Deaths in January 2015

The following is a list of **notable deaths in January 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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* January 1 - Mario Cuomo, 82, American politician, Governor of New York (1983–1994), heart failure.
* January 1 - Staryl C. Austin, 94, American air force brigadier general.
* January 1 - Omar Karami, 80, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister (1990–1992, 2004–2005).
* January 1 - Ulrich Beck, 70, German sociologist, heart attack.
* January 1 - Jeff Golub, 59, American guitarist, progressive supranuclear palsy.
* January 1 - Boris Morukov, 64, Russian physician and cosmonaut.
* January 1 - Ninón Sevilla, 93, Mexican actress (*Aventurera*), heart attack.
* January 1 - Donna Douglas, 82, American actress (*The Beverly Hillbillies*, *Frankie and Johnny*, *The Twilight Zone*), pancreatic cancer.
* January 1 - Eric Cunningham, 65, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP for Wentworth North (1975–1984).
* January 1 - Mrunalini Devi Puar, 83, Indian educator, Chancellor of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (since 1988).
* January 1 - Miller Williams, 84, American poet, Alzheimer's disease.
* January 1 - Géry Leuliet, 104, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amiens (1963–1985).
* January 2 - Lam Po-chuen, 63, Hong Kong dubbing artist (*Doraemon*), diabetes.
* January 2 - Arthur A. Neu, 81, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Iowa (1973–1979), member of the Iowa Senate (1967–1973).
* January 2 - Noel Cobb, 76, British philosopher, psychologist and author.
* January 2 - Little Jimmy Dickens, 94, American country music singer ("May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose"), cardiac arrest.
* January 2 - Tihomir Novakov, 85, American physicist, natural causes.
* January 2 - Abu Anas al-Libi, 50, Libyan al-Qaeda member in United States custody, surgical complications.
* January 2 - Basil Hansen, 88, Australian Olympic ice hockey player (1960).
* January 2 - Danny Dunton, 90, English speedway rider and promoter.
* January 2 - Per-Olof Åstrand, 92, Swedish physiologist.
* January 2 - Roger Kitter, 64, British actor ('''Allo 'Allo!'').
* January 3 -  Edward Brooke, 95, American politician, United States Senator from Massachusetts (1967–1979), natural causes.
* January 3 - Derek Minter, 82, British Grand Prix motorcycle and short-circuit road racer.
* January 3 - Bernice Madigan, 115, American supercentenarian, world's fifth-oldest person.
* January 3 - Olga Knyazeva, 60, Russian fencer, Olympic champion (1976).
* January 4 - Lance Diamond, 68, American singer, heart failure.
* January 4 - Stu Miller, 87, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
* January 4 - Stuart Scott, 49, American sports journalist (ESPN), appendix cancer.
* January 4 - Hank Peters, 90, American baseball executive (Baltimore Orioles), complications from a  stroke.
* January 4 - René Vautier, 86, French movie director (*Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès*).
* January 4 - Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński, 70, Polish academic.
* January 4 - Pino Daniele, 59, Italian singer and songwriter, heart attack.
* January 4 - Natalino Pescarolo, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Fossano (1992–2005) and Cuneo (1999–2005).
* January 5 - Jean-Pierre Beltoise, 77, French Formula One racing driver, winner of the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix, stroke.
* January 5 - Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, 102, American Roman Catholic bishop, retired auxiliary bishop of Buffalo.
* January 5 - Khan Bonfils, 42, English actor (*Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace*, *Batman Begins*, *Skyfall*).
* January 5 - Joy Ali, 36, Fijian middleweight boxer.
* January 5 - King Sporty, 71, Jamaican-American reggae musician.
* January 5 - Arthur E. Chase, 84, American politician, member of the Massachusetts Senate.
* January 6 - Vlastimil Bubník, 83, Czech ice hockey player and footballer, Olympic bronze medalist (1964).
* January 6 - Tim Roberts, 38, American professional wrestler (WWE, ECW).
* January 6 - Johannes de Villiers Graaff, 86, South African economist.
* January 6 - Sir Basil John Mason, 91, British meteorologist.
* January 6 - Joseph Djida, 69, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ngaoundéré (since 2000).
* January 6 - Ron Hovey, 82, Australian football player (Geelong).
* January 6 - Lance Percival, 81, British actor (*The Beatles*) and singer ("Shame and Scandal in the Family").
* January 6 - George H. McKee, 91, American air force lieutenant general.
* January 7 - Mompati Merafhe, 78, Batswana general and politician, Vice President (2008–2012). 
* January 7 - Notable French people killed in the *Charlie Hebdo* shooting:
**Cabu, 76, cartoonist.
* January 7 - Arch A. Moore, Jr., 91, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (1969–1977, 1985–1989).
* January 7 - J. P. Parisé, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars), lung cancer.
* January 7 - Jethro Pugh, 70, American football player (Dallas Cowboys). 
* January 7 - David Rolfe, 50, Australian Paralympic swimmer, complications relating to heart surgery. 
* January 7 - Rod Taylor, 84, Australian actor (*The Time Machine*, *The Birds*, *Sunday in New York*), heart attack.
* January 7 - Tadeusz Konwicki, 88, Polish writer and filmmaker.
* January 7 - B. S. Abdur Rahman, 87, Indian business executive and philanthropist (B. S. Abdur Rahman University).
* January 7 - José Arias, 92, Spanish Olympic alpine skier (1948).
* January 8 - Kep Enderby, 88, Australian politician and judge.
* January 8 - Andraé Crouch, 72, American gospel singer, complications from heart attack.
* January 8 - Hubert Markl, 76, German biologist.
* January 8 - Ray McFall, 88, British nightclub owner (The Cavern Club).
* January 8 - Leif Rantala, 67, Finnish linguist.
* January 9 - Józef Oleksy, 68, Polish politician, Prime Minister (1995–1996), cancer.
* January 9 - Robert V. Keeley, 85, American diplomat, Ambassador to Mauritius (1976–1978), Zimbabwe (1980–1984) and Greece (1985–1989), stroke.
* January 9 - Chérif Kouachi, 32, French jihadist (suspect in the Charlie Hebdo shooting), shot.
* January 9 - Saïd Kouachi, 34, French jihadist (suspect in the Charlie Hebdo shooting), shot.
* January 9 - Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., 88, American movie producer (*The Secret Life of Walter Mitty*, *Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World*), heart failure.
* January 9 - Roy Tarpley, 50, American basketball player (Dallas Mavericks).
* January 9 - Popsy Dixon, 72, American musician (The Holmes Brothers), bladder cancer.
* January 9 - Frans Molenaar, 74, Dutch fashion designer, complications from a fall.
* January 9 - Chuck Locke, 82, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
* January 9 - Michel Jeury, 80, French science fiction author.
* January 10 - Francesco Rosi, 92, Italian movie director (*The Mattei Affair*, *Christ Stopped at Eboli*, *Salvatore Giuliano*).
* January 10 - Junior Malanda, 20, Belgian footballer (VfL Wolfsburg, national under-21 team), traffic collision.
* January 10 - Robert Stone, 77, American novelist (*Dog Soldiers*), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
* January 10 - Taylor Negron, 57, American comedian and actor (*Angels in the Outfield*, *Fast Times at Ridgemont High*, *Bio-Dome*), cancer.
* January 10 - Frans Bolweg, 64, Dutch sailor and coach, eye cancer.
* January 10 - Walter Berns, 95, American constitutional law and political philosophy professor.
* January 10 - Harry V. Jaffa, 96, American political philosophy professor and writer (*Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates*).
* January 10 - Jorgelina Aranda, 72, Argentine model, singer and actress (*Il Gaucho*), cancer.
* January 10 - Elemér Hankiss, 86, Hungarian sociologist.
* January 10 - Slobodan Martinović, 70, Serbian chess player.
* January 10 - Robert Berner, 79, American geologist and geochemist.
* January 10 - Inge Vermeulen, 30, Dutch field hockey player (national team), European champion (2009).
* January 11 - Jenő Buzánszky, 89, Hungarian footballer (Dorogi FC, national team), Olympic champion (1952).
* January 11 - Anita Ekberg, 83, Swedish actress (*La Dolce Vita*, *Paris Holiday*, *Back from Eternity*).
* January 11 - Chic Littlewood, 84, New Zealand television personality (*Chicaboom*, *Chic Chat*) and actor (*Shortland Street*, *King Kong*).
* January 11 - Brian Clemens, 83, British screenwriter (*Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde*) and television producer (*The Avengers*, *The Professionals*).
* January 11 - Doriemus, 24, New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse, Melbourne Cup winner (1995), euthanised following paddock accident.
* January 12 - Elena Obraztsova, 75, Russian mezzo-soprano.
* January 12 - Carl Long, 79, American baseball player.
* January 12 - James Naanman Daman, 58, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jalingo (2000–2007) and Shendam (since 2007).
* January 12 - Frank Glazer, 99, American pianist and composer.
* January 12 - Steve Gold, 58, British computer journalist.
* January 12 - Robert Gover, 85, American author.
* January 12 - Paul Morgan, 40, Welsh rugby union and league player.
* January 12 - Bonnie Christensen, 63, American children's book author and illustrator, ovarian cancer.
* January 13 - Mark Juddery, 43, Australian author and journalist, cancer.
* January 13 - Keith Wright, 73, Australian politician and convicted child rapist, MP for Capricornia (1984–1993).
* January 13 - Hara Patnaik, 56, Indian actor and movie director, cancer. 
* January 13 - Sir Jack Hayward, 91, English businessman, property developer and philanthropist, president of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
* January 13 - Robert White, 88, American diplomat, Ambassador to Paraguay (1977–1980) and El Salvador (1980–1981).
* January 13 - Trevor Colbourn, 87, Australian educator and academic, President of the University of Central Florida (1978–1989).
* January 14 - Zhang Wannian, 86, Chinese general.
* January 14 - Bob Boyd, 84, American basketball coach (USC Trojans), natural causes.
* January 14 - Lotte Hass, 86, Austrian model and underwater diver.
* January 14 - Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, 71, Israeli rabbi, heart attack.
* January 14 - Nélida Romero, 88, Argentine actress.
* January 14 - Jerry Dempsey, 81, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1992–2006).
* January 14 - Warren Weinstein, 73, American economist, USAID contractor kidnapped by al-Qaeda, drone strike.
* January 15 - Ethel Lang, 114, British supercentenarian.
* January 15 - Ervin Drake, 95, American songwriter ("It Was a Very Good Year," "I Believe," "Good Morning Heartache"), bladder cancer.
* January 15 - Kim Fowley, 75, American record producer, impresario and musician, bladder cancer.
* January 15 - Val Holten, 87, Australian cricketer.
* January 15 - Jean-Claude Baker, 71, American restaurateur, suicide. (body discovered on this date)
* January 15 - Joseph Mukasa Zuza, 59, Malawian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mzuzu (since 1995), car accident.
* January 16 - Sir Ian Athfield, 74, New Zealand architect.
* January 16 - Yao Beina, 33, Chinese singer, breast cancer.
* January 16 - Andrew Benson, 97, American biologist.
* January 16 - Rimma Markova, 89, Russian actress (*The Alive and the Dead*, *The Pokrovsky Gate*).
* January 16 - Ted Harrison, 88, Canadian painter.
* January 16 - Pedro María Iguaran, 74, Spanish footballer (Real Sociedad).
* January 16 - Stuart Loory, 82, American journalist and media executive (CNN), lung cancer.
* January 16 - Miriam Akavia, 87, Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor, natural causes.
* January 17 - Faten Hamama, 83, Egyptian actress (*The Angel of Mercy*, *Wajh al-Qamar*).
* January 17 - Bill Sykes, 75, English chaplain and writer.
* January 17 - Don Harron, 90, Canadian comedian, actor and author (*The Big Revue*), cancer.
* January 17 - Origa, 44, Russian singer (*Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex*), lung cancer.
* January 18 - Paul O'Grady, 54, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1988–1996), cancer.
* January 18 - Kjell Arnljot Wig, 90, Norwegian media personality.
* January 18 - Piet van der Sanden, 90, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1971–1972, 1973–1989), member of the European Parliament (1973–1974).
* January 18 - Tony Verna, 81, American television producer, inventor of instant replay, leukemia.
* January 18 - José Carrasco, 70, Peruvian politician, lung cancer.
* January 19 - Michel Guimond, 61, Canadian politician, MP for Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord (1993–2011), heart failure.
* January 19 - Vladimir Kesarev, 84, Russian footballer (FC Dynamo Moscow).
* January 19 - Justin Capră, 81, Romanian inventor.
* January 19 - Anne Kirkbride, 60, British actress (*Coronation Street*), breast cancer.
* January 19 - Arthit Kamlang-ek, 89, Thai general, Supreme Commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces (1983–1986).
* January 19 - Bob Symes, 90, British inventor and television presenter, cancer.
* January 19 - Karl H. Pribram, 95, American neuroscientist and educator, cancer.
* January 19 - Adam Yahiye Gadahn, 36, American al-Qaeda operative, drone strike.
* January 20 - Ricardo dos Santos, 24, Brazilian surfer, shot.
* January 20 - Edgar Froese, 70, German musician (Tangerine Dream), pulmonary embolism.
* January 20 - James Walker, 41, Australian television writer (*Neighbours*), diabetes.
* January 21 - Marcus Borg, 72, American Biblical scholar and theologian (Jesus Seminar), pulmonary fibrosis.
* January 21 - Pauline Yates, 85, English actress (*The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin*).
* January 21 - Leon Brittan, 75, British politician, Vice-President of the European Commission (1999), Home Secretary of the UK (1983-85), cancer.
* January 21 - Kemal Monteno, 66, Bosnian singer-songwriter, pneumonia and sepsis.
* January 22 - Joan Hinde, 81, English trumpeter and entertainer.
* January 22 - Dacia Valent, 51, Italian politician, MEP (1989–1994), heart attack.
* January 22 - Wendell H. Ford, 90, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (1971–1974), member of the U. S. Senate (1974–1999), lung cancer.
* January 23 - Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, 90, Saudi royal, King (since 2005), complications from pneumonia.
* January 23 - Prosper Ego, 87, Dutch activist, founder of the Oud-Strijders Legioen.
* January 23 - Nol Heijerman, 74, Dutch footballer (Sparta).
* January 23 - Pedro Lemebel, 62, Chilean writer, laryngeal cancer.
* January 23 - Barrie Ingham, 82, English actor (*The Great Mouse Detective*, *Doctor Who*).
* January 23 - Nick Koback, 79, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
* January 23 - Ernie Banks, 83, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), heart attack.
* January 24 - Otto Carius, 92, German World War II tank commander.
* January 24 - Johan Ferner, 87, Norwegian sailor, Olympic silver medalist (1952).
* January 24 - Joe Franklin, 88, American television and radio talk show host, prostate cancer.
* January 24 - Toller Cranston, 65, Canadian figure skater and painter, Olympic bronze medalist (1976), heart attack.
* January 24 - Julio Canessa, 89, Chilean politician and general, member of the Government Junta (1985–1986), Senator (1998–2006).
* January 24 - Link Byfield, 63, Canadian conservative columnist, politician and publisher, liver and esophageal cancer.
* January 24 - Frances Lennon, 102, British artist.
* January 25 - Demis Roussos, 68, Greek singer (Aphrodite's Child).
* January 25 - Ernst Träger, 88, German judge.
* January 25 - Zulkifli Abdhir, 48-49, Malaysian terrorist, one of the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist, shot.
* January 25 - Bill Monbouquette, 78, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
* January 26 - Lee Spick, 34, English snooker player, liver disease.
* January 26 - R. K. Laxman, 93, Indian cartoonist,  illustrator and humorist, multiple organ failure. 
* January 26 - Lucjan Lis, 64, Polish cyclist, Olympic silver medalist (1972), ruptured aorta.
* January 26 - Tom Uren, 93, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives for Reid (1958–1990).
* January 27 - Wilfred Agbonavbare, 48, Nigerian footballer (Rayo Vallecano, national team), cancer.
* January 27 - Miguel Ángel Cascallana, 66, Spanish Olympic handball player (1972).
* January 27 - Henk Faanhof, 92, Dutch Olympic and professional road bicycle racer (1948)
* January 27 - David Landau, 67, Israeli journalist and newspaper editor (*Haaretz*).
* January 27 - Joe Rígoli, 78, Argentine actor and comedian (*Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez*), heart failure.
* January 27 - Charles Hard Townes, 99, American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1964).
* January 27 - John T. Myers, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House from Indiana (1967–1997).
* January 27 - Rocky Bridges, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Washington Senators).
* January 28 - Yves Chauvin, 84, French chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2005).
* January 28 - Suraj Abdurrahman, 60, Nigerian army officer.
* January 29 - Colleen McCullough, 77, Australian author (*The Thorn Birds*), renal failure.
* January 29 - Rod McKuen, 81, American poet, singer and songwriter ("Jean"), respiratory arrest.
* January 29 - Will McBride, 84, American photographer.
* January 29 - Amparo Baró, 77, Spanish actress (*Siete mesas de billar francés*), cancer.
* January 29 - Maurizio Arcieri, 72, Italian singer (The New Dada, Krisma).
* January 29 - Tenkoko Sonoda, 96, Japanese politician, member of the Diet (1946–1952).
* January 30 - Alexander Vraciu, 96, American Navy fighter ace, Navy Cross recipient.
* January 30 - Israel Yinon, 59, Israeli conductor.
* January 30 - Gerrit Voorting, 92, Dutch Olympic (1948) and professional road bicycle racer.
* January 30 - Zhelyu Zhelev, 79, Bulgarian politician, President (1990–1997).
* January 30 - Geraldine McEwan, 82, English actress (*Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves*, ''Agatha Christie's Marple*), stroke.
* January 30 - Carl Djerassi, 91, American chemist, novelist and playwright, liver and bone cancer.
* January 31 - Richard von Weizsäcker, 94, German politician, President (1990–1994), President of West Germany (1984–1990), Governing Mayor of West Berlin (1981–1984).
* January 31 - Kenji Goto, 47 or 48, Japanese journalist, adventurer and ISIL hostage, beheaded.
* January 31 - José Manuel Lara Bosch, 68, Spanish media executive, CEO of Grupo Planeta (since 2003) and Atresmedia (since 2012), pancreatic cancer.
* January 31 - Tomás Bulat, 50, Argentine economist and journalist, traffic collision.
* January 31 - Lizabeth Scott, 92, American actress (*Dead Reckoning'') and singer, congestive heart failure.

## Months
* February 2015
* March 2015
* April 2015
* May 2015

## References