Deaths in August 2025

The following is a list of notable deaths that happened in August 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

- Radna Sakhaltuev, 90, Ukrainian animator (_Adventures of Captain Wrongel_, _Treasure Island_).

### 30

- Arthur Brauss, 89, German actor (_Hot Pavements of Cologne_, _The Girl from Hong Kong_, _The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty_).

### 28

- Mike de Leon, 78, Filipino film director, screenwriter, and producer (_Sister Stella L._, _Itim_, _Batch '81_).
- Rami Heuberger, 61, Israeli actor (_Schindler's List_, _Dawn_, _Golda_) and theatre director, cancer.

### 27

- Shane Christie, 39, New Zealand rugby union player (Tasman, Highlanders, Māori All Blacks).
- Jacques Dorfmann, 79, French film producer (_Patate_, _Juliette and Juliette_, _The Witness_), screenwriter and film director.
- Eusebio Poncela, 79, Spanish actor (_Law of Desire_, _Arrebato_, _Ogro_).

### 26

- Franklin Domínguez, 94, Dominican playwright, theater director, and actor (_Ratman_, _The Lost City_).

### 25

- Angela Mortimer, 93, British tennis player, Wimbledon champion (1961).

### 24

- Stéphane Bouquet, 57, French writer (_Presque rien_, _Wild Side_, _Going South_).
- Verónica Echegui, 42, Spanish actress (_My Name Is Juani_, _You're Killing Me Susana_, _My Heart Goes Boom!_), cancer.
- Richard Hobert, 73, Swedish film director (_Spring of Joy_, _Everybody Loves Alice_, _Spring för livet_), screenwriter and composer. (death announced on this date)
- Luis Alberto Lamata, 65, Venezuelan film director and screenwriter (_Bolívar, Man of Difficulties_).
- Luís Lucas, 73, Portuguese actor (_A Portuguese Goodbye_, _Aqui na Terra_, _Dot.Com_).
- Valery Uskov, 92, Russian film director (_The Slowest Train_, _Stewardess_, _Eternal Call_) and screenwriter.

### 23

- Jerry Adler, 96, American actor (_The Sopranos_, _Rescue Me_, _The Good Wife_).
- Miguel Ángel Martínez, Dominican actor (_La soga_, _Trópico de sangre_).
- Nandi Nyembe, 75, South African actress (_Yesterday_, _Ses'Top La_, _Ashes to Ashes_).

### 22

- Jaswinder Bhalla, 65, Indian actor (_Jatt & Juliet_, _Carry On Jatta_, _Mahaul Theek Hai_) and comedian.
- Per Holst, 86, Danish film producer (_I Am Dina_, _Max Pinlig_, _Simon and the Oaks_).

### 21

- Keith Nelson, 86, New Zealand rugby union player (Otago, Auckland, national team).

### 20

- Enrique Borgo Bustamante, 96, Salvadoran politician, vice president (1994–1999).
- Michel Fessler, 69–70, French film director and screenwriter (_Farinelli_, _Ridicule_, _March of the Penguins_). (death announced on this date)
- Marcel Łoziński, 85, Polish film director (_89mm from Europe_).

### 19

- Ken Shuttleworth, 80, English cricketer (Lancashire, Leicestershire, national team). (death announced on this date)

### 18

- Nicolae Todos, 89, Moldovan politician, deputy.

### 17

- Jasna Malec Utrobičić, 80, Croatian actress (_The Birch Tree_, _The Last Will_).
- Terence Stamp, 87, British actor)

### 16

- Alberto Martín, 81, Argentine actor (_Brigada en acción_, _Los hijos de López_, _My Family's Beautiful!_).
- Bob Simpson, 89, Australian cricketer.

### 15

- Greg Iles, 65, American novelist (_The Quiet Game_, _24 Hours_, _The Footprints of God_), multiple myeloma.
- Tristan Rogers, 79, Australian actor (_General Hospital_, _The Young and the Restless_, _The Rescuers Down Under_), lung cancer.

### 14

- Ingeborg Elzevier, 89, Dutch actress (_Kinderen geen bezwaar_, _The Dress_, _Grimm_).

### 13

- Nicolas Beaucaire, 52, French actor (_Serial Teachers_).
- Jacques Martial, 70, French actor (_Navarro_, _Street of No Return_).

### 10

- Biddy Baxter, 92, English television producer (_Blue Peter_).
- Bobby Whitlock, 77, American singer, songwriter ("Bell Bottom Blues") and musician (Derek and the Dominos, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends).

### 9

- Ivan Krasko, 94, Russian actor (_The Prince and the Pauper_, _A Beautiful Stranger_, _Afghan Breakdown_), People's Artist of Russia (1992).

### 8

- Peter Lester, 70, New Zealand sailor and broadcaster, heart attack.

### 7

- Jim Lovell, 97, American astronaut (Gemini 12, Apollo 8, Apollo 13).
- Myint Swe, 74, Burmese politician, acting president (2021–2024), first vice-president (since 2016), and chief minister of Yangon Region (2011–2016), complications from Parkinson's disease.

### 5

- Santhosh Balaraj, 38, Indian actor (_Kempa_, _Ganapa_, _Kariya 2_), complications from jaundice.
- Ion Iliescu, 95, Romanian politician, president (1989–1996, 2000–2004), state councillor (1979–1980), and five-time MP, lung cancer.

### 4

- Jane Morgan, 101, American singer ("Fascination", "The Day the Rains Came", "Two Different Worlds").
- Eldar Shengelaia, 92, Georgian film director (_The White Caravan_, _Unusual Exhibition_, _Blue Mountains_) and politician, MP (1990–2004).

### 3

- Loni Anderson, 79, American actress (_WKRP in Cincinnati_, _All Dogs Go to Heaven_, _A Night at the Roxbury_).
- Nando Angelini, 91, Italian actor (_Bloody Pit of Horror_, _The Seventh Grave_, _The Three Faces_).
- Sam Backo, 64, Australian rugby league player (Canberra Raiders, Brisbane Broncos, national team), melioidosis.

### 2

- Madhan Bob, 71, Indian actor (_Magalir Mattum_, _Gopura Deepam_, _Ayya_) and comedian, cancer.

### 1

- Jonathan Kaplan, 77, American film and television director (_The Accused_, _Over the Edge_, _ER_), liver cancer.
- Kalabhavan Navas, 51, Indian actor (_Hitler Brothers_, _Junior Mandrake_, _Mattupetti Machan_) and comedian.
- Jeannie Seely, 85, American singer ("Don't Touch Me", "I'll Love You More (Than You Need)", "Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You").
- Alfie Wise, 81, American actor (_Smokey and the Bandit_, _The Cannonball Run_, _Stroker Ace_). (death announced on this date)