Deaths in 2009 [Wikipedia]

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2009. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

Deaths of notable animals (that is, those with their own Wikipedia articles) are also reported here.

A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

June 2009

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• Chris O'Brien, 57, Australian oncologist, cancer. [1]

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• Shitsuko Araki, 111, Japanese supercentenarian. [2] (Japanese)
• Frank G. Harrison, 69, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1983–1985). [3]
• John F. Henning, 93, American politician, Ambassador to New Zealand (1967–1969). [4]
• Jean Sagadeev, 42, Russian musician, suspected suicide by hanging. [5] (Russian)
• Shih Kien, 96, Hong Kong actor (Enter the Dragon). [6]

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• Geoffrey Bingham, 90, Australian evangelical Christian writer. [7]
• David Bromige, 75, British-born Canadian poet, winner of the Pushcart Prize. [8]
• Sam Butera, 81, American saxophonist, after long illness. [9]
• David Carradine, 72, American actor (Kung Fu, Kill Bill), suspected suicide by hanging. [10]
• Sam George, 56, Canadian activist, native rights campaigner involved with the Ipperwash Crisis, pancreatic and lung cancer. [11]
• Thomas Gill, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1963–1965). [12]
• Nikandros Kepesis, 95, Greek politician, natural causes. [13] (Greek)
• Peter J. Landin, British computer scientist, natural causes. [14]
• Benoit Marleau, 72, Canadian actor, cancer. [15] (French)
• Bruce McLachlan, 67, Australian horse racing trainer, heart attack. [16]
• John Campbell Ross, 110, Australian supercentenarian, last surviving Australian veteran of World War I. [17]
• Koko Taylor, 80, American blues musician, complications from gastrointestinal surgery. [18]
• Moloko Temo, 134?, South African claimant to the world's oldest person title. [19]

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• David Eddings, 77, American fantasy author. [20]
• Tony Maggs, 72, South African racing driver, cancer. [21]
• Palghat R. Raghu, 81, Burmese-born Indian musician, cardiac arrest. [22]
• Horst Siebert, 71, German economist. [23] (German)

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• Alaa Abdel-Wahab, 37, Iraqi sports journalist, bomb attack. [24]
• Bob Christie, 85. American racing driver, pulmonary fibrosis. [25]
• Erich Heine, 41, South African-born German director of ThyssenKrupp, plane crash. [26]
• Vincent O'Brien, 92, Irish race horse trainer. [27]
• Prince Pedro Luís of Orléans-Braganza, 26, Brazilian prince, plane crash. [28]
• Alexander S. Potupa, 64, Belarussian politician, physicist, economist and writer. [29]
• Jerry Rosenberg, 72, American jailhouse lawyer, natural causes. [30]
• Dirk du Toit, 65, South African politician. [31]

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• Torsten Andersson, 82, Swedish painter. [32] (Swedish)
• Kamala Das, 75, Indian writer, after long illness. [33]
• Millvina Dean, 97, British woman, last living passenger aboard the Titanic, pneumonia. [34]
• Brian Edrich, 86, British cricketer. [35]
• Sir John Holland, 94, Australian engineer, construction magnate. [36]
• Danny La Rue, 81, Irish-born British female impersonator and singer, prostate cancer. [37]
• Vyacheslav Nevinny, 74, Russian actor, diabetes. [38] (Russian)
• George Tiller, 67, American physician and abortion provider, shot. [39]

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• Luís Cabral, 78, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1973–1980). [40]
• Susanna Haapoja, 42, Finnish politician, cerebral haemorrhage. [41]
• Eric Hammond, 79, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the EETPU. [42]
• Ephraim Katzir, 93, Israeli biophysicist and politician, President (1973–1978). [43]
• Waldemar Matuška, 76, Czech singer, pneumonia and heart failure. [44] (Czech)
• Nell Meadows, 110, American supercentenarian. [45]
• Gaafar Nimeiry, 79, Sudanese politician, President (1969–1985). [46]
• Niki Typaldou, 64, Greek photographer and journalist, cancer. [47] (Greek)

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• Hank Bassen, 76, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack. [48]
• Kevin Beurle, 53, British scientist, hot air balloon accident. [49]
• Jonny Dollar, 45, British music producer, cancer. [50]
• Susan Jordan, 67, American lawyer and activist, plane crash. [51]
• Ed Murray, 80, American politician, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1987–1991). [52]
• Nikos Panayiotidis, 56, Greek actor, heart attack. [53] (Greek)
• Bill Perkins, 89, Australian footballer (Richmond). [54]
• Viktor Petrov, 89, Russian clarinetist and educator, professor at Moscow Conservatory. [55] (Russian)
• Karine Ruby, 31, French snowboarder, fall. [56]

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• Mort Abrahams, 93, American film and television producer (Planet of the Apes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), natural causes. [57]
• Terence Alexander, 86, British film and television actor (Bergerac). [58]
• Terry Barr, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions), Alzheimer's disease. [59]
• Marcel Béliveau, 69, Canadian television host, producer and comedian, cancer. [60] (French)
• Manuel Collantes, 91, Filipino diplomat, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984), cardiac arrest. [61]
• Paul Haney, 80, American public servant, information officer for NASA ("Voice of Mission Control"), cancer. [62]
• Roger Kaffer, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliet. [63]
• Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bilbao. [64] (Spanish)
• Lambros Papantoniou, 64, Greek journalist, after long illness. [65] (Greek)
• Lenrie Peters, 76, Gambian surgeon and novelist, after short illness. [66]
• Ercole Rabitti, 87, Italian footballer and trainer. [67] (Italian)
• Oleg Shenin, 71, Russian politician, member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1990–1991). [68]
• Betty Tancock, 98, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1932). [69]
• John Tolos, 78, Canadian professional wrestler, renal failure. [70]

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• Ammo Baba, 74, Iraqi footballer and trainer, diabetes. [71].
• E. D. Doyle, 90, Irish military officer and analyst. [72]
• Clive Granger, 74, British economist, Nobel Prize winner for economics. [73]
• Mona Grey, 98, British public servant, Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland. [74].
• Ortega Henderson, 25, American rapper, gunshot wounds. [75]
• Abram Hoffer, 92, Canadian orthomolecular psychiatrist. [76]
• Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, Haitian political activist, after long illness. [77]
• Carol Anne O'Marie, 75, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist, Parkinson's disease. [78]
• Sir William Refshauge, 96, Australian public health administrator. [79]
• Jack Reilly, 84, American television producer (Good Morning America), complications from a fall. [80]
• Paul Sharratt, 75, British-born American television producer, cancer. [81]
• Ralph D. Winter, 84, American missionary (U.S. Center for World Mission), multiple myeloma and lymphoma. [82]

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• Mamadou Bâ, 79, Guinean politician, cancer. [83] (French)
• Arcangelo Ianelli, 86, Brazilian painter, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [84] (Portuguese)
• Kaoru Kurimoto, 56, Japanese author, pancreatic cancer. [85]
• Mihalis Papagiannakis, 68, Greek politician, Member of Parliament, cancer. [86] (Greek)
• Michael Ross, 89, American screenwriter and director (Three's Company), complications from a heart attack and stroke. [87]
• Ronald Takaki, 70, American sociologist, professor of ethnic studies (University of California, Berkeley), suicide. [88]
• Peter Zezel, 44, Canadian ice hockey player, haemolytic anaemia. [89]

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• Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, 48, Nigerian Pan African activist, car accident. [90]
• Billy Baxter, 70, British footballer, cancer. [91]
• Amos Elon, 82, Austrian-born Israeli author and journalist. [92] (German)
• Haakon Lie, 103, Norwegian politician. [93] (Norwegian)
• Costas Sfikas, 82, Greek cinematographer. [94] (Greek)
• Franz Soronics, 88, Austrian politician. [95]
• Ivan van Sertima, 74, Guyanese-born British historian, linguist and anthropologist (Rutgers University). [96]

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• Jay Bennett, 45, American musician (Wilco) and songwriter. [97]
• Ella Snoep, 82, Dutch actress. [98] (Dutch)
• Blyth Wright, 65, British mountaineer, avalanche expert, and Scottish National Party activist. [99]