Deaths in April 2025

The following is a list of notable deaths that happened in April 2025. Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by their last name, or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are also noted here, if worth noting.

## Criteria

Every entry is backed by a source. Proper citations are used and no bare URLs so as to prevent link rot. The following are the requirements for adding a name to the list in its order: Name, age, origin, what the person is known for and his or her cause of death – if known – and a source for verification.

### 30

- Park Hee-gon, 56, South Korean film director (_Insadong Scandal_, _Perfect Game_, _Fengshui_).
- Jules Wijdenbosch, 83, Surinamese politician, prime minister (1987–1988) and president (1996–2000).

### 28

- Shaji N. Karun, 73, Indian film director (_Piravi_, _Swaham_, _Vanaprastham_).
- Aleksey Krychenkov, 83, Russian actor (_The Girls_, _Director_).
- Priscilla Pointer, 100, American actress (_Carrie_, _Mommie Dearest_, _Blue Velvet_).

### 27

- Cora Sue Collins, 98, American actress (_The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_, _Anna Karenina_, _The Unexpected Father_), complications from a stroke.

### 25

- Philip Lowrie, 88, English actor (_Coronation Street_, _Victoria Wood_, _Home Fires_).
- Lupita Torrentera, 93, Mexican actress (_Historia de un gran amor_, _Coqueta_).

### 24

- Steve Kiner, 77, American Hall of Fame football player (Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Houston Oilers).
- Roy Phillips, 83, British musician (The Peddlers).

### 23

- Eugène Koffi Adoboli, 90, Togolese politician, prime minister (1999–2000).
- Chris Cauwenberghs, 78, Belgian actor (_Hector_, _Koko Flanel_, _Thuis_), complications from heart failure.
- Waltraut Haas, 97, Austrian actress (_Der Hofrat Geiger_, _Mariandl_, _The White Horse Inn_). (death announced on this date)
- Fouad Mebazaa, 91, Tunisian politician, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies (1997–2011) and acting president (2011).
- Keith Stackpole, 84, Australian cricketer (Victoria). (death announced on this date)

### 22

- Erik Ruus, 62, Estonian actor (_The Birdwatcher_, _Firewater_, _All My Lenins_).

### 21

- Pope Francis, 88, head of the Catholic church, stroke and heart failure.
- Johanna Matz, 92, Austrian actress (_Hannerl_, _Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach_, _The White Horse Inn_).

### 20

- Kimble Rendall, 67–68, Australian musician (XL Capris, Hoodoo Gurus) and film director (_Guardians of the Tomb_). (death announced on this date)
- Noreen Young, 85, Canadian puppeteer (_Under the Umbrella Tree_, _Sesame Park_), stroke. (death announced on this date)

### 18

- Rudolf Pankov, 87, Russian actor (_Michman Panin_, _Blasted Hell_, _Talents and Admirers_) and voice actor.
- Clodagh Rodgers, 78, Irish singer ("Come Back and Shake Me", "Jack in the Box").
- Julieta Szönyi, 75, Romanian actress (_Felix și Otilia_, _Toate pînzele sus_).

### 17

- Roger McLachlan, 71, New Zealand-born Australian bass guitarist (Little River Band), pancreatic cancer. (death announced on this date)

### 16

- Patrick Adiarte, 81, Filipino-American actor (_The King and I_, _High Time_, _Flower Drum Song_).
- Nora Aunor, 71, Filipino actress (_Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos_, _Trap_, _Hustisya_) and singer.
- Vladimir Gerasimov, 74, Russian actor (_Car, Violin and Blot the Dog_, _One-Two, Soldiers Were Going..._, _Tailcoat for Scapegrace_). (death announced on this date)

### 15

- Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak, 74, Polish actress (_Another Way_, _Scratch_, _Tatarak_).
- Shūhei Kishimoto, 68, Japanese politician, MP (2009–2022) and governor of Wakayama Prefecture (since 2022), septic shock.
- Wink Martindale, 91, American disc jockey, game show host (_Gambit_, _Tic-Tac-Dough_) and singer ("Deck of Cards"), lymphoma.
- S. S. Stanley, 57, Indian film director (_April Maadhathil_, _Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan_, _Kizhakku Kadarkarai Salai_) and actor.

### 14

- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 85, Malaysian politician, prime minister (2003–2009), minister of foreign affairs (1991–1999), and MP (1978–2013), heart disease.

### 13

- Mario Vargas Llosa, 89, Peruvian writer, and holder of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Bank Janardhan, 74, Indian actor (_Tharle Nan Maga_, _Shhh!_, _News_) and comedian.
- Jean Marsh, 90, British actress (_Upstairs, Downstairs_, _Doctor Who_, _Willow_) and television writer, Emmy winner (1975), complications from dementia.

### 12

- Pilita Corrales, 85, Filipino singer and actress (_Mars Ravelo's Darna! Ang Pagbabalik_, _Bride for Rent_, _My Illegal Wife_).

### 11

- Nino Bellomo, 102, Italian actor (_Blues metropolitano_, _Law of Courage_) and journalist.
- Mike Berry, 82, English singer ("The Sunshine of Your Smile") and actor (_Are You Being Served?_, _Worzel Gummidge_).
- Max Romeo, 80, Jamaican reggae musician ("Wet Dream", "Chase the Devil").

### 10

- Leo Beenhakker, 82, Dutch football manager (Ajax, Real Madrid, national team).
- Ted Kotcheff, 94, Canadian film director (_First Blood_, _Weekend at Bernie's_).
- Ku Feng, 94, Hong Kong actor (_The Love Eterne_, _Between Tears and Laughter_, _Come Drink with Me_).
- Mario Ernesto Sánchez, 78, Cuban actor (_Miami Vice_, _The Truman Show_, _The Specialist_) and businessman, founder and director of Teatro Avante.

### 9

- Mel Novak, 90, American actor (_Game of Death_, _Black Belt Jones_, _An Eye for an Eye_).

### 8

- Notable Dominicans killed in the Jet Set nightclub roof collapse:
    - Tony Blanco, 44, baseball player (Chunichi Dragons, Yokohama DeNA BayStars, Orix Buffaloes)
    - Nelsy Cruz, 41, politician, governor of Monte Cristi Province (since 2020)
    - Octavio Dotel, 51, baseball player (Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets)
    - Rubby Pérez, 69, merengue singer

### 6

- Clem Burke, 70, American Hall of Fame drummer (Blondie), cancer.
- Jay North, 73, American actor (_Dennis the Menace_, _Maya_, _Arabian Knights_), colorectal cancer.

### 5

- Antonello Fassari, 72, Italian actor (_Romanzo Criminale_, _The Goodbye Kiss_, _Suburra_) and comedian.
- Raymond Hawthorne, 88, New Zealand theatre director.

### 4

- Manoj Kumar, 87, Indian actor (_Kranti_, _Upkar_, _Roti Kapada Aur Makaan_).
- Ravikumar, 71, Indian actor (_Ullasa Yaathra_, _Aanandham Paramaanandham_, _Ee Manohara Theeram_).

### 3

- Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 82, German landowner and nobleman, head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (since 1998).
- Gordon Faith, 94, British actor (_Doctor Who_, _Adam Adamant Lives!_, _War & Peace_). (death announced on this date)
- Farooq Hamid, 80, Pakistani cricketer (Lahore, PIA, national team).
- John Saint Ryan, 72, English actor (_Coronation Street_, _Roar_, _Squanto: A Warrior's Tale_) and equestrian, heart attack.

### 2

- Khamtai Siphandone, 101, Laotian politician, president (1998–2006), prime minister (1991–1998), and chairman of the Revolutionary Party (1992–2006).
- Alois Švehlík, 85, Czech actor (_Forbidden Dreams_, _Alois Nebel_, _On the Roof_) and theater pedagogue.

### 1

- Val Kilmer, 65, American actor (_The Doors_, _Tombstone_, _Batman Forever_), pneumonia.
- Johnny Tillotson, 86, American singer-songwriter ("Poetry in Motion", "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'", "Without You"), complications from Parkinson's disease.