer, 92, Canadian orthomolecular psychiatrist. [71]
• Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, Haitian political activist, after long illness. [72]
• Carol Anne O'Marie, 75, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist, Parkinson's disease. [73]
• Sir William Refshauge, 96, Australian public health administrator. [74]
• Jack Reilly, 84, American television producer (Good Morning America), complications from a fall. [75]
• Paul Sharratt, 75, British-born American television producer, cancer. [76]
• Ortega "Tega" Henderson, 25, American rapper (St. Lunatics), gunshot wounds. [77]
• Ralph D. Winter, 84, American missionary (U.S. Center for World Mission), multiple myeloma and lymphoma. [78]

26

• Mamadou Bâ, 79, Guinean politician, cancer. [79] (French)
• Arcangelo Ianelli, 86, Brazilian painter, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [80] (Portuguese)
• Kaoru Kurimoto, 56, Japanese author, pancreatic cancer. [81]
• Mihalis Papagiannakis, 68, Greek politician, Member of Parliament, cancer. [82] (Greek)
• Michael Ross, 89, American screenwriter and director (Three's Company), complications from a heart attack and stroke. [83]
• Ronald Takaki, 70, American sociologist, professor of ethnic studies (University of California, Berkeley), suicide. [84]
• Peter Zezel, 44, Canadian ice hockey player, haemolytic anaemia. [85]

25

• Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, 48, Nigerian Pan African activist, car accident. [86]
• Billy Baxter, 70, British footballer, cancer. [87]
• Amos Elon, 82, Austrian-born Israeli author and journalist. [88] (German)
• Haakon Lie, 103, Norwegian politician. [89] (Norwegian)
• Costas Sfikas, 82, Greek cinematographer. [90] (Greek)
• Franz Soronics, 88, Austrian politician. [91]
• Ivan van Sertima, 74, Guyanese-born British historian, linguist and anthropologist (Rutgers University). [92]

24

• Jay Bennett, 45, American musician (Wilco) and songwriter. [93]
• Ella Snoep, 82, Dutch actress. [94] (Dutch)
• Blyth Wright, 65, British mountaineer, avalanche expert, and Scottish National Party activist. [95]

23

• Raleigh Brown, 87, American politician, state representative (Texas), heart attack. [96]
• Lawrence Daly, 84, British trade union leader. [97]
• Joseph Duval, 80, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Rouen (1981–2004). [98] (French)
• Ken Gill, 81, British trade union leader. [99]
• Edward Lakso, 76, American screenwriter and composer, complications of Parkinson's disease. [100]
• Franklin Littell, 91, American theologian and author. [101]
• David Lunceford, 75, American football player, Alzheimer's disease. [102]
• Tadeusz Pyka, 79, Polish politician. [103] (Polish)
• Floyd Riggins, 75, American journalist and businessman, colon cancer. [104]
• Roh Moo-hyun, 62, South Korean politician, President (2003–2008), suicide by jumping. [105]
• Barbara Rudnik, 50, German actress, breast cancer. [106] (German)
• Sir Tangaroa Tangaroa, 88, Cook Islands public servant, Queen's Representative (1985–1990). [107]
• Nikos Tsiplakos, 58, Greek journalist, cancer. [108]

22

• Alexander Grill, 70, Austrian actor, stroke. [109] (German)
• Alexander Mezhirov, 86, Russian poet. [110] (Russian)
• Zé Rodrix, 61, Brazilian musician. [111] (Portuguese)
• Randy Steele, 47, Canadian television news reporter (CHCH), throat cancer. [112]
• Yeo Woon Kye, 69, South Korean actress, kidney cancer. [113]

21

• Joan Alexander, 94, American radio actress (The Adventures of Superman), intestinal blockage. [114]
• Walter da Silva, 68, Brazilian footballer and coach, heart attack. [115]
• Fathi Eljahmi, 68, Libyan political activist, blood infection. [116]
• Anatoli Kirilov, 42, Bulgarian football coach (PFC Spartak Varna), car accident. [117]
• Sam Maloof, 93, American artisan woodworker, pneumonia. [118]
• Rolf McPherson, 96, American evangelist, son of Aimee Semple McPherson, natural causes. [119]
• Robert Müller, 28, German ice hockey player, brain cancer. [120] (German)
• Kanagasabai Pathmanathan, 64, Sri Lankan politician. [121]

20

• Arthur Erickson, 84, Canadian architect (Simon Fraser University, Roy Thomson Hall). [122]
• Lucy Gordon, 28, British actress (Spider-Man 3, The Four Feathers), suicide by hanging. [123]
• Alan Kelly, Sr., 72, Irish footballer, cancer. [124]
• Helen Khal, 86, American painter, stroke. [125]
• Randi Lindtner Næss, 104, Norwegian actress. [126] (Norwegian)
• Larry Rice, 63, American racing driver, lung cancer. [127]
• María Amelia López Soliño, 97, Spanish blogger, world's oldest blogger. [128]
• Paul Vinar, 69, Australian footballer. [129]
• Oleg Yankovsky, 65, Russian actor, pancreatic cancer. [130]
• Yehoshua Zettler, 91, Israeli resistance fighter (Lehi). [131]
• Jerzy Zubrzycki, 89, Polish-born Australian sociologist. [132]

19

• Robert F. Furchgott, 92, American scientist, Nobel Prize winner. [133]
• Andrei Ivanov, 42, Russian footballer. [134] (Russian)
• Knut Hammer Larsen, 38, Norwegian footballer, leukemia. [135] (Norwegian)
• Steve Larsen, 39, American cyclist and triathlete, heart attack. [136]
• Nicholas Maw, 73, British composer (Odyssey), heart failure. [137]
• Clint Smith, 95, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks). [138]
• Herbert York, 87, American physicist. [139]

18

• Wayne Allwine, 62, American voice artist (Mickey Mouse), complications from diabetes. [140]
• Carol Cole, 64, American actress (Sanford and Son, Grady), daughter of Nat King Cole, lung cancer. [141]
• Dolla, 21, American rap artist, shot. [142]
• Sir David Hay, 92, Australian public servant, Ambassador to the United Nations, Administrator of Papua New Guinea. [143]
• K. Pattabhi Jois, 93, Indian yoga teacher, after short illness. [144]
• Eva Mae LeFevre, 91, American Southern Gospel singer, after short illness. [145]
• William Moore, 60, British loyalist paramilitary, member of the Shankill Butchers, suspected heart attack. [146]
• Balasingham Nadesan, Sri Lankan rebel, political chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), missile attack. [147]
• Paul Parin, 92, Swiss psychoanalyst, author and ethnologist. [148] (German)
• Lennart Persson, 58, Swedish music writer, after short illness. [149] (Norwegian)
• Velupillai Prabhakaran, 54, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE, missile attack. [150]
• Türkan Saylan, 74, Turkish doctor, cancer. [151]
• Thillaiyampalam Sivanesan, 45, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE naval wing (Sea Tigers), missile attack. [152]
• Shanmugalingam Sivashankar, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE intelligence wing, missile attack. [153]
• Lee Solters, 89, American press agent, natural causes. [154]

17

• Toch Arellano, 55, Filipino photographer, stroke. [155]
• Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani, 96, Iranian cleric, heart disease. [156]
• Mario Benedetti, 88, Uruguayan author and poet. [157]
• Daniel Carasso, 103, Greek-born French businessman (Groupe Danone). [158]
• David Herbert Donald, 88, American historian, heart failure. [159]
• Masaru Hayami, 84, Japanese public servant, Governor of the Bank of Japan (1998–2003), respiratory failure. [160]
• David Ireland, 78, American sculptor and conceptual artist, pneumonia. [161]
• Jung Seung-hye, 44, South Korean film producer, colon cancer. [162]
• Guillermo Lora, 87, Bolivian revolutionary leader, liver cancer. [163]
• Dame Patricia Mackinnon, 97, Australian community worker and philanthropist, President of the Royal Children's Hospital. [164]
• Prakash Mehra, 69, Indian film producer and director, pneumonia and multiple organ failure. [165]
• Curt Petersen, 62, Swedish Christian singer, tongue cancer. [166] (Norwegian)
• Peter Slabakov, 86, Bulgarian actor. [167]
• Ron Snidow, 67, American football player (Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns), complications from Lou Gehrig's disease. [168]
• Mark Young, 23, British motorcycle racer, race crash. [169]

16

• Prospero Amatong, 77, Filipino politician, Congressman (1998–2007), Governor of Davao del Norte (1992–1998), fall. [170]
• John E. Connelly, 82, American entrepreneur, founder of Gateway Clipper Fleet, heart failure. [171]
• Henry David Halsey, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle (1972–1989), after short illness. [172]
• Peter Sampson, 81, British footballer (Bristol Rovers), Alzheimer's disease. [173]

15

• Susanna Agnelli, 87, Italian politician and writer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995–1996). [174]
• Dimitris Armakolas, 70, Greek sculptor, asphyxia. [175] (Greek)
• Paul Flora, 86, Austrian caricaturist and illustrator. [176] (German)
• Alan Hackney, 84, British screenwriter. [177]
• Pearl Hampton, 111, American supercentenarian. [178]
• Rodger McFarlane, 54, American gay rights activist, first executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis, suicide. [179]
• Mohammad Amin Riahi, 86, Iranian historian and literary scholar. [180]
• E. Beatrice Riley, 112, Australian supercentenarian. [181]
• Edwin S. Shneidman, 91, American suicidologist. [182]
• Helvi Sipilä, 94, Finnish diplomat. [183]
• Roy Talbot, 94, Bermudan calypso musician, last surviving member of original Talbot Brothers. [184]
• Bud Tingwell, 86, Australian actor, prostate cancer. [185]
• Wayman Tisdale, 44, American basketball player and jazz bassist, cancer. [186]
• Hubert van Es, 67, Dutch photographer at the fall of Saigon, brain hemorrhage. [187]

14

• Monica Bleibtreu, 65, Austrian actress, screenwriter and drama teacher, cancer. [188] (German)
• Newt Heisley, 88, American commercial artist, designer of POW/MIA flag, after long illness. [189]
• Ken Hollyman, 86, British footballer. [190]
• Buddy Montgomery, 79, American jazz musician, heart failure. [191]
• William J. Passmore, 77, American jockey, complications from emphysema. [192]
• Bob Rosburg, 82, American golfer and television color analyst, fall. [193]

13

• Frank Aletter, 83, American character actor (It's About Time), cancer. [194]
• Kay Barragan, 65, American businesswoman, co-founder of 1-800-Mattress, bleeding after blunt force trauma. [195]
• Tom Buckley, 23, British cancer research activist, bone cancer. [196]
• Waldemar Levy Cardoso, 108, Brazilian Field Marshal, WWI-era veteran. [197] (Portuguese)
• Achille Compagnoni, 94, Italian mountaineer, first person to ascend K2. [198]
• Don Cordner, 87, Australian rules footballer. [199]
• Rafael Escalona, 81, Colombian Vallenato composer and troubador. [200] (Spanish)
• Norbert Eschmann, 75, Swiss footballer. [201] (French)
• Anne Scott-James, 96, British journalist and author, widow of Sir Osbert Lancaster. [202]
• L. William Seidman, 88, American public servant, Chairman of the FDIC (1985–1991), after short illness. [203]
• Joe Tandy, 26, British auto racing team owner, car crash. [204]

12

• Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe, 74, British aristocrat and politician, heart failure. [205]
• Dame Heather Begg, 76, New Zealand operatic soprano, leukemia. [206]
• Irvine Butterfield, 72, British writer, hill walker and conservationist, after long illness. [207]
• Mohan Saliya Ellawala, 61, Sri Lankan politician, Governor of Sabaragamuwa Province (2008–2009), after long illness. [208]
• Eden Ross Lipson, 66, American book editor, pancreatic cancer. [209]
• Thomas Nordseth-Tiller, 28, Norwegian screenwriter (Max Manus), cancer. [210] (Norwegian)
• Roger Planchon, 77, French theatre director, heart attack. [211] (French)
• Sidique Ali Merican, 78, Malaysian sprinter, stroke. [212]
• Antonio Vega, 51, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (Nacha Pop), pneumonia. [213] (Spanish)
• Heini Walter, 81, Swiss racing driver. [214]

11

• Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, Libyan Al-Qaeda paramilitary trainer accused of terrorism, alleged suicide. [215]
• Pat Booth, 66, British model and writer, cancer. [216]
• Lude Check, 91, Canadian ice hockey player. [217]
• Abel Goumba, 82, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1957–58, 1959, 2003) and Vice-President (2003–2005). [218] (French)
• Dudley L. Healy, 95, American athlete, Masters track and field champion. [219]
• Claudio Huepe, 69, Chilean politician and diplomat, heart attack. [220]
• Bill Kelso, 69, American baseball player. [221]
• Mark Landon, 60, American actor, adopted son of Michael Landon. [222]
• Shanthi Lekha, 79, Sri Lankan actress. [223]
• S. M. Nanda, 93, Indian admiral, Chief of Naval Staff (1970–1973). [224]
• Mihály Schéner, 86, Hungarian painter, artist and writer. [225] (Hungarian)
• Leonard Shlain, 71, American surgeon and writer, brain cancer. [226]
• Angel Arce Torres, 78, American hit and run victim, bronchial pneumonia due to spinal injury. [227]

10

• Robert John Cornell, 89, American politician and Roman Catholic priest, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin (1975–1979). [228]
• Igor Esipovsky, 49, Russian politician, Governor of Irkutsk Oblast, helicopter crash. [229] (Russian)
• James Kirkup, 91, British poet, translator and travel writer, stroke. [230]
• Warwick Lyn, 64, Jamaican record producer, prostate cancer. [231]
• Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, 47, Guatemalan lawyer, shot. [232]
• Clive Scott, 64, British keyboardist and songwriter (Jigsaw), stroke. [233]
• Brian Simnjanovski, 27, American football player (Berlin Thunder), car accident. [234]
• Robert J. Sinclair, 77, American executive, CEO of Saab-Scania of America, cancer. [235]

9

• Maria Bibikov, 92, Austrian actress. [236] (Czech)
• Ruby Billings, 109, New Zealand centenarian, New Zealand's oldest living woman. [237]
• Stephen Bruton, 60, American songwriter and guitarist (Kris Kristofferson band), throat cancer. [238]
• Chuck Daly, 78, American basketball coach, pancreatic cancer. [239]
• Sahan Dosova, 130?, Kazakhstani supercentenarian and longevity claimant. [240] (Hungarian)
• Travis Edmonson, 76, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bud & Travis), heart failure. [241]
• Thodoros Exarhos, 79, Greek actor, after long illness. [242] (Greek)
• Henry T. King, 89, American attorney, Nuremberg trials prosecutor, cancer. [243]
• David Marcus, 85, Irish literary editor, after long illness. [244]
• Ernest Millington, 93, British politician and educator, last living World War II-era member of the British Parliament. [245]
• Eugene Smith, 88, American gospel singer. [246]
• Evgenios Spatharis, 85, Greek shadow play artist, fall. [247] (Greek)
• Jimmy Tubbs, 60, American basketball coach (Southern Methodist University) [248]
• Jean-Claude Van Geenberghe, 46, Belgian-born Ukrainian equestrian. [249] (German)
• George Zinkhan, 57, American academic and suspected murderer, suicide by gunshot. [250]

8

• Gianni Baget Bozzo, 84, Italian Roman Catholic priest and politician. [251]
• Fons Brijdenbach, 54, Belgian athlete, cancer. [252] (Dutch)
• Dom DiMaggio, 92, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), brother of Joe DiMaggio, pneumonia. [253]
• Hideyuki Fujisawa, 83, Japanese Go player, aspiration pneumonia. [254] (Japanese)
• Cynthia Johnson, 60, American professional wrestler, cancer. [255]
• Carlos Kloppenburg, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Novo Hamburgo (1986–1995). [256]
• Ninel Kurgapkina, 80, Russian prima ballerina, road accident. [257] (Russian)
• Greg Palmer, 61, American writer, television reporter and Emmy Award-winning journalist, lung cancer. [258]
• Bud Shrake, 77, American journalist and novelist, lung cancer. [259]
• Eunice Taylor, 75, American baseball player (Kenosha Comets). [260]

7

• Robin Blaser, 83, American-born Canadian poet, Griffin Poetry Prize winner. [261]
• Mickey Carroll, 89, American actor (The Wizard of Oz). [262]
• Ian Cundy, 64, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Peterborough, mesothelioma. [263]
• Linda Dangcil, 66, American actress (The Flying Nun), throat cancer. [264]
• John Furia, Jr., 79, American screenwriter (The Twilight Zone, Dr. Kildare), President of the Writers Guild, West (1973–1975). [265]
• Mary Paul Janchill, 88, American Roman Catholic nun, social services innovator, heart attack. [266]
• Tony Marsh, 77, British racing driver. [267]
• David Mellor, 78, British industrial designer, manufacturer and retailer. [268]
• Frank Melton, 60, American politician, Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. [269]
• Andras Nagy, 23, Hungarian boxer, brain haemorrhage. [270]
• Danny Ozark, 85, American baseball manager. [271]
• Hugh Stansfield, 57, Canadian jurist, Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of British Columbia, multiple myeloma. [272]
• Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, 85, British politician and writer. [273]

6

• Aline Beslay, 110, French supercentenarian. [274]
• Erik Bluemel, 32, American professor (University of Denver), bicycle accident. [275]
• Sam Cohn, 79, American talent agent, after short illness. [276]
• Leon Despres, 101, American attorney and politician, heart failure. [277]
• Ean Evans, 48, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), cancer. [278]
• Kevin Grubb, 31, American NASCAR driver, suicide by gunshot. [279]
• Sid Laverents, 100, American amateur filmmaker, pneumonia. [280]
• Poodie Locke, 56, American stage manager (Willie Nelson band), heart attack. [281]
• Lev Losev, 71, Russian poet and literary critic. [282] (Russian)
• Carlo Marcelletti, 64, Italian cardiac surgeon, heart attack. [283] (Italian)
• Guy Mascolo, 65, Italian hairdresser, co-founder of Toni & Guy, heart attack. [284]
• Bob Meyer, 76, Australian logician, lung cancer. [285]
• Valentin Varennikov, 85, Russian general. [286] (Russian)
• Viola Wills, 69, American pop singer, cancer.[287]

5

• Manuel Capetillo Villaseñor, 83, Mexican torero and actor, respiratory arrest. [288] (Spanish).
• Benjamin Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match. [289]
• María Ibarra Martín, 76, Cuban biologist. [290]
• David S. King, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative for Utah (1959–1963). [291]
• Richard Miller, 83, American operatic tenor and educator, Professor Emeritus of Voice (Oberlin Conservatory of Music). [292]
• Elsie B. Washington, 66, American author, wrote first African American romance novel, multiple sclerosis and cancer. [293]
• Murasaki Yamada, 60, Japanese manga artist. [294]

4

• Bobby Campbell, 86, British footballer and manager. [295]
• Dom DeLuise, 75, American actor (The Cannonball Run, The Secret of NIMH), writer, chef and cookbook author, kidney failure. [296]
• Charles Lugano, 59, Kenyan politician, after short illness. [297]
• Martha Mason, 71, American author, lived 60 years in an iron lung. [298]
• Fritz Muliar, 89, Austrian actor. [299]
• Jane Randolph, 93, American actress. [300]
• Gisela Stein, 73, German actress. [301] (German)

3

• Robert B. Choate, Jr., 84, American food lobbyist. [302]
• John Elsworthy, 77, British footballer. [303]
• Hui Ki On, 65, Hong Kong public servant, Commissioner of Police (1994–2001), cancer. [304]
• Eleanor Perenyi, 91, American gardener and writer, cerebral hemorrhage. [305]
• Ram Shewalkar, 78, Indian Marathi writer, cardiac arrest. [306]

2

• Alfred Appel, 75, American scholar, expert on Vladimir Nabokov, heart failure. [307]
• Augusto Boal, 78, Brazilian dramatist and theater director (Theatre of the Oppressed), respiratory failure. [308] (Portuguese)
• Marilyn French, 79, American writer, heart failure. [309]
• Kiyoshiro Imawano, 58, Japanese rock musician. [310] (Japanese)
• Janus Kamban, 95, Faroese sculptor and graphic designer. [311]
• Jack Kemp, 73, American politician and football player, candidate for Vice President (1996), cancer. [312]
• Carole C. Noon, 59, American primatologist, founder of Save the Chimps, pancreatic cancer. [313]
• Robert Pauley, 85, American executive, President of ABC Radio (1961–1967), heart failure. [314]
• Virginia Prince, 96, American transgender activist. [315]

1

• Ralph J. Cappy, 65, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (2003–2008). [316]
• Delara Darabi, 22, Iranian convicted murderer, executed by hanging. [317]
• Fred Delmare, 87, German actor, complications from pneumonia. [318] (German)
• Ric Estrada, 81, Cuban-born American penciler of comic books, prostate cancer. [319]
• Danny Gans, 52, American entertainer. [320]
• Norman Gash, 97, British historian. [321]
• Albert Hamilton Gordon, 107, American businessman. [322]
• George Hannan, 98, Australian politician. [323]
• Jokke Kangaskorpi, 37, Finnish footballer. [324] (Finnish)
• Jack D. Maltester, 95, American politician, Mayor of San Leandro, California. [325]
• Marc Rocco, 46, American film director (Murder in the First, Where the Day Takes You) and screenwriter. [326]
• Sunline, 13, New Zealand champion racehorse, euthanized. [327]
• John Wilke, 54, American investigative reporter, pancreatic cancer. [328]

April 2009

See Deaths in April 2009.

March 2009

See Deaths in March 2009.

February 2009

See Deaths in February 2009.

January 2009

See Deaths in January 2009.

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