page_title: 2009
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 2009 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: Ted Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts.
context_page_description: 2009 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2009th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium, the 9th year of the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade.
  2009 was designated as:
  International Year of Astronomy
  International Year of Natural Fibres
  International Year of Reconciliation
  Year of the Gorilla
  There was a swine flu pandemic that occurred in Mexico and led to a new strain of H1N1 virus including spreading to the world.
context_section_description: August 1 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
  August 5 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
  August 6
  John Hughes, American film director and writer (b. 1950)
  Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1923)
  Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
  August 8 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
  August 9 – John Quade, American actor (b. 1938)
  August 10 – Urpo Korhonen, Finnish olympic cross-country skier (b. 1923)
  August 11 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American founder of the Special Olympics (b. 1921)
  August 12 – Rashied Ali, American free jazz drummer (b. 1933)
  August 13 – Les Paul, American musician and inventor (b. 1915)
  August 18 – Kim Dae-jung, 15th President of South Korea (b. 1924)
  August 24 – Toni Sailer, Austrian alpine ski racer (b. 1935)
  August 25 – Ted Kennedy, American politician (b. 1932)
  August 26 – Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Iraqi politician and theologian (b. 1953)
  August 27 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Soviet-Russian author (b. 1913)
  August 28 – DJ AM, American DJ (b. 1973)
caption: Ted Kennedy
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