Masashi Furukawa has died 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…
Famous Dead Politicians: Recent Politician Deaths and Obituaries
Over 20,000 obituaries of famous dead politicians. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Shao Yu-ming death 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 dies 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…
Death of Bert Broekhuis 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 obituary: died 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 died 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 dies 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 death 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, died aged 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 dies at 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 passed away 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 died 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 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 dies at 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 dies 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 obituary: died 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 death 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 passes away 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, died aged 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 dies 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…
Death of Sein Win 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 has died at age 96
Vietnamese politician Died on Friday February 6th 2026
Vardan Khachatryan died 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 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…
Ken Weetch, died aged 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 died 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 obituary: died 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 passes away 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…
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…
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…
Death of Morishige Naruse 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 dies at 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,…
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…
Fernand Ouellette dies at 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 died 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 died 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,…
Elyakim Schlesinger passes away 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 death 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…
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…
Seiichirō Dōkyū 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 passed away 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 passed away 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 death 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 died 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 passes away 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 died 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 passed away 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 dies 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…
Valentin Balakhnichev obituary: died 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 dies at 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 obituary: died 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 dies 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 died 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 death 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…
Death of Frank S. Royal 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, 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…
Daryl Hoole died 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…
John Terris has died 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…
Death of Hem Singh Bhadana 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,…
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…
Rita Süssmuth passes away 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 passed away 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 obituary: died at age 85
American politician Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
David Triesman, dies at 82
British politician and union leader Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
Sultan Mehmood, died aged 71
Pakistani-Kashmiri politician Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
Paolo Cristoni passed away 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 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,…
Salim Sayyid death at age 74
Indonesian military officer and politician Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
Death of Arie van at age 74
Dutch politician (GroenLinks). Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Yaw Brempong-Yeboah dies at age 71
Yaw Brempong-Yeboah, a Ghanaian politician, died on January 30, 2026, at the age of 71. He was a member of the fourth parliament of the fourth Republic of Ghana, representing…
Philippe Morillon obituary: died at age 90
French general and politician Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Jim Wallace, passes away at age 71
Scottish politician Died on Thursday January 29th 2026
Marco Bülow has died at age 54
German journalist and politician Died on Thursday January 29th 2026
Ernie Fage, died aged 72
Canadian politician Died on Thursday January 29th 2026
Death of Joan Hall at age 90
British politician Died on Thursday January 29th 2026
Michael H. Prosser dies at 89
Michael H. Prosser, an American academic and professor emeritus at the University of Virginia, died on January 29, 2026, at age 89. He served at the University of Virginia from…
Nicholas Colquhoun-Denvers dead at age -1
Nicholas Colquhoun-Denvers, a British polo official, died on January 29, 2026. He was chairman of Ham Polo Club from 1995 to 2018, chairman of the Hurlingham Polo Association from 2009…
Brian O’Shea died at age 81
Irish politician Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Death of Marat Mullagalyamov at age 95
Russian politician Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
John Overington dies at age 79
American politician Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Death of Myint Htwe at age 78
Burmese politician Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Obituary: Ajit Pawar, dead at age 66
Indian politician Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Linden Bateman died at age 85
American politician Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Ralph Assheton, death at age 2
British businessman and politician Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Joan Pujal death at age 2000
Andorran politician and businessman Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Wiley Drake passes away at age 82
Wiley Drake, an American minister and radio host, died on January 27, 2026, at age 82. Based in California, he served as pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church of…
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…
Obituary: Robert G. Bottoms, dead at age 81
Robert G. Bottoms, an American higher education executive and the 18th president of DePauw University, died on January 27, 2026, at age 81. He served as president of the university…
Jim Ferguson, died aged 85
Jim Ferguson, an Australian diplomat, senior public servant and sport administrator, died on January 27, 2026, aged 85. Born James Alexander Ferguson in Sydney on November 29, 1940, he was…
Frederick Vreeland dead at age 98
American politician Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Death of Noel W. at age 84
American politician Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Death of Peter Unwin at age 93
British diplomat Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Kirsty Duncan dies at age 59
Canadian politician Died on Monday January 26th 2026
N. Sundaram, died aged 72
Indian politician Died on Monday January 26th 2026
Death of Len Simms at age 81
Canadian politician Died on Monday January 26th 2026
Laurentine Mbede passes away at age -1
Cameroonian politician Died on Monday January 26th 2026
Samak Jalikula obituary: died at age 86
Thai politician Died on Monday January 26th 2026
François Lempérière dies at age 99
François Lempérière, a French civil engineer, died on January 26, 2026, at the age of 99. He built and/or designed 15 dams in France and other countries and invented solutions…