Deaths in 2009

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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 animals 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.

[edit] January 2009

[edit] 7

• Alfie Conn, Sr., 82, British footballer. [1]

[edit] 6

• Maria Dimitriadi, 58, Greek singer. [2] (Greek)
• John T. Elfvin, 91, American federal judge. [3]
• Robert Ilosfalvy, 81, Hungarian opera singer. [4]
• Richard Seaver, 82, American owner of Arcade Publishing, heart attack. [5]
• Ghulam Mohammad Shah, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (1984–1986). [6]
• Victor Sumulong, 62, Filipino politician, Congressman (1998–2007), Mayor of Antipolo City since 2007, diabetes. [7]
• Charlie Thomson, 78, British footballer. [8]
• Bob Warren, 73, British reporter, newspaper editor and executive (News of the World), cancer. [9]

[edit] 5

• Griffin Bell, 90, American lawyer, Fifth Circuit Appeals Court (1961–1976), Attorney General (1977–1979), pancreatic cancer. [10]
• Steven Good, 52, American CEO of Sheldon Good & Company, apparent suicide by gunshot. [11]
• Gautam Goswami, 43, Indian civil servant accused of corruption, pancreatic cancer. [12]
• Dale Livingston, 63, American football player (Green Bay Packers). [13]
• Mario Magnotta, 66, Italian internet celebrity, pulmonary embolism. [14] (Italian)
• Adolf Merckle, 74, German businessman, suicide by train impact. [15]
• Carl Pohlad, 93, American businessman, owner of the Minnesota Twins. [16]
• Verna Mae Slone, 94, American author and quilter, complications from a fall. [17]
• Mircea Stănescu, 39, Romanian politician, MP (2004–2008), apparent suicide by gunshot. [18] (Romanian)
• Ned Tanen, 77, American executive (Universal Pictures), natural causes. [19]

[edit] 4

• Lei Clijsters, 52, Belgian footballer and coach, father of Kim Clijsters, lung cancer. [20]
• Betty Freeman, 87, American philanthropist. [21]
• K.K. Govind, 92, Indian freedom fighter. [22]
• Ivan Gubijan, 85, Croatian athlete, Olympic hammer throw medalist (1948), after long illness. [23]
• Hussam Hamdan, Palestinian Hamas terrorist leader, air strike. [24]
• Muhammad Hilo, Palestinian Hamas terrorist leader, air strike. [25]
• Gert Jonke, 62, Austrian writer. [26] (German)
• Bob Lazarus, 52, American comedian, leukemia. [27]
• Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar, 75, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tripura (1988–1992), heart attack. [28]
• Mike Peters, 60, American politician, mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1993–2001), liver failure. [29]
• Giselle Salandy, 21, Trinidadian boxer, car accident. [30]
• Sam Taylor, 74, American blues musician, complications from heart disease. [31]

[edit] 3

• Abu Zakaria al-Jamal, 49, Palestinian senior Hamas leader, air strike. [32]
• Charles Camilleri, 77, Maltese composer. [33]
• John Grindrod, 89, Australian Archbishop of Brisbane (1980–1989). [34]
• Pat Hingle, 84, American actor (Batman), blood cancer. [35]
• Mamdouh Jamal, Palestinian Hamas terrorist commander in Gaza, air strike. [36]
• Li Zuopeng, 94, Chinese general and politician. [37]
• Sam McQuagg, 73, American race car driver, NASCAR Rookie of the Year (1965), cancer. [38]
• Hisayasu Nagata, 39, Japanese politician, suicide by jumping. [39]
• Valentin Polyansky, 54, Russian colonel and Hero of the Russian Federation, suicide by gunshot. [40]
• Olga San Juan, 81, American actress. [41]
• Matt Sczesny, 76, American scout for the Boston Red Sox, cancer. [42]
• Sir Alan Walters, 82, British economist. [43]

[edit] 2

• Inger Christensen, 73, Danish poet, novelist and essayist. [44]
• Ian Greaves, 76, British football player and manager (Mansfield Town, Bolton Wanderers). [45]
• Tony Gregory, 61, Irish politician, member of Dáil Éireann, cancer. [46]
• Anatoli Gurevich, 96, Russian army press agent during World War II. [47]
• Joe Henry, 78, American baseball player (Memphis Red Sox, Negro Leagues). [48]
• Ryuzo Hiraki, 77, Japanese footballer, pneumonia. [49]
• Maria de Jesus, 115, Portuguese supercentenarian, world's verified oldest person, septic shock. [50]
• Rashid III, 78, Emirati ruler of Umm al-Quwain. [51]
• Don Sanderson, 21, Canadian ice hockey player (Whitby Dunlops), head injury. [52]
• Nick Scandone, 42, American yachtsman, paralympian gold medallist (2008), Lou Gehrig's disease. [53]

[edit] 1

• Ron Asheton, 60, American guitarist (The Stooges), heart attack. [54] (deathdate uncertain)
• Walter Haynes, 80, American steel guitarist, father of Warren Haynes. [55]
• John Morrow, 77, British Presbyterian minister and peace activist. [56]
• Claiborne Pell, 90, American politician, Senator from Rhode Island (1961–1997), creator of the Pell Grant, Parkinson's disease. [57]
• Robert Prince, 89, American serviceman, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross. [58]
• Edmund Purdom, 84, British actor. [59]
• Nizar Rayan, 49, Palestinian Hamas terrorist military and political leader, air strike. [60]
• Willard Warren Scott, Jr., 82, American general, head of United States Military Academy (1981–1986), Parkinson's disease. [61]
• Johannes Mario Simmel, 84, Austrian writer. [62]
• Henry King Stanford, 92, American President of the University of Miami (1962–1981). [63]
• Helen Suzman, 91, South African anti-apartheid activist, MP (1953–1989). [64]

[edit] External links

• English language obituaries on the Web
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  • Australia
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  • Canada
    • The Globe and Mail: Obituaries

• Specialized websites
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  • Writers We've Lost
  • Written in Stone - Literary deaths

For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2008, Deaths in 2007, Deaths in 2006, Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, ...