List of Famous people who died in 2009

Sedat Balkanlı

First Name Sedat
Born on January 15, 1965
Died on April 29, 2009 (aged 44)
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George Tuska

First Name George
Last Name Tuska
Born on April 26, 1916
Died on October 16, 2009 (aged 93)

George Tuska, who early in his career used a variety of pen names including Carl Larson, was an American comic book and newspaper comic strip artist best known for his 1940s work on various Captain Marvel titles and the crime fiction series Crime Does Not Pay and for his 1960s work illustrating Iron Man and other Marvel Comics characters. He also drew the DC Comics newspaper comic strip The World's Greatest Superheroes from 1978–1982.

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Ali Taygun

First Name Ali
Last Name Taygun
Born on January 1, 1943
Died on December 16, 2009 (aged 66)
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Angelo Rizzo

First Name Angelo
Last Name Rizzo
Born on April 11, 1926
Died on July 16, 2009 (aged 83)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Angelo Rizzo was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ragusa, Sicily from February 2, 1974 until his retirement on February 16, 2002. He was succeeded as bishop by Paolo Urso.

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Yücel Çakmaklı

First Name Yücel
Last Name Çakmaklı
Born on November 30, 1936
Died on August 23, 2009 (aged 72)
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Hans Erich Bogatzky

First Name Hans
Last Name Bogatzky
Born on June 12, 1927
Died on January 27, 2009 (aged 81)
Born in Germany, Berlin
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Hikmet Şahin

First Name Hikmet
Born on January 1, 1950
Died on November 11, 2009 (aged 59)
Born in Bursa Province
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Ömer Lütfi Mete

First Name Ömer
Last Name Mete
Born on November 30, 1949
Died on November 18, 2009 (aged 59)
Born in Rize Province
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Tom Merriman

First Name Tom
Last Name Merriman
Born on March 20, 1924
Died on November 11, 2009 (aged 85)

Thomas Wayne Merriman was an American music composer based in Dallas, Texas, who in 1955 created the first production company specializing in radio station advertising campaigns and jingles. Merriman led the Liberty Network Band, and arranged and/or produced music for Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway.

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Monte Hale

First Name Monte
Last Name Hale
Born on June 8, 1919
Died on March 29, 2009 (aged 89)

Monte Hale was an American B-Western film star and country musician.

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