Nekrolog 2015

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This is a list of people who died in 2015 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual calendar days. Animals can be found in the necrology for animals .

Months

Date unknown

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
end of December	Gabor Bilkei	Hungarian-Swiss veterinarian and criminal	71	[1]
between December 11th and 31st	Steve Gohouri	Ivorian soccer player	34	[2]
Death announced December 25th	Leonid Gofshtein	Israeli chess player	62	[3]
December 14th or 15th	Sian Blake	British actress	43	[4]
Found dead on December 14th	Gisela Christ	German theater director	72	[5]
Death announced December 10th	Ute Neubert	German swimmer	54	[6]
Death announced December 8th	Jokelyn Tienstra	Dutch handball player	45	[7]
Found dead on December 6th	Marque Lynche	American entertainer	32	[8th]
November or December	Bassel Khartabil	Syrian network activist	34
Death announced November 27th	Volker Grossmann	German soccer player	62	[9]
Death announced November 21st	Peter Dimmock	British television journalist	94	[10]
Obituary notice from November 14th	Ludwig M. Tränkner	German media worker	72	[11]
Found dead on November 10th	Michael Wright	American basketball player	35	[12]
Found dead on November 9th	Endre Kósa	Romanian ice hockey player	40	[13]
Found dead on November 6th	Horst Keitel	German actor	87	[14]
Found dead on November 6th	Herta Kravina	Austrian actress	89	[15]
Death announced November 5th	Marina Nikulina	soviet volleyball player	52	[16]
Death announced in late October	Osvaldo Canziani	Argentine climatologist	92	[17]
disappeared on October 28; Found dead on November 16	Julia Balykina	Belarusian athlete	31	[18]
Found dead on October 23rd	Jake Bailey	American make-up artist, makeup artist, and photographer	37	[19]
Death announced October 14th	Ray Appleton	American jazz drummer	74	[20]
Death announced October 9th	Martin Geffert	German amateur astronomer and asteroid discoverer	93	[21]
Death announced October 2nd	Olga Erdeli	Soviet harpist	88	[22]
Death announced in October	Johann Rainer	Austrian historian	92	[23]
Found dead on September 30th	Wilson Sanabria	Uruguayan politician	65	[24]
Death announced September 15th	Constantin Stroe	Romanian soccer player	60	[25]
Death announced September 9th	Debra Reiss	British fashion designer	34	[26]
Death announced September 5th	Willi Fuggerer	German cyclist	73	[27]
Death announced September 4th	Loris Campana	Italian cyclist	89	[28]
Death announced September 2nd	Rolf Funck	German economist	84	[29]
Death announced September 2nd	Ion Voica	Romanian football coach	81	[30]
Death announced September 1st	Iván Köves	Hungarian musician and photographer	89	[31]
Death announced September 1st	Willy steels	Dutch water skier	61	[32]
beginning of September	Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri	Australian artist	≈88	[33]
Obituary notice from August 27th	Rolf Nitzsche	German track cyclist	84	[34]
Death announced August 25th	Milan Nikolić	Yugoslav soccer player and coach	86	[35]
Death announced August 25th	Ed summer	German-Swiss artist	82	[36]
August 20th or 21st	Sasha Petraske	American restaurateur	42	[37]
Found dead on August 19th	Johnny Lyons	Irish sports journalist and radio host	?	[38]
buried on August 19th	José da Silva Panão	East Timorese politician	59	[39]
Death announced August 18th	Mohammad Alwahibi	Palestinian-Syrian artist	≈68	[40]
Death announced August 18th	Peter Schaufler	German entrepreneur, art collector and patron	74	[41]
Death announced August 14th	Peter Berecz	Austrian author and dramaturge	68	[42]
August 13th or 14th	Karen Stives	American eventing rider	64	[43]
Death announced August 13th	Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti	Iraqi politician	≈63	[44]
Death announced August 12th	Tomislav Salopek	Croatian victim of terrorism	31	[45]
Death announced in August	Wilhelm Weissgärber	German politician	≈90	[46]
Death in August	Gisela Rubbel	German actress	86	[47]
end of July	Toyo Tanaka	Japanese musician, actor, opera director and festival director	56	[48]
Death announced July 27th	John the Postman	British punk	59	[49]
Found dead on July 22nd	Daron Norwood	American country singer	49	[50]
Death announced July 21st	Harald K. Hülsmann	German writer	81	[51]
Death announced July 21st	Andreas Schmidt	German journalist and manager	54	[52]
Death announced July 13th	Arthur Wright	American musician	78	[53]
Death announced July 9th	RJ Zwi Werblowsky	Israeli religious scholar	≈91	[54]
July 4th or 5th	Friedemann Weigle	German violist	53
Found dead on July 4th	Scot Breithaupt	American entrepreneur, motocross rider and BMX pioneer	57	[55]
Death announced July 4th	Hans Glaab	German bodybuilder	≈79	[56]
Death announced July 1st	Edgar Dawson	English rugby player	83	[57]
beginning of July	Utta Danella	German writer	95	[58]
Death announced June 27th	Dieter Bahlo	German architect	77	[59]
Death announced June 27th	Christof "Pipo" Braun	German soccer player	93	[60]
Death announced June 26th	Roger Bordier	French author	92	[61]
Death announced June 24th	Herbie Hess	German jazz musician and teacher	81	[62]
Death announced June 24th	Helmut Schorler	German water polo player	86	[63]
Found dead on June 21st	Walter Scheib	American chef	61	[64]
Death announced June 17th	Günter Matthias	German table tennis player	81	[65]
Death announced June 16	Anatoly Mazukevich	Russian chess player and author	76	[66]
between June 8th and 14th	Ferenc Bánki	Hungarian soccer player	81	[67]
Death announced June 12th	Slobodan Sotirov	Yugoslav painter	89	[68]
June	Franz Riegersperger	Austrian painter	94
end of May	Igor Belikov	Soviet fighter pilot and lifesaver	74	[69]
Found dead on May 31st	Dudley Williams	American ballet dancer	76	[70]
Found dead on May 22nd	Terry Sue stalemate	British actor	50	[71]
between May 18th and 24th	Vladimir Katriuk	Ukrainian-Canadian alleged war criminal	93	[72]
Found dead on May 13th	Rasmus Larsen	Danish basketball player	20th	[73]
Found dead on May 12th	Alazne López	spanish dancer	21st	[74]
Death announced May 8th	Rutger Gunnarsson	Swedish musician, arranger and record producer	69	[75]
Death announced May 8th	Ervin Jánosi	Hungarian correspondence chess player	79	[76]
Found dead on May 6th	Michael Zimmermann	German rower	52	[77]
Death announced April 27th	Nicholas Kallsen	US-American actor	48	[78]
Death announced April 25th	Hassan Abbas Tufan	Iraqi general	?	[79]
Found dead on April 16	Johnny Kemp	Bahamian singer	55	[80]
Found dead on April 16	Eduard Koblmüller	Austrian mountaineer	69	[81]
Death announced April 14th	E. Lona Puschmann	German fashion designer	90	[82]
Found dead on April 3rd	Malli Mastan Babu	Indian climber	40	[83]
April	Frank Lohse	German politician	58	[84]
April	Yin Xuyi	Chinese historian	89	[85]
Death announced March 30th	David Axmann	Austrian publicist and literary critic	≈68	[86]
Death announced March 30th	Frans Kok	Dutch soccer player	90	[87]
Death announced March 27th	Gertrud Sigurdsen	Swedish politician	92	[88]
Death announced March 26th	Jürgen Reichert	German music promoter	49	[89]
Death announced March 21st	Milen Dobrew	Bulgarian weightlifter	35	[90]
Death announced March 19th	Gretel Escher	German graphic artist and illustrator	99	[91]
Death announced March 18th	Jack Six	American bass player	84
Death announced March 13th	Will Williams	German film poster painter	92	[92]
Found dead on March 12th	Oleksandr Pekluschenko	Ukrainian politician	60	[93]
Death announced March 5th	Franco Farné	Italian motorcycle test driver and mechanic	81	[94]
Found dead on March 5th	Dirk Shafer	American model, actor, screenwriter, and director	52	[95]
Death announced March 5th	Franek Trefalt	Yugoslav actor and sports reporter	83	[96]
Death announced March 4th	Robert Belloni	French soccer player	74	[97]
buried on March 3rd	Bernhard Horst Heise	German lawyer	89	[98]
February or March 2015	Ursula Finger	German athlete, Olympic participant for Saarland	85	[99]
February or March 2015	Hans Loidl	Austrian landscape architect and author	≈71	[100]
Death announced February 27th	Gunnar Brusberg	Swedish handball player	87	[101]
Death announced February 26th	Günter Gabriel	German politician	84	[102]
Found dead on February 23rd	Jerry Lambert	American jockey	74	[103]
Death announced February 22nd	Can Akbel	Turkish news anchor	≈81	[104]
Death announced February 20th	Keith Donnellan	American philosopher	≈84	[105]
February 18th or 19th	Mats Olausson	Swedish keyboard player	54	[106]
Death announced February 17th	Moisés Behar	Guatemalan medic and botanist	92	[107]
Found dead on February 15th	Steve Montador	Canadian ice hockey player	35	[108]
Death announced February 3rd	Muʿādh al-Kasāsba	Jordanian air force officer and victim of terrorism	26th	[109]
February	Peter von Schultz	German actor, director and radio play speaker	88	[110]
Death announced January 31st	Kenji Gotō	Japanese journalist and victim of terrorism	47	[111]
Death announced January 31st	Marie-Therese Guggisberg	Swiss news anchor	71	[112]
Death announced January 26th	Axel Becker	German pop singer	51	[113]
Death confirmed on January 25th	Haruna Yukawa	japanese terror victim	42
Found dead on January 24th	Great Cranston	Canadian figure skater	65	[114]
Found dead on January 18th	Alberto Nisman	Argentinian lawyer	51
Death announced January 13th	Wendelin sword	German mathematician	82	[115]
Found dead on January 4th	June Harwood	American painter	81	[116]
Death announced January 1st	Tommi Kuri	Finnish bass player	40	[117]
Found dead on January 1st	Mickie Roquemore	American keyboardist	58	[118]
January	Gerd Ihns	German soccer player	88	[119]
Date unknown	Alfred Billy	Austrian graphic designer and university lecturer	≈95
Date unknown	Robert Carter	British writer	≈60	[120]
Date unknown	Walter Nickel	German painter and graphic artist	≈85
Date unknown	Monsieur X	German criminal	≈88	[121]
Date unknown	Helga Schnierle	German architect	90
Date unknown	Faye Schulman	Belarusian-American photographer	96

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.br.de/radio/br-klassik/sendung/leporello/artemis-quartett-friedemann-weigle-verstorben-100.html ( Memento from August 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
^ AW (2015): artist Franz Riegersperger died. Bastei - Magazine of the Salzburg City Association, 64th year, p. 29.
^ Message from the Darmstadt Jazz Institute .
↑ http://www.tagesschau.de/isjapan-103.html ( Memento from January 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
↑ http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/argentininischer-staatsanwalt-tot-auffind-101.html ( Memento from January 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Nekrolog 2015

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Months

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