Overview
- Filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found stabbed in their Brentwood home on Dec. 14, and their son Nick Reiner, 32, has been charged in their deaths.
- Podcaster and author Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a Sept. 10 Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University, and Tyler James Robinson was arrested and charged.
- Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy, 65, were discovered dead in their Santa Fe home on Feb. 26, with authorities citing heart disease and advanced Alzheimer's for him and a respiratory condition for her.
- Screen icons Robert Redford died in his sleep at 89 on Sept. 16, Diane Keaton died of pneumonia at 79 on Oct. 11, and Brigitte Bardot died at 91 on Dec. 28.
- Music and culture losses included Ozzy Osbourne on July 22 after Parkinson's disease, Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson on June 11, Grammy winner Roberta Flack on Feb. 24, primatologist Jane Goodall on Oct. 1, and actor James Ransone by suicide on Dec. 19.