List of Famous people who died in 2015

Lars Anders Amble-Næss was a Swedish actor and director. Amble was the son of Leif Amble-Næss and Maritta Marke. After finishing theater school in Stockholm, which he attended from 1963 to 1965, he was hired by the Royal Dramatic Theater until 1969, after which he has played parts in various theater plays, musicals, TV shows and movies. From 1986 to 1994 he was artistic director for the Maxim theater in Stockholm.

Andrew Oung also known by his Chinese name Oung Ta-ming, was a Taiwanese businessman whose family ran the Hualon Textile Corporation. Oung served in the Legislative Yuan from 1993 to 1996.

Armando Cossutta was an Italian communist politician.

Stein Eriksen was an alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Norway. Following his racing career, he was a ski school director and ambassador at various resorts in the United States.

Lolita Aniyar de Castro was a Venezuelan teacher, lawyer, politician, and criminologist. She served as a professor at Universidad del Zulia in the department of criminology, and for more than 15 years was director of the Institute of Criminology there, which now bears her name. She taught in graduate school at the Universidad de los Andes, as well as other universities in Argentina, Costa Rica, and Brazil, as well as other countries. She was appointed as governor of the State of Zulia on 2 February 1994, following the resignation of her predecessor, Oswaldo Álvarez Paz. Aniyar de Castro became the first Venezuelan woman to be elected to that position. Before that, she had already become the first woman to be elected deputy to the Legislative Assembly of the State of Zulia and the first female senator to the National Congress of Venezuela. She was the Delegate of Venezuela to UNESCO, and she became Consul of Venezuela in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Committee of Stockholm awarded her the International Prize of Criminology . She also wrote numerous books on the criminal justice area and in Venezuela. She died on 7 December 2015 at the age of 78, as a result of a heart attack at her home in Maracaibo.

Margarita Khemlin was a Jewish-Ukrainian novelist and short-story writer, best known for her novel Klotsvog.

Pierre Georges Cornil Jansen was a French film scores composer. He was in particular the permanent collaborator of Claude Chabrol for whom he composed the music for many films.

Carlos Manga was a Brazilian film director. He directed 25 films between 1952 and 1986.

James Evert was an American tennis coach and player. He was the father of Chris Evert, who was one of the world's top women tennis players in the 1970s and 1980s.

André Valmy was a French film actor. He was born André Antoine Marius Dugenet in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He appeared in 66 films between 1940 and 2001. He is also known in France to be the dubbed voice of Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw and George Kennedy.