In the year 2009
830 Notable deaths
Marianne Stone
English actress (1922–2009).
Born August 23rd, 1922 in London.
Died December 21st, 2009 at 87 years old in London. [ref]
Jack Kramer
American tennis player.
Born August 1st, 1921 in Las Vegas.
Died September 12th, 2009 at 88 years old in Los Angeles (cancer). [ref]
Ralf Dahrendorf
German-british sociologist, politician (1929-2009).
Born May 1st, 1929 in Hamburg. [ref]
Died June 17th, 2009 at 80 years old in Cologne (cancer). [ref]
Philip José Farmer
American science fiction writer.
Born January 26th, 1918 in Terre Haute.
Died February 25th, 2009 at 91 years old in Peoria. [ref]
Zbigniew Religa
Polish cardiac surgeon and politician (1938-2009).
Born December 16th, 1938 in Miedniewice, Masovian Voivodeship.
Died March 8th, 2009 at 70 years old in Warsaw (lung cancer). [ref]
Horton Foote
American playwright and screenwriter (1916-2009).
Born March 14th, 1916 in Wharton County. [ref]
Died March 4th, 2009 at 92 years old in Hartford. [ref]
Tapan Sinha
Indian film director (1924–2009).
Born October 22nd, 1924 in Kolkata.
Died January 15th, 2009 at 84 years old in Kolkata (bronchopneumonia). [ref]
Leszek Kołakowski
Philosopher, historian of ideas (1927–2009).
Born October 23rd, 1927 in Radom. [ref]
Died July 17th, 2009 at 81 years old in Oxford. [ref]
Yegor Gaidar
Russian economist (1956-2009).
Born March 19th, 1956 in Moscow. [ref]
Died December 16th, 2009 at 53 years old in Odintsovo (edema). [ref]
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
American scholar of queer theory (1950-2009).
Born May 2nd, 1950 in Dayton. [ref]
Died April 12th, 2009 at 58 years old in New York City, Manhattan (breast cancer). [ref]
Deaths 171 to 180 of 830
The meaning of life is that it stops. Franz Kafka