List of Famous people who died in 2015

Betsy Palmer was an American actress, known as a regular supporting movie and Broadway actress and television guest star, as a panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing Jason Voorhees' mother, Pamela Voorhees, in the slasher film Friday the 13th (1980).

Charles Hard Townes was an American physicist. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices. He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov. Townes was an adviser to the United States Government, meeting every US President from Harry Truman (1945) to Bill Clinton (1999).

Héctor Jesús "Lito" Silva is a Uruguayan football forward who played for Uruguay in the 1962 and 1966 FIFA World Cups. He also played for Danubio and C.A. Peñarol.

Isa Akhyadovich Munayev was Chechen rebel and commander of separatist forces who fought for the independence of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from Russia until he was forced into exile in Europe around 2004. He was killed in action while leading a Chechen volunteer unit on the Ukrainian side during the War in Donbass in 2015.

Gonzalo García Téllez, known as Lalo García was a Spanish basketball player. García played his entire career for CB Valladolid, his hometown club, and played for the Spanish national team.

Rosario Gálvez was a Mexican actress. She was married to Luis Aguilar, "El Gallo Giro", one of the icons of the golden age of Mexican cinema, from 1957 until his death in 1997.

Magomed Aliyevich Suleimanov, also known as Abu Usman Gimrinsky, was a Dagestani Islamist in Russia and the third leader of the Caucasus Emirate militant group.

Air Marshal Peter Brett Walker was a Royal Air Force officer who served as Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey from 2011 to 2015.

Joseph Louis Robert Edgar "Bob" Fillion was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played seven seasons for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was a member of two Stanley Cup-winning teams during his career with Montreal; in 1944 and 1946. He also spent time with the Buffalo Bisons of the AHL and the Sherbrooke Saints of the Quebec Senior Hockey League (QSHL). He died on August 13, 2015. At the time of his death, Fillion was the last surviving member of the Canadiens' 1944 Stanley Cup team.

Bernard Van de Kerckhove was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer from 1962 to 1971. The highlight of his career was one stage win each in the 1964 Tour de France and 1965 Tour de France after which he wore the yellow jersey for two and three stages respectively.