Deaths Died in December 2015
Wesley Burrowes
Irish playwright (Glenroe) · 31 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 31
Bieber fan
33 · 31 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 31 · Other
Eiji Kimizuka
Japanese general · 28 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 28 · Other
Ian Murdock
Founder of the Debian Project. · 28 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 28 · Other
Ablie Jagne
Gambian football player (Real de Banjul · 23 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 23
Doug Atkins
American football (Cleveland Browns · 30 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 30 · Other
Emmanuel Yarbrough
American mixed martial arts fighter · 21 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 21 · Other
Johnny Egan
Irish Gaelic football player (Offaly) · 14 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 14
Abish Kekilbayev
Kazakh politician and academic · 11 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 11
Joe Houston
American jazz and R&B saxophonist · 28 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 28 · Other
Ed Mayer
American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) · 29 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 29
George Evans
Australian rugby league player (St. George) · 25 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 25
Youhannes Ezzat Zakaria Badir
Egyptian Coptic Catholic hierarch · 27 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 27 · Badir · Other
Andy M. Stewart
Scottish folk singer (Silly Wizard) · 27 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 27 · Stewart
June Carlsson
Swedish journalist and news presenter · 28 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 28
Yuhanon Mor Philexinos
Indian Syriac Orthodox bishop · 30 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 30 · Philexinos · Other
Kim Yang-gon
North Korean politician and party official · 29 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 29
Lee Holman
American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters) · 25 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 25
Patrick Curtin
Irish Gaelic footballer (Kerry) · 29 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 29
Aslam Azhar
Pakistani television executive · 29 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 29 · Other
Frank Malzone
American basball player (Boston Red Sox · 29 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 29
Tongdaeng
Thai dog owned by King Bhumibol Adulyadej · 26 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 26 · Other
Gordon Stephenson
New Zealand environmentalist · 26 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 26 · Other
Guru Josh
Jersey musician · 28 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 28
Elżbieta Krzesińska
Polish retired track and field athlete · 29 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 29
Tom Wilburn
American hospital executive · 27 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 27 · Other
Pavel Srníček
Czech football goalkeeper · 29 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 29 · Other
Om Prakash Malhotra
Indian Army general · 29 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 29 · Malhotra · Other
Carlos Rosales Mendoza
Mexican drug lord · 27 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 27 · Mendoza · Other
Ove Johansson
Swedish Jazz saxophonist · 24 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 24 · Other
Marijane Landis
American broadcaster and television host (WGAL-TV) · 22 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 22
Mary Scranton
American community advocate and philanthropist · 26 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 26 · Other
Walter Fawcett
Northern Irish cricketer · 10 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 10
Robert Hayling
American civil rights activist · 20 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 20 · Other
Murray Weissman
American publicist and awards consultant · 28 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 28 · Other
Eloy Inos
Northern Mariana Islands politician · 29 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 29 · Éloy
Lemmy
English heavy metal singer (Motörhead · 28 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 28
Tone Nyhagen
Norwegian dancer · 28 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 28 · Other
Michael Earl
American puppeteer (Mr. Snuffleupagus on Sesame Street) · 23 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 23 · Other
Landon H. Rowland
American businessman (Kansas City Southern Railway) · 28 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 28 · Rowland · Other
Naji al Jurf
Syrian journalist and filmmaker · 27 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 27 · Jurf
Leonid Gofshtein
Israeli chess grandmaster · 23 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 23 · Other
Ethel Farrell
Indian-born Australian supercentenarian · 20 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 20 · Other
Bob Suci
American football player (Houston Oilers · 21 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 21
Stein Eriksen
Norwegian alpine skier. Olympic champion · 27 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 27
Meadowlark Lemon
American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters) · 27 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 27
Nasser al-Bahri
Yemeni Islamist militant · 26 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 26 · Other
Liam Clarke
Northern Irish journalist · 26 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 26
Alfredo Pacheco
Salvadoran footballer (FAS · 27 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 27
Bobby Dews
American baseball player and coach (Atlanta Braves) · 26 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 26
Tore Andersen
Norwegian country musician · 26 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 26
Haskell Wexler
American cinematographer · 27 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 27 · Other
Roy Swinbourne
English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers) · 27 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 27
Stevie Wright
English born Australian musician and songwriter · 27 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 27
Ma Congbo
Chinese gypsum mine owner · 27 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 27 · Other
Vilgot Larsson
Swedish ice hockey player (Leksands IF) · 21 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 21
William O’Callaghan
Irish Army Lieutenant General · 26 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 26 · O'Callaghan · Other
Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche
Tibetan lama · 23 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 23 · Rinpoche · Other
Jim O’Toole
American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds) · 26 December 2015 · December 2015 · December 26 · O'Toole