The following notable persons recently added to Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2025 site stands out:
- Jack Heinrich (December 20, 1936 – October 21, 2025)88, British Columbia MLA
- Davey Langit (December 20, 1986 – October 21, 2025)38, Filipino singer, songwriter
- 1999 – Riccardo Freda (24 February 1909 – 20 December 1999) director, screenwriter
- 1999 – Hank Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999) singer-songwriter, guitarist
- 1888 – Yitzhak Baer(as Fritz Bär, 20 December 1888 – 22 January 1980) historian
- 1888 – Fred Merkle (December 20, 1888 – March 2, 1956)"Bonehead" baseball player
Jack White, 85, German footballer (Viktoria Köln, PSV Eindhoven), composer, and record producer ("Gloria").
Do note the “white” and cryptic “horse” in his birth name!! And his first name, Jack, along with “Snow” above, conjures up a cryptic “Jack Frost”. So what comes to mind in regards to “white horse”… many things, butt before dealing with that, there’s something else I need to bring to the table. While on the December 20th wiki page, and as I was scrolling up from the Deaths section to the Births section, a name caught my eye:
- 1961 – Earle Page, Australian soldier, politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1880)
- Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961)
- Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page (8 August 1880 – 20 December 1961)
- Gavin McKenna, Hockey player currently playing for the Medicine Hat Tigers of the WHL and is widely considered the number one prospect for the 2026 NHL entry
- Randy Hahn, play-by-play commentator for the San Jose Sharks
- Robert W. Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) known as The Bard of the Yukon for his poems
- Martyn S. Williams, mountain and wilderness guide who is the first person in the world to lead expeditions to the three extremes, South Pole (1989) North Pole (1992) and Everest (1991)
- Paul Lucier, Yukon's first senator
- Ione Christensen, first female mayor of Whitehorse, in 1975
- Gavin McKenna (born December 20, 2007)
- Randy Hahn (born October 21, 1958)
- Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958)
- Martyn Stephen Williams (born May 2, 1947)
- Paul Lucier (July 29, 1930 – July 23, 1999)
- Ione Jean Christensen (née Cameron; October 10, 1933 – September 15, 2025)
- Jack Heinrich (December 20, 1936 – October 21, 2025)88, British Columbia MLA
- Davey Langit (December 20, 1986 – October 21, 2025)38, Filipino singer, songwriter
But it turns out that, more often than not, red snow is the product of algae. And, as scientists have learned recently, the stuff is also contributing to climate change
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