Deaths in June 2015

The following is a list of **notable deaths in June 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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* June 1 - Shone An, 31, Taiwanese singer (Comic Boyz) and actor, liver cancer.
* June 1 - Joan Kirner, 76, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (1990–1992), oesophageal cancer.
* June 1 - Nobutaka Machimura, 70, Japanese politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (2014–2015), cerebral infarction.
* June 1 - Charles Kennedy, 55, British politician, Leader of the Liberal Democrats (1999–2006), MP (1983–2015), haemorrhage.
* June 1 - Jacques Parizeau, 84, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (1994–1996).
* June 1 - Nicholas Liverpool, 80, Dominican politician, President (2003–2012), heart attack.
* June 1 - Jean Ritchie, 92, American folk singer and song collector.
* June 1 - Kirill Pokrovsky, 53, Russian composer.
* June 2 - Alberto De Martino, 85, Italian movie director (*O.K. Connery*, *Holocaust 2000*, *The Pumaman*).
* June 2 - Irwin Rose, 88, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004).
* June 2 - Theo Saat, 87, Dutch Olympic sprinter (1952).
* June 2 - Fernando de Araújo, 52, East Timorese politician, President of the National Parliament (2007&ndash;2012), Acting President (2008).
* June 2 - Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, 80, Colombian-born Dutch artist.
* June 3 - Avi Beker, 64, Israeli academic, secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress (2001–2003), cancer.
* June 3 - Margaret Juntwait, 58, American radio host, host of Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts (since 2014), ovarian cancer.
* June 4 - Kurt Weber, 87, Polish cinematographer (*Salto*).
* June 4 - Bengt Berndtsson, 82, Swedish footballer (IFK Göteborg). 
* June 4 - Leonid Plyushch, 77, Ukrainian Soviet dissident and mathematician.
* June 4 - Hermann Zapf, 96, German typeface designer.
* June 4 - Albert West, 65, Dutch singer (The Shuffles) and record producer.
* June 5 - Alan Bond, 77, Australian businessman, figure of the WA Inc scandals, complications from heart surgery.
* June 5 - Roger Vergé, 85, French chef, co-founder of Nouvelle Cuisine, complications of diabetes.
* June 5 - Jerry Collins, 34, New Zealand rugby union player (national team), car accident.
* June 5 - Jane Briggs Hart, 93, American aviator, member of the Mercury 13, Alzheimer's disease.
* June 5 - Sadun Boro, 87, Turkish sailor, bladder cancer.
* June 5 - Tariq Aziz, 79, Iraqi politician, Foreign Affairs Minister (1983–1991), heart attack.
* June 5 - Giacomo Furia, 90, Italian actor (*The Band of Honest Men*, *The Gold of Naples*).
* June 5 - Kazuo Chiba, 75, Japanese Aikido teacher.
* June 6 - Pierre Brice, 86, French actor (*Old Shatterhand*, *Mill of the Stone Women*), pneumonia.
* June 6 - Ludvík Vaculík, 88, Czech writer and journalist.
* June 6 - Richard Johnson, 87, English actor (*The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders*, *The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas*, *The Haunting*).
* June 6 - Ronnie Gilbert, 88, American singer-songwriter (The Weavers) and activist, natural causes.
* June 6 - Aarthi Agarwal, 31, American Telugu cinema actress, cardiac arrest.
* June 7 - Vasili Zhupikov, 61, Russian footballer.
* June 7 - Sir Christopher Lee, 93, British actor and singer (*Dracula*, *The Lord of the Rings*, *Star Wars*), heart failure.
* June 8 - Chea Sim, 82, Cambodian politician, president Cambodian People's Party.
* June 8 - David Rotem, 66, Israeli politician, Member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu (2007–2015), cardiac arrest.
* June 8 - Frank Cappuccino, 86, American boxing referee, Alzheimer's disease.
* June 9 - James Last, 86, German composer.
* June 9 - Fred Anton Maier, 76, Norwegian Olympic champion speed skater, cancer.
* June 9 - Douglas Danforth, 92, American businessman, CEO of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
* June 9 - Pedro Zerolo, 54, Venezuelan-born Spanish politician, pancreatic cancer.
* June 10 - Wolfgang Jeschke, 78, German science fiction author (*The Last Day of Creation*).
* June 10 - Robert Chartoff, 81, American movie producer (*Rocky*, *Raging Bull*, ''Ender's Game*), Oscar winner (1977), pancreatic cancer.
* June 11 - Ornette Coleman, 85, American saxophonist and free jazz pioneer, cardiac arrest.
* June 11 - Jack King, 84, American public affairs officer (NASA), congestive heart failure.
* June 11 - Ron Moody, 91, British actor (*Oliver!*, *The Animals of Farthing Wood*, *EastEnders*).
*  June 11 - Dusty Rhodes, 69, American professional wrestler (NWA, WCW, WWE), kidney failure.
* June 11 - Jim Ed Brown, 81, American country singer (The Browns), cancer.
* June 11 - Sebastiano Mannironi, 84, Italian Olympic weightlifter (1956, 1960, 1964). 
* June 12 - Monica Lewis, 93, American singer and actress (*Earthquake*).
* June 12 - Fernando Brant, 68, Brazilian poet and composer, surgical complications. 
* June 13 - Magnus Härenstam, 73, Swedish actor (*Sällskapsresan, Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen?*) and comedian (*Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter*), spinal cancer.
* June 13 - Sergio Renán, 82, Argentine actor, director and screenwriter (*The Truce''), pneumonia.
* June 13 - Drs. P, 95, Dutch singer-writer, composer and poet.
* June 13 - Buddy Boudreaux, 97, American jazz saxophonist and band leader. 
* June 14 - Hugo Blanco, 74, Venezuelan musician and composer.
* June 14 - Anne Nicol Gaylor, 88, American atheism and reproductive rights advocate; co-founder of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, complications from a fall.
* June 14 - Zito, 82, Brazilian footballer, World Cup-winning team member (1958, 1962), complications of a stroke.
* June 14 - Qiao Shi, 90, Chinese politician, Chairman of the National People's Congress.
* June 15 - Jean Doré, 70, Canadian politician, Mayor of Montreal (1986–1994), pancreatic cancer.
* June 15 - Blaze Starr, 83, American stripper, burlesque comedienne and club owner, subject of *Blaze*.
* June 15 - Jeanna Friske, 40, Russian singer (Blestyaschie), glioblastoma.
* June 15 - Harry Rowohlt, 70, German author.
* June 15 - Kirk Kerkorian, 98, American businessman.
* June 15 - Mighty Sam McClain, 72, American soul blues singer, stroke.
* June 16 - Charles Correa, 84, Indian architect.
* June 16 - Tony Ranasinghe, 77, Sri Lankan actor (*Hanthane Kathawa*, *Duhulu Malak*, *Ahasin Polawata*) and writer.
* June 17 - Süleyman Demirel, 90, Turkish politician, President (1993–2000), lung infection.
* June 17 - Ron Clarke, 78, Australian long distance runner, Olympic bronze medalist (1964), Mayor of the Gold Coast, Queensland (2004–2012), kidney failure.
* June 17 - Clementa C. Pinckney, 41, American politician and pastor, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1997–2000) and Senate (since 2000), shot.
* June 17 - Nelson Doubleday, Jr., 81, American publisher (Doubleday) and Major League Baseball team owner (New York Mets), pneumonia.
* June 17 - Roberto M. Levingston, 95, Argentine politician, President (1970–1971).
* June 17 - John David Crow, 79, American Heisman Trophy-winning football player (Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals) and coach (Northeast Louisiana).
* June 17 - Jeralean Talley, 116, American supercentenarian, world's oldest person.
* June 17 - Nicola Badalucco, 86, Italian screenwriter (*The Damned*) and journalist.
* June 17 - Chang Ch'ung-ho, 101, Chinese-American poet, calligrapher, and Kunqu opera singer.
* June 18 - Phil Austin, 74, American comedian, writer, and musician (Firesign Theatre).
* June 18 - Ralph J. Roberts, 95, American businessman, founder of Comcast.
* June 18 - Jack Rollins, 100, American movie producer (*Midnight in Paris*, *The Purple Rose of Cairo*, *Irrational Man*).
* June 18 - Allen Weinstein, 77, American historian, Archivist of the United States (2005–2008), pneumonia.
* June 18 - Sir Patrick Eisdell Moore, 97, New Zealand surgeon.
* June 19 - Harold Battiste, 83, American jazz and R&B composer, arranger and musician (Sam Cooke, Sonny & Cher, Dr. John).
* June 19 - Fredrik Fasting Torgersen, 80, Norwegian convicted murderer, complications of pneumonia.
* June 19 - Wendell Holmes, 71, American musician (The Holmes Brothers), complications from pulmonary embolism.
* June 19 - Jack Aeby, 91, American photographer.
* June 19 - James Salter, 90, American novelist.
* June 20 - François Delapierre, 44, French politician, brain tumour.
* June 20 - Elson Floyd, 59, American educator, President of Washington State University (since 2007), complications from colon cancer.
* June 20 - Angelo Niculescu, 93, Romanian football manager.
* June 20 - Takanonami Sadahiro, 43, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach, heart failure.
* June 20 - Esther Brand, 92, South African athlete, complications of a fall.
* June 20 - William Brantley Aycock, 99, American educator.
* June 21 - Veijo Meri, 86, Finnish author.
* June 21 - James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, 85, Scottish nobleman.
* June 21 - Gunther Schuller, 89, American composer, conductor, historian and jazz musician, leukemia.
* June 21 - Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, 82, East German politician.
* June 22 - Laura Antonelli, 73, Italian actress (*Malicious*, *Till Marriage Do Us Part*, *The Innocent*), heart attack.
* June 22 - Norm Berryman, 42, New Zealand rugby union player (national team), heart attack.
* June 22 - James Horner, 61, American composer (*Titanic*, *Field of Dreams*, *Apollo 13*), Oscar winner (1998), plane crash.
* June 23 - Helmuth Lohner, 82, Austrian actor and theatre director.
* June 23 - Magali Noël, 84, French actress (*La Dolce Vita*) and singer ("Fais-moi mal, Johnny").
* June 23 - Marujita Díaz, 83, Spanish singer and actress (*Música y estrellas*), complications from colon cancer.
* June 23 - Dick Van Patten, 86, American actor (*Eight is Enough*, *The Love Boat*, *Charly*), complications from diabetes.
* June 23 - Harvey Pollack, 93, American sport statistician, last surviving employee in first NBA season.
* June 23 - Sir Chris Woodhead, 68, British educationalist, Chief Inspector for Ofsted (1994–2000), motor neurone disease.
* June 23 - Thé Lau, 62, Dutch singer and guitarist (The Scene), lung cancer.
* June 24 - Walter Browne, 66, Australian-born American chess Grandmaster, six-time U.S. champion.
* June 24 - Cristiano Araújo, 29, Brazilian singer and songwriter, traffic collision.
* June 24 - Mario Biaggi, 97, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1969–1988).
* June 24 - Marva Collins, 78, American educator.
* June 25 - Patrick Macnee, 93, English-American actor (*The Avengers*, *This Is Spinal Tap*, *A View to a Kill*).
* June 26 - Yevgeny Primakov, 85, Russian politician and diplomat, Prime Minister (1998–1999).
* June 26 - Richard Matt, 49, American convicted murderer and prison escapee, shot.
* June 26 - Kája Saudek, 80, Czech comics illustrator.
* June 27 - Zvi Elpeleg, 89, Polish-born Israeli diplomat and academic.
* June 27 - Don McNeill, 80, Canadian journalist (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBS News).
* June 27 - Chris Squire, 67, English bass guitarist (Yes), acute erythroid leukemia.
* June 28 - Jack Carter, 93, American comedian and actor (*Viva Las Vegas*, *Alligator*), respiratory failure.
* June 28 - Todor Slavov, 31, Bulgarian rally driver, rally accident.
* June 28 - Wally Stanowski, 96, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers).
* June 29 - Charles Pasqua, 88, French politician, Minister of the Interior (1986–1988, 1993–1995).
* June 29 - Josef Masopust, 84, Czech football player and manager (Dukla Prague, national team).
* June 29 - Jackson Vroman, 34, American-born Lebanese basketball player (Phoenix Suns, New Orleans Hornets).
* June 30 - Eddy Louiss, 74, French jazz organist.
* June 30 - Leonard Starr, 89, American cartoonist (*ThunderCats*, *Little Orphan Annie*).

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

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