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

Aldo Ciccolini 1925-2015

Udo Lattek 1935-2015

André Brink 1935-2015

Dean Smith 1931-2015

David Carr 1956-2015

Gary Owens 1934-2015

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 16 - Lasse Braun, 78, Italian porn movie director and producer.
• 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 21 - Daniel Topolski, 69, British rowing coach and commentator.
• February 22 - Kim Kyung-roul, 34, South Korean professional billiards player.
• February 23 - John Rowlands, 76, Welsh author and novelist.
• February 24 - Rakhat Aliyev, 52, Kazah politician and diplomat, suicide by hanging.
• 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 - Tom Schweich, 54, American politician, Missouri State Auditor (since 2011), suicide by gunshot.
• February 26 - Martha Cohen, 94-95, Canadian community builder and philanthropist.
• February 26 - Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi-born American writer, stabbed.
• 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 27 - Mykhailo Chechetov, 61, Ukrainian politician, suicide.
• February 28 - Anthony Mason, 48, American basketball player (New York Knicks), heart failure.
• February 28 - Yaşar Kemal, 91, Turkish author, Légion d'honneur recipient.

Months

• January 2015
• March 2015