In the year 2015
1,137 Notable deaths
Julio César Strassera
Argentine lawyer and jurist (1933–2015).
Born September 18th, 1933 in Buenos Aires.
Died February 27th, 2015 at 81 years old in Buenos Aires. [ref]
Kemal Monteno
Bosnian singer-songwriter.
Born September 17th, 1948 in Sarajevo.
Died January 21st, 2015 at 66 years old in Zagreb (pneumonia).
Martin Litchfield West
British philologist and classical scholar (1937–2015).
Born September 23rd, 1937 in Hampton.
Died July 13th, 2015 at 77 years old in Oxford.
Val Logsdon Fitch
American physicist.
Born March 10th, 1923 in Merriman.
Died February 5th, 2015 at 91 years old in Princeton.
Kitanoumi Toshimitsu
Sumo wrestler.
Born May 16th, 1953 in Sobetsu.
Died November 20th, 2015 at 62 years old in Fukuoka (cancer). [ref]
Geoff Duke
British motorcycle racer (1923-2015).
Born March 29th, 1923 in St Helens.
Died May 1st, 2015 at 92 years old in Isle of Man (disease).
Alexis Vastine
French boxer (1986–2015).
Born November 17th, 1986 in Pont-Audemer.
Died March 9th, 2015 at 28 years old in Villa Castelli (aviation accident, Villa Castelli helicopter collision). [ref]
Robert Craft
American conductor and writer (1923-2015).
Born October 20th, 1923 in Kingston.
Died November 10th, 2015 at 92 years old in Gulf Stream. [ref]
Jack Goody
British anthropologist.
Born July 27th, 1919 in Hammersmith.
Died July 16th, 2015 at 95 years old in Cambridge.
Douglas Dick
American actor (1920-2015).
Born November 20th, 1920 in Charleston.
Died December 19th, 2015 at 95 years old in Los Angeles.
Deaths 451 to 460 of 1137
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir