Deaths in February 2015

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2015.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

February 2015

1

• Aldo Ciccolini, 89, Italian-born French pianist.
• Colum Corless, 92, Irish hurler (Galway).
• Anita Darian, 87, American singer, complications after intestinal surgery.
• Alby Duckmanton, 81, New Zealand cricket player (Canterbury) and administrator.
• William Garrison, 90, American geographer.
• Jean-Paul Gladu, 93, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
• Sir Douglas Hague, 88, British economist.
• Patrick Aidan Heelan, 88, Irish physicist and philosopher of science.
• Ron Johnson, 76, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers), aneurysm.
• Julius Ludorf, 95, German football player and coach.
• Ann Mara, 85, American football team owner (New York Giants), complications from fall.
• Isa Munayev, 49, Chechen militant, killed in the Battle of Debaltseve.
• Gordon Murray, 87, Scottish nationalist politician.
• Patrick Ngcobo, 43, South African Carnatic singer, renal failure.
• Monty Oum, 33, American animator (Red vs. Blue, RWBY) and video game designer (Afro Samurai), anaphylaxis.
• Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, 91, British engineer and politician.
• Kenneth Kamal Scott, 74, American performer, liver cancer.
• Viktor Shekhovtsev, 74, Russian Soviet footballer.
• Irving Singer, 89, American philosopher, professor and author.
• Jos Suijkerbuijk, 85, Dutch professional road bicycle racer.
• Marie-José Villiers, 98, British-born Belgian World War II spy and countess.

2

• Joseph Alfidi, 65, American pianist, composer and conductor.
• Helena Araújo, 81, Colombian writer.
• David Armytage, 85, British naval officer.
• Christian Backer-Owe, 90, Norwegian artist.
• Dave Bergman, 61, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Detroit Tigers), bile duct cancer.
• Tibor Bitskey, 85, Hungarian actor.
• Frank Borghi, 89, American Hall of Fame soccer player (national team).
• Sandra Chalmers, 74, British broadcaster (Woman's Hour).
• Dalmo Gaspar, 82, Brazilian footballer (Santos).
• Joop Harmans, 93, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1948), national champion (1946).
• Ken Hawkes, 81, English footballer (Luton Town).
• The Jacka, 37, American rapper, shot.
• Andriy Kuzmenko, 46, Ukrainian singer (Skryabin), traffic collision.
• Dust La Rock, 38, American artist and designer.
• Roy Little, 83, English footballer (Manchester City).
• Gloria Ricci Lothrop, 80, American historian, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia.
• Zane Musa, 36, American jazz saxophonist, suicide by jumping.
• Molade Okoya-Thomas, 79, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist.
• Karl-Erik Palmér, 85, Swedish footballer (Malmö, national team).
• Anand Shukla, 74, Indian cricketer.
• Stewart Stern, 92, American screenwriter (Rebel Without a Cause, Rachel, Rachel, Sybil), brain tumor.
• Henryk Szczepański, 81, Polish football player and coach.
• Osamu Tsurumine, 73, Japanese Olympic swimmer.

3

• Christophe Gbenye, 87, Congolese rebel leader.
• Sir Martin Gilbert, 78, British historian and biographer, member of the Iraq Inquiry panel.
• Akif Jafar Hajiyev, 77, Azerbaijani mathematician.
• Hay List, 9, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised following laminitis.
• Mary Healy, 96, American singer and actress (The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T).
• Jim Letcavits, 79, American CFL player (Edmonton Eskimos, Montreal Alouettes), Alzheimer's disease.
• Walter Liedtke, 69, American art curator of European paintings (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), train crash.
• Sally Luther, 96, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1951–1962), leukemia.
• Vasu Malali, 48, Indian author and film director, cancer.
• Max Mangold, 92, German linguist.
• William Thomas McKinley, 76, American composer and jazz pianist.
• Carlos Noguera, 71, Venezuelan writer and psychologist.
• Ion Nunweiller, 79, Romanian football player and manager (Dinamo), triple Cupa României winner (1959, 1964, 1968).
• Andrew Patner, 55, American art critic and radio host.
• Michael Refalo, 78, Maltese politician and diplomat, Tourism Minister (1987–1995), High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2005–2008).
• Ataúlfo Sánchez, 80, Argentine football player and coach.
• Nasim Hasan Shah, 85, Pakistani judge, Chief Justice (1993–1994).
• Charlie Sifford, 92, American Hall of Fame golfer, complications from a stroke.
• Koos Van Den Akker, 75, Dutch-born American fashion designer.
• Norman Yemm, 81, Australian actor (Homicide, Number 96, The Sullivans).

4

• Dmitry Bagryanov, 47, Russian Olympic long jumper (1992).
• Richard Bonehill, 67, British actor and stuntman (Doctor Who, Return of the Jedi, Flash Gordon).
• Ade Capone, 56, Italian cartoonist (Lazarus Ledd).
• Henryk Cegielski, 69, Polish Olympic basketball player.
• Chuang Shu-chi, 94, Taiwanese practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine.
• Wes Cooley, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon (1995–1997).
• Edmund Cranch, 91, American academic.
• Henry E. Emerson, 89, American army lieutenant general.
• Rune Ericson, 90, Swedish cinematographer.
• Celina González, 85, Cuban singer and songwriter.
• Ernest Ferlita, 87, American playwright and professor of drama and speech.
• Fitzhugh L. Fulton, 89, American NASA research pilot.
• Astrid Gräfin von Hardenberg, 89, German baroness.
• Martin Green, 82, British writer and publisher.
• Graeme Hall, 72, Australian weightlifter.
• Robert E. Hanson, 67, American politician, North Dakota State Treasurer (1979–1980, 1985–1992), complications from diabetes.
• Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly, Iraqi Al-Qaeda officer, execution by hanging.
• Donald M. Kerr, 69, American wildlife biologist and conservationist (High Desert Museum).
• Eduardo Laborde, 47, Argentine rugby union player (national team), traffic collision.
• Odete Lara, 85, Brazilian actress, heart attack.
• Stanisław Makowiecki, 72, Polish Olympic wrestler (1972).
• Albert L. Nash, 93, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
• Kristian Rambjør, 76, Norwegian executive, President of Norwegian State Railways (1990–1995).
• Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, c. 45, Iraqi Al-Qaeda failed suicide bomber, execution by hanging.
• Jack Ruina, 91, American professor of electrical engineering.
• Monica Scattini, 59, Italian actress (Sentimental Maniacs, Nine, I'll Be Going Now), cancer.

5

• K. N. Choksy, 81, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, MP (1989–2010), Minister of Finance (2001–2004).
• Henri Coppens, 84, Belgian footballer, winner of the Golden Shoe (1954).
• Marisa Del Frate, 83, Italian actress, singer and television personality, cancer.
• Val Logsdon Fitch, 91, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1980).
• Garey Hayden, 70, American bridge player.
• Sir Gordon Linacre, 94, English newspaper executive and bomber pilot.
• George A. Lovejoy, 83, American politician, member of the New Hampshire Senate (1992–1996).
• Louise Maheux-Forcier, 85, Canadian author.
• Elmer Matthews, 87, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
• Windy McCall, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants).
• Richard Meryman, 88, American journalist and biographer.
• Anne Moody, 74, American author and civil rights activist.
• Herman Rosenblat, 85, Polish-born American writer.
• Mike Runnels, 69, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico (1983–1987).
• Jeffrey Segal, 94, British actor (Fawlty Towers, Z-Cars).
• Stay Gold, 20, Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Don Suman, 95, American college basketball coach (Rice Owls).
• Dagfinn Tveito, 88, Norwegian horticulturalist.
• Mario Verdial, 52, Honduran businessman, Chairman of Real España (since 2001), shot.

6

• André Brink, 79, South African novelist and playwright.
• Johnny Campbell, 86, English footballer (Gateshead).
• D. Michael Collins, 70, American politician, Mayor of Toledo, Ohio (since 2014).
• Carl Cunningham-Cole, 72, British ceramic artist.
• Satwant Singh Dhaliwal, 82, Malaysian geneticist.
• Assia Djebar, 78, Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker, member of the Académie française.
• Norm Drucker, 94, American basketball referee.
• Kayla Mueller, 26, American activist, humanitarian aid worker, ISIS hostage.
• Alan Nunnelee, 56, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi (since 2011), brain cancer.
• Eliezer Shlomo Schick, 74, Israeli Hasidic rabbi.
• Tetaua Taitai, 67, I-Kiribati politician and physician, Leader of the Opposition, cancer.
• Kathrine Windfeld, 48, Danish film director (Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation), brain tumour.
• Ray Wolfinger, 83, American political scientist.
• Pedro León Zapata, 85, Venezuelan cartoonist, painter and writer.

7

• Richard Austin, 60, Jamaican cricketer.
• Billy Casper, 83, American Hall of Fame golfer, 51 career PGA Tour wins, complications from pneumonia.
• Donald H. Clausen, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1963–1983).
• Nita Cunningham, 75, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1998–2006).
• Gustavo Couttolenc, 93, Mexican translator and academic.
• Joseph M. Gaydos, 88, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1968–1993), Pennsylvania Senate (1967–1968).
• Darwin Gonnerman, 68, Canadian football player.
• Earl Johnson, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
• Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, 84, British businessman and philanthropist, Labour life peer, heart attack.
• Adam Grad, 45, Polish footballer.
• René Lavand, 86, Argentine magician and illusionist.
• Joe B. Mauldin, 74, American bassist (The Crickets), cancer.
• George Muchai, 59, Kenyan politician, MP for Kabete (since 2013), shot.
• Brian Reynolds, 82, English cricketer (Northamptonshire).
• Gilles Rhéaume, 63, Canadian Quebec independence activist.
• Marshall Rosenberg, 80, American psychologist, creator of Nonviolent Communication.
• Joe Simenic, 91, American baseball researcher and historian.
• Dean Smith, 83, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (North Carolina).
• Gordon Stone, 100, Australian rugby union player.
• Paul E. Toms, 90, American author and pastor.
• John C. Whitehead, 92, American financier (Goldman Sachs) and civil servant, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1985–1989).
• L. Pearce Williams, 87, American academic (Cornell University).

8

• John W. Baldwin, 85, American historian.
• Ola Bratteli, 68, Norwegian mathematician.
• Stan Cowan, 83, Scottish rugby league player (Hull).
• David William Crews, 81, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1960–1968).
• Kenji Ekuan, 85, Japanese industrial designer (Kikkoman soy sauce dispenser), heart disorder.
• Vincent Valentine Ezeonyia, 73, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Aba (since 1990).
• Jesse Freitas Jr., 63, American football player (San Diego Chargers).
• John Hart, 93, English ballet dancer and artistic director (Ballet West).
• Dave Hoyda, 57, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers, Winnipeg Jets).
• Debra A. Kemp, 57, American author (The Firebrand).
• Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, 75, Finnish parapsychologist.
• Nicholas Mackintosh, 79, British experimental psychologist.
• Engracia Pastora Pérez Yépez, 104, Venezuelan culinary artisan (b. 1910)
• Andrew Rosenfeld, 52, British businessman.
• Clyde W. Sare, 78, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (1959–1963).
• Müzeyyen Senar, 96, Turkish singer, pneumonia.
• Nick Sharkey, 71, English footballer (Sunderland).
• John J. Shea Jr., 90, American physician.
• Oscar Stenström, 36, Finnish racing cyclist.
• Mario Vázquez Raña, 82, Mexican businessman and sports administrator, cancer.
• Sir David Watson, 65, British academic and educationalist (University of Oxford).
• Thom Wilson, American punk rock producer.
• Ralph Yelton, 88, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1977–1989).

9

• Abdul Rauf Aliza, 33, Afghan IS recruiter, Taliban commander, airstrike.
• Øyvind Bjorvatn, 83, Norwegian politician, leader of the Liberal People's Party (1982–1986).
• Horst Borcherding, 84, German footballer (Saarland national team).
• Ken Cunningham, 71, American college basketball player and coach.
• Roman Frister, 87, Polish-Israeli journalist and Holocaust survivor.
• Jon Jerde, 75, American architect.
• Marvin David Levy, 82, American composer.
• Liu Han, 49, Chinese billionaire mining tycoon, execution.
• Roy Harris, 83, British linguist.
• Apirana Mahuika, 80, New Zealand Māori leader (Ngāti Porou).
• Drew McDonald, 59, Scottish professional wrestler, cancer.
• Samuel H. Moffett, 98, American Korean theologian and missionary.
• Charlie O'Connell, 79, American roller derby skater.
• Valeri Poluyanov, 71, Russian Soviet-era footballer.
• Rex Ray, 58, American graphic designer and artist, lymphoma.
• Nadia Röthlisberger-Raspe, 42, Swiss curler, Olympic silver medalist (2002) and Paralympic coach, bone cancer.
• Claude Ruel, 76, Canadian ice hockey coach (Montreal Canadiens).
• Ed Sabol, 98, American filmmaker, founder of NFL Films.
• Jorge Sassi, 67, Argentine actor, renal failure.
• Richard Sher, 66, American broadcaster (Says You!).
• Grant Strate, 87, Canadian dancer, cancer.
• Melanie Tem, 65, American horror and dark fantasy author, breast cancer.
• Max Yalden, 84, Canadian civil servant and diplomat.

10

• Naseer Aruri, 81, Palestinian scholar and human rights activist, Parkinson's disease.
• Karl Josef Becker, 86, German Roman Catholic theologian, Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuliano Martire (since 2012).
• Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri, 94, Pakistani lawyer, author and politician.
• Daniel Brand, 79, American wrestler.
• Deng Liqun, 99, Chinese politician.
• Sir Noel Davies, 81, British chief executive (Vickers).
• Wayne Dobbs, 75, American college basketball coach (Vanderbilt University).
• Bill Enyart, 67, American football player (Buffalo Bills), cancer.
• Matías Funes, 62, Honduran philosopher, professor, and presidential candidate, pancreatic cancer.
• Don Johnson, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Washington Senators), kidney failure.
• Sir William Lawrence, 5th Baronet, 60, British aristocrat and politician.
• Corinne Le Poulain, 66, French actress, cancer.
• Bernard Marie, 96, French rugby league referee and politician, member of the National Assembly (1967–1981).
• Tom McQueen, 85, Scottish footballer (Accrington Stanley, Hibernian).
• Dane A. Miller, 68, American business executive.
• Anne Naysmith, 77, British concert pianist, traffic collision.
• Michael Raupach, 64, Australian climatologist.
• Pat Rogan, 78, Australian politician.
• Roman Sidorov, 59, Russian footballer.
• Bobby Towns, 76, American football player.
• Manfred Wagner, 76, German footballer (1860 Munich).

11

• John Beresford, 8th Marquess of Waterford, 81, Irish aristocrat.
• Abel Costas Montaño, 94, Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tarija (1974–1995).
• Anne Cuneo, 78, Swiss author and film director.
• Rudolf Fila, 82, Slovak painter.
• Gary Glick, 84, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
• Christopher Greener, 71, British basketball player and actor (The Elephant Man).
• Roger Hanin, 89, French actor and film director.
• Ray Hathaway, 98, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
• Tama Huata, 64, New Zealand Māori performing arts leader.
• Tancred Ibsen Jr., 93, Norwegian diplomat.
• Gus Moffat, 66, English football player and coach.
• John E. Murray Jr., 82, American educator, President of Duquesne University (1988–2001), heart attack.
• Ricardo Palacios, 74, Spanish film actor and director (The Man Called Noon, Socrates), heart failure.
• Bob Simon, 73, American television journalist (60 Minutes), traffic collision.
• Jerry Tarkanian, 84, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (Long Beach State, UNLV, San Antonio Spurs, Fresno State).

12

• Idriss Arnaoud Ali, 69, Djiboutian politician.
• Sam Andrew, 73, American musician (Big Brother and the Holding Company), complication after open heart surgery.
• David Carr, 58, American columnist (The New York Times) and author, lung cancer.
• Movita Castaneda, 98, American actress (Mutiny on the Bounty), neck injury.
• John P. Craven, 90, American scientist.
• Désiré Dondeyne, 93, French composer.
• Rhonda Glenn, 68, American sportscaster (ESPN, ABC) and golf historian, cancer.
• Harvey Goldschmid, 74, American legal scholar and SEC commissioner.
• Alison Gordon, 72, Canadian sports journalist, lung ailment.
• Cornelis Pieter van den Hoek, 93, Dutch resistance fighter, recipient of the Military William Order.
• Christopher Horton, 76, New Zealand sharebroker.
• John-Edward Kelly, 56, American conductor and saxophonist.
• Jean Lechantre, 92, Belgian-born French international footballer.
• Mosie Lister, 93, American gospel music singer-songwriter (The Statesmen Quartet).
• Anthony Low, 87, British historian.
• Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, 84, Malaysian politician, Menteri Besar of Kelantan (1990–2013).
• Tomie Ohtake, 101, Japanese-born Brazilian artist, heart failure.
• Gary Owens, 80, American television announcer (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) and voice actor (Space Ghost, Garfield and Friends), diabetes.
• Richie Pratt, 71, American jazz drummer.
• Oliver Rackham, 75, British landscape ecologist.
• Ernest J. Sternglass, 91, American physicist and professor, heart failure.
• Steve Strange, 55, British musician (Visage), heart attack.
• Mike Thresh, 84, British plant pathologist.

13

• Faith Bandler, 96, Australian civil rights activist.
• Bob Bettisworth, 88, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1979–1985).
• Thomas Bhalerao, 82, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nashik (1987–2007).
• Stan Chambers, 91, American television reporter (KTLA).
• Geneviève Dormann, 81, French journalist and writer.
• John Robert Evans, 85, Canadian paediatrician and academic.
• Kete Ioane, 64, Cook Islands politician, MP for Vaipae-Tautu (1999–2010), Cabinet Minister (2008–2009).
• John McCabe, 75, British composer and pianist.
• Jim McCusker, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).
• James Montgomery, 80, Canadian Olympic boxer.
• Magnus Mwalunyungu, 84, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tunduru-Masasi (1992–2005).
• Albert Nijenhuis, 88, Dutch-born American mathematician.
• Nguyễn Bá Thanh, 61, Vietnamese politician, member of Central Committee of the Communist Party.
• Dan Tunstall Pedoe, 75, British cardiologist.
• Kesava Reddy, 68, Indian novelist.
• Hugh Walters, 75, British actor (Doctor Who).
• Gerald Willis, 75, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives.

14

• Kalim Aajiz, 95, Indian author and academic.
• Keith Copeland, 68, American jazz drummer.
• Pamela Cundell, 95, English actress (Dad's Army, EastEnders, A Fantastic Fear of Everything).
• Bernd Dost, 75, German journalist.
• Michele Ferrero, 89, Italian businessman (Ferrero SpA).
• Sheila Girling, 90, British artist.
• Helen Glass, 97, Canadian nurse and administrator.
• Philip Godana, Kenyan politician, MP for Moyale, shot.
• John D. Hargreaves, 91, British historian.
• Britta Hasso, 79, Swedish actress and journalist.
• Egon Horst, 76, German footballer (Schalke 04, Hamburger SV).
• Alan Howard, 77, English actor (The Lord of the Rings), pneumonia.
• Hulon, 58, American jazz saxophonist and physician.
• Louis Jourdan, 93, French actor (Letter from an Unknown Woman, Gigi, Octopussy).
• Asbjørn Kjønstad, 72, Norwegian legal scholar.
• Philip Levine, 87, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, pancreatic cancer.
• Philippe Massoni, 79, French prefect, Representative Co-Prince of Andorra (2002–2007).
• Ammouri Mbarek, 63, Moroccan musician, cancer.
• Franjo Mihalić, 94, Croatian Yugoslav long-distance runner, Olympic silver medalist (1956).
• Finn Nørgaard, 55, Danish film director, shot.
• Richard Perham, 77, English molecular biologist.
• Wim Ruska, 74, Dutch judoka, Olympic champion (1972).
• Hans Jürgen Teuteberg, 85, German historian.
• Thio Him Tjiang, 85, Indonesian footballer.
• Gerson Veii, 76, Namibian politician.

15

• Haron Amin, 46, Afghan diplomat, Ambassador to Japan (2004–2009), cancer.
• George Attla, 81, American sprint dog musher.
• Sergio Blanco, 66, Spanish singer (Sergio y Estíbaliz).
• Barbara Darling, 67, Australian Anglican prelate, stroke.
• Arnaud de Borchgrave, 88, American journalist (The Washington Times), bladder cancer.
• Eileen Essell, 92, English actress (Duplex, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Producers).
• José María Hernández, 55, Spanish politician, President of the Provincial Deputation of Palencia (since 2011).
• Leo Jordan, 85, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP (1990–1999).
• Wendell Kim, 64, American baseball player and coach (San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox), Alzheimer's disease.
• Mikhail Koulakov, 82, Russian abstract painter.
• Ike Lassiter, 74, American football player (Oakland Raiders, Denver Broncos, New England Patriots).
• Bruce A. McIntosh, 85, Canadian astrophysicist.
• Steve Montador, 35, Canadian ice hockey player (Calgary Flames, Florida Panthers, Buffalo Sabres).
• Jacob Stolt-Nielsen, 83, Norwegian businessman (Stolt-Nielsen).
• John Treadgold, 83, British Anglican priest, Dean of Chichester (1989–2001).

16

• Wilhelm Baumann, 89, German politician.
• Meli Bolobolo, 51, Fijian tribal chief and academic.
• Lasse Braun, 78, Italian pornographic film director and producer, complications from diabetes.
• Carlos de Castro, 35, Uruguayan footballer, complications from surgery.
• Gavin Clark, 46, British singer (UNKLE, Clayhill).
• John Davies, 76, Welsh historian.
• Robin Duff, 67, New Zealand education leader and gay rights activist, complications from surgery.
• Clyde Duncan, 54, American football player (St. Louis Cardinals).
• Brett Ewins, 59, British comic book artist (Judge Dredd, 2000 AD, Bad Company), emphysema.
• Lesley Gore, 68, American singer ("It's My Party", "Judy's Turn to Cry", "You Don't Own Me"), lung cancer.
• Celia Lashlie, 61, New Zealand prison officer, social justice advocate and author, pancreatic cancer.
• Alexander Melentyev, 60, Soviet Russian sport shooter, Olympic champion (1980).
• Geoff Morris, 66, English footballer (Walsall).
• Tynnetta Muhammad, 73, American journalist, member of the Nation of Islam.
• Uri Orbach, 54, Israeli writer, journalist and politician.
• R. R. Patil, 57, Indian politician, oral cancer.
• Rajinder Puri, 80, Indian cartoonist and political activist.
• Lorena Rojas, 44, Mexican actress (Como en el cine, El Cuerpo del Deseo), singer and songwriter, breast cancer.
• Jerzy Samp, 63, Polish historian.
• Olga Törös, 100, Hungarian gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist (1936).
• Feliks Tych, 85, Polish historian, director of the Jewish Historical Institute (1995–2006).
• Sir Robert Wade-Gery, 85, British diplomat, High Commissioner to India (1982–1987).
• Evan Walker, 79, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Melbourne (1979–1992), Parkinson's disease.
• Heinrich Windelen, 93, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1957–1990).

17

• John Barrow, 79, American CFL football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
• Alberto Coramini, 70, Italian footballer.
• Joseph Devellerez Thaung Shwe, 79, Burmese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pyay (1975–2010).
• Richard Alan Enslen, 83, American federal judge, U.S. District Court Justice for the Western District of Michigan (since 1979).
• June Fairchild, 68, American actress (Up in Smoke), liver cancer.
• John Hurt Fisher, 95, American literary scholar.
• Andreas Garyfallos, 83/84, Greek Olympian.
• Andrzej Koszewski, 92, Polish composer.
• Antonio Lanfranchi, 68, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop-Abbot of Modena-Nonantola (since 2010).
• Liu Yudi, 91, Chinese Air Force lieutenant general.
• George Mackie, Baron Mackie of Benshie, 95, British politician, Liberal Democrat life peer.
• Henri Martin, 87, French political activist (Henri Martin affair).
• Juhani Salakka, 64, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.
• Cathy Ubels-Veen, 86, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1982–1986).
• K. Swami Veerabahu, 66, Sri Lankan politician, cancer.

18

• Dan Archdeacon, 60, American graph theorist.
• Doug Armstrong, 83, New Zealand television sports presenter and politician, Mayor of Rodney District (1992–2000).
• Cass Ballenger, 88, American politician, member of United States House of Representatives from North Carolina (1986–2005).
• Mele Carroll, 50, American politician, member of Hawaii House of Representatives (2005–2015), cancer.
• Dave Cloud, 58, American musician, complications from melanoma.
• Georges Corbel, 72, French Olympic hockey player.
• Claude Criquielion, 58, Belgian cyclist, UCI World Road Race champion (1984), complications from a stroke.
• Mark Fischer, 64, American intellectual property lawyer.
• Robert B. Fulton, 104, American Navy rear admiral.
• Elchanan Heilprin, 93, Czechoslovakian-born English rabbi.
• John Paul Jackson, 64, American writer and producer, complications from leg sarcoma.
• Jerome Kersey, 52, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers), pulmonary embolism.
• Väinö Kuisma, 80, Finnish Olympic athlete.
• Mats Olausson, 54, Swedish keyboard player (Yngwie Malmsteen).
• Billy Ott, 74, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
• D. Ramanaidu, 78, Indian film producer, prostate cancer.
• Buck Rinehart, 68, American politician, Mayor of Columbus, Ohio (1984–1992), pancreatic cancer.
• Hans F. Zacher, 86, German academic, President of the Max Planck Society (1990–1996).

19

• Ivan Davidov, 71, Bulgarian footballer (PFC Slavia Sofia).
• Dennis Davis, 88, British mountaineer.
• Gérard Ducarouge, 73, French Formula One car designer.
• Peter Albert Dueck, 91, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (1986–1993).
• Harold Johnson, 86, American boxer, NBA/World Light Heavyweight Champion (1961–1963).
• Yutaka Katayama, 105, Japanese automotive executive (Nissan).
• Erwin Marquit, 88, American physicist and Marxist philosopher.
• Nirad Mohapatra, 67, Indian film director (Maya Miriga), cardiac arrest.
• Rafael Orozco, 92, Mexican footballer (Guadalajara).
• Frank Prendergast, 81, Irish politician, TD (1982–1987), Mayor of Limerick (1977–1978, 1984–1985), cancer.
• Frank Ramírez, 65, Colombian actor (La estrategia del caracol, Metástasis), Parkinson's disease.
• Lisette Schulman, 63, Swedish television host and politician.
• Carol Severance, 71, American fantasy author.
• Mudaffar Sjah, 79, Indonesian politician, Sultan of Ternate (since 1975).
• Warren Thomson, 79, Australian pianist.
• Talus Taylor, 82, American writer, co-creator of the Barbapapa series.
• Harris Wittels, 30, American television producer and writer (Parks and Recreation, The Sarah Silverman Program, Eastbound & Down), heroin overdose.
• Gary Woods, 60, American baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago Cubs) and scout (Chicago White Sox), heart attack.

20

• Nael al-Ajlouni, Jordanian politician, Health Minister (1998).
• Ibrahim Biogradlić, 83, Bosnian Yugoslav footballer, Olympic silver medalist (1956).
• Gérard Calvi, 92, French film composer (Asterix the Gaul).
• Errold La Frantz, 95, Australian cricket player, administrator, and commentator.
• Khalaf Masa'deh, Jordanian politician, Justice Minister (1999).
• Wayne Moore, 83, American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (1952).
• Patricia Norris, 83, American costume designer (12 Years a Slave, The Elephant Man, Scarface).
• Govind Pansare, 81, Indian political activist and author, shot.
• Thérèse Quentin, 85, French actress.
• Henry Segerstrom, 91, American entrepreneur.
• Dick Triptow, 92, American basketball player.
• Markku Tuokko, 63, Finnish Olympic discus thrower and shot putter (1976, 1980).
• Sandy Whitelaw, 84, British film producer and executive.
• John C. Willke, 89, American physician and anti-abortion activist.

21

• Mohamed El Gourch, 79, Moroccan Olympic cyclist (1960), Tour du Maroc winner (1960, 1964, 1965), heart attack.
• Meredydd Evans, 95, Welsh professor, musician and television producer.
• Sami Farag, 79, Egyptian judge.
• Sir Anthony Grabham, 84, British surgeon and army officer.
• Aleksei Gubarev, 83, Russian Soviet-era cosmonaut.
• John Knapp-Fisher, 83, English painter.
• Mykhaylo Koman, 86, Ukrainian football player and coach (Dynamo Kyiv).
• Robert O. Marshall, 75, American convicted murderer, arranged contract killing of his wife.
• Paul Napier, 84, American actor (Dynasty).
• George Onorato, 86, American politician, member of the New York Senate (1983–2010).
• Christopher Price, 83, British politician, MP for Birmingham Perry Barr (1966–1970) and Lewisham West (1974–1983).
• Luca Ronconi, 81, Italian actor, theater director and opera director.
• Bruce Sinofsky, 58, American documentary filmmaker (Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster), diabetes.
• Sadeq Tabatabaei, 71, Iranian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1979–1980), lung cancer.
• Clark Terry, 94, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, diabetes.
• Daniel Topolski, 69, British rowing coach and commentator.
• Heinz Weifenbach, 75, German ice hockey executive.
• Bernardo Enrique Witte, 88, German-born Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Rioja (1977–1992) and Concepción (1992–2001).

22

• Erik Amundsen, 78, Norwegian jazz musician.
• Pasquale Carminucci, 77, Italian gymnast, Olympic bronze medallist (1960).
• Roger Cecil, 72, Welsh painter, hypothermia.
• Ursel Finger, 85, German Olympic sprinter.
• Ivan Jones, 72, Australian rugby league player (South Sydney Rabbitohs).
• Dzhangir Kerimov, 91, Azerbaijani-born Russian legal scholar.
• Kim Kyung-roul, 34, South Korean professional billiards player, fall.
• Jos Lambrechts, 78, Belgian Olympic sprinter.
• Rudy Mosbergen, 85, Singaporean Olympic hockey player.
• Chris Rainbow, 68, Scottish rock musician (The Alan Parsons Project), Parkinson's disease.
• Renato Rocha, 53, Brazilian bassist and songwriter (Legião Urbana), cardiac arrest.
• John Rucho, 92, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1973–1979).
• Carmine Schiavone, 71, Italian criminal, member of the Casalesi clan.

23

• James Aldridge, 96, Australian-born British writer (The Sea Eagle).
• Rana Bhagwandas, 72, Pakistani judge, acting Chief Justice (2007), cardiac arrest after heart ailment.
• Emidio Cavigioli, 89, Italian Olympic footballer.
• Haim Corfu, 94, Israeli politician, Transportation Minister (1981–1988).
• Abdelaziz Ben Dhia, 78, Tunisian politician.
• W. E. "Bill" Dykes, 89, American politician, member of the Louisiana State Senate (1976–1984).
• David Freeman, 86, English solicitor.
• Maria Golovnina, 34, Russian journalist, Reuters bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan, asphyxiation.
• Algimantas Kezys, 86, Lithuanian-born American photographer.
• King of Kings, 20, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, heart failure.
• Andy King, 72, Scottish footballer (Kilmarnock).
• Jim King, 82, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago Cubs).
• Jerry Lambert, 74, American jockey.
• Gerald Lockwood, 87, English rugby league player.
• Ted Roberts, 83, Australian screenwriter and producer.
• John Rowlands, 76, Welsh author and novelist.
• R. C. Sakthi, 76, Indian film director and actor.
• Charles Trieschmann, 94, American author, photographer, and film director (Two), brain cancer.
• Jaime Vásquez, 85, Chilean footballer.
• Dave Williams, 72, Welsh football player and coach (Newport County).
• Ben Woolf, 34, American actor (American Horror Story, Insidious), traffic collision.

24

• Rakhat Aliyev, 52, Kazakh politician and diplomat, hanging.
• Francis Némé Baïssari, 81, Lebanese Maronite Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Patriarch (1991–2011).
• Robert Belfour, 74, American blues musician.
• Joe Beltrami, 83, British lawyer.
• Mayandi Bharathi, 98, Indian political activist.
• Léon Close, 83, Belgian footballer.
• Roland Gerber, 61, German football coach and player.
• Tyzen Hsiao, 77, Taiwanese composer.
• Maurice Hurley, 75, American television writer and producer (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Baywatch, Miami Vice).
• Margaret Johnson, 77, Australian Olympic athlete.
• Irving Kahn, 109, American investor.
• Donald Keough, 88, American businessman, President of The Coca-Cola Company (1981–1993).
• Methodius Kudriakov, 65, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Kyiv and Primate of the UAOC (since 2000).
• Suzuka Mambo, 13, Japanese thoroughbred racehorse, heart failure.
• Dori J. Maynard, 56, American journalist, lung cancer.
• Dame Thea Muldoon, 87, New Zealand community servant.
• Said Sheikh Samatar, 71, Somali scholar and writer.
• Gary Sittler, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Bertrice Small, 77, American author, renal failure.
• Geoffrey Owen Whittaker, 83, British civil servant, Governor of Anguilla (1987–1989).

25

• Hannes Baldauf, 76, German football player and coach.
• Harve Bennett, 84, American producer and writer (Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Mod Squad), embolism.
• Robert Brisart, 61, Belgian philosopher.
• Ariel Camacho, 22, Mexican singer, traffic collision.
• Marie Cathcart, Countess Cathcart, 91, British peeress.
• Eugenie Clark, 92, American ichthyologist.
• Terry Gill, 75, British-born Australian actor ("Crocodile" Dundee, Prisoner, The Flying Doctors), lung cancer.
• Agnes Griffith, 45, Grenadian Olympic sprinter.
• Liu Dongdong, 69, Chinese general.
• Charles E. Rice, 83, American legal scholar and author.
• Giacomo Rondinella, 91, Italian singer and actor.
• Ray Smallman, 85, British metallurgist.
• Marian Szeja, 73, Polish footballer, Olympic champion (1972).
• Mauno Valkeinen, 85, Finnish Olympic swimmer.
• A. Vincent, 86, Indian cinematographer (Prem Nagar) and director (Bhargavi Nilayam).
• Victor Watson, 86, British executive (Waddingtons), Parkinson's disease.

26

• Jessica Ainscough, 30, Australian alternative therapy campaigner, cancer.
• Bob Braithwaite, 89, British trap shooter, Olympic champion (1968).
• Eduard Budil, 90, Austrian Olympic equestrian.
• Anthony R. Cucci, 92, American politician, Mayor of Jersey City (1985–1989).
• Brian Cumby, 64, British shipwright.
• Ruth Denison, 92, German-born American Buddhist teacher, stroke.
• Oscar Díaz, 32, American welterweight boxer, head injury.
• Angelo Raffaele Dinardo, 83, Italian politician, President of Basilicata (1995–2000).
• Sadiq Fakir, 47, Pakistani singer, traffic collision.
• Monroe H. Freedman, 86, American professor of law, chronic lymphocytic lymphoma.
• Sheppard Frere, 98, British historian and archaeologist.
• Theodore Hesburgh, 97, American Roman Catholic priest, President of the University of Notre Dame (1952–1987).
• Nadia Hilou, 61, Israeli social worker and politician, first Arab-Christian member of Knesset (2006–2009).
• Per Olof Hulth, 71, Swedish astroparticle physicist.
• Meera Kosambi, 75, Indian sociologist.
• Earl Lloyd, 86, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Detroit Pistons).
• Branislav Martinović, 77, Serbian Olympic wrestler (1960, 1964).
• Curt Michel, 80, American astrophysicist.
• Franklin Quitugua, 81, Guamanian politician.
• Rowley Richards, 98, Australian World War II Army medical officer.
• Martin T. Smith, 80, American politician, member of the Mississippi Senate (1968–1988).
• Fritz J. Raddatz, 83, German feuilletonist, essayist, biographer and novelist.
• Avijit Roy, 42, Bangladeshi-American writer, stabbed.
• Tom Schweich, 54, American politician, State Auditor of Missouri (since 2011), suicide by gunshot.
• Hukam Singh, 89, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Haryana (1990–1991).
• Carlos Talbott, 95, American air force lieutenant general.

27

• Richard Bakalyan, 84, American actor (Batman, Chinatown, The Fox and the Hound).
• Manfred Bayer, 86, German-born American microbiologist.
• Bob Benmosche, 70, American executive, President and CEO of American International Group (2009–2014), lung cancer.
• Malcolm Boyd, 91, American Episcopal priest, author, pneumonia.
• Mykhailo Chechetov, 61, Russian-born Ukrainian politician, member of Verkhovna Rada (1994–1998, 2006–2014), suicide by autodefenestration.
• Tod Dockstader, 82, American sound artist and electronic music composer.
• John Fairchild, 87, American publisher and editor (Women's Wear Daily).
• Tim Ford, 63, American politician, Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1988–2004), heart attack.
• Paul Hutchison, 47, Australian cricketer.
• Jerome Kurtz, 83, American public servant, Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1977–1983), complications of surgery.
• Sue Landske, 77, American politician, member of the Indiana Senate (1984–2014), cancer.
• Boris Nemtsov, 55, Russian politician, Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1991–1997), First Deputy Prime Minister (1997–1998), Deputy Prime Minister (1998), shot.
• Leonard Nimoy, 83, American actor and director (Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Fringe), emphysema.
• Natalia Revuelta Clews, 89, Cuban socialite.
• Julio César Strassera, 81, Argentine lawyer and jurist (Trial of the Juntas).
• Anna Szatkowska, 86, Polish resistance fighter.
• Yevgeni Titov, 51, Russian footballer.
• Bohdan Tomaszewski, 93, Polish sports commentator.
• Patrick Whitefield, 66, English permaculturist.
• Joanne Woollard, British film art director (Gravity, Hope and Glory, 101 Dalmatians).

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• Tom Bettis, 81, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and coach.
• William J. Bichsel, 86, American Jesuit priest and peace protester.
• Clifford Edmund Bosworth, 86, British oriental historian.
• Braulio Castillo, 81, Puerto Rican actor.
• P. T. de Silva, 86, Sri Lankan consultant physician.
• Sarah Foot, 75, British journalist and author.
• Gordie Gillespie, 88, American baseball, football and basketball coach.
• Alex Johnson, 72, American baseball player (California Angels, Cincinnati Reds), prostate cancer.
• Yaşar Kemal, 91, Turkish author, Légion d'honneur recipient.
• John Komba, 60, Tanzanian politician.
• Ezra Laderman, 90, American composer.
• J. Michael Lenihan, 71, American politician, member of the Rhode Island Senate (1990–2010), cancer.
• Anthony Mason, 48, American basketball player (New York Knicks), heart failure.
• Ed Modzelewski, 86, American football player (Cleveland Browns), heart failure.
• Thakin Tin Mya, 91, Burmese politician.
• William Röttger, 66, German label manager, music manager and gallery owner, cancer.
• Thomas J. Stanley, 71, American author (The Millionaire Next Door, The Millionaire Mind), traffic collision.
• Tracker Tilmouth, 62, Australian aboriginal activist, cancer.
• André Vallée, 84, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Military (1987–1996) and Hearst (1996–2005).
• Gigi Vesigna, 83, Italian journalist and writer.
• Orris George Walker, 72, American episcopal prelate, Bishop of Long Island (1991–2009).

References

External links

• List of February 2015 deaths at IMDb