Notable People to Die in 2025

The year 2025 saw some incredibly cool, talented and creative people die; and some who weren't so cool also. See if you can guess the ones on this list, given the clues provided.
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Fashion Designer
Italy
Founded his own luxury fashion house. Widely regarded as among the most influential designers in contemporary fashion
4th Sept (aged 91)
Giorgio Armani
Journalist
New Zealand | United States
Associated Press journalist reporting often from war zones. Pulitzer Prize Winner 1966 for his reporting on Vietnam War.
17th Dec (aged 91)
Peter Arnett
Actress
United States
'WKRP in Cincinnati', 'Easy Street'
Aug 3rd (aged 79)
Loni Anderson
Actress / Singer / Model / Acitvist
France
'And God Created Woman', 'The Truth', 'Viva Maria!', 'In Case of Adversity'
28th Dec (aged 91)
Brigitte Bardot
Football Manager
Netherlands
Managed Real Madrid, Ajax & Feyenoord; won La Liga & Eridivisie 3 times each
10th April (aged 82)
Leo Beenhakker
Musician / Drummer
United Kingdom
The Jam
17th Feb (aged 69)
Rick Buckler
Boxer / Actor
Hungary | United Kingdom | Australia
European & British Heavyweight Champion, 'Street Fighter' & "Gettin' Square'(actor)
1st Sept (aged 75)
Joe Bugner
Musician / Drummer
United States
Blondie, The Romantics
April 6th (aged 70)
Clem Burke
Actress
Italy
'Girl With a Suitcase', '8½', 'Fitzcarraldo' 'Once Upon a Time in the West'
23rd Sept (aged 87)
Claudia Cardinale
Actor
United States
'Dr. Kildare', 'Shōgun', 'The Thorn Birds', 'The Three Musketeers'
March 29th (aged 90)
Richard Chamberlain
Politician
United States
USA Vice-President 2001-2009
Nov 3rd (aged 84)
Dick Cheney
Musician / Singer
Jamaica
'The Harder They Come', 'You Can Get It If You Really Want', 'Many Rivers to Cross'
24th Nov (aged 81)
Jimmy Cliff
Actress
Belgium
'Rosetta'(Cannes Best Actress), 'The Girl on the Train', 'Love Affair(s)'
16th Mar (aged 43)
Émilie Dequenne
British Royal
United Kingdom
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4th Sept (aged 92)
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
Musician / Singer / Actress
United Kingdom
'Broken English', 'The Ballad of Lucy Jordan', 'The Girl on a Motorcycle'
30th Jan (aged 78)
Marianne Faithful
Musician / Singer
United States
'Killing Me Softly with His Song', 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'
Feb 24th (aged 88)
Roberta Flack
Boxer / Businessman / Minister / Author
United States
Two time world heavyweight boxing champion 1972-'74, & 1994-'95(oldest in history), Heavyweight Olympic gold medalist 1968
Mar 21st (aged 76)
George Foreman
Musician / Singer
United States
'Everybody's Somebody's Fool', 'Who's Sorry Now?'
July 16th (aged 87)
Connie Francis
Religious Leader
Argentina
First Jesuit, and first ever Latin American Pope.
21st April (aged 88)
Pope Francis
Musician / Guitarist
United States
Kiss
Oct 16th (aged 74)
Ace Frehley
Architecht
Canada | United States
Designed - Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle; Neuer Zollhof, Düsseldorf; Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
Dec 5th (aged 96)
Frank Gehry
Zoologist / Primatologist / Anthropoligist
United Kingdom
Regarded as a pioneer in primate ethology, especially in regards to chimpanzees
1st Oct (aged 91)
Jane Goodall
Actor
United States
'The French Connection', 'Unforgiven', Superman Films, 'Get Shorty'
Feb 18th (aged 95)
Gene Hackman
Boxer
United Kingdom
Held multiple world championships in the light-welterweight division, & 1 at welterweight, from 2005-2008
14 Sept (aged 46)
Ricky Hatton
Wrestler
United States
6 time World Wrestling Federation Champion
July 24th (aged 71)
Hulk Hogan
Musician / Guitarist
United Kingdom
The Damned, The Lords of the New Church
6th March (aged 74)
Brian James
Footballer
Portugal
Played for Liverpool, Wolves, Porto and 49 times for Portugal.
3rd July (aged 28)
Diogo Jota
Actress / Film Director
United States
'Manhattan', 'Annie Hall', 'Somethings Gotta Give', 'The Godfather' I, II & III
Oct 11th (aged 79)
Diane Keaton
Actor
Germany
'Europa', 'My Own Private Idaho', 'Flesh for Frankenstein', 'Johnny Mnemonic'
23rd Nov (aged 81)
Udo Kier
Actor
United States
'Top Gun', 'Heat', 'Batman Forever'
April 1st (aged 65)
Val Kilmer
Political Activist
United States
Turning Point USA, MAGA
Sept 10th (aged 31)
Charlie Kirk
Actress
United States
'Anna', 'The Haunted', 'Best of the Best', 'Bruce Almighty'
Nov 11th (aged 84)
Sally Kirkland
Actress
United States
'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore', 'Wild at Heart', 'Rambling Rose', 'Chinatown'
Nov 3rd (aged 89)
Diane Ladd
Footballer
United Kingdom | Scotland
Won the Ballon d'Or in 1964; 3rd highest ever goalscorer for Manchester United; equal highest ever goalscorer for Scotland
17th Jan (aged 84)
Denis Law
Politician
France
Formed the far-right National Front party in France; member of the European Parliament from 1984-2003 & 2004-2019
7th Jan (aged 96)
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Film Maker & Director / Painter / Visual Artist
United States
'Twin Peaks', 'The Elephant Man', 'Mulholland Drive', 'Lost Highway'
Jan 16th (aged 78)
David Lynch
Actor
United States
'Reservoir Dogs', 'Kill Bill' I & II, 'Donnie Brasco', 'Sin City'
July 3rd (aged 67)
Michael Madsen
Actor
Australia | United States
'Nip/Tuck', 'Fantastic Four', 'Charmed'
2nd July (aged 56)
Julian McMahon
Politician
Uruguay
President of Uruguay 2010-2015; legalizing marijuana, same-sex marriage and abortion
May 14th (aged 89)
Jose Mujica
Musician / Singer
United Kingdom
Black Sabbath
22nd July (aged 76)
Ozzy Osbourne
Actor
United States
'The Wire', 'Generation Kill', 'Sinister' I & II
Dec 19th (aged 46)
James Ransone
Actor / Film Director / Political Activist
United States
'The Sting', 'All the President's Men', 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', Sundance Film Festival
Sept 16th (aged 89)
Robert Redford
Film Director / Actor
United States
'All in the Family', 'This is Spinal Tap'(Dir. & Actor), 'When Harry Met Sally...'(Dir.), 'Misery'(Dir.)
Dec 14th (aged 78)
Rob Reiner
Cricketer
Australia
Australian cricketer, who played 62 tests, and scored 4,869 runs. Captained Australia from 1964-'67 and again from 1976-'77.
16th Aug (aged 89)
Bob Simpson
Chess Player
Chess Grandmaster and Chess World Champion 1968-1972
Feb 27th (aged 88)
Boris Spassky
Actor
United Kingdom
'The Collector', 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' I & II, 'The Limey', 'Superman' I & II
17th Aug (aged 87)
Terence Stamp
Musician / Guitarist
Australia
Skyhooks
29th Nov (aged 73)
Bob "Bongo" Starkie
Musician / Singer & Multi-instrumentalist
United States
'Everyday People', 'I Want to Take You Higher', 'Dance to the Music', 'Stand!'(Album)
June 9th (aged 82)
Sly Stone
Film Critic / Film Historian / Journalist
Australia | United Kingdom
'The Movie Show', 'At the Movies', Lecturer in Film History
14th Aug (aged 85)
David Stratton
TV Evangelist / Author / Media Mogul / Gospel Musician
United States
Assemblies of God Minister de-frocked due to scandals involving prostitutes, continued as non-denominational Minister
July 1st (aged 90)
Jimmy Swaggart
Actress
United States
'M*A*S*H' (Major Margaret Houlihan)
May 30th (aged 87)
Loretta Swit
Actress
United States
'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' (Dawn Summers), 'Gossip Girl', 'The Adventures of Pete & Pete'
Feb 26th (aged 39)
Michelle Trachtenberg
Molecular Biologist / Geneticist / Zoologist
United States
With Francis Crick, was the 1st to propose the double helix structure of DNA; Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine 1962
Nov 6th (aged 97)
James Watson
Actor
United States
'Cheers' (Norm)
May 20th (aged 76)
George Wendt
Actor
United States
'The Wire', 'VEEP', 'BlacKkKlansman', 'Your Honour'
Dec 30th (aged 71)
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Musician / Singer / Bassist / Keyboardist /Record Producer
United States
The Beach Boys
June 11th (aged 82)
Brian Wilson
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