Alojzy Lysko, died aged 84
Alojzy Lysko, the Silesian writer and politician, died on September 22, 2026, aged 84. Born on February 15, 1942, in Bojszowy, Poland, he was a Polish politician, writer, teacher and…
Famous Dead Lawyers: Recent Lawyer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 3,000 obituaries of famous dead lawyers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Frans Kgomo dies at age 75
Frans Kgomo, a South African jurist and High Court judge, died on September 19, 2026, aged 75. Known also as Nare Frans Kgomo, he joined the bench in 2008 as…
Tim Read dies at age 64
Tim Read, an Australian politician and former general practitioner and medical researcher, died on September 19, 2026, aged 64. He represented the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Brunswick from November…
Joyce L. Kennard dies at age 85
Joyce L. Kennard, the American judge who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1989 to 2014, died on September 18, 2026, aged 85. Born Josephine…
Arthur R. Kudart dies at 96
Arthur R. Kudart, an American lawyer and former Iowa state senator, died on September 18, 2026, aged 96. Born in Mount Vernon, Iowa, on July 27, 1930, Kudart attended Cornell…
Jon Kyl has died at age 84
Jon Kyl, an American politician who served as a U.S. senator from Arizona and later as a lobbyist, died on September 17, 2026, aged 84. A Republican, he represented Arizona…
William Gummow obituary: died at age 83
William Gummow, the Australian jurist who served as a justice of the High Court of Australia from 1995 to 2012, died on September 17, 2026, aged 83. Born William Montague…
Death of E. M. Sudarsana Natchiappan at age 78
E. M. Sudarsana Natchiappan, a lawyer and politician who represented Tamil Nadu in Parliament, died on September 17, 2026, aged 78. A member of the Indian National Congress, he served…
Jeffery Lee obituary: died at age 49
Jeffery Lee, an American convicted murderer who was executed by lethal injection, died on September 17, 2026, at age 49. Born Jeffery James Lee in Alabama, he was also known…
Pierre de Chastonay has died at age 95
Pierre de Chastonay, a Swiss politician and lawyer, died on September 16, 2026, at the age of 95. Born in Sierre on June 20, 1931, he was a member of…
Dolores Sibonga obituary: died at age 94
Dolores Sibonga, an American lawyer and Seattle City Council member, died on September 16, 2026, aged 94. Washington’s first Filipina American female lawyer, she became the first minority female to…
John Delaney passed away at age 84
John Delaney, the English footballer who played for Wycombe Wanderers, Bournemouth and the national amateur team, died on September 15, 2026, aged 84. Born John Joseph Delaney in Slough on…
René Aphing Kouassi dead at age 78
René Aphing Kouassi, an Ivorian politician and magistrate, died on September 15, 2026, aged 78. Born in Abidjan on July 2, 1948, he was associated with the Democratic Party of…
Death of Ahmed Ammi at age 45
Ahmed Ammi, the Dutch-Moroccan footballer who played as a right defender for ADO Den Haag, VVV-Venlo and NAC Breda, died on September 15, 2026, aged 45. Born in Temsamane, Morocco,…
Rachid Sabbagh died at age 76
Rachid Sabbagh, a Tunisian politician and former defence minister, died on September 15, 2026, aged 76. An independent politician, he joined the Ali Laarayedh cabinet in 2013 as defense minister.…
Aleksandr Kupriyanov passed away at age 74
Aleksandr Kupriyanov, a Soviet footballer, died on September 14, 2026, aged 74. Born on July 23, 1952, he was also known as Aleksandr Ivanovich Kupriyanov and was born in the…
Mary Gaudron obituary: died at age 83
Mary Gaudron, the Australian judge and former justice of the High Court, died on September 13, 2026, aged 83. Born Mary Genevieve Gaudron in Moree, New South Wales, she became…
Obituary: Naseer al-Chaderchi, dead at age 90
Naseer al-Chaderchi, an Iraqi politician, died on September 12, 2026, aged 90. He served as a member of Iraq’s Interim Governing Council, which was established after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.…
Chaudhry Mehmood Bashir obituary: died at age 88
Chaudhry Mehmood Bashir, a Pakistani politician who served as minister for law and a member of the National Assembly, died on September 11, 2026, aged 88. Also known as Chaudhry…
Death of Paul Bender at age 93
Paul Bender, an American attorney and legal scholar who served as dean of the Arizona State University college of law, died on September 11, 2026, aged 93. Born in Brooklyn…
Marilyn Edwards has died at age 88
Marilyn Edwards, an American politician and member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, died on September 10, 2026, aged 88. She represented the 88th district in the Arkansas House from…
Josep María Trías de Bes dies at age 81
Josep María Trías de Bes, a Spanish lawyer and politician, died on September 10, 2026, aged 81. Born Josep María Trías de Bes i Serra in Madrid on November 19,…
Bheki Maphalala dead, Bheki Maphalala, Swazi jurist
Bheki Maphalala, a Swazi jurist and lawyer who served as Chief Justice of Eswatini, died on September 10, 2026. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2011 and became…
Jackson Nascimento dead at age 102
Jackson Nascimento, the Brazilian football player and manager who played for Athletico Paranaense and Corinthians, died on September 9, 2026, aged 102. A midfielder, he was revealed by Atlético Paranaense…
Dame Heather Steel died at age 86
Dame Heather Steel, the British jurist and High Court judge, died on September 9, 2026, aged 86. Dame Anne Heather Steel, DBE, was a former High Court judge and also…
Takao Jinnouchi has died at age 93
Takao Jinnouchi, a Japanese politician and former bureaucrat, died on September 8, 2026, aged 93. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he served in Japan’s Upper House for three…
Margaret Bedggood has died at age 87
Margaret Bedggood, the New Zealand legal scholar and former chief human rights commissioner, died on September 8, 2026, aged 87. Born Margaret Ann Bedggood in Takapuna on April 10, 1939,…
Silvio Meli dead at age 72
Silvio Meli, a Maltese judge, died on September 7, 2026, aged 72. He graduated from the University of Malta and later served as president of the Commission for Fair Trading…
David Cobb,, died aged 63
David Cobb, the Green Party of the United States candidate for president in the 2004 United States presidential election, died on September 7, 2026, at age 63. Known also as…
Bruce Lunsford dies at age 78
Bruce Lunsford, an American politician and attorney from Kentucky, died on September 6, 2026, aged 78. Born William Bruce Lunsford in Kenton County on November 11, 1947, he built a…
Obituary: Robert Alexy, dead at age 80
Robert Alexy, the German jurist and legal philosopher, died on September 5, 2026, aged 80. Born in Oldenburg on September 9, 1945, he studied law and philosophy at the University…
C. Richard, died aged 83
C. Richard D'Amato, an American politician and former Navy Reserve captain who served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1999 to 2003, died on September 5, 2026, aged 83.…
Filip Sternberg has died at age 69
Filip Sternberg, a Czech-Austrian lawyer and member of the Sternberg nobility, died on September 5, 2026, aged 69. He belonged to the Sternberg family and was the owner of Český…
Obituary: Alberto Iribarne, dead at age 76
Alberto Iribarne, the Argentine lawyer and politician who served as minister of justice from 2005 to 2007, died on September 5, 2026, aged 76. Born in Buenos Aires on August…
Peter Katsambanis death at age 60
Peter Katsambanis, an Australian politician who served in both Victoria and Western Australia, died on September 5, 2026, aged 60. Born in Melbourne on December 24, 1965, as Peter Argyris…
Joseph F. Rice dies at age 72
Joseph F. Rice, an American lawyer, died on September 3, 2026, aged 72. Born Joseph Fred Rice on March 25, 1954, in Winnsboro, South Carolina, he earned a bachelor’s degree…
Obituary: Ritu Khullar, dead at age 62
Ritu Khullar, a Canadian jurist and judge who served as chief justice of Alberta, died on September 3, 2026, aged 62. At the time of her death, she also sat…
Harish Chandra Mishra death at age 67
Harish Chandra Mishra, the Indian judge and Lokayukta of Delhi, died on September 3, 2026, aged 67. He served as Lokayukta of Delhi from 2022 and was a former judge…
Børge Thorup dies at 82
Børge Thorup, a Danish footballer who played as a defender, died on September 2, 2026, aged 82. Born in Copenhagen on October 4, 1943, he began and ended his career…
Edmée Buclin-Favre dies at 98
Edmée Buclin-Favre, a Swiss feminist activist and lawyer, died on September 2, 2026, aged 98. Born in Sion in 1927, she was the daughter of Antoine Favre, and became known…
Peter Leaver dies at age 81
Peter Leaver, a British barrister and judge, died on September 2, 2026, aged 81. Known in full as Peter Lawrence Oppenheim Leaver, KC, he served as chief executive of the…
Charles Hatcher, died aged 87
Charles Hatcher, an American politician and lawyer who served in Congress as a Democrat, died on September 1, 2026, aged 87. Born in Doerun, Georgia, he was educated at Georgia…
Obituary: Elco Brinkman, dead at age 78
Elco Brinkman, the Dutch politician who served in the House of Representatives and Senate, died on August 31, 2026, aged 78. Born Leendert Cornelis Brinkman in Dirksland on February 5,…
Mehdi Zana passes away at age 85
Mehdi Zana, the Turkish Kurdish politician and human rights defender who served as mayor of Diyarbakır from 1977 to 1980, died on August 29, 2026, aged 85. Born in Silvan,…
Narana Coissoró obituary: died at age 94
Narana Coissoró, a Portuguese lawyer, academic and politician, died on August 29, 2026, aged 94. Born in Goa, then in Portuguese India, on October 3, 1931, he moved to Portugal…
Obituary: Nicolae Ungureanu, dead at age 69
Nicolae Ungureanu, the Romanian footballer and manager best known for his work with Universitatea Craiova, the national team and Drobeta-Turnu Severin, died on August 28, 2026, aged 69. Born in…
Jackie Glass obituary: died at age 70
Jackie Glass, an American judge and television personality, died on August 28, 2026, at age 70. Glass was known to television audiences through "Swift Justice with Jackie Glass" and was…
Jean Allaire dies at age 96
Jean Allaire, a Canadian lawyer and politician, died on August 27, 2026, at age 96. A French Canadian from Laval, Quebec, he was best known for authoring the Allaire Report…
Lamin Khalifah Fhimah passed away at age 70
Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, the Libyan station superintendent best known as a former station manager for Libyan Arab Airlines at Luqa Airport in Malta, died on August 25, 2026, aged 70.…
Javier Giraldo dead at age 82
Javier Giraldo, a Colombian priest and human rights activist, died on August 25, 2026, aged 82. Known also as Javier Giraldo Moreno, he was a Catholic Jesuit priest, researcher, and…
Obituary: Silvia Buendía, dead at age 58
Silvia Buendía, an Ecuadorian journalist, lawyer and civil rights activist, died on August 24, 2026, at age 58. Born in Guayaquil on October 9, 1967, she graduated in law from…
Boris Ebzeyev dies at age 76
Boris Ebzeyev, a Russian politician and jurist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 76. Born Boris Safarovich Ebzeyev, he served as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Russia from…
barbara findlay dies at age 77
Barbara findlay, a Canadian lawyer and LGBT rights activist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 77. Over more than four decades, she used law, advocacy, education and community organizing to…
Liu I-chou dead at age 78
Liu I-chou, the Taiwanese civil servant who served as chairman of the Central Election Commission, died on August 23, 2026, aged 78. A lawyer and political scientist, he was vice…
Manoel Dias passed away at age 88
Manoel Dias, a Brazilian politician and minister of labour, died on August 22, 2026, aged 88. Born in Criciúma, Santa Catarina, on August 13, 1938, he trained as a lawyer…
Obituary: Sir Andrew Nicol, dead at age 75
Sir Andrew Nicol, the British judge who served as a justice of the High Court from 2009 to 2021, died on August 22, 2026, aged 75. Born Sir Andrew George…
Yao Eng-chi death at age 91
Yao Eng-chi, a Taiwanese politician who served as a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1981 to 2005 and as vice president from 1999 to 2002, died on August 21,…
Fikile Mokgohloa dead at age 65
Fikile Mokgohloa, a South African jurist and judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal, died on August 20, 2026, aged 65. Born in Pretoria on June 1, 1961, she began…
Messan Toudji passes away at age 29
Messan Toudji, a Togolese footballer, died on August 20, 2026, aged 29. A defender, he began his career with Anges FC before later playing for ASKO Kara and Gomido FC.…
Darrell Hickman dead at age 91
Darrell Hickman, an American jurist and justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, died on August 20, 2026, at age 91. Hickman served on the state’s highest court from 1977 to…
Robert Mouynet obituary: died at age 96
Robert Mouynet, a French footballer, died on August 19, 2026, aged 96. Born in Toulouse on March 25, 1930, he played as a defender and was also an association football…
Anne Thily dies at age 88
Anne Thily, the Belgian magistrate, died on August 19, 2026, aged 88. Born in Hannut on October 13, 1937, she studied mathematics before turning to law at the University of…
Tawfique Nawaz dead, Tawfique Nawaz, Bangladeshi political activist, complications from a stroke
Tawfique Nawaz, a Bangladeshi lawyer and senior advocate of the Bangladesh Supreme Court, died on August 18, 2026, of complications from a stroke. He served as director of Transparency International…
Mieczysław Szyszka passes away at age 64
Mieczysław Szyszka, a Polish teacher and politician who served in the Senate from 2005 to 2007, died on August 18, 2026, aged 64. Born on December 8, 1961, in Nowa…
Constantine Tsoucalas passed away at age 89
Constantine Tsoucalas, the Greek sociologist, academic and politician, died on August 18, 2026, aged 89. Born in Athens on August 5, 1937, he taught at universities in Greece, the United…
Obituary: Flavia Lattanzi, dead at age 85
Flavia Lattanzi, an Italian lawyer and scholar of international law, died on August 18, 2026, aged 85. Born in Addis Ababa in 1940, she studied law at Sapienza University of…
Javier Lasagabaster dies at age 93
Javier Lasagabaster, a Spanish politician and lawyer, died on August 17, 2026, aged 93. Born Javier José Luis Lasagabaster Echarri in Pasaia on January 5, 1933, he served as Minister…
Randal C. Picker obituary: died at age 66
Randal C. Picker, an American legal scholar in antitrust law and intellectual property law, died on August 15, 2026, aged 66. He was the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor…
Jacques Grandon died at age 99
Jacques Grandon, a French lawyer and politician, died on August 14, 2026, aged 99. Born in Saint-Benoît on May 9, 1927, he studied at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and…
Anton Stankov died at age 60
Anton Stankov, a Bulgarian politician and judge who served as minister of justice from 2001 to 2005, died on August 13, 2026, aged 60. Born Anton Iliev Stankov on February…
Elżbieta Barys obituary: died at age 79
Elżbieta Barys, a Polish lawyer and politician who served in the Sejm from 1997 to 2001, died on August 13, 2026, aged 79. Born Elżbieta Krystyna Barys, she was a…
Anton Stankov died at age 60
Anton Stankov, a Bulgarian politician who served as minister of justice, died on August 13, 2026, aged 60. He held the justice portfolio in Bulgaria from 2001 to 2005 and…
Reidun Andreassen has died at age 90
Reidun Andreassen, a Norwegian politician and former member of Parliament, died on August 12, 2026, aged 90. Born in Oslo on 15 June 1936, she represented the Labour Party in…
Freddy Makafui Dunyah dies at age 64
Freddy Makafui Dunyah, a Togolese environmental activist, died on August 12, 2026, aged 64. A national of Togo, he worked as an environmental defender and was known for communications roles…
Juan Manuel Escobar death at age 76
Juan Manuel Escobar, an American politician and judge, died on August 12, 2026, aged 76. A former member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 43rd district, he served…
Kai Krüger dies at age 86
Kai Krüger, the Norwegian jurist and academic who was a professor of law at the University of Bergen, died on August 12, 2026, aged 86. Born in Copenhagen on May…
Death of Tulio Ramírez Padilla at age 66
Tulio Ramírez Padilla, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate and canonist who served as auxiliary bishop of Caracas from 2012 to 2020 and as bishop of Guarenas from 2020, died on August…
Alaksandar Milinkievič has died at age 79
Alaksandar Milinkievič, a Belarusian politician and opposition figure, died on August 11, 2026, aged 79. Born in Hrodna on July 25, 1947, he was a physicist, ethnologist, university teacher, historian,…
Ward Churchill dies at age 78
Ward Churchill, the American academic, activist and writer known for his controversial work on political dissent and Native Americans, died on August 11, 2026, aged 78. Born Ward LeRoy Churchill…
Death of Jean-Paul Rostagni at age 78
Jean-Paul Rostagni, a French footballer, died on August 10, 2026, aged 78. Born in Drap, he played as a defender and spent three seasons with AS Monaco from 1966 to…
Death of Maurice Buttin at age 97
Maurice Buttin, the French lawyer and writer, died on August 9, 2026, aged 97. Born in Meknes on December 10, 1928, he joined the Rabat Bar Association in 1954 and…
Joaquim Sarmento dies at age 74
Joaquim Sarmento, a Portuguese lawyer, politician and former deputy in the Assembly of the Republic, died on August 8, 2026, aged 74. Born Joaquim Sebastião Sarmento da Fonseca Almeida on…
Death of Bah Oumarou Sanda at age 86
Bah Oumarou Sanda, a Cameroonian diplomat and magistrate, died on August 7, 2026, aged 86. Born in Garoua in 1940, he trained at the National School of Administration and Magistracy…
Death of Bernard Barton at age 74
Bernard Barton, an Irish barrister and Judge of the High Court, died on August 7, 2026, aged 74. Born Bernard Joseph Barton in Limerick in 1951, he was educated at…
Mohamed Eusoff Chin death at age 90
Mohamed Eusoff Chin, a Malaysian lawyer and jurist who served as chief justice from 1994 to 2000, died on August 7, 2026, aged 90. A Malaysian national, he was the…
Jerney Kaagman died at age 79
Jerney Kaagman, the Dutch singer best known as the lead vocalist of Earth and Fire, died on August 6, 2026, aged 79, from complications of Parkinson's disease. Born Christina Henriette…
Hugh O’Flaherty has died at age 88
Hugh O’Flaherty, an Irish barrister and former judge of the Supreme Court, died on August 5, 2026, aged 88. Born in 1937, he was educated at University College Dublin and…
Alejandro Royo-Villanova death at age 85
Alejandro Royo-Villanova, a Spanish lawyer and politician, died on August 5, 2026, aged 85. Born in Madrid on April 7, 1941, he was a member of both the People’s Party…
Manmohan Singh Liberhan passes away at age 88
Manmohan Singh Liberhan, an Indian judge and justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, died on August 2, 2026, aged 88. A retired chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High…
Ioannis Varvitsiotis has died at age 93
Ioannis Varvitsiotis, the Greek politician who served as minister of defence and a member of parliament, died on August 2, 2026, aged 93. Born in Athens on August 2, 1933,…
Death of Sir Anthony Evans at age 92
Sir Anthony Evans, British judge and lord justice of appeal from 1992 to 2000, died on August 2, 2026, aged 92. Known also as Sir Anthony Howell Meurig Evans, he…
Line Bareiro death at age 75
Line Bareiro, the Paraguayan political scientist, died on August 1, 2026, aged 75. Born in Asunción on August 30, 1950, she became known as a political scientist, lawyer and human…
Franco Baresi death at age 66
Franco Baresi, the Italian footballer who starred for AC Milan and the national team, died on July 31, 2026, aged 66. Born in Travagliato on May 8, 1960, he spent…
Death of Jiří Nykodým at age 81
Jiří Nykodým, the Czech lawyer and Constitutional Court judge, died on July 30, 2026, aged 81. A graduate of the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague, he earned…
Donatille Mukabalisa passed away at age 66
Donatille Mukabalisa, a Rwandan politician and former MP and senator, died on July 30, 2026, aged 66. Born in Nyamata on July 30, 1960, she was elected Speaker of the…
Hernando Tovar death at age 87
Hernando Tovar, a Colombian footballer who played for Santa Fe and the Colombia national team, died on July 29, 2026, aged 87. Born in Girardot, he was a defender who…
Richard Yuille has died at age 79
Richard Yuille, an American judge, died on July 28, 2026, aged 79. In 2009, he became chief judge of the 7th Circuit Court of Genesee County in Michigan and later…
Tom Chadbon death at age 80
Tom Chadbon, the English actor best known for work in British television and appearances in Doctor Who, Tess and Casino Royale, died on July 27, 2026, aged 80. Born in…
Thomas W. Luce III, died aged 86
Thomas W. Luce III, an American government official and lawyer, died on July 26, 2026. He also worked as a nonprofit executive and served as an adviser to H. Ross…