In the year 2009
866 Notable deaths
Mamadou Dia
Prime minister of senegal (1910-2009).
Born July 18th, 1910 in Khombole. [ref]
Died January 25th, 2009 at 98 years old in Dakar. [ref]
Johannes Mario Simmel
Austrian writer.
Born April 7th, 1924 in Vienna. [ref]
Died January 1st, 2009 at 84 years old in Lucerne. [ref]
Salvatore Samperi
Italian film director.
Born July 26th, 1944 in Padua. [ref]
Died March 5th, 2009 at 64 years old in Rome.
Mari Trini
Spanish singer-songwriter.
Born July 12th, 1947 in Murcia. [ref]
Died April 7th, 2009 at 61 years old in Murcia (lung cancer). [ref]
H. C. Robbins Landon
American musicologist.
Born March 6th, 1926 in Boston. [ref]
Died November 23rd, 2009 at 83 years old in Rabastens. [ref]
Shilendra Kumar Singh
Indian diplomat and politician (1932–2009).
Born January 24th, 1932.
Died December 1st, 2009 at 77 years old [ref]
Marcella Althaus-Reid
Argentine theologian.
Born May 11th, 1952 in Rosario.
Died February 20th, 2009 at 56 years old in Edinburgh. [ref]
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Russian mathematician.
Born March 30th, 1929 in Moscow. [ref]
Died February 21st, 2009 at 79 years old in Tel Aviv. [ref]
Christian Poveda
French journalist (1955–2009).
Born January 12th, 1957 in Algiers.
Died September 2nd, 2009 at 52 years old in Tonacatepeque. [ref]
George Perle
American composer.
Born May 6th, 1915 in Bayonne.
Died January 23rd, 2009 at 93 years old in Manhattan. [ref]
Deaths 441 to 450 of 866
Death is a distant rumor to the young. Andrew A. Rooney