page_title: Deaths in May 2015
section_title: May 2015
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in May 2015 / May 2015
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Betsy Palmer from a 1960 appearance on the United States Steel Hour.
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2015.
  Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference are added.
context_section_description: May 1 - David Day, 63, Australian radio broadcaster (5KA, Triple M).
  May 1 - María Elena Velasco, 74, Mexican actress, comedienne and movie producer (La India María), stomach cancer.
  May 1 - Pete Brown, 80, American professional golfer, heart failure and stroke.
  May 1 - Stephen Milburn Anderson, 67, American movie director, writer and producer, throat cancer.
  May 1 - Grace Lee Whitney, 85, American actress (Star Trek, Some Like It Hot, Irma la Douce).
  May 1 - Gary Liddell, 60, Scottish footballer (Grimsby Town, Heart of Midlothian). (death announced on this date)
  May 1 - Geoff Duke, 92, British motorcycle racer.
  May 1 - Vafa Guluzade, 74, Azerbaijani diplomat and political scientist.
  May 1 - Beth Whittall, 78, Canadian Olympic swimmer, double Pan American champion (1955).
  May 1 - Harry Geisinger, 81, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1969–1974, since 2005), leukemia.
  May 1 - Ray Ceresino, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
  May 2 - Ruth Rendell, 85, English crime novelist (Inspector Wexford series), stroke.
  May 2 - Maya Plisetskaya, 89, Russian ballet dancer, heat attack.
  May 2 - Guy Carawan, 87, American folk singer and civil rights activist.
  May 2 - Dave Goldberg, 47, American executive (SurveyMonkey, LAUNCH Media).
  May 2 - Sarah Correa, 22, Brazilian swimmer, South American Games champion (2010), hit by car.
  May 2 - Michael Blake, 69, American author and screenwriter (Dances with Wolves).
  May 2 - Konstantin K. Kuzminsky, 75, Russian performance poet.
  May 2 - Stuart Archer, 100, British recipient of the George Cross.
  May 2 - Philip S. Goodman, 89, American director, screenwriter and producer (We Shall Return, Profiles in Courage).
  May 2 - Ryan McHenry, 27, Scottish movie director and social media personality, bone cancer.
  May 2 - Norman Thaddeus Vane, 86, American screenwriter and movie director (Frightmare).
  May 2 - John Mahaffy, 96, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers).
  May 3 - Abdul Wahid Aresar, 65, Pakistani politician.
  May 3 - Revaz Chkheidze, 88, Georgian movie director (Father of a Soldier, The Saplings).
  May 3 - Danny Jones, 29, Welsh international rugby league player, cardiac arrest.
  May 3 - Abdul Basit Usman, 40–41, Filipino fugitive, shot.
  May 3 - Harry Martin, 95, American judge.
  May 3 - John Elders, 84, English rugby union player (Leicester).
  May 4 - Ellen Albertini Dow, 101, American actress (The Wedding Singer, Wedding Crashers, Patch Adams).
  May 4 - Jesús Hermida, 77, Spanish journalist and broadcaster, stroke.
  May 4 - Andrew Lewis, 44, Guyanese boxer, traffic accident.
  May 4 - Joshua Ozersky, 47, American food writer.
  May 4 - Zhivko Gospodinov, 57, Bulgarian footballer.
  May 5 - Jon Castañares, 90, Spanish economist and politician, Mayor of Bilbao (1979-1983).
  May 5 - Hans Jansen, 72, Dutch politician, Member of the European Parliament (since 2014), stroke.
  May 5 - Oscar Holderer, 95, American engineer, worked on Saturn V project.
  May 5 - Craig Gruber, 63, American rock musician (Rainbow, Elf), prostate cancer.
  May 5 - Brian Sedgemore, 78, British politician, MP (1974–1979, 1983–2005), fall.
  May 6 - Errol Brown, 71, British singer (Hot Chocolate), liver cancer.
  May 6 - Jerome Cooper, 68, American jazz drummer, multiple myeloma.
  May 6 - Jim Wright, 92, American politician, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1987–1989).
  May 7 - Józef Pazdur, 90, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (1984–2000).
  May 7 - John Dixon, 86, Australian cartoonist (Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors), stroke.
  May 7 - Maurice Flanagan, 86, British businessman (Emirates).
  May 7 - Frank DiPascali, 58, American financier and fraudster, lung cancer.
  May 8 - Zeki Alasya, 72, Turkish actor and director (From the Village to the City), liver disease.
  May 8 - Atanas Semerdzhiev, 90, Bulgarian politician, Vice President (1990–1992).
  May 8 - Martin Nag, 88, Norwegian writer, stroke.
  May 8 - Menashe Kadishman, 82, Israeli artist, winner of the Israel Prize (1995).
  May 8 - Phil Skoglund, 77, New Zealand lawn bowls player, t
caption: Betsy Palmer 1926-2015
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