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…
Famous Dead Politicians: Recent Politician Deaths and Obituaries
Over 20,000 obituaries of famous dead politicians. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Pietro Soddu dies at 97
Pietro Soddu, the Italian politician who served as a deputy and three-time president of Sardinia, died on September 16, 2026, aged 97. Born in Benetutti on June 19, 1929, he…
Obituary: Him Bahadur Shahi, dead at age 80
Him Bahadur Shahi, a Nepali politician and member of the Karnali Provincial Assembly, died on September 16, 2026, at age 80 after a heart attack. He represented the Nepali Congress…
Princess Lindiwe dead, Princess Lindiwe, Swazi royal and politician
Princess Lindiwe, a Swazi royal and politician, died on September 16, 2026. She served as Eswatini’s minister of home affairs and sat in the House of Assembly from 2018 until…
Toji Mitamura has died at age 82
Toji Mitamura, the Japanese politician who served as mayor of Yame and as a member of the Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly, died on September 16, 2026, aged 82. Born in Yame…
Death of Domingo Buesa Conde at age 73
Domingo Buesa Conde, a Spanish historian, writer, politician and Aragonese cultural advocate, died on September 16, 2026, aged 73. Born in Bagüés in 1952, he earned a doctorate in history…
René Aphing Kouassi dead at age 78
René Aphing Kouassi, an Ivorian politician and magistrate, died on September 15, 2026, aged 78. Born in Abidjan on July 2, 1948, he was associated with the Democratic Party of…
Tanella Boni passes away at age 71
Tanella Boni, the Ivorian poet and novelist, died on September 15, 2026, aged 71. Born in Abidjan, she was also an academic and professor of philosophy at the University of…
Viktor Anuškevičius dies at age 63
Viktor Anuškevičius, the Ukrainian politician who served as mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk, died on September 15, 2026, aged 63. Born in Vorkuta in the Komi ASSR, he later moved to Ivano-Frankivsk…
Rachid Sabbagh died at age 76
Rachid Sabbagh, a Tunisian politician and former defence minister, died on September 15, 2026, aged 76. An independent politician, he joined the Ali Laarayedh cabinet in 2013 as defense minister.…
Kenneth Roy Burnham dead, Kenneth Roy Burnham, British telephone engineer and father of incumbent P…
Kenneth Roy Burnham, a British telephone engineer and the father of incumbent Prime Minister Andy Burnham, died on September 15, 2026, from complications of Alzheimer's. He was identified in the…
Flora Brovina died at age 76
Flora Brovina, the Kosovar-Albanian poet, pediatrician, women's rights activist and politician, died on September 15, 2026, aged 76. Born in Skenderaj in Kosovo’s Drenica Valley, she was raised in Pristina,…
Alla Nani death at age 56
Alla Nani, the Indian politician who served as an Andhra Pradesh MLA and deputy chief minister, died on September 15, 2026, at age 56 after a heart attack. Born Alla…
Death of Laureano Leone at age 98
Laureano Leone, a Canadian politician, died on September 15, 2026, at age 98. Born in Rocca Pia, he was educated at the Detroit Institute of Technology before entering public life…
Jim Peters, died aged 88
Jim Peters, the New Zealand politician and former MP who served from 2002 to 2005, died on September 15, 2026, aged 88. Born James Leonard Peters in Kawakawa in 1937,…
Seppo Lindblom obituary: died at age 91
Seppo Lindblom, the Finnish banker and politician who served as minister of trade and industry, died on September 15, 2026, aged 91. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he…
Dakila Cua, died aged 48
Dakila Cua, the Filipino politician who served as governor and representative of Quirino, died on September 15, 2026, aged 48. Born Dakila Carlo Enriquez Cua on November 4, 1977, he…
Martin Gutzeit obituary: died at age 74
Martin Gutzeit, a German clergyman and politician who served as commissioner of the Stasi Records Agency, died on September 15, 2026, aged 74. Born in Cottbus in 1952, he was…
David C. Kronick dead at age 94
David C. Kronick, an American politician and member of the New Jersey General Assembly, died on September 15, 2026, at age 94. A Democrat, he represented the 32nd Legislative District…
Nael Abu Obeid died at age 53
Nael Abu Obeid, a Palestinian militant commander with Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades, died on September 15, 2026, aged 53, after being killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip.…
Death of Victoria Okojie at age 66
Victoria Okojie, Registrar/CEO of the Librarians' Registration Council of Nigeria, died on September 14, 2026, aged 66. A Nigerian librarian, academician and administrator, she was the first Registrar and Chief…
Dory Chamoun has died at age 94
Dory Chamoun, a Lebanese politician who led the National Liberal Party and served as a member of parliament from 2009 to 2018, died on September 14, 2026, aged 94. Born…
Tara Singh Varma dead at age 78
Tara Singh Varma, a Dutch politician and former member of the House of Representatives for GroenLinks, died on September 14, 2026, aged 78. Born Tarapatie Oedayraj Singh Varma on August…
Louis Caron obituary: died at age 84
Louis Caron, the Canadian journalist, writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating and writing the television drama series He Shoots, He Scores, died on September 14, 2026, of a heart…
Yun Tong-hyon dead, Yun Tong-hyon, North Korean general and politician
Yun Tong-hyon, a North Korean general and politician, died on September 14, 2026. He served as a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and sat…
Chung Ho-yong passed away at age 94
Chung Ho-yong, a South Korean politician and army general, died on September 13, 2026, aged 94. He served as minister of the interior and later as minister of defense in…
Siddique Ahmed dies at age 63
Siddique Ahmed, an Indian politician and former Assam MLA, died on September 13, 2026, aged 63. An Indian National Congress leader from Assam, he represented the Karimganj South constituency in…
Mary Gaudron obituary: died at age 83
Mary Gaudron, the Australian judge and former justice of the High Court, died on September 13, 2026, aged 83. Born Mary Genevieve Gaudron in Moree, New South Wales, she became…
Obituary: Eugenia Apostol, dead at age 100
Eugenia Apostol, the Filipino journalist and publisher who founded the Philippine Daily Inquirer, died on September 13, 2026, aged 100. Known also as Eggie Apostol and Eugenia "Eggie" Apostol, she…
Jing Yidan died at age 71
Jing Yidan, a Chinese television presenter and host, died on September 13, 2026, at age 71. Born in Harbin in April 1955, she graduated from the Communication University of China…
Ellen Brandom passes away at age 84
Ellen Brandom, an American politician and member of the Missouri House of Representatives, died on September 12, 2026, at age 84. Born in Quincy, Illinois, she served in the Missouri…
Obituary: Naseer al-Chaderchi, dead at age 90
Naseer al-Chaderchi, an Iraqi politician, died on September 12, 2026, aged 90. He served as a member of Iraq’s Interim Governing Council, which was established after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.…
Byron Sher dead at age 98
Byron Sher, the American politician and law professor who served in the California State Assembly from 1980 to 1996 and in the State Senate from 1996 to 2004, died on…
Michael J. Brennan, died aged 83
Michael J. Brennan, an American financial economist, died September 12, 2026, at age 83. He was emeritus professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and had earlier…
Povilas Varanauskas has died at age 85
Povilas Varanauskas, a Lithuanian politician and one of the signatories of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, died on September 12, 2026, aged 85. Born…
Lars Herseth obituary: died at age 80
Lars Herseth, an American politician and rancher, died September 12, 2026, aged 80. Born Ralph Lars Herseth in Aberdeen, South Dakota, he served in the South Dakota House of Representatives…
Nikolay Podgornov dead at age 77
Nikolay Podgornov, the Russian politician who served as the first governor of Vologda Oblast, died on September 12, 2026, aged 77. Born Nikolay Mikhailovich Podgornov on May 15, 1949, in…
Carles Solà died at age 81
Carles Solà, the Spanish academic administrator and politician who served as rector of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, died on September 12, 2026, aged 81. Born in Xàtiva, in Valencia…
Bamanga Tukur passed away at age 90
Bamanga Tukur, the Nigerian politician who served as People's Democratic Party national chairman, died on September 12, 2026, aged 90. A businessman and politician from Adamawa State, he was born…
Abdul Jalil Mastan has died at age 70
Abdul Jalil Mastan, an Indian politician and six-time Bihar MLA, died on September 12, 2026, aged 70. A senior Indian National Congress leader, he served as minister of Registration, Excise…
Agni Deo Singh dead, Agni Deo Singh, Fijian politician
Agni Deo Singh, the Fijian politician and trade unionist who served as Minister for Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations, died on September 12, 2026. Born in rural Macuata in Vanua…
Varinder Singh Bajwa, died aged 82
Varinder Singh Bajwa, an Indian politician and former member of the Rajya Sabha, died on September 11, 2026, aged 82. A senior vice-president of the Shiromani Akali Dal, he began…
Naseebullah Bazai dead, Naseebullah Bazai, Pakistani politician, senator
Naseebullah Bazai, a Pakistani politician and senator, died on September 11, 2026. He had served as a Member of the Senate of Pakistan since March 2018. Bazai was elected in…
Chaudhry Mehmood Bashir obituary: died at age 88
Chaudhry Mehmood Bashir, a Pakistani politician who served as minister for law and a member of the National Assembly, died on September 11, 2026, aged 88. Also known as Chaudhry…
Emma Bonino died at age 78
Emma Bonino, the Italian politician who served as minister of foreign affairs, senator and member of the European Parliament, died on September 11, 2026, aged 78, after a battle with…
Raffaele Costa dead at age 90
Raffaele Costa, the Italian politician who served as a deputy, minister and provincial president, died on September 11, 2026, aged 90. Born in Mondovì on September 8, 1936, he graduated…
Death of Tapas Dey at age 84
Tapas Dey, an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly, died on September 11, 2026, aged 84. He also served as ex-Vice President of the Tripura Pradesh Congress…
Tomás Solís dies at age 91
Tomás Solís, a Chilean politician who served as deputy from 1969 to 1973, died on September 11, 2026, aged 91. Born Tomás Enrique Solís Nova in Coelemu on September 28,…
Marilyn Edwards has died at age 88
Marilyn Edwards, an American politician and member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, died on September 10, 2026, aged 88. She represented the 88th district in the Arkansas House from…
Josep María Trías de Bes dies at age 81
Josep María Trías de Bes, a Spanish lawyer and politician, died on September 10, 2026, aged 81. Born Josep María Trías de Bes i Serra in Madrid on November 19,…
Cathie Craigie dies at age 72
Cathie Craigie, the Scottish politician who served as a Scottish Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth from 1999 to 2011, died on September 10, 2026, aged…
Death of Manel Abeysekera at age 93
Manel Abeysekera, the Sri Lankan diplomat and first woman career diplomat in Sri Lanka, died on September 10, 2026, aged 93. Also known as Irangani Manel Abeysekera, she served as…
Chuni Lal Bhagat passes away at age 93
Chuni Lal Bhagat, an Indian politician and former Punjab MLA, died on September 10, 2026, aged 93. He represented the Bharatiya Janata Party and served in the Punjab government as…
Hyacinth Knight, died aged 86
Hyacinth Knight, a Jamaican politician and former member of Parliament, died on September 9, 2026, aged 86. Knight served in Jamaica’s House of Representatives from 1983 to 1989 as a…
Tolofuaivalelei Falemoe Leiʻataua has died at age 76
Tolofuaivalelei Falemoe Leiʻataua, a Samoan politician and former member and speaker of the Legislative Assembly, died on September 9, 2026, aged 76. He was first elected to Parliament in 1996…
Death of Blanche d’Alpuget at age 82
Blanche d'Alpuget, the Australian writer and widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke, died on September 9, 2026, aged 82, after complications from influenza. Born Josephine Blanche d'Alpuget in Sydney…
Takao Jinnouchi has died at age 93
Takao Jinnouchi, a Japanese politician and former bureaucrat, died on September 8, 2026, aged 93. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he served in Japan’s Upper House for three…
William Henry Draper III obituary: died at age 98
William Henry Draper III, an American venture capitalist, died on September 8, 2026, aged 98. Born in White Plains, New York, he was the son of Katherine Louise Baum and…
Monowar Hossain Chowdhury dies at 78
Monowar Hossain Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi politician and former member of parliament, died on September 8, 2026, aged 78. He represented the Gaibandha-4 constituency in the Jatiya Sangsad and was elected…
Tung Chee-hwa passed away at age 89
Tung Chee-hwa, the Hong Kong politician and businessman who became the territory’s first chief executive, died on September 8, 2026, aged 89. Born in Shanghai on July 7, 1937, he…
André Navez has died at age 74
André Navez, a Belgian politician and clerk, died on September 8, 2026, aged 74. Born in Bienne-lez-Happart, Belgium, on March 12, 1952, he was a member of the Socialist Party.…
Margaret Bedggood has died at age 87
Margaret Bedggood, the New Zealand legal scholar and former chief human rights commissioner, died on September 8, 2026, aged 87. Born Margaret Ann Bedggood in Takapuna on April 10, 1939,…