Wai Kee-shun dies at 92
Wai Kee-shun, a Hong Kong newspaper proprietor, businessman, publisher and sports commentator, died on February 11, 2026. Born on March 8, 1933, he was educated at New Method College and…
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Who died in February 2026? Over 900 obituaries from that month — notable deaths, news, info and memorial pages.
Cees Nooteboom died at age 92
Cees Nooteboom, the Dutch novelist, poet and journalist, died on February 11, 2026, at age 92. Born Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom on July 31, 1933, in The Hague, Netherlands,…
William Nyhan dies at 99
William Leo Nyhan, an American physician and co-discoverer of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, died on February 11, 2026, at age 99. Born in Boston on March 13, 1926, he later served as…
Alfio Rapisarda death at age 92
Alfio Rapisarda, an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, died on February 11, 2026, at age 92. Born in Zafferana Etnea, in the province of Catania, Italy, on September 3, 1933, he…
Death of Nico de Haan at age 78
Nico de Haan, a Dutch birdwatcher and television presenter, died on February 11, 2026. He was a Dutch conservationist, writer and radio and television presenter known for popularising birdwatching in…
Jenő Murádin died at age 88
Jenő Murádin, a Romanian art historian and academic, died on February 11, 2026. Born on November 23, 1937, in Călărași, Turda County, Romania, he was an ethnic Hungarian and a…
Death of Peter Meyer at age 85
Peter Meyer, a German footballer who played as a striker, died on February 11, 2026. Born on 18 February 1940, he spent eight seasons in the Bundesliga with Fortuna Düsseldorf…
Bud Cort dies at age 77
Bud Cort, the American actor best known for his role in "Harold and Maude," died on February 11, 2026, at age 77. Born Walter Edward Cox in Rye, New York,…
Christoph Luitpold Frommel has died at age 92
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, a German art historian, died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in Heidelberg on September 25, 1933, he studied at the Ludwig Maximilian…
Marc van Belkum died at age 61
Marc van Belkum, a Dutch water polo player, died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 61. Born in Leiden in 1965, he competed for the Netherlands at the…
Jocelyn Wardrop-Moore passed away at age 93
Jocelyn Wardrop-Moore, a British Olympic alpine skier, died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, on April 29, 1932, she competed in two…
James Van Der Beek passed away at age 48
James Van Der Beek, an American actor known for his role as Dawson Leery on "Dawson’s Creek," died on February 11, 2026, at age 48. Born on March 8, 1977,…
Dean G. Auten dies at age 88
Dean G. Auten, an American politician, died on February 11, 2026, at age 88. Born in Gaston County, North Carolina, on September 6, 1937, he attended Appalachian State Teachers College.…
Death of Qallibek Kamolov at age 99
Qallibek Kamolov, an Uzbek politician, died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 99. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and served as…
Michael Proctor obituary: died at age 58
Michael Proctor, an American football player and quarterback in the Arena Football League, World League of American Football and Canadian Football League, died on February 11, 2026. Nicknamed "the General,"…
Yesen Taskynbayev has died at age 93
Yesen Taskynbayev, a Kazakh oil refiner and politician, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 93. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he served…
Ed Crane passes away at age 81
Edward Harrison Crane, an American libertarian activist and co-founder of the Cato Institute, died on February 10, 2026, at age 81. Crane served as the institute’s president until October 2012.…
András Riedlmayer dies at 79
András Riedlmayer, a Hungarian-born American art historian and librarian, died on February 10, 2026. Born in Budapest in 1947, he studied at the University of Chicago and at Princeton University,…
Anne Gambrill dies at age 91
Anne Gambrill, a New Zealand lawyer and judge, died on February 10, 2026, aged 91. Born Anne Gertrude Shorland in Wellington in 1934, she was the first woman to sit…
Pekka Vennamo has died at age 81
Pekka Vennamo, a Finnish politician and corporate executive, died on February 10, 2026. He led the Finnish Rural Party from 1979 to 1989 and served in the Parliament of Finland…
Des de Moor dies at age 64
Des de Moor, English writer, singer, musician and songwriter, died on February 10, 2026. In 1987, he formed The Irresistible Force with Morris Gould, also known as Mixmaster Morris. Among…
Femke Boersma dies at 90
Femke Boersma, the Dutch actress known for her role in Het Wonderlijke leven van Willem Parel, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Amsterdam on…
Ed Crane passes away at age 81
Ed Crane, an American libertarian activist and co-founder of the Cato Institute, died on February 10, 2026. He was 81. Crane, whose full name was Edward Harrison Crane, served as…
Janken Varden death at age 87
Janken Varden, the Norwegian theatre director associated with Oslo Nye Teater, died on February 10, 2026. Born in Oslo on 6 April 1938, he was a graduate of the University…
Lina Brockdorff passes away at age 95
Lina Brockdorff, a Maltese author, playwright and radio broadcaster, died on February 10, 2026. She was born in Senglea on May 21, 1930, to Patrick and Mary Mahoney. Her early…
Takamitsu Muraoka passed away at age 88
Takamitsu Muraoka, a Japanese linguist and Semitist, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 88. He was Chair of Hebrew, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University in…
Matz Skoog died at age 68
Matz Skoog, the Swedish ballet dancer and artistic director, died on February 10, 2026. Born in Stockholm on April 10, 1957, he trained with the Royal Swedish Ballet School. He…
Eve Uusmees dies at 89
Eve Uusmees, the Estonian Olympic swimmer, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Tallinn in 1936, she was an Estonian breaststroke swimmer who won silver…
Antonio Mereu died at age 83
Antonio Mereu, an Italian politician, died on February 10, 2026, in Carbonia, Italy, at the age of 83. A member of the Union of the Centre, he served in the…
Obituary: Nambatingue Toko, dead at age 73
Nambatingue Toko, a Chadian footballer, died on February 10, 2026. Nambatingue Tokomon Dieudonné, known as Nambatingue Toko, was a professional striker who spent his entire career in France. Born in…
Abdul Mannan Khan passed away at age 73
Abdul Mannan Khan, a Bangladeshi politician and former state minister of housing and public works, died on February 10, 2026, in Dhaka at the age of 73. Born on June…
Shutaro Iida died at age 52
Shutaro Iida, a Japanese video game programmer, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 52. He was born on March 11, 1973, and worked at Konami from 1996…
Obituary: Serge Stresser, dead at age 72
Serge Stresser, a French Olympic weightlifter, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 72. Born in Haguenau, France, on September 28, 1953, he competed in the men's bantamweight…
Jose de Venecia Jr. dead at age 89
Jose de Venecia Jr., a Filipino politician and journalist who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of…
Iosif Szakács has died at age 92
Iosif Szakács, the Romanian footballer and manager known as Iosif Szakács I, died on February 10, 2026. He grew up in Șimleu Silvaniei and later played for Flamura Roșie Arad,…
Andrew Ranken passed away at age 72
Andrew Ranken, an English drummer best known for his work with the Pogues, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 72. Born in London on November 13, 1953,…
Tessa Richards death at age 75
Tessa Richards, a British physician, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 75. Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, on July 30, 1950, she studied at Bruton School…
Mehmed Emîn Bozarslan, died aged 91
Mehmed Emîn Bozarslan, a Turkish-Swedish Kurdish writer and translator, died on February 10, 2026. Born in Diyarbakır in south-eastern Turkey on 15 September 1934, he moved to Sweden as a…
Obituary: Mark Smith, dead at age 51
Mark Smith, an American football player who played defensive tackle in the National Football League and for the Arizona Cardinals, died on February 10, 2026, at age 51. Born in…
Marie-Rose Tessier death at age 115
Marie-Rose Tessier, a French supercentenarian, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 115. Born Marie-Rose Bousseau on May 21, 1910, in Beaurepaire, Vendée, she lived in France and,…
Shelly Desai obituary: died at age 90
Shelly Desai, an Indian-born American actor best known for his work in "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "Men of a Certain Age," died on February 10, 2026, in Los…
Selwyn Cushing dies at 89
Selwyn Cushing, a New Zealand businessman and accountant, died on February 10, 2026, aged 89. Sir Selwyn John Cushing was born in Hastings on 1 September 1936 and was educated…
Júlio Soares de Moura Neto died at age 82
Júlio Soares de Moura Neto, a Brazilian naval officer who served as commander of the Navy from 2007 to 2015, died on February 10, 2026. He was born in Rio…
King T. Leatherbury passed away at age 92
King T. Leatherbury, an American racehorse trainer, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 92. Born King Taylor Leatherbury on March 26, 1933, in Shady Side, Maryland, he…
Vasco Ascolini death at age 88
Vasco Ascolini, an Italian photographer, died on February 10, 2026, in Reggio Emilia, Italy, at the age of 88. Born in Reggio Emilia on May 10, 1937, he worked as…
Obituary: James Manclark, dead at age 86
James William McKinnon Manclark, a British luger who competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 86. Born in Peebles, Scotland, on December…
Natalia Omelchuk passed away at age 78
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Death of Beka Gotsiridze at age 37
Beka Gotsiridze, a Georgian footballer who played as a forward, died on February 9, 2026. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union, on February 21, 1988. Gotsiridze began…
Death of Genrikh Padva at age 94
Genrikh Padva, a Russian advocate, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 94. Born in Moscow on February 20, 1931, he graduated from the Moscow Law Institute in…
Jim Robson dead at age 91
Jim Robson, a Canadian sportscaster and broadcaster best known for his long run as the Vancouver Canucks' play-by-play announcer, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 91. Born…
Obituary: Charles Bailleul, dead at age 98
Charles Bailleul, a French linguist and Roman Catholic missionary with the White Fathers, died on February 9, 2026, in Bry-sur-Marne, France, at the age of 98. Born in Lille on…
Seshagiri Mallampati passed away at age 85
Seshagiri Mallampati, an Indian anesthesiologist best known for proposing the Mallampati score, died on February 9, 2026. He was 85. Mallampati introduced the eponymous score in 1985 as a non-invasive…
Phil Krueger obituary: died at age 74
Phil Krueger, an American racing driver, died on February 9, 2026. Phillip Eugene Krueger competed in the CART Indy car series over nine seasons from 1981 to 1986, in 1988…
Victor Sarusi dead at age 81
Victor Sarusi died on February 9, 2026. He was an Israeli footballer who played for Maccabi Netanya. No further details about his death were provided. Victor Sarusi (Hebrew: ויקטור סרוסי;…
Lynton Wilson dead at age 85
Lynton Wilson, a Canadian businessman, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 85. Lynton Ronald "Red" Wilson was a Canadian business executive who served as chairman of the…
Eldon Lautermilch death at age 76
Eldon Lautermilch, a Canadian politician, died on February 9, 2026, at age 76. He was a Saskatchewan New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for Prince Albert…
Chris Gilbert has died at age 79
Chris Gilbert, an American college football player for the Texas Longhorns, died on February 9, 2026, at age 79. Born in Houston, Texas, in 1946, he ran for 3,231 yards…
Don Nigro dead at age 76
Don Nigro, an American playwright, died on February 9, 2026. Born on September 30, 1949, in Canton, Ohio, he wrote plays including Anima Mundi and The Dark Sonnets of the…
Gail R. Martin has died at age 81
Gail R. Martin, an American biologist, died on February 9, 2026. She was known for her pioneering work on the isolation of pluripotent stem cells from normal embryos, for which…
Antonino Zichichi died at age 96
Antonino Zichichi, an Italian physicist, died on February 9, 2026. He worked in nuclear physics and served as president of the World Federation of Scientists and as a professor at…
Eddy Antoine, died aged 76
Eddy Antoine, a Haitian footballer, died on February 9, 2026. He played as a midfielder and represented the Haiti national team at international level. Antoine also played for Racing CH…
Philippe Gaulier passed away at age 82
Philippe Gaulier, the French clown, died on February 9, 2026. He was a professor of theatre, dramatic theorist, pedagogue and master clown, and founded École Philippe Gaulier, a theatre school…
Giancarlo Dettori passed away at age 93
Giancarlo Dettori, the Italian actor, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 93. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1957 onward and was mainly a theatrical…
Riccardo Fontana passes away at age 79
Riccardo Fontana, the Italian bishop who served as Archbishop-Bishop of the Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Forte dei Marmi, Tuscany,…
Fazail Agamali obituary: died at age 78
Fazail Agamali, an Azerbaijani politician, historian and professor, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 78. He was the founding leader of the Motherland Party, serving in that…
Teresa de Lauretis, died aged 87
Teresa de Lauretis, an Italian activist, author and academic, died on February 9, 2026. She was a Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California,…
Enrico Benzing, died aged 93
Enrico Benzing, the Italian journalist and engineer, died on February 9, 2026. He was 93. Benzing wrote for La Gazzetta dello Sport as motoring editor and Formula One race reporter,…
Garland Green has died at age 83
Garland Green, an American soul singer and pianist, died on February 9, 2026. Born Garfield Green Jr. on June 14, 1942, in Dunleith, Mississippi, he was the tenth of 11…
Franz Ceska passes away at age 90
Franz Ceska, an Austrian diplomat, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Vienna on January 31, 1936, he studied law at the University of Vienna,…
Gary Blaylock obituary: died at age 94
Gary Blaylock, an American baseball player and right-handed pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees, died on February 9, 2026. Born Gary Nelson Blaylock in…
Death of Jesús Guillera at age 70
Jesús Guillera, a Spanish mathematician, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 70. He specialized in number theory and was best known for his work on Ramanujan-type series…
Assad Ali died at age 88
Assad Ali, a Syrian literary critic and academic, died on February 9, 2026. He was a professor of Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, a prolific writer of contemporary…
Tracy Scroggins dies at age 56
Tracy Scroggins, an American football player who spent his entire 10-year career with the Detroit Lions, died on February 9, 2026, at age 56. Scroggins played as a defensive end…
Obituary: Koit Pikaro, dead at age 76
Koit Pikaro, an Estonian politician, died on February 9, 2026. Koit Pikaro (13 August 1949 – 7 February 2026) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of the IX…
William Flatt passes away at age 94
William Perry Flatt, an American animal and nutritional scientist, died on February 9, 2026. He was 94. Born in Newbern, Tennessee, on June 17, 1931, he was the son of…
Terry L. Fields obituary: died at age 66
Terry L. Fields, an American politician, died on February 8, 2026, at the age of 66. A Democrat, he served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008,…
David Federman, died aged 81
David Federman, an Israeli stockbroker and basketball club owner, died on February 8, 2026. Born in Tel Aviv on September 24, 1944, he was known for his business career, including…
Edward Linde-Lubaszenko dies at 86
Edward Linde-Lubaszenko, a Polish actor, died on February 8, 2026, at the age of 86. Over a career spanning more than five decades, he was known for distinctive character roles…
Obituary: Tadao Yasuda, dead at age 62
Tadao Yasuda, a Japanese rikishi and professional wrestler who competed in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, died on February 8, 2026, at age 62. Born in Tokyo on October 9, 1963, he…
Blake Garrett passes away at age 33
Blake Garrett, an American actor, died on February 8, 2026, at age 33. Born Nolan Blake Garrett on September 14, 1992, in Austin, Texas, he was an American film and…
Kirk Francis passes away at age 78
Kirk Francis, an American sound engineer, died on February 8, 2026, at the age of 78. He won the Academy Award for sound on The Bourne Ultimatum in 2008 and…
Eli Alaluf has died at age 80
Eli Alaluf, an Israeli politician, died on February 8, 2026, at the age of 80. Born in Fes, Morocco, on February 17, 1945, he immigrated to Israel in 1967. He…
Lynn Bolles, died aged 76
Augusta Lynn Bolles, an American anthropologist, died on February 8, 2026. She was 76. Bolles was professor emerita of women’s studies and affiliate faculty in anthropology, African American studies, American…
Death of Tadamasa Goto at age 83
Tadamasa Goto, a Japanese crime boss and yakuza, died on February 8, 2026. He was the founding head of the Goto-gumi, a Fujinomiya-based affiliate of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest yakuza…
Eric Allan passed away at age 85
Eric Allan, a British actor, died on February 8, 2026, aged 85. Born David Eric Allan in Tidworth, Wiltshire, England, on March 8, 1940, he moved with his family to…
Chen Bangzhu passes away at age 91
Chen Bangzhu, a Chinese politician who served as governor of Hunan from 1989 to 1994 and as chairman of the Committee of Population, Resources and Environment from 2000 to 2008,…
Jung Jin-woo died at age 88
Jung Jin-woo, a South Korean film director and producer, died on February 8, 2026. He was 88. Jung made his directorial debut with The Only Son in 1963, at age…
Hannah Henry passes away at age 26
Hannah Henry, a Canadian triathlete, died on February 8, 2026, at age 26. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, on October 27, 1999, she began competing in triathlon at age 9…
Erkki Nghimtina passes away at age 77
Erkki Nghimtina, a Namibian politician and military officer, died on February 8, 2026. A member of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), he served in the National Assembly of…
Franco Nuovo, died aged 72
Franco Nuovo, a Canadian journalist and television presenter, died on February 8, 2026, in Montreal at the age of 72 from cardiac arrest. Born in Montreal on September 11, 1953,…
Kazimierz Wielikosielec passes away at age 80
Kazimierz Wielikosielec, a Belarusian Roman Catholic prelate, died on February 8, 2026. He was 80. Born in Staravolia in the Byelorussian SSR, he was a Dominican who studied at the…
Agus Widjojo dies at age 78
Agus Widjojo, an Indonesian military officer and diplomat, died on February 8, 2026, in Jakarta at the age of 78. He was vice chairman of the People’s Consultative Assembly of…
Obituary: Giulio Lepschy, dead at age 91
Giulio Lepschy, an Italian linguist and academic, died on February 8, 2026, aged 91. Born in Venice in 1935, he studied at the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale…
Obituary: Dave Ellis, dead at age 88
Dave Ellis, a Canadian long-distance runner who competed in the men's 5000 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics, died on February 8, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in…
Owen Donohoe dies at 80
Owen Donohoe, an American politician from Kansas who served as a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, died on February 8, 2026, at age 80. He represented the…
Jon Kudelka death at age 53
Jon Kudelka, an Australian cartoonist, died on February 8, 2026, in Hobart, Tasmania, at the age of 53. Born in Burnie, Tasmania, on February 22, 1972, he was an editorial…
Jorge Babu, died aged 60
Jorge Luis Hauat, known as Jorge Babu, a Brazilian politician, died on February 8, 2026, in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 60. He served in the Legislative Assembly…
Ernest Morrell dies at age 54
Ernest Morrell, an American scholar and music executive, died on February 8, 2026. He was an academic in English and Africana Studies and, in 2024, served as the Coyle Professor…
Obituary: Patrizia De Blanck, dead at age 89
Patrizia De Blanck, the Italian television personality and socialite, died on February 8, 2026, in Rome, Italy, at the age of 85. Born in Rome on November 9, 1940, she…