Former child actress Victoria Jones, daughter of Oscar-winning veteran actor and filmmaker Tommy Lee Jones, dead of causes yet unknown at 34 (birth date unknown).

NOTE: I don't actually know if she died on NYE or NYD. If it's the former, I'll copy-paste this post into the last thread and delete this one.

Hong Kong actor, filmmaker and fight choreographer Yuen Cheung-yan, part of the Yuen cinematic martial arts dynasty and best known for his role as The Beggar in Kung Fu Hustle, dead of an undisclosed illness at 68 or 69 (birth date unknown).

Pioneering jockey Diane Crump, the first woman both to ride professionally in a horse race and compete in the Kentucky Derby, dead of an aggressive form of brain cancer at 77 four and three-fifth months shy of her (also my late maternal grandmother's, my first cousin once removed's and that of one other relative I've never met, incidentally) birthday.

Kenyan super tusker Craig the elephant, whose long life in the wild symbolized the country's successful efforts against ivory poachers, dead of natural causes at 54 (birth date unknown).

Australian footballer Phoenix Spicer, dead Friday at 23 four weeks shy of his birthday.

Broadway star and influencer Bret Hanna-Shuford, best known for appearing in productions of Wicked, Beauty And The Beast and The Little Mermaid and hitherto one-half of Broadway Husband with Stephen Hanna-Shuford, dead of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and peripheral T-cell lymphoma at 46 four and a half months shy of his birthday.

Austrian-born British Holocaust survivor and Anne Frank Trust UK co-founder & honorary president Eva Schloss (nee Geiringer), MBE, stepsister to said victim, dead at 96 four and a quarter months shy of her birthday.

South Korean prolific veteran actor Ahn Sung-ki, known affectionately as "The Nation's Actor", dead of blood cancer at 74.

Former child actor Sidney Kibrick, hitherto the last surviving Our Gang cast member, dead Friday at 97 exactly six months shy of his birthday.

Hungarian multiple award-winning filmmaker (but not screenwriter) Bela Tarr, dead after a long and serious illness at 70 six and a half months shy of his birthday.