This is a list of famous people.meeting established criteria for significance (see Wikipedia: Criteria for the significance of personalities ) who died in May 2009 .
The cause of death is indicated only in exceptional cases (murder, suicide, accident or accidents). In other cases - not specified .
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- May 1 - Gayane Khachaturian (66) - artist.
- May 2 - Shmakov, Fedor Ivanovich (92) - Soviet and Belarusian actor, People's Artist of the USSR (1975).
- May 2 - Schukin, Lev Kirillovich (85) - Hero of the Soviet Union .
- May 4 - Plakhtiy, Vladimir Petrovich (69) - Soviet and Russian physicist.
- May 4 - Teleshevskaya, Zhanna Matveevna (68) - creator of the DIA television company, one of the first non-state television companies in Russia.
- May 4 - House Deluxe (75) - American actor, cook, producer, director.
- May 5 - Vladimir Makhnach (61) - Russian historian and Orthodox enlightener.
- May 5 - Ovcharenko, Viktor Ivanovich (66) - Russian philosopher, sociologist, historian and psychologist.
- May 5 - Nesis, Efim Izrailevich (86) - Russian physicist, honored worker of science.
- May 5 - Flores, Benjamin (24) - Professional boxer of Mexican descent.
- May 6 - William Alexandrov (82) - Russian Soviet and Israeli writer and journalist.
- May 6 - Varennikov, Valentin Ivanovich (85) - Soviet military leader, army general, Hero of the Soviet Union .
- May 6 - Losev, Lev Vladimirovich (71) - Russian poet, literary critic, essayist.
- May 6 - Kononov, Mikhail Borisovich (61) - modern Russian writer and translator.
- May 6 - Alexey Morozov (81) - Member of the Scientific Council for Plasma Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics.
- May 6 - Sima Eyvazova (75) - Soviet and Azerbaijani diplomat, the first permanent representative of independent Azerbaijan to the UN in Geneva.
- May 8 - Pelykh, Igor Dmitrievich (35) - TV journalist, famous Ukrainian TV host; car crash.
- May 8 - Kurgapkina, Ninel Aleksandrovna (80) - ballet dancer, People’s Artist of the USSR.
- May 9 - Anatoly Rubinov (85) - Soviet and Russian journalist , publicist , writer .
- May 9 - Daley, Chuck (78) - American basketball coach; pancreas cancer.
- May 9 - Genberg, Jean-Claude van (46) - equestrian, who played for Belgium and Ukraine.
- May 9 - Mendy Rodan - Romanian-Israeli conductor.
- May 10 - Andrei Gromadsky (88) - Hero of Socialist Labor.
- May 10 - Esipovsky, Igor Eduardovich (49) - Governor of the Irkutsk Region (2008-2009); plane crash.
- May 11 - Gumba, Abel Nngde (82) - former Prime Minister of the Central African Republic; Vice President (2003–2005).
- May 11 - Igityan, Henry Surenovich (77) - Armenian art critic, honored art worker of Armenia.
- May 12 - Babayan, Edward Armenakovich (88) - Soviet and Russian narcologist .
- May 12 - Osherovsky, Matvey Abramovich (88) - theater director, people's artist of Russia.
- May 13 - Roger Planchon (77) - French actor and theater director.
- May 13 - Sagaydachny, Pavel Porfirevich (86) - Hero of the Soviet Union .
- May 13 - Starovoitov, Alexander Pavlovich (74) - Honored Builder of the BSSR, Hero of Socialist Labor.
- May 14 - Oleg Efimenko (86) - physicist, professor at the university.
- May 14 - Markin, Viktor Grigorievich (82) - Soviet theater and film actor.
- May 14 - Podgayets, Mikhail Yakovlevich - Ukrainian chess player; international master, honored coach of the USSR and Russia, honored coach of FIDE.
- May 15 - Egorov, Yury Sergeevich (80) - Russian boxer.
- May 15 - Nekrasov, Vsevolod Nikolaevich (75) - Russian poet.
- May 15 - Aguelli, Susanna (87) - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy (1995-1996).
- May 15 - Philip, Nikolai Dmitrievich (83) - Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.
- May 16 - Mordechai Lemon (85) - was the fourth commander of the Israeli Navy.
- May 16 - Rafail Nakhmanovich (82) - Soviet cameraman.
- May 17 - Mario Benedetti (88) - Uruguayan journalist, poet and writer, playwright, literary critic.
- May 17 - Igor Dmitrenko (80) - a physicist, an expert in the field.
- May 18 - Prabhakaran, Velupillai (55) - leader of Tamil separatists in Sri Lanka ; murder.
- May 18 - Alluine, Wayne (63) - American actor, 32 years of voice of Mickey Mouse ; diabetes.
- May 18 - Hay, David (92) - Chief Administrator of the Trust Territory of Papua New Guinea (1966-1970).
- May 19 - Ivanov, Andrei Evgenievich (42) - Russian football player , champion of Russia ; alcoholism .
- May 19 - York, Herbert (87) - American physicist, one of the creators of the atomic bomb.
- May 19 - Malinovskaya, Lyubov Ivanovna (88) - Soviet actress of theater and cinema.
- May 19 - Aydin Morikyan (51) - Armenian public figure.
- May 19 - Reiderman, Maxim (Max) Isaakovich (84) - medical scientist, father of the poet Alexei Parshikov .
- May 19 - Ferchgott, Robert (92) - American biochemist, Nobel laureate .
- May 20 - Gordon, Lucy (28) - British and French film actress and model; suicide.
- May 20 - Boris Klein (90) - famous Soviet architect.
- May 20 - Yankovsky, Oleg Ivanovich (65) - Russian and Soviet actor, People's Artist of the USSR ; crayfish.
- May 20 - Nguen Ba Kang (75) - Prime Minister of South Vietnam (1975).
- May 22 - Alexander Mezhirov (85) - Russian poet and translator.
- May 23 - Barbara Rudnik (50) - German theater and film actress; breast cancer .
- May 23 - Gritsyuk, Viktor Petrovich (59) - famous Russian photographer and journalist Russia ; from cancer.
- May 23 - Vitaliy Lisichenko (87) - Soviet, Ukrainian criminologist.
- May 23 - Roh Moo Hyun (62) - former president of South Korea ; suicide.
- May 24 - Vargina, Zoya Konstantinovna (91) - head of the Main Department of Forestry and Nature Protection under the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR.
- May 24 - Konstantin Vlasko-Vlasov (89) - Soviet scientist, head of a special design bureau.
- May 25 - Haakon Lee (103) - Norwegian politician. ( en: Haakon Lie ).
- May 26 - Alaferovsky, Yuri Petrovich (66) - Russian statesman.
- May 26 - Peter Zesel (44) - Canadian hockey player; hemolytic anemia .
- May 28 - Asker Gadagatl (86) - People's Poet of the Republic of Adygea, a scientist-sart scientist, doctor of philological sciences.
- May 28 - Ercole Rabitti (88) - Italian footballer and football coach.
- May 28 - Shenin, Oleg Semenovich (71) - Russian politician.
- May 29 - Steve Prest (43) - a successful snooker coach.
- May 29 - Karin Ruby (31) - Olympic champion in snowboarding ; fall into the crevasse of mont blanc . ( en: Karine Ruby ).
- May 30 - Evgeny Lukinov (31) - TV Channel One journalist.
- May 30 - Katzir, Ephraim (93) - the former president of Israel (1973-1978).
- May 30 - Jafar Nimeiri (79) - Marshal, former President of Sudan (1969-1985).
- May 30 - Luis Cabral (78) - Chairman of the State Council of Guinea-Bissau (1973-1980). ( en: Luís Cabral ).
- May 30 - Friedlyander, Iosif Naumovich (95) - Russian metalworker, founder of alloys, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1984), associate of A. N. Tupolev .
- May 30 - Waldemar Matuska (76) - a popular Czech singer. ( en: Waldemar Matuška ).
- May 31 - Belyakovich, Sergey Romanovich (55) - actor, Honored Artist of Russia.
- May 31 - Bilaonova, Dolores-Louise Nikolaevna (71) - opera singer, people's artist of Russia.
- May 31 - Vertogradov, Andrei Arkadyevich (63) - theater and film actor.
- May 31 - Dean, Millwina (97) - the last of the surviving passengers of the Titanic .
- May 31 - Kuzmin, Arkady Dmitrievich (86) - Soviet and Russian astronomer.
- May 31 - Innocent, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich (74) - Soviet Russian actor, people's artist of the USSR; complications due to diabetes.
- May 31 - George Tiller (67) ( born George Tiller ) - an American doctor who practiced abortion in late pregnancy; murder.
- May 31 - Feret, Edward Vadimovich (73) - Ukrainian general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, one of the main witnesses in the case of the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze . Died while in a coma since 2003.