PHOTOS: 2025 celebrity deaths

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)

FILE – 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, File)