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…
Famous Dead Politicians: Recent Politician Deaths and Obituaries
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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…
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.…
Nuno Cardoso passes away at age 64
Nuno Cardoso, the Portuguese engineer and politician who served as president of the Porto Municipal Chamber from 1999 to 2002, died on September 7, 2026, aged 64. Born Nuno Magalhães…
Obituary: Hafidh Ameir, dead at age 76
Hafidh Ameir, a Tanzanian politician and agriculturalist who served as Tanzania’s first gentleman, died on September 7, 2026, aged 76. Ameir became the country’s first First Gentleman after Samia Suluhu…
Silvio Meli dead at age 72
Silvio Meli, a Maltese judge, died on September 7, 2026, aged 72. He graduated from the University of Malta and later served as president of the Commission for Fair Trading…
Rihards Pīks died at age 84
Rihards Pīks, the Latvian politician and film director who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009, died on September 7, 2026, aged 84. Born in…
Bello Mandiya, died aged 62
Bello Mandiya, a Nigerian politician and senator, died on September 7, 2026, aged 62. He represented the Katsina South Senatorial District in the Senate after winning the February 2019 general…
Vadim Popov passes away at age 86
Vadim Popov, a Belarusian politician who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives, died on September 7, 2026, aged 86. Born Vadim Aleksandrovich Popov on July 5, 1940, in…
K. Achuthan has died at age 76
K. Achuthan, an Indian politician and Kerala MLA, died on September 7, 2026, aged 76. He represented the Chittur constituency and was a member of the Indian National Congress. Achuthan…
David Cobb,, died aged 63
David Cobb, the Green Party of the United States candidate for president in the 2004 United States presidential election, died on September 7, 2026, at age 63. Known also as…
Hafidh Ameir Hassan passed away at age 76
Hafidh Ameir Hassan, a Tanzanian agriculturalist and teacher who served as First Gentleman of Tanzania, died on September 7, 2026, aged 76. He held the role from March 19, 2021,…
Gastón Acurio Velarde has died at age 95
Gastón Acurio Velarde, the Peruvian politician who served as minister of development and later as a senator, died on September 7, 2026, aged 95. Born in Cusco on December 25,…
Bruce Lunsford dies at age 78
Bruce Lunsford, an American politician and attorney from Kentucky, died on September 6, 2026, aged 78. Born William Bruce Lunsford in Kenton County on November 11, 1947, he built a…
Rudy Ariffin dead at age 73
Rudy Ariffin, the Indonesian politician who served as governor of South Kalimantan and regent of Banjar, died on September 6, 2026, aged 73. A bureaucrat and politician, he led South…
Sudivya Kumar passed away at age 56
Sudivya Kumar, an Indian politician and member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly, died on September 6, 2026, aged 56, after a heart attack. A member of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,…
Otto Jelinek has died at age 86
Otto Jelinek, the Czech-born Canadian figure skater and politician who served as a member of Parliament from 1972 to 1993 and as minister of national revenue from 1989 to 1993,…
Klaus Wanger death at age 85
Klaus Wanger, the Liechtenstein politician and former president of the Landtag of Liechtenstein, died on September 5, 2026, aged 85. Born in Schaan on February 24, 1941, he was also…
Georgy Matyukhin, died aged 92
Georgy Matyukhin, a Russian economist who served as chairman of the Central Bank of Russia from August 1990 to June 1992, died on September 5, 2026, aged 92. Born Georgy…
Obituary: Alberto Iribarne, dead at age 76
Alberto Iribarne, the Argentine lawyer and politician who served as minister of justice from 2005 to 2007, died on September 5, 2026, aged 76. Born in Buenos Aires on August…
Peter Katsambanis death at age 60
Peter Katsambanis, an Australian politician who served in both Victoria and Western Australia, died on September 5, 2026, aged 60. Born in Melbourne on December 24, 1965, as Peter Argyris…
Obituary: Shirley Strum Kenny, dead at age 92
Shirley Strum Kenny, an English scholar and university president, died on September 5, 2026, aged 92. Kenny led Stony Brook University as its fourth president from 1994 through the 2008–2009…
Zenyazen Escobar died at age 42
Zenyazen Escobar, a Mexican politician and federal deputy, died on September 4, 2026, aged 42. Escobar García, whose full name was Zenyazen Roberto Escobar García, was affiliated with the National…
Zenyazen Escobar García, died aged 42
Zenyazen Escobar García, a Mexican politician and incumbent federal deputy, died on September 4, 2026, aged 42. Affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement, he represented Veracruz’s 16th district in the…
Obituary: Edward Raradza, dead at age 79
Edward Raradza, a Zimbabwean politician and tobacco farmer, died on September 4, 2026, aged 79. He was also a former vice-chairperson of the Zimbabwe Farmers Union. Raradza entered parliament in…
Death of Tadeush Kasyanov at age 87
Tadeush Kasyanov, a Soviet and Russian martial artist and stunt coordinator, died on September 4, 2026, aged 87. Born in Moscow on November 14, 1938, he also worked as an…
Don Wilhelms, died aged 96
Don Wilhelms, an American geologist who helped map the Moon and train Apollo astronauts, died on September 4, 2026, aged 96. Born Don Edward Wilhelms in Los Angeles on July…
Jerry Oates death at age 78
Jerry Oates, an American professional wrestler and trainer, died on September 4, 2026, aged 78. Born Jerry Wayne Oates in Columbus, Georgia, he began his wrestling career in 1970 and…
Camilo Escalona, died aged 71
Camilo Escalona, the Chilean politician who served as a senator from 2006 to 2014, died on September 4, 2026, aged 71. A native of Santiago, he was one of the…
Ramón Espinar Gallego death at age 72
Ramón Espinar Gallego, a Spanish politician and former member of the Assembly of Madrid, died on September 3, 2026, aged 72. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he…
Blaine Campbell passes away at age 86
Blaine Campbell, an American politician and former member of the South Dakota House of Representatives, died on September 3, 2026, aged 86. A Republican, Campbell represented District 35 in the…
Fabio Mussi passed away at age 78
Fabio Mussi, the Italian politician who served as minister of university and research from 2006 to 2008 and as a deputy from 1992 to 2008, died on September 3, 2026,…
Anil Sharma has died at age 63
Anil Sharma, an Indian politician and Uttar Pradesh MLA, died on September 2, 2026, at the age of 63. He represented the Shikarpur विधानसभा constituency in Bulandshahr district and served…
Death of Eraj Ravindra Fernando at age 57
Eraj Ravindra Fernando, the Sri Lankan politician and mayor of the Hambantota Municipal Council, died on September 2, 2026, aged 57. He served as mayor of Hambantota from 2014 to…
Raif Dizdarević dies at age 99
Raif Dizdarević, the Bosnian politician who served as president of the Presidency of Yugoslavia, died on September 2, 2026, aged 99. Born in Fojnica on December 9, 1926, he became…
Peter Leaver dies at age 81
Peter Leaver, a British barrister and judge, died on September 2, 2026, aged 81. Known in full as Peter Lawrence Oppenheim Leaver, KC, he served as chief executive of the…
Charles Hatcher, died aged 87
Charles Hatcher, an American politician and lawyer who served in Congress as a Democrat, died on September 1, 2026, aged 87. Born in Doerun, Georgia, he was educated at Georgia…
Death of Konrad Jarausch at age 85
Konrad Jarausch, the German-American historian and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor, died on September 1, 2026, aged 85. Born in Magdeburg, Germany, on August 14, 1941, he…
Lee Nam-cheol dies at age 65
Lee Nam-cheol, a South Korean politician and former civil servant, died on September 1, 2026, at age 65 after esophageal cancer. He served as the 46th and 47th mayor of…
Edythe Harrison dies at 91
Edythe Harrison, an American politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1980 to 1983, died on September 1, 2026, aged 91. Born Edythe Colton in Detroit, she…
Hinson Mosley has died at age 93
Hinson Mosley, an American politician and member of the Georgia House of Representatives, died on September 1, 2026, at age 93. Born George Hinson Mosley on October 21, 1932, in…
Charles Josselin dies at 88
Charles Josselin, a French politician and economist, died on September 1, 2026, aged 88. Born in Pleslin-Trigavou, in Brittany, on March 31, 1938, he became a prominent Socialist figure in…
Vladimir Lakeev dies at age 77
Vladimir Lakeev, a Russian politician and communist party organizer, died on August 31, 2026, aged 77. Known also as Vladimir Ivanovich Lakeev, he was born in Moscow on August 13,…
Death of Édouard Balladur at age 97
Édouard Balladur, the French politician who served as prime minister, minister of finance and twice deputy, died on August 31, 2026, aged 97. Born Édouard Léon Raoul Balladur in İzmir,…
Obituary: Elco Brinkman, dead at age 78
Elco Brinkman, the Dutch politician who served in the House of Representatives and Senate, died on August 31, 2026, aged 78. Born Leendert Cornelis Brinkman in Dirksland on February 5,…
Celestí Alomar Mateu dead at age 76
Celestí Alomar Mateu, a Spanish politician and tourism official who served in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands from 1999 to 2007, died on August 31, 2026, aged 76. Born…
Daniel Spagnou passed away at age 85
Daniel Spagnou, the French politician who served as mayor of Sisteron and represented Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the National Assembly, died on August 31, 2026, aged 85. Born in Barcelonnette on September…
Chan Sarun death at age 78
Chan Sarun, a Cambodian politician who served as minister of agriculture and a member of parliament, died on August 31, 2026, aged 78. Also known as Ngor Hong Srun, he…
Ibrahim Adam dead, Animal scientist, politician
Ibrahim Adam, a Ghanaian politician and animal scientist, died on August 30, 2026. He served as the member of parliament for the Choggo/Tishigu constituency in Ghana’s Northern Region from January…
Abid Mutlak al-Jubouri passed away at age 86
Abid Mutlak al-Jubouri, an Iraqi military officer and politician, died on August 30, 2026, aged 86. An Iraqi Sunni Arab, he served as a major general in Saddam Hussein’s army…
Iván T. Berend dies at 95
Iván T. Berend, the Hungarian historian who led the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and later taught at UCLA, died on August 30, 2026, aged 95. Born in Budapest on December…
Death of Enamul Huq at age 88
Enamul Huq, the Bangladeshi police officer who served as inspector general of police, died on August 30, 2026, aged 88. Huq held the top post in the Bangladesh Police from…
Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros y Bernaldo de Quirós dead at age 82
Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros y Bernaldo de Quirós, a Spanish businessman and civil servant who chaired Iberia and Aviaco from 1983 to 1985, died on August 29, 2026, aged…
Mehdi Zana passes away at age 85
Mehdi Zana, the Turkish Kurdish politician and human rights defender who served as mayor of Diyarbakır from 1977 to 1980, died on August 29, 2026, aged 85. Born in Silvan,…
Narana Coissoró obituary: died at age 94
Narana Coissoró, a Portuguese lawyer, academic and politician, died on August 29, 2026, aged 94. Born in Goa, then in Portuguese India, on October 3, 1931, he moved to Portugal…
Helao Shityuwete death at age 92
Helao Shityuwete, the Namibian writer and military commander, died on August 29, 2026, aged 92. A politician, military commander and author, he was born on August 25, 1934, in Evale,…
Neil Walter obituary: died at age 83
Neil Walter, a New Zealand public servant and diplomat who served as Administrator of Tokelau, died on August 29, 2026, aged 83. Known formally as Neil Douglas Walter CNZM, he…
Antonio Landeta y Álvarez-Valdés dies at 89
Antonio Landeta y Álvarez-Valdés, a Spanish politician and former member of parliament, died on August 29, 2026, aged 89. Born in A Coruña, he entered the national parliament in 1993…
Obituary: Jeffrey G. Williamson, dead at age 90
Jeffrey G. Williamson, an American academic and economic historian, died on August 29, 2026, aged 90. He was the Laird Bell Professor of Economics emeritus at Harvard University and also…
Kaka Mallam Yale dead at age 73
Kaka Mallam Yale, a Nigerian politician and senator, died on August 28, 2026, aged 73. Born in January 1953 in Yale town of Konduga District, he represented Borno Central in…
Ray Miller died at age 77
Ray Miller, an American politician and former member of the Ohio General Assembly, died on August 28, 2026, aged 77. A Democrat and graduate of Ohio State University, he also…
Mykola Dzyuba death at age 79
Mykola Dzyuba, a Ukrainian politician, died on August 28, 2026, aged 79. Born Mykola Hryhorovych Dzyuba on November 12, 1946, in Suvyd, then part of the Ukrainian SSR, he served…
Li Weikang dies at 79
Li Weikang, the Chinese Peking opera singer and actress, died on August 28, 2026, aged 79. A native of Beijing, she was a retired performer who became a national first-class…
Priit Aimla passed away at age 85
Priit Aimla, the Estonian writer, poet and politician, died on August 28, 2026, aged 85. Born in Võru on April 19, 1941, he became known for stage plays and books,…
Brîndușa Armanca death at age 71
Brîndușa Armanca, a Romanian journalist and academic, died on August 28, 2026, aged 71. Born in Câmpulung Moldovenesc in 1954, she studied philology at the West University of Timișoara and…
Obituary: Joan Phillip, dead at age 74
Joan Phillip, a Canadian politician and member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, died on August 28, 2026, aged 74. Born Joan Carter in North Vancouver, she was known as…
Enda Bonner died at age 76
Enda Bonner, the Irish politician and accountant who served as a senator from 1997 to 2002, died on August 27, 2026, aged 76. He represented Fianna Fáil and was a…
Alfred Rohr passed away at age 80
Alfred Rohr, an Austrian politician and member of the Landtag of Burgenland, died on August 27, 2026, aged 80. A member of the Austrian People's Party, he served in the…
Mamtaz Sanghamita dead at age 80
Mamtaz Sanghamita, an Indian politician and gynaecologist who served as a member of parliament from Bardhaman-Durgapur in the 16th Lok Sabha, died on August 27, 2026, aged 80. She entered…
Karel Barták has died at age 72
Karel Barták, a Czech journalist and former Czech News Agency foreign correspondent, died on August 27, 2026, aged 72. Barták built his reputation at ČTK, where he worked in the…
Christian Breseghello passed away at age 71
Christian Breseghello, a French rugby union player for Stade Toulousain, died on August 27, 2026, aged 71. Born in Mazères on January 23, 1955, he played for UA Saverdun from…
Jean Allaire dies at age 96
Jean Allaire, a Canadian lawyer and politician, died on August 27, 2026, at age 96. A French Canadian from Laval, Quebec, he was best known for authoring the Allaire Report…
Mark S. DeFrancesco died at age 76
Mark S. DeFrancesco, an American politician, died on August 26, 2026, aged 76. A Republican, he served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1973 to 1975. Born in New…
Vladimir Germanenko, died aged 82
Vladimir Germanenko, a Russian politician and senator, died on August 26, 2026, aged 82. He represented the Federation Council from 2001 to 2008. Born on February 22, 1944, in Vertiyivka,…
Ole Andreasen death at age 87
Ole Andreasen, the Danish politician and journalist who served in the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004, died on August 26, 2026, aged 87. Born in Frederiksberg on July 30,…
Vladimir Germanenko, died aged 82
Vladimir Germanenko, the Russian politician and senator who served in the Federation Council from 2001 to 2008, died on August 26, 2026, aged 82. Vladimir Sergeyevich Germanenko was born on…
Takashi Hanyūda dead at age 78
Takashi Hanyūda, a Japanese politician and former member of Japan’s House of Councillors, died on August 25, 2026, at age 78. Born in Maebashi in 1948, he was a doctor…
Tom Byabagamba obituary: died at age 59
Tom Byabagamba, a Rwandan military officer and presidential bodyguard, died on August 25, 2026, aged 59. A former colonel in the Rwanda Defense Force, he also served as head of…
Syamsir Siregar dead at age 84
Syamsir Siregar, an Indonesian military officer who served as Director of the State Intelligence Agency from 2004 to 2009, died on August 25, 2026, aged 84. A graduate of the…
Asadollah Nasr Esfahani passes away at age 99
Asadollah Nasr Esfahani, an Iranian military officer and politician who served as minister of interior, died on August 24, 2026, aged 99. Born in Isfahan on February 10, 1927, he…
James Harkness obituary: died at age 90
James Harkness, a Scottish Church of Scotland minister, died on August 24, 2026, aged 90. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and held…
Grégoire Laourou passed away at age 73
Grégoire Laourou, the Beninese politician who served as minister of finance, died on August 24, 2026, aged 73. A native of Bantè, he was elected to parliament on several occasions…
Carlos Sáenz de Santamaría dead
Carlos Sáenz de Santamaría, a Spanish civil servant and politician, died on August 24, 2026, in Tricio. Known in full as Carlos Sáenz de Santamaría Alegría, he was a member…
Rajuddin Noeh dies at age 86
Rajuddin Noeh, an Indonesian politician and civil servant, died on August 24, 2026, aged 86. Born on September 2, 1939, in Kajai, he was a member of Golkar and served…
Mohabbat Jan Chowdhury has died at age 92
Mohabbat Jan Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi politician and former army major general who also served as home minister and director general of DGFI, died on August 24, 2026, aged 92. He…
Chen Wu passed away at age 71
Chen Wu, a Chinese politician who served as vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and as chairman of Guangxi, died on August 24, 2026, aged 71. Born…
Mirosław Różański, died aged 63
Mirosław Różański, the Polish military officer and politician who became a senator and lieutenant general, died on August 24, 2026, aged 63. Born in Głogów on December 1, 1962, he…
Giri Dandasena, died aged 76
Giri Dandasena, an Indian writer in the Odia language, died on August 24, 2026, aged 76. A writer, columnist and historian from Odisha, he produced fiction and works on the…
Mitchell Doens dead at age 79
Mitchell Doens, a Panamanian politician, economist and writer, died on August 24, 2026, aged 79. Doens, whose full name was Mitchell Constantino Doens Ambrosio, was born in Colón Province on…
Abderrahmane Tlili died at age 83
Abderrahmane Tlili, a Tunisian politician and founder of the Democratic Unionist Party, died on August 23, 2026, at the age of 83. According to Arabic-language biographical sources, he served as…
Alphonse Djédjé Mady has died at age 81
Alphonse Djédjé Mady, an Ivorian politician and doctor, died on August 23, 2026, aged 81. Born in Gazehio on January 1, 1945, he studied medicine and worked as a physician…
Boris Ebzeyev dies at age 76
Boris Ebzeyev, a Russian politician and jurist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 76. Born Boris Safarovich Ebzeyev, he served as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Russia from…
Abderrahmane Tlili died at age 83
Abderrahmane Tlili, a Tunisian businessman and politician, died on August 23, 2026, aged 83. Born in Gafsa on March 30, 1943, he was active in both business and public life.…
Orit Galili-Zucker passes away at age 70
Orit Galili-Zucker, an Israeli journalist and political consultant, died on August 23, 2026, at age 70. She headed the political communications team for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and also served…
Death of Roy Drinkard at age 106
Roy Drinkard, an American businessman and developer, died on August 23, 2026, aged 106. He lived in Cullman, Alabama, and served as president and CEO of Drinkard Development, Inc., which…
Death of Imran Ullah Khan at age 93
Imran Ullah Khan, a Pakistani army general and former governor of Balochistan, died on August 23, 2026, aged 93. A retired Pakistan Army general, he served as governor of Balochistan…