Sergei Nekrasov, died aged 53
Sergei Nekrasov, a Russian football player, died on March 10, 2026. He was 53. Nekrasov, whose full name was Sergei Vladimirovich Nekrasov, played as a defender and midfielder. He made…
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Moon Yong-joo passed away at age 93
Moon Yong-joo, a South Korean politician and lawyer, died on March 10, 2026, at the age of 93. A member of the Democratic Justice Party, she served in the National…
Eduard Apalkov passed away at age 56
Eduard Apalkov, a Russian former football player and defender, died on March 9, 2026. He was 56. Born Eduard Ivanovich Apalkov on January 30, 1970, he is identified in the…
Death of Klaus Kribben at age 88
Klaus Kribben, a German politician and lawyer who served in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein from 1975 to 1996, died on March 9, 2026, at the age of 88. A member…
Graham Sissons died at age 91
Graham Sissons, an English footballer who played as a defender, died on March 8, 2026. He made more than 250 Football League appearances for Birmingham City, Peterborough United and Walsall.…
Mahendra Pal dies at 85
Mahendra Pal Singh, an Indian legal scholar and jurist, died on March 7, 2026. He was a scholar of constitutional law, administrative law and comparative law, and professor emeritus at…
Nuno Morais Sarmento death at age 65
Nuno Morais Sarmento, a Portuguese politician and lawyer, died on March 7, 2026, in Lisbon, Portugal, at the age of 65. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he…
Sadok Belaïd passed away at age 87
Sadok Belaïd, a Tunisian jurist and academic, died on March 7, 2026, at the age of 87. Born on March 3, 1939, he was a longtime professor at Tunis University…
Death of List of Charles University rectors at age 95
Charles University rector and Czech lawyer Charles University rectors died on March 6, 2026. This is a list of rectors of the University of Prague founded in 1347/1348 by Emperor…
Colleen Hanabusa has died at age 74
Colleen Hanabusa, an American politician and lawyer, died on March 6, 2026, in Honolulu, Hawaii, at age 74. A Democrat, she served as the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional…
Catherine C. Blake has died at age 75
Catherine C. Blake, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, died on March 4, 2026, at age 75. Born in Boston…
John Markie passed away at age 81
John Markie, a Scottish footballer with Falkirk, died on March 2, 2026. John Markie (16 December 1944 – 27 February 2026) was a Scottish footballer, who played as a central…
Timothy D. Leonard passes away at age 86
Timothy D. Leonard, an American politician and jurist who served as a United States district judge for the Western District of Oklahoma, died on March 2, 2026, at age 86.…
Gao Mingxuan dies at 97
Chinese jurist Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Charles S. Russell, died aged 100
Charles S. Russell, an American lawyer and judge, died on February 28, 2026. Russell was born in Richmond, Virginia, on February 23, 1926, and received his education at the Congressional…
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,…
Wiesław Zajączkowski has died at age 82
Wiesław Zajączkowski, a Polish politician and lawyer, died on February 21, 2026, at the age of 82. Born on February 11, 1944, in Łomazy, General Government, he was a member…
Rodolfo Díaz passes away at age 82
Rodolfo Díaz, an Argentine politician and lawyer, died on February 20, 2026, in Buenos Aires at the age of 82. A member of the Justicialist Party, he served as Minister…
David Judge died at age 75
David Judge, a British political scientist and writer, died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 75 from oesophageal cancer. He was based at the University of Strathclyde, where…
Abdul Hamid Mohamad death at age 83
Abdul Hamid Mohamad, a Malaysian jurist and former Chief Justice of Malaysia, died on February 19, 2026, at the age of 83. Born on April 18, 1942, in Kepala Batas,…
Norman Francis death at age 94
Norman Francis, an American academic who served as president of Xavier University of Louisiana, died on February 18, 2026, at age 94. He led the university from 1968 to 2015,…
Chester Clem, died aged 88
Chester Clem, an American politician and attorney in Florida, died on February 18, 2026, at the age of 88. Chester Earl Clem Jr. was born in Sanford, Florida, on December…
Death of Richard Ottinger at age 97
Richard Ottinger, an American politician and attorney who served in the United States House of Representatives, died on February 16, 2026. He was 97. A member of the Democratic Party,…
Death of Susan Grode at age 86
American entertainment lawyer Died on Sunday February 15th 2026
Anna Benaki-Psarouda dead at age 91
Anna Benaki-Psarouda, a Greek lawyer, politician and academician, died on February 15, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in Exarcheia, Athens, on December 12, 1934, she obtained a PhD…
Bitokotipou Yagninim, died aged 84
Bitokotipou Yagninim, a Togolese politician, died on February 15, 2026, at the age of 84. Born on December 31, 1941, in Bassar, French Togoland, French West Africa, he was a…
Death of Robert Duvall at age 95
Robert Duvall, an American actor, filmmaker, and producer best known for his later-20th-century Hollywood roles, died on February 15, 2026, at age 95. Born in San Diego, California, he began…
Obituary: Faʻaolesa Katopau Ainuʻu, dead at age 62
Faʻaolesa Katopau Ainuʻu, a Samoan jurist and politician, died on February 14, 2026. Born in November 1963, he was a lawyer, politician and high chief (matai) who served as Samoa’s…
Obituary: Susan George, dead at age 91
Susan George, the American-French political and social scientist, activist and writer, died on February 14, 2026. Born Susan Vance Akers on June 29, 1934, in Akron, Ohio, she wrote on…
Ángela Murillo passed away at age 73
Spanish judge Died on Friday February 13th 2026
Zaeem Qadri dies at age 61
Syed Zaeem Hussain Qadri, a Pakistani lawyer and politician, died on February 13, 2026, in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, at the age of 61. Born in Lahore on December 25, 1964,…
Roy Medvedev dead at age 101
Roy Medvedev, a Russian politician and writer, died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 100. Born in Tbilisi in 1925, he was known for his human rights activism…
Mirakbar Rahmonqulov passes away at age 73
Mirakbar Rahmonqulov, an Uzbek politician and lawyer, died on February 12, 2026, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, at the age of 73. An Independent, he served in the Senate from 2020 to…
Anastasios Papaligouras died at age 77
Anastasios Papaligouras, a Greek politician and lawyer, died on February 12, 2026. Born in Athens on April 14, 1948, he studied law at the University of Athens and earned a…
José Luis Russo passes away at age 67
José Luis Russo, a Uruguayan footballer who played as a defender, died on February 12, 2026. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, he played for clubs in Uruguay, Chile, Brazil and Colombia.…
Obituary: Jeffrey Evangelos, dead at age 73
Jeffrey Evangelos, an American politician from Maine, died on February 11, 2026. He was an unenrolled member of the Maine House of Representatives, serving four two-year terms between 2012 and…
Otto Šimko, died aged 101
Otto Šimko, a Slovak jurist and Holocaust survivor, died on February 11, 2026. Born in Topoľčany on June 1, 1924, to Artúr and Irena Šimko, he spent most of his…
Anne Gambrill dies at age 91
Anne Gambrill, a New Zealand lawyer and judge, died on February 10, 2026, aged 91. Born Anne Gertrude Shorland in Wellington in 1934, she was the first woman to sit…
Death of Genrikh Padva at age 94
Genrikh Padva, a Russian advocate, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 94. Born in Moscow on February 20, 1931, he graduated from the Moscow Law Institute in…
Tommy McMillan dead at age 81
Tommy McMillan, the Scottish footballer who played for Aberdeen and Falkirk, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 81. Born in Paisley on June 26, 1944, he played…
Vardan Khachatryan dead at age 66
Vardan Khachatryan, an Armenian politician, died on February 6, 2026. He was an Armenian former footballer who played as a defender and appeared for the Armenia national football team. Khachatryan…
Troy Poteete death at age 70
Troy Poteete, an American Cherokee politician and jurist, died on February 5, 2026, at age 70. Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on March 6, 1955, he served on the Cherokee Nation…
Cesare Ruperto passes away at age 100
Cesare Ruperto, an Italian judge, died on February 5, 2026, in Rome at the age of 100. He served as a member of Italy’s Constitutional Court from 1993 to 2002…
Death of Jeff Griffin at age 81
Jeff Griffin, an American businessman and politician who served as mayor of Reno, Nevada, from 1995 to 2002, died on February 5, 2026. During his tenure, he chaired the Criminal…
Death of Alan Trustman at age 95
Alan Trustman, an American screenwriter best known for The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt and They Call Me Mister Tibbs!, died on February 5, 2026, at age 95. Born in Brookline,…
Sandra Schultz Newman death at age 87
Sandra Schultz Newman, an American judge and former justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, died on February 4, 2026, at age 87. Born Sandra Schultz on November 4, 1938, she…
Obituary: Nogueira de Brito, dead at age 88
José Luís Nogueira de Brito, a Portuguese politician and lawyer, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 88. A member of the CDS – People's Party, he served…
Corrado Carnevale dies at 95
Corrado Carnevale, an Italian jurist and judge who served as president of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 95. Born in…
Lee Hamilton dies at 94
Lee Hamilton, an American politician and lawyer from Indiana, died on February 3, 2026. A Democrat, he represented Indiana’s 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1965…
Chuck Sullivan, died aged 83
Chuck Sullivan, an American lawyer and sports executive who was vice president of the New England Patriots and owned the team's stadium, Foxboro Stadium, died on February 2, 2026. He…
Lucien Weiler has died at age 74
Lucien Weiler, a Luxembourgish politician and jurist, died on February 1, 2026, at the age of 74. He was a member of the Christian Social People's Party and served as…
Rafael Hui dies at 77
Rafael Hui, Hong Kong civil servant and former Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong, died on February 1, 2026, at the age of 77. Hui served as a career…
Gustavo Sánchez Vásquez dies at age 62
Gustavo Sánchez Vásquez, a Mexican politician and lawyer, died on January 31, 2026. He was a member of the National Action Party (PAN) and served as municipal president of Mexicali,…
Georghios Pikis dies at age 87
Cypriot judge Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Robert W. death at age 78
American jurist Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Wolfgang Pfeifer died at age 90
Wolfgang Pfeifer died on January 30, 2026. He was a German footballer who played for Einheit Dresden, Dynamo Dresden and the East Germany national team. Wolfgang Pfeifer (3 July 1935…
Diógenes Quintero passed away at age 36
Colombian lawyer Died on Thursday January 29th 2026
Kim Kyo-chang dead at age 89
South Korean lawyer Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Louis J. Ceci died at age 98
Louis J. Ceci, an American judge and justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1982 to 1993, died on January 27, 2026. He was 98. A lawyer, jurist and Republican…
Abdul Salam dies at 90
Afghan judge Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
Barbara Aronstein dead at age 92
American legal scholar Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Obituary: Robert W., dead at age 92
American judge and politician Died on Monday January 19th 2026
David Young dies at 80
David Young, an English footballer who played for Charlton Athletic, Southend United and Newcastle United, died on January 18, 2026, aged 80. A central defender, he made 209 appearances in…
Death of David Annoussamy at age 98
Indian judge Died on Saturday January 17th 2026
Leonard D. dies at age 83
American attorney Died on Friday January 16th 2026
Obituary: Arthur Tobin, dead at age 95
Arthur Tobin, an American politician and lawyer from Quincy, Massachusetts, died on January 16, 2026, at age 95. He served on the Quincy City Council and in the Massachusetts legislature…
Rafael Gvaladze, died aged 78
Azerbaijani judge Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Sir James passes away at age 77
English judge Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Jacoby & Meyers American attorney dead at age 83 death at age 83
Jacoby & Meyers, the American law firm founded by Leonard Jacoby and Stephen Meyers, died on January 12, 2026. Established in September 1972 as a partnership, the firm began in…
Death of Park Soon-yong at age 81
South Korean lawyer Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Obituary: Jean-Louis Duplat, dead at age 88
Belgian magistrate Died on Sunday January 11th 2026
Robert K. dies at age 83
American trial attorney and novelist Died on Saturday January 10th 2026
Seydou Madani dead at age 92
Senegalese jurist and politician Died on Friday January 9th 2026
Death of Albert Bourgi at age 90
French jurist Died on Friday January 9th 2026
William H. has died at age 90
American jurist and politician Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Death of Francesco Paolo at age 94
Italian jurist Died on Wednesday January 7th 2026
Gianpaolo Tosel died at age 85
Italian magistrate Died on Wednesday January 7th 2026
Julius Berman passes away at age 90
American rabbi and attorney Died on Wednesday December 31st 2025
Carolyn R. died at age 96
American jurist Died on Wednesday December 31st 2025
Death of Rhoda Billings at age 88
American lawyer and justice Died on Wednesday December 31st 2025
Joseph Hartzler death at age 75
American lawyer Died on Tuesday December 30th 2025
Pedro Camus death at age 70
Pedro Camus, a Spanish footballer and central defender who competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics, died on December 29, 2025, at the age of 70. Pedro…
Khosrow Alikordi died at age 46
Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Died on Sunday December 28th 2025
Hans Flock dead at age 85
Norwegian judge Died on Sunday December 28th 2025
Robert Smellie, died aged 95
New Zealand High Court judge Died on Saturday December 27th 2025
Death of Frank Craighill at age 86
Frank Craighill, an American sports agent and founding partner of the sports marketing firm ProServ, died on December 25, 2025, at the age of 86. ProServ was created in 1970…
Tomáš Vrána death at age 63
Czech lawyer and judicial officer Died on Wednesday December 24th 2025
David Young death at age 89
David Reginald Young, an American-British lawyer and academic, died on December 24, 2025, in Oxford, England, at the age of 89. He served as a Special Assistant at the National…
M. Ravi obituary: died at age 56
M. Ravi, a Singaporean human rights lawyer and activist, died on December 24, 2025, aged 56. Born Ravi Madasamy on April 9, 1969, in Singapore, he qualified and practised law…
Vivian Polania died at age 37
Colombian lawyer and social media influencer Died on Monday December 22nd 2025
María Victoria death at age 66
Colombian jurist Died on Sunday December 21st 2025
George C. passed away at age 97
American judge Died on Friday December 19th 2025
Mohamed Khadhar obituary: died at age 69
Kenyan jurist Died on Wednesday December 17th 2025
Ismail Ayob dead at age 83
South African anti-apartheid lawyer Died on Wednesday December 17th 2025
Tanko Muhammad, died aged 71
Nigerian jurist Died on Tuesday December 16th 2025
William J. dead at age 99
American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Died on Monday December 15th 2025
Death of Alex R. at age 84
American jurist Died on Sunday December 14th 2025
Gerald Watt dead at age 86
Sir Gerald Watt, Antiguan politician and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, died on December 13, 2025, at the age of 86. He represented St. John's Rural East in…
Sandra Segal death at age 71
American jurist Died on Saturday December 13th 2025