List of Famous people who died in 2009

Henry Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne was a British Conservative Party politician.

Marius Eriksen was a Norwegian skier, fighter pilot, model and actor.

Pierre-Christian Taittinger was a French politician, mayor of the 16th arrondissement of Paris between 1989 and 2008 and Senator for Paris between 1977 and 1995. After studying law he became a lawyer in 1947 and was elected as a municipal councillor for Paris in 1953 and remained so until his death in 2009.

Yvon Bourges was a French politician and colonial administrator. He was the final Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa, serving from 1958 to 1960.

Flavia Irwin, Lady de Grey was a British painter and Royal Academician.

M. A. Wazed Miah was a Bangladeshi physicist and the writer of a number of texts in physics and some political history books, a former Chairman of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission and husband of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.