Émilie Manima Midwife dead at age 89
Émilie Manima, a Congolese politician and former midwife, died on February 11, 2026, in Brazzaville at the age of 89. Born in Brazzaville on March 25, 1936, she studied at…
Famous Dead Politicians: Recent Politician Deaths and Obituaries
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Qallibek Kamolov Teacher dead at age 99
Qallibek Kamolov, an Uzbek politician, died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 99. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and served as…
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…
Sandra Mendoza Kinesiologist dead at age 62
Sandra Mendoza, an Argentine politician, died on February 11, 2026, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the age of 62. A member of the Justicialist Party, she served in the Chamber…
Nikolay Tikhomirov Russian politician dead at age 74
Nikolay Tikhomirov, a Russian politician, died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 74. Born on January 12, 1952, in Sheksninsky District, Vologda Oblast, in the Russian SFSR, Soviet…
George Quincey Lumsden Jr. Diplomat dead at age 95
George Quincey Lumsden Jr., an American diplomat, died on February 11, 2026, at age 95. A Career Foreign Service Officer, he served as American Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the…
Pip Cheshire Architect dead at age 75
Pip Cheshire, a New Zealand architect, died on February 11, 2026, aged 75. Philip Maxwell Cheshire was one of the founding directors of Jasmax and later founded Cheshire Architects. He…
Dean G. Auten American politician dead at age 88
Dean G. Auten, an American politician, died on February 11, 2026, at age 88. Born in Gaston County, North Carolina, on September 6, 1937, he attended Appalachian State Teachers College.…
Pekka Vennamo Finnish politician dead at age 81
Pekka Vennamo, a Finnish politician and corporate executive, died on February 10, 2026. He led the Finnish Rural Party from 1979 to 1989 and served in the Parliament of Finland…
Yesen Taskynbayev Oil refiner, politician dead at age 93
Yesen Taskynbayev, a Kazakh oil refiner and politician, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 93. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he served…
Ed Crane American libertarian activist dead at age 81
Ed Crane, an American libertarian activist and co-founder of the Cato Institute, died on February 10, 2026. He was 81. Crane, whose full name was Edward Harrison Crane, served as…
Antonio Mereu Clerk dead at age 83
Antonio Mereu, an Italian politician, died on February 10, 2026, in Carbonia, Italy, at the age of 83. A member of the Union of the Centre, he served in the…
Abdul Mannan Khan Bangladeshi politician dead at age 73
Abdul Mannan Khan, a Bangladeshi politician and former state minister of housing and public works, died on February 10, 2026, in Dhaka at the age of 73. Born on June…
Ed Crane American libertarian activist, co-founder of the Cato Institute dead at age 81
Edward Harrison Crane, an American libertarian activist and co-founder of the Cato Institute, died on February 10, 2026, at age 81. Crane served as the institute’s president until October 2012.…
Jose de Venecia Jr. Politician dead at age 89
Jose de Venecia Jr., a Filipino politician and journalist who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of…
Antonino Zichichi Italian physicist dead at age 96
Antonino Zichichi, an Italian physicist, died on February 9, 2026. He worked in nuclear physics and served as president of the World Federation of Scientists and as a professor at…
Koit Pikaro Estonian politician dead at age 76
Koit Pikaro, an Estonian politician, died on February 9, 2026. Koit Pikaro (13 August 1949 – 7 February 2026) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of the IX…
Eldon Lautermilch Canadian politician dead at age 76
Eldon Lautermilch, a Canadian politician, died on February 9, 2026, at age 76. He was a Saskatchewan New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for Prince Albert…
Fazail Agamali Azerbaijani politician dead at age 78
Fazail Agamali, an Azerbaijani politician, historian and professor, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 78. He was the founding leader of the Motherland Party, serving in that…
Franz Ceska Austrian diplomat dead at age 90
Franz Ceska, an Austrian diplomat, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Vienna on January 31, 1936, he studied law at the University of Vienna,…
Jorge Babu Police officerCriminal dead at age 60
Jorge Luis Hauat, known as Jorge Babu, a Brazilian politician, died on February 8, 2026, in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 60. He served in the Legislative Assembly…
Terry L. Fields American politician dead at age 66
Terry L. Fields, an American politician, died on February 8, 2026, at the age of 66. A Democrat, he served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008,…
Agus Widjojo Military officer, diplomat dead at age 78
Agus Widjojo, an Indonesian military officer and diplomat, died on February 8, 2026, in Jakarta at the age of 78. He was vice chairman of the People’s Consultative Assembly of…
Owen Donohoe American politician dead at age 80
Owen Donohoe, an American politician from Kansas who served as a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, died on February 8, 2026, at age 80. He represented the…
Angelo Attaguile Accounant dead at age 78
Angelo Attaguile, an Italian politician, died on February 8, 2026, at the age of 78. Born Angelo Gioachino Gaetano Attaguile in Grammichele, Italy, on May 12, 1947, he was associated…
Chen Bangzhu Chinese politician, governor of Hunan and chairman of the Committee of Population, Res…
Chen Bangzhu, a Chinese politician who served as governor of Hunan from 1989 to 1994 and as chairman of the Committee of Population, Resources and Environment from 2000 to 2008,…
Eli Alaluf Israeli politician dead at age 80
Eli Alaluf, an Israeli politician, died on February 8, 2026, at the age of 80. Born in Fes, Morocco, on February 17, 1945, he immigrated to Israel in 1967. He…
Erkki Nghimtina Politician dead at age 77
Erkki Nghimtina, a Namibian politician and military officer, died on February 8, 2026. A member of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), he served in the National Assembly of…
Robert del Picchia French politician dead at age 83
Robert del Picchia, a French journalist and politician, died on February 7, 2026, in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 83. Born in Marseille on November 10, 1942, he served…
Masashi Furukawa Engineer dead at age 90
Masashi Furukawa, a Japanese politician, died on February 7, 2026. A member of Komeito, he served in the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1990. Born in Hiroshima Prefecture on…
Shao Yu-ming Historian dead at age 87
Shao Yu-ming, a Taiwanese politician, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 87. Born on November 3, 1938, in Binjiang Province in what was then Manchukuo, he moved…
Nora Uribe Activist dead at age -1
Nora Uribe, a Venezuelan politician and diplomat, died on February 7, 2026, at age 87 or 88. A member of the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR), she served as minister of…
Bert Broekhuis Urban planner dead at age 82
Bert Broekhuis, a Dutch politician, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 82. A member of the Labour Party, he served in the House of Representatives from 1981…
Jesús Fuentes Lázaro Teacher dead at age 79
Jesús Fuentes Lázaro, a Spanish politician and teacher, died on February 7, 2026, in Toledo, Spain, at the age of 79. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he…
Léopoldine Tiézan Coffie 75–76 dead at age 75
Léopoldine Tiézan Coffie, an Ivorian politician of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA), died on February 7, 2026, in Abidjan at the age of 75.…
Francis Takirwa Military officer dead at age 60
Major General Francis Takirwa, a Ugandan military officer and former deputy commander of the UPDF Land Forces, died on February 7, 2026. He had previously served as commanding officer of…
Ramesh Chandra Sen Politician dead at age 85
Ramesh Chandra Sen, a Bangladeshi politician and former Jatiya Sangsad member, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 85. He represented the Thakurgaon-1 constituency from 2009 to 2024…
Jeane Freeman Scottish businesswoman and politician dead at age 72
Jeane Freeman, the Scottish businesswoman and politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport, died on February 7, 2026. A member of the Scottish National Party, she represented…
Benny Indra Ardhianto Indonesian politician and businessman dead at age 33
Benny Indra Ardhianto, an Indonesian politician and businessman who served as vice regent of Klaten, died on February 7, 2026, in Semarang, Central Java, at the age of 33 after…
Viktor Kurochkin Miner dead at age 72
Viktor Kurochkin, a Russian politician, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 72. A member of Democratic Russia, he served in the Federation Council from 1994 to 1996…
Eleftherios Venizelos Shipowner dead at age 101
Eleftherios Venizelos, a Greek politician and shipowner, died on February 7, 2026. Born in August 1924 in Athens, Greece, he was a member of the Liberal Party and served in…
Vardan Khachatryan Armenian politician 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…
Blessed Geza Involvement in Zimbabwean politics, war veteran advocacy dead at age 82
Blessed Geza, a Zimbabwean political figure and war veteran, died on February 6, 2026, at the age of 82–83. Commonly known as Bombshell Geza, he was an expelled member of…
Ricardo Melchior Spanish politician dead at age 78
Ricardo Melchior, a Spanish politician, died on February 6, 2026. Born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on February 18, 1947, he served as president of the Island Council of Tenerife…
Salvatore Mazzaracchio Journalist dead at age 92
Salvatore Mazzaracchio, an Italian politician, died on February 6, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in San Paolo Albanese on January 3, 1934, he was a member of The…
128th Georgia General Assembly American politician dead at age 99
The 128th Georgia General Assembly, an American political body, died on February 6, 2026. It convened its first session on January 13, 1965, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta,…
Reta Holden American politician dead at age 87
Reta Holden, an American politician, died on February 6, 2026. Reta Faye Eaves Holden was born on August 7, 1938, to Odie Lee and Floy Triplett Eaves. She served as…
Đoàn Duy Thành Vietnamese politician, deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers dead at age 96
Đoàn Duy Thành, a Vietnamese politician and deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1987 to 1988, died on February 6, 2026, at the age of 96. He was…
John Burton British political agent dead at age 85
John Burton, a British political agent and Labour Party councillor, died on February 6, 2026. He served on Sedgefield Borough Council, representing the ward of Fishburn and Old Trimdon in…
Sein Win Burmese politician dead at age 81
Sein Win, a Burmese politician who served as chairman of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, died on February 6, 2026, at the age of 81. He…
Doan Duy Thanh
Vietnamese politicianDied on Friday February 6th 2026
Vardan Khachatryan Armenian politician, minister of finance dead at age 66
Vardan Khachatryan, Armenian politician and minister of finance from 2000 to 2008, died on February 5, 2026. Born in Jermuk on April 6, 1959, he later served as counselor to…
Cesare Ruperto Judge dead 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…
Ken Weetch British parliament dead at age 92
Ken Weetch, the British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1987, died on February 5, 2026, aged 92. Born Kenneth Thomas Weetch in…
Henry G. Lackey American politician dead at age 78
Henry G. Lackey, an American politician from Kentucky, died on February 5, 2026, at the age of 78. He served in the Kentucky Senate from 1982 to 1987 and again…
Vladimir Kuroyedov Russian admiral of the fleet dead at age 81
Vladimir Kuroyedov, Russian admiral of the fleet and former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, died on February 5, 2026, at the age of 81. Kuroyedov led the navy from 1997…
Marian Jeż Engineer dead at age 84
Marian Jeż, a Polish politician, died on February 5, 2026, at the age of 84. Born on June 1, 1941, he served in the Sejm from 1989 to 1991 as…
Jeff Griffin American politician dead 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…
Troy Poteete American Cherokee politician dead 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…
Elyakim Schlesinger Rabbi, Rosh Yeshiva dead at age 104
Elyakim Schlesinger, an Austrian-born British Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva, died on February 4, 2026. He was an international authority and served as president, chairman and head of the Rabbinical…
Marlies Krämer Politician dead at age 88
Marlies Krämer, a German feminist activist and politician, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Illingen in 1937, she began an apprenticeship in retailing after…
Morishige Naruse Business executive dead at age 92
Morishige Naruse, a Japanese politician, died on February 4, 2026, in Okazaki, Japan, two days before his 93rd birthday. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he served in the…
Odílio Balbinotti Businessman dead at age 84
Odílio Balbinotti, a Brazilian politician, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 84 in Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, Brazil, of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Born on June 8, 1941,…
Nogueira de Brito Lawyer 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 Italian jurist dead at age 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…
Fernand Ouellette Canadian writer dead at age 95
Fernand Ouellette, a Canadian writer, died on February 4, 2026. He was a Quebecois writer who wrote in French and was born in Montreal, Quebec, on September 24, 1930. Ouellette…
Jacques Tremblay Canadian politician dead at age 83
Jacques Tremblay, a Canadian politician, died on February 4, 2026. Born in Iberville, Quebec, on February 8, 1942, he was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec for the Quebec…
Charles Poindexter Farmer dead at age 83
Charles Douglas Poindexter, an American politician, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 83. A Republican, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2008 to 2022,…
Lee Hamilton American politician dead at age 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…
Seiichirō Dōkyū Banker dead at age 72
Seiichirō Dōkyū, a Japanese politician, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 72. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the House of Representatives from 2009…
George LeBlanc Canadian politician dead at age 71
George LeBlanc, a Canadian politician who served as mayor of Moncton, New Brunswick, died on February 3, 2026, in Moncton, New Brunswick, at the age of 71. Born in Moncton…
Carole Jordan British physicist dead at age 84
Dame Carole Jordan, a British physicist, died on February 3, 2026, aged 84. She was Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow at Somerville College,…
Ivan Nikulin Economist dead at age 89
Ivan Nikulin, a Russian politician, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 89. Born Ivan Ivanovich Nikulin on July 10, 1936, in Bryansk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union,…
Sérgio Görgen Priest dead at age 72
Sérgio Görgen, a Brazilian politician, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 72. A member of the Workers' Party, he served in the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande…
José Borba Businessman dead at age 76
José Borba, a Brazilian politician, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 76. Born José Rodrigues Borba on July 14, 1949, in Mandaguari, Paraná, Brazil, he served in…
Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri Politician dead at age 72
Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri, an Indian politician and member of the AIMIM party, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 72 from kidney disease. He won the Charminar…
Şemsa Özar Turkish academic dead at age -1
Şemsa Özar, a Turkish academic and professor in the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University, died on February 3, 2026, in Istanbul, Turkey, after a long illness. Born in İzmir…
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Engineer, diplomat, painter, philanthropist, soldier dead at age 53
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a Libyan politician, died on February 3, 2026, at age 53. The second son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Safia Farkash, he was part of his…
Hem Singh Bhadana Politician dead at age 55
Hem Singh Bhadana, an Indian politician and former Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly representing Thanagazi, died on February 2, 2026. He was born in 1966 in Kishangarh Bas, Alwar,…
Valentin Balakhnichev Russian engineer and athletics coach dead at age 76
Valentin Balakhnichev, a Russian engineer and athletics coach, died on February 2, 2026. Born on April 23, 1949, in Lutsk, Soviet Union, he was a former athlete for the Soviet…
René Galy-Dejean French politician dead at age 93
René Galy-Dejean, a French politician, died on February 2, 2026. René Galy-Dejean (16 March 1932 – 29 January 2026) was a French politician who served as a Deputy. He died…
Horst Gallert Technologist dead at age 88
Horst Gallert, a German politician, died on February 2, 2026, at the age of 88. A member of the Christian Democratic Union, he served in the Landtag of Saxony from…
Augusto Blacker Miller Peruvian politician dead at age 80
Augusto Blacker Miller, a Peruvian politician, died on February 2, 2026. Augusto Blacker Miller (18 October 1945 – 23 January 2026) was a Peruvian politician who served as Minister of…
Ahmad Obeidat Jordanian politician dead at age 87
Ahmad Obeidat, a Jordanian politician and former prime minister, died on February 2, 2026, in Amman, Jordan, at the age of 87. Ahmad Abdul Majeed Obeidat was a senior member…
Gabor Boritt American historian dead at age 86
Gabor Boritt, an American historian and the Robert Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, died on February 2, 2026. Hungarian-born…
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…
Chuck Sullivan American lawyer and sports executive dead at age 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…
John Terris Broadcaster dead at age 86
John James Terris, a New Zealand politician, Anglican priest and broadcaster, died on February 2, 2026, aged 86. He represented the Labour Party in the New Zealand parliament from 1978…
Daryl Hoole Author, homemaker dead at age 91
Daryl Hoole, an American author and public speaker, died on February 2, 2026, at age 91. Born Daryl Van Dam in Salt Lake City, Utah, she wrote on home management…
Lucien Weiler Luxembourgish politician dead 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…
Rita Süssmuth German politician dead at age 88
Rita Süssmuth, a German politician and former president of the Bundestag, died on February 1, 2026, at age 88. A member of the Christian Democratic Union, she served as Federal…
Sushila Tiriya Indian politician dead at age 69
Sushila Tiriya, an Indian politician and social worker, died on February 1, 2026. She was a member of the Indian National Congress and represented Odisha in the Rajya Sabha in…
Bernice Shedrick
American politicianDied on Saturday January 31st 2026
David Triesman, Baron Triesman
British politician and union leaderDied on Saturday January 31st 2026
Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry
Pakistani-Kashmiri politicianDied on Saturday January 31st 2026
Paolo Cristoni Politician dead at age 81
Paolo Cristoni, an Italian socialist politician, public administrator and author, died on January 31, 2026. Born in Castelfranco Emilia, Italy, on September 9, 1945, he began his political career in…
Gustavo Sánchez Vásquez Lawyer, politician dead 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,…
Salim Sayyid Mengga
Indonesian military officer and politicianDied on Saturday January 31st 2026
Arie van den Brand
Dutch politician (GroenLinks). Died on Friday January 30th 2026