50 Icons we lost in 2025 – Year in Review

Every year, comes January I reflect on the year that´s passed, and I do the In Memoriam video series.

This year, we said goodbye to a lot of big figures of culture.

In this list we honor them and may they rest in peace:

David Lynch78American film directorTwin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive
Dame Joan Plowright95English actressEnchanted April, A Taste of Honey, 101 Dalmatians
Marianne Faithfull78English singerAs Tears Go By
Gene Hackman95American actorThe French Connection, Mississippi Burning, Unforgiven
Roberta Flack88American singerKilling Me Softly with His Song
Michelle Trachtenberg39American actressBuffy the Vampire Slayer, Harriet the Spy, Gossip Girl
David Johansen75American musician, singer and actorNew York Dolls
Richard Chamberlain90American actorDr. Kildare, The Thorn Birds, Sh?gun
Val Kilmer65American actorTop Gun, The Doors, Batman Forever
Mario Vargas Llosa89Peruvian writerNobel Prize laureate
Jorge Bergoglio88Argentine Roman Catholic prelatePope Francis
George Wendt76American actorCheers, Forever Young, Elf
Phil Robertson79American businessman and TV personalityDuck Dynasty
Loretta Swit87American actressM*A*S*H, Freebie and the Bean, Race with the Devil
Sly Stone82American Hall of Fame musicianSly and the Family Stone
Julian McMahon56Australian actorNip/Tuck, Fantastic Four, Home and Away, Charmed
Diogo Jota28Portuguese footballerLiverpool, Portugal national team
Michael Madsen67American actorReservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Donnie Brasco
Malcolm-Jamal Warner54American actor and musicianThe Cosby Show, Malcolm & Eddie, The Resident
Ozzy Osbourne76English Hall of Fame musicianBlack Sabbath
Loni Anderson79American actressWKRP in Cincinnati, All Dogs Go to Heaven, A Night at the Roxbury
Terence Stamp87English actorBilly Budd, Superman II, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Graham Greene73Canadian actorDances With Wolves, Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Green Mile
Giorgio Armani91Italian fashion designerArmani
Rick Davies81English musician and songwriterSupertramp
Brian Wilson82American Hall of Fame musicianThe Beach Boys
Robert Redford89American actor and film directorButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men
Claudia Cardinale87Italian actressOnce Upon a Time in the West, The Leopard, 8½
Dame Jane Goodall91English zoologist and primatologistJane Goodall Institute
Diane Keaton79American actressAnnie Hall, The Godfather, Something’s Gotta Give
Ace Frehley74American Hall of Fame guitaristKiss, Frehley´s Comet
June Lockhart100American actressLost in Space, Lassie, Petticoat Junction
Lenny Wilkens88American Hall of Fame basketball playerHawks, Sonics, Cavs
Jimmy Cliff81Jamaican Hall of Fame reggae singer-songwriterThe Harder They Come, Rebel in Me
Peter Greene60American actorPulp Fiction, The Mask, Clean, Shaven
Rob Reiner78American actor and film directorAll in the Family, This Is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally
Perry Bamonte65English Hall of Fame rock musicianThe Cure, Love Amongst Ruin
Brigitte Bardot91French actressAnd God Created Woman, Contempt, La Vérité
Isiah Whitlock Jr.71American actorThe Wire, Da 5 Bloods, Your Honor
Sam Moore89American Hall of Fame singer-songwriterSam & Dave
Wayne Osmond73American singer songwriterThe Osmonds
Garth Hudson87Canadian Hall of Fame musician and keyboardistThe Band
Charlie Kirk31American conservative activistTurning Point USA
Connie Francis87American pop singerEverybody’s Somebody’s Fool, “Pretty Little Baby”, “My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own”
Hulk Hogan71American Hall of Fame professional wrestler and actorWWF, WCW, Rocky III
Sam Rivers48American bassistLimp Bizkit
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa75American actorLicence to Kill, Mortal Kombat, The Man in the High Castle
John Sykes65English guitarist and songwriterThin Lizzy, Whitesnake
Boris Spassky88Russian chess grandmasterWorld champion (1969–1972) Bobby Fischer rival
Peter Yarrow86American singer and songwriterPeter, Paul and Mary

May they all rest in peace.

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