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.

## March 2025
### 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)

### 26
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*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).

### 24
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*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.

### 11
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*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).

### 8
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*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).

### 4
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*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.

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