Notable deaths on December 9

American poet, writer and activist (1943–2024)

Filipino singer and actor (1993–2022)

American football player (1987–2021)

American football player (1942–2021)

Bolivian cardinal (born 1936)

Brazilian lawyer and football manager (1934–2015)

American statistician and medical researcher

Austrian painter (1927–2015)

Serbian footballer and manager (1947–2014)

American painter (1924–2014)

Argentine cardinal

Slovenian linguist and author (born 1926)

American actress (1937–2014)

Canadian literary and cultural critic

Polish pianist (1930–2013)

American actress (1922–2013)

Aromanian editor, literary critic and writer

California Court of Appeal justice

American football player (1943–2013)

English engineer (1920–2012)

Hungarian painter and professor

American pianist and writer on music

American singer (1969–2012)

American engineer and inventor (1921–2012)