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Notable deaths of 2025 F ROM Hollywood legends to a trailblazing pope, a heavy-metal heavyweight and a fashion king, here are some of 2025’s most French far-right leader and losing presidential run-off candidate who co-founded the National Front party, aged 96 o Actors, artistes, activists on list of those who departed during year British zoologist and primatologist Goodall. – ALL PICS FROM AFP Ismaili Nizaris, a branch of Shia Islam, aged 88

Bollywood actor Dharmendra.

novelist, key figure of queer literature, aged 85 0 9: Frederick Forsyth, British thriller writer of The Day of the Jackal fame, aged 86 0 11: Brian Wilson, musician and co-founder of the Beach Boys, aged 82 0 26: Lalo Schifrin, Argentina-born composer who created themes for a host of hit Hollywood films and television shows – including Mission: Impossible , aged 93 July 0 22: Ozzy Osbourne, British frontman of Black Sabbath, one of the pioneers of heavy metal, aged 76 0 24: Hulk Hogan, icon of professional wrestling in the 1980s who became an actor, aged 71 0 31: Robert Wilson, American director of original stage and opera works, aged 83 August 0 7: Jim Lovell, US astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970, aged 97 0 17: Terence Stamp, British actor who was an emblem of London’s “Swinging Sixties”, aged 87 September 0 4: Giorgio Armani, Italian luxury king and fashion designer to the stars, aged 91 0 6: Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit, prominent activist for the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo group which campaigned for victims of Argentina’s 1976–1983 dictatorship, aged 106 0 6: Rick Davies, co-founder and

lead singer for British rock band Supertramp, aged 81 0 10: Charlie Kirk, right-wing activist, influencer and close ally of US President Donald Trump, shot during an event in the western state of Utah, aged 31 0 16: Robert Redford, American cinema legend in front of and behind the camera, who worked to promote independent cinema, aged 89 0 23: Claudia Cardinale, Italian-French sixties screen siren and muse of Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini, aged 87 British primatologist who transformed the study of chimpanzees and one of the world’s most revered wildlife advocates, aged 91 0 11: Diane Keaton, actress, known for her Oscar-winning performance alongside Woody Allen in 1977’s Annie Hall as well as The Godfather , aged 79 November 0 3: Dick Cheney, considered the most powerful vice president in US history as George W. Bush’s number two during the Sept 11, 2001 attacks and ensuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, aged 84 0 6: James Watson, Nobel medicine laureate co-credited with the discovery of DNA’s double-helix structure, known for his racist and sexist remarks, aged 97 0 24: Dharmendra, India’s hugely popular Bollywood star, aged 89 0 24: Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae star who helped transform the island’s music into a global cultural phenomenon, aged 81. – AFP October 0 1: Jane Goodall,

0 8: Sam Nujoma, guerrilla leader who became Namibia’s first president after it won independence from South Africa in 1990, aged 95 0 18: Gene Hackman, Oscar-winning US actor known for The French Connection and Unforgiven , aged 95 April 0 1: Val Kilmer, Hollywood actor who shot to fame playing Iceman in the original Top Gun , aged 65 0 13: Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer and Nobel literature laureate in 2010, aged 89 0 21: Jorge Mario Bergoglio, or Pope Francis, from Argentina, elected in 2013 as the first Latin American pontiff, an outspoken reformist who put the poor at the heart of his papacy but stopped short of overhauling traditional doctrine, aged 88 Mujica, Uruguay’s leftist ex-president (2010–2015), a cult figure for his modest lifestyle, aged 89 0 23: Sebastiao Salgado, French-Brazilian photographer, famed for large black-and-white photographs depicting wildlife, landscapes and people around the world, aged 81 0 24: Marcel Ophuls, Oscar-winning filmmaker who blew the lid off the myth that France resisted its World War II Nazi occupiers in The Sorrow and the Pity , aged 97 June 0 3: Edmund White, American May 0 13: Jose “Pepe”

0 16: David Lynch, US director behind Blue Velvet , Mulholland Drive and the cult television series Twin Peaks , aged 78 0 30: Marianne Faithfull, British singer and actress, best known for her hit song As Tears Go By , aged 78

notable deaths.

January 0 1: David Lodge, British novelist best known for his campus trilogy series, aged 89 0 5: Costas Simitis, Greek former prime minister (1996–2004) and architect of the country’s eurozone entry, aged 88 0 7: Jean-Marie Le Pen, former

February 0 4:

Karim IV, philanthropist and imam of the Aga Khan

Armani, famed Italian fashion designer.