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.

## August 2025
### 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*).

### 29
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*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*).

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*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.

### 6
### 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)

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