Deaths in July 2025

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

- Adriana Asti, 94, Italian actress (_Rocco and His Brothers_, _A Brief Vacation_, _The Inheritance_).
- Seán Rocks, 64, Irish broadcaster and actor (_Dear Sarah_, _Go Now_).
- Robert Wilson, 83

### 30

- David Argue, 65, Australian actor (_Razorback_, _Hercules Returns_, _Gallipoli_).
- Lotfy Labib, 77, Egyptian actor (_The Embassy in the Building_, _Keda Reda_, _Assal Eswed_).

### 29

- Alon Abutbul, 60, Israeli actor (_Love at Second Sight_, _The Dark Knight Rises_, _London Has Fallen_).
- Lena Cronqvist, 86, Swedish painter, sculptor
- Paul Mario Day, 69, English singer (Iron Maiden), cancer. (death announced on this date)
- Sir Michael Hill, 86, New Zealand jeweller and entrepreneur.

### 28

- Ryne Sandberg, 65, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and manager (Philadelphia Phillies), prostate cancer.

### 27

- Henry Hu, 105, Hong Kong academic administrator and politician, founder of HKSYU, MLC (1976–1983) and MUC (1965–1981).

### 26

- Jean-Pol Dubois, French actor (_A Captain's Honor_, _Vidocq_, _Fanfan la Tulipe_).
- Tom Lehrer, 97, American singer-songwriter ("The Elements", "The Old Dope Peddler", "The Vatican Rag"), satirist, and mathematician.

### 24

- Hulk Hogan, 71, cardiac arrest
- Jules Walter, 96, Antiguan actor (_The Wild Geese_, _A View to a Kill_, _Doctor Who_). (death announced on this date)

### 23

- George Kooymans, 77, Dutch musician (Golden Earring) and songwriter ("Twilight Zone", "Radar Love"), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Tony Peers, 78, British actor (_Emmerdale_, _Coronation Street_, _L.A. Without a Map_).
- Henri Szeps, 81, Swiss-born Australian actor (_Mother and Son_, _Palace of Dreams_, _Run Rebecca, Run_).

### 22

- Emily Cranz, 82, American-born Mexican actress (_La cigüeña distraída_, _Canta mi corazón_, _Farewell to Marriage_) and singer.
- Chuck Mangione, 84, American flugelhornist, composer ("Feels So Good") and actor (_King of the Hill_), Grammy winner (1977, 1979).
- Ozzy Osbourne, 76, English Hall of Fame musician (Black Sabbath), songwriter ("Paranoid") and television personality (_The Osbournes_).

### 21

- Des van Jaarsveldt, 96, Zimbabwean-born South African rugby union player (national team, Rhodesia national team).
- Tatyana Yegorova, 81, Russian actress (_Office Romance_, _Time of Desires_, _Armavir_), writer and journalist.

### 20

- Chandra Barot, 86, Indian film director (_Don_), pulmonary fibrosis.
- Tom Troupe, 97, American actor (_Kelly's Heroes_, _My Own Private Idaho_, _The Devil's Brigade_).
- Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 54, American actor (_The Cosby Show_, _Malcolm & Eddie_, _The Resident_) and musician, Grammy Award winner (2015), drowned.

### 19

- Josip Pejaković, 78, Bosnian actor (_Silent Gunpowder_) and writer (Novi Plamen).

### 18

- Pasty Harris, 81, English cricketer (Middlesex, Nottinghamshire, Wellington). (death announced on this date)
- Homayun, 88, Iranian actor (_Topoli_, _Soltane Ghalbha_).
- Velu Prabhakaran, 68, Indian film director (_Adhisaya Manithan_, _Rajali_, _Puratchikkaaran_).
- Harry Standjofski, 66, Canadian actor (_Pieces of a Woman_, _X-Men: Days of Future Past_, _The Aviator_).

### 17

- Alan Bergman, 99, American songwriter ("The Way We Were", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers").
- Berit Frodi, 99, Swedish actress (_The Koster Waltz_).
- Joanna Kołaczkowska, 59, Polish actress.
- Don McIntosh, 94, New Zealand rugby union player.
- Felix Baumgartner,56, skydiving/basejumping accident.

### 16

- Connie Francis, 87, American pop singer ("Everybody's Somebody's Fool", "Pretty Little Baby", "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own").
- Taylor Wong, 75, Hong Kong film director (_Behind the Yellow Line_, _The Truth_, _The Three Swordsmen_), throat cancer.

### 15

- Dheeraj Kumar, 80, Indian actor (_Sargam_, _Roti Kapada Aur Makaan_, _Beharoopia_), and television producer and director, pneumonia.

### 14

- Alexander Mitta, 92, Russian film director (_Shine, Shine, My Star_, _How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor_, _Air Crew_), screenwriter and actor, complications from a stroke.
- Yuri Moroz, 68, Russian film director (_The Witches Cave_, _Black Square_), actor (_Visit to Minotaur_) and producer.

### 13

- Muhammadu Buhari, 82, Nigerian military officer and politician, military head of state (1983–1985), president (2015–2023), and governor of Borno State (1975–1976).
- Dave Cousins, 85, English musician (Strawbs) and songwriter ("Lay Down", "Shine on Silver Sun").
- Jörgen Liik, 35, Estonian actor (_November_, _Kättemaksukontor_, _Tuulepealne maa_).

### 12

- Sylvi Graham, 73, Norwegian politician, MP (2009–2017). (death announced on this date)
- Mario Mactas, 80, Argentine journalist and writer.
- Rudolf van den Berg, 76, Dutch film director (_Evenings_, _Tirza_, _A Real Vermeer_) and screenwriter, cardiac arrest.

### 11

- Balaram Gharti Magar, 87, Nepali politician, MP (1994–1999).

### 10

- Bun Hay Mean, 43, French comedian and actor (_Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom_), fall.

### 9

- Ioana Bulcă, 89, Romanian actress (_The Mill of Good Luck_, _A Woman for a Season_, _Then I Sentenced Them All to Death_).

### 8

- James Carter Cathcart, 71, American voice actor (_Pokémon_, _Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters_, _Sonic X_), throat cancer.

### 7

- Norman Tebbit, 94, British politician, secretary of state for employment (1981–1983).

### 5

- Pedro Aguayo, 85, Ecuadorian politician, vice president (1998).
- Gordon Rorke, 87, Australian cricketer (New South Wales, national team).

### 4

- Chow Chung, 92, Hong Kong actor (_Old Time Buddy: To Catch a Thief_, _Point of No Return_, _When Rules Turn Loose_), pneumonia.
- Rob Houwer, 87, Dutch film producer (_Turkish Delight_, _Soldier of Orange_, _The Fourth Man_).

### 3

- Billy Hunter, 97, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Baltimore Orioles) and manager (Texas Rangers). (death announced on this date)
- Diogo Jota, 28, Liverpool FC Forward and Portuguese Footballer, car crash.
- Michael Madsen, 67, American actor (_Reservoir Dogs_, _Kill Bill: Volume 2_, _The Hateful Eight_), cardiac arrest.

### 2

- Gerald Harper, 96, English actor (_Hadleigh_, _Adam Adamant Lives!, A Night to Remember_).
- Agliberto Meléndez, 82, Dominican film director (_One Way Ticket_).
- Babu Meman, 73, Zimbabwean cricketer (Shropshire, national team). (death announced on this date)

### 1

- Florence Delay, 84, French writer and actress (_The Trial of Joan of Arc_, _Le Jouet criminel_, _Écoute voir_), member of the Académie Française.
- Maureen Hingert, 88, Sri Lankan actress (_Fort Bowie_, _Gun Fever_, _The Adventures of Hiram Holliday_). (death announced on this date)