Deaths in August 2015

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

- August 1 - Stephan Beckenbauer, 46, German footballer (FC Bayern Munich).
- August 1 - Bob Frankford, 76, Canadian politician.
- August 1 - Chiara Pierobon, 22, Italian professional cyclist, suspected pulmonary embolism.
- August 1 - Cilla Black, 72, British singer ("Anyone Who Had a Heart", "You're My World"), television presenter (_Blind Date_, _Surprise Surprise_) and actress, stroke.
- August 2 - Natalia Molchanova, 53, Russian free diver.
- August 2 - Piet Fransen, 79, Dutch footballer (FC Groningen, national team).
- August 2 - Forrest Bird, 94, American aviator and inventor.
- August 2 - Içami Tiba, 74, Brazilian psychiatrist and writer (_Quem ama, Educa!_).
- August 2 - Giovanni Conso, 93, Italian jurist, Minister of Justice (1993-1994).
- August 3 - Mel Farr, 70, American professional football running back (Detroit Lions), complications from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
- August 3 - Johanna Quandt, 89, German businesswoman and billionaire.
- August 3 - Margot Loyola, 96, Chilean folk singer and musician.
- August 3 - Robert Conquest, 98, American historian (_The Great Terror_), respiratory failure.
- August 3 - Coleen Gray, 92, American actress (_Nightmare Alley_, _Kiss of Death_, _The Killing_).
- August 4 - Theo van Els, 79, Dutch linguist.
- August 4 - Achim Hill, 80, German Olympic rower (1960).
- August 4 - Les Munro, 96, New Zealand pilot, last survivor of Operation Chastise.
- August 5 - George Cole, 90, British actor (_Minder_, _St Trinian's_, _Mary Reilly_).
- August 5 - Ellen Vogel, 93, Dutch actress (_The Knife_, _Zonder Ernst_, _Twin Sisters_).
- August 6 - Louise Suggs, 91, American professional golfer, co-founder of LPGA.
- August 6 - Orna Porat, 91, German-born Israeli theater actress.
- August 7 - Terrence Evans, 81, American actor (_Terminator 2: Judgment Day_, _Star Trek_, _The Texas Chainsaw Massacre_).
- August 7 - Frances Oldham Kelsey, 101, Canadian-born American physician, Food and Drug Administration reviewer.
- August 7 - Manuel Contreras, 86, Chilean military officer, head of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, convicted criminal against humanity, multiple organ failure.
- August 8 - Sean Price, 43, American rapper, member of Heltah Skeltah.
- August 8 - Gus Mortson, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks).
- August 8 - Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, 100, Indian independence activist, author, poet and journalist, pneumonia.
- August 9 - John Henry Holland, 86, American computer scientist.
- August 9 - Fikret Otyam, 89, Turkish painter and journalist, renal failure.
- August 9 - Frank Gifford, 84, American football player (New York Giants) and broadcaster _(Monday Night Football_), heart attack.
- August 9 - Susan Sheridan, 68, British voice actress (_The Black Cauldron_, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_, _Noddy's Toyland Adventures_).
- August 9 - David Nobbs, 80, British novelist and comedy writer (_The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin_, _The Two Ronnies_, _Fairly Secret Army_).
- August 9 - George E. R. Kinnear II, 87, American admiral.
- August 10 - Endre Czeizel, 80, Hungarian geneticist, leukemia.
- August 10 - Fred Eckhardt, 89, American beer expert.
- August 11 - Nour El-Sherif, 69, Egyptian actor and conspiracist, heart attack.
- August 11 - Harald Nielsen, 73, Danish footballer (Bologna, national team).
- August 12 - Jaakko Hintikka, 86, Finnish philosopher and logician.
- August 12 - Meshulim Feish Lowy, 94, Hungarian-born Canadian rabbi, pneumonia.
- August 12 - Stephen Lewis, 88, British comedy actor (_On the Buses_, _Last of the Summer Wine_).
- August 13 - Bob Fillion, 95, Canadian ice hockey player.
- August 14 - Agustín Cejas, 70, Argentine footballer (Racing Club), Alzheimer's disease.
- August 14 - Bob Johnston, 83, American record producer (Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen).
- August 15 - Julian Bond, 75, American civil rights activist and politician, chairman of the NAACP (1998–2010), heart disease.
- August 16 - Shuja Khanzada, 71, Pakistani politician, member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab (2002–2007, since 2008), bombing.
- August 16 - Mile Mrkšić, 68, Yugoslav military officer and convicted war criminal.
- August 17 - László Paskai, 88, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest (1987–2002), Cardinal (1988–2015).
- August 17 - Arsen Dedić, 77, Croatian singer.
- August 17 - Yvonne Craig, 78, American actress (_Batman_, _Star Trek: The Original Series_, _Olivia_), breast cancer.
- August 17 - Jacob Bekenstein, 68, Mexican theoretical physicist.
- August 17 - Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, 82, German football executive (UEFA, VfB Stuttgart) and politician.
- August 17 - Eduardo Guerrero, 87, Argentine rower and Olympic champion (1952), pneumonia.
- August 18 - Suvra Mukherjee, 74, Indian philosopher and dancer, First Lady (since 2012), wife of Pranab Mukherjee, respiratory failure.
- August 18 - Khaled Asaad, 82, Syrian scholar, head of antiquities in Palmyra, beheaded.
- August 18 - Louis Stokes, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio (1969–1999), lung and brain cancer.
- August 18 - William Jay Smith, 97, American poet.
- August 19 - Suharno, 55, Indonesian football player and coach.
- August 20 - Egon Bahr, 93, German politician, co-creator of the Ostpolitik.
- August 20 - Lev Durov, 83, Russian actor.
- August 20 - Lina Morgan, 78, Spanish actress and showgirl.
- August 20 - Harry Volkman, 89, American meteorologist, respiratory failure.
- August 21 - Wang Dongxing, 99, Chinese politician, Vice Chairman of the Communist Party (1977–1980).
- August 21 - Gerry Steinberg, 70, British politician, MP for City of Durham (1987–2005).
- August 21 - Anna Kashfi, 80, British actress (_The Mountain_, _Cowboy_, _Adventures in Paradise_).
- August 22 - Arthur Morris, 93, Australian Test cricketer.
- August 22 - Ieng Thirith, 83, Cambodian politician, Minister of Social Affairs (1975–1979), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- August 22 - Merl Reagle, 65, American crossword maker (Los Angeles Times), acute pancreatitis.
- August 22 - Jörg Schneider, 80, Swiss actor (_Usfahrt Oerlike_) and comedian, cancer.
- August 22 - Mariem Hassan, 56–57, Western Saharan singer, bone cancer.
- August 23 - Yosi Piamenta, 64, Israeli musician, cancer.
- August 24 - Cees van Kooten, 67, Dutch footballer (Go Ahead Eagles, national team), esophageal cancer.
- August 24 - Justin Wilson, 37, British IndyCar Series driver, head injuries suffered in race collision.
- August 24 - Julián Pastor, 71, Mexican movie director and actor (_No One Writes to the Colonel_).
- August 24 - Chico Maki, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
- August 25 - Francis Sejersted, 79, Norwegian history professor, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (1991–1999).
- August 25 - José María Benegas, 67, Spanish politician, cancer.
- August 26 - Amelia Boynton Robinson, 104, American civil rights activist, multiple strokes.
- August 26 - Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, American news reporter and murderer, suicide by gunshot.
- August 26 - Alison Parker, 24, American news reporter, shot.
- August 26 - Adam Ward, 27, American news cameraman, shot.
- August 26 - Peter Kern, 66, Austrian actor and filmmaker (_The Last Summer of the Rich_).
- August 27 - Darryl Dawkins, 58, American basketball center (Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets) and coach (Newark Express, Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs), heart attack.
- August 27 - Joan Garriga, 52, Spanish motorcycle racer, injuries sustained in motorcycle accident.
- August 28 - Al Arbour, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks) and Hall of Fame coach (New York Islanders).
- August 28 - Józef Wesołowski, 67, Polish defrocked archbishop and Vatican ambassador to the Dominican Republic (2008-2013).
- August 28 - Teresa Gorman, 83, British politician, MP for Billericay (1987-2001).
- August 28 - Nelson Shanks, 77, American painter, prostate cancer.
- August 29 - Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, American actor (_Les Miserables_), fall.
- August 29 - Wayne Dyer, 75, American self-help author and motivational speaker, leukemia.
- August 30 - Bart Cummings, 87, Australian racehorse trainer, twelve-time winner of the Melbourne Cup.
- August 30 - Oliver Sacks, 82, British neurologist and author (_The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat_), liver cancer.
- August 30 - M. M. Kalburgi, 76, Indian writer and academic, shot.
- August 30 - Wes Craven, 76, American movie director, writer and producer (_A Nightmare on Elm Street_, _Scream_, _The Last House on the Left_), brain cancer.
- August 30 - Marvin Mandel, 95, American politician, Governor of Maryland (1969–1979), Speaker of the House of Delegates (1964–1969).
- August 30 - Edward Fadeley, 85, American attorney and politician, heart failure.
- August 30 - Hugo Rasmussen, 74, Danish jazz musician.
- August 31 - Edward, Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, 88, English peer, founder of the National Motor Museum, natural causes.

## Previous months

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