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This is a chronologically ordered list of notable deaths in 2015. See also list of deaths in 2016.

January

2
  • Jimmy Dickens
3
5
  • Al Bendich
7
8
  • Andraé Crouch
10
11
  • Anita Ekberg
  • Vernon Mountcastle
12
  • John Bayley
15
  • Ervin Drake
  • Jean Lindenmann
17
  • Faten Hamama
19
20
  • Edgar Froese
  • Melvin Jay Gordon
21
  • Vince Camuto
23
24
  • Joe Franklin
25
  • Demis Roussos
26
27
29
30
31
  • Lizabeth Scott
  • Richard von Weizsäcker

February

3
  • Martin John Gilbert
  • Charlie Sifford
5
6
7
8
  • John Wesley Baldwin
  • Kenji Ekuan
11
  • Jerry Tarkanian
12
  • John Piña Craven
13
  • Louis Jourdan
14
16
  • Lesley Gore
21
  • Clark Terry
25
26
27
28

March

1
2
  • Bettina Graziani
4
  • William Dickey King
5
  • Edward Cardinal Egan
  • Albert Maysles
7
  • Yoshihiro Tatsumi
8
  • Sam Simon
9
  • Florence Arthaud
  • James Molyneaux
  • Camille Muffat
10
  • Claude Sitton
12
15
  • Xu Caiho
18
19
  • Sashimani Devi
20
21
23
24
  • Roger Laurance Mayer
26
28
  • Miroslav Ondricek
  • Gene Saks

April

1
  • Cynthia Lennon
2
3
  • Sarah Brady
5
  • Barbara Bergmann
7
  • Eugene Louis Faccuito
9
  • T.H. Tsien
10
11
  • Sheila Kitzinger
13
19
  • Raymond Carr
21

May

2
6
9
  • Johnny Gimble
10
14
20
  • Bob Belden
23
25

June

1
2
5
7
11
12
14
16
17
19
21
24
26
29

July

5
8
10
20
21
27

August

1
3
7
9
15
18
22
28
  • Al Arbour
29
30

September

19
20
22
25

October

2
3
5
8
  • Paul Prudhomme
9
10
14
24
25
  • Jack Bruce

November

1
10
18
19
23

December

10
19
23
27
31
This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn.