List of Famous people who died in 2015

Ibrahim Hamzi

First Name Ibrahim
Last Name Hamzi
Died on August 31, 2015 (aged 45)

Ibrahim Omar Ibrahim Hamzi was a brigadier general of the Royal Saudi Land Forces, deputy commander of the 8th Armoured Brigade near Jizan. He was killed during the Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war in late September 2015, being one of the most senior officers of the coalition of Arab nations to be killed. Hamzi died while being taken to a hospital.

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Amparo Baró

First Name Amparo
Born on September 21, 1937
Died on January 29, 2015 (aged 77)
Born in Spain, Catalonia

Amparo Baró San Martín MML was a Spanish actress. She starting working in theatres with Adolfo Marsillach. She first garnered critical and popular acclaim for her role as "Sole" in 7 Vidas. Her career spanned more than 50 years. She worked on stage, as well as in films and television.

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Peter Kruse

First Name Peter
Last Name Kruse
Born on January 30, 1955
Died on June 1, 2015 (aged 60)

Peter Kruse was honorary professor of organizational psychology at the University of Bremen and professional consultant for collective intelligence. His main field of research was processing of complexity and autonomous order formation in intelligent networks. His interdisciplinary work focused on the application of collective intelligence to economic and social developments.

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Ali Treki

First Name Ali
Last Name Treki
Born on October 10, 1937
Died on October 19, 2015 (aged 78)

Ali Abdussalam Treki was a Libyan diplomat in Muammar Gaddafi's regime. Treki served as one of Libya's top diplomats beginning in the 1970s and ending with the 2011 Libyan Civil War. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1976 to 1982 and again from 1984 to 1986, and he was later the Permanent Representative to the United Nations on several occasions. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2009 to September 2010.

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Étienne Bierry

First Name Étienne
Last Name Bierry
Born on October 13, 1918
Died on July 4, 2015 (aged 96)

Étienne Bierry (13 October 1918 - 4 July 2015 was a French stage and film actor as well as a theatre director.

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Edgar Froese

First Name Edgar
Last Name Froese
Born on June 6, 1944
Died on January 20, 2015 (aged 70)

Edgar Willmar Froese was a German musical artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group Tangerine Dream in 1967. Froese was the only continuous member of the group until his death. Although his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as "Edgar Froese", his later solo albums bear the name "Edgar W. Froese".

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Don Edwards

First Name Don
Last Name Edwards
Born on January 6, 1915
Died on October 1, 2015 (aged 100)

William Donlon "Don" Edwards was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a member of the United States House of Representatives from California.

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Carol Rama

First Name Carol
Last Name Rama
Born on April 17, 1918
Died on September 25, 2015 (aged 97)
Born in Italy, Piedmont

Carol Rama was an Italian self-taught artist whose unconventional painting encompassed an erotic, and often sexually aggressive universe populated by characters who present themes of sexual identity with specific references to female sensuality. She began to paint around the mid-thirties and exhibiting her work ten years later. Her work was relatively little known until curator Lea Vergine included several pieces in a 1980 exhibition, prompting Rama to revisit her earlier watercolour style.

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Germán Cobos

First Name Germán
Last Name Cobos
Died on January 12, 2015 (aged 45)
Born in Spain, Andalusia

Germán Sánchez Hernández-Cobos was a prolific Spanish actor in a variety of European films. He was married to Visitación Peralta.

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Patricia Canning Todd

Mary Patricia Canning
First Name Patricia
Last Name Todd
Born on July 22, 1922
Died on September 5, 2015 (aged 93)

Patricia Canning Todd was an American tennis player who had her best results just after World War II. In 1947 and 1948, she won a total of four Grand Slam championships: one in singles, two in women's doubles, and one in mixed doubles. She won these titles as a young mother.

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