List of Famous people who died in 2015

Yuri Vitalyevich Mamleev, also Mamleyev or Mamleiev, was a prominent Russian novelist who began writing in the 1960s and won the Pushkin Prize in 2000. He is considered the founder of metaphysical realism as a literary genre. His best known work, The Sublimes, was a samizdat novel published in 1966 and translated into English in 2014 by Marian Schwartz.

Francesco Carnelutti was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1969 to 2014.

Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s. This discovery was a turning point in investigations of the cerebral cortex, as nearly all cortical studies of sensory function after Mountcastle's 1957 paper, on the somatosensory cortex, used columnar organization as their basis.