2009

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2009 (MMIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2009th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium, the 9th year of the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade.

2009 was designated as:

• International Year of Astronomy.
• International Year of Natural Fibres.
• International Year of Reconciliation.

Events

Deaths

• January 1 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (born 1924)
• January 3 – Pat Hingle, American actor (born 1924)
• January 12 – Claude Berri, French movie director (born 1934)
• January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-American actor (b. 1920)
• January 27 – John Updike, American writer (born 1932)
• January 30 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932)
• February 6 – James Whitmore, American actor (born 1921)
• February 11 – Estelle Bennett, American singer (b. 1941)
• March 2 – João Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
• March 18 – Natasha Richardson, English actress (born 1963)
• March 28 – Janet Jagan, Guyanese President (b. 1920)
• March 31 – Raúl Alfonsín, Argentine President (b. 1927)
• April 25 – Beatrice Arthur, American actress (born 1922)
• May 4 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
• May 19 – Robert Furchgott, American scientist (born 1916)
• May 23 – Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean President (born 1946)
• June 3 – David Carradine, American actor (born 1936)
• June 8 – Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (born 1935)
• June 13 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (born 1962)
• June 25 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (born 1947)
• June 25 – Michael Jackson, American singer and entertainer (born 1958)
• July 1 – Karl Malden, American actor (born 1912)
• July 17 – Walter Cronkite, American news anchor (born 1916)
• July 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (born 1930)
• July 31 – Bobby Robson, English football manager (born 1933)
• August 1 – Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (born 1933)
• August 18 – Kim Dae-jung, South Korean President (born 1924)
• August 25 – Ted Kennedy, US Senator (born 1932)
• September 12 – Norman Borlaug, American biologist (b. 1914)
• September 14 – Patrick Swayze, American actor (born 1952)
• September 29 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut
• October 4
  • Shoichi Nakagawa, Japanese politician
  • Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (b. 1935)
• October 13 – Al Martino, American singer and actor (b. 1927)
• October 31 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (born 1911)
• November 8 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
• November 10 – Robert Enke, German footballer (born 1977)
• November 21 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (born 1926)
• December 4 – Eddie Fatu, Samoan-American professional wrestler (born 1973)
• December 5 – Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (born 1926)
• December 17 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (born 1919)
• December 20 – Brittany Murphy, American actress (born 1977)
• December 24 – Rafael Caldera, Venezuelan President (born 1916)
• December 30 – Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian President (born 1940)

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