Deaths in July 2015

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

- July 1 - Sir Nicholas Winton, 106, British humanitarian, organised rescue of 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, respiratory failure.
- July 1 - Czesław Olech, 84, Polish mathematician.
- July 1 - Val Doonican, 88, Irish singer and television presenter (_The Val Doonican Show_).
- July 2 - James C. Weaver, 70, American football player (Penn State) and coach (Iowa State), Virginia Tech Hokies Director of Athletics (1997-2014), Parkinson's disease.
- July 2 - Slavko Avsenik, 85, Slovenian composer and musician.
- July 2 - Jacobo Zabludovsky, 87, Mexican news anchor, stroke.
- July 2 - Charlie Sanders, 68, American Hall of Fame football player (Detroit Lions), cancer.
- July 3 - Phil Walsh, 55, Australian football player (Collingwood, Richmond, Brisbane Bears) and coach (Adelaide), stabbing.
- July 3 - Boyd K. Packer, 90, American apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President of the Quorum of the Twelve (since 2008).
- July 3 - György Szabad, 90, Hungarian politician and historian, Speaker of the National Assembly (1990–1994).
- July 3 - John A. Williams, 89, American writer, Alzheimer's disease.
- July 3 - Peter Záboji, Hungarian investor and entrepreneur.
- July 3 - Diana Douglas, 92, Bermudian-born American actress (_The Indian Fighter_, _Days of Our Lives_, _Planes, Trains and Automobiles_), cancer.
- July 3 - Jacques Sernas, 89, Lithuanian-born French actor (_Helen of Troy_, _The Dirty Game_, _Midas Run_).
- July 4 - Nedelcho Beronov, 86, Bulgarian  jurist, right-wing politician and Constitutional Court chairman (2003-2006).
- July 4 - Alan Walton, 79, British biochemist and venture capitalist.
- July 4 - Scot Breithaupt, 57, American BMX cyclist. (body discovered on this date)
- July 4 - Carlo de Gavardo, 45, Chilean rally car and motorcycle racer, respiratory arrest.
- July 5 - Yoichiro Nambu, 94, Japanese-born American physist, Nobel Prize laureate, heart attack.
- July 5 - Sakari Momoi, 112, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest living man, kidney failure.
- July 6 - Jerry Weintraub, 77, American movie producer (_Ocean's Eleven_, _Diner_, _The Karate Kid_), chairman and CEO of United Artists, heart attack.
- July 7 - Maria Barroso, 90, Portuguese actress and politician, First Lady (1986-1996), complications from a fall.
- July 7 - Fons van Wissen, 82, Dutch footballer (PSV Eindhoven, national team).
- July 8 - Irwin Keyes, 63, American actor (_House of 1000 Corpses_, _The Jeffersons_, _The Flintstones_), acromegaly.
- July 8 - James Tate, 71, American Pulitzer Prize winning poet.
- July 8 - Yoash Tzidon, 88, Romanian-born Israeli politician.
- July 8 - Ken Stabler, 69, American football player (Oakland Raiders), colon cancer.
- July 9 - Saud bin Faisal, 75, Saudi royal, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1975–2015), complications from Parkinson's disease.
- July 9 - Caspar Bowden, British privacy advocate and computer scientist, cancer. (death announced on this date)
- July 9 - Jim Bede, 82, American aircraft designer, aneurysm.
- July 9 - Christian Audigier, 57, French fashion designer (Ed Hardy, Von Dutch), myelodysplastic syndrome.
- July 10 - Jon Vickers, 88, Canadian heldentenor, Alzheimer's disease.
- July 10 - Omar Sharif, 83, Egyptian actor (_Lawrence of Arabia_, _Doctor Zhivago_, _Funny Girl_), heart attack.
- July 10 - Roger Rees, 71, Welsh-born American actor (_Cheers_, _Robin Hood: Men In Tights_, _The West Wing_), Tony Award winner (1982), brain cancer.
- July 11 - James U. Cross, 90, American military pilot, aide and author, Brigadier general flew Air Force One during LBJ administration.
- July 11 - Giacomo Biffi, 87, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna (1984–2003).
- July 11 - Satoru Iwata, 55, Japanese businessman, president and CEO of Nintendo (since 2002), bile duct cancer.
- July 12 - Cheng Siwei, 80, Chinese economist, President of the China Democratic National Construction Association (1996-2007).
- July 12 - Javier Krahe, 71, Spanish singer-songwriter, heart attack.
- July 12 - Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, 65, Chinese Tibetan Buddhist monk and political prisoner.
- July 13 - Philipp Mißfelder, 35, German politician, member of the Bundestag (since 2005), pulmonary embolism.
- July 13 - Arturo Paoli, 102, Italian priest and missionary.
- July 13 - Joan Sebastian, 64, Mexican singer and songwriter, bone cancer.
- July 14 - M. S. Viswanathan, 87, Indian music composer and film scorer, kidney cancer.
- July 14 - Olaf Pooley, 101, English actor (_Doctor Who_, _Star Trek: Voyager_, _Sunday Night Theatre_) and writer.
- July 15 - Wan Li, 98, Chinese politician, Chairman of the National People's Congress (1988–1993).
- July 15 - Fred Wendorf, 90, American archaeologist.
- July 16 - Alcides Ghiggia, 88, Uruguayan footballer, heart attack.
- July 16  - Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, 24, Kuwaiti-born shooting suspect (2015 Chattanooga shootings), shot.
- July 16 - Alan Kupperberg, 62, American comic book artist (_The Amazing Spider-Man_, _Thor_), thyroid cancer.
- July 17 - Jules Bianchi, 25, French Formula One driver, injuries sustained in competition collision.
- July 17 - John H. Gibbons, 86, American scientist, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (1993-1998).
- July 17 - Van Miller, 87, American football announcer (Buffalo Bills).
- July 17 - John Taylor, 72, British jazz pianist, heart attack.
- July 17 - Owen Chadwick, 99, British rugby player, historian, and theologian.
- July 18 - Alex Rocco, 79, American actor (_The Godfather_, _The Facts of Life_, _The Famous Teddy Z_), cancer.
- July 18 - George Coe, 86, American actor (_Kramer vs. Kramer_, _The Dove_, _Archer_).
- July 19 - Galina Prozumenshchikova, 66, Russian Soviet-era swimmer, 1964 Olympic Champion.
- July 19 - Gennadiy Seleznyov, 67, Russian politician, Speaker of the Duma (1996–2003).
- July 19 - Carmino Ravosa, 85, American composer and lyricist.
- July 19 - Van Alexander, 100, American big band leader, songwriter-arranger ("A-Tisket, A-Tasket"), television theme writer (_I Dream of Jeannie_, _The Dean Martin Show_) and movie scorer, heart failure.
- July 19 - Stellan Bojerud, 70, Swedish politician, MP for Dalarna (2012-2015).
- July 20 - Dieter Moebius, 71, Swiss-German electronic musician (Cluster, Harmonia).
- July 21 - Robert Broberg, 75, Swedish singer and songwriter, Parkinson's disease.
- July 21 - Dick Nanninga, 66, Dutch footballer (Roda JC Kerkrade, national team), complications from diabetes. (death announced on this date)
- July 21 - Theodore Bikel, 91, Austrian-born American actor (_The Defiant Ones_, _My Fair Lady_, _Fiddler on the Roof_), folk singer and composer.
- July 21 - Luiz Paulo Conde, 80, Brazilian politician and architect, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro (1997–2001).
- July 21 - E. L. Doctorow, 84, American author (_Ragtime_, _Billy Bathgate_, _The March_), complications from lung cancer.
- July 22 - Christopher M. Fairman, 54, American legal scholar (_Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties_), cardiac arrest.
- July 22 - Eddie Hardin, 66, British rock musician (Spencer Davis Group) and singer-songwriter, heart attack.
- July 22 - Jeannette Cathy, 92, American philanthropist (WinShape Foundation), wife of S. Truett Cathy.
- July 23 - José Sazatornil, 89, Spanish actor (_Espérame en el cielo_), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- July 24 - Peg Lynch, 98, American comedy writer and actress (_Ethel and Albert_).
- July 25 - R. S. Gavai, 86, Indian politician, Governor of Bihar (2006–2008), Kerala (2008–2011), member of the Rajya Sabha (20002006), MP for Amravati (1998).
- July 26 - Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22, American media personality and singer.
- July 26 - Leo Reise, Jr., 93, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), lung cancer.
- July 26 - Ann Rule, 83, American true crime author (_The Stranger Beside Me_), heart failure.
- July 26 - Vic Firth, 85, American musician and instruments manufacturing executive, pancreatic cancer.
- July 27 - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, 83, Indian scientist and politician, President (2002-2007), heart attack.
- July 27 - Samuel Pisar, 86, Polish-born American lawyer, writer and Holocaust survivor.
- July 28 - Edward Natapei, 61, Ni-Vanuatu politician, President (1999), Prime Minister (20012004, 20082009, 20092010, 2011), MP (19832008).
- July 28 - Jan Kulczyk, 65, Polish businessman (Kulczyk Investments), wealthiest person in Poland, complications of heart surgery.
- July 28 - David Faber, 86, Polish holocaust survivor and author (_Because of Romek_).
- July 29 - Sir Peter O'Sullevan, 97, Irish-born British horse racing commentator, cancer.
- July 30 - Yakub Memon, 53, Indian chartered accountant, convicted of financing the 1993 Bombay bombings, execution by hanging.
- July 30 - Lynn Anderson, 67, American country singer  ("(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden"), heart attack.
- July 30 - Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., 90, American businessman, cancer.
- July 30 - Alena Vrzáňová, 84, Czech figure skater, World champion (1949, 1950) and European champion (1950).
- July 31 - Billy Pierce, 88, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants), gallbladder cancer.
- July 31 - Howard W. Jones, 104, American physician, In vitro fertilisation pioneer, respiratory failure.
- July 31 - Richard Schweiker, 89, American politician, Secretary of Health and Human Services (1981–1983), Senator from Pennsylvania (1969–1981), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 13th district (1961–1969), infection.
- July 31 - Roddy Piper, 61, Canadian professional wrestler (WWE, NWA, WCW); Hall of Fame (2005, 2007) and actor (_They Live_, _Hell Comes to Frogtown_, _Body Slam_), cardiac arrest.
- July 31 - Alan Cheuse, 75, American writer and critic, subdural hematoma caused by a car crash.

## Previous months

- January 2015
- February 2015
- March 2015
- April 2015
- May 2015
- June 2015