Chico Simões dead at age 75, Doctor
Chico Simões died on July 6, 2026. He was a doctor. Tags Doctors, 06 July 2026, Chico, Libra, July 2026, July 6, Simões
Famous Dead Doctors: Recent Doctor Deaths and Obituaries
Over 1,000 obituaries of famous dead doctors. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Justin Richards dead at age 64, Writer
Justin Richards, a British writer best known for his Doctor Who books and The Invisible Detective series, died on June 28, 2026, at the age of 64. Born in Epping…
Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr. dead at age 93, American medical researcher
Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr., an American physician and medical researcher whose work helped define inherited cancer risk, died on June 22, 2026. He was 93. Born in Boston on Jan.…
Min Khaike Soe San dead at age 53, Writer, film director, screenwriter
Min Khaike Soe San, a Burmese writer and film director, died on June 19, 2026. He was 53. Born in Yangon on September 18, 1972, he also worked as a…
Marilyn Trenholme Counsell dead at age 92, Canadian politician
Marilyn Trenholme Counsell, a Canadian politician, physician and nutritionist, died on June 18, 2026, at the age of 92. Born Marilyn Trenholme in Baie Verte, New Brunswick, on October 22,…
Bogdan Marinescu dead at age 81, Romanian politician and doctor
Bogdan Marinescu died on June 18, 2026. Tags Doctors, Politicians, 18 June 2026, Bogdan, Marinescu, Romania, June 18, June 2026
Joan Viñas dead at age 75, Spanish physician
Joan Viñas, a Spanish physician and university teacher, died on June 16, 2026, at the age of 75. Born in Mataró on December 11, 1950, he was known as Joan…
J. Michael Criley dead at age 95, American medical researcher
J. Michael Criley, an American cardiologist and medical researcher, died on June 15, 2026. He was 95. A professor emeritus at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Criley was…
Ivan Rektor dead at age 77, public figure
Ivan Rektor died on June 14, 2026. He was a Slovak neurologist, neuroscientist and academic at CEITEC, Masaryk University. His death was reported without further details. Tags Doctors, Scientists, 14…
Kay Halloran dead at age 89, Lawyer
Kay Halloran, an American politician and lawyer who served in the Iowa House of Representatives and later as mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died on June 14, 2026, at age…
Zaini Abdullah dead at age 86, Medical doctor
Zaini Abdullah, the Indonesian politician who served as governor of Aceh from 2012 to 2017, died on June 13, 2026, at age 86. Born on April 24, 1940, in Pidie,…
John D. Groendyke dead at age 81, American trucking executive
John D. Groendyke, an American trucking executive and chief executive officer of Groendyke Transport, died on June 13, 2026. He led the Enid, Oklahoma-based company, which by 2015 was the…
Lynn Leibovitz dead at age 67, American judge
Lynn Leibovitz, an American judge who served as an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, died on June 11, 2026, at age 67. Born in…
Cyril Karabus dead at age 91, South African paediatric oncologist
Cyril Karabus, a South African paediatric oncologist, died on June 9, 2026, aged 91. Born on April 1, 1935, he treated cancer and blood diseases at the Red Cross War…
Richard Scolyer dead at age 59, Australian pathologist
Richard Scolyer, an Australian pathologist and melanoma researcher, died on June 7, 2026, at age 59. Born in Launceston in 1966, he became a senior staff specialist in tissue pathology…
Patrick Godfrey dead at age 93, Actor
Patrick Godfrey, an English actor known for Maurice, The Count of Monte Cristo and Doctor Who, died on June 4, 2026, at the age of 93. Born Patrick Lindesay Archibald…
Robert Coles dead at age 97, American child psychiatrist
Robert Coles, an American child psychiatrist and professor emeritus at Harvard University, died on June 4, 2026. He was 97. Born in Boston on October 12, 1929, Coles studied at…
Henry Malcolm Whyte dead at age 105, Australian physician
Henry Malcolm Whyte, an Australian physician, died on June 3, 2026, at the age of 105. He was born in British Raj India in 1920 and later studied at the…
David Baron dead at age 93, Actor
David Baron, an English actor known for Doctor Who, The Avengers and The Reptile, died on June 3, 2026. He was 93. Born in Birmingham on April 7, 1933, Baron…
Pierre Izard dead at age 90, French politician, member and president of the general council of Haut…
Pierre Izard, the French politician who served as a member and later president of the general council of Haute-Garonne and as mayor of Villefranche-de-Lauragais, died on June 1, 2026. He…
Jozien Bensing dead at age 76, Research on doctor–patient communication
Jozien Bensing, a Dutch clinical psychologist and university teacher, died on June 1, 2026, at the age of 76. Born Josina Maria Bensing on March 12, 1950, in Tilburg, she…
Joe Schwarz dead at age 88, American politician
Joe Schwarz, an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2005 to 2007 and in the Michigan Senate from 1987 to 2002, died on May 27,…
Antônio Salim Curiati dead at age 98, politician
Antônio Salim Curiati, Brazilian politician and physician who served as mayor of São Paulo and later as a deputy, died on May 25, 2026. He was 98. Curiati was born…
William W. Parmley dead at age 90, American cardiologist
William W. Parmley, an American cardiologist, died on May 23, 2026, at age 90. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on January 22, 1936, and was also known…
María Elena Carrera dead at age 97, Chilean politician, senator
María Elena Carrera, Chilean politician and senator, died on May 22, 2026, at the age of 97. Born in Santiago on January 2, 1929, she served in the Senate of…
Manny Nosowsky dead at age 94, American crossword puzzle creator
Manny Nosowsky, an American crossword puzzle creator, died on May 20, 2026. Also known as Emanuel Ezra Nosowsky, he was a medical doctor by training who retired from a San…
Johannes Müller dead at age 57, Doctor
Johannes Müller, the German politician who served as a member of the Landtag of Saxony from 2004 to 2014, died on May 20, 2026, at the age of 57. Born…
Jon Phipps McCalla dead at age 79, American judge
Jon Phipps McCalla, an American judge, died on May 15, 2026, at age 79. He was a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the…
Jules Angst dead at age 99, Swiss psychiatrist and academic
Jules Angst, a Swiss psychiatrist and academic, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 99. Born in Zurich on December 11, 1926, he completed his medical and psychiatric…
Alan Rothwell dead at age 89, public figure
Alan Rothwell, the English actor and television presenter known for Coronation Street, Brookside and Heartbeat, died on May 14, 2026, aged 89. Born in Oldham, Lancashire, on 9 February 1937,…
Al Gregg dead at age 62, English musician, actor and screenwriter
Al Gregg, the English musician, actor and screenwriter best known for his work with punk band The Wall and appearances in ScreenPlay and Doctor Who, died on May 12, 2026,…
William V. Tamborlane dead at age 79, American pediatrician and academic
William V. Tamborlane, an American pediatrician and academic, died on May 12, 2026. He was Professor and Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at Yale School of Medicine from 1986. Born in…
Claude Griscelli dead at age 90, Doctor Immunologist
Claude Griscelli, a French doctor and immunologist who served as president of Inserm from 1996 to 2001, died on May 7, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Rabat…
Algis Jurgis Kundrotas dead at age 75, public figure
Algis Jurgis Kundrotas, a Lithuanian physicist, died on May 6, 2026, at age 75. He was also a habilitated doctor of physical sciences, university professor and independent researcher. Born on…
Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo dead at age 73, Swiss physician and advocate for therapeutic fasting
Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, a Swiss physician and advocate for therapeutic fasting, died on May 1, 2026, at the age of 73. Born in Geneva on February 5, 1953, she…
Silvano Raia Brazilian liver surgeon dead at age 95
Silvano Raia, a Brazilian liver surgeon, died on April 28, 2026, at the age of 95. He specialized in liver diseases and was professor emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine…
Abu Kasenally Mauritian politician, MP dead at age 84
Abu Kasenally, a Mauritian politician and physician who served as an MP from 2005 to 2014, died on April 27, 2026. Born on August 10, 1941, in Rivière du Rempart,…
Jesse Crenshaw American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives dead at age 79
Jesse Crenshaw, an American politician and member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, died on April 26, 2026, at age 79. He served in the House for the 77th district…
Michael Keating dead at age 79, public figure
Michael Keating, an English actor known for Blake's 7, EastEnders and Doctor Who, died on May 21, 2026, at the age of 79. Born Michael Frank Keating in Edmonton, Middlesex,…
Rexhep Qosja Albanian writer and politician dead at age 89
Rexhep Qosja, an Albanian writer and politician, died on April 23, 2026, at the age of 89. He was a novelist, poet, social critic, literary critic and professor at the…
Eugene Braunwald Austrian-born American cardiologist dead at age 96
Eugene Braunwald died on April 22, 2026. He was an Austrian-born American cardiologist. Eugene Braunwald, 96, Austrian-born American cardiologist. Tags Doctors, 22 April 2026, America, Austria, Braunwald, Eugene, 2026-04-22, April…
Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth Thai billionaire businessman dead at age 93
Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth, a Thai billionaire businessman and former surgeon, died on April 21, 2026, at the age of 93. He was the founder and owner of Bangkok Dusit Medical Services,…
Ralph B. Guy Jr. American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Mich…
Ralph B. Guy Jr., an American jurist and judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit,…
Diaa Al-Awadi Egyptian doctor and influencer, heart attack dead at age 47
Diaa Al-Awadi died on April 19, 2026, of a heart attack. He was an Egyptian doctor and influencer. No further details about his life or work were provided. Diaa Al-Awadi,…
John F. Boyle Jr. American convicted murderer dead at age 83
John F. Boyle Jr., an American convicted murderer, died on April 18, 2026. He was 83. Born in Philadelphia on May 1, 1943, Boyle, also known as Jack Boyle, was…
Sir Peter Beale British Army lieutenant general dead at age 92
Sir Peter Beale, the British Army lieutenant general and military physician, died on April 15, 2026, aged 92. Lieutenant-General Sir Peter John Beale was born on 18 March 1934 in…
Jan Williams dead at age 87, English actress
Jan Williams died on April 10, 2026. She was an actress. Tags Actors, Doctors, 10 April 2026, England, Jan, Williams, April 10, April 2026
Angela Pleasence public figure dead at age 84
Angela Pleasence, an English actress, died on April 10, 2026, at the age of 84. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made her stage debut in…
Vojtěch Adam Czech politican, surgeon, MP dead at age 75
Vojtěch Adam, Czech politician and surgeon who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2017, died on April 10, 2026, at the age of 75.…
Mani Kumar Chetri public figure dead at age 105
Mani Kumar Chetri died on April 5, 2026. Mani Kumar Chetri, 105, Indian cardiologist. (death announced on this date) Tags Doctors, 05 April 2026, Chetri, India, Mani, 2026-04-05, April 2026,…
Paul Knapman British coroner dead at age 81
Paul Knapman, the British coroner, died on April 5, 2026, aged 81. Dr. Knapman served as Her Majesty’s coroner for Westminster and Inner West London from 1980 to 2011, having…
Ling Liong Sik Politician, physician dead at age 82
Ling Liong Sik, a Malaysian politician who served as acting prime minister in 1988, died on April 4, 2026. He was a member of parliament from 1974 to 2004 and…
Dorothy Logie public figure dead at age 83
Dorothy Logie died on April 3, 2026. Dorothy Logie, 83, Scottish physician. (death announced on this date) Tags Doctors, 03 April 2026, Dorothy, Logie, Scotland, 2026-04-03, April 2026, April 3
Dennis J. O’Callaghan American virologist, cancer dead at age 85
Dennis J. O'Callaghan, an American virologist, immunologist and biochemist, died on March 30, 2026. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on July 26, 1940, and earned a B.S. in…
Rezvi Sheriff Co-founder of Sri Lanka’s first kidney transplant programme and dialysis unit,…
Rezvi Sheriff, a Sri Lankan nephrologist and physician, died on March 30, 2026. He was an academic who served as director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, senior professor of…
Laurie Webb Actor dead at age 101
Laurie Webb, the Welsh actor known for his roles in Doctor Who, Paul Temple and Doomwatch, died on March 29, 2026, aged 101. Born Lawrence Melvin Henry Webb in Newport,…
Harold Ellis Surgeon dead at age 100
Harold Ellis, an English surgeon, died on March 25, 2026, aged 100. Born in Stepney Green on January 13, 1926, he was a professor of surgery at the University of…
Larry Kennedy Family physician / Politician dead at age 76
Larry Ronald Kennedy, a Canadian politician and family physician, died on March 24, 2026, at the age of 76. Born in Perth-Andover, New Brunswick, on November 8, 1949, he studied…
Tracy Kidder American writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, lung cancer dead at age 80
Tracy Kidder, the American writer whose nonfiction books included The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains, died March 24, 2026, of lung cancer. He was 80. Kidder…
J. Michael Bishop Oncogene Virus dead at age 90
J. Michael Bishop, an American immunologist and academic administrator who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and served as chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco…
Waldyr Pugliesi Dentist dead at age 90
Waldyr Ortêncio Pugliesi, a Brazilian politician and former deputy, died on March 20, 2026, at the age of 90. A member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, he served three non-consecutive…
Alton Sutnick American medical researcher and educator dead at age 97
Alton Sutnick, an American medical researcher and educator, died on March 19, 2026. Sutnick was also an administrator and the author of more than 200 scholarly publications. He received a…
Tom Georgeson Actor dead at age 88
Tom Georgeson, the English actor known for Between the Lines, A Fish Called Wanda and Doctor Who, died on March 18, 2026, aged 89. Born in Liverpool on 8 August…
Andriy Serdyuk 87 dead at age 87
Andriy Serdyuk, a Ukrainian medical scientist and politician, died on March 16, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in Dnipropetrovsk on December 24, 1938, he served as Minister of…
Jesse Roth Cell surface receptors dead at age 91
Jesse Roth, an American endocrinologist, died on March 11, 2026, at age 91. He was an American physician and endocrinologist at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, known for his…
Alojz Ihan Doctor, microbiologist, immunologist, poet and writer dead at age 64
Alojz Ihan, a Slovenian immunologist, doctor and poet, died on March 10, 2026, at the age of 64. Born in Ljubljana on July 23, 1961, he studied at the Medical…
Volodymyr Vlasenko
Ukrainian scientist and military doctorDied on Monday March 9th 2026
Wylie Gibbs Surgeon dead at age 103
Wylie Gibbs, the Australian politician and surgeon who served as the Liberal member for the Queensland seat of Bowman in the House of Representatives from 1963 to 1969, died on…
Heorhij Halenčanka Belarusian historian dead at age 90
Heorhij Halenčanka, a Belarusian historian, died on March 9, 2026. He was 89. Born in Petrozavodsk on February 28, 1937, he spent most of his childhood in Minsk. Halenčanka graduated…
Judith L. Rapoport American psychiatrist dead at age 92
Judith L. Rapoport, an American psychiatrist, died on March 7, 2026, at age 92. She was chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health in…
António Lobo Antunes Portuguese novelist
António Lobo Antunes, the Portuguese novelist and medical doctor, died on March 5, 2026, in Lisbon, Portugal, at age 83. Born in Lisbon on September 1, 1942, he studied at…
Hélène Dorlhac Doctor dead at age 90
Hélène Dorlhac, a French doctor and politician, died on March 4, 2026. Born Hélène Roujon in Sumène on October 4, 1935, she graduated from the University of Montpellier School of…
Alfredo Bengzon Hospital executive, medical professor and academic dead at age 90
Alfredo Bengzon, a Filipino physician, educator and public official, died on March 3, 2026. Also known as Alfredo R. A. Bengzon, he served as vice-president for the Professional Schools of…
Valentyna Yeshchenko Ukrainian political activist dead at age 79
Valentyna Yeshchenko, a Ukrainian political activist and former People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the 1st convocation, died on March 3, 2026. Born on 10 August 1946, she was an Honored…
Kermit Gosnell American serial killer dead at age 85
Kermit Gosnell, an American serial killer and abortion doctor, died on March 1, 2026, at age 85. He was convicted of the murders of three infants who were born alive…
Giuseppe Armocida
Italian historian and physicianDied on Sunday March 1st 2026
Karlen G. Adamyan Armenian cardiologist dead at age 89
Karlen G. Adamyan, an Armenian cardiologist, died on February 28, 2026, at the age of 89. Born on January 19, 1937, in Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR, he graduated from Yerevan…
Robin Weiss Scientific discoveries related to HIV retrovirus dead at age 86
Robin Weiss, the British molecular biologist and influential scientist in virology and cancer biology, died on February 27, 2026, aged 86. His research focused on retroviruses, and he was noted…
Lorin N. Pace American politician dead at age 100
Lorin N. Pace, an American politician and attorney who served in the Utah House of Representatives and Utah State Senate, died on February 24, 2026, at age 100. A Republican,…
Doctor R. Crants Businessman dead at age 81
Doctor R. Crants, an American businessman and co-founder of the Corrections Corporation of America, died on February 22, 2026. He was 81. Born Doctor Robert Crants in Salamanca, New York,…
Raymond Bouchard Actor dead at age 80
Raymond Bouchard, a Canadian film, television and stage actor, died on February 21, 2026, at the age of 80. Born in Lévis, Quebec, on March 7, 1945, he was best…
Guido A. Zäch Doctor dead at age 90
Guido A. Zäch, a Swiss politician and doctor, died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Häggenschwil on October 1, 1935, he studied medicine at the…
Semyon Gluzman Struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union dead at age 79
Semyon Gluzman, a Ukrainian psychiatrist and human rights activist, died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Kyiv on September 10, 1946, Gluzman graduated from the…
Renato Rabelo Physician dead at age 83
José Renato Rabelo, a Brazilian politician and physician, died on February 15, 2026, at the age of 83. Born in Ubaíra, Bahia, on February 22, 1942, he was national president…
John Fraser Australian tennis player dead at age 90
John Fraser, an Australian tennis player and medical doctor, died on February 14, 2026, aged 90. Born in Melbourne on August 1, 1935, he attended St Kevin’s College before studying…
Tissa Vitharana Physician dead at age 91
Tissa Vitharana, a Sri Lankan physician and politician, died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 91. Known formally as Vidya Jyothi Upali Tissa Vitharana, he served as a…
Tânia Rodrigues Doctor dead at age 75
Tânia Rodrigues, a Brazilian politician and doctor, died on February 11, 2026, in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, at the age of 75. A member of the Democratic Labour Party, she…
William Nyhan Lesch-Nyhan syndrome dead at age 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…
Tessa Richards Physician dead 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…
Frank S. Royal American physician dead at age 86
Frank S. Royal, an American physician, company director and civic leader, died on February 2, 2026. Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, on September 15, 1939, he graduated from Virginia Union University…
Nicholas White Tropical medicine specialist dead at age 74
Sir Nicholas White, a British medical doctor and researcher who specialised in tropical medicine, died on February 1, 2026, aged 74. Born in London on March 13, 1951, he studied…
Alicja Kędzia
Polish doctorDied on Saturday January 31st 2026
Ain-Elmar Kaasik
Estonian neurologist and neurosurgeonDied on Friday January 30th 2026
J. S. Guleria
Indian physician and cardiologistDied on Tuesday January 27th 2026
William Foege
American physician and epidemiologistDied on Sunday January 25th 2026
Kikuo Arakawa Research of hypertension, cardiovascular medicine dead at age 96
Kikuo Arakawa, a Japanese medical scientist and internist, died on January 23, 2026. He specialized in hypertension and cardiovascular medicine and was a Professor Emeritus at Fukuoka University. Arakawa also…
Dame Marie Bashir
Australian psychiatrist and viceroyDied on Tuesday January 20th 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…