• January 11 –
Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, 90, Mexican painter,
pneumonia. • January 14 –
Ricardo Montalbán, 88, Mexican-born American actor (
Fantasy Island,
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), heart failure. • February 6 – Claudio Reyes Núñez, politician
PRI, president of
Otáez Municipality, Durango; murdered. • February 7 –
Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack. • February 22 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez Aceves, politician
PRD, former president of
Petatlán (municipality), Guerrero: murdered. • February 24 – Octavio Manuel Carrillo Castellanos, politician
PRI, municipal president of
Vista Hermosa, Michoacán; murdered. • March 3 –
Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican prelate,
Auxiliary Bishop of
Mexico. • March 7 – |Gonzalo Paz Torres||N/A||Chief of city council||7 March 2009||
Tancítaro, Michoacán|| • March 14 – Dimas Arzeta Cisneros, politician
PRI, former president of
Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero; murdered. • March 18 –
Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of
Culiacán (1969–1993). • March 22 –
Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican
lucha libre professional wrestler,
drowned. • March 23 –
Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican
boxer, cancer. • March 26 –
Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer,
Governor of Colima (1979–1985),
natural causes. • April 3 – Nicolás León Hernández, politician
PRI, former municipal president of
Isla del Cayacal, Michoacán; murdered. • April 7 – Gustavo Bucio Rodríguez, politician
PRD, candidate for Deputy in Michoacán; murdered. • April 20 – Alfonso Rivera Cruz, municipal president pro tempore of
Zapotitlán Tablas (municipality), Guerrero; murdered. • April 23 –
Felipe Solís Olguín, 64, Mexican
archaeologist, curator of the
National Anthropology Museum, cardiac arrest. • April 30 –
Amparo Arozamena, 92, Mexican actress, heart attack. • May 5 –
Manuel Capetillo,
bullfighter, singer, and actor; respiratory illness (b. 1926) • May 5 –
Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican
boxer,
brain injury during a match. • June 2 – Luis Carlos Ramírez López, politician
PAN, president of
Ocampo Municipality; murdered. • June 11 – Efraín Gutiérrez Arcos, politician
PRI, former municipal president of
Santa Ana Maya, Michoacán; murdered. • June 23 —
Manuel Saval, 53, actor (b. 1956) • July 14 • Héctor Manuel Meixueiro Muñoz, politician
PAN, president of
Namiquipa Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered. • Ismael Rivera, politician, treasurer of the municipality of Namiquipa, Chihuahua; murdered. • July 19 –
Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican
Abbot of the
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996),
natural causes. • July 22 –
Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican
boxer,
cerebral hemorrhage. • August 20 •
Carlos González Nova, 92, Mexican businessman, founder of
Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain. • Armando Chavarría Barrera, politician
PRD, Deputy from
Chilpancingo, Guerrero; murdered. • August 29 –
Yolanda Varela, 79, Mexican film actress,
natural causes. • September 6 –
Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, politician;
shot. • October 9 – Estanislao García Santelis, politician, municipal president of
Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua; murdered. • October 16 – José Sánchez Chávez, politician
PRI, former municipal president of
Tiquicheo, Michoacán; murdered. • October 25 –
Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican
Roman Catholic Bishop of
Celaya. • November 6 –
Manuel Arvizu, 90, Mexican
Roman Catholic Bishop of
Jesús María del Nayar. • November 7 –
Bernardo Garza Sada, 79, Mexican businessman, founder of
ALFA. • November 16 –
Antonio de Nigris, 31, Mexican
football player, heart failure. • November 28 –
Joaquín Vargas Gómez, 84, Mexican media owner, founder of
MVS Comunicaciones,
natural causes. • December 4:
Leticia Palma (Zoyla Gloria Ruiz Moscoso), 82, actress (
En la palma de tu mano), (b. 1926) • December 7 –
Lorenzo Ochoa Salas, Mexican
archeologist. • December 16 –
Arturo Beltrán Leyva, 48, Mexican
drug lord,
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