The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2015. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months".

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.


June 2015

 June 1 - Shone An, 31, Taiwanese singer (Comic Boyz) and actor, liver cancer.
 June 1 - Joan Kirner, 76, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (1990–1992), oesophageal cancer.
 June 1 - Nobutaka Machimura, 70, Japanese politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (2014–2015), cerebral infarction.
 June 1 - Charles Kennedy, 55, British politician, Leader of the Liberal Democrats (1999–2006), MP (1983–2015), haemorrhage.
 June 1 - Jacques Parizeau, 84, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (1994–1996).
 June 1 - Nicholas Liverpool, 80, Dominican politician, President (2003–2012), heart attack.
 June 1 - Jean Ritchie, 92, American folk singer and song collector.
 June 1 - Kirill Pokrovsky, 53, Russian composer.
 June 2 - Alberto De Martino, 85, Italian movie director (O.K. Connery, Holocaust 2000, The Pumaman).
 June 2 - Irwin Rose, 88, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004).
 June 2 - Theo Saat, 87, Dutch Olympic sprinter (1952).
 June 2 - Fernando de Araújo, 52, East Timorese politician, President of the National Parliament (2007–2012), Acting President (2008).
 June 2 - Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, 80, Colombian-born Dutch artist.
 June 3 - Avi Beker, 64, Israeli academic, secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress (2001–2003), cancer.
 June 3 - Margaret Juntwait, 58, American radio host, host of Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts (since 2014), ovarian cancer.
 June 4 - Kurt Weber, 87, Polish cinematographer (Salto).
 June 4 - Bengt Berndtsson, 82, Swedish footballer (IFK Göteborg). 
 June 4 - Leonid Plyushch, 77, Ukrainian Soviet dissident and mathematician.
 June 4 - Hermann Zapf, 96, German typeface designer.
 June 4 - Albert West, 65, Dutch singer (The Shuffles) and record producer.
 June 5 - Alan Bond, 77, Australian businessman, figure of the WA Inc scandals, complications from heart surgery.
 June 5 - Roger Vergé, 85, French chef, co-founder of Nouvelle Cuisine, complications of diabetes.
 June 5 - Jerry Collins, 34, New Zealand rugby union player (national team), car accident.
 June 5 - Jane Briggs Hart, 93, American aviator, member of the Mercury 13, Alzheimer's disease.
 June 5 - Sadun Boro, 87, Turkish sailor, bladder cancer.
 June 5 - Tariq Aziz, 79, Iraqi politician, Foreign Affairs Minister (1983–1991), heart attack.
 June 5 - Giacomo Furia, 90, Italian actor (The Band of Honest Men, The Gold of Naples).
 June 5 - Kazuo Chiba, 75, Japanese Aikido teacher.
 June 6 - Pierre Brice, 86, French actor (Old Shatterhand, Mill of the Stone Women), pneumonia.
 June 6 - Ludvík Vaculík, 88, Czech writer and journalist.
 June 6 - Richard Johnson, 87, English actor (The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Haunting).
 June 6 - Ronnie Gilbert, 88, American singer-songwriter (The Weavers) and activist, natural causes.
 June 6 - Aarthi Agarwal, 31, American Telugu cinema actress, cardiac arrest.
 June 7 - Vasili Zhupikov, 61, Russian footballer.
 June 7 - Sir Christopher Lee, 93, British actor and singer (Dracula, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars), heart failure.
 June 8 - Chea Sim, 82, Cambodian politician, president Cambodian People's Party.
 June 8 - David Rotem, 66, Israeli politician, Member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu (2007–2015), cardiac arrest.
 June 8 - Frank Cappuccino, 86, American boxing referee, Alzheimer's disease.
 June 9 - James Last, 86, German composer.
 June 9 - Fred Anton Maier, 76, Norwegian Olympic champion speed skater, cancer.
 June 9 - Douglas Danforth, 92, American businessman, CEO of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
 June 9 - Pedro Zerolo, 54, Venezuelan-born Spanish politician, pancreatic cancer.
 June 10 - Wolfgang Jeschke, 78, German science fiction author (The Last Day of Creation).
 June 10 - Robert Chartoff, 81, American movie producer (Rocky, Raging Bull, Ender's Game), Oscar winner (1977), pancreatic cancer.
 June 11 - Ornette Coleman, 85, American saxophonist and free jazz pioneer, cardiac arrest.
 June 11 - Jack King, 84, American public affairs officer (NASA), congestive heart failure.
 June 11 - Ron Moody, 91, British actor (Oliver!, The Animals of Farthing Wood, EastEnders).
  June 11 - Dusty Rhodes, 69, American professional wrestler (NWA, WCW, WWE), kidney failure.
 June 11 - Jim Ed Brown, 81, American country singer (The Browns), cancer.
 June 11 - Sebastiano Mannironi, 84, Italian Olympic weightlifter (1956, 1960, 1964). 
 June 12 - Monica Lewis, 93, American singer and actress (Earthquake).
 June 12 - Fernando Brant, 68, Brazilian poet and composer, surgical complications. 
 June 13 - Magnus Härenstam, 73, Swedish actor (Sällskapsresan, Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen?) and comedian (Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter), spinal cancer.
 June 13 - Sergio Renán, 82, Argentine actor, director and screenwriter (The Truce), pneumonia.
 June 13 - Drs. P, 95, Dutch singer-writer, composer and poet.
 June 13 - Buddy Boudreaux, 97, American jazz saxophonist and band leader. 
 June 14 - Hugo Blanco, 74, Venezuelan musician and composer.
 June 14 - Anne Nicol Gaylor, 88, American atheism and reproductive rights advocate; co-founder of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, complications from a fall.
 June 14 - Zito, 82, Brazilian footballer, World Cup-winning team member (1958, 1962), complications of a stroke.
 June 14 - Qiao Shi, 90, Chinese politician, Chairman of the National People's Congress.
 June 15 - Jean Doré, 70, Canadian politician, Mayor of Montreal (1986–1994), pancreatic cancer.
 June 15 - Blaze Starr, 83, American stripper, burlesque comedienne and club owner, subject of Blaze.
 June 15 - Jeanna Friske, 40, Russian singer (Blestyaschie), glioblastoma.
 June 15 - Harry Rowohlt, 70, German author.
 June 15 - Kirk Kerkorian, 98, American businessman.
 June 15 - Mighty Sam McClain, 72, American soul blues singer, stroke.
 June 16 - Charles Correa, 84, Indian architect.
 June 16 - Tony Ranasinghe, 77, Sri Lankan actor (Hanthane Kathawa, Duhulu Malak, Ahasin Polawata) and writer.
 June 17 - Süleyman Demirel, 90, Turkish politician, President (1993–2000), lung infection.
 June 17 - Ron Clarke, 78, Australian long distance runner, Olympic bronze medalist (1964), Mayor of the Gold Coast, Queensland (2004–2012), kidney failure.
 June 17 - Clementa C. Pinckney, 41, American politician and pastor, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1997–2000) and Senate (since 2000), shot.
 June 17 - Nelson Doubleday, Jr., 81, American publisher (Doubleday) and Major League Baseball team owner (New York Mets), pneumonia.
 June 17 - Roberto M. Levingston, 95, Argentine politician, President (1970–1971).
 June 17 - John David Crow, 79, American Heisman Trophy-winning football player (Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals) and coach (Northeast Louisiana).
 June 17 - Jeralean Talley, 116, American supercentenarian, world's oldest person.
 June 17 - Nicola Badalucco, 86, Italian screenwriter (The Damned) and journalist.
 June 17 - Chang Ch'ung-ho, 101, Chinese-American poet, calligrapher, and Kunqu opera singer.
 June 18 - Phil Austin, 74, American comedian, writer, and musician (Firesign Theatre).
 June 18 - Ralph J. Roberts, 95, American businessman, founder of Comcast.
 June 18 - Jack Rollins, 100, American movie producer (Midnight in Paris, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Irrational Man).
 June 18 - Allen Weinstein, 77, American historian, Archivist of the United States (2005–2008), pneumonia.
 June 18 - Sir Patrick Eisdell Moore, 97, New Zealand surgeon.
 June 19 - Harold Battiste, 83, American jazz and R&B composer, arranger and musician (Sam Cooke, Sonny & Cher, Dr. John).
 June 19 - Fredrik Fasting Torgersen, 80, Norwegian convicted murderer, complications of pneumonia.
 June 19 - Wendell Holmes, 71, American musician (The Holmes Brothers), complications from pulmonary embolism.
 June 19 - Jack Aeby, 91, American photographer.
 June 19 - James Salter, 90, American novelist.
 June 20 - François Delapierre, 44, French politician, brain tumour.
 June 20 - Elson Floyd, 59, American educator, President of Washington State University (since 2007), complications from colon cancer.
 June 20 - Angelo Niculescu, 93, Romanian football manager.
 June 20 - Takanonami Sadahiro, 43, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach, heart failure.
 June 20 - Esther Brand, 92, South African athlete, complications of a fall.
 June 20 - William Brantley Aycock, 99, American educator.
 June 21 - Veijo Meri, 86, Finnish author.
 June 21 - James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, 85, Scottish nobleman.
 June 21 - Gunther Schuller, 89, American composer, conductor, historian and jazz musician, leukemia.
 June 21 - Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, 82, East German politician.
 June 22 - Laura Antonelli, 73, Italian actress (Malicious, Till Marriage Do Us Part, The Innocent), heart attack.
 June 22 - James Horner, 61, American composer (Titanic, Field of Dreams, Apollo 13), Oscar winner (1998), plane crash.
 June 23 - Helmuth Lohner, 82, Austrian actor and theatre director.
 June 23 - Magali Noël, 84, French actress (La Dolce Vita) and singer ("Fais-moi mal, Johnny").
 June 23 - Marujita Díaz, 83, Spanish singer and actress (Música y estrellas), complications from colon cancer.
 June 23 - Dick Van Patten, 86, American actor (Eight is Enough, The Love Boat, Charly), complications from diabetes.
 June 23 - Harvey Pollack, 93, American sport statistician, last surviving employee in first NBA season.
 June 23 - Sir Chris Woodhead, 68, British educationalist, Chief Inspector for Ofsted (1994–2000), motor neurone disease.
 June 23 - Thé Lau, 62, Dutch singer and guitarist (The Scene), lung cancer.
 June 24 - Walter Browne, 66, Australian-born American chess Grandmaster, six-time U.S. champion.
 June 24 - Cristiano Araújo, 29, Brazilian singer and songwriter, traffic collision.
 June 24 - Mario Biaggi, 97, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1969–1988).
 June 24 - Marva Collins, 78, American educator.
 June 25 - Patrick Macnee, 93, English-American actor (The Avengers, This Is Spinal Tap, A View to a Kill).
 June 26 - Yevgeny Primakov, 85, Russian politician and diplomat, Prime Minister (1998–1999).
 June 26 - Richard Matt, 49, American convicted murderer and prison escapee, shot.
 June 26 - Kája Saudek, 80, Czech comics illustrator.
 June 27 - Zvi Elpeleg, 89, Polish-born Israeli diplomat and academic.
 June 27 - Don McNeill, 80, Canadian journalist (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBS News).
 June 27 - Chris Squire, 67, English bass guitarist (Yes), acute erythroid leukemia.
 June 28 - Jack Carter, 93, American comedian and actor (Viva Las Vegas, Alligator), respiratory failure.
 June 28 - Todor Slavov, 31, Bulgarian rally driver, rally accident.
 June 28 - Wally Stanowski, 96, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers).
 June 29 - Charles Pasqua, 88, French politician, Minister of the Interior (1986–1988, 1993–1995).
 June 29 - Josef Masopust, 84, Czech football player and manager (Dukla Prague, national team).
 June 29 - Jackson Vroman, 34, American-born Lebanese basketball player (Phoenix Suns, New Orleans Hornets).
 June 30 - Eddy Louiss, 74, French jazz organist.
 June 30 - Leonard Starr, 89, American cartoonist (ThunderCats, Little Orphan Annie).

Previous months
 January 2015
 February 2015
 March 2015
 April 2015
 May 2015

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June 2015 events