Deaths in April 2009

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The following is a list of deaths in April 2009.

April 2009

30

• Amparo Arozamena, 92, Mexican actress, heart attack. [1] (Spanish)
• Maxime de la Falaise, 86, British model, socialite, fashion designer, cookbook writer and gastronome, natural causes. [2]
• Harold Fischer, 83, American Air Force officer, Korean War fighter ace and noted PoW, complications from surgery [3]
• Mallory Horne, 84, American politician, member of Florida House of Representatives, President of Florida Senate, lung cancer. [4]
• Maurice Lindsay, 90, British poet and broadcaster. [5]
• McCoy McLemore, 67, American basketball player and television color analyst, cancer. [6]
• Henk Nijdam, 73, Dutch road bicycle racer, track pursuit world champion (1962). [7]
• Venetia Phair, 90, British teacher who named Pluto. [8]
• David Picão, 85, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Santos (1996–2000). [9] (Portuguese)
• William A. Price, 94, American journalist. [10]
• Ron Richards, 80, British record producer. [11]
• Raymond J. Saulnier, 100, American economist. [12]

29

• Günther Bahr, 87, German Luftwaffe fighter pilot. [13] (German)
• Gordon Bradley, 74, American footballer. [14]
• Jack Lohrke, 85, American baseball player, stroke. [15]
• Tom McGrath, 68, British poet and playwright, liver cancer. [16]
• Franciszek Sobczak, 69, Polish Olympic fencer. [17]
• Charles L. Young, Sr., 77, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, heart attack. [18]

28

• Bill Bailey, 75, British surfer. [19]
• Lota Delgado, 90, Filipina actress. [20]
• U. A. Fanthorpe, 79, British poet. [21]
• Vern Gosdin, 74, American country music singer, complications from a stroke. [22]
• Ekaterina Maximova, 70, Russian ballet dancer. [23] (Russian)
• Steinar Lem, 57, Norwegian environmentalist and anti-consumerism activist, cancer. [24] (Norwegian)
• Richard Pratt, 74, Australian businessman, prostate cancer. [25]
• Valeria Peter Predescu, 62, Romanian singer, heart attack. [26] (Romanian)
• Ted Reynolds, 84, Canadian sportscaster (CBC Television). [27]
• Buddy Rose, 56, American professional wrestler. [28]
• Pearse Wyse, 81, Irish politician. [29]

27

• Ernie Barnes, 70, American neo-mannerist artist and football player, after short illness. [30]
• John Crispo, 75, Canadian economist and educator, prostate cancer. [31]
• Tom Deitz, 57, American science fiction author, heart failure. [32]
• Miroslav Filip, 80, Czech chess player. [33] (Czech)
• Frank Gansz, 70, American football coach (Kansas City Chiefs), complications from knee replacement surgery. [34]
• Glen Gondrezick, 53, American basketball player, complications following heart transplant. [35]
• Feroz Khan, 69, Indian actor, cancer. [36]
• Frankie Manning, 94, American dancer and choreographer, pneumonia. [37]
• Edwin McClellan, 83, British Japanologist. [38]
• Evgeniya Miroshnichenko, 77, Ukrainian opera and chamber singer [39] (Ukrainian)
• Karl Mullen, 82, Irish rugby union player. [40]
• Greg Page, 50, American boxer, complications from brain injury. [41]
• Paraluman, 85, Filipina actress. [42]
• Robley Rex, 107, American World War I-era veteran. [43]
• Woo Seung-yeon, 25, South Korean actress and model, suicide by hanging. [44]

26

• Salamo Arouch, 86, Greek-born Israeli boxer and Holocaust survivor.[45]
• Alan Bristow, 84, British businessman. [46]
• Hans Holzer, 89, Austrian-born American paranormal investigator and author, after long illness. [47]
• Geir Hovig, 64, Norwegian radio host, after short illness. [48] (Norwegian)
• Danny Kladis, 92, American racecar driver. [49]
• Levan Mikeladze, 52, Georgian diplomat and politician, heart attack. [50]
• Dominic Motikoe, Lesotho politician, shot. [51]
• Colwyn Philipps, 3rd Viscount St Davids, 70, British aristocrat and politician. [52]
• Pupuke Robati, 84, Cook Islands politician and doctor, Prime Minister (1987–1989).^[1]
• Perez Zagorin, 88, American historian. [53]

25

• Beatrice Arthur, 86, American Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress (Maude, The Golden Girls, Mame), cancer. [54]
• Yamil Chade, 88, Lebanese-born Puerto Rican sports team owner and manager. [55] (Spanish]
• John Marchi, 87, American politician, member of the New York State Senate (1957–2006), complications from pneumonia. [56]

24

• Irving D. Chais, 83, American businessman, owner of the New York Doll Hospital, after long illness. [57]
• Tim Curry, 70, American attorney, District Attorney for Tarrant County, Texas, (1972–2009), lung cancer. [58]
• Margaret Gelling, 84, British toponymist. [59]
• Bo Leuf, 56, Swedish technology writer. [60] (Swedish)
• John Michell, 76, British author, cancer. [61]
• Sixto Palavecino, 94, Argentine poet and musician. [62]
• Michael Parsons, 48, Australian footballer, brain tumour. [63]
• Orville Howard Phillips, 85, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1963–1999), stroke. [64]

23

• William F. Barnes, 91, American football coach (UCLA), complications from pneumonia. [65]
• Kenneth Paul Block, 84, American fashion illustrator. [66]
• Gordon Gair, 92, Canadian lacrosse player. [67]
• Don Kiser, 72, American politician, Mayor of Paris, Kentucky (2003–2009), heart attack. [68]
• Lam Sheung Yee, 74, Hong Kong footballer, coach, announcer and actor. [69]
• Ivan Madray, 74, Guyanese cricketer, hypertension. [70]
• Felipe Solís Olguín, 64, Mexican archaeologist, curator of the National Anthropology Museum, cardiac arrest. [71]
• Timothy Wright, 61, American pastor and gospel singer, car accident. [72]

22

• Ken Annakin, 94, British film director (The Longest Day, Battle of the Bulge), complications from heart attack and stroke. [73]
• Jack Cardiff, 94, British cinematographer (A Matter Of Life And Death, Black Narcissus, The African Queen), natural causes. [74]
• Marilyn Cooper, 74, American actress, after long illness. [75]
• Bill Disney, 77, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1960) speed skater, emphysema. [76]
• Bob Hamm, 74, American writer and Cajun humorist, complications related to cancer. [77]
• David Kellermann, 41, American businessman, CFO of Freddie Mac since 2008, suicide by hanging. [78]
• Alex Lees, 97, British planner of the Great Escape during World War II. [79]
• George C. Rawlings, 87, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1964–1969). [80]
• Heinz Schröder, 80, German puppeteer. [81] (German)
• Kim Weiskopf, 62, American television writer, pancreatic cancer. [82]

21

• Iqbal Bano, 74, Indian-born Pakistani singer, after short illness. [83]
• Paul Ebert, 76, American college baseball and basketball player and surgeon, myocardial infarction. [84]
• Robin Gillett, 83, British Lord Mayor of London (1976–1977). [85]
• Jack Jones, 96, British trade union leader, veteran of the International Brigades. [86]
• H. S. S. Lawrence, 85, Indian educationalist. [87]
• James Byron Moran, 78, American jurist (United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois), after long illness. [88]
• Santha Rama Rau, 86, Indian-born American writer, cardiac arrest. [89]

20

• Beata Asimakopoulou, 77, Greek actress, after short illness. [90] (Greek)
• Thomas Hill, 81, American actor. [91]
• Franco Rotella, 42, Italian footballer, melanoma. [92] (Italian)

19

• J. G. Ballard, 78, British novelist, prostate cancer. [93]
• Doc Blanchard, 84, American college football player (Army), Heisman Trophy winner (1945), pneumonia. [94]
• Tilahun Gessesse, 68, Ethiopian singer. [95]
• Tony Kett, 57, Irish politician, cancer. [96]
• Tharon Musser, 84, American lighting designer, after long illness. [97]
• Ray Nance, 94, American World War II veteran, survivor of D-Day. [98]
• Dicky Robinson, 82, British footballer (Middlesbrough), after long illness. [99]
• Terrell Starr, 82, American politician, member of the Georgia State Senate (1968–2006), heart failure. [100]
• Kiril Vajarov, 21, Bulgarian ice hockey goaltender, member of the national team (2006–2009), stabbed. [101] (Dutch)

18

• Tissa Abeysekara, 69, Sri Lankan film director, writer and actor, brain haemorrhage. [102]
• Toi Aukuso Cain, 77, Samoan politician and murderer, liver cancer. [103]
• Peter Dennis, 75, British actor. [104]
• Edward George, Baron George, 70, British public official, Governor of the Bank of England (1993–2003), lung cancer. [105]
• Vernon Malone, 77, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (2003–2009), natural causes. [106]
• Bill Orton, 60, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives from Utah (1991–1997), ATV accident. [107]
• Stephanie Parker, 22, British actress (Belonging), apparent suicide by hanging. [108]
• Charles Peebler, 72, American advertising executive, progressive supranuclear palsy. [109]
• Whitelaw Reid, 95, American journalist, complications of lung and heart failure. [110]
• Elías Wessin y Wessin, 84, Dominican politician and general, cardiac arrest. [111] (Spanish)

17

• Midge Miller, 86, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1971–1985), cancer. [112]
• Honoré Desmond Sharrer, 88, American artist. [113]

16

• Patty Costello, 61, American ten-pin bowler, pancreatic cancer. [114]
• Sal Guarriello, 90, American politician, after short illness. [115]
• Tengiz Gudava, 55, Georgian-born Soviet dissident and journalist (RFE/RL). [116] (Russian)
• Timothy Holst, 61, American circus ringmaster, after short illness. [117]
• James D. Houston, 75, American author, cancer. [118]
• Jim Lange, 82, American editorial cartoonist (The Oklahoman), after long illness. [119]
• Svein Longva, 65, Norwegian economist, State Conciliator (2005–2009). [120] (Norwegian)
• Michel Mondésert, 92, French Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Grenoble. [121]
• Viktor Paskov, 59, Bulgarian writer, lung cancer. [122]
• Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, 49, Hungarian journalist, writer, actor and soldier, shot. [123]
• Saensak Muangsurin, 58, Thai boxer, intestinal complications. [124]
• Fadel Shana'a, 23, Palestinian photojournalist (Reuters), military strike. [125]

15

• Ed Blake, 83, American baseball player, after long illness. [126]
• Sir Clement Freud, 84, German-born British writer, broadcaster and politician, MP (1973–1987). [127]
• Merle Harmon, 82, American sportscaster, pneumonia. [128]
• Wisdom Siziba, 28, Zimbabwean cricketer, heart failure. [129]
• László Tisza, 101, Hungarian-born American physicist. [130]

14

• Richard Baker, 62, American surf apparel executive (Ocean Pacific), cancer. [131]
• Maurice Druon, 90, French novelist, Dean of the Académie française (French Academy), and French Resistance fighter. [132]
• Fuyuko Kamisaka, 78, Japanese historian, author and critic, cancer. [133]
• Les Keiter, 89, American sportscaster, natural causes. [134]
• Max Lake, 84, Australian winemaker, fall. [135]
• Marcus Loane, 97, Australian Anglican Primate (1978–1982), Archbishop of Sydney (1966–1982), after short illness. [136]
• Peter Rogers, 95, British film producer (Carry On series). [137]
• Royce Ryton, 84, British playwright. [138]

13

• John Armitage, 88, Australian politician, MP (1961–1963, 1969–1983). [139]
• Björn Borg, 89, Swedish Olympic swimmer. [140] (Swedish)
• Stefan Brecht, 84, German poet, son of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel, after long illness. [141]
• Frank Costigan, 78, Australian lawyer and royal commissioner, head of the Costigan Commission. [142]
• Tony Eckstein, 85, American politician and veterinarian. [143]
• Mark Fidrych, 54, American baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), suffocation. [144]
• Jack D. Hunter, 87, American author, cancer. [145]
• Harry Kalas, 73, American sportscaster, heart attack. [146]
• Ángel Miguel, 79, Spanish professional golfer. [147] (Spanish)
• Bruce Snyder, 69, American football coach, melanoma. [148]
• Alfred Swift, 77, South African Olympic cyclist. [149]
• Kevin Walton, 90, British winner of the Albert Medal. [150]

12

• Sitara Achakzai, 52, Afghan women's rights activist and politician, shot. [151]
• Danny Cameron, 85, Canadian politician, Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick (1991–1995). [152]
• Marilyn Chambers, 56, American pornographic film actress (Behind the Green Door), erotic dancer, and politician, heart disease. [153]
• Kent Douglas, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs), cancer [154]
• Gene Handley, 94, American baseball player. [155]
• Mike Keen, 69, British footballer, after short illness. [156]
• Hans Kleppen, 102, Norwegian ski jumper. [157] (Norwegian)
• Sir Kirby Laing, 92, British civil engineer. [158]
• Sir John Maddox, 83, British science writer, editor (Nature, 1966–1973, 1980–1995). [159]
• Stephen Minarik, 49, American politician, chairman of the New York Republican State Committee (2004–2006), heart attack. [160]
• Ephraim Obot, 72, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Idah since 1977. [161]
• Franklin Rosemont, 65, American surrealist poet, labor historian and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group. [162]
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 58, American writer and critical theorist, pioneer of queer studies, breast cancer. [163]
• Ishaq Shahryar, 73, Afghan-born American scientist and ambassador. [164]
• Derek Weiler, 40, Canadian editor and writer. [165]
• Zeke Zarchy, 93, American swing music jazz trumpeter. [166]

11

• James William Brodie, 88, New Zealand geologist, oceanographer and geophysicist. [167]
• Mickey Cafagna, 65, American politician, mayor of Poway, California, complications from kidney cancer. [168]
• Simon Channing-Williams, 63, British film producer, cancer. [169]
• Albert Chernenko, 74, Russian philosopher, son of Konstantin Chernenko. [170] (Russian)
• Rob Dickson, 45, Australian football player, winner of Australian Survivor, car accident. [171]
• Gerda Gilboe, 94, Danish actress. [172][173] (Danish)
• Judith Krug, 69, American librarian, founder of Banned Books Week, stomach cancer. [174]
• René Monory, 85, French politician, President of the Senate (1992–1998). [175]
• Tita Muñoz, 82, Filipino actress, after long illness. [176]
• Jimmy Neighbour, 58, British footballer (Norwich City, Tottenham Hotspur), heart attack. [177]
• Vishnu Prabhakar, 97, Indian writer, after long illness. [178]
• Johnny Roadhouse, 88, British saxophonist. [179]
• Al Rosenbaum, 82, American sculptor, co-founder of the Virginia Holocaust Museum. [180]
• Corín Tellado, 81, Spanish novelist, heart failure. [181]

10

• Richard Arnell, 91, English composer. [182]
• Richard Fox Cartwright, 95, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Plymouth (1972–1982). [183]
• Blake Chanslor, 88, American businessman, founder of Blake's Lotaburger. [184]
• Deborah Digges, 59, American poet, apparent suicide by jumping. [185]
• Frank Morris, 85, Canadian football player and executive, after long illness. [186]
• Naum Olev, 70, Russian lyricist. [187] (Russian)
• Yevgeny Vesnik, 86, Russian actor, stroke. [188]

9

• Nick Adenhart, 22, American baseball pitcher (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), car accident. [189]
• Randy Cain, 63, American singer (The Delfonics). [190]
• Mike Casey, 60, American college basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats) (1967–1971), heart disease. [191]
• Colin Jordan, 85, British politician and Neo-Nazi activist. [192]
• Ernest Manirumva, Burundian anti-corruption activist (OLUCOME), stabbed. [193]
• Shakti Samanta, 83, Indian film director and producer, cardiac arrest. [194]
• Dale Swann, 61, American character actor, complications of stroke. [195]

8

• Wally Baker, 111, American supercentenarian. [196]
• Lennie Bennett, 70, British comedian and game show host (Lucky Ladders), after short illness. [197]
• Jane Bryan, 90, American actress, after long illness. [198]
• Henri Meschonnic, 76, French poet, linguist, translator and theoretician. [199]
• Dan Miller, 67, American television journalist (WSMV, KCBS), heart attack. [200]
• Piotr Morawski, 32, Polish mountain climber, mountaineering accident. [201]
• Jean Overton Fuller, 94, British writer and painter. [202]
• Tam Paton, 70, Scottish music manager and spokesperson for the Bay City Rollers, suspected heart attack. [203]
• David Winans, 74, American gospel singer, heart attack. [204]

7

• Dave Arneson, 61, American game designer, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, cancer. [205]
• Samuel Beer, 97, American academic, expert on British government. [206]
• Raja Chelliah, 86, Indian economist, founder of Madras School of Economics, after short illness. [207]
• Stanley Jaki, 84, Hungarian-born American theologian, heart attack. [208]
• Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote, 88, British private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1977–1986). [209]
• Paddy O'Hanlon, 65, Irish politician and barrister, after short illness. [210]
• Leo Prieto, 88, Filipino sports executive, PBA Commissioner (1975–1982), stroke. [211]
• Cecil Skotnes, 82, South African artist, pneumonia. [212]
• Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley, 79, British jurist, cancer. [213]
• Michael Stern, 98, American journalist and philanthropist, co-founder of Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, pancreatic cancer. [214]
• Hyacinth Tungutalum, 62, Australian politician, heart attack. [215]
• Jack Wrangler, 62, American pornographic film actor, writer, and producer, emphysema. [216]

6

• Steve Cannon, 81, American radio personality (WCCO), cancer. [217]
• J. M. S. Careless, 90, Canadian historian. [218]
• Dwight Crandell, 86, American volcanologist, heart attack. [219]
• Dorothy Cullman, 91, American philanthropist, complications of brain injury. [220]
• Russell E. Dunham, 89, American war veteran, Medal of Honor recipient, heart failure. [221]
• Jacques Hustin, 69, Belgian singer-songwriter. [222] (French)
• Shawn Mackay, 26, Australian rugby union player (Brumbies), cardiac arrest following car accident. [223]
• Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, 71, South African Minister of Communications since 1999; acting President (2008), natural causes. [224]
• Andrzej Stelmachowski, 84, Polish academic and politician. [225]
• Mari Trini, 61, Spanish pop singer and actress. [226]
• Svetlana Ulmasova, 56, Uzbekistani athlete. [227]
• Damouré Zika, 85, Nigerien film actor and traditional healer, after long illness. [228]

5

• Wouter Barendrecht, 43, Dutch film producer, heart failure. [229]
• Guy Brown, 72, Canadian politician, Mayor of Springhill, Nova Scotia (2004–2008), after long illness. [230]
• Thomas R. Byrne, 86, American politician, Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota (1966–1970), cancer. [231]
• Tony D, 42, American hip hop DJ and musician, car accident. [232]
• Sir Michael Giddings, 88, British Air Marshal. [233]
• I. J. Good, 92, British mathematician, statistician and cryptographer, natural causes. [234]
• Sir Neil MacCormick, 67, British jurist and Scottish nationalist politician, cancer. [235]
• Rocco Morabito, 88, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. [236]
• Nancy Overton, 83, American pop singer (The Chordettes), esophageal cancer. [237]
• Constantine Papadakis, 63, Greek-born American president of Drexel University, complications from lung cancer. [238]
• William Tobin, 83, American journalist, esophageal cancer. [239]
• George Tribe, 88, Australian cricketer. [240]
• Ole Gabriel Ueland, 78, Norwegian politician. [241] (Norwegian)
• David Wheatley, 59, British film and television director, after long illness. [242]

4

• Jobie Dajka, 27, Australian track cyclist, 2002 Keirin world champion. [243]
• Adriano Directo Emperado, 82, American martial artist (kajukenbo). [244]
• Maxine Cooper Gomberg, 84, American actress (Kiss Me Deadly), natural causes [245]
• Netherwood Hughes, 108, British fourth-to-last veteran of World War I. [246]
• Jody McCrea, 74, American actor, son of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee, cardiac arrest. [247]
• Gonzalo Olave, 25, Chilean actor, motorcycle accident. [248] (Spanish)
• I. Herbert Scheinberg, 89, American doctor, pneumonia. [249]
• Nelly Sindayen, 59, Filipino journalist, Manila correspondent for Time magazine, complications from diabetic stroke. [250]
• Armand Tanny, 90, American bodybuilder, natural causes. [251]
• Marvin Webster, 56, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics), natural causes. [252]

3

• Ken Anderson, 33, American football player (Chicago Bears), heart attack. [253]
• James G. Boswell II, 86, American businessman, natural causes. [254]
• Thomas Braden, 92, American journalist and author (Eight Is Enough), cardiac arrest. [255]
• Eva Evdokimova, 60, Swiss-born American ballerina, complications of cancer. [256]
• Charlie Kennedy, 81, American alto saxophonist, pulmonary disease. [257]
• John King, 55, American ukelele player, heart attack. [258]
• Victor Millan, 89, American actor and theatre professor. [259]
• Alexei Parshchikov, 54, Russian poet. [260] (Russian)
• Crodowaldo Pavan, 89, Brazilian biologist and geneticist, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and cancer. [261] (Portuguese)
• Jerome R. Waldie, 84, American politician, Representative from California (1966–1975). [262]

2

• Exotic Dancer, 9, French-bred British racehorse, heart attack after race. [263]
• Guttorm Hansen, 88, Norwegian politician, President of Parliament (1973–1981). [264] (Norwegian)
• Taj Muhammad Jamali, 70, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan (1990–1993). [265]
• Albert Sanschagrin, 97, Canadian Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (1967–1979). [266]
• Bud Shank, 82, American alto saxophonist, pulmonary failure. [267]
• Frank Springer, 79, American comic book artist, prostate cancer. [268]

1

• Arne Andersson, 91, Swedish middle distance runner. [269]
• Umberto Betti, 87, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzio since 2007. [270]
• John Blankenchip, 89, American educator, theater director and designer, after short illness. [271]
• Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree, 84, British politician, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons (1982–1992). [272]
• Margreta Elkins, 78, Australian mezzo-soprano, cancer. [273]
• Duane Jarvis, 51, American guitarist and singer-songwriter, colon cancer. [274]
• Marcos Moshinsky, 88, Ukrainian-born Mexican physicist. [275]
• Daniel Joseph O'Hern, 78, American jurist, member of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1981–2000), melanoma. [276]
• Elaine Cancilla Orbach, 69, American actress, wife of Jerry Orbach, pneumonia. [277]
• Lou Perryman, 67, American actor, stabbed. [278]
• Miguel Ángel Suárez, 69, Puerto Rican actor, esophageal cancer. [279]
• Ian Tomlinson, 47, British pedestrian assaulted by police at 2009 G-20 London summit protests, abdominal haemorrhage. [280]

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