Deaths in August 2015
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2015. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months".
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.
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- August 1 - Stephan Beckenbauer, 46, German footballer (FC Bayern Munich).[1]
- August 1 - Bob Frankford, 76, Canadian politician.[2]
- August 1 - Chiara Pierobon, 22, Italian professional cyclist, suspected pulmonary embolism.[3]
- August 1 - Cilla Black, 72, British singer ("Anyone Who Had a Heart", "You're My World"), television presenter (Blind Date, Surprise Surprise) and actress, stroke.[4]
- August 2 - Natalia Molchanova, 53, Russian free diver.[5]
- August 2 - Piet Fransen, 79, Dutch footballer (FC Groningen, national team).[6]
- August 2 - Forrest Bird, 94, American aviator and inventor.[7]
- August 2 - Içami Tiba, 74, Brazilian psychiatrist and writer (Quem ama, Educa!).[8]
- August 2 - Giovanni Conso, 93, Italian jurist, Minister of Justice (1993-1994).[9]
- August 3 - Mel Farr, 70, American professional football running back (Detroit Lions), complications from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.[10]
- August 3 - Johanna Quandt, 89, German businesswoman and billionaire.[11]
- August 3 - Margot Loyola, 96, Chilean folk singer and musician.[12]
- August 3 - Robert Conquest, 98, American historian (The Great Terror), respiratory failure.[13]
- August 3 - Coleen Gray, 92, American actress (Nightmare Alley, Kiss of Death, The Killing).[14]
- August 4 - Theo van Els, 79, Dutch linguist.[15]
- August 4 - Achim Hill, 80, German Olympic rower (1960).[16]
- August 4 - Les Munro, 96, New Zealand pilot, last survivor of Operation Chastise.[17]
- August 5 - George Cole, 90, British actor (Minder, St Trinian's, Mary Reilly).[18]
- August 5 - Ellen Vogel, 93, Dutch actress (The Knife, Zonder Ernst, Twin Sisters).[19]
- August 6 - Louise Suggs, 91, American professional golfer, co-founder of LPGA.[20]
- August 6 - Orna Porat, 91, German-born Israeli theater actress.[21]
- August 7 - Terrence Evans, 81, American actor (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Star Trek, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).[22]
- August 7 - Frances Oldham Kelsey, 101, Canadian-born American physician, Food and Drug Administration reviewer.[23]
- August 7 - Manuel Contreras, 86, Chilean military officer, head of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, convicted criminal against humanity, multiple organ failure.[24]
- August 8 - Sean Price, 43, American rapper, member of Heltah Skeltah.[25]
- August 8 - Gus Mortson, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks).[26]
- August 8 - Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, 100, Indian independence activist, author, poet and journalist, pneumonia.[27]
- August 9 - John Henry Holland, 86, American computer scientist.[28]
- August 9 - Fikret Otyam, 89, Turkish painter and journalist, renal failure.[29]
- August 9 - Frank Gifford, 84, American football player (New York Giants) and broadcaster (Monday Night Football), heart attack.[30]
- August 9 - Susan Sheridan, 68, British voice actress (The Black Cauldron, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Noddy's Toyland Adventures).[31]
- August 9 - David Nobbs, 80, British novelist and comedy writer (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Two Ronnies, Fairly Secret Army).[32]
- August 9 - George E. R. Kinnear II, 87, American admiral.[33]
- August 10 - Endre Czeizel, 80, Hungarian geneticist, leukemia.[34]
- August 10 - Fred Eckhardt, 89, American beer expert.[35]
- August 11 - Nour El-Sherif, 69, Egyptian actor and conspiracist, heart attack.[36]
- August 11 - Harald Nielsen, 73, Danish footballer (Bologna, national team).[37]
- August 12 - Jaakko Hintikka, 86, Finnish philosopher and logician.[38]
- August 12 - Meshulim Feish Lowy, 94, Hungarian-born Canadian rabbi, pneumonia.[39]
- August 12 - Stephen Lewis, 88, British comedy actor (On the Buses, Last of the Summer Wine).[40]
- August 13 - Bob Fillion, 95, Canadian ice hockey player.[41]
- August 14 - Agustín Cejas, 70, Argentine footballer (Racing Club), Alzheimer's disease.[42]
- August 14 - Bob Johnston, 83, American record producer (Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen).[43]
- August 15 - Julian Bond, 75, American civil rights activist and politician, chairman of the NAACP (1998–2010), heart disease.[44]
- August 16 - Shuja Khanzada, 71, Pakistani politician, member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab (2002–2007, since 2008), bombing.[45]
- August 16 - Mile Mrkšić, 68, Yugoslav military officer and convicted war criminal.[46]
- August 17 - László Paskai, 88, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest (1987–2002), Cardinal (1988–2015).[47]
- August 17 - Arsen Dedić, 77, Croatian singer.[48]
- August 17 - Yvonne Craig, 78, American actress (Batman, Star Trek: The Original Series, Olivia), breast cancer.[49]
- August 17 - Jacob Bekenstein, 68, Mexican theoretical physicist.[50]
- August 17 - Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, 82, German football executive (UEFA, VfB Stuttgart) and politician.[51]
- August 17 - Eduardo Guerrero, 87, Argentine rower and Olympic champion (1952), pneumonia.[52]
- August 18 - Suvra Mukherjee, 74, Indian philosopher and dancer, First Lady (since 2012), wife of Pranab Mukherjee, respiratory failure.[53]
- August 18 - Khaled Asaad, 82, Syrian scholar, head of antiquities in Palmyra, beheaded.[54]
- August 18 - Louis Stokes, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio (1969–1999), lung and brain cancer.[55]
- August 18 - William Jay Smith, 97, American poet.[56]
- August 19 - Suharno, 55, Indonesian football player and coach.[57]
- August 20 - Egon Bahr, 93, German politician, co-creator of the Ostpolitik.[58]
- August 20 - Lev Durov, 83, Russian actor.[59]
- August 20 - Lina Morgan, 78, Spanish actress and showgirl.[60]
- August 20 - Harry Volkman, 89, American meteorologist, respiratory failure.[61]
- August 21 - Wang Dongxing, 99, Chinese politician, Vice Chairman of the Communist Party (1977–1980).[62]
- August 21 - Gerry Steinberg, 70, British politician, MP for City of Durham (1987–2005).[63]
- August 21 - Anna Kashfi, 80, British actress (The Mountain, Cowboy, Adventures in Paradise).[64]
- August 22 - Arthur Morris, 93, Australian Test cricketer.[65]
- August 22 - Ieng Thirith, 83, Cambodian politician, Minister of Social Affairs (1975–1979), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[66]
- August 22 - Merl Reagle, 65, American crossword maker (Los Angeles Times), acute pancreatitis.[67]
- August 22 - Jörg Schneider, 80, Swiss actor (Usfahrt Oerlike) and comedian, cancer.[68]
- August 22 - Mariem Hassan, 56–57, Western Saharan singer, bone cancer.[69]
- August 23 - Yosi Piamenta, 64, Israeli musician, cancer.[70]
- August 24 - Cees van Kooten, 67, Dutch footballer (Go Ahead Eagles, national team), esophageal cancer.[71]
- August 24 - Justin Wilson, 37, British IndyCar Series driver, head injuries suffered in race collision.[72]
- August 24 - Julián Pastor, 71, Mexican movie director and actor (No One Writes to the Colonel).[73]
- August 24 - Chico Maki, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).[74]
- August 25 - Francis Sejersted, 79, Norwegian history professor, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (1991–1999).[75]
- August 25 - José María Benegas, 67, Spanish politician, cancer.[76]
- August 26 - Amelia Boynton Robinson, 104, American civil rights activist, multiple strokes.[77]
- August 26 - Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, American news reporter and murderer, suicide by gunshot.[78]
- August 26 - Alison Parker, 24, American news reporter, shot.[78]
- August 26 - Adam Ward, 27, American news cameraman, shot.[78]
- August 26 - Peter Kern, 66, Austrian actor and filmmaker (The Last Summer of the Rich).[79]
- August 27 - Darryl Dawkins, 58, American basketball center (Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets) and coach (Newark Express, Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs), heart attack.[80]
- August 27 - Joan Garriga, 52, Spanish motorcycle racer, injuries sustained in motorcycle accident.[81]
- August 28 - Al Arbour, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks) and Hall of Fame coach (New York Islanders).[82]
- August 28 - Józef Wesołowski, 67, Polish defrocked archbishop and Vatican ambassador to the Dominican Republic (2008-2013).[83]
- August 28 - Teresa Gorman, 83, British politician, MP for Billericay (1987-2001).[84]
- August 28 - Nelson Shanks, 77, American painter, prostate cancer.[85]
- August 29 - Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, American actor (Les Miserables), fall.[86]
- August 29 - Wayne Dyer, 75, American self-help author and motivational speaker, leukemia.[87]
- August 30 - Bart Cummings, 87, Australian racehorse trainer, twelve-time winner of the Melbourne Cup.[88]
- August 30 - Oliver Sacks, 82, British neurologist and author (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat), liver cancer.[89]
- August 30 - M. M. Kalburgi, 76, Indian writer and academic, shot.[90]
- August 30 - Wes Craven, 76, American movie director, writer and producer (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, The Last House on the Left), brain cancer.[91]
- August 30 - Marvin Mandel, 95, American politician, Governor of Maryland (1969–1979), Speaker of the House of Delegates (1964–1969).[92]
- August 30 - Edward Fadeley, 85, American attorney and politician, heart failure.[93]
- August 30 - Hugo Rasmussen, 74, Danish jazz musician.[94]
- August 31 - Edward, Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, 88, English peer, founder of the National Motor Museum, natural causes.[95]
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