Deaths Date 2009 May | History by KabAstro

May 14 Bob Rosburg, American golfer, broadcaster (PGA Championship 1959), dies of head injuries from a fall at 82
May 15 Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Australian actor, pilot and radio announcer, dies at 86
May 15 Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and smooth jazz bassist, dies from the effects of cancer at 44
May 17 Jung Seung-hye, South Korean film producer (b. 1965)
May 17 Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet, dies from respiratory and intestinal problems at 88
May 18 Dolla [Roderick Anthony Burton II], American rapper, dies at21
May 18 Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, killed in action at 54
May 18 Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (3rd Mickey Mouse, 1977-2009), dies at 62
May 19 Herbert York, American physicist (b. 1921)
May 19 Nicholas Maw, British composer, dies at 73
May 19 Robert F. Furchgott, American pharmacologist (co-winner Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1998), and educator, dies at 92
May 20 Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect (b.1924)
May 20 Lucy Gordon, British model and actress (b. 1980)
May 21 Allen Greenwood, British aeronautical engineer and aerospace executive, dies at 91
May 21 Joan Alexander [Louise Abrass], American actress (The New Adventures of Superman, The Tales of Hoffmann), dies of an intestinal ailment at 94

May 23 Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean politician (16th President of the Republic of Korea), commits suicide at 62
May 24 Jay Bennett, American guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer-songwriter (Wilco, 1994-2001), dies of an accidental overdose of prescription painkiller Fentanyl at 46
May 25 Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (b. 1905)
May 26 Peter Zezel, Canadian professional hockey player (b. 1965)
May 27 Ammo Baba, Iraqi football player and coach, dies at 74

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May 27 Welsh-born British economist (Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences 2003), dies at 74

May 28 Mort Abrahams, American producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes), dies at 93
May 28 Terence Alexander, English actor (Bergerac), dies at 86
May 29 Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (Olympic gold Giant slalom 1998, silver Parallel giant slalom 2002), dies in a climbing accident at 31
May 30 Torsten Andersson, Swedish abstract-modernist painter, dies at 82
May 31 Danny La Rue, Irish drag entertainer, dies at 81
May 31 George Tiller, American pro-abortion physician, murdered while in church at 67
May 31 Millvina Dean, British civil servant who was the last living survivor of the RMS Titanic and also the youngest aboard, dies of pneumonia at 97