László Vincze dies at 74
László Vincze, a Hungarian educator and politician, died on March 5, 2026. He was 74. Born on February 19, 1952, in Csongrád, Hungary, Vincze served as a member of the…
Famous Dead Politicians: Recent Politician Deaths and Obituaries
Over 20,000 obituaries of famous dead politicians. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Bob Harlan died at age 89
Bob Harlan, the American football executive who served as president of the Green Bay Packers for 19 years, died on March 5, 2026, at age 89. Harlan also held the…
Bernard Lafayette passed away at age 85
Bernard Lafayette, American civil rights activist, died on March 5, 2026, at age 85. Also known as Bernard LaFayette Jr., he was a civil rights organizer and Baptist minister who…
Masaru Urata passes away at age 100
Masaru Urata, a Japanese politician, died on March 5, 2026. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he served in the House of Councillors from 1983 to 1989 and again…
H. K. Dua obituary: died at age 88
H. K. Dua, an Indian journalist and diplomat who was editor of the Hindustan Times, died on March 4, 2026, aged 88. Born Hari Krishan Dua on July 1, 1937,…
Song Ping death at age 108
Song Ping, a Chinese politician and Communist revolutionary, died on March 4, 2026. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and was considered the last living member of…
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…
Ronnie Eldridge dead at age 95
Ronnie Eldridge, an American politician, died on March 4, 2026, in New York City at age 95. Born Roslynn Myers in Manhattan on January 30, 1931, she was also an…
Mosiuoa Lekota dies at age 77
Mosiuoa Lekota, a South African politician and activist, died on March 4, 2026, in Johannesburg at the age of 77. He was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary for the African…
Sergey Duvakin has died at age 97
Sergey Duvakin, a Russian politician, died on March 3, 2026, in Chelyabinsk, Russia, at the age of 97. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he served…
Obituary: K. P. Unnikrishnan, dead at age 89
K. P. Unnikrishnan, an Indian politician and writer who served as a Union minister and parliamentarian for the Vatakara constituency, died on March 3, 2026. He was 89. Born on…
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…
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…
Alvin Greene dies at age 48
Alvin Greene, an American political candidate and politician, died on March 3, 2026, at age 48. Greene was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 2010 United States Senate election in…
Valentin Shcherbakov has died at age 89
Valentin Shcherbakov, a Russian politician, died on March 3, 2026, at the age of 89. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he served in the Soviet…
Edwin G. Corr death at age 91
Edwin G. Corr, an American diplomat, died on March 2, 2026. Corr was born on August 6, 1934, in Norman, Oklahoma. He received a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma…
Umar Dzhabrailov has died at age 67
Umar Dzhabrailov, a Russian businessman and politician, died on March 2, 2026, at the age of 67. Of Chechen descent, he served as the representative to the Federation Council of…
Death of Kohei Otsuka at age 66
Kohei Otsuka, a Japanese politician and former leader of the Democratic Party for the People and the Democratic Party, died on March 2, 2026. A native of Nagoya, Aichi, he…
Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh obituary: died at age 78
Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, Iranian spouse of the president from 1981 to 1989, died on March 2, 2026. Born around 1947 in Mashhad, Iran, she was the widow of Ali Khamenei,…
John Resman dies at age 70
John Resman, an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives for the 121st district from 2017 to 2026, died March 2, 2026, in…
Natale Amodeo dead at age 92
Natale Amodeo, an Italian politician, died on March 2, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in Pozzallo, Italy, on June 1, 1933, he was a member of the Italian…
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.…
Try Sutrisno dies at 90
Try Sutrisno, an Indonesian politician and army general who served as the sixth vice president of Indonesia, died on March 2, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Surabaya,…
Mohammad Raad dies at 70
Mohammad Raad, a Lebanese politician, died on March 2, 2026. Born in Beirut on August 22, 1955, he was a member of parliament representing the Nabatieh District and led Hezbollah's…
Obituary: Janardan Waghmare, dead at age 91
Janardan Waghmare, an Indian educationist and politician, died on March 2, 2026. He was 91. Waghmare served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra and was…
Gerhard A. Meinl passes away at age 68
Gerhard A. Meinl, a German businessman and politician, died on March 1, 2026. Born Gerhard Anton Meinl on September 5, 1957, in Kempfenhausen, Upper Bavaria, he lived in Geretsried from…
Davíð Oddsson obituary: died at age 78
Davíð Oddsson, Icelandic politician and the longest-serving prime minister of Iceland, died on March 1, 2026, at age 78. He served as prime minister from 1991 to 2004, as foreign…
Giuseppe Albertini obituary: died at age 73
Giuseppe Albertini, an Italian politician and former mayor of Cento and member of the Chamber of Deputies, died on March 1, 2026. Born in Cento on March 29, 1952, he…
Slavcho Krumov obituary: died at age 50
Slavcho Krumov, a Bulgarian politician, died on March 1, 2026, in Sofia at the age of 50. Born on October 8, 1975, in Sofia, he was a member of Revival…
Christine Johnson McPhail passed away at age -1
Christine Johnson McPhail, an American academic administrator and the thirteenth president of St. Augustine's University, died on March 1, 2026, at age 80. Born in Tyler, Texas, on February 1,…
Obituary: Suzanne Gunzburger, dead at age 86
Suzanne N. "Sue" Gunzburger, an American activist and long-term elected official in Broward County, Florida, died on March 1, 2026. She was 86. Gunzburger served as a Broward County commissioner…
Giuseppe Albertini obituary: died at age 73
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António Silva dies at 91
Portuguese politician Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Giannis Patsilinakos dead at age 78
Greek politician Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Daniel Bray dead at age 78
American politician Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Dionysius Koenigs passes away at age 91
American politician Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Mohsen Darrebaghi passed away at age -1
Mohsen Darrebaghi, an Iranian brigadier general and fighter pilot in the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, died on February 28, 2026, during the 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran.…
Larry Kump obituary: died at age 78
Larry Kump, an American politician who served in the West Virginia House of Delegates, died on February 28, 2026, at age 78. He represented district 94 from 2022 until his…
Bernard Lewis dies at age 100
Bernard Lewis, the English clothing chain executive who founded and led River Island, died on February 28, 2026. Born Bernard Pokrasse on February 10, 1926, he was educated at the…
Reza Mozaffari Nia passes away at age 66
Reza Mozaffari Nia, an Iranian military official and former director of the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, died on February 28, 2026, at the age of 66–67. Born in…
Johana Ng’eno passed away at age 53
Johana Ng'eno, a Kenyan politician and member of the Parliament of Kenya, died on February 28, 2026, aged 53. He was born on December 12, 1972, in Narok County, Kenya,…
Aziz Nasirzadeh dead at age 62
Aziz Nasirzadeh, an Iranian military officer, died on February 28, 2026, at the age of 62. He served as Iran’s minister of defence from 2024 to 2026, after previously holding…
Rémy Scheurer dies at 91
Rémy Scheurer, a Swiss politician, died on February 28, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in Neuchâtel on March 11, 1934, he was a member of the Swiss Liberal…
Peter J. Genova passed away at age 81
Peter J. Genova, an American politician, died on February 27, 2026. A Republican, he was elected to two full terms in the New Jersey General Assembly and served from 1985…
Darío Lopérfido has died at age 61
Darío Lopérfido, an Argentine politician, journalist and cultural promoter, died on February 27, 2026, at the age of 61. Born in Buenos Aires in 1964, he served as Argentina’s Secretary…
Margaret Farquhar, died aged 95
Margaret Farquhar, a Scottish politician and the first woman to serve as Lord Provost of Aberdeen, died on February 27, 2026. Born in Aberdeen as Margaret Burnett on 14 March…
Bo Gritz death at age 87
Bo Gritz, an American military officer and politician, died on February 27, 2026, at age 87. Born James Gordon Gritz in Enid, Oklahoma, he served as an officer in the…
Joaherul Islam has died at age 70
Joaherul Islam, a Bangladeshi politician and lawyer, died on February 27, 2026. He was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and served as a Jatiya Sangsad member for Tangail-8 from 2019…
Vladimir Veber obituary: died at age -1
Vladimir Veber, a Moldovan footballer and manager, died on February 26, 2026. Born on July 20, 1941, he was a goalkeeper who played for several teams, including Moldova Chișinău. After…
Petter Bjørheim has died at age 61
Petter Bjørheim, a Norwegian politician, died on February 26, 2026. He was born in Stavanger on January 2, 1965, and was a member of the Progress Party. Bjørheim was elected…
Hans-Georg Fritz dies at age 93
Hans-Georg Fritz, a German politician and trade unionist, died on February 26, 2026, at the age of 93. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he served in the Landtag…
Obituary: André Vanasse, dead at age 83
André Vanasse, a Canadian writer, died on February 26, 2026, at age 83 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. Born in Montreal on March 6, 1942, he was a member of…
Ken Smith has died at age 96
George Kenneth Smith CBE, a Scottish international rugby union player and former president of the Scottish Rugby Union, died on February 26, 2026, aged 96. Born in Edinburgh on June…
Bevan Morris dead at age 76
Bevan Morris, an Australian-born American academic and politician who served as president of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, for 36 years and was a founder of the Natural…
Craig Johnson died at age 72
Craig W. Johnson, an American politician who served in the Alaska House of Representatives, died on February 26, 2026, at the age of 72. Born in Kermit, Texas, in 1953,…
T. K. Oommen, died aged 88
T. K. Oommen, an Indian sociologist, died on February 26, 2026. Also known as Tharailath Koshy Oommen, he was Professor Emeritus at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems,…
Death of Piero Barucci at age 92
Piero Barucci, the Italian academic, economist and politician who served as Minister of Treasury from 1992 to 1994, died on February 26, 2026, in Florence, Italy, at the age of…
Scotty Morrison death at age 95
Ian “Scotty” Morrison, a Canadian National Hockey League referee and former vice-president, died on February 25, 2026, at age 95. Born in Montreal on April 22, 1930, he played junior…
Charlie Smith Dannelly passed away at age 101
Charlie Smith Dannelly, an American politician and retired educator, died on February 25, 2026. He served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate from 1994 to 2013, representing…
Rex Lee Jim dies at age 63
Rex Lee Jim, an American Navajo politician and writer who served as Vice President of the Navajo Nation, died on February 25, 2026, at age 63. Born in 1962 in…
Alex Noerdin, died aged 75
Alex Noerdin, an Indonesian politician who served as governor of South Sumatra from 2008 to 2018, died on February 25, 2026. He was 75. Born in Palembang, South Sumatra, on…
R. Nallakannu passed away at age -1
R. Nallakannu, an Indian politician and senior leader of the Communist Party of India, died on February 25, 2026. He served as the State Secretary of the Communist Party of…
Ludwig Scotty dies at 77
Ludwig Scotty, a Nauruan politician who twice served as president of Nauru, died on February 25, 2026, aged 77. He also served as Speaker of Parliament five times between 2000…
Ioanna Papantoniou passed away at age 90
Ioanna Papantoniou, a Greek author, scenic designer, costume designer and folklorist, died on February 25, 2026. Born in Athens on January 7, 1936, she was the founder and president of…
Antonio Tejero dies at 93
Antonio Tejero, the Spanish lieutenant colonel and failed coup leader behind the 1981 Spanish coup attempt, died on February 25, 2026, in Alzira, Spain, at the age of 93. A…
Giorgio Mammoliti obituary: died at age 64
Giorgio Mammoliti, a Canadian politician, died on February 25, 2026. He represented Ward 7 York West on Toronto City Council from 2000 to 2018 and previously served as the Ontario…
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,…
Willy Loretan death at age 91
Willy Loretan, a Swiss politician, died on February 24, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in Basel on June 15, 1934, he began his political career in 1966 with…
Nicolae Andronati obituary: died at age 90
Nicolae Andronati, a Moldovan politician, died on February 24, 2026, at the age of 90. Born on November 7, 1935, in Caragaș, he was a signatory of the Declaration of…
Ann Godoff passes away at age 76
Ann Godoff, an American editor and publisher who was president of Random House and founder of Penguin Press, died on February 24, 2026, at the age of 76. Born Ann…
Bill Saunderson obituary: died at age 92
Bill Saunderson, a Canadian politician and investment manager, died on February 24, 2026. He was 92. Saunderson was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995…
Mukul Roy has died at age 71
Mukul Roy, an Indian politician, died on February 23, 2026, at the age of 71. A politician from West Bengal, he served as a Minister of State in the Shipping…
Rupert Roopnaraine passes away at age 83
Rupert Roopnaraine, a Guyanese politician, cricketer and writer, died on February 23, 2026, in Georgetown, Guyana, at the age of 83. Born in Kitty, Georgetown, British Guiana, on January 31,…
Charles S. Dean Sr. dies at 86
Charles S. Dean Sr., an American politician who served in the Florida Legislature, died on February 23, 2026, at age 86. A Republican, he served in the Florida Senate from…
Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo passed away at age 98
Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo, a Togolese historian and politician, died on February 23, 2026, at the age of 98. He was a member of the Democratic Convention of African Peoples (CDPA)…
Miervaldis Polis passes away at age 77
Miervaldis Polis, a Latvian painter and performance artist, died on February 22, 2026. He was 77. In the early 1970s, he and Līga Purmale, his wife at the time, helped…
Obituary: Joan Huber, dead at age 100
Joan Huber, an American sociologist and professor of sociology at Ohio State University, died on February 22, 2026. Born on October 17, 1925, in Bluffton, Ohio, she taught at the…
Fernand Roberge, died aged 85
Fernand Roberge, a Canadian hotelier and politician who served as a senator, died on February 22, 2026, at age 85. Born in Laurierville, Quebec, on July 19, 1940, he became…
Eugene G. Sander passes away at age 90
Eugene G. Sander, an American academic and former president of the University of Arizona, died on February 22, 2026, at the age of 90. He served as president from 2011…
Maureen Hemphill, died aged 89
Maureen Hemphill, a Canadian politician and Manitoba MLA from 1981 to 1990, died on February 22, 2026, at age 89. Born Maureen Lucille Miller in Grand Forks, British Columbia, on…
Amnat Sonimsat has died at age 92
Amnat Sonimsat, a Thai politician, died on February 22, 2026, at the age of 92. An independent, he served in the National Legislative Assembly from 1991 to 1992 and in…
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…
Vladislav Jovanović obituary: died at age 92
Vladislav Jovanović, a Serbian diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, died on February 21, 2026, at the age of 92.…
Melody McCray-Miller dies at 69
Melody McCray-Miller, an American politician from Kansas, died on February 21, 2026, at the age of 69. A Democrat, she represented the 89th district in the Kansas House of Representatives…
Herman Suykerbuyk passes away at age 92
Herman Suykerbuyk, a Belgian politician and civil servant, died on February 21, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in Kapellen on January 5, 1934, he studied law at the…
Walter Pawelkiewicz died at age 77
Walter Pawelkiewicz, a German-born American politician who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 49th district from 1999 to 2009, died on February 21, 2026, at the age…
Boris Frlec death at age 90
Boris Frlec, a Slovenian politician, died on February 21, 2026. Boris Frlec (10 February 1936 – 18 February 2026) was a Slovenian politician. Tags Politicians, 21 February 2026, Boris, Frlec,…
Obituary: Dean Schrempp, dead at age 90
Dean D. Schrempp, an American politician and Democratic member of the South Dakota House of Representatives, died on February 21, 2026, at the age of 90. He represented District 28A…
Abdelwahab Bekli death at age 86
Abdelwahab Bekli, an Algerian politician, died on February 21, 2026. Abdelwahab Bekli (Arabic: عبد الوهاب بكلي; 1940 – 20 February 2026) was an Algerian politician. Tags Politicians, 21 February 2026,…
Aleksander Czuż dies at age 89
Aleksander Czuż, a Polish politician and civil servant, died on February 21, 2026. Born on June 24, 1936, in Rogawka, Poland, he served as mayor of Białystok, as a councillor…
Lucinda Vásquez obituary: died at age 67
Lucinda Vásquez, a Peruvian teacher and politician, died on February 21, 2026. She was 67. Vásquez served as a member of Congress from 2021 until her death. Born in 1958,…
František Mezihorák died at age 88
František Mezihorák, a Czech university pedagogue and politician, died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 88. Born on October 6, 1937, in Vracov, Czechoslovakia, he was a professor…
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…
Obituary: Mutumba Mainga, dead at age 88
Mutumba Mainga, a Zambian historian and politician, died on February 20, 2026. Born in 1938, she was the first Zambian woman to gain a PhD, the first Zambian woman to…
Vungzagin Valte, died aged 61
Vungzagin Valte, an Indian politician, died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 61. He was a three-time member of the Manipur Legislative Assembly from the Thanlon constituency in…
Bruno Landi dead at age 86
Bruno Landi, an Italian politician, died on February 20, 2026, in Rome at the age of 86. A member of the Italian Socialist Party, he served as president of Lazio…
Lee Yi-ting, died aged 71
Lee Yi-ting, a Taiwanese politician, died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 71. Born in 1954 or 1955, he was raised in Houlong and attended National Taichung University…
Eustace Lake passed away at age -1
Eustace Sylvester "Teco" Lake, an Antigua and Barbuda politician, died on February 20, 2026, after a short illness. He was a member of the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party and…
Layton Freborg dies at 92
Layton W. Freborg, an American politician in North Dakota, died on February 20, 2026, at age 92 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He represented the 8th district in the North…