The following is a list of notable people who have died to date in 2025.
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- Plia Albeck, 86, former legal advisor to the Israeli government, so-called "mother" of the resettlement program. [1]
- Herman Ashworth, 32, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.
- Ronald Golias, 76, Brazilian comedian.
- Willem van de Sande Bakhuysen, 47, Dutch film director, cancer. [2]
- Helen Cresswell, 71, British author of children's literature, cancer. [3]
- Shawntinice Polk, 22, center on the University of Arizona's women's basketball team, of a pulmonary embolism.
- Michael Wittenberg, 43, husband of actress Bernadette Peters, helicopter crash in Montenegro. [4]
- Don Adams, 82, American actor (Get Smart, Inspector Gadget), lung infection while battling a bone lymphoma.
- George Archer, 65, American golfer and 1969 Masters winner, Burkitt's lymphoma. [5]
- Abu Azzam, Al-Qaeda's second-in-command in Iraq, shot to death by US and Iraqi forces. [6]
- Tommy Bond, 79, American actor known for playing Butch on Our Gang, heart disease. [7]
- Urie Bromfenbrenner, 88, Russian-born U.S. professor of psychology, among the founders of the Head Start program in the U.S., complications of diabetes. [8]
- M. Scott Peck, 69, American psychiatrist and author.
- Friedrich Peter, 84, Austrian politician (chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria 1958-1978), controversial as a former member of the Waffen-SS.
- Russell Harris, 37, British tourist in Australia, killed by a crocodile. [9]
- Daniel Podrzycki, 42, Polish left wing politician, presidential candidate.
- Borge Bek-Nielsen, 79, Danish businessman, known for successes in Malaysia. [10]
- James F. Bell, Jr., 90, former Ohio Supreme Court justice, also known for his opinion in the Sam Sheppard case. [11]
- Roger Brierley, 70, British actor.
- Apolônio de Carvalho, 93, founder of Brazil's ruling Worker's Party, leftist political icon. [12]
- Donna Hanson, 65, American Roman Catholic lay leader, cancer. [13]
- John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, 80, British television producer. [14]
- Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, 72, Puerto Rican nationalist and leader of the Boricua Popular Army. [15]
- Preben Philipsen, 95, Danish movie producer. [16]
- Joop Doderer, 84, Dutch actor who played Swiebertje for 17 years. [17].
- Bayaman Erkinbayev, 38, Kyrgyz former wrestler, businessman, and prominent parliamentarian, shot to death. [18]
- Alberto Giraldo, 70, Colombian journalist, convicted of criminal involvement with the Cali cartel, cancer. [19]
- Leavander Johnson, 35, American former IBF lightweight champion boxer, brain injury suffered in bout. [20]
- John W. Peoples, Jr., 48, American convicted murderer, executed in Alabama.
- Victor Futter, 86, prominent American lawyer and professor, congestive heart failure. [21]
- Harry Heltzer, 94, American inventor, former CEO of 3M. [22]
- Alfredo Jordán Morales, 55, Cuban minister of agriculture, cancer. [23]
- Ramón Martín Huerta, 48, minister of public security of the Mexican federal government, helicopter crash. [24]
- Félix Javier Pérez, 33, Puerto Rican basketball player and former member of the Puerto Rican National Basketball Team, murdered during robbery.
- Albert "Caesar" Tocco, 77, convicted American organized crime boss. [25]
- Molly Yard, 93, former president of the U.S. National Organization for Women.
- Paul Arlt, 91, American political cartoonist and painter (New York Herald Tribune), congestive heart failure. [26]
- Joe Bauman, 83, American longtime minor league baseball record-holder (72 homeruns in 1954), pneumonia. [27]
- Tobias Schneebaum, 83, American writer, artist, and explorer. [28]
- Simon Wiesenthal, 96, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter.
- Willie Hutch, 59, American record producer, singer and songwriter. [29]
- Isao Nakauchi, 83, Japanese businessman, founder of Daiei, stroke. [30]
- Rupert Riedl, 80, Austrian zoologist and advocate of evolutionary epistemology. [31]
- William Vacchiano, 93, American trumpeter and professor of music. [32]
- Hassan Abu Basha, 83, former Egyptian interior minister, victim of 1987 assassination attempt, lung cancer. [33]
- Richard Britton, 34, Northern Ireland motorcycle racer, racing accident.
- John Bromfield, 83, American television actor.
- Sandra Feldman, 65, American advocate for disadvantaged students, teacher and labor leader. [34]
- Joel Hirschhorn, 67, American Academy Award-winning songwriter.
- Jerome Hynes, 45, Irish opera director, heart attack. [35]
- Jacques Lacarrière, French author and classical translator.
- Noel Mander, 93, British organ maker and restorer. [36]
- Michael Park, 39, British rally co-pilot, rally accident.
- Chas Smit, 23, lead guitarist and backing vocalist for South African acoustic rock band Plush, hit by car.
- Clint C. Wilson, Sr., 90, African-American editorial cartoonist, Los Angeles Sentinel. [37] [38]
- Yegor Yakovlev, 75, Russian journalist, leading opponent of press censorship. [39]
- Donn Clendenon, 70, American baseball player; MVP of the 1969 World Series, leukemia. [40]
- Max Dominique, 60s, Haitian priest and theologian, leading proponent of liberation theology. [41]
- Benny Garcia Jr., 79, guitarist with Bob Wills and many jazz greats.
- David E. Mark, 81, former U.S. ambassador to Burundi, car accident. [42]
- Alfred Reed, 84, prominent American composer of concert band music.
- Stanley Burnshaw, 99, American renowned poet and literary figure. [43]
- Harold L. Friedman, 82, American liquid chemist, complications from Parkinson's disease. [44]
- Arkadiusz Gołaś, 24, Polish volleyball player.
- Gordon Gould, 85, American pioneer in laser technology.
- Jay M. Gould, 90, American epidemiologist and anti-nuclear activist, heart disease. [45]
- Donald S. Harrington, 91, Unitarian minister and former chairman and spokesman of the Liberal Party of New York. [46]
- John McMullen, 87, former owner of MLB's Houston Astros and the NHL's New Jersey Devils. [47]
- Constance Moore, 85, American actress (Buck Rogers).
- Mzukisi Sikali, 34, South African boxer; murdered during street robbery.
- David C. Anderson, 62, criminal justice editor of the New York Times, cancer of the biliary tract. [48]
- William S. Bartman, 58, businessman and art patron, multiple organ failure. [49]
- Guy Green, 91, British film director and noted cinematographer.
- Sid Luft, 89, American film producer, Judy Garland's third and last surviving husband.
- Toni Trent Parker, 58, African-American author and advocate for children's literature, brain tumor. [50]
- Justin "Jud" Hurd, 92, cartoonist, editor and founder of Cartoonist PROfiles magazine. [51]
- Frances Newton, 40, executed for murder in Texas; first African-American woman executed there since 1858.
- Kenneth Turpin, former Provost of Oriel College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of University of Oxford.
- Vladimir Volkoff, 72, French-born Russian spy novelist.
- Robert Wise, 91, American film director (Sound of Music, West Side Story), heart failure.
- Toni Fritsch, 60, Austrian-born football player and American football placekicker with the Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers, Houston Oilers, and New Orleans Saints. [52]
- Cyril K. Harris, 68, former chief rabbi of South Africa, cancer. [53]
- Myles Thoroton Hildyard, 91, British landowner and historian.
- Helen Longley, 84, former First Lady of Maine, widow of former Governor James B. Longley. [54]
- Julio César Turbay Ayala, 89, President of Colombia (1978–1982). [55]
- Raymond "Maric" Chiavarino, 78, French comic book writer/artist.
- Honey Harlow Bruce Friedman, 78, widow of comedian Lenny Bruce.
- Serge Lang, 78, American mathematician and political activist. [56]
- Ronald Leigh-Hunt, 88, British actor.
- Susan Anne Catherine Torres, 40 days, baby born to Susan Torres, brain-dead woman, on 2 August 2005, heart failure after intestinal surgery. [57]
- Al Casey, 89, American jazz guitarist, colon cancer. [58]
- Pat Maloney, Sr., 81, flamboyant and wealthy American trial lawyer, pulmonary fibrosis. [59]
- Steve de Shazer, 65, therapist, founder of Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and developer of Solution focused brief therapy.
- Chris Schenkel, 82, American sportscaster, emphysema.
- Joseph Smitherman, 75, longtime mayor of Selma, Alabama, "reformed" segregationist. [60]
- Henryk Tomaszewski, 91, Polish internationally recognized graphic artist.
- Sterling Weed, 104, American bandleader for nearly 80 years.
- Theodore X. Barber, 78, psychologist renowned for his critical studies of hypnosis, ruptured aorta. [61]
- Sir Hermann Bondi, 85, mathematician & cosmologist; co-advocate (with Gold & Hoyle) of the Steady-State Theory.
- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, 81, American blues musician.
- Eugene Desmond O'Kelly, 53, controversial former KPMG U.S. CEO, cancer. [62]
- Charlie Williams, 61, former MLB umpire; the first African American umpire to work behind home plate in a World Series game, complications of diabetes. [63]
- J. Calvin Jureit, 87, prominent inventor, head injuries suffered in fall. [64]
- André Pousse, 85, French actor.
- Tarzan Taborda, 78, Portuguese wrestling champion, heart attack.
- Randall Behr, 53, operatic conductor.
- Noel Cantwell, 73, former Manchester United captain, cancer.
- Oswald Hoffman, 91, Lutheran evangelist. [65]
- Donald Horne, 83, Australian academic, historian, philosopher and intellectual.
- Lewis Platt, 64, former Hewlett Packard CEO.
- Perry Stephens, 47, American actor (Loving). [66] [67]
- Moussa Arafat, 65, former head of general security in Gaza, cousin of Yasser Arafat, murdered.
- Dame Eugenia Charles, 86, former prime minister of Dominica.
- Stanley Dancer, 78, record-setting harness racing driver.
- Sergio Endrigo, 72, Italian singer and songwriter.
- Nicolino Locche, 66, Argentine world boxing champion.
- Henry Luce III, 80, Publisher of Time Magazine and philanthropist. [68]
- Mark Matthews, 111, US Army first sergeant, oldest living Buffalo Soldier. [69]
- Octavio Medeiros, 82, Brazilian General, founder of the SNI, multiple organ failure. [70]
- Rizal Nurdin, 57, Governor of North Sumatra, Indonesia, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crash.
- Raja Inal Siregar, 67, former Governor of North Sumatra, Indonesia, Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crash.
- Bill Charmatz, 80, American illustrator, especially noted for works in Sports Illustrated. [71]
- Stanley Jennings, 84, American cartoonist, journalist.
- Alan Truscott, 80, one of the most known bridge columnists. [72]
- Richard Fitter, 92, British naturalist.
- Robert W. Funk, 79, founder of the Jesus Seminar, lung failure. [73]
- William Rehnquist, 80, Chief Justice of the United States , thyroid cancer. [74]
- Ekkehard Schall, 75, German actor. [75]
- Bob Denver, 70, American actor (Gilligan's Island), complications from cancer treatment.
- Adrian Karsten, 45, ESPN announcer, suicide. [76]
- Alexandru Paleologu, 86, Romanian diplomat. [77]
- Marilyn Whirry, 72, US Teacher of the Year for 2000, afterwards a lecturer, lung disease. [78]
- R. L. Burnside, 78, American blues musician.
- Jacob A. Marinsky, 87, American chemist, co-discoverer of the element Promethium.
- Hermann Michael, 68, German conductor, aplastic anemia. [79]
- Cassio Raposo do Amaral, 62, Brazilian plastic surgeon and medical professor.
External links and references
- Specialised websites
- Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
- Dead People Server
- Life in Legacy: Week in Review
- The Blog of Death
- The Celebrity Death Toll Update
- GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search
- Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records: US genealogy directory
- Operation Iraqi Freedom - US Combat Deaths
- Obituary Central - index to obituary search engines arranged geographically
- Obituary Links Page - state-by-state directory of obituary resources
- Obituaries on general news websites
- Newsgroup: alt.obituaries
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