Deaths in March 2025

The following is a list of notable deaths that happened in March 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.

### 31

- Sian Barbara Allen, 78, American actress (_Scream, Pretty Peggy_, _The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case_, _You'll Like My Mother_), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Yves Boisset, 86, French film director (_L'Attentat_, _The Common Man_, _Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff_) and screenwriter.

### 30

- Lee Montague, 97, English actor (_The Camp on Blood Island_, _Deadlier Than the Male_, _Jesus of Nazareth_). (death announced on this date)

### 29

- Richard Chamberlain, 90, American actor (_Dr. Kildare_, _The Thorn Birds_, _Shōgun_), complications from a stroke.
- Ángel del Pozo, 90, Spanish actor (_Horror Express_, _The Big Gundown_, _Treasure Island_).

### 28

- Hamza Feghouli, 86, Algerian actor (_Le Clandestin_).

### 27

- Peter Lever, 84, English cricketer (Lancashire, Tasmania, national team). (death announced on this date)

### 25

- Manoj Bharathiraja, 48, Indian actor (_Samudhiram_, _Kadal Pookkal_) and film director (_Margazhi Thingal_), heart attack.
- Shihan Hussaini, 60, Indian actor (_Punnagai Mannan_, _Velaikkaran_, _Unnai Solli Kutramillai_) and karate practitioner, leukemia.
- Masahiro Shinoda, 94, Japanese film director (_Demon Pond_, _Owls' Castle_, _Double Suicide_) and screenwriter.
- François Trucy, 93, French politician, mayor of Toulon (1985–1995), senator (1986–2014).

### 23

- Gianfranco Barra, 84, Italian actor (_Banana Joe_, _I nuovi mostri_, _Double Murder_).

### 22

- Filiz Akın, 82, Turkish actress (_Birds of Exile_, _Tatlı Dillim_, _Karateci Kız_).
- Larisa Golubkina, 85, Russian actress (_Hussar Ballad_, _Give Me a Book of Complaints_, _The Tale of Tsar Saltan_).
- Rolf Schimpf, 100, German actor (_Smuglere_, _Mensch Bachmann_, _Der Alte_).
- Alex Wyllie, 80, New Zealand rugby union player and coach (national team).

### 21

- George Foreman, 76, American boxer, Olympic champion (1968) and entrepreneur (George Foreman Grill).
- Štefan Kvietik, 90, Slovak actor (_The Boxer and Death_, _The Millennial Bee_, _Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself_) and academic.

### 20

- Vitold Fokin, 92, Ukrainian politician, prime minister (1990–1992).
- Eddie Jordan, 76, Irish Formula One team owner (Jordan Grand Prix) and television presenter (_Top Gear_), prostate and bladder cancer.
- Norm Clarke,  Las Vegas celebrity columnist and former AP sports writer, dies at 82.

### 19

- Don Wesely, 70, American politician, mayor of Lincoln (1999–2003) and member of the Nebraska Legislature (1979–1999).

### 18

- Antonio Gasalla, 84, Argentine actor (_Waiting for the Hearse_, _The Truce_), comedian, and theatre director.

### 17

- David Steven Cohen, 58, American television writer (_Courage the Cowardly Dog_, _Parker Lewis Can't Lose_) and screenwriter (_Balto_), cancer.

### 16

- Émilie Dequenne, 43, Belgian actress (_Rosetta_, _Our Children_, _Not My Type_), adrenocortical carcinoma.
- Bindu Ghosh, 76, Indian actress (_Kozhi Koovuthu_, _Uruvangal Maralam_, _Thoongathey Thambi Thoongathey_) and choreographer.
- Anvar Hasanov, 74, Azerbaijani actor (_Last night of childhood_, _My Seven Sons_, _Babek_).

### 15

- Les Binks, 73, Northern Irish heavy metal drummer (Judas Priest).
- Delia Razon, 93, Filipino actress (_Rodrigo de Villa_, _Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan?_, _Ipagpatawad Mo_).
- Wings Hauser, 77, American actor (_Tough Guys Don't Dance_, _The Siege of Firebase Gloria_, _Vice Squad_).
- Slick Watts, 73, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics, New Orleans Jazz, Houston Rockets).

### 14

- Pietro Genuardi, 62, Italian actor (_CentoVetrine_, _Killer Crocodile_, _Paganini Horror_).
- Deb Mukherjee, 83, Indian actor (_Aansoo Ban Gaye Phool_, _Karate_, _Gudgudee_).

### 13

- Edgar Oehler, 83, Swiss politician, MP (1971–1995).
- Maria Grazia Spina, 88, Italian actress (_Samson and the Slave Queen_, _Toto vs. the Black Pirate_, _Rugantino_). (death announced on this date)
- Şinasi Yurtsever, 51, Turkish actor (_Vavien_).

### 12

- Syed Abid Ali, 83, Indian cricketer (Hyderabad, national team).
- Takashi Inagaki, 87, Japanese voice actor (_Soul Eater_, _A Spirit of the Sun_, _Kingdom Hearts_) and actor, pneumonia.
- Godfrey Lawrence, 92, Rhodesian cricketer (Rhodesia, South Africa).
- Peggy Parnass, 97, German-Swedish actress (_Nobody Loves Me_), columnist and writer.

### 10

- Sir Francis Billy Hilly, 76, Solomon Islands politician, prime minister (1993–1994).
- Stanley R. Jaffe, 84, American film producer (_Kramer vs. Kramer_, _Fatal Attraction_, _The Bad News Bears_), Oscar winner (1980).

### 9

- Eileen Bennett, 105, British actress (_Thursday's Child_, _Much Too Shy_, _Trunk Crime_).
- Simon Fisher-Becker, 63, British actor (_Puppy Love_, _Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_, _Doctor Who_).
- Hans Peter Korff, 82, German actor (_Wayfarers_, _Pappa Ante Portas_, _Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland_).
- Dick McTaggart, 89, Scottish boxer, Olympic champion (1956).

### 7

- Sir David Vunagi, 73, Solomon Islands bishop and politician, governor-general (2019–2024).
- D'Wayne Wiggins, 64, American musician (Tony! Toni! Toné!) and songwriter ("Feels Good"), bladder cancer.

### 6

- Brian James, 70, English punk rock guitarist (The Damned, The Lords of the New Church) and songwriter ("New Rose").
- Crystal-Donna Roberts, 40, South African actress (_Arendsvlei_, _The Endless River_, _Chronicle_), breast cancer.
- Árpád Sopsits, 72, Hungarian film director (_Strangled_).

### 5

- Edesio Alejandro, 66, Cuban singer, guitarist and composer (_Clandestinos_, _Hello Hemingway_), cancer.
- Randy Brown, 72, American R&B singer. (death announced on this date)
- Sylvester Turner, 70, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 2025), mayor of Houston (2016–2024).

### 3

- Kathryn Apanowicz, 64, British actress (_Angels_, _EastEnders_) and television presenter (_Calendar_). (death announced on this date)
- Eleonora Giorgi, 71, Italian actress (_Talcum Powder_, _Mani di fata_, _Inferno_), pancreatic cancer.

### 2

- Juan Margallo, 84, Spanish actor (_Dragon Rapide_, _Solitary Fragments_) and theatre director, complications from a fall.

### 1

- Monika Lundi, 82, German actress (_The Heath Is Green_, _Crazy – Completely Mad_, _No Gold for a Dead Diver_). (death announced on this date)
- Joey Molland, 77, English guitarist (Badfinger) and songwriter.
- Angie Stone, 63, American singer ("No More Rain (In This Cloud)", "Wish I Didn't Miss You") and rapper (The Sequence), traffic collision.