Cyril Karabus dies at age 91
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…
Famous Dead Doctors: Recent Doctor Deaths and Obituaries
Over 1,000 obituaries of famous dead doctors. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Richard Scolyer, died aged 59
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…
Marius Romme passed away at age 92
Marius Romme, the Dutch psychiatrist known for his work on the Hearing Voices Movement and experience-focussed counselling, died on June 5, 2026, at the age of 92. Born Marius Anton…
Robert Coles has died at age 97
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…
Obituary: Patrick Godfrey, dead at age 93
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…
Death of Henry Malcolm Whyte at age 105
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 death at age 93
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…
Obituary: Pierre Izard, dead at age 90
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 has died at age 76
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 has died at age 88
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,…
Death of Antônio Salim Curiati at age 98
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
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 passes away at age 97
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, died aged 94
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 has died at age 57
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 dies at age 79
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, died aged 99
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 obituary: died at age 89
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,…
William V. Tamborlane dies at age 79
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…
Al Gregg, died aged 62
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,…
Claude Griscelli has died at age 90
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…
Obituary: Algis Jurgis Kundrotas, dead at age 75
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 died at age 73
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, died aged 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 has died 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,…
Michael Keating died at age 79
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,…
Jesse Crenshaw death 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…
Rexhep Qosja 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 dies at 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…
Death of Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth 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,…
Death of Ralph B. Guy Jr. at age 96
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 obituary: died 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. 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, died aged 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 dies at 87
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 passed away 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 death 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.…
Paul Knapman dies at 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…
Obituary: Mani Kumar Chetri, 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,…
Ling Liong Sik died 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, died aged 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
Obituary: Dennis J., 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…
Obituary: Rezvi Sheriff, dead at age 77
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 has died 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,…
Obituary: Harold Ellis, 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 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 dies 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…
Waldyr Pugliesi passes away 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…
J. Michael Bishop dies at 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…
Alton Sutnick 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 dies 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…
Obituary: Andriy Serdyuk, 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, died aged 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 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 dies at age 77
Ukrainian scientist and military doctor Died on Monday March 9th 2026
Heorhij Halenčanka dies at 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…
Wylie Gibbs has died 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…
Judith L. Rapoport has died 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 dies at 83
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 has died 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…
Valentyna Yeshchenko obituary: died 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…
Alfredo Bengzon died 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…
Vyacheslav Klepikov died at age 76
Vyacheslav Klepikov, a Ukrainian nuclear physicist, died on March 1, 2026, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, at the age of 76. He was also a professor and a doctor of physical and…
Kermit Gosnell passed away 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 death at age 85
Italian historian and physician Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Karlen G. Adamyan has died 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 passed away 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, died aged 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 passed away 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 dies at 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 dies at 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 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 dies at 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 has died 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 passes away 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…
William Nyhan dies at 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…
Tânia Rodrigues 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…
Tessa Richards death 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…
Death of Frank S. Royal 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 obituary: died 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…
Death of Alicja Kędzia at age 84
Polish doctor Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
Ain-Elmar Kaasik dies at age 91
Estonian neurologist and neurosurgeon Died on Friday January 30th 2026
J. S. passed away at age 98
Indian physician and cardiologist Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Death of William Foege at age 89
American physician and epidemiologist Died on Sunday January 25th 2026
Kikuo Arakawa passed away 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 died at age 95
Australian psychiatrist and viceroy Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Toshikatsu Yamamoto dies 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…
Tom Kim dead at age 81
North Korean-born American physician Died on Sunday January 18th 2026
S. V. dead at age 86
Indian orthopaedic surgeon Died on Saturday January 17th 2026
Death of Gilbert Thompson at age 93
British physician Died on Saturday January 17th 2026
Angella D. dies at 100
American pediatrician Died on Wednesday January 14th 2026
Paul Grist obituary: died at age 86
Paul Grist, the Welsh actor, car racer and restorer, died on January 13, 2026, aged 86. Born in Glamorgan, Wales, on January 18, 1939, he trained at the Royal Academy…
Isaac Witz passed away at age 91
Austrian-born Israeli immunologist Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Samuel O. obituary: died at age 88
American doctor and academic Died on Tuesday January 6th 2026
Death of Killing of Monique and Spencer Tepe at age 37
Monique Tepe, an American dentist, was shot dead on December 30, 2025, alongside her husband, Spencer Tepe, in their Columbus, Ohio, home. The couple were found after Spencer failed to…
Death of Joel Habener at age 88
American physician Died on Monday December 29th 2025
Karl Quade death at age 71
German doctor Died on Sunday December 28th 2025
Thomas J. Fogarty death at age 91
Thomas J. Fogarty, an American surgeon and medical device inventor, died on December 28, 2025, at age 91. Born Thomas James Fogarty in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 25, 1934, he…
Leonard Morse dies at age 96
American physician and public health official Died on Saturday December 27th 2025