God only knows what I’d be without you.
That’s a line from a song cowritten by one of the very many talented people we lost in 2025.
It’s also something I could say to the very many people I lost in 2025. God only knows what I’d be without you. I am the person I am today because I had you in my life. If I am any good at all, I am as good as I am because of your example and because of your love. All the flaws are my own innovations.
God only knows what I’d be without you. All the people in this tribute are that special someone to the many loved ones who miss them now. Many of the people in this tribute have entertained and inspired people the world over. By doing that, they’ve made so many lives better, even just for the running time of a movie, even just for the length of a song. God only knows what we’d all be without you all.
As always, DG’s tribute makes room for people in the lesser-heralded aspects of pop culture, like pornography or comic books.
As always, this tribute includes a few animals as well as a ton of people. That’s not to say that people matter any less. It’s just a way to say how special animals are.
And as always, if there is a name we missed who you’d like to see featured here, please email us at dailygrindhouseonline@gmail.com and we will get them posted ASAP.
Lots of love to anyone out there who is missing someone. May their memories be a blessing.
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American wolf matriarch
Bear 399
Yellowstone grizzly bear mom
Bear 1058
grizzly cub native to Grand Teton National Park, son of the iconic Grizzly 399
Arthur Folasa Ah Loo
Samoan fashion designer and ‘Project Runway’ contestant
Susan Alcorn
American composer, improvisor, and pedal steel guitarist
Linsey Alexander
American blues singer and guitarist
Dave Allen
English musician and Gang of Four Bassist
Sandy Alomar Sr.
Puerto Rican second baseman
Héctor Alterio
Argentine theatre, film, and television actor
George Altman
American professional baseball outfielder
Loni Anderson
American actress, TV icon, and Emmy nominee
Gustavo Angarita
Colombian film, television, and theater actor
Betsy Arakawa
classical pianist and wife of acting legend Gene Hackman
Kevin Arkadie
American TV writer and producer
Giorgio Armani
Italian fashion designer
George Armitage
American cult filmmaker
Jim Avila
American television journalist
Roy Ayers
American vibraphonist, record producer, and composer
Pamela Bach
American actress
Jeff Baena
American screenwriter and film director
Young Scooter (born Kenneth Edward Rashad Bailey)
American rapper
Joe Don Baker
legendary American character-actor
Perry Bamonte
English musician and artist, best known as a frequent guitarist and keyboardist for The Cure
Brigitte Bardot
iconic French actress and singer and animal advocate and, unfortunately, a major bigot
Al Barile
SSD Guitarist and Boston Straight Edge Icon
William Henry Bassett
American actor of film and television
David Hekili Kenui Bell
Hawaiian character actor
Laurin Bell
former “Jeopardy!” contestant
Alan Bergman
American songwriter and lyricist for television, film, and stage productions
Bahram Beyzai
Iranian filmmaker, playwright, theatre director, researcher, and ostad of Persian literature, mythology, and Iranian studies
Bryan Braman
American professional football linebacker
John Brenkus
American film producer and director and TV host
Deloss Brown
playwright, theater director, lyricist, and librettist
Omen (born Sidney Brown)
American record producer
Ken Bruen
Irish writer of hardboiled and noir crime fiction
Rick Buckler
English musician and drummer of the rock band The Jam
Clem Burke
American musician, best known as the drummer for Blondie
Bob Burns III
American actor, consultant, producer, archivist and historian of props, costumes and sci-fi paraphernalia
Anne Burrell
American chef and Food Network television host
Jerry Butler
American soul singer-songwriter, producer, musician, and politician
Claudia Cardinale
Tunisian-born Italian actress in the Golden Age of European cinema, one of the most luminous stars in international film history, fierce feminist, and UNESCO goodwill ambassador
Reggie Carroll
American stand-up comedian
KC Carlson
American comic book editor and writer
Carl Carlton
American singer-songwriter, best known for “She’s a Bad Mama Jama”
Renato Casaro
Italian artist reknowned for his incredible film posters
Soo Catwoman (born Susan Lucas)
British actress and model and “the female face of punk”
Bill Chamberlain
punk legend who played in The Dissidents, TSS, The Pist, Mankind, React, Caustic Christ, and Behind Enemy Lines
Richard Chamberlain
American actor
Christine Choy
Chinese-American documentary filmmaker
Lou Christie
American singer-songwriter
Carl Ciarfalio
American actor and stuntman
Souleymane Cissé
Malian film director
Claude
San Francisco Albino Alligator
Representative Bill Clay
American politician from Missouri
Jimmy Cliff
Jamaican singer, songwriter, and actor
Barry Michael Cooper
American writer, producer, and director
Mara Corday
American actress, showgirl, model, and Playboy Playmate
Steve “The Colonel” Cropper
American guitarist and songwriter, one of the greatest to ever do it
Paul Danan
English actor and television personality
D’Angelo (born Michael Eugene Archer)
American music icon, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
Peter David
American comic-book author and novelist
Rick Davies
English musician, songwriter, and founder, vocalist and keyboardist of Supertramp
Carl Dean
longtime husband of country music icon Dolly Parton
Ron Dean
American film and television actor
Ángel del Pozo
Spanish actor
Rebekah Del Rio
American singer-songwriter and actress, a favorite of David Lynch
Rick Derringer
American guitarist and singer
Dharmendra
Indian actor, producer, and politician
Carlos Diegues
Brazilian film director
Octavio Dotel
Dominican professional baseball pitcher
Iain Douglas-Hamilton
British zoologist
Stephen Downing
American film producer
Hazel Dukes
American activist, New York civil rights advocate, and national president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Emilio Echevarría
Mexican actor
Jerry Eisenberg
American television producer and animator
Hy Eisman
American comics artist
Judit Elek
Hungarian film director
Joe Ely
American singer, songwriter, and guitarist
Peter Engel
American television producer
Cleto Escobedo III
American musician and late-night bandleader
Marianne Faithfull
English singer and actress
Jules Feiffer
American cartoonist, satirist, and author
Ronald Fenty
Rihanna’s dad
Cool John Ferguson
American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
Pat Finn
American film and television actor
Simon Fisher-Becker
British stage, television, and film actor
Roberta Flack
American singer and pianist
George Folsey Jr.
American film producer, editor, and assistant director, plus one-time boss of DG e-i-c Jon Abrams
George Foreman
champ
Peter Forrest
Australian former professional cricketer and frontman for the Black rock band 24/7 Spyz
Pope Francis
first Latin American head of the Catholic Church
Connie Francis
American pop star
Frankétienne
Haitian writer, poet, playwright, and painter
George Freeman
American jazz guitarist
Ace Frehley
American guitarist best known for KISS
Kinky Friedman
American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and columnist for Texas Monthly
Ron Friedman
American writer for television and film
Stanley Fung
Hong Kong actor and film director and one of the Lucky Stars
Pippa Garner
American artist, illustrator, industrial designer, and writer
Anthony Geary
American soap opera star
Frank O. Gehry
American architect
Gil Gerard
American TV star
Andrea Gibson
American poet and activist
Eleonora Giorgi
Italian actress, screenwriter, and film director
Remo Girone
Italian film and stage actor
Rose Girone
Polish-born American supercentenarian and
the oldest living Holocaust survivor at the time of her death
Virginia Giuffre
American and Australian advocate for survivors of sex trafficking
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay
Grateful Dead singer
Dr. Jane Goodall
English primatologist and anthropologist
Irv Gotti (born Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr.)
American record producer and co-founder of the record label Murder Inc. Records
Adam Greenberg
Israeli-American cinematographer
Graham Greene
Canadian First Nations (Oneida) actor and recording artist
Peter Greene
Jersey-born character actor
Mike Greenwell
American MLB left-fielder
Kimberly Hébert Gregory
American actress
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
American author, activist, and community organizer for transgender rights
Raúl Grijalva
American politician and activist
Patsy Grimaldi
American restaurateur, pizzeria owner, and pizza pioneer
Jackson “Butch” Guice
veteran American comics artist
Gene Hackman
American acting legend and author
Lynn Hamilton
American actress
Masato Harada
Japanese film director, critic and occasional actor
Devin Harjes
American film and television actor
Ted Hartley
American U.S. Navy fighter pilot, investment banker, actor, film and stage producer, and CEO of RKO Pictures
Brent Hinds
guitarist and vocalist for the Atlanta-based heavy metal band Mastodon, which he co-founded
Hulk Hogan (born Terry Gene Bollea)
American pro wrestler
Paul House
advocate and activist, wrongly convicted Tennessee man who spent 22 years on death row before being exonerated by DNA evidence
Kevyn Major Howard
Canadian actor and photographer
Barbie Hsu
Taiwanese actress, singer, and television host
Michael Hurley
American singer-songwriter and godfather of underground folk music
Kazuo Ikehiro
Japanese film director
Greg Iles
American novelist
Tomonobu Itagaki
Japanese video game designer
Flo Jacobs
New York based filmmaker, actress, and director
Ken Jacobs
American experimental filmmaker
Stanley R. Jaffe
American film producer
Brian James
English punk musician, founding guitarist and early principal songwriter for UK punk pioneers the Damned
Peter Jason
American character actor
Chris Jasper
American singer, composer, producer, and member of the Isley Brothers
Sacha Jenkins
American television producer, filmmaker, writer, musician, artist, curator, and chronicler of hip-hop, graffiti, punk, and metal cultures
David Johansen
American singer, songwriter, and actor, best known as lead singer of the proto-punk band the New York Dolls
Jellybean Johnson
Minneapolis-based drummer, guitarist, songwriter, record producer, and musician
Terry “Buzzy” Johnson
American popular music singer, songwriter, and music producer
Tom Johnson
American composer and music critic
Zach Jones
SportsCenter researcher
Jonathan Joss
American actor and musician of Native American heritage
Diogo Jota
Portuguese professional footballer
Jonathan Kaplan
American film director
Tchéky Karyo
Turkish-born French actor and musician
Diane Keaton
American actress, director, producer, and fashion and interior design icon
Udo Kier
German character-actor legend
Val Kilmer
American character actor in leading-man disguise
Sophie Kinsella
English author
Sally Kirkland
American actress and producer
Bernhard Klee
German conductor and pianist
Marshawn Kneeland
American professional football defensive end
Ted Kotcheff
Canadian director and film producer
Kim Sae-ron
South Korean actress
Diane Ladd
Oscar-nominated actress and mother of Laura Dern
Cleo Laine
English singer and actress
Gilson Lavis
English drummer and portrait artist
John Lawlor
American actor and assistant director
Mickey Lee
American TV personality
Tom Lehrer
American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, educator, and mathematician
Mel Leipzig
American visual artist and arts educator
Ananda Lewis
American broadcast journalist, VJ, and carpenter
Khadiyah Lewis
American reality-TV personality
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian novelist and Nobel-Prize winner
June Lockhart
American actress
John Lodge
English bass guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the Moody Blues
Spencer Lofranco
Italian-Canadian actor and painter
Leonard Lopate
American radio personality
Jim Lovell
American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and mechanical engineer
George Lowe
American voice actor and comedian
James Lowe
American musician and record producer, best known as lead singer of 1960s psychedelic rock band The Electric Prunes
Nita Lowey
American politician and U.S. Representative from New York
David Lynch
American director, screenwriter, visual artist, musician, and occasional actor
Michael Madsen
character-actor legend, one of the greats
Valerie Mahaffey
Canadian-American actress
Raul Malo
American guitarist, record producer, and lead singer and songwriter of the Mavericks
Chuck Mangione
American flugelhorn player, trumpeter, actor, and composer
Henry Martínez
Venezuelan musician and songwriter
Mike ‘The Bodysnatcher’ McCallum
legendary Jamaican boxer
James McEachin
American actor, author, and veteran of the Korean War
Robert McGinnis
American artist and illustrator
Dan McGrath
American television writer, educator, and stage director
JD Twitch (b0rn Keith McIvor)
Scottish DJ, producer, and label owner, of the influential Scottish electronic duo Optimo
Julian McMahon
Australian actor
Gwen McRae
American singer
Penelope Milford
American stage and screen actress
Burt Meyer
American inventor of games like Lite-Brite and Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
Yolanda Montes
Mexican–American dancer, actress, and vedette
Sam Moore
American singer, best known as one-half of the legendary soul and R&B duo Sam & Dave
Gary “Mani” Mounfield
English bassist for the Stone Roses and Primal Scream
Bill Moyers
American journalist
Shigeo Nagashima
Japanese professional baseball player and manager
Tatsuya Nakadai
Japanese acting legend of stage and screen
Richard Norton
Australian martial artist, actor, stunt performer, stunt coordinator, security consultant, and fight choreographer
Mel Novak
American actor
O
Dr. K. Patrick Ober
American endocrinologist, professor, and author
Hiroyuki Oki
Japanese film director
Ozzy Osbourne
Prince of Darkness
Wayne Osmond
American musician
Allyce Ozarski
American television producer and production manager
Kylie Page
American adult-film star
Eddie Palmieri
American musician, bandleader, composer, and founder of the bands La Perfecta, La Perfecta II, and Harlem River Drive
Panda Bob
Californian black-and-white cow
Robbie Pardlo
City High singer
Ken Parker
American luthier and founder of Parker Guitars
Ken Parker
Jamaican reggae and gospel musician
Mrs. Rosalind Patience
The Best Ever, and Mom #2 to DG Editor Jon Abrams
Peanut
Indian elephant
Manuel Pérez
Cuban film director and screenwriter
Rubby Pérez
Dominican merengue singer
Jonathan Pienaar
South African actor, writer, and comedian
Amos Poe
Israel-born, New York City-based director and screenwriter
Roger Pratt
British cinematographer
Frank Price
American television writer and film studio executive
Andrew Pyper
Canadian author
Selwyn Raab
American journalist, author, and investigative reporter for The New York Times
Lenny Randle
American baseball player
Charles B. Rangel
American politician and New Yorker
James Ransone
American character actor in TV and film and musician
Lorna Raver
American actress
Robert Redford
American actor, director, producer, and cofounder of the Sundance Institute
Terry Reid
English musician, songwriter, and guitarist
Rob Reiner
Bronx-born actor and filmmaker
Michelle Singer Reiner
American photographer and film producer
Chelsea Reject (born Chelsea Alexander)
Brooklyn-based indie rapper
Cecile Richards
American activist and former president of Planned Parenthood
Mike Rinder
Australian and American former spokesman for the Church of Scientology, turned critic and activist
Riro
Japanese sea otter
Tom Robbins
journalist and activist
Tom Robbins
American novelist
Tony Roberts
American actor
Francisco San Martin
Spanish-born American actor
Ryne Sandberg
American baseball player and coach
Gailard Sartain
American character actor
Charley Scalies
American character actor
Lalo Schifrin
Argentine-American pianist and composer
Tatiana Schlossberg
American environmental journalist
Jeannie Seely
American country singer
Ed Seeman
American visual artist
Dr. Julian Seifter
doctor, nephrologist, educator, one of one, best-uncle-ever to DG Editor Jon Abrams
Ann Sexton
American soul singer
Mel Shapiro
American theatre director, writer, and academic
S. Pearl Sharp
American poet and filmmaker
Masahiro Shinoda
Japanese film director
Jim Shooter
American comic-book writer, editor, and publisher
Helen Siff
American character actress
Jim Silke
American comic book artist, designer, art director, photographer, editor, and novelist
Imani Dia Smith
Broadway performer known for “The Lion King”
Martin Cruz Smith
American writer of mystery and suspense fiction
Todd Snider
American singer-songwriter
Mark Snow
American composer for film and television
Scott Sorry
American singer-songwriter
Dr. Danielle Spencer
American actress and veterinarian
Scott Spiegel
American screenwriter, film director, producer, and actor
Terence Stamp
English actor and eternal icon
Lynne Marie Stewart
American TV actress and the Most Beautiful Woman in Puppet Land
Angie Stone
American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer
Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart)
American genius, musician, songwriter, record producer, and leader of Sly and the Family Stone
Sir Tom Stoppard
British playwright and screenwriter
Drew Struzan
legendary American artist, illustrator, and cover designer
Sunflower
rescued calf at the Animal Place Sanctuary in Grass Valley, CA
Loretta Swit
American television actress, artist, and animal activist
Jubilant Sykes
American singer
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Japanese actor and film producer
Nasser Taghvai
Iranian film director and screenwriter
Lee Tamahori
New Zealand film director
Nino Tempo
American musician and singer
Esta TerBlanche
South African actress
Paul Thomas
American porn film actor and director
“Hitman” Howie Tee (born Howard Thompson)
English-born American hip-hop DJ and producer of Jamaican origin
Johnny Tillotson
American singer-songwriter
Michelle Trachtenberg
American actress, producer, writer, and icon
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo
American actor and professional football player
Bob Uecker
American professional baseball catcher, occasional actor, and sportscaster
DJ Unk (born Anthony Leonard Platt)
American DJ, hype man, and rapper
Blanca Vázquez
activist and founding editor of the CENTRO Journal
Mark Volman
American vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter, best known as founding member of the Turtles
Ms. Voletta Wallace
retired teacher and founder of the Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation
Joseph Wambaugh
American writer and former cop
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
American actor, poet, musician, producer, and director
Gloria Warrington
proprietor with her husband Eugene of the iconic Walter’s Hot Dog Stand
Cheryl Waters
American actress
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist
Lenny Welch
American singer
George Wendt
American character actor and TV icon
Humpy Wheeler
American motorsports executive and businessman
Edmund White
American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer, and essayist
Bobby Whitlock
American singer, songwriter, and musician, member of Derek and the Dominos
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
American character actor in TV and film and an all-time innovator in profane pronunciations
Biff Wiff (born Gary Crotty)
American actor
D’Wayne Wiggins
Tony! Toni! Toné! cofounder, singer, and guitarist
Lloyd A. Williams
American community leader based in Harlem, president and CEO of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, and co-founder of Harlem Week
Brian Wilson
American singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the Beach Boys
Robert Wilson
American theatre director and playwright
Alice Wong
American disability rights activist and writer
Brenton Wood
American singer-songwriter
Daniel Woodrell
American novelist and short story writer
John Woodvine
English actor of stage, television, and film
Peter Yarrow
American singer and songwriter most famous for being one-third of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary
Yen Cheng-kuo
Taiwanese actor, director, and calligraphy teacher
Harris Yulin
American film actor
Khaleda Zia
first female prime minister of Bangladesh
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