Deaths in February 2015 facts for kids

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

Aldo Ciccolini 1925-2015

Udo Lattek 1935-2015

André Brink 1935-2015

Dean Smith 1931-2015

David Carr 1956-2015

Gary Owens 1934-2015

Louis Jourdan 1921-2015

Steve Montador 1979-2015

Lesley Gore 1946-2015

Clark Terry 1920-2015

Leonard Nimoy 1931-2015

Boris Nemtsov 1959-2015

February 1 - Aldo Ciccolini, 89, French pianist.
February 1 - Ann Mara, 85, American football team owner (New York Giants), complications from fall.
February 1 - Udo Lattek, 80, German football player and manager (Bayern Munich, Barcelona).
February 1 - Monty Oum, 33, American animator (Red vs. Blue, RWBY), allergic reaction.
February 2 - Andriy Kuzmenko, 46, Ukrainian singer (Skryabin), car accident.
February 2 - Stewart Stern, 92, American screenwriter (Rebel Without a Cause), brain cancer.
February 2 - Anand Shukla, 74, Indian cricketer.
February 3 - Mary Healy, 96, American actress (The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T) and singer.
February 3 - Sir Martin Gilbert, 78, British historian and biographer, member of the Iraq Inquiry panel.
February 3 - Frank Borghi, 89, American Hall of Fame soccer player (national team).
February 3 - Charlie Sifford, 92, American golfer, complications from a stroke.
February 3 - Muath Al-Kasasbeh, 26, Jordanian pilot, burned. (death announced on this date)
February 4 - Eduardo Laborde, 47, Argentine rugby union player (national team), traffic collision.
February 4 - Richard Bonehill, 67, British actor and stuntman (The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi). (death announced on this date)
February 4 - Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, c. 45, Iraqi Al-Qaeda bomber, executed.
February 4 - Fitzhugh L. Fulton, 89, American NASA research pilot.
February 4 - Wes Cooley, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon (1995–1997).
February 5 - K. N. Choksy, 81, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, MP (1989–2010), Minister of Finance (2001–2004).
February 5 - Henri Coppens, 84, Belgian footballer, winner of the Golden Shoe (1954).
February 6 - Marisa Del Frate, 83, Italian actress, singer and television personality.
February 6 - Assia Djebar, 78, Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker, member of the Académie française.
February 6 - André Brink, 79, South African writer.
February 6 - Kathrine Windfeld, 48, Danish movie director (Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation).
February 6 - Norm Drucker, 94, American basketball referee.
February 6 - Alan Nunnelee, 56, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi (since 2011), brain cancer.
February 6 - Pedro León Zapata, 85, Venezuelan cartoonist, painter and writer.
February 7 - Dean Smith, 83, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (North Carolina).
February 7 - John C. Whitehead, 92, American financier (Goldman Sachs) and civil servant, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1985–1989), cancer.
February 7 - René Lavand, 86, Argentine magician and illusionist, pneumonia.
February 7 - Joe B. Mauldin, 74, American bassist (The Crickets), cancer.
February 7 - Donald H. Clausen, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1963–1983).
February 7 - Marshall Rosenberg, 80, American psychologist, creator of Nonviolent Communication.
February 7 - Billy Casper, 83, American golfer, seventh all-time in career PGA Tour wins, complications from pneumonia and heart attack.
February 8 - Müzeyyen Senar, 96, Turkish singer, pneumonia.
February 8 - Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, 75, Finnish parapsychologist.
February 9 - Øyvind Bjorvatn, 83, Norwegian politician, leader of the Liberal People's Party (1982–1986).
February 9 - Jorge Sassi, 64, Argentine actor, renal failure.
February 10 - Deng Liqun, 99, Chinese politician.
February 10 - Naseer Aruri, 81, Palestinian scholar and human rights activist, Parkinson's disease.
February 11 - Roger Hanin, 89, French actor and movie director.
February 11 - Bob Simon, 73, American television journalist (60 Minutes), traffic collision.
February 11 - Ray Hathaway, 98, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
February 11 - Anne Cuneo, 78, Swiss author and movie director.
February 11 - Jerry Tarkanian, 84, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (Long Beach State, UNLV, San Antonio Spurs, Fresno State), respiratory failure.
February 12 - Cornelis Pieter van den Hoek, 93, Dutch resistance fighter, recipient of the Military William Order.
February 12 - Ernest J. Sternglass, 91, American physicist and professor, heart failure.
February 12 - Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, 84, Malaysian politician, Menteri Besar of Kelantan (1990–2013), prostate cancer.
February 12 - Tomie Ohtake, 101, Japanese-Brazilian artist, heart failure.
February 12 - Oliver Rackham, 75, British landscape ecologist.
February 12 - Steve Strange, 55, British musician (Visage), heart attack.
February 12 - David Carr, 58, American columnist (The New York Times) and author, lung cancer and heart disease.
February 12 - Gary Owens, 80, American television announcer (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In) and actor (Midnight Cowboy, Space Ghost), diabetes.
February 12 - Movita Castaneda, 98, American actress (Mutiny on the Bounty), neck injury.
February 12 - Richie Pratt, 71, American jazz drummer.
February 13 - Kesava Reddy, 68, Indian writer.
February 13 - Stan Chambers, 91, American television reporter (KTLA).
February 14 - Wim Ruska, 74, Dutch judoka, Olympic gold medallist (1972).
February 14 - Franjo Mihalić, 94, Croatian Yugoslav long distance runner, Olympic silver medallist (1956).
February 14 - Philip Levine, 87, American poet, pancreatic cancer.
February 14 - Louis Jourdan, 93, French actor (Gigi, Octopussy).
February 14 - Michele Ferrero, 89, Italian businessman (Ferrero SpA).
February 14 - Pamela Cundell, 95, English actress (Dad's Army).
February 15 - Steve Montador, 35, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
February 15 - Haron Amin, 46, Afghan diplomat, Ambassador to Japan (2004–2009), cancer.
February 15 - Eileen Essell, 92, English actress (Duplex, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Producers).
February 16 - Aleksandr Melentyev, 60, Soviet Russian sport shooter, Olympic champion (1980).
February 16 - John Davies, 76, British historian. (death announced on this date)
February 16 - Uri Orbach, 54, Israeli writer, journalist and politician, blood disease.
February 16 - R. R. Patil, 58, Indian politician, oral cancer.
February 16 - Lesley Gore, 68, American singer ("It's My Party") and actress (Batman), cancer.
February 16 - Heinrich Windelen, 93, German politician, Member of the Bundestag (1957–1990).
February 17 - Andrzej Koszewski, 92, Polish composer.
February 17 - Cathy Ubels-Veen, 86, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1982–1986).
February 18 - Cass Ballenger, 88, American politician, member of United States House of Representatives from North Carolina (1986–2005).
February 18 - Claude Criquielion, 58, Belgian cyclist, UCI World Road Race champion (1984), complications from a stroke.
February 18 - Mark Fischer, 64, American intellectual property lawyer.
February 18 - Jerome Kersey, 52, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers), blood clot.
February 19 - Harris Wittels, 30, American television producer and writer (Parks and Recreation, The Sarah Silverman Program).
February 20 - Henry Segerstrom, 91, American entrepreneur.
February 20 - Ibrahim Biogradlić, 83, Bosnian Yugoslav footballer, Olympic silver medalist (1956).
February 21 - Sadeq Tabatabaei, 71, Iranian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1979–1980), lung cancer.
February 21 - Clark Terry, 94, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, complications from diabetes.
February 22 - Kim Kyung-roul, 34, South Korean professional billiards player.
February 23 - John Rowlands, 76, Welsh author and novelist.
February 24 - Irving Kahn, 109, American investor.
February 24 - Roger Cecil, 72, Welsh painter. (body found on this date)
February 24 - Donald Keough, 88, American businessman, President of The Coca-Cola Company (1981–1993).
February 24 - Maurice Hurley, 75, American television writer and producer (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Baywatch, Miami Vice).
February 24 - Bertrice Small, 77, American author.
February 25 - Terry Gill, 75, Australian actor ("Crocodile" Dundee, Prisoner, The Flying Doctors), lung cancer.
February 25 - Eugenie Clark, 92, American ichthyologist.
February 26 - Fritz J. Raddatz, 83, German feuilletonist, essayist, biographer and romancier.
February 26 - Earl Lloyd, 86, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Detroit Pistons).
February 26 - Martha Cohen, 94-95, Canadian community builder and philanthropist.
February 26 - Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi-born American writer.
February 26 - Theodore Hesburgh, 97, American Roman Catholic priest, president of the University of Notre Dame (1952-1987).
February 27 - Leonard Nimoy, 83, American actor and director (Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Fringe), COPD.
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.
February 27 - Richard Bakalyan, 84, American character actor (Batman, Chinatown, The Fox and the Hound).
February 27 - Bohdan Tomaszewski, 93, Polish sports commentator.
February 27 - Bob Benmosche, 70, American executive, President and CEO of American International Group (2009–2014), lung cancer.
February 28 - Anthony Mason, 48, American basketball player (New York Knicks), heart failure.
February 28 - Yaşar Kemal, 91, Turkish author, Légion d'honneur recipient.

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