page_title: Deaths in February 2015
section_title: February 2015
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in February 2015 / February 2015
caption_attribution_description: English: Leonard Nimoy at the 2011 Phoenix Comicon in Phoenix, Arizona.
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2015.
  Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference are added.
context_section_description: February 1 - Aldo Ciccolini, 89, French pianist.
  February 1 - Ann Mara, 85, American football team owner (New York Giants), complications from fall.
  February 1 - Udo Lattek, 80, German football player and manager (Bayern Munich, Barcelona).
  February 1 - Monty Oum, 33, American animator (Red vs. Blue, RWBY), allergic reaction.
  February 2 - Andriy Kuzmenko, 46, Ukrainian singer (Skryabin), car accident.
  February 2 - Stewart Stern, 92, American screenwriter (Rebel Without a Cause), brain cancer.
  February 2 - Anand Shukla, 74, Indian cricketer.
  February 3 - Mary Healy, 96, American actress (The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T) and singer.
  February 3 - Sir Martin Gilbert, 78, British historian and biographer, member of the Iraq Inquiry panel.
  February 3 - Frank Borghi, 89, American Hall of Fame soccer player (national team).
  February 3 - Charlie Sifford, 92, American golfer, complications from a stroke.
  February 3 - Muath Al-Kasasbeh, 26, Jordanian pilot, burned. (death announced on this date)
  February 4 - Eduardo Laborde, 47, Argentine rugby union player (national team), traffic collision.
  February 4 - Richard Bonehill, 67, British actor and stuntman (The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi). (death announced on this date)
  February 4 - Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, c. 45, Iraqi Al-Qaeda bomber, executed.
  February 4 - Fitzhugh L. Fulton, 89, American NASA research pilot.
  February 4 - Wes Cooley, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon (1995–1997).
  February 5 - K. N. Choksy, 81, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, MP (1989–2010), Minister of Finance (2001–2004).
  February 5 - Henri Coppens, 84, Belgian footballer, winner of the Golden Shoe (1954).
  February 6 - Marisa Del Frate, 83, Italian actress, singer and television personality.
  February 6 - Assia Djebar, 78, Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker, member of the Académie française.
  February 6 - André Brink, 79, South African writer.
  February 6 - Kathrine Windfeld, 48, Danish movie director (Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation).
  February 6 - Norm Drucker, 94, American basketball referee.
  February 6 - Alan Nunnelee, 56, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi (since 2011), brain cancer.
  February 6 - Pedro León Zapata, 85, Venezuelan cartoonist, painter and writer.
  February 7 - Dean Smith, 83, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (North Carolina).
  February 7 - John C. Whitehead, 92, American financier (Goldman Sachs) and civil servant, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1985–1989), cancer.
  February 7 - René Lavand, 86, Argentine magician and illusionist, pneumonia.
  February 7 - Joe B. Mauldin, 74, American bassist (The Crickets), cancer.
  February 7 - Donald H. Clausen, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1963–1983).
  February 7 - Marshall Rosenberg, 80, American psychologist, creator of Nonviolent Communication.
  February 7 - Billy Casper, 83, American golfer, seventh all-time in career PGA Tour wins, complications from pneumonia and heart attack.
  February 8 - Müzeyyen Senar, 96, Turkish singer, pneumonia.
  February 8 - Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, 75, Finnish parapsychologist.
  February 9 - Øyvind Bjorvatn, 83, Norwegian politician, leader of the Liberal People's Party (1982–1986).
  February 9 - Jorge Sassi, 64, Argentine actor, renal failure.
  February 10 - Deng Liqun, 99, Chinese politician.
  February 10 - Naseer Aruri, 81, Palestinian scholar and human rights activist, Parkinson's disease.
  February 11 - Roger Hanin, 89, French actor and movie director.
  February 11 - Bob Simon, 73, American television journalist (60 Minutes), traffic collision.
  February 11 - Ray Hathaway, 98, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
  February 11 - Anne Cuneo, 78, Swiss author and movie director.
  February 11 - Jerry Tarkanian, 84, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (Long Beach State, UNLV, San Antonio Spurs, Fresno State), respiratory failure.
  February 12 - Cornelis Pieter van den Hoek, 93, Dutch resistance fighter, recipient of the Military William Order.
  February 12 - Ernest J. 
caption: Leonard Nimoy 1931-2015
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