page_title: Deaths in 2009
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2009 / July
caption_attribution_description: English: Bobby Robson at the Republic of Ireland versus Slovakia match, Croke Park, Dublin. Cropped by User:Budgiekiller. Cymraeg: Bobby Robson yng ngêm Gweriniaeth Iwerddon yn erbyn Slofacia, Parc Croke, Dulyn.
context_page_description: This is a list of people who died in 2009
context_section_description: July 1 - Mollie Sugden, 86, British actress, natural causes.
  July 1 - Karl Malden, 97, American actor.
  July 3 - Jorge Enrique Adoum, 83, Ecuadorean poet and writer.
  July 4 - Allen Klein, 77, American music manager.
  July 5 - Takeo Doi, 89, Japanese psychoanalyst.
  July 6 - Vasily Aksyonov, 76, Russian writer.
  July 6 - Bleddyn Williams, 86, Welsh rugby player, after long illness.
  July 6 - Robert McNamara, 93, American politician.
  July 10 - Ebba Haslund, 81, Norwegian writer.
  July 11 - Arturo Gatti, 37, Canadian boxer, strangulation.
  July 15 - Natalya Estemirova, 51, Russian Human rights activist, shot.
  July 17 - Meir Amit, 87, Israel military commander and politician.
  July 17 – Walter Cronkite, 92, American television news anchor, cerebrovascular disease.
  July 17 - Leszek Kolakowski, 81, Polish philosopher.
  July 18 - Henry Allingham, 113, British veteran of World War I, supercentenarian and oldest-living man.
  July 19 - Frank McCourt, 78, Irish-American writer, melanoma.
  July 19 - Henry Surtees, 18, British racing driver, racing crash.
  July 21 - Heinz Edelmann, 75, Czech-German illustrator and designer, heart disease and renal failure.
  July 22 - Herbert Morris, 94, American rower.
  July 25 - Harry Patch, 111, British veteran of World War I and supercentenarian.
  July 26 - Merce Cunningham, 90, American choreographer.
  July 27 - Sybil, British Downing Street cat, after short illness.
  July 28 - Leela Naidu, 69, Indian actress, after long illness.
  July 29 - Zhuo Lin, 93, Chinese widow of Deng Xiaoping.
  July 30 - Peter Zadek, 83, German theatre director.
  July 31 - Bobby Robson, 76, English footballer and football manager, lung cancer.
caption: Bobby Robson 1933-2009
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