2015 in Italy

Incumbents

• President: Giorgio Napolitano, Sergio Mattarella
• Prime Minister: Matteo Renzi

Events

January

• January 14 – President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano announces his resignation.

March

• March 3 – South of Sicily, Italy's Coast Guard saves 941 trafficked migrants aboard five motorized dinghies and two larger vessels near southern Italian ports. Ten people are unaccounted for.

April

• April 9 – A man shot and killed three people and wounded two others at a Milan courthouse.
• April 18 – shipwreck in the Sicilian channel of a boat loaded with 887 migrants off the Libyan coast, accidentally impacted with the King Jacob ship. Over 800 deaths, the highest number of victims ever recorded.

May

• May 1 – October 31 – Expo 2015 is held in Milan, Italy.
• May 15 – A man fired from the balcony of his home in Secondigliano, Calabria, killing five people and wounding five others before being arrested.

July

• July 11 – Bombing of the Italian Consulate in Cairo.

October

• October 7 – Murder of Giordana Di Stefano.

December

• December – Lombardy Bans the Burka.

Deaths

• January 4 – Pino Daniele, 59, singer
• January 10 – Francesco Rosi, 92, director
• February 14 – Michele Ferrero, 89, entrepreneur and owner of the chocolate manufacturer Ferrero SpA
• April 5 – Francesco Smalto, 87, fashion designer
• April 6 – Giovanni Berlinguer, 90, politician, MEP
• April 14 – Roberto Tucci, 93, Roman Catholic prelate, President of Vatican Radio, Cardinal-Priest of S. Ignazio di Loyola a Campo Marzio since 2001
• April 17 – Renato Altissimo, 74, politician
• April 19 – Elio Toaff, 99, rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Rome
• May 15 – Renzo Zorzi, 68, racing driver
• May 21 – Annarita Sidoti, 44, race walker, 1997 World Champion
• June 12 – Micol Fontana, 101, fashion designer
• July 14 – Willer Bordon, 66, politician
• July 20 – Elio Fiorucci, 80, fashion designer
• August 29 – Antonio Ceccarini, 65, footballer
• September 17 – Valeria Cappellotto, 45, racing cyclist.
• September 27 – Pietro Ingrao, 100, politician, President of the Chamber of Deputies
• November 15 – Moira Orfei, 82, actress and owner of Circus Orfei
• November 16 – Nando Gazzolo, 87, actor and voice actor
• November 27 – Luca De Filippo, 67, director, son of Eduardo
• December 6 – Mariuccia Mandelli, 90, fashion designer, founder of Krizia fashion house
• December 14 – Armando Cossutta, 89, politician
• December 15 – Licio Gelli, 96, financer and Venerable Master of the clandestine lodge Propaganda Due