Famous People Who Died In 2015
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 2015. This list includes people like John Forbes Nash Jr., A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Christopher Lee, Leonard Nimoy, Scott Weiland and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, journalists, composers and novelists who died in 2015. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & Australia and many more countries.
Leonard Nimoy26 March 1931, American
Actor, Author, Film Director
Christopher Lee27 May 1922, British
Character actor
Beau Biden03 February 1969, American
Son of Joe Biden
John Forbes Nash Jr.13 June 1928, American
Mathematician
Saeed Jaffrey08 January 1929, Indian, British
Actor
Roddy Piper17 April 1954, Canadian, American
Wrestler
Scott Weiland27 October 1967, American
Singer, Lyricist, Songwriter, Record producer
B.B. King16 September 1925, American
Singer-songwriter
Lee Kuan Yew16 September 1923, Singaporean
Founding Father of Modern Singapore
Frank Gifford16 August 1930, American
American Football Player
Jules Bianchi03 August 1989, French
F1 Driver
Omar Sharif10 April 1932, Egyptian
Actor
Sawyer Sweeten12 May 1995, American
Child Actor
Anne Meara20 September 1929, American
Actress
Natalie Cole06 February 1950, American
Singer
Yogi Berra12 May 1925, American
Baseball Player
Wayne Rogers07 April 1933, American
Actor
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia01 August 1924, Saudi Arabian
Former King of Saudi Arabia
Cilla Black27 May 1943, British
Singer
Fred Thompson19 August 1942, American
Former United States Senator
James Best26 July 1926, American
Actor
Martin Milner28 December 1931, American
Actor
Wayne Dyer10 May 1940, American
Self-Help Author and Motivational Speaker
Dick Van Patten09 June 1928, American
Actor, Animal Welfare Activist
Satoru Iwata06 December 1959, Japanese
Former President & CEO of Nintendo
Jonah Lomu12 May 1975, New Zealander
Rugby Player
Judy Carne27 April 1939, British
Actress
Beth Howland28 May 1941, American
Actress
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam15 October 1931, Indian
Former President of India
Anna Kashfi30 September 1934, American
Actress
Suzanne Farrington10 October 1933, British
Actress
Suzanne Crough06 March 1963, American
Actress
R. K. Laxman24 October 1921, Indian
Cartoonist & Creator of 'The Common Man"
Chandra Bahadur Dangi30 November 1939, Nepalese
Shortest Adult Male in Recorded History
Ernie Banks31 January 1931, American
Baseball Player
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Kirk Kerkorian06 June 1917, American
Businessman
Ariel Camacho08 July 1992, Mexican
Singer, songwriter
Dave Goldberg02 October 1967, American
Entrepreneur
Movita Castaneda12 April 1916, American
Actress
Jayne Meadows27 September 1919, American
Actress
Dean Smith28 February 1931, American
Basketball Coach
Günter Grass16 October 1927, German
Novelist
Faten Hamama27 May 1931, Egyptian
Actress
Theodore Hesburgh25 May 1917, American
15th President of the University of Notre Dame
Darren Shahlavi05 August 1972, British
Actor & Stunt Performer
Eduardo Galeano03 September 1940, Uruguayan
Writer
Ahmed Chalabi30 October 1944, Iraqi
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
Douglass North05 November 1920, American
Economist
Charles H. Townes28 July 1915, American
Physicist
A. Alfred Taubman31 January 1924, American
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
Assia Djebar30 June 1936, Algerian
Author
Bart Cummings14 November 1927, Australian
Horse Trainer
Alfred G. Gilman01 July 1941, American
Pharmacologist, Biochemist
Shaquon Thomas09 May 1995, American
Rapper
Daniel Fredinburg08 September 1981, American
Google X Engineer
Caleb Logan Leblanc13 July 2002, American
YouTube Star
Daniel Kyre06 July 1994, American
YouTuber, Musician
Terry Pratchett28 April 1948, British
Writer, Novelist, Journalist, Screenwriter,
Cynthia Lennon10 September 1939, British
Film maker
Amanda Peterson08 July 1971, American
Actress
James Horner14 August 1953, American
Composer, Conductor, Musician, Orchestrateur, Film
Moses Malone23 March 1955, American
Basketball player
Wes Craven02 August 1939, American
Director, writer, producer, acto
Robert Loggia03 January 1930, American
Actor
Nicholas Winton19 May 1909, British
Stockbroker, Banker, Philanthropist, Military
Rod Taylor11 January 1930, Australian
Actor
Lesley Gore02 May 1946, American
Singer, Musician, Actor
Dean Potter14 April 1972, American
Mountaineer, Rock climber
Melissa Mathison03 June 1950, American
Screenwriter
Oliver Sacks09 July 1933, British
Scientist, Neurologist, Educator, Psychiatrist
Meadowlark Lemon25 April 1932, American
Basketball player, Actor
Sadhana Shivdasani02 September 1941, Indian
Actor
Vincent Margera03 July 1956, American
Television actor, Actor, Film actor
Flip Saunders23 February 1955, American
Basketball player, Basketball coach
Ben E. King28 September 1938, American
Singer, Musician, Songwriter, Singer-songwriter,
Demis Roussos15 June 1946, Egyptian, Greek
Singer, Composer
Chris Squire04 March 1948, British
Bassist, Guitarist, Singer-songwriter, Film score
Anita Ekberg29 September 1931, Swedish
Actor, Model, Film actor, Beauty pageant
Louis Jourdan19 June 1921, French
Stage actor, Film actor
Geoffrey Howe20 December 1926, British
Jurist, Politician, Diplomat
Malcolm Fraser21 May 1930, Australian
Politician
Sam Simon06 June 1955, American
Poker player, Writer, Sportsperson, Screenwriter,
Laura Antonelli28 November 1941, Italian
Actor
Helmut Schmidt23 December 1918, German
Politician, Economist, Civil servant, Non-fiction
Ornette Coleman09 March 1930, American
Composer, Trumpeter, Saxophonist, Jazz musician
Lynn Anderson26 September 1947, American
Singer, Actor, Singer-songwriter, Television actor
Joan Sebastian08 April 1951, Mexican
Singer-songwriter, Actor, Poet, Record producer
Percy Sledge25 November 1940, American
American singer
Aadesh Shrivastava04 September 1966, Indian
Composer
René Girard25 December 1923, French
Philosopher, Anthropologist, Sociologist,
James Last17 April 1929, German
Composer, Conductor, Jazz musician, Pianist,
Tariq Aziz28 April 1936, Iraqi, Turkish
Politician, Diplomat, Journalist
Douglas Tompkins20 March 1943, American
entrepreneur, environmentalist
Allen Toussaint14 January 1938, American
Singer, Composer, Jazz musician, Record producer,
Vincent Bugliosi18 August 1934, American
Lawyer, Writer, Poet lawyer
Hussein Fatal03 April 1977, American
Rapper, Musician