Bob Taylor
Australian footballer (Essendon) · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Deaths Died in January 2026
Stu Tate
American baseball player (San Francisco Giants) · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Stephen Baxter
56–57 · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other
Phillip Boudreault
Canadian boxer and outlaw biker · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Justin Taylor
New Zealand priest and historian · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
M Hafizuddin Khan
Bangladeshi bureaucrat · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other · Khan
Georg Winter
German businessman and environmentalist · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other
Thadeu Gomes Canellas
Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Canellas · Other
Haldun Dormen
Turkish theater · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other
Colette Flesch
Luxembourgish Olympic fencer and politician · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Kamal Roy
Indian actor (Yuvajanotsavam · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
M. Hafizuddin Khan Economist, political analyst dead at age 89
M. Hafizuddin Khan, a Bangladeshi bureaucrat and former 6th comptroller and auditor general of Bangladesh, died on January 21, 2026. Born in 1936 or 1937 in Sirajganj, Bengal Province, British India, he earned a B.A. and M.A. in political science… · 21 January 2026 · January 2026
Freddy Ehrström Finnish Olympic sailor dead at age 100
Freddy Ehrström, a Finnish Olympic sailor, died on January 21, 2026. Born Fredrik August Ehrström on August 29, 1925, in Helsinki, Finland, he competed in the Star event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He also worked as an administrator with… · 21 January 2026 · January 2026 · Other
Richard Dugdale (oceanographer) Oceanographer dead at age 97
Richard Dugdale, an American oceanographer, died on January 21, 2026, at age 97. Born Richard Cooper Dugdale in Madison, Wisconsin, he earned degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, including a BS in electrical engineering, an MS in botany and zoology,… · 21 January 2026 · January 2026 · Other
Virginia Oliver American lobster fisherwoman dead at age 105
Virginia Oliver, an American lobster fisherwoman, died on January 21, 2026, at the age of 105. Born in Rockland, Maine, on June 6, 1920, she grew up on the Neck, a small island connected by a tidal sandbar to Andrews… · 21 January 2026 · January 2026 · Other
Patsy King
Australian actress (Prisoner · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Ilias Javed
Bangladeshi actor and choreographer · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Norman Gifford
English cricketer (Worcestershire · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Raja Nadir Pervez
Pakistani politician · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Pervez
Eugen Botez
Romanian sprint canoer · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other
Frank Pitts
American football player (Kansas City Chiefs · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20
Georges Borchardt
American literary agent · 20 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 20 · Other
Louva Dahozy
American activist · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19 · Other
Jim Vargas
American newscaster (ABC 7 · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19 · Other
Henri Dorion
Canadian academic and geographer · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19
Maria Pilar Riba Font
Andorran politician · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19 · Font
Ahmed Moujahid
Moroccan footballer (Wydad Casablanca · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19
Tommy Wright
English footballer (Everton · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19
Marie-Rose Kasa-Vubu Kiatazabu
Congolese politician · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19 · Kiatazabu
Peter Radunski
German politician (CDU) and political consultant · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19
Yaw Sarpong
Ghanaian gospel musician and songwriter · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19
Dame Marie Bashir
Australian psychiatrist and viceroy · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19 · Bashir · Other
Vicki L. Hanson Human-Computer InteractionAccessibility dead at age -1
Vicki L. Hanson, an American computer scientist, died on January 20, 2026. She was noted for her research on human-computer interaction and accessibility, and for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. Hanson was named chief executive officer of the… · 20 January 2026 · January 2026
Toshikatsu Yamamoto Japanese physician dead at age 96
Toshikatsu Yamamoto, a Japanese physician who worked in the field of acupuncture, died on January 20, 2026. Born on December 15, 1929, he graduated in 1956 from Nippon Medical School in Tokyo. He later gained qualifications in surgery, anesthesia and… · 20 January 2026 · January 2026
Ronald Joseph American figure skater, Olympic bronze medallist, complications from amyotrophic late…
Ronald Joseph, an American figure skater and 1964 Olympic bronze medallist, died on January 20, 2026, at age 81 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He competed in pair skating with his sister, Vivian Joseph, and the two won the… · 20 January 2026 · January 2026
Peter Cousens (cricketer) South African-born English cricketer dead at age 93
Peter Cousens, the South African-born English cricketer who played for Essex, died on January 20, 2026, aged 93. Born in Durban, Natal, on May 15, 1932, he was a right-handed batsman and slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He made his first-class… · 20 January 2026 · January 2026
Deborah Cameron (linguist) British linguist and feminist, pancreatic cancer dead at age 67
Deborah Jane Cameron, a British linguist and feminist, died on January 20, 2026, at the age of 67. She held the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford University. Cameron’s work focused on sociolinguistics and linguistic… · 20 January 2026 · January 2026
Daiwa Major
Japanese thoroughbred racehorse · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19 · Other
John A. Pollock
American businessman · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19 · Pollock · Other
Rob Hirst
Australian musician (Midnight Oil) · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19
Ritsuko Nagao
Japanese politician · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19
Daniel Moerman
American medical anthropologist and ethnobotanist · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19 · Other
Jung Shin-woo
South Korean chef and theatre actor · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19
Sir Christopher White
British art historian and curator · 19 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 19 · White
John Levra
American college football player (Pittsburg State Gorillas) and coach (New Mexico Highlands Cowboys · 18 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 18
Billy Parker
American country music singer and DJ · 18 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 18
Anders Möller
Swedish musician (Black Ingvars · 18 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 18
Stephen “Cat” Coore
Jamaican guitarist and cellist (Third World) · 18 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 18 · Coore
Jervis Percy
British Olympic modern pentathlete · 18 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 18 · Athletes
Pertti Voutilainen
Finnish banker and businessman · 18 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 18 · Other
Artur Shamrin
Soviet and Russian footballer (FC Lokomotiv Moscow) · 18 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 18
Marcel Osztas
Slovak presenter · 18 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 18
H. K. Edgerton
American Neo-Confederate activist · 18 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 18 · Edgerton · Other
Joxean Llorente
Spanish choral conductor · 18 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 18
Leo Meller
Finnish Lutheran preacher · 18 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 18 · Other