List of Famous people who died in 2009
Majd al-Asad
John Evelyn Shirley
Kathleen Dorothy Shakerley
Leonore Annenberg
Leonore Cohn Annenberg, also known as Lee Annenberg, was an American businesswoman, diplomat, and philanthropist. She was noted for serving as Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1981 to 1982. Annenberg was married to Walter Annenberg, who was an Ambassador to the United Kingdom and newspaper publishing magnate. She also served as the chairman and president of the Annenberg Foundation from 2002 until 2009.
Jim Chapin
James Forbes Chapin was an American jazz drummer and the author of books about jazz drumming. He was the author of several albums on jazz drumming, as well as 2 CDs entitled Jim Chapin: Songs, Solos, Stories. He was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2011.
Siegfried Tiefensee
Siegfried Tiefensee was a German musician and conductor.
Svatopluk Havelka
Svatopluk Havelka was a Czech composer.
Oreste Lionello
Oreste Lionello was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Nicole Tribert
Dalibor Brozović
Dalibor Brozović was a Croatian linguist, Slavist, dialectologist and politician. He studied the history of standard languages in the Slavic region, especially Croatian. He was an active Esperantist since 1946, and wrote Esperanto poetry as well as translated works into the language.