Obituary: Jérôme Bignon, dead at age 77
Jérôme Bignon, a French politician and senator, died on September 30, 2026, aged 77. A member of the Union for a Popular Movement, he represented the Somme department in French…
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Wicknell Chivayo obituary: died at age 43
Wicknell Chivayo, a Zimbabwean businessman, died on September 30, 2026, aged 43. Known also as Sir Wicknell, he was the founder and managing director of Intratrek Zimbabwe (Private) Limited. Chivayo…
Andrea Kdolsky dies at age 63
Andrea Kdolsky, the Austrian politician and former health minister, died on September 30, 2026, aged 63. Born Andrea Pelucha on November 2, 1962, in Vienna, she grew up in the…
Obituary: Gabriel Serville, dead at age 67
Gabriel Serville, the French Guianan politician who served as president of the Assembly of French Guiana, died on September 30, 2026, aged 67. Born in Cayenne on September 27, 1959,…
Adrian Rurawhe dies at age 64
Adrian Rurawhe, a New Zealand politician and Labour Party MP from 2014 to 2026, died on September 30, 2026, aged 64. Also known as Adrian Paki Rurawhe, he served as…
Ramón Luis Rivera passed away at age 97
Ramón Luis Rivera, the Puerto Rican politician who served as mayor of Bayamón from 1977 to 2001, died on September 30, 2026, at age 97. A native of Aguas Buenas,…
Obituary: Janice Laking, dead at age 96
Janice Laking, the Canadian politician who served as mayor of Barrie, died on September 30, 2026, aged 96. Known also by her married name and born Janice McCuaig, she was…
Jorge Kahwagi passes away at age 58
Jorge Kahwagi, a Mexican businessman, politician and boxer, died on September 30, 2026, aged 58. Born Jorge Antonio Kahwagi Macari in Mexico City on May 28, 1968, he became known…
Obituary: Juan Carlos Pagotto, dead at age 74
Juan Carlos Pagotto, an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as a senator since 2023 and as a member of the Legislature of La Rioja from 1993 to 1997, died…
Jean-Jacques Nyenimigabo death at age 77
Jean-Jacques Nyenimigabo, a Burundian politician, died on September 29, 2026, at age 77. He served as Burundi’s minister of youth, culture and sports after being appointed in 2010 by President…
Veaceslav Madan obituary: died at age 77
Veaceslav Madan, a Moldovan actor, film director, politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Culture in the Vasile Tarlev Cabinet, died on September 29, 2026, aged 77. Born on…
Joe Callanan obituary: died at age 77
Joe Callanan, the Irish former Fianna Fáil politician and TD for Galway East from 2002 to 2007, died on September 29, 2026, aged 77. Born in Kilconnell, County Galway, he…
Ionel Haiduc death at age 89
Ionel Haiduc, the Romanian chemist who led the Romanian Academy from 2006 to 2014, died on September 29, 2026, aged 89. Born in Cluj-Napoca on May 9, 1937, he studied…
Julián García Vargas dies at 81
Julián García Vargas, the Spanish politician who served as minister of health from 1986 to 1991 and minister of defence from 1991 to 1995, died on September 29, 2026, aged…
Vijai Singh Mankotia passes away at age 87
Vijai Singh Mankotia, an Indian politician and former Himachal MLA, died on September 29, 2026, aged 87. A member of the Indian National Congress, he represented the Shahpur constituency in…
Juraj Hraško died at age 95
Juraj Hraško, a Slovak politician and diplomat, died on September 28, 2026, aged 95. Born in Točnica on May 14, 1931, he was widely regarded as a founder of modern…
Anne Claire Poirier has died at age 94
Anne Claire Poirier, the Canadian film producer, director and screenwriter behind works including Before the Time Comes, A Scream from Silence and Beyond Forty, died on September 28, 2026, aged…
Michael Wynn-Jones dies at 85
Michael Wynn-Jones, the Welsh writer, editor and publisher, died on September 28, 2026, aged 85. Born on January 1, 1941, he studied at Lancing College and the University of Oxford…
Andrea Zlatar-Violić obituary: died at age 65
Andrea Zlatar-Violić, a Croatian politician and former minister of culture, died on September 28, 2026, aged 65. Born in Zagreb in 1961, she studied humanities at the University of Zagreb,…
Obituary: Johan Buttedahl, dead at age 90
Johan Buttedahl, a Norwegian politician and dentist who served in the Parliament of Norway, died on September 28, 2026, aged 90. Born in Drammen on October 5, 1935, he represented…
Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali has died at age 100
Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, a Malaysian physician and civil servant who served as the spouse of Malaysia’s prime minister, died on September 28, 2026, aged 100. Widely known as Siti…
Bob Agee death at age 88
Bob Agee, the American academic administrator who served as president of Oklahoma Baptist University, died on September 26, 2026, at age 88. He led the university as its 13th president…
Obituary: David Ring, dead at age 72
David Ring, an American evangelist and motivational speaker, died September 26, 2026, aged 72. Known for speaking openly about living with cerebral palsy, he began challenging audiences in 1973 with…
Ahmed El-Zend passed away at age 80
Ahmed El-Zend, an Egyptian judge and former minister of justice, died on September 26, 2026, aged 80. Born in Tanta in 1946, he graduated from Al-Azhar University with a degree…
Tokushin Yamauchi dies at age 91
Tokushin Yamauchi, a Japanese politician and former Japan–North Korea friendship activist, died on September 26, 2026, aged 91. A native of Yomitan in Okinawa, he graduated from the University of…
David Millage, died aged 73
David Millage, an American politician and lawyer who served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1991 to 2003, died on September 26, 2026, aged 73. Born in Portland, Oregon,…
Guruh Sukarnoputra obituary: died at age 73
Guruh Sukarnoputra, the Indonesian politician and artist who served as a member of the People's Representative Council, died on September 26, 2026, aged 73. Born Muhammad Guruh Irianto Sukarnoputra in…
Norm Kimball dead at age 96
Norm Kimball, the Canadian football executive who served as general manager of the Edmonton Eskimos and later president and chief operating officer of the Montreal Alouettes, died on September 25,…
Death of Ram Govind Chaudhary at age 74
Ram Govind Chaudhary, an Indian politician and Uttar Pradesh MLA across multiple terms from 1977 to 1992, 2002 to 2007 and 2012 to 2022, died on September 25, 2026, aged…
Javier Delgado Barrio passes away at age 93
Javier Delgado Barrio, a Spanish judge who served as president of the Supreme Court of Spain from 1996 to 2001, died on September 25, 2026, aged 93. Born in Barbastro…
Ahmad Nategh-Nouri dies at 89
Ahmad Nategh-Nouri, an Iranian politician, died on September 25, 2026, aged 89. He represented the Noor and Mahmoudabad constituency in the Iranian parliament across seven terms, serving in the first,…
Chaudhary Muhammad Ashraf dies at 90
Chaudhary Muhammad Ashraf, a Pakistani politician and former member of the National Assembly, died on September 25, 2026, aged 90. He served in Pakistan’s lower house from June 2013 to…
Sidya Touré has died at age 81
Sidya Touré, a Guinean politician who served as prime minister of Guinea, died on September 25, 2026, aged 81. Born in Conakry on January 1, 1945, he held the country's…
Death of Georges Taï Benson at age 80
Georges Taï Benson, an Ivorian television presenter and journalist, died on September 25, 2026, at age 80. Born in Treichville, Abidjan, on January 25, 1946, he became one of the…
Bill Giles passes away at age 92
Bill Giles, the American baseball executive who was chairman and part-owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, died on September 25, 2026, aged 92. Born William Yale Giles in Rochester, New York,…
Richard Mulcahey dies at 91
Richard Mulcahey, an American politician and educator who served in the Illinois House of Representatives, died on September 24, 2026, aged 91. A Democrat, he represented the chamber from 1975…
Chotelal Verma dies at age 73
Chotelal Verma, an Indian politician and businessman who served as a three-time Uttar Pradesh MLA, died on September 24, 2026, aged 73. He represented the Fatehabad constituency and was a…
Bachtiar Chamsyah passed away at age 80
Bachtiar Chamsyah, an Indonesian politician who served as Indonesia’s minister of social affairs, died on September 24, 2026, aged 80. Born on December 31, 1945, in Kota Sigli, he was…
Milan Panić died at age 96
Milan Panić, the Serbian businessman, humanitarian and politician who served as prime minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, died on September 24, 2026, aged 96. Born in Belgrade in…
Death of Yehuda Atlas at age 89
Yehuda Atlas, the Israeli writer, poet and translator, died on September 24, 2026, aged 89. Born on February 12, 1937, in Ein Iron, he built a career that began in…
Obituary: Ricardo Centellas, dead at age 63
Ricardo Centellas, a Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate who served as auxiliary bishop and bishop of Potosí and as archbishop of Sucre, died on September 24, 2026, aged 63. Born Ricardo…
Ricardo Ernesto Centellas Guzmán dead at age 63
Ricardo Ernesto Centellas Guzmán, a Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate who served as archbishop of Sucre, died on September 24, 2026, aged 63. He led the archdiocese from 2020 until his…
Isao Takeuchi has died at age 74
Isao Takeuchi, a Japanese politician who served in the House of Councillors and as mayor of Tottori, died on September 24, 2026, aged 74. He was born in Tottori in…
Reinaldo Sánchez has died at age 82
Reinaldo Sánchez, a Chilean entrepreneur and football administrator, died on September 24, 2026, at age 82. Known in Chilean media as Don Choco and born Reinaldo del Carmen Sánchez Olivares…
Paul Butler dies at age 68
Paul Butler, a Northern Irish politician and former member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, died on September 23, 2026, aged 68. Born in Lisburn, Butler was an Irish republican politician…
Philippe Huet death at age 84
Philippe Huet, the French journalist and writer who served as deputy editor-in-chief of Paris-Normandie, died on September 23, 2026, aged 84. Born in Le Havre on April 24, 1942, he…
David Hollister dies at age 84
David Hollister, the American politician who served in the Michigan House of Representatives and later as mayor of Lansing, died on September 23, 2026, aged 84. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan,…
Garnet Coleman has died at age 65
Garnet Coleman, an American politician and member of the Texas House of Representatives, died on September 23, 2026, at age 65. Coleman served in the Texas House from 1991 to…
Vyacheslav Dolgov died at age 89
Vyacheslav Dolgov, a Russian diplomat and professor, died on September 23, 2026, aged 89. Born Vyacheslav Ivanovich Dolgov in Moscow on July 31, 1937, he graduated from the Moscow State…
Obituary: Soorya Krishnamoorthy, dead at age 78
Soorya Krishnamoorthy, the Indian artist and philanthropist who founded the Soorya Festival, died on September 23, 2026, aged 78. Also known as Nataraja Krishnamoorthy, he was associated with the Soorya…
Maurice de Germiny passed away at age 86
Maurice de Germiny, the French Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Blois from 1997 to 2014, died on September 23, 2026, aged 86. Born in Saint-Maurice-du-Désert on November…
Edward Rogalski obituary: died at age 84
Edward Rogalski, the American academic administrator who served as president of St. Ambrose University from 1987 to 2007, died on September 23, 2026, aged 84. He was the 12th president…
Zeke Moore dies at 82
Zeke Moore, the American football player who spent his professional career with the Houston Oilers, died on September 22, 2026, at age 82. Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Moore played college…
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…
Konstantin Polezhayev dead at age 54
Konstantin Polezhayev, a Russian politician who served as mayor of Belgorod from 2015 to 2019 and later as deputy governor of Belgorod Oblast, died on September 22, 2026, aged 54.…
Donald Weder dead at age 79
Donald Weder, an American inventor and businessman, died on September 22, 2026, aged 79. Based in Highland, Illinois, he built a career centered on product development and patents, and by…
Burhan Ozfatura died at age 83
Burhan Ozfatura, the Turkish mayor, politician and columnist, died on September 21, 2026, at the age of 83 after cardiac arrest. A native of Mustafakemalpaşa, he was born on June…
Jun Gato dies at age 66
Jun Gato, a Filipino politician and representative for Batanes's at-large congressional district in the Philippine House of Representatives since 2019, died on September 21, 2026, at age 66 after a…
Josef Kalbáč died at age 86
Josef Kalbáč, a Czech agronomist and politician who served as a senator, died on September 21, 2026, aged 86. Born in Třebohostice on February 17, 1940, he spent much of…
Yahya Lampong passed away at age 86
Yahya Lampong, a Malaysian politician, died on September 21, 2026, aged 86. Known in full as Mohammad Yahya bin Lampong, he served as the Member of Parliament for Kota Belud…
Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has died at age 76
Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Emirati public official and lieutenant general who served as Deputy Chairman of Dubai Police & Public Security, died on September 21, 2026, aged 76.…
Obituary: Wes MacAleer, dead at age 82
Wes MacAleer, a Canadian politician and Prince Edward Island MLA from 1996 to 2007, died on September 20, 2026, aged 82. Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, on February 12,…
Ibrahim Idris died at age 77
Ibrahim Idris, the Nigerian politician and businessman who served as governor of Kogi State, died on September 20, 2026, aged 77. Born in Idah in 1949, he was a member…
Karim Bujang dies at 73
Karim Bujang, a Malaysian politician and former member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly for Bongawan, died on September 20, 2026, aged 73. Born Karim bin Bujang in Bongawan, he…
G. Vijayaraghavan has died at age 84
G. Vijayaraghavan, an Indian cardiologist, died on September 20, 2026, aged 84. Also known as Govindan Vijayaraghavan, he was born in Perumpuzha on September 18, 1942, and became a prominent…
Keith Wakefield dies at age 78
Keith Wakefield, the English politician and councillor who led Leeds City Council, died on September 19, 2026, aged 78. Known formally as Keith Ivor Wakefield OBE and formerly Sturgess, he…
Nathaniel Waena passes away at age 80
Nathaniel Waena, who served as Governor-General of Solomon Islands from 2004 to 2009, died on September 19, 2026, aged 80. Known formally as Sir Nathaniel Rahumaea Waena, he was a…
Ernie Accorsi has died at age 84
Ernie Accorsi, the American football executive and general manager who ran the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns and New York Giants, died on September 19, 2026, aged 84. Born in Hershey,…
Kai Dige Bach obituary: died at age 90
Kai Dige Bach, a Danish businessman and politician who served as a member of the Folketing from 1987 to 1998, died on September 19, 2026, aged 90. Born in Copenhagen…
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…
Danny Setiawan passed away at age 81
Danny Setiawan, an Indonesian politician who served as governor of West Java from 2003 to 2008, died on September 19, 2026, aged 81. Born on August 28, 1945, in Waru,…
Obituary: Sophia Horner-Sam, dead at age 77
Sophia Horner-Sam, a Ghanaian diplomat and politician, died on September 19, 2026, aged 77. Born in Ghana, she served as deputy Western Regional minister and as deputy minister of ports,…
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…
Susy Aponte Polo dies at age 43
Susy Aponte Polo, a Peruvian journalist and politician, died on September 19, 2026, aged 43, after being shot during a campaign event in Caraz, in Peru’s Áncash region. Widely known…
Death of Tyler Abell at age 94
Tyler Abell, an American lawyer who briefly served as chief of protocol of the United States in the late 1960s, died on September 19, 2026, aged 94. Born in Washington,…
Graciela Taquini passed away at age 85
Graciela Taquini, the Argentine artist, curator and teacher whose work helped shape the country’s video-art scene, died on September 19, 2026, aged 85. Born in Buenos Aires on July 1,…
Carolyn J. B. Howard dies at 87
Carolyn J. B. Howard, an American politician and longtime member of the Maryland House of Delegates, died on September 19, 2026, at age 87. She represented District 24 in Prince…
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…
Mohamed Salah Arfaoui dies at 70
Mohamed Salah Arfaoui, a Tunisian politician and civil engineer, died on September 18, 2026, aged 70. A native of Bizerte, he was an independent and built a career in public…
Zimani Kadzamira passed away at age 85
Zimani Kadzamira, the Malawian academic, civil servant and diplomat, died on September 18, 2026, aged 85. Also known as Zimani David Kadzamira, he was born in Harare in July 1941…
Margaret Chant-Papandreou dead at age 102
Margaret Chant-Papandreou, an American-born Greek women’s rights activist, writer and former first lady, died on September 18, 2026, aged 102. Born Margaret Esther Chant in Oak Park, Illinois, she later…
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…
Death of Jerry Thomas Howard at age 90
Jerry Thomas Howard, an American politician and member of the Missouri Senate, died on September 17, 2026, at age 90. A Democrat, he also served in the Missouri House of…
Obituary: Anay Beltrán Reyes, dead at age 44
Anay Beltrán Reyes, a Mexican politician and incumbent federal deputy, died on September 17, 2026, aged 44. Affiliated with Morena, she represented the State of Mexico’s 8th district in the…
Alfredo Mantica passed away at age 83
Alfredo Mantica, the Italian politician and business advisor who served as a senator from 1996 to 2013, died on September 17, 2026, aged 83. Born in Rimini on July 17,…
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…
Death of Shao Qihui at age 92
Shao Qihui, the Chinese politician who served as governor of Heilongjiang from 1989 to 1994, died on September 17, 2026, aged 92. Born in June 1934 in Yixing, Jiangsu, he…
Sergei Tchepikov dies at age 59
Sergei Tchepikov, the Russian politician, biathlete and cross-country skier, died on September 17, 2026, aged 59. Born Sergei Vladimirovich Tchepikov in Khor, in what was then the Russian SFSR of…
Oscar Wambrauw dies at age 57
Oscar Wambrauw, an Indonesian academic and professor of economics at Cenderawasih University, died on September 17, 2026, aged 57. He had served as the university’s rector from 2022 until his…
Ludmila Javorová, died aged 94
Ludmila Javorová, a Czech Roman Catholic theologian, died on September 17, 2026, aged 94. Born in Brno in 1932, she came from a Catholic family and worked for the underground…
Blas Wilfredo Omar Jaime dies at age 92
Blas Wilfredo Omar Jaime, the last native speaker of Chaná and a transporter, died on September 17, 2026, aged 92. Born in Nogoyá, Argentina, on February 2, 1934, he was…
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…
Death of Chaudhry Muhammad Hanif at age 62
Chaudhry Muhammad Hanif, a Pakistani politician and member of the Punjab Assembly, died on September 17, 2026, at age 62 after a cardiac arrest. Known also as Chaudhry Muhammad Hanif…
Obituary: Kōichi Watanabe, dead at age 68
Kōichi Watanabe, a Japanese politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives and as mayor of Iwamizawa, died on September 17, 2026, aged 68. A member of…
Barry T. Parker obituary: died at age 93
Barry T. Parker, an American politician who served in both the New Jersey General Assembly and the State Senate, died on September 17, 2026, aged 93. A Republican, he was…
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…
Obituary: Bonnie Greer, dead at age 77
Bonnie Greer, the American-British playwright, critic and novelist, died on September 16, 2026, aged 77. Born in Chicago in 1948, she lived in the UK from 1986 and built a…
Damodaran Nair has died at age 81
Damodaran Nair, a Fijian politician and former member of the House of Representatives, died on September 16, 2026, aged 81. He represented the Tavua Open Constituency for the Fiji Labour…
Esterina Tartman dies at 68
Esterina Tartman, an Israeli politician who served in the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu from 2006 to 2009, died on September 16, 2026, aged 68. Born in Jerusalem on November 9,…