Michael Hendricks dead at age 84
Michael Hendricks, an American-Canadian gay rights activist, died on July 18, 2026. Along with René LeBoeuf, he became one of the most visible advocates in Quebec’s gay-rights movement and was…
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Who died in July 2026? Over 900 obituaries from that month — notable deaths, news, info and memorial pages.
Vladimir Ukhalkin died at age 75
Vladimir Ukhalkin, a Russian politician and mayor of Fryazino from 2001 to 2015, died on July 17, 2026. He was born on February 22, 1951, in Moscow, and was also…
Freddy Cannon dies at age 89
Freddy Cannon, the American rock and roll singer best known for "Tallahassee Lassie" and "Palisades Park," died on July 17, 2026. Born Frederick Anthony Picariello Jr. on December 4, 1936,…
Louis Champagne dies at age 78
Louis Champagne, a Canadian talk radio personality, died on July 17, 2026, at the age of 78. A familiar voice in Quebec radio, he hosted a morning daily program on…
Ron Hunt dead at age 85
Ron Hunt, the American baseball player who starred as a second baseman in Major League Baseball, died on July 17, 2026. Born Ronald Kenneth Hunt in St. Louis on February…
Gabriel Antonio Camilo González dies at 88
Gabriel Antonio Camilo González, the Dominican Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of La Vega from 1992 to 2015, died on July 17, 2026. Known as Antonio Camilo, he…
Obituary: Clément Schertzinger, dead at age 89
Clément Schertzinger, the French sporting director who served as president of the Fédération internationale catholique d’éducation physique et sportive from 2003 to 2009, died on July 17, 2026, aged 89.…
Sir Garfield Sobers has died at age 89
Sir Garfield Sobers, the Barbadian cricketer who became one of the defining all-rounders in world cricket, died on July 17, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Bridgetown on…
Moses Ali dead at age 87
Moses Ali, the Ugandan lawyer, politician and retired military officer who served as Second Deputy Prime Minister, died on July 17, 2026. Born on April 5, 1939, in Adjumani District,…
Obituary: Oh Jang-seop, dead at age 79
Oh Jang-seop, a South Korean politician and businessman who served in the National Assembly and as minister of construction and transport, died on July 17, 2026, at the age of…
Tohjiro dies at age 70
Tohjiro, the Japanese adult video director and screenwriter who founded the AV studio Dogma, died on July 17, 2026. Born in 1956 in Tokyo and known professionally as Tohjiro or…
Arvi Altmäe dies at age 83
Arvi Altmäe, an Estonian architect and academic, died on July 17, 2026. Born on July 22, 1942, in Estonia, he built a career that combined architecture, teaching and academic administration.…
Death of Brenda Fricker at age 81
Brenda Fricker, the Irish actress whose career spanned stage and screen for six decades, died on July 17, 2026. Born in Dublin on February 17, 1945, she began acting in…
Cleveland Still dies at 91
Cleveland Still, an American singer with the doo-wop group the Dubs, died on July 17, 2026, at age 91. He was part of the vocal group formed in 1956, which…
Bohumil Vacík has died at age 74
Bohumil Vacík, a Czech convicted mass murderer, died on July 17, 2026. Born in 1952 in Staré Sedlo in the Sokolov area, he later trained as a machine repairer in…
Primrose Bogatsu dead
Primrose Bogatsu, a South African politician and member of the North West Provincial Legislature since February 2023, died on July 17, 2026. She represented the Economic Freedom Fighters in the…
Osvaldo Bagnoli dead at age 91
Osvaldo Bagnoli, the Italian football player and manager who guided Hellas Verona to the Serie A title, died on July 17, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in Milan…
Germain Berthé death at age 32
Germain Berthé, a Malian professional footballer and goalkeeper, died on July 17, 2026, at the age of 32. Born in Mali on October 24, 1993, he earned seven caps for…
Graeme Gilbert death at age 76
Graeme Gilbert, the Australian radio presenter and politician, died on July 17, 2026, at the age of 76. Born on April 15, 1950, he became known for presenting the nightly…
William Gehrlein obituary: died at age 80
William Gehrlein, an American academic and researcher known for work in social choice theory, decision theory and graph theory, died on July 17, 2026. Born July 1, 1946, Gehrlein earned…
Melvin R. Brown dies at 88
Melvin R. Brown, an American politician and Republican member of the Utah State House of Representatives, died on July 17, 2026. He was 88. Known also as Melvin Richins Brown,…
Bill Birch has died at age 92
Bill Birch, the New Zealand politician who served as minister of finance from 1993 to 1999, died on July 17, 2026. Born in Hastings on April 9, 1934, he was…
Death of C. D. Wickramaratne at age 63
C. D. Wickramaratne, a Sri Lankan police officer who served as the 35th Inspector General of Police, died on July 17, 2026, at the age of 63. Born Chandana Deepal…
El Ghazi obituary: died at age 84
El Ghazi died on July 16, 2026. He was an Algerian singer. Tags Musicians, 16 July 2026, El, Ghazi, July 16, July 2026
Angelo Buccarello has died at age 84
Angelo Buccarello, an Italian Catholic priest and member of the Trinitarian Order, died on July 16, 2026, at the age of 84. Born in Castrignano del Capo, Italy, on May…
Obituary: Tersia Marshall, dead at age 45
Tersia Marshall, a South African politician and attorney who served in the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature, died on July 16, 2026, in Rustenburg after injuries sustained in a car accident. Born…
Ronald Trubuhovich dead at age 97
Ronald Trubuhovich, a New Zealand medical doctor and pioneer of critical care medicine in New Zealand, died on July 16, 2026, aged 97. Known as Ronald Valentine Trubuhovich, he was…
Eberhard Gill, died aged 65
Eberhard Gill, a German researcher and space systems engineer known for work in GNSS technology and tracking, space system engineering, multi-satellite systems and systems engineering, died on July 16, 2026,…
Roland J. Thornhill, died aged 90
Roland J. Thornhill, a Canadian politician and former Nova Scotia MLA, died on July 16, 2026. Born Roland John Thornhill on September 3, 1935, in Grand Bank, Newfoundland, he represented…
Rudolph A. Marcus dead at age 102
Rudolph A. Marcus, the Canadian-born American chemist who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on electron transfer reactions, died on July 16, 2026. He was 102.…
Elza Berquó dies at 100
Elza Berquó, a Brazilian mathematician and statistician whose work also extended into research, died on July 16, 2026. Born on October 17, 1925, in Guaxupé, she studied mathematics at the…
Lattie F. Coor, died aged 89
Lattie F. Coor, an American university administrator and professor of public policy who led the University of Vermont and Arizona State University, died on July 16, 2026. Born in Phoenix…
Siva Afi dead at age 77
Siva Afi, the Samoan professional wrestler best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation in the late 1980s, died on July 16, 2026. Born Max Amata Taogaga in…
Norman Ravitch passed away at age 89
Norman Ravitch, an American historian and professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside, died on July 16, 2026. Born on January 1, 1936, he spent part of…
Obituary: Isamu Sonoda, dead at age 79
Isamu Sonoda, the Japanese judoka who won Olympic gold, died on July 16, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Yanagawa, Fukuoka, Japan, on November 4, 1946, he became…
René Urtreger, died aged 92
René Urtreger, the French bebop pianist and composer, died on July 16, 2026. He was 92. Born in Paris on July 6, 1934, Urtreger became known as a jazz musician…
Obituary: Renato Machado, dead at age 83
Renato Machado, a Brazilian journalist and longtime TV Globo newscaster, died on July 16, 2026. Born in Rio de Janeiro on March 21, 1943, he studied law and journalism at…
Enrique Bacigalupo passes away at age 88
Enrique Bacigalupo, the Argentine lawyer and jurist who served on Spain’s Supreme Court, died on July 16, 2026. He was 88. Born in Buenos Aires on July 14, 1938, Bacigalupo…
Death of Feras Esmaeel at age 43
Feras Esmaeel, the Syrian footballer who played as a midfielder, died on July 16, 2026. Born in Damascus on January 3, 1983, he represented clubs including Al-Karamah, Zakho and Nart…
Lutz von Padberg has died at age 76
Lutz von Padberg, a German historian whose work focused on medieval history and the Christianization of the Germanic peoples, died on July 16, 2026. Born in Essen on February 22,…
Death of Pino Farinotti at age 75
Pino Farinotti, the Italian film critic, journalist and writer whose work helped define film reference publishing in Italy, died on July 16, 2026. Born in Piacenza in 1951, he became…
Obituary: Jean-Jacques Naudo, dead at age 67
Jean-Jacques Naudo, the French rugby league player known as "Jacquouille la Fripouille," died on July 16, 2026. Born on February 8, 1959, in Perpignan, he was mainly active during the…
Bruce Smith passed away at age 82
Bruce Smith, an Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL), died on July 16, 2026, aged 82. Born on June 28, 1944, Smith was…
Manuel Doreste dead at age 68
Manuel Doreste, the Spanish Olympic sailor who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics, died on July 16, 2026. Born in Puertollano on January 1, 1958, he raced in the Soling…
Don Ross has died at age 92
Don Ross, an Australian rules footballer who represented Footscray in the Victorian Football League, died on July 16, 2026, aged 92. Born on February 20, 1934, Ross came to Footscray…
Chiang C. Mei dead at age 91
Chiang C. Mei, an American physicist and fluid dynamicist whose work influenced civil, environmental and coastal engineering, died on July 16, 2026. Born in Wuhan on April 4, 1935, Mei,…
Alan Walden death at age 83
Alan Walden, an American music manager, publisher, booking agent and promoter known for his work with Lynyrd Skynyrd and Otis Redding, died on July 16, 2026. Born in Macon, Georgia,…
Don Duguid obituary: died at age 91
Don Duguid, the Canadian curler who won three Briers and two world championships, died on July 15, 2026, at age 91. Born Donald Gordon Duguid in Winnipeg on January 25,…
Jim Corrigall obituary: died at age 80
Jim Corrigall, a Canadian football player and coach, died on July 15, 2026, at age 80. Born in Barrie on May 7, 1946, he went on to play his college…
Udo Brecht has died at age 83
Udo Brecht, the German Olympic rower who represented West Germany, died on July 15, 2026, aged 83. Born in Speyer on April 30, 1943, he earned bronze medals in the…
Denise Oliver-Velez dies at 78
Denise Oliver-Velez, an American activist and community organizer, died on July 15, 2026. She was 78. Born Denise Roberts Oliver on August 1, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York, she became…
Jaromír Liďák dies at 78
Jaromír Liďák, a Czech ski jumper, died on July 15, 2026. Born on January 1, 2000, he was identified in records as a Czechoslovakian ski jumper. He made his international…
Herbert Laming, Baron Laming passed away at age 89
Herbert Laming, Baron Laming, a British social worker and life peer who sat in the House of Lords, died on July 15, 2026, aged 89. Born William Herbert Laming on…
Guy Scott obituary: died at age 82
Guy Scott, the Zambian politician who served as vice president from 2011 to 2014 and as acting president from 2014 to 2015, died on July 15, 2026. Born Guy Lindsay…
Randolph Thummel died at age 80
Randolph Thummel, an American chemist, died on July 15, 2026, aged 80. He was known for work in organic and inorganic chemistry and taught at the University of Houston, where…
Piotr Oczko dies at age 53
Piotr Oczko, a Polish scholar of English and Dutch studies, literature and art historian, and translator, died on July 15, 2026. Born in Kraków on January 1, 1973, he studied…
Death of Seputla Sebogodi at age 63
Seputla Sebogodi, the South African actor known for roles in Generations, Rhythm City and Scandal!, died on July 15, 2026. He was 63. Also known as Septula Sebogodi, he was…
Margarita Andrey dead at age 99
Margarita Andrey, a Spanish actress known for films including They Always Return at Dawn, His Heart Awake and Devil’s Roundup, died on July 15, 2026. She was 99. Born in…
Romano Garofalo dies at 84
Romano Garofalo, the Italian cartoonist, writer and journalist whose work helped shape popular comics in Italy, died on July 15, 2026, in Rimini. Born in Rimini on November 11, 1941,…
Obituary: Moozhikkal Pankajakshi, dead at age 90
Moozhikkal Pankajakshi, an Indian Nokkuvidya pavakali performer, died on July 15, 2026, at age 90. A noted artist of Nokkuvidya paava kali, a form of puppetry, she was born on…
Elsa Aguirre death at age 95
Elsa Aguirre, the Mexican actress known for films including Midnight, A Decent Woman and Giant, died on July 15, 2026. Born Elsa Irma Aguirre Juárez in Chihuahua City on September…
Death of Maro Kontou at age 92
Maro Kontou, a Greek actress and politician, died on July 15, 2026, at the age of 92, of lung cancer. Born in Athens on June 21, 1934, she began her…
John Esposito dies at age 86
John Esposito, the American academic and scholar of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, died on July 15, 2026. Born John Louis Esposito on May 19, 1940, in Brooklyn, he taught…
Plas Johnson dies at 94
Plas Johnson, the American soul-jazz saxophonist widely known for his tenor saxophone solo on Henry Mancini’s "The Pink Panther Theme," died on July 15, 2026. He was 94. Born Plas…
John Kirby dead at age 75
John Kirby, an American actor and acting coach, died on July 15, 2026, at age 75. He was known for playing Frank, the bartender, in the miniseries "Nutcracker: Money, Madness…
Vladyslav Duyun passes away at age 49
Vladyslav Duyun, a Ukrainian footballer who also held Russian citizenship, died on July 15, 2026, at the age of 49. Born on May 9, 1977, in Izmail, he was known…
Hal Williams, died aged 91
Hal Williams, the American actor known for roles on Sanford and Son, The Waltons and 227, died on July 15, 2026. Born Halroy Candis Williams in Columbus, Ohio, on December…
Max O’Halloran dies at age 74
Max O'Halloran, an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray and Carlton in the Victorian Football League, died on July 15, 2026. Born on May 20, 1952, O'Halloran began his…
Richard J. Estes passed away at age 85
Richard J. Estes, an American academic and professor emeritus of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, died on July 15, 2026, at the age…
Ihor Losiev died at age 71
Ihor Losiev, a Ukrainian political scientist and publicist, died on July 15, 2026. Born in Sevastopol on March 10, 1955, he became known as a columnist, journalist, and scholar of…
Ackbar Abbas dead at age 84
Ackbar Abbas, a Hong Kong literary scholar and professor of comparative literature, died on July 15, 2026. Born in Kennedy Town in 1942, he taught at the University of California,…
Mudragada Padmanabham dead at age 73
Mudragada Padmanabham, an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament and Andhra Pradesh MLA, died on July 14, 2026, aged 73. He was known for representing Kakinada in Parliament and…
Cees Geel passed away at age 61
Cees Geel, the Dutch actor known for his work in film, television and radio, died on July 14, 2026, at age 61. Born Cornelis Pieter Geel in Schagen on March…
Death of Janice McNair at age 89
Janice McNair, the American businesswoman who co-founded and owned the Houston Texans, died on July 14, 2026. Born Janice Suber in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on September 30, 1936, she…
William Wisher Jr. death at age 71
William Wisher Jr., an American screenwriter known for his work on The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, died on July 14, 2026. Born on May 23, 1955, he worked…
Elena Baranová, died aged 80
Elena Baranová, a Slovak linguist and philologist, died on July 14, 2026. Born on October 12, 1945, in Martin, then part of Czechoslovakia, she focused much of her scholarly work…
John E. Steele passes away at age 77
John E. Steele, an American jurist and judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, died on July 14, 2026. He was 77. Known as John…
Mudragada Padmanabha Reddy dies at 73
Mudragada Padmanabha Reddy, an Indian politician, died on July 14, 2026. He was known as Mudragada Padmanabham and was a former Member of Parliament from Kakinada as well as a…
Obituary: Hannelore Zober, dead at age 79
Hannelore Zober, the German handball player and 1976 Olympic silver medalist, died on July 14, 2026. Born in Leipzig on November 6, 1946, she played for East Germany and was…
Guy Tudor death at age 91
Guy Tudor, an American ornithologist, bird illustrator and conservationist, died on July 14, 2026, aged 91. A self-taught artist as well as a naturalist, he helped document and preserve nature…
Wolfgang Brase obituary: died at age 87
Wolfgang Brase, a German football player, died on July 14, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in Brunswick on February 7, 1939, he spent five seasons in the Bundesliga…
Roger Martin died at age 73
Roger Martin, the British actor and theatre director known for work in EastEnders, Anna Lee and The Merchant of Venice, died on July 14, 2026, aged 73. His career spanned…
Sheikh Mustafa Kamal obituary: died at age 83
Sheikh Mustafa Kamal, an Indian politician and former Jammu and Kashmir MLA, died on July 14, 2026. He was a leader of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Party and…
José Legrá, died aged 89
José Legrá, the Cuban-born Spanish boxer who twice held the WBC world featherweight title, died on July 14, 2026. Born José Adolfo Legrá Utría in Baracoa, Cuba, on April 19,…
Alexander Barsukov death at age 71
Alexander Mikhailovich Barsukov, a Russian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia, died on July 14, 2026, aged 71. Born on April 30, 1955, in…
Lee Underwood, died aged 87
Lee Underwood, an American musician and journalist who played lead guitar with Tim Buckley for much of Buckley’s career, died on July 14, 2026. Born on January 1, 1938, Underwood…
Azucena Mora died at age 80
Azucena Mora, the Ecuadorian theater and television actress known by her screen name for performances in stage and television, died on July 14, 2026. Born Livia Lidia Mora Mendoza on…
Sitesh Ranjan Deb death at age 75
Sitesh Ranjan Deb, a Bangladeshi wildlife conservationist known as Sitesh Babu, died on July 14, 2026. He had begun his career as a professional hunter and wilderness guide in Bangladesh,…
Little Gerhard passed away at age 92
Little Gerhard, the Swedish singer and rock musician born Karl-Gerhard Lundkvist, died on July 14, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in Tillberga on May 17, 1934, he became…
Neliana Tersigni obituary: died at age 81
Neliana Tersigni, an Italian journalist born in Rome, died on July 14, 2026, at the age of 81. A freelance reporter from Rome who studied Russian literature, she began her…
Béatrice Altariba passes away at age 87
Béatrice Altariba, the French actress known for roles in Monsieur Robinson Crusoe, Totò Diabolicus and Les Misérables, died on July 14, 2026, aged 87. Born Béatrice Florence Andree Altariba-Homs in…
Galina Kukleva passed away at age 53
Galina Kukleva, a Russian biathlete who won Olympic and world championship medals, died on July 14, 2026. Born Galina Alekseyevna Kukleva on November 21, 1972, in Ishimbay, she competed for…
Death of Ramachandra Gowda at age 87
Ramachandra Gowda, an Indian politician and long-serving Karnataka Legislative Council member, died on July 14, 2026. Born on December 13, 1938, in Thippur in Kunigal taluk of Tumkur district, he…
Fantan Mojah obituary: died at age 49
Fantan Mojah, the Jamaican reggae singer born Owen Lennox Moncrieffe, died on July 14, 2026. He was 49. Born on August 5, 1976, in White Hill, St Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica,…
Dave Kendall passes away at age 125
Dave Kendall, the British television personality and journalist known for creating and hosting MTV’s "120 Minutes," died on July 14, 2026. Born David Kendall in the United Kingdom in 1901,…
Hans Michael Maitzen, died aged 83
Hans Michael Maitzen, an Austrian astronomer, died on July 14, 2026, at the age of 83. Born in Graz on March 28, 1943, he studied astronomy, mathematics and physics at…
Márton Flander, died aged 41
Márton Flander, a Hungarian triathlete and economist, died on July 14, 2026. Born in Baja on March 5, 1985, he began competing in triathlon in 2002 and went on to…
Obituary: Joe Caldwell, dead at age 97
Joe Caldwell, an American television writer whose credits included NBC Matinee Theater, The Secret Storm and Dark Shadows, died on July 13, 2026. Born Joseph Kerwin Caldwell on October 2,…
Obituary: Jameson Currier, dead at age 70
Jameson Currier, an American writer, died on July 13, 2026, at age 70. Born in Marietta, Georgia, on October 16, 1955, he wrote as a novelist, short story writer, poet,…