Bob Taylor
Australian footballer (Essendon)Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Who Died in January 2026?
Who died in January 2026? Over 1,000 obituaries from that month — notable deaths, news, info and memorial pages.
Stu Tate
American baseball player (San Francisco Giants)Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Stephen Baxter
56–57Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Marie-Thérèse Lorcin
French historian and academicDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Stephen H. Hess
American political scientistDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Phillip Boudreault
Canadian boxer and outlaw bikerDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Linda Kohen
Italian-born Uruguayan painterDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Helen Peters
Canadian academicDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Justin Taylor
New Zealand priest and historianDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Leopold Herz
German politicianDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
M Hafizuddin Khan
Bangladeshi bureaucratDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Georg Winter
German businessman and environmentalistDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Mieczysław Furmanek
Polish politicianDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Piotr Chojnacki
Polish politicianDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Ronald Joseph
American figure skaterDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Thadeu Gomes Canellas
Brazilian Roman Catholic prelateDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Haldun Dormen
Turkish theaterDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Colette Flesch
Luxembourgish Olympic fencer and politicianDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Yuriy Chonka
Ukrainian footballerDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld
Swedish royalDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
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,…
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…
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…
Richard Dugdale 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…
Patsy King
Australian actress (PrisonerDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Ilias Javed
Bangladeshi actor and choreographerDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Rifaat al-Assad
Syrian politicianDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Norman Gifford
English cricketer (WorcestershireDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Raja Nadir Pervez
Pakistani politicianDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Eugen Botez
Romanian sprint canoerDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
René V. Dawis
American psychologistDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Maria Alzira Seixo
Portuguese writer and literary criticDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Arvo Siikamäki
Finnish sculptorDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Frank Pitts
American football player (Kansas City ChiefsDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Georges Borchardt
American literary agentDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Louva Dahozy
American activistDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Tommie Brown
American politicianDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Jim Vargas
American newscaster (ABC 7Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Erzsebet Palatinus
Serbian table tennis playerDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Henri Dorion
Canadian academic and geographerDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Lucien Muller
French footballerDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Maria Pilar Riba Font
Andorran politicianDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Mohammed Mohsin
Bangladeshi diplomatDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Klaus Rinke
German artistDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Ahmed Moujahid
Moroccan footballer (Wydad CasablancaDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Tommy Wright
English footballer (EvertonDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Marie-Rose Kasa-Vubu Kiatazabu
Congolese politicianDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Adela Gleijer
Argentine actressDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Frank Kolb
German historian and academicDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Stefan Gossler
German voice actorDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Arnaldo Vianna
Brazilian politicianDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Alan Sanches
Brazilian politicianDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Sławomir Sadowski
Polish politicianDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Mikalay Korbut
Belarusian politicianDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Park Wan-gyu
South Korean politicianDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Peter Radunski
German politician (CDU) and political consultantDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Yaw Sarpong
Ghanaian gospel musician and songwriterDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Dame Marie Bashir
Australian psychiatrist and viceroyDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
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…
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…
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…
Peter Cousens 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…
Deborah Cameron 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…
Piero Cucchi
Italian football playerDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Daiwa Major
Japanese thoroughbred racehorseDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
John A. Pollock
American businessmanDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Rob Hirst
Australian musician (Midnight Oil)Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Ford C. Quillen
American politicianDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Ritsuko Nagao
Japanese politicianDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Daniel Moerman
American medical anthropologist and ethnobotanistDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Jung Shin-woo
South Korean chef and theatre actorDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Sir Christopher White
British art historian and curatorDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
John Levra
American college football player (Pittsburg State Gorillas) and coach (New Mexico Highlands CowboysDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Morris Bodnar
Canadian politicianDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Billy Parker
American country music singer and DJDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Anders Möller
Swedish musician (Black IngvarsDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Johannes Fried
German historianDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Stephen “Cat” Coore
Jamaican guitarist and cellist (Third World)Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Jervis Percy
British Olympic modern pentathleteDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Pertti Voutilainen
Finnish banker and businessmanDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Osvaldo Díaz
Chilean singerDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Francisco Simões
Portuguese sculptorDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Sanal Badmaev
Russian scientistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Fernando Reinlein
Spanish journalistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Halina Filek-Marszałek
Polish film director and screenwriterDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Artur Shamrin
Soviet and Russian footballer (FC Lokomotiv Moscow)Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Manuel Fernández Areal
Spanish academic and journalistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Cristino de Vera
Spanish painterDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Marcel Osztas
Slovak presenterDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Guillermo Rendón García
Colombian composer and organistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Lev Abramson
Israeli sculptorDied on Monday January 19th 2026
H. K. Edgerton
American Neo-Confederate activistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Joxean Llorente
Spanish choral conductorDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Leo Meller
Finnish Lutheran preacherDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Marikena Monti
Argentine actress and singerDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Sun Eun-hye
South Korean voice actressDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Jean-Jacques Naudet
French photographerDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Marcial Fernández Álvarez
Spanish academicDied on Monday January 19th 2026