Deaths in May 2015

The following is a list of **notable deaths in May 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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* 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, triple world champion (1988).
* May 8 - Rutger Gunnarsson, 69, Swedish bassist (ABBA, Elton John). (death announced on this date)
* May 8 - Joanne Carson, 84, American television talk show host and model.
* May 8 - Notable people killed in the 2015 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash:
**Leif Holger Larsen, 61, Norwegian diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan (since 2014).
* May 9 - Odo Marquard, 87, German philosopher. 
* May 9 - Michael MacKellar, 76, Australian politician, MP for Warringah (1969–1994).
* May 9 - Igor Gorynin, 89, Russian metallurgist.
* May 9 - Kenan Evren, 97, Turkish military officer, President of Turkey (1980–1989), gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
* May 9 - Johnny Gimble, 88, American country music fiddler.
* May 9 - Ragne Tangen, 88, Norwegian children's television presenter. (death announced on this date)
* May 9 - Elizabeth Wilson, 94, American actress (*The Birds*, *The Graduate*, *9 to 5*), Tony Award winner (1972).
* May 10 - Ninad Bedekar, 65, Indian historian and writer.
* May 10 - Luiz Henrique da Silveira, 75, Brazilian politician, Senator (since 2011), Governor of Santa Catarina (2003–2006, 2007–2010), Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (1987–1988), heart attack.
* May 10 - Kim Kyok-sik, 76, North Korean military officer, Defence Minister (2012–13), acute respiratory failure.
* May 11 - Jef Geeraerts, 85, Belgian author, heart attack.
* May 11 - Stan Cornyn, 81, American record label executive and writer.
* May 11 - Sir John Watts, 93, Grenadian politician, President of the Senate (1988–1990, 1995–2004).
* May 12 - William Zinsser, 92, American writer (*On Writing Well*).
* May 12 - Suchitra Bhattacharya, 65, Indian novelist, cardiac arrest.
* May 12 - Bill Guthridge, 77, American college basketball coach (University of North Carolina).
* May 12 - Peter Gay, 91, American psychohistorian and writer.
* May 12 - William MacDonald, 90, Australian serial killer, natural causes.
* May 13 - Derek Davis, 67, Irish broadcaster (*Live at 3*).
* May 13 - Gainan Saidkhuzhin, 77, Russian Soviet Olympic cyclist (1960, 1964), heart attack.
* May 13 - Anna Levinson, 76, German zoologist.
* May 14 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., 93, Polish art historian.
* May 14 - B.B. King, 89, American Hall of Fame blues guitarist, singer and songwriter ("The Thrill Is Gone"), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* May 15 - John Stephenson, 91, American actor (*The Flintstones*, *Dragnet*), Alzheimer's disease. 
* May 15 - Garo Yepremian, 70, American football player (Miami Dolphins), brain cancer.
* May 15 - Donald Wrye, 77, American movie director (*Ice Castles*).
* May 15 - Jackie Brookner, 69, American artist, cancer.
* May 16 - Yeung Kwong, 89, Hong Kong pro-communist activist, heart failure.
* May 16 - Jackie Basehart, 63, American-born Italian actor (*The Inglorious Bastards*).
* May 16 - Dean Potter, 43, American rock climber, BASE-jumping accident.
* May 16 - Moshe Levinger, 80, Israeli Orthodox rabbi.
* May 16 - Flora MacNeil, 86, Scottish Gaelic singer (*Mo Run Geal Og*).
* May 16 - John Templeton Jr., 75, American physician and philanthropist, brain cancer.
* May 16 - Elias Gleizer, 81, Brazilian actor, heart failure and bronchopneumonia complicated by a fall.
* May 17 - Chinx, 31, American rapper, shot.
* May 17 - Margaret Dunning, 104, American philanthropist, complications from a fall.
* May 17 - Michael Alfred Peszke, 83, Polish-born American psychiatrist and historian.
* May 18 - Raymond Gosling, 88, British scientist.
* May 18 - Halldór Ásgrímsson, 67, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister (2004–2006), heart attack.
* May 18 - Aruna Shanbaug, 66, Indian nurse, comatose rape victim, pneumonia.
* May 19 - Happy Rockefeller, 88, American socialite and philanthropist, Second Lady of the United States (1974–1977).
* May 19 - Edmond J. Gong, 84, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1963–1966) and Senate (1967–1971).
* May 19 - Robert S. Wistrich, 70, British-Israeli history professor, heart attack.
* May 19 - Ahmad Alasgarov, 79, Azerbaijani footballer and manager.
* May 19 - Burhan Muhammad, 57, Indonesian diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan (since 2012), burns from helicopter crash.
* May 19 - Dale D. Myers, 93, American aerospace engineer, Deputy Administrator of NASA (1986–1989).
* May 19 - Gerald Götting, 91, German politician, President of the East German People's Chamber (1969–1976).
* May 20 - Sudha Shivpuri, 77, Indian actress (*Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi*), multiple organ failure.
* May 20 - Bob Belden, 58, American musician, heart attack.
* May 21 - Joaquim Durão, 84, Portuguese chess player.
* May 21 - Twinkle, 66, British singer-songwriter ("Terry"), cancer.
* May 21 - Louis Johnson, 60, American bassist (The Brothers Johnson, Michael Jackson).
* May 21 - Annarita Sidoti, 44, Italian race walker, world champion (1997), breast cancer.
* May 22 - Marques Haynes, 89, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters).
* May 22 - Aminah Robinson, 75, American artist, heart failure.
* May 22 - Terry Sue-Patt, 50, British actor (*Grange Hill*). (body found on this date)
* May 22 - Radomir Naumov, 68, Serbian politician, Minister of Energy and Mining (2004–2007), Minister of Religion (2007–2008).
* May 23 - Aleksey Mozgovoy, 40, Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist.
* May 23 - John Forbes Nash, Jr., 86, American Nobel Prize-winning mathematician, car accident.
* May 23 - Anne Meara, 85, American comedian (Stiller and Meara) and actress (''Archie Bunker's Place*, *Sex and the City*, *Like Mike*).
* May 23 - Ali Raymi, 41, Yemeni boxer, bombing.
* May 24 - Tanith Lee, 67, British science fiction, horror and fantasy writer (*Blake's 7'').
* May 24 - Marcus Belgrave, 78, American jazz trumpeter, heart failure.
* May 24 - Bharat Raj Upreti, 63, Nepali judge, justice of the Supreme Court (2009–2013), suicide by hanging.
* May 25 - John M. Murphy, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 16th (1963–1973) and 17th (1973–1981) districts.
* May 25 - Mary Ellen Mark, 75, American photographer, myelodysplastic syndrome.
* May 25 - Bill O'Herlihy, 76, Irish sports broadcaster (RTÉ Sport).
* May 26 - Vicente Aranda, 88, Spanish movie director (*Amantes*).
* May 26 - Les Johnson, 90, Australian politician, MP for Hughes (1955–1966, 1969–1983).
* May 26 - Dayton Waller, 90, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Shreveport (1968–1972).
* May 26 - Rocky Frisco, 77, American pianist (JJ Cale Band).
* May 26 - Bob Hornery, 83, Australian stage, movie and television actor (*Neighbours*, *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Importance of Being Earnest*).
* May 26 - Robert Kraft, 87, American astronomer.
* May 27 - Erik Carlsson, 86, Swedish rally driver.
* May 27 - Nils Christie, 87, Norwegian criminologist.
* May 28 - Reynaldo Rey, 75, American actor and comedian (*227*, *Friday*, ''White Men Can't Jump*), stroke.
* May 29 - Betsy Palmer, 88, American actress (*I've Got a Secret*, *Mister Roberts*, *Friday the 13th'').
* May 29 - Ed Gilligan, 55, American financial executive, President of American Express (since 2013).
* May 29 - Doris Hart, 89, American tennis player.
* May 30 - L. Tom Perry, 92, American apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, thyroid cancer.
* May 30 - Lennie Merullo, 98, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
* May 30 - Beau Biden, 46, American politician, Attorney General of Delaware (2007–2015), brain cancer.
* May 30 - Julie Harris, 94, British costume designer.
* May 30 - Tony McNamara, 85, English footballer (Everton, Liverpool).
* May 31 - Rochelle Shoretz, 42, American civil servant, founder of Sharsheret, complications from breast cancer.
* May 31 - Karl Wlaschek, 97, Austrian executive, founder of Billa.
* May 31 - Mario Saliwa, 31, South African first-class cricketer.
* May 31 - Slim Richey, 77, American guitarist, lymphoma.

## Previous months
* January 2015
* February 2015
* March 2015
* April 2015

## References