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…
Famous Dead Politicians: Recent Politician Deaths and Obituaries
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Obituary: William Q. MacLean Jr., dead at age 91
William Q. MacLean Jr., an American politician, died on February 20, 2026, at age 91. He served in the Massachusetts General Court from 1961 to 1993, including 20 years in…
Tom Vickers, died aged 89
Tom Vickers, an American politician and member of the Nebraska Legislature from 1979 to 1987, died on February 20, 2026, at age 89. A Democrat from Nebraska, he represented the…
Rod Monroe passed away at age 83
Rod Monroe, an American politician who served in the Oregon House of Representatives and Senate, died on February 20, 2026, at age 83. Monroe served in the Oregon House from…
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…
Barry Mpigi dies at age 64
Barry Mpigi, a Nigerian politician, died on February 19, 2026. Born in 1961, he was from Rivers State and served in the Nigerian House of Representatives, representing the Eleme/Tai/Oyigbo constituency.…
Abderrazak Kéfi passes away at age 87
Abderrazak Kéfi, a Tunisian politician and businessman, died on February 19, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in Kairouan, French Tunisia, on April 22, 1938, he was a member…
Ricky A. J. Syngkon dies at 54
Ricky A. J. Syngkon, an Indian politician and member of the 18th Lok Sabha, died on February 19, 2026. He represented the Shillong constituency in Meghalaya as a member of…
Death of Kamal Rana at age 98
Kamal Rana, a Nepalese politician and member of the Maha Sabha from 1959 to 1960, died on February 19, 2026. She was appointed to the Maha Sabha in 1959, becoming…
Obituary: Arturo León Lerma, dead at age 88
Arturo León Lerma, a Mexican Hall of Fame baseball executive with Naranjeros de Hermosillo and politician, died on February 19, 2026, at age 88. Born in Álamos, Sonora, in 1937,…
Barry Knight dead at age 71
Barry Dean Knight, an American politician and farmer who served in the Virginia House of Delegates, died on February 19, 2026, at age 71. A Republican, he represented the 98th…
Jaranthada Karnasuta passed away at age 76
Jaranthada Karnasuta, a Thai civil servant, died on February 19, 2026, at the age of 76. Born on August 22, 1949, he graduated from the Faculty of Fisheries at Kasetsart…
David Heywood Swartz passed away at age 83
David Heywood Swartz, an American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Belarus, died on February 19, 2026. Born in Chicago on March 3, 1942, he served as chargé d'affaires…
Obituary: Bobbie Sparrow, dead at age 90
Bobbie Sparrow, a Canadian politician, died on February 19, 2026. Born Barbara Jane O'Connor in Toronto on July 11, 1935, she was a Registered Nurse and businessperson who was first…
Abdesselam Zenined passes away at age 92
Abdesselam Zenined, a Moroccan politician and diplomat, died on February 19, 2026. Born in Wazan in 1934, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1959. In 1964 and 1965,…
Masahi Furukawa, died aged 90
Japanese politician Died on Wednesday February 18th 2026
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…
Philippe Mvouo dead at age 74
Philippe Mvouo, a Congolese politician and schoolteacher, died on February 18, 2026, in Orléans, France, at the age of 74. A member of the Congolese Party of Labour (PCT), he…
Karim al-Mulla dead at age 83
Karim al-Mulla, an Iraqi politician and civil servant who served as minister of youth from 1977 to 1982, died on February 18, 2026, in Amman, Jordan, at the age of…
Firmin Ayessa passes away at age 74
Firmin Ayessa, a Congolese politician, died on February 18, 2026. He served as Deputy Prime Minister for Civil Service, State Reform, Labour and Social Security from 2017. A long-time associate…
Carl Marcellino passed away at age 83
Carl Marcellino, an American politician who served in the New York State Senate from 1995 to 2018, died on February 18, 2026, at age 83. A Republican, he represented the…
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,…
Borislav Paravac has died at age 83
Borislav Paravac, a Bosnian Serb politician who served as the 4th Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2003 to 2006, died on February 18, 2026, in…
Margot Queitsch dies at age 79
Margot Queitsch, a German politician, died on February 18, 2026, at the age of 79. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she served in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg from…
Leila Shahid obituary: died at age 76
Leila Shahid, a Palestinian diplomat and the first woman ambassador of Palestine, died on February 18, 2026. Born in Beirut in 1949, she represented the Palestine Liberation Organization in Ireland…
Antonis Manitakis died at age 81
Antonis Manitakis, a Greek university professor and politician, died on February 18, 2026, at the age of 81. Born in Thessaloniki on May 23, 1944, he studied law at the…
Ngari Rinpoche dies at 79
Ngari Rinpoche, the Tibetan tulku and politician known as Tenzin Choegyal, died on February 17, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Lhasa in March 1946, he was the…
Death of Miquel Clar Lladó at age 87
Miquel Clar Lladó, a Spanish businessman and politician, died on February 17, 2026. Born in Llucmajor, Mallorca, in 1938, he spent his early career as an entrepreneur and businessman on…
Death of William Milam at age 89
William Milam, an American diplomat and senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., died on February 17, 2026, at age 89. Born in…
Jesse Jackson has died at age 84
Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights activist and politician, died on February 17, 2026, at age 84. Born Jesse Louis Burns in Greenville, South Carolina, he was an ordained Baptist…
Death of Mohsen Dalloul at age 92
Mohsen Dalloul, a Lebanese journalist and politician, died on February 17, 2026, at the age of 92. A member of the Progressive Socialist Party, he served as minister of agriculture…
Death of Joachim Kempin at age 83
Joachim Kempin, a German-born American businessman and former senior vice president of Microsoft, died on February 17, 2026. He ran Microsoft’s division selling operating software to PC manufacturers for 15…
Lélio Souza, died aged 88
Lélio Souza, a Brazilian politician, died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 88. Born Lélio Miguel Antunes de Souza on September 29, 1937, in Rosário do Sul, Rio…
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…
Harry Barnes died at age 89
Harry Barnes, the English Labour politician who served as the party’s Member of Parliament for North East Derbyshire, died on February 16, 2026, aged 89. Born in Easington, County Durham,…
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,…
Hélène Ahrweiler dead at age 99
Hélène Ahrweiler, the Greek-French Byzantologist and academic known formally as Hélène Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, died on February 16, 2026, in Athens, Greece, at the age of 99. Born in Athens on August…
Avel Gordly passes away at age 79
Avel Gordly, an American politician and activist in Oregon, died on February 16, 2026. She was 79. Gordly was born in Portland on February 13, 1947, and became the first…
Raseswari Panigrahi, died aged 79
Raseswari Panigrahi, an Indian politician, died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 79. She was active in Odisha politics with the Biju Janata Dal and was elected to…
Death of Gérard Mathieu at age 78
Gérard Mathieu, a Belgian politician and schoolteacher, died on February 16, 2026, in Arlon, Belgium, at the age of 78. A member of the Reformist Movement (MR), he taught Latin…
Death of Moufed Mahmoud Shehab at age 90
Moufed Mahmoud Shehab, an Egyptian politician, died on February 15, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Alexandria in January 1936, he served as Cairo University president from 1993…
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…
Marcelo Dotti dies at 83
Marcelo Dotti, an Ecuadorian politician, died on February 15, 2026. Born in Quito on December 2, 1942, he began his career in radio in 1984 on the program "Nuestra realidad."…
Peter Tasiri died at age 95
Peter Tasiri, a Ghanaian soldier and politician, died on February 15, 2026, aged 95. He was a member of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), which ruled Ghana for a…
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…
Obituary: John Viola, dead at age 75
John Viola, an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Delaware House of Representatives for District 26, died on February 15, 2026. Elected in 1998 after defeating…