Deaths in February 2015

The following is a list of **notable deaths in February 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.
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## February 2015

- February 1 - Aldo Ciccolini, 89, French pianist.
- February 1 - Ann Mara, 85, American football team owner (New York Giants), complications from fall.
- February 1 - Udo Lattek, 80, German football player and manager (Bayern Munich, Barcelona).
- February 1 - Monty Oum, 33, American animator (_Red vs. Blue_, _RWBY_), allergic reaction.
- February 2 - Andriy Kuzmenko, 46, Ukrainian singer (Skryabin), car accident.
- February 2 - Stewart Stern, 92, American screenwriter (_Rebel Without a Cause_), brain cancer.
- February 2 - Anand Shukla, 74, Indian cricketer.
- February 3 - Mary Healy, 96, American actress (_The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T_) and singer.
- February 3 - Sir Martin Gilbert, 78, British historian and biographer, member of the Iraq Inquiry panel.
- February 3 - Frank Borghi, 89, American Hall of Fame soccer player (national team).
- February 3 - Charlie Sifford, 92, American golfer, complications from a stroke.
- February 3 - Muath Al-Kasasbeh, 26, Jordanian pilot, burned. (death announced on this date)
- February 4 - Eduardo Laborde, 47, Argentine rugby union player (national team), traffic collision.
- February 4 - Richard Bonehill, 67, British actor and stuntman (_The Empire Strikes Back_, _Return of the Jedi_). (death announced on this date)
- February 4 - Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, c. 45, Iraqi Al-Qaeda bomber, executed.
- February 4 - Fitzhugh L. Fulton, 89, American NASA research pilot.
- February 4 - Wes Cooley, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon (1995–1997).
- February 5 - K. N. Choksy, 81, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, MP (1989–2010), Minister of Finance (2001–2004).
- February 5 - Henri Coppens, 84, Belgian footballer, winner of the Golden Shoe (1954).
- February 6 - Marisa Del Frate, 83, Italian actress, singer and television personality.
- February 6 - Assia Djebar, 78, Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker, member of the Académie française.
- February 6 - André Brink, 79, South African writer.
- February 6 - Kathrine Windfeld, 48, Danish movie director (_Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation_).
- February 6 - Norm Drucker, 94, American basketball referee.
- February 6 - Alan Nunnelee, 56, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi (since 2011), brain cancer.
- February 6 - Pedro León Zapata, 85, Venezuelan cartoonist, painter and writer.
- February 7 - Dean Smith, 83, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (North Carolina).
- February 7 - John C. Whitehead, 92, American financier (Goldman Sachs) and civil servant, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1985–1989), cancer.
- February 7 - René Lavand, 86, Argentine magician and illusionist, pneumonia.
- February 7 - Joe B. Mauldin, 74, American bassist (The Crickets), cancer.
- February 7 - Donald H. Clausen, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1963–1983).
- February 7 - Marshall Rosenberg, 80, American psychologist, creator of Nonviolent Communication.
- February 7 - Billy Casper, 83, American golfer, seventh all-time in career PGA Tour wins, complications from pneumonia and heart attack.
- February 8 - Müzeyyen Senar, 96, Turkish singer, pneumonia.
- February 8 - Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, 75, Finnish parapsychologist.
- February 9 - Øyvind Bjorvatn, 83, Norwegian politician, leader of the Liberal People's Party (1982–1986).
- February 9 - Jorge Sassi, 64, Argentine actor, renal failure.
- February 10 - Deng Liqun, 99, Chinese politician.
- February 10 - Naseer Aruri, 81, Palestinian scholar and human rights activist, Parkinson's disease.
- February 11 - Roger Hanin, 89, French actor and movie director.
- February 11 - Bob Simon, 73, American television journalist (_60 Minutes_), traffic collision.
- February 11 - Ray Hathaway, 98, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
- February 11 - Anne Cuneo, 78, Swiss author and movie director.
- February 11 - Jerry Tarkanian, 84, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (Long Beach State, UNLV, San Antonio Spurs, Fresno State), respiratory failure.
- February 12 - Cornelis Pieter van den Hoek, 93, Dutch resistance fighter, recipient of the Military William Order.
- February 12 - Ernest J. Sternglass, 91, American physicist and professor, heart failure.
- February 12 - Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, 84, Malaysian politician, Menteri Besar of Kelantan (1990–2013), prostate cancer.
- February 12 - Tomie Ohtake, 101, Japanese-Brazilian artist, heart failure.
- February 12 - Oliver Rackham, 75, British landscape ecologist.
- February 12 - Steve Strange, 55, British musician (Visage), heart attack.
- February 12 - David Carr, 58, American columnist (_The New York Times_) and author, lung cancer and heart disease.
- February 12 - Gary Owens, 80, American television announcer (_Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In_) and actor (_Midnight Cowboy_, _Space Ghost_), diabetes.
- February 12 - Movita Castaneda, 98, American actress (_Mutiny on the Bounty_), neck injury.
- February 12 - Richie Pratt, 71, American jazz drummer.
- February 13 - Kesava Reddy, 68, Indian writer.
- February 13 - Stan Chambers, 91, American television reporter (KTLA).
- February 14 - Wim Ruska, 74, Dutch judoka, Olympic gold medallist (1972).
- February 14 - Franjo Mihalić, 94, Croatian Yugoslav long distance runner, Olympic silver medallist (1956).
- February 14 - Philip Levine, 87, American poet, pancreatic cancer.
- February 14 - Louis Jourdan, 93, French actor (_Gigi_, _Octopussy_).
- February 14 - Michele Ferrero, 89, Italian businessman (Ferrero SpA).
- February 14 - Pamela Cundell, 95, English actress (_Dad's Army_).
- February 15 - Steve Montador, 35, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
- February 15 - Haron Amin, 46, Afghan diplomat, Ambassador to Japan (2004–2009), cancer.
- February 15 - Eileen Essell, 92, English actress (_Duplex_, _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_, _The Producers_).
- February 16 - Aleksandr Melentyev, 60, Soviet Russian sport shooter, Olympic champion (1980).
- February 16 - John Davies, 76, British historian. (death announced on this date)
- February 16 - Uri Orbach, 54, Israeli writer, journalist and politician, blood disease.
- February 16 - R. R. Patil, 58, Indian politician, oral cancer.
- February 16 - Lesley Gore, 68, American singer ("It's My Party") and actress (_Batman_), cancer.
- February 16 - Heinrich Windelen, 93, German politician, Member of the Bundestag (1957–1990).
- February 16 - Lasse Braun, 78, Italian porn movie director and producer.
- February 17 - Andrzej Koszewski, 92, Polish composer.
- February 17 - Cathy Ubels-Veen, 86, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1982–1986).
- February 18 - Cass Ballenger, 88, American politician, member of United States House of Representatives from North Carolina (1986–2005).
- February 18 - Claude Criquielion, 58, Belgian cyclist, UCI World Road Race champion (1984), complications from a stroke.
- February 18 - Mark Fischer, 64, American intellectual property lawyer.
- February 18 - Jerome Kersey, 52, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers), blood clot.
- February 19 - Harris Wittels, 30, American television producer and writer (_Parks and Recreation_, _The Sarah Silverman Program_).
- February 20 - Henry Segerstrom, 91, American entrepreneur.
- February 20 - Ibrahim Biogradlić, 83, Bosnian Yugoslav footballer, Olympic silver medalist (1956).
- February 21 - Sadeq Tabatabaei, 71, Iranian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1979–1980),  lung cancer.
- February 21 - Clark Terry, 94, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, complications from diabetes.
- February 21 - Daniel Topolski, 69, British rowing coach and commentator.
- February 22 - Kim Kyung-roul, 34, South Korean professional billiards player.
- February 23 - John Rowlands, 76, Welsh author and novelist.
- February 24 - Rakhat Aliyev, 52, Kazah politician and diplomat, suicide by hanging.
- February 24 - Irving Kahn, 109, American investor.
- February 24 - Roger Cecil, 72, Welsh painter. (body found on this date)
- February 24 - Donald Keough, 88, American businessman, President of The Coca-Cola Company (1981–1993).
- February 24 - Maurice Hurley, 75, American television writer and producer (_Star Trek: The Next Generation_, _Baywatch_, _Miami Vice_).
- February 24 - Bertrice Small, 77, American author.
- February 25 - Terry Gill, 75, Australian actor (_"Crocodile" Dundee_, _Prisoner_, _The Flying Doctors_), lung cancer.
- February 25 - Eugenie Clark, 92, American ichthyologist.
- February 26 - Fritz J. Raddatz, 83, German feuilletonist, essayist, biographer and romancier.
- February 26 - Earl Lloyd, 86, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Detroit Pistons).
- February 26 - Tom Schweich, 54, American politician, Missouri State Auditor (since 2011), suicide by gunshot.
- February 26 - Martha Cohen, 94-95, Canadian community builder and philanthropist.
- February 26 - Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi-born American writer, stabbed.
- February 26 - Theodore Hesburgh, 97, American Roman Catholic priest, president of the University of Notre Dame (1952-1987).
- February 27 - Leonard Nimoy, 83, American actor and director (_Star Trek_, _Mission: Impossible_, _Fringe_), COPD.
- February 27 - Boris Nemtsov, 55, Russian politician, Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1991–1997), First Deputy Prime Minister (1997–1998), Deputy Prime Minister (1998), shot.
- February 27 - Richard Bakalyan, 84, American character actor (_Batman, Chinatown, The Fox and the Hound_).
- February 27 - Bohdan Tomaszewski, 93, Polish sports commentator.
- February 27 - Bob Benmosche, 70, American executive, President and CEO of American International Group (2009–2014), lung cancer.
- February 27 - Mykhailo Chechetov, 61, Ukrainian politician, suicide.
- February 28 - Anthony Mason, 48, American basketball player (New York Knicks), heart failure.
- February 28 - Yaşar Kemal, 91, Turkish author, Légion d'honneur recipient.

## Months

- January 2015
- March 2015