Larry Hibbard dead at age 81
Larry Hibbard, a rancher and Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, died October 18, 2026, aged 81. Born Larry Paul Hibbard on September 14, 1945, in Toronto, Kansas,…
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Notable deaths this month: Over 500 obituaries with additional info, news, and memorial pages.
Henry Dougier dies at age 90
Henry Dougier, a French publisher, died October 18, 2026, aged 90. Born on December 27, 1936, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Dougier was associated with two publishing ventures: the magazine Le Management…
Ann Hornaday obituary: died at age 66
Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post’s chief film critic, died October 18, 2026, aged 66. She was an American film critic and journalist whose career included work at national publications and…
Jost Hochuli death at age 93
Jost Hochuli, a Swiss graphic designer known for his book designs, died October 18, 2026, aged 93. Born in St. Gallen on June 8, 1933, he began his training in…
Ronald Lancaster dies at age 95
Ronald Lancaster, the British Anglican clergyman, chemist and businessman who founded Kimbolton Fireworks, died October 18, 2026, aged 95. Born in Huddersfield, he became interested in fireworks after the 1937…
Lua Blanco passed away at age 39
Lua Blanco, a Brazilian actress and singer known for Rebelde and the band Rebeldes, died of cancer on October 18, 2026, aged 39. Born in São Paulo on March 5,…
Ana Rita Sithole dead, Ana Rita Sithole, Mozambican politician
Ana Rita Sithole, a Mozambican politician and member of FRELIMO, died October 18, 2026. She had served in the Assembly of the Republic since 2000, spending more than a quarter-century…
Gregory Ibe death at age 63
Gregory Ikechukwu Ibe, a Nigerian industrialist, politician and academic who founded Gregory University, Uturu, died on October 18, 2026, aged 63. Born in Kaduna on December 10, 1963, he grew…
Mary Fell dies at age 79
Mary Fell, an American poet and academic, died October 18, 2026, aged 79, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on September 22, 1947, she graduated from Worcester…
Lee Kwan-Young passes away at age 80
Lee Kwan-Young, a South Korean taekwondo practitioner and former military officer, died October 18, 2026, aged 80. Born in Seoul on April 19, 1946, he worked in taekwondo as a…
Frans Geysen dies at age 90
Frans Geysen, a Belgian composer and writer on music topics, died October 18, 2026, aged 90. Born on July 29, 1936, in Oostham, Limburg, he studied at the Lemmens Institute…
Napoleon Bonaparte passes away at age 60
Napoleon Bonaparte, an Indonesian police officer, died on October 18, 2026, aged 60. Born in South Sumatra on October 26, 1965, he graduated from the Indonesian Police Academy in 1988…
Syukron Ma’mun passed away at age 84
Syukron Ma'mun, an Indonesian educator and politician, died on October 18, 2026, aged 84. Born on December 21, 1941, he was also a religious scholar and led the Daarul Rahman…
Ng Hong-mun dies at age 100
Ng Hong-mun, a Chinese politician who served as a deputy to China’s National People’s Congress, died October 18, 2026, aged 100. Born in Shantou in 1926, he studied at National…
Ken Ward death at age 91
Ken Ward, an Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond, died October 18, 2026, aged 91. Born on September 30, 1935, Ward played for the club in the Victorian Football…
B. Madhusoodhana Kurup, died aged 71
B. Madhusoodhana Kurup, the founding vice-chancellor of Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS), died October 18, 2026, aged 71. An Indian fisheries researcher and academic administrator, he led…
Obituary: Benito di Paula, dead at age 84
Benito di Paula, the Brazilian singer-songwriter, composer and pianist, died of prostate cancer on October 18, 2026, aged 84. Born Uday Vellozo in Nova Friburgo, he became known professionally as…
Death of James P. Axiotis at age 63
James P. Axiotis, an American television producer known for Cold Case Files, died October 18, 2026, aged 63. Born James Photi Axiotis in Athens, Greece, he was adopted by Greek…
Obituary: Robert Christopherson, dead at age 90
Robert Henry Christopherson, an American Olympic boxer, died October 18, 2026, aged 90. Born October 7, 1936, in Finlayson, Minnesota, he competed as an amateur in the men’s light heavyweight…
John Beake obituary: died at age 87
John Beake, an American football coach and executive who served as general manager of the Denver Broncos, died October 17, 2026, aged 87. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, he…
Death of Rinze Visser at age 87
Rinze Visser, a Dutch communist politician, died on October 17, 2026, aged 87, from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Born in Lemmer, he encountered communist ideas early through his father and…
Leonel Nunes has died at age 76
Leonel Martinho Gomes Nunes, a Brazilian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, died in Funchal on October 17, 2026, aged 76. A member of the Portuguese Communist…
Ota Jirák obituary: died at age 77
Ota Jirák, the Czech actor, voice actor and entertainer, died on October 17, 2026, aged 77. Born in Debř on April 12, 1949, he studied puppetry at the Academy of…
Jacques Charlin has died at age 77
Jacques Charlin, a French mathematician and professor of mathematics at Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, died on October 17, 2026, aged 77. Born on November 2, 1948, he was described…
Louis-André Dacoury-Tabley, died aged 81
Louis-André Dacoury-Tabley, an Ivorian politician, died on October 17, 2026, aged 81. Born in Gagnoa on September 14, 1945, he later served in government in two ministerial roles. In December…
Yvette Biro has died at age 96
Yvette Biro, a Hungarian-American screenwriter and essayist, died in Paris on October 17, 2026, aged 96. Born in Budapest on April 3, 1930, she worked as a film critic, playwright…
Obituary: Eduardo Viana, dead at age 71
Eduardo Viana, the Portuguese actor, died on October 17, 2026, aged 71. Born in Lisbon on May 3, 1955, he worked in film and television, appearing in more than 50…
Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani has died at age 32
Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani, a Saudi Arabian footballer who played for Damac and Al-Diriyah, died aged 32 on October 17, 2026, from injuries sustained in a traffic collision. Born in Abha on…
Obituary: Pierre-Yves Collombat, dead at age 81
Pierre-Yves Collombat, a French politician who represented the Var department in France’s Senate as a member of the Socialist Party, died October 17, 2026, aged 81. Born in Voiron on…
Per Haftorsen died at age 79
Per Haftorsen, a Norwegian football goalkeeper who represented Haugar, Fredrikstad and his country, died on October 17, 2026, aged 79. Born in Haugesund Municipality on September 6, 1947, he spent…
Sabri Anar dies at age 60
Sabri Anar, a Turkish hierarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church and archbishop of Amida, died October 17, 2026, aged 60. He had served as archbishop of the Archeparchy of Diyarbakır…
Alan Cribb passes away at age 101
Alan Cribb, an Australian botanist and phycologist, died on October 17, 2026, aged 101. Born in Ipswich, Queensland, he grew up around Longreach, where his father, a grazier, encouraged his…
Patrick Dele-Cole dies at 86
Patrick Dele-Cole, a Nigerian politician, journalist and historian who became managing director of the Daily Times, died October 17, 2026, aged 86. His career brought together newspaper leadership, party politics,…
Denis Boytsov passes away at age 40
Denis Boytsov, a Russian boxer, died on October 17, 2026, aged 40. Born Denis Nikolayevich Boytsov on February 14, 1986, he was from Oryol, then in the Russian SFSR of…
Penehupifo Pohamba has died at age 78
Penehupifo Pohamba, a Namibian nurse, politician and former first lady, died on October 17, 2026, aged 78. She was the second First Lady of Namibia during the presidency of her…
Deva, died aged 75
Devanesan Chokkalingam, the Indian film composer and singer known as Deva, died October 17, 2026, aged 75. A prominent contributor to Tamil cinema, he also composed songs and background scores…
Michael Cheng, died aged 88
Michael Cheng, a Hong Kong politician and school principal who served on the Legislative Council from 1988 to 1991, died October 17, 2026, aged 88. Born in Hong Kong, he…
Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa, died aged 43
Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa, a Guatemalan public prosecutor and anti-corruption activist, died aged 43 on October 17, 2026, in an armed attack. A lawyer and notary, he studied law at…
Death of Barbara Gawryluk at age 69
Barbara Gawryluk, a Polish children’s book author, journalist and translator, died on October 16, 2026, aged 69. Born in Kraków on May 19, 1957, she studied Swedish philology at Jagiellonian…
Michael Gray passed away at age 75
Michael Gray, an American actor known for playing Billy Batson in the 1970s television series Shazam!, died October 16, 2026, aged 75. Born in Chicago on September 2, 1951, Gray…
Medaglia d’Oro has died at age 27
Medaglia d’Oro, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, died October 16, 2026, aged 27. A dark bay or brown stallion marked with a white star and three white socks, he was bred…
Noah Adams dead at age 84
Noah Adams, an American radio journalist and author associated with NPR, died October 16, 2026, aged 84. Born September 15, 1942, in Ashland, Kentucky, he began his career in 1962…
Chiaki Ishii dies at age 85
Chiaki Ishii, the Japanese-born Brazilian judoka who won Brazil’s first Olympic medal in judo, died on October 16, 2026, aged 85. Born in Ashikaga, Japan, on October 1, 1941, he…
Mária Szolnoki has died at age 79
Mária Szolnoki, a Polish Olympic fencer, died on October 16, 2026, aged 79. Tags Athletes, 16 October 2026, Gemini, Hungary, Poland, Szolnoki, Mária, October 16, October 2026
Joaquim Letria has died at age 82
Joaquim Letria, a Portuguese journalist, died on October 16, 2026, aged 82. Born in Lisbon as Joaquim José da Conceição Letria, he began his journalism career in 1961, joining Diário…
Douglas Dunn passed away at age 83
Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, the Scottish poet, academic and critic, died on October 16, 2026, aged 83. Born in Inchinnan on October 23, 1942, he trained at the Scottish School of…
Yadi Timo dead at age 66
Yadi Djoerica Marton Timo, the Indonesian actor known as Yadi Timo, died on October 16, 2026, aged 66. Born on February 12, 1960, he worked as a performer in Indonesian…
Jack Berry, died aged 95
John Thomas Berry, the American sports journalist known as Jack Berry, died October 16, 2026, aged 95, from complications of a fall. A Detroit native, he studied journalism at Michigan…
Richard E. Holmes death at age 82
Richard E. Holmes, an American civil rights activist and physician, died October 16, 2026, aged 82. Born in Chicago to Horace and Minnie Holmes, he was raised in Starkville, Mississippi,…
Hyron Andrews dead at age 31
Hyron Diego Andrews, a South African rugby union player for the Lions, died in a fall on October 16, 2026, aged 31. Born in Paarl on July 6, 1995, he…
Alan Brown dies at 90
Alan Brown, an English cricketer who represented Kent and England, died on October 16, 2026, aged 90. Born in Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, on October 17, 1935, he established himself as a…
Vítor Murta passes away at age 50
Vítor Jorge Fonseca Murta, a Portuguese sports executive who led Boavista, died of a heart attack on October 16, 2026, aged 50. He served as president of Boavista F.C. from…
Joe Redner, died aged 86
Joe Redner, an American strip club owner, died October 16, 2026, aged 86. A businessman, activist and sometime political candidate in Florida, he became closely associated with Mons Venus, the…
Al Jawhara bint Fahd Al Saud dead, Al Jawhara bint Fahd Al Saud, Saudi royal and academic administr…
Al Jawhara bint Fahd Al Saud, a Saudi royal and academic administrator, died October 16, 2026. She was an academic and a member of Saudi Arabia’s Consultative Assembly. Her education…
Mariusz Strzałka died at age 67
Mariusz Strzałka, a Polish fencer who represented Poland and later Germany at the Olympic Games, died on October 16, 2026, aged 67. Born in Wrocław on March 27, 1959, he…
Yiorgos Vardinogiannis passes away at age 90
Yiorgos Vardinogiannis, a Greek shipping magnate and football club owner who served as president of Panathinaikos, died October 16, 2026, aged 90. Born on April 7, 1936, in Episkopi, in…
Jacqueline Van Quaille obituary: died at age 90
Jacqueline Van Quaille was a Belgian operatic soprano and academic teacher who died on October 16, 2026, aged 90. Born in Gentbrugge, she studied at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent,…
Li Kou-tin dead at age 87
Li Kou-tin, a Taiwanese table tennis player, died October 16, 2026, aged 87. Born in Taihoku on November 16, 1938, he was known by the Chinese name 李國定. He attended…
Dariusz Kołodziejczyk dies at age 64
Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, a Polish historian and professor at the University of Warsaw, died on October 16, 2026, aged 64. Born in Warsaw on May 25, 1962, he studied at the…
Sam Noto dies at age 96
Sam Noto, an American jazz trumpeter, died October 16, 2026, aged 96. Born in Buffalo, New York, on April 17, 1930, he built a career in jazz as a trumpet…
Obituary: Soner Olgun, dead at age 67
Soner Olgun, a Turkish musician, died in Istanbul on October 16, 2026, aged 67. Born in 1959 in Fethiye, Muğla province, he studied at Bornova Anadolu Lisesi before graduating from…
Wiktor Legowicz dies at 77
Wiktor Józef Legowicz, a Polish radio journalist, died October 15, 2026, aged 77. Born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki on April 2, 1949, he studied education at the University of Warsaw, completing…
Jon Morris obituary: died at age 84
Jon Morris, an American football player who played center for the New England Patriots, Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears, died October 15, 2026, aged 84. Born in Washington, D.C., on…
Basil Ince dead at age 93
Basil Ince, a Trinidadian sprinter and politician who served as minister of foreign affairs from 1981 to 1985, died October 15, 2026, aged 93. Born May 1, 1933, Ince was…
Jorge Dubanced passes away at age 76
Jorge Roberto Dubanced Conversano, an Argentine footballer and manager, died October 15, 2026, aged 76. Born in Buenos Aires on June 28, 1950, he played as a forward, beginning his…
Barbara Jay obituary: died at age 94
Barbara Jay, a British jazz singer aged 94, died October 15, 2026, from complications of dementia. Tags Musicians, 15 October 2026, Barbara, Britain, Dementia, Jay, Leo, October 15, October 2026
Jonas “Heavy” passes away at age 50
Jonas “Heavy” Stentäpp, a Swedish musician and television personality associated with Mimikry and Dökött, died of lung cancer on October 15, 2026, aged 50. He became known to a broad…
Tommy R. Smith passes away at age 75
Tommy R. Smith, an American politician who served in the Georgia House of Representatives, died October 15, 2026, aged 75. Born in Bacon County, Georgia, on December 15, 1950, Smith…
Germán Quintero passes away at age 72
Germán Quintero, a Colombian actor, died in Bogotá on October 15, 2026, aged 72, from cardiorespiratory arrest. Born in Bogotá on August 10, 1954, he began his acting career in…
Pierre-André Kombila death at age 85
Pierre-André Kombila, a Gabonese politician, professor and physician who served as a member of parliament, died on October 15, 2026, aged 85. Born in Lac Anengué, near Port-Gentil, he studied…
Richard Riehle dead at age 78
Richard Riehle, the American character actor, died October 15, 2026, aged 78. Born May 12, 1948, in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, he built a career across film, television and other projects…
Death of Stefan Lord at age 71
Stefan Lord, a Swedish darts player, died on October 15, 2026, aged 71. Born in Stockholm on December 4, 1954, he competed in British Darts Organisation events during the 1970s,…
Eli Rygg has died at age 71
Eli Rygg, a Norwegian television personality and children's writer, died on October 15, 2026, aged 71. Born on September 22, 1955, in Rauma Municipality, she grew up in Veblungsnes and…
Bo Johansson passes away at age 83
Bo Johansson, the Swedish football manager who led Östers IF to consecutive Allsvenskan championships and coached Denmark’s national team, died October 15, 2026, aged 83. Born in Kalmar, he was…
Mohammad Solaiman death at age 70
Mohammad Solaiman, a Bangladeshi academic administrator and professor, died on October 15, 2026, aged 70, from complications of diabetes and heart disease. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Science…
Death of Rudolf Křesťan at age 83
Rudolf Křesťan, a Czech writer, editor and feuilletonist, died October 15, 2026, aged 83. Born in Prague on March 14, 1943, he spent his childhood in Stará Role, near Karlovy…
Betty Valassi has died at age 89
Betty Valassi, a Greek actress whose credits included Loxantra, The Hunters and A Dream of Passion, died in Athens on October 15, 2026, aged 89. She was born Despo, also…
Death of Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh at age 80
Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, an Iranian political scientist and historian, died October 15, 2026, aged 80. Born in Nur, Iran, on February 9, 1946, he became known for work on Iran and…
Md. Abdul Hai passes away at age 77
Md. Abdul Hai, a Bangladeshi politician and former member of parliament, died on October 15, 2026, aged 77. Born on January 5, 1949, in Munshiganj District, he entered parliament after…
Cliff Hagan passed away at age 94
Clifford Oldham Hagan, the American Hall of Fame basketball player, died October 15, 2026, aged 94. Born in Owensboro, Kentucky, he attended Owensboro High School and the University of Kentucky,…
Death of Myron Augsburger at age 97
Myron Augsburger, a Mennonite pastor, theologian, academic and author who served as president of Eastern Mennonite College, died October 15, 2026, aged 97. Born in Elida, Ohio, on August 20,…
Danny Watson has died at age 73
Danny Watson, a Republican public official who represented Arkansas’ 88th House District, died October 15, 2026, aged 73. He was first elected in 2016, defeating incumbent Democratic representative Brent Talley,…
Michael Forest death at age 97
Michael Forest, the American actor known for Star Trek: The Original Series, Beast from Haunted Cave and Atlas, died October 14, 2026, aged 97. Born Gerald Michael Charlebois in Harvey,…
Bob Morris dead, Bob Morris, Papua New Guinean football manager
Bob Morris, a Papua New Guinean football manager, died on October 14, 2026. Born in Papua New Guinea, he worked in club football and later took on responsibility for the…
Death of Rita Vorperian at age 88
Rita Vorperian, a Syrian-born American literary scholar, journalist, writer, translator and researcher who served as executive director of the Armenian Relief Society in the Western United States, died October 14,…
Obituary: Louis Appignani, dead at age 93
Louis Appignani, an American philanthropist and entrepreneur, died October 14, 2026, aged 93. Born in Manhattan, he pursued postgraduate studies in economics at Indiana University, graduated from Baruch College of…
Death of Jack Kirksey at age 97
Jack Edwin Kirksey, a school principal, probation officer and Michigan politician who served as mayor of Livonia, died October 14, 2026, aged 97. Born in Atlanta on November 21, 1928,…
Asbjørn Eide dead at age 93
Asbjørn Eide, a Norwegian human rights scholar, died on October 14, 2026, aged 93. Born in Eksingedalen, he studied at the University of Oslo and built his career across law…
Luigi Malice dies at 88
Luigi Malice, an Italian painter and sculptor known for abstract art, died October 14, 2026, aged 88. Born in Naples, he studied at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts under…
Ana Lupez death at age 82
Ana Lupez Chaparro Astargo, the Argentine dancer and choreographer also referred to as Ana Lupe, died October 14, 2026, aged 82. Born on March 28, 1944, in Guaymallén, Mendoza Province,…
Obituary: Malcolm H. Wiener, dead at age 91
Malcolm H. Wiener, an American prehistorian and lawyer, died October 14, 2026, aged 91. Born Malcolm Hewitt Wiener in Qingdao, China, on July 3, 1935, he was the son of…
Cheruvayal Raman passed away at age 74
Cheruvayal Raman, an Indian tribal farmer from Wayanad district in Kerala, died October 14, 2026, aged 74. Known as the guardian of rare seeds, he conserved more than 55 varieties…
Gerold Späth passed away at age 86
Gerold Späth, the Swiss author and poet known for Commedia, died October 14, 2026, aged 86. Born in Rapperswil on the shore of Lake Zürich, he was the son of…
Alpay has died at age 91
Alpay, the Turkish singer born Ahmet Alpay Nazikioğlu, died October 14, 2026, aged 91. Born in Ankara on January 1, 1935, he studied at Ankara University Law School before pursuing…
Sanjulián dead at age 85
Sanjulián, the Spanish cartoonist and painter whose given name was Manuel Pérez Clemente, died October 14, 2026, aged 85. Born in Barcelona on June 24, 1941, he studied at the…
Jorge Castro died at age 59
Jorge Fernando Castro, the Argentine former professional boxer known as Roña, died October 14, 2026, aged 59. Born in Caleta Olivia, he competed professionally from 1987 to 2007 and held…
Gamal Nkrumah death at age 68
Gamal Nkrumah, a Ghanaian journalist and editor at Al-Ahram Weekly, died October 14, 2026, aged 68. Also known as Gamal Gorkeh Nkrumah, he was born in Accra on January 1,…
Angelo Groppelli has died at age 80
Angelo Groppelli, an Italian weightlifter, died October 14, 2026, aged 80. Born in Varese on July 12, 1946, he is identified in biographical records as a former Italian shot putter.…
Michael Cremo passes away at age 78
Michael Cremo, the American pseudoarcheologist associated with *Forbidden Archeology*, died October 14, 2026, aged 78. Born in Schenectady, New York, on July 15, 1948, he attended George Washington University from…