2015 in Europe

This is a list of 2015 events that occurred in Europe.

Incumbents

Albania

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Andorra

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Azerbaijan

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Belarus

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Belgium

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Bulgaria

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Croatia

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Cyprus

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Denmark

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Estonia

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European Union

• President of the European Commission: Jean-Claude Juncker
• President of the Parliament: Martin Schulz
• President of the European Council: Donald Tusk
• Presidency of the Council of the EU:
  • Latvia (January–July)
  • Luxembourg (July–December)

Finland

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France

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Germany

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Georgia

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Greece

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Hungary

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Iceland

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Ireland

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Italy

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Latvia

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Liechtenstein

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Lithuania

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Luxembourg

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Malta

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Moldova

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Monaco

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Montenegro

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Netherlands

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North Macedonia

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Norway

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Poland

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Portugal

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Romania

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Russia

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San Marino

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Serbia

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Slovakia

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Slovenia

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Spain

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Sweden

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Switzerland

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Turkey

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Ukraine

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United Kingdom

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Vatican City

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Events

January

Journalists and law enforcers on Rue Nicolas-Appert, Paris, a few hours after the Charlie Hebdo shooting

Republican March in Paris, on 11 January

• 1 January
  • Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes the 19th Eurozone country. ^[1]
  • The Eurasian Economic Union between Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia comes into effect. ^[2]
• 3 January – The Islamic-rooted government of Turkey authorizes the building of the first church in the country since 1923. ^[3]
• 4 January – Eight people are presumed dead after the Cyprus-flagged cargo ship MV Cemfjord capsizes off the northern coast of Scotland. ^{[4] [5]}
• 7 January – Gunmen attack the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo , killing 12 people and injuring eleven. ^{[6] [7] [8]}
• 9 January – A member of the Islamic State attacks a Hypercacher kosher supermarket at Porte de Vincennes, Paris, killing four people and taking several hostages. ^{[9] [10]}
• 11 January
  • More than 3.7 million people, among them 60 heads of states and governments, march in France to condemn recent terrorist attacks in Paris. ^{[11] [12]}
  • Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović becomes the first female President of Croatia. ^[13]
• 13 January – A shell hits a bus in eastern Ukraine, killing 12 civilians and wounding 18 more. ^[14]
• 14 January – Giorgio Napolitano, the longest-serving President of Italy, resigns due to age. ^{[15] [16]}
• 15 January – Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the franc's value relative to euro, causing a turmoil in international financial markets. ^{[17] [18]}
• 24 January – At least 29 civilians are killed and 102 injured in a mortar attack on Mariupol, Ukraine. ^[19]
• 25 January – The Coalition of the Radical Left wins a plurality of seats in the Greek legislative election and forms a coalition government with the Independent Greeks. ^{[20] [21] [22]}
• 26 January – An F-16 jet belonging to the Hellenic Air Force crashes at Los Llanos Air Base, Spain, during a NATO exercise, killing ten people and injuring 21. ^{[23] [24]}
• 27 January – 92 policemen are injured and 180 protesters arrested as anti-government demonstrations in Pristina turn violent. ^{[25] [26]}
• 31 January – Italy's parliament elects constitutional court judge Sergio Mattarella as the country's president. ^{[27] [28]}

February

Alexander Lukashenko, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, François Hollande and Petro Poroshenko taking part in the talks on a settlement to the War in Donbas

March in memory of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, 1 March

• 12 February – The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany reach a ceasefire deal after 17 hours of talks in Minsk, Belarus, on the War in Donbas. ^{[29] [30] [31]}
• 14 February – Two people are killed in shootings at a free-speech seminar and at a synagogue service in Copenhagen. ^{[32] [33]}
• 18 February – Conservative Prokopis Pavlopoulos is elected President of Greece. ^{[34] [35]}
• 22 February – Two people are killed and 11 injured in an explosion at a peace rally in Kharkiv, Ukraine. ^[36]
• 24 February – A Czech gunman opens fire at a restaurant in Uherský Brod, killing eight people. ^[37]
• 27 February – Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow. ^[38] The murder of former deputy PM is condemned by world leaders ^[39] and sparks protests in Russia. ^[40]

March

• 1 March – The Estonian Reform Party, led by Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas, wins the country's parliamentary election. ^[41]
• 4 March – 33 people are killed and 14 injured following an explosion at Zasyadko coal mine in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. ^[42]
• 12 March
  • Iceland formally withdraws its candidacy to the European Union, filed in 2009 and frozen since 2013. ^{[43] [44]} The move is met with protests from civil society. ^[45]
  • 30 people are feared dead and 40 more injured after a shopping center in Kazan collapses in a fire. ^[46]
• 20 March – A solar eclipse is visible across much of Europe, with totality over the Faroe Islands and Svalbard.
• 24 March – Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board. ^{[47] [48] [49] [50]}

April

Satellite view of wildfires in Russia's Zabaykalsky Krai

• 1 April – The Russian-flagged fishing trawler Dalniy Vostok sinks off the Kamchatka Peninsula, with 57 confirmed dead and 12 missing. ^{[51] [52]}
• 12–14 April – A series of wildfires in Southern Siberia kill 29 people and leave thousands homeless. ^{[53] [54]}
• 14 April – Up to 400 illegal migrants from Libya drown after their boat capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea. ^[55]
• 19 April – As many as 700 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea. ^{[56] [57]}
• 24 April – 14 migrants believed to be from Afghanistan and Somalia are hit by a train and killed while walking along railway tracks in Macedonia. ^{[58] [59]}

May

Riots in Milan after Expo 2015 opening ceremony

• 1 May – Expo 2015 opens in Milan, with 145 countries participating. ^[60] Widespread rioting occurs in Milan as students protesting overspending clash with police. ^{[61] [62]}
• 5 May – 38 police officers and one protester are injured in Skopje in opposition-organized protests against conservative Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's government. ^{[63] [64]}
• 7 May – The UK's Conservative Party, led by David Cameron, wins a majority of seats in the House of Commons. ^{[65] [66]}
• 10 May – Eight police officers and 14 alleged members of an armed group are killed in fighting in Kumanovo, Macedonia. ^{[67] [68]}
• 22 May – Ireland becomes the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by constitutional referendum. ^[69]
• 23 May – Sweden's Måns Zelmerlöw wins the 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest with electro-pop ballad "Heroes". ^{[70] [71]}
• 24 May – Opposition candidate Andrzej Duda is elected President of Poland.
• 27 May – Two separate criminal probes result in the arrest of seven FIFA officials and the raid of its headquarters by Swiss police.

June

Tbilisi Zoo after the flood

• 5 June – Two people are killed and over 100 wounded in explosions at a rally by the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party in Diyarbakır. ^[72]
• 7–8 June – The 41st G7 summit is held in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria. ^[73]
• 14 June – Flooding in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, kills at least 19 people and releases zoo animals into the streets. ^[74]
• 18 June – The centre-right opposition bloc led by Venstre wins the Danish general election, even though the Social Democratic party remains Denmark's largest.
• 20 June – Three people are killed and 43 injured as a man drives his SUV into a crowd in Graz, Austria.
• 24 June – 25 people are injured and at least 240 arrested in clashes between protesters and law enforcers over proposed electricity price increase in Armenian capital, Yerevan. ^{[75] [76]}
• 26 June – A man is decapitated and 12 others injured as a follower of the Islamic State group attacks an Air Products factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier. ^[77]

July

Aftermath of the Suruç bombing

• 1 July – Greece becomes the first advanced economy to miss a payment to the International Monetary Fund.
• 13 July – At least three people die and 13 others are injured in skirmish in the western Ukrainian town of Mukachevo.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 20 July – A suicide attack targeting activists in the Turkish town of Suruç kills at least 30 people and injures 100 more. ^{[78] [79]}
• 22 July – A high-speed train collides with a truck in the eastern Czech Republic, leaving three passengers dead and 17 injured.
• 24 July – An explosion at a fireworks factory in Modugno, Italy, kills at least seven people. ^{[80] [81]}

August

• 5 August – Some 400 migrants are rescued and 25 bodies recovered after a fishing boat carrying an estimated 600 capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea. ^{[82] [83]}
• 19 August – EU finance ministers formally approve the first tranche of a new €86 billion bailout for Greece after parliaments in member states back the move. ^{[84] [85]}
• 20 August
  • Two planes carrying dozens of parachutists collide mid-air over western Slovakia, killing seven people. ^[86] 31 others on board survive by jumping out with their parachutes. ^[87]
  • Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras submits his resignation and calls for early elections. ^{[88] [89] [90]}
  • Macedonia declares a state of emergency on its southern and northern borders over a surge in migrants and refugees. ^[91]
• 22 August – Eleven people are killed when a Hawker Hunter crashes onto a busy road during an airshow in Shoreham-by-Sea, United Kingdom. ^{[92] [93]}
• 27 August – Up to 71 refugees are found dead in the back of a freezer truck in eastern Austria. ^{[94] [95]}

September

• 9 September – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning British head of state, surpassing the reign of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. ^[96]
• 13 September – At least 34 migrants drown in the Aegean Sea off the coasts of Farmakonissi trying to reach Europe. ^{[97] [98]}
• 15 September – The Hungarian government declares a state of emergency to cope with the influx of refugees, as almost 10,000 people are detained for illegally crossing the border from Serbia. ^[99]
• 23 September – Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn resigns after company officials admit widespread rigging of diesel emissions test results.

October

Aftermath of Alpes-Maritimes flash floods

• 4 October
  • Violent storms and flooding hit south-eastern France, killing at least 20 people with two more missing. ^{[100] [101]}
  • Portugal's governing centre-right coalition wins the country's general election, which has been widely seen as a referendum on four years of austerity. ^{[102] [103]}
• 10 October
  • At least 97 people are killed and more than 400 others injured in twin bombings at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey. ^{[104] [105] [106]}
  • 250,000 people protest in Berlin against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership accord between the European Union and the United States. ^[107]
• 11 October – Alexander Lukashenko is re-elected President of Belarus for a fifth term. ^{[108] [109]}
• 22 October – A masked man armed with a sword kills a teacher and a student in an attack at a school in Trollhättan, Sweden, before police fatally shoot him. ^{[110] [111] [112]}
• 23 October – At least 43 people are killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck near the French town of Puisseguin. ^{[113] [114] [115]}
• 30 October – A fire at a nightclub in downtown Bucharest kills 59 people and injures 152 more. ^{[116] [117]}

November

• 4 November – Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta and his government resign after mass protests over Colectiv nightclub fire. ^{[118] [119] [120]}
• 13 November – Following a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation, the IAAF suspends Russia from all international competition in the sport of athletics. ^{[121] [122] [123]}
• 13/14 November – At least 130 people are killed in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris. ^{[124] [125] [126]}
• 21 November – Nearly 2 million people on the Crimean Peninsula are without electricity after two transmission towers in Ukraine were damaged by explosions. ^[127]
• 24 November – Tensions rise between Russia and Turkey, after a Russian Su-24 warplane is shot down by a Turkish Air Force F-16 near the border between Turkey and Syria.

December

• 30 December-Poland's new conservative government by the Law and Justice Party (PiS) proposed a media bill that would allow it to control public service broadcasters TVP and Polish Radio via a national media council close to the government. This was condemned by the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). ^[128]

Births

• 2 May – Princess Charlotte

Deaths

January

Cabu

Charb

Demis Roussos

• 1 January
  • Ulrich Beck, German sociologist (b. 1944)
  • Boris Morukov, Russian astronaut (b. 1950)
• 4 January – Pino Daniele, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1955)
• 5 January – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver (b. 1937)
• 6 January – Vlastimil Bubník, Czech ice hockey player and footballer (b. 1931)
• 7 January
  • Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer and film director (b. 1926)
  • Cabu, French comic strip artist and caricaturist (b. 1938)
  • Charb, French satirical caricaturist and journalist (b. 1967)
  • Tignous, French cartoonist (b. 1957)
  • Georges Wolinski, French Jewish cartoonist and comics writer (b. 1934)
• 9 January – Józef Oleksy, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1946)
• 10 January – Francesco Rosi, Italian film director (b. 1922)
• 11 January
  • Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress and model (b. 1931)
  • Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian football player and coach (b. 1925)
• 12 January – Elena Obraztsova, Russian opera singer (b. 1939)
• 20 January – Edgar Froese, German musician (b. 1944)
• 21 January – Leon Brittan, British politician and barrister (b. 1939)
• 24 January – Otto Carius, German WWII tank commander (b. 1922)
• 25 January – Demis Roussos, Greek singer (b. 1946)
• 28 January – Yves Chauvin, French Nobel chemist (b. 1930)
• 30 January
  • Geraldine McEwan, English actress (b. 1932)
  • Zhelyu Zhelev, 2nd President of Bulgaria (b. 1935)
• 31 January – Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany (1984–94) (b. 1920)

February

Boris Nemtsov

• 1 February
  • Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-French pianist (b. 1925)
  • Udo Lattek, German football player, coach and TV pundit (b. 1935)
• 3 February – Martin Gilbert, English historian (b. 1936)
• 5 February – Henri Coppens, Belgian footballer (b. 1930)
• 10 February – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (b. 1928)
• 14 February
  • Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1925)
  • Louis Jourdan, French film and television actor (b. 1921)
  • Franjo Mihalić, Croatian-Serbian runner and coach (b. 1920)
  • Wim Ruska, Dutch wrestler and martial artist (b. 1940)
• 18 February – Claude Criquielion, Belgian road bicycle racer (b. 1958)
• 21 February – Aleksei Gubarev, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1931)
• 27 February – Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician (b. 1959)

March

• 1 March – Wolfram Wuttke, German footballer (b. 1961)
• 2 March – Dave Mackay, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1934)
• 9 March
  • Camille Muffat, French swimmer (b. 1989)
  • Alexis Vastine, French boxer (b. 1986)
  • Frei Otto, German architect (b. 1925)
• 11 March – Walter Burkert, German academician and author (b. 1931)
• 12 March – Terry Pratchett, English author (b. 1948)
• 15 March – Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (b. 1937)
• 16 March – Andy Fraser, English songwriter and bass guitarist (b. 1952)
• 19 March – Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
• 21 March
  • Hans Erni, Swiss graphic designer, painter, illustrator, engraver and sculptor (b. 1909)
  • Jørgen Ingmann, Danish jazz and pop guitarist (b. 1925)
• 26 March – Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish Nobel poet, psychologist and translator (b. 1931)
• 29 March – Miroslav Ondříček, Czech cinematographer (b. 1934)
• 30 March – Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer (b. 1921)

April

Günter Grass

• 1 April – Cynthia Lennon, former wife of John Lennon (b. 1939)
• 2 April – Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese film director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 4 April – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish writer (b. 1931)
• 13 April – Günter Grass, German Nobel writer (b. 1927)
• 14 April – Roberto Tucci, Roman Catholic cardinal and theologian (b. 1921)
• 16 April – Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (b. 1969)
• 24 April – Władysław Bartoszewski, Polish politician and resistance fighter (b. 1922)
• 29 April – Giovanni Canestri, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1918)
• 30 April – Patachou, French singer and actress (b. 1918)

May

Maya Plisetskaya

• 1 May – Geoff Duke, British motorcycle racer (b. 1923)
• 2 May
  • Ruth Rendell, English author (b. 1930)
  • Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballerina, choreographer and actress (b. 1925)
• 9 May – Kenan Evren, 7th President of Turkey (b. 1917)
• 15 May – Renzo Zorzi, Italian racing driver (b. 1946)
• 18 May
  • Halldór Ásgrímsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1947)
  • Raymond Gosling, British scientist (b. 1926)
• 21 May – Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker (b. 1970)
• 24 May – Tanith Lee, British writer (b. 1947)
• 26 May – Vicente Aranda, Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1926)
• 27 May – Nils Christie, Norwegian sociologist and criminologist (b. 1928)

June

Christopher Lee

• 1 June – Charles Kennedy, British politician (b. 1959)
• 4 June – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer and calligrapher (b. 1918)
• 6 June – Pierre Brice, French actor (b. 1929)
• 7 June – Christopher Lee, English actor, singer and author (b. 1922)
• 9 June – James Last, German composer and big band leader (b. 1929)
• 11 June – Ron Moody, British actor (b. 1924)
• 15 June – Jeanna Friske, Russian actress, singer, model and socialite (b. 1974)
• 17 June – Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey (b. 1924)
• 23 June – Magali Noël, French actress and singer (b. 1931)
• 25 June
  • Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church (b. 1940)
  • Patrick Macnee, English actor (b. 1922)
• 26 June – Yevgeny Primakov, Prime Minister of Russia (1998–99) (b. 1929)
• 28 June – Chris Squire, English musician, singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
• 29 June
  • Josef Masopust, Czech football player and coach (b. 1931)
  • Charles Pasqua, French businessman and Gaullist politician (b. 1927)

July

Jules Bianchi

• 1 July
  • Sergio Sollima, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
  • Nicholas Winton, British-born Jewish humanitarian (b. 1909)
• 10 July – Roger Rees, Welsh actor and director (b. 1944)
• 13 July – Martin Litchfield West, British classical scholar (b. 1937)
• 14 July – Ildikó Schwarczenberger, Hungarian fencer (b. 1951)
• 17 July − Jules Bianchi, French motor racing driver (b. 1989)
• 21 July
  • Galina Prozumenshchikova, Soviet swimmer (b. 1948)
  • Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American Jewish actor, folk singer, musician, composer and activist (b. 1924)
• 30 July – Alena Vrzáňová, Czech figure skater (b. 1931)

August

Oliver Sacks

• 1 August – Cilla Black, English singer, television presenter and actress (b. 1943)
• 3 August – Robert Conquest, British-American historian and poet (b. 1917)
• 11 August – Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer (b. 1941)
• 12 August – Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician (b. 1929)
• 16 August – Mile Mrkšić, Serbian military officer (b. 1947)
• 17 August
  • Arsen Dedić, Croatian singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
  • László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1927)
• 20 August – Egon Bahr, German politician (b. 1922)
• 23 August – Guy Ligier, French rugby player and racing driver (b. 1930)
• 24 August – Justin Wilson, British racing driver (b. 1978)
• 30 August – Oliver Sacks, British neurologist and author (b. 1933)

September

• 12 September
  • Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (b. 1928)
  • Ron Springett, British football goalkeeper (b. 1935)
• 14 September – Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian poet, politician and journalist (b. 1949)
• 17 September – Dettmar Cramer, German football player and coach (b. 1925)
• 19 September – Jackie Collins, English romance novelist (b. 1937)
• 23 September – Dragan Holcer, Croatian football defender (b. 1945)
• 27 September
  • John Guillermin, British film director, writer and producer (b. 1925)
  • Pietro Ingrao, Italian politician, journalist and former partisan (b. 1915)
• 28 September – Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)

October

Henning Mankell

Maureen O'Hara

• 2 October – Brian Friel, Irish playwright and short story writer (b. 1929)
• 3 October – Denis Healey, British politician (b. 1917)
• 5 October
  • Chantal Akerman, Belgian film director, artist and professor of film (b. 1950)
  • Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (b. 1938)
  • Henning Mankell, Swedish crime writer, children's author and dramatist (b. 1948)
• 6 October – Árpád Göncz, former President of Hungary (b. 1922)
• 7 October – Dominique Dropsy, French footballer (b. 1951)
• 9 October – Geoffrey Howe, British politician (b. 1926)
• 17 October
  • Danièle Delorme, French actress and film producer (b. 1926)
  • Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (b. 1946)
• 23 October – Paride Tumburus, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
• 24 October
  • Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovak Jesuit priest and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1924)
  • Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (b. 1920)
• 30 October – Sinan Şamil Sam, Turkish professional boxer (b. 1974)
• 31 October – Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater (b. 1938)

November

Helmut Schmidt

• 1 November – Günter Schabowski, German politician (b. 1929)
• 4 November – René Girard, French historian, literary critic and philosopher (b. 1923)
• 5 November
  • Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923)
  • Czesław Kiszczak, Polish soldier and politician (b. 1925)
• 7 November – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-born American actor and author (b. 1947)
• 8 November – Andrei Eshpai, Mari composer (b. 1925)
• 9 November
  • Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist (b. 1930)
  • Andy White, Scottish drummer (b. 1930)
• 10 November
  • André Glucksmann, French philosopher, activist and writer (b. 1937)
  • Klaus Roth, German-born British mathematician (b. 1925)
  • Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982) (b. 1918)
• 11 November – Phil Taylor, English rock drummer (b. 1954)
• 12 November – Márton Fülöp, Hungarian professional footballer (b. 1983)
• 21 November – Linda Haglund, Swedish Olympic sprinter (b. 1956)
• 28 November
  • Gerry Byrne, English footballer (b. 1938)
  • Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, Swedish actress (b. 1921)

See also

• Europe portal
• 2010s portal

• 2015 in the European Union
• List of state leaders in 2015 § Europe

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