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.
August 2015[change | change source]
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- August 1 - Stephan Beckenbauer, 46, German footballer (FC Bayern Munich).[1]
- August 1 - Bob Frankford, 76, Canadian politician.[2]
- August 1 - Chiara Pierobon, 22, Italian professional cyclist, suspected pulmonary embolism.[3]
- 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.[4]
- August 2 - Natalia Molchanova, 53, Russian free diver.[5]
- August 2 - Piet Fransen, 79, Dutch footballer (FC Groningen, national team).[6]
- August 2 - Forrest Bird, 94, American aviator and inventor.[7]
- August 2 - Içami Tiba, 74, Brazilian psychiatrist and writer (Quem ama, Educa!).[8]
- August 2 - Giovanni Conso, 93, Italian jurist, Minister of Justice (1993-1994).[9]
- August 3 - Mel Farr, 70, American professional football running back (Detroit Lions), complications from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.[10]
- August 3 - Johanna Quandt, 89, German businesswoman and billionaire.[11]
- August 3 - Margot Loyola, 96, Chilean folk singer and musician.[12]
- August 3 - Robert Conquest, 98, American historian (The Great Terror), respiratory failure.[13]
- August 3 - Coleen Gray, 92, American actress (Nightmare Alley, Kiss of Death, The Killing).[14]
- August 4 - Theo van Els, 79, Dutch linguist.[15]
- August 4 - Achim Hill, 80, German Olympic rower (1960).[16]
- August 4 - Les Munro, 96, New Zealand pilot, last survivor of Operation Chastise.[17]
- August 5 - George Cole, 90, British actor (Minder, St Trinian's, Mary Reilly).[18]
- August 5 - Ellen Vogel, 93, Dutch actress (The Knife, Zonder Ernst, Twin Sisters).[19]
- August 6 - Louise Suggs, 91, American professional golfer, co-founder of LPGA.[20]
- August 6 - Orna Porat, 91, German-born Israeli theater actress.[21]
- August 7 - Terrence Evans, 81, American actor (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Star Trek, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).[22]
- August 7 - Frances Oldham Kelsey, 101, Canadian-born American physician, Food and Drug Administration reviewer.[23]
- August 7 - Manuel Contreras, 86, Chilean military officer, head of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, convicted criminal against humanity, multiple organ failure.[24]
- August 8 - Sean Price, 43, American rapper, member of Heltah Skeltah.[25]
- August 8 - Gus Mortson, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks).[26]
- August 8 - Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, 100, Indian independence activist, author, poet and journalist, pneumonia.[27]
- August 9 - John Henry Holland, 86, American computer scientist.[28]
- August 9 - Fikret Otyam, 89, Turkish painter and journalist, renal failure.[29]
- August 9 - Frank Gifford, 84, American football player (New York Giants) and broadcaster (Monday Night Football), heart attack.[30]
- August 9 - Susan Sheridan, 68, British voice actress (The Black Cauldron, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Noddy's Toyland Adventures).[31]
- August 9 - David Nobbs, 80, British novelist and comedy writer (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Two Ronnies, Fairly Secret Army).[32]
- August 9 - George E. R. Kinnear II, 87, American admiral.[33]
- August 10 - Endre Czeizel, 80, Hungarian geneticist, leukemia.[34]
- August 10 - Fred Eckhardt, 89, American beer expert.[35]
- August 11 - Nour El-Sherif, 69, Egyptian actor and conspiracist, heart attack.[36]
- August 11 - Harald Nielsen, 73, Danish footballer (Bologna, national team).[37]
- August 12 - Jaakko Hintikka, 86, Finnish philosopher and logician.[38]
- August 12 - Meshulim Feish Lowy, 94, Hungarian-born Canadian rabbi, pneumonia.[39]
- August 12 - Stephen Lewis, 88, British comedy actor (On the Buses, Last of the Summer Wine).[40]
- August 13 - Bob Fillion, 95, Canadian ice hockey player.[41]
- August 14 - Agustín Cejas, 70, Argentine footballer (Racing Club), Alzheimer's disease.[42]
- August 14 - Bob Johnston, 83, American record producer (Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen).[43]
- August 15 - Julian Bond, 75, American civil rights activist and politician, chairman of the NAACP (1998–2010), heart disease.[44]
- August 16 - Shuja Khanzada, 71, Pakistani politician, member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab (2002–2007, since 2008), bombing.[45]
- August 16 - Mile Mrkšić, 68, Yugoslav military officer and convicted war criminal.[46]
- August 17 - László Paskai, 88, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest (1987–2002), Cardinal (1988–2015).[47]
- August 17 - Arsen Dedić, 77, Croatian singer.[48]
- August 17 - Yvonne Craig, 78, American actress (Batman, Star Trek: The Original Series, Olivia), breast cancer.[49]
- August 17 - Jacob Bekenstein, 68, Mexican theoretical physicist.[50]
- August 17 - Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, 82, German football executive (UEFA, VfB Stuttgart) and politician.[51]
- August 17 - Eduardo Guerrero, 87, Argentine rower and Olympic champion (1952), pneumonia.[52]
- August 18 - Suvra Mukherjee, 74, Indian philosopher and dancer, First Lady (since 2012), wife of Pranab Mukherjee, respiratory failure.[53]
- August 18 - Khaled Asaad, 82, Syrian scholar, head of antiquities in Palmyra, beheaded.[54]
- August 18 - Louis Stokes, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio (1969–1999), lung and brain cancer.[55]
- August 18 - William Jay Smith, 97, American poet.[56]
- August 19 - Suharno, 55, Indonesian football player and coach.[57]
- August 20 - Egon Bahr, 93, German politician, co-creator of the Ostpolitik.[58]
- August 20 - Lev Durov, 83, Russian actor.[59]
- August 20 - Lina Morgan, 78, Spanish actress and showgirl.[60]
- August 20 - Harry Volkman, 89, American meteorologist, respiratory failure.[61]
- August 21 - Wang Dongxing, 99, Chinese politician, Vice Chairman of the Communist Party (1977–1980).[62]
- August 21 - Gerry Steinberg, 70, British politician, MP for City of Durham (1987–2005).[63]
- August 21 - Anna Kashfi, 80, British actress (The Mountain, Cowboy, Adventures in Paradise).[64]
- August 22 - Arthur Morris, 93, Australian Test cricketer.[65]
- August 22 - Ieng Thirith, 83, Cambodian politician, Minister of Social Affairs (1975–1979), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[66]
- August 22 - Merl Reagle, 65, American crossword maker (Los Angeles Times), acute pancreatitis.[67]
- August 22 - Jörg Schneider, 80, Swiss actor (Usfahrt Oerlike) and comedian, cancer.[68]
- August 22 - Mariem Hassan, 56–57, Western Saharan singer, bone cancer.[69]
- August 23 - Yosi Piamenta, 64, Israeli musician, cancer.[70]
- August 24 - Cees van Kooten, 67, Dutch footballer (Go Ahead Eagles, national team), esophageal cancer.[71]
- August 24 - Justin Wilson, 37, British IndyCar Series driver, head injuries suffered in race collision.[72]
- August 24 - Julián Pastor, 71, Mexican movie director and actor (No One Writes to the Colonel).[73]
- August 24 - Chico Maki, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).[74]
- August 25 - Francis Sejersted, 79, Norwegian history professor, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (1991–1999).[75]
- August 25 - José María Benegas, 67, Spanish politician, cancer.[76]
- August 26 - Amelia Boynton Robinson, 104, American civil rights activist, multiple strokes.[77]
- August 26 - Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, American news reporter and murderer, suicide by gunshot.[78]
- August 26 - Alison Parker, 24, American news reporter, shot.[78]
- August 26 - Adam Ward, 27, American news cameraman, shot.[78]
- August 26 - Peter Kern, 66, Austrian actor and filmmaker (The Last Summer of the Rich).[79]
- August 27 - Darryl Dawkins, 58, American basketball center (Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets) and coach (Newark Express, Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs), heart attack.[80]
- August 27 - Joan Garriga, 52, Spanish motorcycle racer, injuries sustained in motorcycle accident.[81]
- August 28 - Al Arbour, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks) and Hall of Fame coach (New York Islanders).[82]
- August 28 - Józef Wesołowski, 67, Polish defrocked archbishop and Vatican ambassador to the Dominican Republic (2008-2013).[83]
- August 28 - Teresa Gorman, 83, British politician, MP for Billericay (1987-2001).[84]
- August 28 - Nelson Shanks, 77, American painter, prostate cancer.[85]
- August 29 - Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, American actor (Les Miserables), fall.[86]
- August 29 - Wayne Dyer, 75, American self-help author and motivational speaker, leukemia.[87]
- August 30 - Bart Cummings, 87, Australian racehorse trainer, twelve-time winner of the Melbourne Cup.[88]
- August 30 - Oliver Sacks, 82, British neurologist and author (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat), liver cancer.[89]
- August 30 - M. M. Kalburgi, 76, Indian writer and academic, shot.[90]
- 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.[91]
- August 30 - Marvin Mandel, 95, American politician, Governor of Maryland (1969–1979), Speaker of the House of Delegates (1964–1969).[92]
- August 30 - Edward Fadeley, 85, American attorney and politician, heart failure.[93]
- August 30 - Hugo Rasmussen, 74, Danish jazz musician.[94]
- August 31 - Edward, Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, 88, English peer, founder of the National Motor Museum, natural causes.[95]
Previous months[change | change source]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Stephan Beckenbauer, son of Franz, dies at 46". USA TODAY.
- ↑ "Robert Timothy Stansfield Frankford - Toronto - Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Cremation & Funeral Centres". mountpleasantgroup.permavita.com.
- ↑ Chiara Pierobon dies while travelling to the Sparkassen Giro
- ↑ Ward, Victoria; Aug 2015, Nicola Harley 9:42AM BST 03 (3 August 2015). "Cilla Black dies, aged 72: Star who always felt like a friend in your living room". www.telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 February 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Kassam, Ashifa (7 August 2015). "Natalia Molchanova was giving diving lesson when she vanished, son says" – via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ 'Mister FC Groningen' Piet Fransen overleden (in Dutch)
- ↑ "Forrest Bird, aviator and inventor, dies at 94 - The Spokesman-Review". www.spokesman.com.
- ↑ Içami Tiba, autor de ‘Quem ama, Educa!’, morre aos 74 anos (in Portuguese)
- ↑ "Morto a Roma Giovanni Conso, è stato ministro e presidente della Corte Costituzionale". Repubblica.it. 3 August 2015.
- ↑ "Former Detroit Lions running back Mel Farr has passed away at the age of 70". Archived from the original on 2015-08-23. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
- ↑ Adams, Sam (5 August 2015). "BMW heiress and world's 11th richest woman dies aged 89". mirror.
- ↑ TVN, 24Horas cl (3 August 2015). "A los 96 años muere la destacada folclorista Margot Loyola". 24Horas.cl.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Cronin, Brenda; Cullison, Alan (4 August 2015). "Robert Conquest, Seminal Historian of Soviet Misrule, Dies at 98" – via www.wsj.com.
- ↑ "Coleen Gray, Star of 'Kiss of Death' and 'Nightmare Alley,' Dies at 92". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ↑ Oud-rector magnificus Theo van Els overleden (in Dutch)
- ↑ Die Richtershorner trauern um ihr Ehrenmitglied Achim Hill (in German)
- ↑ "New Zealand loses a 'remarkable man' with death of Les Munro; John Key says". Stuff.
- ↑ "Minder Actor George Cole Dies Aged 90".
- ↑ Actrice Ellen Vogel (93) overleden (in Dutch)
- ↑ "LPGA Founder Louise Suggs Passes Away at Age 91 - LPGA - Ladies Professional Golf Association". LPGA.
- ↑ "Israel's leading theater diva dies at 91". Ynetnews. 8 June 2015.
- ↑ Saperstein, Pat; Saperstein, Pat (8 August 2015). "Terrence Evans, Actor in 'Star Trek,' 'Terminator 2,' Dies at 81".
- ↑ "Canadian doctor who kept thalidomide out of U.S. dies" – via The Globe and Mail.
- ↑ Falleció el represor chileno Manuel Contreras (in Spanish)
- ↑ Rapper Sean Price, Member of Hip-Hop Group Heltah Skeltah, Dies at 43
- ↑ Former Maple Leafs defenceman Gus Mortson dies
- ↑ ಕಾಸರಗೋಡಿನ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಗಟ್ಟಿದನಿ ಕಯ್ಯಾರ ಕಿಞ್ಞಣ್ಣ ರೈ ಅಸ್ತಂಗತ (in Kannada)
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- ↑ "Turkish artist, journalist Fikret Otyam dies aged 89". Archived from the original on 2015-08-10. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
- ↑ "Hall of Famer, Giants great Frank Gifford dies". ESPN.com. 9 August 2015.
- ↑ "Actress Susan Sheridan dies aged 68". 9 August 2015 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ "Reggie Perrin writer David Nobbs dies". 9 August 2015 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ "Admiral George E.R. Kinnear II". Archived from the original on 2015-08-24. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
- ↑ Origo. "Elhunyt Czeizel Endre". www.origo.hu.
- ↑ "The late Fred Eckhardt: 'He was the cosmic giggle of craft beer'".
- ↑ "Iconic Egyptian actor Nour El-Sherif leaves legacy spanning 4 decades - Film - Arts & Culture - Ahram Online". english.ahram.org.eg. Archived from the original on 2015-08-23. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
- ↑ Calcio, morto Harald Nielsen: stella del super Bologna anni '60 (in Italian)
- ↑ Weinberg, Justin (13 August 2015). "Jaakko Hintikka (1929-2015)". Daily Nous.
- ↑ La communauté juive rend hommage à un rabbin de Boisbriand (in French)
- ↑ Pocklington, Rebecca (13 August 2015). "On The Buses actor Stephen Lewis dies aged 88". mirror.
- ↑ "Décès de l'ancien joueur du Canadien Bob Fillion" – via Cyberpresse.
- ↑ Murió Agustín Cejas, arquero del Racing campeón del mundo Archived 2015-08-25 at the Wayback Machine(in Spanish)
- ↑ Hoffberger, Chase; 4:20PM; Aug. 15, Sat; 2015. "Bob Johnston 1932-2015". www.austinchronicle.com.
{{cite web}}:|last4=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Longtime civil rights activist Bond dead at 75".[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Pakistan's Punjab province home minister killed in terror attack". 16 August 2015.
- ↑ UMRO RATNI ZLOČINAC MILE MRKŠIĆ Krvnik koji je odbio spriječiti pokolj na Ovčari u zatvorskoj bolnici izgubio bitku s teškom bolešću Archived 2015-08-23 at the Wayback Machine (in Bosnian)
- ↑ "Cardinal László Paskai, Former Primate Of Hungary, Dies At The Age Of 88". 17 August 2015. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
- ↑ Preminuo Arsen Dedić(in Croatian)
- ↑ CNN, Henry Hanks. "Yvonne Craig, who played Batgirl, dies at 78 - CNN". CNN.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ↑ Ouellette, Jennifer. "In Memoriam: Jacob Bekenstein (1947–2015) and Black Hole Entropy". Scientific American Blog Network.
- ↑ "Former FIFA, UEFA official Mayer-Vorfelder dies at 82". Archived from the original on 2015-11-27. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
- ↑ Murió Eduardo Guerrero, oro en remo en Helsinki 1952 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine(in Spanish)
- ↑ "Suvra Mukherjee, President Pranab Mukherjee's wife, passes away - Times of India ►". The Times of India.
- ↑ "Islamic State militants behead archaeologist in Palmyra - Syrian..." 18 August 2015 – via uk.reuters.com.
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- ↑ Smith, William Jay (13 October 2000). "William Jay Smith - Poet - Academy of American Poets". William Jay Smith.
- ↑ Inilah Kronologis Wafatnya Pelatih Arema, Suharno (in Indonesian)
- ↑ SPD-Politiker: Egon Bahr ist tot (in German)
- ↑ Актер Лев Дуров скончался в Москве (in Russian)
- ↑ Muere a los 78 años la gran cómica Lina Morgan (in Spanish)
- ↑ "Legendary weather forecaster, Harry Volkman, dies at 89". 21 August 2015.
- ↑ 汪东兴同志逝世 (in Chinese)
- ↑ "Former Durham MP Gerry Steinberg dies aged 70". ITV News.
- ↑ Farrell, Paul (21 August 2015). "Anna Kashfi Dead: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know".
- ↑ "Former Australian cricketing great Arthur Morris dies aged 93". ABC News. 22 August 2015.
- ↑ hermesauto (22 August 2015). "Ieng Thirith, sister-in-law of late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, dies in Cambodia". The Straits Times.
- ↑ Colker, David. "Merl Reagle dies at 65; maker of L.A. Times Sunday crossword puzzles". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ L'acteur alémanique Jörg Schneider est mort Archived 2015-08-27 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
- ↑ "Saharawi Music Star Mariem Hassan Dies in Refugee Camps - World Music Central.org".
- ↑ "Hasidic Musician Yosi Piamenta Dies at 64". Israel National News.
- ↑ Cess Van Kooten overleden Archived 2016-06-23 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)
- ↑ "Justin Wilson passes away after IndyCar accident at Pocono Raceway". 25 August 2015.
- ↑ Muere el actor y director mexicano Julián Pastor (in Spanish)
- ↑ "Chico Maki, longtime Blackhawks forward, dies at 76". NHL.com.
- ↑ "Sejersted, Former Head of Nobel Peace Prize Committee Dies". ABC News.
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- ↑ "Civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson dies at 104". Miami Herald.
- ↑ 78.0 78.1 78.2 "Virginia gunman Vester Flanagan sent 23-page manifesto to NBC News". The Independent. 26 August 2015.
- ↑ Regisseur und Schauspieler Peter Kern ist gestorben (in German)
- ↑ "Former NBA star Darryl Dawkins passes away at 58". Archived from the original on 2015-08-29. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
- ↑ "R.I.P. Former World Championship Racer Joan Garriga". www.roadracingworld.com.
- ↑ Goldstein, Richard (28 August 2015). "Al Arbour, Coach of Islanders' 1980s Dynasty, Dies at 82" – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ Povoledo, Elisabetta (28 August 2015). "Jozef Wesolowski, Ex-Archbishop Accused of Sexual Abuse, Dies at 67" – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ "Former Billericay MP Teresa Gorman dies aged 83". Echo.
- ↑ Famous local artist Nelson Shank dies at 77
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- ↑ Cowles, Gregory (30 August 2015). "Oliver Sacks, Neurologist Who Wrote About the Brain's Quirks, Dies at 82" – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ Nayak, Dinesh (30 August 2015). "Kannada writer M.M. Kalburgi shot dead" – via www.thehindu.com.
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- ↑ "Former Md. Gov. Marvin Mandel dies at age 95". WBAL. 1 September 2015.
- ↑ Wright, Jeff. "Longtime lawmaker Ed Fadeley dies at 85". The Register-Guard.
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