Celebrity Deaths Last Year (2025)

JANUARY
Wayne Osmond – singer (The Osmonds) and songwriter.
Morris Bradshaw – football player. Super Bowl champion (1977, 1981)
Peter Yarrow – singer (Peter, Paul & Mary) and songwriter
Bill Byrge – actor and comedian. Best known for his work as Bobby in the Ernest P. Worrell franchise.
Sam Moore – Hall of Fame singer and songwriter.
Leslie Charleson – actress (“General Hospital”, “Love is a Many Splendored Thing”)
David Lynch – movie and TV director (“Twin Peaks”, “Mulholland Drive”,“Blue Velvet”).
Bob Uecker – baseball player, sportscaster and actor.
Dame Joan Plowright – Tony Award-winning actress.
Dick Button – Olympic figure skating champion.

FEBRUARY
Fay Vincent - lawyer, sports executive, Commissioner of Baseball (1989-92).
Tony Roberts – actor.
Mike Collier – football player with Pittsburgh Steelers and Buffalo Bills. Super Bowl champ 1976.
Jerry Butler – musician and Hall of Fame singer and songwriter.
Lynne Marie Stewart – actress.
Roberta Flack – Grammy Award-winning vocalist.
Gene Hackman – Academy Award-winning actor.
Boris Spassky – Russian chess master. World champion 1969-72.
Joseph Wambaugh – author.

MARCH
Stanley R. Jaffe – Academy award-winning movie producer. (“Kramer vs. Kramer”,“Fatal Attraction”).
George Foreman – Heavyweight boxing champion. Olympic medalist and business entrepreneur.
Kitty Dukakis – wife of politician Michael Dukakis
Bill Mercer – sportscaster and news reporter.
Richard Chamberlain – actor. “Dr. Kildare”, “The Thorn Birds”, “Shogun”.

APRIL
Val Kilmer - actor.
Johnny Tillotson – singer, songwriter.
Jay North – actor. Best remembered for playing “Dennis the Menace” on 1950s TV.
Jean Marsh – Emmy-winning actress.
Tommy Helms – baseball player.
Wink Martindale – game show host, DJ and vocalist.
Patrick Adiarte – actor.
Will Hutchins – actor.
Pope Francis
Priscilla Pointer – actress.

MAY
Ruth Buzzi – actress and comedianne.
Kathleen Corrigan – Olympic gymnast 1964.
James Foley – movie director (“Glengarry Glen Ross”, “The Chamber”, “At Close Range”).
David Souter – jurist. Associate justice of the Supreme Court 1990-2009.
Johnny Rodriguez – country singer.
Denise Alexander – actress.
George Wendt – actor.
Charles Strouse – composer (“Bye, Bye, Birdie”, “Annie”).
Roger Nichols – composer (We've Only Just Begun”, “Times of Your Life”).
Billy Williams – Academy Award-winning cinematographer.
Phil Robertson – Businessman and TV personality (“Duck Dynasty”).
Loretta Swit – Emmy-winning actress. Best known for her role on the TV series “M*A*S*H”.
Valerie Mahaffey – Emmy-winning actress.

JUNE
Steve Wright – football player with Packers, Giants and Redskins.
Tom Rafferty – football player for Dallas Cowboys. Super Bowl champion in 1978.
Wayne Lewis – singer and songwriter.
Eddie Garcia – football player with Green Bay Packers.
Sly Stone – Hall of Fame musician and songwriter.
Frederick Forsyth – novelist. “The Day of the Jackal”, “The Odessa File”, “The Dogs of War”.
Gary England – meteorologist. Creator of the early warning system.
BrianWilson – Hall of Fame musician and songwriter. Founding member of The Beach Boys.
Harris Yulin – actor.
Anne Burrell – chef and TV personality (“Worst Cooks in America”, “Iron Chef America”).
Bobby Sherman – singer and actor.
Lalo Schifrin – Grammy-wining composer, mainly TV themes: “Mission:Impossible”.
Bill Moyers – journalist and TV commentator. White House Press Secretary 1965-67.
Rick Hurst – actor.
Ed Mickelson – baseball player with St. Louis Browns and Chicago Cubs.
Dave Parker – Hall of Fame baseball player. World Series champ 1979, 1989.
D. Wayne Lukas – Hall of Fame horse trainer. Four-time Kentucky Derby winner.

JULY
Jimmy Swaggart – televangelist.
Michael Madsen – actor. “Reservoir Dogs”, “Kill Bill”.
Billy Hunter – baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Baltimore Orioles) and manager. (Texas Rangers).
Bobby Jenks – baseball player and World Series champ (2005).
Connie Francis – singer.
Kenneth Washington – actor. Played Sgt. Baker on “Hogan's Heroes”.
Alan Bergman – Academy award-winning songwriter - “The Way We Were”, “You Don't Bring Me Flowers”.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner – actor and Grammy winner.
Ozzy Osborne - musician, songwriter and TV personality.
Hulk Hogan – Hall of fame wrestler and TV personality.
Junior Edwards – featured in the reality show “Swamp People”.
Tom Lehrer – singer, songwriter and satirist.

AUGUST
Loni Anderson - actress, “WKRP Cincinnati”.
Jim Lovell – former astronaut (Gemini 12, Apollo 8, Apollo 13).
Bobby Whitlock – musician, singer and songwriter. Associated with bands 'Derek and the Dominoes' and 'Delaney & Bonnie and Friends'.
Jacklyn Bezos – mother of Jeff Bezos and co-founder of Amazon.
Terence Stamp – actor.
Dave Ketchum – actor. Played Agent 13 in TV series “Get Smart”.
James Dobson – evangelist, founder of “Focus on the Family”.
Ron Turcotte – jockey. Rode Secretariat to Triple Crown victory in 1973.
Jerry Adler – actor. “The Sopranos”, “The Good Wife”.

SEPTEMBER
Graham Greene -actor “(Dances With Wolves”, “The Green Mile”) and Grammy-winning recording artist.
Davey Johnson – baseball player and manager (Baltimore Orioles, AtlantaBraves). World Series champion 1966, 1970 & 1986.
Polly Holiday – actress. TV shows “Alice” and “Flo”.
Robert Redford – Academy Award-winning actor and director.
Brett James - 2007 Grammy-winning country singer and songwriter.
Sonny Curtis – Hall of Fame musician and songwriter (“I Fought the Law”, “Love is All Around”).
Ron Silverman – movie producer (“Brubaker”, “Shoot to Kill”, “Krull”).
Joshua Allen – dancer and actor. Winner in the fourth season of “So YouThink You Can Dance”.

OCTOBER
Jane Goodall – zoologist and primatologist. In 2003, made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire.
Ike Turner, Jr. - Grammy-winning musician. Son of Ike and Tina Turner.
Bobby Allen – racecar driver.
Diane Keaton – Academy Award-winning actress.
D'Angelo – Grammy-winning singer and songwriter.
Samantha Eggar – actress.
June Lockhart – actress. “Lassie”, “Lost in Space”.
Prunella Scales – actress (“Fawlty Towers”, “Howard's End”).
George Atkinson- football player. Super Bowl champion 1977.

NOVEMBER
Diane Ladd – actress.
Dick Cheney – politician. Vice President (2001–2009), Secretary of Defense (1989–1993), and Congressman (1979–1989).
James Watson - molecular biologist, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1962). Nobel Prize winner in 1962.
Lenny Wilkens – Hall of Fame basketball player and coach.
Sally Kirkland – actress.
Rags to Riches – racehorse. Belmont Stakes winner in 2007.
Jimmy Cliff – Hall of Fame reggae singer-songwriter.
Frank “Fuzzy” Zoeller – golfer. Masters and U.S. Open champ.
Sir Tom Stoppard – playwright and screenwriter. Five-time Tony winner.

DECEMBER
Steve Cropper – Hall of Fame and Grammy-winning guitarist and songwriter.
Jeff Garcia – comedian and voice actor.
Solomon Grundy – professional wrestler.
Rob Reiner – Emmy-winning actor anddirector, and his wife...
Michele Singer Reiner – photographerand film producer.
Gil Gerard – actor.
Peter Arnett – Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.
Brigitte Bardot – actress.
Tatiana Schlossberg – journalist.Daughter of Caroline Kennedy.
Isiah Whitlock, Jr. - actor.
 


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