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.

August

1

• Corazon Aquino, 76, Filipino politician, first female President (1986–1992), colon cancer. [1]
• Devendra Nath Dwivedi, 74, Indian politician, Governor designate of Gujurat. [2]
• Panakkad Sayeed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal, 73, Indian politician. [3]
• Borka Vučić, 84, Serbian politician and banker, car accident. [4]

July 2009

31

• Baatin, 35, American rapper (Slum Village). [5]
• Sir Bobby Robson, 76, English football player and manager, lung cancer. [6]
• Jean-Paul Roussillon, 78, French actor, lung cancer. [7] (French)
• Lou Younkin, 76, American sportswriter. [8]

30

• Yuri Kurnenin, 55, Belarussian football player and coach. [9] (Russian)
• Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf, 39, Nigerian sect leader (Boko Haram), shot. [10]
• Peter Zadek, 83, German stage director, film director, and screenwriter, illness. [11] (German)

29

• Dina Babbitt, 86, Czech-born American artist and Holocaust survivor, abdominal cancer. [12]
• Rajan P. Dev, 58, Indian actor, after short illness. [13]
• Gayatri Devi, 90, Indian royal, last Maharani of Jaipur (1939–1970), paralytic ileus. [14]
• Paul McGrillen, 37, British footballer (Motherwell F.C.). [15]
• Olga A. Méndez, 84, American politician, New York State Senator (1978–2004), breast cancer. [16]
• Renato Pagliari, 66, Italian-born British singer (Renée and Renato). [17]
• Zhuo Lin, 93, Chinese consultant, widow of Deng Xiaoping. [18]

28

• Roberto Ramírez Garza, 81, Mexican comedian, cardiovascular disease. [19] (Spanish)
• Emilio Gancayco, 87, Filipino jurist, Supreme Court Associate Justice (1987–1991), after long illness. [20]
• Reverend Ike, 74, American evangelist, stroke. [21]
• Jim Johnson, 68, American football coach, melanoma. [22]
• Kaori Kawamura, 38, Japanese singer, breast cancer. [23]
• Leela Naidu, 69, Indian actress, Miss India (1954), after long illness. [24]
• Tony Rosenthal, 94, American sculptor, stroke. [25]
• Peter Tahourdin, 80, British-born Australian composer. [26]

27

• Bernadette Cozart, 60, American gardener, urban gardening advocate, heart attack. [27]
• Domingos Lam, 81, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop of Macau. [28] (Chinese)
• Peter Horst Neumann, 73, German poet. [29] (German)
• Luis Quintana, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player, natural causes. [30]
• George Russell, 86, American jazz composer, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [31]
• Larry Siemering, 98, American college football head coach, complications from a fall. [32]
• Sybil, British Downing Street cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office (2007–2008), after short illness. [33]
• Aeronwy Thomas, 66, British translator and writer, daughter of Dylan Thomas, cancer. [34]
• Michaël Zeeman, 50, Dutch literary critic, journalist, poet and writer, brain cancer. [35]

26

• Traugott Buhre, 80, German actor. [36] (German)
• Bhaskar Chandavarkar, 73, Indian sitarist and composer, cancer. [37]
• Merce Cunningham, 90, American choreographer, natural causes. [38]
• Richard Ferguson, 73, British barrister, Queen's Counsel for Northern Ireland and former politician. [39]
• Clayton Hill, 78, American actor (Dawn of the Dead, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth), complications from pneumonia. [40]
• James E. King, 69, American politician, Florida state senator since 1999, pancreatic cancer. [41]
• Maria Sílvia, 65, Brazilian actress, lung cancer. [42] (Portuguese)
• Sérgio Viotti, 82, Brazilian actor, cardiac arrest. [43] (Portuguese)
• Tatsuo Yamada, 53, Japanese actor, stomach cancer. [44]
• Jerry Yanover, 62, Canadian political advisor. [45]

25

• Yasmin Ahmad, 51, Malaysian film director, brain hemorrhage. [46]
• Rick Bryan, 47, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart attack. [47]
• Alexis Cohen, 25, American reality show contestant (American Idol), vehicular hit and run accident. [48]
• Vernon Forrest, 38, American boxer, shot. [49]
• Gerald Gardner, 83, Irish-born American mathematician, evidence led to ban on sex-segregated classified advertising. leukemia. [50]
• Stanley Middleton, 89, British author, cancer. [51]
• Francisco Moncivais, 21, American boxer, ring injuries. [52]
• Harry Patch, 111, British supercentenarian, fourth-last surviving World War I veteran. [53]
• Sarath Ranawaka, 58, Sri Lankan politician, after short illness. [54]

24

• José Carlos da Costa Araújo, 47, Brazilian goalkeeper, reserve at 1990 World Cup, abdominal cancer. [55] (Portuguese)
• Omar Dhani, 85, Indonesian Commander of the National Air Force (1962–1965). [56]
• Jack Le Goff, 78, French equestrian, Olympic bronze medalist (1960). [57]
• Friedrich Goldmann, 68, German composer and conductor. [58] (German)
• G. Alexander Heard, 92, American presidential advisor, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University (1963–1982). [59]
• John Panton, 92, British golfer. [60]
• Harry Towb, 83, British actor, cancer. [61]

23

• Virginia Carroll, 95, American actress and model, natural causes. [62]
• Harvey Frand, 68, American television producer (Battlestar Galactica), respiratory problems. [63]
• E. Lynn Harris, 54, American author. [64]
• Danny McBride, 63, American singer-songwriter (Sha Na Na). [65].
• Duse Nacaratti, 76, Brazilian actress, respiratory failure. [66] (Portuguese)
• Bobby Sinn, 77, Australian boxer. [67]
• Damien Steele, 33, American professional wrestler, brain aneurysm. [68]
• Gösta Werner, 101, Swedish film director. [69] (Swedish)

22

• Futoshi Abe, 42, Japanese guitarist (Thee Michelle Gun Elephant), epidural hematoma. [70]
• Howard Engle, 89, American pediatrician, lead plaintiff in landmark tobacco lawsuit, lymphoma. [71]
• André Falcon, 84, French actor. [72] (French)
• Richard M. Givan, 88, American judge, Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (1969–1994). [73]
• Peter Krieg, 61, German documentary filmmaker. [74] (German)
• Mark Leduc, 47, Canadian boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1992), heat stroke. [75]
• Herbert Morris, 94, American rower, Olympic gold medalist (1936). [76]
• Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage. [77]
• John Ryan, 88, British cartoonist (Captain Pugwash). [78]
• Aygyl Tajiyeva, 64, Turkmen politician and opposition activist, stroke. [79]

21

• John Dawson, 64, American musician (New Riders of the Purple Sage), stomach cancer. [80]
• Armando del Moral, 93, Spanish-born American film journalist, natural causes. [81]
• Nelson Demarco, 84, Uruguayan basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist (1952, 1956). [82] (Spanish)
• Heinz Edelmann, 75, Czech-born German illustrator and designer, heart disease and renal failure. [83]
• Gidget, 15, American chihuahua, Taco Bell mascot, stroke. [84]
• Gangubai Hangal, 96, Indian Hindustani classical singer, cardiac arrest. [85]
• Marcel Jacob, 45, Swedish musician, suicide. [86]
• Yoshinori Kanada, 57, Japanese animator, heart attack. [87]
• Les Lye, 84, Canadian actor and broadcaster (You Can't Do That on Television). [88]
• Hiroshi Wakasugi, 74, Japanese orchestra conductor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [89]

20

• Gene Amondson, 65, American politician, Prohibition Party nominee for U.S. President, stroke. [90]
• Ria Brieffies, 52, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots), lung cancer. [91] (Dutch)
• Edward T. Hall, 95, American anthropologist. [92]
• Bobby Knoxall, 75, British comedian. [93]
• Vedat Okyar, 64, Turkish journalist and footballer (Beşiktaş J.K.), colorectal cancer. [94] (Turkish)
• Carlton Willey, 78, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets), lung cancer. [95]

19

• Sue Burns, 58, American businesswoman, principal owner of the San Francisco Giants, lung cancer. [96]
• Flavio Guglielmini, 27, Italian rally co-driver, rally crash. [97]
• Karen Harup, 84, Danish swimmer, Olympic champion (1948). [98] (Danish)
• Ingeborg Hunzinger, 94, German sculptor. [99] (German)
• Frank McCourt, 78, Irish-American author (Angela's Ashes), melanoma. [100]
• Gilberto Mestrinho, 81, Brazilian politician, Governor of Amazonas (1959–1963, 1983–1987, 1991–1995), lung cancer. [101] (Portuguese)
• Cecil Mountford, 90, New Zealand rugby league player and coach. [102]
• Ed Rudolph, 68, American Olympic speed skater, traffic collision. [103]
• Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes. [104] (Spanish)
• Ray Shaw, 75, American journalist and publisher (American City Business Journals), complications from a wasp sting. [105]
• Bryan Stanley, 83, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union. [106]
• Henry Surtees, 18, British racing driver, Formula Two race accident. [107]
• Warren Titus, 94, American cruise ship industry businessman, founder of Seabourn Cruise Line, Royal Viking Line. [108]
• Savely Yamshchikov, 70, Russian art historian, heart failure. [109]

18

• Henry Allingham, 113, British supercentenarian, world's oldest man and WWI veteran. [110]
• Annagul Annakuliyeva, 85, Turkmen opera singer and actress. [111]
• Jill Balcon, 84, British actress, widow of Cecil Day-Lewis and mother of Daniel Day-Lewis. [112]
• Yasmine Belmadi, 33, French actor, traffic collision. [113] (French)
• Lionel Casson, 94, American professor of Classics (New York University), author on ancient maritime history, pneumonia. [114]
• Ricardo Londoño, 59, Colombian racing driver, shot. [115]
• Steven Rothenberg, 50, American studio executive (Lions Gate Entertainment), stomach cancer. [116]
• Joel Weisman, 66, American physician and pioneer in AIDS detection, heart disease. [117]

17

• Meir Amit, 88, Israeli major general and politician. [118]
• Gordon Burn, 61, British writer, cancer. [119]
• Walter Cronkite, 92, American television news anchor, cerebrovascular disease. [120]
• Jane Aiken Hodge, 91, American-born British writer, suicide by drug overdose. [121]
• Leszek Kołakowski, 81, Polish philosopher, historian of ideas and essayist. [122]
• Jean Margéot, 93, Mauritian cardinal. [123]
• Tom Pfaeffle, 49, American recording engineer, shot. [124]
• Betty Underwood, 88, American children's author. [125]
• Gordon Waller, 64, British singer (Peter and Gordon), cardiac arrest. [126]

16

• Thomas Dao, 88, Chinese-born American physician, expert in breast cancer treatment, Pick's Disease. [127]
• Charles Gonthier, 80, Canadian jurist, Supreme Court Justice (1989–2003). [128]
• Otto Heino, 94, American ceramicist and potter, acute renal failure. [129]
• Maurice Grimaud, 95, French police chief of Paris during the 1968 student uprising. [130]
• Jerry Holland, 54, American-born Canadian fiddler and composer, cancer. [131]
• Jeffrey Locker, 52, American motivational speaker, strangled. [132]
• Paulo Lopes de Faria, 78, Brazilian Archbishop of Diamantina. [133] (Portuguese)
• D. K. Pattammal, 90, Indian Carnatic singer, after short illness. [134]
• Angelo Rizzo, 83, Italian Archbishop of Ragusa. [135] (Italian)

15

• Avraham Ahituv, 79, German-born Israeli intelligence chief, Director of the Shin Bet (1974–1980). [136]
• Seddon Bennington, 61, New Zealand chief executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, hypothermia. [137]
• Natalia Estemirova, 50, Russian human rights activist in Chechnya and Ingushetia, shot. [138]
• Brian Goodwin, 78, Canadian mathematician, fall from a bicycle. [139]
• Julius Shulman, 98, American architectural photographer. [140]

14

• Pat Brady, 83, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), lymphoma. [141]
• Lucio Ceccarini, 78, Italian water polo player. [142] (Italian)
• Sam Church, 72, American labor leader (UMWA), complications of surgery. [143]
• John Fautenberry, 45, American serial killer, executed by lethal injection. [144]
• Phyllis Gotlieb, 83, Canadian science fiction author, [145]
• Christopher Hipp, 47, American inventor (blade server) and entrepreneur, suspected embolism. [146]
• Dallas McKennon, 89, American voice actor (Gumby, Buzz Buzzard, Archie Andrews), natural causes. [147]
• Heinrich Schweiger, 77, Austrian actor, cardiovascular disease. [148]
• Jean Sommeng Vorachak, 76, Laotian Apostolic Vicar of Savannakhet. [149]
• Bill Young, 95, New Zealand politician and diplomat. [150]
• Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, 74, Polish actor and director. [151]

13

• Uma Aaltonen, 68, Finnish author, journalist and politician. [152] (Finnish)
• Amin al-Hafez, 83, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister (1973). [153]
• Giuseppe Alessi, 103, Italian politician, president of the Regional Council of Sicily (1947–1949, 1955–1956). [154] (Italian)
• Carmen Blacker, 85, British scholar and teacher of Japanese. [155]
• Robert Cushman, 62, American photograph curator (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). [156]
• Al Distaso, 60, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). [157]
• Jette Fuglsang, 31, Danish cyclist, traffic accident. [158]
• Neil Munro, 62, Canadian director, actor and playwright, after long illness. [159]
• Nilu Phule, 78, Indian Marathi and Hindi film actor, esophageal cancer. [160]
• Vince Powell, 80, British scriptwriter (Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language). [161]
• Beverly Roberts, 96, American actress, natural causes. [162]
• Dash Snow, 27, American artist, heroin overdose. [163]

12

• Charles N. Brown, 72, American founding editor of Locus magazine. [164]
• Tommy Cummings, 80, British football player (Burnley F.C.). [165]
• Monica Havelka, 53, American Olympic rower. [166]
• Hella Heizmann, 58, German singer, natural causes. [167] (German)
• Donald MacCormick, 70, British television journalist, heart attack. [168]
• Shesha Palihakkara, 81, Sri Lankan dancer, actor and producer. [169]
• Christopher Prout, Baron Kingsland, 67, British politician and barrister, MEP (1979–1994), pulmonary embolism. [170]
• S.G. Sender, 78, Belgian pastry chef, after long illness. [171]
• Pavel Smeyan, 52, Russian singer and actor, cancer. [172]
• Nikola Stanchev, 78, Bulgarian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist. [173]
• Simon Vinkenoog, 80, Dutch poet and writer. [174]
• Jane Weinberger, 91, American author, widow of Caspar Weinberger, stroke. [175]

11

• Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, 69, Spanish woman believed to be world's oldest mother, cancer. [176]
• Manuel Carrascalão, 75, East Timorese politician, cerebral embolism. [177] (Portuguese)
• Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, 68, Australian child molester, multiple organ failure. [178]
• Reg Fleming, 73, Canadian hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks). [179]
• Arturo Gatti, 37, Canadian boxer, strangulation. [180]
• Paul Hemphill, 73, American author, throat cancer. [181]
• Ji Xianlin, 97, Chinese linguist, paleographer, historian and writer, heart attack. [182] (Chinese)
• Ken Macrorie, 91, American educator and author on writing theory. [183]
• Mark Mandala, 72, American television executive, president of ABC (1986–1994), heart attack. [184]
• Geraint Owen, 43, British actor, cerebral haemorrhage. [185]
• Žan Marolt, 44, Bosnia-Herzegovinian actor. [186] (Bosnian)

10

• Johnny Caldwell, 71, Irish boxer, Olympic medalist (1956), world bantamweight champion (1961–1962), cancer. [187]
• Sir Edward Downes, 85, British conductor, assisted suicide. [188]
• Ebba Haslund, 91, Norwegian author. [189] (Norwegian)
• Zena Marshall, 83, Kenyan-born British actress (Dr. No), after short illness. [190]
• Yury Shlyapin, 77, Russian water polo player, Olympic bronze medalist (1956). [191] (Russian) (death reported on this date)
• Almaz Tashiyev, 32, Kyrgyzstani journalist, head injury from assault. [192]

9

• William C. Conner, 89, American federal judge (District Court for the Southern District of New York). [193]
• Magomed Gadaborshev, Russian Colonel, Head of Ingushetia Forensics and Investigations Center, shot. [194]
• George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, 91, British Army officer, patron of military charities and artist. [195]
• Jessie Hollins, 39, American baseball player, drowned. [196]
• Ron Kennedy, 56, Canadian ice hockey player and trainer, brain cancer. [197]
• Frank Mickens, 63, American educator, natural causes. [198]
• Kinuthia Murugu, Kenyan Permanent Secretary, shot. [199]

8

• Oddo Biasini, 92, Italian politician, after long illness. [200] (Italian)
• Harry Gray, 89, American CEO and chairman of United Technologies Corporation. [201]
• Bertha Hertogh, 72, Dutch woman whose adoption led to ethnic riots in Singapore in 1950, leukemia. [202]
• Robert Isabell, 57, American event planner, heart attack. [203]
• Edward Kenna, 90, Australian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross. [204]
• Judi Ann Mason, 54, American screenwriter, television producer (Good Times) and playwright, aortic dissection. [205]
• Waldo McBurney, 106, American beekeeper, oldest worker in the United States. [206]
• Nelson Munsey, 61, American football player (Baltimore Colts), heart disease. [207]
• Edgar O'Ballance, 90, British military historian. [208]
• Lou Pagliaro, 90, American table tennis player, national champion (1940–1942, 1952). [209]
• Dmitry Tchudakov, 35, Russian Lieutenant Colonel (SOBR), shot. [210]

7

• Sabine Ball, 83, German evangelist, heart attack. [211] (German)
• Reader Harris, 96, British businessman and politician, MP for Heston and Isleworth (1950–1970). [212]
• Tony Scott, 85, American journalist and television critic, complications from a fall. [213]

6

• Vasily Aksyonov, 76, Russian novelist, stroke. [214]
• Mihai Baicu, 33, Romanian footballer, heart attack. [215]
• Patrick Tracy Burris, 41, American criminal, suspected South Carolina spree killer, shot. [216]
• Rene Capo, 48, Cuban-born American judo Olympian (1988, 1996), lung cancer. [217]
• Johnny Collins, 71, British folk singer. [218]
• Marlon Green, 80, American pilot. [219]
• Oscar G. Mayer, Jr., 95, American business executive (Oscar Mayer). [220]
• Robert McNamara, 93, American business executive, Secretary of Defense (1961–1968), natural causes. [221]
• Mathieu Montcourt, 24, French tennis player, cardiac arrest. [222]
• Jim Reid, 75, British folk musician, after short illness. [223]
• Robert L. Short, 76, American theologian (The Gospel According to Peanuts). [224]
• Martin Streek, 45, Canadian disc jockey, suspected suicide. [225]
• Bleddyn Williams, 86, British rugby player, captain of Wales and British Lions, after long illness. [226]

5

• John Bachar, 52, American rock climber, fall. [227]
• Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker, 86, British diplomat and politician, MP for Blackpool South (1964–1992), pneumonia. [228]
• Lou Creekmur, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions). [229]
• Takeo Doi, 89, Japanese psychoanalyst. [230]
• Khan Mohammad, 81, Pakistani cricketer, prostate cancer. [231]
• Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, 95, British politician, MP for Poole (1964–1979). [232]
• John Orman, 60, American professor and politician, self-appointed chairman of Connecticut for Lieberman party. [233]
• Bob Titchenal, 91, American football player and coach. [234]
• Waldo Von Erich, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, fall. [235]

4

• Jim Chapin, 89, American jazz drummer. [236]
• George Fullerton, 86, American luthier, partner of Leo Fender and Fender guitars, heart failure. [237]
• Brenda Joyce, 92, American actress (Tarzan and the Amazons). [238]
• Béla Király, 97, Hungarian general and historian, natural causes. [239]
• Allen Klein, 77, American businessman, Beatles and Rolling Stones manager, Alzheimer's disease. [240]
• Drake Levin, 62, American guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders), cancer. [241]
• Robert Louis-Dreyfus, 63, French-born Swiss billionaire, leukemia. [242]
• Steve McNair, 36, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens), shot. [243]
• Hugh Millais, 79, British actor and adventurer. [244]
• Robert Mitchell, 96, American organist, pneumonia. [245]
• Leo Mol, 94, Ukrainian-born Canadian sculptor. [246]
• Lasse Strömstedt, 74, Swedish writer. [247] (Swedish)
• Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, 70, Congolese politician, Minister of State. [248]
• Kurtuluş Türkgüven, 55, Turkish singer and composer, pancreatic cancer. [249] (Turkish)
• Laurence Villiers, 7th Earl of Clarendon, 76, British aristocrat. [250]

3

• Jorge Enrique Adoum, 83, Ecuadorian poet and writer. [251] (Spanish)
• Alauddin Al-Azad, 77, Bangladeshi author, natural causes. [252]
• John Barry, 84, American president and CEO of WD-40, pulmonary fibrosis. [253]
• Frank Devine, 77, New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor, after long illness. [254]
• Gabriel Fino Noriega, 42, Honduran journalist, shot. [255]
• E. J. Josey, 85, American librarian and civil rights activist, natural causes. [256]
• John Keel, 79, American ufologist and writer (The Mothman Prophecies), heart failure. [257]
• Barbara Margolis, 79, American prisoners' rights advocate, official greeter for New York City, cancer. [258]
• Victor Smorgon, 96, Ukrainian-born Australian industrialist, natural causes. [259]

2

• Pasquale Borgomeo, 76, Vatican director of Radio Vatican, after long illness. [260]
• Steve Brennan, 57, Irish-born American reporter and editor (The Hollywood Reporter), cancer. [261]
• Susan Fernandez, 52, Filipina activist and singer, ovarian cancer. [262]
• Martin Hengel, 82, German theologian. [263]
• Herbert G. Klein, 91, American journalist, White House Communications Director for President Richard Nixon. [264]
• Tyeb Mehta, 84, Indian painter, heart attack. [265]
• Bert Schneider, 71, Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle racer. [266] (German)
• Clyde Shugart, 92, American football player (Washington Redskins), stroke. [267]
• Robert E. L. Taylor, 96, American publisher and chairman of the Philadelphia Bulletin. [268]

1

• Alexis Argüello, 57, Nicaraguan boxer and politician, mayor of Managua, suspected suicide by gunshot. [269]
• Marwa El-Sherbini, 31, Egyptian pharmacist and vilification victim, stabbed. [270]
• Karl Malden, 97, American Academy Award winning actor (A Streetcar Named Desire), natural causes. [271]
• Anna Karen Morrow, 94, American actress (Peyton Place), natural causes. [272]
• Onni Palaste, 91, Finnish soldier and writer, Winter War veteran, natural causes. [273] (Finnish)
• David Pears, 87, British philosopher. [274]
• Baltasar Porcel, 72, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer. [275]
• Andree Layton Roaf, 68, American jurist, first black woman on Arkansas Supreme Court. [276]
• Mollie Sugden, 86, British actress (Are You Being Served?), natural causes. [277]
• Rupert Thorneloe, 39, British soldier, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, improvised explosive device. [278]
• Norman Welton, 81, American journalist, photo editor for the Associated Press, colon cancer. [279]
• Lyudmila Zykina, 80, Russian singer, Hero of Socialist Labor, cardiac arrest. [280]

June 2009

See Deaths in June 2009.

May 2009

See Deaths in May 2009.

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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