Albert Firth
English rugby league player (Wakefield Trinity)
Died on Monday January 5th 2015
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Rueben Philip Job
American United Methodist prelate
Died on Saturday January 3rd 2015
Derek Minter
British Grand Prix motorcycle and short-circuit road racer
Died on Friday January 2nd 2015
Per-Olof Åstrand
Swedish physiologist
Died on Friday January 2nd 2015
Eric Cunningham
Canadian politician
Died on Thursday January 1st 2015
Zhelyu Zhelev
Bulgarian politician
Died on Friday January 30th 2015
Rose Frisch
American biologist
Died on Friday January 30th 2015
Colleen McCullough
Australian author (The Thorn Birds)
Died on Thursday January 29th 2015
Jaswant Singh Rajput
Indian field hockey player
Died on Wednesday January 28th 2015
Bob Shea
American basketball player (Providence Steamrollers)
Died on Tuesday January 27th 2015
Harriet Elizabeth Byrd
American politician
Died on Tuesday January 27th 2015
Edwin A. Colvin
American politician
Died on Monday January 26th 2015
Eric Fitzgibbon
Australian politician
Died on Saturday January 24th 2015
Bud Miller
Canadian politician
Died on Friday January 23rd 2015
Dacia Valent
Somali-born Italian politician
Died on Thursday January 22nd 2015
Kemal Monteno
Bosnian singer-songwriter
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2015
Jerome Van Sistine
American politician
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2015
Canserbero
Venezuelan rapper
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2015
José María Hernández González
Mexican Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Monday January 19th 2015
Pietro Pianta
Italian footballer
Died on Sunday January 18th 2015
Ghelubhai Nayak
Indian political activist
Died on Friday January 16th 2015
Harvey Sweetman
New Zealand World War II pilot
Died on Thursday January 15th 2015
Arnaldo Calveyra
Argentine poet and novelist
Died on Thursday January 15th 2015
Ralph Faudree
American mathematician
Died on Tuesday January 13th 2015
Stephen Gold
British computer journalist
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
Roger Wosahlo
English footballer (Peterborough)
Died on Saturday January 10th 2015
Paul M. Starnes
American politician
Died on Friday January 9th 2015
Harry A. DeMaso
American politician
Died on Friday January 9th 2015
Kep Enderby
Australian politician and judge
Died on Thursday January 8th 2015
Tim Roberts
American professional wrestler (WWC
Died on Wednesday January 7th 2015
Gilberto Perez
Cuban-born American professor of film studies
Died on Tuesday January 6th 2015
Ganesh Patro
Indian playwright and screenwriter
Died on Monday January 5th 2015
Arthur E. Chase
American politician
Died on Monday January 5th 2015
Michele Serros
American novelist and poet
Died on Sunday January 4th 2015
He Zhenliang
Chinese politician and diplomat
Died on Sunday January 4th 2015
Bill Jessup
American football player (San Francisco 49ers)
Died on Saturday January 3rd 2015
John McQuilten
Australian politician
Died on Friday January 2nd 2015
Miller Williams
American poet
Died on Thursday January 1st 2015
Fiona Cumming
British television director (Doctor Who)
Died on Thursday January 1st 2015
Than Wyenn
American actor (Imitation of Life
Died on Friday January 30th 2015
Danny McCulloch
English bassist (The Animals)
Died on Thursday January 29th 2015
Al Severinsen
American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles
Died on Tuesday January 27th 2015
Rocky Bridges
American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds
Died on Tuesday January 27th 2015
Miguel Ángel Cascallana
Spanish Olympic handball player (1972)
Died on Monday January 26th 2015
Mari Ellis
British writer and women's rights activist
Died on Sunday January 25th 2015
Johan Ferner
Norwegian sailor
Died on Saturday January 24th 2015
Les McMahon
Australian politician
Died on Friday January 23rd 2015
Kel O’Shea
Australian rugby league player (Western Suburbs)
Died on Thursday January 22nd 2015
Johnnie Lewis
Liberian lawyer and politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2015
Ricardo dos Santos
Brazilian surfer
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2015
Peter Wallenberg, Sr.
Swedish financier and industrialist
Died on Monday January 19th 2015
Michel Guimond
Canadian politician
Died on Monday January 19th 2015
Terence Miller
British palaeontologist
Died on Saturday January 17th 2015
Louis Martin
Jamaican-born British weightlifter
Died on Friday January 16th 2015
Ignacio Posada
Colombian Olympic fencer
Died on Thursday January 15th 2015
Ludmila Brožová-Polednová
Czech prosecutor
Died on Thursday January 15th 2015
Keith Wright
Australian politician and convicted child rapist
Died on Tuesday January 13th 2015
Doug Cunningham
American football player (Ole Miss Rebels
Died on Tuesday January 13th 2015
James Naanman Daman
Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
Denis Tsygurov
Russian professional ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres
Died on Saturday January 10th 2015
Bud Sherman
Canadian politician
Died on Friday January 9th 2015
Amedy Coulibaly
French jihadist
Died on Friday January 9th 2015
Andraé Crouch
American gospel singer
Died on Thursday January 8th 2015
B. S. Abdur Rahman
Indian business executive and philanthropist (B. S. Abdur Rahman University)
Died on Wednesday January 7th 2015
Lance Percival
British actor (That Was the Week That Was
Died on Tuesday January 6th 2015
Harold Murphy
American politician
Died on Monday January 5th 2015
William R. Catton, Jr.
American environmental sociologist
Died on Monday January 5th 2015
Stuart Scott
American sports journalist (SportsCenter)
Died on Sunday January 4th 2015
Jay Furman
American real estate developer
Died on Sunday January 4th 2015
Maher Hathout
Egyptian-born American Islamic leader
Died on Saturday January 3rd 2015
Abu Anas al-Libi
Libyan al-Qaeda member in United States custody
Died on Friday January 2nd 2015
Manasa Vaniqi
Fijian civil servant and lieutenant colonel
Died on Thursday January 1st 2015
Richard von Weizsäcker
German politician
Died on Saturday January 31st 2015
Gerrit Voorting
Dutch professional road bicycle racer
Died on Friday January 30th 2015
Ricardo Bressani
Guatemalan food scientist
Died on Friday January 30th 2015
Will McBride
American photographer
Died on Thursday January 29th 2015
Neyko Nenov
Bulgarian general
Died on Wednesday January 28th 2015
Joseph Rotman
Canadian businessman and philanthropist
Died on Tuesday January 27th 2015
Rafael Corrales Ayala
Mexican politician
Died on Tuesday January 27th 2015
Henk Bloemers
Dutch footballer (FC Eindhoven)
Died on Monday January 26th 2015
Rose Cabat
American studio ceramicist
Died on Sunday January 25th 2015
Floyd Dunn
American electrical engineer
Died on Saturday January 24th 2015
Pedro Lemebel
Chilean writer
Died on Friday January 23rd 2015
Wayne Quinton
American biomedical engineer
Died on Thursday January 22nd 2015
Roy Noble Lee
American judge
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2015
Hitoshi Saito
Japanese judoka
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2015
Gene S. Walker, Sr.
American rancher and businessman
Died on Monday January 19th 2015
Paul O’Grady
Australian politician
Died on Sunday January 18th 2015
Rebecca D. Lockhart
American politician
Died on Saturday January 17th 2015