List of Famous people who died in 2015

Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira was a Brazilian citizen sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia in 2004 after being arrested while trying to enter the country with 13.4 kg of cocaine inside the tube of a hang glider. Archer was the first Brazilian citizen to be executed abroad.

Brijmohan Lall Munjal was an Indian entrepreneur and the founder of Hero Group.

Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Al-Mūsawī Al-Muhrī was a Kuwaiti Shi'ite cleric, and a representative (wakil) of the majority of the grand Shi'ite maraji'.

Maksut Sultanuly Narikbaev was a Kazakh jurist who served as the third Chairman of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan. Between 2004 and 2012 he served as the chairman of the Democratic Party Adilet. In 2012 he retired as the chairman and was elected an honorary chairman of the party.

Howard Rumsey was an American jazz double-bassist known for his leadership of the Lighthouse All-Stars in the 1950s.

Emelia Pérez Castellanos, better known as Ninón Sevilla, was a Cuban-born Mexican film actress and dancer who was active during the golden age of Mexican cinema. She was considered one of the greatest exponents of the Rumberas film genre in the 1940s and 1950s.

Jerzy Katlewicz was a Polish music conductor, pianist and Professor of the Academy of Music in Kraków since 1990. Katlewicz graduated from the same Academy in 1952, and served as conductor of the Kraków Philharmonic between 1952 and 1958 during the period of Stalinism in Poland. He was appointed artistic director there a decade later, in 1968 and remained at his post until 1981. In 1961-68 he was artistic director of Polish Baltic Opera and Philharmonic in Gdańsk. In 1984–1985 he was artistic director of the Symphony Orchestra and Choir of the Polish Radio and Television state agency in Kraków. Katlewicz was the recipient of the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1993), among other distinctions.

René Vautier was a French film director. His films, which were often controversial with French authorities, addressed many issues, such as the Algerian War, French colonialism in Africa, pollution, racism, women's rights, and apartheid in South Africa. Many were banned or condemned, and one caused him to go to prison for a year.

Will McBride was an American photographer in reportage, art photography and book illustration as well as a painter and sculptor.

Christopher Hovelle Wood was an English screenwriter and novelist, best known for the Confessions series of novels and films which he wrote as Timothy Lea. Under his own name, he adapted two James Bond novels for the screen: The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker (1979).