2015 deaths

American basketball player (1964–2015)

British DJ (1964–2015)

Canadian actress (1955–2015)

Italian politician (1915-2015)

US tennis player (1922–2015)

Soviet/Russian theatre and film actor, theatrical director, drama teacher (1931—2015)

East German politician (1923-2015)

French actress and producer (1926–2015)

American editor for Time Magazine (1944-2015)

Catholic cardinal (1921–2015)

American basketball player (1966-2015)

American boxer (1956-2015)

Russian cross-country skier

Colombian beauty queen (1938–2015)

German journalist and literary critic (1934–2015)

Armenian bishop (1940–2015)

American true crime writer (1931–2015)

American basketball player and coach (1927-2015)

American singer (1932-2015)

Utah politician (1930-2015)

English actress (1922–2015)

American musician (1939–2015)

German footballer (1968–2015)

French dancer and actress (1925-2015)

Austrian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer (1949-2015)

Austrian neuroscientist (1919–2015)

Romanian handball player (1940–2015)

Indian artist, known for building the Rock Garden of Chandigarh (1924-2015)

American poker and chess player (1949–2015)

Czech ice hockey player and coach (1942–2015)

Olympic cyclist (1941–2015)

speed skater

American actor (1950-2015)

Welsh singer (1959–2015)

Chilean footballer (1955-2015)

Romanian politician and writer (1949–2015)

German businesswoman (1926-2015)

Bulgarian footballer (1943-2015)

British racecar driver

Canadian politician (1930-2015)

Dean Spaulding Potter was an American rock climber, alpinist, BASE jumper, and highliner, who invented the extreme sport of FreeBASE. He completed many technically hard first free ascents, free solo ascents, speed ascents, and enchainments in Yosemite National Park and in Patagonia. He won the Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year award in 2003. In 2015, he died in a wingsuit flying accident at Yosemite National Park.

D. Jayakanthan (24 April 1934 – 8 April 2015), popularly known as JK, was an Indian writer, journalist, orator, filmmaker, critic and activist. Born in Cuddalore, he dropped out of school at the age of 9 and went to Madras, where he joined the Communist Party of India. In a career spanning six decades, he authored around 40 novels, 200 short stories, apart from two autobiographies. Outside literature, he made two films. In addition, four of his other novels were adapted into films by others.

Croatian Serb war criminal

British motorcycle racer (1923-2015)

Hungarian football player and manager (1931–2015)

Italian racing cyclist (1926–2015)

Olga Vitalevna Yakovleva (, October 12, 1970 – January 17, 2015), better known as Origa, was a Russian singer who rose to prominence for her musical collaborations in Japan, especially her work for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Spanish politician

Romanian fencer (1935–2015)

British singer and songwriter (1948–2015)

Zimbabwean poet and writer (1956–2015)

Wikimedia list article

American professional wrestler and football player (1926–2015)

US National Security Advisor (1945–2015)

Turkish boxer (1974–2015)

Scottish noble (1929-2015)

Moroccan racing driver

Argentine association football player and manager (1925-2015)

Jamaican musician (1934–2015)

American actress (1918–2015)