2009 Summer of Death
- Jim Owens, June 6
- Ed McMahon, June 23
- Farrah Fawcett, June 25
- Michael Jackson, June 25
- Billy Mays, June 28
- Karl Malden, July 1
- Robert McNamara, July 6
- Dash Snow, July 13
- Walter Cronkite, July 17
- Frank McCourt, July 19
- John Dawson, July 21
- Merce Cunningham, July 26
- Reverend Ike, July 28
- Corazon Aquino, August 1
- Sidney Zion, August 2
- Charles Gwathmey, August 3
- Budd Schulberg, August 5
- John Hughes, August 6
- Mike Seeger, August 7
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, August 11
- Les Paul, August 13
- Robert Novak, August 18
- Don Hewitt, August 19
- Ted Kennedy, August 25
- Dominick Dunne, August 26
- Adam Goldstein (DJ AM) August 28
