Notable Deaths

In this photo provided by the UK Ministry of Defence on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, John "Paddy" Hemingway, the last surviving pilot of the iconic Battle of Britain, poses for a photo in front of a Hurricane on July 22, 2022. (UK MOD via AP)

Last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, dies at 105

 
Emilie Dequenne appears at the awards ceremony during the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France on May 27, 2023. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, File)

Belgian actor Émilie Dequenne dies at 43 of rare cancer, report says

 
Henderson Land Development's founder and chairman Lee Shau Kee attends a news conference as he announces his retirement after the company's general meeting in Hong Kong, Tuesday, May 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, file)

Hong Kong billionaire property developer Lee Shau Kee dies at 97

 
Minnesota Vikings Paul Flatley holds a plaque on June 22, 1964 in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick, File)

Minnesota Vikings say receiver Paul Flatley has died at 84

 
In this March 10, 2020, file photo, full committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., speaks during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Ex-US Rep. Nita Lowey, a New York Democrat who chaired powerful House Appropriations Committee, dies

 
Former Seattle SuperSonics player Slick Watts stands courtside before an NBA basketball game on Friday, Oct. 5, 2018, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren,File)

Former Sonic and Seattle fixture Slick Watts passes away at 73

 
White House press secretary Ron Nessen talks with reporters prior to an appearance on separate television interview programs, March 24, 1975, in Washington. Nessen, a veteran broadcast journalist who served as Ford's press secretary, died March 12, 2025. He was 90. (AP Photo/John Duricka)

Ron Nessen, press secretary to President Ford, dies at 90

 
President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson at the White House in Washington, July 7, 2022. Simpson has died at age 93. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Former US Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who bridged partisan gaps with his quick wit, dies at age 93

 
Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 25, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

‘A legacy that is unmatched': Tributes pour in for longtime Arizona congressman Raúl Grijalva

 
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., speaks at Capitol in Washington, March 28, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, champion of environment and progressivism, dies at age 77

 
Sports writer and author John Feinstein poses in Washington, Feb. 28, 2006. (AP Photo Caleb Jones, file)

John Feinstein, bestselling author and one of the country’s foremost sports writers, dies at 69

 
Arkansas' Oliver Miller (25) drives to the basket during first half action in the NCAA Southeast Regional at the Charlotte Coliseum in N.C., March 21, 1991. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky,File)

Oliver Miller, center who helped Arkansas reach Final Four and played 9 NBA seasons, dies at 54

 
Boston Patriot Sid Blanks (22) is tackled by New York Jet Mike Battle at Shea Stadium, Sunday Nov. 23, 1970, New York. (AP Photo/Harry Harris,File)

Mike Battle, an All-American at USC who played with Joe Namath-era New York Jets, dies at 78

 
Former Milwaukee Bucks player Junior Bridgeman talks to the media before an NBA basketball game between the Bucks and Brooklyn Nets, March 1, 2014, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps, File)

Junior Bridgeman, businessman and basketball standout for Louisville and Milwaukee Bucks, dies at 71

 
Craig Wolfley, center, a former Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football player, becomes emotional during the national anthem at the 20th Annual Tunch and Wolf Walk for the Homeless on Saturday, June 18, 2022, on Pittsburgh's North Shore. (Ariana Shchuka/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP, file)

Former NFL offensive lineman turned broadcaster Craig Wolfley dies at 66

 
Actress Amy Irving sits with actor-director-playwright Athol Fugard during rehearsals of the play "The Road to Mecca" on Feb. 29, 1988 in New York. (AP Photo/Mario Cabrera, File)

South Africa’s giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92

 
Art Schallock poses for a photo in Sonoma, Calif., April 18, 2024. (Wendy Cornejo, Cogir on Napa Road via AP, File)

Former pitcher Schallock, who once replaced Mickey Mantle on the Yankees’ roster, has died

 
D'Wayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Tone! poses for a portrait in New York on Sept. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Gary Gerard Hamilton, File)

D’Wayne Wiggins, founding member of the R&B group Tony! Toni! Tone!, has died at 64

 
Charles Renfro, left, Elizabeth Diller, center, and Ricardo Scofidio, the design team behind The Broad museum, pose together at the museum's opening and inaugural dinner on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Ricardo Scofidio, architect behind New York City’s High Line park, dies at 89

 
This image released by Adult Swim shows the animated superhero Space Ghost, voiced by George Lowe, in a scene from the series “Space Ghost Coast to Coast." (Adult Swim via AP)

George Lowe, the voice behind Space Ghost on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, dies at 67

 
Roy Ayers performs at the 2Pac 40th Birthday Concert Celebration on Thursday, June 16, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)

Roy Ayers, a jazz legend who influenced hip-hop and R&B musicians, dies at 84

 
Pamela Bach, former wife of actor David Hasselhoff, speaks to the media outside the courthouse in Los Angeles Tuesday June 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Pamela Bach, actor and ex-wife of David Hasselhoff, dies at 62

 
Former tennis champion Fred Stolle, of Australia, waves after receiving a symbolic trophy, just 50 years after winning the French Open tennis tournament, at the Roland Garros stadium, Saturday, May 30, 2015 in Paris. (AP Photo/David Vincent, File)

Australian tennis great Fred Stolle has died at age 86

 
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks during a news conference about voting rights Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

US Rep. and former Houston mayor Sylvester Turner dies at 70

 
Former Democratic speaker Pro-Tem Robert Clark smiles as he in congratulated by well wishers for overcoming barriers 50 years ago to become Mississippi's first black legislator since Reconstruction at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Miss. Aug. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Robert Clark, Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker after Civil Rights era, dies at 96

 
Ex-Badfinger guitarist Joey Molland strums a 1967 Epiphone Casino, while talking about the early years in Badfinger in his Shorewood, Minn. home, Monday, Sept. 10, 2001. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt, File)

Joey Molland, a guitarist with 1970s Welsh pop-rock band Badfinger, dies at 77

 
In this May, 2011, photo provided by Australian Red Cross Lifeblood donor James Harrison, credited with saving 2.4 million babies through his record-breaking blood plasma donations over decades, is giving blood at donation center in Sydney. (Australian Red Cross Lifeblood via AP)

James Harrison, Australian blood donor whose ‘golden arm’ helped save 2.4 million babies, dies at 88

 
Dolly Parton performs during an event celebrating the Kansas statewide expansion of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, in Overland Park, Kan. Carl Dean, Dolly Parton's husband of nearly 60 years, died Monday, March 3, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn., at age 82. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years who inspired ‘Jolene,’ dies at 82

 
Former Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart speaks while joined by his brother U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., center, and U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., right, as they discuss their views on the opening of the American embassy in Havana, during a news conference, Aug. 12, 2015, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Former US Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, a champion of democracy in Cuba, dies at 70

 
Scottish artist Jack Vettriano holds up a copy of his new book ahead of a signing session held at a London bookstore, Friday Oct. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Richard Lewis, File)

Self-taught painter Jack Vettriano dies in France at age 73

 
Gerard Bourgoin of French club AJ Auxerre attends the UEFA Cup fourth-round matches draw at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, on Dec. 13, 2002. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

Gerard Bourgoin, leading figure of French soccer, has died at 85

 
New York NAACP President Hazel Dukes speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Lifelong New York civil rights advocate and NAACP leader Hazel Dukes dies at 92

 
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. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith, File)

Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone dies in car crash

 
Buster Poindexter is seen at the Grammy Awards in New York's Radio City Music Hall, March 2, 1988. (AP Photo, File)

David Johansen, singer from the seminal punk band the New York Dolls, dies at 75

 
Author Joseph Wambaugh poses in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Dec. 7, 2007, to promote his book "Hollywood Station." (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Joseph Wambaugh, LA cop who wrote ‘The Onion Field’ and other bestsellers, dies at 88

 
Bobby Fischer, right, and Boris Spassky play their last game together in Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug. 31, 1972. (AP Photo/J. Walter Green, File)

Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88

 
Actor Gene Hackman arrives with his wife, Betsy Arakawa, for the 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Betsy Arakawa, concert pianist married to actor Gene Hackman, dead at 65

 
Actor Gene Hackman reacts during an interview on March 24, 1972. (AP Photo/George Brich, File)

Gene Hackman was more than an everyman: An Appreciation

 
Michelle Trachtenberg appears at the Critics' Choice Television Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on June 19, 2014 (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Taylor Momsen and Blake Lively mourn death of Michelle Trachtenberg

 
Actor Gene Hackman gives fictional Hickory High basketball players instructions during filming of the final game of the movie "Hoosiers" at Hinkle Fieldhouse on the Butler University campus, Friday, Dec. 6, 1985 in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Tom Strickland, File)

Gene Hackman’s role in ‘Hoosiers’ led to an unforgettable, beloved film for fans far beyond Indiana

 
Gene Hackman accepts his Oscar for best actor at the 44th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on April 10, 1972. (AP Photo, File)

Gene Hackman tributes pour in from Francis Ford Coppola, Viola Davis, Bill Murray and more

 
Actor Gene Hackman, winner of Best Supporting Actor at academy awards in March 1993. (AP Photo, File)

5 notable Gene Hackman movies and where to watch them

 
In this 1993 file photo, actor Gene Hackman is seen. (AP Photo/File)

Gene Hackman, found dead at 95, was one of Hollywood’s most respected actors

 
Actress Michelle Trachtenberg poses for a portrait during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Mark Mainz, File)

Michelle Trachtenberg, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Harriet the Spy’ star, dies at 39

 
This image provided by Westminster College Department of Athletics shows Westminster College football coach Joe Fusco. (Westminster College Department of Athletics via AP)

College Football HOF coach Joe Fusco, who won 4 NAIA titles at Westminster College, dies

 
Attorney Larry Dolan answers questions at a news conference in Cleveland after Cleveland Indians owner Richard Jacobs announced an agreement to sell the team to Dolan, Nov. 4, 1999. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)

Cleveland Guardians owner Lawrence J. Dolan dies at 94

 
President John F. Kennedy slumps down in the back seat of the presidential limousine as it speeds along Elm Street toward the Stemmons Freeway overpass in Dallas, Texas, after being fatally shot, Nov. 22, 1963. First lady Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president as Secret Service Agent Clint Hill pushes her back to her seat. (AP Photo/James W. "Ike" Altgens)

Clint Hill, Secret Service agent who leaped onto JFK’s car after the president was shot, dies at 93

 
Singer Roberta Flack poses for a portrait in New York on Oct. 10, 2018. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP, File)

Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning ‘Killing Me Softly’ singer with an intimate style, dies at 88

 

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Pitt freshman cornerback Mason Alexander dies in car crash in Indiana

 

Rose Girone, oldest living Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

 

Former Georgetown and New Zealand Breakers basketballer Kevin Braswell dies at 46

 

Longtime New York sports broadcaster Al Trautwig dies at 68 from complications of cancer

 

Former Thai Prime Minister Thanin Kraivichien, a hard-line anti-communist in the 1970s, dies at 97

 
Manager Al Lopez of the Chicago White Sox, center, stands with Chicago pitcher Eddie Fisher, left, and Baltimore Orioles' Milt Pappas on July 11, 1965 in Baltimore. (AP Photo/File)

Eddie Fisher, an All-Star reliever with the Chicago White Sox in 1965, dies at age 88

 
Artist Robert Seaman works on his 365th daily doodle in his room at an assisted living facility Monday, May 10, 2021, in Westmoreland, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

New Hampshire artist whose ‘daily doodle’ pandemic project lasted 1,727 days dies at 92

 
Voletta Wallace poses for a portrait on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

Voletta Wallace, Notorious B.I.G.'s mother and keeper of his legacy, dies at 78

 
Jerry Butler performs "Only the Strong Will Survive" at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in New York on March 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

Jerry ‘Ice Man’ Butler, soul singer whose hits included ‘Only the Strong Survive,’ dies at 85

 

Frankétienne, considered one of Haiti’s most important and prolific writers, dies at 88

 
Individual event winners for the final tryouts for the U.S. Olympic women's track and field team pose in Harrisburg, Pa., on July 5, 1952. The individual event winners that will compete at the Helsinki Olympic games are, rear from left, Marjorie Larney, 15, of Brooklyn, Javelin; Mabel Landry (Staton), 19, of Chicago, broad jump; Catherine Hardy, 22, of Carrollton, Ga., 200 meter; and front row from left, Janet Dicks, 20, of Harrisburg, Pa., shot put and discus; and Ora Lee Allen, 18, of Chicago, high jump. (AP Photo/File)

Mabel Staton, trailblazer who was US team’s only female long jumper at the 1952 Olympics, dies at 92

 
David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, speaks during the unveiling of a statue of former head football coach Bob Stoops in Norman, Okla., Saturday, April 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

David Boren, a former Oklahoma governor and veteran US senator and university president, dies at 83

 
Pittsburgh Penguins long time broadcaster Mike Lange addresses the crowd before the unveiling of a statue depicting Pittsburgh Penguins Hall of Fame center Mario Lemieux outside the NHL hockey team's arena March 7, 2012, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Longtime Pittsburgh Penguins announcer Mike Lange, known for his distinctive style, dies at 76

 
Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cisse films the arrival of mourners at a memorial service for Senegalese filmmaker Sembene Ousmane in Dakar, Senegal, June 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, a pioneer of African cinema, dies at age 84

 
Columbine High School shooting survivor Anne Marie Hochhalter reacts during a vigil remembering the 25th anniversary of the mass shooting, April 19, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)

Columbine survivor Anne Marie Hochhalter, who forgave gunman’s mother, dies at 43

 
Gene Hackman accepts his Oscar for best actor at the 44th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on April 10, 1972. (AP Photo, File)

Noteworthy and influential people who’ve died this year

 
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, right,, talks with Marian Turski, a Jewish journalist, after laying a wreath at the Monument to the Fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor who warned of the danger of indifference, dies at 98

 
Dancer Yolanda Montez, better known as Tongolele, talks about a photograph in her home, during an interview in Mexico City, March 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Tongolele, iconic dancer of the golden era of Mexican cinema, dies at 93

 
Paquita La Del Barrio performs at the 14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, Nov. 21, 2013, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP), File

Mexican musical legend Paquita la del Barrio dies at 77

 

Former director of the Alabama NASA center during the Challenger space shuttle explosion dies at 102

 

Greg Sharpe, Nebraska radio play-by-play voice, dies of pancreatic cancer

 
Director Carlos Diegues poses for photographers during a photo call for the film 'Le Grand cirque mystique' at the 71st international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 14, 2018. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, File)

Cacá Diegues, renowned Brazilian filmmaker and leading figure in Cinema Novo, dies at 84

 
State Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando ,speaks in opposition to Senate Bill 4B - Statewide Prosecutor, Feb. 8, 2023, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sears, File)

Florida state Sen. Geraldine Thompson dies at 76 after complications from knee replacement surgery

 
Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker attends Political Animals Club meeting in Little Rock, Ark., March 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who stepped down in the wake of Whitewater, dies at 81

 
Canadian Jerome Drayton, 32, from Toronto, crowned with traditional laurel wreath, smiles happily in the dressing room Monday, April 19, 1977, after winning the Boston A.A. Marathon in two hours, 14 minutes, and 46 seconds. (AP Photo/File)

Jerome Drayton, 1976 Olympian and last Canadian man to win Boston Marathon in ’77, dies at 80

 

North Carolina Democratic activist and onetime US Ambassador Jeanette Hyde has died at age 86

 

Boxer Mark Weinman, who returned to the ring after a 21-year layoff and won a bout, has died at 62

 

Tom Robbins, literary prankster-philosopher, dies at 92

 
This undated image provided by Studio Kukkapuro shows Yrjö Kukkapuro, a renowned Finnish furniture designer whose postmodern style of chairs graced waiting rooms and museums alike, sitting in his famous Experimental chair in his studio outside Helsinki. (Studio Kukkapuro via AP)

Finnish designer Yrjö Kukkapuro, whose postmodern chairs graced waiting rooms and museums, dies

 
Gyalo Thondup, elder brother of the Dalai Lama, speaks to media in Dharamshala, India, Nov. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia, File)

Dalai Lama’s elder brother, who led several rounds of talks with China, dies at 97