In the year 2015
1,117 Notable deaths
Nour El-Sherif
Egyptian actor.
Born April 28th, 1946 in Cairo.
Died August 11th, 2015 at 69 years old in Cairo (lung cancer).
Stephan Beckenbauer
German footballer (1968–2015).
Born December 1st, 1968 in Munich.
Died August 1st, 2015 at 46 years old in Munich (brain cancer). [ref]
Özgecan Aslan
Turkish university student who was murdered as she resisted a rape attempt (1995-2015).
Born October 22nd, 1995 in Mersin.
Died February 11th, 2015 at 19 years old in Tarsus.
M. H. Abrams
American literary theorist.
Born July 23rd, 1912 in Long Branch.
Died April 21st, 2015 at 102 years old in Ithaca.
Patricia Crone
Danish orientalist and historian (1945–2015).
Born March 28th, 1945 in Lejre Municipality. [ref]
Died July 11th, 2015 at 70 years old in Princeton (cancer). [ref]
Sally Forrest
Actress (1928-2015).
Born May 28th, 1928 in San Diego.
Died March 15th, 2015 at 86 years old in Beverly Hills (cancer).
Jacob Bekenstein
Mexican-israeli physicist.
Born May 1st, 1947 in Mexico City.
Died August 16th, 2015 at 68 years old in Helsinki. [ref]
Edward Egan
Catholic cardinal.
Born April 2nd, 1932 in Oak Park.
Died March 5th, 2015 at 82 years old in Manhattan (cardiac arrest).
Hermann Zapf
German type-designer, calligrapher, author and artist (1918-2015).
Born November 8th, 1918 in Nuremberg.
Died June 4th, 2015 at 96 years old in Darmstadt. [ref]
Deaths 361 to 370 of 1117
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