Deaths (obituaries)

Remembering Those Who Died This Year

December 26, 2025

We look back at the lives of some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in 2025.
Source Link Remembering Those Who Died This Year

December 25, 2025

She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.
Source Link Peng Peiyun, 95, Dies; Official Renounced China’s One-Child Policy

December 18, 2025

He won the award for his daring coverage of the Vietnam War for The Associated Press. He went on to cover conflicts for CNN for nearly two decades.
Source Link Peter Arnett, Pulitzer-Winning War Correspondent, Dies at 91

December 12, 2025

Her books, many of which were best sellers, often described empty marriages, love affairs (with tasteful sex) and heroic clergymen.
Source Link Joanna Trollope, Popular British Author, Dies at 82

December 9, 2025

Born into an aristocratic British family, he turned his empathy and knowledge of the world’s largest land mammals to the cause of saving them from poachers.
Source Link Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Who Studied, and Protected, Elephants, Dies at 83

December 7, 2025

Mr. Parr trademarked a hyperrealism in his photography that illuminated the “craziness of the English,” making small details loom larger than life.
Source Link Martin Parr, Who Photographed Britain’s Unvarnished Quirks, Dies at 73

December 5, 2025

Dignitas has helped more than 3,000 people take their own lives, an act that Mr. Minelli maintained was a fundamental exercise of free will.
Source Link Ludwig Minelli, Founder of Swiss Assisted-Suicide Group, Dies at 92

December 5, 2025

While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative voice in Rome.
Source Link Dominik Duka, Czech Cardinal Jailed Under Communism, Dies at 82

December 5, 2025

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order.
Source Link Yegor Ligachev, Gorbachev’s No. 2 Who Turned Foe, Is Dead at 100