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Pratt, also known as Harvey Phillip Pratt, worked for more than 40 years in law enforcement and pioneered the soft tissue postmortem drawing method used to reconstruct unidentified subjects. His drawings aided law enforcement agencies in the United States and abroad. Born in El Reno, Oklahoma, in 1941, he began his career with the Midwest City Police Department and later served with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, while also exhibiting his traditional artwork in various institutions.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2025/12/Harvey_Pratt.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Pratt" }, { "name": "Mark McCullough American lighting designer dead at age 62", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/mark-mccullough-lighting-designer", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 62, "death_date": "2025-12-31", "reported_date": "2025-12-31", "published_at": "2025-12-31T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Mark McCullough, an American lighting designer, died on December 31, 2025. A native of North Carolina, he studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Yale School of Drama, earning a Master of Fine Arts from Yale in 1991. After graduating, he worked on opera and theatre productions in the United States and Europe, designing for Broadway and the West End. He had long associations with the Glimmerglass Festival, the New York City Opera and the San Francisco Opera, and also worked for the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Houston Grand Opera, the Royal Opera, London, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_McCullough_(lighting_designer)" }, { "name": "Elizabeth Kelly Actress dead at age 104", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/elizabeth-kelly", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 104, "death_date": "2025-12-31", "reported_date": "2025-12-31", "published_at": "2025-12-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actress", "actors" ], "nationality": [ "England" ], "description": "Elizabeth Kelly, the English actress best known for playing Nellie Ellis in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, died on December 31, 2025, aged 104. Born Elizabeth Hutton Kelly in Newcastle upon Tyne on May 29, 1921, she began her acting career in the late 1960s and worked in television and film for four decades. She also appeared in Coronation Street in 1971 and later took roles in The Bill, Boon, Spender and Where the Heart Is, as well as the television film Cider with Rosie. 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He later taught LDS Seminary for four years at West High School in Salt Lake City.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_C._Jessee" }, { "name": "Paul Idlout Canadian Inuk Anglican bishop dead at age 90", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/paul-idlout", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 90, "death_date": "2025-12-31", "reported_date": "2025-12-31", "published_at": "2025-12-31T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Canada" ], "description": "Paul Idlout, a Canadian Inuk Anglican bishop and former police constable, died on December 31, 2025. Born on April 21, 1935, in Pond Inlet, Northwest Territories, he was raised in a traditional Inuit hunting culture and was a young man when his family was relocated to the high Arctic in the 1950s. He later served as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable before training for ordained ministry in the 1980s and becoming a priest. In 1996, he became the first Inuk to be made an Anglican bishop and the third Indigenous Anglican bishop in Canada. He retired as suffragan bishop of the Diocese of the Arctic in 2004.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Idlout" }, { "name": "Enno Hallek Artist dead at age 94", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/enno-hallek", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 94, "death_date": "2025-12-31", "reported_date": "2025-12-31", "published_at": "2025-12-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "artist", "artists", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Enno Hallek, a Swedish artist and academic, died on December 31, 2025, at the age of 94. Born in Rohuküla, Estonia, on November 7, 1931, he moved with his family to Sweden in 1943 after fleeing Soviet-occupied Estonia as refugees. He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and held his first solo exhibition in 1963 at Konstnärshuset in Stockholm. Hallek was a professor of arts at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from 1981 to 1991. He and Åke Pallarp designed the Stadion metro station.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enno_Hallek" }, { "name": "Francis Hallé French botanist and biologist dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/francis-halle", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2025-12-31", "reported_date": "2025-12-31", "published_at": "2025-12-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "France" ], "description": "Francis Hallé, the French botanist and biologist, died on December 31, 2025, at the age of 87. He was a specialist in tropical rainforests and tree architecture, and is best known for the first \"Radeau des cimes\" (\"Navigating the peaks\"), which he initiated with an aerostatic balloon in 1986. Hallé was Professor Emeritus at the University of Montpellier. In 2010, he and Luc Jacquet began collaborating on the Wild-Touch film project La Forêt des pluies, a documentary about primary forests.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hall%C3%A9" }, { "name": "Bobby Gosh American musician and singer-songwriter dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/bobby-gosh", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2025-12-31", "reported_date": "2025-12-31", "published_at": "2025-12-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Bobby Gosh, an American musician and singer-songwriter known for writing “A Little Bit More,” died on December 31, 2025, at age 89. Born Robert Gosch on May 31, 1936, in Stouchsburg, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Reading and studied classical piano from age 6. He toured as Kitty Callen’s pianist at 16, later attended Albright College, and went on to study orchestration at Juilliard. In New York, he performed in clubs, worked with Sammy Cahn, and toured with Paul Anka as pianist, orchestra conductor and co-writer. “A Little Bit More” became a hit for Dr. Hook in 1976.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Gosh" }, { "name": "Jerry Bledsoe Author, journalist dead at age 84", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jerry-bledsoe", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 84, "death_date": "2025-12-31", "reported_date": "2025-12-31", "published_at": "2025-12-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "author", "journalist", "journalists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Jerry Bledsoe, an American author and journalist, died on December 31, 2025, at age 84. 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Born in Landis, North Carolina, he was a three-sport star in high school and led his 1953 football team to an undefeated season before enrolling at Wake Forest University in 1953.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ray_Barnes" }, { "name": "Jiří Zubrický Czech Olympic weightlifter dead at age 61", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jiri-zubricky", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 61, "death_date": "2025-12-31", "reported_date": "2025-12-31", "published_at": "2025-12-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Czechia" ], "description": "Jiří Zubrický, a Czech Olympic weightlifter who competed in the 1988 and 1992 Games for Czechoslovakia, died on December 31, 2025, at the age of 61. Born in Most on February 8, 1964, he won a bronze medal at the 1990 World Weightlifting Championships, finishing behind Leonid Taranenko and Artur Akoyev. 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