2009 in Romania
Events from the year 2009 in Romania.
Incumbents
Events
- June 7 - 2009 European Parliament election in Romania
- July 16 - Stadium Cluj Arena construction begins on the site of demolished Ion Moina Stadium.
- November 24 - The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is launched in the Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest.
- December 6 - 2009 Romanian presidential election
- 2009 - Badly affected by the late-2000s recession, the International Monetary Fund and other lenders agree to provide Romania a rescue package worth 20 billion Euros.
Deaths
January
- January 5 - Mircea Stănescu, 39, Romanian politician, MP, apparent suicide by gunshot.
- January 9 - István Antal, 50, Romanian Olympic ice hockey player, cardiac arrest.
February
- February 8 – Marian Cozma, 26, Romanian handball player, stabbed.
- February 27 – Manea Mănescu, 92, 50th Prime Minister of Romania
March
- March 19 - Ion Dolănescu, 65, Romanian singer and politician, heart attack.
- March 31 - Marga Barbu, 80, Romanian actress.
April
- April 28 - Valeria Peter Predescu, 62, Romanian singer, heart attack.
May
- May 9 - Mendi Rodan, 80, Romanian-born Israeli conductor and violinist, cancer.
July
- July 6 - Mihai Baicu, 33, Romanian footballer, heart attack.
August
- August 7 - Tatiana Stepa, 46, Romanian folk singer, cervical cancer.
- August 11 - Valeriu Lazarov, 73, Romanian-born Spanish television producer.
- August 15 - Florin Bogardo, 67, Romanian singer.
September
- September 15 - Nicu Constantin, 70, Romanian actor.
October
- October 3 - Vasile Louis Puscas, 94, American Bishop of St George's in Canton in the Romanian Catholic Church.
- October 13 - Paul Barbă Neagră, 80, Romanian film director and essayist.
- October 18
- * Ion Cojar, 78, Romanian actor and film director, Parkinson's disease.
- * Ovidiu Mușetescu, 54, Romanian politician, cancer.
- October 18 - Radu Timofte, 60, Romanian intelligence officer, director of the Romanian Intelligence Service, leukemia.
- October 25 - Thea Segall, 80, Romanian photographer who lived in Venezuela since 1958 until her death.
November
- November 10 - Gheorghe Dinică, 75, Romanian actor, cardiac arrest.
- November 26 - Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic, 60, Romanian Olympic fencer.
- November 27 - Jacques Braunstein, 78, Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and jazz disc jockey, heart failure.
December
- December 28 - Zoltán Horváth, 30, Romanian-born Hungarian basketball player, car accident.