Deaths in 2025

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.

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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.
• Chrissie Hynde, 74, American singer (The Pretenders, Straight Ahead)) and actress (Rugrats Go Wild, Happy Feet).

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.
• Jeff Garcia, 50, American comedian and actor (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Barnyard, Mr. Box Office), complications from a collapsed lung.
• 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.

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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).