Jota, Papa, Lynch, Kirk. The deaths that marked 2025

Pinto da Costa, Pinto Balsemão, Ozzy Ozbourne, Robert Redford and the mysterious deaths of Rob Reiner and Gene Hackman. Here are the personalities we lost this year.

Natural causes, illnesses, accidents, suicides and murders: 2025 is leaving and takes with it many personalities well known to the public.

The death of, the murder of and the fatal road accident of marked a year that was especially difficult for Culture, with several unavoidable names from various areas leaving.

No Cinemawe lost the actress’s unforgettable smile, victim of pneumonia, a month after the Hollywood heartthrob passed away, aged 89. The news of the actor’s death, from the same illness as Keaton, was one of the most searched news of the year.

Portugal lost its actors and, victims of heart attack and cancer, respectively, and the theater legend, at 91 years old. The actress died at the age of 89, the announcer and presenter Olga Cardoso, the , died due to a stroke and the RTP director died in a fire.

Outside, 2025 was a year of many other losses, on the small and big screen. The director was one of the most regretted deaths: he died with ephysema. The actor died very close to his 91st birthday and Hollywood’s eternal “tough guy” had a cardiac arrest. And more heartthrobs left.

At the end of the year, the “most beautiful woman”, an icon of French cinema, left at the age of 91, a few months after another legend, this one, of Italian cinema, had died: the bella . The Brazilian also passed away.

But it was the actors’ deaths that shocked the world most this year, as their wives were also found dead alongside them. In Hackman’s case, according to , he died of heart disease, with advanced Alzheimer’s disease as a contributing factor, and his wife died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, several days before her husband, at home, without it being known whether the actor was aware of it.

Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, went .

Hours before Gene Hackman was found dead, the actress from Buffy – The Vampire Slayerwas also found dead at home, aged 39. He died from complications from diabetes.

The actor from the series Parks & Recreation, , was shot dead in a crime that was reportedly motivated by homophobia.

This was also a year marked by two female suicides on the small screen. The presenter and chef Anne Burrell she committed suicide at the age of 55 with the help of drugs and the South Korean actress committed suicide at home at the age of 24.

In Indian cinema, which is less followed here, this was also the year of a huge loss: Dharmendraone of Bollywood’s biggest ever stars, has passed away at the age of 89.

Music

Already musicthe Heavy Metal pioneer was the most talked about loss on social media. The Black Sabbath frontman had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019 and passed away at the age of 76.

Here, two “warriors” were lost: the departure of , from the Valentine’s Wing, victim of a sudden illness, shocked everyone. In the last month of the year, , from “Cheira Bem, Cheira a Lisboa”, died at the age of 89.

Away from the microphone, but always behind the curtain, the producer died on his birthday.

Our ears also said goodbye this year to , the Beach Boys, the reggae legend and the Brazilian Preta Gilvictim of cancer, aged 50.

Policy

The year 2025 also led ZAP to say goodbye to many political figures. The historic leader of the French extreme right, the “warrior” and former president of Uruguay and the Colombian presidential candidate shot by a teenager, marked the deaths in Policy.

Here, the former PSD member died, a victim of a heart attack, the former minister, the founder of the Left Bloc and the former Minister of Justice. The PS leader died at the age of 72 and the general and captain of Abril, , at 89.

Em much more unexpected circumstancesthe former social-democratic minister was found dead on a golf course under minimal circumstances, in a case that has since been archived. The IL mayoral candidate died in a bicycle collision with a car and, a former CDS deputy, was found dead at home.

In November, the architect of the Iraq war and George Bush’s vice president died.

This Wednesday, the last day of the year, John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter, , became the most recent victim of the Kennedy curse, at the age of 35.

Sport

In addition to Jota, the matches of the eternal Porto fans will not be forgotten by Portuguese football.

In addition to them, the Sport said goodbye to , who discovered the talents Cristiano Ronaldo and Luís Figo, the businessman and , who tragically lost his life in the Morocco Rally, 2 km from the end of the race.

Abroad, the boxer’s death at the age of 25 spread around the world, as did that of the parachutist, who died doing what he loved most.

The WWE legend died of cardiac arrest at the age of 71.

ZAP also reported the death of the oldest marathon runner in the world, who died at the age of 114, after being run over by a car.

Literature, Journalism, Photography, Architecture, Fashion

Already Literature2025 brought the last of the “Three Marys”, , who shortly before had been included in the list of the 100 most influential and inspiring women in the world prepared by the BBC.

In December, the writer . was found dead at home, aged 65, under circumstances that remain a mystery.

This was also the year in which Portugal lost one of the most remarkable personalities of the last sixty years, in a year in which the Journalism Portuguese also lost and to diseases.

Portugal also lost this year one of its great photographers, the greatest of the Carnation Revolution, A Photograph It also saw the departure of the Italian, author of Benetton’s highly controversial posters.

The list of deaths was also shaped by the death of two well-known faces of the Architecture: “The Urban Being” and the great.

Also the world of Moda said goodbye to one of the greats: the revolutionary, who died at the age of 91.

Science

Already Sciencewe lost chimpanzees’ best friend, ; “the man with the golden arm”, who saved millions of children with just one arm; the astronaut and iconic voice of “Houston, we have a problem”,; the pioneer of DNA, and also, who died by assisted suicide after years of fighting for the right to “die with dignity”.