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
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* 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 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

## References