List of Famous people who died in 2015

Robert Schwyzer

First Name Robert
Last Name Schwyzer
Born on December 8, 1920
Died on September 29, 2015 (aged 94)
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Magnus Härenstam

First Name Magnus
Last Name Härenstam
Born on June 19, 1941
Died on June 13, 2015 (aged 73)

Johan Herbert Magnus Härenstam was a Swedish television host, actor and comedian. Härenstam hosted the Swedish version of the game-show Jeopardy! for 14 years before being replaced by Adam Alsing. Härenstam is also known for hosting the children's TV-program Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter, which was very popular and has been re-broadcast numerous times since it first aired. Härenstam participated in the music video for ABBA's hit song "When I Kissed the Teacher" where he played the teacher who got kissed by Agnetha Fältskog. Well known in Sweden for several decades, he was almost equally popular in Norway, having starred in the 1990s sitcom Fredrikssons fabrikk, playing the Swedish boss of a Norwegian textile workshop.

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Orlando Orfei

First Name Orlando
Last Name Orfei
Born on July 8, 1920
Died on August 1, 2015 (aged 95)
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Kurt Tiedke

First Name Kurt
Last Name Tiedke
Born on May 30, 1924
Died on April 15, 2015 (aged 90)
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Raymond Gosling

First Name Raymond
Last Name Gosling
Born on July 15, 1926
Died on May 18, 2015 (aged 88)

Raymond George Gosling was a British scientist. While a PhD student at King's College, London he worked under the supervision of Rosalind Franklin. Their crystallographic experiments, together with those of Maurice Wilkins of the same laboratory, produced data that helped James Watson and Francis Crick to infer the structure of DNA.

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Helmut Engler

First Name Helmut
Born on April 14, 1926
Died on October 26, 2015 (aged 89)
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Lincoln Wolfenstein

First Name Lincoln
Last Name Wolfenstein
Born on February 10, 1923
Died on March 27, 2015 (aged 92)

Lincoln Wolfenstein was an American particle physicist who studied the weak interaction. Wolfenstein was born in 1923 and obtained his PhD in 1949 from the University of Chicago. He retired from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 after being a faculty member for 52 years. Despite being retired, he continued to come into work nearly every day.

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Ingeborg Wellmann

First Name Ingeborg
Born on May 5, 1924
Died on January 6, 2015 (aged 90)
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Karl-Heinz Scherhag

First Name Karl-Heinz
Born on May 5, 1936
Died on February 14, 2015 (aged 78)
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Katherine Ferguson Denholm

First Name Katherine
Died on April 19, 2015 (aged 45)
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