List of Famous people who died in 2015

Andrei Troschinsky

First Name Andrei
Last Name Troschinsky
Born on February 14, 1978
Died on December 21, 2015 (aged 37)
Height 194 cm | 6'4

Andrei Borisovich Troschinsky was a Kazakh professional ice hockey player, who played for Kazakhstan National Hockey Team at the 1999 Asian Winter Games. Troschinsky was a graduate of the Ust-Kamenogorsk ice hockey school. He was drafted 170th overall in the sixth round of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft by St. Louis Blues, but never signed a contract or participated in a game with them. He was the younger brother of Alexei Troschinsky.

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Marlene Sanders

First Name Marlene
Last Name Sanders
Born on January 10, 1931
Died on July 14, 2015 (aged 84)

Marlene Sanders was an American television news correspondent, anchor, producer and executive who worked for ABC News in the 1960s and 1970s and moved to CBS News in 1978. She is known for being the first woman to achieve several milestones in the then male-dominated field of television news.

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Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

First Name Nawwaf
Born on August 16, 1932
Died on September 29, 2015 (aged 83)
Born in Saudi Arabia

Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was a senior member of the House of Saud who became a close ally of King Abdullah.

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Adriana Olguín

Luz Adriana Margarita Olguín Büche
First Name Adriana
Last Name Olguín
Born on November 18, 1911
Died on December 24, 2015 (aged 104)

Adriana Margarita Olguín Büche was a Chilean lawyer and politician. She was the Minister of Justice during the rule of Gabriel González Videla, making Olguín the first female Latin American minister of Chile.

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Bob Sadino

First Name Bob
Last Name Sadino
Born on March 9, 1933
Died on January 19, 2015 (aged 81)
Born in Indonesia, Lampung

Bambang Mustari "Bob" Sadino was an Indonesian businessman who was the CEO of Kem Chicks, Kem Foods, and Kem Farms. He started his business by selling domestic chicken eggs door to door. At that time, domestic chicken eggs were not popular in Indonesia, thus his goods were purchased only by expatriates, who lived in Kemang, as well as few people in Indonesia who had lived abroad before. Over time, the domestic chicken eggs began to be popular so that Sadino's business grew significantly. Sadino then expanded his business by selling chicken meat.

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Clovis Fernandes

First Name Clovis
Last Name Fernandes
Born on October 4, 1954
Died on September 16, 2015 (aged 60)

Clóvis Acosta Fernandes, was a Brazilian football fan known as "Gaúcho da Copa".

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William Guest

First Name William
Last Name Guest
Born on July 2, 1941
Died on December 24, 2015 (aged 74)

William Franklin Guest was an American R&B/soul singer best known as a member of Gladys Knight & the Pips along with his cousins Gladys Knight, Merald "Bubba" Knight and Edward Patten. Guest was a member of the group for its entire history from 1952 to 1989. He is a multiple Grammy Award winner and was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Gladys Knight & the Pips in 1996.

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Gülten Akın

First Name Gülten
Born on January 23, 1933
Died on November 4, 2015 (aged 82)
Born in Yozgat Province

Gülten Akın was a Turkish poet. Her poetry is considered to be culturally significant to Turkey.

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Mel Daniels

First Name Mel
Last Name Daniels
Born on July 20, 1944
Died on October 30, 2015 (aged 71)
Height 206 cm | 6'9

Melvin Joe Daniels was an American professional basketball player. He played in the American Basketball Association (ABA) for the Minnesota Muskies, Indiana Pacers, and Memphis Sounds, and in the National Basketball Association for the New York Nets. Daniels was a two-time ABA Most Valuable Player, three-time ABA Champion and a seven-time ABA All-Star. Daniels was the All-time ABA rebounding leader. Daniels was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012.

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Armin Kircher

First Name Armin
Last Name Kircher
Born on January 1, 1966
Died on October 12, 2015 (aged 49)
Born in Austria, Tyrol

Armin Kircher was an Austrian composer and conductor.

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