நல்வரவுக்கு நன்றி..!: Dec 30, 2009

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JANUARY

January 1 – Nizar Rayan, Palestinian military and political leader (born 1959)
January 1 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (born 1924)
January 1 – Helen Suzman, South African activist and politician (born 1917)
January 12 – Claude Berri, French film director (born 1934)
January 12 – Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (born 1912)
January 13 – Patrick McGoohan, American-born British actor (born 1928)
January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-born American actor (born 1920)
January 15 – Said Seyam, Palestinian politician (born 1957)
January 16 – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (born 1917)
January 20 – Stéphanos II Ghattas, Egyptian Patriarch of Alexandria (born 1920)
January 25 – Mamadou Dia, 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (born 1910)
January 27 – John Updike, American writer (born 1932)
January 27 – R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (born 1910)
January 30 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (born 1932)

FEBRUARY
February 6 – James Whitmore, American actor (born 1921)
February 9 – Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (born 1970)
February 25 – Philip José Farmer, American writer (born 1918)
February 27 – Manea Mănescu, Romanian Prime Minister (born 1916)

MARCH
March 2 – João Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1939)
March 14 – Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter and actor (born 1947)
March 15 – Ron Silver, American actor and political activist (born 1946)
March 18 – Natasha Richardson, English actress (born 1963)
March 20 – Abdellatif Filali, 13th Prime Minister of Morocco (born 1928)
March 25 – Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast (born 1937)
March 28 – Janet Jagan, American-born President of Guyana (born 1920)
March 29 – Maurice Jarre, French composer and conductor (born 1924)
March 31 – Raúl Alfonsín, 49th President of Argentina (born 1927)

APRIL
April 12 – Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress (born 1952)
April 12 – Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, American social theorist (born 1950)
April 14 – Maurice Druon, French novelist (born 1918)
April 19 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist (born 1930)
April 22 – Ken Annakin, English film director (born 1914)
April 22 – Jack Cardiff, English cinematographer (born 1914)
April 25 – Beatrice Arthur, American actress (born 1922)
April 28 – Ekaterina Maximova, Soviet-Russian ballerina (born 1939)

MAY
May 2 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director (born 1931)
May 2 – Jack Kemp, American politician and football player (born 1935)
May 4 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (born 1933)
May 9 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (born 1930)
May 13 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (born 1914)
May 17 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (born 1920)
May 18 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan militant (born 1954)
May 19 – Robert F. Furchgott, American scientist (born 1916)
May 23 – Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of South Korea (born 1946)
May 27 – Clive Granger, British economist (born 1934)
May 30 – Luís Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1931)
May 30 – Ephraim Katzir, 4th President of Israel (born 1916)
May 30 – Gaafar Nimeiry, 5th President of the Sudan (born 1930)

JUNE
June 2 – David Eddings, American author (born 1931)
June 3 – David Carradine, American actor (born 1936)
June 3 – Koko Taylor, American musician (born 1928)
June 6 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)
June 8 – Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (born 1935)
June 12 – Félix Malloum, 3rd President of Chad (born 1932)
June 13 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (born 1962)
June 17 – Ralf Dahrendorf, German-British social theorist and politician (born 1929)
June 25 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (born 1947)
June 25 – Michael Jackson, American performer and recording artist (born 1958)
June 30 – Pina Bausch, German choreographer (born 1940)

JULY
July 1 – Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (born 1952)
July 1 – Karl Malden, American actor (born 1912)
July 4 – Allen Klein, American businessman (born 1931)
July 6 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist (born 1932)
July 6 – Robert McNamara, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1916)
July 17 – Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician (born 1921)
July 17 – Walter Cronkite, American newscaster (born 1916)
July 17 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (born 1927)
July 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (born 1930)
July 26 – Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (born 1919)
July 31 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (born 1933)

AUGUST
August 1 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (born 1933)
August 5 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter (born 1914)
August 6 – John Hughes, American film director and writer (born 1950)
August 6 – Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter (born 1950)
August 11 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American founder of the Special Olympics (born 1921)
August 13 – Les Paul, American musician and inventor (born 1915)
August 18 – Kim Dae-jung, 15th President of South Korea (born 1925)
August 24 – Toni Sailer, Austrian alpine ski racer (born 1935)
August 25 – Ted Kennedy, American politician (born 1932)
August 26 – Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Iraqi politician and theologian (born 1953)
August 27 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Soviet-Russian author (born 1913)

SEPTEMBER
September 8 – Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
September 11 – Juan Almeida, Cuban revolutionary and politician (born 1927)
September 11 – Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist (born 1958)
September 12 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)
September 12 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (born 1921)
September 14 – Patrick Swayze, American actor and dancer (born 1952)
September 17 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist militant (born 1968)
September 18 – Irving Kristol, American writer and political commentator (born 1920)
September 23 – Ertuğrul Osman, 43rd Head of the Ottoman Dynasty (born 1912)
September 25 – Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (born 1923)
September 28 – Guillermo Endara, President of Panama, 1989-1994 (born 1936)
September 29 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (born 1930)