List of Famous people who died in 2009

Peter Stewart Lane, Baron Lane of Horsell, FCA was a British politician and businessman.

Richard Miller was a professor of singing at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and the author of numerous books on singing technique and vocal pedagogy. He also sang recitals, oratorios, and numerous roles as a lyric tenor with major opera companies in Europe and America.

Walter J. Kauzmann was an American chemist and professor emeritus of Princeton University. He was noted for his work in both physical chemistry and biochemistry. His most important contribution was recognizing that the hydrophobic effect plays a key role in determining the three-dimensional structure of proteins. He is also well known for an insight into the nature of supercooled liquids which is now known as Kauzmann's paradox. At Princeton, Kauzmann was the David B. Jones Professor Emeritus of Chemistry. He chaired the Department of Chemistry from 1964 to 1968 and the Department of Biochemical Sciences from 1980 to 1981.

Lino Lacedelli was an Italian mountaineer. Together with Achille Compagnoni, on 31 July 1954 he was the first man to reach the summit of K2.

Étienne Georges Alfred Roth was a French nuclear chemist, son of Professor George Roth and Marguerite Neymarck.

Manea Mănescu was a Romanian communist politician who served as Prime Minister for five years during Nicolae Ceaușescu's Communist regime.

Yasushi Nagao was a Japanese Pulitzer Prize-winning press photographer.

Erich Leo Lehmann was an American statistician, who made a major contribution to nonparametric hypothesis testing. He is one of the eponyms of the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and of the Hodges–Lehmann estimator of the median of a population.

Lukas Foss was a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor.