List of Famous people who died in 2009

Jacno was a French musician.

Hiroshi Maeue , aka "The Suicide Website Murderer", was a Japanese serial killer, who lured his victims via the internet and killed three people in 2005.

Mariana Bridi Costa, also known as Mari, was a Brazilian model.

Philippe Nicaud (1926–2009) was a French actor and singer, was married to Christine Carère from 1957 to 2008).

Dina Vierny was an artists' model who became a singer, French art dealer, collector and museum director.

Ingeborg Hunzinger was a German sculptor.

René Herms was a German middle distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres.

Ceylan Önkol was a 12-year-old Kurdish girl who was killed by a howitzer by the Turkish military while she was pasturing sheep in Hambaz (Xambaz) hamlet of Şenlik village in Turkey's southeastern Lice district in Diyarbakır province on September 28, 2009. In the early days, the incident was thought to have occurred as a result of the explosion of a mortar shell allegedly thrown from the Tapantepe Police Station. However, according to the forensic medical report issued on 16 October, Ceylan struck an unexploded mortar shell in the countryside with a metal-powered device and caused it to explode, which resulted in her death.

Emir Faysal Arslan. He was the chief of the Arslan family, descendants of the Lakhmids after the death of his father Emir Majid Arslan in 1983. He continued with the leadership in association with Emirah Khawlah Majid Arslan.

Charles Southwood was an American actor in Europe and the founder of Death Cigarettes.