Best-selling authors, Hollywood stars, pioneering scientists, and sporting greats - 2015 has seen the death of many internationally familiar figures.
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APJ Abdul Kalam
Served as India's 11th president from 2002 to 2007 and was popularly known as "Missile Man" after pioneering the country's military missile programme.
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Charles Correa
Often described as India's greatest contemporary architect, his eye-catching buildings helped define the country's post-independence architecture.
Pictured is Correa's Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya (Gandhi Memorial Institution) in Ahmedabad - work on the building started in 1958.
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Yevgeny Primakov
Appointed Russia's spy chief in 1991, foreign minister in 1996 and prime minister in 1998.
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Yitzhak Navon
Fifth president of Israel from 1978 to 1983.
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James Horner, Ervin Drake and Michael Masser
Composer James Horner won Oscars for the theme song and score for the film Titanic.
Ervin Drake was a songwriter who composed bittersweet love songs, including Frank Sinatra's It Was a Very Good Year.
Songwriter Michael Masser composed romantic pop ballads including Whitney Houston's Greatest Love of All, and Diana Ross's Touch Me in the Morning.
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Donna Douglas
Actress best known for playing the tomboyish Elly May Clampett in 1960s US sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.
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Gary Richrath
Guitarist and songwriter for the rock group REO Speedwagon.
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Jack Ely
Lead singer of The Kingsmen, who were best known for the 1960s hit Louie Louie.
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Kurt Masur
Conductor who led the New York Philharmonic for 11 years.
John Guillermin
Director whose films included The Towering Inferno, Death on the Nile and the 1976 version of King Kong.
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Samuel Goldwyn Jr
Son of Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn Jr produced films in his own right - including Mystic Pizza (1988), and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003).
The photofilm features a selection of global figures who died in 2015. It includes several British-born individuals.
Photofilm by Paul Kerley.
Images from BBC, EPA, AP, Reuters, Getty Images, Rex Features and Alamy.
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