List of Famous people who died in 2009

James Stemble Duesenberry was an American economist. He made a significant contribution to the Keynesian analysis of income and employment with his 1949 doctoral thesis Income, Saving and the Theory of Consumer Behavior.

Klavdiya Sergeyevna Boyarskikh was a Soviet cross-country skier who competed in the 1960s.

Andrzej Stelmachowski was a Polish academic and politician.

Waldemar Matuška was a Czechoslovak singer who became popular in his homeland during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1986, he immigrated to the United States.

Teo Usuelli was an Italian composer.

Achille Compagnoni was an Italian mountaineer and skier. Together with Lino Lacedelli on 31 July 1954 he was in the first party to reach the summit of K2.

Pedro Elías Zadunaisky was an Argentine astronomer and mathematician who plotted the orbit of Saturn's most-distant moon, Phoebe, as well as several comets including Halley's Comet, and various satellites including Explorer I.