List of Famous people who died in 2009

Alice Turner Schafer was an American mathematician. She was one of the founding members of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1971.

Franz Olah was an Austrian politician who served as the country's Interior Minister from 1963 until 1964 as a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ).

Peter John Landin was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realise that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics.

Kraftwerk is a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk were among the first successful acts to popularize the genre. The group began as part of West Germany's experimental krautrock scene in the early 1970s before fully embracing electronic instrumentation, including synthesizers, drum machines, and vocoders. Wolfgang Flür joined the band in 1974 and Karl Bartos in 1975, expanding the band to a quartet.

Florian Hufsky was an Austrian new media artist, political activist, founder and former board member of the Pirate Party of Austria. He studied graphic design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, but committed suicide before he could finish his studies.

Jozo Križanović was a Bosnian Croat politician who served as the 3rd Croat member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2001 to 2002.

Giovanni Parisi was an Italian boxer, who won the gold medal in the Men's Featherweight (57 kg) category at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

John Furia Jr. was an American television writer, whose credits included Bonanza, Hawaii Five-O, The Twilight Zone, Kung Fu, The Waltons and Dr. Kildare.

Ida Gomes, stage name of Ita Szafran was a Brazilian actress and voice actress born in Poland.