Deaths in 2009 facts for kids

This is a list of notable people who passed away in 2009. It includes famous individuals from various fields like acting, music, sports, and politics, who left their mark on the world.

January

Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), a famous American painter.

R. Venkataraman (1910-2009), who was the 8th President of India.

John Updike (1932-2009), a well-known American writer.

• January 1 - Johannes Mario Simmel, 84, an Austrian writer.
• January 1 - Helen Suzman, 91, a South African politician and activist.
• January 1 - Aarne Arvonen, 111, a Finnish supercentenarian (someone over 110 years old) and a veteran of the Finnish Civil War.
• January 1 - Nizar Rayan, 49, a Palestinian military commander, died in an airstrike.
• January 2 - Ryuzo Hiraki, 77, a Japanese footballer.
• January 2 - Maria de Jesus, 115, a Portuguese supercentenarian and the oldest living person at the time.
• January 3 - Pat Hingle, 84, an American actor known for films like Splendor in the Grass and Batman, died from blood cancer.
• January 3 - Olga San Juan, 81, an American actress, died from kidney failure.
• January 5 - Adolf Merckle, 74, a German industrialist.
• January 6 - Ron Asheton, 60, an American rock guitarist.
• January 9 - Rene Herms, 26, a German athlete.
• January 9 - Dave Dee, 67, a British musician, died from prostate cancer.
• January 10 - Bill Stone, 108, a British veteran of World War I.
• January 10 - Rob Gauntlett, 21, a British mountaineer, died in a climbing accident.
• January 11 - Pio Laghi, 86, an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• January 12 - Claude Berri, 74, a French movie director.
• January 12 - Arne Naess, 96, a Norwegian philosopher.
• January 12 - Friaca, 84, a Brazilian footballer, died from multiple organ failure.
• January 13 - Patrick McGoohan, 80, an American-Irish actor, died after a short illness.
• January 14 - Ricardo Montalban, 88, a Mexican-American actor, died from heart failure.
• January 15 - Said Seyam, 50, a Palestinian government official, died in an airstrike.
• January 16 - Andrew Wyeth, 91, an American painter, died after a short illness.
• January 18 - Tony Hart, 83, a British artist and television presenter.
• January 18 - Zenonas Petrauskas, 58, a Lithuanian lawyer and politician.
• January 19 - Beatrice Farve, 113, an American supercentenarian.
• January 20 - Stephanos II Ghattas, 89, Patriarch of the Egyptian Coptic Church.
• January 24 - Kay Yow, 66, an American basketball coach, died from breast cancer.
• January 25 - Mamadou Dia, 98, the first Prime Minister of Senegal.
• January 27 - Mino Reitano, 64, an Italian singer, died after a long illness.
• January 27 - John Updike, 76, an American writer, died from lung cancer.
• January 27 - R. Venkataraman, 98, the 8th President of India, died from multiple organ failure.
• January 28 - Billy Powell, 56, an American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd).
• January 29 - John Martyn, 60, a British singer and songwriter, died from pneumonia.
• January 30 - Ingemar Johansson, 76, a Swedish boxer.
• January 30 - Sune Jonsson, 78, a Swedish photographer and writer.

February

Kamila Skolimowska (1982-2009), a Polish hammer thrower.

• February 1 - Lukas Foss, 86, a German-born American composer and conductor, died from a heart attack.
• February 2 - Paul Birch, 46, a British footballer, died from lung cancer.
• February 4 - Lux Interior, 62, an American singer, songwriter, and musician.
• February 5 - Dana Vavrova, 41, a Czech-born German actress, died from cancer.
• February 5 - Albert Barille, 88, a French television screenwriter and producer.
• February 6 - James Whitmore, 87, an American actor, died from lung cancer.
• February 8 - Marian Cozma, 26, a Romanian handball player.
• February 9 - Eluana Englaro, 38, an Italian patient, died after a long illness.
• February 10 - Jeremy Lusk, 24, an American motocross racer, died from a brain injury.
• February 12 - Giacomo Bulgarelli, 68, an Italian footballer, died after a long illness.
• February 16 - Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, 86, a South Korean archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
• February 18 - Tayeb Saleh, 80, a Sudanese writer.
• February 18 - Kamila Skolimowska, 26, a Polish hammer thrower.
• February 20 - Antonio De Rosso, 68, an Italian religious leader.
• February 23 - Seppo Kolehmainen, 76, a Finnish actor, died after a long illness.
• February 23 - Sverre Fehn, 84, a Norwegian architect.
• February 25 - Philip Jose Farmer, 91, an American writer.
• February 26 - Ruth Drexel, 78, a German actress.
• February 26 - Wendy Richard, 65, a British actress, died from breast cancer.
• February 27 - Manea Manescu, 92, a former Prime Minister of Romania.
• February 28 - Paul Harvey, 90, an American radio host.

March

Natasha Richardson (1963-2009), a British actress.

Jade Goody (1981-2009), a British celebrity.

• March 1 - Ken Henry, 80, an American speed skater.
• March 2 - Joao Bernardo Vieira, 69, President of Guinea-Bissau, was killed.
• March 2 - Ernst Benda, 84, a German politician.
• March 3 - Sebastian Faisst, 20, a German handball player.
• March 3 - Flemming Flindt, 72, a Danish choreographer, died after a short illness.
• March 6 - Francis Magalona, 44, a Filipino actor and rapper, died from leukemia.
• March 6 - Susan Tsvangirai, 50, wife of the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai, died in a car accident.
• March 7 - Tullio Pinelli, 100, an Italian screenwriter.
• March 12 - Leonore Annenberg, 91, an American philanthropist, died of natural causes.
• March 13 - Andrew Martin, 33, a Canadian professional wrestler.
• March 14 - Alain Bashung, 61, a French singer, composer, and actor, died from lung cancer.
• March 15 - Ron Silver, 62, an American actor and political activist, died from esophageal cancer.
• March 17 - Clodovil Hernandes, 71, a Brazilian fashion stylist, politician, and television presenter, died from a stroke.
• March 18 - Glenn Sundby, 87, an American gymnast.
• March 18 - Natasha Richardson, 45, a British actress, died from an epidural hematoma after an accident.
• March 19 - Gertrud Fussenegger, 96, an Austrian writer.
• March 20 - Abdellatif Filali, 81, a former Prime Minister of Morocco.
• March 21 - Walt Poddubny, 49, a Canadian ice hockey player.
• March 22 - Jade Goody, 27, a British celebrity, died from cervical cancer.
• March 24 - George Kell, 86, an American baseball player.
• March 25 - Yukio Endo, 72, a Japanese gymnast, died from esophageal cancer.
• March 26 - Arnold Meri, 89, an Estonian military officer.
• March 26 - Arne Bendiksen, 82, a Norwegian singer, composer, and record producer, died from heart failure.
• March 28 - Janet Jagan, 88, an American-born President of Guyana, died from an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
• March 29 - Maurice Jarre, 84, a French movie composer.
• March 29 - Helen Levitt, 95, an American photographer, died from respiratory failure.
• March 29 - Vladimir Fedotov, 66, a Russian footballer and coach.
• March 31 - Hong Song-nam, 79, a North Korean politician.
• March 31 - Jarl Alfredius, 66, a Swedish journalist, died from cancer.
• March 31 - Raul Alfonsin, 82, a former President of Argentina, died from lung cancer.

April

Beatrice Arthur (1922-2009), a beloved American actress.

• April 1 - Arne Andersson, 91, a Swedish runner.
• April 4 - Gonzalo Olave, 25, a Chilean actor, died in a motorcycle accident.
• April 7 - Dave Arneson, 61, an American game designer (Dungeons and Dragons), died from cancer.
• April 11 - Gerda Gilboe, 94, a Danish actress.
• April 12 - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 58, an American writer and critical theorist, died from breast cancer.
• April 13 - Stefan Brecht, 84, a German poet, died after a long illness.
• April 14 - Maurice Druon, 90, a French novelist.
• April 15 - Clement Freud, 84, a German-born British writer, politician, and broadcaster.
• April 15 - Laszlo Tisza, 101, a Hungarian-born American physicist.
• April 19 - J. G. Ballard, 78, a British writer and novelist, died from prostate cancer.
• April 22 - Ken Annakin, 94, a British movie director.
• April 22 - Jack Cardiff, 94, a British cinematographer, died of natural causes.
• April 22 - Alex Lees, 97, a British planner of the Great Escape in World War II.
• April 25 - Beatrice Arthur, 86, an American actress.
• April 26 - Pupuke Robati, 84, a Cook Islands physician, politician, and Prime Minister.
• April 27 - Feroz Khan, 69, an Indian actor, died from cancer.
• April 28 - Ekaterina Maximova, 70, a Russian ballet dancer.

May

Augusto Boal (1931-2009), a Brazilian playwright and theatre director.

Roh Moo-hyun (1946-2009), a former President of South Korea.

• May 1 - Karst Tates, 38, a Dutch attempted assassin, died from injuries.
• May 2 - Augusto Boal, 78, a Brazilian dramatist and theatre director, died from respiratory failure.
• May 2 - Jack Kemp, 73, an American football player and politician, died from cancer.
• May 4 - Dom DeLuise, 75, an American actor and entertainer.
• May 6 - Valentin Varennikov, 85, a Russian general.
• May 8 - Dom DiMaggio, 92, an American baseball player, died from pneumonia.
• May 9 - Chuck Daly, 78, an American basketball coach, died from cancer.
• May 13 - Achille Compagnoni, 94, an Italian mountaineer.
• May 13 - Waldemar Levy Cardoso, 108, a Brazilian field marshal and World War I-era veteran.
• May 17 - Mario Benedetti, 88, a Uruguayan writer.
• May 18 - Wayne Allwine, 62, an American voice actor, died from complications from diabetes.
• May 18 - Dolla, 21, an American rapper, was shot.
• May 18 - Velupillai Prabhakaran, 54, a Sri Lankan leader, died in a missile attack.
• May 19 - Robert F. Furchgott, 92, an American scientist and Nobel Prize winner.
• May 20 - Lucy Gordon, 28, a British actress.
• May 23 - Roh Moo-hyun, 62, a former President of South Korea.
• May 25 - Haakon Lie, 103, a Norwegian politician.
• May 27 - Clive Grainger, 74, a British economist.
• May 29 - Karine Ruby, 31, a French snowboarder, died from a fall.
• May 30 - Luis Cabral, 78, the first President of Guinea-Bissau.
• May 30 - Ephraim Katzir, 93, an Israeli biochemist, politician, and former President of Israel.
• May 30 - Gaafar Nimeiry, 79, a former President of Sudan.
• May 31 - Millvina Dean, 97, a survivor of the RMS Titanic.
• May 31 - Danny La Rue, 81, an Irish-British female-impersonator and singer, died from prostate cancer.

June

Michael Jackson (1958-2009), the famous American singer and entertainer.

• June 1 - Silvio Barbato, 50, an Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer, died in the Air France Flight 447 crash.
• June 2 - David Eddings, 77, an American fantasy writer.
• June 3 - David Carradine, 72, an American actor.
• June 3 - Koko Taylor, 80, an American blues musician, died from complications from gastrointestinal surgery.
• June 6 - Jean Dausset, 92, a French immunologist and Nobel Prize winner.
• June 7 - Baron Vaea, 88, a former Prime Minister of Tonga, died after a short illness.
• June 8 - Omar Bongo, 73, President of Gabon.
• June 10 - Helle Virkner, 83, a Danish actress, died from cancer.
• June 12 - Felix Malloum, 76, a former President of Chad, died from cardiac arrest.
• June 13 - Mitsuharu Misawa, 46, a Japanese professional wrestler, died after spinal chord surgery.
• June 14 - Ivan Della Mea, 68, an Italian singer-songwriter and writer, died after a long illness.
• June 17 - Ralf Dahrendorf, 80, a German-born British politician, philosopher, and social critic, died after a long illness.
• June 19 - Tomoji Tanabe, 113, a Japanese supercentenarian and the oldest living man.
• June 20 - Neda Agha-Soltan, 27, an Iranian student.
• June 23 - Hanne Hiob, 86, a German actress.
• June 23 - Ed McMahon, 86, an American television host and announcer.
• June 24 - Romeo LeBlanc, 81, a former Governor-General of Canada, died from Alzheimer's disease.
• June 25 - Farrah Fawcett, 62, an American actress, died from anal cancer.
• June 25 - Michael Jackson, 50, an American singer, songwriter, and entertainer.
• June 25 - Sky Saxon, 71, an American musician, died from heart failure.
• June 28 - Lucia Lauria Vigna, 113, an Italian supercentenarian.
• June 28 - Billy Mays, 50, an American pitchman and television host (Pitchmen), died from hypertensive heart disease.
• June 30 - Pina Bausch, 68, a German choreographer.

July

Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009), a Polish philosopher.

Bobby Robson (1933-2009), a famous English footballer and manager.

• July 1 - Mollie Sugden, 86, a British actress, died of natural causes.
• July 1 - Karl Malden, 97, an American actor.
• July 3 - Jorge Enrique Adoum, 83, an Ecuadorean poet and writer.
• July 4 - Allen Klein, 77, an American music manager.
• July 5 - Takeo Doi, 89, a Japanese psychoanalyst.
• July 6 - Vasily Aksyonov, 76, a Russian writer.
• July 6 - Bleddyn Williams, 86, a Welsh rugby player, died after a long illness.
• July 6 - Robert McNamara, 93, an American politician.
• July 10 - Ebba Haslund, 81, a Norwegian writer.
• July 11 - Arturo Gatti, 37, a Canadian boxer.
• July 15 - Natalya Estemirova, 51, a Russian human rights activist.
• July 17 - Meir Amit, 87, an Israeli military commander and politician.
• July 17 – Walter Cronkite, 92, an American television news anchor, died from cerebrovascular disease.
• July 17 - Leszek Kolakowski, 81, a Polish philosopher.
• July 18 - Henry Allingham, 113, a British veteran of World War I, supercentenarian, and the oldest living man.
• July 19 - Frank McCourt, 78, an Irish-American writer, died from melanoma.
• July 19 - Henry Surtees, 18, a British racing driver, died in a racing crash.
• July 21 - Heinz Edelmann, 75, a Czech-German illustrator and designer, died from heart disease and renal failure.
• July 22 - Herbert Morris, 94, an American rower.
• July 25 - Harry Patch, 111, a British veteran of World War I and supercentenarian.
• July 26 - Merce Cunningham, 90, an American choreographer.
• July 27 - Sybil, a British Downing Street cat, died after a short illness.
• July 28 - Leela Naidu, 69, an Indian actress, died after a long illness.
• July 29 - Zhuo Lin, 93, a Chinese widow of Deng Xiaoping.
• July 30 - Peter Zadek, 83, a German theatre director.
• July 31 - Bobby Robson, 76, an English footballer and football manager, died from lung cancer.

August

Corazon Aquino (1933-2009), a former President of the Philippines.

Ted Kennedy (1932-2009), a long-serving American Senator.

• August 1 - Corazon Aquino, 76, President of the Philippines (1986–1992), died from complications from colon cancer.
• August 1 - Princess Felicitas of Prussia, 75, a German noblewoman and great-granddaughter of Wilhelm II of Germany.
• August 1 - Naomi Sims, 61, an American model and writer, died from breast cancer.
• August 4 - Svend Auken, 66, a Danish politician, died from prostate cancer.
• August 4 - Joseph Msika, 85, Vice President of Zimbabwe.
• August 5 - Budd Schulberg, 95, an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist, died of natural causes.
• August 6 - Riccardo Cassin, 100, an Italian mountaineer.
• August 6 - Willy DeVille, 58, an American singer-songwriter, died from pancreatic cancer.
• August 6 - John Hughes, 59, an American movie director, screenwriter, and producer, died from a heart attack.
• August 6 - Murali, 55, an Indian actor, died from a heart attack.
• August 7 - Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf, 80, an Iraqi politician and former Vice President.
• August 8 - Daniel Jarque, 26, a Spanish footballer, died from a heart attack.
• August 10 - Francisco Valdes, 66, a Chilean footballer, died from heart failure.
• August 11 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, an American activist and founder of the Special Olympics, and sister of John F. Kennedy.
• August 13 – Les Paul, 94, an American guitarist and inventor, died from complications from pneumonia.
• August 17 - Tiffany Simelane, 21, a Swazi beauty pageant contestant.
• August 18 - Kim Dae-jung, 85, a former President of South Korea and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
• August 18 - Hildegard Behrens, 72, a German operatic soprano, died from an aortic aneurysm.
• August 19 - Don Hewitt, 86, an American television producer, died from pancreatic cancer.
• August 20 - Larry Knechtel, 69, an American musician, died from a heart attack.
• August 22 - Muriel Duckworth, 100, a Canadian feminist and activist, died from complications from a fall.
• August 23 - Anna-Maria Mueller, 60, a German luger.
• August 24 - Toni Sailer, 73, an Austrian skier, died from laryngeal cancer.
• August 25 - Mande Sidibe, 69, a Maliian economist, politician, and Prime Minister, died after a short illness.
• August 25 – Ted Kennedy, 77, an American politician and Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009), died from brain cancer.
• August 26 - Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, 56, an Iraqi politician, died from lung cancer.
• August 26 - Dominick Dunne, 83, an American writer and investigative journalist, died from bladder cancer.
• August 27 - Sergey Mikhalkov, 96, a Russian writer.
• August 28 - Adam Goldstein, 36, an American club disc jockey and musician.
• August 28 - Guenter Kiessling, 83, a German general.
• August 30 - Simon Thirgood, 46, a British biologist and ecologist, died in a building collapse.
• August 31 - John Choi Young-su, 67, a South Korean archbishop.

September

Patrick Swayze (1952-2009), a beloved American actor and dancer.

Pavel Popovich (1930-2009), a Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut.

• September 1 - Erich Kunzel, 74, an American conductor, died from cancer.
• September 2 - Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, 60, an Indian politician and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, died in a helicopter crash.
• September 4 - Allan Ekelund, 91, a Swedish movie producer.
• September 8 – Aage Niels Bohr, 87, a Danish physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975.
• September 10 - Gertrude Noone, 110, an American supercentenarian.
• September 11 - Yoshito Usui, 51, a Japanese manga artist, died in a mountaineering accident.
• September 11 - Zakes Mokae, 75, a South African actor, died from complications of a stroke.
• September 11 - Juan Almeida Bosque, 82, a Cuban revolutionary and politician, died from cardiac arrest.
• September 11 - Gertrude Baines, 115, an American supercentenarian and the oldest living person at the time.
• September 12 - Dominick Brunner, 50, a German businessman and manager, died from blunt trauma.
• September 12 - Jack Kramer, 88, an American tennis player, died from cancer.
• September 12 - Willy Ronis, 99, a French photographer.
• September 12 - Norman Borlaug, 95, an American agronomist and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
• September 14 - Keith Floyd, 65, a British chef, died from a heart attack.
• September 14 – Patrick Swayze, 57, an American actor, singer-songwriter, and dancer, died from pancreatic cancer.
• September 16 – Timothy Bateson, 83, a British actor.
• September 16 - Mary Travers, 72, an American singer, died from leukemia.
• September 17 - Noordin Mohammad Top, 41, a Malaysian Islamist militant, was shot.
• September 18 - Irving Kristol, 89, an American political commentator.
• September 19 - Eduard Zimmermann, 80, a German journalist and television presenter.
• September 22 - Lucy Vodden, 46, a British song inspiration, died from lupus.
• September 23 - Ertugrul Osman, 97, a Turkish head of the Ottoman dynasty, died from lung and kidney failure.
• September 24 - Nelly Arcan, 35, a Canadian novelist.
• September 25 - Alicia de Larrocha, 86, a Spanish pianist.
• September 25 – Clifton Maloney, 71, an American businessman and husband of U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, died in a mountaineering accident.
• September 25 – Bob Stupak, 67, an American casino owner (Vegas World, Stratosphere Las Vegas), died from leukemia.
• September 27 - William Safire, 79, an American speechwriter for Richard Nixon and political columnist for the New York Times.
• September 28 - Guillermo Endara, 73, a former President of Panama.
• September 28 - Ulf Larsson, 53, a Swedish actor and stage director.
• September 29 - Pavel Popovich, 78, a Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut.
• September 30 - Pentti Airikkala, 64, a Finnish rally driver, died from prostate cancer.

October

Mercedes Sosa (1935-2009), a renowned Argentine singer.

Al Martino (1927-2009), an American singer and actor.

Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009), a famous French anthropologist.

• October 2 - Marek Edelmann, 87, a Polish social activist.
• October 2 - Rolf Ruessmann, 58, a German footballer, died from prostate cancer.
• October 3 - Fatima, 98, a former Queen of Libya.
• October 3 - Reinhard Mohn, 88, a German entrepreneur and publisher.
• October 4 - Shoichi Nakagawa, 56, a Japanese politician.
• October 4 - Mercedes Sosa, 74, an Argentine singer.
• October 4 - Guenther Rall, 91, a German Luftwaffe pilot.
• October 5 - Giselher Klebe, 84, a German composer.
• October 5 - Israel Gelfand, 96, a Russian mathematician.
• October 6 - Werner Maihofer, 90, a German politician.
• October 7 - Irving Penn, 92, an American fashion photographer.
• October 9 - Horst Szymaniak, 75, a German footballer.
• October 10 - Stephen Gately, 33, an Irish singer (Boyzone).
• October 13 - Al Martino, 82, an American singer and actor.
• October 14 – Lou Albano, 76, an American professional wrestler, manager, and actor (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), died of natural causes.
• October 14 – Bruce Wasserstein, 61, an American investment banker and businessman.
• October 14 – Collin Wilcox, 74, an American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird), died from brain cancer.
• October 15 – George Tuska, 93, an American Golden Age comic book artist (Iron Man).
• October 16 – Bob Davis, 77, an American politician and U.S. Representative for Michigan (1979–1993), died from heart and kidney failure.
• October 17 - Rosanna Schiaffino, 69, an Italian movie actress, died from cancer.
• October 17 – Jay W. Johnson, 66, an American U.S. Representative for Wisconsin (1997–1999) and U.S. Mint Director (2000–2001), died from a heart attack.
• October 18 – Jasper Howard, 20, an American American football player.
• October 18 – Leonard B. Keller, 62, an American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, died in a motorcycle accident.
• October 18 – Nancy Spero, 83, an American artist, died from heart failure.
• October 19 - Joseph Wiseman, 91, a Canadian actor.
• October 20 – Clifford Hansen, 97, an American politician, Governor of Wyoming (1963–1967) and U.S. Senator (1967–1978).
• October 22 – Soupy Sales, 83, an American comedian.
• October 23 - Lou Jacobi, 95, a Canadian actor.
• October 23 - Shiloh Pepin, 10, an American medical figure, died from pneumonia.
• October 25 - Camillo Cibin, 83, an Italian former commander of the Corps Gendarmerie of Vatican City.
• October 28 - Taylor Mitchell, 19, a Canadian singer, died from injuries from a coyote attack.
• October 29 - Norman Painting, 85, a British radio actor, died from heart failure.
• October 30 - Claude Levi-Strauss, 100, a French anthropologist.
• October 31 - Qian Xuesen, 97, a Chinese scientist.

November

Robert Enke (1977-2009), a German footballer.

• November 2 - Mark Smith, 49, a British musician (The Waterboys) and record producer.
• November 3 - Francisco Ayala, 103, a Spanish novelist, died of natural causes.
• November 4 - Hubertus Brandenburg, 85, a German-born Swedish bishop.
• November 6 - Manuel Solis, 91, a former President of Panama, died from pulmonary edema.
• November 8 - Vitaly Ginzburg, 93, a Russian physicist and Nobel Prize winner.
• November 10 - Robert Enke, 32, a German footballer.
• November 11 - John Jay O'Connor, 79, an American lawyer and husband of Sandra Day O'Connor, died from Alzheimer's disease.
• November 12 - Bernard Kolelas, 76, a former Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo.
• November 15 - Pierre Harmel, 98, a former Prime Minister of Belgium.
• November 15 - Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, 95, a Serbian religious leader.
• November 16 - Edward Woodward, 79, a British actor.
• November 16 - Olivia Patricia Thomas, 114, an American supercentenarian.
• November 18 - Jeanne-Claude, 74, a French artist, died from a ruptured brain aneurysm.
• November 20 - Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, 78, a Pakistani politician and former Prime Minister.
• November 21 - Konstantin Feoktistov, 83, a Soviet-Russian cosmonaut and aerospace engineer.
• November 24 - Samak Sundaravej, 74, a former Prime Minister of Thailand, died from liver cancer.
• November 24 - José Arraño, 88, a Chilean writer.
• November 24 - Abe Pollin, 85, an American owner of the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals.
• November 27 - Erich Boehme, 79, a German journalist, died from cancer.
• November 28 - Tony Kendall, 73, an Italian actor, died after a short illness.
• November 29 - Prince Alexander of Belgium, 67, a Belgian royal, died from a pulmonary embolism.
• November 30 - Paul Naschy, 75, a Spanish actor, screenwriter, and movie director, died from pancreatic cancer.
• November 30 - Milorad Pavic, 80, a Serbian writer, died from heart failure.

December

Brittany Murphy (1977-2009), an American actress.

Abdurrahman Wahid (1940-2009), the 4th President of Indonesia.

• December 1 - Ramses Shaffy, 76, a Dutch singer and actor.
• December 2 - Aaron Schroeder, 83, an American songwriter and music producer.
• December 2 - Maggie Jones, 75, a British actress.
• December 3 - Richard Todd, 90, an Irish-born British actor, died from cancer.
• December 4 - Vyacheslav Tikhonov, 81, a Russian actor.
• December 4 - Eddie Fatu, 36, a Samoan-American professional wrestler, died from a heart attack.
• December 5 - Alfred Hrdlicka, 81, an Austrian architect and draughtsman.
• December 5 - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, 82, a German politician.
• December 9 - Gene Barry, 90, an American actor, died from heart failure.
• December 9 - Kjell Eugenio Laugerud Garcia, 79, a former President of Guatemala, died from cancer.
• December 13 - Paul Samuelson, 94, an American economist, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics.
• December 15 - Oral Roberts, 91, an American evangelist, died from complications from pneumonia.
• December 16 - Yegor Gaidar, 53, a Russian politician.
• December 16 - Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, 69, a South African politician, died from complications from a liver transplant.
• December 16 - Roy E. Disney, 79, an American entertainment executive, died from stomach cancer.
• December 17 - Amin al-Hafiz, 88, a former President of Syria.
• December 17 - Jennifer Jones, 90, an American actress.
• December 19 - Hossein-Ali Montazeri, 87, an Iranian cleric and dissident, died of natural causes.
• December 19 - Kim Peek, 58, an American savant, died from a heart attack.
• December 20 - Brittany Murphy, 32, an American actress.
• December 21 - Edwin G. Krebs, 91, an American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner.
• December 23 - Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, 99, a Tibetan politician.
• December 24 - Rafael Caldera, 93, a Venezuelan President.
• December 25 - Vic Chesnutt, 45, an American musician.
• December 25 - Knut Haugland, 92, a Norwegian explorer and the last-surviving member of the Kon-Tiki expedition.
• December 28 - James "The Rev" Sullivan, 28, an American musician (Avenged Sevenfold).
• December 29 - "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, 49, an American professional wrestler, died from throat cancer.
• December 30 - Abdurrahman Wahid, 69, the 4th President of Indonesia.
• December 31 - Rashidi Kawawa, 83, a former Prime Minister of Tanganyika and Tanzania.
• December 31 - Cahal Daly, 92, an Irish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.Lists of deaths by year#2009