Jimmy Cricket obituary: died at age 80
Jimmy Cricket, the Irish comedian born James Mulgrew, died on August 3, 2026, aged 80. Born in Cookstown in 1945, he came to prominence in the 1970s and went on…
Who Died in August 2026?
Who died in August 2026? Over 800 obituaries from that month — notable deaths, news, info and memorial pages.
Júlio Duarte Langa obituary: died at age 98
Júlio Duarte Langa, the Mozambican Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop of Xai-Xai, died on August 3, 2026, aged 98. Born in Xai-Xai, then in Portuguese Mozambique, on October 27, 1927,…
Hatsuo Royama dead at age 78
Hatsuo Royama, a Japanese karate practitioner, died on August 3, 2026, aged 78. Born on March 31, 1948, in Yagō, he was also known by his Korean name, Noh Cho…
John Wannenburgh dead, John Wannenburgh, Manx politician
John Wannenburgh, a Manx politician, died on August 3, 2026. He represented Douglas North in the House of Keys from 2021 until his death, having been elected at the 2021…
Death of Iván Szelényi at age 88
Iván Szelényi, the Hungarian-American sociologist and university teacher who became a leading figure in the study of social and economic change, died on August 3, 2026, aged 88. Born in…
Ruslan Taramov obituary: died at age 65
Ruslan Taramov, the Russian Olympic boxer who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, died on August 3, 2026, aged 65. Born on July 13, 1965, in Grozny, then in the…
Sir Anthony Kenny dies at age 95
Sir Anthony Kenny, the British philosopher known for work in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of religion and Wittgenstein studies, died on August 3, 2026,…
Kayo Sumi death at age 94
Kayo Sumi, a Japanese actress, died on August 3, 2026, aged 94. No additional biographical details were provided in the available record, and the notice supplied for this name is…
Paras Chandra Jain dies at age 77
Paras Chandra Jain, an Indian politician and former Madhya Pradesh legislator, died on August 3, 2026, aged 77. A Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Ujjain, he represented the Ujjain North…
Vic Matthews passed away at age 92
Vic Matthews, the British hurdler and decathlete also known as Victor Charles Matthews, died on August 3, 2026, aged 92. Born in Motspur Park, London, he competed at the 1960…
Joseph Katema dies at age 64
Joseph Katema, a Zambian politician and general medical practitioner, died on August 2, 2026, aged 64. Born on 20 November 1961 in Northern Rhodesia, he served as a member of…
Anbar Saeed died at age 67
Anbar Saeed, the Kuwaiti footballer who was a forward and one of the most celebrated figures in Kuwait’s game, died on August 2, 2026, at age 67. Known for his…
David Z passes away at age 78
David Z, the American record producer and musician known for his work on “She Drives Me Crazy” and “Looking for a New Love,” died on August 2, 2026, aged 78.…
Obituary: Monika Helfer, dead at age 78
Monika Helfer, the Austrian writer, died on August 2, 2026, aged 78. Born in Au on October 18, 1947, she became one of Austria’s noted literary voices and was invested…
Rick Sapienza passes away at age 90
Rick Sapienza, an American football player who was a defensive back for the New York Titans, died on August 2, 2026, at age 90. Born Americo Sapienza in Boston, he…
Janet Howell dies at age 82
Janet Howell, the American politician who served in the Virginia Senate for more than three decades, died on August 2, 2026, aged 82. A Democrat, Howell was elected to the…
Obituary: Paul Bradshaw, dead at age 72
Paul Bradshaw, the English footballer who played for Burnley and Sheffield Wednesday, died on August 2, 2026, aged 72. Born in Sheffield on 2 October 1953, he came through the…
Manmohan Singh Liberhan passes away at age 88
Manmohan Singh Liberhan, an Indian judge and justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, died on August 2, 2026, aged 88. A retired chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High…
Alberto Tedesco passes away at age 77
Alberto Tedesco, an Italian politician and business executive who served as a senator from 2009 to 2013, died on August 2, 2026, aged 77. Born in Bari on April 8,…
Ioannis Varvitsiotis has died at age 93
Ioannis Varvitsiotis, the Greek politician who served as minister of defence and a member of parliament, died on August 2, 2026, aged 93. Born in Athens on August 2, 1933,…
Margot Eppinger obituary: died at age 72
Margot Eppinger, the German Olympic pentathlete who competed in the women’s pentathlon at two Summer Games, died on August 2, 2026, aged 72. Born on January 8, 1952, in Denkendorf,…
Fernando d’Alessio has died at age 82
Fernando d'Alessio, a Peruvian politician and university administrator, died on August 2, 2026, aged 82. Born Fernando Antonio d'Alessio Ipinza in Lima on March 25, 1944, he was an independent…
Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi dead at age 31
Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi, a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse, died on August 2, 2026, aged 31. Foaled on April 6, 1995, in the Saru district, he was a son of Symboli Rudolf and…
Death of Sepp Puschnig at age 79
Sepp Puschnig, the Austrian Olympic ice hockey player who represented his country at three Winter Games, died on August 2, 2026, aged 79. Born Josef Puschnig in Klagenfurt, Austria, on…
Romeo Jalosjos Sr. dies at age 85
Romeo Jalosjos Sr., a Filipino politician and businessman who served in the House of Representatives from 1995 to 2002, died on August 2, 2026, aged 85. Known also as Romeo…
Rod Liddle death at age 66
Rod Liddle, the English journalist and broadcaster, died on August 2, 2026, aged 66. Born in Abbey Wood on April 1, 1960, he worked at the BBC and became editor…
Farrokh Saidi has died at age 96
Farrokh Saidi, an Iranian surgeon and academic, died on August 2, 2026, aged 96. Born in Tehran on November 22, 1929, he studied at Cornell University from 1947 to 1950…
Anbar Said died at age 67
Anbar Said, a Kuwaiti footballer who played as a forward, died on August 2, 2026, aged 67, after a traffic collision. Born in Iraq in 1959, Said joined Al-Arabi in…
Death of Michael Fingleton at age 88
Michael Fingleton, the retired chief executive of Irish Nationwide Building Society, died on August 2, 2026, aged 88. An Irish banker known in the banking community as “Fingers,” he was…
Anbar Saeed died at age 67
Anbar Saeed, a Kuwaiti footballer who played as a forward, died on August 2, 2026, aged 67, after a traffic collision. Saeed, whose full name was Anbar Saeed Maqroun, represented…
Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi dead at age 31
Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi, a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse, died on August 2, 2026, aged 31. Foaled on April 6, 1995, in Saru district, he was a son of Symboli Rudolf and later…
Agostino Superbo dies at 86
Agostino Superbo, an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Sessa Aurunca and of Altamura-Gravina-Acquaviva delle Fonti and later as archbishop of Potenza–Muro Lucano–Marsico Nuovo, died on August…
Valeriy Tursunov passed away at age 71
Valeriy Tursunov, a Tajikistani football player and manager, died on August 2, 2026, aged 71. Also known as Valeriy Yuldashevich Tursunov, he was born in Kulob on August 3, 1954,…
Bill Goichberg died at age 83
Bill Goichberg, an American chess player, died on August 2, 2026, at age 83. Widely known in chess circles as both a master and a tournament organizer, he founded the…
Franz Hasiba dead at age 93
Franz Hasiba, the Austrian politician who served as mayor of Graz, deputy governor of Styria and a member of the Landtag of Styria, died on August 2, 2026, aged 93.…
Kay Granger has died at age 83
Kay Granger, the American politician who represented Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 to 2025, died on August 2, 2026, at age 83. A Republican, she chaired…
Obituary: Bagre Fagundes, dead at age 86
Bagre Fagundes, the Brazilian gaucho musician known as Euclides Fagundes Filho, died on August 2, 2026, aged 86. Born in Uruguaiana on October 3, 1939, he was described as a…
Death of Sir Anthony Evans at age 92
Sir Anthony Evans, British judge and lord justice of appeal from 1992 to 2000, died on August 2, 2026, aged 92. Known also as Sir Anthony Howell Meurig Evans, he…
Vivienne Binns dead at age 85
Vivienne Binns, the Australian artist who played a significant role in the Women’s Art Movement in Australia and in feminist and community arts practice, died on August 1, 2026, aged…
Vincent Pastore dies at 80
Vincent Pastore, the American actor best known for playing Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s The Sopranos, died on August 1, 2026, aged 80. Born in New York City on…
Marcel J. Mélançon, died aged 88
Marcel J. Mélançon, a Canadian bioethicist and academic, died on August 1, 2026, at age 88. Born in Saint-Barnabé-Nord on April 3, 1938, he was also known as Marcel Melançon…
Nariman Hasanzade passed away at age 95
Nariman Hasanzade, the Azerbaijani poet and playwright, died on August 1, 2026, aged 95. Born Nariman Alimammad oglu Hasanzade on February 18, 1931, in Poylu, he was educated at Baku…
Death of Thottam Rajasekharan at age 95
Thottam Rajasekharan, an Indian writer, died on August 1, 2026, aged 95. Born in Thiruvananthapuram on September 24, 1930, he was known as a Malayalam writer and was active from…
Francisco Mora dies at age 74
Francisco Mora, a Cuban Olympic rower, died on August 1, 2026, aged 74. Known also as Francisco Mora Molina, he was born on July 30, 1952, and competed for Cuba…
Monty Roberts dies at 91
Monty Roberts, the American horse trainer and author who promoted natural horsemanship through his Join-Up International organization, died on August 1, 2026, aged 91. Born Marvin Earl Roberts in Salinas,…
Grzegorz Lipowski, died aged 90
Grzegorz Lipowski, a Polish engineer and politician, died on August 1, 2026, aged 90. A member of the Democratic Left Alliance, he served as voivode of Częstochowa from 1980 to…
Death of Natalia Dontcheva at age 57
Natalia Dontcheva, the Bulgarian actress known for her roles in Lady J, Sashinka and A Man and His Dog, died on August 1, 2026, at age 57. Born in Sofia…
Rom Kostřica, died aged 77
Rom Kostřica, a Czech professor of otorhinolaryngology and former member of the Czech parliament, died on August 1, 2026, aged 77. Born in Brno on March 13, 1949, he studied…
Can Kolukısa dead at age 92
Can Kolukısa, a Turkish actor known for roles in Züğürt Ağa, King of the Doormen and Selamsız Bandosu, died on August 1, 2026, aged 92. Born in Eskişehir on May…
Jonathan Leo Fairbanks death at age 93
Jonathan Leo Fairbanks, an American art curator and artist, died on August 1, 2026, at age 93. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on February 19, 1933, he became an authority…
Igor Yerusalimov dead, Igor Yerusalimov, Russian army officer
Igor Yerusalimov, a Russian army officer who served as head of the Western Military District Headquarters from 2020 to 2024, died on August 1, 2026. Known in full as Igor…
Fred Hoaglin death at age 82
Fred Hoaglin, an American football player and coach, died on August 1, 2026, aged 82. A native of Alliance, Ohio, he was born George Frederick Hoaglin on January 28, 1944,…
Line Bareiro death at age 75
Line Bareiro, the Paraguayan political scientist, died on August 1, 2026, aged 75. Born in Asunción on August 30, 1950, she became known as a political scientist, lawyer and human…
Nariman Hasanzade passed away at age 95
Nariman Hasanzade, the Azerbaijani poet, died on August 1, 2026, aged 95. Born Nəriman Əliməmməd oğlu Həsənzadə on February 18, 1931, in Poylu in Qazakh district, he was also known…
Kath Pettingill passed away at age 91
Kath Pettingill, the former brothel owner and matriarch of the Melbourne criminal Pettingill family, died on August 1, 2026, aged 91. Born Kathleen Pettingill on March 27, 1935, she was…
Lou Sekora dies at 94
Lou Sekora, a Canadian politician, died on August 1, 2026, aged 94. Born in Hafford, Saskatchewan, Sekora entered civic politics in Coquitlam, British Columbia, winning election to city council in…
Malik Muhammad Iqbal Channar, died aged 76
Malik Muhammad Iqbal Channar, a Pakistani politician and member of the National Assembly, died on August 1, 2026, aged 76, from complications from a brain hemorrhage. He represented Bahawalpur-born political…
Sam Nusum dead at age 82
Sam Nusum, a Bermudian soccer player who played as a goalkeeper, died on August 1, 2026, aged 82. Born in Bermuda on October 3, 1943, he represented his country at…
Gonzalo Díaz Beitia passed away at age 89
Gonzalo Díaz Beitia died on August 1, 2026, aged 89. He was a Spanish footballer. No further details about his career or personal life were provided in the available record.…
Obituary: Philip Ruppe, dead at age 99
Philip Ruppe, an American politician who represented Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1979, died on August 1, 2026, aged 99. Born Philip Edward Ruppe in…
Ulla Flegel died at age 86
Ulla Flegel, the Austrian athlete who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics, died on August 1, 2026, aged 86. Born in Linz on October 22, 1939, she was a pentathlete,…
Marijke Moser passed away at age 79
Marijke Moser, the Dutch-born Swiss Olympic runner who became a respected middle- and long-distance athlete, died on August 1, 2026, aged 79. Born Marijke Van de Graaf in the Netherlands…
Ryotaro Shimizu passes away at age 37
Ryotaro Shimizu, a Japanese actor and impressionist, died on August 1, 2026, at age 37. Born in Tokyo on August 15, 1988, he began his career in 2006 after enrolling…
Beitia obituary: died at age 89
Beitia, the Spanish footballer known as Gonzalo Díaz Beitia, died on August 1, 2026, aged 89. A forward who played in Spanish football from 1955 to 1967, he was born…
Alexeis Argilagos death at age 51
Alexeis Argilagos, a Cuban volleyball player and member of the country’s men’s national team, died on August 1, 2026, aged 51. He represented Cuba at the 2000 Summer Olympics in…
Vicente Quirarte, died aged 72
Vicente Quirarte, a Mexican writer and academic, died on August 11, 2026, aged 72. Born Vicente Quirarte Castañeda in Mexico City on July 19, 1954, he wrote poetry, theatre and…