List of Famous people who died in 2009

Shingo Yamashiro was a Japanese television and film actor.

Genoveva Dizon Edroza-Matute was a Filipino author. In 1951, she was the recipient of the first ever Palanca Award for Short Story in Filipino, for "Kuwento ni Mabuti", which has been cited as the most anthologized Tagalog language short story.

El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba was a Gabonese politician who was the second President of Gabon for 42 years, from 1967 until his death in 2009. Omar Bongo was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President Léon M'ba in the 1960s, before being elected Vice-President in his own right in 1966. In 1967, he succeeded M'ba to become the second Gabon President, upon the latter's death.

Dominik Florian Brunner was a German businessman. He was the CFO of Erlus AG, Germany’s largest roof tile manufacturer. He was killed in a fight which resulted from Brunner trying to protect a group of school children from attacks by teenagers.

Jacques Teyssier was a French and German citizen, and a German LGBT rights activist.

Myrtle 'Molly' Kool was a Canadian sea captain. She is recognized as being one of the first North American registered female sea captains or ship master. She was the first female Master Mariner in Canada.

Larry Lee Simms was an American child actor who appeared in 36 films between 1937 and 1951.

Kaori Kawamura was a rock and pop singer in Japan, born in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Zhu Min, originally Zhu Minshu (朱敏书) and also known as He Feifei (贺飞飞), was a professor of Russian at Beijing Normal University. She was the only daughter of the Chinese revolutionary Zhu De.

Colleen Janet Joffa Howe was a sports agent who founded Power Play International and Power Play Publications to manage the business interests of her husband, Hall of Fame hockey player Gordie Howe, as well as those of their sons Marty and Mark. She was married to Gordie for 55 years, until her death. As a civic leader, she brought the first Junior A hockey team to the United States, built the first indoor rink for public use in Michigan, and ran for Congress. In 2000, as "Mrs. Hockey", Howe received the Wayne Gretzky International Award, presented to individuals "who have made major contributions to the growth and advancement of hockey in the United States"—from the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, along with her husband and their two sons Mark and Marty.