List of Famous people who died in 2015

Alan MacKenzie Howard, CBE was an English actor. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1983 and played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre between 1992 and 2000.

Waldo Vieira was a Brazilian spiritual author, medium, physician and dentist who founded the spiritual movements of Conscientiology and Projectiology.

Joel Rufino dos Santos was a Brazilian writer. He was born in 1941 in Rio de Janeiro. He died from complications from cardiac surgery on 4 September 2015.

Ferdinand Van der Auwera, pseudonym Fernand Auwera is a Belgian writer. His fragile health during his youth and its impact on his life (solitude), had an effect on his first literary work.

Miroslav Ondříček was a Czech cinematographer who worked on over 40 films, including Amadeus, Ragtime and If.....

Raoul Bernard Lucien Marie was a French former international rugby referee, former Deputy in the French National Assembly (1967–1981), and former Mayor of Biarritz (1977–1991). He is also the founder of the organization Fondation du Bénévolat and a grand officer of the Legion of Honour. His daughter is former cabinet minister Michèle Alliot-Marie, who served as Defense Minister, Interior Minister, Justice Minister, and Foreign Affairs Minister.

Gene Saks was an American stage and film director, as well as an actor. An inductee of the American Theater Hall of Fame, his acting career beginning with a debut on Broadway in 1949. As a director, he was nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning three for his direction of I Love My Wife, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues. He also directed a number of films during his career. He was married to Bea Arthur from 1950 until 1978, and subsequently to Keren Saks, from 1980 to his death in 2015.

Ulrich Beck was a well known German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime. His work focused on questions of uncontrollability, ignorance and uncertainty in the modern age, and he coined the terms "risk society" and "second modernity" or "reflexive modernization". He also tried to overturn national perspectives that predominated in sociological investigations with a cosmopolitanism that acknowledges the interconnectedness of the modern world. He was a professor at the University of Munich and also held appointments at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) in Paris, and at the London School of Economics.

Jozef Adriaan Anna Geeraerts, better known as Jef Geeraerts, was a Belgian writer.