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In the year 2015
1,042 Notable deaths
Louis Jourdan
French actor (1921–2015).
Born June 19th, 1921 in Marseille. [ref]
Died February 14th, 2015 at 93 years old in Beverly Hills. [ref]
Flip Saunders
American basketball player, coach, executive (1955-2015).
Born February 23rd, 1955 in Cleveland.
Died October 25th, 2015 at 60 years old in Minneapolis (lymphoma).
Movita Castaneda
American actress (1916-2015).
Born April 12th, 1916 in Nogales.
Died February 12th, 2015 at 98 years old in Los Angeles (disease).
Sam Simon
American director, producer, writer, boxing manager and philanthropist (1955-2015).
Born June 6th, 1955 in Los Angeles. [ref]
Died March 8th, 2015 at 59 years old in Pacific Palisades (colorectal cancer). [ref]
Betsy Palmer
American actress.
Born November 1st, 1926 in East Chicago.
Died May 29th, 2015 at 88 years old in Danbury.
Faten Hamama
Egyptian producer and actress (1931–2015).
Born May 27th, 1931 in Mansoura. [ref]
Died January 17th, 2015 at 83 years old in Cairo (circulatory collapse). [ref]
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959-2015).
Born October 9th, 1959 in Sochi.
Died February 27th, 2015 at 55 years old in Moscow (ballistic trauma).
Darryl Dawkins
American basketball player-coach.
Born January 11th, 1957 in Orlando. [ref]
Died August 27th, 2015 at 58 years old in Allentown (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Lynn Anderson
American country music singer (1947-2015).
Born September 26th, 1947 in Grand Forks.
Died July 30th, 2015 at 67 years old in Nashville (myocardial infarction).
Mary Ellen Trainor
American actress (1952-2015).
Born July 8th, 1952 in San Francisco.
Died May 20th, 2015 at 62 years old in Montecito (cancer).
Deaths 81 to 90 of 1042
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. Samuel Johnson