Deaths in July 2009

The following is a list of deaths in July 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.

July 2009

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Alexis Argüello, 57, Nicaraguan former triple world champion boxer and politician, mayor of Managua, suspected suicide by gunshot.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=4299144 |title=Arguello, 3-time world champion, dead at 57 |date=5 May 2010 |work=ESPN}}
Marwa El-Sherbini, 31, Egyptian pharmacist and vilification victim, stabbed.{{cite web |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/06/egypt.woman.killed/ |title=Egyptians angry over German court slaying |work=CNN}}
Karl Malden, 97, American actor (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, The Streets of San Francisco), Oscar winner (1952).{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-karl-malden2-2009jul02-story.html |title=From the Archives: Karl Malden dies at 97; Oscar-winning actor |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 16, 2014}}
Anna Karen Morrow, 94, American actress (Peyton Place), natural causes.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2009/legit/markets-festivals/actress-anna-karen-morrow-dies-1118005634/ |title=Actress Anna Karen Morrow dies |agency=Associated Press |date=2 July 2009 |work=Variety}}
John Henry Moss, 90, American baseball executive (South Atlantic League), mayor of Kings Mountain, North Carolina.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/sports/baseball/14moss.html |title=John Henry Moss, 90, Head of South Atlantic League for 50 Years, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 13, 2009 |last1=Weber |first1=Bruce}}
Onni Palaste, 91, Finnish soldier and writer, Winter War veteran, natural causes.[https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-5283650 Sotakirjailija Onni Palaste on kuollut] {{in lang|fi}}
David Pears, 87, British philosopher.{{cite web |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6625699.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524114535/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6625699.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-05-24 |title=David Pears: philosopher |work=The Times}}
Baltasar Porcel, 72, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.barcelonareporter.com/index.php?/news/comments/baltasar_porcel_one_of_the_great_catalan_writers_dies_from_brain_tumour/&usg=AFQjCNEYPksj6eRATUysv9wkTb7NuYAM1Q |title=Baltasar Porcel, one of the great Catalan writers, dies from brain tumour |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718055301/http://www.barcelonareporter.com/index.php?%2Fnews%2Fcomments%2Fbaltasar_porcel_one_of_the_great_catalan_writers_dies_from_brain_tumour%2F&usg=AFQjCNEYPksj6eRATUysv9wkTb7NuYAM1Q |archive-date=2011-07-18}}
Andree Layton Roaf, 68, American jurist, first black woman on Arkansas Supreme Court.[https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2009/07/muskegon_heights_native_arkans.html Muskegon Heights native, Arkansas judge, dead at 68]
Mollie Sugden, 86, British actress (Are You Being Served?), heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/5713979/Mollie-Sugden.html |title=Mollie Sugden |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=July 2009}}
Rupert Thorneloe, 39, British soldier, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, improvised explosive device.{{cite web |url=http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/LieutenantColonelRupertThorneloeAndTrooperJoshuaHammondKilledInAfghanistan.htm |title=Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe and Trooper Joshua Hammond killed in Afghanistan}}
Norman Welton, 81, American journalist, photo editor for the Associated Press, colon cancer.[https://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/07/03/norman_welton_former_ap_photo_editor_dies_at_81/ Norman Welton, former AP photo editor, dies at 81]
Jean Yoyotte, 81, French Egyptologist.{{cite journal |url=http://asr.revues.org/891 |title=Nécrologie de M. Jean Yoyotte (1927-2009) |date=1 October 2010 |journal=L'Annuaire de l'École pratique des hautes études |issue=117 |pages=xxi–xxvii |language=fr|doi=10.4000/asr.891 }}
Lyudmila Zykina, 80, Russian singer, Hero of Socialist Labor, cardiac arrest.{{cite web |url=http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/82889/-ussr-people-s-artist-lyudmila-zykina-died-.html |title=USSR People's Artist Lyudmila Zykina Died |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090705005912/http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/82889/-ussr-people-s-artist-lyudmila-zykina-died-.html |archive-date=2009-07-05}}

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Adésio, 76, Brazilian footballer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ad/adesio-1.html |title=AdÃ©sio Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com |website=www.sports-reference.com |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418032453/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ad/adesio-1.html |archive-date=18 April 2020 |url-status=dead}}
Pasquale Borgomeo, 76, Vatican director of Radio Vatican, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=299722 |title=Time of Mourning |work=Vatican Radio |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722174928/http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=299722 |archive-date=July 22, 2009 |url-status=dead}}
Steve Brennan, 57, Irish-born American reporter and editor (The Hollywood Reporter), cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-media-hollywoodreporter-idUSTRE56249C20090703 |title=Hollywood Reporter veteran Steve Brennan dies |date=3 July 2017 |work=Reuters}}
M. K. Chandrashekaran, 71, Indian zoologist, after brief illness.{{cite journal |title=M K Chandrashekaran (1937–2009) |first=Vidyanand |last=Nanjundiah |date=26 August 2009 |journal=Journal of Biosciences |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=333–41 |doi=10.1007/s12038-009-0037-z |pmid=19805892|s2cid=35179125 }}
Susan Fernandez, 52, Filipina activist and singer, ovarian cancer.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090706080108/http://www.pep.ph/news/22319/Singer-Susan-Fernandez-succumbs-to-cancer Singer Susan Fernandez succumbs to cancer]
Kaj Hansen, 68, Danish football player.{{cite web |url=http://www.bkfrem.dk/default.asp?id=19&spillerid=339&todo=arkiv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612160744/http://www.bkfrem.dk/default.asp?id=19&spillerid=339&todo=arkiv |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-06-12 |title=Spillerarkiv : Kaj Hansen |language=da}}
Martin Hengel, 82, German theologian.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/5811664/Professor-Martin-Hengel.html |title=Professor Martin Hengel |work=The Daily Telegraph}}
Colin Hillman, 46, Welsh rugby player and coach, pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |title=Tribute to Colin Hillman 1963-2009 - Welsh Rugby Union |url=https://www.wru.wales/2009/07/tribute-to-colin-hillman-1963-2009/ |website=Welsh Rugby Union {{!}} Wales & Regions |access-date=17 May 2024 |date=2 July 2009}}
Herb Klein, 91, American journalist, White House Communications Director for President Richard Nixon.{{cite web |url=http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jul/02/san-diego-8212-herbert-g-klein/ |title=Nixon aide, Copley executive Herbert G. Klein, dies at age 91 |first1=Peter |last1=Rowe |first2=Tom |last2=Mallory |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune}}
Tyeb Mehta, 83, Indian painter, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName%3DRSSFeed-India%26id%3De87d9668-b8e9-4f54-ade3-54c0e650a41c%26Headline%3DTyeb+Mehta+dead |title=Tyeb Mehta dead |access-date=2009-07-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709203359/http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=RSSFeed-India&id=e87d9668-b8e9-4f54-ade3-54c0e650a41c&Headline=Tyeb+Mehta+dead |archive-date=2009-07-09}}
David Morley, 86, British paediatrician.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/oct/15/david-morley-obituary |title=David Morley obituary |first=Andrew |last=Tomkins |date=15 October 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
James Oluleye, 79, Nigerian army general and politician.[https://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/general-oluleyes-legacy/ General Oluleye's legacy]
Robert Daniel Potter, 86, American judge, member of the District Court for the Western District of North Carolina (1981–1994).{{cite web |url=https://www.christendom.edu/2009/07/07/advisory-board-member-robert-d-potter-dies-at-86/ |title=Advisory Board Member Robert D. Potter Dies at 86|date=July 7, 2009}}
Petro Ruçi, 52, Albanian football player (Flamurtari, national team).[https://web.archive.org/web/20181007145638/http://arkivi2.peshkupauje.com/2009/07/u-nda-nga-jeta-mjeshtri-i-sportit-petro.html U nda nga jeta mjeshtri i sportit Petro Ruci] {{in lang|sq}}
Bert Schneider, 71, Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle racer.{{cite web |url=http://www.eggersdorfer.info/ |title=Motorradweltmeisterschaft von einst und jetzt |first=Rolf |last=Eggersdorfer |language=de}}
Clyde Shugart, 92, American football player (Washington Redskins), stroke.{{cite web |url=http://www.redskins.com/gen/articles/Shugart__Redskins_Lineman_From_1939_43__Passes_Away_43394.jsp |title=Shugart, Redskins Lineman From 1939-44, Passes Away |access-date=2009-07-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090718204410/http://www.redskins.com/gen/articles/Shugart__Redskins_Lineman_From_1939_43__Passes_Away_43394.jsp |archive-date=2009-07-18}}
Robert E. L. Taylor, 96, American publisher and chairman of the Philadelphia Bulletin.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/business/media/07taylor.html |title=Robert E. L. Taylor, Philadelphia Newsman, Dies at 96 |date=7 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}

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Jorge Enrique Adoum, 83, Ecuadorian poet and writer.{{cite web |url=http://www.ecuador.com/blog/jorge-enrique-adoum |title=Jorge Enrique Adoum |work=Ecuador.com}}
Alauddin Al-Azad, 77, Bangladeshi author, natural causes.{{cite web |url=http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?id%3D88884%26cid%3D2 |title=Alauddin Al Azad dies at 77 |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090720002712/http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?id=88884&cid=2 |archive-date=2009-07-20}}
John Barry, 84, American president and CEO of WD-40, pulmonary fibrosis.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/business/22barry1.html |title=John S. Barry, Main Force Behind WD-40, Dies at 84 |date=22 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
John Blackburn, 84, American administrator (University of Alabama), myelodysplastic syndrome.{{cite web |url=http://www.cw.ua.edu/longtime-ua-administrator-dies-1.1771708 |title=Longtime UA administrator dies |work=The Crimson White |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090714074459/http://www.cw.ua.edu/longtime-ua-administrator-dies-1.1771708 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-07-14}}
Frank Devine, 77, New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.watoday.com.au/lifestyle/people/editor-and-columnist-frank-devine-dies-20090703-d757.html |title=Editor and columnist Frank Devine dies |work=WAtoday|date=July 3, 2009 }}
Charles K. Eastman, 79, American screenwriter and script doctor, heart disease.{{cite news| url = http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-07-12/news/0907110121_1_adrien-joyce-carole-eastman-night-delicious| title = Charles Eastman, 1929–2009: Playwright and screenwriter| last = McLellan| first = Dennis| date = July 12, 2009| newspaper = Chicago Tribune| publisher = Tribune| location = Chicago| accessdate = November 26, 2010}}
Gabriel Fino Noriega, 42, Honduran journalist, shot.{{cite web |url=http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28957&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |title=Director-General deplores the killing of Honduran journalist Gabriel Fino Noriega and calls for lifting of restrictions on press freedom |work=UNESCO |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20150315012905/http%3A//portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php%2DURL_ID%3D28957%26URL_DO%3DDO_TOPIC%26URL_SECTION%3D201.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-03-15}}
E. J. Josey, 85, American librarian and civil rights activist, natural causes.{{cite web |url=https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/civil-rights-pioneer-librarian-e-j-josey-dies-at-85/ |title=Civil Rights Pioneer, Librarian E. J. Josey Dies at 85 |work=American Libraries}}
John Keel, 79, American ufologist and writer (The Mothman Prophecies), heart failure.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/5797746/John-Keel.html |title=John Keel |work=The Daily Telegraph}}
Barbara Margolis, 79, American prisoners' rights advocate, official greeter for New York City, cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/nyregion/13margolis.html |title=Barbara Margolis, Prisoners' Advocate, Dies at 79 |date=13 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Victor Smorgon, 96, Ukrainian-born Australian industrialist, natural causes.{{cite web |url=http://www.theage.com.au/business/victor-smorgon-dies-aged-96-20090703-d75l.html |title=Victor Smorgon dies aged 96 |first=Chris |last=Zappone |work=The Age|date=July 3, 2009 }}

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Jim Chapin, 89, American jazz drummer.[https://www.moderndrummer.com/2009/08/jim-chapin-2/ Remembering Jim Chapin]
Robert E. Hopkins, 94, American optical engineer.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2009/digital/news/robert-hopkins-dies-at-94-1118006108/ |title=Robert Hopkins dies at 94 |date=17 July 2009 |work=Variety}}
Brenda Joyce, 92, American actress (Tarzan and the Amazons).{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tarzan-actress-brenda-joyce-dies-86638 |title='Tarzan' actress Brenda Joyce dies |work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=July 17, 2009 }}
Béla Király, 97, Hungarian general and historian, natural causes.{{cite web |url=http://www.naplo-online.hu/fooldal-foldalrovat_legfrissebb_hirek/20090704_bela_kiraly_dies |title=1956 National Guard commander Bela Kiraly dies |date=25 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225092600/http://www.naplo-online.hu/fooldal-foldalrovat_legfrissebb_hirek/20090704_bela_kiraly_dies |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 February 2012}}
Allen Klein, 77, American businessman, Beatles and Rolling Stones manager, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8134795.stm |title=Beatles 'shark' Klein dies at 77 |work=BBC News|date=July 5, 2009 }}
Drake Levin, 62, American guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders), cancer.[http://www.louielouie.net/blog/?p=1207 RIP: Drake Levin, guitarist with Paul Revere & Raiders]
Robert Louis-Dreyfus, 63, French-born Swiss billionaire, leukemia.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/business/global/14louis-dreyfus.html |title=Robert Louis-Dreyfus, Turnaround Specialist, Dies at 63 |date=13 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Steve McNair, 36, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens), shot.{{cite web |url=http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d8113375c/article/police-retired-qb-mcnair-murdered-by-girlfriend-who-then-killed-herself |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122222017/http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d8113375c/article/police-retired-qb-mcnair-murdered-by-girlfriend-who-then-killed-herself |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 22, 2013 |title=Police: Retired QB McNair murdered by girlfriend, who then killed herself |work=National Football League}}
Hugh Millais, 79, British actor and adventurer.{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hugh-millais-hit-man-in-mccabe-mrs-miller-1767255.html |title=Hugh Millais: Hit man in 'McCabe & Mrs Miller' |work=The Independent|date=October 23, 2011 }}
Robert Mitchell, 96, American organist, pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/15274/ |title=The final note for Newhall fixture: Silent film, Dodger Stadium organist dead at 96 |access-date=2009-10-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203235817/http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/15274/ |archive-date=2013-02-03}}
Khan Mohammad, 81, Pakistani cricketer, prostate cancer.[https://www.dawn.com/news/837558 Pakistan mourns cricket legend Khan Mohammad]
Leo Mol, 94, Ukrainian-born Canadian sculptor.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/leo-mol-winnipeg-sculptor-dies-at-94-1.806847 Leo Mol, Winnipeg sculptor, dies at 94]
Lasse Strömstedt, 74, Swedish writer.{{cite web |url=http://www.nordstjernan.com/news/briefs/1386/ |title=Briefs: Lasse Strömstedt dies |work=Nordstjernan}}

*Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, 70, Congolese politician, Minister of State.{{cite web |url=http://www.afriquecentrale.info/central.php?o=2&s=813&d=3&i=2049 |title=Congo-Brazzaville minister dies in Paris |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709194840/http://www.afriquecentrale.info/central.php?o=2&s=813&d=3&i=2049 |archive-date=2009-07-09}}

Laurence Villiers, 7th Earl of Clarendon, 76, British aristocrat.[https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2009/07/7th-earl-of-clarendon-1933-2009.html 7th Earl of Clarendon (1933-2009)]

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John Bachar, 52, American rock climber, fall.{{cite web |url=http://thebmc.co.uk/News.aspx?id=3179 |title=John Bachar dies soloing |work=British Mountaineering Council}}
Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker, 86, British diplomat and politician, MP for Blackpool South (1964–1992), pneumonia.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/5770591/Lord-Blaker.html |title=Lord Blaker |work=The Daily Telegraph}}
Lou Creekmur, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/sports/football/09creekmur.html |title=Lou Creekmur, Who Starred for Detroit Lions, Dies at 82 |work=The New York Times|date=July 9, 2009 }}
Alfonso de Andrés, 71, Spanish Olympic athlete.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418062032/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/de/alfonso-de-andres-1.html Alfonso de Andrés]
Takeo Doi, 89, Japanese psychoanalyst.{{cite web |url=http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20090706p2a00m0na010000c.html |title=Psychoanalyst Takeo Doi dies at 89 |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708003745/http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20090706p2a00m0na010000c.html |archive-date=2009-07-08}}
Harry Elliot, 89, British space scientist.[https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/50/6/6.35/192217/Harry-Elliot-1920-2009 Harry Elliot 1920–2009]
Alfred John Ellory, 89, British flautist.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/6062309/Jack-Ellory.html |title=Jack Ellory |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=August 20, 2009}}
Mihai Iacob, 76, Romanian film director.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-diaspora-5913140-murit-regizorul-mihai-iacob-varsta-76-ani.htm |title=A murit regizorul Mihai Iacob, la varsta de 76 de ani |accessdate=30 October 2009|work=hotnews.ro}}
Naomi Lewis, 97, British poet.[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/14/obituary-naomi-lewis "Naomi Lewis"]. theguardian.com. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, 95, British politician, MP for Poole (1964–1979).{{cite hansard |title=Death of a Member: Lord Murton of Lindisfarne |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldhansrd/text/90706-0001.htm |house=House of Lords |date=6 July 2009 |column=439 |speaker=Baroness Hayman |position=Lord Speaker}}
John Orman, 60, American professor and politician, self-appointed chairman of Connecticut for Lieberman party.{{cite web |url=http://www.fairfield.edu/press/pr_index.html?id=2443 |title=Dr. John Orman, professor of politics at Fairfield University, dies at 60 |access-date=2009-07-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121210094535/http://www.fairfield.edu/press/pr_index.html?id=2443 |archive-date=2012-12-10}}
Bob Titchenal, 91, American football player and coach.{{cite web |url=http://blog.sjsualumni.com/?p=675 |title=Remembering Bob Titchenal (1917-2009) |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090816194226/http://blog.sjsualumni.com/?p=675 |archive-date=2009-08-16}}
Waldo Von Erich, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, fall.{{cite web |url=http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2009/07/06/10043216.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310013914/http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2009/07/06/10043216.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |title=Waldo von Erich dies suddenly}}

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Vasily Aksyonov, 76, Russian novelist, stroke.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/russian-writer-vasily-aksyonov-dies-at-76-1.796353 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090713010550/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/07/07/vasily-aksyonov.html |url-status=live |archive-date=2009-07-13 |title=Russian writer Vasily Aksyonov dies at 76}}
Mihai Baicu, 33, Romanian footballer, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.romaniansoccer.ro/players/b/baicu_mihai.shtml |title=Mihai Baicu |work=RomanianSoccer |language=ro}}
Patrick Tracy Burris, 41, American criminal, suspected South Carolina spree killer, shot.{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/police-say-south-carolina-spree-killer-had-long-rap-sheet |title=Police Say South Carolina Spree Killer Had Long Rap Sheet |date=7 July 2009 |work=Fox News}}
Rene Capo, 48, Cuban-born American Olympic judoka (1988, 1996), lung cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2009-07-07-2152177637_x.htm |title=Judo Olympian Capo dies at 48 |work=USA Today}}
Johnny Collins, 71, British folk singer.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jul/13/obituary-johnny-collins-sea-songs |title=Johnny Collins |first=Derek |last=Schofield |date=12 July 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Marlon Green, 80, American pilot.{{cite web |url=http://www.denverpost.com/2009/07/09/pilot-marlon-d-green-fought-racial-discrimination/ |title=Pilot Marlon D. Green fought racial discrimination |work=The Denver Post |date=July 9, 2009}}
Oscar G. Mayer Jr., 95, American business executive (Oscar Mayer).{{cite web |url=http://www.madison.com/wsj/mad/top/457591 |title=Oscar G. Mayer, 95, dies; was 3rd generation, retired chairman |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825200520/http://www.madison.com/wsj/mad/top/457591 |archive-date=2009-08-25}}
Robert McNamara, 93, American business executive, Secretary of Defense (1961–1968), natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070601197.html |title=Defense Secretary, Architect of U.S. Involvement in Vietnam Robert McNamara Dies |first=Thomas W. |last=Lippman |date=7 July 2009 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}
Mathieu Montcourt, 24, French tennis player, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/5770063/Rafael-Nadal-shocked-by-death-of-old-rival-Mathieu-Montcourt.html |title=Rafael Nadal shocked by death of old rival Mathieu Montcourt |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=July 7, 2009}}
Jim Reid, 75, British folk musician, after short illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.greentrax.com/jimreid.htm |title=Death of Jim Reid |work=Greentrax Recordings |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719075238/http://www.greentrax.com/jimreid.htm |archive-date=July 19, 2009 |url-status=dead}}
Robert L. Short, 76, American theologian (The Gospel According to Peanuts).{{cite web |url=http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/263819/ |title=Peanuts theologian Robert Short, 76, dies |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719065936/http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/263819/ |archive-date=2009-07-19}}
Martin Streek, 45, Canadian disc jockey, suspected suicide.{{cite web |url=http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_35811.aspx |title=Former Edge 102.1 DJ Martin Streek Dies |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728100041/http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_35811.aspx |archive-date=2009-07-28}}
Bleddyn Williams, 86, British rugby player, captain of Wales and British Lions, after long illness.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/welsh/7708061.stm |title='Prince of Centres' Williams dies |work=BBC News |date=July 6, 2009}}

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Anabaa, 17, American Thoroughbred racehorse, peritonitis after undergoing surgery from colic.{{cite web |url=http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/51546/french-stallion-anabaa-dies |title=French Stallion Anabaa Dies |work=Bloodhorse.com}}
Mikhail Bachvarov, 73, Bulgarian Olympic sprinter.[https://web.archive.org/web/20170924001640/http://www.standartnews.com/sport-sport/pochina_mihail_bachvarov-37334.html Почина Михаил Бъчваров] {{in lang|bg}}
Richard Reader Harris, 96, British businessman and politician, MP for Heston and Isleworth (1950–1970).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/5780068/Richard-Reader-Harris.html |title=Richard Reader Harris |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=July 8, 2009}}
John Marshall, 77, American sculptor.{{cite web |url=http://sites.keene.edu/newsline/2009/07/10/jack-marshall-emeritus-professor-of-art/ |title=Jack Marshall, Emeritus Professor of Art |access-date=May 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022131357/http://sites.keene.edu/newsline/2009/07/10/jack-marshall-emeritus-professor-of-art/ |archive-date=October 22, 2015 |url-status=dead}}

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John Fairey, 74, English aviator, plane crash.{{Cite web |title=Obituaries. John Fairey |url=http://www.cambrianairways.co.uk/news_32624.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911151818/http://www.cambrianairways.co.uk/news_32624.html |archive-date=11 September 2011 |access-date=22 April 2025 |website=Cambrian Airways}}
Harry Gray, 89, American CEO and chairman of United Technologies Corporation.{{cite web |url=http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/07/06/daily41-Former-UTC-CEO-Harry-Gray-dies.html |title=Former UTC CEO Harry Gray dies |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725031911/http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/07/06/daily41-Former-UTC-CEO-Harry-Gray-dies.html |archive-date=2009-07-25}}
Bertha Hertogh, 72, Dutch woman whose adoption led to ethnic riots in Singapore in 1950, leukemia.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090817092222/http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=424254 1950 Child Custody Victim Bertha Hertogh Dies at 72]
Robert Isabell, 57, American event planner, heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/nyregion/11isabell.html |title=Robert Isabell, Who Turned Events Into Wondrous Occasions, Dies at 57 |date=11 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Edward Kenna, 90, Australian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/5780161/Ted-Kenna-VC.html |title=Ted Kenna, VC |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=July 8, 2009}}
Judi Ann Mason, 54, American screenwriter, television producer (Good Times) and playwright, aortic dissection.{{cite web |url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090710/NEWS01/907090314/1002/rss01 |title=Playwright, Mason, dies at 55 |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815062410/http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090710/NEWS01/907090314/1002/rss01 |archive-date=2009-08-15}}
Waldo McBurney, 106, American beekeeper, oldest worker in the United States.[http://www.fox4kc.com/news/sns-ap-ks--obit-mcburney,0,7202108.story Waldo McBurney, country's oldest worker, dies at 106; known as beekeeper and runner] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719192354/http://www.fox4kc.com/news/sns-ap-ks--obit-mcburney%2C0%2C7202108.story |date=2009-07-19}}
Nelson Munsey, 61, American football player (Baltimore Colts), heart disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/sports/football/17munsey.html |title=Nelson Munsey, Cornerback for Colts, Dies at 61 |work=The New York Times|date=July 17, 2009 }}
Edgar O'Ballance, 90, British military historian.{{cite web |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6729396.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524023437/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6729396.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-05-24 |title=Edgar O'Ballance: military historian |work=The Times}}
Lou Pagliaro, 90, American table tennis player, national champion (1940–1942, 1952).[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/sports/14pagliaro.html Lou Pagliaro, National Table Tennis Champion, Dies at 90]
Yury Shlyapin, 77, Russian water polo player, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).{{cite web |url=http://sport-necropol.narod.ru/shlyapin.html |title=Шляпин Юрий Александрович (1932-2009) |language=ru |access-date=2010-04-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804080746/http://sport-necropol.narod.ru/shlyapin.html |archive-date=2010-08-04}}

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William C. Conner, 89, American federal judge (District Court for the Southern District of New York).{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/nyregion/20conner.html |title=William Conner, Judge Expert in Patent Law, Dies at 89 |date=20 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Magomed Gadaborshev, Russian Colonel, Head of Ingushetia Forensics and Investigations Center, shot.{{cite news |url=http://www.rferl.org/a/Senior_Ingushetia_Official_Dies_After_Attack/1773965.html |title=Senior Ingushetia Official Dies After Attack |work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty}}
George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, 91, British Army officer, patron of military charities and artist.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8144495.stm |title=Earl Haig dies at the age of 91 |work=BBC News |date=July 10, 2009}}
Jessie Hollins, 39, American baseball player, drowned.{{Cite web |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-ap-bbo-hollins-search,0,7986635.story |title=Searchers recover body of former Cubs reliever |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090714195559/http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-ap-bbo-hollins-search,0,7986635.story |archive-date=July 14, 2009 |url-status=dead}}
Ron Kennedy, 56, Canadian ice hockey player and trainer, brain cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.iihf.com/nc/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/article/ron-kennedy-passes-away.html |title=Ron Kennedy passes away |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604162921/http://www.iihf.com/nc/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/article/ron-kennedy-passes-away.html |archive-date=2011-06-04}}
Frank Mickens, 63, American educator, natural causes.{{cite web |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2009/07/10/2009-07-10_tough_love_brooklyn_hs_principal_dies.html |title='Tough love' Brooklyn HS principal dies |work=New York Daily News}}
Kinuthia Murugu, Kenyan Permanent Secretary, shot.{{cite web |url=http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/621546/-/ukvvrd/-/index.html |title=Youth PS Murugu dies in Nairobi |work=Daily Nation|date=July 3, 2020 }}
Henri Verbrugghe, 79, Belgian Olympic canoer.{{cite web |url=https://www.standaard.be/cnt/md2cokdp |title=Mechelen neemt afscheid van wereldkampioen Rik Vebrugghe |date=July 16, 2009 |language=nl}}

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John Caldwell, 71, Irish boxer, Olympic medalist (1956), world bantamweight champion (1961–1962), cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6787746.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601060528/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6787746.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-06-01 |title=John Caldwell: world bantamweight boxing champion, 1961-62 |work=The Times}}
Sir Edward Downes, 85, British conductor, assisted suicide.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/5823704/Conductor-Sir-Edward-Downes-and-wife-end-lives-at-Dignitas-clinic.html |title=Conductor Sir Edward Downes and wife end lives at Dignitas clinic |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=July 14, 2009}}
Ebba Haslund, 91, Norwegian author.{{cite web |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/article3164659.ece |title=Ebba Haslund er død |language=no |access-date=2009-08-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090713023944/http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/article3164659.ece |archive-date=2009-07-13}}
Jack B. Horner, 87, American politician.{{cite web |url=http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=877&body=H |title=Jack B. Horner |work=Pennsylvania House of Representatives}}
Patrick J. McManus, 54, American politician, Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts (1992–2001).[http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2009/07/16/city_of_lynn_mourns_former_mayor_patrick_mcmanus/ A city mourns former mayor]
Frank Seipelt, 48, German Olympic weightlifter (1984, 1988 and 1992 Olympics), motor vehicle accident.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/se/frank-seipelt-1.html |title=Frank Seipelt Bio, Stats, and Results |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203232038/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/se/frank-seipelt-1.html |archive-date=2016-12-03}}
Edward Durell Stone Jr., 76, American landscape architect.{{cite web |url=http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/comm/content/news/2009/07/14/OBITstone0714.html |title=Edward Durell Stone Jr., noted landscape architect, dies |access-date=2010-05-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115180357/http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/comm/content/news/2009/07/14/OBITstone0714.html |archive-date=2010-01-15}}
Zena Marshall, 83, Kenyan-born British actress (Dr. No), after short illness.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/26/obituary-zena-marshall |title=Zena Marshall: Actor who played the exotic Miss Taro in the Bond film Dr No|website=TheGuardian.com|date=July 26, 2009}}

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Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, 69, Spanish woman believed to be world's oldest mother, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8152002.stm |title=World's oldest mother dies at 69 |work=BBC News |date=July 15, 2009}}
Manuel Carrascalão, 75, East Timorese politician, cerebral embolism.{{cite web |url=http://www.ionline.pt/conteudo/12831-morreu-o-politico-timorense-manuel-carrascalao |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090713063703/http://www.ionline.pt/conteudo/12831-morreu-o-politico-timorense-manuel-carrascalao |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-07-13 |title=Morreu o político timorense Manuel Carrascalão |language=pt}}
Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, 68, Australian child molester, multiple organ failure.{{Cite web |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25764353-5006784,00.html |title=Sex offender Robert 'Dolly' Dunn dies in jail |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090714020755/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25764353-5006784,00.html |archive-date=July 14, 2009 |url-status=dead}}
Reg Fleming, 73, Canadian hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/07/chicago-blackhawks-reggie-fleming.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090715065152/http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/07/chicago-blackhawks-reggie-fleming.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-07-15 |title=Ex-Blackhawk Reggie Fleming dead at 73 |work=Chicago Tribune}}
Arturo Gatti, 37, Canadian boxer, strangulation.{{cite web |url=https://www.tsn.ca/boxing/story/?id=284455 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090715064503/https://www.tsn.ca/boxing/story/?id=284455 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-07-15 |title=Canadian former boxing champion Gatti found dead in Brazil}}
Paul Hemphill, 73, American author, throat cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/nyregion/12hemphill.html |title=Paul Hemphill, Chronicler of the South, Dies at 73 |date=12 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}

*Ji Xianlin, 97, Chinese linguist, paleographer, historian and writer, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://news.sohu.com/s2009/jixianlinqushi/ |title=国学大师季羡林逝世 |work=Sohu News |language=zh}}

Lawyer Ron, 6, American Thoroughbred racehorse, complications after colic surgery.{{cite web |url=http://www.ntra.com/content.aspx?type=news&id28140 |work=Ntra.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125010338/http://www.ntra.com/content.aspx?type=news |archive-date=2008-01-25|title=Horse Racing News from the NTRA }}
Mark Mandala, 72, American television executive, president of ABC (1986–1994), heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/315015-Former_ABC_TV_Network_President_Mark_Mandala_Dies.php?rssid=20065 |title=Former ABC TV Network President Mark Mandala Dies |work=Broadcasting & Cable}}
Žan Marolt, 44, Bosnia-Herzegovinian actor.{{cite web |url=http://www.sarajevo-x.com/clanak/090712024 |title=Nakon teške bolesti preminuo glumac Žan Marolt |language=bs}}
Geraint Owen, 43, British actor, cerebral haemorrhage.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8147651.stm |title=Sudden death of ex-soap actor, 43 |work=BBC News|date=July 13, 2009 }}
Cecil Smith, 92, American television and drama critic, journalist, screenwriter, television host, and World War II bomber pilot, congestive heart failure.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-cecil-smith14-2009jul14-story.html|title=Cecil Smith dies at 92; Times TV critic advocated literate, high-quality shows|author=Dennis Mclellan|date=July 14, 2009|work=Los Angeles Times}}

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Doris Barr, 87, Canadian baseball player, original member of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.{{cite news |url=http://www.aagpbl.org/profiles/doris-barr-dodie/259 |title=Doris Barr |work=All-American Girls Professional Baseball League |access-date=2019-03-30}}
Charles N. Brown, 72, American founding editor of Locus magazine.{{cite web |url=https://locusmag.com/aboutlocusonline/charles-n-brown-1937-2009/ |title=Charles N. Brown, 1937-2009 |work=Locus Online News|date=July 13, 2009 }}
Vinod Chaubey, 49, Indian police officer, shot in the Rajnandgaon ambush.{{cite web |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/slain-sp-had-survived-two-naxal-attacks-won-2-gallantry-awards/488857/ |title=Slain SP had survived two Naxal attacks, won 2 gallantry awards |work=The Indian Express|date=July 14, 2009 }}
Tommy Cummings, 80, British football player (Burnley F.C.).[http://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/page/LatestHeadlines/0,,10413~1720691,00.html Tommy Cummings: 1928–2009] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716152714/http://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/page/LatestHeadlines/0%2C%2C10413~1720691%2C00.html |date=2009-07-16}}
James Klass, 43, British DJ, colon cancer.{{cite web|author=Presenter James Klass dies |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2009/07/13/radio_merseyside_james_klass_death_feature.shtml |title=Liverpool - BBC Radio Merseyside - Presenter James Klass dies |publisher=BBC |date=2009-07-15 |accessdate=2012-02-10}}
Donald MacCormick, 70, British television journalist, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8146488.stm |title=Veteran BBC newsman dies aged 70 |work=BBC News |date=July 12, 2009}}
Shesha Palihakkara, 81, Sri Lankan dancer, actor and producer.{{cite web |url=http://www.colombopage.com/archive_091/Jul1247416026RA.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716102312/http://www.colombopage.com/archive_091/Jul1247416026RA.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-07-16 |title=Veteran Sri Lankan actor Shesha Palihakkara passes away |work=ColomboPage.com}}
Christopher Prout, Baron Kingsland, 67, British politician and barrister, MEP (1979–1994), pulmonary embolism.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/5813447/Tory-peer-Lord-Kingsland-dies-aged-67.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218161758/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/5813447/Tory-peer-Lord-Kingsland-dies-aged-67.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 18, 2010 |title=Tory peer Lord Kingsland dies, aged 67 |first=Alastair |last=Jamieson |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=July 13, 2009}}
S. G. Sender, 78, Belgian pastry chef, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.expatica.com/be/news/belgian-news/Belgian-_cakemaker-to-the-kings_-dies_54655.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727162835/http://www.expatica.com/be/news/belgian-news/Belgian-_cakemaker-to-the-kings_-dies_54655.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-07-27 |title=Belgian "cakemaker to the kings" dies |work=Expatica.com}}
Pavel Smeyan, 52, Russian singer and actor, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/8589/ |title=Actor and Musician Pavel Smeyan Dies of Cancer |work=Russia-InfoCentre}}
Nikola Stanchev, 78, Bulgarian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist.[http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/07/16/nikola_stanchev_78_wrestler_bulgarias_1st_olympic_champ/ Nikola Stanchev, Bulgarian wrestler, Olympic champion]
Simon Vinkenoog, 80, Dutch poet and writer.{{cite web |url=http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/07/poet_simon_vinkenoog_dies_at_8.php |title=Poet Simon Vinkenoog dies at 80 |work=DutchNews.nl |date=13 July 2009}}
Jane Weinberger, 91, American author, widow of Caspar Weinberger, stroke.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jane-weinberger15-2009jul15-story.html |title=Jane Weinberger dies at 91; author, publisher, and wife of Defense secretary |first=Elaine |last=Woo |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 15, 2009}}

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Uma Aaltonen, 68, Finnish author, journalist and politician.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/200907139921679_uu.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716153340/http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/200907139921679_uu.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-07-16 |title=Uma Aaltonen on kuollut |language=fi}}
Amin al-Hafez, 83, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister (1973).{{cite web |url=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=104172 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722175755/http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=104172 |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 July 2009 |title=Former Lebanese PM Amin al-Hafez dies at age 83 |date=14 July 2009 |work=The Daily Star |location=Lebanon}}
Giuseppe Alessi, 103, Italian politician, President of Sicily (1947–1949, 1955–1956).{{cite web |url=http://www.agi.it/palermo/notizie/200907132020-cro-rt11225-sicilia_morto_giuseppe_alessi_primo_presidente_della_regione |title=Sicilia: Morto Giuseppe Alessi, Primo Presidente della Regione |language=it |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830030233/http://www.agi.it/palermo/notizie/200907132020-cro-rt11225-sicilia_morto_giuseppe_alessi_primo_presidente_della_regione |archive-date=2009-08-30}}
Robert Cushman, 62, American photograph curator (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences).{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2009/scene/markets-festivals/robert-cushman-dies-at-62-1118006110/ |title=Robert Cushman dies at 62 |date=17 July 2009 |work=Variety}}
Neil Munro, 62, Canadian director, actor and playwright, after long illness.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/neil-munro-canadian-actor-director-dies-at-62-1.824185 Neil Munro, Canadian actor-director, dies at 62]
Nilu Phule, 79, Indian Marathi and Hindi film actor, esophageal cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/phule-no-more-end-of-an-era-in-marathi-cinema/488906/ |title=Phule no more, end of an era in Marathi cinema |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928190131/http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/phule-no-more-end-of-an-era-in-marathi-cinema/488906/ |archive-date=2012-09-28}}
Vince Powell, 80, British scriptwriter (Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language).{{cite web |url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/07/14/9280/writer_powell_dies |title=Writer Powell dies |work=Chortle.co.uk}}
Beverly Roberts, 96, American actress, natural causes.[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/actress-beverly-roberts-dies-86636 Actress Beverly Roberts dies]
Don Schneider, 86, American football player (Buffalo Bills).{{cite news|title=School leader, coach Donald Schneider, 86|newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer|author=Walter F. Naedele|date=July 17, 2009|page=B10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74965039/don-schneider/|via=Newspapers.com}}
Dash Snow, 27, American artist, heroin overdose.{{cite web |url=https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/dash-snow-new-york-artist-dies-at-27/ |title=Dash Snow, New York Artist, Dies at 27 |first=Roberta |last=Smith |work=The New York Times |date=July 14, 2009}}

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Pat Brady, 82, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), lymphoma.{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090721/SPORTS/707219868/1093/SPORTS06 |title=Ex-EvCC football player dead at 83 |date=20 July 2009 |work=The Herald}}
Lucio Ceccarini, 78, Italian water polo player.{{cite web |url=http://www.nuoto.it/leggi.php?leggiID=20554 |title=Si è spento Lucio Ceccarini |language=it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722043812/http://www.nuoto.it/leggi.php?leggiID=20554 |archive-date=2011-07-22}}
Sam Church, 72, American labor leader (UMWA), complications of surgery.{{cite web |url=http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9015232 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602160119/http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9015232 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-06-02 |title=Former UMW President Sam Church dead at 72 |work=Kingsport Times-News}}
Joe DiGangi, 94, American bullpen catcher (New York Yankees), natural causes.{{cite web |url=http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jul/31/1m31digangi001739-joe-digangi-coronadan-told-tales/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202055441/http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jul/31/1m31digangi001739-joe-digangi-coronadan-told-tales/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 2, 2013 |title=Joe DiGangi; Coronadan told tales of years as bullpen catcher for Yankees |first=Blanca |last=Gonzalez |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune |date=July 31, 2009 }}
John Fautenberry, 46, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2009/07/ohio_executes_john_fautenberry.html|title=Ohio executes John Fautenberry, the trucker who went on a killing spree|publisher=The Plain Dealer|date=July 14, 2009}}
Phyllis Gotlieb, 83, Canadian science fiction author,{{cite web |url=http://www.benjaminsparkmemorialchapel.ca/ServiceDetails.aspx?snum=125855&fg=0 |title=Phyllis Gotlieb |work=Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel - Service Details}}
Christopher Hipp, 47, American inventor (blade server) and entrepreneur, suspected embolism.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/technology/business-computing/17hipp.html |title=Christopher Hipp, Who Bolstered Computer Power, Dies at 47 |date=17 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Dallas McKennon, 89, American actor and voice actor (Gumby, Buzz Buzzard, Archie Andrews), natural causes.{{cite web |url=http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/dallas-mckennon-1919-2009.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090717043756/http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/dallas-mckennon-1919-2009.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 17, 2009 |title=Dallas McKennon 1919-2009 |date=July 14, 2009 |work=Cartoonbrew.com}}
Kujtim Majaci, 47, Albanian footballer, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://index.fieri.com/sports/1883-shuhet-legjenda-e-futbollit-fierak-kujtim-majaci.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120416000747/http://index.fieri.com/sports/1883-shuhet-legjenda-e-futbollit-fierak-kujtim-majaci.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-04-16 |title=Shuhet legjenda e futbollit fierak: Kujtim Majaci! |work=Portali Fierak Online |language=sq}}
Heinrich Schweiger, 77, Austrian actor, cardiovascular disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.austriantimes.at/news/Panorama/2009-07-15/14717/Vienna_actor_Heinrich_Schweiger_is_dead |title=Vienna actor Heinrich Schweiger is dead |work=Austrian Times |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090723053448/http://www.austriantimes.at/news/Panorama/2009-07-15/14717/Vienna_actor_Heinrich_Schweiger_is_dead |archive-date=2009-07-23}}
Muzaffer Tokaç, 86, Turkish footballer.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418074043/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/to/muzaffer-tokac-1.html Muzaffer Tokaç]
Jean Sommeng Vorachak, 76, Laotian Apostolic Vicar of Savannakhet.{{cite web |url=http://www.indiancatholic.in/news/storydetails.php/12692-1-10-Bishop-of-Savannakhet-dies-at-age-76 |title=Bishop of Savannakhet dies at age 76 |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726055439/http://www.indiancatholic.in/news/storydetails.php/12692-1-10-Bishop-of-Savannakhet-dies-at-age-76 |archive-date=2009-07-26}}
Bill Young, 95, New Zealand politician and diplomat.[http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/features/obituaries/2605399/Bill-Young-Minister-and-diplomat-from-humble-beginnings/ Bill Young: Minister and diplomat from humble beginnings]
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, 74, Polish actor and director.{{cite web |url=http://www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/culture/artykul112076_profound_loss_for_polish_theatre.html |title=Profound loss for Polish theatre |work=Polskie Radio}}

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Avraham Ahituv, 78, German-born Israeli intelligence chief, Director of the Shin Bet (1974–1980).[https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Avraham-Ahituv-Shin-Bet-head-1974-1980-passes-away-at-79 Avraham Ahituv, Shin Bet head 1974-1980, passes away at 79]
Khursheed Kamal Aziz, 81, Pakistani historian.{{cite web |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/853634/historian-k-k-aziz-dead |title=Historian K.K. Aziz dead |date=16 July 2009 |work=Dawn}}
Seddon Bennington, 61, New Zealand chief executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, hypothermia.{{Cite web |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25797519-16953,00.html |title=Museum boss dies in snow |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728221608/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25797519-16953,00.html |archive-date=July 28, 2009 |url-status=dead}}
Jacques de Champlain, 71, Canadian medical researcher, heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jLJQ96DE__BiK3Ppf1b8TIDmrX7w |title=Jacques de Champlain, médecin et chercheur, est mort la semaine dernière |accessdate=2009-07-15|publisher=La Presse }}{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
Levon Davidian, 65, Iranian psychiatrist and politician, member of the parliament of Iran (2000-2004), plane crash.{{Cite web |last=Rocha |first=Veronica |date=2009-07-16 |title=Families stunned by crash |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/tn-gnp-xpm-2009-07-16-doc4a5e0c7895f8a765898345-story.html |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=Glendale News-Press |via=Los Angeles Times}}
Adama Drabo, 75-76, Malian filmmaker and playwright.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236601/ |title=Adama Drabo |work=Internet Movie Database}}
Natalya Estemirova, 51, Russian human rights activist in Chechnya and Ingushetia, shot.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8152551.stm |title=Russian activist 'found murdered' |work=BBC News |date=July 15, 2009}}
Klára Fried-Bánfalvi, 78, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) sprint canoeist.{{cite web |url=http://www.mob.hu/champdata/details/id/20794/ |title=Olimpiai érmeseink - Bánfalvi Klára (Fried Imréné) |language=hu}}
Brian Goodwin, 78, Canadian mathematician, fall from a bicycle.{{cite web |url=http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/news/professor-brian-goodwin |title=Professor Brian Goodwin |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913102117/http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/news/professor-brian-goodwin |archive-date=2009-09-13}}
Julius Shulman, 98, American architectural photographer.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-julius-shulman17-2009jul17-story.html |title=Julius Shulman dies at 98; celebrated photographer of modernist architecture |first=Claudia |last=Luther |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 17, 2009}}

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Joseph Henry Burgess, 62, American fugitive and murderer, gunshot wounds.{{cite web |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-us-beach-slayings-072409-2009jul24-story.html |title=Drifter eyed in unsolved beach slayings |access-date=June 13, 2025 |date=July 24, 2009 |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune}}
Thomas Dao, 88, Chinese-born American physician, expert in breast cancer treatment, Pick's Disease.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/health/26dao.html |title=Dr. Thomas Dao, Expert on Treatment of Breast Cancer, Dies at 88 |date=26 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Leslie Fernandez, 91, British WW2 Special Forces saboteur and trainer of Violette Szabó.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/6248212/Captain-Les-Fernandez.html |title=Captain Les Fernandez |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=September 30, 2009}}
Charles Gonthier, 80, Canadian jurist, Supreme Court Justice (1989–2003).{{cite web |title=Former high court justice Charles Gonthier dies |date=2009-07-17 |website=CTV News |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/former-high-court-justice-charles-gonthier-dies-1.417427}}
Maurice Grimaud, 95, French police chief of Paris during the 1968 student uprising.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-maurice-grimaud24-2009jul24-story.html |title=Maurice Grimaud dies at 95; former Paris police chief |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 24, 2009}}
Otto Heino, 94, American ceramicist and potter, acute renal failure.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-me-otto-heino21-2009jul21-story.html |title=Otto Heino dies at 94; master potter created 'hearty and gutsy' pieces |first=David A. |last=Keeps |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 21, 2009}}
Jerry Holland, 54, American-born Canadian fiddler and composer, cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/fiddler-jerry-holland-of-cape-breton-dies-1.842564 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090718223759/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2009/07/17/ns-holland-fiddle.html |url-status=live |archive-date=2009-07-18 |title=Fiddler Jerry Holland of Cape Breton dies}}
Paulo Lopes de Faria, 78, Brazilian archbishop of Diamantina.{{cite web |url=http://noticias.cancaonova.com/noticia.php?id=273393 |title=Falece arcebispo emérito de Diamantina |work=Cancaonova.com |language=pt}}
Bud Marshall, 67, American football player.[http://www.rosewood.cc/book-of-memories/1376207/Marshall-Richard/obituary.php Obituary for Richard "Bud" Marshall]
D. K. Pattammal, 90, Indian Carnatic singer, after short illness.{{cite web |url=http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20090716/1296618.html |title=Carnatic vocalist Pattammal passes away |work=WebIndia123.com}}
Angelo Rizzo, 83, Italian archbishop of Ragusa.{{cite web |url=http://corrierediragusa.it/public/articoli/6496-e-a-morto-il-vescovo.asp |title=L'ultimo saluto a Mons. Rizzo. Sarà tumulato nella cattedrale di S. Giovanni |language=it |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121219030350/http://corrierediragusa.it/public/articoli/6496-e-a-morto-il-vescovo.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-19}}
Ashraf W. Tabani, 79, Pakistani businessman and politician, Governor of Sindh (1987–1988).[http://payamekarfarmayan.com/spip.php?article371&lang=fa Death of Former IOE President Ashraf Tabani]
Yury Verlinsky, 65, Russian medical researcher, colorectal cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6857387.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524171709/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6857387.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-05-24 |title=Yury Verlinsky: reproductive expert |work=The Times}}

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Meir Amit, 88, Israeli major general and politician.{{cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3748204,00.html |title=Former minister, Mossad chief Meir Amit dead at 88 |work=Ynetnews|date=July 17, 2009 }}
Gordon Burn, 61, British writer, cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/20/gordon-burn-obituary |title=Gordon Burn |first=Martin |last=Wainwright |date=20 July 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Walter Cronkite, 92, American television news anchor, cerebrovascular disease.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walter-cronkite-dies/ |title=Walter Cronkite Dies |work=CBS News}}
Richard H. Hall, 78, American ufologist, colon cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/22/AR2009082202196.html |title=Richard H. Hall, 78: Leading Ufologist |first=Rick |last=Rojas |date=23 August 2009 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}
Vladimir Ilyin, 81, Soviet football player.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fcdinamo.ru/material.php?id=4756 |title=ОТВЕТЫ АНДРЕЯ КОБЕЛЕВА НА ВОПРОСЫ БОЛЕЛЬЩИКОВ |access-date=2010-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123072604/http://fcdinamo.ru/material.php?id=4756 |archive-date=2010-11-23 |url-status=dead }}
Jim Kirby, 86, American baseball player.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kirbyji01.shtml |title=Jim Kirby}}
Leszek Kołakowski, 81, Polish philosopher, historian of ideas and essayist.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-kolakowski-idUSTRE56G67Q20090717 |title=Polish philosopher and author Kolakowski dead at 81 |date=17 July 2017 |work=Reuters}}
Jean Margéot, 93, Mauritian cardinal.[http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/mauritius:-ex-bishop-of-port-louis-dies-at-93-2009071731882.html Mauritius: Ex-Bishop of Port Louis dies at 93] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719050139/http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/mauritius%3A-ex-bishop-of-port-louis-dies-at-93-2009071731882.html |date=2009-07-19}}
Gordon Waller, 64, British singer (Peter and Gordon), cardiac arrest.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-gordon-waller21-2009jul21-story.html |title=Gordon Waller dies at 64; half of the '60s British singing duo Peter & Gordon |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 21, 2009 }}

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Henry Allingham, 113, British supercentenarian, world's oldest man and World War I veteran.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8157128.stm |title=Oldest WWI veteran dies aged 113 |work=BBC News|date=July 18, 2009 }}
Annagul Annakuliyeva, 84, Turkmen opera singer and actress.{{cite news |url=http://www.rferl.org/a/Famous_Turkmen_Opera_Singer_Dies_At_85/1781267.html |title=Turkmen Opera Star Dies At 85 |work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty}}
Jill Balcon, 84, British actress, widow of Cecil Day-Lewis and mother of Daniel Day-Lewis, brain tumour.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/20/jill-balcon-obituary |title=Jill Balcon |first=Peter |last=Stanford |date=20 July 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Yasmine Belmadi, 33, French actor, traffic collision.{{cite web |url=http://www.leparisien.fr/aubervilliers-93300/mort-accidentelle-du-comedien-yasmine-belmadi-18-07-2009-584591.php |title=Mort accidentelle du comédien Yasmine Belmadi |date=12 February 2017 |language=fr}}
Lionel Casson, 94, American professor of Classics (New York University), author on ancient maritime history, pneumonia.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/nyregion/25casson.html |title=Lionel Casson, Who Wrote of Ancient Maritime History, Dies at 94 |date=25 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Roberta Hill, 73, American obsessed cinephile.{{cite news|title=Roberta Hill (Obituary)|work=The New York Times|date= August 2, 2009|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E4DB123AF931A3575BC0A96F9C8B63|accessdate= 23 November 2011}}
Ricardo Londoño, 59, Colombian racing driver, shot.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090823025202/http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/5062-former-f1-driver-londono-assassinated.html Former F1 driver Londoño assassinated]
Denis Redman, 99, British army general.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/6005922/Major-General-Denis-Redman.html Major-General Denis Redman]
Steven Rothenberg, 50, American studio executive (Lions Gate Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment), stomach cancer.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/lionsgate-s-steven-rothenberg-dies-1118006188/ |title=Lionsgate's Steven Rothenberg dies |first=Dave |last=McNary |date=20 July 2009 |work=Variety}}
Graham Stanton, 69, New Zealand-born British theologian.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/6005904/Graham-Stanton.html |title=Graham Stanton |work=The Daily Telegraph}}
Robert Uffen, 85, Canadian geophysicist.[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?n=robert-james-uffen&pid=130153261 Robert James Uffen Obituary]
Joel Weisman, 66, American physician and pioneer in AIDS detection, heart disease.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-me-joel-weisman23-2009jul23-story.html |title=Dr. Joel D. Weisman dies at 66; among the first doctors to detect AIDS |first=Elaine |last=Woo |work=Los Angeles Times|date=September 16, 2014 }}

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Sue Burns, 58, American businesswoman, principal owner of the San Francisco Giants, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/19/SPBV18R26E.DTL |title=Giants owner Sue Burns, 1950-2009 |work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=July 20, 2009 }}
Alan Garnett Davenport, 76, Canadian engineer.{{Cite web |url=http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20090721.93202653/BDAStory/BDA/deaths |title=Deaths: Alan Garnett Davenport |access-date=December 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408082221/http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20090721.93202653/BDAStory/BDA/deaths |archive-date=April 8, 2017 |url-status=dead}}
Karen Harup, 84, Danish swimmer, Olympic champion (1948).{{cite web |url=http://politiken.dk/sport/article756119.ece |title=Legenden fra OL i 1948 er død |date=July 22, 2009 |language=da}}
Ingeborg Hunzinger, 94, German sculptor.{{cite web |url=http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/152479.zart-stark.html |title=Zart, stark: Ingeborg Hunzinger tot |language=de}}
Frank McCourt, 78, Irish-American author (Angela's Ashes), melanoma.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/books/20mccourt.html |title=Frank McCourt, Whose Irish Childhood Illuminated His Prose, Is Dead at 78 |date=20 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Gilberto Mestrinho, 81, Brazilian Governor of Amazonas (1959–1963, 1983–1987, 1991–1995), lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Politica/0,,MUL1235130-5601,00.html |title=Morre ex-senador Gilberto Mestrinho |language=pt |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722064617/http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Politica/0%2C%2CMUL1235130-5601%2C00.html |archive-date=2009-07-22}}
Cecil Mountford, 90, New Zealand rugby league player and coach.{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/cec-mountford-rugby-league-standoff-who-led-wigan-to-glory-then-enjoyed-great-success-as-coach-of-warrington-1757207.html |title=Cec Mountford: Rugby league stand-off who led Wigan to glory then enjoyed great success as coach of Warrington |date=23 July 2009 |work=The Independent}}
Frank Rickwood, 88, Australian oil executive.[https://www.news.com.au/news/oil-industry-salutes-the-passing-of-a-quiet-achiever/news-story/da3084a1ef734cf32be4f77070f89a10 Oil industry salutes the passing of a quiet achiever]
Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes.[https://www.jornada.com.mx/2009/07/20/politica/018n1pol Fallece Schulenburg Prado, quien siendo abad de la basílica negó la existencia de Juan Diego] {{in lang|es}}
Ray Shaw, 75, American journalist and work (American City Business Journals), complications from a wasp sting.{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124813238449566757 |title=Shaw Dies at 75, Was Dow Jones President |first=Stephen |last=Miller |work=The Wall Street Journal|date=July 22, 2009 }}
Bryan Stanley, 83, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jul/26/obituary-bryan-stanley |title=Bryan Stanley |first=Claire |last=Ward |date=26 July 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Henry Surtees, 18, British racing driver, Formula Two race accident.{{cite web |url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77088 |title=Henry Surtees dies after F2 crash |first=Jonathan |last=Noble |work=Autosport|date=July 19, 2009 }}
Ebbe Wallén, 92, Swedish Olympic bobsledder.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/ebbe-wallen-1.html |title=Ebbe Wallén Bio, Stats, and Results |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022212640/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/ebbe-wallen-1.html |archive-date=2012-10-22}}

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Gene Amondson, 65, American politician, Prohibition Party nominee for U.S. President, stroke.{{cite web |url=http://www.ballot-access.org/2009/07/21/gene-amondson-dies/ |title=Gene Amondson Dies |work=Ballot Access News|date=July 21, 2009 }}
Gretel Bolliger, 87, Swiss Olympic athlete [https://web.archive.org/web/20200418093607/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/gretel-bolliger-1.html Gretel Bolliger]
Ria Brieffies, 52, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots), lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/4445797/__Ria_Brieffies_overleden__.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724145625/http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/4445797/__Ria_Brieffies_overleden__.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-07-24 |title=Dolly Dot Ria Brieffies overleden |language=nl}}
Edward T. Hall, 95, American anthropologist.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110930015718/http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Edward-T--Hall--1914-2009-Anthropologist--loved-to-bring-N-M--w Edward T. Hall, 1914-2009: Anthropologist 'loved to bring N.M. with him']
Bobby Knoxall, 75, British comedian.{{cite web |url=http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/Comic-legend-Bobby-Knoxall-dies.5477981.jp |title=Leave your tribute to comic legend Bobby Knoxall |work=Sunderland Echo |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727161637/http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/Comic-legend-Bobby-Knoxall-dies.5477981.jp |archive-date=July 27, 2009 |url-status=dead}}
Vedat Okyar, 64, Turkish journalist and footballer (Beşiktaş J.K.), colorectal cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnnturk.com/2009/spor/futbol/07/20/turk.futbolu.vedat.okyari.kaybetti/535663.0/index.html |title=Türk futbolu Vedat Okyar'ı kaybetti |work=CNNTurk.com |date=October 15, 2019 |language=tr}}
Stan Polley, 87, American music manager.
H. James Starr, 78, American politician.{{cite news|title=Obituary for H. James Starr, 1931-2009 (Aged 78) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82504430/obituary-for-h-james-starr-1931-2009/ |newspaper=Lansing State Journal |date=July 21, 2009 |page=10 |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=July 21, 2022}}
Paul Fouad Tabet, 79, Lebanese archbishop, Nuncio to Greece (1996–2005).{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btabet.html |title=Archbishop Paul Fouad Naïm Tabet |work=Catholic-Hierarchy |first=David M. |last=Cheney}}
Gösta Werner, 101, Swedish film director.{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/gosta-werner-film-historian-and-the-worlds-oldest-living-film-director-1806206.html |title=Gosta Werner: Film historian and the world's oldest living film |date=21 October 2009 |work=The Independent}}
Carl Willey, 78, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets), lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://updates.mainetoday.com/updates/ex-major-leaguer-from-maine-dies |title=Ex-Major Leaguer from Maine dies |access-date=2009-07-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726142737/http://updates.mainetoday.com/updates/ex-major-leaguer-from-maine-dies |archive-date=2009-07-26}}

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Stacy Barnett, 22, American murder victim.
John Dawson, 64, American musician (New Riders of the Purple Sage), stomach cancer.{{cite web |url=http://msgboard.moonaliceband.com/topic/john-marmaduke-dawson-rip-june-16-1945-july-21-2009 |title=John "Marmaduke" Dawson R.I.P June 16, 1945-July 21, 2009 |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714113754/http://msgboard.moonaliceband.com/topic/john-marmaduke-dawson-rip-june-16-1945-july-21-2009 |archive-date=2011-07-14}}
Armando del Moral, 93, Spanish-born American film journalist, natural causes.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2009/biz/news/film-journalist-armando-del-moral-dies-1118006670/ |title=Film journalist Armando del Moral dies |date=30 July 2009 |work=Variety}}
Nelson Demarco, 84, Uruguayan basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist (1952, 1956).[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418000437/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/de/nelson-demarco-1.html Nelson Demarco]
Heinz Edelmann, 75, Czech-born German illustrator and designer, heart disease and renal failure.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/arts/design/23edelmann.html |title=Heinz Edelmann, 'Yellow Submarine' Artist, Dies at 75 |date=23 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Gidget, 15, American chihuahua, Taco Bell mascot, stroke.{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32085116 |title=Adios, Chihuahua! Taco Bell dog dead at 15 |work=MSNBC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722230145/http://today.msnbc.msn.com//id//32085116//ns//today-today_pets// |url-status=live |archive-date=2009-07-22}}
John Goosey, 21, American murder victim.
Gangubai Hangal, 96, Indian Hindustani classical singer, cardiac arrest.{{cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200907211440.htm |title=Gangubai's concert of life ends |access-date=2009-07-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724082433/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200907211440.htm |archive-date=2009-07-24}}
Marcel Jacob, 45, Swedish musician, suicide.{{cite web |url=http://jeffscottsoto.com/news/marcel/marcel.html |title=Marcel Jacob January 30, 1964 - July 21, 2009 |work=jeffscottsoto.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724143451/http://jeffscottsoto.com/news/marcel/marcel.html |archive-date=2009-07-24}}
Yoshinori Kanada, 57, Japanese animator (My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky), heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-07-22/animator-yoshinori-kanada-reportedly-passes-away |title=Animator Yoshinori Kanada Reportedly Passes Away (Updated) |work=Anime News Network|date=August 2, 2023 }}
Les Lye, 84, Canadian actor and broadcaster (You Can't Do That on Television).{{cite web |url=http://ottawa.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090722/OTT_Les_Lye_090722/20090722/?hub=OttawaHome |title=CTV Ottawa legend Les Lye passes away |date=26 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726092319/http://ottawa.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090722/OTT_Les_Lye_090722/20090722/?hub=OttawaHome |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 July 2009}}
Hiroshi Wakasugi, 74, Japanese orchestra conductor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.{{cite web |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090723b1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607024552/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090723b1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 June 2011 |title=Obituary: Hiroshi Wakasugi |date=23 July 2009 |work=Japan Times}}

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Howard Engle, 89, American pediatrician, lead plaintiff in landmark tobacco lawsuit, lymphoma.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/us/24engle.html |title=H. A. Engle, Tobacco Plaintiff, Dies at 89 |date=24 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Richard M. Givan, 88, American judge, Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (1969–1994).[http://indianacourts.us/times/2009/08/in-memoriam-former-chief-justice-robert-m-givan/ In Memoriam: Former Chief Justice Robert M. Givan]
Peter Krieg, 61, German documentary filmmaker.{{cite web |url=https://www.fr.de/kultur/peter-krieg-11526465.html |title=Peter Krieg ist tot |work=Frankfurter Rundschau |date=July 24, 2009 |language=de}}
Mark Leduc, 47, Canadian boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1992), heat stroke.{{cite web |url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/2009/07/24/mark_leduc_47_gay_athlete_olympic_medallist.html |title=Mark Leduc, 47: Gay athlete, Olympic medallist |work=Toronto Star|date=July 24, 2009 }}
Herbert Morris, 94, American rower, Olympic gold medalist (1936).{{cite web |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-huskies/huskies-last-surviving-member-of-1936-olympic-gold-crew-team-dies/ |title=Huskies' last surviving member of 1936 Olympic-gold crew team dies |work=Seattle Times|date=July 24, 2009 }}
Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage.{{cite web |url=http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=21159 |title=Marco Nazareth Passes Away After Chavez Loss |work=BoxingScene.com|date=July 22, 2009 }}
Billy Parks, 61, American football player, melanoma.{{cite web |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LB&p_theme=lb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=129A6EFCA903E4A8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Obituary: Holder of five LBSU football records tabbed as unforgettable |work=Long Beach Press-Telegram}}
Lynn Pressman Raymond, 97, American president of Pressman Toy Corporation.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/business/02pressman.html |title=Lynn Pressman Raymond, Toy Executive, Dies at 97 |date=2 August 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
John Ryan, 88, British cartoonist (Captain Pugwash).{{cite web |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/07/24/captain-pugwash-cartoonist-john-ryan-dies-115875-21543617/ |title=Captain Pugwash cartoonist John Ryan dies |date=23 July 2009 |work=Daily Mirror}}
Damian Steele, 33, American professional wrestler, brain aneurysm.{{cite web |url=http://indywrestlingnews.com/newswire/6088-former-wwe-developmental-talent-damien-steele-passes-away.html |title=Former WWE developmental talent Damien Steele passes away |work=Indy Wrestling News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713030205/http://indywrestlingnews.com/newswire/6088-former-wwe-developmental-talent-damien-steele-passes-away.html |archive-date=2011-07-13}}
Aygyl Tajiyeva, 64, Turkmen politician and opposition activist, stroke.{{cite news |url=http://www.rferl.org/a/Turkmen_Activist_Dies_In_Exile/1784068.html |title=Turkmen Activist Dies In Exile |work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=July 23, 2009 }}

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Virginia Carroll, 95, American actress and model, natural causes.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-passings30-2009jul30-story.html |title=Passings: Virginia Carroll |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 30, 2009}}
E. Lynn Harris, 54, American author.{{cite web |url=http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid101006.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727212603/http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid101006.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-07-27 |title=E. Lynn Harris Dies in Beverly Hills |work=Advocate.com}}
Conyers Herring, 94, American physicist.[https://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/july27/herring-physics-obit-073109.html Conyers Herring, scholar of solid-state physics, dies at 94]
Talis Kitsing, 33, Estonian reality TV star.{{cite web |url=http://www.ohtuleht.ee/338980 |title=Suri reality-täht Talis Kitsing |language=et}}
Danny McBride, 63, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sha Na Na), natural causes.{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=danny-hatton-mcbride&pid=130493486 |title=Danny Hatton McBride's Obituary in Los Angeles Times |work=legacy.com}}
Duse Nacaratti, 67, Brazilian actress, respiratory failure.{{cite web |url=http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/PopArte/0,,MUL1240478-7084,00.html |title=Atriz Duse Naccarati morre aos 76 anos |language=pt |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726152402/http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/PopArte/0%2C%2CMUL1240478-7084%2C00.html |archive-date=2009-07-26}}
Thomas N. Schroth, 88, American editor (Congressional Quarterly), founder of The National Journal, heart failure.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/us/05schroth.html |title=Thomas N. Schroth, Influential Washington Editor, Is Dead at 88 |date=5 August 2009 |work=The New York Times}}

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José Carlos da Costa Araújo, 47, Brazilian goalkeeper, reserve at 1990 World Cup, abdominal cancer.{{cite web |url=http://justicadesportiva.uol.com.br/11729-EX-GOLEIRO-DO-FLA-MORRE-DE-CANCER.html |title=Ex-goleiro do Fla morre de câncer |language=pt |access-date=2009-07-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728165317/http://justicadesportiva.uol.com.br/11729-EX-GOLEIRO-DO-FLA-MORRE-DE-CANCER.html |archive-date=2009-07-28}}
Omar Dani, 85, Indonesian Commander of the National Air Force (1962–1965).{{cite web |url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/07/24/former-air-force-chief-omar-dhani-dies-85.html |title=Former Air Force chief Omar Dhani dies at 85 |access-date=2011-10-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607123501/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/07/24/former-air-force-chief-omar-dhani-dies-85.html |archive-date=2011-06-07}}
Friedrich Goldmann, 68, German composer and conductor.{{cite news |url=https://www.welt.de/welt_print/kultur/article4198642/Verfechter-der-DDR-Musik-Friedrich-Goldmann-ist-tot.html |title=Verfechter der DDR-Musik: Friedrich Goldmann ist tot |work=Die Welt |date=July 27, 2009 |language=de}}
Austin Gresham, 84, British pathologist.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/6175408/Professor-Austin-Gresham.html |title=Professor Austin Gresham |work=The Daily Telegraph}}
G. Alexander Heard, 92, American presidential advisor, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University (1963–1982).{{cite web |url=http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/news/campusnews/2009/07/25/alexander-heard-fifth-chancellor-of-vanderbilt-dies.85204 |title=Alexander Heard, fifth chancellor of Vanderbilt, dies |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728194025/http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/news/campusnews/2009/07/25/alexander-heard-fifth-chancellor-of-vanderbilt-dies.85204 |archive-date=2009-07-28}}
John Panton, 92, Scottish golfer.{{Cite web |url=http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/John-Panton.5497934.jp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805122758/http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/John-Panton.5497934.jp |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-08-05 |title=Obituaries: John Panton}}
Sir Edward Peck, 93, British diplomat, Permanent Representative to NATO (1970–1975).{{cite web |title=Obituary {{!}} Sir Edward Peck |date=2009-08-04 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526142202/https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/aug/04/obituary-sir-edward-peck |archive-date=2022-05-26 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/aug/04/obituary-sir-edward-peck}}
Harry Towb, 83, British actor, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/actor-harry-towb-dies-420059.html |title=Actor Harry Towb dies |work=BreakingNews.ie |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728011723/http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/actor-harry-towb-dies-420059.html |archive-date=July 28, 2009 |url-status=dead}}

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Yasmin Ahmad, 51, Malaysian film director, brain hemorrhage.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090727085934/http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2009%2F7%2F26%2Fnation%2F4396007&sec=nation Film director Yasmin Ahmad dies]
Rick Bryan, 47, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.newsok.com/former-sooner-all-american-nfl-star-rick-bryan-dies-at-47/article/3388266?custom_click=lead_story_title |title=Ex-Sooner, NFL star Rick Bryan dies at 47 |date=27 July 2009 |work=Newsok.com |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-date=June 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614084140/http://www.newsok.com/former-sooner-all-american-nfl-star-rick-bryan-dies-at-47/article/3388266?custom_click=lead_story_title |url-status=dead }}
Gladys Bustamante, 97, Jamaican trade unionist and activist, wife of Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante.{{cite web |url=http://www.jamaicaobserver.com:80/news/html/20090725T220000-0500_156121_OBS__LADY_B__DIES_.asp |title='Lady B' Dies |date=29 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090829143251/http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20090725T220000-0500_156121_OBS__LADY_B__DIES_.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 August 2009}}
Alexis Cohen, 25, American singer, American Idol contestant, hit-and-run.{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Television/story?id=8182558&page=1 |title='American Idol' Contestant Killed in Hit and Run |date=27 July 2009 |work=ABC News}}
Vernon Forrest, 38, American former world welterweight and super welterweight (light middleweight) champion boxer, shot.{{cite web |url=http://wsbradio.com/localnews/2009/07/fmr-world-champion-boxer-murde.html |title=Fmr. World Champion Boxer Murdered in Atl. |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090729135750/http://wsbradio.com/localnews/2009/07/fmr-world-champion-boxer-murde.html |archive-date=2009-07-29}}
Gerald Gardner, 83, Irish-born American mathematician, evidence led to ban on sex-segregated classified advertising. leukemia.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/us/29gardner.html |title=Gerald Gardner, 83, Dies; Bolstered Sex Bias Suit |date=29 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Erling Kristiansen, 85, Norwegian Olympic cyclist.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/kr/erling-kristiansen-1.html |title=Erling Kristiansen Bio, Stats, and Results |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024040431/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/kr/erling-kristiansen-1.html |archive-date=2012-10-24}}
Ken Major, 80, British architect.{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/kenneth-major-heritage-architect-and-author-mxc65w26q8z |title=Kenneth Major: heritage architect and author |work=The Times}}
Stanley Middleton, 89, British author, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/homenews/Tributes-paid-Nottinham-author/article-1203557-detail/article.html |title=Tributes paid to Nottingham author |date=29 July 2009 |work=Nottingham Post |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505124301/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/homenews/Tributes-paid-Nottinham-author/article-1203557-detail/article.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 May 2013}}
Harry Patch, 111, British supercentenarian, fourth-last surviving World War I veteran.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8168691.stm |title=WWI veteran Patch dies aged 111 |work=BBC News |date=July 25, 2009}}
Lorrie Pickering, 90, New Zealand politician.[https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/49HansD_20090728_00000013/obituaries-hon-herbert-elmer-lorraine-pickering-qso Hon. Herbert Elmer Lorraine Pickering QSO]
Sarath Ranawaka, 58, Sri Lankan politician, after short illness.{{cite web |url=http://srilankatoday.com/content/view/3202/52/ |title=UNP Parliamentarian Sarath Ranawaka is no more |date=7 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090807033706/http://srilankatoday.com/content/view/3202/52/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 August 2009}}

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John Brockway, 80, British swimmer.{{cite web |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6814031.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525031810/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6814031.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-05-25 |title=John Brockway: international swimmer |work=The Times}}
Traugott Buhre, 80, German actor.{{cite web |url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/599/482064/text/ |title=Nachruf auf Traugott Buhre: Zartes Schwergewicht |first=Christine |last=Dössel |work=Süddeutsche Zeitung |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090731145637/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/599/482064/text/ |archive-date=July 31, 2009 |url-status=dead}}
Bhaskar Chandavarkar, 73, Indian sitarist and composer, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200907261340.htm |title=Eminent musician Chandavarkar passes away |access-date=2009-07-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730212353/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200907261340.htm |archive-date=2009-07-30}}
Merce Cunningham, 90, American choreographer, natural causes.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/arts/dance/28cunningham.html |title=Merce Cunningham, Dance Visionary, Dies |date=28 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Richard Ferguson, 73, British barrister, Queen's Counsel for Northern Ireland and former politician.{{cite news |url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-irelandborn-qc-who-defended-rose-west-and-brighton-bomber-dies-aged-73-14436266.html |title=Northern Ireland-born QC who defended Rose West and Brighton bomber dies aged 73 |work=The Belfast Telegraph}}
Clayton Hill, 78, American actor (Dawn of the Dead, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth), complications from pneumonia.[http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09208/986678-122.stm Obituary: Clayton Hill / Played a lead zombie in 'Dawn of the Dead']
Lois Hunt, 84, American lyric soprano, complications from cardiac surgery.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/arts/music/28hunt.html |title=Lois Hunt, Half of Popular Operatic Duo, Dies at 84 |date=28 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Marcey Jacobson, 97, American photographer of indigenous peoples in Mexico, heart failure.[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/arts/design/11jacobson.html Marcey Jacobson, a Photographer Inspired by Mexico, Dies at 97]
Jim King, 69, American politician, Florida state senator since 1999, pancreatic cancer.{{Cite web |url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-jim-king-dies-florida-senate-072609,0,7971118.story |title=Former Florida Senate President Jim King dies of cancer |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090729233634/http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-jim-king-dies-florida-senate-072609,0,7971118.story |archive-date=July 29, 2009 |url-status=dead}}
Maria Sílvia, 65, Brazilian actress, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/PopArte/0,,MUL1244999-7084,00.html |title=Atriz Maria Silvia morre aos 65 anos |language=pt |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090731234219/http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/PopArte/0%2C%2CMUL1244999-7084%2C00.html |archive-date=2009-07-31}}
Michael Steinberg, 80, American musicologist.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/sep/29/michael-steinberg-obituary |title=Michael Steinberg obituary |first=David |last=Cairns |date=29 September 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Sérgio Viotti, 82, Brazilian actor, cardiac arrest.{{cite web |url=http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/PopArte/0,,MUL1243350-7084,00.html |title=Morre aos 82 anos o ator Sérgio Viotti |language=pt |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405140813/http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/PopArte/0%2C%2CMUL1243350-7084%2C00.html |archive-date=2012-04-05}}
Jerry Yanover, 62, Canadian political advisor.{{cite web |url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/07/27/Parliamentary-strategist-Yanover-dies/UPI-45161248718086/ |title=Parliamentary strategist Yanover dies |work=United Press International}}

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Bernadette Cozart, 60, American gardener, urban gardening advocate, heart attack.[https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-2009-07-30-4414765-story.html Bernadette Cozart]
Dick Holub, 87, American basketball player (NY Knicks) and coach (FDU).{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/news/story?id=4385104 |title=Longtime FDU coach Dick Holub dies at age 87 |date=8 August 2009 |work=ESPN}}
Lars Käll, 75, Swedish Olympic sailor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/62682|title=Olympedia – Lars Käll}}
Domingos Lam, 81, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop of Macau.{{cite web |url=http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Msgr-Domingos-Lam,-Bishop-Emeritus-of-Macau,-dies.-15898.html |title=Msgr Domingos Lam, Bishop Emeritus of Macau, dies |work=Asia News}}
Joseph C. Muren, 73, American Mormon general authority.[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/saltlaketribune/obituary.aspx?pid=130548931 Joseph Carl Muren]
Lee Orr, 92, Canadian Olympic athlete.[https://archive.today/20130209150602/http://www.wsucougars.com/sports/c-track/spec-rel/090309aaa.html Lee Orr, WSU Great and Former Olympian Dies at 92]
Luis Quintana, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player (California Angels), natural causes.[http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Obits_Q/Quintana.Luis.Obit.html Ex-Angels pitcher Luis Quintana, 57, dies in Fla.]
George Russell, 86, American jazz composer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/arts/music/30russell.html |title=George Russell, Composer Whose Theories Sent Jazz in a New Direction, Dies at 86 |date=30 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Larry Siemering, 98, American college football head coach, complications from a fall.{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/30/BADL190JC0.DTL |title=Larry Siemering, football coach, dies at 98 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=July 30, 2009}}
Sybil, 3, British Downing Street cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office (2007–2008), after short illness.{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sybil-the-downing-st-mouser-is-dead-1763830.html |title=Sybil the Downing St mouser is dead |date=28 July 2009 |work=The Independent}}
Aeronwy Thomas, 66, British translator and writer, daughter of Dylan Thomas, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Community&F=1&id=17251 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111229041310/http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Community&F=1&id=17251 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-12-29 |title=Dylan Thomas's daughter dies |work=NewsWales.co.uk}}
Michaël Zeeman, 50, Dutch literary critic, journalist, poet and writer, brain cancer.{{cite web |url=http://castrumperegrini.org/michael-zeeman |title=Michaël Zeeman: an avid reader, a vehement critic |access-date=2014-01-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201204657/http://castrumperegrini.org/michael-zeeman |archive-date=2014-02-01}}

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Stelios Georgousopoulos, 43, Greek Olympian windsurfer, illness.{{Cite web|url=https://www.in.gr/2009/04/28/greece/efyge-apo-ti-zwi-o-stelios-gewrgoysopoylos/|title = Έφυγε από τη ζωή ο Στέλιος Γεωργουσόπουλος|date = April 28, 2009}}
Bob Hahn, 83, American basketball player.{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hahnro01.html|title=Robert Hahn|website=Basketball Reference|accessdate=6 April 2023}}
Hermann J. Huber, 54, German journalist and writer, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://romeoliebtjulian.com/rlj/magazin-1229.html |title=Hermann J. Huber gestorben |language=de |access-date=2010-03-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106084642/http://romeoliebtjulian.com/rlj/magazin-1229.html |archive-date=2010-01-06}}
Reverend Ike, 74, American evangelist, stroke.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/nyregion/30ike.html |title=Reverend Ike, Who Preached Riches, Dies at 74 |date=30 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Jim Johnson, 68, American football coach (Philadelphia Eagles), melanoma.{{cite web |url=http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/dneagles/Jim_Johnson_dies.html |title=Jim Johnson dies |work=Philadelphia Daily News|date=July 28, 2009 }}
Kaori Kawamura, 38, Japanese singer, breast cancer.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110605141829/http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/rock-singer-kaori-kawamura-dies-of-cancer-at-38 Rock singer Kaori Kawamura dies of cancer at 38]
Brian Mears, 78, British Chairman of Chelsea Football Club (1969–1991).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/sport-obituaries/5984594/Brian-Mears.html |title=Brian Mears |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=August 6, 2009}}
Leela Naidu, 69, Indian actress, Miss India (1954), after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://spicezee.zeenews.com/articles/story36517.htm |title=Veteran film actress Leela Naidu passes away |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404163607/http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/celebrity/veteran-film-actress-leela-naidu-passes-away_36517.htm |archive-date=2012-04-04}}
Tony Rosenthal, 94, American sculptor, stroke.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/arts/design/01rosenthal.html |title=Tony Rosenthal, Sculptor of Public Art, Dies at 94 |date=1 August 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
William G. Tapply, 69, American writer, leukemia,{{cite web |url=https://vineyardgazette.com/obituaries/2009/08/06/william-g-tapply-wrote-brady-coyne-mysteries |title=William G. Tapply Wrote Brady Coyne Mysteries |work=Vineyard Gazette}}
Peter Tahourdin, 80, British-born Australian composer.{{cite web |url=http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/tahourdin-peter |title=Peter Tahourdin |work=Australian Music Centre}}
Yukio Yamaji, 25, Japanese serial killer, execution by hanging.

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Remi Abiola, 57, Nigerian actress, cancer.{{Cite web|url=http://article.wn.com/view/2009/08/04/How_Star_actress_Remi_Abiola_died/|title=How Star actress Remi Abiola died}}
Dina Babbitt, 86, Czech-born American artist and Holocaust survivor, abdominal cancer.{{cite web |url=http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/107922.html |title=Holocaust survivor dies before winning back ownership of paintings she made at Auschwitz}}
Rajan P. Dev, 58, Indian actor, after short illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200907291045.htm |title=Malayalam actor Rajan P. Dev dead |access-date=2009-08-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801120223/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200907291045.htm |archive-date=2009-08-01}}
Gayatri Devi, 90, Indian royal, last Maharani of Jaipur (1939–1970), paralytic ileus.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121024085239/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-07-30/india/28157766_1_rajmata-gayatri-devi-jai-maharani Gayatri Devi: A maharani and a beauty]
Steve Fiorilla, 48, American artist.{{cite web |url=http://www.buffalonews.com/2009/08/06/755763/steven-c-fiorilla-widely-renowned.html |title=Steven C. Fiorilla, widely renowned artist of the grotesque |work=The Buffalo News}}
Joanne Jordan, 88, American actress and spokesmodel, Parkinson's disease.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-joanne-jordan24-2009sep24-story.html |title=Joanne Jordan dies at 88; television spokesmodel in 1950s |first=Valerie J. |last=Nelson |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 24, 2009}}
Ernest W. Lefever, 89, American foreign policy expert, founder of Ethics and Public Policy Center, dementia with Lewy bodies.{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-ernest-lefever31-2009jul31-story.html |title=Ernest W. Lefever dies at 89; founder of conservative public policy organization |first=Adam |last=Bernstein |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 31, 2009}}
Paul McGrillen, 37, Scottish footballer (Motherwell F.C.).{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8176236.stm |title=Football star found dead in home |work=BBC News |date=July 30, 2009}}
Olga A. Méndez, 84, American politician, New York State Senator (1978–2004), breast cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/nyregion/30mendez.html |title=Olga Méndez, Longtime State Senator, Dies at 84 |date=30 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}
Steven Miessner, 48, American Academy Awards administrator, heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-08-02-oscars-keeper_N.htm?obref=obinsite |title=Academy's 'Keeper of the Oscars' dead at 48 |work=USA Today}}
Hideaki Motoyama, 40, Japanese Olympic badminton player.{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/872|title = Olympedia – Hideaki Motoyama}}
Renato Pagliari, 69, Italian-born British singer (Renée and Renato), brain cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailydust.co.uk/2009/07/31/just-one-cornetto-singer-dies-at-68/ |title=Just One Cornetto Singer Dies At 68 |work=The Daily Dust |access-date=August 8, 2009 |archive-date=August 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803142716/http://www.thedailydust.co.uk/2009/07/31/just-one-cornetto-singer-dies-at-68/ |url-status=dead }}
Edward Richardson, 79, Australian cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/7338.html |title=Ted Richardson |work=ESPNcricinfo}}

*Zhuo Lin, 93, Chinese consultant, widow of Deng Xiaoping.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/world/asia/30zhuo.html |title=Zhuo Lin, Widow of Chinese Leader Deng, Dies at 93 |date=30 July 2009 |work=The New York Times}}

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Zahirul Islam Abbasi, 66, Pakistani general.{{cite web |url=http://www.pathfinder.com/asiaweek/95/1103/nat3.html |title=Nov 3, 1995 - An Aborted Coup ? |website=www.pathfinder.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990827053409/http://www.pathfinder.com/asiaweek/95/1103/nat3.html |archive-date=1999-08-27}}
Kola Abdulai, 62, Nigerian Olympic sprinter.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417185716/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ab/kola-abdulai-1.html Kola Abdulai]
Renato Izzo, 80, Italian actor, voice actor and screenwriter.{{cite web |url=http://www.romagnanoi.it/news/lifestyle/675421/Morto-Renato-Izzo--diede-la.html |title=Morto Renato Izzo, diede la voce a Paul Newman |work=Romagna Noi |language=it |access-date= February 13, 2019}}
Yuri Kurnenin, 55, Belarusian football player and coach.{{cite web |url=http://naviny.by/rubrics/sport/2009/07/30/ic_articles_125_163794/ |title=Умер Юрий Курненин |language=ru |date=30 July 2009}}
Joy Langan, 66, Canadian politician, MP for Mission—Coquitlam (1988–1993), breast cancer.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bcforum.ca/BCFORUMNEWS/joylangan.html |title=A tribute to Joy Langan |access-date=March 7, 2020 |archive-date=August 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823093009/http://www.bcforum.ca/BCFORUMNEWS/joylangan.html |url-status=dead }}
Yoshihisa Maitani, 76, Japanese camera designer.{{cite web |url=http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2009/07/31/olympus-pen-creator-yoshihisa-maitani-76-passes-away/ |title=Olympus Pen creator Yoshihisa Maitani, 76, passes away |work=CNET}}
Mohammed Yusuf, 39, Nigerian sect leader, shot.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8177451.stm |title=Nigeria sect head dies in custody |work=BBC News |date=July 31, 2009}}
Peter Zadek, 83, German stage director, film director and screenwriter, illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.zeit.de/online/2009/32/peter-zadek-tot |title=Theater: Regisseur Peter Zadek gestorben |date=30 July 2009 |work=Die Zeit }}

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Sir Edward Archdale, 87, British Royal Navy officer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/6127836/Captain-Sir-Edward-Archdale-Bt.html |title=Captain Sir Edward Archdale, Bt |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=September 2, 2009}}
John Donnelly, 72, Scottish footballer (Celtic, Preston North End).[https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/john-donnelly-obituary?pid=184453020&affiliateid=4008 John Donnelly]
Tim Guest, 34, British writer, suspected heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5978364/Rising-literary-star-Tim-Guest-found-dead-in-bed-by-new-wife.html |title=Rising literary star Tim Guest found dead in bed by new wife |first1=Aislinn |last1=Simpson |first2=Murray |last2=Wardrop |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=August 6, 2009}}
David Hawkes, 86, British sinologist.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/25/obituary-david-hawkes |title=David Hawkes |first=John |last=Gittings |date=25 August 2009 |work=The Guardian}}
Chris Humphries, 62, British botanist.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/6039183/Chris-Humphries.html |title=Chris Humphries |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=August 16, 2009}}
Ted Nierenberg, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Dansk International Designs, pancreatic cancer.[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/arts/design/04nierenberg.html Theodore Nierenberg, Founder of Dansk, Dies at 86]
Sir Bobby Robson, 76, British footballer and manager, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp?id=97315 |title=Football Legend Sir Bobby Robson Dies |date=5 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605043039/http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp?id=97315 |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 June 2011}}
Jean-Paul Roussillon, 78, French actor.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746085/ Jean-Paul Roussillon (1931–2009)]
Harry Alan Towers, 88, British film producer and screenwriter, after short illness.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/b-movie-guru-towers-dies-at-88-1118006814/#! |title=B-movie guru Towers dies at 88 |first=Pat |last=Saperstein |date=3 August 2009 |work=Variety}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2009-07-01,2009-07-31&adult=include List of July 2009 deaths] at IMDb

*2009-07