Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2015

Frank DiPascali, Jr. was a key lieutenant of Bernard Madoff for three decades. He referred to himself as the company's "director of options trading" and as "chief financial officer". For a number of years, he played a key part in the daily operation of the Madoff investment scandal, later recounting how he helped manipulate billions of dollars in account statements so clients would believe that they were creating wealth for them. On August 11, 2009, he pleaded guilty to ten counts related to the fraud. He subsequently admitted that he had known for at least two decades that Madoff had turned his investment advisory business into a massive Ponzi scheme. He was denied bail before sentencing and spent two weeks in jail before being released. He died of lung cancer in 2015 while awaiting sentencing.

Adelaide Gail Zappa was the wife of musician and composer Frank Zappa and the trustee of the Zappa Family Trust. They met in Los Angeles in 1966 and married while she was pregnant with their first child, Moon, followed by Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva. Gail was also the aunt of model and actress Lala Sloatman.

Brian Alfred Christopher Bushell Sewell was an English art critic and media personality. He wrote for the Evening Standard and was noted for his acerbic view of conceptual art and the Turner Prize. The Guardian described him as "Britain's most famous and controversial art critic", while the Standard called him the "nation’s best art critic".

Ashok Singhal was the international working president of the Hindu organisation Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) for over 20 years and in charge of the Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi movement. He was replaced in the VHP in December 2011 following a long bout of diminishing physical health. Succeeded by Praveen Togadia, Singhal suffered ill-health but was working till a month before his death.

Laurent Vidal fue un deportista francés que compitió en triatlón. Ganó una medalla de oro en el Campeonato de Oceanía de Triatlón de 2010.

Michail Solomonovitch Goltsman fue un actor ucraniano. Apareció en más de 50 películas desde 1975.

Percival Tyrone Sledge fue un cantante estadounidense de soul y blues.

Kai Atō was a Japanese actor and television personality. His birth name was Kōichi Atō , and until 14 November 2001, his stage name was written with different kanji characters as (阿藤 海).

Suvra Mukherjee was a First Lady of India serving from the year 2012 until her death in 2015.

Aylan Kurdi o Alan Kurdi fue un niño sirio de origen kurdo de tres años que apareció ahogado en una playa de Turquía y las fotos en que aparece su cadáver en la costa turca y en la que se ve a un agente de la policía turca transportándolo dieron la vuelta al mundo poniendo de manifiesto la gran problemática de la crisis humanitaria siria. Junto al pequeño fallecieron también su hermano de cinco años Galip y su madre, Rehan, además de al menos otros doce sirios que viajaban desde Turquía en dos botes con destino a Grecia. El único miembro de la familia Kurdi que se embarcó y sobrevivió fue el padre, Abdullah. La fotógrafa turca Nilüfer Demir es la autora de esta imagen.