Death of Sheffi Paz at age 74
Sheffi Paz, an editor and Israeli activist opposing African immigration, died of cancer on October 26, 2026, aged 74. Born in Łódź, Poland, to parents who had survived the Holocaust, she moved to Israel with them…
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Abdul Waheed Kakar dead at age 89
Abdul Waheed Kakar, the Pakistani military officer who served as chief of the army staff, died October 26, 2026, aged 89. Born in Peshawar on March 23, 1937, he studied at Edwardes College in Peshawar before…
Mahadev Shankar dies at 94
Mahadev Shankar, a Malaysian jurist and former judge of the Court of Appeal, died on October 26, 2026, aged 94. He served on the court from 1994 to 1997 and was a lawyer. Born in 1932 on Peel Avenue in Kuala Lumpur, Shankar attended the Victoria Institution. His…
Robin Stubbs dead at age 85
Robin Stubbs, the English professional footballer, died October 25, 2026, aged 85. Born Robin Gregory Stubbs in Quinton, Birmingham, on April 22, 1941, he played as a centre-forward and made nearly 400 Football League appearances, scoring 170 goals for Birmingham City, Torquay United and Bristol Rovers. His career…
Peggy King passed away at age 96
Peggy King, an American jazz singer and actress, died on October 25, 2026, aged 96, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, on February 16, 1930, she attended Ravenna High School. Her parents were Floyd Henry King and Mary Margaret Finan. King performed with big bands…
Phil O’Callaghan dead at age 80
Phil O’Callaghan, the Irish rugby union international prop, died October 25, 2026, aged 80. Born in Cork on March 25, 1946, he was known in rugby as “Philo.” Raised in the city, he began as a soccer player and took up rugby union in his teenage years. His…
Death of Jack Armstrong at age 79
Jack Armstrong, an American professional wrestler known for work in the World Wide Wrestling Federation and Universal Wrestling Federation, died October 25, 2026, aged 79. Born Leonard Ornstein in Los Angeles, he performed under the ring name “Wildman” Jack Armstrong from the 1960s into the early 1990s. Armstrong…
Józef Lipień has died at age 77
Józef Lipień, a Polish Greco-Roman wrestler and 1980 Olympic silver medalist, died October 25, 2026, aged 77. Born in Jaczków on February 6, 1949, he competed in amateur wrestling and represented Poland in the Greco-Roman discipline. His Olympic distinction came in 1980, when he won a silver medal,…
José Luis García Sánchez has died at age 85
José Luis García Sánchez, the Spanish film director and screenwriter, died October 25, 2026, aged 85. Born in Salamanca on September 22, 1941, he worked in cinema as a director, screenwriter and producer. His career began in 1964, and he directed 30 films from 1968 onward. His film…
Darko Božović has died at age 48
Darko Božović, a Montenegrin footballer, died October 25, 2026, aged 48. Born in Podgorica on August 9, 1978, he played as a goalkeeper. A memorable episode in his career came on October 28, 2006, when Bežanija hosted Voždovac in a league fixture. With Bežanija trailing 1-0, Božović saved…
Mohsen Rastani passed away at age 67
Mohsen Rastani, an Iranian photographer and photojournalist, died on October 25, 2026, aged 67. His photographs focused on people, rendered in black and white against white backgrounds. He began taking photographs in 1982, after returning from Tehran to Khorramshahr shortly after the city’s liberation during the Iran-Iraq War.…
Paolo Romeo has died at age 88
Paolo Romeo, an Italian priest, cardinal and archbishop emeritus of Palermo, died October 25, 2026, aged 88. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him to the see of Palermo on December 19, 2006, and Romeo served as the city’s archbishop before becoming archbishop emeritus. Born February 20, 1938, he was…
Misha Mavashi died at age 41
Misha Mavashi, the Russian rapper and singer-songwriter, died on October 25, 2026, aged 41. Born Mikhail Fyodorovich Nits on January 29, 1985, in Kostanay, then part of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, he was known as a performer, poet and writer, and as the frontman and founder of…
Jogen Chowdhury passes away at age 87
Jogen Chowdhury, the Indian painter and former member of Parliament, died of blood cancer on October 25, 2026, aged 87, in Kolkata. After a 15-month illness, he had been hospitalized since October 16 and was receiving treatment for complications that included an infection. He died at a private…
Obituary: Chef Damu, dead at age 72
Damodharan Kothandaraman, professionally known as Chef Damu, an Indian celebrity chef and television personality, died October 25, 2026, aged 72. Born in Chennai, he became a familiar presence on Tamil-language television, hosting cooking programs and judging…
Sandra Yanira Martínez Tobar dead at age 66
Sandra Yanira Martínez Tobar, a Salvadoran meteorologist and politician who served as a deputy in the Legislative Assembly, died October 25, 2026, aged 66. Born in San Salvador, she became the first woman to work in El Salvador’s National Meteorological Service, later known as the Environmental Observatory of…
Eric Bauza obituary: died at age 46
Eric Bauza, a Canadian voice actor known for work on Looney Tunes, The Fairly OddParents and Uncle Grandpa, died October 25, 2026, aged 46. Born in Scarborough, Ontario, on December 7, 1979, he attended Cardinal Newman Catholic High School, now St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School, and…
Pete Banaszak has died at age 82
Pete Banaszak, an American football player who was a running back for the Oakland Raiders, died October 24, 2026, aged 82. Born Peter Andrew Banaszak on May 21, 1944, in Crivitz, Wisconsin, he attended Crivitz High School. There, he played football, basketball and track and field and was…
Pius Olakunle Osunyikanmi passed away at age 55
Pius Olakunle Osunyikanmi, a Nigerian civil servant and former director general of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps, died on October 24, 2026, aged 55. Born in Ile Oluji, Ondo State, Nigeria, on August 3, 1971, he studied at Adekunle Ajasin University and was a lawyer. Osunyikanmi led the…
Derrick Harriott obituary: died at age 87
Derrick Harriott, the Jamaican singer and record producer, died October 24, 2026, aged 87. Born in Kingston on February 6, 1939, he was identified by the full name Derrick Clifton Harriott and the honorific OD. His career began in 1958 and continued through 2026, spanning reggae, ska and…
John Cordts obituary: died at age 91
John Cordts, a Canadian racing driver, died October 24, 2026, aged 91. Born July 23, 1935, in Hamburg, Germany, he competed in Formula One and North American sports car racing. His sole Formula One World Championship appearance was the 1969 Canadian Grand Prix, held September 20. Driving a…
Ali Haroun death at age 99
Ali Haroun, an Algerian politician and member of the High Council of State, died October 24, 2026, aged 99. Also known as Mohamed Ali Haroun, he was born on February 8, 1927, in Bir Mourad Raïs, then part of French Algeria. Haroun was a lawyer as well as…
Choi Hyung-woo dies at 91
Choi Hyung-woo, a South Korean politician who served as Minister of Home Affairs from 1993 to 1994, died on October 24, 2026, aged 91. Tags Politicians, 24 October 2026, Choi, Hyung-woo, October 2026, October 24, South Korea
Obituary: Muhammad Shafiqur Rahman, dead at age 77
Muhammad Shafiqur Rahman, a Bangladeshi journalist and Awami League politician who represented Chandpur-4 in parliament, died of a stroke on October 24, 2026, aged 77. Born on September 25, 1949, in Faridganj Upazila, he studied at the University of Dhaka before becoming known in public life as both…
Oleg Breyev died at age 54
Oleg Viktorovich Breyev, a Russian politician and member of the Kursk Oblast Duma, died on October 24, 2026, aged 54. Born on March 12, 1972, in Lachinovo, in Kursk Oblast, he served in the regional legislature from October 8, 2026, until his death. His membership in the Duma…
Barry Murphy, died aged 86
Barry Murphy, the English footballer who played in the Football League for Barnsley, died October 24, 2026, aged 86. Born in Consett on February 10, 1940, he was also known as Laurence Barry Murphy and by the nickname “Spud.” Murphy joined Barnsley from South Shields in 1962 and…
Slavcho Binev passed away at age 60
Slavcho Binev, a Bulgarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament, died aged 60 in Sofia on October 24, 2026, after being shot. Born in Sofia as Slavcho Penchev Binev, he was also known as Slavi Binev and became a prominent figure in Bulgarian politics and sport.…
Death of Gnénéma Coulibaly Mamadou at age 64
Gnénéma Coulibaly Mamadou, an Ivorian politician and magistrate who served as minister of justice from 2012 to 2017, died in Abidjan on October 22, 2026, aged 64. Born…
Leaname Maotoanong passes away at age 35
Leaname Maotoanong, a Motswana Olympic sprinter who competed in the 200 and 400 metres, died October 22, 2026, aged 35. Born May 9, 1991, in Shoshong, Botswana, he…
Ricardo Durán dies at age 88
Ricardo Durán, an Argentine Olympic rower who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics, died on October 22, 2026, aged 88. Born on September 20, 1938, Durán represented Argentina…
Richard Green death at age 58
Richard Green, an English professional footballer, died on October 22, 2026, aged 58. Born in Wolverhampton on November 22, 1967, he was also known as Richard Edward Green.…
Petr Slaný death at age 74
Petr Slaný, a Czech footballer who represented Czechoslovakia, died on October 22, 2026, aged 74. Born in Olomouc on September 1, 1952, he played for Baník Ostrava, Dukla…
Death of Toya Jones at age 49
Toya Jones, an American football player who played for the San Francisco 49ers, Denver Broncos and Houston Texans, died October 22, 2026, aged 49. A defensive back, Jones…
Jorge Veras dead at age 67
Jorge de Souza Veras, the Brazilian footballer known as Jorge Veras, died October 22, 2026, aged 67, following complications from pancreatic cancer. Born in Fortaleza, he played as…
Death of Ron Duguay at age 69
Ron Duguay, the Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played for the New York Rangers, died of colon cancer on October 22, 2026, aged 69. Born Ronald…
Obituary: Kwame Dzokoto, dead at age 51
Kwame Dzokoto, a Ghanaian television personality, comedian, actor and politician, died on October 22, 2026, aged 51. Also known as Seth Kwame Dzokoto, he was associated with the…
Caryle Murphy dies at age 79
Caryle Murphy, an American journalist for The Washington Post, died of pulmonary fibrosis on October 22, 2026, aged 79. Her career included reporting for The Christian Science Monitor…
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji dead at age 93
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, a French physicist and Nobel laureate, died on October 22, 2026, aged 93. Born on April 1, 1933, in Constantine, then part of French Algeria, he…
John Vaughan passes away at age 62
John Vaughan, an English professional footballer and coach who served as Bradford City’s goalkeeping coach, died October 22, 2026, aged 62. Born in Isleworth on June 26, 1964,…
Mélanie Berger-Volle dies at 105
Mélanie Berger-Volle, an Austrian-born French veteran of World War II and member of the French Resistance, died October 22, 2026, aged 105. Born in Vienna, she grew up…
William J. Thorn passed away at age 96
William J. Thorn, an American runner and longtime coach, died October 22, 2026, aged 96. Born William Jackson Thorn on September 4, 1930, he coached football, cross country…
Krishnaraj dies at 75
Krishnaraj, an Indian playback singer, died on October 22, 2026, aged 75. Born in Tamil Nadu on December 25, 1951, he was the son of Varadammal and A.…
Yasuo Fukuda passed away at age 90
Yasuo Fukuda, a Japanese politician who served as prime minister, chief cabinet secretary and member of parliament, died on October 22, 2026, aged 90. Born in Takasaki on…
Yury Tsyhalka passes away at age 43
Yury Tsyhalka, a Belarusian footballer, died on October 22, 2026, aged 43. Born in Minsk on May 27, 1983, he played for Dinamo Minsk and Dinamo Brest, and…
Arlene Lesewski dead at age 90
Arlene Lesewski, an American politician who served in the Minnesota Senate and worked as an insurance agent, died October 22, 2026, aged 90. Born Arlene Julia Dau on…
Death of Nikolay Koshman at age 82
Nikolay Koshman, a Russian politician who served as deputy prime minister from 1999 to 2000, died on October 21, 2026, aged 82. Born on April 5, 1944, in…
Bob “Hoolihan” obituary: died at age 93
Bob "Hoolihan" Wells, an American weatherman, television personality and actor, died of liver cancer on October 21, 2026, aged 93. Born Robert D. Wells in West Point, Nebraska,…
Cornell Green, died aged 86
Cornell Green, an American football player, died October 21, 2026, aged 86. Born Cornell M. Green on February 10, 1940, in Oklahoma City, he was raised in northern…
Tom Skerritt, died aged 93
Tom Skerritt, the American actor and Emmy winner known for Alien and Picket Fences, died October 21, 2026, aged 93. Born Thomas Roy Skerritt in Detroit, he built…
Jan Novák dead at age 79
Jan Novák, the Czech theatre director and educator, died on October 21, 2026, aged 79. Born in Velké Losiny on April 19, 1947, he studied at the Secondary…
Romano Hummel died at age 27
Romano Hummel, a Dutch speedway rider, died by suicide on October 21, 2026, aged 27. Born in the Netherlands on January 4, 1999, he competed internationally in both…
Todd Benzinger dies at age 63
Todd Benzinger, an American baseball player and 1990 World Series champion, died October 21, 2026, aged 63. Born Todd Eric Benzinger in Dayton, Kentucky, on February 11, 1963,…
Georgi Nemsadze dies at age 54
Georgi Nemsadze, a Georgian professional footballer and manager, died of a heart attack in Tbilisi on October 21, 2026, aged 54. Born in Tbilisi on May 10, 1972,…
Death of Timothy Smiley at age 95
Timothy Smiley, the British philosopher, died October 21, 2026, aged 95. Born in London on November 13, 1930, he was educated at Ardwyn Grammar School in Aberystwyth and…
Alexander Sizov passed away at age 78
Alexander Alexandrovich Sizov, a Russian politician who served as a State Duma deputy from 2000 to 2007, died in Yaroslavl on October 21, 2026, aged 78. Born on…
Jan Kříž dies at 51
Jan Kříž, a Czech physicist and university educator, died on October 21, 2026, aged 51. Born in Hradec Králové, he built his academic career at the University of…
Ng Joo Pong dies at 80
Ng Joo Pong, a Malaysian Olympic cyclist, died October 21, 2026, aged 80. Born in Kuala Lumpur on June 19, 1946, he competed for Malaysia on the international…
David Mouradian has died at age 74
David Mouradian, an Armenian philologist, writer and film critic, died on October 21, 2026, aged 74. Born in Yerevan on December 12, 1951, he graduated from Yerevan State…
Ken Ring dies at age 86
Ken Ring, a New Zealand writer and astrologer, died October 21, 2026, aged 86. Born in England during the Second World War, he emigrated with his family to…
Boris Kolar, died aged 94
Boris Kolar, a Croatian film director and animator, died October 21, 2026, aged 94. Born in Zagreb on April 13, 1933, he studied architecture there before beginning his…
Obituary: Jozef Deleu, dead at age 89
Jozef Deleu, the Belgian writer, poet and editor, died October 21, 2026, aged 89. Born in Roeselare, he was also a prose writer, essayist and anthologist, with a…
John Anderson dies at age 71
John Anderson, an American country singer, died October 21, 2026, aged 71, in Smithville, Tennessee. Born John David Anderson in Apopka, Florida, on December 13, 1954, he attended…
Dan Davis passed away at age 84
Dan Davis, an American radio broadcaster known as “The Duke,” died October 21, 2026, aged 84. He spent nearly 30 years in radio, beginning in 1963 at WEMJ…
Şahan Arzruni has died at age 83
Şahan Arzruni, Armenian-Turkish pianist, composer and lecturer, died October 21, 2026, aged 83. Born in Istanbul, he was also described as an Armenian classical pianist, ethnomusicologist, writer and…
Keith Bailey dies at age 65
Keith Bailey, a Canadian professional soccer player whose clubs included Bradford City and the Tampa Bay Rowdies, died October 21, 2026, aged 65. He was born in Toronto,…
Death of John M. Geddes at age 74
John M. Geddes, an American journalist and editor at The New York Times, died of lung disease on October 20, 2026, aged 74. Born in Providence, Geddes graduated…
Obituary: Julio Dalmao, dead at age 86
Julio Dalmao, a Uruguayan footballer who played for Nacional, Vélez Sarsfield and Uruguay’s national team, died October 20, 2026, aged 86. Born in Montevideo on March 1, 1940,…
Alex Sanders died at age 88
Alexander Mullings Sanders Jr., an American jurist, politician and academic administrator, died October 20, 2026, aged 88. Born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, he served in the…
Michael Joseph Melloy death at age 78
Michael Joseph Melloy, an American jurist who served as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, died of cancer on October 20, 2026,…
Manuel Otto obituary: died at age 30
Manuel Otto, a German game developer known for Stick Run, died by suicide on October 20, 2026, aged 30. He developed Stick Run, a free-to-play jump-and-run game that…
Paul Barril has died at age 80
Paul Barril, a French military officer and former National Gendarmerie officer, died on October 20, 2026, aged 80. Born on April 13, 1946, in Vinay, he studied at…
Manuel Otto obituary: died at age 30
Manuel Otto, a German video game developer who created Stick Run, died by suicide on October 20, 2026, aged 30. Born on July 18, 1996, Otto was a…
Sir Philip Otton, died aged 93
Sir Philip Otton, the British judge who served as a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1995 to 2001, died October 20, 2026, aged 93. Born on 28 May…
Mehdi Khanbaba Tehrani obituary: died at age 92
Mehdi Khanbaba Tehrani, an Iranian politician, died on October 20, 2026, aged 92. A political and media activist who lived in Europe, Tehrani became involved in politics during…
Eva Ngigi–Sarwari passed away at age 45
Eva Ngigi–Sarwari, a Kenyan financial services executive, died October 20, 2026, aged 45. Born in Kenya in 1981, she was born Eva Ngigi. She graduated from Moi University…
Allen Bailey death at age 37
Allen Bailey, an American football player who played defensive end in the NFL, died October 20, 2026, aged 37. Born March 25, 1989, on Sapelo Island, Georgia, he…
Early Voting dies at age 7
Early Voting, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, died of colic on October 20, 2026, aged 7. Born on March 7, 2019, and bred in Kentucky by Three Chimneys Farm,…
Antonio Grimau death at age 82
Antonio Grimau, an Argentinian actor whose career spanned film, theater and television, died October 20, 2026, aged 82. Born Antonio Rebolini in Lanús, Buenos Aires province, on March…
Kalju Kruusa dies at 53
Kalju Kruusa, the Estonian poet, editor and translator, died October 20, 2026, aged 53. Born Jaanus Valk in Tallinn on October 10, 1973, he became known by the…
Rajaa Mohammed has died at age 64
Rajaa Mohammed, the Kuwaiti actress and singer, died on October 20, 2026, aged 64. Born Raja Mohammed Saleem on October 4, 1962, she began her artistic career in…
Sergey Kucherov obituary: died at age 46
Sergey Kucherov, a Russian track cyclist who competed for his country in the men’s team sprint at two Summer Olympics, died on October 20, 2026, aged 46. Born…
Noah Musingku, died aged 61
Noah Musingku, a Papuan con artist and fugitive, died October 20, 2026, aged 61. Born in 1964 in Tonu on Bougainville Island, he became known for U-Vistract, a…
Obituary: Oleg Garin, dead at age 60
Oleg Garin, the Russian footballer and manager associated with Okean Nakhodka and Lokomotiv Moscow as a player and Dynamo Bryansk as a manager, died October 20, 2026, aged…
Gordon Cheng, died aged 64
Gordon Cheng, an Australian Christian writer and journalist, died October 20, 2026, aged 64. He studied at the University of Sydney and the Australian University of Theology. Of…
William Reaves has died at age 77
William Reaves, an American convicted murderer, was executed by lethal injection on October 20, 2026, at age 77. His conviction was connected to the 1986 killing of Richard…