2015 in the Czech Republic
# 2015 in the Czech Republic

Events from the year 2015 in the Czech Republic

## Incumbents

* President – Miloš Zeman
* Prime Minister – Bohuslav Sobotka

## Events

* 24 February – The Uherský Brod shooting
* 23 July – Studénka train crash

## In popular culture

### Sports

* 31 January – 1 February – The 2015 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships were hosted in the town of Tábor.
* 5–8 March – The 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships were hosted in the city of Prague.
* 1–3 May – The 2015 Canoe Sprint European Championships were hosted in the village of Račice.
* 1–17 May – The 2015 IIHF World Championship was hosted in the cities of Prague and Ostrava.
* 15–30 June – The 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was hosted in the cities of Prague, Olomouc and Uherské Hradiště.
* 14–15 November – The 2015 Fed Cup final was hosted in Prague.

### Film

* 26 February – Ghoul, horror film directed by Petr Jákl, was released in the Czech Republic.
* 5 July – Home Care, drama film directed by Slávek Horák, was released in the Czech Republic.

## Deaths

* 6 January – Vlastimil Bubník, ice hockey and football player (born 1931)
* 15 January – Ludmila Brožová-Polednová, state prosecutor (born 1921)
* 15 January – Karel Lichtnégl, football player, Olympic silver medalist (born 1936)
* 20 January – Marie Pilátová, actress (born 1921)
* 19 March – Stanislav Prýl, ice hockey player (born 1942)
* 20 March –
   * Petr Vopěnka, mathematician, developer of Alternative Set Theory (born 1935)
   * Josef Mikoláš, ice hockey player (born 1938)
* 28 March – Miroslav Ondříček, cinematographer (born 1934)
* 30 March – Štěpán Kodeda, orienteering competitor, complications after traffic accident (born 1988).
* 31 March – Dalibor Vesely, architectural historian (born 1934)
* 16 April – Stanislav Gross, Prime Minister (born 1969)
* 17 April – Jaroslav Holík, ice hockey player (born 1942)
* 20 April – Václav Rabas, organist (born 1933)
* 25 April – Jiří Hledík, football player (born 1929)
* 1 May – Karel Vasak, academic (born 1929)
* 10 May – Jindřich Roudný, Olympian (born 1924)
* 6 June – Ludvík Vaculík, writer (born 1926)
* 8 June – Otakar Hořínek, sport shooter, Olympic silver medallist (born 1929)
* 26 June – Kája Saudek, comics illustrator (born 1935)
* 29 June – Josef Masopust, footballer (born 1931)
* 1 July – Miloslava Misáková, gymnast, Olympic gold medallist (born 1922)
* 11 July – Ota Petřina, guitarist (born 1949)
* 19 July – Václav Snítil, violinist (born 1928)
* 27 July – Ivan Moravec, pianist (born 1930)
* 30 July –
   * Ludmila Dvořáková, operatic soprano (born 1923)
   * Alena Vrzáňová, figure skater (born 1931)
* 20 August – Zuzana Brabcová, writer (born 1959)
* 1 September – Jiří Louda, heraldist (born 1920)
* 10 September – Radim Palouš, academic (born 1924)
* 2 October – Lubomír Lipský, actor (born 1923)
* 29 December – Pavel Srníček, football player (born 1968)
