Deaths in January 2015
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.
January 2015
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- January 1 - Mario Cuomo, 82, American politician, Governor of New York (1983–1994), heart failure.[1]
- January 1 - Staryl C. Austin, 94, American air force brigadier general.[2]
- January 1 - Omar Karami, 80, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister (1990–1992, 2004–2005).[3]
- January 1 - Ulrich Beck, 70, German sociologist, heart attack.[4]
- January 1 - Jeff Golub, 59, American guitarist, progressive supranuclear palsy.[5]
- January 1 - Boris Morukov, 64, Russian physician and cosmonaut.[6]
- January 1 - Ninón Sevilla, 93, Mexican actress (Aventurera), heart attack.[7]
- January 1 - Donna Douglas, 82, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, Frankie and Johnny, The Twilight Zone), pancreatic cancer.[8]
- January 1 - Eric Cunningham, 65, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP for Wentworth North (1975–1984).[9]
- January 1 - Mrunalini Devi Puar, 83, Indian educator, Chancellor of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (since 1988).[10]
- January 1 - Miller Williams, 84, American poet, Alzheimer's disease.[11]
- January 1 - Géry Leuliet, 104, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amiens (1963–1985).[12]
- January 2 - Lam Po-chuen, 63, Hong Kong dubbing artist (Doraemon), diabetes.[13]
- January 2 - Arthur A. Neu, 81, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Iowa (1973–1979), member of the Iowa Senate (1967–1973).[14]
- January 2 - Noel Cobb, 76, British philosopher, psychologist and author.[15]
- January 2 - Little Jimmy Dickens, 94, American country music singer ("May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose"), cardiac arrest.[16]
- January 2 - Tihomir Novakov, 85, American physicist, natural causes.[17]
- January 2 - Abu Anas al-Libi, 50, Libyan al-Qaeda member in United States custody, surgical complications.[18]
- January 2 - Basil Hansen, 88, Australian Olympic ice hockey player (1960).[19]
- January 2 - Danny Dunton, 90, English speedway rider and promoter.[20]
- January 2 - Per-Olof Åstrand, 92, Swedish physiologist.[21]
- January 2 - Roger Kitter, 64, British actor ('Allo 'Allo!).[22]
- January 3 - Edward Brooke, 95, American politician, United States Senator from Massachusetts (1967–1979), natural causes.[23]
- January 3 - Derek Minter, 82, British Grand Prix motorcycle and short-circuit road racer.[24]
- January 3 - Bernice Madigan, 115, American supercentenarian, world's fifth-oldest person.[25]
- January 3 - Olga Knyazeva, 60, Russian fencer, Olympic champion (1976).[26]
- January 4 - Lance Diamond, 68, American singer, heart failure.[27]
- January 4 - Stu Miller, 87, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).[28]
- January 4 - Stuart Scott, 49, American sports journalist (ESPN), appendix cancer.[29]
- January 4 - Hank Peters, 90, American baseball executive (Baltimore Orioles), complications from a stroke.[30]
- January 4 - René Vautier, 86, French movie director (Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès).[31]
- January 4 - Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński, 70, Polish academic.[32]
- January 4 - Pino Daniele, 59, Italian singer and songwriter, heart attack.[33]
- January 4 - Natalino Pescarolo, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Fossano (1992–2005) and Cuneo (1999–2005).[34]
- January 5 - Jean-Pierre Beltoise, 77, French Formula One racing driver, winner of the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix, stroke.[35]
- January 5 - Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, 102, American Roman Catholic bishop, retired auxiliary bishop of Buffalo.[36]
- January 5 - Khan Bonfils, 42, English actor (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Batman Begins, Skyfall).[37]
- January 5 - Joy Ali, 36, Fijian middleweight boxer.[38]
- January 5 - King Sporty, 71, Jamaican-American reggae musician.[39]
- January 5 - Arthur E. Chase, 84, American politician, member of the Massachusetts Senate.[40]
- January 6 - Vlastimil Bubník, 83, Czech ice hockey player and footballer, Olympic bronze medalist (1964).[41]
- January 6 - Tim Roberts, 38, American professional wrestler (WWE, ECW).[42]
- January 6 - Johannes de Villiers Graaff, 86, South African economist.[43]
- January 6 - Sir Basil John Mason, 91, British meteorologist.[44]
- January 6 - Joseph Djida, 69, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ngaoundéré (since 2000).[45]
- January 6 - Ron Hovey, 82, Australian football player (Geelong).[46]
- January 6 - Lance Percival, 81, British actor (The Beatles) and singer ("Shame and Scandal in the Family").[47]
- January 6 - George H. McKee, 91, American air force lieutenant general.[48]
- January 7 - Mompati Merafhe, 78, Batswana general and politician, Vice President (2008–2012).[49]
- January 7 - Notable French people killed in the Charlie Hebdo shooting:[50]
- Cabu, 76, cartoonist.[50]
- Elsa Cayat, 54, psychoanalyst and columnist.[50]
- Charb, 47, caricaturist and journalist.[50]
- Philippe Honoré, 73, cartoonist.[50]
- Bernard Maris, 68, economist and journalist.[50]
- Tignous, 57, cartoonist.[50]
- Georges Wolinski, 80, cartoonist.[50]
- January 7 - Julio Scherer García, 88, Mexican journalist, septic shock.[51]
- January 7 - Arch A. Moore, Jr., 91, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (1969–1977, 1985–1989).[52]
- January 7 - J. P. Parisé, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars), lung cancer.[53]
- January 7 - Jethro Pugh, 70, American football player (Dallas Cowboys).[54]
- January 7 - David Rolfe, 50, Australian Paralympic swimmer, complications relating to heart surgery.[55]
- January 7 - Rod Taylor, 84, Australian actor (The Time Machine, The Birds, Sunday in New York), heart attack.[56]
- January 7 - Tadeusz Konwicki, 88, Polish writer and filmmaker.[57]
- January 7 - B. S. Abdur Rahman, 87, Indian business executive and philanthropist (B. S. Abdur Rahman University).[58]
- January 7 - José Arias, 92, Spanish Olympic alpine skier (1948).[59]
- January 8 - Kep Enderby, 88, Australian politician and judge.[60]
- January 8 - Andraé Crouch, 72, American gospel singer, complications from heart attack.[61]
- January 8 - Hubert Markl, 76, German biologist.[62]
- January 8 - Ray McFall, 88, British nightclub owner (The Cavern Club).[63]
- January 8 - Leif Rantala, 67, Finnish linguist.[64]
- January 9 - Józef Oleksy, 68, Polish politician, Prime Minister (1995–1996), cancer.[65]
- January 9 - Robert V. Keeley, 85, American diplomat, Ambassador to Mauritius (1976–1978), Zimbabwe (1980–1984) and Greece (1985–1989), stroke.[66]
- January 9 - Chérif Kouachi, 32, French jihadist (suspect in the Charlie Hebdo shooting), shot.[67]
- January 9 - Saïd Kouachi, 34, French jihadist (suspect in the Charlie Hebdo shooting), shot.[67]
- January 9 - Amedy Coulibaly, 32, French terrorist (suspect in the Montrouge shooting), shot.[68]
- January 9 - Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., 88, American movie producer (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World), heart failure.[69]
- January 9 - Roy Tarpley, 50, American basketball player (Dallas Mavericks).[70]
- January 9 - Popsy Dixon, 72, American musician (The Holmes Brothers), bladder cancer.[71]
- January 9 - Frans Molenaar, 74, Dutch fashion designer, complications from a fall.[72]
- January 9 - Chuck Locke, 82, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).[73]
- January 9 - Michel Jeury, 80, French science fiction author.[74]
- January 10 - Francesco Rosi, 92, Italian movie director (The Mattei Affair, Christ Stopped at Eboli, Salvatore Giuliano).[75]
- January 10 - Junior Malanda, 20, Belgian footballer (VfL Wolfsburg, national under-21 team), traffic collision.[76]
- January 10 - Robert Stone, 77, American novelist (Dog Soldiers), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.[77]
- January 10 - Taylor Negron, 57, American comedian and actor (Angels in the Outfield, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Bio-Dome), cancer.[78]
- January 10 - Frans Bolweg, 64, Dutch sailor and coach, eye cancer.[79]
- January 10 - Walter Berns, 95, American constitutional law and political philosophy professor.[80]
- January 10 - Harry V. Jaffa, 96, American political philosophy professor and writer (Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates).[81]
- January 10 - Jorgelina Aranda, 72, Argentine model, singer and actress (Il Gaucho), cancer.[82]
- January 10 - Elemér Hankiss, 86, Hungarian sociologist.[83]
- January 10 - Slobodan Martinović, 70, Serbian chess player.[84]
- January 10 - Robert Berner, 79, American geologist and geochemist.[85]
- January 10 - Inge Vermeulen, 30, Dutch field hockey player (national team), European champion (2009).[86]
- January 11 - Jenő Buzánszky, 89, Hungarian footballer (Dorogi FC, national team), Olympic champion (1952).[87]
- January 11 - Anita Ekberg, 83, Swedish actress (La Dolce Vita, Paris Holiday, Back from Eternity).[88]
- January 11 - Chic Littlewood, 84, New Zealand television personality (Chicaboom, Chic Chat) and actor (Shortland Street, King Kong).[89]
- January 11 - Brian Clemens, 83, British screenwriter (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde) and television producer (The Avengers, The Professionals).[90]
- January 11 - Doriemus, 24, New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse, Melbourne Cup winner (1995), euthanised following paddock accident.[91]
- January 12 - Elena Obraztsova, 75, Russian mezzo-soprano.[92]
- January 12 - Carl Long, 79, American baseball player.[93]
- January 12 - James Naanman Daman, 58, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jalingo (2000–2007) and Shendam (since 2007).[94]
- January 12 - Frank Glazer, 99, American pianist and composer.[95]
- January 12 - Steve Gold, 58, British computer journalist.[96]
- January 12 - Robert Gover, 85, American author.[97]
- January 12 - Paul Morgan, 40, Welsh rugby union and league player.[98]
- January 12 - Bonnie Christensen, 63, American children's book author and illustrator, ovarian cancer.[99]
- January 13 - Mark Juddery, 43, Australian author and journalist, cancer.[100]
- January 13 - Keith Wright, 73, Australian politician and convicted child rapist, MP for Capricornia (1984–1993).[101]
- January 13 - Hara Patnaik, 56, Indian actor and movie director, cancer.[102]
- January 13 - Sir Jack Hayward, 91, English businessman, property developer and philanthropist, president of Wolverhampton Wanderers.[103]
- January 13 - Robert White, 88, American diplomat, Ambassador to Paraguay (1977–1980) and El Salvador (1980–1981).[104]
- January 13 - Trevor Colbourn, 87, Australian educator and academic, President of the University of Central Florida (1978–1989).[105]
- January 14 - Zhang Wannian, 86, Chinese general.[106]
- January 14 - Bob Boyd, 84, American basketball coach (USC Trojans), natural causes.[107]
- January 14 - Lotte Hass, 86, Austrian model and underwater diver.[108]
- January 14 - Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, 71, Israeli rabbi, heart attack.[109]
- January 14 - Nélida Romero, 88, Argentine actress.[110]
- January 14 - Jerry Dempsey, 81, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1992–2006).[111]
- January 14 - Warren Weinstein, 73, American economist, USAID contractor kidnapped by al-Qaeda, drone strike.[112]
- January 15 - Ethel Lang, 114, British supercentenarian.[113]
- January 15 - Ervin Drake, 95, American songwriter ("It Was a Very Good Year," "I Believe," "Good Morning Heartache"), bladder cancer.[114]
- January 15 - Kim Fowley, 75, American record producer, impresario and musician, bladder cancer.[115]
- January 15 - Val Holten, 87, Australian cricketer.[116]
- January 15 - Jean-Claude Baker, 71, American restaurateur, suicide.[117] (body discovered on this date)
- January 15 - Joseph Mukasa Zuza, 59, Malawian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mzuzu (since 1995), car accident.[118]
- January 16 - Sir Ian Athfield, 74, New Zealand architect.[119]
- January 16 - Yao Beina, 33, Chinese singer, breast cancer.[120]
- January 16 - Andrew Benson, 97, American biologist.[121]
- January 16 - Rimma Markova, 89, Russian actress (The Alive and the Dead, The Pokrovsky Gate).[122]
- January 16 - Ted Harrison, 88, Canadian painter.[123]
- January 16 - Pedro María Iguaran, 74, Spanish footballer (Real Sociedad).[124]
- January 16 - Stuart Loory, 82, American journalist and media executive (CNN), lung cancer.[125]
- January 16 - Miriam Akavia, 87, Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor, natural causes.[126]
- January 17 - Faten Hamama, 83, Egyptian actress (The Angel of Mercy, Wajh al-Qamar).[127]
- January 17 - Bill Sykes, 75, English chaplain and writer.[128]
- January 17 - Don Harron, 90, Canadian comedian, actor and author (The Big Revue), cancer.[129]
- January 17 - Origa, 44, Russian singer (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex), lung cancer.[130]
- January 18 - Paul O'Grady, 54, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1988–1996), cancer.[131]
- January 18 - Kjell Arnljot Wig, 90, Norwegian media personality.[132]
- January 18 - Piet van der Sanden, 90, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1971–1972, 1973–1989), member of the European Parliament (1973–1974).[133]
- January 18 - Tony Verna, 81, American television producer, inventor of instant replay, leukemia.[134]
- January 18 - José Carrasco, 70, Peruvian politician, lung cancer.[135]
- January 19 - Michel Guimond, 61, Canadian politician, MP for Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord (1993–2011), heart failure.[136]
- January 19 - Vladimir Kesarev, 84, Russian footballer (FC Dynamo Moscow).[137]
- January 19 - Justin Capră, 81, Romanian inventor.[138]
- January 19 - Anne Kirkbride, 60, British actress (Coronation Street), breast cancer.[139]
- January 19 - Arthit Kamlang-ek, 89, Thai general, Supreme Commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces (1983–1986).[140]
- January 19 - Bob Symes, 90, British inventor and television presenter, cancer.[141]
- January 19 - Karl H. Pribram, 95, American neuroscientist and educator, cancer.[142]
- January 19 - Adam Yahiye Gadahn, 36, American al-Qaeda operative, drone strike.[112]
- January 20 - Anatol Hrytskievich, 85, Belarusian historian.[143]
- January 20 - Ricardo dos Santos, 24, Brazilian surfer, shot.[144]
- January 20 - Edgar Froese, 70, German musician (Tangerine Dream), pulmonary embolism.[145]
- January 20 - James Walker, 41, Australian television writer (Neighbours), diabetes.[146]
- January 21 - Marcus Borg, 72, American Biblical scholar and theologian (Jesus Seminar), pulmonary fibrosis.[147]
- January 21 - Pauline Yates, 85, English actress (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin).[148]
- January 21 - Leon Brittan, 75, British politician, Vice-President of the European Commission (1999), Home Secretary of the UK (1983-85), cancer.[149]
- January 21 - Kemal Monteno, 66, Bosnian singer-songwriter, pneumonia and sepsis.[150]
- January 22 - Joan Hinde, 81, English trumpeter and entertainer.[151]
- January 22 - Dacia Valent, 51, Italian politician, MEP (1989–1994), heart attack.[152]
- January 22 - Wendell H. Ford, 90, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (1971–1974), member of the U. S. Senate (1974–1999), lung cancer.[153]
- January 23 - Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, 90, Saudi royal, King (since 2005), complications from pneumonia.[154]
- January 23 - Prosper Ego, 87, Dutch activist, founder of the Oud-Strijders Legioen.[155]
- January 23 - Nol Heijerman, 74, Dutch footballer (Sparta).[156]
- January 23 - Pedro Lemebel, 62, Chilean writer, laryngeal cancer.[157]
- January 23 - Barrie Ingham, 82, English actor (The Great Mouse Detective, Doctor Who).[158]
- January 23 - Nick Koback, 79, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[159]
- January 23 - Ernie Banks, 83, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), heart attack.[160]
- January 24 - Otto Carius, 92, German World War II tank commander.[161]
- January 24 - Johan Ferner, 87, Norwegian sailor, Olympic silver medalist (1952).[162]
- January 24 - Joe Franklin, 88, American television and radio talk show host, prostate cancer.[163]
- January 24 - Toller Cranston, 65, Canadian figure skater and painter, Olympic bronze medalist (1976), heart attack.[164]
- January 24 - Julio Canessa, 89, Chilean politician and general, member of the Government Junta (1985–1986), Senator (1998–2006).[165]
- January 24 - Link Byfield, 63, Canadian conservative columnist, politician and publisher, liver and esophageal cancer.[166]
- January 24 - Frances Lennon, 102, British artist.[167]
- January 25 - Demis Roussos, 68, Greek singer (Aphrodite's Child).[168]
- January 25 - Ernst Träger, 88, German judge.[169]
- January 25 - Zulkifli Abdhir, 48-49, Malaysian terrorist, one of the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist, shot.[170]
- January 25 - Bill Monbouquette, 78, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[171]
- January 26 - Lee Spick, 34, English snooker player, liver disease.[172]
- January 26 - R. K. Laxman, 93, Indian cartoonist, illustrator and humorist, multiple organ failure.[173]
- January 26 - Lucjan Lis, 64, Polish cyclist, Olympic silver medalist (1972), ruptured aorta.[174]
- January 26 - Tom Uren, 93, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives for Reid (1958–1990).[175]
- January 27 - Wilfred Agbonavbare, 48, Nigerian footballer (Rayo Vallecano, national team), cancer.[176]
- January 27 - Miguel Ángel Cascallana, 66, Spanish Olympic handball player (1972).[177]
- January 27 - Henk Faanhof, 92, Dutch Olympic and professional road bicycle racer (1948)[178]
- January 27 - David Landau, 67, Israeli journalist and newspaper editor (Haaretz).[179]
- January 27 - Joe Rígoli, 78, Argentine actor and comedian (Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez), heart failure.[180]
- January 27 - Charles Hard Townes, 99, American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1964).[181]
- January 27 - John T. Myers, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House from Indiana (1967–1997).[182]
- January 27 - Rocky Bridges, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Washington Senators).[183]
- January 28 - Yves Chauvin, 84, French chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2005).[184]
- January 28 - Suraj Abdurrahman, 60, Nigerian army officer.[185]
- January 29 - Colleen McCullough, 77, Australian author (The Thorn Birds), renal failure.[186]
- January 29 - Rod McKuen, 81, American poet, singer and songwriter ("Jean"), respiratory arrest.[187]
- January 29 - Will McBride, 84, American photographer.[188]
- January 29 - Amparo Baró, 77, Spanish actress (Siete mesas de billar francés), cancer.[189]
- January 29 - Maurizio Arcieri, 72, Italian singer (The New Dada, Krisma).[190]
- January 29 - Tenkoko Sonoda, 96, Japanese politician, member of the Diet (1946–1952).[191]
- January 30 - Alexander Vraciu, 96, American Navy fighter ace, Navy Cross recipient.[192]
- January 30 - Israel Yinon, 59, Israeli conductor.[193]
- January 30 - Gerrit Voorting, 92, Dutch Olympic (1948) and professional road bicycle racer.[194]
- January 30 - Zhelyu Zhelev, 79, Bulgarian politician, President (1990–1997).[195]
- January 30 - Geraldine McEwan, 82, English actress (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Agatha Christie's Marple), stroke.[196]
- January 30 - Carl Djerassi, 91, American chemist, novelist and playwright, liver and bone cancer.[197]
- January 31 - Richard von Weizsäcker, 94, German politician, President (1990–1994), President of West Germany (1984–1990), Governing Mayor of West Berlin (1981–1984).[198]
- January 31 - Kenji Goto, 47 or 48, Japanese journalist, adventurer and ISIL hostage, beheaded.[199]
- January 31 - José Manuel Lara Bosch, 68, Spanish media executive, CEO of Grupo Planeta (since 2003) and Atresmedia (since 2012), pancreatic cancer.[200]
- January 31 - Tomás Bulat, 50, Argentine economist and journalist, traffic collision.[201]
- January 31 - Lizabeth Scott, 92, American actress (Dead Reckoning) and singer, congestive heart failure.[202]
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