Overview
- Confirmed deaths highlighted across multiple lists include Pope Francis, 88, from multiorgan failure, and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, 89, after a long illness.
- Entertainment tributes note the deaths of Ozzy Osbourne, 76, after Parkinson’s complications, as well as David Lynch, Gene Hackman, Diane Keaton and Brigitte Bardot.
- Authorities-confirmed reports include Michelle Trachtenberg, 39, from an accidental overdose, as outlets stress official attributions in roundups.
- Sporting obituaries feature Liverpool and Portugal forward Diogo Jota, 28, in a car crash with his brother André Silva, and WWE icon Hulk Hogan, 71, from an acute myocardial infarction at home in Florida.
- Some late-year accounts conflict on Rob Reiner’s reported death on December 14, with outlets diverging between a domestic accident and an assassination narrative.