Recent necrology, December 2025

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Brigitte Bardot, 1934-2025
  French actress, singer, model and animal rights activist

• Steve Cropper, 1941-2025
  American guitarist, songwriter and record producer

• Frank Gehry, 1929-2025
  Canadian and American architect and designer

• Gil Gerard, 1943-2025
  American ‘Buck Rogers’ actor

• Sophie Kinsella, 1969-2025
  English author of the Shopaholic series of novels

• Robert Manthei, 1946-2025
  Founding father of New Zealand counselling profession

• Rob Reiner, 1947-2025
  American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and political activist

• Eva Schloss, 1929-2025
  Auschwitz survivor and Anne Frank’s step-sister

• Tatiana Schlossberg, 1990-2025
  American environmental journalist and author

• Joanna Trollope, 1943-2025
  English novelist

• Garrick Tremain, 1941-2025
  New Zealand painter and political cartoonist