List of Famous people who died in 2015

Alan Curtis was an American harpsichordist, musicologist, and conductor of baroque opera.

Ekaterina Yurievna Genieva, OBE was a Russian librarian. She was director of the Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature from 1993 to 2015.

Tomi Taira was a Japanese actress with a long history of performing in Okinawan theatre. She was mainly active as an actress, narrator, dialect coach and in other capacities in shows and films taking place in Okinawa and in projects otherwise representing the region, as well as working more directly and officially with the Okinawa Tourist Bureau in promoting the island prefecture.

Eduardo Alejo Pavlovsky, often nicknamed Tato Pavlovsky, was an Argentine playwright, psychoanalyst, actor and novelist. His best known plays included El señor Galindez in 1973, La muerte de Margueritte Duras, and Potestad.

Thomas "Toivi" Blatt was a Jewish-American Holocaust survivor, writer of mémoires, and public speaker, who at the age of 16 escaped from the Sobibór extermination camp during the uprising staged by the Jewish prisoners in October 1943. The escape was attempted by about 300 inmates, many of whom were recaptured and killed by the German search squads. Following World War II Blatt lived in the Soviet-controlled Poland until the Polish October revolution. In 1957, he emigrated to Israel, and in 1958 settled in the United States.

Donald William 'Bob' Johnston was an American record producer, best known for his work with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, and Simon & Garfunkel.

Jassem Al-Kharafi,, was a Kuwaiti billionaire businessman who was the speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly from 1999 to 2011. Al-Kharafi studied Business Administration at the Manchester Trade Faculty in Kuwait and was director of M. A. Kharafi & Sons before being elected to the National Assembly in 1975. He affiliated with the liberal deputies and was regarded as a pro-government liberal. However, Al-Kharafi has broken with the royal family on occasion. He criticized the ruling Al-Sabah family, and in July 2006 vigorously denounced the Israeli attacks on Lebanon saying that the war would "turn us all into terrorists".

John Taylor was a British jazz pianist born in Manchester, England, who occasionally performed on the organ and the synthesizer.

Drs. Suyadi was an Indonesian animator, puppeteer and television presenter, creator of the children's television series Si Unyil. Suyadi created Si Unyil as an educational program for Indonesian children in the 1980s. In the 2000s Unyil was updated with a new series, Laptop Si Unyil. Suyadi is also known as Pak Raden.

Günter Fronius was an Austrian entrepreneur and the founder of Fronius International GmbH. He was born in Hermannstadt, Austria-Hungary, and obtained his engineering degree from Breslau University of Technology in 1945.