Deaths in 2015
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- Henry Jacobs, 91, American sound artist and radio presenter.
- Lemmy, 70, English rock musician (Motörhead, Hawkwind).
- Haskell Wexler, 93, American filmmaker (Medium Cool).
- Holly Woodlawn, 69, Puerto Rican actress and Warhol superstar.
- Ernst Fuchs, 85, Austrian painter, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.
- Allen Toussaint, 77, American musician, producer, songwriter ("Fortune Teller", "Working in the Coal Mine", "Southern Nights") and arranger.
- Mark Murphy, 83, American jazz vocalist.
- Hilla Becher, 81, German photographer.
- Chantal Akerman, 65, Belgian film director (Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles)
- Henning Mankell, 67, Swedish author (Kurt Wallander).
- Al Seckel, 57, American optical illusion collector and sceptic.
- Mario Caiano, 82, Italian film director.
- Joost Zwagerman, 51, Dutch author.
- Rico Rodriguez, 80, Cuban-born British trombonist (The Specials).
- Wes Craven, 76, American film director, writer and producer (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, The Last House on the Left).
- Oliver Sacks, 82, British neurologist and author (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, Hallucinations).
- Cilla Black, 72, British singer ("You're My World") and actress.
- Lynn Anderson, 67, American country singer ("(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden").
- E. L. Doctorow, 84, American author (Ragtime).
- Wayne Carson, 72, American songwriter ("The Letter").
- Dieter Moebius, 71, Swiss-German electronic musician (Harmonia).
- Omar Sharif, 83, Egyptian actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Funny Girl).
- Elio Fiorucci, 80, Italian fashion designer.
- Masabumi Kikuchi, 75, Japanese jazz pianist.
- Eddy Louiss, 74, French jazz organist.
- Patrick Macnee, 93, English-American actor (The Avengers, This Is Spinal Tap, A View to a Kill).
- Magali Noël, 83, French actress (Amarcord, La Dolce Vita) and singer.
- Laura Antonelli, 73, Italian actress (Malicious, Till Marriage Do Us Part, The Innocent).
- Drs. P, 95, Swiss-born Dutch writer, composer and singer.
- Ornette Coleman, 85, American saxophonist and free jazz pioneer.
- Sir Christopher Lee, 93, British actor and singer (Dracula, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars).
- James Last, 86, German composer and big band leader.
- Jean Gruault, 90, French screenwriter (My American Uncle) and actor.
- Jean Ritchie, 92, American folk singer and song collector.
- John Forbes Nash, Jr., 86, American mathematician, subject of A Beautiful Mind.
- Vicente Aranda, 88, Spanish film director (Amantes).
- Marcus Belgrave, 78, American jazz trumpeter.
- B.B. King, 89, American blues musician, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (1987).
- Peter Gay, 91, American psychohistorian.
- Chris Burden, 69, American artist.
- Errol Brown, 71, Jamaican-born British singer (Hot Chocolate).
- Guy Carawan, 87, American folk singer and civil rights activist.
- Ruth Rendell, 85, English crime novelist (Inspector Wexford).
- Ben E. King, 76, American soul and R&B singer ("Stand by Me").
- Richard Corliss, 71, American film critic (Time).
- M. H. Abrams, 102, American literary critic.
- Paul Almond, 83, Canadian filmmaker and television director (Seven Up!).
- Percy Sledge, 73, American R&B singer ("When a Man Loves a Woman"), liver cancer.
- Günter Grass, 87, German novelist (The Tin Drum).
- Judith Malina, 88, German-born American actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Awakenings, The Sopranos) and director.
- Dave Ball, 65, British musician (Procol Harum).
- Manoel de Oliveira, 106, Portuguese film director and screenwriter.
- Ib Melchior, 97, Danish-born American author and screenwriter (Death Race 2000, Robinson Crusoe on Mars).
- Walter Burkert, 84, German academic and author (Homo Necans).
- Daevid Allen, 77, Australian musician (Soft Machine, Gong).
- Steve Strange, 55, British musician (Visage).
- Michael Graves, 80, American architect.
- Sir Terry Pratchett, 66, British author (Discworld series).
- Albert Maysles, 88, American documentary filmmaker (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens).
- Lasse Braun, 78, Italian porn film director and producer.
- Lesley Gore, 68, American singer ("It's My Party").
- John Hopkins, 78, British photographer, activist, and promoter (Notting Hill Carnival, International Times).
- Will McBride, 84, American photographer.
- Demis Roussos, 68, Egyptian-born Greek singer.
- Edgar Froese, 70, German musician (Tangerine Dream).
- Anita Ekberg, 83, Swedish actress (La Dolce Vita).
- Francesco Rosi, 92, Italian film director (Christ Stopped at Eboli).
- King Sporty, 71, Jamaican-American reggae musician.
- Tadeusz Konwicki, 88, Polish writer and filmmaker.
- Cabu, 76, French cartoonist (Charlie Hebdo shooting).
- Georges Wolinski, 80, French cartoonist (Charlie Hebdo shooting).
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See also
- Deaths in 2014
- Deaths in 2013
- Deaths in 2012
- Deaths in 2011
- Deaths in 2010
- Deaths in 2009
- Deaths in 2008
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