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2015 (MMXV) was
a common year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 2015th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 15th year of the 3rd millennium, the 15th year of
the 21st century,
and the 6th year of the 2010s decade.
2015 was designated as: ·
International Year of
Soils[1] Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
The Eurasian Economic
Union comes into effect, creating a political and economic union between Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. ·
Lithuania officially adopts the euro as
its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes the
nineteenth Eurozonecountry.[2] ·
January 3–7 – A series of massacres in
Baga, Nigeria and surrounding villages by Boko Haram kills more than 2,000
people.[3][4][5][6] ·
January 7 – Two gunmen belonging
to Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch kill 12 people and
injure 11 more at the Parisheadquarters of satirical
newspaper Charlie Hebdo,
prompting an anti-terrorism demonstration attended by over a million people
and more than 40 world leaders.[7][8] ·
January 12 – Government
raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon. ·
January 15 – The Swiss National Bank abandons
the cap on the franc's value
relative to the euro, causing turmoil in international
financial markets.[9][10] ·
January 19 – The Eritrean
Catholic Church is founded. ·
January 22 – After Houthi forces seize the presidential
palace, Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur
Hadiresigns after months of unrest.[11] February[edit] ·
Leaders
from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France reach an agreement on the
conflict in eastern Ukrainethat
includes a ceasefire and withdrawal of heavy weapons. However, several days
later, the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian rebels claim that, within its
first day, the ceasefire was broken 139 times, as both sides failed to
withdraw their heavy weapons and fighting had continued.[12][13] ·
The United
Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 2199 to combat terrorism.[14] ·
February 14 – Two people were killed
and five policemen wounded in Copenhagen, Denmark, at a shooting at
Krudtønden cultural centre and the Great Synagogue. ·
February 16 – The Egyptian military begins
conducting airstrikes against a branch of the Islamic militant group ISIL in Libya in retaliation for the group's
beheading of over a dozen Egyptian Christians.[15] March[edit] ·
March 5–8 – The ancient city sites of Nimrud, Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq are demolished by
the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant.[16][17][18] ·
March 6 – NASA's Dawn probe
enters orbit around Ceres,
becoming the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet.[19][20] ·
March 12 – The Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant becomes allies with fellow jihadist group Boko Haram, effectively annexing the group.[21] ·
March 24 – An Airbus A320-211 operated by Germanwings crashes in
the French Alps,
killing all 150 on board.[22] ·
March 25 – A Saudi Arabia-led coalition of Arab countries
starts a military
intervention in Yemen in order to uphold the Yemeni
government in its fight against the Houthis'
southern offensive.[23][24] April[edit] ·
April 2 – 148 people are killed, the
majority students, in a mass
shooting at the Garissa
University College in Kenya, perpetrated by the militant terrorist
organization Al-Shabaab.[25] ·
April 25 – A magnitude
7.8 earthquake strikes Nepal and causes 8,857 deaths[26][27] in Nepal, 130 in India,[28] 27 in China[29] and 4 in Bangladesh[30] with a total of 9,018 deaths. ·
April 29 – The World Health
Organization (WHO) declares that rubella has been eradicated from
the Americas.[31] May[edit] ·
May 1 – October 31 – Expo 2015 is held in Milan, Italy.[32] ·
May 7 – the 2015
UK General Election results in the first Conservative majority
government in 18 years. ·
May 11–12 – Version O of Les Femmes d'Alger by Pablo Picasso sells for US$179.3
million at Christie's auction
in New York, while the sculpture L'Homme au doigt by Alberto Giacometti sells
for US$141.3
million, setting a new world record for a
painting and for a
sculpture, respectively.[33][34] ·
May 12 – A second major
earthquake in Nepal, measuring 7.3 on the moment magnitude
scale, results in 153 deaths in Nepal,[35] 62 in India,[36] 1 in China[37] and 2 in Bangladesh[37] with a total of 218 deaths. ·
May 20 – The two constituent republics
of Novorossiya,
the Donetsk
People's Republic and the Luhansk
People's Republic, announce the suspension of the Novorossiya
project, returning to separate (though internationally unrecognised) states.[citation needed] ·
May 21 – ISIS captures the ancient city
of Palmyra in Syria.[citation needed] ·
May 23 – Ireland votes
to legalize same-sex
marriage, becoming the first country to legalize same-sex marriage
by popular vote.[38] June[edit] ·
June 2 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his intention to
resign amidst an FBI-led corruption
investigation, and calls for an extraordinary congress to elect a
new president as soon as possible.[39] ·
June 6 – The governments of India and Bangladesh officially ratify their 1974
agreement to exchange enclaves along
their border.[40] ·
June 25–26 – ISIL claim
responsibility for three attacks around the world during Ramadan: ·
Kobanî massacre:
ISIL fighters detonate three car bombs, enter Kobanî, Syria, and open fire at civilians,
killing more than 220.[41] ·
Sousse attacks:
22-year-old Seifeddine Rezgui opens fire at a tourist resort at Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia, killing 38 people.[42] ·
Kuwait mosque
bombing: A suicide bomber attacks the Shia Mosque Imam Ja'far
as-Sadiq at Kuwait City, Kuwait,
killing 27 people and injuring 227 others.[43] ·
June 30 – Cuba becomes
the first country in the world to eradicate mother-to-child
transmission of HIV and syphilis.[44] July[edit] ·
July 1 – Greek
government-debt crisis: Greece becomes the first advanced
economy to miss a payment to the International
Monetary Fund in the 71-year history of the IMF.[45] ·
July 5–13 – Greek
government-debt crisis: After six months of clashes and futile
negotiations between Greece's newly
elected, leftist government and the country's creditors, over the
austerity measures imposed through bailout programmes, tension peaks as
Greece votes in
a referendum to reject the terms offered in a third programme;[46] however the government eventually proceeds to concur
to harsher terms than those offered
before, in what was widely characterized as a coup on the creditors' part.[47] ·
July 14 ·
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performs a
close flyby of Pluto, becoming the first
spacecraft in history to visit the distant world.[48] ·
Iran agrees to
long-term limits of its nuclear program in
exchange for sanctions relief.[49] ·
July 20 – Cuba and
the United States reestablish full diplomatic relations,
ending a 54-year stretch of hostility between the nations.[50] ·
July 24 – Turkey begins a
series of airstrikes against PKK and ISIL targets
after the 2015 Suruç bombing.[51] August[edit] ·
August 5 – Debris found on Réunion Island is confirmed to be that
of Malaysia
Airlines Flight 370, missing since March 2014.[52] ·
August 17 – A bombing takes
place inside the Erawan Shrine at
the Ratchaprasong intersection
in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, Thailand,
killing 20 people and injuring 125.[53] September[edit] ·
September 10 – Scientists announce the
discovery of Homo naledi, a
previously unknown species of early
human in South Africa.[54] ·
September 11 – Queen Elizabeth II,
having been on the throne for 63 years, 217 days, became the
longest-reigning British monarch in history and the longest-serving head of
state of any nation in modern history, surpassing Queen Victoria who had reigned for
63 years, 216 days upon her death on January 22, 1901. ·
First
observation of gravitational waves: Gravitational waves are
detected for the first time, by LIGO.
This is not announced until February 11, 2016.[55] ·
Malcolm Turnbull defeats Tony Abbott in a Liberal Party leadership ballot.[56] Turnbull becomes Prime
Minister of Australia, being sworn in the following day.[57] ·
September 18 – Automaker Volkswagen is alleged to have been
involved in worldwide rigging of
diesel emissions tests, affecting an estimated 11 million vehicles
globally.[58][59] ·
September 24 – A stampede during
the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca kills at least 2,200 people and
injures more than 900 others, with more than 650 missing.[60] ·
September 28 – NASA announces
that liquid water has been found on Mars.[61] ·
September 30 – Russia begins air
strikes against ISIL and anti-government forces in
Syria, in support of the Syrian government.[62] October[edit] ·
October 3 – A United States
airstrike on a Médecins Sans
Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) hospital in Afghanistan accidentally kills an
estimated 20 people.[63] ·
October 10 – A series of suicide bombings kills
at least 100 people at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey, and injures more than 400
others.[64] ·
October 23 – Hurricane Patricia becomes
the most intense hurricane
ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere and
the second strongest worldwide, with winds of 215 mph and a pressure of
872 mbar.[65] ·
October 26 – A magnitude 7.5
earthquake strikes the Hindu Kush region and causes 398
deaths,[66] with 279 in Pakistan, 115 in Afghanistan and 4 in India. ·
October 31 – Kogalymavia
Flight 9268, an Airbus A321 airliner en route to Saint Petersburg from Sharm el-Sheikh, crashes near Al-Hasana in
Sinai, killing all 217 passengers and 7 crew members on board.[67] November[edit] ·
November 7 – Chinese and Taiwanese
presidents, Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou, formally meet for
the first time.[68] ·
November 12 – Two suicide bombers detonated explosives in
Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others. ·
November 13 – Multiple
terrorist attacks claimed by Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Paris, France, result in 130 fatalities.[69] ·
November 24 – Turkey shoots
down a Russian fighter jet
on the Turkish-Syrian border in
the first case of a NATO member destroying
a Russian aircraft since the 1950s.[70] ·
November 30 – The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP
21) is held in Paris, attended by leaders from 147 nations.[71] December[edit] ·
December 12 – A global climate change pact is agreed at the COP 21 summit, committing all countries to
reduce carbon emissions for
the first time.[72] ·
December 15 – The Islamic
Military Alliance is formed in order to fight terrorism.[73] ·
December 22 – SpaceX lands an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket, the first reusable rocket to
successfully enter orbital space and return.[74] Births[edit] ·
May 2 – Princess
Charlotte of Cambridge ·
June 15 – Prince
Nicolas, Duke of Ångermanland Deaths[edit] Main article: Deaths in 2015 Further
information: Category:2015 deaths
January[edit] ·
Ulrich Beck, German sociologist (b. 1944) ·
Mario Cuomo, American politician (b. 1932) ·
Omar Karami, 58th Prime Minister of Lebanon
(b. 1934) ·
Boris Morukov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1950) ·
Donna Douglas, American actress (b. 1932) ·
January 3 – Edward Brooke, American politician (b. 1919) ·
January 4 – Stuart Scott, American sports journalist
(b. 1965) ·
January 4 – Pino Daniele, Italian singer, songwriter,
and guitarist (b. 1955) ·
January 5 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise,
French race car driver (b. 1937) ·
January 6 – Vlastimil Bubník,
Czech ice hockey player and footballer (b. 1931) ·
Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer and film
director (b. 1926) ·
Rod Taylor, Australian actor (b. 1930) ·
January 8 – Andraé Crouch, American singer, songwriter,
and pastor (b. 1942) ·
January 9 – Józef Oleksy, 7th Prime Minister of Poland
(b. 1946) ·
Taylor Negron, American actor (b. 1957) ·
Francesco Rosi, Italian film director
(b. 1922) ·
Jenő Buzánszky,
Hungarian footballer (b. 1925) ·
Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (b. 1931) ·
January 12 – Elena Obraztsova, Russian opera singer
(b. 1939) ·
January 16 – Yao Beina, Chinese singer (b. 1981) ·
January 17 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (b. 1931) ·
Edgar Froese, German musician (b. 1944) ·
Hitoshi Saito, Japanese judoka (b. 1961) ·
January 21 – Leon Brittan, British politician (b. 1939) ·
January 23 – King Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia (b. 1924) ·
January 24 – Otto Carius, German WWII tank commander
(b. 1922) ·
January 25 – Demis Roussos, Greek singer (b. 1946) ·
January 27 – Charles Hard Townes,
American Nobel physicist (b. 1915) ·
January 28 – Yves Chauvin, French Nobel chemist (b. 1930) ·
January 29 – Colleen McCullough,
Australian writer (b. 1937) ·
Carl Djerassi, American chemist (b. 1923) ·
Geraldine McEwan, British actress (b. 1932) ·
Zhelyu Zhelev, 1st President of Bulgaria
(b. 1935) ·
Lizabeth Scott, American actress (b. 1922) ·
Richard von
Weizsäcker, President of Germany (b. 1920) February[edit] ·
Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-born French pianist
(b. 1925) ·
Udo Lattek, German footballer and coach
(b. 1935) ·
February 3 – Martin Gilbert, English historian (b. 1936) ·
Henri Coppens, Belgian footballer and coach
(b. 1930) ·
Val Logsdon Fitch,
American Nobel physicist (b. 1923) ·
André Brink, South African writer (b. 1935) ·
Assia Djebar, Algerian writer (b. 1936) ·
February 7 – Marshall Rosenberg,
American psychologist and writer (b. 1934) ·
February 10 – Karl Josef Becker,
German cardinal (b. 1928) ·
February 11 – Bob Simon, American correspondent (b. 1941) ·
February 12 – Movita Castaneda, American actress (b. 1916) ·
Michele Ferrero, Italian businessman
(b. 1925) ·
Louis Jourdan, French-American actor
(b. 1921) ·
Franjo Mihalić,
Croatian-Serbian athlete and coach (b. 1920) ·
Wim Ruska, Dutch wrestler and martial artist
(b. 1940) ·
Lesley Gore, American singer (b. 1946) ·
Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress (b. 1971) ·
February 18 – Claude Criquielion,
Belgian road bicycle racer (b. 1957) ·
Aleksei Gubarev, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1931) ·
Clark Terry, American jazz trumpeter and
flugelhornist (b. 1920) ·
February 23 – Ben Woolf, American actor (b. 1980) ·
February 24 – Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh politician and
businessman (b. 1962) ·
Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician (b. 1959) ·
Leonard Nimoy, American actor (b. 1931) ·
Yaşar Kemal, Turkish author (b. 1923) ·
Anthony Mason,
American basketball player (b. 1966) March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Joshua Fishman, American linguist (b. 1926) ·
Wolfram Wuttke, German footballer (b. 1961) ·
March 2 – Dave Mackay, Scottish footballer and coach
(b. 1934) ·
March 5 – Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932) ·
March 7 ·
Yoshihiro Tatsumi,
Japanese manga artist (b. 1935) ·
Shinji Ogawa, Japanese voice actor and actor
(b. 1941) ·
March 8 – Sam Simon, American producer and
philanthropist (b. 1955) ·
March 9 ·
Camille Muffat, French swimmer (b. 1989) ·
Frei Otto, German architect (b. 1925) ·
Alexis Vastine, French boxer (b. 1986) ·
March 10 – Fred Fredericks, American cartoonist
(b. 1929) ·
March 11 – Walter Burkert, German academic and writer
(b. 1931) ·
March 12 ·
Michael Graves, American architect (b. 1934) ·
Terry Pratchett, English writer (b. 1948) ·
March 13 – Daevid Allen, Australian musician (b. 1938) ·
March 14 – Valentin Rasputin,
Russian writer (b. 1937) ·
March 15 ·
Mike Porcaro, American bass guitarist
(b. 1955) ·
Xu Caihou, Chinese army general (b. 1943) ·
March 16 – Andy Fraser, English songwriter and bass
guitarist (b. 1952) ·
March 19 – Gerda van der
Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete (b. 1923) ·
March 20 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of
Australia (b. 1930) ·
March 21 ·
Hans Erni, Swiss artist (b. 1909) ·
Jørgen Ingmann,
Danish musician (b. 1925) ·
Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (b. 1955) ·
March 23 – Lee Kuan Yew, 1st Prime Minister of
Singapore (b. 1923) ·
March 26 ·
Dinkha IV, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1935) ·
Tomas Tranströmer,
Swedish Nobel poet and translator (b. 1931) ·
March 27 – Olga Syahputra, Indonesian actor and singer
(b. 1983) ·
March 29 – Miroslav
Ondříček, Czech cinematographer (b. 1934) ·
March 30 – Ingrid van
Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer (b. 1921) April[edit] ·
April 2 ·
Robert Schuller, American televangelist and
motivational speaker (b. 1926) ·
Manoel de Oliveira,
Portuguese film director and screenwriter (b. 1908) ·
April 4 – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish author (b. 1931) ·
April 6 – James Best, American actor (b. 1926) ·
April 7 – Geoffrey Lewis,
American actor (b. 1935) ·
April 8 – Jean-Claude Turcotte,
Canadian cardinal (b. 1936) ·
April 10 – Rose Francine
Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician (b. 1942) ·
April 13 ·
Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer (b. 1940) ·
Günter Grass, German Nobel writer (b. 1927) ·
Thelma Coyne Long,
Australian tennis player (b. 1918) ·
April 14 ·
Percy Sledge, American singer (b. 1940) ·
Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal (b. 1921) ·
April 15 – Surya Bahadur Thapa,
24th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1928) ·
April 16 – Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the
Czech Republic (b. 1969) ·
April 17 – Francis George, American cardinal (b. 1937) ·
April 24 – Władysław
Bartoszewski, Polish politician and resistance fighter (b. 1922) ·
April 26 ·
Jayne Meadows, American actress and author
(b. 1919) ·
Izatullo Khayoyev,
6th Prime Minister of Tajikistan (b. 1936) ·
April 27 ·
Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler
(b. 1926) ·
Andrew Lesnie, Australian cinematographer
(b. 1956) ·
Suzanne Crough, American actress (b. 1963) ·
April 29 – Giovanni Canestri,
Italian prelate (b. 1918) May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Geoff Duke, British motorcycle racer
(b. 1923) ·
Grace Lee Whitney,
American actress and singer (b. 1930) ·
May 2 ·
Maya Plisetskaya, Soviet Union-born
Lithuanian and Spanish ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and
actress (b. 1925) ·
Ruth Rendell, British author and life peer
(b. 1930) ·
May 9 – Kenan Evren, Turkish military officer,
7th President of Turkey (b. 1917) ·
May 10 – Chris Burden, American artist (b. 1946) ·
May 12 – Peter Gay, American psychohistorian
(b. 1923) ·
May 14 – B.B. King, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1925) ·
May 15 – Renzo Zorzi, Italian racing driver (b. 1946) ·
May 18 ·
Halldór Ásgrímsson,
Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1947) ·
Raymond Gosling, British scientist (b. 1926) ·
May 19 – Gerald Götting,
German politician (b. 1923) ·
May 21 – Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker
(b. 1969) ·
May 23 ·
Anne Meara, American actress and comedian
(b. 1929) ·
John Forbes Nash Jr.,
American Nobel mathematician (b. 1928) ·
May 24 – Tanith Lee, British writer (b. 1947) ·
May 25 – Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer
(b. 1940) ·
May 26 – Vicente Aranda, Spanish film director
(b. 1926) ·
May 27 – Nils Christie, Norwegian criminologist
(b. 1928) ·
May 29 ·
Henry Carr, American sprinter (b. 1941) ·
Doris Hart, American tennis player (b. 1925) ·
Betsy Palmer, American actress (b. 1926) June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Charles Kennedy, British politician
(b. 1959) ·
Nicholas Liverpool,
Dominican politician, sixth President of
Dominica (b. 1934) ·
June 2 – Irwin Rose, American Nobel biochemist
(b. 1926) ·
June 4 – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer
(b. 1918) ·
June 5 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician (b. 1936) ·
June 6 ·
Pierre Brice, French actor (b. 1929) ·
Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author
(b. 1934) ·
June 7 – Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922) ·
June 8 – Mary Ellen Trainor,
American actress (b. 1952) ·
June 9 – James Last, German composer and big band
leader (b. 1929) ·
June 11 ·
Ornette Coleman, American free jazz
saxophonist (b. 1930) ·
Ron Moody, British actor (b. 1924) ·
Dusty Rhodes,
American professional wrestler (b. 1945) ·
June 14 ·
Qiao Shi, Chinese politician (b. 1924) ·
Zito,
Brazilian footballer (b. 1932) ·
June 15 ·
Jeanna Friske, Russian singer, model, and
actress (b. 1974) ·
Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman
(b. 1917) ·
June 16 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (b. 1930) ·
June 17 ·
Ron Clarke, Australian runner (b. 1937) ·
Süleyman Demirel,
Turkish politician, ninth President of Turkey (b. 1924) ·
Roberto M.
Levingston, Argentine general and politician, 36th President of
Argentina (b. 1920) ·
June 20 – Esther Brand, South African athlete
(b. 1922) ·
June 21 ·
Veijo Meri, Finnish writer (b. 1928) ·
Gunther Schuller, American composer,
conductor, historian, and jazz musician (b. 1925) ·
June 22 ·
Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (b. 1941) ·
James Horner, American film composer
(b. 1953) ·
June 23 ·
Magali Noël, French actress and singer
(b. 1931) ·
Dick Van Patten, American actor (b. 1928) ·
June 25 ·
Nerses Bedros
XIX Tarmouni, Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia (b. 1940) ·
Patrick Macnee, English actor (b. 1922) ·
June 26 – Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician and
diplomat, Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999 (b. 1929) ·
June 27 – Chris Squire, English bass guitarist
(b. 1948) ·
June 29 ·
Josef Masopust, Czech football player and
coach (b. 1931) ·
Charles Pasqua, French politician (b. 1927) July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Sergio Sollima, Italian film director
(b. 1921) ·
Nicholas Winton, British humanitarian
(b. 1909) ·
July 3 – Diana Douglas, Bermudan actress (b. 1923) ·
July 5 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American Nobel
physicist (b. 1921) ·
July 10 ·
Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor (b. 1944) ·
Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (b. 1932) ·
Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor (b. 1926) ·
July 11 ·
Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (b. 1928) ·
Patricia Crone, Danish scholar (b. 1945) ·
Satoru Iwata, Japanese businessman and video
game programmer (b. 1959) ·
July 12 – Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean poet (b. 1956) ·
July 13 – Martin Litchfield
West, British classical scholar (b. 1937) ·
July 14 – Ildikó
Schwarczenberger, Hungarian fencer (b. 1951) ·
July 15 – Wan Li, Chinese politician (b. 1916) ·
July 16 – Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer
(b. 1926) ·
July 17 – Jules Bianchi, French race car driver
(b. 1989) ·
July 18 – Alex Rocco, American actor (b. 1936) ·
July 19 – Galina
Prozumenshchikova, Soviet swimmer (b. 1948) ·
July 21 ·
Theodore Bikel, Austrian-born American actor
(b. 1924) ·
E. L. Doctorow, American author (b. 1931) ·
July 23 ·
William Wakefield
Baum, American prelate (b. 1926) ·
Mexicano
777, Puerto Rican rapper (b. 1972) ·
July 27 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam,
Indian scientist and politician, 11th President of India (b. 1931) ·
July 28 – Edward Natapei, 6th Prime Minister of
Vanuatu (b. 1954) ·
July 30 ·
Lynn Anderson, American country singer
(b. 1947) ·
Alena Vrzáňová,
Czech figure skater (b. 1931) ·
July 31 – Roddy Piper, Canadian wrestler (b. 1954) August[edit] ·
August 1 – Cilla Black, English singer and entertainer
(b. 1943) ·
August 3 – Robert Conquest, British-born American
historian (b. 1917) ·
August 7 ·
Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (b. 1929) ·
Frances Oldham
Kelsey, Canadian physician (b. 1914) ·
August 8 – Sean Price, American rapper (b. 1972) ·
August 9 – John Henry Holland,
American computer scientist (b. 1929) ·
August 11 – Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer (b. 1941) ·
August 12 – Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and
logician (b. 1929) ·
August 14 – Bob Johnston, American record producer
(b. 1932) ·
August 16 – Mile Mrkšić, Serbian military officer
(b. 1947) ·
Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican theoretical
physicist (b. 1947) ·
Yvonne Craig, American actress (b. 1937) ·
Arsen Dedić, Croatian musician
(b. 1938) ·
László Paskai,
Hungarian cardinal (b. 1927) ·
Egon Bahr, German politician (b. 1922) ·
Jocelyne Ouellette,
Canadian politician (b. 1944)[importance?] ·
Ieng Thirith, Cambodian politician (b. 1932) ·
Eric
Thompson, English racing driver (b. 1919) ·
August 23 – Guy Ligier, French racing driver and team
owner (b. 1930) ·
August 24 – Justin
Wilson, British racing driver (b. 1978) ·
August 27 – Kazi Zafar Ahmed, 8th Prime Minister of
Bangladesh (b. 1939) ·
August 29 – Wayne Dyer, American author and motivational
speaker (b. 1940) ·
Wes Craven, American film director and
writer (b. 1939) ·
Oliver Sacks, British-American neurologist
and writer (b. 1933) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Dean Jones,
American actor (b. 1931) ·
September 3 – Chandra Bahadur
Dangi, Nepalese dwarf, world's shortest man (b. 1939) ·
September 4 – Rico Rodriguez,
Cuban-British musician (b. 1934) ·
September 5 – Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (b. 1920) ·
September 6 – Martin Milner, American actor (b. 1931) ·
September 7 – Candida Royalle, American actress and
director (b. 1950) ·
September 10 – Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer
(b. 1928) ·
September 12 – Ron Springett, British footballer (b. 1935) ·
September 13 – Moses Malone, American basketball player
(b. 1955) ·
September 14 – Corneliu Vadim Tudor,
Romanian politician (b. 1949) ·
David Willcocks, English organist, conductor
and composer (b. 1919) ·
Dettmar Cramer, German football coach
(b. 1925) ·
September 19 – Jackie Collins, British novelist (b. 1937) ·
September 22 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player
(b. 1925) ·
September 23 – Dragan Holcer, Croatian footballer (b. 1945) ·
John Guillermin, British film director and
producer (b. 1925) ·
Pietro Ingrao, Italian politician (b. 1915) ·
September 28 – Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (b. 1939) ·
September 29 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist (b. 1931) October[edit] ·
Eric Arturo Delvalle,
Panamanian politician (b. 1937) ·
Brian Friel, Irish playwright (b. 1929) ·
October 3 – Denis Healey, British politician (b. 1917) ·
Chantal Akerman, Belgian filmmaker (b. 1950) ·
Infante
Carlos, Spanish nobleman (b. 1938) ·
Henning Mankell, Swedish author (b. 1948) ·
October 6 – Árpád Göncz,
Hungarian politician, President of Hungary (b. 1922) ·
Dominique Dropsy, French footballer
(b. 1951) ·
Harry Gallatin, American basketball player
and coach (b. 1927) ·
Jurelang Zedkaia, Fifth President of the
Marshall Islands (b. 1950) ·
October 8 – Jim Diamond,
Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1951) ·
October 9 – Geoffrey Howe, British politician (b. 1926) ·
October 10 – Richard F. Heck, American chemist (b. 1931) ·
October 12 – Joan Leslie, American actress and singer
(b. 1925) ·
Nurlan Balgimbayev,
Kazakh politician (b. 1947) ·
Mathieu Kérékou,
5th President of Benin (b. 1933) ·
Danièle Delorme,
French actress (b. 1926) ·
Howard Kendall, English footballer and
manager (b. 1946) ·
October 18 – Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian author (b. 1945) ·
October 19 – Ali Treki, Libyan diplomat (b. 1938) ·
October 23 – Paride Tumburus, Italian footballer
(b. 1939) ·
Ján Chryzostom Korec,
Slovakian cardinal (b. 1924) ·
Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress
(b. 1920) ·
October 25 – Flip Saunders, American basketball player
and coach (b. 1955) ·
Willis Carto, American politician (b. 1926) ·
Leo Kadanoff, American physicist (b. 1937) ·
Sinan Şamil Sam,
Turkish boxer (b. 1974) ·
Al Molinaro, American actor (b. 1919) ·
October 31 – Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater (b. 1938) November[edit] ·
Günter Schabowski,
German politician (b. 1929) ·
Fred Thompson, American politician and actor
(b. 1942) ·
November 3 – Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician (b. 1944) ·
René Girard, French-American historian
(b. 1923) ·
Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
(b. 1950) ·
Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923) ·
Czesław
Kiszczak, Polish soldier and politician (b. 1925) ·
November 6 – Yitzhak Navon, Israeli politician, President
of Israel (b. 1921) ·
November 7 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-American actor and
author (b. 1947) ·
Abd Al-Karim
Al-Iryani, Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1934) ·
Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist (b. 1925) ·
Ernst Fuchs,
Austrian painter (b. 1930) ·
Allen Toussaint, American musician (b. 1938) ·
Andy White,
Scottish drummer (b. 1930) ·
André Glucksmann,
French philosopher (b. 1937) ·
Klaus Roth, British mathematician (b. 1925) ·
Helmut Schmidt, German politician,
Chancellor of West Germany (b. 1918) ·
November 11 – Phil Taylor,
English rock drummer (b. 1954) ·
Márton Fülöp,
Hungarian footballer (b. 1983) ·
Jihadi John, Kuwaiti member of ISIS (b. 1988) ·
November 15 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor
(b. 1929) ·
Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union player
(b. 1975) ·
Mal Whitfield, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1924) ·
November 20 – Kitanoumi Toshimitsu,
Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1953) ·
Bob Foster,
American boxer (b. 1938) ·
Linda Haglund, Swedish sprinter (b. 1956) ·
November 22 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean politician,
President of South Korea (b. 1929) ·
November 23 – Douglass North, American economist (b. 1920) ·
November 28 – Gerry
Byrne, English footballer (b. 1938) ·
Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan feminist writer
and sociologist (b. 1940) ·
Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese manga artist
(b. 1922) ·
Eldar Ryazanov, Russian film director
(b. 1927) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player
(b. 1930) ·
Gabriele Ferzetti,
Italian actor (b. 1925) ·
Ferenc Juhász,
Hungarian poet (b. 1928) ·
December 3 – Scott Weiland, American singer and musician
(b. 1967) ·
Erik De Vlaeminck,
Belgian professional cyclist (b. 1945) ·
Robert Loggia, American actor (b. 1930) ·
Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (b. 1940) ·
December 5 – Dimitar Iliev Popov,
41st Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1927) ·
December 6 – Franzl Lang, German Yodeler (b. 1930) ·
December 7 – Martin E. Brooks, American actor (b. 1925) ·
December 8 – Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer
(b. 1936) ·
Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal (b. 1921) ·
Julio Terrazas
Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (b. 1936) ·
Arnold Peralta, Honduran footballer
(b. 1989) ·
Dolph Schayes, American basketball player
and coach (b. 1928) ·
December 13 – Benedict Anderson,
American academic (b. 1936) ·
December 15 – Licio Gelli, Italian financier (b. 1919) ·
Greville Janner, British politician,
barrister, and writer (b. 1928) ·
Jimmy Hill, English footballer and
television presenter (b. 1928) ·
Kurt Masur, German conductor (b. 1927) ·
Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist
and biochemist (b. 1941) ·
Don Howe, English footballer (b. 1935) ·
Bülent Ulusu, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey
(b. 1923) ·
Stein Eriksen, Norwegian alpine skier,
Olympic champion (b. 1927) ·
Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (b. 1923) ·
Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer and
film director (b. 1922) ·
Eloy Inos, American politician, Governor of
the Northern Mariana Islands (b. 1949) ·
Lemmy, English musician (b. 1945) ·
Ian Murdock, German-American software
programmer (b. 1973) ·
Elżbieta
Krzesińska, Polish athlete (b. 1934) ·
Pavel Srníček,
Czech footballer (b. 1968) ·
Natalie Cole, American singer (b. 1950) ·
Wayne Rogers, American actor and investor
(b. 1933) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Chemistry – Paul L. Modrich; Aziz Sancar and Tomas Lindahl ·
Literature – Svetlana Alexievich ·
Peace – Tunisian
National Dialogue Quartet ·
Physics – Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald ·
Physiology
or Medicine – William
C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Tu Youyou |
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