List of Famous people who died in 2009

Chan Hung-lit, also known as Chen Hung-lieh and Golden Chan, was a Hong Kong actor famous for portraying villains from the 1960s to 1980s.

Dirce Migliaccio was a Brazilian actress and sister of actor Flávio Migliaccio. Her films include My Home Is Copacabana.

Manuel Antonio Capetillo Villaseñor was a Mexican film actor, bullfighter, singer, and songwriter from Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, Jalisco.

Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh was an Azerbaijani poet, dramatist, lyricist and translator as well as a college professor and politician. He is often regarded as the second greatest contemporary poet of Azerbaijan, after Samed Vurgun.

João Augusto Conrado do Amaral Gurgel (1926–2009) was a Brazilian businessman. In 1969, he decided to start a small factory, producing small cars. Early models were fiberglass bodies installed on Volkswagen Beetle (fusca) chassis and machinery. Gurgel introduced Brazil's first domestically designed car, the BR-800, but went out of business in the 1990s. João do Amaral Gurgel was known as João Gurgel. He was the founder of Gurgel. His complete name was João Augusto Conrado do Amaral Gurgel(3).

Pablo Lizcano was a Spanish journalist. Among others, Lizcano had the opportunity to interview Luis Garcia Berlanga, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.

Stefan Sebastian Brecht was a German-born American poet, critic and scholar of theatre.

Johanna König was a German actress. She appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1952 and 1999. König was born in Leipzig, Germany and died in Berlin on 3 March 2009.

Jens Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson was a Swedish professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1963. He held the world heavyweight title from 1959 to 1960, and was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States. Johansson won the title by defeating Floyd Patterson via third-round stoppage, after flooring him seven times in that round. For this achievement, Johansson was awarded the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year—the only non-American to do so in the belt's entire 27-year existence—and was named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year and Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.

Roland Lesaffre (1927–2009) was a French film actor. He appeared in many films directed by Marcel Carné.