Deaths in April 2015

The following is a list of **notable deaths in April 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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* April 1 - Misao Okawa, 117, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest living person, heart failure.
* April 1 - Nicolae Rainea, 81, Romanian football referee (FIFA World Cup (1974, 1978, 1982), UEFA Euro 1980 Final), cardiac arrest.
* April 1 - John Paul Hammerschmidt, 92, American politician, member of United States House of Representatives from Arkansas (1967–1993), heart and respiratory failure.
* April 1 - Eddie LeBaron, 85, American football player (Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys).
* April 1 - Cynthia Lennon, 75, British artist, ex-wife of John Lennon, cancer.
* April 2 - Luis Delgado Aparicio, 74, Peruvian politician, MP (1995–2001), pancreatic cancer.
* April 2 - Manoel de Oliveira, 106, Portuguese movie director and screenwriter, heart failure.
* April 2 - Olga Sawicka, 83, Polish dancer and choreographer.
* April 2 - Robert H. Schuller, 88, American televangelist (*Hour of Power*), esophageal cancer.
* April 2 - Rudolph R. Perz, 89, American advertising executive, creator of the Pillsbury Doughboy.
* April 2 - Doug Sax, 79, American audio mastering engineer, cancer.
* April 2 - Steve Stevaert, 60, Belgian politician, Chairman of the SP.a (2003–2005), Governor of Limburg (2005–2009).
* April 2 - Abdelhadi Tazi, 94, Moroccan scholar and diplomat.
* April 3 - Nigel Boocock, 77, British speedway rider.
* April 3 - Bob Burns, 64, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd), traffic collision.
* April 3 - Mathias Gnädinger, 74, Swiss actor (*The Boat Is Full*, *Journey of Hope*), cancer.
* April 3 - Shmuel Wosner, 101, Austrian-born Israeli Haredi rabbi.
* April 3 - Sarah Brady, 73, American gun control campaigner, wife of James Brady, pneumonia.
* April 3 - Kayahan, 66, Turkish musician, cancer.
* April 3 - Robert Rietti, 92, British-born Italian actor.
* April 3 - Vivian Nathan, 98, American actress (*Klute*).
* April 4 - Elmer Lach, 97, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), stroke.
* April 4 - Jamaluddin Jarjis, 63, Malaysian politician, MP for Rompin (1990-2015), helicopter crash.
* April 4 - Klaus Rifbjerg, 83, Danish writer (*Anna, I, Anna*), recipient of the Nordic Council's Literature Prize (1970).
* April 4 - Donald N. Levine, 83, American sociologist.
* April 4 - Ira Lewis, 82, American actor and playwright (*Chinese Coffee*), problems after open heart surgery.
* April 5 - Fredric Brandt, 65, American dermatologist, suicide by hanging.
* April 5 - Richard Dysart, 86, American character actor (*L.A. Law*, *Being There*, *The Thing*).
* April 5 - Tom Towles, 65, American actor (*Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer*, *Miami Vice*, *The Rock*).
* April 5 - Julie Wilson, 90, American actress (*Kiss Me, Kate*, *Legs Diamond*, *The Secret Storm*), complications from a stroke.
* April 5 - Juan Carlos Cáceres, 79, Argentine tango musician and painter, cancer.
* April 5 - Lon Simmons, 91, American sports broadcaster.
* April 5 - Gordon Moyes, 76, Australian radio evangelist and politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (2002–2011).
* April 6 - Dollard St. Laurent, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks).
* April 6 - Romualdas Ozolas, 76, Lithuanian politician, signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
* April 6 - Dave Ulliott, 61, English professional poker player, colon cancer.
* April 6 - Gertrude Weaver, 116, American supercentenarian, world's oldest person, pneumonia.
* April 6 - Giovanni Berlinguer, 90, Italian politician, MEP (2004–2009).
* April 6 - John Papit, 86, American football player (Washington Redskins, Green Bay Packers), stroke.
* April 6 - Ray Charles, 96, American musician (*The Perry Como Show*, *The Muppet Show*).
* April 6 - James Best, 88, American actor (*The Dukes of Hazzard*, *Ride Lonesome*, *Sounder*), complications from pneumonia.
* April 6 - Ben Powers, 64, American actor (*Good Times*).
* April 6 - Hardijs Baumanis, 47, Latvian diplomat, ambassador to Lithuania and Azerbaijan.
* April 7 - Jean Germain, 67, French politician, suicide by firearm.
* April 7 - Richard Henyekane, 31, South African footballer, traffic collision.
* April 7 - Tim Babcock, 95, American politician, Governor of Montana (1962–1969).
* April 7 - Stan Freberg, 88, American actor (*Looney Tunes*,  *Lady and the Tramp*) and author, pneumonia.
* April 7 - Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, 52, Bulgarian royal, lung infection.
* April 7 - James B. Rhoads, 86, American public servant, Archivist of the United States (1968–1979).
* April 7 - Geoffrey Lewis, 79, American actor (*High Plains Drifter*, *Maverick*, *The Lawnmower Man*).
* April 7 - Dickie Owen, 88, British actor (*Zulu*).
* April 8 - Hermann Schweppenhäuser, 87, German philosopher.
* April 8 - Jayakanthan, 80, Indian Tamil author.
* April 9 - Alexander Dalgarno, 87, British physicist. 
* April 9 - Nina Companeez, 77, French movie director and screenwriter.
* April 9 - John Toohey, 85, Australian jurist, High Court Justice (1987–1998).
* April 10 - Judith Malina, 88, German-born American actress (*Dog Day Afternoon*, *Awakenings*, *The Sopranos*) and director, lung disease.
* April 10 - Richie Benaud, 84, Australian cricket captain and television commentator, skin cancer.
* April 10 - Peter Walsh, 80, Australian politician, Minister for Finance (1984–1990), Senator for Western Australia (1974–1993).
* April 10 - Raúl Héctor Castro, 98, Mexican-born American politician and diplomat, Governor of Arizona (1975–1977), United States Ambassador to El Salvador (1964–1968), Bolivia (1968–1969) and Argentina (1977–1980).
* April 10 - Ray Graves, 96, American football player and coach.
* April 10 - Paul Almond, 83, Canadian movie director (*The Act of the Heart*, *Journey*, *Isabel*), heart disease.
* April 10 - Jin Youzhi, 96, Chinese royal, sibling of Puyi.
* April 10 - Jim Mutscheller, 85, American football player (Baltimore Colts), kidney failure.
* April 11 - Janusz Kurczab, 77, Polish fencer, mountaineer and expedition leader.
* April 11 - Lars Tunbjörk, 59, Swedish photographer. (death announced on this date)
* April 11 - Sheila Kitzinger, 86, British natural childbirth activist.
* April 11 - Charlie Beasley, 69, American basketball player.
* April 12 - André Mba Obame, 57, Gabonese politician.
* April 12 - Patrice Dominguez, 65, Algerian-born French tennis player, lung disease.
* April 12 - Alfred Eick, 99, German U-boat commander.
* April 13 - Ronnie Carroll, 80, Northern Irish Eurovision Song Contest contestant and perennial candidate.
* April 13 - Eduardo Galeano, 74, Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist, lung cancer.
* April 13 - Herb Trimpe, 75, American comic book artist (*The Incredible Hulk*, *Thor*), co-creator of Wolverine.
* April 13 - Thelma Coyne Long, 96, Australian Hall of Fame tennis player.
* April 13 - Günter Grass, 87, German novelist (*The Tin Drum*), Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (1999), lung infection.
* April 13 - Orma Slack, 112, Canadian supercentenarian, nation's oldest living person.
* April 14 - Ameril Umbra Kato, 68, Philippine warlord, leader of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, heart attack.
* April 14 - Percy Sledge, 74, American R&B singer ("When a Man Loves a Woman"), liver cancer.
* April 14 - Norman H. Bangerter, 82, American politician, Governor of Utah (1985–1993), stroke.
* April 14 - Homaro Cantu, 38, American chef and businessman, suicide by hanging.
* April 14 - Klaus Bednarz, 72, German journalist and writer.
* April 14 - Meir Rosenne, 84, Israeli lawyer and diplomat, Ambassador to France (1979–1983) and United States (1983–1987).
* April 15 - Surya Bahadur Thapa, 88, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister (1963–1964, 1965–1969, 1979–1983, 1997–1998 and 2003–2004), respiratory failure.
* April 15 - Alexander Nadson, 88, Belarusian religious leader, Apostolic Visitor for Belarusian Greek-Catholic faithful abroad.
* April 15 - Jonathan Crombie, 48, Canadian actor (*Anne of Green Gables*), brain hemorrhage.
* April 16 - Valery Belousov, 66, Russian ice hockey coach.
* April 16 - Attaphol Buspakom, 53, Thai football player and coach, blood infection.
* April 16 - Stanislav Gross, 45, Czech politician, Prime Minister (2004–2005), complications from ALS.
* April 16 - Lee Remmel, 90, American PR spokesman (Green Bay Packers).
* April 16 - Oles Buzina, 45, Ukrainian journalist, shot.
* April 16 - Johnny Kemp, 55, Bahamian singer ("Just Got Paid"), fall.
* April 16 - Heino Kleiminger, 76, German footballer (F.C. Hansa Rostock, East Germany national team), cancer.
* April 17 - Jaroslav Holík, 72, Czech ice hockey player, world champion (1972).
* April 17 - Francis George, 78, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Chicago (1997–2014), bladder cancer.
* April 17 - Robert P. Griffin, 91, American politician, member of the Senate from Michigan (1966–1977), member of the House of Representatives from Michigan's 9th district (1957–1966).
* April 17 - Mariano Gago, 66, Portuguese engineer and politician, sudden cardiac death.
* April 17 - Viktor Korshunov, 85, Russian actor, People's Artist of the USSR.
* April 17 - Jeremiah J. Rodell, 93, American brigadier general and priest.
* April 18 - Mario Pirani, 89, Italian journalist (*la Repubblica*), economist, and writer.
* April 18 - Erwin Waldner, 82, German footballer (VfB Stuttgart, SPAL Ferrara).
* April 19 - Tom McCabe, 60, Scottish politician, Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform (2004-2007).
* April 19 - Theodosia Okoh, 92, Ghanaian flag designer and sports administrator.
* April 19 - Raymond Carr, 96, British historian.
* April 19 - Uche Chukwumerije, 75, Nigerian politician, Senator for Abia North (since 2003), lung cancer.
* April 19 - Elio Toaff, 99, Italian rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Rome (1951–2002).
* April 19 - Ali Abu Mukhammad, 43, Dagestani-Russian Islamist leader, Emir of the Caucasus Emirate (since 2014), shot.
* April 20 - Aharon Lichtenstein, 81, French-born American-Israeli rabbi, winner of the Israel Prize (2014).
* April 20 - Richard Anthony, 77, Egyptian-born French singer.
* April 20 - Frederic Morton, 90, Austrian-born American writer.
* April 20 - Bob St. Clair, 84, American Hall of Fame football player (San Francisco 49ers).
* April 20 - Ibrahim Yusri, 65, Egyptian actor (*The Terrorist*), kidney failure.
* April 20 - Peter Howell, 95/96, British actor (*Emergency – Ward 10*, *The Lord of the Rings*).
* April 21 - Roy Mason, 91, British politician, MP for Barnsley (1953–1983) and Barnsley Central (1983–1987), Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1976–1979).
* April 21 - Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Odisha (1980–1989, 1995–1999), Governor of Assam (2009–2014), heart attack.
* April 21 - Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi, 76, Egyptian poet.
* April 21 - Steve Byrnes, 56, American sports announcer (NASCAR on Fox), head and neck cancer.
* April 21 - Mary Doyle Keefe, 92, American model ("Rosie the Riveter").
* April 21 - Gideon Eilat, 91, German-born Israeli soldier.
* April 21 - Cindy Yang, 24, Taiwanese model and actress (*First of May*), suicide by helium inhalation.
* April 21 - Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, 49, Russian movie director (*Luna Papa*).
* April 21 - M. H. Abrams, 102, American literary critic.
* April 22 - Lois Lilienstein, 78, Canadian singer and musician (Sharon, Lois & Bram)
* April 22 - Dick Balharry, 77, Scottish conservationist, cancer.
* April 22 - Gennadi Vengerov, 55, Belarusian-born Russian-German actor, lung and bone cancer.
* April 22 - Rex Robinson, 89, British actor (*Doctor Who*, *Yes Minister*, *Only Fools and Horses*). (death announced on this date)
* April 22 - Dorothy Custer, 103, American comedian (*The Tonight Show with Jay Leno*).
* April 23 - Sixto Valencia Burgos, 81, Mexican comic artist (*Memín Pinguín*, *MAD*).
* April 23 - Sawyer Sweeten, 19, American actor (*Everybody Loves Raymond*), suicide by gunshot.
* April 23 - Aziz Asli, 77, Iranian footballer.
* April 23 - Richard Corliss, 71, American movie critic (*Time*), stroke.
* April 23 - Francis Tsai, 47, American comic book, movie and video game concept artist (*Spider-Man*, *TMNT*, *The Bourne Conspiracy*), ALS.
* April 23 - Pierre Claude Nolin, 64, Canadian politician, Speaker of the Senate (since 2014), cancer.
* April 24 - Władysław Bartoszewski, 93, Polish politician and resistance fighter, Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995, 2000–2001), heart attack.
* April 24 - Sid Tepper, 96, American songwriter ("Red Roses for a Blue Lady").
* April 24 - George C. Young, 98, American lawyer and judge, heart attack.
* April 24 - Rustum Ghazaleh, 61, Syrian military officer, head injury. (death announced on this date)
* April 24 - Ismail Hussain, 65, Indian politician, MP for Barpeta (2009–2014), cancer.
* April 24 - Ken Birch, 81, British footballer (Bangor City).
* April 24 - Valentine Lamb, 76, British journalist (*The Irish Field*).
* April 24 - Max Rojas, 74, Mexican poet.
* April 25 - Notable deaths due to the 2015 Nepal earthquake:
**Dan Fredinburg, 33, American executive, head of privacy at Google.
**Matthias Kuhle, 67, German geographer.
* April 25 - Jim Fanning, 87, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and manager (Montreal Expos).
* April 25 - Sabeen Mahmud, Pakistani human rights activist, shot.
* April 25 - Otakar Krámský, 55, Czech racing driver, triple European hillclimb champion (1995, 1997, 1998), training collision.
* April 25 - Don Mankiewicz, 93, American screenwriter (*I Want to Live!*), congestive heart failure.
* April 25 - Mike Phillips, 59, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats, FC Barcelona).
* April 25 - Christine Stewart, 74, Canadian politician, Secretary of State (1993–1997) and Minister of the Environment (1997–1999).
* April 26 - Wang Guozhen, 58, Chinese poet, liver cancer.
* April 26 - Bill Valentine, 82, American baseball umpire (Arkansas Travelers).
* April 26 - Masudur Rahman Baidya, 46, Indian swimmer, heart attack.
* April 26 - Hojatollah Khatib, 61, Iranian sports administrator, cancer. 
* April 26 - Izatullo Khayoyev, 78, Tajik politician, Vice-President (1990–1991), Prime Minister (1991–1992).
* April 26 - Jayne Meadows, 95, Chinese-born American actress (''I've Got a Secret*, *Undercurrent*, *Song of the Thin Man*).
* April 26 - Marcel Pronovost, 84, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs).
* April 27 - Inês Etienne Romeu, 72, Brazilian political prisoner.
* April 27 - Andrew Lesnie, 59, Australian cinematographer, Academy Award winner (*The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring''), heart attack.
* April 27 - Verne Gagne, 89, American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter (AWA), Alzheimer's disease.
* April 27 - Suzanne Crough, 52, American actress (*The Partridge Family*).
* April 27 - Jack Ely, 71, American singer ("Louie Louie").
* April 27 - Gene Fullmer, 83, American professional boxer, two-time middleweight world champion.
* April 27 - Guy LeBlanc, 54, Canadian keyboard player (Nathan Mahl, Camel), kidney cancer.
* April 27 - Marty Napoleon, 93, American jazz pianist.
* April 28 - Xu Guangxian, 94, Chinese chemist.
* April 28 - René Féret, 69, French actor and director (*Solemn Communion*).
* April 28 - Ashura Hara, 68, Japanese professional wrestler, pneumonia.
* April 28 - Keith Harris, 67, British ventriloquist, cancer.
* April 28 - Antônio Abujamra, 82, Brazilian actor and director.
* April 28 - Deng Minghe, 8, Chinese actor, leukemia.
* April 28 - Michael J. Ingelido, 98, American Air Force major general, stroke.
* April 28 - Duri Camichel, 32, Swiss ice hockey player (EV Zug), traffic collision.
* April 29 - Notable convicted drug traffickers executed by Indonesian firing squad:
**Andrew Chan, 31, Australian
* April 29 - Daniel Walker, 92, American politician, Governor of Illinois (1973–1977), heart failure.
* April 29 - Jean Nidetch, 91, American businesswoman, founder of Weight Watchers.
* April 29 - Gopulu, 91, Indian cartoonist (*Ananda Vikatan*).
* April 29 - François Michelin, 88, French businessman, CEO of Michelin (1955–1999).
* April 30 - Patachou, 96, French singer and actress.
* April 30 - Gregory Mertens, 24, Belgian footballer, heart failure.
* April 30 - Lennart Bodström, 87, Swedish politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1982&ndash;1985).
* April 30 - Ben E. King, 76, American soul and R&B singer ("Stand by Me"), coronary heart disease.
* April 30 - William Pfaff, 86, American author and columnist, heart attack.
* April 30 - Milap Chand Jain, 86, Indian judge and politician, Governor of Rajasthan (1990).
* April 30 - Ronald Senator, 89, British composer, house fire.
* April 30 - Nigel Terry, 69, British actor (*The Lion in Winter*, *Excalibur*, *Troy*).
* April 30 - David Fonseca, 60, Belizean politician, Mayor of Belize City (1999–2006), suicide by gunshot.

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

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