2009 in Mexico - Notable Deaths

Notable Deaths

  • January 11 – Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, 90, Mexican painter, pneumonia.
  • January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, 88, Mexican-born American actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), heart failure.
  • February 7 – Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack.
  • March 3 – Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico.
  • March 18 – Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Culiacán (1969–1993).
  • March 22 – Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned.
  • March 23 – Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican boxer, cancer.
  • March 26 – Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985), natural causes.
  • April 23 – Felipe Solís Olguín, 64, Mexican archaeologist, curator of the National Anthropology Museum, cardiac arrest.
  • April 30 – Amparo Arozamena, 92, Mexican actress, heart attack.
  • May 5 – Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match.
  • July 19 – Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes.
  • July 22 – Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • August 20 – Carlos González Nova, 92, Mexican businessman, founder of Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain.
  • August 29 – Yolanda Varela, 79, Mexican film actress, natural causes.
  • September 6 – Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, Mexican politician, shot.
  • October 25 – Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya.
  • November 6 – Manuel Arvizu, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Jesús María del Nayar.
  • November 7 – Bernardo Garza Sada, 79, Mexican businessman, founder of ALFA.
  • November 16 – Antonio de Nigris, 31, Mexican football player, heart failure.
  • November 28 – Joaquín Vargas Gómez, 84, Mexican media owner, founder of MVS Comunicaciones, natural causes.
  • December 7 – Lorenzo Ochoa Salas, Mexican archeologist.
  • December 16 – Arturo Beltrán Leyva, 48, Mexican drug lord, shot.

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