Famous People Who Died in 2009
- Ballard, J.G. (19 April)
- Cronkite, Walter (17 July)
- Fawcett, Farrah (25 June)
- Foote, Horton (4 March)
- Harvey, Paul (28 February)
- Hewitt, Don (19 August)
- Hines, Connie (18 December)
- Hingle, Pat (3 January)
- Jackson, Michael (25 June)
- Jeanne-Claude (18 November)
- Jones, Jennifer (17 December)
- Kennedy, Edward (Ted) (25 August)
- McMahon, Ed (23 June)
- McNamara, Robert S. (6 July)
- Montalban, Ricardo (14 January)
- Muhammad, John Allen (10 November)
- Murphy, Brittany (20 December)
- Novak, Robert (18 August)
- Paul, Les (13 August)
- Pell, Claiborne (1 January)
- Richardson, Natasha (18 March)
- Roberts, Oral (15 December)
- Safire, William (27 September)
- Shriver, Eunice Kennedy (11 August)
- Swayze, Patrick (14 September)
- Travers, Mary (16 September)
- Updike, John (27 January)
- Wyeth, Andrew (16 January)