Died 2015

Nicholas Smith, an English actor who was the last-surviving original cast member of “Are You Being Served?” – a long-running British television sitcom – has died. He was 81. 

Chuck Williams, founder of the high-end home goods empire Williams-Sonoma, died peacefully of natural causes Saturday at his San Francisco home, The Associated Press and San Francisco Chronicle report.

Robert Loggia, the gravelly voiced character actor from “Scarface,” “The Sopranos,” and “Big,” has died of Alzheimer’s disease, according to The Associated Press. He was 85.

Ex-frontman for the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver.

John “Cha-Cha” Ciarcia, a tough-guy actor on “The Sopranos” who also owned a popular restaurant in New York City’s Little Italy neighborhood that his celebrity friends frequented, has died. He …

Former U.S. national security adviser Sandy Berger, who helped craft President Bill Clinton’s second-term foreign policy and later got into trouble over the mishandling of classified documents, died Wednesday, according …

Canadian environmentalist and businessman Maurice Strong, who served as the first United Nations Environment Program chief and whose work led to the upcoming World Climate Summit in Paris, has died, …

Three people were killed during a standoff with an armed gunman who occupied a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs Friday, Nov. 27.

Former University of Houston men’s basketball coach Guy V. Lewis, who led the Phi Slama Jama teams of the 1980s, has died, according to The Associated Press. He was 93.

John A. Knauss, the noted oceanographer whose research and advocacy helped raised alarms about the delicate state of the world’s oceans, died Nov. 19, according to The Associated Press. He was …