Actors Gene Hackman, Val Kilmer, Michael Madsen, George Wendt, and Michelle Trachtenberg died in 2025. Musicians Brian Wilson, Roberta Flack, Marianne Faithfull, Peter Yarrow, and Sly Stone also ...

At least 71 people died in homicides in 2024, most of them in shootings. That number includes three fatal shootings by police and a man who died of longtime complications of a shooting in 2004.