Deaths in 2009

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2009. Names are listed under the date of death and 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.

November 2009

3

• Francisco Ayala, 103, Spanish novelist. [1] (Spanish)

2

• Shabattai Kalmanovich, 60, Russian former KGB spy, President of WBC Spartak Moscow Region, shot. [2]
• Keith Kettleborough, 74, British footballer (Sheffield United) [3]
• José Luis López Vázquez, 87, Spanish actor, after long illness. [4] (Spanish)
• Fyodor Loshchenkov, 94, Russian First Secretary of the Yaroslavl Obkom (1961–1986). [5] (Russian)

1

• Ghalia Hassan Fayyad, 110, Palestinian supercentenarian, age-related causes. [6]
• Sakher Habash, 70, Palestinian party official (Fatah), stroke. [7]
• Seán McGinley, 57, Irish actor, cancer. [8]
• Arturo Salazar Mejía, 88, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Pasto. [9] (Spanish)
• Alda Merini, 78, Italian poet. [10] (Italian)
• Gopal Mishra, 77, Indian journalist, after short illness. [11]
• Alan Ogg, 42, American basketball player, complications from staphylococcal infection. [12]
• Antonio Sergio, 59, Portuguese radio personality, heart attack. [13] (Portuguese)
• Achim Stocker, 74, German football official, Chairman of SC Freiburg, heart attack. [14] (German)

October 2009

31

• Roque Antonio Adames Rodríguez, 81, Dominican Roman Catholic Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros. [15] (Spanish)
• Tim Bickerstaff, 67, New Zealand talkback radio personality, heart attack. [16]
• Chen Lin, 39, Chinese pop singer, suicide by jumping. [17] (Chinese)
• Hugh Dinwiddy, 97, British cricketer. [18]
• Lee Hu-rak, 85, South Korean spy chief, Director of the National Intelligence Service (1970–1973), age-related causes. [19]
• Mustafa Mahmud, 87, Egyptian scientist, author and philosopher. [20] (Arabic)
• Qian Xuesen, 97, Chinese scientist. [21]
• Jan Wejchert, 59, Polish businessman, co-founder of ITI Group, co-owner of TVN. [22] (Polish)
• Tom Wheatcroft, 87, British businessman, owner of Donington Park race circuit, after long illness. [23].

30

• Norton Buffalo, 58, American singer-songwriter, blues harmonica player, lung cancer. [24]
• Forest Evashevski, 91, American football coach (Iowa Hawkeyes), cancer. [25]
• Josef Karlík, 81, Czech actor, member of the National Theatre in Brno. [26] (Czech)
• June Middleton, 83, Australian polio victim, world's longest survivor in an iron lung. [27]
• Marita Nordberg, 80, Finnish actress. [28] (Finnish)
• Cristina Pereira, 41, Portuguese Olympic beach volleyball player, cancer. [29] (Portuguese)
• Howie Schultz, 87, American baseball and basketball player, cancer. [30]
• Michelle Triola, 75, American plaintiff in landmark "palimony" lawsuit (Marvin v. Marvin), lung cancer. [31]
• Anton Turner, 38, British television presenter (Serious Explorers), trampled by elephant. [32]
• František Veselý, 65, Czech football player. [33] (German)
• Igor Vyazmikin, 43, Russian ice hockey player. [34] (Russian)

29

• Russell L. Ackoff, 90, American organizational theorist, complications from surgery. [35]
• Bei Shizhang, 106, Chinese biologist and educator. [36]
• Jean-François Bergier, 77, Swiss historian. [37] (German)
• Ingvar Carlsson, 62, Swedish rally driver. [38]
• Sanyutei Enraku, 76, Japanese comedian (Shōten), lung cancer. [39]
• Gino Fracas, 79, Canadian football player. [40]
• Olav Hodne, 88, Norwegian missionary. [41] (Norwegian)
• June Maule, 92, American businesswoman, owner of Maule Air. [42]
• John O'Quinn, 68, American lawyer, car accident. [43]
• Norman Painting, 85, British radio actor (The Archers), heart failure. [44]
• Jürgen Rieger, 63, German lawyer and politician (NPD), stroke. [45] (German)
• Dave Treen, 81, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (1980–1984), respiratory disease. [46]

28

• Ilarion Dorostolski, Bulgarian metropolitan. [47] (Bulgarian)
• Mykola Kasyan, 72, Ukrainian doctor, manual therapist. [48] (Russian)
• Paul Manz, 90, American Lutheran organist and composer. [49]
• Taylor Mitchell, 19, Canadian singer–songwriter, coyote attack. [50]
• Ted Nebbeling, 65, Dutch-born Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA (1996–2005), Mayor of Whistler, colon cancer. [51]

27

• Tapani Aartomaa, 75, Finnish professor and graphic designer. [52] (Finnish)
• Frank Brady, Jr., Irish footballer, cancer. [53]
• Judith Chacón, 23, Venezuelan Olympic weightlifter, pregnancy-related complications. [54] (Spanish)
• August Coppola, 75, American writer, literature professor and father of Nicolas Cage, heart attack. [55]
• Roy DeCarava, 89, American photographer. [56]
• Leonard Drohan, 86, American author, complications from Alzheimer’s disease. [57]
• Alex Harris, 34, Australian paralympian swimmer, gold medalist (2004), suicide by train. [58]
• Calvin Houghland, 93, American steeplechase rider. [59]
• Damien Michaels, 53, American pornographic actor, stabbed. [60]
• Elli Pappa, 89, Greek journalist, author and political activist. [61] (Greek)
• Marat Romashkin, 54, Russian businessman, General Director of S-Air, plane crash. [62]
• David Shepherd, 68, British cricketer and umpire, lung cancer. [63]

26

• Daniel Acharuparambil, 70, Indian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Verapoly (since 1996), kidney failure. [64]
• Teel Bivins, 61, American member of the Texas Senate (1989–2004), Ambassador to Sweden (2004–2006), after long illness. [65]
• Sabino Fernández Campo, 91, Spanish Chief of the Royal House, key figure in failed 23-F coup d'état. [66] (Spanish)
• Lea Fite, 59, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (since 2002), apparent seizure. [67]
• Shota Gogokhia, 89, Georgian physician, Minister of Health of the Abkhaz ASSR (1950–1973), natural causes. [68] (Georgian)
• Yoshirō Muraki, 85, Japanese film production designer and art director, heart failure. [69]
• George Na'ope, 81, American musician and hula expert, founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, cancer. [70]
• Troy Smith, 87, American businessman, founder of Sonic Drive-In chain, natural causes. [71]
• Miloslav Švandrlík, 77, Czech writer. [72] (Czech)

25

• Dee Anthony, 83, American music manager, pneumonia. [73]
• Maksharip Aushev, 43, Russian political activist and opposition leader in Ingushetia, businessman (Ingushetia.org), shot. [74]
• Adoor Bhavani, 82, Indian actress, after long illness. [75]
• Billy Bibit, 59, Filipino soldier and coup d'etat leader, complications from a stroke. [76]
• Camillo Cibin, 83, Italian former commander of the Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City. [77] (German)
• Fritz Darges, 96, German World War II Waffen-SS officer. [78] (German)
• Leslie A. Geddes, 88, American electrical engineer and physiologist. [79]
• Lawrence Halprin, 93, American architect. [80]
• Gerhard Knoop, 88, Norwegian theatre director. [81] (Norwegian)
• Chittaranjan Kolhatkar, 86, Indian actor, heart attack. [82]
• Mike McQueen, 52, American journalist, Associated Press bureau chief for Louisiana and Mississippi, cancer. [83]
• Ingeborg Mello, 90, Argentinian Olympic athlete. [84] (Spanish)
• Heinz-Klaus Metzger, 77, German music critic. [85] (German)
• Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya. [86] (Spanish)
• Alexander Piatigorsky, 80, Russian-born British philosopher. [87] (Russian)
• Jeffry Picower, 67, American philanthropist, associate of Bernard Madoff, drowned after heart attack. [88]
• Kamala Sankrityayan, 89, Indian writer and litterateur. [89]
• Tangi Satyanarayana, 84, Indian politician, Speaker of the Vidhan Sabha of Andhra Pradesh (1983–1985), after long illness. [90]
• Sebastiano Scamporlino, 46, Italian rally driver, car accident. [91] (Polish)
• Kevin Widemond, 23, American basketball player, heart attack. [92]

24

• Bill Chadwick, 94, American hockey official and broadcaster. [93]
• George Dobie, 86, Canadian journalist, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [94]
• Yasuo Iwata, 67, Japanese actor, lung cancer. [95] (Japanese)
• Jay Lasslo, 84, American radio personality. [96]

23

• Ture Cailo, Vanuatuan politician and member of parliament. [97]
• Linda Day, 71, American television director, leukemia and breast cancer. [98]
• Trevor Denning, 86, British artist. [99]
• Sohrab Fakir, 75, Pakistani folk singer, kidney disease. [100]
• Chris Hawk, 58, American surfer, oral cancer. [101]
• Lou Jacobi, 95, Canadian-born American actor (The Diary of Anne Frank). [102]
• John Kenley, 103, American summer theater producer, complications of pneumonia. [103]
• Shiloh Pepin, 10, American girl with rare sirenomelia condition, pneumonia. [104]
• Jack Poole, 76, Canadian real estate developer, pancreatic cancer. [105]
• Ron Sobieszczyk, 75, American basketball player (DePaul Blue Demons, New York Knicks), degenerative brain disease. [106]

22

• Maryanne Amacher, 66, American experimental composer, sound artist, and installation artist, complications after a stroke. [107]
• Paul Andrews, 53, Australian politician, cancer. [108]
• Daniel Bekker, 77, South African boxer, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. [109]
• Ray B. Browne, 87, American educator, scholar of popular culture. [110]
• Pierre Chaunu, 86, French historian. [111] (French)
• Howard Darwin, 78, Canadian sports promoter, founder of the Ottawa 67's, complications from heart surgery. [112]
• Ray Lambert, 87, British footballer. [113]
• Don Lane, 75, American-born Australian entertainer, Alzheimer's disease. [114]
• Dmitry Potapov, 25, Russian circus director, bear attack. [115]
• Don Ivan Punchatz, 73, American science fiction artist, cardiac arrest. [116]
• Herman Reich, 91, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians). [117]
• Soupy Sales, 83, American comedian and television host, cancer. [118]
• Suchart Chaovisith, 69, Thai politician, Finance Minister (2003–2004) and Deputy Prime Minister (2004), laryngeal cancer. [119]
• Libero Tresoldi, 88, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Crema. [120] (Italian)
• George Patrick Ziemann, 68, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Santa Rosa. [121]

21

• Ranjan Das, 42, Indian CEO of SAP India, cardiac arrest. [122]
• Lionel Davidson, 87, British novelist. [123]
• Clinton Ford, 77, British singer, after long illness. [124]
• John Jarman, 78, British footballer and coach, after short illness. [125]
• Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail, 71, British judge and legal scholar. [126]
• Yōko Minamida, 76, Japanese actress. [127]
• Jack Nelson, 80, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (1960), pancreatic cancer. [128]
• Redmond O'Neill, 55, British political activist. [129]
• Bill Poole, 87, American sport fisherman, lung cancer. [130]
• Sirone, 69, American jazz musician. [131]
• Ted Sizer, 77, American education reformer, colorectal cancer. [132]
• Giuliano Vassalli, 94, Italian politician, illness. [133] (Italian)

20

• Yvonne Carter, 50, British general practitioner and medical academic, breast cancer. [134]
• Louise Cooper, 57, British science fiction author, aneurysm. [135]
• Attila Dargay, 83, Hungarian animator. [136] (Hungarian)
• Margaret Fitzgerald, 113, Canadian supercentenarian, natural causes. [137]
• Clifford Hansen, 97, American politician, Governor of Wyoming (1963–1967) and U.S. Senator (1967–1978). [138]
• Yasuko Harada, 81, Japanese novelist. [139] (Japanese)
• Liam Maher, 41, British singer (Flowered Up). [140]
• Charles Mills, 88, American painter. [141]
• Doreen Reid Nakamarra, 50, Australian Aboriginal artist, pneumonia. [142]
• Jef Nys, 82, Belgian comic book artist (Jommeke). [143] (Dutch)
• Yuri Ryazanov, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, car accident. [144]
• Winai Senniam, 51, Thai parliamentarian, liver and colon cancer. [145]
• Alberto Testa, 82, Italian composer and lyricist. [146] (Italian)

19

• Dame Doreen Blumhardt, 95, New Zealand potter. [147]
• Moni Fanan, 63, Israeli basketball team manager, suicide by hanging. [148]
• Kirill Glazunov, 85, Russian actor. [149] (Russian)
• Werner Heubeck, 85, German-born British managing director of Ulsterbus and Citybus, cancer. [150]
• Joe Hutton, 81, American basketball player, heart attack. [151]
• Sushila Kerketta, 71, Indian politician, heart attack. [152]
• Vladimír Klokočka, 80, Czech politician and jurist, signatory to Charter 77 manifesto. [153]
• Paul Lagos, American drummer (Kaleidoscope, John Mayall, Shuggie Otis, Pure Food and Drug Act). [154]
• Kirill Laskari, 73, Russian choreographer. [155] (Russian)
• Shlomo Lorincz, 91, Hungarian-born Israeli politician, heart failure. [156]
• Reg McKay, 56, British journalist and crime fiction writer, brain and lung cancer. [157]
• Radu Timofte, 60, Romanian intelligence officer, director of the Serviciul Român de Informaţii (2001–2006), leukemia. [158]
• Howard Unruh, 88, American spree killer. [159]
• Joseph Wiseman, 91, Canadian actor (Dr. No). [160]

18

• Ion Cojar, 78, Romanian actor and film director, Parkinson's disease. [161] (Romanian)
• Ruth Duckworth, 90, American sculptor, after short illness. [162]
• Jasper Howard, 20, American football player, stabbed. [163]
• Leonard B. Keller, 62, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, motorcycle accident. [164]
• Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 89, British author and journalist, pneumonia. [165]
• Adriaan Kortlandt, 91, Dutch biologist. [166] (Dutch)
• Vasiliy Lykshin, 22, Russian actor, heart failure. [167] (Russian)
• Elvis Ndoda Mdakane, South African football referee, after short illness. [168]
• Rajab Ali Mohammadzadeh, Iranian Chief Provincial Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, bomb blast. [169]
• Ovidiu Muşetescu, 54, Romanian politician, cancer. [170] (Romanian)
• Ignacio Ponseti, 95, Spanish physician and inventor (Ponseti method). [171]
• Theruvathu Raman, 93, Indian journalist. [172]
• Lars Schmidt, 92, Swedish theatre producer, former husband of Ingrid Bergman. [173] (Swedish)
• Nar Ali Shooshtari, Iranian Deputy Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, bomb blast. [174]
• Nancy Spero, 83, American artist, heart failure. [175]
• Basie Vivier, 82, South African rugby union player, captain of the Springboks (1956). [176]
• Göran von Bonsdorff, 91, Finnish political scientist. [177] (Swedish)
• Heiner Will, 82, German Olympic athlete. [178] (German)
• Hiroshi Yagi, 53, Japanese professional wrestler, septicemia. [179]

17

• Carla Boni, 84, Italian singer, after long illness. [180] (Italian)
• Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, 88, British diplomat and politician. [181]
• Jay W. Johnson, 66, American U.S. Representative for Wisconsin (1997–1999), U.S. Mint Director (2000–2001), heart attack. [182]
• Simo Juntunen, 89, Finnish reporter and causerie columnist. [183] (Finnish)
• Vladimir Kashpur, 82, Russian film actor, People's Artist of Russia. [184] (Russian)
• Kazuhiko Kato, 62, Japanese musician (The Folk Crusaders, Sadistic Mika Band), suicide by hanging. [185]
• Norma Fox Mazer, 78, American author, brain cancer. [186]
• Vic Mizzy, 93, American composer (The Addams Family, Green Acres), [187]
• Ünsal Oskay, 70, Turkish scientist. [188] (Turkish)
• Rosanna Schiaffino, 69, Italian film actress, cancer. [189] (Italian)
• Sheldon Segal, 83, American reproductive biologist. [190]
• Michael Shea, 71, British diplomat, press secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1978–1987), dementia. [191]
• Charles Tribble, 67, American Olympic wrestler. [192]

16

• Bob Davis, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative for Michigan (1979–1993), heart and kidney failure. [193]
• Inglis Drever, 10, British hurdles racehorse, euthanised. [194]
• Denys Hawthorne, 77, Irish actor. [195]
• Meilė Lukšienė, 96, Lithuanian cultural historian, member of the Sąjūdis. [196] (Lithuanian)
• Andrés Montes, 53, Spanish sports commentator. [197] (Spanish)
• Marian Przykucki, 85, Polish Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień (1992–1999). [198] (Polish)

15

• Viktor Bokov, 95, Russian poet. [199] (Russian)
• Sacha Bulthuis, 61, Dutch actress. [200] (Dutch)
• George P. Jenkins, 94, American chairman of Metlife, assisted expansion of ABC and Pan Am, heart failure. [201]
• Josias Kumpf, 84, Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard. [202] (German)
• Jack Parrish, 56, American actor, pancreatic cancer. [203]
• Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 70, American New Age religious leader, co-founder of The Summit Lighthouse, Alzheimer's disease. [204]
• Tollak B. Sirnes, 86, Norwegian physician, psychiatrist and pharmacologist. [205] (Norwegian)
• George Tuska, 93, American Golden Age comic book artist (Iron Man). [206]
• Heinz Versteeg, 70, Dutch football player, cancer. [207] (German)

14

• Lou Albano, 76, American professional wrestler and manager, actor (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), natural causes. [208]
• Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche, 82, Brazilian Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Maria (1969–1971) and Porto Alegre (1971–2001). [209]
• Fred Cress, 71, British-born Australian artist, Archibald Prize winner (1988), pancreatic cancer. [210]
• Johnny Jones, 73, American R&B guitarist and bandleader (Johnny Jones and the King Casuals). [211]
• Roy Lane, 74, British hillclimbing competitor, peritonitis. [212]
• C. B. Muthamma, 88, Indian first female diplomat and ambassador. [213]
• Willard Varnell Oliver, 88, American Navajo code talker. [214]
• Krishna Pal, 79, Indian football player (1956 Olympics), cardiac arrest. [215]
• Martyn Sanderson, 71, New Zealand actor. [216]
• Bruce Wasserstein, 61, American investment banker and businessman. [217]
• Collin Wilcox, 74, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird), brain cancer. [218]

13

• Stephen Barnett, 73, American legal scholar, opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, cardiac arrest. [219]
• Cullen Bryant, 58, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), natural causes. [220]
• Rodger Doxsey, 62, American physicist and astronomer, cancer. [221]
• Richard Foster, 63, American member of the Alaska House of Representatives, heart and kidney disease. [222]
• Grietje Jansen-Anker, 112, Dutch supercentenarian. [223] (Dutch)
• Atle Jebsen, 73, Norwegian shipowner and businessman, car crash. [224] (Norwegian)
• William Wayne Justice, 89, American federal judge. [225]
• Lü Zhengcao, 104, Chinese general, last survivor of the original Shang Jiang. [226]
• Al Martino, 82, American singer and actor (The Godfather), first person to top the UK Singles Chart. [227]
• Daniel Melnick, 77, American studio chief (MGM, Columbia), television producer, executive producer (That's Entertainment!). [228]
• Paul Barbă Neagră, 80, Romanian film director and essayist. [229] (Romanian)
• Roger Nixon, 88, American composer, complications from leukemia. [230]
• Nan C. Robertson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, heart disease. [231]
• Oraine Simpson, 26, Jamaican football player, stabbed. [232]
• Richard T. Whitcomb, 88, American aeronautical engineer. pneumonia [233]
• Leo Williams, 68, Australian rugby union official. [234]

12

• Maurice Agis, 77, British sculptor. [235]
• Dietrich von Bothmer, 90, German-born American art historian. [236]
• Alberto Castagnetti, 66, Italian Olympic swimmer, complications from cardiac surgery. [237] (Italian)
• Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 50, Russian film director, script writer and producer. [238] (Russian)
• Donald Kaufman, 79, American toy car collector, heart attack. [239]
• Christopher Klicka, 48, American lawyer, homeschooling advocate, senior counsel for HSLDA, multiple sclerosis. [240]
• Stephen Lagakos, 63, American biostatistician, car accident. [241]
• Brendan Mullen, 60, American punk impresario and club owner (The Masque), stroke. [242]
• Stan Palk, 87, British footballer. [243]
• Dickie Peterson, 63, American rock singer (Blue Cheer), liver cancer. [244]
• Joe Rosen, 88, American Golden Age comic book letterer. [245]
• Frank Vandenbroucke, 34, Belgian cyclist, pulmonary embolism. [246]
• Ian Wallace, 90, British bass-baritone singer, after long illness. [247]

11

• Joan Martí i Alanis, 80, Spanish archbishop, Bishop of Urgell and co-Prince of Andorra (1971–2003), after long illness. [248]
• Peter Callanan, 74, Irish politician, member of the Seanad (since 1997). [249]
• Patrick Hannan, 68, British broadcaster, author and journalist, after short illness. [250]
• Gustav Kral, 26, Austrian footballer, car accident. [251] (German)
• Herb Leblanc, 81, Canadian musician. [252]
• Abigail McLellan, 40, Scottish artist, multiple sclerosis. [253]
• Alan Peters, 77, British furniture designer, after long illness. [254]
• Halit Refiğ, 75, Turkish film director, cholangiocarcinoma. [255] (Turkish)

10

• Luis Aguilé, 73, Argentinian singer and songwriter, stomach cancer. [256] (Spanish)
• Paul Bloom, 70, American lawyer, recovered $6 billion for the Department of Energy, pancreatic cancer. [257]
• Sonny Bradshaw, 83, Jamaican jazz musician, stroke. [258]
• Stephen Gately, 33, Irish pop singer (Boyzone), pulmonary oedema. [259]
• Larry Jansen, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds), heart failure and pneumonia. [260]
• Veronika Neugebauer, 39, German actress, voice actress and singer. [261] (German)
• Joan Orenstein, 85, British-born Canadian actress. [262]
• Paz Rodríguez Ortiz, 66, Mexican human rights activist, shot. [263] (Spanish)
• Lionel Pincus, 78, American businessman, founder of Warburg Pincus, after long illness. [264]
• Rodrigo del Rosario, 92, Filipino Olympic weightlifter. [265]
• Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, 66, American psychologist, breast cancer. [266]

9

• Arne Bakker, 79, Norwegian football and bandy player. [267] (Norwegian)
• Francis Baldacchino, 73, Maltese-born Bishop of Malindi, Kenya. [268]
• Raymond A. Brown, 94, American lawyer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [269]
• Aldo Buzzi, 99, Italian author and architect. [270]
• Arturo "Zambo" Cavero, 68, Peruvian folk singer, complications of sepsis. [271]
• Jacques Chessex, 75, Swiss author, first non-French recipient of the Prix Goncourt, heart attack. [272]
• Marvin Fishman, 84, American businessman, original owner of Milwaukee Bucks, stroke. [273]
• Vyacheslav Ivankov, 69, Russian crime figure, gunshot wounds. [274] (Russian)
• Stuart M. Kaminsky, 75, American mystery writer, hepatitis. [275]
• Barry Letts, 84, British television actor, director and producer (Doctor Who). [276]
• John Daido Loori, 78, American Zen Buddhist monk, lung cancer. [277]
• Hermann Raich, 75, Austrian Roman Catholic Bishop of Wabag (1982–2008). [278]
• Louis Sanmarco, 97, French administrator, Governor (1954–1957) and High Commissioner (1957–1958) of Ubangi-Shari. [279]
• Richard Sonnenfeldt, 86, German-born American interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from a stroke. [280]
• Dré Steemans, 55, Belgian television and radio host, cardiac arrest. [281] (Dutch)
• Horst Szymaniak, 75, German footballer, after long illness. [282] (German)
• Rusty Wier, 65, American country music singer-songwriter, cancer. [283]

8

• Gordon Boyd, 86, British-born Australian television personality, after short illness. [284]
• Pierre Cabrol, 84, French-born American architect. [285]
• James Delgrosso, 66, American politician, former Mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (2003–2004), leukemia. [286]
• Gerald Ferguson, 72, American-born Canadian artist. [287]
• Juan Carlos Mareco, 83, Uruguayan actor. [288]
• Torsten Reißmann, 56, German Olympic judoka. [289] (German)
• Jean Sage, 68, French racing driver, former sporting director of the Renault F1 team. [290]
• Michael Angelo Saltarelli, 77, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilmington (1995–2008), bone cancer. [291]
• Abu Talib, 70, American blues musician, cancer. [292]
• Sir Sydney Walling, 102, Antiguan cricketer. [293]

7

• Ben Ali, 82, American restaurateur (Ben's Chili Bowl), heart failure. [294]
• Bikram Keshari Deo, 58, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. [295]
• Steve Ferguson, 60, American guitarist (NRBQ), cancer. [296]
• Alecks Pabico, 42, Filipino journalist (Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism), liver cancer. [297]
• Irving Penn, 92, American fashion photographer (Vogue). [298]
• Shelby Singleton, 77, American record producer and record label owner (Sun Records), brain cancer. [299]
• Helen Watts, 81, British contralto. [300]
• Pedro E. Zadunaisky, 91, Argentinian astronomer and mathematician. [301]

6

• Jimmy Bates, 99, Australian football player, oldest living VFL player. [302]
• Pamela Blake, 94, American actress, natural causes. [303]
• Douglas Campbell, 87, Scottish-born Canadian actor, complications of diabetes and heart disease. [304]
• Raymond Federman, 81, French-born American writer and academic, cancer. [305]
• Tony Fein, 27, American football player (Baltimore Ravens). [306]
• Aengus Finucane, 77, Irish priest, Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide (1981–1997), after short illness. [307]
• Pyarelal Khandelwal, 80, Indian politician, cancer. [308]
• Werner Maihofer, 90, German Minister of the Interior (1974–1978). [309] (German)
• Donna Mae Mims, 82, American race driver, first female SCCA champion, stroke. [310]
• Gilberto Zaldívar, 75, American founder of the Repertorio Español, complications of Lewy body disease. [311]

5

• Mike Alexander, 32, British bassist (Evile), cerebral haemorrhage. [312]
• Leon Clarke, 76, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), pancreatitis. [313]
• Suzanne Fiol, 48, American photographer, founder of Issue Project Room, cancer. [314]
• Israel Gelfand, 96, Russian mathematician. [315]
• Giselher Klebe, 84, German composer. [316] (German)
• David Lake, 66, American winemaker. [317]
• Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 87, British classical scholar. [318]
• Kevin McGee, 32, British television producer, ex-civil partner of Matt Lucas, apparent suicide by hanging. [319]
• Heidi Oetinger, 100, German publisher (Oetinger Verlag). [320] (German)
• Brian Powell, 35, American baseball player, self-inflicted gunshot wound. [321]
• René Sommer, 58, Swiss co-inventor of the computer mouse. [322]
• Aisling Symes, 2, New Zealand child whose disappearance initiated major search, drowned. [323].
• Tim Wheatley, 48, American journalist, business editor of The Baltimore Sun, car accident. [324]
• Johnny Williams, 77, British rugby player, Alzheimer's disease. [325]

4

• Valerie Crockett, 53, American folk musician, leiomyosarcoma. [326]
• Koichi Haraguchi, 68, Japanese chief of staff, Imperial House of Japan, heart attack. [327] (Japanese)
• Veikko Huovinen, 82, Finnish writer. [328] (Finnish)
• Fred Kaan, 80, Dutch-born British clergyman and hymn writer, Alzheimer's disease and cancer. [329]
• Grace Keagy, 87, American actress, ovarian cancer. [330]
• Ernő Kolczonay, 56, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning fencer (1980, 1992). [331] (Hungarian)
• James Lin Xili, 91, Chinese underground first Bishop of Wenzhou (since 1992), Alzheimer’s disease. [332]
• Shōichi Nakagawa, 56, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (2008–2009). [333]
• Jim Nettleton, 69, American disc jockey (WFIL), lung cancer. [334]
• Nikiforos, 78, Greek Bishop of Didymoteicho, after long illness. [335] (Greek)
• Günther Rall, 91, German Luftwaffe flying ace during WWII, heart attack. [336]
• Mercedes Sosa, 74, Argentinian folk singer, liver failure. [337]

3

• Bill Bartolin, 58, American guitarist (Blue Ash), lung and brain cancer. [338]
• Alexander Basilaia, 67, Georgian composer, after long illness. [339]
• Fernando Caldeiro, 51, Argentine-born American astronaut, brain cancer. [340]
• Fatima of Libya, 98, Queen of Libya (1951–1969), widow of King Idris I. [341] (Arabic)
• Robert Kirby, 61, British folk rock arranger, after short illness. [342]
• Ernie Lopez, 64, American boxer, complications from dementia. [343]
• Reinhard Mohn, 88, German entrepreneur and publisher, founder of Bertelsmann Foundation. [344] (German)
• Vasile Louis Puscas, 94, American Bishop of St George's in Canton in the Romanian Catholic Church. [345]

2

• Alain Bernheim, 86, French-born American film producer, complications of dialysis. [346]
• Marek Edelman, 86, Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. [347]
• Jack Evans, 80, Australian politician, Senator (1983–1984), co-founder of the Australian Democrats, cancer. [348]
• Nat Finkelstein, 76, American photographer and photojournalist. [349]
• John "Mr. Magic" Rivas, 53, American radio personality, heart attack. [350]
• Saleh Meki, 61, Eritrean cabinet minister and politician, heart attack. [351]
• Peg Mullen, 92, American author, subject of film Friendly Fire. [352]
• Desmond Plummer, Baron Plummer of St. Marylebone, 95, British politician, leader of Greater London Council (1967–1973). [353]
• Rolf Rüssmann, 58, German football manager, prostate cancer. [354]
• Herman D. Stein, 92, American professor (Case Western Reserve University). [355]
• Harvey Veniot, 93, Canadian MLA for Pictou West (1956–1974), Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1961–1968). [356]
• Shaun Wylie, 96, British mathematician and World War II codebreaker. [357]

1

• Otar Chiladze, 76, Georgian writer, heart failure. [358] (Georgian)
• André-Philippe Futa, 66, Congolese politician, Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade (since 2002). [359]
• Gunnar Haarberg, 92, Norwegian television presenter. [360] (Norwegian)
• Syed Kamal, 72, Pakistani actor, after long illness. [361]
• Lou Moro, 91, Canadian footballer and football coach. [362]
• V. M. Muddiah, 80, Indian cricketer, stroke. [363]
• Bhandit Rittakol, 58, Thai film director, producer and screenwriter, heart failure. [364]
• Cintio Vitier, 88, Cuban poet. [365]

September 2009

See Deaths in September 2009.

August 2009

See Deaths in August 2009.

July 2009

See Deaths in July 2009.

June 2009

See Deaths in June 2009.

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.

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, ...