Deaths in 2025

The following notable deaths occurred in 2025. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.

• Ahmadshah Abdullah, 78, Malaysian civil servant, Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sabah (2003–2010).
• Kay Arthur, 91, American author.
• Nino Benvenuti, 87, Italian boxer, Olympic champion (1960).
• Gadi Kinda, 31, Ethiopian-born Israeli footballer (Ashdod, Sporting Kansas City, Israel national team).
• Dre Love, 55, American-born Italian singer and rapper.
• Harri Lumi, 92, Estonian politician, chairman of the Executive Committee of Tallinn (1984–1990).
• Jusuf Manggabarani [id], 72, Indonesian police officer, deputy chief of police (2010–2011).
• Jayant Narlikar, 87, Indian astrophysicist (Hoyle–Narlikar theory of gravity, Quasi-steady state cosmology).
• Patrick O'Flynn, 59, British journalist (Daily Express) and politician, MEP (2014–2019), cancer. (death announced on this date)
• Benjamin Ritchie, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• M. R. Srinivasan, 95, Indian nuclear scientist, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (1987–1990).
• Michael B. Tretow, 80, Swedish record producer and sound engineer (ABBA).
• George Wendt, 76, American actor (Cheers, Fletch, No Small Affair).

• Joseph Akaagerger, 69, Nigerian politician, military administrator of Katsina State (2007–2011) and senator (1998–1999). (death announced on this date)
• Yusuf Ziya Bahadınlı, 97, Turkish politician, MP (1965–1969).
• Aurora Clavel, 88, Mexican actress (Tarahumara, Once Upon a Scoundrel, Mariana de la Noche).
• Belén del Valle Díaz [es], 82, Spanish attorney.
• Mike Doughty, 88, Kenyan rally co-driver.
• Colton Ford, 62, American actor (Naked Fame, The Lair) and singer.
• Heorhiy Gina, 93, Ukrainian composer.
• Yury Grigorovich, 98, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer.
• Chris Hager, 67, American guitarist (Rough Cutt, Mickey Ratt). (death announced on this date)
• Kathleen Hughes, 96, American actress (It Came from Outer Space, The Glass Web, The Golden Blade).
• Jonathan Paredes, 36, Colombian racing cyclist, traffic collision.
• Joseph Ponniah, 72, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic prelate, auxuliary bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa (2008–2012) and bishop of Batticaloa (2012–2024).
• Ignacio Rodríguez, 68, Mexican football player (Atlante, national team) and manager (Necaxa), cancer.
• Martín Sombra [es], 87, Colombian guerrilla (Eastern Bloc of the FARC-EP).
• Manuel Torreiglesias, 84, Spanish television and radio presenter.
• Yuri Vladimirov, 83, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer.
• Hans Wiegel, 83, Dutch politician, deputy prime minister and minister of interior (1977–1981), Queen's commissioner of Friesland (1982–1994).

• Jay Batt, 64, American businessman and politician, member of the New Orleans City Council (2002–2006).
• Leslie Epstein, 87, American writer and academic.
• Fernando González Ollé [es], 96, Spanish linguist, writer and academic, member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
• S. R. Nayak, 80, Indian jurist, judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court (1994–2003), acting chief justice of the Karnataka High Court (2004) and chief justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court (2005–2007).
• Cindy Schreiber-Beck, 70, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives (since 2014).
• John Simpson, 100, Scottish-born New Zealand silversmith and fine arts academic.
• Charles Thiffault, 87, Canadian ice hockey assistant coach (Montreal Canadiens, Quebec Nordiques, New York Rangers), assisted suicide.

• Osmany Cienfuegos, 94, Cuban politician.
• Paul Durcan, 80, Irish poet.
• Jackie Edwards, 85, English rugby league player (Warrington, Lancashire).
• Lungi Gcabashe, 64, South African politician, MNA (2014–2019, since 2024).
• Saroj Ghose, 89, Indian museum founder, director of Birla Industrial & Technological Museum and director general of NCSM.
• Gawn Grainger, 87, Scottish actor and writer.
• Belela Herrera [es], 98, Uruguayan human rights activist, academic and politician, deputy minister of foreign relations (2005–2010).
• Gorgis Ismail, 82, Iraqi footballer (Al-Athori, national team).
• Ali Kazak, 78, Palestinian diplomat.
• Michael Ledeen, 83, American scholar and policy analyst.
• Franco Merli, 68, Italian actor (Arabian Nights, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Down and Dirty).
• Fadiouf Ndiaye, 28, Senegalese footballer (US Ouakam).
• Adam Selwood, 41, Australian footballer (West Coast Eagles).
• Ashish Ubale [mr], Indian Marathi film producer and director, suicide.
• Luis Velásquez Alvaray, 71, Venezuelan lawyer and politician, deputy (2000–2004) and justice of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (2005–2006), prostate cancer.
• Werenoi, 31, French rapper, heart attack.
• Notable Estonian deaths in the 2025 Eura mid-air collision:
  • Priit Jaagant, 52, business executive
  • Oleg Sõnajalg, 65, businessman, co-founder of TV1

• Mariano Azuela Güitrón, 89, Mexican jurist, justice (1983–2009) and president (2003–2009) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
• Marianne Bernadotte, 100, Swedish actress, philanthropist and royal family member.
• René Bonora, 73, Cuban Olympic footballer (1976). (death announced on this date)
• Duncan Campbell, 80, British investigative journalist.
• Jason Conti, 50, American baseball player (Arizona Diamondbacks, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Milwaukee Brewers).
• Dada KD, 56, Ghanaian highlife musician.
• Shaun Dennis, 55, Scottish footballer (Raith Rovers, Hibernian, Brechin City).
• Tuppy Diack, 94, New Zealand rugby union player (Otago, Southland, national team).
• Damir Dokić, 66–67, Serbian tennis coach.
• Brian Glanville, 93, English football writer and novelist.
• Emmanuel Kundé, 68, Cameroonian football player (Canon Yaoundé, national team) and manager (US Bitam), cardiac arrest.
• Peter Lax, 99, Hungarian-born American mathematician (Lax equivalence theorem, Lax–Friedrichs method), Abel Prize laureate (2005), cardiac amyloidosis.
• Domingos Maubere, 73, East Timorese Roman Catholic priest, lung infection.
• Manolis Papadopoulos, 57, Greek football player (Ionikos, national team) and manager (AE Giannena).
• Jadwiga Rappé, 73, Polish operatic contralto.
• Rubí Sanz Gamo [es], 72, Spanish art historian, director of the National Archaeological Museum (2004–2010).
• Gerard Soeteman, 88, Dutch screenwriter (The Assault, Turkish Delight, Soldier of Orange).
• Jan Terlouw, 93, Dutch politician, minister of economic affairs and deputy prime minister (1981–1982), Queen's commissioner of Gelderland (1991–1996), and novelist (Winter in Wartime).
• Andy Tyrie, 85, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary leader, chairman of the Ulster Defence Association (1973–1988).
• Meta Velander, 100, Swedish actress (Honeymoon, Dear Alice, Marmalade Revolution).

• Luigi Alva, 98, Peruvian tenor.
• Bachtiar Basri, 71, Indonesian politician, vice governor of Lampung (2014–2019), vascular injury.
• Angeline Solange Bonono, 50, Cameroonian writer.
• Robert Brooke, 85, English cricket writer.
• Junior Byles, 77, Jamaican reggae singer.
• Judith Copithorne, 85, Canadian poet.
• Cristina Deleanu, 84, Romanian actress.
• Bruno Franceschetti, 84, Italian Olympic gymnast (1964, 1968).
• Kostas Lychnaras, 86, Greek film director (Christ Recrucified, Konstantinou kai Elenis, To kafe tis Charas).
• Teresa Costa Macedo, 82, Portuguese politician, MP (1981).
• Ali Özgentürk, 79, Turkish film director, screenwriter and producer.
• Thierry Picard, 68, French rugby union player (AS Montferrand, national team) and coach (Stade Nantais), cardiac arrest.
• Federica Ranchi, 86, Italian actress (Wives and Obscurities, The Wide Blue Road, Violent Summer).
• Glen Edward Rogers, 62, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Tapas Kumar Saha, 65, Indian politician, West Bengal MLA (since 2021), cerebral haemorrhage.
• Montserrat Salvador [es], 97, Spanish actress (El Cor de la Ciutat, Cuéntame cómo pasó, Nissaga de poder).
• Natalya Shikolenko, 60, Belarusian javelin thrower, Olympic silver medallist (1992).
• Charles Strouse, 96, American composer (Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, Annie).
• Norma Meras Swenson, 92–93, American reproductive rights activist.
• Dušan Vujović, 73, Serbian politician, minister of finance (2014–2018).
• Hans-Georg Wagner, 86, German politician, member of the Landtag of Saarland (1975–1991), MP (1990–2005).
• Robert Walls, 74, Australian footballer (Carlton, Fitzroy), assisted suicide.

• Chic Bates, 75, English football player (Shrewsbury Town, Swindon Town) and manager (Stoke City). (death announced on this date)
• Daniel Bilalian, 78, French journalist, news anchor, and television presenter.
• Enrique Cancer, 90, Spanish judge and academic, justice of the Supreme Court (1986–2010) and president of the Central Electoral Commission (2000–2004).
• Dharío Primero [es], 72, Dominican singer.
• Đoàn Viết Hoạt, 82, Vietnamese journalist and political dissident.
• Frank Dunin, 89, Australian footballer (Richmond).
• Hervé Gauvain, 70, French tennis player.
• Alan Grieve, 97, British lawyer and charity founder (Jerwood Foundation).
• Cornal Hendricks, 37, South African rugby player (Bulls, Boland Cavaliers, national team), heart attack.
• Kip Holden, 72, American politician, mayor of Baton Rouge (2005–2016), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1988–2002) and Senate (2002–2004).
• Jeannette Laot, 100, French trade unionist (CFDT), women's rights activist (MLF) and presidential advisor (François Mitterrand).
• Chufo Lloréns, 94, Spanish writer.
• Valeria Márquez, 23, Mexican influencer, shot.
• Fadéla M'rabet, 90, Algerian writer.
• Nandalike Balachandra Rao, 71, Indian journalist and writer.
• Panos Valavanis, 71, Greek archaeologist, cancer.
• Zhu Senyuan, 94, Chinese rocket scientist.

• Murray Anderson, 75, Canadian hockey player (Washington Capitals).
• Rasammah Bhupalan, 98, Malaysian independence and social activist.
• Kit Bond, 86, American politician, governor of Missouri (1973–1977, 1981–1985) and member of the U.S. Senate (1987–2011).
• John Bryson, 81, American businessman, lawyer and politician, secretary of commerce (2011–2012).
• Luis Armando Córdova Díaz, 56, Mexican politician, deputy (2012–2014, 2015), shot.
• Billy Earheart, 71, American country keyboardist (The Amazing Rhythm Aces, The Bama Band), Grammy winner (1977), cancer.
• Gerry Fell, 74, English footballer (Brighton & Hove Albion, Torquay United, Southend United), cancer.
• Divaldo Franco, 98, Brazilian spiritist religious leader and medium, multiple organ failure.
• Bobby Franklin, 88, American football player (Ole Miss Rebels, Cleveland Browns).
• Richard Garwin, 97, American physicist.
• Derek Hallas, 90–91, English dual-code rugby player (Keighley, Parramatta Eels, Great Britain national team).
• Alice Hanratty, 85–86, Irish artist.
• Yaak Karsunke, 90, German author and actor (Gods of the Plague).
• Phyllis Gutiérrez Kenney, 88, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1997–2013).
• Lu Ruihua, 86, Chinese politician, governor of Guangdong (1996–2003).
• D. S. Malik, 66, Indian-American mathematician.
• Robson Mrombe, 79, Zimbabwean Olympic athlete (1964).
• José Mujica, 89, Uruguayan revolutionary and politician, president (2010–2015), minister of livestock (2005–2008), and four-time MP, esophageal cancer.
• Eddie Marzuki Nalapraya, 93, Indonesian general and politician, vice governor of Jakarta (1984–1987).
• Gheorghe Paladi, 96, Moldovan obstetrician and gynecologist, member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.
• Charles Phythian-Adams, 87, English historian.
• Rich Rollins, 87, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Indians).
• John R. Ross, 87, American linguist.
• Szvetiszláv Sasics, 77, Hungarian modern pentathlete, Olympic bronze medallist (1976).
• Muhammad Shabana, Palestinian militant, airstrike.
• Teijiro Tanikawa, 92, Japanese swimmer, Olympic silver medallist (1952), aortic dissection.
• Jon Ungphakorn, 77, Thai politician, senator (2000–2006).
• Tommy Vigorito, 65, American football player (Miami Dolphins).

• Zakaria al-Agha, 83, Palestinian politician.
• Per Bartram, 81, Danish footballer (Odense BK, Greenock Morton, national team).
• Adam Burton, 53, Australian baseball player (Melbourne Reds, 2000 Olympics).
• Jack Curtis, 88, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
• Mark Esser, 69, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
• Vlastimil Hort, 81, Czech-German chess player.
• Abdel Ghani al-Kikli, Libyan militia leader, shot.
• Moussa Koffoé, 66–67, Guinean actor and screenwriter.
• Roger Lassale, 89, French politician, mayor of Pont-sur-Yonne (1974–2005), deputy (1981–1986).
• Ernst Mahle, 96, German-Brazilian composer and conductor.
• Alla Osipenko, 92, Russian ballerina.
• Geert Schipper, 76, Dutch road cyclist.
• Yasunao Tone, 90, Japanese artist.

• Hemaben Acharya, 91, Indian politician, Gujarat MLA (1965–1970).
• Chris Ballingall, 92, American baseball player (Muskegon Belles, Kalamazoo Lassies).
• John Barbato, 90, American mobster (Genovese crime family).
• Dominique Bellion, 76, French civil servant.
• Robert Benton, 92, American film director (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart) and screenwriter (Bonnie and Clyde), Oscar winner (1980, 1985).
• Nils Bjørnflaten, 83, Norwegian politician.
• Colin Booth, 90, English footballer (Doncaster Rovers, Nottingham Forest, Wolverhampton Wanderers).
• Kevin Bruder, 56, American businessman, owner of the Utah Grizzlies and general manager of the Maverik Center.
• Jim Burns, 81, Scottish footballer (Clyde, Cowdenbeath, Stirling Albion).
• Aidan Chambers, 90, English author (Postcards from No Man's Land).
• Giancarlo Cito, 79, Italian politician and businessman, mayor of Taranto (1993–1996) and deputy (1996–2001).
• Anne Dunham, 76, British equestrian, six-time Paralympic champion.
• John Edwards, 80, American Hall of Fame singer (The Spinners).
• Enzo Ferrari, 82, Italian football player (Arezzo, Palermo) and manager (Udinese).
• Viktor Gerashchenko, 87, Russian economist and politician, chairman of the State Bank of the USSR (1989–1991), twice governor of the Central Bank of Russia and MP (2003–2007).
• Sharpe James, 89, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate (1999–2008) and mayor of Newark (1986–2006).
• Michael McStay, 92, British actor (Doctor Who, The Avengers, Coronation Street), heart failure.
• Arjun Menon, 48, Singaporean cricket player (national team) and coach (Chile, Malawi).
• Larry Miller, 79, American basketball player (North Carolina Tar Heels, Los Angeles Stars, Carolina Cougars).
• Wilberforce Mfum, 88, Ghanaian footballer (1964 Olympics, New York Cosmos, national team).
• Leila Negra, 95, German singer and actress (Münchhausen, The Star of Rio, Salto Mortale).
• Paddy O'Toole, 87, Irish politician, senator (1973–1977, 1987) and TD (1977–1987).
• Omoniyi Caleb Olubolade, 70, Nigerian military administrator, governor of Bayelsa State (1997–1998).
• Fatima Saad, 69, Syrian actress.
• Sabu, 60, American professional wrestler (ECW, WWE, TNA).
• Shi Xuemin, 86, Chinese traditional medicine practitioner.
• Alena Veselá, 101, Czech organist and academic.

• Mustafa Zaman Abbasi, 88, Bangladeshi musicologist.
• Subbanna Ayyappan, 69, Indian aquaculture scientist (Blue Revolution), drowned.
• Matthew Best, 68, English conductor and singer.
• Bob Cowper, 84, Australian cricketer (Victoria, Western Australia, national team).
• Charlotte Dravet, 88, French paediatric psychiatrist and epileptologist.
• Gerry Francis, 91, English footballer (Tonbridge Angels, Leeds United, York City).
• John Gale, 95, British theatrical producer and artistic director.
• Nina Grebeshkova, 94, Russian actress (The Diamond Arm, Sportloto-82, Tears Were Falling).
• Kafon, 42, Tunisian rapper, heart attack.
• Kaleria Kislova, 99, Russian television director (Vremya).
• Koyo Kouoh, 57, Cameroonian-born Swiss museum curator (Zeitz MOCAA), cancer.
• Larry Lee, 78, American musician (The Ozark Mountain Daredevils) and songwriter ("Jackie Blue").
• William Luers, 95, American diplomat, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1986–1999).
• Wolfgang Rausch, 78, German footballer (1. FC Köln, Kickers Offenbach, Bayern Munich).
• Ramanand Prasad Singh, 83–84, Indian politician, Bihar MLA (2004–2010, 2015–2020).
• Ľubomír Ujváry [cs], 76, Slovak ice hockey player (HC Slovan Bratislava, national team).
• Johnnie Walls, 80, American lawyer and politician, member of the Mississippi State Senate (1993–2011).

• Nadja Abd el Farrag, 60, German reality television participant and singer, multiple organ failure.
• Bo Bjelfvenstam, 101, Swedish actor, film director and author.
• Wade Blanchard, 66, Canadian curler.
• Sir Tom Farmer, 84, British car servicing executive, founder and CEO (1971–2002) of Kwik Fit.
• Stewart Francke, 66, American singer-songwriter, complications from a stroke.
• Samuel French, 45, American actor (Killers of the Flower Moon, Fear the Walking Dead), cancer.
• Margot Friedländer, 103, German Holocaust survivor and public speaker.
• Douglas Gibson, 82, South African diplomat and politician, MNA (1994–2008).
• Fred Graham, 96, New Zealand rugby union player (New Zealand Māori) and artist (Kaitiaki), AFNZ Icon (since 2018).
• Mark Jabalé, 91, Welsh Roman Catholic prelate, bishop coadjutor (2000–2001) and bishop (2001–2008) of Minevia.
• Azmun Jaafar, 66, Indonesian civil servant and politician, regent of Pelalawan (2001–2008).
• Sahib Khazal, 82, Iraqi football player (Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, national team) and manager (Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya).
• Kim Yeong-hyeon, 70, South Korean poet and novelist.
• Dragan Labović, 38, Serbian basketball player (FMP, BC Nokia, national team), heart attack.
• Régent Lacoursière, 90, Canadian swimmer.
• Bob Lemieux, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Oakland Seals, Muskegon Zephyrs, Vancouver Canucks) and coach.
• Monroe Milstein, 98, American retail executive, co-founder of Burlington Coat Factory.
• Milorad Mirčić, 69, Serbian politician, minister of diaspora (1998–2000), mayor of Novi Sad (1993–1994), and MP (1993–2007, 2016–20).
• Serge Mongeau, 88, Canadian writer and politician.
• Peter Morwood, 68, Irish novelist (The Dragon Lord).
• Gordon Nuttall, 71, Australian politician, Queensland MLA (1992–2006), kidney cancer.
• Ana Pellicer, 79, Mexican sculptor, artisan, and jewellery maker. (death announced on this date)
• Johnny Rodriguez, 73, American country singer ("You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me)", "Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)").
• Francisco Rotunno, 49, Chilean footballer (Coquimbo Unido, Cobresal, Persekabpas Pasuruan).
• André Rouillé, 76–77, French historian and theorist of photography. (death announced on this date)
• Joan de Sagarra, 86, Spanish writer and journalist.
• John H. Thompson, 73, American statistician, director of the U.S. Census Bureau (2013–2017).
• Gianni Vasino, 88, Italian journalist (90º minuto).

• Jiří Bartoška, 78, Czech actor (Sekal Has to Die, All My Loved Ones, Tiger Theory), president of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
• Charlie Buttons, 80, American Jewish community representative.
• Marco Causi, 68, Italian politician, deputy (2008–2018).
• Frances Crampton, 79, Australian gymnastics coach.
• Amos Elegbe, 78, Beninese academic and politician, MNA (1991–1995).
• Carlos Ferrari, 93, Argentine-Puerto Rican playwright and theatrical director.
• Oliviero Garlini, 68, Italian footballer (Cesena, Inter Milan, Atalanta).
• Hervé de La Martinière, 78, French businessman and publisher, founder of La Martinière Groupe.
• Chet Lemon, 70, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers), World Series champion (1984), complications from polycythemia vera.
• Alphonso Lingis, 91, American philosopher.
• Simon Mann, 72, British mercenary, heart attack.
• Mary Pérez de Marranzini, 98, Dominican philanthropist.
• Andrew Norfolk, 60, British investigative reporter (The Times), enquired into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal.
• Elizabeth Pochoda, 83, American journalist.
• Qiu Xigui, 89, Chinese paleographer.
• Josaia Raisuqe, 30, Fijian rugby union footballer (Stade Français, Nevers, Fiji 7s), traffic collision.
• B. Raji Reddy, 80, Indian politician, Andhra Pradesh MLA (2009–2014).
• Dan Seavey, 87, American musher.
• Eddie Sheldrake, 98, American basketball player (UCLA Bruins) and restaurateur.
• David Souter, 85, American jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1990–2009).
• Kikuo Wada, 74, Japanese wrestler, Olympic silver medallist (1972).
• Xatar, 43, Iranian-born German rapper.
• Yun Humyong, 79, South Korean poet.
• Miloš Zapletal, 95, Czech writer, pedagogue and translator.

• Abdul Rauf Azhar, 48, Afghani-born Pakistani militant (Jaish-e-Muhammad), airstrike.
• Joe Don Baker, 89, American actor (GoldenEye, Walking Tall, Cape Fear), lung cancer.
• Frank Caprice, 63, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks).
• Raúl Celis López, 70, Peruvian journalist, shot.
• Ronald Corp, 74, British composer, conductor and Anglican priest.
• Matthew Courtney, 66, American poet and visual artist, accidental overdose. (death announced on this date)
• Joop van Daele, 77, Dutch football player (Feyenoord, Fortuna Sittard) and manager (Excelsior).
• Mykola Fedoruk, 71, Ukrainian politician, mayor of Chernivtsi (1994–2011), deputy (2012–2019).
• Ernesto Fernandes, 79, Timorese politician, MP (2017–2023).
• Alexey Gogua, 93, Abkhaz writer.
• DJ Hazel, 44, Polish DJ and music producer.
• Nate Holden, 95, American politician, member of the California Senate (1974–1978) and Los Angeles City Council (1987–2003).
• Otto Homlung, 81, Norwegian theatre producer and director, director of the Trøndelag Teater (1984–1989, 2005–2009) and Det Norske Teatret (1990–1997).
• Frank Johnson, 82, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants).
• Lothar Kolditz, 95, German chemist and politician, member of the State Council of East Germany (1982–1990) and the Volkskammer (1986–1990).
• Cleopa Msuya, 94, Tanzanian politician, prime minister (1980–1983, 1994–1995) and first vice president (1990–1995), heart failure.
• Saleem Nazim, 70, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic bronze medallist (1976).
• Rosanna Norton, 80, American costume designer (Tron, Carrie, Airplane!), bladder cancer.
• Anthony Nunn, 97, British field hockey player, Olympic bronze medallist (1952).
• Jacob Palis, 85, Brazilian mathematician.
• Enrico Paolini, 80, Italian racing cyclist.
• Aʻeau Peniamina, 82, Samoan politician, member (1985–1991, 2001–2021) and speaker (1988–1991) of the Legislative Assembly. (death announced on this date)
• Hannes Primus, 48, Austrian politician, member of the Carinthian Landtag (2013–2018).
• Angelo Rinaldi, 84, French writer and literary critic, member of the Académie Française.
• Losena Salabula, Fijian politician, MP (2001–2006). (death announced on this date)
• Jim Spenst, 99, Canadian World War II veteran.
• Paquita Tomàs, 81, Spanish cook and television host.
• Madhav Vaze, 85, Indian actor (Shyamchi Aai, 3 Idiots, Dear Zindagi).
• Bob White, 86, American football player (OSU, Houston Oilers).

• André Berland, 84, French historian and biographer.
• Carl Crabtree, 72, American politician, member of the Idaho Senate (2016–2022), brain cancer.
• Ovide Doiron, 84, Canadian racing driver.
• Terence Etherton, Baron Etherton, 73, British judge and politician, Master of the Rolls (2016–2021), chancellor of the High Court (2013–2016), and member of the House of Lords (since 2021).
• Stephen Fabian, 95, American painter.
• Gerda Fassel, 83, Austrian sculptor.
• Iain Finlay, 89, Australian author and journalist (Beyond 2000), euthanasia.
• James Foley, 71, American film director (Glengarry Glen Ross, Who's That Girl, Fifty Shades Darker), brain cancer.
• Hammond Furlonge, 90, Trinidadian cricketer (West Indies).
• Kaqusha Jashari, 78, Kosovan politician, president of the Executive Council of SAP Kosovo (1987–1989).
• Lola Liivat, 96, Estonian abstract painter.
• Luigi Lopez, 77, Italian singer and composer.
• Vakhtang Machavariani, 74, Georgian composer and conductor.
• Bill McCaw, 97, New Zealand rugby union player (Southland, national team).
• Barbara McIntire, 90, American amateur golfer.
• Pradeep Nepal, 71, Nepalese politician, minister of information (1994–1995), complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Joseph Nye, 88, American political scientist (The Paradox of American Power), chair of the NIC (1993–1994) and ASD (ISA) (1994–1995).
• Fakhri Odeh, 84, Kuwaiti actor.
• Sugavasi Palakondrayudu, 78, Indian politician, MP (1984–1989) and Andhra Pradesh MLA (1978–1985, 1999–2009).
• Alamuddin Dimyati Rois, 44, Indonesian politician, MP (2009–2024), traffic collision.
• Valeriy Shevchuk, 85, Ukrainian writer.
• Viktor Talanov, 74, Russian politician, MP (1993–1995).

• May Abrahamse, 94, South African soprano (Eoan Group).
• James Baker, 71, Australian rock drummer (The Scientists, Beasts of Bourbon, The Dubrovniks), cancer.
• José Ángel de la Casa, 74, Spanish journalist and sports commentator, complications from Parkinson's disease and pneumonia.
• Sunney Chan, 88, American biophysical chemist.
• Márcio Augusto Damin Custódio, 54, Brazilian philosopher and academic (State University of Campinas).
• Luis Galván, 77, Argentine footballer (Talleres de Córdoba, national team), world champion (1978), complications from pneumonia.
• Revaz Gamkrelidze, 98, Georgian mathematician.
• Raniero Gnoli, 95, Italian orientalist, Indologist, and religious historian.
• Naeem Issa, 92, Egyptian actor, pneumonia.
• Owen Jenner, 21, British motorcycle racer, race crash.
• Nathan Jerde, American drummer (The Ponys).
• Pavel Kachkayev, 73, Russian politician, MP (since 2011), cardiac arrest.
• Radik Martirossyan [hy], 89, Armenian physicist.
• Race Mathews, 90, Australian politician, MP (1972–1975) and Victoria MLA (1979–1992), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Giuseppe Moioli, 97, Italian rower, Olympic champion (1948).
• Joan O'Brien, 89, American actress (It Happened at the World's Fair, Operation Petticoat, Get Yourself a College Girl).
• Squire Parsons, 77, American Southern gospel singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Shane Richardson, 29, New Zealand motorcycle racer, race crash.
• Bendik Rugaas, 82, Norwegian librarian and politician. (death announced on this date)
• Tracy Sorensen, Australian novelist and academic (The Lucky Galah).
• John Edd Thompson, 82, American meteorologist (WALA-TV).

• Julia Alexander, 57–58, American art historian and curator, heart attack.
• Viktor Avdyshev [ru], 69, Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler, heart failure.
• David Cope, 83, American author, composer, and scientist.
• John Davis, 101, British pediatrician.
• André Foucher, 91, French racing cyclist.
• André Gounelle, 91, French Protestant theologian, pastor, and academic.
• Hsu Li-nung, 106, Taiwanese military officer, minister of the Veterans Affairs Council (1987–1993).
• David Karako, 80, Israeli football player (Maccabi Tel Aviv, national team) and manager (Hapoel Yehud). (death announced on this date)
• Guylaine Lanctôt, 84, Canadian phlebologist and anti-vaccine activist.
• Marianne, Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, 105, German aristocrat and photographer.
• Jochen Mass, 78, German racing driver (Formula One), complications from a stroke.
• Peter McParland, 91, Northern Irish football player (Aston Villa, national team) and manager (Glentoran).
• Roger Meï, 90, French politician, member of the National Assembly (1996–2002).
• Petros Molyviatis, 96, Greek politician, minister of foreign affairs (2004–2006, 2012, 2015), complications from respiratory failure.
• Alexander Pancoe, 39, American mountain climber, cardiac arrest.
• Uno Piir, 95, Estonian football player (Tallinna Kalev) and manager (Tallinna Sadam, national team).
• K. V. Rabiya, 59, Indian social worker and literacy activist.
• Abdur Razzaq, 75, Bangladeshi lawyer.
• Rafael Rullán, 73, Spanish basketball player (Real Madrid, Collado Villalba, national team).
• Øyvind Thorsen, 81, Norwegian writer.
• Dennis Tipping, 85, Australian Olympic sprinter (1960).
• Sonni Gwanle Tyoden, 74, Nigerian politician, deputy governor of Plateau State (2015–2023).
• Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi, 75, Indian Islamic scholar, vice-chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband (2011).
• Gerald Thomas Walsh, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of New York (2004–2017).
• Aleftina Yevdokimova [ru], 85, Russian actress (Tender Age, Let the Charms Last Long, Courier).
• Tom Youngs, 45, English footballer (Cambridge United, Northampton Town, Bury), complications from multiple sclerosis.

• Humaira Ali, 65, Pakistani actress (Jab We Wed, Sammi).
• Pierre Audi, 67, French-Lebanese theatre director and artistic director.
• Gustavo Bellazzini, 103, Italian Navy veteran, last survivor of the sinking of the Italian battleship Roma.
• Francesca Benedetti [it], 89, Italian actress.
• Saad Al-Buraik [ar], 63, Saudi preacher and lawyer.
• Greg Cannom, 73, American makeup artist (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), four-time Oscar winner.
• Peter Coade, 83, Canadian meteorologist and television weather reporter (Information Morning).
• Ruth A. Davis, 81, American diplomat, director general of the Foreign Service (2001–2003), pneumonia.
• Alv Egeland, 93, Norwegian physicist.
• Jake Findlay, 70, Scottish footballer (Aston Villa, Luton Town, Swindon Town).
• Lino Gutierrez, 74, American diplomat, ambassador to Nicaragua (1996–1999), ambassador to Argentina (2003–2006).
• Elsbeth Hamilton [cs], 104, Czechoslovak-born British radio operator, WWII veteran.
• Stephen Harmelin, 85, American lawyer and speechwriter, White House director of speechwriting (1964–1965), complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Lori Healey, 65, American urban planner, pancreatic cancer.
• Pedro Hidalgo, 88–89, Chilean politician, minister of agriculture (1973).
• Harold Horton, 85, American football player and coach (Arkansas Razorbacks).
• Sholom Lipskar, 78–79, Uzbek-born American Orthodox rabbi and community leader.
• Sajid Mir, 86, Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar, senator (1994–1999, 2003–2025) and amir of Jamiat Ahle Hadith (since 1987), heart attack.
• Walid Mostafa, 53, Egyptian media executive, founder of Youm7.
• Steve Pepoon, 68, American television writer (ALF, Get a Life, The Wild Thornberrys).
• Ian Polmear, 97, Australian metallurgist.
• Shōzō Satō, 91, Japanese-born American artist and theatre director, founder and director of Japan House.
• Sivananda, Indian yoga teacher and longevity claimant, cardiac arrest.
• Karsten Stolz, 60, German Olympic shot putter (1984).
• Sırrı Süreyya Önder, 62, Turkish actor, film director, and politician, member (2011–2018, since 2023) and deputy speaker (since 2023) of the GNAT, multiple organ failure.
• Paul Van Hoeydonck, 99, Belgian artist (Fallen Astronaut).
• David Young, 88, American poet, complications from Parkinson's disease.

• Alfred Kwame Agbesi, 70, Ghanaian politician, MP (2005–2017).
• Alexandra Bellow, 89, Romanian-American mathematician.
• Dara Birnbaum, 78, American video artist (Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman) and installation artist.
• Karel Bláha, 77, Czech singer.
• Lisa Brown-Miller, 58, American ice hockey player, Olympic champion (1998).
• Jorge Iván Castaño Rubio, 89, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Quibdó (1983–2001) and auxiliary bishop of Medellín (2001–2010).
• Kathleen Corrigan, 80, American Olympic gymnast (1964).
• Jean-François Davy, 79, French film director (Bananes mécaniques, Surprise Sock) and producer.
• Jim Dent, 85, American golfer.
• Esteban Escudero, 79, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate and theologian, bishop of Palencia (2010–2015) and auxiliary bishop of Valencia (2000–2010, 2015–2021).
• Harry Fritz, 74, American-Canadian tennis player.
• Dave Gorman, 70, Canadian ice hockey player (Atlanta Flames).
• Fidel Herrera Beltrán, 76, Mexican politician, governor of Veracruz (2004–2010), senator (2000–2004), and four-time deputy.
• Doug Hinds, 91, American politician, member of the South Carolina Senate.
• Hữu Ngọc, 106, Vietnamese writer and journalist.
• Sir Bob Jones, 85, New Zealand property investor and politician.
• Adnan Kassar, 94, Lebanese banker and politician, minister of economy and trade (2004–2005).
• Kirk Medas, 33, American television actor (Floribama Shore), liver failure.
• Alessandro Quasimodo [it], 85, Italian actor (The Seventh Floor, A Milanese Story), theater director and poet.
• George Ryan, 91, American politician, governor (1999–2003), secretary of state (1991–1999) and lieutenant governor of Illinois (1983–1991).
• Robert B. Shapiro, 86, American businessman (Monsanto, G.D. Searle, LLC).
• Jim Smith, 70, American animator (The Ren & Stimpy Show, Samurai Jack), co-founder of Spümcø, heart attack.
• José Torres, 65, American educator, CEO of Chicago Public Schools (2021).

• Victor Aviat, 42, French oboist and conductor, brain tumor.
• Bob Brockie, 93, New Zealand biologist, cartoonist and columnist.
• Ruth Buzzi, 88, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) and actress (Sesame Street, That Girl), complications from a stroke and Alzheimer's disease.
• Tania Marie Caringi, 38, American-Italian model.
• Nana Caymmi, 84, Brazilian singer, multiple organ failure.
• Mudabbir Hossain Chowdhury, 78, Bangladeshi police officer, inspector general (2001–2003).
• Ricky Davao, 63, Filipino actor (Ang Padrino, Kung Aagawin Mo ang Lahat sa Akin) and television director (!Oka Tokat), cancer.
• Antoni Garrallà, 81, Andorran politician and hotelier, mayor of La Massana (1995–2003) and deputy general syndic of the General Council (1985–1989).
• Jackson Guice, 63, American comics artist (Superman, Captain America), co-creator of Apocalypse.
• Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Larry Johnson, 70, American basketball player (Buffalo Braves).
• Barnabás Lenkovics, 74, Hungarian jurist, president of the Constitutional Court (2015–2016).
• Ezio Leonardi, 95, Italian politician, senator (1987–1994) and mayor of Novara (1971–1978).
• Lidwine, 64, French comic book author and illustrator.
• Manolo el del Bombo, 76, Spanish football fan (Valencia, national team), respiratory failure.
• Peter Nixon, 97, Australian politician, MP (1961–1983), minister of the interior (1967–1971) and primary industry (1979–1983).
• George William Penrose, Lord Penrose, 86, Scottish judge, member of the Court of Session.
• Vishnu Prasad, 49, Indian film actor (Kaiyethum Doorath, Mampazhakkalam, Pathaaka), liver disease.
• Andrejs Prohorenkovs, 48, Latvian footballer (Maccabi Tel Aviv, Liepājas Metalurgs, national team), cancer.
• Charley Scalies, 84, American actor (The Wire, The Sopranos, Liberty Heights).
• Jill Sobule, 66, American singer-songwriter ("I Kissed a Girl", "Supermodel"), house fire.
• Marie Vaislic, 94, French Holocaust survivor and writer.
• Girija Vyas, 78, Indian politician, minister of housing (2013–2014) and MP (1991–2004), injuries sustained in a fire.
• Tashi Wangdi, 78, Tibetan diplomat and politician.
• Ali Yachkaschi, 86, Iranian environmentalist.

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