Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths

This is a list of people who died in the last 5 days with an article at the English Wikipedia. For people without an English Wikipedia page see: Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths (red links). Generally updated at least daily, last time: 20:46, 11 January 2025 (UTC).

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Item	label	Born	Died	description	occupation	position held	country of citizenship	place of birth	place of death	manner of death	place of burial
Q111204037	Gurpreet Gogi	1967-09-26	2025-01-11	Politician from Punjab, India	politician	Member of the 16th Punjab Legislative Assembly	India			homicide
Q5951004	Fereydoon Shahbazyan	1942-05-11	2025-01-11	Iranian composer	composer		Iran	Tehran	Tehran
Q9025720	Qiu Dahong	1930-04-06	2025-01-11	Chinese coastal and offshore engineer (1930-2025)	civil engineer	member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference standing member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference	People's Republic of China			natural causes
Q13560952	Shiu Ka Chun	1969-06-03	2025-01-10	Hong Kong social activist (1969-2025)	social worker	member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Queen Elizabeth Hospital	homicide
Q2080069	Sam Moore	1935-10-12	2025-01-10	American musician and singer	singer musician singer-songwriter composer dancer		United States	Miami	Coral Gables	natural causes
Q3167229	Jean-Luc Petitrenaud	1950-12-05	2025-01-10	French circus performer	circus performer radio personality		France	Clermont-Ferrand	Paris
Q4163612	Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya	1964-12-26	2025-01-10	Soviet and Russian actress (1964–2025)	actor		Soviet Union Russia	Moscow		natural causes
Q42585303	Milan Feranec	1964-01-18	2025-01-10	Czech politician	politician lawyer	Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic member of a Czech municipal council	Czechoslovakia Czech Republic	Snina
Q4346824	Anatoli Pata	1958-07-30	2025-01-10	Russian association football player	association football player association football manager		Soviet Union Russia	Donetsk
Q56253744	Roger Lebranchu	1922-07-22	2025-01-10	French rower	rower		France	Neuilly-sur-Seine
Q6039702	Nelson Silva Pacheco	1944-10-08	2025-01-10	Uruguayan association football player	association football player		Uruguay	Las Piedras	Barranquilla
Q1047017	Mukhtar Magauin	1940-02-02	2025-01-09	Kazakh novelist	writer		Kazakhstan	Semipalatinsk Oblast
Q108461677	Muhammad Ssegirinya	1988	2025-01-09	Ugandan politician	politician		Uganda	Masaka District	Kampala
Q131716895	Doc Shebeleza	1973-07-07	2025-01-09	South African kwaito musician	musician
Q15486874	Jorge Luis Sánchez	1960-01-21	2025-01-09	Cuban film director (1960–2025)	film director		Cuba	Havana	Havana
Q2051309	P. Jayachandran	1944-03-03	2025-01-09	Indian playback singer	actor singer		India British Raj Dominion of India	Ravipuram	Thrissur
Q4908368	Bill Byrge	1932-07-16	2025-01-09	American actor (1932–2025)	actor comedian television actor		United States	Nashville
Q528751	Shulamith Shahar	1928-06-18	2025-01-09	Israeli historian	historian translator university teacher		Israel Latvia	Riga
Q58042010	Margaret Baba Diri	1954-06-29	2025-01-09	Ugandan politician	teacher politician	Member of the Parliament of Uganda	Uganda	Uganda
Q6285609	Joseph Monninger	1953-10-28	2025-01-09	American fiction writer and Professor of English	writer novelist pedagogue		United States	Baltimore
Q6501613	Laurie Holloway	1938-03-31	2025-01-09	British musician (1938–2025)	composer pianist		United Kingdom
Q7331446	Rick Harris	1948-01-30	2025-01-09	American professional wrestler	professional wrestler		United States	Texarkana		natural causes
Q88247	Otto Schenk	1930-06-12	2025-01-09	Austrian actor (1930–2025)	stage actor film actor film director		Austria	Vienna	Salzkammergut
Q91877176	Gyanada Kakati	1932	2025-01-09	Indian actress	actor		India
Q977933	Manuel Elkin Patarroyo Murillo	1946-11-03	2025-01-09	Colombian scientist	pathologist immunologist		Colombia	Girardot	Bogotá
Q1156154	Jorge Ramón Cáceres	1948-01-07	2025-01-08	Colombian footballer	association football player		Argentina Colombia	Santiago del Estero	Santiago del Estero
Q12322307	Knud Heinesen	1932-09-26	2025-01-08	Danish minister and member of parliament (1932–2025)	teacher economist politician businessperson	Finance Minister of Denmark Minister of Education member of the Folketing	Kingdom of Denmark	Kerteminde
Q12501038	Nurul Qomar	1960-03-11	2025-01-08	Indonesian actor	actor politician	Member of Indonesia's Regional Representative Council	Indonesia	Jakarta
Q16106832	Brian Usher	1944-03-11	2025-01-08	English footballer (1944-2025)	association football player		United Kingdom	Durham
Q16940415	José Linhares Ponte	1930-10-21	2025-01-08	Brazilian politician	politician	federal deputy of Ceará	Brazil
Q16987968	Lucky Jayawardena	1955	2025-01-08	Sri Lankan politician	politician	Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka
Q17386483	Des O'Grady	1953	2025-01-08	Gaelic football player	politician		Ireland	Togher	Cork University Hospital
Q1784182	Rudolf Dreßler	1940-11-17	2025-01-08	German politician	politician	member of the German Bundestag Parliamentary Secretary in Germany ambassador of Germany to Israel	Germany	Wuppertal
Q3086442	Françoise Choay	1925-03-29	2025-01-08	French historian (1925–2025)	landscape architect urban planner academic architectural historian art critic historian university teacher		France	Paris	Paris
Q3595725	Pritish Nandy	1951-01-15 1947-01-15	2025-01-08	Indian politician	politician journalist poet	Member of Rajya Sabha	India	Bhagalpur
Q3936112	Rino Tommasi	1934-02-23	2025-01-08	Italian journalist and television presenter	journalist television presenter		Italy	Verona
Q5081604	Charles Person	1943	2025-01-08	American activist			United States
Q697183	Gabriel de Broglie	1931-04-21	2025-01-08	French essayist and official (1931–2025)	official	president Chancelier de l'Institut de France Councillor of State seat 11 of the Académie française president	France	Versailles	Paris
Q6989527	Neil Zurcher	1935-11-12	2025-01-08	US TV journalist	author journalist		United States	Henrietta Township
Q721215	Fabio Cudicini	1935-10-20	2025-01-08	Italian footballer (1935–2025)	association football player		Italy	Trieste	Rome
Q8275249	Lin Cheng-fong	1949	2025-01-08	politician	politician	Member of Taoyuan City Council Member of the Legislative Yuan	Taiwan	Taoyuan County
Q927466	Kjell-Olof Feldt	1931-08-18	2025-01-08	Swedish politician	politician	Sweden's Minister for Finance Minister of Trade Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden Minister for Salaries Minister of Economic Affairs Minister of Budget Affairs Minister for Nordic Cooperation member of the Swedish Riksdag	Sweden	Holmsund
Q12012174	Øyvind Vågnes	1972-08-04	2025-01-07	Norwegian writer	writer		Norway	Ålesund Municipality	Bergen
Q130472304	Jagdish Mittal	1925-09-16	2025-01-07	Indian artist
Q131697892	Mervin Guarte	1992-08-03	2025-01-07
Q131698945	Lim Kimya	1951	2025-01-07	Cambodian politician	politician	Member of the National Assembly of Cambodia	Cambodia France		Bangkok	homicide
Q131720599	Winnie Khumalo	1973-07-20	2025-01-07	South African Afropop singer, actor and television personality (1973 – 2025)	singer		South Africa	Soweto
Q1620288	Volker Sklenar	1944-11-06	2025-01-07	German politician	politician	member of the Landtag of Thuringia	Germany	Mittweida

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