The following is a list of notable deaths in 2009 .
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January 1 - Johannes Mario Simmel , 84, Austrian writer .
January 1 - Helen Suzman , 91, South African politician and activist .[1]
January 1 - Aarne Arvonen , 111, Finnish supercentenarian and Finnish Civil War veteran.
January 1 - Nizar Rayan , 49, Palestinian military commander, airstrike.
January 2 - Ryuzo Hiraki , 77, Japanese footballer .
January 2 - Maria de Jesus , 115, Portuguese supercentenarian and oldest-living person, septic shock.
January 3 - Pat Hingle , 84, American actor (Splendor in the Grass , Hang 'Em High , Batman ), blood cancer .[2]
January 3 - Olga San Juan , 81, American actress , kidney failure .[3]
January 5 - Adolf Merckle , 74, German industrialist , suicide .
January 6 - Ron Asheton , 60, American rock guitarist .
January 9 - Rene Herms , 26, German athlete .
January 9 - Dave Dee , 67, British musician , prostate cancer .
January 10 - Bill Stone , 108, British World War I veteran.
January 10 - Rob Gauntlett , 21, British mountaineer , climbing accident.
January 11 - Pio Laghi , 86, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .
January 12 - Claude Berri , 74, French movie director .
January 12 - Arne Naess , 96, Norwegian philosopher .
January 12 - Friaca , 84, Brazilian footballer , multiple organ failure.
January 13 - Patrick McGoohan , 80, American -Irish actor , short illness.
January 14 - Ricardo Montalban , 88, Mexican -American actor , heart failure.
January 15 - Said Seyam , 50, Palestinian government official, airstrike.
January 16 - Andrew Wyeth , 91, American painter , short illness.
January 18 - Tony Hart , 83, British artist and television presenter.
January 18 - Zenonas Petrauskas , 58, Lithuanian lawyer and politician .
January 19 - Beatrice Farve , 113, American supercentenarian .
January 20 - Stephanos II Ghattas , 89, Patriarch of Egyptian Coptic Church .
January 24 - Kay Yow , 66, American basketball coach , breast cancer .
January 25 - Mamadou Dia , 98, 1st Prime Minister of Senegal .
January 27 - Mino Reitano , 64, Italian singer , after long illness.[4]
January 27 - John Updike , 76, American writer , lung cancer .
January 27 - R. Venkataraman , 98, 8th President of India , multiple organ failure.
January 28 - Billy Powell , 56, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd ).
January 29 - John Martyn , 60, British singer and songwriter , pneumonia .
January 30 - Ingemar Johansson , 76, Swedish boxer .
January 30 - Sune Jonsson , 78, Swedish photographer and writer .
Kamila Skolimowska 1982-2009
February 1 - Lukas Foss , 86, German -born American composer and conductor , heart attack .
February 2 - Paul Birch , 46, British footballer , lung cancer .
February 4 - Lux Interior , 62, American singer , songwriter and musician , aortic dissection.
February 5 - Dana Vavrova , 41, Czech -born German actress , cancer .
February 5 - Albert Barille , 88, French television screenwriter and producer.
February 6 - James Whitmore , 87, American actor , lung cancer .
February 8 - Marian Cozma , 26, Romanian handball player, stabbed.
February 9 - Eluana Englaro , 38, Italian patient in right-to-die case, removal of nutrition .
February 10 - Jeremy Lusk , 24, American motocross racer, brain injury.
February 12 - Giacomo Bulgarelli , 68, Italian footballer , after long illness.
February 16 - Stephen Kim Sou-hwan , 86, South Korean archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church .
February 18 - Tayeb Saleh , 80, Sudanese writer .
February 18 - Kamila Skolimowska , 26, Polish hammer thrower.
February 20 - Antonio De Rosso , 68, Italian religious leader.
February 23 - Seppo Kolehmainen , 76, Finnish actor , after long illness.
February 23 - Sverre Fehn , 84, Norwegian architect .
February 25 - Philip Jose Farmer , 91, American writer .
February 26 - Ruth Drexel , 78, German actress .
February 26 - Wendy Richard , 65, British actress , breast cancer .
February 27 - Manea Manescu , 92, former Prime Minister of Romania .
February 28 - Paul Harvey , 90, American radio host .[5]
João Bernardo Vieira 1939-2009
Natasha Richardson 1963-2009
Jade Goody 1981-2009
March 1 - Ken Henry , 80, American speed skater .
March 2 - João Bernardo Vieira , 69, President of Guinea-Bissau , killed.
March 2 - Ernst Benda , 84, German politician .
March 3 - Sebastian Faisst , 20, German handball player.
March 3 - Flemming Flindt , 72, Danish choreographer , after short illness.
March 6 - Francis Magalona , 44, Filipino actor and rapper , leukemia .
March 6 - Susan Tsvangirai , 50, wife of the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai , car accident.
March 7 - Tullio Pinelli , 100, Italian screenwriter .
March 12 - Leonore Annenberg , 91, American philanthropist, natural causes.
March 13 - Andrew Martin , 33, Canadian professional wrestler , accidental overdose.[6]
March 14 - Alain Bashung , 61, French singer , composer and actor , lung cancer .
March 15 - Ron Silver , 62, American actor and political activist , esophageal cancer .
March 17 - Clodovil Hernandes , 71, Brazilian fashion stylist, politician and television presenter, stroke.
March 18 - Glenn Sundby , 87, American gymnast .
March 18 - Natasha Richardson , 45, British actress , epidural hematoma.[7]
March 19 - Gertrud Fussenegger , 96, Austrian writer .
March 19 - Paul Angelis , 66, English actor.
March 20 - Abdellatif Filali , 81, former Prime Minister of Morocco .
March 21 - Walt Poddubny , 49, Canadian ice hockey player.
March 22 - Jade Goody , 27, British celebrity , cervical cancer .[8]
March 24 - George Kell , 86, American baseball player
March 25 - Yukio Endo , 72, Japanese gymnast , esophageal cancer.
March 26 - Arnold Meri , 89, Estonian military officer.
March 26 - Arne Bendiksen , 82, Norwegian singer , composer and record producer, heart failure.
March 28 - Janet Jagan , 88, American -born President of Guyana , abdominal aortic aneurysm.
March 29 - Maurice Jarre , 84, French movie composer .
March 29 - Helen Levitt , 95, American photographer , respiratory failure.
March 29 - Vladimir Fedotov , 66, Russian footballer and coach .
March 31 - Hong Song-nam , 79, North Korean politician .
March 31 - Jarl Alfredius , 66, Swedish journalist , cancer .
March 31 - Raul Alfonsin , 82, former President of Argentina , lung cancer .
Beatrice Arthur 1922-2009
April 1 - Arne Andersson , 91, Swedish runner .
April 4 - Gonzalo Olave , 25, Chilean actor , motorcycle accident.
April 7 - Dave Arneson , 61, American game designer (Dungeons and Dragons ), cancer .
April 11 - Gerda Gilboe , 94, Danish actress .
April 12 - Marilyn Chambers , 56, American pornographic actress , erotic dancer and politician , heart disease.
April 12 - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , 58, American writer and critical theorist , breat cancer.
April 13 - Stefan Brecht , 84, German poet , after long illness.
April 14 - Maurice Druon , 90, French novelist .
April 15 - Clement Freud , 84, German -born British writer , politician and broadcaster.
April 15 - Laszlo Tisza , 101, Hungarian -born American physicist .
April 19 - J. G. Ballard , 78, British writer and novelist , prostate cancer .
April 22 - Ken Annakin , 94, British movie director .
April 22 - Jack Cardiff , 94, British cinematographer , natural causes.
April 22 - Alex Lees , 97, British planner of the Great Escape in World War II .
April 25 - Beatrice Arthur , 86, American actress .
April 26 - Pupuke Robati , 84, Cook Islands physician , politician and Prime Minister .
April 27 - Feroz Khan , 69, Indian actor , cancer .
April 28 - Ekaterina Maximova , 70, Russian ballet dancer.
Nguyễn Bá Cẩn 1930-2009
Roh Moo-hyun 1946-2009
May 1 - Karst Tates , 38, Dutch attempted assassin, injuries.
May 2 - Augusto Boal , 78, Brazilian dramatist and theatre director , respiratory failure.
May 2 - Jack Kemp , 73, American football player and politician , cancer .
May 4 - Dom DeLuise , 75, American actor and entertainer .
May 6 - Valentin Varennikov , 85, Russian general .
May 8 - Dom DiMaggio , 92, American baseball player, pneumonia .
May 9 - Chuck Daly , 78, American basketball coach , cancer .
May 13 - Achille Compagnoni , 94, Italian mountaineer .
May 13 - Waldemar Levy Cardoso , 108, Brazilian field marshal and World War I -era veteran.
May 17 - Mario Benedetti , 88, Uruguayan writer .
May 18 - Wayne Allwine , 62, American voice actor , complications from diabetes .
May 18 - Dolla , 21, American rapper , shot.
May 18 - Velupillai Prabhakaran , 54, Sri Lankan leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , missile attack.
May 19 - Robert F. Furchgott , 92, American scientist and Nobel Prize winner.
May 20 - Lucy Gordon , 28, British actress , suicide .
May 20 - Nguyễn Bá Cẩn , 78, Vietnamese politician and Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam .
May 23 - Roh Moo-hyun , 62, former President of South Korea , suicide .
May 25 - Haakon Lie , 103, Norwegian politician .
May 27 - Clive Grainger , 74, British economist .
May 29 - Karine Ruby , 31, French snowboarder , fall.
May 30 - Luis Cabral , 78, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau .
May 30 - Ephraim Katzir , 93, Israeli biochemist , politician and former President of Israel .
May 30 - Gaafar Nimeiry , 79, former President of Sudan .
May 31 - Millvina Dean , 97, survivor of the RMS Titanic .
May 31 - Danny La Rue , 81, Irish -British female -impersonator and singer , prostate cancer.
May 31 - George Tilley , 67, American physician and abortion provider, shot.
David Carradine 1936-2009
Omar Bongo 1935-2009
Ralf Dahrendorf 1929-2009
Farrah Fawcett 1947-2009
Michael Jackson 1958-2009
Billy Mays 1958-2009
June 1 - Silvio Barbato , 50, Italian -Brazilian opera conductor and composer , Air France Flight 447 crash.
June 2 - David Eddings , 77, American fantasy writer .
June 3 - David Carradine , 72, American actor .
June 3 - Koko Taylor , 80, American blues musician , complications from gastrointestinal surgery .
June 6 - Jean Dausset , 92, French immunologist and Nobel Prize winner.
June 7 - Baron Vaea , 88, former Prime Minister of Tonga , after short illness.
June 8 - Omar Bongo , 73, President of Gabon .
June 10 - Helle Virkner , 83, Danish actress , cancer .
June 12 - Felix Malloum , 76, former President of Chad , cardiac arrest.
June 13 - Mitsuharu Misawa , 46, Japanese professional wrestler , spinal chord surgery.
June 14 - Ivan Della Mea , 68, Italian singer-songwriter and writer , after long illness.
June 17 - Ralf Dahrendorf , 80, German -born British politician , philosopher and social critic, after long illness.
June 19 - Tomoji Tanabe , 113, Japanese supercentenarian and oldest-living man.
June 20 - Neda Agha-Soltan , 27, Iranian student , shot.
June 23 - Hanne Hiob , 86, German actress .
June 23 - Ed McMahon , 86, American television host and announcer.
June 24 - Romeo LeBlanc , 81, former Governor-General of Canada , Alzheimer's disease .
June 25 - Farrah Fawcett , 62, American actress , anal cancer .[9]
June 25 - Michael Jackson , 50, American singer , songwriter , and entertainer , acute propofol intoxication .[10]
June 25 - Sky Saxon , 71, American musician , heart failure.
June 28 - Lucia Lauria Vigna , 113, Italian supercentenarian .
June 28 - Billy Mays , 50, American pitchman and television host (Pitchmen ), hypertensive heart disease.[11]
June 30 - Pina Bausch , 68, German choreographer .
Karl Malden 1912-2009
Walter Cronkite 1916-2009
Leszek Kolakowski 1927-2009
Bobby Robson 1933-2009
July 1 - Mollie Sugden , 86, British actress , natural causes.
July 1 - Karl Malden , 97, American actor .
July 3 - Jorge Enrique Adoum , 83, Ecuadorean poet and writer .
July 4 - Allen Klein , 77, American music manager.
July 5 - Takeo Doi , 89, Japanese psychoanalyst .
July 6 - Vasily Aksyonov , 76, Russian writer .
July 6 - Bleddyn Williams , 86, Welsh rugby player, after long illness.
July 6 - Robert McNamara , 93, American politician .
July 10 - Ebba Haslund , 81, Norwegian writer .
July 11 - Arturo Gatti , 37, Canadian boxer , strangulation.
July 15 - Natalya Estemirova , 51, Russian Human rights activist , shot.
July 17 - Meir Amit , 87, Israel military commander and politician .
July 17 – Walter Cronkite , 92, American television news anchor , cerebrovascular disease .[12]
July 17 - Leszek Kolakowski , 81, Polish philosopher .
July 18 - Henry Allingham , 113, British veteran of World War I , supercentenarian and oldest-living man.
July 19 - Frank McCourt , 78, Irish -American writer , melanoma.
July 19 - Henry Surtees , 18, British racing driver, racing crash.
July 21 - Heinz Edelmann , 75, Czech -German illustrator and designer , heart disease and renal failure.
July 22 - Herbert Morris , 94, American rower .
July 25 - Harry Patch , 111, British veteran of World War I and supercentenarian .
July 26 - Merce Cunningham , 90, American choreographer .
July 27 - Sybil , British Downing Street cat , after short illness.
July 28 - Leela Naidu , 69, Indian actress , after long illness.
July 29 - Zhuo Lin , 93, Chinese widow of Deng Xiaoping .
July 30 - Peter Zadek , 83, German theatre director .
July 31 - Bobby Robson , 76, English footballer and football manager, lung cancer .
Corazon Aquino 1933-2009
Ted Kennedy 1932-2009
August 1 - Corazon Aquino , 76, President of the Philippines (1986 – 1992 ), complications from colon cancer .
August 1 - Princess Felicitas of Prussia , 75, German noblewoman and great-granddaughter of Wilhelm II of Germany .
August 1 - Naomi Sims , 61, American model and writer , breast cancer .
August 4 - Svend Auken , 66, Danish politician , prostate cancer .
August 4 - Joseph Msika , 85, Vice President of Zimbabwe .
August 5 - Budd Schulberg , 95, American screenwriter , playwright and novelist , natural causes.
August 6 - Riccardo Cassin , 100, Italian mountaineer .
August 6 - Willy DeVille , 58, American singer-songwriter , pancreatic cancer.
August 6 - John Hughes , 59, American movie director , screenwriter and producer, heart attack .
August 6 - Murali , 55, Indian actor , heart attack .
August 7 - Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf , 80, Iraqi politician and former Vice President .
August 8 - Daniel Jarque , 26, Spanish footballer , heart attack .
August 10 - Francisco Valdes , 66, Chilean footballer , heart failure.
August 11 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver , 88, American activist , founder of the Special Olympics , sister of John F. Kennedy .[13]
August 13 – Les Paul , 94, American guitarist and inventor , complications from pneumonia .
August 17 - Tiffany Simelane , 21, Swazi beauty pageant contestant, suicide by poisoning.
August 18 - Kim Dae-jung , 85, former President of South Korea and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
August 18 - Hildegard Behrens , 72, German operatic soprano , aortic aneurysm.
August 19 - Don Hewitt , 86, American television producer , pancreatic cancer .
August 20 - Larry Knechtel , 69, American musician , heart attack .
August 22 - Muriel Duckworth , 100, Canadian feminist and activist , complications from a fall.
August 23 - Anna-Maria Mueller , 60, German luger.
August 24 - Toni Sailer , 73, Austrian skier , laryngeal cancer .
August 25 - Mande Sidibe , 69, Maliian economist , politician and Prime Minister , after short illness.
August 25 – Ted Kennedy , 77, American politician , Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009), brain cancer .[14]
August 26 - Abdul Aziz al-Hakim , 56, Iraqi politician , lung cancer .
August 26 - Dominick Dunne , 83, American writer and investigative journalist , bladder cancer .
August 27 - Sergey Mikhalkov , 96, Russian writer .
August 28 - Adam Goldstein , 36, American club disc jockey and musician , suspected drug overdose.
August 28 - Guenter Kiessling , 83, German general .
August 30 - Simon Thirgood , 46, British biologist and ecologist , building collapse.
August 31 - John Choi Young-su , 67, South Korean archbishop .
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Patrick Swayze 1952-2009
September 1 - Erich Kunzel , 74, American conductor , cancer .
September 2 - Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy , 60, Indian politician and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh , helicopter crash.
September 4 - Allan Ekelund , 91, Swedish movie producer .
September 8 – Aage Niels Bohr , 87, Danish physicist , winner of Nobel Prize in Physics (1975 ).[15]
September 10 - Gertrude Noone , 110, American supercentenarian .
September 11 - Yoshito Usui , 51, Japanese manga artist , mountaineering accident.
September 11 - Zakes Mokae , 75, South African actor , complications of a stroke .
September 11 - Juan Almeida Bosque , 82, Cuban revolutionary and politician , cardiac arrest.
September 11 - Gertrude Baines , 115, American supercentenarian and oldest-living person, suspected heart attack .
September 12 - Dominick Brunner , 50, German businessman and manager , blunt trauma.
September 12 - Jack Kramer , 88, American tennis player, cancer .
September 12 - Willy Ronis , 99, French photographer .
September 12 - Norman Borlaug , 95, American agronomist and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
September 14 - Keith Floyd , 65, British chef , heart attack .
September 14 – Patrick Swayze , 57, American actor , singer-songwriter and dancer , pancreatic cancer .[16]
September 15 – Timothy Bateson , 83, British actor .[17]
September 16 - Mary Travers , 72, American singer , leukemia .
September 17 - Noordin Mohammad Top , 41, Malaysian Islamist militant, shot.
September 18 - Irving Kristol , 89, American political commentator.
September 19 - Eduard Zimmermann , 80, German journalist and television presenter.
September 22 - Lucy Vodden , 46, British song inspiration, lupus .
September 23 - Ertugrul Osman , 97, Turkish head of the Ottoman dynasty , lung and kidney failure.
September 24 - Nelly Arcan , 35, Canadian novelist , suicide .
September 24 - Susan Atkins , 61, American murderer , brain cancer .
September 25 - Alicia de Larrocha , 86, Spanish pianist .
September 25 – Clifton Maloney , 71, American businessman , husband of U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney , mountaineering accident.[18]
September 25 – Bob Stupak , 67, American casino owner (Vegas World , Stratosphere Las Vegas ), leukemia .[19]
September 27 - William Safire , 79, American speechwriter for Richard Nixon and political columnist for the New York Times
September 28 - Guillermo Endara , 73, former President of Panama .
September 28 - Ulf Larsson , 53, Swedish actor and stage director .
September 29 - Pavel Popovich , 78, Soviet -Ukrainian cosmonaut .
September 30 - Pentti Airikkala , 64, Finnish rally driver, prostate cancer .
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October 2 - Marek Edelmann , 87, Polish social activist .
October 2 - Rolf Ruessmann , 58, German footballer , prostate cancer .
October 3 - Fatima , 98, former Queen of Libya .
October 3 - Reinhard Mohn , 88, German entrepreneur and publisher.
October 4 - Shoichi Nakagawa , 56, Japanese politician , suicide .
October 4 - Mercedes Sosa , 74, Argentine singer .
October 4 - Guenther Rall , 91, German Luftwaffe pilot .
October 5 - Giselher Klebe , 84, German composer .
October 5 - Israel Gelfand , 96, Russian mathematician .
October 6 - Werner Maihofer , 90, German politician .
October 7 - Irving Penn , 92, American fashion photographer .
October 9 - Horst Szymaniak , 75, German footballer .
October 10 - Stephen Gately , 33, Irish singer (Boyzone ).
October 13 - Al Martino , 82, American singer and actor .
October 14 – Lou Albano , 76, American professional wrestler and manager , and actor (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! ), natural causes .[20]
October 14 – Bruce Wasserstein , 61, American investment banker and businessman .[21]
October 14 – Collin Wilcox , 74, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird ), brain cancer .[22]
October 15 – George Tuska , 93, American Golden Age comic book artist (Iron Man ).[23]
October 16 – Bob Davis , 77, American politician , U.S. Representative for Michigan (1979–1993), heart and kidney failure .[24]
October 17 - Rosanna Schiaffino , 69, Italian movie actress , cancer .
October 17 – Jay W. Johnson , 66, American U.S. Representative for Wisconsin (1997–1999), U.S. Mint Director (2000–2001), heart attack .[25]
October 18 – Jasper Howard , 20, American football player, stabbed .[26]
October 18 – Leonard B. Keller , 62, American soldier , Medal of Honor recipient, motorcycle accident .[27]
October 18 – Nancy Spero , 83, American artist , heart failure .[28]
October 19 - Howard Unruh , 88, American spree killer.
October 19 - Joseph Wiseman , 91, Canadian actor .
October 20 – Clifford Hansen , 97, American politician , Governor of Wyoming (1963–1967) and U.S. Senator (1967–1978).[29]
October 22 – Soupy Sales , 83, American comedian .[30]
October 23 - Lou Jacobi , 95, Canadian actor .
October 23 - Shiloh Pepin , 10, American medical figure, pneumonia .
October 25 - Camillo Cibin , 83, Italian former commander of the Corps Gendarmerie of Vatican City .
October 28 - Taylor Mitchell , 19, Canadian singer , injuries from coyote attack.
October 29 - Norman Painting , 85, British radio actor , heart failure.
October 30 - Claude Levi-Strauss , 100, French anthropologist .
October 31 - Qian Xuesen , 97, Chinese scientist .
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Robert Enke 1977-2009
Samak Sundaravej 1935-2009
November 2 - Mark Smith , 49, British musician (The Waterboys ) and record producer .
November 3 - Francisco Ayala , 103, Spanish novelist , natural causes.
November 4 - Hubertus Brandenburg , 85, German -born Swedish bishop .
November 6 - Manuel Solis , 91, former President of Panama , pulmonary edema.
November 8 - Vitaly Ginzburg , 93, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize winner.
November 10 - Robert Enke , 32, German footballer , suicide by train impact.
November 10 – John Allen Muhammad , 48, American serial killer , lethal injection .[31]
November 11 - John Jay O'Connor , 79, American lawyer, husband of Sandra Day O'Connor , Alzheimer's disease .
November 12 - Bernard Kolelas , 76, former Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo .
November 15 - Pierre Harmel , 98, former Prime Minister of Belgium .
November 15 - Pavle, Serbian Patriarch , 95, Serbian religious leader.
November 16 - Edward Woodward , 79, British actor .
November 16 - Olivia Patricia Thomas , 114, American supercentenarian .
November 18 - Jeanne-Claude , 74, French artist , ruptured brain aneurysm.
November 20 - Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi , 78, Pakistani politician and former Prime Minister .
November 21 - Konstantin Feoktistov , 83, Soviet -Russian cosmonaut and aerospace engineer .
November 24 - Samak Sundaravej , 74, former Prime Minister of Thailand , liver cancer .
November 24 - José Arraño , 88, Chilean writer .
November 24 - Abe Pollin , 85, American , Owner of Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals , corticobasal degeneration.[32]
November 27 - Erich Boehme , 79, German journalist , cancer .
November 28 - Tony Kendall , 73, Italian actor , after short illness.
November 29 - Prince Alexander of Belgium , 67, Belgian royal, pulmonary embolism.
November 30 - Paul Naschy , 75, Spanish actor , screenwriter and director , pancreatic cancer .
November 30 - Milorad Pavic , 80, Serbian writer , heart failure.
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December 1 - Ramses Shaffy , 76, Dutch singer and actress .
December 2 - Aaron Schroeder , 83, American songwriter and music producer .
December 2 - Maggie Jones , 75, British actress .
December 3 - Richard Todd , 90, Irish -born British actor , cancer .
December 4 - Vyacheslav Tikhonov , 81, Russian actor .
December 4 - Eddie Fatu , 36, Samoan -American professional wrestler , heart attack .
December 5 - Alfred Hrdlicka , 81, Austrian architect and draughtsman.
December 5 - Otto Graf Lambsdorff , 82, German politician .
December 9 - Gene Barry , 90, American actor , heart failure.
December 9 - Kjell Eugenio Laugerud Garcia , 79, former President of Guatemala , cancer .
December 13 - Paul Samuelson , 94, American economist , winner 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics .[33]
December 15 - Oral Roberts , 91, American evangelist , complications from pneumonia .
December 16 - Yegor Gaidar , 53, Russian politician .[34] [35]
December 16 - Manto Tshabalala-Msimang , 69, South African politician , complications from a liver transplant.
December 16 - Roy E. Disney , 79, American entertainment executive, stomach cancer .
December 17 - Amin al-Hafiz , 88, former President of Syria .
December 17 - Jennifer Jones , 90, American actress .[36]
December 19 - Hossein-Ali Montazeri , 87, Iranian cleric and dissident , natural causes.
December 19 - Kim Peek , 58, American savant, heart attack .[37]
December 20 - Brittany Murphy , 32, American actress .[38] [39]
December 21 - Edwin G. Krebs , 91, American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner.
December 22 - Luis Francisco Cuellar , 69, Colombian politician , murdered .
December 23 - Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme , 99, Tibetan politician .[40]
December 24 - Rafael Caldera , 93, Venezuelan President .[41]
December 25 - Vic Chesnutt , 45, American musician , muscle relaxant overdose.
December 25 - Knut Haugland , 92, Norwegian explorer and last-surviving member of the Kon-Tiki expedition.
December 28 - James "The Rev" Sullivan , 28, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold ), accidental overdose.
December 29 - Akmal Shaikh , 53, British drug trafficker, executed.[42]
December 29 - "Dr. Death" Steve Williams , 49, American professional wrestler , throat cancer .
December 30 - Abdurrahman Wahid , 69, 4th President of Indonesia .[43]
December 31 - Rashidi Kawawa , 83, former Prime Minister of Tanganyika and Tanzania .
December 31 - Cahal Daly , 92, Irish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .
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