Deaths in June 2015

June 1 - Shone An, 31, Taiwanese singer (Comic Boyz) and actor, liver cancer.^[1]
June 1 - Joan Kirner, 76, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (1990–1992), oesophageal cancer.^[2]
June 1 - Nobutaka Machimura, 70, Japanese politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (2014–2015), cerebral infarction.^[3]
June 1 - Charles Kennedy, 55, British politician, Leader of the Liberal Democrats (1999–2006), MP (1983–2015), haemorrhage.^[4]
June 1 - Jacques Parizeau, 84, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (1994–1996).^[5]
June 1 - Nicholas Liverpool, 80, Dominican politician, President (2003–2012), heart attack.^[6]
June 1 - Jean Ritchie, 92, American folk singer and song collector.^[7]
June 1 - Kirill Pokrovsky, 53, Russian composer.^[8]
June 2 - Alberto De Martino, 85, Italian movie director (O.K. Connery, Holocaust 2000, The Pumaman).^[9]
June 2 - Irwin Rose, 88, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004).^[10]
June 2 - Theo Saat, 87, Dutch Olympic sprinter (1952).^[11]
June 2 - Fernando de Araújo, 52, East Timorese politician, President of the National Parliament (2007–2012), Acting President (2008).^[12]
June 2 - Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, 80, Colombian-born Dutch artist.^[13]
June 3 - Avi Beker, 64, Israeli academic, secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress (2001–2003), cancer.^[14]
June 3 - Margaret Juntwait, 58, American radio host, host of Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts (since 2014), ovarian cancer.^[15]
June 4 - Kurt Weber, 87, Polish cinematographer (Salto).^[16]
June 4 - Bengt Berndtsson, 82, Swedish footballer (IFK Göteborg).^[17]
June 4 - Leonid Plyushch, 77, Ukrainian Soviet dissident and mathematician.^[18]
June 4 - Hermann Zapf, 96, German typeface designer.^[19]
June 4 - Albert West, 65, Dutch singer (The Shuffles) and record producer.^[20]
June 5 - Alan Bond, 77, Australian businessman, figure of the WA Inc scandals, complications from heart surgery.^[21]
June 5 - Roger Vergé, 85, French chef, co-founder of Nouvelle Cuisine, complications of diabetes.^[22]
June 5 - Jerry Collins, 34, New Zealand rugby union player (national team), car accident.^[23]
June 5 - Jane Briggs Hart, 93, American aviator, member of the Mercury 13, Alzheimer's disease.^[24]
June 5 - Sadun Boro, 87, Turkish sailor, bladder cancer.^[25]
June 5 - Tariq Aziz, 79, Iraqi politician, Foreign Affairs Minister (1983–1991), heart attack.^[26]
June 5 - Giacomo Furia, 90, Italian actor (The Band of Honest Men, The Gold of Naples).^[27]
June 5 - Kazuo Chiba, 75, Japanese Aikido teacher.^[28]
June 6 - Pierre Brice, 86, French actor (Old Shatterhand, Mill of the Stone Women), pneumonia.^[29]
June 6 - Ludvík Vaculík, 88, Czech writer and journalist.^[30]
June 6 - Richard Johnson, 87, English actor (The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Haunting).^[31]
June 6 - Ronnie Gilbert, 88, American singer-songwriter (The Weavers) and activist, natural causes.^[32]
June 6 - Aarthi Agarwal, 31, American Telugu cinema actress, cardiac arrest.^[33]
June 7 - Vasili Zhupikov, 61, Russian footballer.^[34]
June 7 - Sir Christopher Lee, 93, British actor and singer (Dracula, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars), heart failure.^[35]
June 8 - Chea Sim, 82, Cambodian politician, president Cambodian People's Party.^[36]
June 8 - David Rotem, 66, Israeli politician, Member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu (2007–2015), cardiac arrest.^[37]
June 8 - Frank Cappuccino, 86, American boxing referee, Alzheimer's disease.^[38]
June 9 - James Last, 86, German composer.^[39]
June 9 - Fred Anton Maier, 76, Norwegian Olympic champion speed skater, cancer.^[40]
June 9 - Douglas Danforth, 92, American businessman, CEO of the Pittsburgh Pirates.^[41]
June 9 - Pedro Zerolo, 54, Venezuelan-born Spanish politician, pancreatic cancer.^[42]
June 10 - Wolfgang Jeschke, 78, German science fiction author (The Last Day of Creation).^[43]
June 10 - Robert Chartoff, 81, American movie producer (Rocky, Raging Bull, Ender's Game), Oscar winner (1977), pancreatic cancer.^[44]
June 11 - Ornette Coleman, 85, American saxophonist and free jazz pioneer, cardiac arrest.^[45]
June 11 - Jack King, 84, American public affairs officer (NASA), congestive heart failure.^[46]
June 11 - Ron Moody, 91, British actor (Oliver!, The Animals of Farthing Wood, EastEnders).^[47]
June 11 - Dusty Rhodes, 69, American professional wrestler (NWA, WCW, WWE), kidney failure.^[48]
June 11 - Jim Ed Brown, 81, American country singer (The Browns), cancer.^[49]
June 11 - Sebastiano Mannironi, 84, Italian Olympic weightlifter (1956, 1960, 1964).^[50]
June 12 - Monica Lewis, 93, American singer and actress (Earthquake).^[51]
June 12 - Fernando Brant, 68, Brazilian poet and composer, surgical complications.^[52]
June 13 - Magnus Härenstam, 73, Swedish actor (Sällskapsresan, Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen?) and comedian (Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter), spinal cancer.^[53]
June 13 - Sergio Renán, 82, Argentine actor, director and screenwriter (The Truce), pneumonia.^[54]
June 13 - Drs. P, 95, Dutch singer-writer, composer and poet.^[55]
June 13 - Buddy Boudreaux, 97, American jazz saxophonist and band leader.^[56]
June 14 - Hugo Blanco, 74, Venezuelan musician and composer.^[57]
June 14 - Anne Nicol Gaylor, 88, American atheism and reproductive rights advocate; co-founder of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, complications from a fall.^[58]
June 14 - Zito, 82, Brazilian footballer, World Cup-winning team member (1958, 1962), complications of a stroke.^[59]
June 14 - Qiao Shi, 90, Chinese politician, Chairman of the National People's Congress.^[60]
June 15 - Jean Doré, 70, Canadian politician, Mayor of Montreal (1986–1994), pancreatic cancer.^[61]
June 15 - Blaze Starr, 83, American stripper, burlesque comedienne and club owner, subject of Blaze.^[62]
June 15 - Jeanna Friske, 40, Russian singer (Blestyaschie), glioblastoma.^[63]
June 15 - Harry Rowohlt, 70, German author.^[64]
June 15 - Kirk Kerkorian, 98, American businessman.^[65]
June 15 - Mighty Sam McClain, 72, American soul blues singer, stroke.^[66]
June 16 - Charles Correa, 84, Indian architect.^[67]
June 16 - Tony Ranasinghe, 77, Sri Lankan actor (Hanthane Kathawa, Duhulu Malak, Ahasin Polawata) and writer.^[68]
June 17 - Süleyman Demirel, 90, Turkish politician, President (1993–2000), lung infection.^[69]
June 17 - Ron Clarke, 78, Australian long distance runner, Olympic bronze medalist (1964), Mayor of the Gold Coast, Queensland (2004–2012), kidney failure.^[70]
June 17 - Clementa C. Pinckney, 41, American politician and pastor, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1997–2000) and Senate (since 2000), shot.^[71]
June 17 - Nelson Doubleday, Jr., 81, American publisher (Doubleday) and Major League Baseball team owner (New York Mets), pneumonia.^[72]
June 17 - Roberto M. Levingston, 95, Argentine politician, President (1970–1971).^[73]
June 17 - John David Crow, 79, American Heisman Trophy-winning football player (Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals) and coach (Northeast Louisiana).^[74]
June 17 - Jeralean Talley, 116, American supercentenarian, world's oldest person.^[75]
June 17 - Nicola Badalucco, 86, Italian screenwriter (The Damned) and journalist.^[76]
June 17 - Chang Ch'ung-ho, 101, Chinese-American poet, calligrapher, and Kunqu opera singer.^[77]
June 18 - Phil Austin, 74, American comedian, writer, and musician (Firesign Theatre).^[78]
June 18 - Ralph J. Roberts, 95, American businessman, founder of Comcast.^[79]
June 18 - Jack Rollins, 100, American movie producer (Midnight in Paris, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Irrational Man).^[80]
June 18 - Allen Weinstein, 77, American historian, Archivist of the United States (2005–2008), pneumonia.^[81]
June 18 - Sir Patrick Eisdell Moore, 97, New Zealand surgeon.^[82]
June 19 - Harold Battiste, 83, American jazz and R&B composer, arranger and musician (Sam Cooke, Sonny & Cher, Dr. John).^[83]
June 19 - Fredrik Fasting Torgersen, 80, Norwegian convicted murderer, complications of pneumonia.^[84]
June 19 - Wendell Holmes, 71, American musician (The Holmes Brothers), complications from pulmonary embolism.^[85]
June 19 - Jack Aeby, 91, American photographer.^[86]
June 19 - James Salter, 90, American novelist.^[87]
June 20 - François Delapierre, 44, French politician, brain tumour.^[88]
June 20 - Elson Floyd, 59, American educator, President of Washington State University (since 2007), complications from colon cancer.^[89]
June 20 - Angelo Niculescu, 93, Romanian football manager.^[90]
June 20 - Takanonami Sadahiro, 43, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach, heart failure.^[91]
June 20 - Esther Brand, 92, South African athlete, complications of a fall.^[92]
June 20 - William Brantley Aycock, 99, American educator.^[93]
June 21 - Veijo Meri, 86, Finnish author.^[94]
June 21 - James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, 85, Scottish nobleman.^[95]
June 21 - Gunther Schuller, 89, American composer, conductor, historian and jazz musician, leukemia.^[96]
June 21 - Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, 82, East German politician.^[97]
June 22 - Laura Antonelli, 73, Italian actress (Malicious, Till Marriage Do Us Part, The Innocent), heart attack.^[98]
June 22 - Norm Berryman, 42, New Zealand rugby union player (national team), heart attack.^[99]
June 22 - James Horner, 61, American composer (Titanic, Field of Dreams, Apollo 13), Oscar winner (1998), plane crash.^[100]
June 23 - Helmuth Lohner, 82, Austrian actor and theatre director.^[101]
June 23 - Magali Noël, 84, French actress (La Dolce Vita) and singer ("Fais-moi mal, Johnny").^[102]
June 23 - Marujita Díaz, 83, Spanish singer and actress (Música y estrellas), complications from colon cancer.^[103]
June 23 - Dick Van Patten, 86, American actor (Eight is Enough, The Love Boat, Charly), complications from diabetes.^[104]
June 23 - Harvey Pollack, 93, American sport statistician, last surviving employee in first NBA season.^[105]
June 23 - Sir Chris Woodhead, 68, British educationalist, Chief Inspector for Ofsted (1994–2000), motor neurone disease.^[106]
June 23 - Thé Lau, 62, Dutch singer and guitarist (The Scene), lung cancer.^[107]
June 24 - Walter Browne, 66, Australian-born American chess Grandmaster, six-time U.S. champion.^[108]
June 24 - Cristiano Araújo, 29, Brazilian singer and songwriter, traffic collision.^[109]
June 24 - Mario Biaggi, 97, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1969–1988).^[110]
June 24 - Marva Collins, 78, American educator.^[111]
June 25 - Patrick Macnee, 93, English-American actor (The Avengers, This Is Spinal Tap, A View to a Kill).^[112]
June 26 - Yevgeny Primakov, 85, Russian politician and diplomat, Prime Minister (1998–1999).^[113]
June 26 - Richard Matt, 49, American convicted murderer and prison escapee, shot.^[114]
June 26 - Kája Saudek, 80, Czech comics illustrator.^[115]
June 27 - Zvi Elpeleg, 89, Polish-born Israeli diplomat and academic.^[116]
June 27 - Don McNeill, 80, Canadian journalist (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBS News).^[117]
June 27 - Chris Squire, 67, English bass guitarist (Yes), acute erythroid leukemia.^[118]
June 28 - Jack Carter, 93, American comedian and actor (Viva Las Vegas, Alligator), respiratory failure.^[119]
June 28 - Todor Slavov, 31, Bulgarian rally driver, rally accident.^[120]
June 28 - Wally Stanowski, 96, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers).^[121]
June 29 - Charles Pasqua, 88, French politician, Minister of the Interior (1986–1988, 1993–1995).^[122]
June 29 - Josef Masopust, 84, Czech football player and manager (Dukla Prague, national team).^[123]
June 29 - Jackson Vroman, 34, American-born Lebanese basketball player (Phoenix Suns, New Orleans Hornets).^[124]
June 30 - Eddy Louiss, 74, French jazz organist.^[125]
June 30 - Leonard Starr, 89, American cartoonist (ThunderCats, Little Orphan Annie).^[126]

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