New Year Pictures

New Years 2026 Around the World:

Berlin, Germany

Ukraine

Moscow, Russia (cancelled)

Nairobi, Kenya

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Egypt

Bangkok. Thailand

Beijing, China

Sydney, Australia

 

 

Bulgaria Joins Euro

 

(Store in Bulgaria with prices in both the Lev and the Euro.)

Bulgaria marked New Year by adopting the Euro.

Bulgaria became the 21st country to switch to the Euro on Thursday.

However, concerns persist that the move could usher in higher prices and add to political instability rattling the Balkan country.

When midnight struck, Bulgaria gave up the Lev (which means Lion) Currency, which has been in use since 1881.

Joining the Currency club marks a major milestone for the Eastern European Country, which entered the European Union in 2007.

For mostly Urban, Young and Entrepreneurial Bulgarians, it's an optimistic and potentially lucrative leap - the final move in a game which has brought Bulgaria into the European mainstream - from NATO and EU membership, to joining the Schengen Zone, and now the Euro.

For the Older, Rural, more Conservative parts of the Population, the replacement of the Bulgarian Lev by the Euro provokes fear and resentment.

Bulgaria's accession leaves only six of the 27 EU nations outside the Currency Union: Sweden, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Denmark.

2026 Package

 

Zelenskyy's New Year

 

From President Zelenskyy’s Facebook:

Another year is passing, hard-won through dedication and tenacity, through principles and the daily effort of Ukrainians.

This year was made possible thanks to our defenders – those who stood their ground not only for Ukraine, but also for all who value freedom and dignity.

Together, we move forward with what keeps us going: experience and memory, the word of home, hope and faith. We take with us the capacity for collective action and our humanity – what endures against all odds.

We believe in peace, we fight for it, and we work to achieve it.

Happy New Year, dear Ukrainians!

——

Ще один рік минає, виборений відданістю й стійкістю, принциповістю та щоденною працею українців.

Цей рік став можливим завдяки нашим захисникам – тим, хто відстояв його не лише для України, а й для всіх, хто цінує свободу та гідність.

Далі разом йдемо з тим, що нас тримає: досвідом і пам’яттю, рідним словом, надією та вірою. Беремо із собою здатність до спільнодії і людяність – те, що попри все.

Віримо в мир, боремось за нього і працюємо заради цього.

З Новим роком, дорогі українці!

Bobs' New Years

 

UK Celebrates

 

Catalonia Celebrates

 

Germany Celebrates

 

Italy Celebrates

 

Poland Celebrates

 

Ukraine Celebrates

 

Israel Celebrates

 

Staying Home

 

NYE Tickets

 

Too Cold

 

Brigitte Bardot

 

Brigitte Bardot has died at the age of 91.

The legendary French Actress, Model, and Singer rose to international fame in the 1950s and ’60s with films like 'And God Created Woman' and 'Contempt,' which cemented her as the embodiment of bombshell glamour and New Wave rebellion

At 39, Bardot famously retired from acting to devote herself to animal-rights activism.

2025 Deaths: 2

2025 Deaths

July

1^st: Nikolay Chervenkov, 77, Moldovan activist.

1^st: Florence Delay, 84, French writer and actress (The Trial of Joan of Arc, Le Jouet criminel, Écoute voir), member of the Académie Française.

1^st: Werner Meißner, 88, German economist, president of the Goethe University Frankfurt (1994–2000).

2^nd: Roger Dupuy, 91, French historian and academic.

2^nd: Julian McMahon, 56, Australian actor (Nip/Tuck, Fantastic Four, Home and Away), cancer.

2^nd: Anna Ornstein, 98, Hungarian-American Holocaust Survivor (Auschwitz.)

2^nd: Verka Siderova, 99, Bulgarian folk singer.

3^rd: Anita Kupsch, 85, German actress (Escape from East Berlin, One or the Other of Us, Praxis Bülowbogen).

4^th: José Antonio García Belaúnde, 77, Peruvian diplomat, minister of foreign affairs (2006–2011).

4^th: Lidia Semenova, 73, Ukrainian chess grandmaster.

5^th: Mauro Del Vecchio, 79, Italian military officer and politician, commander of ISAF (2005–2006) and senator (2008–2013).

5^th: Jonathan Ott, 76, American ethnobotanist, chemist and writer, co-creator of the term entheogen.

6^th: Simon Groot, 90, Dutch agronomist, World Food Prize laureate (2019).

6^th: Helena Tattermuschová, 92, Czech operatic soprano (National Theatre).

7^th: Tamara Abdushukurova, 84, Tajik actress, theater director and politician.

7^th: Jewel Thais-Williams, 86, American activist and dance bar owner (Jewel's Catch One).

8^th: Alan G. Hassenfeld, 76, American toy industry executive, CEO and chairman of Hasbro (1989–2008).

9^th: Maurice Choriol, 65, French-born German Roman Catholic Benedictine monk, abbot of Tholey Abbey (since 2008).

9^th: Glen Michael, 99, British children's television presenter and entertainer (Francie and Josie).

9^th: Martha K. Schwebach, 86, American nurse practitioner.

10^th: Shwe Nya War Sayadaw, 60, Burmese Buddhist monk and political prisoner, liver disease.

10^th: Ivan Voronych, 50, Ukrainian intelligence officer (Security Service of Ukraine), shot.

11^th: Raymond Guiot, 94, French flautist (Opéra de Paris, composer and academic teacher (Conservatoire de Paris).

11^th: Khadidja Hamdi, Sahrawi politician and activist, first lady (1976–2016).

11^th: David Kaff, 79, British musician (Rare Bird, Spinal Tap) and actor (This Is Spinal Tap).

11^th: Donald Rose, 110, British supercentenarian and World War II veteran (liberated Bergen Belsen), oldest man in the United Kingdom (since 2024).

11^th: Martin Cruz Smith, 82, American novelist (Gorky Park, Nightwing, Havana Bay).

12^th: Celestino Sánchez Ramos, 74, Spanish activist (15-M) and politician, member of the Catalan parliament (1980–1984, 1988–1992).

12^th: Melissa F. Wells, 92, Estonian-born American diplomat (Ambassador to Estonia 1998-2001.)

13^th: Muhammadu Buhari, 82, Nigerian military officer and politician, military head of state (1983–1985), president (2015–2023), and governor of Borno State (1975–1976).

14^th: Zvika Dror, 98, Israeli historian of Holocaust survivors testimonies, the kibbutz and the IDF.

14^th: Eileen Fulton, 91, American actress (As the World Turns, Nero Wolfe, Our Private World).

14^th: Alexander Mitta, 92, Russian film director (Shine, Shine, My Star, How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor, Air Crew), screenwriter and actor, complications from a stroke.

15^th: Robert W. Fuller, 88, American physicist, co-founder of The Hunger Project.

15^th: Luis Viu, 82, Andorran-Spanish Olympic skier (1964) and politician, mayor of Andorra la Vella (1992–1997).

16^th: Patrick Experton, 83, French test pilot.

16^th: Connie Francis, 87, American pop singer ("Everybody's Somebody's Fool", "Pretty Little Baby", "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own"), pneumonia.

16^th: Yuri Kara, 70, Russian film director (Tomorrow Was the War, Barons of Crime, Hamlet. XXI Century), screenwriter and producer, heart attack.

16^th: José María Obaldía, 99, Uruguayan writer and lexicographer, president of the Academia Nacional de Letras (1999–2003).

16^th: H. Andrew Schwartz, 56, American journalist and policy analyst, chief communications officer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

17^th: Jake Larson, 102, American WWII Veteran (D-Day and Battle of the Bulge) and TikToker.

18^th: Jimmy Hunt, 85, American actor (Invaders from Mars, Cheaper by the Dozen, Sorry, Wrong Number), complications from a heart attack.

18^th: Olga Sirotinina, 102, Russian linguist.

18^th: Kenneth Washington, 89, American actor (Hogan's Heroes, Adam-12, Westworld).

19^th: Bobby Bright, 80, English-born Australian singer (Bobby & Laurie) and television host (Dig We Must).

19^th: Al-Waleed bin Khalid Al-Saud, 36, Saudi prince, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.

19^th: Frank Maffei, 85, American singer (Danny & the Juniors).

20^th: Shmuel Goren, 97, Israeli military officer, commander of Unit 504 (1962–1968).

20^th: Tom Troupe, 97, American actor (Kelly's Heroes, My Own Private Idaho, The Devil's Brigade).

20^th: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 54, American actor (The Cosby Show, Malcolm & Eddie, The Resident) and musician, Grammy winner (2015), drowned.

21^st: Jan van Ierland, 111, Dutch supercentenarian, oldest living person born in the Netherlands (since 2024)

22^nd: Sir Guy Green, 87, Australian judge, governor of Tasmania (1995–2003), and acting governor-general of Australia (2003).

22^nd: Ozzy Osbourne, 76, English Hall of Fame musician (Black Sabbath), songwriter ("Paranoid"), and television personality (The Osbournes).

23^rd: Abdallah Bou Habib, 83, Lebanese diplomat, minister of foreign affairs and emigrants (2021–2025) and ambassador to the United States (1983–1990), heart attack.

23^rd: Michael Ochs, 82, American photographic archivist.

23^rd: Arnold Palacios, 69, Northern Marianan politician, governor (since 2023), lieutenant governor (2019–2023) and president of the Senate (2017–2019).

24^th: Hulk Hogan, 71, American Hall of Fame professional wrestler (WWF, WCW) and actor (Suburban Commando), cardiac arrest.

24^th: Robert E. Pursley, 97, American Air Force general.

25^th: Doris Gercke, 88, German writer.

25^th: Sandra Grimes, 80, American intelligence agent.

26^th: Evelio Droz, 88, Puerto Rican Olympic basketball player (1960, 1964).

26^th: Rosemary Kilbourn, 94, Canadian printmaker.

26^th: Jiří Krampol, 87, Czech actor (The Borstal, Malý pitaval z velkého města, Synové a dcery Jakuba skláře).

26^th: Piotr Łossowski, 100, Polish historian and academic.

26^th: Andrew Oliver, 41, New Zealand man, oldest known person to have survived with Fryns–Aftimos syndrome, pneumonia.

26^th: Qian Yongnian, 91, Chinese diplomat, ambassador to Indonesia (1990–1995).

27^th: Horst Mahler, 89, German lawyer, convicted Holocaust denier and political activist, founding member of the Red Army Faction.

27^th: Yuri Yampolsky, 78, Ukrainian astronomer.

28^th: Cécile Dionne, 91, Canadian media personality, member of the Dionne quintuplets.

28^th: Morton Mintz, 103, American investigative journalist (The Washington Post, St. Louis Star-Times, St. Louis Globe-Democrat).

29^th: Alon Abutbul, 60, Israeli actor (The Dark Knight Rises, London Has Fallen, Rambo III).

29^th: Paul Mario Day, 69, English singer (Iron Maiden, More, The Sweet), cancer.

29^th: Sir Robin Ross, 85, British Royal Marines officer, complications from Parkinson's disease.

30^th: David Argue, 65, Australian actor (Razorback, Hercules Returns, Gallipoli), cancer.

August

1^st: Fleg, 62, Canadian editorial cartoonist, pancreatic cancer.

1^st: Frank Grimes, 78, Irish actor (A Bridge Too Far, Strumpet City, Coronation Street).

1^st: Jack Morava, 80, American mathematician (Morava K-theory).

2^nd: Kelley Mack, 33, American actress (The Walking Dead), glioma.

3^rd: Loni Anderson, 79, American actress (WKRP in Cincinnati, All Dogs Go to Heaven, A Night at the Roxbury), uterine leiomyosarcoma.

3^rd: Lori Cannon, 74, American LGBT activist and AIDS awareness advocate.

3^rd: Dame Stella Rimington, 90, British intelligence officer, director general of MI5 (1992–1995).

4^th: Sir Leo Hielscher, 98, Australian public servant, namesake of Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges.

4^th: Arnfinn Hofstad, 91, Norwegian oil and paper industry executive, CEO of Norske Skog (1982–1994) and acting chairman of Statoil (1996).

4^th: Jane Morgan, 101, American singer ("Fascination", "The Day the Rains Came", "Two Different Worlds").

4^th: Talgat Musabayev, 74, Kazakh cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-19, Soyuz TM-27, Soyuz TM-32) and politician, senator (2017–2023).

4^th: Eldar Shengelaia, 92, Georgian film director (The White Caravan, Unusual Exhibition, Blue Mountains) and politician, MP (1990–2004)

5^TH: Ion Iliescu, 95, Romanian politician, president (1989–1996, 2000–2004), state councillor (1979–1980), and five-time MP, lung cancer.

5^TH: Enriqueta Maroni, 98, Argentine human rights activist (Mothers of Plaza de Mayo).

5^TH: Stanley McGeagh, 88, Northern Irish actor (Doctor Who, UFO, Gandhi).

7^TH: Jim Lovell, 97, American astronaut (Gemini 12, Apollo 8, Apollo 13).

8^TH: Christopher Loeak, 72, Marshallese politician, president (2012–2016), Iroijlaplap of Ailinglaplap Atoll (2021–2023).

8^TH: William H. Webster, 101, American jurist and intelligence officer, director of the FBI (1978–1987) and CIA (1987–1991), chairman of the HSAC (2005–2020).

9^TH: John Cruickshank, 105, Scottish Royal Air Force officer, Victoria Cross recipient.

9^th: Ivan Krasko, 94, Russian actor (The Prince and the Pauper, A Beautiful Stranger, Afghan Breakdown), People's Artist of Russia (1992), cancer.

10^th: Pat Foote, 95, American Army officer. She was the first female public relations officer in Vietnam in 1967. In 1979 she became the first female faculty member of the United States Army War School, the first female brigade commander in Europe, and became the first female inspector general in the Army in 1986, and the first female commander of Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

10^th:  Nikolai Golushko, 88, Ukrainian-Russian intelligence officer, director of the Committee for State Security (1987–1991) and director of the Federal Security Service (1993–1994).

10^th: Erich Redman, 61, Russian-born German actor (Captain America: The First Avenger, United 93, Overlord).

10^th: Andrey Urnov, 87, Russian diplomat, ambassador to Armenia (1994–1998).

12^th: Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, 61, Rwandan diplomat, mayor of Kigali (2006–2011).

12^th: Borys Kovtonyuk, 76, Ukrainian journalist and local historian.

13^th: Anatoly Adamishin, 90, Russian diplomat, MP (1994), ambassador to the United Kingdom (1994–1997) and Italy (1990–1992).

13^th: Gary Hooper, 86, Australian wheelchair athlete, Paralympic champion (1964, 1968).

14^th: Mike Castle, 86, American politician, lieutenant governor (1981–1985) and governor (1985–1992) of Delaware, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1993–2011).

14^th: Donald M. McPherson, 103, American fighter pilot. He was the last living American flying ace of World War II.

15^th: Tristan Rogers, 79, Australian actor (General Hospital, The Young and the Restless, The Rescuers Down Under), lung cancer.

16^th: Ewald Eberle, 92, Liechtensteiner Olympic alpine skier (1956).

17^th: Joe Hickerson, 89, American folk singer and lyricist ("Where Have All the Flowers Gone?").

17^th: Bill Mather-Brown, 89, Australian wheelchair athlete, Paralympic silver medallist (1960, 1968).

18^th: Eduard Carbonell i Esteller, 79, Spanish art historian, director of the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (1994–2005).

20^th: Edward Hurwitz, 94, American diplomat, ambassador to Afghanistan (1983–1986) and Kyrgyzstan (1992–1994).

20^th: Norma Nolan, 87, Argentine model and beauty pageant winner, Miss Universe (1962).

21^st: Gordon Bowker, 82, American businessman, co-founder of Starbucks, bone marrow disease.

22^nd: Javier Cid, 46, Spanish journalist (El Mundo), writer and LGBT rights activist.

23^rd: Ioan Donca, 85, Romanian diplomat, ambassador to China (1999–2002).

24^th: Michael Bustin, 88, Romanian-born American molecular biologist, senior investigator at the NCI.

24^th: M. J. Mahlangu, 72, South African diplomat, ambassador to the United States (2015–2020).

28^th: Randy Boone, 83, American actor (The Virginian, Cimarron Strip, Terminal Island).

28^th: Rami Heuberger, 61, Israeli actor (Schindler's List, Dawn, Golda) and theatre director, cancer.

29^th: James B. Culbertson, 87, American diplomat, ambassador to the Netherlands (2008–2009).

30^th: Trax Colton, 96, American actor (It Happened in Athens, The Marriage-Go-Round).

31^st: John Macrae, 92, British diplomat, ambassador to Senegal (1985–1990) and Morocco (1990–1992).

31^st: Ruth Paine, 92, American teacher who became notable after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as she housed Lee Harvey Oswald's wife, Marina Oswald, in her home for several months until the day after the assassination.

September

1^st: Graham Greene, 73, Canadian actor (Dances With Wolves, Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Green Mile) and recording artist, Grammy winner (2000).

1^st: Jean Havlish, 89, American baseball player (Fort Wayne Daisies).

1^st: Sir Eric Neal, 101, Australian academic administrator, governor of South Australia (1996–2001), chief commissioner of Sydney (1987–1988), and chancellor of Flinders University (2002–2010).

5^th: Mayumi Narita, 55, Japanese swimmer, Paralympic champion (1996, 2000, 2004), bile duct cancer.

6^th: Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit, 106, Argentine activist, co-founder of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.

7^th: Sir Edmund Lawrence, 93, Kittitian civil servant, governor-general (2013–2015).

8^th: Inge Brück, 88, German singer ("Anouschka") and actress.

8^th: Salli Sachse, 82, American actress (Muscle Beach Party, The Trip, Wild in the Streets).

9^th: Polly Holliday, 88, American actress (Alice, Gremlins, The Parent Trap), pneumonia.

11^th: Minasse Haile, 95, Ethiopian politician, ambassador to the United States (1969–1971) and minister of foreign affairs (1971–1974).

13^th: Anatoly Akeyev, 71, Russian politician, member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1984–1989).

14^th: Jim Edgar, 79, American politician, governor (1991–1999) and secretary of state (1981–1991) of Illinois, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1977–1979), complications from pancreatic cancer.

14^th: Tess Johnston, 93, American diplomat and author, complications from COVID-19.

14^th: Isabel Rilvas, 90, Portuguese parachutist.

14^th: Václav Žák, 80, Czech politician and publicist, member of the Czech National Council (1990–1992) and signatory of Charter 77.

15^th: Ymania Brown, 62, Samoan LGBTQ rights activist and lawyer.

15^th: Ting Mao-shih, 99, Taiwanese diplomat, minister of foreign affairs (1987–1988), representative to the United States (1988–1994), and secretary-general to the president (1999–2000).

16^th: Yehuda Zvi Blum, 93, Slovak-born Israeli legal scholar, permanent representative to the United Nations (1978–1984).

16^th: Robert Redford, 89, American actor (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men) and film director (Ordinary People), Oscar winner (1980).

16^th: Vladimir Timoshenko, 82, Russian diplomat, ambassador to Benin (2002–2008).

16^th: Joseph Urusemal, 73, Micronesian politician, president (2003–2007).

17^th: Hans Enoksen, 69, Greenlandic politician, prime minister (2002–2009), member (since 1987) and speaker (2018) of the Inatsisartut.

18^th: George Smoot, 80, American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (2006), heart attack.

20^th: James Mitchum, 84, American actor (Thunder Road, In Harm's Way, Moonrunners).

21^st: Léon Landini, 99, French resistance fighter and political activist, president of the Pole of Communist Revival in France (2004–2006).

23^rd: Ruth Posner, 96, Polish Holocaust survivor and actress (Making News, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Casualty), assisted suicide.

24^th: George Hardy, 100, American fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen) and military officer.

24^th: Sara Jane Moore, 95, American accountant and convicted attempted assassin (Gerald Ford).

26^th: Chen Chien-jen, 86, Taiwanese diplomat and politician, MP (1993–1996), minister of foreign affairs (1999–2000), and representative to the United States (2000–2004).

October

1^st: Dame Jane Goodall, 91, English zoologist and primatologist, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and Roots & Shoots, cardiac arrest.

2^nd: Sir David Ratford, 91, British diplomat, ambassador to Norway (1990–1994).

2^nd: Camille Senon, 100, French trade unionist, last survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.

3^rd: Dame Patricia Routledge, 96, English actress (Keeping Up Appearances, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Darling of the Day) and singer, Tony winner (1968).

4^th: BeBe Shopp, 95, American beauty pageant titleholder, Miss America (1948).

6^th: Ben Lewis, 46, English-born Australian actor (Love Never Dies, The Phantom of the Opera), bowel cancer.

8^th: Joan Bennett Kennedy, 89, American socialite.

10^th: Adam Strzembosz, 95, Polish lawyer and jurist, first president of the Supreme Court (1990–1998).

11^th: Diane Keaton, 79, American actress (Annie Hall, The Godfather, Something's Gotta Give), Oscar winner (1978), bacterial pneumonia.

11^th: Gildas Le Lidec, 78, French diplomat, ambassador to Cambodia (1994–1998), ambassador to Japan (2006–2007).

13^th: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, 78, American LGBT rights activist (TGI Justice Project).

15^th: Jim Bolger, 90, New Zealand diplomat and politician, prime minister (1990–1997), MP (1972–1998), and ambassador to the United States (1998–2002), kidney failure.

16^th: Kanchha Sherpa, 92, Nepalese mountaineer (1953 British Mount Everest expedition).

17^th: Tomiichi Murayama, 101, Japanese politician, prime minister (1994–1996) and MP (1972–1980, 1983–2000).

20^th: Selma van de Perre, 103, Dutch-British World War II resistance fighter.

21^st: Michael Smuss, 99, Polish painter and Holocaust survivor, last survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

23^rd: June Lockhart, 100, American actress (Lost in Space, Lassie, Petticoat Junction).

24^th: J. William Middendorf, 101, American diplomat, secretary of the Navy (1974–1977), ambassador to the Netherlands (1969–1973) and the European Union (1985–1987).

24^th: Sirikit, 93, Thai queen consort (1950–2016), blood infection.

28^th: David Brighty, 86, British diplomat, ambassador to Spain (1994–1998).

30^th: Vincent Malerba, 100, French resistance member and Buchenwald concentration camp survivor.

30^th: Burt Meyer, 99, American toy inventor (Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Lite-Brite, Mouse Trap).

30^th: Klaus Scharioth, 79, German diplomat, ambassador to the United States (2006–2011).

31^st: Fatos Nano, 73, Albanian politician, prime minister (1991, 1997–1998, 2002–2005), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

November

1^st: Martha Layne Collins, 88, American politician, governor (1983–1987) and lieutenant governor of Kentucky (1979–1983).

1^st: Kenneth Minihan, 81, American Air Force general, director of the National Security Agency (1996–1999).

1^st: Mykhailo Reznik, 75, Ukrainian diplomat, ambassador to China (2001–2003) and the United States (2003–2005).

1^st: Duane Roberts, 88, American businessman, inventor of the frozen burrito.

1^st: Immo Stabreit, 92, German diplomat, ambassador to South Africa (1987–1992), ambassador to the United States (1992–1995).

6^th: Manfred Goldberg, 95, German-born British educator and Holocaust survivor.

7^th: Zbigniew Rylski, 102, Polish lieutenant colonel and World War II veteran.

15^th: Derek Leask, 76–77, New Zealand diplomat, high commissioner to the United Kingdom (2008–2013).

15^th: Franklin Sonn, 86, South African diplomat, ambassador to the U.S. (1995–1999).

16^th: Paige Greco, 28, Australian para-cyclist, Paralympic champion (2020).

17^th: Bruce Gelb, 98, American businessman and diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Belgium.

22^nd: Robert Birenbaum, 99, French resistance fighter.

24^th: Viola Fletcher, 111, American civil rights activist, survivor of the Tulsa race massacre.

December

2^nd: Darwin Deason, 85, American information technology services founder (Affiliated Computer Services).

3^rd: Jaakko Blomberg, 83, Finnish diplomat.

3^rd: Charles Norman Shay, 101, American army medic (16th Infantry Regiment) and writer.

4^th: Ted Egan, 93, Australian folk singer and civil servant, administrator of the Northern Territory (2003–2007).

6^th: Pierre-Paul Geoffroy, 81, Canadian Quebec nationalist militant (Front de libération du Québec).

8^th: Arthur Konrad, 91, Liechtensteiner politician, mayor of Vaduz (1980–1995).

8^th: Eamon Melaugh, 92, Irish political activist.

10^th: Jeff Garcia, 50, American comedian and actor (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Barnyard, Mr. Box Office), complications from a collapsed lung.

12^th: Pere Font Moles, 99, Andorran politician, cultural activist and printing businessman, member of the General Council (1964–1967, 1970–1973).

12^th: Bolesław Rakoczy, 82, Polish historian, member of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit.

12^th: Jim Avila, 70, American television journalist (ABC News, 20/20), complications from a fall.

15^th: Derek Leask, 76–77, New Zealand diplomat, high commissioner to the United Kingdom (2008–2013).

15^th: Franklin Sonn, 86, South African diplomat, ambassador to the U.S. (1995–1999).

16^th: Paige Greco, 28, Australian para-cyclist, Paralympic champion (2020).

17^th: Bruce Gelb, 98, American businessman and diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Belgium.

17^th: Alice Kessler, 89, German singer (Kessler Twins) and actress (Love and the Frenchwoman, Dead Woman from Beverly Hills), assisted suicide.

17^th: Ellen Kessler, 89, German singer (Kessler Twins) and actress (Love and the Frenchwoman, Dead Woman from Beverly Hills), assisted suicide.

18^th: Oleksandr Motsia, 75, Ukrainian archaeologist and medievalist, member of NASU Institute of Archaeology.

22^nd: Huba Wass de Czege, 84, Hungarian-born American military officer.

23^rd: Valentina Sharykina, 85, Russian actress (Yeltsin: Three Days in August, July Rain, Down House).

24^th: Viola Fletcher, 111, American civil rights activist, survivor of the Tulsa race massacre.

25^th: Theresa Anne Tull, 89, American politician and diplomat, ambassador to Guyana (1987–1990) and Brunei (1993–1996).

27^th: Prince Chulcherm Yukol, 78, Thai royal and military officer.

28^th: Dan Tolkowsky, 104, Israeli military officer and businessman, commander of the Air Force (1953–1958).

29^th: Klavdiya Gadyuchkina, 114, Russian supercentenarian, oldest person in Russia (since 2022).

December

3^rd: Charles Norman Shay, 101, American army medic (16th Infantry Regiment) and writer.

4^th: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, 75, American actor (Licence to Kill, Mortal Kombat, The Man in the High Castle), complications from a stroke.

5^th: Frank Gehry, 96, Canadian-American architect (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Gehry Residence, Louis Vuitton Foundation), respiratory illness.

6^th: Pierre-Paul Geoffroy, 81, Canadian Quebec nationalist militant (Front de libération du Québec).

6^th: Aleksandr Matsegora, 70, Russian diplomat, ambassador to North Korea (since 2014).

7^th: Rachael Carpani, 45, Australian actress (McLeod's Daughters, Against the Wall, Home and Away).

8^th: Arthur Konrad, 91, Liechtensteiner politician, mayor of Vaduz (1980–1995).

8^th: Eamon Melaugh, 92, Irish political activist.

12^th: Peter Greene, 60, American actor (Pulp Fiction, The Mask, Clean, Shaven).

12^th: Bolesław Rakoczy, 82, Polish historian, member of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit.

14^th: Anthony Geary, 78, American actor (General Hospital, UHF, Teacher's Pet), complications from surgery.

14^th: Dame Shân Legge-Bourke, 82, Welsh landowner and royal lady-in-waiting, Lord Lieutenant of Powys (1998–2018).

17^th: Ruth Bourne, 99, British codebreaker and World War II veteran.

18^th: Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, 75, Angolan politician, prime minister (2002–2008), vice president (2010–2012) and twice president of the National Assembly.

18^th: Helen Siff, 88, American actress (You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Hail, Caesar!, Big Top Pee-wee), complications from surgery.

19^th: James Ransone, 46, American actor (The Wire, It Chapter Two, The Black Phone), suicide by hanging.

20^th: Ira "Ike" Schab, 105, American Navy sailor, survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

21^st: Robert A. Flaten, 91, American diplomat, ambassador to Rwanda (1990–1993).

22^nd: Pat Finn, 60, American actor (The Middle, Murphy Brown, Dude, Where's My Car?), bladder cancer.

 

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2025 Deaths

January

1^st: Michael Loewe, 102, British historian, Sinologist and writer.

1^st: Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes, 96, British politician, minister of state for consumer affairs (1979–1982), MP (1970–1987), and member of the House of Lords (1989–2019).

1^st: Wayne Osmond, 73, American singer (The Osmonds) and songwriter ("Crazy Horses", "Let Me In"), stroke.

1^st: Viktor Alksnis, 74, Russian politician, mayor of Tuchkovo (2013–2015), MP (2000–2007), and deputy of the Soviet Union (1989–1991).

1^st: Louis Schittly, 86, French physician and humanitarian (Médecins Sans Frontières).

2^nd: Francesc Antich, 66, Venezuelan-born Spanish politician, president of the government of the Balearic Islands (1999–2003, 2007–2011) and senator (2011–2019), cancer.

2^nd: Pedro Luis García Pérez, 86, Spanish mathematician, physicist and academic, president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society (1982–1988).

2^nd: Derek Humphry, 94, British-American assisted suicide activist (Jean's Way, Final Exit), co-founder of Final Exit Network, heart failure.

2^nd: Ágnes Keleti, 103, Hungarian-Israeli Holocaust Survivor, Artistic Gymnast, Olympic champion (1952, 1956), pneumonia.

2^nd: Pádraig Ó Snodaigh, 89, Irish activist and writer.

2^nd: Noreen Riols, 98, British novelist and SOE agent during World War II.

3^rd: Niko Lekishvili, 77, Georgian politician, state minister (1995–1998), mayor of Tbilisi (1993–1995).

3^rd: Majda Ra'ad, 82, Swedish-born Jordanian Hashemite princess.

4^th: Rajagopala Chidambaram, 88, Indian nuclear physicist (Smiling Buddha, Pokhran-II), principal scientific adviser to the government (2002–2018).

5^th: Costas Simitis, 88, Greek politician, prime minister (1996–2004), and MP (1985–2009).

6^th: Sir Thomas Dunne, 91, British military officer, lord lieutenant of Hereford and Worcester (1977–1998), Herefordshire (1998–2008) and Worcestershire (1998–2001).

6^th: Henny Eman, 76, Aruban politician, prime minister (1986–1989, 1994–2001).

6^th: Charles M. Roessel, 63, American Navajo photographer, journalist and academic administrator, president of Diné College (since 2017).

7^th: Barbara Clegg, 98, British actress (Emergency Ward 10) and scriptwriter (Doctor Who, Coronation Street).

7^th: Peter Yarrow, 86, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary) and songwriter ("Puff, the Magic Dragon"), bladder cancer.

8^th: Gabriel de Broglie, 93, French historian, chancellor of the Institut de France (2006–2017) and member of the Académie Française.

8^th: Charles Person, 82, American civil rights activist (Freedom Rides).

9^th: Bill Byrge, 92, American actor (Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest Goes to Jail, Ernest Scared Stupid) and comedian.

9^th: Shulamith Shahar, 96, Latvian-born Israeli historian.

10^th: Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya, 60, Russian actress (Queen Margot, Actress, The Irony of Fate 2), complications from cancer and heart failure.

10^th: Shiu Ka-chun, 55, Hong Kong democracy activist, MLC (2016–2020), stomach cancer.

10^th: Mike Hynson, 82, American surfer (The Endless Summer).

12^th: José María Sanz Pastor, 83, Spanish diplomat and politician, civil governor of province of Seville (1980–1982).

13^th: Niel Barnard, 75, South African intelligence chief, director-general of the National Intelligence Service (1979–1992), cancer.

13^th: John Evans, 74, British disability rights activist, cancer.

13^th: Shamsaddin Khanbabayev, 85, Azerbaijani politician, prime minister of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (1993–2000).

14^th: Hans Reichelt, 99, German politician, member of the Volkskammer (1950–1990).

14^th: Gwen Watkins, 101, British codebreaker and author.

22^nd: Loretta Ford, 104, American nurse, dean of the University of Rochester School of Nursing (1972–1985) and co-founder of the first nurse practitioner graduate program.

22^nd: Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira, 85, Portuguese military officer, chief of staff (1976–1978) and governor of Macau (1992–1999).

29^th: Sally J. Novetzke, 93, American political aide and diplomat, ambassador to Malta (1989–1993).

30^th: Andrée Dumon, 102, Belgian Resistance member during World War II.

31^st: Carlos Ferrero, 83, Peruvian politician, prime minister (2003–2005), member (1992–2006) and president (2000–2003) of Congress.

 

February

1^st: Horst Köhler, 81, German economist and politician, president (2004–2010), president of the EBRD (1998–2000) and managing director of the IMF (2000–2004).

2^nd: William J. Cabaniss, 86, American politician and diplomat, ambassador to the Czech Republic (2004–2006), member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1978–1982) and Senate (1982–1990).

2^nd: Harry Stewart Jr., 100, American Air Force pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).

2^nd: Marion Wiesel, 94, Austrian-American translator and Holocaust Survivor, wife of Elie Wiesel.

5^th: Tatiana Bayeva , 77, Russian Dissident (1968 Red Square demonstration).

5^th: Antonín Fajkus, 101, Czechoslovak-born American Fighter Pilot.

8^th: Bob Bingham, 78, American actor (Jesus Christ Superstar).

8^th: Sam Nujoma, 95, Namibian politician, president (1990–2005).

10^th: Jeanette W. Hyde, 86, American diplomat, ambassador to Barbados, Dominica, and Saint Lucia (1994–1998).

13^th: John Lawlor, 83, American actor (Phyllis, The Facts of Life, Wyatt Earp).

13^th: Jacqueline van Maarsen, 96, Dutch author and bookbinder, Holocaust Survivor, Friend of Anne Frank.

16^th: Anne Marie Hochhalter, 43, American school shooting survivor (Columbine High School massacre) and disability rights activist.

18^th: Marian Turski, 98, Polish historian, journalist and Holocaust Survivor (Auschwitz and Buchenwald.)

21^st: Clint Hill, 93, American Secret Service agent (assassination of John F. Kennedy).

22^nd: Francesc Vendrell i Bayona, 75, Spanish politician, member of the Catalan Parliament (1999–2010).

24^th: Rose Girone, 113, American supercentenarian and Holocaust Survivor (Shanghai Ghetto.)

24^th: Frank G. Wisner, 86, American diplomat, acting secretary of state (1993), ambassador to India (1994–1997) and Egypt (1986–1991), lung cancer.

26^th: Gene Hackman, 95, American actor (The French Connection, Mississippi Burning, Unforgiven), Oscar winner (1972, 1993).[15] (body discovered on this date).

26^th: Michelle Trachtenberg, 39, American actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harriet the Spy, Gossip Girl).

27^th: Stanisław Gebhardt, 96, Polish resistance fighter and economist.

27^th: Kim Pérez, 83, Spanish LGBT rights activist

27^th: Boris Spassky, 88, Russian chess grandmaster, world champion (1969–1972).

28^th: Mohamed Benaissa, 88, Moroccan politician, minister of foreign affairs (1999–2007).

 

March

1^st: Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky, 74, Georgian prince, throne claimant and theatre director, head of the House of Gruzinsky (since 1984).

1^st: Hazel Nell Dukes, 92, American civil rights activist, president of the NAACP (1990–1992).

1^st: Elvi Hale, 94, British actress (The Six Wives of Henry VIII, True as a Turtle, The Heroes of Telemark).

2^nd: Bernhard Vogel, 92, German politician, minister-president of Rhineland-Palatinate (1976–1988) and of Thuringia (1992–2003), twice president of the Bundesrat.

3^rd: Dore Gold, 71, American-Israeli political scientist and diplomat, permanent representative of Israel to the UN (1997–1999).

3^rd: Woo Chia-wei, 87, Hong Kong physicist and academic administrator, president of HKUST (1991–2001) and SFSU (1983–1988).

4^th: Jean-Louis Debré, 80, French judge and politician, president of the Constitutional Council (2007–2016) and of the National Assembly (2002–2007), minister of the interior (1995–1997).

4^th: Oleg Gordievsky, 86, Russian-British double agent.

8^th: Michael Armacost, 87, American diplomat, ambassador to Japan (1989–1993) and the Philippines (1982–1984), acting secretary of state (1989).

8^th: Giles Paxman, 73, British diplomat, ambassador to Mexico (2005–2009) and Spain (2009–2013), lung cancer.

9^th: Larry Buendorf, 87, American security officer (United States Olympic Committee) and Secret Service agent (attempted assassination of Gerald Ford in Sacramento).

11^th: Clive Revill, 94, New Zealand actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Irma La Douce, Oliver!).

12^th: Walter Schwimmer, 82, Austrian politician and diplomat, secretary general of the Council of Europe (1999–2004).

16^th: William Hayes, 94, British physicist and academic administrator, president of St. John's College, Oxford (1987–2001).

16^th: Dik Wolfson, 91, Dutch economist (International Monetary Fund, International Institute of Social Studies), civil servant and politician, senator (1999–2003).

17^th: John "Paddy" Hemingway, 105, Irish RAF pilot (Battle of Britain).

19^th: Costa Gazi, 88, South African anti-apartheid activist.

20^th: Kathaleen Guilana Guyette: 98, American Secretary.

20^th: Vitold Fokin, 92, Ukrainian politician, prime minister (1990–1992).

21^st: Kitty Dukakis, 88, American author and social activist, first lady of Massachusetts (1975–1979, 1983–1991), complications from dementia.

23^rd: Alexandr Rabotnitskii, 31, Russian athlete, Paralympic silver medalist (2020).

24^th: Dick Carlson, 84, American journalist (Voice of America) and diplomat, ambassador to Seychelles (1991–1992).

25^th: Edith Ballantyne, 102, Czechoslovak-born Canadian peace activist, infection.

28^th: Ronald A. Katz, 89, American inventor and humanitarian.

29^th: Richard Chamberlain, 90, American actor (Dr. Kildare, The Thorn Birds, Shōgun), complications from a stroke.

 

April

1^st: Val Kilmer, 65, American actor (Top Gun, The Doors, Batman Forever), pneumonia.

2^nd: Khamtai Siphandone, 101, Laotian politician, president (1998–2006), prime minister (1991–1998), and chairman of the Revolutionary Party (1992–2006).

3^rd: Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, 82, German landowner, head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (since 1998).

3^rd: Margarita Xhepa, 93, Albanian actress (People's Artist of Albania).

4^th: Kate Orchard, 102, British World War II veteran (Women's Auxiliary Corps).

6^th: Peter Geiger, 82, Liechtensteiner historian.

6^th: Jay North, 73, American actor (Dennis the Menace, Maya, Arabian Knights), colorectal cancer.

8^th: Nicky Katt, 54, American actor (Dazed and Confused, Boston Public, Boiler Room), suicide by hanging.[488] (body discovered on this date).

9^th: Kim Shin-jo, 82, North Korean soldier (Unit 124), defector and pastor, participant of the 1968 Blue House raid.

13^th: Richard Armitage, 79, American diplomat and government official, deputy secretary of state (2001–2005), pulmonary embolism.

13^th: Dina Popova, 47, Ukrainian finance manager, head of Kyiv History Museum (since 2022), cancer.

15^th: Reuma Weizman, 99, Israeli socialite, first lady (1993–2000).

17^th: Tetiana Barantsova, 51, Ukrainian disability rights activist.

21^st: Pope Francis, 88, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, pope (since 2013), archbishop of Buenos Aires (1998–2013), stroke and cardiocirculatory collapse.

21^st: Walter Frankenstein, 100, German-born Swedish engineer and Holocaust survivor.

25^th: Virginia Giuffre, 41, American-Australian justice advocate, suicide.

30^th: Thomas M. T. Niles, 85, American diplomat, ambassador to Canada (1985–1989), the European Union (1989–1991), and Greece (1993–1997), cancer.

 

May

1^st: Ruth Buzzi, 88, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) and actress (Sesame Street, That Girl), complications from a stroke and Alzheimer's disease.

1^st: Antoni Garrallà, 81, Andorran politician and hotelier, mayor of La Massana (1995–2003) and deputy general syndic of the General Council (1985–1989),

1^st: Irina Kostrova, 102, Russian actress.

1^st: Marie Vaislic, 94, French Holocaust Survivor (Ravensbrück) and writer.

1^st: Tashi Wangdi, 78, Tibetan diplomat and politician.

2^nd: George Ryan, 91, American politician, governor (1999–2003), secretary of state (1991–1999) and lieutenant governor of Illinois (1983–1991).

3rd: Ruth A. Davis, 81, American diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to Benin 1992-1995), director general of the Foreign Service (2001–2003), pneumonia.

3^rd: Lino Gutierrez, 74, American diplomat, ambassador to Nicaragua (1996–1999), ambassador to Argentina (2003–2006).

3^rd: Elsbeth Hamilton, 104, Czechoslovak-born British radio operator and Women's Auxiliary Air Force veteran and Holocaust Survivor.

3^rd: Shōzō Satō, 91, Japanese-born American artist and theatre director, founder and director of Japan House.

4^th: Hsu Li-nung, 106, Taiwanese military officer, minister of the Veterans Affairs Council (1987–1993).

4^th: Marianne, Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, 105, German aristocrat and photographer.

7^th: Joe Don Baker, 89, American actor (GoldenEye, Walking Tall, Cape Fear), lung cancer.

7^th: Mykola Fedoruk, 71, Ukrainian politician, mayor of Chernivtsi (1994–2011), deputy (2012–2019).

7^th: Cleopa Msuya, 94, Tanzanian politician, prime minister (1980–1983, 1994–1995) and first vice president (1990–1995), heart failure.

7^th: Jim Spenst, 99, Canadian World War II veteran.

9^th: Margot Friedländer, 103, German Holocaust Survivor and public speaker.

9^th: Douglas Gibson, 82, South African diplomat and politician, MNA (1994–2008).

9^th: John H. Thompson, 73, American statistician, director of the U.S. Census Bureau (2013–2017).

10^th: William Luers, 95, American diplomat (Ambassador to Venezuela 1978-1982 and Ambassador to Czechoslovakia 1983-1986), president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1986–1999).

11^th: Anne Dunham, 76, British equestrian, six-time Paralympic champion.

11^th: Viktor Gerashchenko, 87, Russian economist and politician, chairman of the Gosbank (1989–1991), twice governor of the CBR, and MP (2003–2007).

13^th: Kit Bond, 86, American politician, governor of Missouri (1973–1977, 1981–1985) and member of the U.S. Senate (1987–2011).

14^th: Đoàn Viết Hoạt, 82, Vietnamese journalist and political dissident (held in a Vietnamese Reeducation Camp for 12 years.)

15^th: Wilhelm Höynck, 91, German diplomat, secretary-general of the OSCE (1993–1996).

16^th: Marianne Bernadotte, 100, Swedish actress, philanthropist and royal family member.

16^th: Peter Lax, 99, Hungarian-born American Holocaust Survivor, mathematician (Lax equivalence theorem, Lax–Friedrichs method), Abel Prize laureate (2005), cardiac amyloidosis.

16^th: Jan Terlouw, 93, Dutch novelist (Winter in Wartime) and politician, minister of economic affairs and deputy prime minister (1981–1982), Queen's commissioner of Gelderland (1991–1996).

17^th: Melvyn Levitsky, 87, American diplomat, ambassador to Bulgaria (1984–1987) and Brazil (1994–1998).

19^th: Kathleen Hughes, 96, American actress (It Came from Outer Space, The Glass Web, The Golden Blade).

20^th: Marthe Cohn, 105, French spy, Holocaust Survivor and author (Behind Enemy Lines).

20^th: George Wendt, 76, American actor (Cheers, Forever Young, Elf), cardiac arrest.

21^st: Albrecht Schöne, 99, German Germanist.

22^nd: James Lloydovich Patterson, 91, Russian-born American child actor (Circus) and naval officer.

23^rd: Jean-Robert Estimé, 83, Haitian politician, minister of foreign affairs (1982–1985).

23^rd: Sir Derek Reffell, 96, British naval officer, governor of Gibraltar (1989–1993).

23^rd: Rüşdü Saracoğlu, 77, Turkish economist and politician, governor of the central bank (1987–1993), MP (1996–1999).

27^th: Ed Gale, 61, American stuntman (Child's Play) and actor (Howard the Duck, Spaceballs).

27^th: Jean Tiberi, 90, French politician, mayor of Paris (1995–2001) and MP (1968–1976, 1976–2012).

28^th: George E. Smith, 95, American physicist, co-inventor of the charge-coupled device, Nobel Prize laureate (2009).

30^th: Valerie Mahaffey, 71, American actress (The Doctors, French Exit, Young Sheldon), Emmy winner (1992), cancer.

30^th: Loretta Swit, 87, American actress (M*A*S*H, Freebie and the Bean, Race with the Devil), Emmy winner (1980, 1982).

31^st: Betsy Jochum, 104, American baseball player (South Bend Blue Sox) for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

June

1^st: Edward Anders, 98, Latvian-born American chemist.

1^st: Ayşe Seitmuratova, 88, Uzbek Crimean Tatar civil rights activist.

2^nd: Abdelhak Mrini, 91, Moroccan historian, civil servant and royal advisor.

2^nd: Pierre Nora, 93, French historian, member of the Académie Française.

4^th: Marc Garneau, 76, Canadian politician and astronaut, MP (2008–2023), minister of transport (2015–2021) and foreign affairs (2021), lymphoma and leukemia.

5^th: Edgar Lungu, 68, Zambian politician, president (2015–2021), minister of defence (2013–2015) and MLA (2011–2015), complications from surgery.

6^th: William C. Harrop, 96, American diplomat, inspector general of the Department of State (1983–1986), ambassador to Israel (1992–1993) and Zaire (1988–1991).

8^th: Gilbert Ramano, 85, South African military officer, chief of the Army (1998–2004).

8^th: Sir John Sainty, 90, British parliamentary official, clerk of the Parliaments (1983–1990).

9^th: Frederick Forsyth, 86, English novelist (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol).

10^th: Gary England, 85, American meteorologist (KWTV), creator of the First Warning system.

11^th: Ananda Lewis, 52, American television personality (MTV, While You Were Out), breast cancer.

11^th: Brian Wilson, 82, American Hall of Fame musician (The Beach Boys), songwriter ("Good Vibrations"), and record producer (Pet Sounds), respiratory arrest.

15^th: Nina Kuscsik, 86, American long-distance runner, Boston Marathon winner (1972), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

15^th: Yurii Felipenko, 32, Ukrainian actor, killed in the Russo-Ukrainian War.

17^th: Anne Burrell, 55, American chef and television personality (Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, Worst Cooks in America, Iron Chef America).

19^th: Lynn Hamilton, 95, American actress (Sanford and Son, Generations, Dangerous Women).

20^th: Ivar Giaever, 96, Norwegian-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1973).

21^st: John McCallum, 75, Canadian politician, ambassador to China (2017–2019), minister of national revenue (2004–2006) and MP (2000–2017).

21^st: Frederick W. Smith, 80, American transportation industry executive, founder of FedEx.

21^st: Valentina Talyzina, 90, Russian actress (The Irony of Fate, Zigzag of Success, Afonya), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1985).

24^th: Bobby Sherman, 81, American singer ("Little Woman", "Julie, Do Ya Love Me") and actor (Here Come the Brides), kidney cancer.

28^th: Ihor Kalynets, 85, Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident.

29^th: Mabandla Dlamini, 94, Swazi politician, prime minister (1979–1983).

29^th: Maksym Ustymenko, 31, Ukrainian fighter pilot, plane crash.