Deaths
Main article: Deaths in 2009
January
- January 1 – Nizar Rayan, Palestinian military and political leader (born 1959)
- January 1 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (born 1924)
- January 1 – Helen Suzman, South African activist and politician (born 1917)
- January 12 – Claude Berri, French film director (born 1934)
- January 12 – Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (born 1912)
- January 13 – Patrick McGoohan, American-born British actor (born 1928)
- January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-born American actor (born 1920)
- January 15 – Said Seyam, Palestinian politician (born 1957)
- January 16 – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (born 1917)
- January 20 – Stéphanos II Ghattas, Egyptian Patriarch of Alexandria (born 1920)
- January 25 – Mamadou Dia, 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (born 1910)
- January 27 – John Updike, American writer (born 1932)
- January 27 – R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (born 1910)
- January 30 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (born 1932)
February
- February 6 – James Whitmore, American actor (born 1921)
- February 9 – Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (born 1970)
- February 25 – Philip José Farmer, American writer (born 1918)
- February 27 – Manea Mănescu, Romanian Prime Minister (born 1916)
March
- March 2 – João Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1939)
- March 14 – Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter and actor (born 1947)
- March 15 – Ron Silver, American actor and political activist (born 1946)
- March 18 – Natasha Richardson, English actress (born 1963)
- March 20 – Abdellatif Filali, 13th Prime Minister of Morocco (born 1928)
- March 25 – Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast (born 1937)
- March 28 – Janet Jagan, American-born President of Guyana (born 1920)
- March 29 – Maurice Jarre, French composer and conductor (born 1924)
- March 31 – Raúl Alfonsín, 49th President of Argentina (born 1927)
April
- April 12 – Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress (born 1952)
- April 12 – Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, American social theorist (born 1950)
- April 14 – Maurice Druon, French novelist (born 1918)
- April 19 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist (born 1930)
- April 22 – Ken Annakin, English film director (born 1914)
- April 22 – Jack Cardiff, English cinematographer (born 1914)
- April 25 – Beatrice Arthur, American actress (born 1922)
- April 28 – Ekaterina Maximova, Soviet-Russian ballerina (born 1939)
May
- May 2 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director (born 1931)
- May 2 – Jack Kemp, American politician and football player (born 1935)
- May 4 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (born 1933)
- May 9 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (born 1930)
- May 13 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (born 1914)
- May 17 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (born 1920)
- May 18 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan militant (born 1954)
- May 19 – Robert F. Furchgott, American scientist (born 1916)
- May 23 – Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of South Korea (born 1946)
- May 27 – Clive Granger, British economist (born 1934)
- May 30 – Luís Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1931)
- May 30 – Ephraim Katzir, 4th President of Israel (born 1916)
- May 30 – Gaafar Nimeiry, 5th President of the Sudan (born 1930)
June
- June 2 – David Eddings, American author (born 1931)
- June 3 – David Carradine, American actor (born 1936)
- June 3 – Koko Taylor, American musician (born 1928)
- June 6 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
- June 8 – Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (born 1935)
- June 12 – Félix Malloum, 3rd President of Chad (born 1932)
- June 13 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (born 1962)
- June 17 – Ralf Dahrendorf, German-British social theorist and politician (born 1929)
- June 25 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (born 1947)
- June 25 – Michael Jackson, American performer and recording artist (born 1958)
- June 30 – Pina Bausch, German choreographer (born 1940)
July
- July 1 – Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (born 1952)
- July 1 – Karl Malden, American actor (born 1912)
- July 4 – Allen Klein, American businessman (born 1931)
- July 6 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist (born 1932)
- July 6 – Robert McNamara, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1916)
- July 17 – Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician (born 1921)
- July 17 – Walter Cronkite, American newscaster (born 1916)
- July 17 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (born 1927)
- July 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (born 1930)
- July 26 – Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (born 1919)
- July 31 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (born 1933)
August
- August 1 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (born 1933)
- August 5 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter (born 1914)
- August 6 – John Hughes, American film director and writer (born 1950)
- August 6 – Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter (born 1950)
- August 11 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American founder of the Special Olympics (born 1921)
- August 13 – Les Paul, American musician and inventor (born 1915)
- August 18 – Kim Dae-jung, 15th President of South Korea (born 1925)
- August 24 – Toni Sailer, Austrian alpine ski racer (born 1935)
- August 25 – Ted Kennedy, American politician (born 1932)
- August 26 – Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Iraqi politician and theologian (born 1953)
- August 27 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Soviet-Russian author (born 1913)
September
- September 8 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
- September 11 – Juan Almeida, Cuban revolutionary and politician (born 1927)
- September 11 – Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist (born 1958)
- September 12 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)
- September 12 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (born 1921)
- September 14 – Patrick Swayze, American actor and dancer (born 1952)
- September 17 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist militant (born 1968)
- September 18 – Irving Kristol, American writer and political commentator (born 1920)
- September 23 – Ertuğrul Osman, 43rd Head of the Ottoman Dynasty (born 1912)
- September 25 – Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (born 1923)
- September 28 – Guillermo Endara, President of Panama, 1989-1994 (born 1936)
- September 29 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (born 1930)
October
- October 2 – Marek Edelman, Polish political and social activist (born 1922)
- October 4 – Shōichi Nakagawa, Japanese politician (born 1953)
- October 4 – Günther Rall, German fighter pilot (born 1918)
- October 4 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (born 1935)
- October 5 – Israel Gelfand, Soviet-American mathematician (born 1913)
- October 7 – Irving Penn, American photographer (born 1917)
- October 13 – Al Martino, American singer and actor (born 1927)
- October 19 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (born 1918)
- October 30 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (born 1908)
- October 31 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (born 1911)
November
- November 3 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (born 1906)
- November 8 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
- November 10 – Robert Enke, German footballer (born 1977)
- November 15 – Patriarch Pavle, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (born 1914)
- November 15 – Pierre Harmel, 39th Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1911)
- November 16 – Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (born 1978)
- November 20 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (born 1925)
- November 21 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (born 1926)
- November 24 – Samak Sundaravej, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1935)
- November 30 – Milorad Pavić, Serbian writer (born 1929)
December
- December 3 – Richard Todd, Irish-born British actor (born 1919)
- December 4 – Eddie Fatu, Samoan-American professional wrestler (born 1973)
- December 4 – Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Soviet-Russian actor (born 1928)
- December 5 – Alfred Hrdlicka, Austrian artist (born 1928)
- December 5 – Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (born 1926)
- December 9 – Gene Barry, American actor (born 1919)
- December 13 – Paul Samuelson, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)
- December 16 – Roy E. Disney, American businessman (born 1930)
- December 16 – Yegor Gaidar, Russian politician (born 1956)
- December 17 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (born 1919)
- December 19 – Hosein-Ali Montazeri, Iranian scholar and human rights activist (born 1922)
- December 19 – Kim Peek, American savant (born 1951)
- December 20 – Brittany Murphy, American actress (born 1977)
- December 21 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
- December 23 – Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Tibetan politician (born 1910)
- December 24 – Rafael Caldera, 54th and 60th President of Venezuela (born 1916)
- December 30 – Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia (born 1940)
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