PHOTOS: 2025 celebrity deaths

FILE – In this April 6, 2006, file photo, Fuzzy Zoeller encourages the crowd to be quiet on the second hole during first round play at the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

FILE – This May 23, 2006 file photo shows then NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue responding to questions during a news conference at the conclusion of the National Football League’s owners spring meeting in Denver. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney watches he attends a primary Election Night gathering for his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, in Jackson, Wyo. Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)

Donna Jean Godchaux performs with Dead & Company at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., on June 12, 2016. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Diane Ladd attends the 2016 Summer TCA “Hallmark Event” July 27, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

June Lockhart, right, who played the character of Ruth Martin, mother of Timmy Martin, played by Jon Provost, left, during the classic series “Lassie,” poses for a photograph with Lassie, 9th generation, during CBS’s 75th anniversary celebration on Nov. 2, 2003, in New York. Lockhart died of natural causes at her home in Santa Monica, a family spokesman said. She was 100. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano,)

Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley, center, during the band’s farewell concert in the Detroit area, Thursday, May 25, 2000, at the Palace of Auburn Hills, Michigan. Frehley died Oct. 16, 2025. He was 74. (AP Photo/Paul Warner, File)

D’Angelo performs at the “Made In America” music festival in Philadelphia on Sept. 1, 2012. D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer recognized by his raspy yet smooth voice and for garnering mainstream attention with the shirtless “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” music video, died on Oct. 14, 2025. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Diane Keaton appears at the Ralph Lauren Spring 2023 Fashion Experience in Pasadena, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2022. The Oscar-winning star of “Annie Hall,” “The Godfather” films and “Father of the Bride,” whose quirky, vibrant manner and depth made her one of the most singular actors of a generation, died on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. She was 79. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

FILE – Joan Kennedy smiles following an interview in Boston, Dec. 5, 1979. (AP Photo/Dave Tenenbaum, file)

English primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall speaks on a panel “Earth’s Wisdom Keepers” at the forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 19, 2024. Jane Goodall, the intellectual conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking, immersive chimpanzee field research in which she documented the primates’ distinct personalities and use of tools, has died. She was 91. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Grammy award-winning country songwriter Brett James, whose string of top hits includes “Jesus, Take the Wheel” by Carrie Underwood and “When the Sun Goes Down” by Kenny Chesney, died in a plane crash in North Carolina, authorities said Friday. He was 57. FILE – Musician Brett James and his wife Sandy appear at a pre-CMA Awards event in Nashville, Tenn., on Nov. 5, 2006. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)

Robert Redford smiles as he addresses an audience during a forum with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, not shown, at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, in Boston. Robert Redford, the Hollywood golden boy who became an Oscar-winning director, liberal activist and godfather for independent cinema under the name of one of his best-loved characters, died Tuesday at 89. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

FILE – Boxer Ricky Hatton stands by the pitch before Manchester City’s English Premier League soccer match against Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England, Sunday Sept. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)

This photo provided by Glenn Ballantyne shows Bobby Hart, left and Glenn Ballantyne seated next to a message board at a book signing for Psychedelic Bubble Gum on May 30, 2015 at Book Court bookstore 163 Court Street in Brooklyn, New York. (Glenn Ballantyne via AP)

FILE – Charlie Kirk speaks at Texas A&M University as part of Turning Point USA’s American Comeback Tour on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in College Station, Texas. Kirk was assassinated while speaking on a university campus on Sept. 10, 2025. (Meredith Seaver/College Station Eagle via AP, File)

FILE – Rick Davies plays the keyboards while singing during the British band Supertramp’s concert in Budapest, on Friday evening, June 28, 2002. Davies died Sept. 6, 2025, of blood cancer multiple myeloma /MTI via AP) (Noemi Bruzak/MTI via AP)

Designer Giorgio Armani, centre, poses with models at the end of his women’s 2019 Spring-Summer collection, unveiled during the Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018. Giorgio Armani, the iconic Italian designer who turned the concept of understated elegance into a multibillion-dollar fashion empire, has died, his fashion house confirmed. He was 91. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

FILE – Graham Greene attends a screening of “Antlers” at Regal Essex Crossing on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Ron Turcotte poses next to a statue of him and Secretariat in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada, May 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Stephen MacGillivray, File)

FILE – Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, right, speaks as his wife Shirley Dobson, left, looks on during a “Yes on 8” prayer event held at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, Nov. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, file)

British actor Terence Stamp arrives at the Marrakech International Film Festival in Marrakech, Nov. 30, 2012 at the Marrakech Congress Palace. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Actress Danielle Spencer, circa 1988. (Photo by Getty Images)

FILE – Former FBI and CIA head William H. Webster speaks to reporters in Washington, Oct. 25, 2002. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)

FILE – Capt. James A. Lovell, Jr., attends the 45th Anniversary of Apollo 8 “Christmas Eve Broadcast to Earth” event at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Kamil Krzaczynski, File)

Actress Loni Anderson arrives at the 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, Saturday, April 14, 2007. Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

FILE – In this June 18, 2006 file photo, Chuck Mangione performs during the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles, Calif. Mangione died Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Lucas Jackson, file)

FILE – Hulk Hogan poses during the MTV Video Music Awards Forum at Radio City Music Hall, Aug. 30, 2006, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

FILE – Ozzy Osbourne arrives at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Jan. 26, 2020, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Malcolm-Jamal Warner arrives at the 65th annual Grammy Awards, Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – In this Nov. 27, 1978 file photo, singer Connie Francis poses for a portrait in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Wally Fong, File)

FILE – Actor Michael Madsen appears at the premiere of “The Hateful Eight” in Los Angeles on Dec. 7, 2015. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart gestures with the bible as spread the word of the Lord to the 14,000 faithful that packed the Los Angeles Sports Arena during his Los Angeles Crusade, Sunday, March 30, 1987. (AP Photo/Mark Avery)

FILE – Bill Moyers speaks during the wake for R. Sargent Shriver in Washington on Jan. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

FILE – Singer Bobby Sherman appears in Los Angeles on Dec. 21, 1972. (AP Photo/George Brich, File)

FILE – Leonard Lauder attends a gala launch party in New York, April 26, 2010. Leonard Lauder, the eldest son of cosmetics pioneers Estée and Joseph H. Lauder and the former head of cosmetics giant Estée Lauder Companies, died on Saturday, according to an announcement by the company. He was 92. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, File)

Ananda Lewis arrives at Radio One’s 25th Anniversary Awards Gala Aug. 17, 2006 in Washington DC. She died, Lewis, a former MTV VJ who connected a generation of music fans to their favorite celebrities on the music network, has died. She was 52. (Photo by Nancy Ostertag/Getty Images)

Musician Brian Wilson poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on June 2, 2015. Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world’s most influential recording artists, has died at 82. (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Sly Stone from the group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 8, 2006, in Los Angeles. His family announced that he died June 9 at the age of 82. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Alf Clausen, the Emmy-winning composer whose music provided essential accompaniment for the animated antics of “The Simpsons” for 27 years, has died. BEVERLY HILLS, CA – MARCH 24: Composer Alf Clausen attends the 2016 ASCAP Screen Music Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 24, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for ASCAP)

Celebrated actor Valerie Mahaffey, whose stage, film and television work ranged from Shakespeare to the hit 1990s series “Northern Exposure,” died at age 71 after a battle with cancer, according to a statement released Saturday by her publicist. Actress Valerie Mahaffey attends the screening of The Warner Bros. Pictures “Sully” in West Hollywood, California, on Sept. 8, 2016. / AFP / VALERIE MACON (Photo credit should read VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

FILE – Actress Loretta Swit arrives at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ 3rd Annual Television Academy Honors in Beverly Hills, Calif., Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Rick Derringer performs during Hippiefest at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino on Aug. 26, 2012 in Coconut Creek, Fla. Guitarist and singer Rick Derringer, who shot to fame at 17 when his band The McCoys recorded “Hang On Sloopy,” had a hit with “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo” and earned a Grammy Award for producing “Weird Al ” Yankovic’s debut album, has died. He was 77. (Photo by Jeff Daly/Invision/AP)

FILE – In this June 16, 2016 file photo, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rangel retires after more than four decades in office. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Actor George Wendt posing for a portrait in New York, Oct. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, file)

FILE – In this July 9, 2008 file photo, Supreme Court Justice David Souter, reacts after speaking at a dedication ceremony at the State Supreme Courthouse in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

Pope Francis waves to onlookers and pilgrims while visiting the predominantly-Roma Lunik IX city district during his visit to eastern Slovakia on Sept. 14, 2021 in Kosice, Slovakia. Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday. He was 88. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

FILE – Wink Martindale arrives at the International Myeloma Foundation 7th Annual Comedy Celebration at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre, Nov. 9, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Val Kilmer arrives at the 54th annual GRAMMY Awards, Feb. 12, 2012, in Los Angeles. Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favorite Iceman in “Top Gun,” donned a voluminous cape as Batman in “Batman Forever” and portrayed Jim Morrison in “The Doors,” has died. He was 65. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series “Dr. Kildare” who found a second career as an award-winning “king of the miniseries,” has died. He was 90. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, file)

Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, talks about election results in the 4th Congressional District at the Utah Republican Party headquarters Monday Nov. 26, 2018, in Salt Lake City. Former U.S. Rep. Mia Love of Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who became the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died Sunday. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Heavyweight boxer George Foreman flexes his muscles after weighing in at 260 pounds for his fight against Shannon Briggs at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City, N.J., Thursday, Nov. 20, 1997. George Foreman, the fearsome heavyweight, who lost the “Rumble in the Jungle” before his inspiring second act as a surprising champion and a successful businessman, died Friday night. Foreman was 76. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Angie Stone poses as she walks down the red carpet during the 2009 Soul Train Awards taping at the Georgia World Congress Center, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 in Atlanta. Stone was killed in a car crash on March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith, File)

David Johansen of the New York Dolls is seen at the Grammy Awards in New York’s Radio City Music Hall, March 2, 1988. Johansen died on March 1, 2025 at age 75. (AP Photo, File)

Actor Gene Hackman arrives with his wife, Betsy Arakawa, for the 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003. Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog were found dead in their New Mexico home. He was 95. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Michelle Trachtenberg appears at The Art of Elysium’s Ninth annual Heaven Gala in Culver City, Calif., on Jan. 9, 2016. Michelle Trachtenberg, a former child star who appeared in the 1996 “Harriet the Spy” hit movie and went on to co-star in two buzzy TV shows at the dawn of the millennium — “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl” — has died. She was 39. (AP Photo/Rich Fury)

Singer Roberta Flack poses for a portrait in New York on Oct. 10, 2018. Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style made her one of the top recordings artists of the 1970s and an influential performer long after, has died. She was 88. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Tony Roberts attends the screening for “It Takes a Lunatic” during the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, May 3, 2019, in New York. Roberts, a Tony Award-nominated theater performer and actor in several Woody Allen movies, died Feb. 7 at the age of 85. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP, File)

FILE — Irv Gotti introduces a performance by OGI at the BET Awards, June 26, 2022, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Gotti, hip-hop music executive from New York City and founder of Murder Inc. Records, died Feb. 5 at the age of 54. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and poured a material empire built on billions of dollars in tithes into building homes, hospitals and schools in developing countries, has died. He was 88. FILE – The founder and president of the Aga Khan Network for Development, Prince Aga Khan (L) arrives with officials for a ceremony to lay the foundation stone of the Humayun Tomb Site Museum in New Delhi on April 7, 2015. The 900 sqm museum is to be constructed at the World Heritage Site of Humayun’s Tomb. AFP PHOTO / SAJJAD HUSSAIN (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Dick Button smiles next to a painting of him while honored at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

This March 3, 2014 file photo shows British singer Marianne Faithfull at the Stella McCartney’s ready-to-wear fall/winter 2014-2015 fashion collection presented in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as “Up on Cripple Creek,” “The Weight” and “Rag Mama Rag,” died at age 87, his family confirmed on Jan. 21, 2025. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Cecile Richards, former President of Planned Parenthood and daughter of the late Texas Gov. Ann Richards, speaks during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Aug. 21, 2024. Richards died Jan. 20, 2025, at home in New York “surrounded by family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie,” her family said in a statement. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died, her family announced on Jan. 17, 2025. She was 95. Here she poses for a portrait at a New York hotel on May 4, 1999. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File)

FILE – David Lynch appears at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2019. His family announced his death in a Facebook post on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer Bob Uecker tips his cap before a baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Miami Marlins, July 28, 2024, in Milwaukee. The team announced Uecker died Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, calling it “one of the most difficult days in Milwaukee Brewers history.” (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died. He was 86. Yarrow, who also co-wrote the group’s most enduring song, “Puff the Magic Dragon,” died on Jan. 7, 2025, his family confirmed. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)