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.

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.Nekrolog  
 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).Meghalt Szabad György 
 July 3 - John A. Williams, 89, American writer, Alzheimer's disease.
 July 3 - Peter Záboji, Hungarian investor and entrepreneur.Elhunyt Záboji Péter, a startup világ egyik meghatározó szereplője 
 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).Morto Jacques Sernas 
 July 4 - Nedelcho Beronov, 86, Bulgarian  jurist, right-wing politician and Constitutional Court chairman (2003-2006).Death notice 
 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.Carlo de Gavardo fallece tras sufrir paro respiratorio  
 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).Fons van Wissen (82) overleden 
 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.Décès de l’ancien député Yoash Tzidon  
 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).Addio all’arcivescovo Giacomo Biffi Il teologo di una «città sazia e disperata» 
 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.Muere Javier Krahe 
 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.Chiesa in lutto, è morto fratel Arturo Paoli 
 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).全国人大常委会原委员长万里逝世 享年99岁  
 July 15 - Fred Wendorf, 90, American archaeologist.
 July 16 - Alcides Ghiggia, 88, Uruguayan footballer, heart attack.Falleció Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia 
 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.Alan Kupperberg Dies, Aged 62
 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).Washington-area obituaries of note
 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.Скончалась олимпийская чемпионка по плаванию Галина Прозуменщикова 
 July 19 - Gennadiy Seleznyov, 67, Russian politician, Speaker of the Duma (1996–2003).Ушел из жизни Геннадий Селезнев 
 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).SD-politikern Stellan Bojerud död 
 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).Políticos lamentam morte de Luiz Paulo Conde, ex-prefeito do Rio 
 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.Muere el actor José Sazatornil, ‘Saza’, a los 89 años 
 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.Mumbai bomb plotter Yakub Memon hanged: Indian TV stations
 July 30 - Lynn Anderson, 67, American country singer  ("(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden"), heart attack.'Rose Garden' singer Lynn Anderson dies at 67 
 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).Zemřela krasobruslařská legenda Ája Vrzáňová 
 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

References

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