Frank replied: "July 2009
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Susan Fernandez, 52, Filipino activist and singer, ovarian cancer. [1]
Martin Hengel, 82, German theologian. [2] (German)
Tyeb Mehta, 84, Indian painter, heart attack. [3]
Anna Paitatzi, 86, Greek actress, natural causes. [4] (Greek)
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Alexis Argüello, 57, Nicaraguan boxer and politician, mayor of Managua, suspected suicide by gunshot. [5]
Liam Fairhurst, 14, British fundraiser, synovial sarcoma. [6]
Lakis Karalis, 66, Greek musician, theatre director and artistic director, cancer. [7] (Greek)
Karl Malden, 97, American Academy Award winning actor (A Streetcar Named Desire), natural causes. [8]
Onni Palaste, 91, Finnish soldier and writer, Winter War veteran, natural causes.[citation needed]
Andree Layton Roaf, 68, American jurist, first black woman on Arkansas Supreme Court. [9]
Mollie Sugden, 86, British actress (Are You Being Served?), natural causes. [10]
Lyudmila Zykina, 80, Russian singer, Hero of Socialist Labor, cardiac arrest. [11]
Takayoshi Yasuda, 89, Japanese jockey and horse trainer. [12]
June 2009
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Pina Bausch, 68, German modern dance choreographer, cancer. [13]
Richard Brown, 47, American trade unionist, President of the NFFE (1998–2009). [14]
Paquito Cordero, 77, Puerto Rican actor, comedian and producer, respiratory disease. [15]
Ernst Leuenberger, 64, Swiss politician, cancer. [16] (German)
James F. McNulty, Jr., 83, American politician, U.S. Representative from Arizona (1983–1985), Parkinson's disease. [17]
Gordon Olson, 84, American academic, President of Minot State University (1967-1992). [18]
Harve Presnell, 75, American actor, pancreatic cancer. [19]
Shi Pei Pu, 70, Chinese opera singer, gender-bending spy who became basis for M. Butterfly. [20]
Joan Wiffen, 87, New Zealand paleontologist. [21]
Yaroslav Yaroshenko, 63, Russian newspaper editor, traumatic brain injury from beating. [22]
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Dave Batters, 39, Canadian politician, MP for Palliser (2004–2008), suicide. [23]
Sheila Cloney, 83, Irish parent, central figure in the Fethard Boycott. [24]
Mohammad Hoqouqi, 72, Iranian poet, cirrhosis. [25]
Alberto Jimenez, 35, Mexican professional wrestler, poisoned. [26]
Alejandro Jimenez, 35, Mexican professional wrestler, poisoned. [27]
Glen Nicoll, 53, Canadian farm writer and photojournalist, brain cancer. [28]
Bob Petteys, 87, American newspaper publisher (Sterling Journal-Advocate). [29]
Pauline Picard, 62, Canadian politician, MP for Drummond (1993–2008), lung cancer. [30] (French)
Jan Rubes, 89, Czech-born Canadian actor and opera singer, stroke. [31]
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Manthos Athineos, 84, Greek shadow play artist, stroke. [32] (Greek)
Terry Black, 62, Canadian singer, multiple sclerosis. [33]
Huibert Boumeester, 49, Dutch financier, former CFO of ABN Amro, shot. [34]
Josep Maria Guix Ferreres, 81, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Vic (1983–2003). [35] (Spanish)
Rita Keane, 86, Irish singer. [36]
A. K. Lohithadas, 54, Indian screenwriter and film director, heart attack. [37]
Billy Mays, 50, American pitchman and television host (Pitchmen), hypertensive heart disease. [38].
Fred Travalena, 66, American comedian and impressionist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [39]
Lucia Lauria Vigna, 113, Italian supercentenarian, oldest person in Europe. [40] (French)
Yu Hyun-mok, 83, South Korean film director, complications from stroke. [41]
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Levent Akın, 50, Turkish journalist, car accident. [42] (Turkish)
Frank Barlow, 98, British historian. [43]
Victoriano Crémer, 102, Spanish poet and journalist, natural causes. [44]
Mary Lou Forbes, 83, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (1959), cancer. [45]
Spiros Kalogirou, 87, Greek actor, encephalitis. [46] (Greek)
Willy Kyrklund, 88, Finnish-born Swedish author. [47] (Swedish)
Nanae Nagata, 53, Japanese marathon runner, colorectal cancer. [48]
Fayette Pinkney, 61, American musician (The Three Degrees), after short illness. [49]
Gale Storm, 87, American actress (My Little Margie, The Gale Storm Show). [50]
Jackie Washington, 89, Canadian blues musician, complications from a heart attack. [51]
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Jo Amar, 79, Moroccan-born Israeli singer. [52]
Homer Delawie, 81, American architect, Parkinson's disease. [53]
Neera Desai, 84, Indian academic, professor of women's studies, cancer. [54]
Amnon Kapeliouk, 78, Israeli journalist and author. [55]
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Andres Cascioli, 72, Argentine cartoonist, cancer. [56]
Don Coldsmith, 83, American western author, stroke. [57]
Farrah Fawcett, 62, American actress (Charlie's Angels), anal cancer. [58]
Morton Gottlieb, 88, American Broadway theatre producer, Tony Award winner (1971), natural causes. [59]
James Baker Hall, 74, American poet and academic, Kentucky Poet Laureate (2001-2003), natural causes. [60]
Michael Jackson, 50, American pop singer–songwriter, cardiac arrest. [61]
Clifton Johnson, 67, American jurist, North Carolina Superior Court (1978-1982) and Co"
Why are alot of celebrities dieing in 2009? more so than any other year before us??