List of Famous people who died in 2015

Takeshi Katō was a Japanese stage and film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films.

Martin Kearns was an English drummer, specializing in death metal, known for his association with Bolt Thrower since 1994. He joined the band at age 17 after playing in several local bands in Coventry, playing anything from metal to reggae; he had been playing pub gigs since the age of 14.

Jacob "Jake" Bailey was an American make-up artist and photographer.

Frankie Ford was an American rock and roll and rhythm and blues singer, best known for his 1959 hit "Sea Cruise".

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bednov was a former Soviet and Ukrainian militsiya officer and rebel commander of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic in Ukraine. He was the leader of the pro-Russian Batman Rapid Response Group. He was assassinated in Luhansk, with conflicting reports on who was responsible.

Philip Neville French OBE was an English film critic and radio producer. French began his career in journalism in the late 1950s, before eventually becoming a BBC Radio producer, and later a film critic. He began writing for The Observer in 1963, and continued to write criticism regularly there until his retirement in 2013.

Linda Haglund was a Swedish Olympic sprinter.

Ivan Vasilyevich Dvorny was a Russian basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He trained at VSS Trud in Sverdlovsk, as well as in Omsk and in Leningrad

Gerardo Andrés Sofovich was an Argentine businessman, dramaturge, television host and presenter, comedian, scriptwriter, and director.

Dirk Jacobus Willem "Dick" Nanninga was a Dutch footballer who played as a forward. At club level, he played for Dutch sides BV Veendam, Roda JC and MVV Maastricht. He also had a short spell with Hong Kong club Seiko. At international level, he represented the Netherlands at the 1978 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1980.