May he rest in peace.

Linda Lavin, Tony-winning Broadway actress who starred in the landmark sitcom ‘Alice,’ dies at 87

Willem van Kooten, alias Joost den Draaijer. 83, Dutch radio DJ for Radio Veronica and Radio Noordzee, initiator of the Dutch Top 40.

Beloved Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker, 'Mr. Baseball,' dies at 90

Movie director David Lynch has passed away. https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-dead-director-blue-velvet-twin-peaks-1236276106/

Acting legend Dame Joan Plowright

Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated stage and screen stars and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, dies at 95.

Virginia McCaskey, Matriarch Of The Chicago Bears football team, Dies At 102

(January 15th 2025)
Linda Nolan, 65, British singer of The Nolans.

The Nolans - I'm in the Mood for Dancing

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

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

Michelle Trachtenberg, 39, US actress, Gossip Girl, Harriet the Spy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Gene Hackman, 95, American actor. (Died together with his wife Betsy Arakawa and dog, no foul play suspected).

Bill Dare Producer of Spitting Image Dead Ringers and numerous other BBC radio comedy shows has died after an accident overseas.

Sofia Asgatowna Gubaidulina
The last years must have been very difficult for her, personally and this time of monsters.
I therefore recommend: Der Zorn Gottes

John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway: Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies aged 105.

The Prime Minister has paid tribute to the bravery and courage of the last Battle of Britain pilot who died aged 105 on Monday.
John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, at the age of 21, was one of around 3,000 Allied airmen sent up to defend Britain from the relentless onslaught of the Luftwaffe bombing raids.
He was twice forced to bail out of his Hurricane fighter plane in the space of a week during the fighting.
At the end of the war in April 1945, when he was shot down over Italy, he evaded capture and made it back through enemy lines, dressed as a peasant, with the help of a ten-year-old Italian girl.
In the course of his service with the Royal Air Force, he was shot down four times, survived a plane crash and was even saved by a tree when his parachute failed to open.
Sir Keir Starmer in tribute said he was “saddened” to hear of the former pilot’s death.

also at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg1z42pkj8o

Rob de Nijs, 82, Dutch singer and actor.