Deaths Date 2015 January | History by KabAstro

Edward W. Brooke (1919-2015)

Jan 3 American politician and 1st popularly elected African American to the US Senate (R-Mass: 1967-79), dies at 95

Jan 3 Ivan Jullien, French jazz and session trumpeter and bandleader, dies at 80
Jan 4 Barbara Tizard, British educator and author, dies at 88
Jan 4 Stu Miller, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1952-68 (St. Louis Cardinals; New York/San Francisco Giants, and 3 other teams, dies at 87
Jan 4 Stuart Scott, American sports journalist (ESPN), dies of cancer at 49
Jan 6 Lance Percival, English actor and comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 81
Jan 7 Jean Cabut [Cabu], French caricaturist (Charlie Hebdo), killed in terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris at 76

Rod Taylor (1930-2015)

Jan 7 Australian actor (The Birds, Time Machine), dies at 84

Stéphane Charbonnier (1967-2015)

Jan 7 French cartoonist and editor of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, dies in a terrorist attack at 47

Jan 7 Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer (Bohin Manor) and film director, dies at 88
Jan 8 Andraé Crouch, American Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, songwriter (The Color Purple; The Lion King), and pastor, dies following a heart attack at 72
Jan 8 Curtis Lee, American doo wop singer (Pretty Little Angel Eyes), dies at 75
Jan 8 Richard Meade, British equestrian (3 x Olympic gold eventing 1968, 72; World C'ship gold team 1970, 82), dies from cancer at 76
Jan 8 Virginia "Patsy" Garrett, American singer and actress (Nanny & the Professor, Fred Waring's Pleasure Time), dies at 93
Jan 10 Brad Stephen "Taylor" Negron, American actor and writer (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Easy Money), dies of liver cancer at 57
Jan 10 Francesco Rosi, Italian film director ("The Mattei Affair" - Palme d'Or 1972), dies at 92
Jan 10 Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist, inventor, and writer, dies at 86
Jan 10 Robert Stone, American novelist (Dog Soldiers, WUSA), dies from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 77
Jan 10 Timothy Lee Drummond, American musician, dies at 74

Anita Ekberg (1931-2015)

Jan 11 Swedish actress (La Dolce Vita) and Miss Sweden 1950, dies at 83

Jan 12 Clifford Adams, American trombone player, dies at 62
Jan 12 John Bayley, English academic and writer (Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch), dies at 89
Jan 13 Dozy [Trevor Ward-Davies], British rock bassist (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), dies of liver cancer at 70
Jan 13 Frank Glazer, American pianist (Satie), composer and teacher (Eastman School of Music, 1965-80), dies at 99
Jan 13 Jack Hayward, British financier (owner Wolverhampton Wanderers FC 1990-2007), dies at 91
Jan 13 Ronnie Ronalde [Ronald Charles Waldron], British entertainer and world-famous whistler, dies at 91
Jan 15 Kim Fowley, American record producer (the Runaways), dies at 75
Jan 17 Greg Plitt, American fitness model and entrepreneur, dies when hit by a train at 37
Jan 18 Dallas Taylor, American session drummer (Crosby, Stills & Nash, Clear Light), dies of complications from pneumonia and kidney disease at 66
Jan 18 Piet van der Sanden, Dutch journalist and politician (CDA), dies at 90
Jan 19 Anne Kirkbride, English actress (Deirdre-Coronation Street), dies of breast cancer at 60
Jan 19 Karl H. Pribram “Magellan of the Mind”, Austrian-American neuroscientist, psychologist and philosopher (research into brain’s limbic system), dies at 95
Jan 20 Edgar Froese, German musician (Tangerine Dream), dies at 70
Jan 21 Leon Brittan, British politician, Home Secretary and member of the European Commission, dies at 75
Jan 21 Martin Honeysett, British cartoonist (Punch, Private Eye), dies at 71
Jan 21 Pauline Yates, British actress (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin), dies at 85
Jan 21 Waldemar Kmentt, Austrian operatic tenor (Vienna State Opera, 1951-2005), dies at 85
Jan 22 Wendell Ford, American politician (Sen-D-Kentucky, 1974-1999), Governor of Kentucky (1971-74), dies at 90

Ernie Banks (1931-2015)

Jan 23 American Baseball HOF shortstop, 1st baseman (14 x MLB All Star; NL MVP 1958, 59; Chicago Cubs), dies of a heart attack at 83

Jan 23 Guy Gallo, American poet, playwright, and screenwriter (Under the Volcano), dies of cancer at 59
Jan 23 King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (2005-2015), dies at 90
Jan 24 Joe Franklin, American radio host, TV personality and New York institution (The Joe Franklin Show), dies of prostate cancer at 88
Jan 24 Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater (Olympic bronze men's singles 1976; World C'ship bronze 1974) and painter, dies of a heart attack at 65
Jan 25 Bill Monbouquette, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1960, 60², 62, 63; no-hitter 1962 Boston Red Sox), dies of myeloid leukemia at 78
Jan 25 Demis Roussos, Greek singer and performer (Aphrodite's Child), dies from an undisclosed illness at 68
Jan 26 Tom Uren, Australian politician, Australian heritage and conservation campaigner, dies at 93
Jan 27 Charles Hard Townes, American Physicist and inventor (Nobel Prize 1964 for mazer-lazer principle), dies at 99
Jan 27 Harriet Elizabeth Byrd, American politician, Member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (1998-88), dies at 88
Jan 27 John T. Myers, American politician (Rep-R-IN, 1967-97), dies at 87
Jan 28 Louise Lopez, American disco singer (Odyssey -"Native New Yorker"; "Use It Up And Wear It Out"), dies at 81
Jan 28 Robert Ceely, American classical and electro-acoustic composer (The Automobile Graveyard), and educator (New England Conservatory, 1966-2003), dies at 85
Jan 29 Colleen McCullough, Australian author (Tim, Indecent Obsession, The Thorn Birds), dies at 77
Jan 29 Kel Nagle, Australian golfer (British Open 1960), dies at 94
Jan 29 Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist, dies at 80
Jan 29 Rodney "Rod" McKuen, American poet, singer-songwriter and actor (Jean, Alone, Beatsville), dies at 81

Carl Djerassi (1923-2015)

Jan 30 Austrian-born American chemist and father of the contraceptive pill, dies at 91

Jan 30 Ezra Sims, American composer of microtonal music, dies at 88
Jan 30 Geraldine McEwan, British actress (Agatha Christie's Miss Marple), dies at 82
Jan 30 Than Wyenn, American character actor (Being There, Splash, Imitation of Life), dies at 95
Jan 30 Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgarian dissident and politician (Bulgarian President, 1990-97), dies at 79
Jan 31 Don Covay [Donald Randolph], American R & B musician and songwriter (Chain of Fools), dies at 78
Jan 31 Lizabeth Scott [Emma Matzo], American actress (Desert Fury, Dark City), dies of heart failure at 92
Jan 31 Richard von Weizsacker, German politician and 1st president of reunited Germany (1990-94), dies at 94
Jan 31 Udo Lattek, German football striker (VfL Osnabrück) and coach (Bayern Munich, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Borussia Dortmund, Barcelona), dies from Parkinson's disease and dementia at 80