page_title: Deaths in July 2015
section_title: July 2015
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in July 2015 / July 2015
caption_attribution_description: English: Party at Sardi's: Theodore Bikel had a show to do in NY that night, but came to the party at Sardi's after Jim's opening. Here with Steve Schalchlin.
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2015.
  Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference are added.
context_section_description: 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
caption: Theodore Bikel 1924-2015
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