List of Famous people who died in 2015

Selma Reis was a Brazilian actress and singer.

Armin, Prince of Lippe was the fourth son of Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, from his second wife, Princess Anna of Ysenburg and Büdingen.

Christophe Agou was a French documentary photographer and street photographer who lived in New York City. His work has been published in books and is held in public collections. He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective.

Teresa Ellen Gorman was a British politician. She was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Billericay, in the county of Essex in England, from 1987 to 2001 when she stood down. She was a leading figure in the rebellions over the Maastricht Treaty that nearly brought down John Major's government. She worked in both education and business.

Yılmaz Köksal was a Turkish actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1965 to 2011.

Van Alexander was an American bandleader, arranger, and composer.

Mark Behr was a Tanzanian-born writer who grew up in South Africa. He was professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. He also taught in the MA program at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Leonid Vladimirsky was a Russian illustrator who worked on fairy tales, including books by Alexander Pushkin, Aleksey Tolstoy, and Alexander Volkov, as well as some folk tales.

Carmen Balcells Segala was a literary agent of Spanish-language authors from Spain and Latin America, including six Nobel Prize–winning authors. She led her agency from 1956 to 2000, during which time she was one of the driving forces behind the 1960s boom of Latin American literature. After her retirement she was awarded with an honorary doctorate, besides other awards, but returned to the agency in 2008. Authors who have published with Balcells have dedicated novels to her and included her as characters in her work; she is praised as "one of the most powerful and influential women in Spanish letters." She died at the age of 85 in Barcelona on 20 September 2015. At her death Mario Vargas Llosa said: "Carmen queridísima, hasta pronto".

Jean-Noël Tassez was a French journalist, mainly focusing on human affairs.