2015 deaths

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)

1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923–2015)

Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982)

English actor and singer (1922–2015)

American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)

English fantasy author (1948–2015)

Indian scientist and statesman (1931–2015)

American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (1925–2015)

Egyptian actor (1932–2015)

9th President of the Republic of Turkey (1924-2015)

President of Germany from 1984 to 1994

20th-century American physicist

American actor (1931–2015)

President of Turkey (1917–2015)

Uruguayan writer and journalist (1940–2015)

Ian Fraser Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015), better known as Lemmy, was an English musician. He was the founder, lead vocalist, bassist and primary songwriter of the rock band Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member. Kilmister had previously been a member of Hawkwind from 1971 to 1975, before being sacked from that band.

Russian ballet dancer (1925-2015)

American film composer and conductor (1953-2015)

American filmmaker (1939–2015)

American physicist

Greek singer (1946–2015)

Swedish writer, human rights activist and dramatist (1948–2015)

French Algerian writer and film director (1936-2015)

American chemist (1931–2015)

politician (1933-2015)

Irish–American actress and singer (1920–2015)

4th Russian Prime Minister (1929–2015)

American singer (1950–2015)

British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)

Australian author (1937-2015)

French motor racing driver (1989–2015)

German sociologist & scholar (1944–2015)

1940-2015, Moroccan sociologist, writer and feminist

American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer (1930–2015)

Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein (1936-2015)

Kurdish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)

American political scientist (1936-2015)

American economist and Nobel laureate (1920–2015)

Australian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (1930-2015)

American singer (1938–2015)

German architect (1925-2015)

Japanese video game programmer and businessman (1959-2015)

Czech footballer (1931-2015)

Portuguese film director (1908–2015)

British writer (1930-2015)

5th President of Israel (1978–1983), Israeli Cabinet minister, Member of the Knesset, author, playwright, and educator (born 1921–2015)

Hungarian politician, writer, translator, President of Hungary (1922-2015)

Italian film director (1922–2015)

President of Bulgaria (1935-2015)

novelist, editor, professor (1931-2015)

Australian actor (1930-2015)

French swimmer (1989–2015)

American politician and actor (1942–2015)

Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994

French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science

American baseball player, manager, and coach (1925–2015)

Belgian film director, screenwriter, and educator (1950–2015)

British historian and poet

free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political prisoner

Icelandic politician (1947-2015)