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2015 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2015th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 15th year of the 3rd millennium, the 15th year of the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2010s decade.
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2015 was designated as:
Events[]
January[]
February[]
March[]
April[]
May[]
- May 1 – October 31 – Expo 2015 is held in Milan, Italy.[32]
- May 11–12 – Version O of Les Femmes d'Alger by Pablo Picasso sells for US$179.3 million at Christie's auction in New York, while the sculpture L'Homme au doigt by Alberto Giacometti sells for US$141.3 million, setting a new world record for a painting and for a sculpture, respectively.[33][34]
- May 12 – A second major earthquake in Nepal, measuring 7.3 on the moment magnitude scale, results in 153 deaths in Nepal,[35] 62 in India,[36] 1 in China[37] and 2 in Bangladesh[37] with a total of 218 deaths.
- May 20 – The two constituent republics of Novorossiya, the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, announce the suspension of the Novorossiya project, returning to separate (though internationally unrecognised) states.[citation needed]
- May 21 – ISIS captures the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria.[citation needed]
- May 23 – Ireland votes to legalize same-sex marriage, becoming the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote.[38]
June[]
July[]
August[]
September[]
October[]
November[]
December[]
Births[]
Deaths[]
January[]
- January 1
- January 3 – Edward Brooke, American politician (b. 1919)
- January 4 – Pino Daniele, Italian singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1955)
- January 5 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French race car driver (b. 1937)
- January 6 – Vlastimil Bubník, Czech ice hockey player and footballer (b. 1931)
- January 7
- January 8 – Andraé Crouch, American singer, songwriter, and pastor (b. 1942)
- January 9 – Józef Oleksy, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1946)
- January 10
- January 11
- January 12 – Elena Obraztsova, Russian opera singer (b. 1939)
- January 17 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (b. 1931)
- January 20
- January 21 – Leon Brittan, British politician (b. 1939)
- January 23 – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (b. 1924)
- January 24 – Otto Carius, German WWII tank commander (b. 1922)
- January 25 – Demis Roussos, Greek singer (b. 1946)
- January 27 – Charles Hard Townes, American Nobel physicist (b. 1915)
- January 28 – Yves Chauvin, French Nobel chemist (b. 1930)
- January 29
- January 30
- January 31
February[]
March[]
- March 1
- March 2 – Dave Mackay, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1934)
- March 5 – Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
- March 7 – Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese manga artist (b. 1935)
- March 8 – Sam Simon, American producer and philanthropist (b. 1955)
- March 9
- March 11 – Walter Burkert, German academic and writer (b. 1931)
- March 12
- March 13 – Daevid Allen, Australian musician (b. 1938)
- March 14 – Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (b. 1937)
- March 15
- March 16 – Andy Fraser, English songwriter and bass guitarist (b. 1952)
- March 19 – Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
- March 20 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1930)
- March 21
- March 23 – Lee Kuan Yew, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1923)
- March 26
- March 27 – Olga Syahputra, Indonesian actor and singer (b. 1983)
- March 29 – Miroslav Ondříček, Czech cinematographer (b. 1934)
- March 30 – Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer (b. 1921)
April[]
- April 2 – Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese film director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
- April 4 – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish author (b. 1931)
- April 6 – James Best, American actor (b. 1926)
- April 7 – Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (b. 1935)
- April 8 – Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (b. 1936)
- April 10 – Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician (b. 1942)
- April 13
- April 14
- April 15 – Surya Bahadur Thapa, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1928)
- April 16 – Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (b. 1969)
- April 17 – Francis George, American cardinal (b. 1937)
- April 24 – Władysław Bartoszewski, Polish politician and resistance fighter (b. 1922)
- April 23 – Sawyer Sweeten, American child actor (b.1995)
- April 26 – Izatullo Khayoyev, 6th Prime Minister of Tajikistan (b. 1936)
- April 27
- April 29 – Giovanni Canestri, Italian cardinal (b. 1918)
- April 30
May[]
- May 1
- May 2
- May 9 – Kenan Evren, Turkish military officer, 7th President of Turkey (b. 1917)
- May 10 – Chris Burden, American artist (b. 1946)
- May 12 – Peter Gay, American psychohistorian (b. 1923)
- May 14 – B.B. King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
- May 15 – Renzo Zorzi, Italian racing driver (b. 1946)
- May 18
- May 19 – Gerald Götting, German politician (b. 1923)
- May 21 – Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker (b. 1969)
- May 23
- May 24 – Tanith Lee, British writer (b. 1947)
- May 25 – Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer (b. 1940)
- May 26 – Vicente Aranda, Spanish film director (b. 1926)
- May 27 – Nils Christie, Norwegian criminologist (b. 1928)
- May 29
- May 30 – Beau Biden, American politician (b. 1969) [importance?]
June[]
- June 1
- June 2 – Irwin Rose, American Nobel biochemist (b. 1926)
- June 4 – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (b. 1918)
- June 5 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician (b. 1936)
- June 6
- June 7 – Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)
- June 9 – James Last, German composer and big band leader (b. 1929)
- June 11
- June 14
- June 15
- June 16 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (b. 1930)
- June 17
- June 20 – Esther Brand, South African athlete (b. 1922)
- June 21
- June 22
- June 23
- June 25
- June 26 – Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999 (b. 1929)
- June 27 – Chris Squire, English bass guitarist (b. 1948)
- June 29
July[]
- July 1
- July 5 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American Nobel physicist (b. 1921)
- July 10
- July 11
- July 12 – Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean poet (b. 1956)
- July 13 – Martin Litchfield West, British classical scholar (b. 1937)
- July 14 – Ildikó Schwarczenberger, Hungarian fencer (b. 1951)
- July 15 – Wan Li, Chinese politician (b. 1916)
- July 16 – Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1926)
- July 17 – Jules Bianchi, French race car driver (b. 1989)
- July 18 – Alex Rocco, American actor (b. 1936)
- July 19 – Galina Prozumenshchikova, Soviet swimmer (b. 1948)
- July 21
- July 23 – William Wakefield Baum, American Catholic cardinal (b. 1926)
- July 27 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and politician, 11th President of India (b. 1931)
- July 28 – Edward Natapei, 6th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (b. 1954)
- July 30
- July 31 – Roddy Piper, Canadian wrestler (b. 1954)
August[]
- August 1 – Cilla Black, English singer and entertainer (b. 1943)
- August 3 – Robert Conquest, British-born American historian (b. 1917)
- August 7
- August 9 – John Henry Holland, American computer scientist (b. 1929)
- August 11 – Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer (b. 1941)
- August 12 – Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician (b. 1929)
- August 14 – Bob Johnston, American record producer (b. 1932)
- August 16 – Mile Mrkšić, Serbian military officer (b. 1947)
- August 17
- August 20 – Egon Bahr, German politician (b. 1922)
- August 22
- August 23 – Guy Ligier, French racing driver and team owner (b. 1930)
- August 24 – Justin Wilson, British racing driver (b. 1978)
- August 27 – Kazi Zafar Ahmed, 8th Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1939)
- August 29 – Wayne Dyer, American author and motivational speaker (b. 1940)
- August 30
September[]
- September 1 – Dean Jones, American actor (b. 1931)
- September 3 – Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese dwarf, world's shortest man (b. 1939)
- September 4 – Rico Rodriguez, Cuban-British musician (b. 1934)
- September 5 – Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (b. 1920)
- September 7 – Candida Royalle, American actress and director (b. 1950)
- September 10 – Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (b. 1928)
- September 12 – Ron Springett, British footballer (b. 1935)
- September 13 – Moses Malone, American basketball player (b. 1955)
- September 14 – Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian politician (b. 1949)
- September 17
- September 19 – Jackie Collins, British novelist (b. 1937)
- September 22 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- September 23 – Dragan Holcer, Croatian footballer (b. 1945)
- September 27
- September 28 – Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)
- September 29 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
October[]
- October 2
- October 3 – Denis Healey, British politician (b. 1917)
- October 5
- October 6 – Árpád Göncz, Hungarian politician, President of Hungary (b. 1922)
- October 7
- October 9 – Geoffrey Howe, British politician (b. 1926)
- October 10 – Richard F. Heck, American chemist (b. 1931)
- October 12 – Joan Leslie, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
- October 14
- October 17
- October 18 – Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian author (b. 1945)
- October 19 – Ali Treki, Libyan diplomat (b. 1938)
- October 23 – Paride Tumburus, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
- October 24
- October 25 – Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (b. 1955)
- October 26
- October 30
- October 31 – Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater (b. 1938)
November[]
- November 1
- November 3 – Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician (b. 1944)
- November 4
- November 5
- November 6 – Yitzhak Navon, Israeli politician, President of Israel (b. 1921)
- November 7 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-American actor and author (b. 1947)
- November 8
- November 9
- November 10
- November 11 – Phil Taylor, English rock drummer (b. 1954)
- November 12
- November 15 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (b. 1929)
- November 18
- November 20 – Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1953)
- November 21
- November 22 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean politician, President of South Korea (b. 1929)
- November 23 – Douglass North, American economist (b. 1920)
- November 28
- November 30
December[]
Nobel Prizes[]
See also[]
References[]
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