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People Who Died in the Year 2015
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January
Donna Douglas
(actress) -- Dead. Died January 1, 2015.
Born September 26, 1933. Eternally typecast as Elly Mae Clampett, later sang gospel music.
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Edward W. Brooke
(lawyer/senator) -- Dead. Died January 3, 2015. Born October 26 1919. First post-Reconstruction black person elected to the Senate, Republican from Massachusetts. 
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Rod Taylor
(actor) -- Dead. Died January 7, 2015.
Born January 11, 1930. The Time Machine, The Birds.
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Anita Ekberg
(actress) -- Dead. Died January 11, 2015.
Born September 29, 1931. La Dolce Vita.
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Charles Townes
(physicist) -- Died January 27, 2015
Born July 28, 1915. An inventor of the laser (with Arthur L. Schawlow), he won the Nobel Prize, and later a Templeton Prize.
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Suzette Haden Elgin
(writer, linguist, poet) -- Dead. Died January 27, 2015. Born November 18, 1936. Wrote science fiction, poetry and the classic non-fiction work The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense
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Colleen McCullough
(writer) -- Dead. Died January 29, 2015. Born June 1, 1937. Author of the best-selling novel The Thorn Birds which went on to be a huge miniseries, also wrote Mary and Tim
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Rod McKuen
(poet/songwriter) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died
January 29, 2015. Born April 29, 1933. Nominated for an Oscar for
the song "Jean," wrote many books of poetry.
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Geraldine McEwan
(actress) -- Dead. Stroke. Died January 30, 2015. Born May 9, 1932. Miss Marple in the late 2000s, Alice in Henry V.
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Lizabeth Scott
(actress) -- Dead. Congestive heart
failure. Died January 31, 2015. Born September 29, 1922. Star of
film noir movies like Dead Reckoning, Pitfall and
I Walk Alone.
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February
Anne Moody
(writer/activist) -- Dead. Dementia Died February 5, 2015. Born September 15, 1940. Fought for civil rights in the South, wrote The Coming of Age in Mississippi.
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Gary Owens
(announcer) -- Dead. Diabetes. Died February
12, 2015. Born May 10, 1936. Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In,
many commercials and cartoons, inventor of the catchphrase
"Beautiful Downtown Burbank."
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Louis Jourdan
(actor) -- Dead. Died February 13, 2015.
Born June 19, 1921. Gigi, Octopussy, read the Babar
books for Caedmon recordings, part of the French resistance
during World War II.
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Lesley Gore
(singer/songwriter) -- Dead. Cancer. Died February 16, 2015. Born May 2, 1946.
Her songs from the '60s include "It's My Party" and "You Don't Own Me."
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Leonard Nimoy
(director/actor/writer) -- Dead. Chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease. Died February 27, 2015.
Born March 26, 1931. The first-ever Mr. Spock, he went on to
write I Am Not Spock and I Am Spock he directed
several Star Trek movies, 3 Men and a Baby and
The Good Mother.
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Sarah Brady
(activist) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died April 3, 2015.
Born February 6, 1942. Became a tireless advocate for hand gun control after her husband James was shot by Reagan's would-be assassin.
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Richard Dysart
(actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Died April 5, 2015. Born
March 30, 1929. Leland in LA Law, Being There, starred as
the Coach in the original Broadway production of That
Championship Season. Make memorial donation to Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum.
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James Best
(actor) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died April 6, 2015.
Born July 26, 1926. The Sheriff on The Dukes of Hazzard
and hundreds of other TV roles.
Stan Freberg
(comic/cartoon voice/adman) -- Dead. Died April 7, 2015.
Born August 7, 1926. Loads of cartoon characters, especially for
Warner Brothers, won 21 Clio awards as a satiric advertising
writer.
Günter Grass
(writer) -- Dead. Died April 13, 2015.
Born October 16, 1927. Tin Drum, Nobel Prize winner for literature for 1999.
Sawyer Sweeten
(actor) -- Dead. Suicide. Died April 24, 2015. Born May 12, 1995.
Grew up on Everybody Loves Raymond as Geoffrey Barone.
Jayne Meadows
(actress) -- Dead. Died April 26, 2015.
Born September 27, 1919. Performed in many Broadway plays and on TV, married to Steve Allen for over 40 years.
Andrew Lesnie
(cinematographer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died April 27,
2015. Born January 1, 1956.
Won an Oscar for cinemetography for Fellowship of the Ring, worked on all of Jackson's Tolkein movies, his last movie The Water Diviner, was released days before his death.
Suzanne Crough
(office manager/child actress) -- Dead. Died April 27, 2015. Born March 6, 1963.
Played Tracy, the youngest daughter on Jean Nidetch
(businesswoman/weight loss guru) -- Dead. Died April 28, 2015. Born October 12, 1923.
A formerly overweight housewife who turned support-group weight loss into Weight Watchers.
Ben E. King
(singer/songwriter) -- Dead. Died April 30,
2015. Born September 28 1938. Sang and co-wrote one of the great songs of the 20th century, "Stand by Me," a member of The Drifters.
Nigel Terry
(actor) -- Dead. Emphysema. Died April 30, 2015. Born August 15, 1945.
Mostly a theater actor but had major roles in at least two memorable movies - Prince John in The Lion in Winter and King Arthur in Exalibur.
Grace Lee Whitney
(actress) -- Dead. Died May 1, 2015. Born April 1 1930.
Yeoman Janice Rand on Elizabeth Wilson
(actress) -- Dead. Died May 9, 2015.
Born April 4, 1921. Mrs. Braddock in The Graduate, Roz in
9 to 5 and President Roosevelt's mother in Hyde Park on
Hudson, many, many bit parts on TV and in the movies.
B. B. King
(blues great/guitarist) -- Dead. Died May 14, 2015.
Born September 16, 1925. Released a compilation album of duets with other famous singers in honor of his 80th birthday.
Mary Ellen Trainor
(actress) -- Dead. Pancreatic cancer. Died June 8, 2015. Born July 8, 1950.
Mom in The Goonies, the kidnapped sister in Romancing the
Stone & the psychatrist in the Lethal Weapon movies,
ex-wife of Robert
Zemeckis. Make memorial contribution to Teddy
Bear Cancer Foundation or The Wounded Warrior Project.
John Nash
(mathematician) -- Dead. Car crash on New
Jersey Turnpike. Died May 23, 2015.
Born June 13, 1928. Game theorist who won the Nobel Prize for
Economic Sciences in 1994; he also suffered from schizophrenia for many
years, which served as the basis for A Beautiful Mind,
died same day as Anne Meara.
Anne Meara
(actress) -- Dead. Died May 23, 2015.
Born September 20, 1929. Lots of TV since the fifties, won Emmy
awards, appeared on Broadway, comic partner of husband Jerry Stiller (married for 61
years) and mother of Ben and Amy Stiller.
Tanith Lee
(writer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died May 24, 2015. Born September 19, 1947.
Fantasy novel & short story writer. Wrote two episodes of Blakes 7.
Betsy Palmer
(actress) -- Dead. Died May 29, 2015
Born November 1, 1926. Theatrical actress, sometimes appeared in
films (The Fear: Resurrection), probably best-known for
I've Got a Secret
Kate Chappell
(special effects artist) -- Dead. Lion attack. Died June 1, 2015. Born December 19, 1985.
Special effects artist for Game of Thrones and Divergent, killed while on a photo safari.
Margaret Juntwait
(Radio announcer/singer) -- Dead. Ovarian cancer. Died June 3, 2015. Born March 18, 1957. The voice of the Metropolitan Opera for 10 years.
Vincent Bugliosi
(DA/lawyer/writer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died June 6, 2015. Born August 18, 1934.
Prosecuted Charles Manson, co-wrote Helter Skelter on the murders.
Ronnie Gilbert
(singer/psychologist) -- Dead. Died June 6, 2015. Born September 7, 1926.
A member of the influential and politically active folk group The Weavers (with Pete Seeger), she later became a psychologist.
Christopher Lee
(actor) -- Dead. Died June 7, 2015.
Born May 27, 1922. After a lifetime of little movies, he appeared in two of the biggest movies of 2002: Attack of the Clones and The Two Towers, and was unceremoniously
edited out of one of the biggest movies of 2003, Return of
the King. He said he was in more movies than any other
actor - should we doubt Saruman's word? Acted professionally well
into his 90s; his last movie will be released in 2016.
Ron Moody
(actor) -- Dead. Died June 11, 2015.
Born January 8, 1924. Fagin in Oliver!, Eastenders,
was once considered to play Doctor Who, but he turned it down.
Rick Ducommun
(comic/actor) -- Dead. Complications of
diabetes. Died June 12, 2015. Born July 3, 1952.
The 'burbs, Groundhog Day and many other movies/TV shows in addition to many years of stand-up.
James Horner
(composer) -- Dead. Small plane crash. Died June 22, 2015. Born August 14, 1953.
Oscar-winning composer for the score of Titanic, also composed score for The Wrath of Khan, Apollo 13 and Avatar. While better known for the ubiquitous "My Heart Will go On," he also co-wrote the lovely and underrated "Somewhere, Out There."
Dick Van Patten
(actor) -- Dead. Complications of diabetes.
Died June 23, 2015
Born December 9, 1928. Eight is Enough, a bunch of Mel
Brooks movies, brother of Joyce Van Patten, half-brother of
Timothy Van Patten.
Patrick Macnee
(actor) -- Dead. Died June 25, 2015.
Born February 6, 1922. Steed in The Avengers.
Jack Carter
(comic) -- Dead. Died June 28, 2015
Born June 24, 1922. Acerbic comic, appeared on many Friar's Club
Roasts.
Sir Nicholas Winton
(humanitarian) -- Dead. Died July 1, 2015. Born May 19, 1909.
In 1939, he helped over 600 children to flee Czechoslovakia to foster homes in England, part of Kindertransport before the Nazis closed the borders. Most of the children's parents were later murdered in concentration camps.
Omar Sharif
(bridge expert/actor) -- Dead. Heart
attack/Alzheimer's. Died July 10, 2015
Born April 10, 1932. Lawrence of Arabia and
Dr. Zhivago - a great-looking man into his 70s - perferred
to play bridge rather than be in a bad movie.
Roger Rees
(actor/director/writer) -- Dead. Died July
10, 2015.
Born May 5, 1944. Robin in Cheers, Frida's father in
Frida, co-writer of Peter and the Starcatcher, died
same day as Omar Sharif.
Claudia J. Alexander, Ph.d.
(NASA Project Manager) -- Dead. Died July 11, 2015. Born May 30, 1959. Managed the Galileo mission to
Jupiter and was the NASA representative for the 2014 Rosetta mission where a rocket landed on a comet for the first time.
Alex Rocco
(actor) -- Dead. Died July 18, 2015. Born February 29, 1936. Over 50 years of movie/TV credits, played Moe Green in The Godfather, won an Emmy for The Famous Teddy Z.
Theodore Bikel
(Actor/singer) -- Dead. Died July 20, 2015. Born May 2, 1924.
Born in Vienna, part of the Jewish diaspora before WWII, he grew up in Israel, studied in England, starred in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music as Captain von Trapp, was a founder of the Newport Folk Festival, played Worf's adoptive father on Star Trek: The Next Generation, made a documentary about Sholom Aleichem just before his death at 91. Make memorial contributions to The Actors Fund or Mazon
E. L. Doctorow
(writer) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died July 21, 2015.
Born January 6, 1931. Wrote great historical fiction, in
particular Ragtime and The Book of Daniel.
James Jude
(doctor) -- Dead. Parkinson's Died July 28, 2015. Born June 7, 1928. Inventor of CPR.
Lynn Anderson
(singer) -- Dead. Heart attack/pneumonia. Died July 30, 2015. Born September 26, 1947.
Sang the popular "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden," made something of a comeback in mid-2015 when her gospel album "Bridges" was released.
Louis Sokoloff
(doctor) -- Dead. Died July 30, 2015. Born
Octoboer 14, 1921. Developed the PET scanner.
Howard Jones
(obstetrician/fertility specialist) -- Dead.
Died July 31, 2015 Born December 30, 1910. With his wife Georgeanna, he helped develop in vitro fertilization and they oversaw the first in vitro babies in the US. He was also the doctor who treated Henrietta Lacks in the 1950s and was able to develop the first line of tumor cells that survived in the laboratory from her cancer.
Herbert Wise
(director) -- Dead. Died August 5, 2015. Born August 31, 1924.
British TV director who directed I, Claudius, Upstairs, Downstairs, Elizabeth R and Breaking the Code.
Frances Oldham Kelsey
(doctor/pharmacologist) -- Dead. Died
August 7, 2015. Born July 24, 1914.
Drug reviewer for the FDA who prevented thalidomide from being released in America.
Julian Bond
(civil rights activist) -- Dead. Vascular disease. Died August 15, 2015. Born January 14, 1940.
Founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee in the '60s,
served many years in the Georgia
legislature and chaired the NAACP.
Yvonne Craig
(actress/real estate agent) -- Dead. Cancer. Died August 17, 2015.
Born May 16, 1937. Batgirl, first wife of Jimmy Boyd.
Bud Yorkin
(TV producer/director) -- Dead. Dementia. Died August 18, 2015. Born February 22, 1926.
Developed All in the Family, Maude and Sanford and Son with his business partner Norman Lear, directed comedies like
Come Blow Your Horn and Divorce American Style.
Melody Patterson
(actress) -- Dead. Multiple organ failure. Died August 21, 2015.
Born April 16, 1949. F Troop's Wranger Jane, once married to James MacArthur.
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Wes Craven
(writer/director) -- Dead. Cancer. Died August 30, 2015. Born August 2, 1939.
Mostly wrote/directed horror movies like the Nightmere on Elm Street and Scream series, he directed Meryl Streep to an Oscar nomination
in Music of the Heart.
Oliver Sacks
(neurologist/author) -- Dead. Cancer. Died August 30, 2015. Born July 9, 1933.
Neurologist whose work inspired Awakenings, he also wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (and other clinical tales) and his memoir On The Road: A Life.
Dean Jones
(actor) -- Dead. Parkinson's Disease. Died
September 1, 2015. Born January 25, 1931. Lots of Disney
flicks - That Darn Cat, The Love Bug, but also
gave an amazing performance of the song "Being Alive" for the
original Broadway cast recording of "Company."
Judy Carne
(comic) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died September 3,
2015. Born April 27, 1939. Laugh-In's "Sock-it-to-Me"
girl, an ex-wife of Burt
Reynolds, returned to England after a difficult time in the
States.
Martin Milner
(actor, radio host) -- Dead. Died September
6, 2015. Born December 28, 1931. Adam 12, co-hosted a
radio show on fishing for a few years.
Dickie Moore
(writer/actor/public relations) -- Dead.
Died September 10, 2015. Born September 12, 1925.
Very famous child star of the '30s and '40s (briefly in "Our Gang")
who went into writing and public relations, married to Jane Powell from 1988 until his
death.
Jack Larson
(producer/playwright/actor) -- Dead. Died September 20, 2015.
Born February 8, 1933. Jimmy Olsen in the '50s version of
Superman, was once Montgomery Clift's boyfriend, longtime
companion of screenwriter James Bridges.
Kevin Corcoran
(assistant director/kid actor) -- Dead.
Cancer. Died October 6, 2015.
Born June 10, 1949. Lots of Disney movies including Old
Yeller, Toby Tyler and Pollyanna, served as
first asssistant director for many TV shows in the '80s and '90s,
producer of Sons of Anarchy.
Paul Prudhomme
(early celebrity chef) -- Dead.
Born July 13, 1940. Died October 8, 2015. An early celebrity
chef, he wrote Cajun cookbooks and owned K-Paul's,
a great New Orleans restaurant.
Marty Ingels
(comic/publicist) -- Dead. Died October 21, 2015.
Born March 9, 1936. I'm Dickens, He's Fenster married to
Shirley Jones from 1977 until
his death.
Maureen O'Hara
(actress) -- Dead. Died
October 24, 2015. Born August 17, 1920. Wonderfully bold actress
with Technicolor red hair, The Quiet Man and the original
The Parent Trap
Al Molinaro
(actor) -- Dead. Gall stones. Died October
29, 2015. Born June 24, 1919. Murray the Cop on TV's The Odd Couple,
Happy Days, later did Encore commercials.
Melissa Mathison
(screenwriter) -- Dead. Neuroendocrine cancer. Died November 4, 2015. Born June 3, 1950. Wrote the classic script for ET, married
to Harrison Ford in the '80s and '90s.
Saeed Jaffrey
(actor) -- Dead. Brain hemmorhage Died
November 14, 2015. Born January 8, 1929.
Prolific actor in international cinema, he was probably best-known in the US for Billy Fish in The Man Who Would Be King, Patel in Gandhi, Nasser in My Beautiful Launderette.
Marjorie Lord
(actress) -- Dead.
Born July 26, 1918. Died November 28, 2015. Kathy in Make Room
for Daddy, loads of movies and Broadway plays, Anne Archer's
mom, fundraiser for many cultural organizations in her
retirement.
Robert Loggia
(actor) -- Dead. Alzheimer's. Died December 4, 2015. Born January 3, 1930.
Lots of bit-parts on TV, Scarface, Big, nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Jagged Edge.
Nicholas Smith
(actor) -- Dead. Complications after a fall.
Died December 6, 2015.
Born March 5, 1934. Mr. Rumbold on Are You Being Served?,
did various voices for Wallace and Grommit cartoons and video
games.
Peter Dickinson
(YA writer) -- Dead. Died December 16, 2015. Born December 16, 1927.
Wrote dozens of YA books, including Tulku.
George Clayton Johnson
(writer) -- Dead. [[premature death rumors]]
Cancer. Died December 25, 2015. Born July 7, 1929.
Wrote many episodes of TV for shows like Twilight Zone and Star Trek, co-wrote the novel of Logan's Run.
Meadowlark Lemon
(basketball player/minister) -- Dead. Died December 27, 2015. Born April 25, 1932.
The "Clown Prince of Basketball," he was the member of the Harlem Globetrotters (1955-1980) who always seemed to have the most fun on court.
Natalie Cole
(singer) -- Dead. Congestive heart
failure. Died December 31, 2015.
Born February 6, 1950. Sang "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)"
on her first album, "Unforgettable" as a virtual duet
with her father, and in the movie De-Lovely, died same
day as Wayne Rogers.
Beth Howland
(actress/dancer) -- Dead. Died December 31, 2015. Born May 28, 1941.
Best-known as playing Vera on the '70s TV sitcom Alice, won an Oscar for producing
the documentary You Don't Have to Die,
performed in the original Broadway productions of Bye, Bye
Birdie and Company, married to Michael J. Pollard in the '60s and to Charles Kimbrough from 2002 until her death.
Wayne Rogers
(businessman/actor) -- Dead. Pneumonia.
Died December 31, 2015.
Born April 7, 1933. Trapper John on TV's M*A*S*H.
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