The death of the author and Nobel Prize winner in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa has been one of the most significant losses in the world of culture during this year 2025. The long list of artists, actors, musicians and writers who died this year is completed with Diane Keaton, Robe Iniesta, David Lynch, Verónica Echegui, Giorgio Armani, Robert Redford or recently Brigitte Bardotamong many others.
In the field of national cinema, in addition to the death of Echegui, the deaths of Eusebio Poncela -who stood out for his work with Pedro Almodóvar-, Celso Bugallo, Juan Marine, Tony Isbert, Juan Margallothe Goya of Honor 2016 Mariano Ozoresthe photographer and filmmaker Ramon Margareto, Manolo Zarzo y Hector Alterioessential names to understand several generations of cinema and theater in Spain. Their careers range from New Spanish Cinema to the rise of series and contemporary auteur cinema.
International cinema has also suffered important losses such as Keaton, Lynch, Redford or Bardot, to which are added the Italian cinema icon Claudia CardinaleArgentina Alejandra Darin, Val Kilmer, Gene Hackman, Joan Plowright, Graham Greene, Chamberlain, Michelle Trachtenberg, Émilie Dequenne, Hulk Hogan, George Wendt,Diane Ladd or the director Rob Reiner.
In music, 2025 claimed the voices and guitars of Robert Iniestaleader of Extremoduro and reference of Spanish rock, and Jorge Martinezthe soul of Ilegales. In August the singer died at the age of 88. Manuel de la Calvahistorical of the Spanish melodic song and member of the Dynamic Duo.
International music has also lost Ozzy Osbourne, D’Angelothe Mexican Paquita from the neighborhood -known for her song ‘Two-legged Rat’-, Roberta Flackthe musician and guitarist of The Cure Perry Bamonte, Ace Frehley, and the singer Encarnita Poloamong others.
Literature was already orphaned in April with the death of the Spanish-Peruvian writer Mario Vargas LlosaNobel Prize winner in Literature, who died at the age of 89 in the capital of his native Peru. The author of ‘The City and the Dogs’ (1963) and ‘The Feast of the Goat’ (2000), among many other works, left a gap in the Latin American ‘boom’, of which he was a part along with the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez and the Argentine Julio Cortázar.
Together with him they leave José María Guelbenzu and the British Jilly Coopernovelists who explored with a personal perspective the psychology of their characters and the social codes of their time, together with Frederick Forsyth
The fashion world has lost the iconic Italian designer Giorgio Armani and flamenco Micaela Flores Amaya ‘La Chunga’dancer and painter.
Furthermore, they have died Oliviero Toscaniadvertising impact photographer; Anna Turbau y Sebastian Salgadobig names in photojournalism and documentary photography; Martin ParrBritish photographer and chronicler who based his work on the irony of everyday life; the illustrator Amaia Arrazola; the presenter Manuel Torreiglesias; the journalist Alfonso Ussia; Enrique Bastante, Josep Roca, Ramón Mascott Friend, Frank Gehry, Jorge María Martínez y Miguel Rodríguez-Acostakey figures in fields ranging from architecture to collecting and cultural management.