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In the year 2015
1,042 Notable deaths
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.
Daevid Allen
Australian musician.
Born January 13th, 1938 in Melbourne. [ref]
Died March 13th, 2015 at 77 years old in Byron Bay (cancer). [ref]
Manoel de Oliveira
Portuguese film director.
Born December 11th, 1908 in Porto.
Died April 2nd, 2015 at 106 years old in Porto (heart failure).
Eileen Essel
British actress (1922-2015).
Born October 8th, 1922 in London.
Died February 15th, 2015 at 92 years old in London (disease).
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]
Charles Hard Townes
20th-century american physicist.
Born July 28th, 1915 in Greenville.
Died January 27th, 2015 at 99 years old in Oakland. [ref]
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]
Roy Tarpley
American basketball player.
Born November 28th, 1964 in New York City.
Died January 9th, 2015 at 50 years old in Arlington.
Johanna Quandt
German businesswoman (1926-2015).
Born June 21st, 1926 in Berlin.
Died August 3rd, 2015 at 89 years old in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. [ref]
Licio Gelli
Italian financier, liaison with nazi germany, p2 grandmaster, involved in many scandals (1919-2015).
Born April 21st, 1919 in Pistoia.
Died December 15th, 2015 at 96 years old in Arezzo (respiratory failure). [ref]
Deaths 291 to 300 of 1042
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. Leonardo da Vinci