The following 'celebrities' have died this year, but weren’t picked by any team this year. However, they have all been chosen by teams in previous years. Hopefully by listing them here, it will alert players to non-eligible picks & to give those who are now gone their brief moment of fame on this site. The other reason for listing them here is that the teams who chose them can rue their bad luck or decisions!!
| Name (click for biography) | Date of death |
| Natalie Cole | 31st December 2015 |
| Haskell Wexler | 27th December 2015 |
| Meadowlark Lemon | 27th December 2015 |
| Kurt Masur | 19th December 2015 |
| Akiyuki Nosaka | 9th December 2015 |
| Topazia Alliata | 23rd November 2015 |
| Ingeborg Sjöqvist | 22nd November 2015 |
| Maurice Strong | 21st November 2015 |
| Peter Dimmock | 21st November 2015 |
| Mal Whitfield | 18th November 2015 |
| Jonah Lomu | 18th November 2015 |
| Dora Doll | 15th November 2015 |
| Guo Jie | 15th November 2015 |
| Nora Brockstedt | 5th November 2015 |
| Fred Thompson | 1st November 2015 |
| Günter Schabowski | 1st November 2015 |
| Ján Chryzostom Korec | 24th October 2015 |
| Kirsty Howard | 24th October 2015 |
| Howard Kendall | 17th October 2015 |
| Joan Leslie | 12th October 2015 |
| Gordon Honeycombe | 9th October 2015 |
| Hugh Scully | 8th October 2015 |
| Árpád Göncz | 6th October 2015 |
| Brian Friel | 2nd October 2015 |
| Frank Tyson | 27th September 2015 |
| Jim Meadowcroft | 25th September 2015 |
| Jack Larson | 20th September 2015 |
| Jackie Collins | 19th September 2015 |
| Brian Sewell | 17th September 2015 |
| Dettmar Cramer | 17th September 2015 |
| David Willcocks | 17th September 2015 |
| Fred DeLuca | 14th September 2015 |
| Antoine Lahad | 10th September 2015 |
| Chandra Bahadur Dangi | 4th September 2015 |
| Joy Beverley | 30th August 2015 |
| Wang Dongxing | 21st August 2015 |
| Egon Bahr | 20th August 2015 |
| Frank Gifford | 9th August 2015 |
| Coleen Gray | 3rd August 2015 |
| Sammy Cox | 31st July 2015 |
| "Rowdy" Roddy Piper | 31st July 2015 |
| Lynn Anderson | 30th July 2015 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | 27th July 2015 |
| Bobbi Kristina Brown | 26th July 2015 |
| Rev. Owen Chadwick | 5th July 2015 |
| Julie Brett | 5th July 2015 |
| Edward Burnham | 30th June 2015 |
| Guđríđur Guđbrandsdóttir | 25th June 2015 |
| James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife | 22nd June 2015 |
| Blaze Starr | 15th June 2015 |
| Micol Fontana | 12th June 2015 |
| Monica Lewis | 12th June 2015 |
| Ornette Coleman | 11th June 2015 |
| James Last | 9th June 2015 |
| Hermann Zapf | 4th June 2015 |
| Antonia Gerena Rivera | 9th August 2015 |
| Vicente Aranda | 26th May 2015 |
| Marques Haynes | 22nd May 2015 |
| Dean Potter | 15th May 2015 |
| Stuart Sherwin | 2nd May 2015 |
| Maya Plisetskaya | 2nd May 2015 |
| Grace Lee Whitney | 1st May 2015 |
| Patachou | 30th April 2015 |
| Giovanni Canestri | 29th April 2015 |
| Daniel Walker | 29th April 2015 |
| Arthur Brittenden | 25th April 2015 |
| Dorothy Custer | 22nd April 2015 |
| Roy Mason | 19th April 2015 |
| Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri | 17th April 2015 |
| Bonnie Suchet | 15th April 2015 |
| Roberto Tucci | 14th April 2015 |
| Elmer Lach | 4th March 2015 |
| Tomas Tranströmer | 26th March 2015 |
| Lil' Chris | 23rd March 2015 |
| Chuck Bednarik | 21st March 2015 |
| Gregory Walcott | 20th March 2015 |
| Walter Grauman | 20th March 2015 |
| Ib Melchior | 13th March 2015 |
| Frei Otto | 9th March 2015 |
| Dave Mackay | 2nd March 2015 |
| Minnie Mińoso | 1st March 2015 |
| Yasar Kemal | 28th February 2015 |
| Clark Terry | 21st February 2015 |
| Gary Owens | 12th February 2015 |
| Steve Strange | 12th February 2015 |
| Noemi Wigdorowicz-Makowerowa | 7th February 2015 |
| Dean Smith | 7th February 2015 |
| Christopher Greener | 2nd February 2015 |
| Frank Borghi | 2nd February 2015 |
| Lizabeth Scott | 31st January 2015 |
| Lt Otto Carius | 24th January 2015 |
| Joe Franklin | 24th January 2015 |
| Jackie Selebi | 23rd January 2015 |
| Bob Symes | 19th January 2015 |
| Ward Swingle | 19th January 2015 |
| Paul Thomas Francis O'Grady | 15th January 2015 |
| Ervin Drake | 15th January 2015 |
| Jack Hayward | 13th January 2015 |
| Jeno Buzánsky | 11th January 2015 |
| Donna Douglas | 1st January 2015 |
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