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In the year 2009
787 Notable deaths
Paul Fannin
Republican governor of and u.s. senator from arizona (1907–2002).
Born January 29th, 1907 in Ashland.
Died January 13th, 2009 at 101 years old in Phoenix (cerebrovascular disease).
Stanley Jaki
American priest and physicist.
Born August 17th, 1924 in Győr. [ref]
Died April 7th, 2009 at 84 years old in Madrid (myocardial infarction). [ref]
David Levine
American caricaturist (1926-2009).
Born December 20th, 1926 in Brooklyn. [ref]
Died December 29th, 2009 at 83 years old in New York City (prostate cancer). [ref]
Susanna Foster
Actress (1924-2009).
Born December 6th, 1924 in Chicago. [ref]
Died January 17th, 2009 at 84 years old in Lillian Booth Actors Home. [ref]
Grigore Vieru
Moldovan poet.
Born February 14th, 1935 in Pererita.
Died January 18th, 2009 at 73 years old in Chișinău (heart failure).
Al Cervi
American basketball player and coach (1917-2009).
Born February 12th, 1917 in Buffalo.
Died November 9th, 2009 at 92 years old in Rochester. [ref]
Delara Darabi
Iranian artist (1986-2009).
Born September 29th, 1986 in Rasht.
Died May 1st, 2009 at 22 years old in Rasht (hanging). [ref]
Ji Xianlin
Chinese academic.
Born August 6th, 1911 in Linqing. [ref]
Died July 11th, 2009 at 97 years old in Beijing (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Armen Takhtajan
Soviet-armenian botanist (1910-2009).
Born June 10th, 1910 in Shusha.
Died November 13th, 2009 at 99 years old in Saint Petersburg. [ref]
Otto Graf Lambsdorff
German politician (1926-2009).
Born December 20th, 1926 in Aachen.
Died December 5th, 2009 at 82 years old in Bonn. [ref]
Deaths 381 to 390 of 787
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson