Deaths in 2025

The following is a list of notable deaths that happened in the year 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 they are 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, his or her cause of death – if known – and a source for verification.

### 31

- Candy Raymond, 75, Australian actress (_Don's Party_, _The Plumber_, _Money Movers_). (death announced on this date)

### 30

- Khaleda Zia, 80, Bangladeshi politician, prime minister (1991–1996, 2001–2006), first lady (1977–1981), and three-time MP.
- Albert Hall, 88, American actor.
- Bobby Joe Conrad, 90, American football player.
- Willy Claes, 87, Belgian conductor and politician, 8th Secretary General of NATO.

### 28

- Brigitte Bardot, French actress,91
- Pablo Moret, 92, Argentine actor (_Responsibility_, _The Bitter Stems_, _El Asalto_).
- Hugh Morris, 62, Welsh cricketer (Glamorgan, England national team). (death announced on this date)

### 27

- Allwell Ademola, 43, Nigerian actress (_Tiwa's Baggage_, _My Mirror_), screenwriter and film director.
- Daoud Abdel Sayed, 79, Egyptian film director (_The Kit Kat_, _Land of Dreams_, _Messages from the Sea_) and screenwriter.
- Garrick Tremain, 84, New Zealand cartoonist.

### 26

- Perry Bamonte, 65, English Hall of Fame rock musician (The Cure, Love Amongst Ruin). (death announced on this date)
- Bahram Beyzai, 87, Iranian film director (_Ballad of Tara_, _Bashu, the Little Stranger_) and playwright (_Memoirs of the Actor in a Supporting Role_).
- Don Bryant, 83, American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter ("I Can't Stand the Rain").

### 25

- Vera Alentova, 83, Russian actress (_Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears_, _Shirli-myrli_, _The Envy of Gods_).
- Shirin Yazdanbakhsh, 76, Iranian actress (_Please Do Not Disturb_, _Life and a Day_, _Killer Spider_), complications from a stroke.

### 24

- Mohammad Bakri, 72, Palestinian film director (_Jenin, Jenin_) and actor (_Haifa_, _The Lark Farm_), heart disease.

### 23

- Katie Allen, 59, Australian politician, MP (2019–2022), cholangiocarcinoma.
- Sathischandra Edirisinghe, 84, Sri Lankan actor (_Christhu Charithaya_, _Dorakada Marawa_, _Suhada Koka_).

### 22

- Uwe Kockisch, 81, German actor (_Our Short Life_, _Treffen in Travers_, _Ruby Red_).
- Chris Rea, 74, English singer-songwriter ("Fool (If You Think It's Over)", "Driving Home for Christmas", "The Road to Hell").

### 21

- Asanali Ashimov, 88, Kazakh actor (_The Throw, or Everything Started on Saturday_), film director and screenwriter.

### 20

- Celso Bugallo, 78, Spanish actor (_Mondays in the Sun_, _The Sea Inside_, _Salvador_).
- Anatoly Lobotsky, 66, Russian actor (_The Envy of Gods_, _Mata Hari_, _AK-47_), cancer.

### 19

- Lorraine Cheshire, 65, English actress (_Trollied_, _Ackley Bridge_, _The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus_).
- Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, 90, Russian astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist.
- Bobby Joe Conrad, 90, American football player.
- Willy Claes, 87, Belgian conductor and politician, 8th Secretary General of NATO.
- Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 88, Latvian psychologist and politician, President of Latvia.
- Bob Arum, 94, American boxing promoter, founded Top Rank.

### 18

- Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, 75, Angolan politician, prime minister (2002–2008), vice president (2010–2012) and president of the national assembly (2008–2010, 2012–2022).

### 17

- Peter Arnett, 91, journalist, prostate cancer
- William Rush, 31, British actor (_Waterloo Road_, _Grange Hill_, _Coronation Street_).

### 16

- Gil Gerard, 82, American actor (_Buck Rogers in the 25th Century_, _Airport '77_, _The Doctors_), cancer.

### 15

- Somachandra de Silva, 83, Sri Lanka cricketer.

### 14

- Carl Carlton, 72, American singer ("Everlasting Love", "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)") and songwriter.
- Rob Reiner, 78, American actor (_All in the Family_) and film director (_This Is Spinal Tap_, _When Harry Met Sally..._), Emmy winner (1974, 1978), stabbed.

### 13

- Héctor Alterio, 96, Argentine actor (_The Official Story_, _Flesh and Blood_, _Son of the Bride_).

### 12

- Stanley Baxter, 99, Scottish actor (_Crooks Anonymous_, _Very Important Person_) and comedian (_The Stanley Baxter Show_).
- Arthur Cohn, 98, Swiss film producer (_The Garden of the Finzi-Continis_, _Black and White in Color_, _One Day in September_).

### 10

- Kim Ji-mee, 85, South Korean actress (_Cruel Youth_, _Wang-geon, the Great_, _Kilsodeum_), complications from shingles.
- Efraín Goldenberg, 95, Peruvian politician, prime minister (1994–1995), minister of economy (1999–2000) and foreign affairs (1993–1995).

### 9

- Béatrice Picard, 96, Canadian actress (_Once Upon a Time in the East_, _The Outlander_, _My Aunt Aline_).

### 8

- Eila Roine, 94, Finnish actress (_The Big Freeze_, _Trench Road_, _Skavabölen pojat_).
- Yun Il-bong, 91, South Korean actor (_Suddenly at Midnight_, _Oyster Village_, _Aimless Bullet_).

### 7

- Viacheslav Kryshtofovych, 78, Ukrainian film director (_Adam's Rib_, _A Friend of the Deceased_), screenwriter and actor. (death announced on this date)
- Frans Weisz, 87, Dutch film director (_The Burglar_, _A Gangstergirl_, _Red Sien_), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

### 5

- Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect, 96, heart failure.

### 4

- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, 75, American actor (_Licence to Kill_, _Mortal Kombat_, _The Man in the High Castle_), stroke.

### 3

- Steve Cropper, 84, American Hall of Fame guitarist (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), songwriter ("In the Midnight Hour") and record producer ("(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay").

### 2

- Essau Kanyenda, 43, Malawian footballer (FC Rostov, Polokwane City, national team), liver cancer.
- Billy Nichols, 85, American musician and songwriter ("Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)", "Without Your Love"). (death announced on this date)

### 1

- Robin Smith, 62, South African-born English cricketer (Natal, Hampshire, England national team).

## Previous months

- Deaths in January 2025
- Deaths in February 2025
- Deaths in March 2025
- Deaths in April 2025
- Deaths in May 2025
- Deaths in June 2025
- Deaths in July 2025
- Deaths in August 2025
- Deaths in September 2025
- Deaths in October 2025
- Deaths in November 2025

## Other websites

- _The Guardian_ (UK) obituaries
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- Obituaries, _Chicago Tribune_
- Obituaries, _Los Angeles Times_
- _The New York Times_, obituaries
- _The Washington Post_ obituaries
- _The Sydney Morning Herald_ (Australia) obituaries