People who have passed on during 2015, whose life or works have influenced me:

• Yogi Berra (1925-2015), American baseball player
• Ornette Coleman (1930-2015), American jazz musician
• Robert Conquest (1917-2015), British kremlinologist
• Malcolm Fraser (1930-2015), Australian politician
• Jaako Hintikka (1929-2015), Finnish philosopher and logician
• Lisa Jardine (1944-2015), British historian
• Joan Kirner (1938-2015), Australian politician, aka “Mother Russia”
• Kurt Masur (1927-2015), East German conductor
• John Forbes Nash (1928-2015), American mathematician
• Boris Nemtsov (1959-2015), Russian politician
• Oliver Sacks (1933-2015), British-American neurologist and writer
• Gunter Schabowski (1929-2015), East German politician
• Alex Schalck-Golodkowski (1932-2015), East German politician
• Gunther Schuller (1925-2015), American composer and musician (and French horn player on Miles Davis’ 1959 album, Porgy and Bess).
• Brian Stewart (1922-2015), British intelligence agent.
• Ward Swingle (1927-2015), American singer and jazz musician.

Last year’s post is here.