2009 in Romania

Events from the year 2009 in Romania.

Incumbents

 * President: Traian Băsescu
 * Prime Minister: Emil Boc

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.

January

 * January 5 - Mircea Stănescu, 39, Romanian politician, MP (2004–2008), 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 (1974–1979) (born 1916)

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 (2001–2006), 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. (Spanish)

December

 * December 28 - Zoltán Horváth, 30, Romanian-born Hungarian basketball player, car accident.