Deaths Died in January 2015
Walter Peregoy
American animator (The Jungle Book · 16 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 16 · Other
Eugene E. Covert
American aeronautics engineer · 15 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 15 · Covert · Other
Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi
Israeli rabbi · 14 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 14 · Ashkenazi · Other
Jenő Buzánszky
Hungarian footballer (Dorogi FC · 11 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 11
Harry V. Jaffa
American political philosophy professor · 10 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 10 · Jaffa
Roy Tarpley
American basketball player (Dallas Mavericks) · 09 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 9
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
American film producer (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · 09 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 9 · Goldwyn
Patsy Garrett
American singer and actress (Benji · 08 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 8
David Rolfe
Australian Paralympic swimmer · 07 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 7
Sanford E. Reisenbach
American marketing executive (Warner Bros.) · 06 January 2015 · January 2015 · Reisenbach · January 6 · Other
Joan Peters
American author (From Time Immemorial) · 05 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 5
Albert Firth
English rugby league player (Wakefield Trinity) · 05 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 5
Upendra Trivedi
Indian actor and director · 04 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 4
Gene Kemp
British children's author (The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler) · 04 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 4
Rueben Philip Job
American United Methodist prelate · 03 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 3 · Other · Job
Derek Minter
British Grand Prix motorcycle and short-circuit road racer · 02 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 2 · Other
Per-Olof Åstrand
Swedish physiologist · 02 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 2 · Other
Colleen McCullough
Australian author (The Thorn Birds) · 29 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 29
Bob Shea
American basketball player (Providence Steamrollers) · 27 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 27
Dacia Valent
Somali-born Italian politician · 22 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 22
Canserbero
Venezuelan rapper · 20 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 20
José María Hernández González
Mexican Roman Catholic prelate · 19 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 19 · González · Other
Origa
Russian singer (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) · 17 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 17
Ghelubhai Nayak
Indian political activist · 16 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 16 · Other
Harvey Sweetman
New Zealand World War II pilot · 15 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 15 · Other
Hillel Zaks
Polish-born Israeli rabbi · 13 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 13 · Other
Stephen Gold
British computer journalist · 12 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 12
Roger Wosahlo
English footballer (Peterborough) · 10 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 10
Jim Hogan
Irish Olympic long-distance runner · 10 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 10
Tim Roberts
American professional wrestler (WWC · 07 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 7
Gilberto Perez
Cuban-born American professor of film studies · 06 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 6 · Pérez
Bill Jessup
American football player (San Francisco 49ers) · 03 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 3
Than Wyenn
American actor (Imitation of Life · 30 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 30
Danny McCulloch
English bassist (The Animals) · 29 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 29
Al Severinsen
American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles · 27 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 27
Rocky Bridges
American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds · 27 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 27
Miguel Ángel Cascallana
Spanish Olympic handball player (1972) · 26 January 2015 · January 2015 · Cascallana · January 26
Mari Ellis
British writer and women's rights activist · 25 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 25
Johan Ferner
Norwegian sailor · 24 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 24 · Other
Kel O’Shea
Australian rugby league player (Western Suburbs) · 22 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 22 · O’Shea
Johnnie Lewis
Liberian lawyer and politician · 21 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 21
Ricardo dos Santos
Brazilian surfer · 20 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 20 · Santos · Other
Peter Wallenberg, Sr.
Swedish financier and industrialist · 19 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 19 · Other
Terence Miller
British palaeontologist · 17 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 17 · Other
Louis Martin
Jamaican-born British weightlifter · 16 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 16
Ignacio Posada
Colombian Olympic fencer · 15 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 15
Keith Wright
Australian politician and convicted child rapist · 13 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 13
Doug Cunningham
American football player (Ole Miss Rebels · 13 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 13
James Naanman Daman
Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate · 12 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 12 · Daman · Other
Denis Tsygurov
Russian professional ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres · 10 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 10
Amedy Coulibaly
French jihadist · 09 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 9 · Other
Andraé Crouch
American gospel singer · 08 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 8
B. S. Abdur Rahman
Indian business executive and philanthropist (B. S. Abdur Rahman University) · 07 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 7 · Other
Lance Percival
British actor (That Was the Week That Was · 06 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 6
William R. Catton, Jr.
American environmental sociologist · 05 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 5 · Catton,
Stuart Scott
American sports journalist (SportsCenter) · 04 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 4
Jay Furman
American real estate developer · 04 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 4 · Other
Maher Hathout
Egyptian-born American Islamic leader · 03 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 3 · Other
Abu Anas al-Libi
Libyan al-Qaeda member in United States custody · 02 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 2 · al-Libi · Other
Manasa Vaniqi
Fijian civil servant and lieutenant colonel · 01 January 2015 · January 2015 · January 1 · Other