{ "site": "Dead-People.com", "feed_type": "deaths_on_date", "date": "2026-04-25", "timezone": "+01:00", "generated_at": "2026-06-19T05:54:47+01:00", "canonical_html_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/25-april-2026", "permanent_archive_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/25-april-2026", "items": [ { "name": "Andrzej Olechowski Polish politician, minister of finance and foreign affairs dead at age 78", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/andrzej-olechowski", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 78, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Poland" ], "description": "Andrzej Olechowski, the Polish politician who served as minister of finance in 1992 and minister of foreign affairs from 1993 to 1995, died on April 25, 2026, at the age of 78. Born in Kraków on September 9, 1947, he was a co-founder of Civic Platform in 2001 with Maciej Płażyński and Donald Tusk. Olechowski ran as an independent candidate in Poland’s 2000 presidential election, finishing second, and later stood as Civic Platform’s candidate for president of Warsaw in 2002. He left the party in 2009 and later cooperated with the Democratic Party.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Andrzej_Olechowski.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Olechowski" }, { "name": "Christian Verrier dead at age 73, French footballer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/christian-verrier", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 73, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "France" ], "description": "Christian Verrier, a French footballer who played as a forward, died on April 25, 2026. Born on October 4, 1952, in Clion, he spent almost his entire career with Châteauroux, where he was long associated with the club, and had a brief spell with FC Bourges in the 1981–82 season. He died in Châteauroux at the age of 73.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Verrier" }, { "name": "Klaudia Zakrzewska British social media influencer, traffic collision dead at age 32", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/klaudia-zakrzewska", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 32, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "other" ], "nationality": [ "Britain" ], "description": "Klaudia Zakrzewska died on April 25, 2026, in a traffic collision. She was a British social media influencer. No further details were provided.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaudia_Zakrzewska", "cause_of_death": { "label": "Traffic collision", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-traffic-collision" } }, { "name": "Dylan Carter American singer and reality show contestant, car accident dead at age 24", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/dylan-carter", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 24, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Dylan Carter died on April 25, 2026, in a car accident. He was an American singer and reality show contestant. No additional details about his life or career were provided in the available information.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Carter_(singer)", "cause_of_death": { "label": "Car accident", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-car-accident" } }, { "name": "Heidi Sørensen Danish-Norwegian politician, MP, cancer dead at age 56", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/heidi-sorensen", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 56, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Denmark", "Norway" ], "description": "Heidi Sørensen died on April 25, 2026, of cancer. She was a Danish-Norwegian politician who served as a member of parliament from 2001 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2013.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_S%C3%B8rensen", "cause_of_death": { "label": "Cancer", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-cancer-cause" } }, { "name": "James E. Carnes American politician, member of the Ohio Senate dead at age 84", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/james-e-carnes", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 84, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "James E. Carnes, an American politician and member of the Ohio Senate from 1995 to 2004, died on April 25, 2026, at age 84. Carnes represented Ohio’s 20th district, which encompassed much of Southeastern Ohio, before resigning in 2004. Joy Padgett was appointed to serve the remainder of his term. After leaving the Senate, Carnes became deputy director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/James_E._Carnes.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Carnes" }, { "name": "Liz Conmy American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, plane crash dies", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/liz-conmy", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Liz Conmy, an American politician and member of the North Dakota House of Representatives since 2022, died on April 25, 2026, in a plane crash. She represented the 11th district and served alongside Gretchen Dobervich as a member of the Democratic–NPL. Conmy died when the plane she was traveling on as a passenger crashed shortly after taking off from Crystal Airport. The pilot also died in the crash.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Conmy", "cause_of_death": { "label": "Plane crash", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-plane-crash" } }, { "name": "Jaan Puhvel dead at age 94, Estonian-American linguist", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jaan-puhvel", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 94, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Estonia" ], "description": "Jaan Puhvel, the Estonian-American linguist and comparative mythologist, died on April 25, 2026. He was 94. Born in Tallinn, Estonia, on January 24, 1932, Puhvel specialized in Indo-European studies. After earning his Ph.D. in comparative linguistics at Harvard University, he joined the University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught classical languages, Indo-European studies and Hittite.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_Puhvel" }, { "name": "Matt DeCaro American actor dead at age 70", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/matt-decaro", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 70, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Matt DeCaro, an American actor, died on April 25, 2026, at age 70. He was known for roles in Richie Rich, U.S. Marshals and The Wise Kids. DeCaro also appeared in the television series Prison Break as Correctional Officer Roy Geary, and in episodes of Crime Story, ER, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Cold Case, NYPD Blue, 24, The Office, NCIS, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Boston Legal, House, Eli Stone, The Chicago Code, Boss, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Fire.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_DeCaro" }, { "name": "Greet Prins dead at age 72, member of the Senate, ALS", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/greet-prins", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 72, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "the Netherlands" ], "description": "Greet Prins died on April 25, 2026. She was a Dutch politician who served in the Senate from 2019 to 2025. Prins, born on January 5, 1954, was recognized as a Ridder in the Orde van Oranje-Nassau.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greet_Prins" }, { "name": "Rossana Reguillo Mexican sociologist dead at age 70", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/rossana-reguillo", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 70, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Mexico" ], "description": "Rossana Reguillo, a Mexican sociologist, died on April 25, 2026, at the age of 70. Born in Guadalajara in 1955, she was a Mexican academic known for researching social norms, human emotions, and the relationship between communication, culture, and politics in Latin America, including how drug trafficking affected those areas. She held professorial posts at ITESO University and the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education. Her work also examined the 1992 drainage explosions in Guadalajara and youth involvement in the Mara Salvatrucha.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Rossana_Reguillo.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossana_Reguillo" }, { "name": "Sadio Camara Malian military officer, shot dead at age 47", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/sadio-camara", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 47, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "description": "Sadio Camara, a Malian military officer, died on April 25, 2026, aged 47, after being shot in Kati, in Mali’s Koulikoro Region. He took part in the 2020 Malian coup d'état with Colonel Assimi Goïta that ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, and later served as minister of defense in the interim government. Camara held the defense portfolio from October 2020 to May 2021, was reinstated on June 11, 2021, and remained in the post until his death. Born in Kati on March 22, 1979, he was a graduate of the Joint Military School and was serving as head of the Kati Military School during the 2020 coup.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Sadio_Camara.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadio_Camara", "cause_of_death": { "label": "shot", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-shot" } }, { "name": "Mircea Răceanu Romanian-born American diplomat and political dissident dead at age 90", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/mircea-raceanu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 90, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Romania" ], "description": "Mircea Răceanu, a Romanian-born American diplomat and political dissident, died on April 25, 2026, at age 90. Born Mircea Bernat on October 17, 1935, he was born in Văcărești Prison, where his mother was serving a sentence for Communist activities. His parents were members of the underground Romanian Communist Party in the 1930s. After World War II, his mother married Grigore Răceanu. He grew up in Bucharest, studied at the Ion Luca Caragiale High School, and later attended the State Institute of International Relations in Moscow.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_R%C4%83ceanu" }, { "name": "Beng Chin Ooi Singaporean computer scientist dead at age 64", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/beng-chin-ooi", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 64, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians", "scientists" ], "description": "Beng Chin Ooi, a Singaporean computer scientist, died on April 25, 2026. He was 64 or 65. Ooi was known for work on systems including GEOQL, BestPeer, Apache SINGA, BlockBench and NeurDB, as well as research in learnable function, filter and refine, and distributed processing. He was a Qiushi Chair Professor at Zhejiang University and a professor at the School of Software Technology there. Ooi previously served as the Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor and dean of the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore from 2007 to 2013. He received multiple honors, including ACM SIGMOD and IEEE awards, and was a co-recipient of the 2011 Singapore President’s Science Award.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beng_Chin_Ooi" }, { "name": "Daniel Huck French jazz reedist and singer dead at age 78", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/daniel-huck", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 78, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "France" ], "description": "Daniel Huck, the French jazz reedist and singer, died on April 25, 2026, at age 78. Born in Paris on March 22, 1948, he began on trombone before abandoning it in his teens and switching to alto saxophone at 19 while working on the waitstaff at the Parisian club Jazzland. He played with the Famous Melody Boys in 1968, Jean-Pierre Morel from 1969 to 1973, the Jazzomaniacs from 1970 to 1971, and Gilbert Leroux in 1974. In the latter half of the 1970s, he worked extensively with the Anachronic Jazz Band, Olivier Franc and Raymond Fonseque.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Huck" }, { "name": "Jesper Thilo Danish jazz saxophonist dead at age 84", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jesper-thilo", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 84, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Denmark" ], "description": "Jesper Thilo, a Danish jazz saxophonist, died on April 25, 2026, at the age of 84. He was known mainly as a tenor saxophonist, alto saxophonist and clarinetist, and was regarded as one of the leading European straight-ahead jazz musicians of the post-1970 period. Born in Copenhagen in 1941, he began playing clarinet at 11 and made his first recordings as a leader in 1973. In the 1980s, he worked with musicians including Kenny Drew, Clark Terry and Harry \"Sweets\" Edison, and later played with Hank Jones in 1991.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Jesper_Thilo.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesper_Thilo" }, { "name": "Marilyn Hickey American minister and televangelist dead at age 94", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/marilyn-hickey", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 94, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Marilyn Hickey, an American minister and televangelist, died on April 25, 2026, at age 94. Born Marilyn Allene Hickey on July 1, 1931, in Dalhart, Texas, she was the founder of Marilyn Hickey Ministries Int'l and co-hosted the \"Marilyn & Sarah\" TV program with her daughter Sarah. Hickey taught Bible studies both nationally and internationally and became a born-again Christian as a teenager.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Marilyn_Hickey.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Hickey" }, { "name": "Dick Kimball American diver and diving coach dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/dick-kimball", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Dick Kimball, an American diver and diving coach, died on April 25, 2026. He was 91. A native of Rochester, Minnesota, Kimball was the Minnesota high school diving champion four straight years from 1952 to 1956 and won the NCAA springboard title in 1957 and the Professional World Diving championship in 1963. He coached the University of Michigan diving team from 1958 to 2002 and served as a coach for U.S. Olympic diving teams in 1964, 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992. Kimball also competed in gymnastics at Michigan and won the national trampoline title.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Dick_Kimball.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Kimball" }, { "name": "Peter H. Raven American botanist and environmentalist dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/peter-h-raven", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Peter H. Raven, an American botanist and environmentalist, died on April 25, 2026, at age 89. Raven was born in Shanghai, China, on June 13, 1936, to American parents. He became a member of the California Academy of Sciences while still a youth and later earned a BSc in biology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1957 and a Ph.D. in botany from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1960. He was longtime director and president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Peter_H._Raven.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Raven" }, { "name": "Katsumi Miyaji Japanese rugby union player and coach dead at age 85", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/katsumi-miyaji", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Japan" ], "description": "Katsumi Miyaji, a Japanese rugby union player and coach, died on April 25, 2026. He was 85. Miyaji played as a prop and attended Shijonaga High School before going on to Doshisha University. During his university years, he joined the second Japanese Association invited NHK Cup alongside Yoshihiro Sakata and other players, helping win against Kintetsu. He later worked at Sanyo Tokyo and also played for the Japan national rugby union team.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsumi_Miyaji" }, { "name": "Muni Narayana Prasad Indian spiritual teacher dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/muni-narayana-prasad", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "writers" ], "nationality": [ "India" ], "description": "Muni Narayana Prasad, an Indian spiritual teacher and author, died on April 25, 2026, at the age of 87. He was the head of the Narayana Gurukula Foundation, a philosophical and educational organisation inspired by the teachings of Narayana Guru. Born in Kerala on December 9, 1938, he trained as a civil engineer and worked with the Public Works Department of the Kerala government before resigning in 1968 to join the Narayana Gurukula. He became head of the Gurukula in 1999 and later led its expansion in India and abroad. Prasad wrote extensively on Indian philosophy and Vedanta and was known for making traditional texts accessible to modern audiences.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muni_Narayana_Prasad" }, { "name": "Busk Margit Jonsson public figure dead at age 96", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/busk-margit-jonsson", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 96, "death_date": "2026-04-25", "reported_date": "2026-04-25", "published_at": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Busk Margit Jonsson, a Swedish soprano opera singer, died on April 25, 2026, at the age of 96. Born in Malung, Dalarna County, she sang many roles during her time at the Royal Swedish Opera from 1954 to 1983. In 1975, she was awarded the Jussi Björling scholarship. 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