Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2009

Norman Rex Ghormley was an American optometrist who held leadership roles with the American Academy of Optometry and served as an optometrist for collegiate and professional sports teams.

Sunita Deshpande was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. She was fondly called "Sunitabai".

Yekaterina Serguéyeva Maksímova, cuyo nombre también se transcribe Ekaterina Maximova, fue una bailarina rusa perteneciente al Teatro Bolshói de Moscú, casada con el bailarín Vladímir Vasíliev.

Rena Kanokogi was a renowned Jewish-American judo expert. In 1959, disguised as a man, she won a medal at a YMCA judo tournament, but had to return it after acknowledging that she was a woman. Traveling to Japan to continue her judo training, Kanokogi became the first woman allowed to train in the men's group at the Kodokan. She is perhaps best known for pioneering women's judo competition at the Olympic Games. Rusty is often referred to as, "The Mother of Women's Judo".

Günter Kießling was a German general in the Bundeswehr, who became famous as the subject of what became known as the Kießling Affair.

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nevinny was a Soviet and Russian actor who was titled a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986. He worked in the Moscow Art Theatre from 1959 until his death in 2009.

Karine Martine Ruby fue una deportista francesa que compitió en snowboard, especialista en las pruebas de eslalon y campo a través.

Thomas Edward Fitzpatrick nicknamed Tommy Fitz, was an American pilot known for two intoxicated flights where he flew from New Jersey and landed on the streets of New York City.

William Taliaferro Close was an American surgeon who played a major role in stemming a 1976 outbreak of the Ebola virus in Zaire, the first major outbreak of the viral hemorrhagic fever in Central Africa, and preventing its further spread. He was also the father of actress Glenn Close and husband of Bettine Moore Close.

Dolores Lebrón Sotomayor, conocida como Lolita Lebrón, fue una defensora activa de la independencia puertorriqueña. En 1954, bajo su mando, un grupo de nacionalistas atacó la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos como forma de llamar la atención y demandar la situación colonial de Puerto Rico. Lebrón fue detenida y cumplió 24 años en prisión, hasta ser liberada por un indulto del presidente Jimmy Carter.