2009 in Spain - Notable Deaths

Notable Deaths

• January 6 – Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, 113, Spanish supercentenarian, verified oldest person in Europe.
• February 14 – Luís Andrés Edo, 82, Spanish anarchist.
• March 1 – Pepe Rubianes, 61, Spanish Catalan actor and theatre director, lung cancer.
• April 6 – Mari Trini, 61, Spanish pop singer and actress.
• April 11 – Corín Tellado, 81, Spanish novelist, heart failure.
• April 13 – Ángel Miguel, 79, Spanish professional golfer.
• May 12 – Antonio Vega, 51, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (Nacha Pop), pneumonia.
• May 20 – María Amelia López Soliño, 97, Spanish blogger, world's oldest blogger.
• June 19 – Vicente Ferrer Moncho, 89, Spanish philanthropist.
• June 27 – Victoriano Crémer, 102, Spanish poet and journalist, natural causes.
• July 1 – Baltasar Porcel, 72, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer.
• July 11 – Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, 69, Spanish woman believed to be world's oldest mother, cancer.
• August 5 – Jordi Sabater Pi, 87, Spanish ethologist, discovered albino gorilla Snowflake.
• August 8 – Daniel Jarque, 26, Spanish footballer, heart attack.
• August 11 – José Ramón García Antón, 61, Spanish engineer and politician in Valencian Community.
• August 27 – Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez, 96, Spanish politician.
• September 1 – Maria Christina of Bourbon-Parma, 84, Spanish royal (House of Bourbon-Parma), daughter of Elias, Duke of Parma.
• September 19 – Víctor Israel, 80, Spanish actor.
• September 25 – Alicia de Larrocha, pianist (born 1923)
• September 30 – Rafael Arozarena, 86, Spanish writer and poet.
• October 16 – Andrés Montes, 53, Spanish sports commentator.
• October 18 – Ignacio Ponseti, 95, Spanish physician and inventor (Ponseti method).
• October 26 – Sabino Fernández Campo, 91, Spanish Chief of the Royal House, key figure in failed 23-F coup d'état.
• November 2 – José Luis López Vázquez, 87, Spanish actor, after long illness.
• November 3 – Francisco Ayala, novelist (born 1906)
• November 12 – Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, 60, Spanish judge, Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice.
• November 30 – Paul Naschy, 75, Spanish actor, screenwriter and director, pancreatic cancer.
• December 5 – Manuel Prado y Colón de Carvajal, 78, Spanish diplomat.
• December 11 – Francisco Piquer Chanza, 87, Spanish actor.
• December 17 – Albert Ràfols-Casamada, 86, Spanish artist.
• December 30 – Ivan Zulueta, 66, Spanish designer and film director.