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This article lists some well-known people who passed away in January 2015. It's a way to remember their lives and what they achieved.

Famous People Who Passed Away in January 2015
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Famous People Who Passed Away in January 2015

Well-Known Actors and Entertainers

January 1 - Donna Douglas, 82, an American actress famous for her role in the TV show The Beverly Hillbillies. She passed away from pancreatic cancer.
January 1 - Ninón Sevilla, 93, a Mexican actress known for movies like Aventurera. She died from a heart attack.
January 2 - Little Jimmy Dickens, 94, an American country music singer. He was known for songs like "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" and passed away from cardiac arrest.
January 5 - Khan Bonfils, 42, an English actor who appeared in movies like Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Batman Begins.
January 6 - Lance Percival, 81, a British actor and singer. He was known for his voice work in The Beatles TV series.
January 7 - Rod Taylor, 84, an Australian actor who starred in famous films like The Time Machine and The Birds. He died from a heart attack.
January 10 - Taylor Negron, 57, an American comedian and actor seen in movies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High. He passed away from cancer.
January 11 - Anita Ekberg, 83, a Swedish actress famous for her role in the movie La Dolce Vita.
January 11 - Chic Littlewood, 84, a New Zealand TV personality and actor.
January 16 - Yao Beina, 33, a Chinese singer. She passed away from breast cancer.
January 16 - Rimma Markova, 89, a Russian actress.
January 17 - Faten Hamama, 83, a very famous Egyptian actress.
January 17 - Don Harron, 90, a Canadian comedian, actor, and author. He died from cancer.
January 19 - Anne Kirkbride, 60, a British actress known for the TV show Coronation Street. She passed away from breast cancer.
January 21 - Pauline Yates, 85, an English actress.
January 22 - Joan Hinde, 81, an English trumpeter and entertainer.
January 23 - Barrie Ingham, 82, an English actor known for The Great Mouse Detective and Doctor Who.
January 25 - Demis Roussos, 68, a Greek singer.
January 27 - Joe Rígoli, 78, an Argentine actor and comedian. He died from heart failure.
January 29 - Rod McKuen, 81, an American poet, singer, and songwriter. He passed away from respiratory arrest.
January 29 - Amparo Baró, 77, a Spanish actress. She died from cancer.
January 30 - Geraldine McEwan, 82, an English actress known for Agatha Christie's Marple. She passed away after a stroke.
January 31 - Lizabeth Scott, 92, an American actress and singer. She died from congestive heart failure.

Sports Stars We Remember

January 2 - Basil Hansen, 88, an Australian Olympic ice hockey player who competed in the 1960 Winter Olympics.
January 2 - Danny Dunton, 90, an English speedway rider.
January 6 - Vlastimil Bubník, 83, a Czech ice hockey player and footballer who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1964.
January 6 - Ron Hovey, 82, an Australian football player for the Geelong Cats.
January 7 - J. P. Parisé, 73, a Canadian ice hockey player for the Minnesota North Stars. He passed away from lung cancer.
January 7 - Jethro Pugh, 70, an American football player for the Dallas Cowboys.
January 7 - David Rolfe, 50, an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He died from complications after heart surgery.
January 10 - Junior Malanda, 20, a Belgian footballer for VfL Wolfsburg. He died in a traffic collision.
January 10 - Frans Bolweg, 64, a Dutch sailor and coach. He passed away from eye cancer.
January 10 - Inge Vermeulen, 30, a Dutch field hockey player who won a European championship in 2009.
January 11 - Jenő Buzánszky, 89, a Hungarian footballer who won an Olympic gold medal in 1952.
January 12 - Carl Long, 79, an American baseball player.
January 12 - Paul Morgan, 40, a Welsh rugby player.
January 14 - Bob Boyd, 84, an American basketball coach for the USC Trojans. He died from natural causes.
January 15 - Val Holten, 87, an Australian cricketer.
January 16 - Pedro María Iguaran, 74, a Spanish footballer for Real Sociedad.
January 20 - Ricardo dos Santos, 24, a Brazilian surfer.
January 23 - Nol Heijerman, 74, a Dutch footballer for Sparta.
January 23 - Nick Koback, 79, an American baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
January 23 - Ernie Banks, 83, a legendary American baseball player for the Chicago Cubs. He passed away from a heart attack.
January 24 - Johan Ferner, 87, a Norwegian sailor who won an Olympic silver medal in 1952.
January 24 - Toller Cranston, 65, a Canadian figure skater and painter who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1976. He died from a heart attack.
January 25 - Bill Monbouquette, 78, an American baseball player for the Boston Red Sox.
January 26 - Lee Spick, 34, an English snooker player. He passed away from liver disease.
January 26 - Lucjan Lis, 64, a Polish cyclist who won an Olympic silver medal in 1972. He died from a ruptured aorta.
January 27 - Wilfred Agbonavbare, 48, a Nigerian footballer. He passed away from cancer.
January 27 - Miguel Ángel Cascallana, 66, a Spanish Olympic handball player.
January 27 - Henk Faanhof, 92, a Dutch Olympic road bicycle racer.
January 27 - Rocky Bridges, 87, an American baseball player.
January 30 - Alexander Vraciu, 96, an American Navy fighter pilot and hero.
January 30 - Gerrit Voorting, 92, a Dutch Olympic road bicycle racer.

Important Leaders and Thinkers

January 1 - Mario Cuomo, 82, an American politician who was the Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994. He died from heart failure.
January 1 - Omar Karami, 80, a Lebanese politician who served as Prime Minister.
January 1 - Ulrich Beck, 70, a German sociologist. He died from a heart attack.
January 1 - Mrunalini Devi Puar, 83, an Indian educator and Chancellor of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
January 2 - Arthur A. Neu, 81, an American politician who was the Lieutenant Governor of Iowa.
January 3 - Edward Brooke, 95, an American politician who was a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1967 to 1979. He died from natural causes.
January 7 - Mompati Merafhe, 78, a general and politician from Botswana who was the Vice President.
January 7 - Several French cartoonists and journalists were killed in a sad event in Paris:
- Cabu, 76, a cartoonist.
- Elsa Cayat, 54, a psychoanalyst and columnist.
- Charb, 47, a caricaturist and journalist.
- Philippe Honoré, 73, a cartoonist.
- Bernard Maris, 68, an economist and journalist.
- Tignous, 57, a cartoonist.
- Georges Wolinski, 80, a cartoonist.
January 7 - Julio Scherer García, 88, a Mexican journalist. He died from septic shock.
January 7 - Arch A. Moore, Jr., 91, an American politician who was the Governor of West Virginia.
January 8 - Kep Enderby, 88, an Australian politician and judge.
January 8 - Hubert Markl, 76, a German biologist.
January 9 - Józef Oleksy, 68, a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland. He passed away from cancer.
January 9 - Robert V. Keeley, 85, an American diplomat who served as Ambassador to several countries. He died from a stroke.
January 10 - Francesco Rosi, 92, an Italian movie director.
January 10 - Walter Berns, 95, an American professor of constitutional law.
January 10 - Harry V. Jaffa, 96, an American political philosophy professor and writer.
January 10 - Elemér Hankiss, 86, a Hungarian sociologist.
January 13 - Mark Juddery, 43, an Australian author and journalist. He died from cancer.
January 13 - Sir Jack Hayward, 91, an English businessman and philanthropist.
January 13 - Robert White, 88, an American diplomat.
January 13 - Trevor Colbourn, 87, an Australian educator and academic who was President of the University of Central Florida.
January 14 - Zhang Wannian, 86, a Chinese general.
January 14 - Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, 71, an Israeli rabbi. He died from a heart attack.
January 14 - Jerry Dempsey, 81, an American politician.
January 19 - Michel Guimond, 61, a Canadian politician. He died from heart failure.
January 19 - Arthit Kamlang-ek, 89, a Thai general who was the Supreme Commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces.
January 19 - Karl H. Pribram, 95, an American neuroscientist and educator. He died from cancer.
January 20 - Anatol Hrytskievich, 85, a Belarusian historian.
January 20 - Edgar Froese, 70, a German musician from the band Tangerine Dream. He died from a pulmonary embolism.
January 21 - Leon Brittan, 75, a British politician who was the Home Secretary of the UK. He passed away from cancer.
January 22 - Wendell H. Ford, 90, an American politician who was the Governor of Kentucky and a U. S. Senator. He died from lung cancer.
January 23 - Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, 90, the King since 2005. He passed away from complications due to pneumonia.
January 23 - Prosper Ego, 87, a Dutch activist.
January 24 - Otto Carius, 92, a German tank commander from World War II.
January 24 - Joe Franklin, 88, an American television and radio talk show host. He died from prostate cancer.
January 24 - Julio Canessa, 89, a Chilean politician and general.
January 24 - Link Byfield, 63, a Canadian columnist and politician. He died from liver and esophageal cancer.
January 26 - R. K. Laxman, 93, an Indian cartoonist and humorist. He died from multiple organ failure.
January 26 - Tom Uren, 93, an Australian politician.
January 27 - David Landau, 67, an Israeli journalist and newspaper editor.
January 27 - Charles Hard Townes, 99, an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.
January 27 - John T. Myers, 87, an American politician.
January 28 - Yves Chauvin, 84, a French chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005.
January 28 - Suraj Abdurrahman, 60, a Nigerian army officer.
January 29 - Colleen McCullough, 77, an Australian author known for her book The Thorn Birds. She died from renal failure.
January 29 - Will McBride, 84, an American photographer.
January 29 - Tenkoko Sonoda, 96, a Japanese politician.
January 30 - Israel Yinon, 59, an Israeli conductor.
January 30 - Zhelyu Zhelev, 79, a Bulgarian politician who was the President from 1990 to 1997.
January 30 - Carl Djerassi, 91, an American chemist, novelist, and playwright. He passed away from liver and bone cancer.
January 31 - Richard von Weizsäcker, 94, a German politician who was the President of Germany (and West Germany before that).
January 31 - José Manuel Lara Bosch, 68, a Spanish media executive. He died from pancreatic cancer.
January 31 - Tomás Bulat, 50, an Argentine economist and journalist. He died in a traffic collision.

Other Notable People

January 1 - Staryl C. Austin, 94, an American air force brigadier general.
January 1 - Jeff Golub, 59, an American guitarist.
January 1 - Boris Morukov, 64, a Russian physician and cosmonaut.
January 1 - Eric Cunningham, 65, a Canadian politician.
January 1 - Miller Williams, 84, an American poet. He had Alzheimer's disease.
January 1 - Géry Leuliet, 104, a French Roman Catholic bishop.
January 2 - Lam Po-chuen, 63, a Hong Kong voice actor. He had diabetes.
January 2 - Noel Cobb, 76, a British philosopher and psychologist.
January 2 - Tihomir Novakov, 85, an American physicist. He died from natural causes.
January 2 - Per-Olof Åstrand, 92, a Swedish physiologist.
January 2 - Roger Kitter, 64, a British actor.
January 3 - Derek Minter, 82, a British motorcycle racer.
January 3 - Bernice Madigan, 115, an American supercentenarian (someone over 110 years old). She was one of the world's oldest people.
January 3 - Olga Knyazeva, 60, a Russian fencer and Olympic champion.
January 4 - Lance Diamond, 68, an American singer. He died from heart failure.
January 4 - Stu Miller, 87, an American baseball player.
January 4 - Stuart Scott, 49, an American sports journalist for ESPN. He passed away from appendix cancer.
January 4 - Hank Peters, 90, an American baseball executive. He died from complications after a stroke.
January 4 - René Vautier, 86, a French movie director.
January 4 - Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński, 70, a Polish academic.
January 4 - Pino Daniele, 59, an Italian singer and songwriter. He died from a heart attack.
January 4 - Natalino Pescarolo, 85, an Italian Roman Catholic bishop.
January 5 - Jean-Pierre Beltoise, 77, a French Formula One racing driver who won the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix. He died from a stroke.
January 5 - Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, 102, an American Roman Catholic bishop.
January 5 - Joy Ali, 36, a Fijian boxer.
January 5 - King Sporty, 71, a Jamaican-American reggae musician.
January 5 - Arthur E. Chase, 84, an American politician.
January 6 - Johannes de Villiers Graaff, 86, a South African economist.
January 6 - Sir Basil John Mason, 91, a British meteorologist.
January 6 - Joseph Djida, 69, a Cameroonian Roman Catholic bishop.
January 6 - George H. McKee, 91, an American air force lieutenant general.
January 7 - Tadeusz Konwicki, 88, a Polish writer and filmmaker.
January 7 - B. S. Abdur Rahman, 87, an Indian business executive and philanthropist.
January 7 - José Arias, 92, a Spanish Olympic alpine skier.
January 8 - Andraé Crouch, 72, an American gospel singer. He died from complications after a heart attack.
January 8 - Ray McFall, 88, a British nightclub owner, famous for The Cavern Club.
January 8 - Leif Rantala, 67, a Finnish linguist.
January 9 - Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., 88, an American movie producer. He died from heart failure.
January 9 - Roy Tarpley, 50, an American basketball player.
January 9 - Popsy Dixon, 72, an American musician. He died from bladder cancer.
January 9 - Frans Molenaar, 74, a Dutch fashion designer. He died from complications after a fall.
January 9 - Chuck Locke, 82, an American baseball player.
January 9 - Michel Jeury, 80, a French science fiction author.
January 10 - Jorgelina Aranda, 72, an Argentine model, singer, and actress. She passed away from cancer.
January 10 - Slobodan Martinović, 70, a Serbian chess player.
January 10 - Robert Berner, 79, an American geologist.
January 11 - Brian Clemens, 83, a British screenwriter and TV producer.
January 11 - Doriemus, 24, a New Zealand racehorse who won the Melbourne Cup in 1995. He was euthanised after a paddock accident.
January 12 - Elena Obraztsova, 75, a Russian mezzo-soprano singer.
January 12 - James Naanman Daman, 58, a Nigerian Roman Catholic bishop.
January 12 - Frank Glazer, 99, an American pianist and composer.
January 12 - Steve Gold, 58, a British computer journalist.
January 12 - Robert Gover, 85, an American author.
January 12 - Bonnie Christensen, 63, an American children's book author and illustrator. She died from ovarian cancer.
January 13 - Hara Patnaik, 56, an Indian actor and movie director. He died from cancer.
January 14 - Lotte Hass, 86, an Austrian model and underwater diver.
January 14 - Nélida Romero, 88, an Argentine actress.
January 15 - Ethel Lang, 114, a British supercentenarian.
January 15 - Ervin Drake, 95, an American songwriter. He died from bladder cancer.
January 15 - Kim Fowley, 75, an American record producer and musician. He died from bladder cancer.
January 15 - Joseph Mukasa Zuza, 59, a Malawian Roman Catholic bishop. He died in a car accident.
January 16 - Sir Ian Athfield, 74, a New Zealand architect.
January 16 - Andrew Benson, 97, an American biologist.
January 16 - Ted Harrison, 88, a Canadian painter.
January 16 - Stuart Loory, 82, an American journalist. He died from lung cancer.
January 16 - Miriam Akavia, 87, an Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor. She died from natural causes.
January 17 - Bill Sykes, 75, an English chaplain and writer.
January 17 - Origa, 44, a Russian singer. She died from lung cancer.
January 18 - Paul O'Grady, 54, an Australian politician. He died from cancer.
January 18 - Kjell Arnljot Wig, 90, a Norwegian media personality.
January 18 - Piet van der Sanden, 90, a Dutch politician.
January 18 - Tony Verna, 81, an American television producer who invented instant replay. He died from leukemia.
January 18 - José Carrasco, 70, a Peruvian politician. He died from lung cancer.
January 19 - Vladimir Kesarev, 84, a Russian footballer.
January 19 - Justin Capră, 81, a Romanian inventor.
January 19 - Bob Symes, 90, a British inventor and television presenter. He died from cancer.
January 20 - James Walker, 41, an Australian television writer. He died from diabetes.
January 21 - Marcus Borg, 72, an American Biblical scholar. He died from pulmonary fibrosis.
January 21 - Kemal Monteno, 66, a Bosnian singer-songwriter. He died from pneumonia and sepsis.
January 22 - Dacia Valent, 51, an Italian politician. She died from a heart attack.
January 23 - Pedro Lemebel, 62, a Chilean writer. He died from laryngeal cancer.
January 24 - Frances Lennon, 102, a British artist.
January 25 - Ernst Träger, 88, a German judge.
January 29 - Maurizio Arcieri, 72, an Italian singer.