2009 in Iran - Notable Deaths

Notable Deaths

  • January 30 – Safar Iranpak, 61, Iranian footballer, lung cancer.
  • February 2 – Ezzat Negahban, c. 82, Iranian archaeologist.
  • March 21 – Khadijeh Saqafi, 93, Iranian widow of religious/political leader Ruhollah Khomeini, after long illness.
  • May 1 – Delara Darabi, 22, Iranian convicted murderer, executed by hanging.
  • May 15 – Mohammad-Amin Riahi, 86, Iranian historian and literary scholar.
  • May 17 – Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani, 96, Iranian cleric, heart disease.
  • June 20 – Neda Agha-Soltan, 26, Iranian student, shot.
  • June 29 – Mohammad Hoqouqi, 72, Iranian poet, cirrhosis.
  • August 11 – Behjat Sadr, 85, Iranian painter, heart attack.
  • September 21 – Parviz Meshkatian, 54, Iranian musician and composer, cardiac arrest.
  • November 9 – Mehdi Sahabi, 66, Iranian writer and translator, heart attack.
  • November 10 – Ramin Pourandarjani, 26, Iranian doctor, whistleblower on use of torture, poisoned.
  • November 11 – Ehsan Fatahian, 28, Iranian Kurdish activist, executed by hanging.
  • November 17 – Niku Kheradmand, 77, Iranian actress, complications of a heart attack.
  • November 22 – Ali Kordan, 51, Iranian politician, Minister of the Interior (2008), multiple myeloma.
  • December 9 – Faramarz Payvar, 77, Iranian composer and santur player, brain damage.
  • December 19 – Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, 87, Iranian cleric and dissident, natural causes.

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