In the year 2015
1,156 Notable deaths
Manoel de Oliveira
Portuguese film director (1908–2015).
Born December 11th, 1908 in Porto.
Died April 2nd, 2015 at 106 years old in Porto (heart failure).
Mel Daniels
American basketball player and coach (1944-2015).
Born July 20th, 1944 in Detroit.
Died October 30th, 2015 at 71 years old in Sheridan (surgical complications).
Andy White
Drummer.
Born July 27th, 1930 in Glasgow.
Died November 9th, 2015 at 85 years old in Caldwell (stroke). [ref]
Reynaldo Rey
American actor (1940-2015).
Born January 27th, 1940 in Sequoyah County.
Died May 28th, 2015 at 75 years old in Los Angeles (stroke).
Ronnie Carroll
Northern irish singer (1934-2015).
Born August 18th, 1934 in Belfast.
Died April 13th, 2015 at 80 years old in London.
Dallas Taylor
American rock drummer (1948–2015).
Born April 7th, 1948 in Denver.
Died January 18th, 2015 at 66 years old in Los Angeles (pneumonia). [ref]
Mokhtar Belmokhtar
Algerian al-qaeda member.
Born June 1st, 1972 in Ghardaia.
Died June 14th, 2015 at 43 years old in Libya. [ref]
Eileen Essell
English actress (1922–2015).
Born October 8th, 1922 in London.
Died February 15th, 2015 at 92 years old in London (disease).
Bob Foster
American boxer (1938-2015).
Born April 27th, 1938 in Albuquerque.
Died November 21st, 2015 at 77 years old in Albuquerque.
Nirmala Joshi
The succesor to mother teresa (1934-2015).
Born July 23rd, 1934 in Ranchi.
Died June 23rd, 2015 at 80 years old in Kolkata.
George Clayton Johnson
American writer (1929-2015).
Born July 10th, 1929 in Cheyenne.
Died December 25th, 2015 at 86 years old in North Hills (cancer).
James Salter
American novelist and short-story writer (1925-2015).
Born June 10th, 1925 in New York City, Preston.
Died June 19th, 2015 at 90 years old in Sag Harbor. [ref]
Magdalena Kopp
German photographer and member of the revolutionary cells (rz).
Born April 2nd, 1948 in Neu-Ulm.
Died June 15th, 2015 at 67 years old in Frankfurt. [ref]
Vic Firth
American musician.
Born June 2nd, 1930 in Winchester.
Died July 27th, 2015 at 85 years old in Boston (pancreatic cancer). [ref]
Mary Ellen Mark
American photographer (1940–2015).
Born March 20th, 1940 in Philadelphia. [ref]
Died May 25th, 2015 at 75 years old in New York City (disease). [ref]
Tanith Lee
British writer (1947-2015).
Born September 19th, 1947 in London. [ref]
Died May 24th, 2015 at 67 years old in East Sussex (breast cancer).
Ulrich Beck
German sociologist & scholar.
Born May 15th, 1944 in Słupsk.
Died January 1st, 2015 at 70 years old in Munich (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Willis Carto
American activist (1926-2015).
Born July 17th, 1926 in Fort Wayne.
Died October 26th, 2015 at 89 years old in Virginia (cardiac arrest).
Michael Masser
American songwriter, composer and producer of popular music (1941–2015).
Born March 24th, 1941 in Chicago.
Died July 9th, 2015 at 74 years old in Rancho Mirage. [ref]
Rico Rodriguez
Jamaican musician (1934–2015).
Born October 17th, 1934 in Havana.
Died September 4th, 2015 at 80 years old in London. [ref]
John "Hot Rod" Williams
American basketball player.
Born August 9th, 1962 in Sorrento.
Died December 11th, 2015 at 53 years old in Baton Rouge (prostate cancer). [ref]
Al Arbour
Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive (1932–2015).
Born November 1st, 1932 in Greater Sudbury.
Died August 28th, 2015 at 82 years old in Sarasota. [ref]
Richard Bass
American mountain climber (1929-2015).
Born December 21st, 1929 in Tulsa.
Died July 26th, 2015 at 85 years old in Dallas. [ref]
Barrie Ingham
English actor (1932-2015).
Born February 10th, 1932 in Halifax.
Died January 23rd, 2015 at 82 years old in Palm Beach Gardens (disease).
Aubrey Morris
British actor (1926-2015).
Born June 1st, 1926 in Portsmouth.
Died July 15th, 2015 at 89 years old in Los Angeles.
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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson