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.

### December
### 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.

### 29
### 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*).

### 11
### 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.

### 6
### 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

## References
## Other websites
**The Guardian* (UK) obituaries
**The Telegraph* (UK) obituaries
*Obituaries, *Chicago Tribune*
*Obituaries, *Los Angeles Times*
**The New York Times*, obituaries
**The Washington Post* obituaries
**The Sydney Morning Herald* (Australia) obituaries