Deaths in April 2025

The following is a list of notable deaths that happened in April 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.

## April 2025
### 30
*Park Hee-gon, 56, South Korean film director (*Insadong Scandal*, *Perfect Game*, *Fengshui*).
*Jules Wijdenbosch, 83, Surinamese politician, prime minister (1987–1988) and president (1996–2000).

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*Shaji N. Karun, 73, Indian film director (*Piravi*, *Swaham*, *Vanaprastham*).
*Aleksey Krychenkov, 83, Russian actor (*The Girls*, *Director*).
*Priscilla Pointer, 100, American actress (*Carrie*, *Mommie Dearest*, *Blue Velvet*).

### 27
*Cora Sue Collins, 98, American actress (*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*, *Anna Karenina*, *The Unexpected Father*), complications from a stroke.

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*Philip Lowrie, 88, English actor (*Coronation Street*, *Victoria Wood*, *Home Fires*).
*Lupita Torrentera, 93, Mexican actress (*Historia de un gran amor*, *Coqueta*).

### 24
*Steve Kiner, 77, American Hall of Fame football player (Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Houston Oilers).
*Roy Phillips, 83, British musician (The Peddlers).

### 23
*Eugène Koffi Adoboli, 90, Togolese politician, prime minister (1999–2000).
*Chris Cauwenberghs, 78, Belgian actor (*Hector*, *Koko Flanel*, *Thuis*), complications from heart failure.
*Waltraut Haas, 97, Austrian actress (*Der Hofrat Geiger*, *Mariandl*, *The White Horse Inn*). (death announced on this date)
*Fouad Mebazaa, 91, Tunisian politician, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies (1997–2011) and acting president (2011).
*Keith Stackpole, 84, Australian cricketer (Victoria). (death announced on this date)

### 22
*Erik Ruus, 62, Estonian actor (*The Birdwatcher*, *Firewater*, *All My Lenins*).

### 21
*Pope Francis, 88, head of the Catholic church, stroke and heart failure.
*Johanna Matz, 92, Austrian actress (*Hannerl*, *Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach*, *The White Horse Inn*).

### 20
*Kimble Rendall, 67–68, Australian musician (XL Capris, Hoodoo Gurus) and film director (*Guardians of the Tomb*). (death announced on this date)
*Noreen Young, 85, Canadian puppeteer (*Under the Umbrella Tree*, *Sesame Park*), stroke. (death announced on this date)

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*Rudolf Pankov, 87, Russian actor (*Michman Panin*, *Blasted Hell*, *Talents and Admirers*) and voice actor.
*Clodagh Rodgers, 78, Irish singer ("Come Back and Shake Me", "Jack in the Box").
*Julieta Szönyi, 75, Romanian actress (*Felix și Otilia*, *Toate pînzele sus*).

### 17
*Roger McLachlan, 71, New Zealand-born Australian bass guitarist (Little River Band), pancreatic cancer. (death announced on this date)

### 16
*Patrick Adiarte, 81, Filipino-American actor (*The King and I*, *High Time*, *Flower Drum Song*).
*Nora Aunor, 71, Filipino actress (*Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos*, *Trap*, *Hustisya*) and singer.
*Vladimir Gerasimov, 74, Russian actor (*Car, Violin and Blot the Dog*, *One-Two, Soldiers Were Going...*, *Tailcoat for Scapegrace*). (death announced on this date)

### 15
*Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak, 74, Polish actress (*Another Way*, *Scratch*, *Tatarak*).
*Shūhei Kishimoto, 68, Japanese politician, MP (2009–2022) and governor of Wakayama Prefecture (since 2022), septic shock.
*Wink Martindale, 91, American disc jockey, game show host (*Gambit*, *Tic-Tac-Dough*) and singer ("Deck of Cards"), lymphoma.
*S. S. Stanley, 57, Indian film director (*April Maadhathil*, *Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan*, *Kizhakku Kadarkarai Salai*) and actor.

### 14
*Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 85, Malaysian politician, prime minister (2003–2009), minister of foreign affairs (1991–1999), and MP (1978–2013), heart disease.

### 13
*Mario Vargas Llosa, 89, Peruvian writer, and holder of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
*Bank Janardhan, 74, Indian actor (*Tharle Nan Maga*, *Shhh!*, *News*) and comedian.
*Jean Marsh, 90, British actress (*Upstairs, Downstairs*, *Doctor Who*, *Willow*) and television writer, Emmy winner (1975), complications from dementia.

### 12
*Pilita Corrales, 85, Filipino singer and actress (''Mars Ravelo's Darna! Ang Pagbabalik*, *Bride for Rent*, *My Illegal Wife*).

### 11
*Nino Bellomo, 102, Italian actor (*Blues metropolitano*, *Law of Courage*) and journalist.
*Mike Berry, 82, English singer ("The Sunshine of Your Smile") and actor (*Are You Being Served?*, *Worzel Gummidge*).
*Max Romeo, 80, Jamaican reggae musician ("Wet Dream", "Chase the Devil").

### 10
*Leo Beenhakker, 82, Dutch football manager (Ajax, Real Madrid, national team).
*Ted Kotcheff, 94, Canadian film director (*First Blood*, *Weekend at Bernie's*).
*Ku Feng, 94, Hong Kong actor (*The Love Eterne*, *Between Tears and Laughter*, *Come Drink with Me*).
*Mario Ernesto Sánchez, 78, Cuban actor (*Miami Vice*, *The Truman Show*, *The Specialist*) and businessman, founder and director of Teatro Avante.

### 9
*Mel Novak, 90, American actor (*Game of Death*, *Black Belt Jones*, *An Eye for an Eye*).

### 8
*Notable Dominicans killed in the Jet Set nightclub roof collapse:
**Tony Blanco, 44, baseball player (Chunichi Dragons, Yokohama DeNA BayStars, Orix Buffaloes)
**Nelsy Cruz, 41, politician, governor of Monte Cristi Province (since 2020)
**Octavio Dotel, 51, baseball player (Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets)
**Rubby Pérez, 69, merengue singer

### 7
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*Clem Burke, 70, American Hall of Fame drummer (Blondie), cancer.
*Jay North, 73, American actor (*Dennis the Menace*, *Maya*, *Arabian Knights*), colorectal cancer.

### 5
*Antonello Fassari, 72, Italian actor (*Romanzo Criminale*, *The Goodbye Kiss*, *Suburra*) and comedian.
*Raymond Hawthorne, 88, New Zealand theatre director.

### 4
*Manoj Kumar, 87, Indian actor (*Kranti*, *Upkar*, *Roti Kapada Aur Makaan*).
*Ravikumar, 71, Indian actor (*Ullasa Yaathra*, *Aanandham Paramaanandham*, *Ee Manohara Theeram*).

### 3
*Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 82, German landowner and nobleman, head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (since 1998).
*Gordon Faith, 94, British actor (*Doctor Who*, *Adam Adamant Lives!*, *War & Peace*). (death announced on this date)
*Farooq Hamid, 80, Pakistani cricketer (Lahore, PIA, national team).
*John Saint Ryan, 72, English actor (*Coronation Street*, *Roar*, *Squanto: A Warrior's Tale*) and equestrian, heart attack.

### 2
*Khamtai Siphandone, 101, Laotian politician, president (1998–2006), prime minister (1991–1998), and chairman of the Revolutionary Party (1992–2006).
*Alois Švehlík, 85, Czech actor (*Forbidden Dreams*, *Alois Nebel*, *On the Roof*) and theater pedagogue.

### 1
*Val Kilmer, 65, American actor (*The Doors*, *Tombstone*, *Batman Forever''), pneumonia.
*Johnny Tillotson, 86, American singer-songwriter ("Poetry in Motion", "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'", "Without You"), complications from Parkinson's disease.

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