List of Famous people who died in 2009

Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito was a Brazilian judge who sat on the Supreme Federal Court, the highest court of law in Brazil, from his appointment in 2007 until his death in 2009.

Rosanna Schiaffino was an Italian film actress. She appeared on the covers of Italian, German, French, British and American magazines.

Arturo Cavero Velásquez, better known by the pseudonym "Zambo Cavero", was a Peruvian singer, representative of Afro-Peruvian identity.

Willy Ronis was a French photographer. His best-known work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence.

Robert Francis Furchgott was a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems.

Hans Hermann Matthöfer was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.

Jordi Solé Tura was a Spanish politician, jurist and one of the co-authors and "Fathers" of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 following Spain's move to democracy.

Lt. Col. Elizaveta Ivanovna Mukasei was a Soviet spy codenamed Elza. Along with her husband Mikhail Mukasei, she took part in a number of undercover operations in Western Europe and the United States from the 1940s through to the 1970s. She died on September 19, 2009 in Moscow at age 97. Her husband died on August 19, 2008, aged 101.

Traugott Buhre was a German actor.