Biographies: Deaths of 2009

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Deaths of 2009

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• Aquino, Corazon, former president of the Philippines
• Alfonsín, Raúl, Argentine politician
• Wayne Allwine, voice of Mickey Mouse
• Annenberg, Leonore, philanthropist
• Arthur, Bea, actress
• Baines, Gertrude, oldest person in the world
• Ballard, J.G., writer
• Bausch, Pina, German dancer and choreographer
• Blanchard, Felix (Doc), football player
• Borlaug, Norman, agronomist
• Carradine, David, actor
• Carroll, James (Jim), poet, punk rocker
• Cronkite, Walter, news anchor
• Cunningham, Merce, dancer and choreographer
• Daly, Chuck, basketball coach
• DeLuise, Dom, actor and comedian
• Donald, David Herbert, historian
• Dominick, Dunne, journalist, novelist

• Fawcett, Farrah, actress
• Fidrych, Mark, baseball player
• Foote, Horton, playwright and screenwriter
• Foss, Lukas, composer, pianist and conductor
• Franklin, John Hope, historian
• Fuller, Millard, Founder of Habitat for Humanity
• Gauntlett, Rob, British adventuer
• Gelbart, Larry, comedy writer
• Gwathmey, Charles, architect
• Hansen, Clifford, former U.S. senator
• Harvey, Paul, radio personality
• Hewitt, Don, television producer and journalist
• Hughes, John, writer and director
• Hughes, Nicholas, son of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
• Jackson, Michael, mucisian
• Jeanne-Claude, artist
• Kemp, Jack, U.S. politician and government official
• Kennedy, Edward, U.S. senator
• Kim, Dae Jung, former president of South Korea
• Knopf, Alfred A., Jr., publisher
• Kolff, Willem J., pioneering doctor
• Kramer, Jack, tennis player
• Krisol, Irving, neoconservative politcal commentator
• Lang, Pearl, dancer and choreographer
• Lawrence, Andrea Mead, Olympic champion skier
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude, French anthropologist

• Malden, Karl, actor
• Mazer, Norma Fox, novelist
• McCourt, Frank, author
• McGoohan, Patrick, British actor
• McMahon, Ed, television personality
• McNair, Steve, NFL quaterback
• McNamara, Robert, U.S. Secretary of Defense
• Merckle, Adolf, German billionaire
• Montalban, Ricardo, actor
• Moo-hyun, Roh, South Korean politician
• Murphy, Brittany, actress
• Novak, Robert, political commentator
• O'Horgan, Tom, theater and film director
• Paul, Les, musician and inventor
• Penn, Irving, photographer
• Pell, Claiborne, former U.S. Senator from Rhode Island

• Richardson, Natasha, actress
• Roberts, Oral, evangelist
• Safire, William, journalist and speechwriter
• Sales, Soupy, comedian
• Samuelson, Paul, economist
• Schulberg, Budd, writer
• Kennedy Shriver, Eunice, advocate for the mentally and physically disabled
• Silver, Ron, actor and activist
• Sizer, Theodore, educatotion-reform advocate
• Swayze, Patrick, actor
• Taylor, Koko, blues singer
• Tiller, George, abortion doctor
• Travers, Mary, folk singer
• Travolta, Jett, son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston
• Updike, John, Novelist and critic
• Whitmore, James, character actor
• Wyeth, Andrew, celebrated American painter
• Yow, Kay, women's basketball coach