Deaths in January 2015

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.


January 2015

 January 1 - Mario Cuomo, 82, American politician, Governor of New York (1983–1994), heart failure.
 January 1 - Staryl C. Austin, 94, American air force brigadier general.
 January 1 - Omar Karami, 80, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister (1990–1992, 2004–2005).
 January 1 - Ulrich Beck, 70, German sociologist, heart attack.
 January 1 - Jeff Golub, 59, American guitarist, progressive supranuclear palsy.
 January 1 - Boris Morukov, 64, Russian physician and cosmonaut.
 January 1 - Ninón Sevilla, 93, Mexican actress (Aventurera), heart attack.
 January 1 - Donna Douglas, 82, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, Frankie and Johnny, The Twilight Zone), pancreatic cancer.
 January 1 - Eric Cunningham, 65, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP for Wentworth North (1975–1984).
 January 1 - Mrunalini Devi Puar, 83, Indian educator, Chancellor of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (since 1988).
 January 1 - Miller Williams, 84, American poet, Alzheimer's disease.
 January 1 - Géry Leuliet, 104, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amiens (1963–1985).
 January 2 - Lam Po-chuen, 63, Hong Kong dubbing artist (Doraemon), diabetes.
 January 2 - Arthur A. Neu, 81, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Iowa (1973–1979), member of the Iowa Senate (1967–1973).
 January 2 - Noel Cobb, 76, British philosopher, psychologist and author.
 January 2 - Little Jimmy Dickens, 94, American country music singer ("May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose"), cardiac arrest.
 January 2 - Tihomir Novakov, 85, American physicist, natural causes.
 January 2 - Abu Anas al-Libi, 50, Libyan al-Qaeda member in United States custody, surgical complications.
 January 2 - Basil Hansen, 88, Australian Olympic ice hockey player (1960).
 January 2 - Danny Dunton, 90, English speedway rider and promoter.
 January 2 - Per-Olof Åstrand, 92, Swedish physiologist.
 January 2 - Roger Kitter, 64, British actor ('Allo 'Allo!).
 January 3 -  Edward Brooke, 95, American politician, United States Senator from Massachusetts (1967–1979), natural causes.
 January 3 - Derek Minter, 82, British Grand Prix motorcycle and short-circuit road racer.
 January 3 - Bernice Madigan, 115, American supercentenarian, world's fifth-oldest person.
 January 3 - Olga Knyazeva, 60, Russian fencer, Olympic champion (1976).
 January 4 - Lance Diamond, 68, American singer, heart failure.
 January 4 - Stu Miller, 87, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
 January 4 - Stuart Scott, 49, American sports journalist (ESPN), appendix cancer.
 January 4 - Hank Peters, 90, American baseball executive (Baltimore Orioles), complications from a  stroke.
 January 4 - René Vautier, 86, French movie director (Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès).
 January 4 - Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński, 70, Polish academic.
 January 4 - Pino Daniele, 59, Italian singer and songwriter, heart attack.
 January 4 - Natalino Pescarolo, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Fossano (1992–2005) and Cuneo (1999–2005).
 January 5 - Jean-Pierre Beltoise, 77, French Formula One racing driver, winner of the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix, stroke.
 January 5 - Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, 102, American Roman Catholic bishop, retired auxiliary bishop of Buffalo.
 January 5 - Khan Bonfils, 42, English actor (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Batman Begins, Skyfall).
 January 5 - Joy Ali, 36, Fijian middleweight boxer.
 January 5 - King Sporty, 71, Jamaican-American reggae musician.
 January 5 - Arthur E. Chase, 84, American politician, member of the Massachusetts Senate.
 January 6 - Vlastimil Bubník, 83, Czech ice hockey player and footballer, Olympic bronze medalist (1964).
 January 6 - Tim Roberts, 38, American professional wrestler (WWE, ECW).
 January 6 - Johannes de Villiers Graaff, 86, South African economist.
 January 6 - Sir Basil John Mason, 91, British meteorologist.
 January 6 - Joseph Djida, 69, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ngaoundéré (since 2000).
 January 6 - Ron Hovey, 82, Australian football player (Geelong).
 January 6 - Lance Percival, 81, British actor (The Beatles) and singer ("Shame and Scandal in the Family").
 January 6 - George H. McKee, 91, American air force lieutenant general.
 January 7 - Mompati Merafhe, 78, Batswana general and politician, Vice President (2008–2012). 
 January 7 - Notable French people killed in the Charlie Hebdo shooting:
Cabu, 76, cartoonist.
Elsa Cayat, 54, psychoanalyst and columnist.
Charb, 47, caricaturist and journalist.
Philippe Honoré, 73, cartoonist.
Bernard Maris, 68, economist and journalist.
Tignous, 57, cartoonist.
Georges Wolinski, 80, cartoonist.
 January 7 - Julio Scherer García, 88, Mexican journalist, septic shock.
 January 7 - Arch A. Moore, Jr., 91, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (1969–1977, 1985–1989).
 January 7 - J. P. Parisé, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars), lung cancer.
 January 7 - Jethro Pugh, 70, American football player (Dallas Cowboys). 
 January 7 - David Rolfe, 50, Australian Paralympic swimmer, complications relating to heart surgery. 
 January 7 - Rod Taylor, 84, Australian actor (The Time Machine, The Birds, Sunday in New York), heart attack.
 January 7 - Tadeusz Konwicki, 88, Polish writer and filmmaker.
 January 7 - B. S. Abdur Rahman, 87, Indian business executive and philanthropist (B. S. Abdur Rahman University).
 January 7 - José Arias, 92, Spanish Olympic alpine skier (1948).
 January 8 - Kep Enderby, 88, Australian politician and judge.
 January 8 - Andraé Crouch, 72, American gospel singer, complications from heart attack.
 January 8 - Hubert Markl, 76, German biologist.
 January 8 - Ray McFall, 88, British nightclub owner (The Cavern Club).
 January 8 - Leif Rantala, 67, Finnish linguist.
 January 9 - Józef Oleksy, 68, Polish politician, Prime Minister (1995–1996), cancer.
 January 9 - Robert V. Keeley, 85, American diplomat, Ambassador to Mauritius (1976–1978), Zimbabwe (1980–1984) and Greece (1985–1989), stroke.
 January 9 - Chérif Kouachi, 32, French jihadist (suspect in the Charlie Hebdo shooting), shot.
 January 9 - Saïd Kouachi, 34, French jihadist (suspect in the Charlie Hebdo shooting), shot.
 January 9 - Amedy Coulibaly, 32, French terrorist (suspect in the Montrouge shooting), shot.
 January 9 - Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., 88, American movie producer (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World), heart failure.
 January 9 - Roy Tarpley, 50, American basketball player (Dallas Mavericks).
 January 9 - Popsy Dixon, 72, American musician (The Holmes Brothers), bladder cancer.
 January 9 - Frans Molenaar, 74, Dutch fashion designer, complications from a fall.
 January 9 - Chuck Locke, 82, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
 January 9 - Michel Jeury, 80, French science fiction author.
 January 10 - Francesco Rosi, 92, Italian movie director (The Mattei Affair, Christ Stopped at Eboli, Salvatore Giuliano).
 January 10 - Junior Malanda, 20, Belgian footballer (VfL Wolfsburg, national under-21 team), traffic collision.
 January 10 - Robert Stone, 77, American novelist (Dog Soldiers), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
 January 10 - Taylor Negron, 57, American comedian and actor (Angels in the Outfield, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Bio-Dome), cancer.
 January 10 - Frans Bolweg, 64, Dutch sailor and coach, eye cancer.
 January 10 - Walter Berns, 95, American constitutional law and political philosophy professor.
 January 10 - Harry V. Jaffa, 96, American political philosophy professor and writer (Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates).
 January 10 - Jorgelina Aranda, 72, Argentine model, singer and actress (Il Gaucho), cancer.
 January 10 - Elemér Hankiss, 86, Hungarian sociologist.
 January 10 - Slobodan Martinović, 70, Serbian chess player.
 January 10 - Robert Berner, 79, American geologist and geochemist.
 January 10 - Inge Vermeulen, 30, Dutch field hockey player (national team), European champion (2009).
 January 11 - Jenő Buzánszky, 89, Hungarian footballer (Dorogi FC, national team), Olympic champion (1952).
 January 11 - Anita Ekberg, 83, Swedish actress (La Dolce Vita, Paris Holiday, Back from Eternity).
 January 11 - Chic Littlewood, 84, New Zealand television personality (Chicaboom, Chic Chat) and actor (Shortland Street, King Kong).
 January 11 - Brian Clemens, 83, British screenwriter (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde) and television producer (The Avengers, The Professionals).
 January 11 - Doriemus, 24, New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse, Melbourne Cup winner (1995), euthanised following paddock accident.
 January 12 - Elena Obraztsova, 75, Russian mezzo-soprano.
 January 12 - Carl Long, 79, American baseball player.
 January 12 - James Naanman Daman, 58, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jalingo (2000–2007) and Shendam (since 2007).
 January 12 - Frank Glazer, 99, American pianist and composer.
 January 12 - Steve Gold, 58, British computer journalist.
 January 12 - Robert Gover, 85, American author.
 January 12 - Paul Morgan, 40, Welsh rugby union and league player.
 January 12 - Bonnie Christensen, 63, American children's book author and illustrator, ovarian cancer.
 January 13 - Mark Juddery, 43, Australian author and journalist, cancer.
 January 13 - Keith Wright, 73, Australian politician and convicted child rapist, MP for Capricornia (1984–1993).
 January 13 - Hara Patnaik, 56, Indian actor and movie director, cancer. 
 January 13 - Sir Jack Hayward, 91, English businessman, property developer and philanthropist, president of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
 January 13 - Robert White, 88, American diplomat, Ambassador to Paraguay (1977–1980) and El Salvador (1980–1981).
 January 13 - Trevor Colbourn, 87, Australian educator and academic, President of the University of Central Florida (1978–1989).
 January 14 - Zhang Wannian, 86, Chinese general.
 January 14 - Bob Boyd, 84, American basketball coach (USC Trojans), natural causes.
 January 14 - Lotte Hass, 86, Austrian model and underwater diver.
 January 14 - Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, 71, Israeli rabbi, heart attack.
 January 14 - Nélida Romero, 88, Argentine actress.
 January 14 - Jerry Dempsey, 81, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1992–2006).
 January 14 - Warren Weinstein, 73, American economist, USAID contractor kidnapped by al-Qaeda, drone strike.
 January 15 - Ethel Lang, 114, British supercentenarian.
 January 15 - Ervin Drake, 95, American songwriter ("It Was a Very Good Year," "I Believe," "Good Morning Heartache"), bladder cancer.
 January 15 - Kim Fowley, 75, American record producer, impresario and musician, bladder cancer.
 January 15 - Val Holten, 87, Australian cricketer.
 January 15 - Jean-Claude Baker, 71, American restaurateur, suicide. (body discovered on this date)
 January 15 - Joseph Mukasa Zuza, 59, Malawian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mzuzu (since 1995), car accident.
 January 16 - Sir Ian Athfield, 74, New Zealand architect.
 January 16 - Yao Beina, 33, Chinese singer, breast cancer.
 January 16 - Andrew Benson, 97, American biologist.
 January 16 - Rimma Markova, 89, Russian actress (The Alive and the Dead, The Pokrovsky Gate).
 January 16 - Ted Harrison, 88, Canadian painter.
 January 16 - Pedro María Iguaran, 74, Spanish footballer (Real Sociedad).
 January 16 - Stuart Loory, 82, American journalist and media executive (CNN), lung cancer.
 January 16 - Miriam Akavia, 87, Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor, natural causes.
 January 17 - Faten Hamama, 83, Egyptian actress (The Angel of Mercy, Wajh al-Qamar).
 January 17 - Bill Sykes, 75, English chaplain and writer.
 January 17 - Don Harron, 90, Canadian comedian, actor and author (The Big Revue), cancer.
 January 17 - Origa, 44, Russian singer (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex), lung cancer.
 January 18 - Paul O'Grady, 54, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1988–1996), cancer.
 January 18 - Kjell Arnljot Wig, 90, Norwegian media personality.
 January 18 - Piet van der Sanden, 90, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1971–1972, 1973–1989), member of the European Parliament (1973–1974).
 January 18 - Tony Verna, 81, American television producer, inventor of instant replay, leukemia.
 January 18 - José Carrasco, 70, Peruvian politician, lung cancer.
 January 19 - Michel Guimond, 61, Canadian politician, MP for Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord (1993–2011), heart failure.
 January 19 - Vladimir Kesarev, 84, Russian footballer (FC Dynamo Moscow).
 January 19 - Justin Capră, 81, Romanian inventor.
 January 19 - Anne Kirkbride, 60, British actress (Coronation Street), breast cancer.
 January 19 - Arthit Kamlang-ek, 89, Thai general, Supreme Commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces (1983–1986).
 January 19 - Bob Symes, 90, British inventor and television presenter, cancer.
 January 19 - Karl H. Pribram, 95, American neuroscientist and educator, cancer.
 January 19 - Adam Yahiye Gadahn, 36, American al-Qaeda operative, drone strike.
 January 20 - Anatol Hrytskievich, 85, Belarusian historian.
 January 20 - Ricardo dos Santos, 24, Brazilian surfer, shot.
 January 20 - Edgar Froese, 70, German musician (Tangerine Dream), pulmonary embolism.
 January 20 - James Walker, 41, Australian television writer (Neighbours), diabetes.
 January 21 - Marcus Borg, 72, American Biblical scholar and theologian (Jesus Seminar), pulmonary fibrosis.
 January 21 - Pauline Yates, 85, English actress (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin).
 January 21 - Leon Brittan, 75, British politician, Vice-President of the European Commission (1999), Home Secretary of the UK (1983-85), cancer.
 January 21 - Kemal Monteno, 66, Bosnian singer-songwriter, pneumonia and sepsis.
 January 22 - Joan Hinde, 81, English trumpeter and entertainer.
 January 22 - Dacia Valent, 51, Italian politician, MEP (1989–1994), heart attack.
 January 22 - Wendell H. Ford, 90, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (1971–1974), member of the U. S. Senate (1974–1999), lung cancer.
 January 23 - Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, 90, Saudi royal, King (since 2005), complications from pneumonia.
 January 23 - Prosper Ego, 87, Dutch activist, founder of the Oud-Strijders Legioen.
 January 23 - Nol Heijerman, 74, Dutch footballer (Sparta).
 January 23 - Pedro Lemebel, 62, Chilean writer, laryngeal cancer.
 January 23 - Barrie Ingham, 82, English actor (The Great Mouse Detective, Doctor Who).
 January 23 - Nick Koback, 79, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
 January 23 - Ernie Banks, 83, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), heart attack.
 January 24 - Otto Carius, 92, German World War II tank commander.
 January 24 - Johan Ferner, 87, Norwegian sailor, Olympic silver medalist (1952).
 January 24 - Joe Franklin, 88, American television and radio talk show host, prostate cancer.
 January 24 - Toller Cranston, 65, Canadian figure skater and painter, Olympic bronze medalist (1976), heart attack.
 January 24 - Julio Canessa, 89, Chilean politician and general, member of the Government Junta (1985–1986), Senator (1998–2006).
 January 24 - Link Byfield, 63, Canadian conservative columnist, politician and publisher, liver and esophageal cancer.
 January 24 - Frances Lennon, 102, British artist.
 January 25 - Demis Roussos, 68, Greek singer (Aphrodite's Child).
 January 25 - Ernst Träger, 88, German judge.
 January 25 - Zulkifli Abdhir, 48-49, Malaysian terrorist, one of the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist, shot.
 January 25 - Bill Monbouquette, 78, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
 January 26 - Lee Spick, 34, English snooker player, liver disease.
 January 26 - R. K. Laxman, 93, Indian cartoonist,  illustrator and humorist, multiple organ failure. 
 January 26 - Lucjan Lis, 64, Polish cyclist, Olympic silver medalist (1972), ruptured aorta.
 January 26 - Tom Uren, 93, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives for Reid (1958–1990).
 January 27 - Wilfred Agbonavbare, 48, Nigerian footballer (Rayo Vallecano, national team), cancer.
 January 27 - Miguel Ángel Cascallana, 66, Spanish Olympic handball player (1972).
 January 27 - Henk Faanhof, 92, Dutch Olympic and professional road bicycle racer (1948)
 January 27 - David Landau, 67, Israeli journalist and newspaper editor (Haaretz).
 January 27 - Joe Rígoli, 78, Argentine actor and comedian (Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez), heart failure.
 January 27 - Charles Hard Townes, 99, American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1964).
 January 27 - John T. Myers, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House from Indiana (1967–1997).
 January 27 - Rocky Bridges, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Washington Senators).
 January 28 - Yves Chauvin, 84, French chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2005).
 January 28 - Suraj Abdurrahman, 60, Nigerian army officer.
 January 29 - Colleen McCullough, 77, Australian author (The Thorn Birds), renal failure.
 January 29 - Rod McKuen, 81, American poet, singer and songwriter ("Jean"), respiratory arrest.
 January 29 - Will McBride, 84, American photographer.
 January 29 - Amparo Baró, 77, Spanish actress (Siete mesas de billar francés), cancer.
 January 29 - Maurizio Arcieri, 72, Italian singer (The New Dada, Krisma).
 January 29 - Tenkoko Sonoda, 96, Japanese politician, member of the Diet (1946–1952).
 January 30 - Alexander Vraciu, 96, American Navy fighter ace, Navy Cross recipient.
 January 30 - Israel Yinon, 59, Israeli conductor.
 January 30 - Gerrit Voorting, 92, Dutch Olympic (1948) and professional road bicycle racer.
 January 30 - Zhelyu Zhelev, 79, Bulgarian politician, President (1990–1997).
 January 30 - Geraldine McEwan, 82, English actress (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Agatha Christie's Marple), stroke.
 January 30 - Carl Djerassi, 91, American chemist, novelist and playwright, liver and bone cancer.
 January 31 - Richard von Weizsäcker, 94, German politician, President (1990–1994), President of West Germany (1984–1990), Governing Mayor of West Berlin (1981–1984).
 January 31 - Kenji Goto, 47 or 48, Japanese journalist, adventurer and ISIL hostage, beheaded.
 January 31 - José Manuel Lara Bosch, 68, Spanish media executive, CEO of Grupo Planeta (since 2003) and Atresmedia (since 2012), pancreatic cancer.
 January 31 - Tomás Bulat, 50, Argentine economist and journalist, traffic collision.
 January 31 - Lizabeth Scott, 92, American actress (Dead Reckoning) and singer, congestive heart failure.

Months
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