List of Famous people who died in 2009

Nelly Arcan was a Canadian novelist. Arcan was born Isabelle Fortier at Lac-Mégantic in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.

Vicente Ferrer Moncho was a Jesuit missionary who spent his life working to improve the lives of the poor in the mission he founded in Southern India. Today the Vicente Ferrer Foundation carries out humanitarian projects in Andhra Pradesh, bringing aid to over 2.5 million poor people.

Frank Vandenbroucke was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist. He was the great hope of Belgian cycling in the 1990s, but a remarkable talent which appeared in his adolescence in track and field and then in cycle racing dissipated in a succession of drug problems, rows with teams, suicide attempts and finally being disowned by the cycling world. His former wife described him as a cocaine addict. However, VDB claimed in an interview with ProCycling's Daniel Friebe three weeks before his death to have made a near-complete recovery from the emotional issues that plagued him throughout his career. Vandenbroucke told Friebe, "I simply realise that the last year and a half have been fantastic for me." Nevertheless, he died of a pulmonary embolism in October 2009.

Hisayasu Nagata was a Japanese politician born in Nagoya City in Aichi Prefecture. He is well known for falsely accusing the former Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie of bribing the Liberal Democratic Party.

Iqbal Bano was a ghazal singer from Pakistan. She was known for her semi-classical Urdu ghazal songs and classical thumris, but also sang easy-listening numbers in the 1950s films. Iqbal Bano's prominent work includes her singing of ghazals of the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. In 1974, she became the recipient of the Pride of Performance award.

Zbigniew Eugeniusz Religa was a prominent Polish cardiac surgeon and politician.

Connie Hines was an American actress best known for playing Alan Young's wife, Carol Post, on the 1960s sitcom Mister Ed.

Boris Alexandrovich Pokrovsky was a Russian opera director, best known as the stage director of the Bolshoi Theatre between 1943 and 1982.

Hanne Hiob was a German actress.

Nikolay Vladimiriovich Olyalin was a Soviet-Ukrainian actor of Russian ethnicity.