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In the year 2009
866 Notable deaths
Augusto Boal
Brazilian writer.
Born March 16th, 1931 in Rio de Janeiro. [ref]
Died May 2nd, 2009 at 78 years old in Rio de Janeiro (leukemia). [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]
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]
Val Avery
American actor (1924-2009).
Born July 14th, 1924 in Philadelphia.
Died December 12th, 2009 at 85 years old in Greenwich Village. [ref]
Ellie Greenwich
American pop music singer, songwriter, and record producer (1940-2009).
Born October 23rd, 1940 in Brooklyn.
Died August 26th, 2009 at 68 years old in Upper West Side (myocardial infarction). [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]
Marianne Stone
English actress (1922–2009).
Born August 23rd, 1922 in London.
Died December 21st, 2009 at 87 years old in London. [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]
Gaafar Nimeiry
Sudanese president (1931-2009).
Born January 1st, 1931 in Omdurman.
Died May 30th, 2009 at 78 years old in Khartoum.
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]
Deaths 181 to 190 of 866
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. Jo Nesbø