Peter Ryan, the British-born Australian police officer who served as commissioner of New South Wales police from 1996 to 2002, died on December 15, 2025. Born in Lancaster, Lancashire, on 18 May 1944, Ryan joined Lancashire Constabulary as a police… · 15 December 2025 · December 2025
Thai police officer and politician · 14 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 14
Taiwanese politician · 14 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 14
Japanese politician · 14 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 14
Nepali politician · 13 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 13 · Upadhyay
French politician. UMP (2002–2008) · 13 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 13 · French
Slovak politician · 12 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 12 · Vladimir
Liechtensteiner politician · 12 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 12
Antiguan politician · 12 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 12 · Watt
Sir Gerald Watt, Antiguan politician and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, died on December 13, 2025, at the age of 86. He represented St. John's Rural East in parliament from 1971 to 1976 and served as attorney general… · 13 December 2025 · December 2025
Mohammad Shafiq, a Pakistani army general and former governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, died on December 13, 2025, at the age of 91. Born in Kohat in April 1934, he was a three-star rank officer in the Pakistan Army. He served… · 13 December 2025 · December 2025
Hong Kong politician · 12 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 12
Andorran politician · 11 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 11 · Moles
Philip D. Shutler, an American Marine lieutenant general, died on December 12, 2025, in Springfield, Virginia. He was 99. Shutler served as Deputy Commandant for Aviation for the Marine Corps from 1974 to 1975 and later as Director of Operations,… · 12 December 2025 · December 2025
Tanzanian politician · 10 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 10
Korean politician · 10 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 10 · Nam
Kim Woo-nam, a South Korean politician and former member of the National Assembly, died on December 11, 2025, of a heart attack. He was 70. Born in Pyeongdae-ri, Jeju Island, on July 12, 1955, he served in the 17th, 18th,… · 11 December 2025 · December 2025
Siegfried Herrmann, an Austrian politician and trade unionist, died on December 11, 2025, at the age of 83. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he served in the Landtag of Styria from 1987 to 1991 and in the Federal… · 11 December 2025 · December 2025
Cape Verde diplomat and politician · 08 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 8 · Monteiro
Tom Copeland, an American politician and member and speaker of the Washington House of Representatives, died on December 8, 2025, at age 101. Born Thomas Lenox Copeland in Pendleton, Oregon, on April 17, 1924, he served in the U.S. Army… · 08 December 2025 · December 2025
Burkinabe politician · 07 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 7 · Bissiri
Venezuelan politician · 06 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 6 · Figueroa
Sri Lankan politician · 06 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 6
Byron Knutson, an American politician and former member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, died on December 6, 2025, at age 96. A North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party member, he served in the state House from 1959 to 1962, as… · 06 December 2025 · December 2025
American businessman and diplomat · 05 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 5 · Other
Albanian politician · 03 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 3
Argentine engineer and politician · 03 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 3 · Argentine
Hong Kong solicitor and politician · 02 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 2
Loveday Carlyon, Cornish nationalist politician and former leader of Mebyon Kernow, died on December 2, 2025. Originally from Torpoint, she joined Mebyon Kernow and later married fellow party member Julyan Holmes before moving to Liskeard. She was elected to the… · 02 December 2025 · December 2025
Alice S. Whittemore, an American epidemiologist and biostatistician, died on December 2, 2025. She studied the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer after an earlier career as a pure mathematician focused on group theory. Whittemore was a professor of… · 02 December 2025 · December 2025
Chadian politician · 30 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 30
Solan Mirisim, a Papua New Guinean politician and businessman, died on December 1, 2025, in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, at the age of 47. He served as Minister of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force from 2017 to 2019… · 01 December 2025 · December 2025
Argentine-born Israeli diplomat and historian · 29 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 29 · Argentine