List of Famous people who died in 2009
Jeremy Vyvyan Ropner
Richard Neville Manners
Giorgio Mondadori
Polleen Wheatland Peabody
Gérard Lecointe
Gérard Pierre Louis François Armand Lecointe was a French général de corps d'armée. He served in World War II and the Cold War and saw colonial service in French North Africa. He was the last commander of French forces in Algeria, and completed his career as commander-in-chief of the French Forces in Germany.
Caroline Patricia Griffith-Williams
William John Herbert Forbes of Rothiemay
Bruno Beger
Bruno Beger was a German racial anthropologist, ethnologist, and explorer who worked for the Ahnenerbe. In that role he participated in Ernst Schäfer's 1938–39 journey to Tibet, helped the Race and Settlement Office, or SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt, of the SS identify Jews, and later helped select human subjects to be killed to create an anatomical study collection of Jewish skeletons.
Helle Virkner
Helle Genie Virkner was a Danish actress, author and spouse of the Prime Minister.
Renato Izzo
Renato Izzo was an Italian actor, voice actor and screenwriter.