PHOTOS: 2025 celebrity deaths

Pope Francis waves to onlookers and pilgrims while visiting the predominantly-Roma Lunik IX city district during his visit to eastern Slovakia on September 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)