page_title: 2015
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 2015 / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: English: Kurt Masur. Concert with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Tel Aviv, 17-03-2012
context_page_description: 2015 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2015th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 15th year of the 3rd millennium, the 15th year of the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2010s decade.
  2015 was designated as:
  International Year of Light
  International Year of Soil
context_section_description: December 1 – Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (b. 1930)
  December 2
  Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor (b. 1925)
  Ferenc Juhász, Hungarian poet (b. 1928)
  December 3 – Scott Weiland, American singer and musician (b. 1967)
  December 4
  Erik De Vlaeminck, Belgian professional cyclist (b. 1945)
  Robert Loggia, American actor (b. 1930)
  Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (b. 1940)
  December 5 – Dimitar Iliev Popov, 41st Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1927)
  December 6 – Franzl Lang, German Yodeler  (b. 1930)
  December 8 – Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer (b. 1936)
  December 9
  Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal (b. 1921)
  Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (b. 1936)
  December 10
  Arnold Peralta, Honduran footballer (b. 1989)
  Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach (b. 1928)
  December 13 – Benedict Anderson, American academic (b. 1936)
  December 15 – Licio Gelli, Italian financier (b. 1919)
  December 19
  Jimmy Hill, English footballer and television presenter (b. 1928)
  Kurt Masur, German conductor (b. 1927)
  December 23
  Alfred G. Gilman, American Nobel pharmacologist and biochemist (b. 1941)
  Don Howe, English footballer (b. 1935)
  Bülent Ulusu, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1923)
  December 27
  Stein Eriksen, Norwegian alpine skier, Olympic champion (b. 1927)
  Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (b. 1923)
  Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer and film director (b. 1922)
  December 28
  Eloy Inos, American politician, Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands (b. 1949)
  Lemmy, British rock musician (b. 1945)
  Ian Murdock, German-American software programmer (b. 1973)
  Guru Josh, Jersey musician (b. 1964)
  December 29
  Elżbieta Krzesińska, Polish athlete (b. 1934)
  Pavel Srníček, Czech footballer (b. 1968)
  December 31
  Natalie Cole, American singer, songwriter and actress (b. 1950)
  Wayne Rogers, American actor (b. 1933)
caption: Kurt Masur
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