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.
May 2015[change | change source]
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- May 1 - David Day, 63, Australian radio broadcaster (5KA, Triple M).[1]
- May 1 - María Elena Velasco, 74, Mexican actress, comedienne and movie producer (La India María), stomach cancer.[2]
- May 1 - Pete Brown, 80, American professional golfer, heart failure and stroke.[3]
- May 1 - Stephen Milburn Anderson, 67, American movie director, writer and producer, throat cancer.[4]
- May 1 - Grace Lee Whitney, 85, American actress (Star Trek, Some Like It Hot, Irma la Douce).[5]
- May 1 - Gary Liddell, 60, Scottish footballer (Grimsby Town, Heart of Midlothian).[6] (death announced on this date)
- May 1 - Geoff Duke, 92, British motorcycle racer.[7]
- May 1 - Vafa Guluzade, 74, Azerbaijani diplomat and political scientist.[8]
- May 1 - Beth Whittall, 78, Canadian Olympic swimmer, double Pan American champion (1955).[9]
- May 1 - Harry Geisinger, 81, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1969–1974, since 2005), leukemia.[10]
- May 1 - Ray Ceresino, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[11]
- May 2 - Ruth Rendell, 85, English crime novelist (Inspector Wexford series), stroke.[12]
- May 2 - Maya Plisetskaya, 89, Russian ballet dancer, heat attack.[13]
- May 2 - Guy Carawan, 87, American folk singer and civil rights activist.[14]
- May 2 - Dave Goldberg, 47, American executive (SurveyMonkey, LAUNCH Media).[15]
- May 2 - Sarah Correa, 22, Brazilian swimmer, South American Games champion (2010), hit by car.[16]
- May 2 - Michael Blake, 69, American author and screenwriter (Dances with Wolves).[17]
- May 2 - Konstantin K. Kuzminsky, 75, Russian performance poet.[18]
- May 2 - Stuart Archer, 100, British recipient of the George Cross.[19]
- May 2 - Philip S. Goodman, 89, American director, screenwriter and producer (We Shall Return, Profiles in Courage).[20]
- May 2 - Ryan McHenry, 27, Scottish movie director and social media personality, bone cancer.[21]
- May 2 - Norman Thaddeus Vane, 86, American screenwriter and movie director (Frightmare).[22]
- May 2 - John Mahaffy, 96, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers).[23]
- May 3 - Abdul Wahid Aresar, 65, Pakistani politician.[24]
- May 3 - Revaz Chkheidze, 88, Georgian movie director (Father of a Soldier, The Saplings).[25]
- May 3 - Danny Jones, 29, Welsh international rugby league player, cardiac arrest.[26]
- May 3 - Abdul Basit Usman, 40–41, Filipino fugitive, shot.[27]
- May 3 - Harry Martin, 95, American judge.[28]
- May 3 - John Elders, 84, English rugby union player (Leicester).[29]
- May 4 - Ellen Albertini Dow, 101, American actress (The Wedding Singer, Wedding Crashers, Patch Adams).[30]
- May 4 - Jesús Hermida, 77, Spanish journalist and broadcaster, stroke.[31]
- May 4 - Andrew Lewis, 44, Guyanese boxer, traffic accident.[32]
- May 4 - Joshua Ozersky, 47, American food writer.[33]
- May 4 - Zhivko Gospodinov, 57, Bulgarian footballer.[34]
- May 5 - Jon Castañares, 90, Spanish economist and politician, Mayor of Bilbao (1979-1983).[35]
- May 5 - Hans Jansen, 72, Dutch politician, Member of the European Parliament (since 2014), stroke.[36]
- May 5 - Oscar Holderer, 95, American engineer, worked on Saturn V project.[37]
- May 5 - Craig Gruber, 63, American rock musician (Rainbow, Elf), prostate cancer.[38]
- May 5 - Brian Sedgemore, 78, British politician, MP (1974–1979, 1983–2005), fall.[39]
- May 6 - Errol Brown, 71, British singer (Hot Chocolate), liver cancer.[40]
- May 6 - Jerome Cooper, 68, American jazz drummer, multiple myeloma.[41]
- May 6 - Jim Wright, 92, American politician, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1987–1989).[42]
- May 7 - Józef Pazdur, 90, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław (1984–2000).[43]
- May 7 - John Dixon, 86, Australian cartoonist (Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors), stroke.[44]
- May 7 - Maurice Flanagan, 86, British businessman (Emirates).[45]
- May 7 - Frank DiPascali, 58, American financier and fraudster, lung cancer.[46]
- May 8 - Zeki Alasya, 72, Turkish actor and director (From the Village to the City), liver disease.[47]
- May 8 - Atanas Semerdzhiev, 90, Bulgarian politician, Vice President (1990–1992).[48]
- May 8 - Martin Nag, 88, Norwegian writer, stroke.[49]
- May 8 - Menashe Kadishman, 82, Israeli artist, winner of the Israel Prize (1995).[50]
- May 8 - Phil Skoglund, 77, New Zealand lawn bowls player, triple world champion (1988).[51]
- May 8 - Rutger Gunnarsson, 69, Swedish bassist (ABBA, Elton John).[52] (death announced on this date)
- May 8 - Joanne Carson, 84, American television talk show host and model.[53]
- May 8 - Notable people killed in the 2015 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash:[54]
- Leif Holger Larsen, 61, Norwegian diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan (since 2014).[54]
- Domingo Lucenario, Jr., 54, Filipino diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan (since 2013).[54]
- May 9 - Lo Wing-lok, 60, Hong Kong politician, member of the Legislative Council for Medical (2000–2004), lung cancer.[55]
- May 9 - Odo Marquard, 87, German philosopher.[56]
- May 9 - Michael MacKellar, 76, Australian politician, MP for Warringah (1969–1994).[57]
- May 9 - Igor Gorynin, 89, Russian metallurgist.[58]
- May 9 - Kenan Evren, 97, Turkish military officer, President of Turkey (1980–1989), gastrointestinal hemorrhage.[59]
- May 9 - Johnny Gimble, 88, American country music fiddler.[60]
- May 9 - Ragne Tangen, 88, Norwegian children's television presenter.[61] (death announced on this date)
- May 9 - Elizabeth Wilson, 94, American actress (The Birds, The Graduate, 9 to 5), Tony Award winner (1972).[62]
- May 10 - Ninad Bedekar, 65, Indian historian and writer.[63]
- 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.[64]
- May 10 - Kim Kyok-sik, 76, North Korean military officer, Defence Minister (2012–13), acute respiratory failure.[65]
- May 11 - Jef Geeraerts, 85, Belgian author, heart attack.[66]
- May 11 - Stan Cornyn, 81, American record label executive and writer.[67]
- May 11 - Sir John Watts, 93, Grenadian politician, President of the Senate (1988–1990, 1995–2004).[68]
- May 12 - William Zinsser, 92, American writer (On Writing Well).[69]
- May 12 - Suchitra Bhattacharya, 65, Indian novelist, cardiac arrest.[70]
- May 12 - Bill Guthridge, 77, American college basketball coach (University of North Carolina).[71]
- May 12 - Peter Gay, 91, American psychohistorian and writer.[72]
- May 12 - William MacDonald, 90, Australian serial killer, natural causes.[73]
- May 13 - Derek Davis, 67, Irish broadcaster (Live at 3).[74]
- May 13 - Gainan Saidkhuzhin, 77, Russian Soviet Olympic cyclist (1960, 1964), heart attack.[75]
- May 13 - Anna Levinson, 76, German zoologist.[76]
- May 14 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., 93, Polish art historian.[77]
- May 14 - B.B. King, 89, American Hall of Fame blues guitarist, singer and songwriter ("The Thrill Is Gone"), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[78]
- May 15 - John Stephenson, 91, American actor (The Flintstones, Dragnet), Alzheimer's disease.[79]
- May 15 - Garo Yepremian, 70, American football player (Miami Dolphins), brain cancer.[80]
- May 15 - Donald Wrye, 77, American movie director (Ice Castles).[81]
- May 15 - Jackie Brookner, 69, American artist, cancer.[82]
- May 16 - Yeung Kwong, 89, Hong Kong pro-communist activist, heart failure.[83]
- May 16 - Jackie Basehart, 63, American-born Italian actor (The Inglorious Bastards).[84]
- May 16 - Dean Potter, 43, American rock climber, BASE-jumping accident.[85]
- May 16 - Moshe Levinger, 80, Israeli Orthodox rabbi.[86]
- May 16 - Flora MacNeil, 86, Scottish Gaelic singer (Mo Run Geal Og).[87]
- May 16 - John Templeton Jr., 75, American physician and philanthropist, brain cancer.[88]
- May 16 - Elias Gleizer, 81, Brazilian actor, heart failure and bronchopneumonia complicated by a fall.[89]
- May 17 - Chinx, 31, American rapper, shot.[90]
- May 17 - Margaret Dunning, 104, American philanthropist, complications from a fall.[91]
- May 17 - Michael Alfred Peszke, 83, Polish-born American psychiatrist and historian.[92]
- May 18 - Raymond Gosling, 88, British scientist.[93]
- May 18 - Halldór Ásgrímsson, 67, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister (2004–2006), heart attack.[94]
- May 18 - Aruna Shanbaug, 66, Indian nurse, comatose rape victim, pneumonia.[95]
- May 19 - Happy Rockefeller, 88, American socialite and philanthropist, Second Lady of the United States (1974–1977).[96]
- May 19 - Edmond J. Gong, 84, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1963–1966) and Senate (1967–1971).[97]
- May 19 - Robert S. Wistrich, 70, British-Israeli history professor, heart attack.[98]
- May 19 - Ahmad Alasgarov, 79, Azerbaijani footballer and manager.[99]
- May 19 - Burhan Muhammad, 57, Indonesian diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan (since 2012), burns from helicopter crash.[100]
- May 19 - Dale D. Myers, 93, American aerospace engineer, Deputy Administrator of NASA (1986–1989).[101]
- May 19 - Gerald Götting, 91, German politician, President of the East German People's Chamber (1969–1976).[102]
- May 20 - Sudha Shivpuri, 77, Indian actress (Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi), multiple organ failure.[103]
- May 20 - Bob Belden, 58, American musician, heart attack.[104]
- May 21 - Joaquim Durão, 84, Portuguese chess player.[105]
- May 21 - Twinkle, 66, British singer-songwriter ("Terry"), cancer.[106]
- May 21 - Louis Johnson, 60, American bassist (The Brothers Johnson, Michael Jackson).[107]
- May 21 - Annarita Sidoti, 44, Italian race walker, world champion (1997), breast cancer.[108]
- May 22 - Marques Haynes, 89, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters).[109]
- May 22 - Aminah Robinson, 75, American artist, heart failure.[110]
- May 22 - Terry Sue-Patt, 50, British actor (Grange Hill).[111] (body found on this date)
- May 22 - Radomir Naumov, 68, Serbian politician, Minister of Energy and Mining (2004–2007), Minister of Religion (2007–2008).[112]
- May 23 - Aleksey Mozgovoy, 40, Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist.[113]
- May 23 - John Forbes Nash, Jr., 86, American Nobel Prize-winning mathematician, car accident.[114]
- May 23 - Anne Meara, 85, American comedian (Stiller and Meara) and actress (Archie Bunker's Place, Sex and the City, Like Mike).[115]
- May 23 - Ali Raymi, 41, Yemeni boxer, bombing.[116]
- May 24 - Tanith Lee, 67, British science fiction, horror and fantasy writer (Blake's 7).[117]
- May 24 - Marcus Belgrave, 78, American jazz trumpeter, heart failure.[118]
- May 24 - Bharat Raj Upreti, 63, Nepali judge, justice of the Supreme Court (2009–2013), suicide by hanging.[119]
- 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.[120]
- May 25 - Mary Ellen Mark, 75, American photographer, myelodysplastic syndrome.[121]
- May 25 - Bill O'Herlihy, 76, Irish sports broadcaster (RTÉ Sport).[122]
- May 26 - Vicente Aranda, 88, Spanish movie director (Amantes).[123]
- May 26 - Les Johnson, 90, Australian politician, MP for Hughes (1955–1966, 1969–1983).[124]
- May 26 - Dayton Waller, 90, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Shreveport (1968–1972).[125]
- May 26 - Rocky Frisco, 77, American pianist (JJ Cale Band).[126]
- May 26 - Bob Hornery, 83, Australian stage, movie and television actor (Neighbours, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Importance of Being Earnest).[127]
- May 26 - Robert Kraft, 87, American astronomer.[128]
- May 27 - Erik Carlsson, 86, Swedish rally driver.[129]
- May 27 - Nils Christie, 87, Norwegian criminologist.[130]
- May 28 - Reynaldo Rey, 75, American actor and comedian (227, Friday, White Men Can't Jump), stroke.[131]
- May 29 - Betsy Palmer, 88, American actress (I've Got a Secret, Mister Roberts, Friday the 13th).[132]
- May 29 - Ed Gilligan, 55, American financial executive, President of American Express (since 2013).[133]
- May 29 - Doris Hart, 89, American tennis player.[134]
- May 30 - L. Tom Perry, 92, American apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, thyroid cancer.[135]
- May 30 - Lennie Merullo, 98, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).[136]
- May 30 - Beau Biden, 46, American politician, Attorney General of Delaware (2007–2015), brain cancer.[137]
- May 30 - Julie Harris, 94, British costume designer.[138]
- May 30 - Tony McNamara, 85, English footballer (Everton, Liverpool).[139]
- May 31 - Rochelle Shoretz, 42, American civil servant, founder of Sharsheret, complications from breast cancer.[140]
- May 31 - Karl Wlaschek, 97, Austrian executive, founder of Billa.[141]
- May 31 - Mario Saliwa, 31, South African first-class cricketer.[142]
- May 31 - Slim Richey, 77, American guitarist, lymphoma.[143]
Previous months[change | change source]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ David Day, Adelaide radio legend, dies aged 63
- ↑ Mexican Slapstick Comedy Icon 'La India Maria' Dies at 74
- ↑ "Brown passes away at age 80". Archived from the original on 2015-05-03. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ Steve Anderson Dies at 67; Director of 'South Central,' 'Cash'
- ↑ "Breaking News - Grace Lee Whitney, Janice Rand of "Star Trek" dies at 85". Archived from the original on 2015-06-13. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ "Former Grimsby Town player Garry Liddell passes away". Archived from the original on 2015-05-05. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ Grand Prix and TT legend Geoff Duke has died
- ↑ "Former State Adviser Vafa Guluzade dies". Archived from the original on 2015-07-19. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ "Former Olympic swimmer Whittall dies at 78". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ "State Rep. Harry Geisinger, the state Capitol's top horse-racing proponent, dies". Archived from the original on 2015-05-03. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ Ray Ceresino's obituary
- ↑ Author Ruth Rendell dies aged 85
- ↑ Умерла балерина Майя Плисецкая (in Russian)
- ↑ Guy Carawan obituary
- ↑ Silicon Valley's Dave Goldberg dies
- ↑ 22 year-old Pan Ams silver medalist Sarah Correa dies after being hit by car
- ↑ Michael Blake, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter of 'Dances With Wolves,' Dies at 69
- ↑ Патриарх, поэт, актер (in Russian)
- ↑ Colonel Stuart Archer, GC – obituary
- ↑ Philip S. Goodman, Writer & Director for Film, TV, Dies at 89
- ↑ Vanity Fair on Ryan McHenry
- ↑ Writer-Director Norman Thaddeus Vane Dies at 86
- ↑ Hockey deaths - May 2015
- ↑ Sindhi nationalist leader Arisar dies at 65
- ↑ კინორეჟისორი რეზო ჩხეიძე გარდაიცვალა Archived 2015-05-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Georgian)
- ↑ Danny Jones dies after heart attack during rugby league match
- ↑ Palace confirms terrorist Basit Usman killed in Maguindanao
- ↑ Harry Martin (1920 - 2015) Obituary
- ↑ Ex-captain John Elders dies aged 84
- ↑ Ellen Albertini Dow Dies: ‘Wedding Singer’s’ Rapping Granny Was 101
- ↑ Fallece el periodista Jesús Hermida a los 77 años de edad (in Spanish)
- ↑ Former WBA welterweight champ Andrew Lewis dies in Guyana
- ↑ Joshua Ozersky, Prolific Food Writer, Is Dead
- ↑ IN MEMORIAM Това бе Живко Господинов (in Bulgarian)
- ↑ Fallece Castañares, primer alcalde del PNV de Bilbao en democracia. Archived 2015-05-18 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ↑ (in Dutch)Arabist en PVV'er Hans Jansen overleden
- ↑ Oscar Holderer dies, last of Wernher von Braun's original 'Operation Paperclip' moon rocket team
- ↑ Rainbow bassist Craig Gruber dead at 63
- ↑ Former Labour MP Brian Sedgemore who quit for the Lib Dems dies after a hospital fall
- ↑ Errol Brown dead: Friends of the Hot Chocolate singer say 'he was a gentleman'
- ↑ RIP Jerome Cooper
- ↑ Former U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright dies at 92
- ↑ Wrocław Nie żyje biskup Józef Pazdur (in Polish)
- ↑ John Dangar Dixon 1929 - 1915
- ↑ Maurice Flanagan, who helped launch Emirates airline, dies[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Ex-employee who ratted out Bernie Madoff dies
- ↑ "How did Zeki Alasya die? Who was Zeki Alasya?". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ Bulgaria's Former Vice President Atanas Semerdzhiev Dies at 90
- ↑ Nekrolog: Martin Nag (in Norwegian)
- ↑ Menashe Kadishman, famed Israeli artist, dies at 82
- ↑ Bowls legend Phil Skoglund dies, aged 77
- ↑ ABBA:s basist Rutger Gunnarsson död (in Swedish)
- ↑ Joanne Carson dies at 84; ex-wife of 'Tonight Show' host
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 54.2 Pakistan helicopter crash kills foreign diplomats
- ↑ 勞永樂據報今早病逝 終年60歲 Archived 2015-06-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese)
- ↑ Universität Gießen trauert um Prof. Odo Marquard (in German)
- ↑ Fraser govt minister MacKellar dies
- ↑ Телеканал «Санкт-Петербург» Archived 2015-05-18 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ↑ Head of 1980 Turkish coup, Kenan Evren dies
- ↑ Legendary fiddler Johnny Gimble dies at 88
- ↑ Barne-tvs Ragne Tangen er død (in Norwegian)
- ↑ Elizabeth Wilson, a Character Actress of Stage, Screen and TV, Dies at 94
- ↑ Eminent historian Ninad Bedekar no more
- ↑ Senador Luiz Henrique da Silveira morre em Joinville (in Portuguese)
- ↑ Kim Kyok-sik, Hard-Line North Korean General, Dies at 77
- ↑ Schrijver Jef Geeraerts is overleden
- ↑ Stan Cornyn, Legendary Warner Bros. Records Creative Head, Dies At 81
- ↑ Sir John Watts, KCMG, Passes on
- ↑ William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ Dies at 92
- ↑ Bengali Writer Suchitra Bhattacharya Dies at 65
- ↑ "Former UNC head coach Bill Guthridge dies at 77". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ Peter Gay, Historian Who Explored Social History of Ideas, Dies at 91
- ↑ The Mutilator: Sydney serial killer William Macdonald dies as NSW's oldest, longest-serving prisoner
- ↑ "Broadcaster Derek Davis dies aged 67". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ Скончался 10-кратный чемпион СССР по велоспорту Гайнан Сайдхужин (in Russian)
- ↑ Traueranzeigen (in German)
- ↑ ZMARŁ PROF. ZDZISŁAW ŻYGULSKI (in Polish)
- ↑ "B.B. King Coroner's Report: No Evidence of Poisoning". Archived from the original on 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
- ↑ NEWS - John Stephenson: Death of a Voice Acting Icon
- ↑ Former Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian dies at 70
- ↑ Donald Wrye - Director Donald Wrye Dies Aged 77
- ↑ In Memoriam Jackie Brookner (1945-2015)
- ↑ Veteran unionist Yeung Kwong, ringleader in 1967 Hong Kong riots, dies at 89
- ↑ Jackie Basehart, addio al figlio di Valentina Cortese. Il dolore muto di una madre (in Italian)
- ↑ Dean Potter, Extreme Climber, Dies in BASE-Jumping Accident at Yosemite
- ↑ Rabbi Moshe Levinger, ideological force behind Jewish settlement in Hebron, dies
- ↑ Flora MacNeil, the "Queen of Gaelic singers", dies at the age of 86
- ↑ Jack Templeton dies at age 75
- ↑ Morre o ator Elias Gleizer, aos 81 anos (in Portuguese)
- ↑ Up-and-coming rapper Chinx shot and killed
- ↑ Plymouth's Margaret Dunning, 104, dies on California visit
- ↑ Michael A. Peszke M.D.
- ↑ Professor Raymond Gosling
- ↑ Former Prime Minister of Iceland Passes Away
- ↑ After 42 years in coma, nurse Aruna Shanbaug dies
- ↑ Happy Rockefeller, Whose Marriage to Governor Scandalized Voters, Dies at 88
- ↑ Former state senator Edmond Gong dies at 84
- ↑ Robert Wistrich, leading scholar of anti-Semitism, dies of heart attack
- ↑ Əhməd Ələsgərov dünyasını dəyişib (in Azerbaijani)
- ↑ Indonesian Envoy Injured in Naltar Dies[permanent dead link]
- ↑ NASA Legend Dale Myers Dies at 93; Helped Save Apollo 13
- ↑ Langjähriger Chef der DDR-CDU Gerald Götting tot (in German)
- ↑ 'Baa' of 'Kyunki', Sudha Shivpuri, passes away
- ↑ Jazz suffers two heavy losses
- ↑ Morreu o mestre internacional de xadrez Joaquim Durão Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
- ↑ Lynn 'Twinkle' Ripley - Sixties Singer Twinkle Dies
- ↑ Louis Johnson, Legendary Bassist, Dead at 60
- ↑ Former Italian race walking world champion Sidoti dies at 44
- ↑ Harlem Globetrotter Great Marques Haynes Dies at 89
- ↑ "Ohio artist known for mixed-media storytelling work dies". Archived from the original on 2015-05-25. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ Terry Sue-Patt found dead: Grange Hill's Benny Green dies aged 50
- ↑ Preminuo Radomir Naumov (in Bosnian)
- ↑ Командир бригады «Призрак» Мозговой убит под Луганском (in Russian)
- ↑ Famed 'A Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash, wife killed in taxi crash, police say
- ↑ Actress, comedian Anne Meara, mom of Ben Stiller, dies at 85
- ↑ "Mysterious junior flyweight Ali Raymi killed in Yemen". Archived from the original on 2015-09-05. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ Tanith Lee Dead: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
- ↑ "Famed Detroit jazz trumpeter Marcus Belgrave dies at 78". Archived from the original on 2015-05-24. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ "Former SC Justice Uprety commits suicide". Archived from the original on 2015-07-13. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ John Murphy, Staten Island Congressman Convicted in Abscam Sting, Dies at 88
- ↑ Legendary Philadelphia-born photographer Mary Ellen Mark, 75, dies
- ↑ Broadcasting legend Bill O'Herlihy dies aged 76
- ↑ Spanish director Vicente Aranda dies aged 88
- ↑ Whitlam minister Les Johnson dies at 90
- ↑ Dayton Hollis Waller, Jr.
- ↑ Tulsa musician Rocky Frisco has died
- ↑ Performing arts community mourns Neighbours actor and Melbourne Theatre Company actor Bob Hornery
- ↑ Robert P. Kraft, eminent astronomer and former director of UC Observatories, dies at age 87
- ↑ Erik Carlsson "Carlsson på taket" är död (in Swedish)
- ↑ Professor Nils Christie er død (in Norwegian)
- ↑ Rey, ‘Friday’ and ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ Actor, Dies at 75
- ↑ "Betsy Palmer, dies; was killer cook in 'Friday the 13th'". Archived from the original on 2015-06-01. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
- ↑ American Express president Ed Gilligan dies at 55
- ↑ "Doris Hart, who won all 4 Grand Slams, including 3 Wimbledon titles in a day, dies at 89". Archived from the original on 2015-05-31. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ L. Tom Perry, Mormon apostle, dies at 92
- ↑ Lennie Merullo Passes Away, Aged 98
- ↑ Vice President Joe Biden’s Son, Beau, Dies After Battle With Brain Cancer
- ↑ Designer Julie Harris dies at 94
- ↑ Former Liverpool and Everton player Tony McNamara dies aged 85
- ↑ Rochelle Shoretz, Founder of Sharsheret and Cancer Advocate, Dies at 42
- ↑ Unternehmer Karl Wlaschek ist tot (in German)
- ↑ Mario Saliwa dies aged 31
- ↑ "Slim Richey, 1938-2015 Austin jazz guitarist". Archived from the original on 2015-06-03. Retrieved 2015-06-04.