page_title: Deaths in June 2015
section_title: June 2015
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in June 2015 / June 2015
caption_attribution_description: The image of Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, en:Irwin Rose
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2015.
  Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference are added.
context_section_description: June 1 - Shone An, 31, Taiwanese singer (Comic Boyz) and actor, liver cancer.
  June 1 - Joan Kirner, 76, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (1990–1992), oesophageal cancer.
  June 1 - Nobutaka Machimura, 70, Japanese politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (2014–2015), cerebral infarction.
  June 1 - Charles Kennedy, 55, British politician, Leader of the Liberal Democrats (1999–2006), MP (1983–2015), haemorrhage.
  June 1 - Jacques Parizeau, 84, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (1994–1996).
  June 1 - Nicholas Liverpool, 80, Dominican politician, President (2003–2012), heart attack.
  June 1 - Jean Ritchie, 92, American folk singer and song collector.
  June 1 - Kirill Pokrovsky, 53, Russian composer.
  June 2 - Alberto De Martino, 85, Italian movie director (O.K. Connery, Holocaust 2000, The Pumaman).
  June 2 - Irwin Rose, 88, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004).
  June 2 - Theo Saat, 87, Dutch Olympic sprinter (1952).
  June 2 - Fernando de Araújo, 52, East Timorese politician, President of the National Parliament (2007–2012), Acting President (2008).
  June 2 - Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, 80, Colombian-born Dutch artist.
  June 3 - Avi Beker, 64, Israeli academic, secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress (2001–2003), cancer.
  June 3 - Margaret Juntwait, 58, American radio host, host of Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts (since 2014), ovarian cancer.
  June 4 - Kurt Weber, 87, Polish cinematographer (Salto).
  June 4 - Bengt Berndtsson, 82, Swedish footballer (IFK Göteborg).
  June 4 - Leonid Plyushch, 77, Ukrainian Soviet dissident and mathematician.
  June 4 - Hermann Zapf, 96, German typeface designer.
  June 4 - Albert West, 65, Dutch singer (The Shuffles) and record producer.
  June 5 - Alan Bond, 77, Australian businessman, figure of the WA Inc scandals, complications from heart surgery.
  June 5 - Roger Vergé, 85, French chef, co-founder of Nouvelle Cuisine, complications of diabetes.
  June 5 - Jerry Collins, 34, New Zealand rugby union player (national team), car accident.
  June 5 - Jane Briggs Hart, 93, American aviator, member of the Mercury 13, Alzheimer's disease.
  June 5 - Sadun Boro, 87, Turkish sailor, bladder cancer.
  June 5 - Tariq Aziz, 79, Iraqi politician, Foreign Affairs Minister (1983–1991), heart attack.
  June 5 - Giacomo Furia, 90, Italian actor (The Band of Honest Men, The Gold of Naples).
  June 5 - Kazuo Chiba, 75, Japanese Aikido teacher.
  June 6 - Pierre Brice, 86, French actor (Old Shatterhand, Mill of the Stone Women), pneumonia.
  June 6 - Ludvík Vaculík, 88, Czech writer and journalist.
  June 6 - Richard Johnson, 87, English actor (The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Haunting).
  June 6 - Ronnie Gilbert, 88, American singer-songwriter (The Weavers) and activist, natural causes.
  June 6 - Aarthi Agarwal, 31, American Telugu cinema actress, cardiac arrest.
  June 7 - Vasili Zhupikov, 61, Russian footballer.
  June 7 - Sir Christopher Lee, 93, British actor and singer (Dracula, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars), heart failure.
  June 8 - Chea Sim, 82, Cambodian politician, president Cambodian People's Party.
  June 8 - David Rotem, 66, Israeli politician, Member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu (2007–2015), cardiac arrest.
  June 8 - Frank Cappuccino, 86, American boxing referee, Alzheimer's disease.
  June 9 - James Last, 86, German composer.
  June 9 - Fred Anton Maier, 76, Norwegian Olympic champion speed skater, cancer.
  June 9 - Douglas Danforth, 92, American businessman, CEO of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
  June 9 - Pedro Zerolo, 54, Venezuelan-born Spanish politician, pancreatic cancer.
  June 10 - Wolfgang Jeschke, 78, German science fiction author (The Last Day of Creation).
  June 10 - Robert Chartoff, 81, American movie producer (Rocky, Raging Bull, Ender's Game), Oscar winner (1977), pancreatic cancer.
  June 11 - Ornette Coleman, 85, American saxophonist and free jazz pioneer, cardiac arrest.
  June 11 - Jack King, 84, American public affairs officer (NASA), congestive heart failure.
  June 11 - Ron Moody, 91, British actor (Oliver!, The Animals of Farthing Wood, EastEnder
caption: Irwin Rose 1926-2015
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