Deaths in February 2015
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 2015
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- February 1 - Aldo Ciccolini, 89, French pianist.[1]
- February 1 - Ann Mara, 85, American football team owner (New York Giants), complications from fall.[2]
- February 1 - Udo Lattek, 80, German football player and manager (Bayern Munich, Barcelona).[3]
- February 1 - Monty Oum, 33, American animator (Red vs. Blue, RWBY), allergic reaction.[4]
- February 2 - Andriy Kuzmenko, 46, Ukrainian singer (Skryabin), car accident.[5]
- February 2 - Stewart Stern, 92, American screenwriter (Rebel Without a Cause), brain cancer.[6]
- February 2 - Anand Shukla, 74, Indian cricketer.[7]
- February 3 - Mary Healy, 96, American actress (The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T) and singer.[8]
- February 3 - Sir Martin Gilbert, 78, British historian and biographer, member of the Iraq Inquiry panel.[9]
- February 3 - Frank Borghi, 89, American Hall of Fame soccer player (national team).[10]
- February 3 - Charlie Sifford, 92, American golfer, complications from a stroke.[11]
- February 3 - Muath Al-Kasasbeh, 26, Jordanian pilot, burned.[12] (death announced on this date)
- February 4 - Eduardo Laborde, 47, Argentine rugby union player (national team), traffic collision.[13]
- February 4 - Richard Bonehill, 67, British actor and stuntman (The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi).[14] (death announced on this date)
- February 4 - Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, c. 45, Iraqi Al-Qaeda bomber, executed.[15]
- February 4 - Fitzhugh L. Fulton, 89, American NASA research pilot.[16]
- February 4 - Wes Cooley, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon (1995–1997).[17]
- February 5 - K. N. Choksy, 81, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, MP (1989–2010), Minister of Finance (2001–2004).[18]
- February 5 - Henri Coppens, 84, Belgian footballer, winner of the Golden Shoe (1954).[19]
- February 6 - Marisa Del Frate, 83, Italian actress, singer and television personality.[20]
- February 6 - Assia Djebar, 78, Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker, member of the Académie française.[21]
- February 6 - André Brink, 79, South African writer.[22]
- February 6 - Kathrine Windfeld, 48, Danish movie director (Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation).[23]
- February 6 - Norm Drucker, 94, American basketball referee.[24]
- February 6 - Alan Nunnelee, 56, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi (since 2011), brain cancer.[25]
- February 6 - Pedro León Zapata, 85, Venezuelan cartoonist, painter and writer.[26]
- February 7 - Dean Smith, 83, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (North Carolina).[27]
- February 7 - John C. Whitehead, 92, American financier (Goldman Sachs) and civil servant, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1985–1989), cancer.[28]
- February 7 - René Lavand, 86, Argentine magician and illusionist, pneumonia.[29]
- February 7 - Joe B. Mauldin, 74, American bassist (The Crickets), cancer.[30]
- February 7 - Donald H. Clausen, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1963–1983).[31]
- February 7 - Marshall Rosenberg, 80, American psychologist, creator of Nonviolent Communication.[32]
- February 7 - Billy Casper, 83, American golfer, seventh all-time in career PGA Tour wins, complications from pneumonia and heart attack.[33]
- February 8 - Müzeyyen Senar, 96, Turkish singer, pneumonia.[34]
- February 8 - Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, 75, Finnish parapsychologist.[35]
- February 9 - Øyvind Bjorvatn, 83, Norwegian politician, leader of the Liberal People's Party (1982–1986).[36]
- February 9 - Jorge Sassi, 64, Argentine actor, renal failure.[37]
- February 10 - Deng Liqun, 99, Chinese politician.[38]
- February 10 - Naseer Aruri, 81, Palestinian scholar and human rights activist, Parkinson's disease.[39]
- February 11 - Roger Hanin, 89, French actor and movie director.[40]
- February 11 - Bob Simon, 73, American television journalist (60 Minutes), traffic collision.[41]
- February 11 - Ray Hathaway, 98, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[42]
- February 11 - Anne Cuneo, 78, Swiss author and movie director.[43]
- February 11 - Jerry Tarkanian, 84, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (Long Beach State, UNLV, San Antonio Spurs, Fresno State), respiratory failure.[44]
- February 12 - Cornelis Pieter van den Hoek, 93, Dutch resistance fighter, recipient of the Military William Order.[45]
- February 12 - Ernest J. Sternglass, 91, American physicist and professor, heart failure.[46]
- February 12 - Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, 84, Malaysian politician, Menteri Besar of Kelantan (1990–2013), prostate cancer.[47]
- February 12 - Tomie Ohtake, 101, Japanese-Brazilian artist, heart failure.[48]
- February 12 - Oliver Rackham, 75, British landscape ecologist.[49]
- February 12 - Steve Strange, 55, British musician (Visage), heart attack.[50]
- February 12 - David Carr, 58, American columnist (The New York Times) and author, lung cancer and heart disease.[51]
- February 12 - Gary Owens, 80, American television announcer (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In) and actor (Midnight Cowboy, Space Ghost), diabetes.[52]
- February 12 - Movita Castaneda, 98, American actress (Mutiny on the Bounty), neck injury.[53]
- February 12 - Richie Pratt, 71, American jazz drummer.[54]
- February 13 - Kesava Reddy, 68, Indian writer.[55]
- February 13 - Stan Chambers, 91, American television reporter (KTLA).[56]
- February 14 - Wim Ruska, 74, Dutch judoka, Olympic gold medallist (1972).[57]
- February 14 - Franjo Mihalić, 94, Croatian Yugoslav long distance runner, Olympic silver medallist (1956).[58]
- February 14 - Philip Levine, 87, American poet, pancreatic cancer.[59]
- February 14 - Louis Jourdan, 93, French actor (Gigi, Octopussy).[60]
- February 14 - Michele Ferrero, 89, Italian businessman (Ferrero SpA).[61]
- February 14 - Pamela Cundell, 95, English actress (Dad's Army).[62]
- February 15 - Steve Montador, 35, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).[63]
- February 15 - Haron Amin, 46, Afghan diplomat, Ambassador to Japan (2004–2009), cancer.[64]
- February 15 - Eileen Essell, 92, English actress (Duplex, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Producers).[65]
- February 16 - Aleksandr Melentyev, 60, Soviet Russian sport shooter, Olympic champion (1980).[66]
- February 16 - John Davies, 76, British historian.[67] (death announced on this date)
- February 16 - Uri Orbach, 54, Israeli writer, journalist and politician, blood disease.[68]
- February 16 - R. R. Patil, 58, Indian politician, oral cancer.[69]
- February 16 - Lesley Gore, 68, American singer ("It's My Party") and actress (Batman), cancer.[70]
- February 16 - Heinrich Windelen, 93, German politician, Member of the Bundestag (1957–1990).[71]
- February 16 - Lasse Braun, 78, Italian porn movie director and producer.[72]
- February 17 - Andrzej Koszewski, 92, Polish composer.[73]
- February 17 - Cathy Ubels-Veen, 86, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1982–1986).[74]
- February 18 - Cass Ballenger, 88, American politician, member of United States House of Representatives from North Carolina (1986–2005).[75]
- February 18 - Claude Criquielion, 58, Belgian cyclist, UCI World Road Race champion (1984), complications from a stroke.[76]
- February 18 - Mark Fischer, 64, American intellectual property lawyer.[77]
- February 18 - Jerome Kersey, 52, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers), blood clot.[78]
- February 19 - Harris Wittels, 30, American television producer and writer (Parks and Recreation, The Sarah Silverman Program).[79]
- February 20 - Henry Segerstrom, 91, American entrepreneur.[80]
- February 20 - Ibrahim Biogradlić, 83, Bosnian Yugoslav footballer, Olympic silver medalist (1956).[81]
- February 21 - Sadeq Tabatabaei, 71, Iranian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1979–1980), lung cancer.[82]
- February 21 - Clark Terry, 94, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, complications from diabetes.[83]
- February 21 - Daniel Topolski, 69, British rowing coach and commentator.[84]
- February 22 - Kim Kyung-roul, 34, South Korean professional billiards player.[85]
- February 23 - John Rowlands, 76, Welsh author and novelist.[86]
- February 24 - Rakhat Aliyev, 52, Kazah politician and diplomat, suicide by hanging.[87]
- February 24 - Irving Kahn, 109, American investor.[88]
- February 24 - Roger Cecil, 72, Welsh painter.[89] (body found on this date)
- February 24 - Donald Keough, 88, American businessman, President of The Coca-Cola Company (1981–1993).[90]
- February 24 - Maurice Hurley, 75, American television writer and producer (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Baywatch, Miami Vice).[91]
- February 24 - Bertrice Small, 77, American author.[92]
- February 25 - Terry Gill, 75, Australian actor ("Crocodile" Dundee, Prisoner, The Flying Doctors), lung cancer.[93]
- February 25 - Eugenie Clark, 92, American ichthyologist.[94]
- February 26 - Fritz J. Raddatz, 83, German feuilletonist, essayist, biographer and romancier.[95]
- February 26 - Earl Lloyd, 86, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Detroit Pistons).[96]
- February 26 - Tom Schweich, 54, American politician, Missouri State Auditor (since 2011), suicide by gunshot.[97]
- February 26 - Martha Cohen, 94-95, Canadian community builder and philanthropist.[98]
- February 26 - Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi-born American writer, stabbed.[99]
- February 26 - Theodore Hesburgh, 97, American Roman Catholic priest, president of the University of Notre Dame (1952-1987).[100]
- February 27 - Leonard Nimoy, 83, American actor and director (Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Fringe), COPD.[101]
- February 27 - Boris Nemtsov, 55, Russian politician, Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1991–1997), First Deputy Prime Minister (1997–1998), Deputy Prime Minister (1998), shot.[102]
- February 27 - Richard Bakalyan, 84, American character actor (Batman, Chinatown, The Fox and the Hound).[103]
- February 27 - Bohdan Tomaszewski, 93, Polish sports commentator.[104]
- February 27 - Bob Benmosche, 70, American executive, President and CEO of American International Group (2009–2014), lung cancer.[105]
- February 27 - Mykhailo Chechetov, 61, Ukrainian politician, suicide.[106]
- February 28 - Anthony Mason, 48, American basketball player (New York Knicks), heart failure.[107]
- February 28 - Yaşar Kemal, 91, Turkish author, Légion d'honneur recipient.[108]
Months
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[change | change source]- ↑ MORTO ALDO CICCOLINI, IL GRANDE PIANISTA CHE AMAVA FIRENZE. AVEVA 90 ANNI (in Italian)
- ↑ "Ann Mara, New York Giants' Matriarch, 1929-2015". Archived from the original on 2015-02-01. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ "Former Bayern, Barcelona coach Udo Lattek dies at 80". Archived from the original on 2015-02-04. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ "Monty Oum has passed away". Archived from the original on 2015-10-16. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ У Дніпропетровській обл. в ДТП загинув співак Кузьма Скрябін (Андрій Кузьменко) (in Ukrainian)
- ↑ 'Rebel Without a Cause' Screenwriter Stewart Stern Dies at 92
- ↑ "Anand Shukla passes away". Archived from the original on 2015-02-02. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ Mary Healy, Actress and Singer, Dies at 96
- ↑ Iraq Inquiry panel member Sir Martin Gilbert dies aged 78
- ↑ St. Louis Soccer Legend Frank Borghi Dies
- ↑ Charlie Stifford, golf pioneer, dies
- ↑ Isis video shows Jordanian hostage being burned to death
- ↑ Un ex Puma murió en Pinamar: iba en bicicleta y lo atropellaron (in Spanish)
- ↑ Star Wars actor Richard Bonehill dies
- ↑ Jordan Executes Sajida al-Rishawi after Pilot Burned Alive by ISIS
- ↑ "Fitz Fulton's final flight". Archived from the original on 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ "Wes Cooley, C.O. congressman ensnared in scandal, dies at 82". Archived from the original on 2016-07-30. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ KNChoksy Passes Away
- ↑ Voetballegende Rik Coppens (84) overleden (in Dutch)
- ↑ Morta soubrette Marisa Del Frate (in Italian)
- ↑ Mort de l’académicienne Assia Djebar (in French)
- ↑ Andre Brink dies
- ↑ Danish director Kathrine Windfeld dies aged 48
- ↑ Norm Drucker, Referee Who Felled N.B.A. Giants, Dies at 94
- ↑ Spokeswoman: Republican Rep. Nunnelee of Mississippi Dies
- ↑ Muere a los 85 años el caricaturista venezolano Pedro León Zapata Archived 2015-02-06 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ↑ Dean Smith dies at age of 83
- ↑ Whitehead, former leader of Goldman Sachs, dies at 92[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Murió el ilusionista René Lavand (in Spanish)
- ↑ Buddy Holly bassist Joe Mauldin dies
- ↑ Former Local Congressman Don Clausen Dies at 91
- ↑ Marshall Rosenberg passed from this life on Saturday, February 7th. 2015
- ↑ Billy Casper dies at age 83
- ↑ Veteran Turkish singer Müzeyyen Senar dies aged 96
- ↑ Ufologi Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde on kuollut Archived 2015-02-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
- ↑ Øyvind Bjorvatn er død (in Norwegian)
- ↑ A los 64 años, murió el actor Jorge Sassi Archived 2015-03-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ↑ 邓力群同志逝世 (in Chinese)
- ↑ Palestine's champion, Naseer Aruri, dies aged 81
- ↑ Acteur Roger Hanin est mort (in French)
- ↑ Bob Simon, '60 Minutes' correspondent, killed in crash on West Side Highway
- ↑ "Former Asheville Tourists Baseball Manager Dies". Archived from the original on 2015-02-13. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ L'écrivaine vaudoise Anne Cuneo s'est éteinte à l'âge de 78 ans (in French)
- ↑ "Hall-of-Fame college hoops coach Jerry Tarkanian dies at 84". Archived from the original on 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ Drager Militaire Willems-Orde Van den Hoek (93) overleden (in Dutch)
- ↑ Physicist Ernest Sternglass dies at 91
- ↑ "Nik Aziz dies". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ Death notice of Tomie Ohtake
- ↑ "Professor Oliver Rackham, 1939-2015". Archived from the original on 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ New Romantic pioneer Strange dies
- ↑ David Carr, Media Columnist for The Times, Is Dead at 58
- ↑ Gary Owens, Announcer of ‘Laugh-In’ Fame, Dies at 80
- ↑ Movita Castaneda dies at 98; film actress was Marlon Brando's second wife
- ↑ Drummer, Richie Pratt (March 11, 1943 - February 12, 2015)
- ↑ Telugu novelist Kesava Reddy passed away
- ↑ "Stan Chambers, Longtime KTLA Reporter, Dies at 91". Archived from the original on 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ Oud-olympisch judokampioen Wim Ruska op 74-jarige leeftijd overleden (in Dutch)
- ↑ Preminuo Franjo Mihalić Odlazak legende (in Bosnian)
- ↑ Former poet laureate Philip Levine, a champion of the working class, dies at 87
- ↑ Louis Jourdan, Star of 'Octopussy' and 'Gigi', Dies at 93
- ↑ Monaco, è morto Michele Ferrero (in Italian)
- ↑ Pamela Cundell obituary
- ↑ Steve Montador, former Flames defenceman, dies at age 35: reports
- ↑ "Former Afghan Diplomat and Ambassador to Japan Dies at 46". Archived from the original on 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ "Create Patron, Hollywood actress Eileen Essell, Remembered". Archived from the original on 2015-07-26. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
- ↑ Скончался олимпийский чемпион 1980 года по стрельбе из пистолета (in Russian)
- ↑ Historian and BBC commentator John Davies dies aged 76
- ↑ Bayit Yehudi minister Uri Orbach dies at 54
- ↑ NCP Leader, R R Patil passes away
- ↑ 'It's My Party' singer Lesley Gore dies at 68
- ↑ Trauer um Heinrich Windelen: Der frühere Bundesminister ist tot (in German)
- ↑ Addio a Lasse Braun, il re del porno Archived 2015-02-20 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
- ↑ Z najgłębszym żalem zawiadamiamy, że dnia 17 lutego 2015 odszedł od nas Ś†P Prof. Andrzej Koszewski Archived 2016-02-19 at the Wayback Machine (in Polish)
- ↑ Oud-Kamerlid Cathy Ubels (EVP) overleden (in Dutch)]
- ↑ "Former U.S. Rep. Cass Ballenger dies at 88". Archived from the original on 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ Claude Criquielion overleden (in Dutch)
- ↑ MARK ALAN FISCHER
- ↑ Portland Trail Blazers Legend Jerome Kersey Passes Away At 52 Years Old
- ↑ "'Parks and Recreation' producer Harris Wittels dead at 30". Archived from the original on 2015-02-22. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ Developer and philanthropist Henry T. Segerstrom dies at 91
- ↑ Preminuo Ibrahim Biogradlić, rekorder po broju nastupa za FK Sarajevo (in Bosnian)
- ↑ صادق طباطبایی درگذشت (in Persian)]
- ↑ Jazz Musician Clark Terry Dies at 94
- ↑ Daniel Topolski: BBC commentator Topolski dies aged 69
- ↑ Billiards world in shock: Kyung-Roul Kim passed away
- ↑ Welsh author John Rowlands dies, 76
- ↑ "Kazakh ex-diplomat Aliyev dies in jail suicide - Austrian court". Archived from the original on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ Irving Kahn, the world's oldest investor, dies at 109
- ↑ Man found dead believed to be missing man and renowned artist Roger Cecil - 'One of Wales’ most accomplished artists'
- ↑ Former Coke President Don Keough dies
- ↑ "Remembering TNG's Maurice Hurley, 1939-2015". Archived from the original on 2015-02-28. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ Bertrice Small 1937 - 2015
- ↑ Crocodile Dundee, Flying Doctors actor Terry Gill, 75, dead
- ↑ 'Shark Lady' Eugenie Clark, Famed Marine Biologist, Has Died
- ↑ Der Literaturkritiker Fritz J. Raddatz ist gestorben
- ↑ Earl Lloyd, hoops pioneer, dies
- ↑ Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich dead, reportedly from self-inflicted gunshot
- ↑ Martha Cohen, Calgary philanthropist, dies
- ↑ Bangladeshi writer attacked, dies in hospital
- ↑ Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, Former Notre Dame President, Dies at 97
- ↑ Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
- ↑ Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead in Moscow
- ↑ Richard Bakalyan
- ↑ "Legendary sports commentator Tomaszewski dies at 93". Archived from the original on 2015-02-27. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ Former AIG CEO Robert Benmosche Dies of Cancer at 70
- ↑ Yanukovych’s ally Chechetov commits suicide under house arrest
- ↑ Anthony Mason dies at age of 48
- ↑ "Famous Turkish author Yaşar Kemal dies at 91". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-03-01.