Deaths in December 2025
Miroslav Vondřička
Czech basketball coach · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Czech · Other
Ryan McDonough
cardiologist and member of the Alaska State Medical Board · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Other
William Rush
British actor (Waterloo Road · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Lane Rogers
American pornographic actor · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Robert Goodman (psychiatrist) Psychiatrist dead at age 72
a British child psychiatrist, died on December 18, 2025, aged 72. He was Professor of Brain and Behavioural Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at King’s College London. Goodman specialised in hemiplegia… · 18 December 2025 · December 2025
Roger Ewing Actor dead at age 83
an American actor best known for his role as Thad Greenwood on the western television series Gunsmoke, died on December 18, 2025. Born Roger Lawrence Ewing in Los Angeles, California, on January 12, 1942, he worked in film and television… · 18 December 2025 · December 2025
Richard Dimitri Actor dead at age 83
an American actor and comedian known for When Things Were Rotten, Johnny Dangerously and The World's Greatest Lover, died on December 18, 2025, at age 83. Born in Yonkers, New York, he was best known for playing the twin characters… · 18 December 2025 · December 2025
Phil Vinall
English record producer and engineer (Black Sea · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Other
Olga Cardoso
Portuguese radio announcer · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Other
José Luis Cienfuegos
60/61 · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Cienfuegos · Other
Constança Cunha e Sá
Portuguese journalist and a political commentator · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Ethan McLeod
English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers) · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Peter Arnett
American journalist (Associated Press) · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Jack Abendschan
American football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders) · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Mario Pineida
Ecuadorian footballer (Barcelona SC · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
Lewis Entz
American politician and farmer · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
Hans van Manen
Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Dutch · Manen · Other
Marcel de Sade
Danish convicted fraudster and musician · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Sade
John Antrobus
British playwright and screenwriter (The Goon Show) · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
Victor Grossman
American publicist and author · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
Max Eider
British guitarist (The Jazz Butcher) and songwriter · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
Antony Price
English fashion designer · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Other
Ryō Ishihara
Japanese voice actor and narrator · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
Marc Alyn
French poet and writer · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · French
Rosa von Praunheim
German filmmaker and gay rights activist · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Praunheim · Other
Maria Trayner
Spanish activist · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Other
Richard Meier (poet) Poet dead at age 55
an English poet, died on December 17, 2025, of lung cancer in East Finchley, London, at the age of 55. Born in Great Bookham, Surrey, in 1970, he won the 2010 Picador Poetry Prize. He authored two poetry collections, and… · 17 December 2025 · December 2025
Verena Keller (singer) German operatic mezzosoprano dead at age 83
the German operatic mezzosoprano, died on December 17, 2025. Born in Schwerin on September 8, 1942, she was the daughter of the Swiss opera singer Jakob Keller. She studied at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien and later… · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · Other
Robert Heide American playwright and author dead at age 91
an American playwright and author, died on December 17, 2025. He was best known for his play "The Bed" and for working with artist Andy Warhol. His death was attributed to dementia-related complications, according to his surviving spouse, John Gilman · 17 December 2025 · December 2025
Elof Axel Carlson American geneticist dead at age 94
an American geneticist and historian of science, died on December 17, 2025, at age 94. He was a distinguished teaching professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Born in New York City in 1931, Carlson… · 17 December 2025 · December 2025
DJ Warras
South African radio and club DJ · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Other
Josef Kubíček
Czech actor (Thirty Cases of Major Zeman · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Czech
Kym Ireland
Australian Olympic field hockey player (1984) · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
Abdel Gadir Salim
Sudanese singer and bandleader · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Salim
Sir Humphrey Burton
British television and radio presenter · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Burton
Ismail Ayob
South African anti-apartheid lawyer · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
Norman Podhoretz
American magazine editor and writer (Commentary) · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
Gil Gerard
American actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century) · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
John Boulter
British tenor (The Black and White Minstrel Show) · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Other
Nuno F. Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Loureiro
Richard Grégoire
Canadian film and television composer · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
David Stokes
Guatemalan footballer (national team) · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
Solomon Grundy
American professional wrestler (WCCW · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15 · Other
Chuck Neinas
American athletics administrator · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15 · Other
Yitzchak Abadi
Venezuelan-born American Orthodox rabbi · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15 · Other
Ali Aref Bourhan
Djiboutian politician · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15 · Bourhan
Édika
Egyptian-born French comics artist · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15 · French
Garry Smith
New Zealand rugby league player (West Coast · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15
Harry Roberts
English convicted murderer (Shepherd's Bush murders) · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15
Marian Kotleba
Slovak basketball player (BK Inter Bratislava · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15
Jozef Gruska
Slovak computer scientist and academic · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15 · Józef
Ángel González-Adrio
Spanish basketball player (Picadero JC · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15
Susie Figgis
British casting director · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15 · Other
Anatoly Sergeyev
Russian military officer · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15 · Other
Henry Moore (bishop) English Anglican cleric, bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf dead at age 102
English Anglican cleric and bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf, died on December 16, 2025, aged 102. Known commonly as Harry Moore, he was the second bishop of the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf, serving from 1983 to 1986.… · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · Other
Lewis Berman American veterinarian dead at age 90
an American veterinarian who founded Park East Animal Hospital on the Upper East Side of New York City in 1961, died on December 16, 2025, at the age of 90. Based at the hospital, he was known for serving a… · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · Other
Tucker Genal
American Tiktoker · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15 · Other
Martin Grelis
Australian actor (The Matrix · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15
Michael Whalen
Canadian journalist (CBM (AM) · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15
Joe Ely
American musician (The Flatlanders) · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15