Deaths in 2009

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Contents 1 July 2009 1.1 4 1.2 3 1.3 2 1.4 1 2 June 2009 2.1 30 2.2 29 2.3 28 2.4 27 2.5 26 2.6 25 2.7 24 2.8 23 2.9 22 2.10 21 2.11 20 2.12 19 2.13 18 2.14 17 2.15 16 2.16 15 2.17 14 2.18 13 2.19 12 2.20 11 2.21 10 2.22 9 2.23 8 2.24 7 2.25 6 2.26 5 2.27 4 2.28 3 2.29 2 2.30 1 3 May 2009 4 April 2009 5 March 2009 6 February 2009 7 January 2009 8 External links

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.

July 2009

4

• Béla Király, 97, Hungarian general and historian. [1]

3

• Jorge Enrique Adoum, 83, Ecuadorian poet and writer. [2] (Spanish)
• Alauddin Al-Azad, 77, Bangladeshi author. [3]
• Frank Devine, 77, New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor. [4]
• Victor Smorgon, 96, Ukrainian-born Australian industrialist. [5]

2

• Pasquale Borgomeo, 76, Vatican director of Radio Vatican, after long illness. [6]
• Steve Brennan, 57, American reporter and editor (The Hollywood Reporter), cancer. [7]
• Susan Fernandez, 52, Filipina activist and singer, ovarian cancer. [8]
• Martin Hengel, 82, German theologian. [9] (German)
• Herbert G. Klein, 91, American journalist, White House Communications Director for President Richard Nixon. [10]
• Tyeb Mehta, 84, Indian painter, heart attack. [11]
• Anna Paitatzi, 86, Greek actress, natural causes. [12] (Greek)
• Baltasar Porcel, 72, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer. [13] (Catalan)

1

• Alexis Argüello, 57, Nicaraguan boxer and politician, mayor of Managua, suspected suicide by gunshot. [14]
• Wilson Baldonaza, 57, Filipino union leader, Kilusang Mayo Uno general secretary, stroke. [15]
• Liam Fairhurst, 14, British fundraiser, synovial sarcoma. [16]
• Lakis Karalis, 66, Greek musician, theatre and artistic director, cancer. [17] (Greek)
• Karl Malden, 97, American Academy Award winning actor (A Streetcar Named Desire), natural causes. [18]
• Anna Karen Morrow, 94, American actress. [19]
• Onni Palaste, 91, Finnish soldier and writer, Winter War veteran, natural causes. [20] (Finnish)
• Andree Layton Roaf, 68, American jurist, first black woman on Arkansas Supreme Court. [21]
• Mollie Sugden, 86, British actress (Are You Being Served?), natural causes. [22]
• Rupert Thorneloe, 39, British soldier, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, improvised explosive device. [23]
• Norman Welton, 81, American journalist, photo editor for the Associated Press, colon cancer. [24]
• Takayoshi Yasuda, 89, Japanese jockey and horse trainer. [25] (Japanese)
• Lyudmila Zykina, 80, Russian singer, Hero of Socialist Labor, cardiac arrest. [26]

June 2009

30

• Pina Bausch, 68, German modern dance choreographer, cancer. [27]
• Richard Brown, 47, American trade unionist, President of the NFFE (1998–2009). [28]
• Paquito Cordero, 77, Puerto Rican actor, comedian and producer, respiratory disease. [29]
• Ernst Leuenberger, 64, Swiss politician, cancer. [30] (German)
• James F. McNulty, Jr., 83, American politician, U.S. Representative from Arizona (1983–1985), Parkinson's disease. [31]
• Gordon Olson, 84, American academic, President of Minot State University (1967-1992). [32]
• Harve Presnell, 75, American actor, pancreatic cancer. [33]
• Shi Pei Pu, 70, Chinese opera singer, gender-bending spy who was basis for M. Butterfly. [34]
• Joan Wiffen, 87, New Zealand paleontologist. [35]
• Yaroslav Yaroshenko, 63, Russian newspaper editor, traumatic brain injury from beating. [36]

29

• Dave Batters, 39, Canadian politician, MP for Palliser (2004–2008), suicide. [37]
• Sheila Cloney, 83, Irish parent, central figure in the Fethard Boycott. [38]
• Mohammad Hoqouqi, 72, Iranian poet, cirrhosis. [39]
• Alberto Jimenez, 35, Mexican professional wrestler, poisoned. [40]
• Alejandro Jimenez, 35, Mexican professional wrestler, poisoned. [41]
• Glen Nicoll, 53, Canadian farm writer and photojournalist, brain cancer. [42]
• Bob Petteys, 87, American newspaper publisher (Sterling Journal-Advocate). [43]
• Pauline Picard, 62, Canadian politician, MP for Drummond (1993–2008), lung cancer. [44] (French)
• Jan Rubes, 89, Czech-born Canadian actor and opera singer, stroke. [45]

28

• Manthos Athineos, 84, Greek shadow play artist, stroke. [46] (Greek)
• Terry Black, 62, Canadian singer, multiple sclerosis. [47]
• Huibert Boumeester, 49, Dutch financier, former CFO of ABN Amro, shot. [48]
• Joseph Crowdy, 85, British soldier, Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps. [49]
• Josep Maria Guix Ferreres, 81, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Vic (1983–2003). [50] (Spanish)
• Rita Keane, 86, Irish singer. [51]
• A. K. Lohithadas, 54, Indian screenwriter and film director, heart attack. [52]
• Billy Mays, 50, American pitchman and television host (Pitchmen), hypertensive heart disease. [53].
• Fred Travalena, 66, American comedian and impressionist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [54]
• Lucia Lauria Vigna, 113, Italian supercentenarian, oldest person in Europe. [55] (French)
• Yu Hyun-mok, 83, South Korean film director, complications from stroke. [56]

27

• Levent Akın, 50, Turkish journalist, car accident. [57] (Turkish)
• Frank Barlow, 98, British historian. [58]
• Victoriano Crémer, 102, Spanish poet and journalist, natural causes. [59]
• Mary Lou Forbes, 83, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (1959), cancer. [60]
• Spiros Kalogirou, 87, Greek actor, encephalitis. [61] (Greek)
• Willy Kyrklund, 88, Finnish-born Swedish author. [62] (Swedish)
• Nanae Nagata, 53, Japanese marathon runner, colorectal cancer. [63]
• Fayette Pinkney, 61, American musician (The Three Degrees), after short illness. [64]
• Gale Storm, 87, American actress (My Little Margie, The Gale Storm Show). [65]
• Jackie Washington, 89, Canadian blues musician, complications from a heart attack. [66]

26

• Jo Amar, 79, Moroccan-born Israeli singer. [67]
• Homer Delawie, 81, American architect, Parkinson's disease. [68]
• Neera Desai, 84, Indian academic, professor of women's studies, cancer. [69]
• Amnon Kapeliouk, 78, Israeli journalist and author. [70]

25

• Andres Cascioli, 72, Argentine cartoonist, cancer. [71]
• Don Coldsmith, 83, American western author, stroke. [72]
• Farrah Fawcett, 62, American actress (Charlie's Angels), anal cancer. [73]
• Morton Gottlieb, 88, American Broadway theatre producer, Tony Award winner (1971), natural causes. [74]
• James Baker Hall, 74, American poet and academic, Kentucky Poet Laureate (2001-2003), natural causes. [75]
• Michael Jackson, 50, American pop singer–songwriter, cardiac arrest. [76]
• Clifton Johnson, 67, American jurist, North Carolina Superior Court (1978-1982) and Court of Appeals (1982-1996). [77]
• Sylvia Levin, 91, American civic and voter registration activist, stroke. [78]
• Shiv Charan Mathur, 83, Indian politician, Governor of Assam since 2008, Chief Minister of Rajasthan (1988–1989), cardiac arrest. [79]
• Mian Tufail Mohammad, 95, Pakistani politician, cerebral hemorrhage. [80]
• Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, 89, Indian singer, widow of singer and composer Hemanta Mukherjee, natural causes. [81]
• Kaleem Omar, 72, Pakistani poet and journalist, heart failure. [82]
• Sky Saxon, 71, American rock musician (The Seeds), heart failure. [83]
• Zinaida Stagurskaya, 38, Belarusian cyclist, road accident. [84]
• Anil Wilson, 62, Indian educator, Principal of St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1991–2007), pancreatic cancer. [85]
• Yasmine, 37, Belgian singer and television presenter, suicide by hanging. [86]

24

• Irv Homer, 85, American talk show host, heart attack. [87]
• Olja Ivanjicki, 78, Serbian painter. [88]
• Tim Krekel, 58, American guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [89]
• Robèrt Lafont, 87, French academic. [90] (French)
• Roméo LeBlanc, 81, Canadian politician (1973–1994), Governor General (1995–1999), Alzheimer's disease. [91]
• Robert B. Pamplin, 97, American executive, President of Georgia-Pacific (1957–1976). [92]
• Ed Thomas, 58, American football coach, NFL High School Football Coach of the Year (2005), shot. [93]

23

• Thurman Adams, Jr., 80, American politician, member of the Delaware Senate since 1972, pancreatic cancer. [94]
• Raymond Berthiaume, 78, Canadian jazz musician, singer and record producer, cancer. [95] (French)
• Phyllis Busansky, 72, American politician, county commissioner and supervisor of elections (Hillsborough County, Florida). [96]
• John Callaway, 72, American journalist (Chicago Tonight), heart attack. [97]
• Harold H. Carstens, 84, American magazine publisher. [98]
• Gegham Ghandilyan, 35, Armenian actor, car accident. [99]
• İsmet Güney, 77, Cypriot artist and cartoonist, designed flag of the Republic of Cyprus, cancer. [100] (Greek)
• Hanne Hiob, 86, German actress, daughter of poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht. [101] (German)
• Johny Joseph, 45, Haitian news presenter, cancer. [102] (French)
• Thomas M. King, 80, American Roman Catholic priest and theologian, expert on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, heart attack. [103]
• Matthieu Matondo Mateya, 54, Congolese actor, complications from appendicectomy. [104] (French)
• Ed McMahon, 86, American television host (Star Search) and announcer (The Tonight Show). [105]
• Oleg Meiling, 23, Russian-born German footballer and soldier, shelling. [106] (German)
• Aram Miskaryan, 36, Armenian actor, car accident. [107]
• Jerri Nielsen, 57, American physician, treated herself for breast cancer on Antarctica in 1999, breast cancer. [108]
• Manuel Saval, 53, Mexican actor, laryngeal cancer. [109] (Spanish)
• Jackie Swindells, 72, British footballer. [110]
• Steven Wells, 49, British journalist and author, cancer. [111]

22

• Betty Allen, 82, American operatic mezzo-soprano, kidney disease. [112]
• Bert Bank, 94, American radio pioneer and politician, Bataan Death March survivor. [113]
• Antonio Fernandes de Castro, 111, Portuguese supercentenarian. [114]
• Gilda Galán, Puerto Rican actress. [115] (Spanish)
• Alec Gallup, 81, American pollster, chairman of the Gallup Poll, heart disease. [116]
• June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, 95, British musician and patron of the arts. [117]
• Maj-Len Grönholm, 57, Finnish politician and beauty queen, councilwoman, Miss Finland (1972), cancer. [118] (Finnish)
• Keijo Komppa, 81, Finnish actor, Pro Finlandia award winner (1991). [119] (Swedish)
• Billy Red Lyons, 77, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer. [120]
• Eddie Preston, 80, American jazz trumpeter. [121]
• Steve Race, 88, British broadcaster and musician. [122]
• Philip Simmons, 97, American blacksmith. [123]
• Karel Van Miert, 67, Belgian politician, European Commissioner (1989–1999), cardiac arrest resulting in fall. [124]
• Sam B. Williams, 88, American engineer and inventor. [125]

21

• Lorena Gale, 51, Canadian actress (Battlestar Galactica) and playwright, gastrointestinal cancer. [126]
• José Nicomedes Grossi, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa (1962-1990). [127] (Portuguese)
• Arthur Luft, 94, Manx politician and deemster. [128]

20

• Neda Agha-Soltan, 26, Iranian student, shot. [129]
• Roseanne Allen, 55, Canadian Olympic cross-country skier. [130]
• Colin Bean, 83, British actor (Dad's Army). [131]
• Aldo Gargani, 76, Italian philosopher. [132] (Italian)
• Nazir Jairazbhoy, 81, British-born American ethnomusicologist. [133]
• Patrick Kombayi, 70, Zimbabwean politician and businessman, complications from 1990 shooting. [134]
• Anne Roberts Nelson, 86, American television executive (CBS), natural causes. [135]
• Godfrey Rampling, 100, British athlete, 1936 Olympic relay champion, NATO commander, father of actress Charlotte Rampling. [136]
• Kenneth L. Reusser, 89, American Marine aviator, decorated veteran of World War II, Korean and Vietnam Wars. [137]

19

• Izzat Abdullah, 45, Iraqi karate coach, shot. [138]
• Alberto Andrade, 65, Peruvian politician, pulmonary fibrosis. [139] (Spanish)
• Giovanni Arrighi, 71, Italian economist. [140] (Italian)
• Sir Derrick Bailey, 90, British cricketer and baronet, son of diamond tycoon and politician Sir Abe Bailey. [141]
• Karyn de Laine Bennett-Lund, 57, American-born Norwegian television presenter. [142] (Norwegian)
• H. A. Boucher, 88, American politician, first elected Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1970–1974). [143]
• Ron Crocombe, 79, New Zealand academic (University of the South Pacific), heart attack. [144]
• Vicente Ferrer Moncho, 89, Spanish philanthropist. [145]
• Shelly Gross, 88, American Broadway producer, bladder cancer. [146]
• Jörg Hube, 65, German actor, cancer. [147] (German)
• Gary Papa, 54, American television sportscaster (WPVI-TV), prostate cancer. [148]
• Ken Roberts, 99, American actor and announcer, pneumonia. [149]
• Herschel Rosenthal, 91, American politician, member of the California Senate (1982–1998). [150]
• Bob Schuler, 66, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate since 2002, cancer. [151]
• Stan Sismey, 92, Australian cricketer. [152]
• Tomoji Tanabe, 113, Japanese supercentenarian, was world's oldest living man, heart failure. [153]

18

• Omar Hashi Aden, Somali politician, Minister of Security, suicide bomb attack. [154]
• Hilary J. Boone, Jr., 91, American Thoroughbred breeder and philanthropist. [155]
• Hortensia Bussi, 94, Chilean First Lady (1970–1973), widow of President Salvador Allende, natural causes. [156] (Spanish)
• Sir Henry Hodge, 65, British jurist, High Court judge since 2004, acute myeloid leukaemia. [157]
• IZ the Wiz, 50, American graffiti artist, heart attack. [158]
• Ali Akbar Khan, 87, Indian sarod player, kidney failure. [159]

17

• Joji Banuve, 69, Fijian politician, Minister for Local Government and the Environment, after short illness. [160]
• Charles A. Barkley, 59, Canadian politician, Mayor of South Dundas, Ontario. [161]
• José Calvário, 58, Portuguese maestro and orchestrator, complications from heart attack. [162]
• Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, 80, German-born British sociologist and politician, cancer. [163]
• Alejandro Doria, 72, Argentine film director, pneumonia. [164] (Spanish)
• Eon, 55, British musician, complications from pneumonia. [165]
• Oscar Ferreiro, 63, Argentine actor, after short illness. [166]
• José Ignacio García Hamilton, 65, Argentine politician and historian. [167]
• Wayne L. Horvitz, 88, American labor mediator, cancer. [168]
• John Houghtaling, 92, American businessman and inventor (Magic Fingers vibrating bed), complications from a fall. [169]
• Derek Lacey, 67, British football commentator (BBC Radio Cumbria), stroke. [170]
• Fernando Peña, 46, Uruguayan comedian and actor, liver cancer. [171]
• Darrell Powers, 86, American soldier, served in the 506th Infantry Regiment (Band of Brothers), natural causes. [172]
• Dusty Rhodes, 82, American baseball player (New York Giants), complications from diabetes and emphysema. [173]
• Hal Riddle, 89, American character actor. [174]
• Ali Said, Somali public servant, chief of police (Mogadishu), shot. [175]
• Perry Salles, 70, Brazilian actor, lung cancer. [176] (Portuguese)
• Shacky Tauro, 49, Zimbabwean footballer, after short illness. [177]
• Tony Wong, 60, Canadian politician. [178]

16

• John Anthony, 76, British Olympic shooter, pneumonia and colorectal cancer. [179]
• Peter Arundell, 75, British racing driver, pulmonary fibrosis. [180]
• Douglas Bunn, 81, British barrister and horse breeder, founder and chairman of the All England Jumping Course. [181]
• Emmanuel Constant, 81, Haitian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Les Gonaïves (1966–2003). [182] (French)
• Paul A. Fino, 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1953–1968). [183]
• Charlie Mariano, 85, American jazz alto saxophonist. [184] (German)
• Frank Mason, 88, American artist and teacher. [185]

15

• George Belotti, 74, American football player, complications of a stroke. [186]
• Antonio Bianco, 57, South African diamond cutter, cancer. [187]
• Helen Boosalis, 89, American politician, Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska (1975–1983), brain tumor. [188]
• Allan King, 79, Canadian film director (Warrendale, Termini Station, Silence of the North), brain tumor. [189]
• Joseph Klifa, 78, French politician, Mayor of Mulhouse (1981–1989). [190] (French)
• Desmond Moran, 60, Australian criminal, member of Moran family, shot. [191]
• Carolyn Pfeifer-Horchow, 75, American fashion designer and entrepreneur, cancer. [192]
• Ted Tanabe, 46, Japanese professional wrestling referee, heart attack. [193]

14

• Bob Bogle, 75, American guitarist (The Ventures), non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [194]
• Angela Coughlan, 56, Canadian swimmer, bronze medalist (1968 Summer Olympics), multiple myeloma. [195]
• Ivan Della Mea, 68, Italian singer–songwriter and author, after long illness. [196] (Italian)
• Yasuharu Hasebe, 77, Japanese film director, pneumonia. [197]
• William McIntyre, 91, Canadian jurist, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1979-1989), throat cancer. [198]
• Moumouni Adamou Djermakoye, 70, Nigerien politician. [199]
• Tony Kempster, 59, British non-League football statistician, cancer. [200]
• Carlos Pardo, 33, Mexican NASCAR race driver, race crash. [201]
• Edith Ronne, 89, American explorer, first American woman to visit Antarctica, cancer. [202]
• Frederick Sontag, 84, American academic and author, professor of philosophy (Pomona College), heart failure. [203]
• Abel Tador, 24, Nigerian footballer, shot. [204]
• Pyotr Velyaminov, 82, Russian actor. [205] (Russian)
• Hal Woodeshick, 76, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s), after long illness. [206]

13

• Khalil Abi-Nader, 87, Lebanese Maronite prelate, Archbishop of Beirut (1986–1996). [207]
• Christian Albin, 61, Swiss-born American executive chef (The Four Seasons Restaurant), cancer. [208]
• Bashir Aushev, 62, Russian public official, Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia (2002–2008), shot. [209]
• Tom Costello, 77, Irish horse breeder. [210]
• Otilio Galíndez, 73, Venezuelan poet and composer. [211]
• Mitsuharu Misawa, 46, Japanese professional wrestler, spinal cord injury. [212]
• Douglas Quijano, 64, Filipino talent agent. [213]
• John Saville, 93, British Marxist economic and social historian. [214]

12

• Shailaja Acharya, 65, Nepalese politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1998), Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia. [215]
• John Crellin, 58, Manx motorcycle racer and civil engineer, race accident. [216]
• Peter Gowan, 63, British academic, professor of international relations (London Metropolitan University), mesothelioma. [217]
• Ivan Lichter, 91, New Zealand physician, pioneer in palliative care. [218]
• Félix Malloum, 76, Chadian politician, President (1975–1979), cardiac arrest. [219] (French)
• Georgy Vainer, 71, Russian writer, after long illness. [220] (Russian)
• Peter Wheeler, 65, British chemical engineer and businessman, owner of TVR, after short illness. [221]

11

• Viacheslav Aliabiev, 75, Ukrainian footballer (Shakhtyor Stalino), USSR Cup winner (1961, 1962), cancer. [222]
• Marian Goliński, 59, Polish politician, car accident. [223] (Polish)
• Jürgen Gosch, 65, German theatre director, cancer. [224] (German)
• Jakob Kjersem, 83, Norwegian Olympic athlete. [225] (Norwegian)
• Frank J. Low, 75, American physicist and astronomer. [226]
• Christel Peters, 93, German actress. [227] (German)
• Carl Pursell, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1977–1993), heart disease. [228]
• Ricardo Rangel, 85, Mozambican photojournalist. [229]
• Roger Terry, 87, American airman (Tuskegee Airmen), heart failure. [230]

10

• Barry Beckett, 66, American record producer, session musician, keyboardist (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section), natural causes. [231]
• Lamana Ould Cheikh, Malian military intelligence officer, shot. [232]
• Jack Eddy, 78, American astronomer. [233]
• Tenniel Evans, 83, British actor. [234]
• Xaver Frick, 96, Liechtensteinian Olympic athlete and cross-country skier. [235]
• Aza Gazgireeva, Russian jurist, senior judge in Ingushetia, shot. [236]
• Shukery Hashim, 55, Malaysian actor, pancreatic cancer. [237]
• Woodie Held, 77, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), brain cancer. [238]
• Huey Long, 105, American singer (The Ink Spots). [239]
• Michel Nguyên Khác Ngu, 100, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Long Xuyen (1960–1997). [240]
• Jack Nimitz, 79, American jazz baritone saxophonist, complications from emphysema. [241]
• Richard Quick, 66, American swimming and diving coach, brain tumor. [242]
• Stelios Skevofilakas, c.69, Greek footballer (AEK Athens), stomach cancer. [243] (Greek)
• Helle Virkner, 83, Danish actress, cancer. [244]

9

• Duke Bainum, 56, American politician (Hawaii House of Representatives, Honolulu City Council), aortic aneurysm. [245]
• Norman E. Brinker, 78, American restaurateur (Brinker International), aspiration pneumonia. [246]
• Ray Hamrick, 88, American baseball player (Philadelphia Blue Jays). [247]
• Edward Hanrahan, 88, American lawyer, State's Attorney (Cook County, Illinois), leukemia. [248]
• Jean Hugel, 84, French winemaker (Alsace wine), cancer. [249]
• Bill Lillard, 90, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). [250]
• Jack Littrell, 80, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease. [251]
• Dick May, 78, American racing driver, after long illness. [252]
• Michael Roof, 32, American actor (xXx, Black Hawk Down, The Dukes of Hazzard), suicide by hanging. [253]
• Dave Simons, 54, American comic book artist, cancer. [254]
• Mal Sondock, 74, American radio personality, after short illness. [255] (German)
• Arne Tovik, 53, Norwegian newspaper editor and journalist. [256] (Norwegian)
• Karl Michael Vogler, 80, German actor. [257] (German)

8

• Omar Bongo, 73, Gabonese politician, President (1967–2009), heart attack. [258]
• Frank Dasso, 91, American baseball player. [259]
• Sheila Finestone, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Mount Royal (1984–1999) and Senator (1999–2002), cancer. [260]
• Aage Rou Jensen, 84, Danish footballer. [261] (Danish)
• Nathan Marsters, 29, Canadian ice hockey player, car accident. [262]
• Harold Norse, 92, American poet. [263]
• Johnny Palermo, 27, American actor, car accident. [264]
• Habib Tanvir, 85, Indian playwright and theatre director, after short illness. [265]

7

• Roy Boe, 79, American businessman, owner of New Jersey Nets (1969–1978), New York Islanders (1972–1979), heart failure. [266]
• Hugh Hopper, 64, British progressive rock bassist and composer (Soft Machine), leukaemia. [267]
• Willie Kilmarnock, 87, British footballer (Motherwell F.C.). [268]
• Gordon Lennon, 26, British footballer (Dumbarton F.C.), car crash. [269]
• Kenny Rankin, 69, American singer-songwriter, lung cancer. [270]
• Sarah Snyder, 51, American newspaper reporter and editor (The Boston Globe), cancer. [271]
• Peter Townsend, 81, British sociologist, pneumonia. [272]
• Baron Vaea, 88, Tongan politician, Prime Minister (1991–2000), after short illness. [273]

6

• Charles Arnold-Baker, 90, British historian. [274]
• Jean Dausset, 92, French immunologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1980). [275] (French)
• Mary Howard de Liagre, 96, American actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Swamp Water). [276]
• Musost Khutiyev, Russian public official, aide to Chechen Deputy Prime Minister, former separatist brigadier general, shot. [277]
• Despina Lelekou-Tataki, 82, Greek author, stroke. [278] (Greek)
• Jim Owens, 82, American college football coach (Washington Huskies), complications from hypertension and heart problems. [279]
• Pio Sagapolutele, 39, American Samoan football player (Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots), aneurysm. [280]

5

• Bernard Barker, 92, Cuban-born American intelligence operative, Watergate burglar, lung cancer. [281]
• Peter L. Bernstein, 90, American economic historian, pneumonia. [282]
• Alan Berkman, 63, American physician and activist, lymphoma. [283]
• Fleur Cowles, 101, American writer, editor and artist. [284]
• Baciro Dabó, 51, Guinea-Bissauan politician, presidential candidate, shot. [285]
• Jeff Hanson, 31, American singer–songwriter, fall. [286]
• Ola Hudson, American costume designer (Diana Ross, The Pointer Sisters) and mother of rock musician Slash, lung cancer. [287]
• Richard Jacobs, 83, American real estate developer, owner of the Cleveland Indians (1986–2001), after long illness. [288]
• Luo Jing, 48, Chinese news presenter, lymphoma. [289]
• Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, 53, Russian general, Interior Minister for the Republic of Dagestan, shot. [290]
• Del Monroe, 73, American actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea), leukemia. [291]
• Rajeev Motwani, 47, Indian-born American academic, advisor for Google, Inc.. [292]
• Boris Pokrovsky, 97, Russian opera director, People's Artist of the USSR. [293] (Russian)
• Helder Proença, Guinea-Bissauan politician, Minister of Defense, shot. [294]
• Haydn Tanner, 92, British rugby union player. [295]
• George Edward Wahlen, 84, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, after long illness. [296]

4

• Lev Brovarsky, 60, Ukrainian Soviet-era footballer and coach. [297] (Russian)
• Robert Colescott, 83, American painter, U.S. representative to Venice Biennale (1997). [298]
• Ward Costello, 89, American actor and composer, complications from a stroke. [299]
• Philip D. Curtin, 87, American historian, pneumonia. [300]
• Luc Alfons de Hovre, 83, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussels (1982-2002). [301]
• John F. Henning, 93, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to New Zealand (1967–1969). [302]
• Dorothy Layton, 96, American actress (County Hospital). [303]
• Chris O'Brien, 57, Australian oncologist, surgeon on the reality television program RPA, brain tumour. [304]
• Randy Smith, 60, American basketball player (Buffalo Braves), 1978 NBA All-Star Game MVP, heart attack. [305]

3

• Geoffrey Bingham, 90, Australian evangelical Christian writer. [306]
• David Bromige, 75, British-born Canadian poet and academic, winner of the Pushcart Prize, complications from diabetes. [307]
• Sam Butera, 81, American saxophonist, Alzheimer's disease. [308]
• James F. Calvert, 88, American naval officer, 46th Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, heart failure. [309]
• David Carradine, 72, American actor (Kung Fu, Kill Bill), hanging. [310]
• Do Kum-bong, 79, South Korean actress. [311]
• Sam George, 56, Canadian activist, native rights campaigner involved with the Ipperwash Crisis, pancreatic and lung cancer. [312]
• Thomas Gill, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1963–1965), after long illness. [313]
• Frank G. Harrison, 69, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1983–1985), natural causes. [314]
• Geir Høgsnes, 58, Norwegian sociologist. [315] (Norwegian)
• Peter J. Landin, British computer scientist, natural causes. [316]
• John Campbell Ross, 110, Australian supercentenarian, last surviving Australian veteran of World War I. [317]
• Shih Kien, 96, Hong Kong actor (Enter the Dragon). [318]
• Koko Taylor, 80, American blues musician, complications from gastrointestinal surgery. [319]
• Moloko Temo, 134?, South African centenarian, claimant to the world's oldest person title. [320]

2

• David Eddings, 77, American fantasy author. [321]
• John Ernsting, 81, British Air Vice-Marshal, expert in aviation medicine. [322]
• FrancEyE, 87, American poet, complications from a hip fracture. [323]
• Alfred Kern, 85, American novelist and academic. [324]
• Tony Maggs, 72, South African racing driver, cancer. [325]
• Palghat R. Raghu, 81, Burmese-born Indian musician, cardiac arrest. [326]
• Kidane-Mariam Teklehaimanot, 75, Ethiopian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Adigrat (1985-2001). [327]
• Paul O. Williams, 74. American science fiction author, aortic dissection. [328]

1

• Silvio Barbato, 50, Italian-born Brazilian conductor and composer, plane crash. [329]
• Thomas Berry, 94, American cultural historian and ecotheologian. [330]
• Bob Christie, 85, American racing driver. [331]
• Ernest May, 80, American historian (Harvard University), complications from cancer surgery. [332]
• Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu, 37, Turkish classical harpist and academic (Anadolu University in Eskişehir), plane crash. [333]
• Vincent O'Brien, 92, Irish race horse trainer. [334]
• Prince Pedro Luís of Orléans-Braganza, 26, Brazilian prince, plane crash. [335]
• Alexander S. Potupa, 64, Belarussian politician, physicist, economist and writer. [336]
• Jerry Rosenberg, 72, American jailhouse lawyer, natural causes. [337]
• Parvin Soleimani, 86, Persian actress, brain tumor. [338]
• Dirk du Toit, 65, South African politician, suspected heart failure. [339]

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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