Notable deaths of 2015

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Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina	US filmmaker David Lynch	US actor Gene Hackman	Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa	Rock singer David Thomas	Japanese filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda
Singer-songwriter Michael Hurley	Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado	Russian choreographer Yuri Grigorovich	Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden	Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro	Computer scientist Bill Atkinson
Danish composer Per Norgard	US poet Alice Notley	Classical pianist Alfred Brendel	Theater director Robert Wilson	Argentine rights activist Rosa Roisinblit	US philosopher John Searle
Italian actress Claudia Cardinale	Rock composer Brian Wilson	British primatologist Jane Goodal	Czech novelist Ivan Klima	US astrophysicist George Smoot	Jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette
Jazz composer Lalo Schifrin	Jazz flutist Hermeto Pascoal	US cartoonist Jules Feiffer	Fluxus pioneer Alison Knowles	DNA discoverer James Watson	New Zealand's filmmaker Lee Tamahori
British playwright Tom Stoppard	US architect Frank Gehry	US biologist Hamilton Smith	Chilean singer-songwriter Violeta Parra	Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein	Rock musician Joseph Byrd	Russian painter Erik Bulatov