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Charles James Kirk (October 14, 1993 – September 10, 2025) was an American conservative political activist, author, and media personality. He was executive director of the student organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA), which he co-founded in 2012 to promote conservative beliefs in high schools and on college campuses.
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Richard John Hatton (6 October 1978 – 14 September 2025), also known by nicknames such as the Hitman and the People's Champion, was a British professional boxer who competed between 1997 and 2012, and later worked as a boxing promoter and trainer. During his boxing career he held multiple world championships in the light-welterweight division, and one at welterweight.
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Terence Allan Crawford (born September 28, 1987) is an American professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in five weight classes, from lightweight to super middleweight, including the undisputed championships at light welterweight, welterweight, and super middleweight. He is the second ever three-weight undisputed boxing champion.
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Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán (Latin American Spanish: [saˈul ˈalβaɾes]; born 18 July 1990), commonly known as Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez, is a Mexican professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, from light middleweight to light heavyweight, including unified titles in three of those weight classes.
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Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford
Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford, billed as Once in a Lifetime and There Can Only Be One, was a super middleweight professional boxing match contested between undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Álvarez and four division champion Terence Crawford for the undisputed super middleweight championship of the world. It was the first Zuffa Boxing event promoted by Dana White under TKO.
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On September 10, 2025, American political activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot while addressing an audience on the campus of Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem, Utah, United States. The outdoor event was the first stop of the season for his American Comeback Tour, a speaking and debate series organized by the conservative Turning Point USA organization he co-founded.
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The killing of Iryna Zarutska occurred on August 22, 2025, at the East/West Boulevard light rail station on the Lynx Blue Line in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who had fled her country because of the Russian invasion, was fatally stabbed. Her assailant was arrested upon exiting the train and charged with first-degree murder.
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Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American far-right political commentator, activist, live streamer and leader of the Groypers who promotes white supremacist, misogynistic, homophobic, and antisemitic views. Fuentes has promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories against Jews, called for a "holy war" against them, and has denied the Holocaust.
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Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (né Yaxley; born 27 November 1982), better known as Tommy Robinson, is a British far-right activist and one of the UK's most prominent anti-Islam campaigners. Robinson has been active in far-right politics for many years. He was a member of the British National Party (BNP), a British fascist political party, from 2004 to 2005.
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Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3, 1965), known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. He is known as a leading man in film and television. Sheen has received numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2025. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
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Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for conservative politics on high school, college, and university campuses. It was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery. TPUSA's affiliate groups include Turning Point Endowment, Turning Point Action and TPUSA Faith.
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ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released on November 30, 2022. It currently uses GPT-5, a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT), to generate text, speech, and images in response to user prompts. It is credited with accelerating the AI boom, an ongoing period of rapid investment in and public attention to the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
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Brandon Scott Aubrey (born March 14, 1995) is an American multi-sport athlete who plays as a placekicker for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He has played professional soccer as a center back. In 2017, Aubrey was drafted by Toronto FC of Major League Soccer and played for the club's reserve team before moving to Bethlehem Steel FC.
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle (Japanese: 劇場版「鬼滅の刃」無限城編, Hepburn: Gekijō-ban Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Jō-hen) is a 2025 Japanese animated dark fantasy action film based on the "Infinity Castle" arc of the 2016–20 manga series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba by Koyoharu Gotouge.
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Turki bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Sheikh (Arabic: تركي بن عبد المحسن بن عبد اللطيف آل الشيخ; born August 4, 1981) is a Saudi Arabian sports promoter. Also known as Turki Alalshikh, he serves as an adviser at the Royal Court under the rank of Minister and as Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA).
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2025 World Athletics Championships
The 2025 World Athletics Championships (Japanese: 2025年世界陸上競技選手権大会) are the twentieth edition of the World Athletics Championships, and are being held from 13 to 21 September 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. The championships use the National Stadium, rebuilt for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and 2020 Summer Paralympic Games.
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Dmitry Yuryevich Bivol (Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Бивол; born 18 December 1990) is a Russian professional boxer. He won the undisputed light-heavyweight title in February 2025, and has held the unified championship since April 2025, as well as the International Boxing Organization (IBO) and Ring magazine titles since February 2025.
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Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (né Sinclair; born February 24, 1977) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed between 1996 and 2017. He retired with an undefeated record and won 15 major world championships spanning five weight classes from super featherweight to light middleweight.
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Emilio Estevez (; born May 12, 1962) is an American actor and filmmaker. The son of actor Martin Sheen and the older brother of Charlie Sheen, he made his film debut with an uncredited role in Badlands (1973). He later received his first credited appearance with a supporting role in the coming-of-age film Tex (1982).
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The Conjuring: Last Rites is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves and written by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick. The film is the ninth installment in The Conjuring Universe, and is based on the real-life investigations of the Smurl haunting case.
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XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is a 2002 American action spy film directed by Rob Cohen, produced by Neal H. Moritz and written by Rich Wilkes. The first installment in the xXx film series, the film stars Vin Diesel as Xander Cage, a thrill-seeking extreme sports enthusiast, stuntman, and rebellious athlete-turned-reluctant spy for the National Security Agency.
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Coolie is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film written and directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj and produced by Kalanithi Maran under Sun Pictures. The film features an ensemble cast including Rajinikanth, Nagarjuna Akkineni, Soubin Shahir, Upendra, Shruti Haasan, Sathyaraj and Rachita Ram, with Aamir Khan and Pooja Hegde in special appearances.
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Lokah: Chapter 1 — Chandra is a 2025 Indian Malayalam-language dark fantasy superhero film directed by Dominic Arun and produced by Dulquer Salmaan under his banner Wayfarer Films. It stars Kalyani Priyadarshan, Naslen and Sandy Master, alongside Arun Kurian, Chandu Salimkumar, Nishanth Sagar, Raghunath Paleri, Vijayaraghavan, Nithya Shri, and Sarath Sabha.
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2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators
On June 14, 2025, Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman was assassinated in a shooting at her home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States. Hortman, the leader of the state House Democratic caucus, was killed alongside her husband, Mark. Earlier that morning, state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot in their home in nearby Champlin and hospitalized.
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1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989.
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Gianluigi Donnarumma (Italian pronunciation: [dʒanluˈiːdʒi ˌdɔnnaˈrumma]; born 25 February 1999) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Manchester City and captains the Italy national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the world.
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UFC Fight Night: Lopes vs. Silva
Noche UFC: Lopes vs. Silva (also known as UFC Fight Night 259 and Noche UFC 3 and UFC on ESPN+ 117) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on September 13, 2025, at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
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The EuroBasket 2025 was the 42nd edition of the EuroBasket championship, the quadrennial international men's basketball championship organized by FIBA Europe. It took place from 27 August to 14 September 2025, returning to its usual calendar slot, after the EuroBasket 2021 was postponed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Russell Carrington Wilson (born November 29, 1988) is an American professional football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He has primarily played for the Seattle Seahawks. With the Seahawks, Wilson was named to the Pro Bowl nine times and helped Seattle win their first Super Bowl championship in Super Bowl XLVIII.
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Dennis Schröder ( SHROO-der; German pronunciation: ['denɪs ˈʃʁøːdɐ]; born 15 September 1993) is a German professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously played for SG Braunschweig and Phantoms Braunschweig in Germany, before joining the Atlanta Hawks for his first five seasons in the NBA.
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Diego Lopes da Silva (born 30 December 1994) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who currently competes in the Featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional since 2012, Lopes previously competed in the Mexican MMA promotion LUX Fight League, where he was a former LUX Featherweight Champion.
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Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
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Erling Braut Haaland (also spelled Håland, born 21 July 2000) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Norway national team. Considered one of the best players in the world, and the greatest Norwegian player ever, he is known for his speed, strength, positioning, and finishing inside the box.
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The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards will honor the best in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2024, until May 31, 2025, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards ceremony is scheduled for September 14, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, with CBS and Paramount+ airing the ceremony. Nate Bargatze will host the ceremony.
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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy family in New York City, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
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Spencer James Cox (born July 11, 1975) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2021 as the 18th governor of Utah. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2013 to 2021 as the eighth lieutenant governor of Utah. In Fairview, Utah, where Cox lives and was raised, he was elected to the city council in 2004 and then as mayor in 2005.
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One Battle After Another is an upcoming American action thriller film produced, written, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is loosely based on the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti in her film debut.
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Mirai (also marketed as Mirāi: Super Yodha) is a 2025 Indian Telugu-language fantasy action-adventure film written and directed by Karthik Gattamneni. Produced by TG Vishwa Prasad and Krithi Prasad under People Media Factory, the film stars Teja Sajja, Manchu Manoj, Ritika Nayak, Shriya Saran, Jagapathi Babu and Jayaram. Mirai was released worldwide on 12 September 2025.
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale is a 2025 historical drama film directed by Simon Curtis from a screenplay by Julian Fellowes. It is the sequel to Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) and the third and final film in the Downton Abbey franchise. Many of the original franchise's cast members, who also appeared in the previous two films, return.
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Aneet Padda (born 14 October 2002) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films and series. She began her career with a brief role in the drama Salaam Venky (2022) and had her first lead role in the Amazon Prime Video series Big Girls Don't Cry (2024). Padda had her breakthrough with Mohit Suri's romantic drama Saiyaara (2025), for which she earned wider recognition.
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Olivia Cooke (born 27 December 1993) is an English actress. She has appeared as Alicent Hightower in the fantasy drama television series House of the Dragon (2022–present), Emma Decody in the thriller Bates Motel (2013–2017), Becky Sharp in the period drama Vanity Fair (2018), and spy Sidonie "Sid" Baker in the Apple TV thriller Slow Horses (2022).
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Michael McCorkle "Mac" Jones (born September 5, 1998) is an American professional football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he set the NCAA season records for passer rating and completion percentage as a junior en route to winning the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship.
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Alien: Earth is an American science fiction horror television series created by Noah Hawley. It is the first television series in the Alien franchise and is set two years before the events of the 1979 film Alien. The series stars Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adarsh Gourav, and Timothy Olyphant in main roles.
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Edward Warren Miney (September 7, 1926 – August 23, 2006) and Lorraine Rita Warren (née Moran; January 31, 1927 – April 18, 2019) were American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of alleged hauntings. Edward was a self-taught and self-professed demonologist, author, lecturer and artist.
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The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV series)
The Summer I Turned Pretty is an American coming-of-age romantic drama television series created by author Jenny Han for Amazon Prime Video, and it is based on her novel trilogy of the same name. Lola Tung stars as Belly Conklin, a teenager involved in a love triangle with brothers Conrad and Jeremiah, played by Christopher Briney and Gavin Casalegno, respectively.
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Japanese: 鬼滅の刃, Hepburn: Kimetsu no Yaiba; rgh. 'Blade of Demon Destruction') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 2016 to May 2020, with its chapters collected in 23 tankōbon volumes.
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Claire Jane Sweeney (born 17 April 1971) is an English actress, singer, and television personality. Known for her portrayal of Lindsey Corkhill on Channel 4's Brookside (1991–2003), she also played Roxie Hart in Chicago (West End, 2001–2002) and starred in touring productions of Guys and Dolls (2006), Tell Me on a Sunday (2011), Legally Blonde (2011), and Educating Rita (2012).
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Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel (9 October 1907 – 23 February 1930) was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After his death, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels elevated him into a martyr for the Nazi Party.
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William Thomas Montgomery (May 29, 1940 – July 28, 2020) was an American businessman and conservative activist. He co-founded the conservative political organization Turning Point USA with Charlie Kirk; Montgomery became Kirk's mentor and worked behind the scenes during the organization's early formation. He died of complications from COVID-19 on July 28, 2020.
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Instagram is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers.
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Benjamin Aaron Shapiro (born January 15, 1984) is an American conservative political commentator, media host, and attorney. He writes columns for Creators Syndicate, Newsweek, and Ami Magazine, and is editor emeritus for The Daily Wire, which he co-founded in 2015. Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show, a daily political podcast and live radio show.
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Baaghi 4 is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by A. Harsha in his Hindi film debut, and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. The film stars Tiger Shroff, Sanjay Dutt, Sonam Bajwa and Harnaaz Sandhu (in her Hindi film debut). It is the fourth installment in the Baaghi film series.
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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Koine Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Θεά Φιλοπάτωρ, lit. 'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; 70/69 BC – 10 or 12 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
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Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin (Cyrillic: Генна́дий Генна́дьевич Голо́вкин; also spelled Gennady; born 8 April 1982), often known by his nickname "GGG" or "Triple G", is a Kazakhstani professional boxer. He has held multiple middleweight world championships, and is a two-time former unified champion.
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Alperen Şengün (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈaɫpeɾæn ˈʃæɲɟyn]; born 25 July 2002) is a Turkish professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represents the senior Turkish national team. Known for his footwork and playmaking ability, he was selected as the 16th pick in the first round of the 2021 NBA draft.
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DeShaun Xavier Foster (born January 10, 1980) is an American college football coach and former player who most recently served as the head football coach of the UCLA Bruins from 2024 to 2025. He played professionally as a running back for six seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Foster played collegiately for UCLA, earning All-American honors in 2001.
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YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, who were former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.
