2015
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2015 is the 2015th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 15th year of the 3rd millennium, the 15th year of the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2010s decade.
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Events
- January - start of the European migrant crisis
- January 7 - Charlie Hebdo shooting
- August 31 - Wir schaffen das
- November 13 - November 2015 Paris attacks
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Arts and culture
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Art
- Dismaland by Banksy
- Domestikator by Atelier Van Lieshout
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Literature
- Soumission by Michel Houellebecq
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
- The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
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Music
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Albums
- A mulher do fim do mundo by Elza Soares
- Morning/Evening by Four Tet
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Compositions
- Tondoho Mba by Eko Roosevelt
- Gosh by Jamie xx
- Them Changes by Thundercat
- Makeba by Jain
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Film
- Ex Machina by Alex Garland
- The Brand New Testament by Jaco van Dormael
- Youth by Paolo Sorrentino
- The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos
- High-Rise by Ben Wheatley
- The Revenant by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
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Documentary
- Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis
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Deaths
- Lemmy, 70, English rock musician (Motörhead, Hawkwind), cancer.
- Chantal Akerman, 65, Belgian film director (Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, A Couch in New York, La Captive), suicide.
- Joost Zwagerman, 51, Dutch author, suicide.
- Rico Rodriguez, 80, Cuban-born British trombonist (The Specials).
- Oliver Sacks, 82, British neurologist and author (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, Hallucinations), liver cancer.
- Laura Antonelli, 73, Italian actress (Malicious, Till Marriage Do Us Part, The Innocent).
- Drs. P, 95, Swiss-born Dutch writer, composer and singer.
- Ornette Coleman, 85, American saxophonist and free jazz pioneer.
- James Last, 86, German composer and big band leader.
- Marcus Belgrave, 78, American jazz trumpeter, heart failure.
- Peter Gay, 91, American psychohistorian.
- Chris Burden, 69, American artist, malignant melanoma.
- Ben E. King, 76, American soul and R&B singer ("Stand by Me"), coronary heart disease.
- Günter Grass, 87, German novelist (The Tin Drum), Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (1999).
- Sir Terry Pratchett, 66, British author (Discworld series), chest infection.
- Albert Maysles, 88, American documentary filmmaker (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens).
- Lasse Braun, 78, Italian porn film director and producer.
- Demis Roussos, 68, Egyptian-born Greek singer.
- Anita Ekberg, 83, Swedish actress (La Dolce Vita).
- Georges Wolinski, 80, French cartoonist (Charlie Hebdo shooting).
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