page_title: Deaths in 2009
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2009 / August
caption_attribution_description: Ted Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts.
context_page_description: This is a list of people who died in 2009
context_section_description: August 1 - Corazon Aquino, 76, President of the Philippines (1986 – 1992), complications from colon cancer.
  August 1 - Princess Felicitas of Prussia, 75, German noblewoman and great-granddaughter of Wilhelm II of Germany.
  August 1 - Naomi Sims, 61, American model and writer, breast cancer.
  August 4 - Svend Auken, 66, Danish politician, prostate cancer.
  August 4 - Joseph Msika, 85, Vice President of Zimbabwe.
  August 5 - Budd Schulberg, 95, American screenwriter, playwright and novelist, natural causes.
  August 6 - Riccardo Cassin, 100, Italian mountaineer.
  August 6 - Willy DeVille, 58, American singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
  August 6 - John Hughes, 59, American movie director, screenwriter and producer, heart attack.
  August 6 - Murali, 55, Indian actor, heart attack.
  August 7 - Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf, 80, Iraqi politician and former Vice President.
  August 8 - Daniel Jarque, 26, Spanish footballer, heart attack.
  August 10 - Francisco Valdes, 66, Chilean footballer, heart failure.
  August 11 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, American activist, founder of the Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy.
  August 13 – Les Paul, 94, American guitarist and inventor, complications from pneumonia.
  August 17 - Tiffany Simelane, 21, Swazi beauty pageant contestant, suicide by poisoning.
  August 18 - Kim Dae-jung, 85, former President of South Korea and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
  August 18 - Hildegard Behrens, 72, German operatic soprano, aortic aneurysm.
  August 19 - Don Hewitt, 86, American television producer, pancreatic cancer.
  August 20 - Larry Knechtel, 69, American musician, heart attack.
  August 22 - Muriel Duckworth, 100, Canadian feminist and activist, complications from a fall.
  August 23 - Anna-Maria Mueller, 60, German luger.
  August 24 - Toni Sailer, 73, Austrian skier, laryngeal cancer.
  August 25 - Mande Sidibe, 69, Maliian economist, politician and Prime Minister, after short illness.
  August 25 – Ted Kennedy, 77, American politician, Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009), brain cancer.
  August 26 - Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, 56, Iraqi politician, lung cancer.
  August 26 - Dominick Dunne, 83, American writer and investigative journalist, bladder cancer.
  August 27 - Sergey Mikhalkov, 96, Russian writer.
  August 28 - Adam Goldstein, 36, American club disc jockey and musician, suspected drug overdose.
  August 28 - Guenter Kiessling, 83, German general.
  August 30 - Simon Thirgood, 46, British biologist and ecologist, building collapse.
  August 31 - John Choi Young-su, 67, South Korean archbishop.
caption: Ted Kennedy 1932-2009
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