2025 deaths

Albanian politician (1952–2025)

British actress (1939–2025)

Diane Ladd was an American actress. With a career spanning over 70 years, she appeared in over 200 films and television shows, receiving three Academy Award nominations for her roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990) and Rambling Rose (1991), the first of which won her a BAFTA Award. She was also nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, winning one for her role in the sitcom Alice (1980–1981).

Scottish-American philosopher (1929–2025)

Austrian composer and pianist (1931–2025)

Surinamese politician (1936–2025)

English writer (1935–2025)

Australian–American actor (1968–2025)

Graham Greene was a Canadian First Nations (Oneida) actor and recording artist, active in film, television and theatre in a career spanning over 50 years. He achieved international fame for his role as Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves (1990), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His other notable films include Thunderheart (1992), Maverick (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Skins (2002), Transamerica (2005), Casino Jack (2010), Winter's Tale (2014), The Shack (2017), and Wind River (2017).

American actress (1945–2025)

American actress, comedian, and singer

Soviet and Russian composer and pianist

June Kathleen Lockhart was an American actress, beginning a film career in the 1930s and 1940s in films such as A Christmas Carol and Meet Me in St. Louis. She appeared primarily in 1950s and 1960s television and with performances on stage and in film. She became most widely known for her work on two television series, Lassie and Lost in Space, in which she played mother roles. Lockhart also portrayed Dr. Janet Craig on the CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968–70). She was a two-time Emmy Award nominee and a Tony Award winner. With a career spanning nearly 90 years, Lockhart was one of the last surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

French historian and publisher (1931–2025)

American basketball player and coach (1937–2025)

Sally Kirkland Jr. was an American actress and producer. A one-time member of Andy Warhol's The Factory, she was a part of 1960s New York avant-garde theater. She appeared in more than 250 film and television productions during a 60-year career. Kirkland was the daughter of Sally Kirkland, fashion editor of Life and Vogue.

Italian singer-songwriter (1934–2025)

Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor (1932–2025)

Irish motorsport executive and broadcaster (1948–2025)

American mathematician of Hungarian origin (1926–2025)

Katharine, Duchess of Kent, was a member of the British royal family. She was the wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, a grandson of King George V.

French film director (1939–2025)

American evolutionary and social psychologist (1934-2025)

Czech playwright, author, publicist, and university educator

French Catholic cardinal (1942–2025)

Alice and Ellen Kessler, usually credited as the Kessler Twins, were twin German singers, dancers and actresses who were popular in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, during the 1950s and 1960s.

Marshallese politician, president of the Marshall Islands (2012–2016)

American musician and mathematician (1928–2025)

Norwegian association football player and manager (1953–2025)

American musician, singer, guitarist, and record producer (1943–2025)

Italian footballer (1929–2025)

South Korean actress (2000–2025)

Pauline Angela Collins was a British actress who first rose to fame portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1973) and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah (1979). In 1992, she published her autobiography, Letter to Louise.

former Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (1924–2025)

Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley was an American musician who was the original lead guitarist, occasional vocalist, and a founding member of the rock band Kiss. He invented the persona of the Spaceman and originally played with the group from its inception in 1973 until his departure in 1982, before later rejoining in 1996 until his final departure in 2002.

Kazakh cosmonaut

Björn Johan Andrésen was a Swedish actor and musician. He was best known for having played the 14-year-old Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film adaptation of the 1912 Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice.

German chess player, chess writer, and papyrologist (1948–2025)

Angolan politician

American political scientist

British actor (1944–2025)

Canadian astronaut and politician (1949–2025)

Italian writer and journalist (1947–2025)

Prime Minister of Greenland

Prunella Margaret Rumney West, known professionally as Prunella Scales, was an English actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Sybil Fawlty in the BBC television sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975–1979) and her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution (1991), which earned her a BAFTA nomination. She later appeared in the TV documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2019), travelling waterways in the UK and abroad with her husband, the actor Timothy West.

German politician

Catholic Traditionalist bishop, formerly member of the SSPX, Holocaust denier

Virginia Lee Giuffre was an American and Australian advocate for survivors of sex trafficking and one of the most prominent accusers of Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre provided detailed allegations to media outlets about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. She alleged that Epstein ran a trafficking ring, outsourcing girls for sexual services.

American writer (1932–2025)

Iraqi refugee and critic of Islam

Italian tennis player

Mongolian politician, president of Mongolia

German former lawyer and political activist (born 1936)

British photographer (1952–2025)

American lawyer and jurist (1939–2025)

American figure skater, sports personality, actor, lawyer (1929–2025)

Surinamese politician

Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge was an English actress and singer. She was best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC One comedy series Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995), for which she was twice nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance.

Italian boxer

Assata Olugbala Shakur was an American political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Panther Party, and later the Black Liberation Army. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped from prison in 1979 and was wanted by the FBI, with a $1 million reward for information leading to her capture, and an additional $1 million reward offered by the New Jersey attorney general. She was never caught and remained a fugitive for 45 years.