List of Famous people who died in 2015

Saim Bülend Ulusu was a Turkish admiral who was Prime Minister of Turkey from the time of the 1980 military coup to the time that elections were allowed in 1983.

Wolfgang Gönnenwein was a German conductor and an academic teacher.

Hüseyin Başaran was a Turkish sports commentator.

Ronald Desruelles was a Belgian athlete. He started as a long jumper, and achieved a personal best of 8.08 in 1979, a national record that stood for 17 years. He then concentrated on the short sprints, and won numerous medals in 60 metres. With 6.57 seconds in 1986 he was ranked third on the indoor top performers list that season. He lost a gold medal at the 1980 European Indoor Championships, however, because of a doping offense. Desruelles won the Belgian 100 metres championships 7 times. He also won the 200 in 1985. In the 1986 European championships in Stuttgart he reached the 100 m semi-final.

Wu Te-mei was a Taiwanese politician.

Sergio Sollima was an Italian film director and script writer.

Jacques Thébault was a French actor. He has dubbed for or been the voice artist for:

• Robert Conrad
• Steve McQueen
• Patrick McGoohan
• Bill Cosby
• Roy Scheider
• Lucky Luke
• Jeremy Brett, from Sherlock Holmes for Granada
• One of the voice overs in Amélie.

Franklin April was a Namibian football defender who played for FC Civics and the Namibia national football team. He was a part of the squad at the 2008 African Cup of Nations. April died from an asthma attack.

Rafik Mohamad Yousef, also known as Rafik Youssef, was an Islamist terrorist who was tried and convicted for plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister of Iraq during his visit to Germany in 2004, served time, and, after being released from prison, was shot and killed when he attacked a German police officer with a knife in Berlin on 17 September 2015.

Eddy Louiss was a French jazz musician.