In April 1970, Jim Lovell radioed “Houston, we’ve had a problem” from a damaged spacecraft 200,000 miles from Earth, and then spent four days getting his crew home. He died on August 7, 2025, aged 97. These are nine of the best-known people who died in August 2025, in the order they died.
1. Kelley Mack (August 2, aged 33)
Kelley Mack played Addy in The Walking Dead and voiced characters in animation and commercials. She died of a rare cancer of the central nervous system.
2. Loni Anderson (August 3, aged 79)
Loni Anderson played Jennifer Marlowe, the receptionist who was smarter than everyone at the station, in WKRP in Cincinnati, and was nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe awards for the role. Her marriage to Burt Reynolds made them one of the most photographed couples of the 1980s. She died after a long illness.
3. Jim Lovell (August 7, aged 97)
Jim Lovell flew on Gemini 7, Gemini 12 and Apollo 8, the first mission to orbit the Moon, before commanding Apollo 13 in 1970. An oxygen tank exploded on the way to the Moon, and Lovell and his crew survived by using the lunar module as a lifeboat. Tom Hanks played him in the 1995 film.
4. Brandon Blackstock (August 7, aged 48)
The talent manager, who was married to Kelly Clarkson for seven years and had two children with her, died of melanoma. Clarkson had postponed her Las Vegas shows to be with him.
5. Bobby Whitlock (August 10, aged 77)
Bobby Whitlock played keyboards and sang in Derek and the Dominos and co-wrote much of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs with Eric Clapton. He also played on George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass.
6. Danielle Spencer (August 11, aged 60)
Danielle Spencer played Dee, the outspoken younger sister, in the 1970s sitcom What’s Happening!! and later became a veterinarian.
7. Terence Stamp (August 17, aged 87)
Terence Stamp was Oscar-nominated for his first film, Billy Budd, in 1962, and became one of the faces of 1960s London. Later audiences knew him as General Zod, who orders Superman to “kneel before Zod”, as Bernadette in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and as Wilson in The Limey.
8. Frank Caprio (August 20, aged 88)
Frank Caprio was the chief judge of the municipal court in Providence, Rhode Island, and the star of Caught in Providence, a show whose clips of him waiving fines for struggling drivers were watched billions of times online. He had pancreatic cancer.
9. Jerry Adler (August 23, aged 96)
Jerry Adler spent decades as a Broadway stage manager and only began acting in his sixties. He played Hesh Rabkin, Tony Soprano’s adviser, in The Sopranos, and later appeared in The Good Wife. He died in his sleep.
Adler and Stamp had opposite careers: Stamp was a film star at 23, while Adler did not get his first screen role until he was over 60, and both were still working in their eighties.