Deaths in 2009
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
<< Deaths in 2008 | Deaths in 2010 >> |
---|
- David Carradine
- Patrick Swayze
- Larry Sultan, American photographer
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ali Akbar Khan, 87, Indian sarod player, kidney failure.
- Zé Rodrix, 61, Brazilian musician.
- Dom DeLuise, 75, American actor (The Cannonball Run, Blazing Saddles), writer, chef and cookbook author, renal failure.
- 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).
- Marilyn Chambers, 56, American pornographic actress (Behind the Green Door).
- Maurice Jarre, 84, French composer
- Dan Seals, 61, American country music singer-songwriter (England Dan & John Ford Coley), mantle cell lymphoma.
- Manny Oquendo, 78, American percussionist for the Tito Puente and Tito Rodríguez orchestras
- Salvatore Samperi, 64, Italian film director.
- Jaap Kruithof, 91, Belgian philosopher
- Philip José Farmer, 91, American writer (Riverworld series).
- Franciszek Starowieyski, 79, Polish artist.
- Christopher Nolan, 43, Irish author, winner of the Whitbread Prize (1988), pulmonary aspiration.
- Joe Cuba, 78, American musician, complications of a bacterial infection.
- 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.
- Andrew Wyeth, 91, American painter (Christina's World), after short illness.
- Patrick McGoohan, 80, American-born Irish actor (The Prisoner, Braveheart), after short illness.
- 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).
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Deaths in 2009" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.