The year 2009 will forever be remembered as the year the King of Pop died. His passing was a sad day indeed for he inspired so much hope and love within all of us. There were many others that passed on this past year. Here is my feeble attempt to throw a little light on some of the others that called 2009 the end. Happy Holidays!!
January
1 – A man is shot and killed at California‘s Fruitvale BART station by a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer. (Mercury News)
2 - Gertrude Baines succeeds Maria de Jesus, who died in her home in Portugal at age 115, as the world’s oldest person.
3 – An Israeli airstrike on the mosque in the Gaza Strip village of Beit Lahia kills at least 13 people. (CNN)
4 – A suicide bombing outside a Shia shrine in northern Baghdad, Iraq, kills at least 40 people and wounds at least 72. (The New York Times)
5 - Verna Mae Slone, 94, American author and quilter, complications from a fall.
6 - Israeli artillery strikes near a United Nations school in Gaza City, killing at least 40 people.
7 – Bob Wilkins, 76, American television personality, horror film host, complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
8 – Leonidas Vargas, 60, Colombian drug trafficker, shot.
9 – Rob Gauntlett, the youngest Briton to have climbed Mount Everest died whilst climbing in the French Alps
10 – A boat carrying eight Somali pirates from the freed supertanker MV Sirius Star capsizes in the Gulf of Aden, causing the deaths of five and the loss of their portion of US$3 million in ransom. (Telegraph)
11 – Andy DeMize, 25, American drummer (Nekromantix), car accident.
12 – Flooding caused by Tropical Depression 04F kills eight people and displaces more than 6,000 in Fiji. (AP)
13 – Pedro Aguilar, 81, American dancer, heart failure.
14 – The Mighty Duke, 77, Trinidadian calypsonian, myelofibrosis.
15 – Said Seyam, 50, Palestinian government official, Interior Minister (2006–2007), airstrike.
16 – Whitey Mitchell, 76, American jazz musician and comedy writer (Get Smart, All in the Family, The Jeffersons), cancer.
17 – A suicide attack kills two Afghans and one United States Army soldier and wounds 30 other people in Kabul, Afghanistan.
18 – The roof of the Born Again in Christ Church in São Paulo, Brazil, collapses, killing nine worshippers and injuring more than one hundred others. (International Herald Tribune)
19 – The Palestinian National Authority‘s Central Bureau of Statistics reports that 1,300 Palestinians were killed; 5,400 were injured; and US$1.9 billion in damage was caused during the 22-day conflict with Israel in the Gaza Strip. (CNN)
20 – Mickey Gee, 64, British rock and roll guitarist, emphysema.
21 – Kunal Mitra, 44, Indian actor, heart attack.
22 – Clément Pinault, 23, French footballer, heart attack.
23 – A school shooting in northern Norway leaves two people dead, including the gunman. (Sky News) (RTE News)
24 – A suicide car bomb targeting African Union peacekeepers kills 14 civilians in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Reuters)
25 – Sudan bombs the town of Muhajeria, Darfur, killing a child. (MSNBC)
26 – A gunman kills two people and injures seven others in Portland, Oregon, before shooting and critically wounding himself. (Sky News)
27 – Seven people die in a murder-suicide in Wilmington, California. (UPI) (New York Times) (mercurynews.com)
28 – Sri Lankan Civil War:
- The Army kills at least 300 and wounds at least 300 Tamil people in Mullaitivu District. (AOL)
- At least 250,000 civilians are trapped in the crossfire between the Armed Forces and the Tamil Tigers. (CNN)
29 – Hélio Gracie, 95, Brazilian martial artist, creator of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
30 – Six people are killed when a Piper PA-34 Seneca crashes near Huntington, West Virginia, United States. (AP via Fox News)
31 – A heat wave affects southeastern Australia, killing 20 people as temperatures reach above 45 °C (113 °F) in Adelaide and Melbourne. (Bloomberg)
February
1 – Four people are killed in a café shooting in Russia‘s Dagestan Republic. (Reuters via IHT)
2 – Howard Kanovitz, 79, American painter, bacterial infection after heart surgery.
3 – Warren Kimbro, 74, American Black Panther, murderer and charitable organization executive, heart attack.
4 – Herbert Hamrol, 106, American centenarian, one of the last survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, pneumonia.
5 – At least 10 people are killed in a Brazilian Federal Police raid in Rio de Janeiro. (BBC)
6 – Susan Walsh, 60, American actress.
7 – Molly Bee, 69, American country singer (“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus“), complications from a stroke.
8 – A roadside bomb kills at least two people and injures 11 near Karbala, Iraq. (CNN)
9 – Kazys Bradūnas, 91, Lithuanian émigré, poet and editor.
10 – Jan Błoński, 78, Polish literary critic, Holocaust scholar.
11 – Twenty-seven people die during a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Sky News)
12 - Taliban militants kill 26 people in attacks on three government buildings in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Sky News)
13 – A passenger train derails in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India, killing at least 15 people and injuring 150 others. (Thaindian News)
14 – Buck Griffin, 85, American rockabilly musician, heart failure.
15 – At least 15 people are killed and seven injured in a hostel fire in Molodyozhny, Astrakhan, Russia. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
16 – Travis, 14, American-born chimpanzee, television commercial animal, shot.
17 – Doris Abrahams, 88, American theatrical producer (Equus), heart failure.
18 – Tayeb Salih, 80, Sudanese writer (Season of Migration to the North).
19 – China‘s Ministry of Health reports that HIV/AIDS was the country’s leading cause of death from infectious disease in 2008. (BBC)
20 – A suicide attack kills 25 people in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. (BBC)
21 – The International Security Assistance Force kills 13 people in Guzara, Herat, Afghanistan. (CNN)
22 – At least 73 miners die following an explosion in a coal mine in Gujiao, Shanxi, China. (Bloomberg)
23 – The death toll from recent bushfires in Victoria reaches 210 as they threaten Belgrave. (ABC News Australia)
24 – Six people and an infant are injured in a shooting during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, United States. (San Francisco Chronicle)
25 – Three people set themselves on fire near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. (BBC)
26 – An outbreak of dengue fever in Bolivia has killed 18 people and infected 31,000. (BBC)
27 - China‘s Armed Police shoot a Tibetan monk as he immolates himself in Sichuan. (BBC)
28 - Bangladesh‘s Army finds more mass graves where Bangladesh Rifles mutinied in Dhaka. (BBC)
March
1 – Paolo Maffei, 83, Italian astronomer and science fiction writer.
2 – Two thousand Tamil people have been killed and 5,000 injured in Vanni District during Sri Lanka‘s civil war. (AP)
3 – Seven Sri Lankan cricket players are wounded and six policemen killed in shootings near Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. (Sky News)
4 – A riot at a prison near Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, kills at least 20 inmates and injures seven others. (AP via IHT
5 – The Israel Police kill a Palestinian militant after he rammed a bulldozer into a squad car and a bus in a suspected terror attack in Jerusalem. (Sky News)
6 – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is injured and his wife, Susan, killed in a car accident south of Harare. (BBC)
7 – Michael Bowen, 71, American artist, complications of poliomyelitis.
8 A suicide attack kills at least 28 people and injures 57 others in Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC)
9 – An Ilyushin Il-76 crashes into Lake Victoria after taking off from Entebbe International Airport in Uganda, likely killing all eleven passengers. (UGpulse)
10 – At least ten people are killed during a shooting spree in Geneva County, Alabama, United States. (CNN)
11 – At least 15 people are killed in a school shooting in Winnenden, Germany. (DW)
12 – An American drone aircraft‘s missiles kill at least 12 people in Pakistan‘s Kurram Valley. (BBC)
13 – A fire at Bashundhara City in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills seven people and injures at least 30 others. (Reuters)
14 – Altovise Davis, 65, American actress and dancer, widow of Sammy Davis, Jr., stroke.
15 – Bombs kill 12 people in Nangarhar Province, Kabul, and Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Voice of America)
16 – Nicholas Hughes, 47, American marine biologist, son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, suicide by hanging.
17 – At least 11 people are killed and four injured in an bus accident outside Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. (CTV
18 – Natasha Richardson, 45, British actress, epidural hematoma.
19 – Namibia declares a state of emergency after floods kill 92 people and render 25,000 homeless. (BBC)
20 – George Weber, 47, American radio broadcaster, stabbed.
21 – Two people are killed and eight injured during a stampede to see Pope Benedict XVI in Luanda, Angola. (RTÉ)
22 – Four police officers are killed in Oakland, California, United States. (CNN)
23 – Two suicide attacks in Iraq kill at least 22 people and injure more than 50 others. (Bloomberg)
24 – Robert Delford Brown, 78, American artist, drowned (body found on this date).
25 – Marilyn Borden, 76, American actress (I Love Lucy), heart failure.
26 – Two tornadoes injure 24 people and damage 108 homes in Mississippi, United States. (CNN)
27 – A suicide attack kills at least 50 people and injures 100 others in Jamrud, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
28 – Peter F. Donnelly, 70, American arts patron, vice-chairman of Americans for the Arts, complications of pancreatic cancer.
29 – A stampede kills 22 people and injures at least 130 during a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. (BBC)
30 – At least 15 people are killed as two trains collide in Dodoma, Tanzania. (BBC)
31 – Raúl Alfonsín, 82, Argentine President (1983–1989), lung cancer.
April
1 – At least eight people are killed when a Eurocopter AS332 ditches into the North Sea. (AFP via Google News)
2 – Frank Springer, 79, American comic book artist, prostate cancer.
3 – Fourteen people die and 26 are injured during a shooting at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York. (CNN)
4 – Six Frontier Corpsmen are killed during a suicide attack in Islamabad, Pakistan. (GEO TV)
5 – Tony D, 42, American hip hop DJ and musician, car accident.
6 – Six car bombs kill at least 34 people and injure 139 others in Baghdad, Iraq. (AFP via News Limited)
7 – Twenty-four people are killed as a Fokker F27 airliner crashes in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. (Sky News)
8 – Henri Meschonnic, 76, French poet, linguist, translator and theoretician.
9 – Randy Cain, 63, American singer (The Delfonics).
10 – At least 27 tornadoes kill six people throughout the Southern United States. (CNN)
11 – Judith Krug, 69, American librarian, founder of Banned Books Week, stomach cancer.
12 – Marilyn Chambers, 56, American pornographic film actress (Behind the Green Door), erotic dancer, and politician, heart disease.
13 – A fire destroys a homeless hostel and kills at least 22 people in Kamień Pomorski, Poland. (BBC)
14 – Max Lake, 84, Australian winemaker, fall.
15 – Sir Clement Freud, 84, German-born British writer, broadcaster and politician, MP (1973–1987).
16 – A landslide in Kyrgyzstan kills at least 16 people. (BBC)
17 – Two earthquakes kill 22 people in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. (Sky News)
18 – An explosion at a warehouse kills at least 18 people in Hunan Province, China. (BBC)
19 – J. G. Ballard, 78, British novelist, prostate cancer.
20 – Thomas Hill, 81, American actor (The Never Ending Story).
21 – Santha Rama Rau, 86, Indian-born American writer, cardiac arrest.
22 – Jack Cardiff, 94, British cinematographer (A Matter Of Life And Death, Black Narcissus, The African Queen), natural causes.
23 – Iraq‘s government calculates that more than 110,000 Iraqis have died since the Iraq War began in 2003.
24 – Swine influenza kills at least 68 people and infects at least 1,000 more in Mexico. (CNN)
25 – Beatrice Arthur, 86, American Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress (Maude, The Golden Girls, Mame), cancer.
26 – Hans Holzer, 89, Austrian-born American paranormal investigator and author, after long illness.
27 – A police officer suffers a mental breakdown and kills 3 people in Moscow, Russia. (BBC)
28 – Steinar Lem, 57, Norwegian environmentalist and anti-consumerism activist, cancer.
29 – Tom McGrath, 68, British poet and playwright, liver cancer.
30 – Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen’s Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. (BBC)
May
1 – The Pakistani Army kills approximately 60 Taliban militants during Operation Black Thunder.
2 – The Sri Lankan Army kills 91 people and injures 87 others at a hospital inside a civilian safe zone. (BBC)
3 – An Army helicopter crashes in Táchira, Venezuela, killing at least 18 people. (BBC)
4 – At least eight gunmen kill 44 people at a wedding in Mardin Province, Turkey. (Sky News)
5 – The confirmed worldwide number of cases of swine influenza reaches 1,490. (CNN)
6 – A car bomb kills at least ten people and injures 30 others in Dora, Baghdad, Iraq. (Sky News)
7 – A fire at a casino kills ten people and injures ten others in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. (BBC)
8 – A cave-in at a gold mine in Siguiri, Guinea, kills 20 people, injures five more, and renders ten others missing. (BBC)
9 – The Pakistani Army kills 55 Taliban militants in Swat, Pakistan. (Reuters)
10 – H1N1 influenza kills a third United States citizen and spreads to Australia and Japan. (Reuters)
11 – A gunman kills two people and commits suicide near Oslo, Norway. (BBC)
12 – Combat between the government and the Islamic Courts Union kills at least 123 people in Mogadishu, Somalia. (BBC)
13 – Artillery shelling kills 50 people and injures 40 more at a hospital in Sri Lanka‘s war zone. (Sky News)
14 – Newt Heisley, 88, American commercial artist, designer of POW/MIA flag, after long illness.
15 – Rodger McFarlane, 54, American gay rights activist, first executive director of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, suicide.
16 – A car bomb kills at least 11 people and injures 25 others in Peshawar, Pakistan. (BBC)
17 – Octavia St. Laurent, American transwoman and performer.
18 – Dolla, 21, American rap artist, shot.
19 – Nicholas Maw, 73, British composer (Odyssey), heart failure.
20 – A car bomb kills at least 34 people and injures 72 others in Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC)
21 – The Communist Party kills 16 police officers near Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. (BBC)
22 – Floods kill at least 11 people in Haiti. (Press Association via Google News)
23 – A bomb kills two people and injures 12 others in Kathmandu, Nepal. (CNN)
24 – Eleven people are killed during a stampede at the Mawazine world music festival in Rabat, Morocco. (BBC)
25 – Amos Elon, 82, Austrian-born Israeli author and journalist.
26 – Ronald Takaki, 70, American sociologist, professor of ethnic studies (University of California, Berkeley), suicide.
27 – An anti-piracy warship destroys a Yemeni fishing vessel in the Red Sea, killing at least two people. (BBC)
28 – Sixteen people are killed and more than 20 injured when a bus crashes near Yambol, Bulgaria. (BBC)
29 – Four people are killed when a dam bursts in Piauí, Brazil. (BBC)
30 – Torsten Andersson, 82, Swedish painter.
31 – Six people are killed during battle between Hamas militants and the Palestinian National Authority‘s Preventive Security Service in the West Bank. (BBC)
June
1 – A man kills one soldier and injures another at a military recruitment center in Little Rock, Arkansas. (MSNBC)
2 – At least 61 people are discovered dead in a Harmony Gold mine in Free State, South Africa. (BBC)
3 – Moloko Temo, 134?, South African centenarian, claimant to the world’s oldest person title.
4 – Robert Colescott, 83, American painter, U.S. representative to Venice Biennale (1997)
5 – A bus fire kills at least 24 people in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. (Reuters via News Limited)
6 – Fifty-two people die during combat between Peru‘s Army and indigenous peoples in the Amazon Rainforest. (Reuters)
7 – Hugh Hopper, 64, British progressive rock bassist and composer (Soft Machine), leukaemia.
8 – At least 18 factory workers are killed when their bus collides with a truck in the Nile Delta, Egypt. (Irish Examiner)
9 – An explosion kills 11 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan. (BBC)
10 – At least two people are shot at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., with an elderly white supremacist as the main suspect. (CNN)
11 – Frank J. Low, 75, American physicist and astronomer.
12 – Andy Hughes, 43, British musician (The Orb), producer and DJ.
13 – John Saville, 93, British Marxist economic and social historian.
14 – Edith Ronne, 89, American explorer, first American woman to visit Antarctica, cancer.
15 – Desmond Moran, 60, Australian criminal, member of Moran family, shot.
16 – Tina Marsh, 55, American jazz vocalist, breast cancer.
17 – IZ the Wiz, 50, American graffiti artist, heart attack.
18 – A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the Medina Hotel in Beledweyne, Somalia, killing 10 people. Among the dead is Omar Hashi Aden, Somalia’s Security Minister. (BBC)
19 – Henry Allingham, 113, one of the UK‘s last two World War I veterans, becomes the world’s oldest man following the death of Tomoji Tanabe. (BBC)
20 – At least 67 people are killed and over 200 are injured in a suicide attack near Kirkuk in Iraq. (RTÉ)
21 – The death toll from the Taza bombing rises to 73. (RTÉ)
22 – Bert Bank, 94, American radio pioneer and politician, Bataan Death March survivor.
23 – Ed McMahon, 86, American television host (Star Search) and announcer (The Tonight Show).
24 – At least 43 people are killed by United States aircraft in South Waziristan, Pakistan. (BBC)
25 – Farrah Fawcett, 62, American actress (Charlie’s Angels), anal cancer.
26 – A bombing at a Baghdad market kills at least 13 people, and leaves dozens more wounded. (BBC)
27 - Gale Storm, 87, American actress (My Little Margie, The Gale Storm Show).
28 – Billy Mays, 50, American pitchman and television host (Pitchmen), hypertensive heart disease.
29 – Mohammad Hoqouqi, 72, Iranian poet, cirrhosis
30 – At least 15 people are killed and 40 are injured by the derailment of an Italian freight train and subsequent explosion of two wagons carrying liquified petroleum gas in Viareggio. (BBC)
July
1 – Up to 30 people are feared dead after the MV Demas Victory capsizes and sinks in choppy Persian Gulf waters off the Qatari capital Doha. (Sky News)
2 – Steve Brennan, 57, Irish-born American reporter and editor (The Hollywood Reporter), cancer.
3 – Six people, including three children, are killed after a fire in a high rise residential tower block in Camberwell, south London, England. (BBC)
4 – Brenda Joyce, 92, American actress (Tarzan and the Amazons).
5 – At least eight people die in blasts at two explosives factories in Madhya Pradesh, India. (BBC)
6 – Riots in China‘s Xinjiang region leave 156 dead and more than 800 injured. (Xinhua)
7 – Two bombs explode in the southern Philippines, killing two and injuring 53. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
8 – Waldo McBurney, 106, American beekeeper, oldest worker in the United States.
9 – Bombs in Baghdad and northern Iraq kill at least 41 people and wounded more than 80, police say. (Sky News)
10 – One person is killed by a bull, the first such fatality in 14 years, during the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. (The Times)
11 – Mark Mandala, 72, American television executive, president of ABC (1986–1994), heart attack.
12 – Five people are killed and several injured in India after a bridge being constructed for the Delhi Metro collapses. (Indian Express)
13 – At least 16 people have died, including eight children, in the city of Mian Channu, Pakistan, after a bomb blast in a school. (CNN)
14 – Dallas McKennon, 89, American voice actor (Gumby, Buzz Buzzard, Archie Andrews), natural causes.
15 – Natalya Estemirova, 50, Russian human rights activist in Chechnya and Ingushetia, shot.
16 – Madonna‘s concert in Marseille, France is cancelled after her stage collapses, killing one and injuring nine. (AFP)
17 – A second person dies from the collapse of a stage being built in Marseille for Madonna‘s forthcoming tour to France. (AFP)
18 – Henry Allingham, 113, British supercentenarian, world’s oldest man and WWI veteran.
19 – Ingeborg Hunzinger, 94, German sculptor.
20 – Ria Brieffies, 52, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots), lung cancer.
21 – Les Lye, 84, Canadian actor and broadcaster (You Can’t Do That on Television).
22 – Damien Steele, 33, American professional wrestler, brain aneurysm.
23 – Danny McBride, 63, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sha Na Na), natural causes. Danny McBride, 63, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sha Na Na), natural causes.
24 – At least six people die as a Croatian high-speed train travelling from Zagreb to Split derails 30km from its destination. (AP via Google News)
25 – Harry Patch, the last surviving World War I veteran to have fought in the trenches, dies aged 112. (BBC)
26 – Clayton Hill, 78, American actor (Dawn of the Dead, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth), complications from pneumonia.
27 – At least 150 people are killed as clashes continue between radical Islamists in northern Nigeria after two days of unrest. (BBC)
28 – 22 people are killed, 41 are injured and seven are missing after heavy rain and floods in Sichuan. (China Daily)
29 – Dina Babbitt, 86, Czech-born American artist and Holocaust survivor, abdominal cancer.
30 – The United States Coast Guard calls off its search for as many as 79 Haitians missing after their boat capsized near the Turks and Caicos Islands with two hundred people onboard. (Al Jazeera)
31 – 28 people are killed in Iraq after bombs explode at Shiite mosques in Baghdad. (The Times of India)
August
1 – At least two people are killed and at least fifteen are wounded in a shooting attack at a building frequented by gay youths in Tel-Aviv, Israel. (Haaretz)
2 – One person is killed and 75 injured after an outdoor stage collapses at the Big Valley Jamboree country music festival in Alberta, Canada. (CBC)
3 – A town in Qinghai, China, is sealed off after a second person dies of pneumonic plague. (Xinhua)
4 – Amos Kenan, Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright, novelist and leading intellectual of Canaanism died at the age of 82 in Israel, his funeral is scheduled for Thursday, August 6th, at a kibbutz cemetery in central Israel. (The Associated Press)
5 – 11 men drown when a boat sinks on the Nile near Khartoum, Sudan. (IOL)
6 – At least 34 people are feared dead after their bus plunges into the Indus River in Pakistan. (BBC)
7 – Jimmy Bedford, 69, American distiller (Jack Daniel’s), heart attack.
8 – Alfonso Calderón, 78, Chilean writer and poet, heart attack.
9 – At least 43 people are feared dead after a massive mudslide sweeps away three hamlets in northern India. (CNN)
10 – Albert L. Gordon, 94, American gay rights legal activist, natural causes.
11 – Two members of the Russian humanitarian organisation Let’s Save the Generation are found dead in Grozny, Chechnya. (Al Jazeera)
12 – Thirty people are killed in Warrap state in southern Sudan, in a resurgence of the nomadic conflicts. (IOL)
13 – Eleutherius Winance, 100, Belgian-born American monk, philosophy professor, founder of St. Andrew’s Abbey, heart attack.
14 – Kimani Maruge, 90, Kenyan student, oldest man to start primary school, stomach cancer.
15 – Jasmine Fiore, 28, American Playboy model, strangled.
16 – Khalid bin Mahfouz, 60, Saudi Arabian billionaire banker, heart attack.
17 – A suicide bomber explodes a truck at a police station in Nazran in Russia‘s North Caucasus, killing at least 20 people and wounding about 60 others. (Yahoo! News)
18 – Seven people are killed in a bombing targeting a NATO convoy in Kabul, days before the presidential elections in Afghanistan. (BBC)
19 – Seven car bombs are detonated in Baghdad, killing at least 95, and wounding nearly 600. (The Times)
20 – 8 prospectors are killed overnight in a diamond mine in Kasai province in central Democratic Republic of the Congo. (IOL)
21 – 20 people are killed and 40 injured after clashes between pro-government and Islamist forces in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Bloomberg)
22 – Muriel Duckworth, 100, Canadian feminist and activist, complications from a fall.
23 – Yemeni troops claim to have killed more than 100 Shia rebels in the past two weeks, including two leaders, but the rebels deny their leaders, Mohsen Saleh Gawd and Salah Jorman, are dead and no independent confirmation is made available. (BBC)
24 – Baitullah Mehsud is confirmed dead by leaders of Pakistan’s Taliban. (Associated Press)
25 – At least 40 people are killed and 57 wounded in a car bomb explosion in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. (Reuters)
26 – Sadie Corre, 91, British actress (The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
27 – Sergey Mikhalkov, 96, Russian writer and poet (National Anthem of the Soviet Union and National Anthem of Russia).
28 – Adam Goldstein, 36, American club disc jockey and musician (Crazy Town), suspected drug overdose.
29 – Several people are reported killed after fresh clashes erupt in the Kokang region of Shan State, northeastern Burma, near the border with China. A bomb is also thrown across the border. (Global Times)
30 – At least five people are killed and 275 injured in a train crash near Yaounde, Cameroon. (BBC)
31 – Jack Manning, 93, American film, stage and television actor.
September
1 – A diarrhoea epidemic kills 34 people in Ethiopia and infects more than 5,000, with 500 hospitalised in Addis Ababa in one day alone. (IOL)
2 – A woman kills a man by jumping on top of him in Barcelona, Spain. (IOL)
3 – The death toll from the 2009 Java earthquake rises to at least 57. (BBC)
4 – More than 90 people, among them at least 40 civilians, are killed when an American jetfighter called in by German troops attacks two fuel tankers hijacked by Taliban-insurgents in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan. (The Daily Telegraph)
5 – Richard Merkin, 70, American artist.
6 – Sim, 83, French comic actor.
7 – John T. Elson, 78, American religion editor (Time).
8 – 35 people are killed and 44 remain missing after an explosion in a coal mine in Pingdingshan, China. (BBC)
9 – Sultan Munadi, 32, Afghan journalist, translator and correspondent (The New York Times), shot.
10 – At least five girls are killed and 30 other students injured in a stampede at a state-run school in the Indian capital, New Delhi. (ABC)
11 – The oldest person in the world, Gertrude Baines, dies in Los Angeles aged 115. (Associated Press)
12 – At least three people die and several others are injured in Somaliland when angry demonstrators clash with riot police. (IOL)
13 – At least 19 people die and 80 are missing after a ferry sinks in the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (AFP via Google News)
14 – American actor Patrick Swayze dies at age 57, after suffering from pancreatic cancer for more than 1 year.
15 – Troy Kennedy Martin, 77, British screenwriter (Z-Cars, Edge of Darkness, The Italian Job), liver cancer.
16 – Gunmen kill 10 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in Mexico. (Associated Press)
17 – A large car bomb attack in the centre of Kabul, Afghanistan kills six Italian ISAF soldiers. (BBC)
18 – 30,000 Ivory Coast residents seriously affected by the dumping of toxic waste by Trafigura, which, according to the United Nations, has killed at least 15 people, say an undisclosed compensation deal offered by a London-based oil firm is not enough. (BBC)
19 – Roc Raida, 37, American turntablist (The X-Ecutioners), spinal cord injury.
20 – Bayo Ohu, 45, Nigerian journalist and news editor (The Guardian), shot.
21 – Lou Nuer militiamen kill more than 100 civilians and security force members in an attack in Sudan‘s Duk Padiet in Jonglei, the latest in a series of ethnic clashes. (BBC)
22 – Lucy Vodden, 46, British inspiration for The Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds“, lupus.
23 – A court in Tanzania sentences three men to death by hanging for killing a 14-year-old albino boy, Matatizo Dunia, to steal parts of his anatomy. It is the country’s first conviction for this offence. (BBC)
24 – Nelly Arcan, 35, Canadian novelist, suicide.
25 – Bob Stupak, 67, American casino owner (Vegas World, Stratosphere Las Vegas), leukemia.
26 – John Hyson, 81, American museum curator and historian.
27 – Beau Velasco, Australian guitarist (The Death Set).
28 – At least 58 people are killed at a large opposition rally in Guinea against Moussa Dadis Camara who seized power in a coup last year. (BBC)
29 – At least 40 people are killed as Typhoon Ketsana makes landfall on Vietnam. (Press Trust of India)
30 – The death toll from an earthquake and tsunami in the Samoan Islands region in the South Pacific rises to at least 113. (The Age)
October
1 – 12 people are killed in fighting between rival Islamist groups for control of the port city of Kismayo in southern Somalia. (Associated Press)
2 – Peg Mullen, 92, American author, subject of film Friendly Fire.
3 – The death toll in Italy rises to 21 following sudden extreme spells of rain and mud showers in Messina and other parts of Sicily as the injured total reaches at least eighty. (BBC)
4 – Grace Keagy, 87, American actress, ovarian cancer.
5 – Five people are killed in a suicide bomb attack at a United Nations World Food Programme office in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Daily Times)
6 – Raymond Federman, 81, French-born American writer and academic, cancer.
7 – Shelby Singleton, 77, American record producer and record label owner (Sun Records), brain cancer.
8 – Abu Talib, 70, American blues musician, cancer.
9 – More than 181 people are killed in floods in the Philippines. (IOL)
10 – At least 70 people are killed after a fuel tanker explodes in Nigeria. (AFP)
11 – A spate of car bombings kills 19 people and wounds dozens in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, in Anbar province. (MSNBC)
12 – Brendan Mullen, 60, American punk impresario and club owner (The Masque), stroke.
13 – Al Martino, 82, American singer and actor (The Godfather), first person to top the UK Singles Chart.
14 – Lou Albano, 76, American professional wrestler and manager, actor (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), natural causes.
15 – George Tuska, 93, American Golden Age comic book artist (Iron Man).
16 – At least seven people are killed and at least ten are injured in an explosion at a mosque, police station and passenger bus in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Xinhua)
17 – Two police officers are killed after their police helicopter is shot down by drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ten drug traffickers were also killed in the violence. (Associated Press)
18 – Nancy Spero, 83, American artist, heart failure.
19 – Howard Unruh, 88, American spree killer.
20 – Sultan Pepper, 47, American comedy writer, Emmy Award winner (The Ben Stiller Show).
21 – Several people are arrested over a bomb attack in southeastern Iran that killed 42 people, including members of the Revolutionary Guards. (Associated Press)
22 – Maryanne Amacher, 66, American experimental composer, sound artist, and installation artist, complications after a stroke.
23 – Trevor Denning, 86, British artist.
24 – At least 15 people are killed after two trains collide in Al-Ayyat, near Cairo, Egypt. (BBC)
25 – Bomb blasts kill 155 people and injure at least 500 in central Baghdad, the country’s deadliest attack for two years. (BBC)
26 – At least seven people are killed and at least four others are injured when a three-story building falls down in Palma, Majorca. The dead include at least three from Colombia. (BBC)
27 – August Coppola, 75, American writer, literature professor and father of Nicolas Cage, heart attack.
28 – A blast in Meena Bazar, Peshawar, Pakistan, kills at least 95 people while 110 are injured. (Geo TV)
29 – 12 are killed by an IOC depot fire in Jaipur, Army is called. (The Times Of India)
30 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, French anthropologist and author.
31 – Chen Lin, 39, Chinese pop singer, suicide by jumping.
November
1 – At least two women are killed and six people trapped after a landslide in Los Gigantes, Tenerife. (The Daily Telegraph)
2 – 16 people are killed in a fire that destroyed 58 houses in the Philippine city of Bacolod. (Times of India)
3 – Lorissa McComas, 38, American softcore model and actress, after long illness.
4 – Eight children drown after a boat carrying 35 pupils capsizes in Kerala, southern India. (IOL)
5 – 13 people die and 30 people are injured in a shooting at the Fort Hood U.S. Army base in Texas. Fort Hood is currently under lock-down. (BBC)
6 – At least nine people are missing following the crash of a Russian military plane in the Pacific Ocean. (RIA Novosti)
7 – At least two workers are killed after a bridge under construction collapses in Andorra. (euronews)
8 – At least 13 people are killed and at least 35 are injured in a suicide attack in Adezai, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera
9 – Nick Waterlow, 69, British-born Australian artistic director and curator, stabbed.
10 – Ramin Pourandarjani, 26, Iranian doctor, whistleblower on use of torture, poisoned.
11 – Ehsan Fatahian, 28, Iranian Kurdish activist, executed by hanging.
12 – At least 18 people are killed in an illegal mine collapse in western Ghana, Ghana’s most devastating mining tragedy. (Times of India)
13 – Two people are killed and 43 rescued from a bomb shelter in a fire that triggered multiple explosions at an arms depot near Ulyanovsk, western Russia. (BBC)
14 – Two Saudi soldiers are killed and five wounded killed in fighting with Houthi rebels in northern Yemen. (Press TV)
15 – Derek B, 44, British rapper, heart attack.
16 – Olivia Patricia Thomas, 114, American supercentenarian, third-oldest person in the world.
17 – The death toll after a ferry collided with a oil barge in the Irrawaddy Delta, off the coast of Burma, rises to 50. (Al Jazeera)
18 – Four people are killed after a bomb left over from the Vietnam War explodes as they try to remove explosive material in southern Tay Ninh Province. (AFP)
19 – A suicide blast near the judicial complex in Peshawar, Pakistan kills at least 17 people and wounds more than 30 others. (NY Times)
20 – Brenda, a transsexual named in a sex scandal involving former Lazio governor Piero Marrazzo, is found burned alive following a fire at her Rome flat. (BBC)
21 – Paige Palmer, 93, American fitness trainer.
22 – At least seven people are killed and more than 55 injured in a bombing in Assam, northeastern India. (Times of India)
23 – 21 bodies are discovered so far after a convoy of around 50 people including politicians, journalists and supporters is hijacked by dozens of armed gunmen in Maguindanao, southern Philippines. (AP)
24 – In a tribute to Hindu goddess Gadhimai, approximately 20,000 buffalo and 300,000 birds, sheep and goats are ritually slaughtered in a festival in Bariyapur, Nepal. (BBC)
25 – Giorgio Carbone, 73, Italian self-proclaimed head of state of the Principality of Seborga micronation.
26 – gunman attacks the University of Pécs in southern Hungary, killing one and injuring at least three people. (BBC)
27 – Mike Penner, 52, American sportswriter (Los Angeles Times), suicide.
28 – Bob Keane, 87, American music producer and manager, founder of Del-Fi Records, renal failure.
29 – Solange Magnano, 38, Argentinian beauty queen (Miss Argentina, 1994), pulmonary embolism.
30 – Harry C. Crosby, 84, American science fiction writer under pen name Christopher Anvil.
December
1 – Maurice Clemmons, 37, American felon, suspected of Lakewood police officer shooting, shot.
2 – Ikuo Hirayama, 79, Japanese painter, stroke.
3 – Bobby Wayne Woods, 44, American rapist, kidnapper and murderer, execution by lethal injection.
4 – A fire at a nightclub in the North Sumatra capital of Medan, Indonesia, kills at least 20 people. (AFP)
5 – Thousands of people attend the funeral of Chilean singer and national icon Víctor Jara in Santiago, reburied 36 years after his death via torture in the 1973 military coup carried out by Augusto Pinochet. (BBC)
6 – Rupprecht Geiger, 101, German painter.
7 – William C. McInnes, 86, American Jesuit, president of Fairfield University (1964–1973) and USF (1973–1976), after long illness
8 -Eight children are killed and a further 26 injured in a stampede at a school in Xiangtan, Hunan, in central China. (China Daily)
9 – Faramarz Payvar, 77, Iranian composer and santur player, brain damage.
10 – Kenny Dino, 67, American pop singer.
11 – Eric Wrinkles, 49, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
12 – Robert G. Heft, 67, American designer of the 50-star American flag.
13 – Yvonne King, 89, American singer (The King Sisters).
14 – Chris Feinstein, 42, American bassist (Ryan Adams & The Cardinals).
15 – Oral Roberts, 91, American evangelist, founder of Oral Roberts University, complications from pneumonia.
16 – Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltrán Leyva, leader of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, is killed by personnel of the Mexican Navy during a shootout in Cuernavaca, Morelos. (The Times)
17 – Alaina Reed Hall, 63, American actress (Sesame Street, 227), breast cancer.
18 – Connie Hines, 79, American actress (Mister Ed), heart failure.
19 – Kim Peek, 58, American savant, inspiration for Rain Man, cardiac arrest.
20 – Brittany Murphy, 32, American actress (Girl, Interrupted; 8 Mile), voice actress (King of the Hill) and singer
21 – At least 30 people have been killed in violence in the Nigerian state of Nasarawa. (BBC)
22 – Luis Francisco Cuéllar, 69, Colombian politician, Governor of Caqueta, cut throat.
23 -Micah H. Naftalin, 76, American advocate for Soviet Jews.
24 – China sentences a further five people to death over riots in Ürümqi, Xinjiang in July, bringing the total number of people sentenced to death to 22. (Al Jazeera)
25 – Masahiko Shimura, 29, Japanese rock musician (Fujifabric).
26 – World-renowned South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus died in his sleep on December 26th in Cape Town. He was 85 years old.
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