Notable celebrity and newsmaker deaths of 2025

Take a look at the notable celebrities and newsmakers who have died so far in 2025. These prominent people have made an impact in their fields of sports, public service and the arts.

Jan 8, 2025 - 19:52
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Notable celebrity and newsmaker deaths of 2025

Take a look at the notable celebrities and newsmakers who have died so far in 2025. These prominent people have made an impact in their fields of sports, public service and the arts.


 

FILE - Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow, of the 1960's era musical trio
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, died Jan. 7, 2025. He was 86. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
FILE - Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, Monday May 1, 2017, in Paris. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File)
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation, died Jan. 7, 2025. He was 96. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
FILE - Shigemi Fukahori is interviewed at the Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, southern Japan, on July 29, 2020. Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to praying for peace and the souls of the victims, has died. He was 93. (Kyodo News via AP, File)
Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace and campaigning against nuclear weapons, died Jan. 3, 2025. He was 93. (Kyodo News via AP)
FILE - Jeff Baena arrives at the premiere of "Spin Me Round," Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, at The London in West Hollywood, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
Aubrey Plaza’s husband, screenwriter and director Jeff Baena, was found dead on Jan. 3, 2025, of an apparent suicide at the age of 47. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
FILE - Wayne Osmond performs during a taping of the Osmonds 50th anniversary show at the Orlean's casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)
Wayne Osmond, a singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-selling family act The Osmonds, who were known for such 1970s teen hits as “One Bad Apple,” “Yo-Yo” and “Down By the Lazy River,” died Jan. 1, 2025. He was 73. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

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