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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 Misplaced Pages 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.

February 2009

25

• Randall Bewley, American Guitarist (Pylon), heart attack.
• Philip José Farmer, 91, American writer (Riverworld series).

24

• Roberto Posada Garcia-Peña, 54, Colombian columnist. (Spanish)

23

• Sverre Fehn, 84, Norwegian architect. (Norwegian)
• Kiyoshi Igarashi, 111, Japanese supercentenarian.
• Seppo Kolehmainen, 76, Finnish actor, after long illness. (Finnish)
• James Leslie, 50, British politician, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Antrim (1998–2003), heart attack.
• Franciszek Starowieyski, 78, Polish artist. (Polish)
• Scott Symons, 75, Canadian writer.

22

• Candido Cannavò, 78, Italian sports journalist, editor-in-chief of La Gazzetta dello Sport (1983–2002), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Rafael dos Anjos Duarte, 25, Brazilian race walker, drowned. (Portuguese)
• Ida Gomes, 85, Polish-born Brazilian actress, dubber of Bette Davis, pneumonia. (Portuguese)
• Barbara Marshall, 64, American journalist, member of Honolulu City Council since 2002, colon cancer.
• Derrell Palmer, 86, American football player (Cleveland Browns), natural causes.
• Howard Zieff, 81, American film director (Private Benjamin), complications from Parkinson's disease.

21

• Nico Garrone, 68, Italian journalist and theatre critic (La Repubblica), father of Matteo Garrone, lung cancer. (Italian)
• Sebastian Hackert, 32, German musician and record producer (Deichkind), heart attack. (German)
• Lagoa Henriques, 85, Portuguese sculptor and art teacher, cancer. (Portuguese)
• Fannie Kauffman, 84, Canadian-born Mexican actress and comedian, natural causes. (Spanish)
• Luca Francesco Miorin, 38, Italian mountaineer, fall. (Italian)
• Paul Joseph Pham Dinh Tung, 89, Vietnamese Cardinal, Archbishop of Hanoi (1994–2005).
• Jean Rémond, 86, French Auxiliary Bishop of Territorial Prelature of Mission de France (1975–2009).

20

• Marcella Althaus-Reid, 56, Argentine-born British Queer theologian and Professor of Contextual Theology at the University of Edinburgh.
• Friedrich Berentzen, 81, German industrialist. (German)
• Fine Cotton, 31, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse involved in sports betting substitution scandal.
• Mary Jacobus, 52, American journalist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Larry H. Miller, 64, American businessman, owner of the Utah Jazz, complications of diabetes.
• Sérgio Naya, 66, Brazilian politician and entrepreneur, builder of Palace II, heart attack. (Portuguese)
• Christopher Nolan, 43, Irish author, winner of the Whitbread Prize (1988), pulmonary aspiration.
• Julius Nota, 37, Slovak footballer and coach, stabbed. (Slovak)
• Robert Quarry, 83, American film and television actor.
• M. K. Sahu Khan, Fijian lawyer, Electoral Commission chairman, heart attack.
• Socks, 19, American Presidential cat of the Clinton family, euthanized.

19

• Chet Bulger, 91, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), natural causes.
• Ronald Dearing, Baron Dearing, 78, British peer and civil servant, cancer.
• Kelly Groucutt, 63, British bass guitar player (Electric Light Orchestra), heart attack.
• Ibrahim Hussein, 72, Malaysian artist, heart attack.
• Ian L. Jenkins, 64, British Surgeon General (2002–2006), Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle (2008–2009).
• Oreste Lionello, 81, Italian actor, entertainer and film dubber, after long illness.
• Harrison Ridley Jr., 70, American jazz presenter, after short illness.
• John Roschman, 80, American businessman, co-founder of Ponderosa Steakhouse, Alzheimer's disease.
• Miika Tenkula, 34, Finnish guitarist and songwriter (Sentenced).
• Anna Watt, 85, British entertainer (Fran and Anna), natural causes.
• Thomas Jerome Welsh, 87, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Allentown (1983–1997).
• James White, 86, British politician, MP for Glasgow Pollok (1970-1987).

18

• Jacques Bino, 50, French Guadeloupean trade union official, shot.
• Viking Björk, 90, Swedish surgeon. (Swedish)
• J. Max Bond, Jr., 73, American architect, cancer.
• Snooks Eaglin, 73, American guitarist, heart attack.
• Raymond Alvah Hanson, 85, American inventor.
• John Kanzius, 64, American inventor, pneumonia.
• Musa Khan Khel, 29, Pakistani journalist, shot.
• Al-Tayyib Salih, c.80, Sudanese writer (Season of Migration to the North).
• Kamila Skolimowska, 26, Polish hammer thrower, 2000 Olympics gold medalist, pulmonary embolism.
• Andrew Tsien Chih-ch'un, 83, Taiwanese Roman Catholic Bishop of Hwalien (1992–2001), heart attack.

17

• Eric Blau, 87, American Off Broadway theatrical producer (Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris), pneumonia.
• Eugenia Calle, 57, American cancer researcher, blunt trauma.
• Conchita Cintrón, 86, Chilean-born Portuguese bullfighter, heart attack. (Portuguese)
• Edhi Handoko, 48, Indonesian chess grandmaster, heart attack.
• Victor Kiernan, 95, British historian.
• Gazanfer Özcan, 78, Turkish actor, respiratory disease.
• Robert Robideau, 61, American Native Americans activist.
• Shabnam Romani, 80, Pakistani poet and writer, after long illness.
• Brad Van Pelt, 57, American football player (New York Giants), heart attack.
• Mike Whitmarsh, 46, American beach volleyball and basketball player, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

16

• Dorothy Bridges, 93, American actress and poet, wife of Lloyd Bridges, mother of Beau and Jeff Bridges.
• Konrad Dannenberg, 96, German-born American rocket scientist, natural causes.
• Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, 86, South Korean Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seoul (1968–1998).
• Anak Agung Prabangsa, 44, Indonesian journalist.
• Edward Salia, 56, Ghanaian politician, Minister of State (1995), throat infection.
• Travis, 14, American-born chimpanzee, television commercial animal, shot.

15

• Joe Cuba, 78, American musician, complications of a bacterial infection.
• Ghulam Dastagir, Afghan Taliban commander, air raid.
• Noble Doss, 88, American football player.
• Diether Haenicke, 73, American academic, Western Michigan University President (1985–1998, 2006–2007), head injury.
• William R. Sharpe, Jr., 80, American politician, West Virginia Senate (1960–1980, 1984–2009), President pro tem (1990–2009).
• Carl Venne, 62, American Chairman of the Crow Nation since 2002, natural causes.

14

• Sir Bernard Ashley, 82, British businessman.
• Louie Bellson, 84, American jazz drummer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Kjersti Graver, 63, Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman (1987–1995). (Norwegian)
• Warren Hastings, 72, Canadian punk rock promoter, natural causes.
• Matt Hawkins, 21, American racing car driver (ARCA), shot.
• Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., 90, American publisher, son of Alfred A. Knopf, complications from fall.
• John McGlinn, 55, American conductor and historian of musicals.
• Boris Yavitz, 85, Georgian-born American dean of Columbia Business School (1975–1982), prostate cancer.

13

• Joe Goldstein, 81, American sports promoter, heart attack and stroke.
• Geshe Gyeltsen, 85, Tibetan spiritual leader of Thubten Dhargye Ling.
• Alfred J. Kahn, 90, American child welfare expert.
• Dilys Laye, 74, British actress, cancer.
• Augusto Moreira de Oliveira, 112, Portuguese supercentenarian, country's oldest man ever.
• Julius Patching, 92, Australian Olympic official.
• Corky Trinidad, 69, Filipino-born American cartoonist, pancreatic cancer.
• Edward Upward, 105, British writer.
• Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, 83, Azerbaijani poet, after long illness.

12

• Giacomo Bulgarelli, 68, Italian footballer, after long illness.
• Cris Daluz, 74, Filipino actor.
• Alison Des Forges, 66, American human rights activist, plane crash.
• Beverly Eckert, 57, American 9/11 widow, member of 9/11 Family Steering Committee, plane crash.
• Ed Grothus, 85, American anti-nuclear activist, cancer.
• Willy Haugli, 81, Norwegian Chief Constable of Oslo. (Norwegian)
• Lis Hartel, 87, Danish equestrian.
• Hugh Leonard, 82, Irish playwright.
• Mat Mathews, 84, Dutch jazz accordionist. (Dutch)
• Coleman Mellett, 34, American jazz guitarist (Chuck Mangione's band), plane crash.
• Domenica Niehoff, 63, German prostitution activist, complications from lung disease.
• Gerry Niewood, 65, American jazz saxophonist (Chuck Mangione's band), plane crash.
• Punniyamurthy Sathyamurthy, 36, Sri Lankan Tamil journalist, air raid.
• Ted Uhlaender, 68, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Aasiya Zubair, 37, American businesswoman, co-founder of Bridges TV, beheaded.

11

• Albert Barillé, 88, French television screenwriter and producer. (German)
• Estelle Bennett, 67, American singer (The Ronettes), colon cancer.
• Virgil Lee Griffin, 64, American Ku Klux Klan leader.
• Willem Johan Kolff, 97, Dutch-born American physician, inventor of the artificial kidney.
• Gerald Myers, 85, American author, multiple myeloma.
• Penny Ramsey, Australian actress, cancer.
• Rail Rzayev, 64, Azerbaijani general, head of the Air Force, shot.
• Marina Svetlova, 86, French-born American ballerina and teacher, complications from stroke.
• Mildred Wolfe, 96, American artist, after long illness.

10

• Jan Błoński, 78, Polish literary critic, Holocaust scholar.
• Virginia Call, 111, American supercentenarian.
• Carolyn George, 81, American dancer and photographer, primary lateral sclerosis.
• Leila Hadley, 83, American travel writer.
• Philippe Kourouma, 76, Guinean Bishop of N’Zérékoré.
• Berting Labra, 75, Filipino character actor, emphysema.
• Jeremy Lusk, 24, American motocross racer, brain injury.
• Jean-Baptiste Mintsa-Mi-Mba, 60, Gabonese politician. (French)
• Sefafín Vásquez Elizalde, 86, Mexican Bishop of Ciudad Guzmán.

9

• Robert Woodruff Anderson, 91, American Academy Award–nominated playwright and screenwriter, pneumonia.
• Kazys Bradūnas, 91, Lithuanian émigré, poet and editor. (Lithuanian)
• Marc Burrows, 30, British footballer, cancer.
• Reg Davies, 79, British footballer.
• Eluana Englaro, 38, Italian patient in right to die case, withdrawal of nutrition.
• Neville Hamilton, 48, British footballer.
• Danny Hughes, 72, British mountain running administrator, heart attack.
• Mel Kaufman, 50, American football player (Washington Redskins).
• Vic Lewis, 89, British jazz guitarist.
• Orlando "Cachaito" López, 76, Cuban bassist (Buena Vista Social Club), complications from prostate surgery.
• Don Maclennan, 79, South African poet and playwright.
• Wesley L. McDonald, 84, American admiral and naval aviator.
• Maria Orwid, 78, Polish psychiatrist.
• Peer Portner, 69, Kenyan-born British developer of ventricular assist device, cancer.
• Sean F. Scott, 39, American ALS activist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

8

• Abdul-Khaliq al-Mukhtar, 49, Iraqi actor, kidney failure.
• Eddie Ayers, 54, American college football player (UCLA), 1976 Rose Bowl player, lupus.
• Guy Chichester, 73, American activist, founding member of Clamshell Alliance.
• Marian Cozma, 26, Romanian handball player, stabbed.
• Sigurdur Helgason, 87, Icelandic CEO of Icelandair, pioneer of low cost airlines.
• Harry Hillaker, 89, American aeronautical engineer (F-16).
• Neil McNeill, 87, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1961–1963).
• Terry Spencer, 90, British RAF fighter pilot and war photographer, cancer.
• Bob Stephen, 50, Canadian football player, heart attack.
• Darwin Wright, 85, American politician, Mayor of Anderson, South Carolina (1972–1998).

7

• Molly Bee, 69, American country singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), complications from a stroke.
• Jack Cover, 88, American scientist, inventor of the Taser, pneumonia.
• Blossom Dearie, 82, American jazz singer and pianist (Schoolhouse Rock!), after long illness.
• Reg Evans, 80, Australian actor, bushfire.
• John Gabler, 78, American baseball pitcher (New York Yankees, Washington Senators).
• Sir George Godber, 100, British doctor, Chief Medical Officer (1960–1973).
• Richard Gordon, 61, British author, heart attack. (Chinese)
• Joe Haverty, 72, Irish football player.
• Betty Jameson, 89, American golfer, three-time major championship winner.
• Jacques Lancelot, 88, French clarinetist, heart failure. (Japanese)
• Brian Naylor, 78, Australian news presenter, bushfire.
• Ando Ratovonirina, 26, Malagasy journalist, shot.
• Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack. (Spanish)
• Piotr Stańczak, 42, Polish geologist, beheaded.
• George Sundborg, 95, American journalist, helped draft the Constitution of Alaska, pneumonia.
• Epsie Wilson, 110, American supercentenarian.
• Richard Zann, 64, Australian ornithologist, bushfire.

6

• Bashir Ahmad, 68, Indian-born British politician, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow region, heart attack.
• Philip Carey, 83, American actor, lung cancer.
• Jorge Guerra, 66, Chilean entertainer, heart attack. (Spanish)
• George Karpati, 74, Canadian neurologist.
• Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye, 86, Senegalese curator of the House of Slaves Memorial.
• Shirley Jean Rickert, 82, American actress (Our Gang), after long illness.
• James Whitmore, 87, American Academy Award–nominated actor, lung cancer.

5

• Andrés Bermúdez, 58, Mexican tomato-farming magnate and member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006, stomach cancer.
• Chuck Bodak, 93, American boxing cutman, stroke.
• Alfred Flores, 92, Guamanian rancher and politician, member of the Legislature of Guam.
• Roberto Gonzales, 66, Filipino actor, heart attack.
• John W. Grace, 82, Canadian Privacy Commissioner (1983–1990), heart attack.
• Khalid Hasan, 74, Pakistani journalist and author, cancer.
• George Hughes, 83, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
• Payton Jordan, 91, American coach of 1968 United States Olympic track and field team, cancer.
• Frederiek Nolf, 21, Belgian cyclist, heart attack.
• Leo Orenstein, 89, Canadian director, producer and writer.
• Raaphi Persitz, 74, Israeli chess master.
• Mordechai Tsanin, 103, Israeli Yiddish writer. (Hebrew)
• Dana Vávrová, 41, Czech-born German actress and film director, cancer. (German)
• Noah Weinberg, 78, American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah.
• Xiangzhong Yang, 49, Chinese-born American stem cell scientist, cancer.

4

• Cipriano Calderón Polo, 81, Spanish Bishop of Thagora (1989–2003).
• Antonie Dixon, 40, New Zealand murderer, suicide.
• Steve Dullaghan, 45, British singer-songwriter and bassist (The Primitives).
• Christophe Dupouey, 40, French cyclist, World Cross Country Champion (1996), suicide.
• Arnljot Eggen, 85, Norwegian writer. (Norwegian)
• Herbert Hamrol, 106, American centenarian, one of the last survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, pneumonia.
• Ramón Hernández, 68, Puerto Rican baseball player. (Spanish)
• Lux Interior, 62, American singer, songwriter and musician (The Cramps), heart condition.
• Ed Schwartz, 62, American radio personality, kidney and heart disease.
• Mark Shepherd, 86, American chairman of Texas Instruments (1976–1988), complications from pulmonary fibrosis.
• David Snow, 84, British ornithologist.
• Doreen Washington, 110, Australian supercentenarian.

3

• Majid al-Sakr, Iraqi journalist and sports editor, complications of roadside bombing.
• Ben Blank, 87, American television graphics innovator (CBS, ABC).
• Tom Brumley, 73, American steel guitarist (The Buckaroos), heart attack.
• Rabindra Kumar DasGupta, 93, Indian scholar of Bengali and English literature.
• Kurt Demmler, 65, German songwriter, suicide by hanging.
• Martin Fréchette, 37, Canadian actor, brain cancer. (French)
• Millard Fuller, 74, American co-founder of Habitat for Humanity International, after short illness.
• Shambhu Hegde, 71, Indian Yakshagana artist, cardiac arrest.
• Warren Kimbro, 74, American Black Panther, murderer and charitable organization executive, heart attack.
• Mike Maloy, 59, American-born Austrian basketball player.
• Max Neuhaus, 69, American musician, cancer.
• Ciarán Ó Con Cheanainn, 27, Irish linguist.
• António dos Reis Rodrigues, 90, Portuguese Bishop of Madarsuma (1966–1998).
• Jorge Serguera, 76, Cuban journalist, President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (death announced on this date).
• Sheng-yen, 79, Chinese-born Taiwanese Buddhist Zen master, kidney disease.
• Pavlo Zahrebelnyi, 84, Ukrainian writer, after long illness.

2

• Donald Alexander, 87, American Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (1973–1977), cancer.
• Paul Birch, 46, British footballer, bone cancer.
• Ralph Carpenter, 99, American conservationist.
• Alan Davies, 75, British rugby league footballer, emphysema.
• Yusril Djalinus, 64, Indonesian journalist, co-founder of Tempo Magazine, stroke.
• Phil Easton, 59, British radio presenter, brain haemorrhage.
• Russ Germain, 62, Canadian broadcaster, lung cancer.
• Paul Galloway, 74, American journalist (Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune), heart attack.
• Susan Hibbert, 84, British secretary, last surviving British witness to signing of the WWII German Instrument of Surrender.
• Howard Kanovitz, 79, American painter, bacterial infection after heart surgery.
• Ralph Kaplowitz, 89, American basketball player (New York Knicks), kidney failure.
• Fredrik Kayser, 90, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II. (Norwegian)
• James E. Long, 68, American politician, North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance (1985–2009), complications of a stroke.
• Jean Martin, 86, French actor (The Battle of Algiers, The Day of the Jackal). (French)
• Ezzat Negahban, c. 82, Iranian archaeologist. (Persian)
• Joe M. Rodgers, 75, American construction executive, Ambassador to France (1985–1989), cancer.
• Sunny Skylar, 95, American songwriter.
• Michelle Splitter, 19, Brazilian basketball player, leukemia.
• Jim Wilson, 67, American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and wrestler, cancer.
• Joanna Wiszniewicz, c. 62, Polish historian (death announced on this date). (Polish)
• Kazuhiro Yamauchi, 76, Japanese baseball player, liver failure.

1

• Nancy Adams, 84, American co-owner of the Tennessee Titans, after short illness.
• Joe Ades, 74, American salesman.
• Dorothy Brant, 102, British Conservative Party official.
• Flora Crater, 94, American feminist and political activist.
• Anna Donald, 42, Australian epidemiologist, breast cancer.
• Lukas Foss, 86, American composer, conductor, pianist and professor, heart attack.
• Tim Grundy, 50, British radio and television presenter, heart attack.
• Michael Homer, 50, American executive (Netscape), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
• Ranbir Singh Hooda, 94, Indian politician, after long illness.
• Peter Howson, 89, Australian politician, Minister for Air (1964–1968) and Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (1971–1972), fall.
• John A. Knight, c. 78, American General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene (1985–2001).
• Arieh Levavi, 96, Lithuanian-born Israeli public servant, Ambassador to Argentina during capture of Adolf Eichmann. (Hebrew)
• Yoya Martínez, 96, Chilean actress, natural causes. (Spanish)
• Sir Alan Muir Wood, 87, British civil engineer.
• Jim McWithey, 81, American race car driver.
• Edward Joseph O'Donnell, 77, American Bishop of Lafayette (1994–2002).

January 2009

See Deaths in January 2009.

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