List of Famous people who died in 2015

Vasili Vladimirovich Pichul was a Soviet and Russian film director, best known for his film Little Vera, released in 1988. His film How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.

Charles Mark Correa was an Indian architect and urban planner. Credited with the creation of modern architecture in post-Independent India, he was celebrated for his sensitivity to the needs of the urban poor and for his use of traditional methods and materials.

Katsuhiro Nakamura was a professional Japanese baseball player, coach, and manager.

Dmitry Vladimirovich Shumkov was a Russian lawyer, businessman, public figure and a billionaire. In 2012 Shumkov was named the Lawyer of the Year award winner, which is the highest honour for lawyers in the Russian Federation. The award was established by the Edict of the President of the Russian Federation on 8 October 2009. Shumkov was listed as having been among the Top 10 lawyers of the Russian Federation.

Richard Allen Dysart was an American actor. He is best known for his role in the television series L.A. Law (1986–1994), for which he received four consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won for the last one in 1992.

Marjory Gordon was a nursing theorist and professor who created a nursing assessment theory known as Gordon's functional health patterns. Gordon served in 1973 as the first president of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association until 1988. She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing beginning in 1977 and was designated a Living Legend by the same organization in 2009.

Jean-Marie Pelt was a French biologist, botanist and pharmacist with degrees in both Biology and Pharmacy.

Kathy Secker was a British broadcaster, best known for her work at Tyne Tees Television and BBC Radio Newcastle.

Peter Harold Dimmock, CVO, CBE was a British sports broadcaster and senior television executive during the formative years of the medium in the 1950s. He was the first host of the BBC's long-running Grandstand and of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards.

Charles Edward "Chuck" Williams was the American founder of Williams Sonoma and author and editor of more than 100 books on the subject of cooking. Williams is credited for playing a major role in introducing French cookware into American kitchens through his retail and mail-order business. He became a centenarian in October 2015 and died two months later on December 5, 2015 in San Francisco, California.