The following is a list of notable deaths in 2009 . A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

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


December 2009

5

4

  • Liam Clancy, 74, Irish singer, after long illness.
  • Eddie Fatu, 36, American Samoan professional wrestler, heart attack.
  • Spyridon, 83, Greek, Bishop of Lagkadas, after long illness.
  • Vyacheslav Tikhonov, 81, Russian actor ( Seventeen Moments of Spring ). (Russian)
  • Jordi Solé Tura, 79, Spanish politician and lawyer, Minister of Culture (1991–1993). (Spanish)

3

  • Ibrahim Hassan Addou, Somali Higher Education Minister, bombing.
  • Qamar Aden Ali, Somali Health Minister, bombing.
  • Luis María Bandrés, 65, Spanish leader of Basque Nationalist Party, after long illness. (Spanish)
  • Estêvão Cardoso de Avellar, 92, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Uberlândia (1978–1992).
  • Paula Hawkins, 82, American politician, Senator from Florida (1981–1987).
  • István Iglódi, 65, Hungarian Kossuth Prize-winning actor. (Hungarian)
  • Leila Lopes, 40, Brazilian actress. (Portuguese)
  • Richard Todd, 90, Irish-born British Academy Award-nominated actor ( The Hasty Heart , The Dam Busters ), cancer.
  • Ahmed Abdulahi Waayeel, Somali Education Minister, bombing.
  • Bobby Wayne Woods, 44, American rapist and murderer, execution by lethal injection.

2

  • Foge Fazio, 71, American football coach, leukemia.
  • Maggie Jones, 75, British actress ( Coronation Street ), after long illness.
  • Jozo Križanović, 65, Bosnian politician, Croat member of the Presidency (2001–2002), complications from surgery. (Bosnian)
  • Luiz Lombardi Neto, 69, Brazilian announcer ( Silvio Santos television program), stroke. (Portuguese)
  • Vjekoslav Šutej, 58, Croatian conductor, leukemia. (Croatian)
  • Eric Woolfson, 64, Scottish singer and keyboardist (The Alan Parsons Project), cancer.

1

  • Christoph Budde, 46, German football player (Borussia Mönchengladbach), swine flu. (German)
  • Maurice Clemmons, 37, American felon, suspected of Lakewood police officer shooting, shot.
  • Neil Dougall, 88, British footballer (Plymouth Argyle), after long illness.
  • Tommy Henrich, 96, American baseball player.
  • Alberto Martínez, 59, Uruguayan football player (FK Austria Wien), heart failure. (German)
  • Paul Naschy, 75, Spanish film actor, screenwriter and director, cancer. (Spanish)
  • Aaron Schroeder, 84, American songwriter, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Ramses Shaffy, 76, Dutch singer and actor, esophageal cancer. (Dutch)
  • Shilendra Kumar Singh, 77, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan (2007–2009), after short illness.
  • Éva Szörényi, 92, Hungarian actress, Kossuth Prize winner. (Hungarian)

November 2009

30

  • George Atkins, 92, Canadian radio and TV presenter (CBC), founder of Farm Radio International, kidney failure.
  • Asim Butt, 42, Pakistani-born British cricketer.
  • Emile Eid, 84, Lebanese Roman Catholic titular bishop of Sarepta dei Maroniti.
  • Brent Green, 33, Australian football player, drowned.
  • Milorad Pavić, 80, Serbian writer, heart failure.
  • Ahmet Ulucay, 55, Turkish film director, pneumonia. (Turkish)

29

  • Prince Alexander of Belgium, 67, Belgian royal, pulmonary embolism. (French)
  • Nora David, Baroness David, 96, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
  • Gilbert-Antoine Duchêne, 90, French Bishop of Saint-Claude (1975–1994).
  • Princess Farial of Egypt, 71, Egyptian royal, oldest child of King Farouk, stomach cancer.
  • Robert Holdstock, 61, British science fiction author, Escherichia coli infection.
  • Solange Magnano, 38, Argentinian beauty queen (Miss Argentina, 1994), pulmonary embolism.
  • Lee Pelty, 74, American stage actor, lung cancer.

28

  • Erich Böhme, 79, German journalist, editor of Der Spiegel (1973–1989), cancer.
  • Gilles Carle, 81, Canadian film director and screenwriter, complications from Parkinson's disease.
  • Bjartmar Gjerde, 78, Norwegian politician, cabinet minister and broadcasting executive. (Norwegian)
  • Jeff Hoover, 41, American football coach (Eastern Illinois University), car accident.
  • Bob Keane, 87, American music producer and manager, founder of Del-Fi Records, renal failure.
  • Eric Waldram Kemp, 94, British Church of England theologian, Bishop of Chichester (1974–2001).
  • Tony Kendall, 73, Italian actor, played Kommissar X, after short illness.
  • Patrick Konchellah, 41, Kenyan runner, after long illness.
  • Koichi Saito, 80, Japanese film director and photographer, pneumonia.
  • Joaquín Vargas Gómez, 84, Mexican media owner, founder of MVS Comunicaciones, natural causes. (Spanish)

27

  • Al Alberts, 87, American singer (The Four Aces), kidney failure.
  • Jacques Baratier, 91, French film director and screenwriter. (French)
  • Jacques Braunstein, 78, Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and jazz disc jockey, heart failure. (Spanish)
  • William J. Bresnan, 75, American businessman, founder of Bresnan Communications, cancer.
  • Bess Lomax Hawes, 88, American folklorist and musician, stroke.
  • Geneviève Joy, 90, French pianist.
  • Alice McGrath, 92, American activist (Sleepy Lagoon murder trial), infection from a chronic illness.
  • György Melis, 86, Hungarian opera singer.
  • Mike Penner, 52, American sportswriter ( Los Angeles Times ), suicide.
  • Larry Turner, 70, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (since 1985), after long illness.

26

  • Pia Beck, 84, Dutch jazz pianist and singer, heart attack.
  • Bernard Birnbaum, 89, American television producer (CBS News), heart attack.
  • Peter Forakis, 82, American artist.
  • Robert J. Fox, 81, American Catholic priest, cancer.
  • Nikola Kovachev, 75, Bulgarian football player and manager. (Bulgarian)
  • Lis Løwert, 89, Danish film actress. (Danish)
  • Geoffrey Moorhouse, 77, British journalist and author, stroke.
  • Lexi Pillman, 26, American wrestling manager, stepdaughter of Brian Pillman, automobile accident.

25

  • Giorgio Carbone, 73, Italian self-proclaimed head of state of the Principality of Seborga micronation.

24

  • José Arraño, 88, Chilean writer. (Spanish)
  • Amy Black, 36, British mezzo-soprano opera singer.
  • Chan Hung Lit, 66, Hong Kong actor, heart failure.
  • Francis French, 7th Baron de Freyne, 82, Irish aristocrat.
  • Mike LeBell, 79, American professional wrestling promoter, older brother of Gene LeBell, respiratory failure.
  • Abe Pollin, 85, American businessman, owner of Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals, corticobasal degeneration.
  • Hale Smith, 84, American composer and arranger, complications of a stroke.
  • Squingy, 37, Jamaican disc jockey (Bass Odyssey), HIV/AIDS.
  • Samak Sundaravej, 74, Thai politician, Prime Minister (2008), liver cancer.

23

  • Víctor Brizuela, 77, Argentinian sports commentator, complications following kidney transplant. (Spanish)
  • Robert Degen, 104, American songwriter ( Hokey Pokey ).
  • Pim Koopman, 56, Dutch progressive rock drummer (Kayak).
  • Richard Meale, 77, Australian composer.
  • Lennart Olsson, 67, Swedish eccentric football fan, cancer. (Swedish)
  • Joe Papa, American musician (Controlled Bleeding), heart attack.
  • Tony Parry, 64, British footballer (Hartlepool United), pneumonia.
  • Pat Quinn, 74, Irish businessman, founder of the Quinnsworth supermarket chain, renal failure.
  • Yang Xianyi, 94, Chinese translator.

22

  • Billy Joe Daugherty, 57, American Christian minister, lymphoma.
  • Sir John Grugeon, 81, British politician.
  • Jeong Nam-kyu, 40, South Korean serial killer, suicide by hanging.
  • B.Z. Kastler, 89, American businessman, former CEO of (Questar Corporation).
  • Ali Kordan, 51, Iranian politician, Minister of the Interior (2008), multiple myeloma.
  • Art Lake, 85, American news presenter and weatherman (WJAR-TV).
  • Juan Carlos Muñoz, 90, Argentinian footballer, heart attack. (Spanish)
  • Haydain Neale, 39, Canadian singer–songwriter (jacksoul), lung cancer.
  • Iraklis Papasideris, 80, Greek lyricist. (Greek)
  • Francisco Rodriguez, 25, American Golden Gloves boxer, brain injury sustained during match.
  • Emile Vanfasse, 69, French Polynesian politician, Finance Minister (2004–2006).

21

  • Gerhard Aspheim, 79, Norwegian jazz trombonist. (Norwegian)
  • Bernard Bonnin, 70, Filipino actor, diabetes.
  • Konstantin Feoktistov, 83, Russian cosmonaut and aerospace engineer. (Russian)
  • Ira Hanford, 91, American jockey, winner of the 1936 Kentucky Derby, after long illness.

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