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This is a chronologically ordered list of notable deaths in 2015. See also list of deaths in 2016.

January

2
  • Jimmy Dickens
3 5
  • Al Bendich
7 8
  • Andraé Crouch
10 11
  • Anita Ekberg
  • Vernon Mountcastle
12
  • John Bayley
15
  • Ervin Drake
  • Jean Lindenmann
17
  • Faten Hamama
19 20
  • Edgar Froese
  • Melvin Jay Gordon
21
  • Vince Camuto
23 24
  • Joe Franklin
25
  • Demis Roussos
26 27 29 30 31
  • Lizabeth Scott
  • Richard von Weizsäcker

February

3
  • Martin John Gilbert
  • Charlie Sifford
5 6 7 8
  • John Wesley Baldwin
  • Kenji Ekuan
11
  • Jerry Tarkanian
12
  • John Piña Craven
13
  • Louis Jourdan
14 16
  • Lesley Gore
21
  • Clark Terry
25 26 27 28

March

1 2
  • Bettina Graziani
4
  • William Dickey King
5
  • Edward Cardinal Egan
  • Albert Maysles
7
  • Yoshihiro Tatsumi
8
  • Sam Simon
9
  • Florence Arthaud
  • James Molyneaux
  • Camille Muffat
10
  • Claude Sitton
12 15
  • Xu Caiho
18 19
  • Sashimani Devi
20 21 23 24
  • Roger Laurance Mayer
26 28
  • Miroslav Ondricek
  • Gene Saks

April

1
  • Cynthia Lennon
2 3
  • Sarah Brady
5
  • Barbara Bergmann
7
  • Eugene Louis Faccuito
9
  • T.H. Tsien
10 11
  • Sheila Kitzinger
13 19
  • Raymond Carr
21

May

2 6 9
  • Johnny Gimble
10 14 20
  • Bob Belden
23 25

June

1 2 5 7 11 12 14 16 17 19 21 24 26 29

July

5 8 10 20 21 27

August

1 3 7 9 15 18 22 28
  • Al Arbour
29 30

September

19 20 22 25

October

2 3 5 8
  • Paul Prudhomme
9 10 14 24 25
  • Jack Bruce

November

1 10 18 19 23

December

10 19 23 27 31
This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn.
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