Parade annually celebrates the lives of celebrities recently lost but not forgotten, including famous names on big screens, music legends, cultural pioneers and those who left indelible memories in the public consciousness. These people, who died in the year 2025, are honored here.
Celebrity Deaths in 2025
Bob Uecker in 1976American Broadcasting Companies via Getty Images
Bob Uecker
Jan. 26, 1934 — Jan. 16, 2025
After a stint in the U.S. Army, where he played baseball while stationed in Missouri and Virginia, baseball catcher and broadcaster Bob Uecker signed a contract with his hometown team, the Milwaukee Braves, in 1956. He started his contract playing in the minor leagues and was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1964, and the Philadelphia Phillies in 1965. He ended up getting traded back to the Braves in 1967, who by that time had moved their franchise to Atlanta. Uecker ended his baseball career that year, but he turned around and started his broadcast career in Atlanta shortly thereafter. By 1971, he was back in his hometown doing radio play-by-play for the Milwaukee Brewers, a job he would hold for 54 seasons, ending in 2024.
Uecker also became familiar to TV and movie viewers thanks to his sense of humor. He was a commercial spokesman—notably for comedic Miller Lite beer TV ads—as well as a wrestling announcer, and he even took several acting roles over the years, including movies like Major League and a five-year run on the sitcom Mr. Belvedere from 1985–1990. He also wrote two books, including an autobiography, and hosted Saturday Night Live in 1984.
Bob Uecker won several baseball and broadcasting awards over the years, and in 2012, a statue of Uecker was unveiled at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium. He had been battling lung cancer since 2023, and he died in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, at the age of 90.
David Lynch in 2015Glenn Hunt/Getty Images
David Lynch
Jan. 20, 1946 – Jan. 15, 2025
Originally a student of painting, David Lynch was in his 20s when he began making his first feature film Eraserhead (1977). Shot in black and white, it follows a man who struggles to care for his newborn mutant child in a dystopian industrial landscape. The surrealist body horror film became a hit on the underground circuit, with Mel Brooks' executive producer Stuart Cornfeld calling it "the greatest thing I'd ever seen." Brooks also loved the film and agreed to finance Lynch's next picture, The Elephant Man (1980), a bio-drama loosely based on the life of Joseph Merrick that again touched on the director's obsession with deformities. This time, Lynch would rise far above underground status—starring Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt, Elephant Man was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and effectively propelled Lynch into the mainstream.
Lynch ended up despising his third feature effort, an adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune that was widely panned by critics. The Oscar nominee later said that he had "started selling out on Dune" and that he regretted not asking for final cut on the movie. But Lynch bounced back with the neo-noir thriller Blue Velvet (1986), which earned him another Oscar nomination for Best Director, followed by his critically acclaimed dark rom-com Wild at Heart (1990).
His first television project, the surrealist mystery-horror drama series Twin Peaks, became a part of the cultural zeitgeist and influenced future hit shows such as The X-Files, The Sopranos, Lost, Mad Men and others. In 1992, Lynch directed a prequel film to the series, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, which initially divided critics but was later reappraised positively, with critic Mark Kermode calling it his favorite of Lynch's films.
Lynch earned his third Best Director Oscar nomination for 2001's Mulholland Drive, starring Naomi Watts and Laura Harring as two women who experience a dream-like identity crisis while investigating a dark conspiracy in Los Angeles. Widely considered to be Lynch's most influential movie, Mulholland Drive was voted the best film of the 21st century in a global critics poll conducted by BBC Culture in 2016. His final feature film was the 2006 experimental psychological thriller Inland Empire.
Lynch died at age 78 after suffering from emphysema due to years of smoking. Six days earlier, he was forced to evacuate from his house due to the Los Angeles wildfires. Following his death, tributes poured in from colleagues, friends and admirers, including Steven Spielberg, James Gunn, Ron Howard, Patton Oswalt, Judd Apatow, Naomi Watts and Nicolas Cage. Spielberg wrote in part: "The world is going to miss such an original and unique voice. His films have already stood the test of time and they always will."
Peter Yarrow in Los Angeles, Calif., 1980Sherry Rayn Barnett/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Peter Yarrow
May 31, 1938 — Jan. 7, 2025
One third of the folk-singing trio Peter, Paul and Mary, singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow started his music career early, attending a music camp as a young teen and later graduating second in his class from the High School of Music & Art in New York City. During his college years at Cornell University, where he was studying psychology, he took a course in American Folk Literature, singing and playing guitar on folk music that was related to the coursework. After graduation, he moved to New York City and became a regular in the folk music scene. Yarrow connected with fellow singer Mary Travers, and she suggested they bring in her friend Noel Stookey. Because Stookey's middle name was Paul, they came up with the memorable "Peter, Paul and Mary" for the trio, and after honing their stage show in out-of-town music venues for several months, they returned to New York City fully polished. They developed a following and were quickly signed to a record deal.
The trio would become a massive success in the 1960s, with hits like "If I Had a Hammer," "Puff the Magic Dragon," "Blowin' in the Wind," "I Dig Rock and Roll Music," "Leaving on a Jet Plane," and many others. The group would disband in the early '70s and reunite a decade later, performing together regularly until Travers' death in 2009.
During his time with Peter, Paul and Mary and throughout his life, Yarrow was an activist for many political and social causes. He also wrote the hit 1976 single "Torn Between Two Lovers" for singer Mary MacGregor.
Yarrow had been battling bladder cancer for four years when he died at his home in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 86.
Jeff BaenaRich Polk/Getty Images
Jeff Baena
June 29, 1977 – Jan. 3, 2025
Screenwriter and film director Jeff Baena saw Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) on TV when he was 11 years old, and it was the idea of making weird movies as an "auteur" that led to his decision to become a filmmaker. Baena first gained notoriety for co-writing the David O. Russell-directed existential comedy I Heart Huckabees (2004), starring Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law, Lily Tomlin and Mark Wahlberg. His feature directorial debut came 10 years later with the zombie comedy Life After Beth (2014), starring his future wife Aubrey Plaza, with whom he'd been in a relationship since 2011. He would go on to direct and write critically acclaimed comedies Joshy (2016) and The Little Hours (2017).
"Most comedy probably comes from drama," Baena said in a 2022 interview. He credited the trauma of his parents' divorce with helping to inform his grim sense of humor. His 2020 psychological drama Horse Girl, which he co-wrote with actress Alison Brie, was largely influenced by his family's struggles with mental illness. When promoting the movie in a Reddit Q&A, he shared that his first stepmother suffered from manic depression and "was in and out of facilities." Baena and Brie collaborated again on his final film Spin Me Round (2022), with Plaza co-starring alongside Brie.
Baena died by suicide at age 47. His assistant discovered his body at his Los Angeles-area home. His cause of death was determined to be suicide by hanging, according to a Los Angeles medical examiner report.
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