The following is a list of deaths in May 2009.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
*Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
May 2009
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Delara Darabi
Delara Darabi ( fa, دلارا دارابى) (29 September 19861 May 2009) was an Iranian Gilaki woman who was sentenced to death after having been convicted of murdering her father's female cousin in 2003. Although Delara initially claimed that ...
, 22, Iranian convicted murderer, executed by hanging.
* Fred Delmare, 87, German actor, complications from pneumonia.
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Ric Estrada
Ric Estrada (February 26, 1928 – May 1, 2009) was a Cuban American comics artist who worked for companies including the major American publisher DC Comics. He also worked in comic strips, political cartoons, advertising, storyboarding, and co ...
, 81, Cuban-born American comic book artist (''
Superman
Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and debuted in the comic book ''Action Comics'' #1 (cover-dated June 1938 and publi ...
'', ''
Batman
Batman is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, and debuted in Detective Comics 27, the 27th issue of the comic book ''Detective Comics'' on ...
''), co-creator of Power Girl, prostate cancer.
* Danny Gans, 52, American entertainer.
* Norman Gash, 97, British historian.
* Brian Grove, 88, Australian cricketer.
*
Albert Hamilton Gordon
Albert Hamilton Gordon (July 21, 1901 – May 1, 2009), was an American businessman who transformed the Wall Street firm of Kidder Peabody. He bought the firm in 1931 and remained its chairman until selling it to General Electric in 1986. H ...
San Leandro, California
San Leandro (Spanish for " St. Leander") is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area; between Oakland to the northwest, and Ashland, Castro Valley, and Hayward to the sou ...
.
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Derek Noonan
Derek Noonan (1 February 1947 – 1 May 2009) was an English rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for St Helens RUFC, as a wing, i.e. number 11 or 14, and ...
, 62, British rugby league and rugby union player.
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Marc Rocco
Marc Rocco (June 19, 1962 – May 1, 2009) was an American film director, film producer and screenwriter.
Rocco was born Marc Daniel King in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, to Harvey King and Sandra Elaine Garrett (1942–2002). Garrett married ...
Where the Day Takes You
''Where the Day Takes You'' is a 1992 American crime drama thriller film directed by Marc Rocco and starring Dermot Mulroney, Sean Astin, Balthazar Getty, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ricki Lake, James LeGros, Laura San Giacomo, David Arquette, Christian Sl ...
'') and screenwriter.
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Sunline
Sunline (29 September 1995 – 1 May 2009) was a champion New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was the world's highest earning race mare of her time. She won 32 of her 48 races with earnings of NZ$14,200,000. She was named the New Zealand ...
, 13, New Zealand champion racehorse, euthanized.
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John Wilke
John Wilke (December 12, 1954 – May 1, 2009)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an American investigative reporter and news editor in the Washington bureau of ''The Wall Street Journal'' for two ...
, 54, American investigative reporter, pancreatic cancer.
K. Balaji
Krishnamachari Balaji (24 June 19342 May 2009) was an Indian film producer and actor. He was a prominent actor in the 1960s and 70s, playing lead, supporting and antagonist roles. He appeared in many Sivaji Ganesan films.
Early life
Balaji was ...
, 74, Indian Tamil actor and producer, multiple organ failure.
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Augusto Boal
Augusto Boal (16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical left popular education movemen ...
, 78, Brazilian dramatist and theater director (
Theatre of the Oppressed
The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first elaborated in the 1970s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal was influenced by the work of the educator and theoris ...
), respiratory failure.
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Víctor Andrés Catena
Víctor Andrés Catena (1925 – 2 May 2009) was a Spanish screenwriter and film, television and theater director.
Originally titled as ''Ray el Magnífico'', he wrote the story of ''A Fistful of Dollars'' (1964), and '' I pirati della Malesia' ...
, 84, Spanish screenwriter and director.
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Marilyn French
Marilyn French (; November 21, 1929 – May 2, 2009) was an American radical feminist author.
Life
French was born in Brooklyn to E. Charles Edwards, an engineer, and Isabel Hazz Edwards, a department store clerk. In her youth, she was a jour ...
, 79, American writer, heart failure.
* Harold Hankins, 78, British electrical engineer and academic administrator, Vice-Chancellor of UMIST.
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Kiyoshiro Imawano
, born , was a Japanese rock musician, lyricist, composer, musical producer, and actor from Tokyo, Japan. He was dubbed "Japan's King of Rock". He formed and led the influential rock band RC Succession. He wrote many anti-nuclear songs followin ...
, 58, Japanese rock musician.
* Janus Kamban, 95, Faroese sculptor and graphic designer.
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Jack Kemp
Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a professional football player. A member of the Republican Party from New York, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bu ...
, 73, American politician and football player, candidate for Vice President (1996), cancer.
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Carole C. Noon
Carole Cooney Noon (born ''Carole Jane Cooney''; July 13, 1949 – May 2, 2009) was an American anthropologist and primatologist best known for founding (in 1997) Save the Chimps, a Florida non-profit chimpanzee sanctuary that is the largest such s ...
, 59, American primatologist, founder of Save the Chimps, pancreatic cancer.
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Robert Pauley
Robert Reinhold Pauley (October 17, 1923 – May 2, 2009) was an American radio broadcasting executive who served as president of the ABC Radio network during a period when it faced challenges from television as the most popular form of mass m ...
, 85, American executive, President of ABC Radio (1961–1967), heart failure.
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Virginia Prince
Virginia Charles Prince (November 23, 1912 – May 2, 2009), born Arnold Lowman, was an American transgender activist. She published '' Transvestia'' magazine, and started the ''Foundation for Personality Expression (FPE)''
and later the Society ...
John Elsworthy
John Elsworthy (26 July 1931 – 3 May 2009) was a Welsh association football, footballer. A midfielder, he was signed by Ipswich Town manager Scott Duncan (footballer), Scott Duncan in May 1949, after playing as an amateur for Newport County A.F ...
, 77, Welsh football player (
Ipswich Town
Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. They play in League One, the third tier of the English football league system.
The club was founded in 1878 but did not turn profession ...
).
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Eddie Hui
Eddie Hui Ki-on, GBS, CBE, QPM, CPM (, 10 October 1943 - 3 May 2009) was the last Commissioner of the Royal Hong Kong Police from 1994–1997, and the first Commissioner of Hong Kong Police from 1 July 1997 to 1 January 2001. Li Kwan-ha ran th ...
, 65, Hong Kong public servant, Commissioner of Police (1994–2001), cancer.
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Eleanor Perenyi
Eleanor Spencer Stone Perényi (January 4, 1918 – May 3, 2009) was a gardener and author. She wrote several books including ''Green Thoughts'', a collection of essays based on her own gardening experiences.
Biography
Eleanor Perenyi was the dau ...
, 91, American gardener and writer, cerebral hemorrhage.
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Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar
Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar (2 March 1931 – 3 May 2009) was a Marathi orator, writer, and literary critic from Maharashtra, India.
He was born on 2 March 1931 in Achalpur in Amravati district of Maharashtra.
Career
Shewalkar obtained post gra ...
, 78, Indian Marathi writer, cardiac arrest.
* Ralph Thompson, 95, British animal artist.
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Nicholas Clemente
Nicholas A. Clemente J.D., LL.M. (2 February 1929 – 4 May 2009)
was a justice of the New York State Supreme Court where he served for over 25 years, mainly in Brooklyn. He was also a professor, Judicial Hearing Officer and novelist. In 20 ...
, 80, American judge (
New York Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the New York State Unified Court System. (Its Appellate Division is also the highest intermediate appellate court.) It is vested with unlimited civ ...
Spaceballs
''Spaceballs'' is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It is primarily a parody of the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy, but also parodies other sci-fi films and popular franchises including ...
Jane Randolph
Jane Randolph (née Roemer; October 30, 1914 – May 4, 2009), was an American film actress. She is best known for her portrayals of Alice Moore in the 1942 horror film '' Cat People'', and its sequel, ''The Curse of the Cat People'' (1944). S ...
, 93, American actress.
* Gisela Stein, 73, German actress.
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* Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match.
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David S. King
David Sjodahl King (June 20, 1917 – May 5, 2009) was a United States House of Representatives, representative from Utah. He was a member of the United States Democratic Party, Democratic Party.
Early life and education
King was born in S ...
, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative for Utah (1959–1963).
* Richard Miller, 83, American operatic tenor and educator, Professor Emeritus of Voice ( Oberlin Conservatory of Music).
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Dewey Smith
Dewey Dewayne Smith (July 24, 1972 – May 5, 2009) was an Underwater diving, underwater diver, former United States Navy medic and professional aquanaut. He died during a dive from the Aquarius (laboratory), Aquarius underwater habitat off Key L ...
, 36, American diver.
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Elsie B. Washington
Elsie Bernice Washington (December 28, 1942 – May 5, 2009) was an American author whose 1980 work ''Entwined Destinies'' has been considered the first romance novel written by an African-American author featuring African-American characters ...
, 66, American author, wrote first African American romance novel, multiple sclerosis and cancer.
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Murasaki Yamada
, born as Mitsuko Shiratori, was a Japanese manga artist, feminist essayist and poet. She was associated with the alternative manga magazine ''Garo''.
Life
She made her debut as a professional manga artist in 1969 in Osamu Tezuka's avantgarde m ...
, 60, Japanese manga artist.
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Peyman Abadi
Peyman Jalali Abadi ( fa, پیمان جلالی ابدی) was an Iranian stuntman actor . He started his career in Germany, particularly in the TV series ''Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei''. He later returned to Iran and worked in var ...
Sam Cohn
Samuel Charles Cohn (May 11, 1929 – May 6, 2009) was an American talent agent at International Creative Management, a firm he helped create, in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
Cohn has been described as one of the most powerful a ...
, 79, American talent agent, after short illness.
* Leon Despres, 101, American attorney and politician, heart failure.
* Ean Evans, 48, American bassist (
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd ( ) is an American rock music, rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida. The group originally formed as My Backyard in 1964 and comprised Ronnie Van Zant (lead vocalist), Gary Rossington (guitar), Allen Collins (guitar), Larry Ju ...
), cancer.
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Sima Eyvazova
Sima Eyvazova ( az, Sima Rəhman qızı Eyvazova; 2 October 1933 – 6 May 2009), was an Azerbaijani diplomat, first representative of the independent Republic at the United Nations Office in Geneve between 1994 and 1999.
Biography
Born in Baku ...
, 75, Azerbaijani diplomat, first Permanent Representative to the UN.
* Kevin Grubb, 31, American NASCAR driver, suicide by gunshot.
* Sid Laverents, 100, American amateur filmmaker, pneumonia.
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Lev Loseff
Lev Loseff (russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ло́сев; birth name Lev Lifshitz; June 15, 1937 – May 6, 2009) was a Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator.
Early life and education
The son of poet Vladimir Lifshitz, ...
, 71, Russian poet and literary critic.
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Bob Meyer
Robert Bernard Meyer (born August 4, 1939) is an American former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He was signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1960. Meyer pitched for the Yankees (1964), Los Angeles Angels (1964), K ...
, 76, Australian logician, lung cancer.
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W. Wesley Peterson
William Wesley Peterson (April 22, 1924 – May 6, 2009) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was best known for designing the cyclic redundancy check (CRC),
– The original paper on CRCs
for which research he was awarded ...
, 85, American mathematician and computer scientist.
* Valentin Varennikov, 85, Russian general.
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Viola Wills
Viola Mae Wilkerson (December 30, 1939 – May 6, 2009), better known professionally as Viola Wills was an American pop and R&B singer, best known for her disco/dance/Hi-NRG covers of classics and other standards such as Patience and Prud ...
, 69, American pop singer, cancer.
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Robin Blaser
Robin Francis Blaser (May 18, 1925 – May 7, 2009) was an author and poet in both the United States and Canada.
Personal background
Born in Denver, Colorado, Blaser grew up in Idaho, and came to Berkeley, California, in 1944. There he met Jack ...
The Wizard of Oz
''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' or ''The Wizard of Oz'' most commonly refers to:
*'' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'', a 1900 American novel by L. Frank Baum often reprinted as ''The Wizard of Oz''
** Wizard of Oz (character), from the Baum novel serie ...
'').
*
Ian Cundy
Ian Patrick Martyn Cundy (23 April 19457 May 2009) was a Church of England cleric who served successively as area Bishop of Lewes and Bishop of Peterborough.
Background
Born in Sherborne, Dorset, on 23 April 1945, he was the son of Henry Mart ...
Linda Dangcil
Linda Dangcil (June 19, 1941 – May 7, 2009) was an American actress and dancer best known for her roles as Sister Ana in the ABC television series ''The Flying Nun'' and Carmen 'Raya' Alonso in the animated series '' Jem''.
Dangcil was a n ...
The Bad Pack
''The Bad Pack'' is a 1997 independent action film written and directed by Brent Huff, and starring Robert Davi, Roddy Piper, Ralf Möller, Larry B. Scott, Shawn Huff, and Patrick Dollaghan. The film also stars Brent Huff, Marshall R. Teague, Dani ...
''), throat cancer.
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John Furia Jr.
John Furia Jr. (1929 – May 7, 2009) was an American television writer, whose credits included ''Bonanza'', ''Hotel'' (co-developed with Barry Oringer), ''Hawaii Five-O'', ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Kung Fu'', ''The Waltons'' and ''Dr. Kildare''.
...
Dr. Kildare
Dr. James Kildare is a fictional American medical doctor, originally created in the 1930s by the author Frederick Schiller Faust under the pen name Max Brand. Shortly after the character's first appearance in a magazine story, Paramount Pictur ...
Alan Gilbertson
Alan William Gilbertson (6 December 1927 – 7 May 2009) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played eight first-class matches for Otago between the 1951–52 and 1953–54 seasons.Tony Marsh, 77, British racing driver.
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David Mellor
David John Mellor (born 12 March 1949) is a British broadcaster, barrister, and former politician. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major as Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1990–92) and ...
, 78, British industrial designer, manufacturer and retailer.
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Frank Melton
Frank Ervin Melton (March 19, 1949 – May 7, 2009) was the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, United States, from 4 July 2005 until his death on 7 May 2009. Melton, an African American, defeated the city's first black mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr ...
Danny Ozark
Daniel Leonard Ozark, born ''Orzechowski'' (November 26, 1923 – May 7, 2009), was an American coach and manager in Major League Baseball. As manager of the Philadelphia Phillies (1973–August 31, 1979), Ozark led the Phils to three consecutive ...
, 85, American baseball manager.
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Brian Sorenson
Brian Sorenson (13 November 1929 – 7 May 2009) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played twelve first-class matches for Auckland between 1955 and 1958.
See also
* List of Auckland representative cricketers
This is a list of all cricket ...
Gianni Baget Bozzo
Gianni Baget Bozzo (8 March 1925 – 8 May 2009) was an Italian Catholic priest and politician.
Baget Bozzo was born in Savona and raised in Genoa where he graduated in law. At one-time Christian-Democrat activist, in 1984 he was elected at ...
, 84, Italian Roman Catholic priest and politician.
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Fons Brydenbach
Alfons ("Fons") Brydenbach (12 October 1954 – 8 May 2009) was a Belgian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. He is a former world indoor record holder.
Career
He was born in 1954 in Vorselaar. In 1973 he won the gold medal at the Eu ...
Ninel Kurgapkina
Ninel Aleksandrovna Kurgapkina (russian: Нинель Александровна Кургапкина; 13 February 1929, Leningrad – 10 May 2009, Beloostrov) was a Soviet and Russian dance teacher and former prima ballerina for the Kirov Ball ...
, 80, Russian prima ballerina, road accident.
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Greg Palmer
Greg Palmer (May 1947 – May 8, 2009) was an American writer and Emmy Award-winning television producer and reporter.
Greg Palmer was born in Seattle and raised on Mercer Island near Seattle, WA in May 1947 to attorney Harvard Palmer and his w ...
, 61, American writer, television reporter and Emmy Award-winning journalist, lung cancer.
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Bud Shrake
Edwin A. "Bud" Shrake, Jr. (September 6, 1931 – May 8, 2009) was an American journalist, sportswriter, novelist, biographer and screenwriter. He co-wrote a series of golfing advice books with golf coach Harvey Penick, including ''Harvey Penick' ...
, 77, American journalist and novelist, lung cancer.
* Eunice Taylor, 75, American baseball player ( Kenosha Comets).
AAGPBL
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was a professional women's baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. The AAGPBL is the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the Uni ...
Chuck Daly
Charles Jerome Daly (July 20, 1930 – May 9, 2009) was an American basketball head coach. He led the Detroit Pistons to two consecutive National Basketball Association (NBA) championships in 1989 and 1990—during the team's "Bad Boys" era— ...
, 78, American basketball coach, pancreatic cancer.
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Travis Edmonson
Travis Edmonson (September 23, 1932 – May 9, 2009) was an American folk singer, who performed both as a soloist and in the duo Bud & Travis.
Early life
Edmonson was born on September 23, 1932, in Long Beach, California, but grew up in Nogales, ...
, 76, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (
Bud & Travis
Bud & Travis was an American folk music duo from San Francisco, California, consisting of Bud Dashiell and Travis Edmonson.
Bud & Travis began recording together in 1958; Edmonson was related to Colin Edmonson, whom Dashiell had met while serving ...
Cyril Edwin Hart
Cyril Edwin Hart OBE (22 March 1913 – 9 May 2009) was an English forestry expert, author, and historian.
He was appointed as one of the four verderers of the Forest of Dean in 1952, and was the longest serving Senior Verderer of Verderer's Cou ...
, 96, British forestry expert.
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Henry T. King
Henry T. King Jr. (born May 27, 1919, Meriden, Connecticut, died May 9, 2009 Cleveland, Ohio) was an attorney who served as a U.S. Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946-47. Late in his career, he became a law professor and an activist, w ...
, 89, American attorney, Nuremberg trials prosecutor, cancer.
* David Marcus, 85, Irish literary editor, after long illness.
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Ernest Millington
Ernest Rogers Millington (15 February 19169 May 2009) was a British Common Wealth and later Labour Member of Parliament (MP).
Following the death of John Profumo on 10 March 2006, Millington was the only living former MP from the 38th Parl ...
, 93, British politician and educator, last living World War II-era member of the British Parliament.
* Eugene Smith, 88, American gospel singer.
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Evgenios Spatharis
Evgenios Spatharis ( el, Ευγένιος Σπαθάρης; January 2, 1924 – May 9, 2009) was the most prominent shadow theatre artist in Greece. He is credited with having brought the traditional Karagiozis plays to mass audiences through telev ...
, 85, Greek shadow play artist, fall.
* Mendi Rodan, 80, Romanian-born Israeli conductor and violinist, cancer.
* Jean-Claude Van Geenberghe, 46, Belgian-born Ukrainian equestrian.
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George Zinkhan
George Martin Zinkhan, III (February 17, 1952 – May 9, 2009) was an American academic and poet. Zinkhan was a professor of marketing at the University of Georgia from 1994 until April 26, 2009.
He was named as the prime suspect in a tr ...
, 57, American academic and suspected murderer, suicide by gunshot.
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* Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, 45-46, Libyan Al-Qaeda paramilitary trainer accused of terrorism, alleged suicide.
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Robert John Cornell
Robert John Cornell, Premonstratensians, O.Praem (December 16, 1919 – May 10, 2009) was an American Catholic Church, Catholic priest, professor, and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin ...
, 89, American politician and Roman Catholic priest, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin (1975–1979).
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Ronald Easterbrook
Ronald Leonard Easterbrook (11 May 1931 – 10 May 2009) was a convicted armed robber and self-confessed career criminal. Easterbrook is most notable for going on hunger strike in protest over his conviction for an armed robbery in Woolwich in ...
, 78, British criminal.
* Sergio Escobedo, 78, Mexican Olympic modern pentathlete and fencer.
* Johnnie Johnson, 91, English cricketer.
* James Kirkup, 91, British poet, translator and travel writer, stroke.
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Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano
Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano (November 28, 1960 – May 10, 2009) was a Guatemalan attorney. Before his death, Rosenberg recorded a video message saying if he were murdered, Álvaro Colom Caballeros, President of Guatemala, Gustavo Alejos, Sandra ...
, 47, Guatemalan lawyer, shot.
* Brian Simnjanovski, 27, American football player (
Berlin Thunder
The Berlin Thunder were a professional American football team in NFL Europe.
History
The Thunder came into existence as an expansion team, after the London/England Monarchs franchise shut down operations, prior to the 1999 season. Home games f ...
), car accident.
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Robert J. Sinclair
Robert J. Sinclair, (March 17, 1932 – May 10, 2009) was an American automotive industry executive who served as Chief executive officer of Saab-Scania of America from May 1979 until September 1991, where he helped improve the popularity of ...
, 77, American executive, CEO of Saab-Scania of America, cancer.
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Pat Booth
Pat Booth, Lady Lowe (24 April 1943 – 11 May 2009) was an English model, photographer, and author of romantic fiction.
Biography
Raised in the East End of London by a boxer father and an ambitious mother, Booth posed for such photographers ...
, 66, British model and writer, cancer.
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Lude Check
Ludic Albert Check (May 22, 1918 – May 11, 2009) was a professional hockey player who played for the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League. After several years of hockey in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ne ...
, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Abel Goumba, 82, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1957–1958, 1959, 2003) and vice-president (2003–2005).
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Claudio Huepe
Claudio Huepe García (December 25, 1939 – May 11, 2009) was a Chilean politician, engineer and economist, member of the Christian Democrat party, who occupied several government and political positions. During his career, he was the provincial ...
, 69, Chilean politician and diplomat, heart attack.
* Bill Kelso, 69, American baseball player.
* Roy Kline, 93, Australian footballer.
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Mark Landon
Mark Landon (October 1, 1948 – May 11, 2009) was an American actor, and son of ''Bonanza'' and '' Little House on the Prairie'' star Michael Landon.
Life and career
Mark Fraser Landon was adopted in 1956, aged 8, by the 20-year-old actor Mich ...
, 60, American actor, adopted son of
Michael Landon
Michael Landon (born Eugene Maurice Orowitz; October 31, 1936 – July 1, 1991) was an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in ''Bonanza'' (1959–1973), Charles Ingalls in ''Little House on the Pr ...
António Lopes dos Santos
António Adriano Faria Lopes dos Santos (28 December 1919 – 11 May 2009) was a Portugal, Portuguese army general and colonial administrator.Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda
Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas 'Charles' Nanda (Punjabi: ), PVSM, AVSM (10 October 1915 – 11 May 2009) was an Indian Navy admiral who served as the 7th Chief of the Naval Staff from 1 March 1970 until 28 February 1973. He led the Indian Nav ...
, 93, Indian admiral, Chief of Naval Staff (1970–1973).
* Peter Philips, 81, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1988).
* Sir Richard Posnett, 89, British colonial administrator,
Governor of Belize
Belize Advertiser, 1839/41 This is a list of viceroys in British Honduras and Belize from the start of British settlement in the area until the colony's independence in 1981. Until 1862, the territory was under the vice-regency of the Governor of ...
Leonard Shlain
Leonard Shlain (August 28, 1937 – May 11, 2009) was an American surgeon, writer, and inventor. He was chairperson of laparoscopic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and was an associate professor of surgery at Un ...
, 71, American surgeon and writer, brain cancer.
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Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe
Christopher Hiley Ludlow Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe, QC (24 June 1934 – 12 May 2009), was a British barrister and politician.
Bledisloe was the son of Benjamin Bathurst, 2nd Viscount Bledisloe. He was educated at Eton – having won ...
, 74, British aristocrat and politician, heart failure.
* Dame Heather Begg, 76, New Zealand operatic soprano, leukemia.
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Mohan Ellawala
Mohan Saliya Ellawala (9 November 1948 – 12 May 2009) was the fifth governor of Sabaragamuwa Province in Sri Lanka from 2 October 2008, until his death in May 2009. He had previously been the seventh Chief Minister of Sabaragamuwa serving fro ...
, 61, Sri Lankan politician, Governor of
Sabaragamuwa Province
The Sabaragamuwa Province ( si, සබරගමුව පළාත ''Sabaragamuwa Paḷāta'', ta, சபரகமுவ மாகாணம் ''Sabaragamuwa Mākāṇam'') is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrati ...
(2008–2009), after long illness.
* Eden Ross Lipson, 66, American book editor, pancreatic cancer.
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Thomas Nordseth-Tiller
Thomas Nordseth-Tiller (27 November 1980 – 12 May 2009) was a Norwegian screenwriter. He was behind the 2008 film ''Max Manus'', which was widely viewed and discussed.
Career
Nordseth-Tiller hailed from Lørenskog, and studied film in Oslo, Per ...
, 28, Norwegian screenwriter ('' Max Manus''), cancer.
* Roger Planchon, 77, French theatre director, heart attack.
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Sidique Ali Merican
Sidique Ali Merican (24 August 1930 – 12 May 2009) was a Malaysian sprinter and sports administrator, who was Malayan sprint champion from 1949 to 1954.
Sidique was born in 1930 at Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Noted for his unusual starting crouch ...
, 78, Malaysian sprinter, stroke.
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Ted Sampley
Theodore Lane Sampley (July 17, 1946 – May 12, 2009) was an American Vietnam War veteran and activist. He primarily advocated for those servicemembers still considered missing in action or prisoners of war (POW-MIA) as of the end of hostilitie ...
, 63, American
POW/MIA
The National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, commonly known as the National League of POW/MIA Families or the League, is an American 501(c)(3) humanitarian organization that is concerned with the Vietnam ...
activist, complications from heart surgery.
* Antonio Vega, 51, Spanish pop singer-songwriter ( Nacha Pop), pneumonia.
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Heini Walter
Henrich "Heini" Walter (28 July 1927 – 12 May 2009) was a Swiss racing driver. He participated in one Formula One
Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formu ...
, 81, Swiss racing driver.
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Frank Aletter
Frank George Aletter (January 14, 1926 – May 13, 2009) was an American theatre, film, and television actor.
Early years
Born in College Point, Queens, New York, Aletter studied acting at the Dramatic Workshop in Manhattan. He served in the U ...
, 83, American character actor ('' It's About Time''), cancer.
* Ron Cameron, 85, Canadian Olympic rower.
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Waldemar Levy Cardoso
Waldemar Levy Cardoso (December 4, 1900 – May 13, 2009) was the last living Marshal of the Brazilian Army.
Biography
Cardoso was of Jewish Algerian-Moroccan descent and was born on Rua Evaristo da Veiga in Rio de Janeiro.
He graduated ...
Don Cordner
Donald Pruen Cordner (21 January 1922 – 13 May 2009), M.B.B.S. was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne Football Club, Melbourne in the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s. His brot ...
, 87, Australian footballer.
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Rafael Escalona
Rafael Calixto Escalona Martinez (May 26, 1926 – May 13, 2009) was a Colombian composer and troubadour. He was known for being one of the most prominent vallenato music composers and troubadours of the genre and for being the co-founder of the ...
, 81, Colombian Vallenato composer and troubador.
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Norbert Eschmann
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A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, a ...
, 75, Swiss footballer.
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Ernest Kline
Ernest P. "Ernie" Kline (June 20, 1929 – May 13, 2009) was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate and the 25th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1971 to 1979.
Early life, career
Kline was born in Allentown, Penn ...
L. William Seidman
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, 88, American public servant, Chairman of the FDIC (1985–1991), after short illness.
*
Joe Tandy
Joseph Tandy (1 January 1983 – 13 May 2009) was a British racing driver and team owner.
Career
Ministox
Tandy started his racing career unusually in short oval Ministox machinery in 1994. However, by the end of 1998, Tandy had won 45 races ...
, 26, British auto racing team owner, car crash.
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Barathea
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, 19, Irish racehorse, euthanized.
*
Monica Bleibtreu
Monica Bleibtreu (; May 4, 1944 – May 13, 2009) was an Austrian actress and screenwriter, best known in the German-speaking world for her German film, television and stage roles.
Life and career
Bleibtreu was born in Vienna, Austria, the da ...
, 65, Austrian actress, screenwriter and drama teacher, cancer.
*
Bob Boyd Bob, Bobby, Robbie, Rob, or Robert Boyd may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Robert Boyd (journalist) (1928–2019), American journalist, writer, and winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
* Dice (rapper) (Robert Boyd, born 19 ...
, 81, American football player.
*
Newt Heisley
Newton Foust Heisley (November 9, 1920 – May 14, 2009) was an American commercial artist who was responsible for the design of the POW/MIA flag adopted by the National League of Families, and officially recognized by the United States Congress ...
, 88, American commercial artist, designer of POW/MIA flag, after long illness.
*
Ken Hollyman
Kenneth Charles Hollyman (18 November 1922 – 14 May 2009) was a Welsh professional footballer.
Career
Hollyman began his career playing for Cardiff Nomads before joining Cardiff City in 1939. He played in more than eighty wartime matches, s ...
, 86, Welsh footballer (
Cardiff City
Cardiff City Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1899 as R ...
Marian McDougall
Marian McDougall (September 2, 1913 – May 14, 2009) was an American amateur golfer from Portland, Oregon. She married a man named Joseph Herron and is sometimes referred to an Marian Herron or Marian McDougall Herron. She was a third gener ...
, 95, American amateur golfer.
*
Buddy Montgomery
Charles "Buddy" Montgomery (January 30, 1930 – May 14, 2009) was an American jazz vibraphonist and pianist. He was the younger brother of Wes and Monk Montgomery, a guitarist and bassist respectively.
Buddy and brother Monk formed The Masters ...
, 79, American jazz musician, heart failure.
* William J. Passmore, 77, American jockey, complications from emphysema.
*
Bob Rosburg
Robert Reginald "Rossie" Rosburg (October 21, 1926 – May 14, 2009) was an American professional golfer who later became a sports color analyst for ABC television.
Early years, college
Rosburg was born in San Francisco, California. He played gol ...
, 82, American golfer and television color analyst, fall.
* George Williams, 69, American baseball player.
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* Susanna Agnelli, 87, Italian politician and writer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995–1996).
* Alexander Gordon Bearn, 86, British physician.
* Broad Brush, 26, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
*
Si Frumkin Si Frumkin (born Simas Frumkinas) (November 5, 1930 – May 15, 2009) was a Lithuanian-born Jew who survived imprisonment at the Dachau concentration camp, Dachau Nazi concentration camps, Nazi concentration camp, and emigrated to the United Sta ...
, 78, Lithuanian-born Holocaust survivor.
*
Alan Hackney
Alan Charles Langley Hackney (born 10 September 1924, Manchester – d. 15 May 2009, Hertfordshire) was an English novelist and screenwriter.
Biography
He was educated at Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton, and later, while at Manchester Uni ...
, 84, British screenwriter.
*
Mordechai Limon
Mordechai Limon ( he, מרדכי לימון, January 3, 1924 – May 15, 2009) was the fourth commander of the Israeli navy, serving from December 14, 1950, until July 1, 1954.
Limon was born in Baranovichi and made ''aliyah'' to Mandatory Palest ...
, 85, Israeli admiral, Commander of the Navy (1950–1954).
*
Cheikh Hamidou Kane Mathiara
Cheikh Hamidou Kane, nicknamed "Mathaira," (18 December 193912 July 1939, according to the '' Wal Fadjri'' newspaper - 15 May 2009) was a Senegalese politician and economist who served as a government minister several times during Abdou Diouf's pr ...
, 69, Senegalese economist and politician.
* Rodger McFarlane, 54, American gay rights activist, first executive director of
Gay Men's Health Crisis
The GMHC (formerly Gay Men's Health Crisis) is a New York City–based non-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based AIDS service organization whose mission statement is to "end the AIDS epidemic and uplift the lives of all affected."
Hist ...
, suicide.
* Mohammad-Amin Riahi, 86, Iranian historian and literary scholar.
*
Edwin S. Shneidman
Edwin S. Shneidman (May 13, 1918 – May 15, 2009) was an American clinical psychologist, suicidologist and thanatologist. Together with Norman Farberow and Robert Litman, in 1958, he founded the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center wher ...
, 91, American suicidologist.
* Helvi Sipilä, 94, Finnish diplomat.
* Roy Talbot, 94, Bermudan calypso musician, last surviving member of original Talbot Brothers.
* Bud Tingwell, 86, Australian actor, prostate cancer.
* Wayman Tisdale, 44, American basketball player and jazz bassist, cancer.
* Hubert van Es, 67, Dutch photographer at the fall of Saigon, brain hemorrhage.
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Prospero Amatong
Prospero Sybico Amatong (October 18, 1931 – May 16, 2009) was a Filipino politician. Amatong served as the Governor of Davao del Norte from 1992 until 1998 and as a Congressman in the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1998 until ...
, 77, Filipino politician, Congressman (1998–2007), Governor of
Davao del Norte
Davao del Norte ( ceb, Amihanang Dabaw; tl, Hilagang Davao), officially the Province of Davao del Norte, is a province in the Philippines located in the Davao Region in Mindanao. Its capital and largest city is Tagum. The province also includes ...
(1992–1998), fall.
* Antonio Chocano, 96, Guatemalan Olympic fencer and diplomat, emphysema.
*
John E. Connelly
John Edward Connelly (August 12, 1925 – May 16, 2009) was an American entrepreneur. He founded the Gateway Clipper Fleet in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pioneered riverboat casino gambling along the Mississippi River via his President Casinos empi ...
, 82, American entrepreneur, founder of
Gateway Clipper Fleet
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, heart failure.
*
David Halsey
Henry David Halsey (27 January 1919 – 16 May 2009) was an Anglican bishop. During his tenure, Bishop Halsey’s focus was as a pastoral bishop, and the care of the clergy and their wives was his first priority. By supporting the clergy, he was ...
, 90, British Anglican prelate,
Bishop of Carlisle
The Bishop of Carlisle is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Carlisle in the Province of York.
The diocese covers the county of Cumbria except for Alston Moor and the former Sedbergh Rural District. The see is in the city of Car ...
(1972–1989), after short illness.
*
Sándor Katona
Sándor Katona is a Hungarian glider aerobatic pilot.
He is a professional aerobatics instructorOlympic champion.
* Richardene Kloppers, 83, Namibian teacher.
* Craig G. Roberts, 78, American racehorse trainer.
*
Peter Sampson
Peter Stanley Sampson (9 July 1927 – 16 May 2009) was a professional footballer, who spent his entire Football League career with Bristol Rovers, and who also went on to play for Trowbridge Town after retiring from the professional game.
Sa ...
, 81, British footballer ( Bristol Rovers), Alzheimer's disease.
Mario Benedetti
Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia (; 14 September 1920 – 17 May 2009), was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being publish ...
Adolf Dickfeld
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, 99, German World War II Luftwaffe flying ace.
* David Herbert Donald, 88, American historian, heart failure.
*
Murray Hamilton
Murray Hamilton (March 24, 1923 – September 1, 1986) was an American stage, screen, and television character actor who appeared in such films as ''Anatomy of a Murder'', ''The Hustler'', ''The Graduate'', ''Jaws'' and ''The Amityville Hor ...
Masaru Hayami
was a Japanese businessman, central banker, the 28th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and a Director of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
Early life
Hayami was born in Hyōgo Prefecture. He graduated from The Tokyo College of Comm ...
, 84, Japanese public servant, Governor of the
Bank of Japan
The is the central bank of Japan.Louis Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric. (2005). "Nihon Ginkō" in The bank is often called for short. It has its headquarters in Chūō, Tokyo, Chūō, Tokyo.
History
Like most modern Japanese instituti ...
(1998–2003), respiratory failure.
* David Ireland, 78, American sculptor and conceptual artist, pneumonia.
*
Jung Seung-hye
Jung Seung-hye (March 1965 – 17 May 2009) was a South Korean film producer.
Jung began her career as a film promotion, film promoter for Shin Cine in 1989, working on the film ''Happiness Does Not Come From Grades''. She later moved to Cine Wo ...
, 44, South Korean film producer, colon cancer.
* Sunwoo Jin, 87, Korean politician and activist.
*
Guillermo Lora
Guillermo Lora (31 October 1922 – 17 May 2009) was a Trotskyist leader in Bolivia who was active in the Revolutionary Workers' Party (POR) from the early 1940s and was its best known leader.
Lora became active in the POR when it was in the ...
, 87, Bolivian revolutionary leader, liver cancer.
* Dame Patricia Mackinnon, 97, Australian community worker and philanthropist, President of the
Royal Children's Hospital
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is a major children's hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
As a major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria, the Royal Children's Hospital provides a full range of clinical services, tertiary care, as well ...
.
* Prakash Mehra, 69, Indian film producer and director, pneumonia and multiple organ failure.
* William Moore, 60, British loyalist paramilitary, member of the Shankill Butchers, suspected heart attack.
* Zdeněk Pospíšil, 84, Czech Olympic sprinter.
*
Octavia St. Laurent
Octavia St. Laurent Mizrahi (March 16, 1964 – May 17, 2009) was an American model and AIDS educator who was active in New York City's Black and Latino ballroom community and Harlem's luxurious balls. They came to public attention after being f ...
, 45, American trans woman and performer.
* Al Tornabene, 86, American mobster.
Mickey Mouse
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).
*
Carole Cole
Carole Cole (October 17, 1944 – May 19, 2009) was an American actress, music producer, and the CEO of King Cole Productions. She was the daughter of singer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole and jazz singer Maria Cole, and the older sister of si ...
, 64, American actress (''
Sanford and Son
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'', '' Grady''), daughter of Nat King Cole, lung cancer.
* Dolla, 21, American rap artist, shot.
* Sir David Hay, 92, Australian public servant, Ambassador to the United Nations, Administrator of Papua New Guinea.
*
Isaipriya
Shoba also known as Shobana Dharmaraja (commonly known as Isaipriya or Isaippiriya; 1982–2009) was a Sri Lankan Tamil journalist and television broadcaster for the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. She died in the final days of the Sri Lan ...
, 26-27, Sri Lankan journalist, killed.
* K. Pattabhi Jois, 93, Indian yoga teacher, after short illness.
* Paul Parin, 92, Swiss psychoanalyst, author and ethnologist.
* Türkan Saylan, 74, Turkish doctor, cancer.
*
Lee Solters Lee Solters, (June 23, 1919 – May 18, 2009) born Nathan Cohen, was an American press agent who used his flamboyant style to represent celebrities from stage, movies and sports including 26 years with Frank Sinatra.
Early life and career
Born ...
, 89, American press agent, natural causes.
*Either killed in a missile attack or shot:
** Pottu Amman, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE intelligence wing.
** Balasingham Nadesan, Sri Lankan
rebel
A rebel is a participant in a rebellion.
Rebel or rebels may also refer to:
People
* Rebel (given name)
* Rebel (surname)
* Patriot (American Revolution), during the American Revolution
* American Southerners, as a form of self-identification; s ...
, political chief of the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; ta, தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள், translit=Tamiḻīḻa viṭutalaip pulikaḷ, si, දෙමළ ඊළාම් විමුක්ති කොටි, t ...
(LTTE).
** Velupillai Prabhakaran, 54, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE.
** Soosai, 45, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE naval wing ( Sea Tigers).
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Michael Preston Barr
Michael Barr (January 2, 1927 in Indiana – May 19, 2009 in Los Angeles, California), was an American composer of traditional pop and showtunes, who in collaboration with lyricist Dion McGregor, wrote "Try Your Wings" for cabaret singer/pian ...
, 82, American composer, diabetes.
*
Robert F. Furchgott
Robert Francis Furchgott (June 4, 1916 – May 19, 2009) was a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems.
Early life and education
Furchgott ...
, 92, American scientist, Nobel Prize winner.
*
Andrei Ivanov Andrei or Andrey Ivanov may refer to:
Footballers
*Andrei Ivanov (footballer born 1967), Soviet footballer
*Andrei Ivanov (footballer born 1972), Russian footballer
*Andrei Ivanov (footballer born 1988), Russian U-21 footballer
*Andrei Ivanov (foot ...
Spider-Man 3
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Alan Kelly Sr.
Alan James Alexander Kelly (5 July 1936 – 20 May 2009) was an Irish coach and former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for Bray Wanderers and Drumcondra in his home country, and most notably for Preston North En ...
, 72, Irish footballer (
Preston North End
Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional football club in Preston, Lancashire, England, who currently play in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league syste ...
Matthew Krel
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, 64, Russian-born Australian conductor, founder of the SBS Youth Orchestra, encephalitis.
*
Randi Lindtner Næss
Randi Lindtner Næss (11 May 1905 – 20 May 2009) was a Norwegian actress and singer.
Biography
She was the daughter of Ragnvald Andreas Lindtner (1879–1966) and Thea Johanne Olsen (1884–1973).
She was a sister of actor Lothar Lindtner ( ...
, 104, Norwegian actress.
*
Nguyễn Bá Cẩn
Nguyễn Bá Cẩn (9 September 1930, in Cần Thơ – 20 May 2009, in San Jose, California) was a South Vietnamese politician who served as Prime Minister of South Vietnam from 5 April 1975 until 28 April 1975; serving under Presidents Nguyễn ...
, 78, South Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of South Vietnam (1975).
* Simon Oates, 77, British actor, prostate cancer.
* Larry Rice, 63, American racing driver, lung cancer.
*
María Amelia López Soliño
María Amelia López Soliño (23 December 1911, Corcubión, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain – 20 May 2009, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain) was the oldest-known woman blogger at the time of her death on 20 May 2009 aged 97, with the blog attracting 1.7 m ...
, 97, Spanish blogger, world's oldest blogger.
*
Noel Stanton
Noel Stanton (25 December 1926 – 20 May 2009) was the founder of the Jesus Army.
Life
Stanton was born in Bedfordshire in the East of England, and educated at Bedford Modern School. His parents were farmers. When he was 18, he was Conscript ...
, 82, British founder of The
Jesus Army
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.
*
Paul Vinar
Pavel "Paul" Vinar (24 March 1940 – 20 May 2009) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the VFL during the 1960s.
Family
Vinar was born in Czechoslovakia, and moved to Geelong in Australia with his mother and four bro ...
, 69, Australian footballer.
*
Ralph D. Winter
Ralph Dana Winter (December 8, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was an American missiologist and Presbyterian missionary who helped pioneer Theological Education by Extension, raised the debate about the role of the church and mission structures and became ...
, 84, American missionary (
U.S. Center for World Mission
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Yehoshua Zettler
Yehoshua Zettler (July 15, 1917 – May 20, 2009; last name also spelled as Zeitler) was an Israeli who served as the Jerusalem commander of the Jewish paramilitary group Lehi, often called the Stern Gang. He conceived and planned the Septem ...
, 91, Israeli resistance fighter (
Lehi
Lehi (; he, לח"י – לוחמי חרות ישראל ''Lohamei Herut Israel – Lehi'', "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel – Lehi"), often known pejoratively as the Stern Gang,"This group was known to its friends as LEHI and to its enemie ...
).
*
Jerzy Zubrzycki
Jerzy "George" B. Zubrzycki AO CBE MBE (Military) (12 January 192020 May 2009) was a Polish-born Australian sociologist, widely regarded as the "Father of Australian Multiculturalism".
He was born in Kraków, Poland. He escaped from Nazi rule ...
, 89, Polish-born Australian sociologist.
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Ghader Abdollahzadeh
Qadir Abdullahzada (23 October 1925 – 21 May 2009, ku, قادر عەبدوڵڵازادە ,Qadir Ebdulazade, also known as Qale Mere, ku, قالەمەڕە) born in village of Kulice in northwestern Iran, is one of the best known Kurdish tr ...
PFC Spartak Varna
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), car accident.
*
Him Mark Lai
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, 83, American historian, bladder cancer.
* Sam Maloof, 93, American woodworker, pneumonia.
*
Rolf McPherson
Dr. Rolf Potter Kennedy McPherson (March 23, 1913 – May 21, 2009) was the pastor of Angelus Temple and president of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, serving in that capacity from 1944 to 1988. By his retirement, the ev ...
, 96, American evangelist, son of
Aimee Semple McPherson
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, natural causes.
* Robert Müller, 28, German ice hockey player, brain cancer.
* K. Pathmanathan, 64, Sri Lankan politician.
*
Togo Tanaka
Togo W. Tanaka ( ja, 田中董梧, January 7, 1916 – May 21, 2009) was an American newspaper journalist and editor who reported on the difficult conditions in the Manzanar camp, where he was one of 110,000 Japanese Americans who had been re ...
, 93, American journalist, natural causes.
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*
Yves Duval
Yves may refer to:
* Yves, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime department in France
* Yves (given name), including a list of people with the name
* ''Yves'' (single album), a single album by Loona
* ''Yves'' (film), a 2019 Fren ...
, 75, Belgian comics author.
*
Henry Jerrim
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Jerrim was born, raised and educate ...
, 93, Australian bishop.
*
Alexander Mezhirov
Alexander Petrovich Mezhirov (Russian: Александр Межиров; September 26, 1923 ut see below– May 22, 2009) was a Soviet and Russian poet, translator and critic.
Mezhirov was among what has been called a "middle generation" of ...
, 86, Russian poet.
*
Zé Rodrix
Zé Rodrix (; 25 November 1947 – 22 May 2009) was a Brazilian composer, instrumentalist, and singer. He was well known in his native country for performing with musical ensembles Sá, Rodrix & Guarabyra, Som Imaginário and Momento Quatro.
A ...
, 61, Brazilian musician.
* Yeo Woon-kay, 69, South Korean actress, kidney cancer.
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Charles Donald Albury
Charles Donald Albury (October 12, 1920 – May 23, 2009) was an American military aviator who participated in both atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He piloted the United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber known as the '' Bockscar'' d ...
, 88, American co-pilot of the ''
Bockscar
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'' at
atomic bombing of Nagasaki
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, heart failure.
* Sir Derek Bowett, 82, British academic lawyer, President of
Queens' College, Cambridge
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(1970–1982).
*
Raleigh Brown
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Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brown's ancestry was from Tennessee, where also lived mu ...
, 87, American politician, state representative (Texas), heart attack.
* Lawrence Daly, 84, British trade union leader.
*
Joseph Duval
Joseph Marie Louis Duval (11 October 1928 – 23 May 2009) was the France, French Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen.
Born in Chênex, Duval was ordained to the priesthood on 8 June 1953. On 14 May 1974 Pope Pau ...
Ken Gill
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, 81, British trade union leader.
* David Lunceford, 75, American football player, Alzheimer's disease.
*
Nicholas J. Phillips
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, 75, British physicist.
*
Tadeusz Pyka Tadeusz Pyka (May 17, 1930 – May 23, 2009) was a former Polish communist politician, who served as a Deputy Prime Minister of Poland. In August 1980, he led a government commission which attempted to end a strike in the Polish city of Gdańsk, bu ...
Ipswich Town
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The club was founded in 1878 but did not turn profession ...
Amos Elon
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Biography
Heinrich Sternbach (later Amos Elon) was born in Vienna. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933. He studied law and history in ...
, 82, Austrian-born Israeli author and journalist.
*
John R. Guthrie
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, 87, American general.
*
Charly Höllering Charles H. "Charly" Höllering (born Karl-Heinz Höllering, 19 April 1944, Asch, Sudetenland (now Aš, Czech Republic) – 25 May 2009, Stuttgart) was a German jazz musician, notable for playing the clarinet and tenor saxophone, and graphic designer ...
, 65, German jazz musician, heart attack.
* Reg Libbis, 75, Australian rower.
* Haakon Lie, 103, Norwegian politician.
*
Tomás Paquete
Tomás Paquete (8 September 1923 – 25 May 2009) was a Portuguese sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), off ...
, 85, Portuguese Olympic sprinter.
* Ivan van Sertima, 74, Guyanese-born British historian, linguist and anthropologist ( Rutgers University).
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Antonio Braga
Antonio Braga (22 January 1929 – 26 May 2009 in Naples) was an Italian classical composer. Born in Naples, he wrote ballets, concerto, ouvertures, symphonies and three operas.
Works
Ballets
*Les Abeilles a Naples (1955)
*C’è un albero a ...
, 80, Italian composer.
* Thomas Claw, 87, American WWII Navajo Code talker.
* Commanche Court, 16, Irish thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
*
Arcangelo Ianelli
Arcangelo Ianelli (July 18, 1922 in São Paulo – May 26, 2009) was a painter, sculptor and illustrator from Brazil, who was involved with an artistic group called Grupo Guanabara, along with Manabu Mabe (1924–1997), Yoshiya Takaoka (1909– ...
Doris Mühringer
Doris Mühringer (18 September 1920 – 26 May 2009) was an Austrian poet, short story writer, and children's writer. She has received a number of awards, and her contributions to Austrian poetry, which both are considered particularly significant. ...
, 88, Austrian poet and children's writer.
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Mihalis Papagiannakis
Mihalis Papayiannakis ( el, Μιχάλης Παπαγιαννάκης; 19 August 1941 – 26 May 2009) was a Greek politician. He was born in Kalamata; his father was executed by the Nazis during World War II. He died on 26 May 2009 after a long b ...
, 68, Greek politician, MP, cancer.
* Michael Ross, 89, American screenwriter and director ('' Three's Company''), complications from a heart attack and stroke.
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Ronald Takaki
Ronald Toshiyuki Takaki (April 12, 1939 – May 26, 2009) was an American academic, historian, ethnographer and author. Born in pre-statehood Hawaii, Takaki studied at the College of Wooster and completed his doctorate in American history at t ...
Marek Walczewski
Marek Walczewski (9 April 1937 – 26 May 2009) was a Polish actor. He appeared in 55 films and television shows between 1963 and 2004.
Partial filmography
* '' Passenger'' (1963) - Tadeusz, husband of Marta
* ''Ruchome piaski'' (1969) - F ...
, 72, Polish actor.
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Peter Zezel
Peter Zezel (April 22, 1965 – May 26, 2009) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who spent 15 seasons in the National Hockey League from 1984 to 1999.
Early life
Zezel was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario. Zezel was an alumnus o ...
* Ammo Baba, 74, Iraqi footballer and athletic trainer, diabetes.
* Thomas M. Franck, 77, American lawyer.
* Sir Clive Granger, 74, British economist, Nobel Prize winner for economics.
*
Mona Grey
Mona Elizabeth Clara Grey (24 September 1910 – 27 May 2009) was a British nurse who was named Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) in 1960.
Biography
Grey was born and raised in Rawalpindi, British India (now Pakistan), the d ...
, 98, British public servant,
Chief Nursing Officer
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for Northern Ireland.
* Abram Hoffer, 92, Canadian orthomolecular psychiatrist.
* Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, Haitian political activist, after long illness.
*
Carol Anne O'Marie
Sister Carol Anne O'Marie, C.S.J., (August 28, 1933 – May 27, 2009) was a Roman Catholic sister in the Religious Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She was also a mystery writer.
She wrote eleven novels, whose protagonis ...
, 75, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist, Parkinson's disease.
* Sir William Refshauge, 96, Australian public health administrator.
*
Paul Sharratt
Paul William Sharratt (2 August 1933 – 27 May 2009), was an English-born Australian entertainer and TV personality,.http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2009/05/28/82981_gold-coast-top-story.html
Early years
Born in Staffordshire, he attended ...
, 75, British-born American television producer, cancer.
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Mort Abrahams
Mort Abrahams (26 March 1916 – 28 May 2009) was an American film and television producer. Among his credits are nine episodes of spy series ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' and, as associate producer, the films ''Doctor Dolittle (film), Doctor Dolit ...
Terry Barr
Terry Albert Barr (August 8, 1935 – May 28, 2009) was an American football player. He played professional football for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions from 1957 to 1965. He began his NFL career as a ...
, 73, American football player (
Detroit Lions
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), Alzheimer's disease.
* Manuel Collantes, 91, Filipino diplomat, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984), cardiac arrest.
*
Ed Dorohoy
Edward Eli "Eddie" Dorohoy (March 13, 1929 – May 28, 2009) was a Canadian ice hockey Centre (ice hockey), centre. He played in 16 games for the Montreal Canadiens in 1948–49 NHL season, 1948–49 season and scored no points. The rest of his ca ...
, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.
*
Carlton Forbes
Carlton Forbes (9 August 1936 – 28 May 2009) was an English first-class cricketer.
Forbes was born in Jamaica and after moving over to England he started his first-class career with Nottinghamshire in 1959. He played with the county until 19 ...
, 72, Jamaican-born British first-class cricketer.
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Marciano Guzman Marciano Malvar Guzman was a Filipino poet, philosopher and certified public accountant. He is also a best-selling author of Catholic books, a winner of the Catholic Mass Media Award. He was also a member of the governing body of Opus Dei in the P ...
, Filipino poet.
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Roger Kaffer
Roger Louis Kaffer (August 14, 1927 Joliet, Illinois – May 28, 2009 Joliet) was the American Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Joliet in Illinois from 1985 until 2002.
Kaffer was born on August 14, 1927, to parents, Earl Louis Kaf ...
, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliet.
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Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta
Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta (19 April 1918 – 28 May 2009) was a Spanish Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. At the age of 91, he was one of the oldest bishops in the Church.
Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta was born in Miravalles, S ...
, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bilbao.
* Lenrie Peters, 76, Gambian surgeon and novelist, after short illness.
*
Ercole Rabitti
Ercole Rabitti (24 August 1921 – 28 May 2009) was an Italian football striker and manager from Turin. Over the course of his career he played for nine teams, spending most of his time with Juventus and Como.
Honours
;Juventus
*Coppa Italia: 19 ...
, 87, Italian footballer and trainer.
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Oleg Shenin
Oleg Semyonovich Shenin (russian: Олег Семёнович Шенин, link=no; 2 July 1937 – 28 May 2009) was the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Shenin), which should not be confused with the larger UCP-CPSU.
Shen ...
, 71, Russian politician, member of the
Politburo
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Names
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of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1990–1991).
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Umberto Silvestri
Umberto Silvestri (6 September 1915 – 28 May 2009) was an Italian wrestler. He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics, the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Ol ...
, 93, Italian Olympic wrestler.
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Betty Tancock
Elizabeth Alberta Tancock (February 22, 1911 – May 28, 2009), née Elizabeth Alberta Edwards, was a Canadian swimmer who competed in the Olympic games in 1932 in Los Angeles.
Biography
In 1932, she was a member of the Canadian relay team t ...
, 98, Canadian Olympic swimmer (
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
).
* John Tolos, 78, Canadian professional wrestler, renal failure.
Detroit Red Wings
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), heart attack.
* Kevin Beurle, 53, British scientist, hot air balloon accident.
*
Reginald Golledge
Reginald George Golledge (born 6 December 1937 in Dungog, New South Wales; died 29 May 2009 in Goleta, California) was an Australian-born American Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was named Faculty Research ...
, 71, Australian-born American geographer.
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Phale Hale
Phale Dolphis Hale (July 16, 1914 – May 29, 2009) was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
He is interred at Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio.
References
Democratic Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives
1914 ...
, 94, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
* Ed Murray, 80, American politician, speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1987–1991).
* Bill Perkins, 89, Australian footballer (
Richmond
Richmond most often refers to:
* Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States
* Richmond, London, a part of London
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).
*
Steve Prest
Steven Robert Prest (1966 – 13 May 2009) was an English professional snooker player and coach.
Playing career
Prest competed on the professional snooker circuit in the 1990s before turning to full-time coaching.
His professional career span ...
, 43, British snooker player and coach, peritonitis.
* Karine Ruby, 31, French Olympic gold (
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
) and silver (
2002
File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...
) medal-winning snowboarder, fall.
* Matt Zabitka, 88, American sportswriter.
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Torsten Andersson
Otto Torsten Andersson (6 June 1926 – 30 May 2009) was a Swedish modernist painter, best known for his theme of the realistic depiction of abstract sculptures, and two-dimensional exploration of three-dimensional objects, where the colors seem ...
, 82, Swedish painter.
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Krystyna Borowicz
Krystyna Borowicz (25 January 1923, Kalisz – 30 May 2009, Warsaw) was a Polish actress.
Borowicz made her debut in 1950 portraying the works of Alexander Fadeyev, directed by at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw. From 1950 to 1960 she acted at th ...
, 86, Polish actress.
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Luís Cabral
Luís Severino de Almeida Cabral (11 April 1931 – 30 May 2009) was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was the first President of Guinea-Bissau. He served from 1974 to 1980, when a military ''coup d'état'' led by João Bernardo Vieira deposed hi ...
, 78, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1973–1980).
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Eva Dawes
Eva Dawes (later ''Spinks'', September 17, 1912 – May 30, 2009) is a Canadian athlete who competed mainly in the high jump. She was born in Toronto.
She competed for Canada in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in ...
, 96, Canadian bronze medal-winning Olympic high jumper (
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
), stroke.
*
Roberto Falaschi
Roberto Falaschi (9 June 1931 – 30 May 2009) was an Italian professional racing cyclist. He rode in five editions of the Tour de France
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, 77, Italian cyclist.
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Susanna Haapoja
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, 42, Finnish politician, cerebral haemorrhage.
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Eric Hammond __NOTOC__
Eric Albert Barrett Hammond, OBE (17 July 1929 – 30 May 2009) was general secretary of the EETPU, a British trade union, from 1984 to 1992.
Hammond was born in Northfleet, Kent, and was evacuated to Newfoundland, Canada during Wor ...
, 79, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the
EETPU
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.
*
Ephraim Katzir
Ephraim Katzir ( he, אפרים קציר, translit=Efrayim Katsir; – 30 May 2009) was an Israeli biophysics, biophysicist and Israeli Labor Party, Labor Party politician. He was the List of Presidents of Israel, fourth President of Israel fro ...
, 93, Israeli biophysicist and politician, President (1973–1978).
* Herma Kirchschläger, 93, Austrian widow of former President
Rudolf Kirchschläger
Rudolf Kirchschläger, GColIH (; 20 March 1915 – 30 March 2000) was an Austrian diplomat, politician and judge. From 1974 to 1986, he served as President of Austria.
Early life and education
Born in Niederkappel, Upper Austria, Kirschläger ...
.
*
Waldemar Matuška
Waldemar Matuška (; July 2, 1932 – May 30, 2009) was a Czechoslovak singer who became popular in his homeland during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1986, he immigrated to the United States.
Early career
Waldemar Matuška was born in Košice, Czech ...
, 76, Czech singer, pneumonia and heart failure.
* Gaafar Nimeiry, 79, Sudanese politician, President (1969–1985).
*
Alexander Obregón
Alexander Obregón Gamboa (11 December 1977 – 30 May 2009) was a Colombian footballer who played the majority of his career in El Salvador.
Club career
Obregón arrived in El Salvador in 2001 and joined Salvadoran second division side Tele ...
, 32, Colombian footballer, car accident.
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Martin Clemens
Major Warren Frederick Martin Clemens (17 April 1915 – 31 May 2009) was a British colonial administrator and soldier. In late 1941 and early 1942, while serving as a District Officer in the Solomon Islands, he helped prepare the area for event ...
, 94, British colonial administrator and soldier.
* Millvina Dean, 97, British civil servant and cartographer, last living passenger aboard the , pneumonia.
* Brian Edrich, 86, British cricketer.
* Sir John Holland, 94, Australian engineer, construction magnate.
*
Danny La Rue
Danny La Rue, (born Daniel Patrick Carroll, 26 July 1927 – 31 May 2009) was an Irish singer and entertainer, best known for his on-stage drag queen, drag persona. He performed in drag and also as himself in theatrical productions, television ...
, 81, Irish-born British female impersonator and singer, prostate cancer.
* Vyacheslav Nevinny, 74, Russian actor, diabetes.
*
Emil L. Smith
Emil L. Smith (July 5, 1911 – May 31, 2009) was an American biochemist who studied protein structure and function as well as biochemical evolution.
Initially intending to go into medicine, Smith became interested in biology and organic c ...
, 97, American biochemist, heart attack.
* Kamala Surayya, 75, Indian writer, after long illness.
* George Tiller, 67, American physician and abortion provider, shot.