List of Famous people who died in 2015
Dominique Dropsy
Dominique Dropsy was a French footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Luz Marina Zuluaga
Luz Marina Zuluaga Zuluaga was a Colombian beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1958. She was the only Colombian woman to win the Miss Universe pageant until Paulina Vega became Miss Universe 2014.
Utta Danella
Utta Danella, Utta Schneider, was a German author.
Charles Kennedy
Charles Peter Kennedy was a British Liberal Democrat politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1999 to 2006, and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2015.
Richard F. Post
Richard Freeman Post was an American physicist notable for his work in nuclear fusion, plasma physics, magnetic mirrors, magnetic levitation, magnetic bearing design and direct energy conversion.
Harry Rowohlt
Harry Rowohlt was a German writer and translator. He also played the role of a derelict in the famous German weekly-soap Lindenstraße.
Frank Watkins
Frank Watkins was an American heavy metal musician best known as a former, long-time bass player for the death metal band Obituary; he played with them from 1989 to 1997 and then from 2003 until 2010. He had been the bass player of the Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth at the time of his death, where he had been known as Bøddel.
Neal Falls
Neal Martin Falls was an American suspected serial killer who was shot and killed in self-defense by Heather Saul, a sex worker in Charleston, West Virginia. Falls had been stopped by police in over twenty states during his life but did not incur any serious criminal charges. Only after his death did police discover evidence possibly tying Falls to other crimes.
Alcides Ghiggia
Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia Pereyra was a Uruguayan-Italian football player, who played as a right winger. He achieved lasting fame for his decisive role in the final match of the 1950 World Cup, and at the time of his death exactly 65 years later, he was also the last surviving player from that game.
Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German-Kashubian novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.