Deaths Tag: January 15
Jefery Levy
American filmmaker (S.F.W · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Other
Peer Bork
German bioinformatician · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Other
Jaro Zawislan
American college soccer coach (Cornell Big Red) · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Other
Horst Witzler
German football manager (Schwarz-Weiß Essen · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Other
Netsanet Workneh
Ethiopian actor · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15
János Koltai
Hungarian actor and director (The Round-Up · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15
Anouschka Bernhard
German footballer (national team) · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15
Mieczysław Mąkosza
Polish organic chemist · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15
John Kershaw, 4th Baron Kershaw
British hereditary peer · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Kershaw · Other
Melpo Zarokosta
Greek actress (Maiden's Cheek · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Greek
Luísa Diogo
Mozambican politician · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Luisa
José Eduardo Velásquez Tarazona
Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Tarazona · Other
Ratbek hadji Nysanbayev
Kazakh religious figure · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Nysanbayev · Other
Abdullahi Abubakar
Nigerian Islamic cleric and humanitarian · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Other
Rudolf Urc
Slovak director of documentary and animated films and academic · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15
James E. O’Grady
American sheriff · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · O'Grady · Other
Edgar Salvé
Belgian middle-distance runner · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15
Yolande Viviane Compaoré
Burkinabe politician · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Compaoré
Alan Woods (priest) English Anglican priest, dean of Gibraltar dead at age 83
Alan Geoffrey Woods, English Anglican priest and dean of Gibraltar from 2003 to 2008, died on January 15, 2026, aged 83. Born on July 18, 1942, he was educated at Bristol Cathedral Choir School. After qualifying as an accountant, he… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · Other
James F. White Funeral director, politician dead at age 90
James F. White, an American funeral director and politician, died on January 15, 2026, in Farmington, Minnesota, at the age of 90. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, he served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1975 to 1978.… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026
Jim Wearne American musician dead at age 75
Jim Wearne, an American musician, died on January 15, 2026, at the age of 75. He was a Cornish-American musician who lived most of his life in the Chicago area of northern Illinois. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026
Filip Stojanović (politician) Serbian politician dead at age 81
Filip Stojanović, a Serbian politician who served several terms in the parliaments of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia, died on January 15, 2026. He was a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party. Born on August 10, 1944, in… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · Stojanovic
Arne Roosman Estonian-born Canadian painter dead at age 93
Arne Roosman, an Estonian-born Canadian painter, died on January 15, 2026, at age 93. Born in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 6, 1932, he was also a lithographer and muralist. After fleeing the Soviet occupation of Estonia and Nazi Germany, Roosman… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026
Clay Iles English tennis player and coach dead at age 83
Clay Iles, an English tennis player and coach, died on January 15, 2026, aged 83. A British player and LTA-licensed tennis coach, he also worked as a sports writer and tennis umpire. Iles competed at the Wimbledon Championships 12 times… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026
Kenny Morris (drummer) English drummer dead at age 68
Kenny Morris, an English drummer and painter best known as the first studio drummer of Siouxsie and the Banshees, died on January 15, 2026, aged 68. Born Kenneth Ian Morris on February 1, 1957, he joined the band in February… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026
Dogardisc Colombian champeta singer and songwriter, diabetes dies
Dogardisc, the stage name of Colombian champeta singer and songwriter Ismael Simancas, died on January 15, 2026. Born in Cartagena, Colombia, he was an important figure in the Colombian coastal genre of champeta and was described by El Tiempo as… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026
Chenhamo Chimutengwende
Zimbabwean politician · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15
Ronnie Yeskel
American casting director (Pulp Fiction · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15 · Other
Melba Montgomery
American country singer and songwriter · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15
Futuregrapher
Icelandic electronic musician · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15
David Lynch
American filmmaker (Twin Peaks · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15 · Other
Bob Uecker
American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers) · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15
Vsevolod Nemolyaev
Russian ballet dancer and director of the Bolshoi Theatre · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15 · Other
Lars Kvant
Swedish squash player · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15
Shoji Ueda
Japanese cinematographer (Ran) · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15 · Other
David W. Duclon
American television writer and producer (Punky Brewster · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15 · Duclon
Paul Danan
English actor (Hollyoaks) · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15
Hsieh Shih-chien
Taiwanese airline executive · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15 · Other
Betty C. Monkman
American curator and author · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15 · Monkman
Gus Williams
American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics) · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15
Mark Izu
American jazz double bass player and composer · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15 · Athletes
Geoffrey Bell
English economist and banker · 15 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 15
Samantha Fonseca
Mexican trans rights activist and politician · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15
Lynne Marta
American actress (Joe Kidd · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15
Torsten Wahlund
Swedish actor (Vi på Saltkråkan · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15
Christophe Boesch
Swiss primatologist · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15 · Other · Swiss
Sigi Schwab
German guitar player · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15
Claire Fagin
American nurse and academic administrator · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15
Kay Bernstein
German entrepreneur and President of Hertha BSC (2022–2024) · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15
Lahcen Zinoun
Moroccan choreographer (The Last Temptation of Christ · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15 · Other
José Lifante
Spanish actor (Spanish Fly · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15
Sergio Sebastiani
Italian Roman Catholic cardinal · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15 · Other
Ajit Singh Gill
Singaporean field hockey player · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15 · Gill
Sir Anthony Battishill
British civil servant · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · Battishill · January 15 · Other
Ronnie Shikapwasha
Zambian Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services of Zambia · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15
Uno Palu
Estonian decathlete · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15 · Other
Tom Tait
American volleyball coach · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15 · Other
Roy Battersby
British television director (Between the Lines · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15 · Other
Ronald Powell
American football player (New Orleans Saints · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15
John Bingley
Australian rules footballer (St Kilda) · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15
Jorge Griffa
Argentine footballer (Newell's Old Boys · 15 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 15 · Argentine
John Bicourt
British Olympic middle-distance runner (1972 · 15 January 2023 · January 2023 · January 15
Omar Chawshin
Iranian actor (Whisper with the Wind) · 15 January 2023 · January 2023 · January 15