Deaths in 2009

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.

April 2009

1

• Gordon Brown, 59, British Prime Minister, Terrorism.
• Marga Barbu, 80, Romanian actress, heart failure. [1]
• Miguel Ángel Suárez, 69, Puerto Rican actor. [2]

March 2009

31

• Raúl Alfonsín, 82, Argentine President (1983–1989), lung cancer. [3]
• Jarl Alfredius, 66, Swedish journalist, prostate cancer. [4] (Swedish)
• Janak Raj Chhabra, 90, Indian field hockey player, captain of the national team. [5]
• Paul J. Davis, 87, American college football coach. [6]
• A. F. Golam Osmani, 76, Indian politician, lung cancer. [7]
• Sir Reresby Sitwell, 7th Baronet, 81, British aristocrat and writer. [8]

30

• Ankito, 85, Brazilian actor and comedian, lung cancer. [9] (Portuguese)
• Burton Blumert, 80, American president of the Center for Libertarian Studies, chairman of Mises Institute, cancer. [10]
• Eugène Drenthe, 83, Surinamese playwright and poet [11] (Dutch)
• Herman Franks, 95, American baseball manager, heart failure. [12]
• Naji Jaber, 64, Syrian actor. [13]
• Andrea Mead-Lawrence, 76, American alpine skier, cancer. [14]
• Eric Munoz, 61, American politician, New Jersey State Assemblyman since 2001, complications of cardiac surgery. [15]
• Jackie Pretorius, 74, South African racing driver, assault during home invasion. [16]
• George Stoddard, 92, American financier, natural causes. [17]
• Loras Joseph Watters, 93, American Bishop of Winona, Minnesota (1969–1986). [18]
• Sulim Yamadayev, 35, Russian military commander and Chechen warlord, shot. [19]

29

• Ivor Dent, 85, Canadian mayor of Edmonton (1968–1974), Alzheimer’s disease. [20]
• Vladimir Fedotov, 66, Russian football player and manager, Soviet Top League leading goalscorer (1964). [21] (Russian)
• Monte Hale, 89, American country musician and actor, after long illness. [22]
• Andy Hallett, 33, American actor (Angel), heart disease. [23]
• Maurice Jarre, 84, French Academy Award-winning film composer (Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago), cancer. [24]
• Helen Levitt, 95, American photographer. [25]
• Miroslav Moravec, 69, Czech actor, cancer. [26] (Czech)
• Lou Saban, 87, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and coach (Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills), complications from a fall. [27]
• Kanwaljit Singh, 67, Indian politician, traffic accident. [28]
• Gerrit Viljoen, 82, South African politician, Administrator-General of South-West Africa (1978–1980). [29]

28

• Travis Criscola, 24, American guitarist (The Cute Lepers), drug overdose. [30]
• Peter F. Donnelly, 70, American arts patron, vice-chairman of Americans for the Arts, complications of pancreatic cancer. [31]
• Inger Lise Gjørv, 70, Norwegian politician, cancer. [32] (Norwegian)
• Janet Jagan, 88, American-born Guyanese President (1997–1999), abdominal aortic aneurysm. [33]
• Hugh Kelly, 85, British footballer (Blackpool), pneumonia. [34]
• Ugo Martinat, 66, Italian politician, after long illness. [35] (Italian)
• Arnold Meri, 89, Estonian World War II veteran charged with crimes against humanity. [36] (Estonian)
• Earl Paulk, 81, American pastor implicated in several sex scandals, cancer. [37]

27

• Alysheba, 25, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner (1987), euthanized. [38]
• Jack Dreyfus, 95, American financier, pioneer of mutual funds. [39]
• Irving R. Levine, 86, American journalist (NBC news), prostate cancer. [40]
• Penor Rinpoche, c.77, Tibetan religious leader (Nyingma Buddhist tradition). [41]

26

• Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985). [42] (Spanish)
• Arne Bendiksen, 82, Norwegian singer, composer and record producer, heart failure. [43]
• Gus Cifelli, 84, American football player (Detroit Lions), natural causes. [44]
• Larry Glick, 87, American talk radio host (WBZ), complications from cardiac surgery. [45]
• Wayne Lewellen, 65, American film studio executive (Paramount), cancer. [46]
• Shane McConkey, 39, Canadian extreme skier, base jumping accident. [47]

25

• Steven Bach, 70, American film producer and author, cancer. [48]
• Johnny Blanchard, 76, American baseball player (New York Yankees), heart attack. [49]
• Marilyn Borden, 76, American actress (I Love Lucy), heart failure. [50]
• Bob Boucher, 68, British academic. [51]
• David Cooley, 49, American test pilot (Lockheed Martin), plane crash. [52]
• Yukio Endo, 72, Japanese gymnast, esophageal cancer. [53]
• John Hope Franklin, 94, American historian, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, heart failure. [54]
• Kosuke Koyama, 79, Japanese-born American theologian, pneumonia. [55]
• Gordon Margulis, 77, British-born American bodyguard, confidant to Howard Hughes, esophageal cancer. [56]
• Gábor Ocskay, 33, Hungarian ice hockey player, heart attack. [57]
• Manny Oquendo, 78, American percussionist (Tito Puente and Tito Rodríguez orchestras). [58]
• Giovanni Parisi, 41, Italian boxer, car accident. [59]
• Arthur Richman, 83, American baseball executive (New York Yankees, New York Mets) and writer (New York Daily Mirror). [60]
• Dan Seals, 61, American country music singer-songwriter (England Dan & John Ford Coley), mantle cell lymphoma. [61]
• Michael Ward, 77, British politician, MP for Peterborough (1974–1979). [62]
• Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, 53, Turkish politician, founder of the Great Union Party, helicopter crash. [63]

24

• Timothy Brinton, 79, British newsreader and politician, Member of Parliament (1979–1987). [64]
• Irina Gabashvili, 48, Georgian-born American gymnast, cancer. [65]
• Uriel Jones, 74, American drummer (The Funk Brothers), complications from a heart attack. [66]
• George Kell, 86, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. [67]
• Laurie Short, 93, Australian trade union leader. [68]
• Igor Stelnov, 46, Russian ice hockey player (HC CSKA Moscow), 1986 world champions team member. [69] (Russian)

23

• Manuel del Rosario, 93, Filipino Bishop of Malolos (1962–1977), pneumonia. [70]
• Geoff Holmes, 50, British cricketer. [71]
• Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican boxer, cancer. [72] (Spanish)
• Xavier Maniguet, 66, French intelligence agent involved in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, plane crash. [73]
• Lloyd Ruby, 81, American auto racing driver. [74]
• Ronald Tavel, 72, American playwright, heart attack. [75]
• Tonda, 50, Sumatran orangutan, oldest in captivity in United States. [76]
• Peter Wherrett, 72, Australian motoring journalist, cancer. [77]

22

• Frank Bogert, 99, American politician, Mayor of Palm Springs, California (1958–1966, 1982–1988). [78]
• Awilda Carbia, 71, Puerto Rican actress, comedian, impersonator and television personality, pneumonia. [79] (Spanish)
• Steve Doll, 48, American professional wrestler, blood clot. [80]
• Jade Goody, 27, British reality television personality, cervical cancer. [81]
• Archie Green, 91, Canadian-born American folklorist and musicologist, renal failure. [82]
• Kou Iijima, 112, Japanese supercentenarian. [83]
• Howie Komives, 67, American basketball player (Detroit Pistons), natural causes. [84]
• Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned. [85]
• Clarice Pearson, 110, American supercentenarian. [86]
• Kanta Rao, 85, Indian actor, liver cancer. [87]
• Leon Walker, 20, British rugby league player (Wakefield Wildcats). [88]

21

• Bob Arbogast, 81, American radio and television personality. [89]
• Beach Towel, 22, American harness racehorse, Harness Horse of the Year (1990), colic. [90]
• Giuseppe Bonaviri, 84, Italian writer and cardiologist. [91] (Italian)
• Drummond Erskine, 89, American actor (Late Show with David Letterman). [92]
• Doug Frith, 64, Canadian MP for Sudbury (1980–1988), Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (1984), heart attack. [93]
• Joseph Jasgur, 89, American photographer. [94]
• Vladimir Kuchmiy, 61, Russian newspaper chief editor (Sport Express). [95] (Russian)
• Genoveva Matute, 94, Filipino writer. [96]
• Bryce Morrison, 57, British football club secretary (Liverpool F.C.). [97]
• Walt Poddubny, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers). [98]
• Khadijeh Saqafi, 93, Iranian wife of Ruhollah Khomeini. [99]
• Aldo Vagnozzi, 83, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2002–2006), cancer. [100]

20

• Joseph Albright, 70, American judge (West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals), esophageal cancer. [101]
• Roberta Alison, 65, American tennis player. [102]
• Bill Bogash, 92, American roller derby skater, respiratory failure. [103]
• Mel Brown, 69, American blues guitarist, emphysema. [104]
• Abdellatif Filali, 81, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1994–1998). [105]
• Catharina Peters-Keultjes, 111, Dutch supercentenarian. [106]
• Jaroslav Pitner, 83, Czech ice hockey coach. [107]
• Vladimir Savčić, 60, Serbian singer, cancer. [108] (Serbian)
• George Weber, 47, American radio broadcaster, stabbed. [109]

19

• Felipe Benítez Avalos, 82, Paraguayan Archbishop of Asunción. [110] (Spanish)
• Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock, 81, British aristocrat, writer and politician. [111]
• Zoltán Breyer, 45, Hungarian actor, after long illness. [112] (Hungarian)
• Ion Dolănescu, 65, Romanian singer and politician, heart attack. [113] (Romanian)
• Ezio Flagello, 78, American opera singer, heart failure. [114]
• Gertrud Fussenegger, 96, Austrian writer. [115] (German)
• Harry Harris, 86, American television director (Fame), myelodysplasia. [116]

18

• Eddie Bo, 79, American singer and pianist, heart attack. [117]
• Gianni Giansanti, 52, Italian photographer, bone cancer. [118]
• Kent Henry, 59, American guitarist. [119]
• Lil E. Tee, 20, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby winner (1992), euthanized. [120]
• Yeremey Parnov, 73, Russian writer. [121] (Russian)
• Moultrie Patten, 89, American actor (Northern Exposure) and jazz musician, pneumonia, [122]
• Pocholo Ramirez, 76, Filipino race car driver and television host, cancer. [123]
• Natasha Richardson, 45, British actress, epidural hematoma. [124]
• Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Bishop of Culiacán (1969–1993). [125] (Spanish)
• Glenn Sundby, 87, American gymnast, co-founder of USA Gymnastics, founder of International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. [126]
• Donald Tolmie, 85, Canadian politician, MP for Welland (1965–1972). [127]
• Earl Wood, 97, American physiologist, co-inventor of the G-suit. [128]

17

• Lester Davenport, 77, American blues musician. [129]
• Tom Haley, 88, American television host (WKYC-TV), after short illness. [130]
• Clodovil Hernandes, 71, Brazilian fashion stylist, politician and television presenter, stroke. [131] (Portuguese)
• Gaston Labrèche, 70s, Canadian judge, bus crash. [132]
• Morton Lachman, 90, American television writer and executive producer, complications from diabetes and heart attack. [133]
• Whitey Lockman, 82, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants), pulmonary complications. [134]
• Jane Mayhall, 90, American poet. [135]
• Dale Memmelaar, 72, American football player (Cleveland Browns) [136]

16

• Roland Dantes, 67, Filipino movie actor and martial arts instructor, heart failure. [137]
• Maria Eufemia Domenici, 110, Italian supercentenarian. [138] (Italian)
• Marjorie Grene, 98, American philosopher, after short illness. [139]
• Sir Nicholas Henderson, 89, British diplomat. [140]
• Nicholas Hughes, 47, American marine biologist, son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, suicide by hanging. [141]
• Miljenko Licul, 62, Slovenian graphic designer. [142]
• Ramón Mantilla Duarte, 83, Colombian Bishop of Ipiales (1985–1987). [143]
• Alan Suddick, 64, British footballer, cancer. [144]
• Marvin Sutton, 62, American moonshiner, suspected suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [145]

15

• Richard Aoki, 71, American civil rights activist. [146]
• Miguel Bernad, 91, Filipino Jesuit priest, academician and writer. [147]
• Billy C. Clark, 80, American writer. [148]
• Edmund Hockridge, 89, Canadian singer and actor. [149]
• Pirkle Jones, 95, American photojournalist. [150]
• Jack Lawrence, 96, American songwriter, complications from a fall. [151]
• Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte, 77, Brazilian Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão. [152]
• Michael Quinn, 86, American Lasallian brother and psychology professor, President of Saint Mary's College (1962–1969). [153].
• William Schwartz, 86, American nephrologist. [154]
• Ron Silver, 62, American actor and political activist, esophageal cancer. [155]
• Elmer Weingartner, 90, American baseball player. [156]
• Lionel Ziprin, 84, American poet, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [157]

14

• Alain Bashung, 61, French singer, composer and actor, lung cancer. [158]
• Edith Lucie Bongo, 45, Congolese wife of Gabon President Omar Bongo, after long illness. [159]
• Altovise Davis, 65, American actress and dancer, widow of Sammy Davis, Jr., stroke. [160]
• Terence Edmond, 69, British actor (Z-Cars), bronchiectasis. [161]
• Citizen Kafka, 61, American broadcaster and musician. [162]
• Millard Kaufman, 92, American screenwriter (Bad Day at Black Rock), co-creator of Mr. Magoo. [163]
• Jeff Komlo, 52, American football player, fugitive, car crash. [164]
• Robin Mukherjee, 65, Indian cricketer, heart attack. [165]
• Lars Petersson, 85, Swedish railroad director-general. [166] (Swedish)
• Dick Ross, 90, American television and film producer. [167]
• Shinkichi Tajiri, 85, American-born Dutch sculptor. [168]
• Coy Watson, Jr., 96, American silent film child actor, stomach cancer. [169]

13

• Claude Black, 92, American civil rights advocate, after long illness. [170]
• Betsy Blair, 85, American actress (Marty), cancer. [171]
• Claude Brinegar, 82, American politician, United States Secretary of Transportation (1973–1975). [172]
• Anne Brown, 96, American-born Norwegian opera singer. [173]
• Dan Brown, 50, American football coach, brain cancer. [174]
• William Davidson, 86, American businessman, owner of the Detroit Pistons, Tampa Bay Lightning. [175]
• Alan W. Livingston, 91, American music executive, President of Capitol Records, creator of Bozo the clown. [176]
• Andrew Martin, 33, Canadian professional wrestler. [177]
• James Purdy, 94, American novelist, poet and playwright. [178]
• Medet Sadyrkulov, 55, Kyrgyz politician, car crash. [179]
• Wu Chuanjun, 91, Chinese geographer. [180]

12

• Leonore Annenberg, 91, American philanthropist, Chief of Protocol of the United States (1981–1982), natural causes. [181]
• Kalman Bloch, 95, American clarinetist. [182]
• Yann Brekilien, 88, French author, Breton language advocate. [183] (French)
• Martin Knowlton, 88, American adult education innovator, founder of Elderhostel. [184].
• Reginald C. Lindsay, 63, American judge, member of the District Court for Massachusetts since 1993, after long illness. [185]
• Milan Stitt, 68, American playwright. [186]
• Blanca Varela, 82, Peruvian poet. [187]

11

• Paul W. Airey, 85, American Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force (1967–1969), complications from heart failure. [188]
• Péter Bacsó, 81, Hungarian film director, after long illness. [189]
• Frances Blaisdell, 97, American flautist. [190]
• Arthur Code, 85, American astronomer, complications of a lung condition. [191]
• Tim Kretschmer, 17, German mass murderer (Winnenden school shooting), suicide by gunshot. [192]
• Charles Lewis, Jr., 45, American businessman, co-founder of mixed martial arts apparel company TapouT, car accident. [193]
• Grady Lewis, 92, American basketball player, executive with Converse. [194]
• Harvey Lowe, 90, Canadian broadcaster and yo-yo world champion, after long illness. [195]
• Omakuchi Narasimhan, 73, Indian actor, heart failure. [196]

10

• Brian Barry, 73, British philosopher. [197]
• Denis Begbie, 94, South African cricketer. [198]
• Derek Benfield, 82, British actor. [199]
• Dick Daugherty, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). [200]
• Nancy Eiesland, 44, American theologian and author, lung cancer. [201]
• Aaron Gural, 91, American real estate executive, pneumonia. [202]
• Tom Hanson, 41, Canadian photojournalist, heart attack. [203]
• George Hedges, 57, American lawyer and archaeologist, melanoma. [204]
• Geir Killingland, 55, Norwegian modeling agency president, cancer. [205] (Norwegian)
• Ralph Mercado, 67, American music promoter (RMM Records & Video), cancer. [206]
• Chuck Olmstead, 60, American journalist (WHAS-TV), brain aneurysm. [207]
• Anel Omar Rodríguez, 47, Panamanian politician, Minister of Culture, shot. [208]
• Anatoly Seglin, 86, Russian ice hockey player (Spartak Moscow). [209]
• Michael Shannon, 55, American pediatrician. [210]
• Ebru Soykan, 28, Turkish transgender human rights activist, stabbed. [211]

9

• Vince Cervi, 41, Australian boxer, heavyweight champion of Australia (1993–1995), shot. [212]
• Hal Gaba, 63, American businessman, co-owner of Concord Music Group, cancer. [213]
• Eddie Lowe, 83, British footballer and manager. [214]
• Joseph Martin, 84, American addiction counselor and author, heart disease. [215]
• Konstantin Morozov, 73, Russian shortest person. [216]
• Larry Regan, 78, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager (Los Angeles Kings), Parkinson's disease. [217]
• Russell Spears, 92, American stonemason, elder of the Narragansett tribe. [218]
• Frank Stockwell, 80, Irish footballer. [219]
• Guillermo Thorndike, 69, Peruvian journalist, writer and editor, co-founder of La República, heart attack. [220]
• Terri Vandenbosch, 46, American actress, complications from chronic kidney disease. [221]

8

• Girdhari Lal Bhargava, 73, Indian politician, heart attack. [222]
• Ali Bongo, 79, Indian-born British magician, pneumonia. [223]
• Willie King, 65, American blues musician, heart attack. [224]
• Hank Locklin, 91, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry. [225]
• Anna Manahan, 84, Irish actress, multiple organ failure. [226]
• Zbigniew Religa, 70, Polish cardiac surgeon and politician, Minister of Health (2005–2007), cancer. [227]
• Ken Snellgrove, 67, British cricketer. [228]
• Robert Soost, 88, American botanist, heart attack. [229]
• Ernest Trova, 82, American artist, heart failure. [230]
• Mary Warburg, 100, American philanthropist. [231]

7

• Yan Arlazorov, 62, Russian actor and radio host, stomach cancer. [232]
• Václav Bedrich, 90, Czech animation director. [233] (Hungarian)
• Steve Bernard, 61, American businessman, founder of Cape Cod Potato Chips, pancreatic cancer. [234]
• Jimmy Boyd, 70, American actor and singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), cancer. [235]
• Daniel E. Button, 91, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for New York (1967–1971), after long illness. [236]
• Schuyler Chapin, 86, American general manager of the Metropolitan Opera (1972–1975). [237]
• David Gaiman, 75, British businessman, public relations director for the Church of Scientology, heart attack. [238]
• Takahiro Itoh, 21, Japanese actor, brother of Atsushi Itoh, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [239]
• Jang Ja-yeon, 26, South Korean actress (Boys Over Flowers), suicide by hanging. [240]
• Dmitry Kozlov, 89, Russian aerospace engineer, founder of Progress State Research and Production Space Center. [241] (Russian)
• Barbara Parker, 62, American novelist, after long illness. [242]
• Tullio Pinelli, 100, Italian Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (La strada). [243]
• Anton Schoch, 49, Kazakhstani football head coach of national under-21 team. [244] (Russian)

6

• Jim Bellows, 86, American newspaper editor, Alzheimer's disease. [245]
• Jeanne Berget, 110, French supercentenarian. [246]
• Silvio Cesare Bonicelli, 76, Italian Bishop of Parma. [247]
• James Clyde, Baron Clyde, 77, British judge, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1996–2001), cancer. [248]
• Anthony Finigan, 83, British actor. [249]
• Colleen Howe, 76, American sports agent, wife of Gordie Howe, Pick's disease. [250]
• George Keverian, 77, American politician, member (1967–1991) and Speaker (1985–1991) of the Massachusetts House. [251]
• Francis Magalona, 44, Filipino actor and rapper, leukemia. [252]
• Kennedy McIntosh, 60, American basketball player, stroke. [253]
• Vivian Murray, 76, Irish businessman, chairman of An Post and Bord Iascaigh Mhara, after long illness. [254]
• Henri Pousseur, 79, Belgian composer. [255] (French)
• Eduardo Rodríguez, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player, septic shock. [256]
• Christon Tembo, 65, Zambian politician, Vice President (1997–2001). [257]
• Susan Tsvangirai, 50, Zimbabwean wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, car collision. [258]

5

• Mario Acuña, 68, Argentinian-born American astrophysicist, multiple myeloma. [259]
• Valeri Broshin, 46, Russian footballer, cancer. [260] (Russian)
• Francis Essex, 79, British television producer. [261]
• Temima Gezari, 103, American artist, natural causes. [262]
• Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr., 99, American engineer, pioneer of television technology, complications of hip fracture. [263]
• Oscar Kamau Kingara, 38, Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist, shot. [264]
• Hung-Chang Lin, 89, Chinese-born American inventor, lung cancer. [265]
• John Paul Oulu, Kenyan human rights activist, shot. [266]
• Dave Pureifory, 59, American football player (Detroit Lions), prostate cancer. [267]
• Jitsuo Inagaki, 80, Japanese politician, illness. [268]

4

• Joseph Bloch, 91, American pianist and professor, heart attack. [269]
• Irving Buchman, 83, American makeup artist (Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver), heart failure. [270]
• John Cephas, 78, American Piedmont blues guitarist, natural causes. [271]
• Yvon Cormier, 70, Canadian professional wrestler, bone marrow cancer. [272]
• Horton Foote, 92, American playwright and screenwriter, after short illness. [273]
• Robert Guskind, 50, American activist and journalist (National Journal). [274]
• Greg Henricks, 54, Australian radio journalist, esophageal cancer. [275]
• Patricia De Martelaere, 51, Belgian writer and philosopher, complications of brain tumor. [276] (Dutch)
• George McAfee, 90, American football player (Chicago Bears). [277]
• Harry Parkes, 89, British footballer (Aston Villa). [278]
• Salvatore Samperi, 64, Italian film director. [279]
• Triztán Vindtorn, 66, Norwegian poet. [280]

3

• Sydney Earle Chaplin, 82, American actor, son of Charlie Chaplin. [281]
• Frederick Conyngham, 7th Marquess Conyngham, 84, Irish nobleman, cancer. [282]
• Sebastian Faißt, 20, German handball player, heart failure. [283]
• Flemming Flindt, 72, Danish choreographer, after short illness. [284]
• Frank Ford, 92, American radio talk show host, stroke. [285]
• Åke Lindman, 81, Finnish actor and film director. [286]
• Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico. [287]
• Gilbert Parent, 73, Canadian politician, Speaker (1994–2001) and Member of Parliament (1974–1984, 1988–2000), colon cancer. [288]
• John Rodda, 78, British sports journalist, athletics and boxing correspondent (The Guardian). [289]
• Barbara Wright, 93, British translator. [290]

2

• Ernie Ashworth, 80, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry. [291]
• Michael Baker, 52, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly since 1998, cancer. [292]
• Ernst Benda, 84, German politician, Interior Minister (1968–1969) and President, Federal Constitutional Court (1971–1983). [293]
• Andy Bowman, 74, British footballer, after long illness. [294]
• Robert Bruce, 65, British-born New Zealand professional wrestler and talent agent, after short illness. [295]
• Chris Finnegan, 64, British boxer, Olympic middleweight champion (1968), complications from pneumonia. [296]
• Alexandre Léontieff, 60, French politician, President of French Polynesia (1987–1991), heart attack. [297]
• Ann Marie Rogers, 57, British campaigner for breast cancer drug Herceptin, breast cancer. [298]
• Jack Schwartz, 79, American mathematician and computer scientist, liver cancer. [299]
• Urban Sea, 20, French racehorse and broodmare, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner (1993), complications during foaling. [300]
• João Bernardo Vieira, 69, Guinea-Bissauan politician, Prime Minister (1978–1980) and President (1980–1999, since 2005), shot. [301]
• Rob Williams, 29, British businessman, co-founder of Dolphin Music, snowboarding accident. [302]

1

• Irving Buchman, 84, American make-up artist. [303]
• Robert Haggiag, 95, Libyan-born American film producer (Candy). [304]
• Charles S. Lieber, 78, Belgian-born American nutritionist, stomach cancer. [305]
• Paolo Maffei, 83, Italian astronomer and science fiction writer. [306] (Italian)
• Alf Pike, 91, Canadian ice hockey player and head coach (New York Rangers). [307]
• Pepe Rubianes, 61, Spanish Catalan actor and theatre director, lung cancer. [308] (Spanish)
• Eric Simms, 87, British ornithologist, writer and conservationist. [309]
• Joan Turner, 86, British actress. [310]

February 2009

See Deaths in February 2009.

January 2009

See Deaths in January 2009.

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