Died 2015

Elaine Riley, an actress who appeared in dozens of 1940s and ’50s motion pictures, has died, according to multiple news sources. Riley, who died Dec. 7, was 98.

Longtime Harlem Globetrotter basketball team known for his half-court hook shots

Angela McEwan, a character actress who played a small-town newspaper publisher in the Oscar-nominated movie “Nebraska,” has died. She was 81.

Kurt Masur, the maestro who tamed the New York Philharmonic and united a divided Germany, has died of complications of Parkinson’s disease, The Associated Press and the New York Philharmonic …

Lillian Vernon, the businesswoman who founded the mail-order catalog company that bears her name, has died. She was 88. Vernon, whose corporation was the first company founded by a woman …

Marjorie Lord, a stage and screen actress who starred opposite Danny Thomas on TV’s “Make Room for Daddy,” died Nov. 28 of natural causes at her home in Beverly Hills, …

NBA Hall of Famer Dolph Schayes died Thursday at the age of 87.

Steve Shagan, a novelist, producer and screenwriter known best for writing the screenplay for the 1973 film Save the Tiger, has died, according to multiple news reports. He was 88. …

John Trudell, American Indian activist, poet and actor, has died of cancer, according to The Associated Press. He was 69.

Tibor Rubin, a Holocaust survivor who went on to become a highly decorated U.S. infantry soldier decades after the Korean War, has died in California, according to multiple news sources. …