Deaths in 2009
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- André Almuró, (1927 - 2009) French radio producer, composer and film director.
- Christian Enzensberger, 77, German anglicist, author and translator (Smut: An Anatomy of Dirt).
- Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, 85, British politician and writer (Eros Denied).
- Paul Naschy, 75, Spanish film actor, screenwriter and director.
- Charles Seliger, 83, American artist.
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, French anthropologist.
- Irving Penn, 92, American photographer.
- Nelly Arcan, 35, Canadian novelist, suicide.
- Susan Atkins, 61, American murderer ('Manson Family' member), brain cancer.
- Les Paul, 94, American guitarist and inventor, complications from pneumonia.
- Rashied Ali, 74, American jazz drummer, heart attack.
- Willy DeVille, 55, American singer and songwriter (Mink DeVille), pancreatic cancer.
- John Hughes, 59, American film director (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club), heart attack.
- Harry Alan Towers, 88, British film producer and screenwriter, after short illness.
- Billy Lee Riley, 75, American rockabilly musician, cancer.
- Baatin, 35, American rapper (Slum Village).
- Peter Zadek, 83, German stage director, illness
- Merce Cunningham, 90, American choreographer, natural causes.
- Allen Klein, 77, American businessman, Beatles and Rolling Stones manager, Alzheimer's disease.
- Pina Bausch, 68, German modern dance choreographer, cancer.
- Farrah Fawcett, 62, American actress, anal cancer.
- Michael Jackson, 50, American singer–songwriter and pop icon, cardiac arrest.
- Sky Saxon, 63, American rock musician (The Seeds).
- Ali Akbar Khan, 87, Indian sarod player, kidney failure.
- Zé Rodrix, 61, Brazilian musician.
- James Kirkup, 91, British poet, translator and travel writer, stroke.
- Dom DeLuise, 75, American actor (The Cannonball Run, Blazing Saddles), writer, chef and cookbook author, renal failure.
- Tom McGrath, 68, British poet and playwright, liver cancer.
- Jack Jones, 96, British trade union leader, veteran of the International Brigades.
- Jack Cardiff, 94, British cinematographer (Black Narcissus, A Matter Of Life And Death).
- J. G. Ballard, 78, British novelist, prostate cancer.
- Peter Rogers, 95, British film producer (Carry On series).
- Maurice Druon, 90, French novelist and Dean of the Académie française.
- Marilyn Chambers, 56, American pornographic actress (Behind the Green Door).
- Wouter Barendrecht, 43, Dutch film producer, heart failure.
- Helen Levitt, 95, American photographer.
- Maurice Jarre, 84, French composer
- Dan Seals, 61, American country music singer-songwriter (England Dan & John Ford Coley), mantle cell lymphoma.
- Ronald Tavel, 72, American playwright, heart attack.
- Manny Oquendo, 78, American percussionist for the Tito Puente and Tito Rodríguez orchestras
- Uriel Jones, 74, American drummer (Funk Brothers), complications from a heart attack.
- Natasha Richardson, 45, British actress, traumatic brain injury.
- James Purdy, 94, American novelist, poet and playwright.
- Alan W. Livingston, 91, American music executive, former President of Capitol Records, creator of Bozo the clown.
- John Atkins, British writer (Sex in Literature), 92,
- Salvatore Samperi, 64, Italian film director.
- Horton Foote, 92, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
- Wendy Richard, 65, British actress (Are You Being Served?, EastEnders), cancer.
- Jaap Kruithof, 91, Belgian philosopher
- Philip José Farmer, 91, American writer (Riverworld series).
- Franciszek Starowieyski, 79, Polish artist.
- Howard Zieff, 81, American film director (Private Benjamin), complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Christopher Nolan, 43, Irish author, winner of the Whitbread Prize (1988), pulmonary aspiration.
- Oreste Lionello, 81, Italian actor, entertainer and film dubber, after long illness.
- Joe Cuba, 78, American musician, complications of a bacterial infection.
- Louie Bellson, 84, American jazz drummer.
- Edward Upward, 105, British writer.
- Hugh Leonard, 82, Irish playwright.
- Orlando "Cachaito" López, 76, Cuban bassist (Buena Vista Social Club), complications from prostate surgery.
- Blossom Dearie, 82, American jazz singer and pianist (Schoolhouse Rock!), after long illness.
- Erick Purkhiser, 62, American punk rock musician (The Cramps), heart condition.
- John Martyn, 60, British singer-songwriter.
- John Updike, 76, American author (Rabbit Is Rich, The Witches of Eastwick), lung cancer.
- Charles H. Schneer, 88, American film producer (Jason and the Argonauts[1]).
- Andrew Wyeth, 91, American painter (Christina's World), after short illness.
- Patrick McGoohan, 80, American-born Irish actor (The Prisoner, Braveheart), after short illness. [2]
- Claude Berri, 74, French film director (Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources), stroke.
- Ray Dennis Steckler, 70, American film director.
- Ron Asheton, 60, American guitarist (The Stooges), heart attack (death announced in 2009).
- Hank Crawford, 74, American jazz, rhythm and blues saxophonist, complications from a stroke.
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