List of Famous people who died in 2015

Melanie Tem was an American horror and dark fantasy author.

John "Shoes" Lesiba Moshoeu was a South African football player who was part of the South African team that won the 1996 African Cup of Nations. He played as an attacking midfielder.

Ka-Sing Lam was a former actor and Cantonese opera singer from Hong Kong. Lam is credited with over 300 films.

Robert Paul "Bob" Kraft was an American astronomer. He performed pioneering work on Cepheid variables, stellar rotation, novae, and the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. His name is also associated with the Kraft break: the abrupt change in the average rotation rate of main sequence stars around spectral type F8.

Antônio Lomanto Júnior, widely known as Lomanto Júnior, was a Brazilian politician. He served as the Governor of Bahia from 1963 to 1967, becoming the youngest governor in Bahia's history, as well as a Senator in the federal Chamber of Deputies, representing the state of Bahia, from 1979 until 1987. He was also mayor of the city of Jequié for several nonconsecutive tenures in office.

Andrew McIan Fraser was an English songwriter and bass guitarist whose career lasted over forty years, and includes two spells as a member of the rock band Free, which he helped found in 1968, aged 15.