Jean-Claude Passeron dies at 95
Jean-Claude Passeron, the French sociologist, died October 30, 2026, aged 95. Born in Nice on November 26, 1930, he studied philosophy and sociology at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.…
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Annaclara Cataldi Palau passed away at age 76
Annaclara Cataldi Palau, an Italian Hellenist and palaeographer, died October 30, 2026, aged 76. She specialised in Greek medieval and Renaissance palaeography and the history of the book. Born in…
Isaac Tédambé dies at age 72
Isaac Tédambé, a Chadian economist and novelist best known for the novel *Republic for Sale*, died in N’Djamena on October 30, 2026, aged 72. Born on March 3, 1954, in…
Josip Pečarić dead at age 79
Josip Pečarić, a Croatian mathematician and writer whose work centered on the theory of inequalities, died October 29, 2026, aged 79. Born in Kotor, then part of Yugoslavia, he completed…
Paolo Galluzzi passes away at age 84
Paolo Galluzzi, an Italian historian of science, died October 29, 2026, aged 84. Born in Florence in 1942, he held the chair of history of science at the University of…
Choi Bool-am has died at age 86
Choi Bool-am, a South Korean actor and professor, died October 29, 2026, aged 86. Born in Incheon on June 15, 1940, he began his acting career in 1970 and remained…
Bronislava Volková, died aged 80
Bronislava Volková, a Czech-American poet, died on October 29, 2026, aged 80. Born Bronislava Fischerová in Děčín, she grew up in Prague and completed her primary and secondary schooling there.…
Michael P. Drazin died at age 97
Michael P. Drazin, an English-American mathematician known for the Drazin inverse, died October 29, 2026, aged 97. Born Michael Peter Drazin in London on June 5, 1929, he was a…
Obituary: Fátima Báñez, dead at age 59
Fátima Báñez, a Spanish politician, economist and jurist, died in a train crash on October 28, 2026, aged 59. Born María Fátima Báñez García in San Juan del Puerto, she…
Liu Yandong died at age 80
Liu Yandong, a Chinese politician and former vice premier, died in Beijing on October 28, 2026, aged 80. She was born on November 22, 1945, and studied at Tsinghua University,…
Pipo Nguyen-duy died at age 63
Pipo Nguyen-duy, a Vietnamese fine art photographer and professor of Photography at Oberlin College, died October 28, 2026, aged 63. Born Nguyễn Duy Hiếu in Hue, Vietnam, in 1962, he…
Obituary: Marisa Manchado, dead at age 60
Marisa Manchado, the Spanish composer, pianist and professor, died aged 60 on October 28, 2026, in the Toledo train collision. Born María Luisa Manchado Torres in Madrid on July 7,…
Fernando Serrano Migallón passes away at age 81
Fernando Serrano Migallón, a Mexican jurist and member of the Mexican Academy of Language, died October 27, 2026, aged 81. Born in Mexico City on June 26, 1945, he became…
Italo Zannier has died at age 94
Italo Zannier, Italian art connoisseur and art historian, died October 27, 2026, aged 94. Born in Spilimbergo, he worked as a photographer, academic and historian of photography, joining photographic practice…
Jonathan Finlay dead at age 78
Jonathan Finlay, a British pediatric neuro-oncologist who specialized in brain tumors in children, adolescents and young adults, died October 26, 2026, aged 78. Born in Manchester in 1948, he was…
Keith Boardman passed away at age 100
Norman Keith Boardman, the Australian biochemist known as Keith Boardman, died October 26, 2026, aged 100. Born in Geelong, Victoria, on August 16, 1926, Boardman contributed to understanding photosynthesis and…
Andrei Doroshkevich died at age 89
Andrei Georgievich Doroshkevich, a Russian theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist, died October 26, 2026, aged 89. Born January 22, 1937, he was identified as both Russian and former Soviet, and studied…
Sir David Gascoigne died at age 86
Sir David Rendel Kingston Gascoigne, a New Zealand lawyer and former judicial conduct commissioner who served as viceregal consort from 2016 to 2021, died October 26, 2026, aged 86. Born…
Leo Barry dead at age 83
Leo Denis Barry, a Canadian jurist and politician who served as a Newfoundland and Labrador member of the House of Assembly, died October 26, 2026, aged 83. Born in Red…
Lily Wong Fillmore death at age 92
Lily Wong Fillmore, an American linguist and professor emerita in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, died October 26, 2026, aged 92. Her research focused…
Death of Gerald Fischbach at age 87
Gerald Fischbach, an American neuroscientist, died October 25, 2026, aged 87. Born in New Rochelle on November 15, 1938, he attended Colgate University on a New York State Regents Scholarship,…
Roxana Amed death at age 63
Roxana Amed, an Argentine jazz singer, died October 25, 2026, aged 63. Born in Buenos Aires, she also worked as a composer, producer and educator, and was an educator at…
Rudi Fuchs death at age 84
Rudi Fuchs, the Dutch art historian and museum curator, died October 25, 2026, aged 84. Born Rudolf Herman Fuchs in Eindhoven on April 28, 1942, he studied art history at…
Paolo Romeo has died at age 88
Paolo Romeo, an Italian priest, cardinal and archbishop emeritus of Palermo, died October 25, 2026, aged 88. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him to the see of Palermo on December 19,…
Yaakov Sussmann death at age 95
Yaakov Sussmann, an Israeli philologist and scholar of the Talmud, died in Jerusalem on October 25, 2026, aged 95. Born in Budapest, he made his academic career at the Hebrew…
Asim Kurjak has died at age 84
Asim Kurjak, a Croatian scientist and gynecologist, died October 23, 2026, aged 84. He served as president of the International Academy of Perinatal Medicine and director of the Ian Donald…
Wm. Roger Louis dies at 90
Wm. Roger Louis, an American historian and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, died October 23, 2026, aged 90. Born in Detroit on May 8, 1936, he…
Russell Stone died at age 103
Russell Stone, a New Zealand historian, author and academic, died on October 22, 2026, aged 103. Born Russell Cyril James Stone in Mount Eden, Auckland, on April 7, 1923, he…
Peter Horton passed away at age 81
Peter Alan Horton, an Australian rugby union international and sport historian, died October 22, 2026, aged 81. Born in Brixton, London, on July 20, 1945, and raised in England, he…
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji dead at age 93
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, a French physicist and Nobel laureate, died on October 22, 2026, aged 93. Born on April 1, 1933, in Constantine, then part of French Algeria, he built an…
Thayer Scudder dead at age 96
Thayer Scudder, an American anthropologist and leading scholar of dams and resettlement, died October 22, 2026, aged 96. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he earned an undergraduate degree in 1952…
Jaume Pont death at age 79
Jaume Pont, the Spanish poet, literary critic and academic, died in Lleida on October 22, 2026, aged 79. Born in the city on March 24, 1947, Pont studied philosophy and…
Marilyn Slaby dies at 86
Marilyn Slaby, an American politician and teacher who represented Ohio’s 41st District in the state House, died October 22, 2026, aged 86. A Republican, she served the district in 2004…
Jan Novák dead at age 79
Jan Novák, the Czech theatre director and educator, died on October 21, 2026, aged 79. Born in Velké Losiny on April 19, 1947, he studied at the Secondary Industrial School…
Death of Timothy Smiley at age 95
Timothy Smiley, the British philosopher, died October 21, 2026, aged 95. Born in London on November 13, 1930, he was educated at Ardwyn Grammar School in Aberystwyth and Ampleforth College,…
Jan Kříž dies at 51
Jan Kříž, a Czech physicist and university educator, died on October 21, 2026, aged 51. Born in Hradec Králové, he built his academic career at the University of Hradec Králové…
Ken Ring dies at age 86
Ken Ring, a New Zealand writer and astrologer, died October 21, 2026, aged 86. Born in England during the Second World War, he emigrated with his family to New Zealand…
Alex Sanders died at age 88
Alexander Mullings Sanders Jr., an American jurist, politician and academic administrator, died October 20, 2026, aged 88. Born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, he served in the U.S. Army…
Death of Isaak Sigal at age 99
Isaak Sigal, a Ukrainian scientist, died October 20, 2026, aged 99. Born in Vinnytsia on March 31, 1927, he studied at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and pursued research on…
Coos Huijsen obituary: died at age 87
Coos Huijsen, a Dutch historian, writer and politician who served in the House of Representatives, died October 19, 2026, aged 87. Born Jacobus Huijsen in The Hague on March 20,…
Yusef Majidzadeh obituary: died at age 90
Yusef Majidzadeh, an Iranian archaeologist, died on October 19, 2026, aged 90. A native of Tabriz, he built his career around the study of Iran’s archaeological past. He directed excavations…
Alexandre Chorin passed away at age 88
Alexandre Chorin, an American mathematician known for work in computational fluid mechanics, turbulence and computational statistical mechanics, died October 19, 2026, aged 88. Born Alexandre Joel Chorin in Warsaw, Poland,…
Kenneth Atchity dead at age 82
Kenneth Atchity, an American film producer, died October 19, 2026, aged 82. Born Kenneth John Atchity in Eunice, Louisiana, on January 16, 1944, he worked in film and literary fields…
Ann Hornaday obituary: died at age 66
Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post’s chief film critic, died October 18, 2026, aged 66. She was an American film critic and journalist whose career included work at national publications and…
Ronald Lancaster dies at age 95
Ronald Lancaster, the British Anglican clergyman, chemist and businessman who founded Kimbolton Fireworks, died October 18, 2026, aged 95. Born in Huddersfield, he became interested in fireworks after the 1937…
Gregory Ibe death at age 63
Gregory Ikechukwu Ibe, a Nigerian industrialist, politician and academic who founded Gregory University, Uturu, died on October 18, 2026, aged 63. Born in Kaduna on December 10, 1963, he grew…
Mary Fell dies at age 79
Mary Fell, an American poet and academic, died October 18, 2026, aged 79, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on September 22, 1947, she graduated from Worcester…
Inger Nordal death at age 82
Inger Nordal, a Norwegian botanist and academic, died October 18, 2026, aged 82. Born in Oslo on August 11, 1944, she studied at the University of Oslo and joined its…
Frans Geysen dies at age 90
Frans Geysen, a Belgian composer and writer on music topics, died October 18, 2026, aged 90. Born on July 29, 1936, in Oostham, Limburg, he studied at the Lemmens Institute…
Syukron Ma’mun passed away at age 84
Syukron Ma'mun, an Indonesian educator and politician, died on October 18, 2026, aged 84. Born on December 21, 1941, he was also a religious scholar and led the Daarul Rahman…
B. Madhusoodhana Kurup, died aged 71
B. Madhusoodhana Kurup, the founding vice-chancellor of Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS), died October 18, 2026, aged 71. An Indian fisheries researcher and academic administrator, he led…
Jacques Charlin has died at age 77
Jacques Charlin, a French mathematician and professor of mathematics at Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, died on October 17, 2026, aged 77. Born on November 2, 1948, he was described…
Yvette Biro has died at age 96
Yvette Biro, a Hungarian-American screenwriter and essayist, died in Paris on October 17, 2026, aged 96. Born in Budapest on April 3, 1930, she worked as a film critic, playwright…
Obituary: Pierre-Yves Collombat, dead at age 81
Pierre-Yves Collombat, a French politician who represented the Var department in France’s Senate as a member of the Socialist Party, died October 17, 2026, aged 81. Born in Voiron on…
Alan Cribb passes away at age 101
Alan Cribb, an Australian botanist and phycologist, died on October 17, 2026, aged 101. Born in Ipswich, Queensland, he grew up around Longreach, where his father, a grazier, encouraged his…
Patrick Dele-Cole dies at 86
Patrick Dele-Cole, a Nigerian politician, journalist and historian who became managing director of the Daily Times, died October 17, 2026, aged 86. His career brought together newspaper leadership, party politics,…
Death of Janet Jackel at age 79
Janet Jackel, an American optical engineer and former chief scientist at Telcordia, died October 17, 2026, aged 79. Born in Queens, New York, on May 30, 1947, she studied physics…
Robert S. Knox has died at age 95
Robert S. Knox, an American physicist, died October 17, 2026, aged 95, in Rochester, New York. Born July 13, 1931, in Newton, New Jersey, he studied at Lehigh University, earning…
Douglas Dunn passed away at age 83
Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, the Scottish poet, academic and critic, died on October 16, 2026, aged 83. Born in Inchinnan on October 23, 1942, he trained at the Scottish School of…
Al Jawhara bint Fahd Al Saud dead, Al Jawhara bint Fahd Al Saud, Saudi royal and academic administr…
Al Jawhara bint Fahd Al Saud, a Saudi royal and academic administrator, died October 16, 2026. She was an academic and a member of Saudi Arabia’s Consultative Assembly. Her education…
Jacqueline Van Quaille obituary: died at age 90
Jacqueline Van Quaille was a Belgian operatic soprano and academic teacher who died on October 16, 2026, aged 90. Born in Gentbrugge, she studied at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent,…
Dariusz Kołodziejczyk dies at age 64
Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, a Polish historian and professor at the University of Warsaw, died on October 16, 2026, aged 64. Born in Warsaw on May 25, 1962, he studied at the…
Wiktor Legowicz dies at 77
Wiktor Józef Legowicz, a Polish radio journalist, died October 15, 2026, aged 77. Born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki on April 2, 1949, he studied education at the University of Warsaw, completing…
Basil Ince dead at age 93
Basil Ince, a Trinidadian sprinter and politician who served as minister of foreign affairs from 1981 to 1985, died October 15, 2026, aged 93. Born May 1, 1933, Ince was…
Pierre-André Kombila death at age 85
Pierre-André Kombila, a Gabonese politician, professor and physician who served as a member of parliament, died on October 15, 2026, aged 85. Born in Lac Anengué, near Port-Gentil, he studied…
Mohammad Solaiman death at age 70
Mohammad Solaiman, a Bangladeshi academic administrator and professor, died on October 15, 2026, aged 70, from complications of diabetes and heart disease. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Science…
Death of Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh at age 80
Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, an Iranian political scientist and historian, died October 15, 2026, aged 80. Born in Nur, Iran, on February 9, 1946, he became known for work on Iran and…
Death of Myron Augsburger at age 97
Myron Augsburger, a Mennonite pastor, theologian, academic and author who served as president of Eastern Mennonite College, died October 15, 2026, aged 97. Born in Elida, Ohio, on August 20,…
Death of Rita Vorperian at age 88
Rita Vorperian, a Syrian-born American literary scholar, journalist, writer, translator and researcher who served as executive director of the Armenian Relief Society in the Western United States, died October 14,…
Asbjørn Eide dead at age 93
Asbjørn Eide, a Norwegian human rights scholar, died on October 14, 2026, aged 93. Born in Eksingedalen, he studied at the University of Oslo and built his career across law…
Luigi Malice dies at 88
Luigi Malice, an Italian painter and sculptor known for abstract art, died October 14, 2026, aged 88. Born in Naples, he studied at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts under…
Michael Cremo passes away at age 78
Michael Cremo, the American pseudoarcheologist associated with *Forbidden Archeology*, died October 14, 2026, aged 78. Born in Schenectady, New York, on July 15, 1948, he attended George Washington University from…
Thomas H. Buxton passed away at age 86
Thomas H. Buxton, an American academic, died October 14, 2026, aged 86. Born Thomas Hamilton Buxton on January 18, 1940, in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, he was the son of…
Death of Martina Arroyo at age 90
Martina Arroyo, an American operatic soprano whose international career spanned the 1960s through the 1980s, died October 13, 2026, aged 90. Born in New York City, she became part of…
Craig L. Symonds died at age 79
Craig L. Symonds, an American naval historian whose work examined the Civil War, World War II and maritime history, died of cancer October 13, 2026, aged 79. Born in Long…
Obituary: Albert Houssiau, dead at age 101
Albert Houssiau, a Belgian Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Liège, died on October 13, 2026, aged 101. Born Albert Jean Charles Ghislain Houssiau in Halle on November…
Death of Perry Mehrling at age 67
Perry Mehrling, an American economist, died on October 13, 2026, aged 67. He was a professor of political economy at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies and directed educational…
Obituary: Vladimir Vuletić, dead at age 47
Vladimir Vuletić, a Serbian lawyer, associate professor and former vice president of FK Partizan, died in Belgrade on October 12, 2026, aged 47; his body was found that day. Born…
Zaynolabideen Ghorbani passed away at age 93
Zaynolabideen Ghorbani, an Iranian ayatollah who represented the Supreme Leader of Iran in Gilan Province, died on October 12, 2026, aged 93. Born on January 8, 1933, in Panchah, Gilan,…
Sheana Davis death at age 57
Sheana Davis, an American cheesemaker, chef and culinary educator, died October 12, 2026, aged 57. Born in Sonoma, California, in 1969, she founded the Epicurean Connection in Sonoma and created…
Jeffrey Goldstone dies at 93
Jeffrey Goldstone, a British theoretical physicist and academic, died October 12, 2026, aged 93. Born in Manchester on September 3, 1933, he attended Manchester Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge,…
Peter Thomas passed away at age 53
Peter Thomas, an Australian political theorist and professor, died of a heart attack on October 11, 2026, aged 53. A Marxist scholar whose work focused on Antonio Gramsci, he was…
Obituary: Meta Grosman, dead at age 90
Meta Grosman, a Slovenian linguist, anglicist and literary historian, died in Ljubljana on October 11, 2026, aged 90. Born in Ljubljana on May 18, 1936, she attended the Classical Gymnasium…
Juan Pablo Cárdenas Squella died at age 76
Chilean journalist Juan Pablo Cárdenas Squella died of cancer on October 11, 2026, aged 76. Born in Santiago on December 1, 1949, he attended the German Lyceum of Santiago and…
Che Hongcai obituary: died at age 90
Che Hongcai, a Chinese linguist and lexicographer who specialized in Pashto, died October 11, 2026, aged 90. Born in Hailun, Heilongjiang province, in 1936, he enrolled at Beijing Foreign Studies…
Rachna Shroff dies at 47
Rachna Shroff, an American oncologist, died October 11, 2026, aged 47. Born Rachna Trivedi, she grew up in Tucson, Arizona, where her father worked as a biochemist and her mother…
Jean Borella passed away at age 96
Jean Borella, a French philosopher and theologian, died October 11, 2026, aged 96. Born in Nancy on May 21, 1930, he received a Catholic education and attended traditional public secondary…
Pierre Joliot, died aged 94
Pierre Joliot, a French biologist and member of the French Academy of Sciences, died October 10, 2026, aged 94. Born in Paris on March 12, 1932, he pursued research focused…
Stephen Dow Beckham has died at age 85
Stephen Dow Beckham, an American historian, died October 10, 2026, aged 85. His scholarship focused on Native Americans and the American West, with particular attention to the Pacific Northwest and…
Keven McDonald has died at age 70
Keven McDonald, an American basketball player and lawyer, died October 10, 2026, aged 70. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he attended Seton Hall Preparatory School, where he scored 1,774 career…
Obituary: Robert Williamson, dead at age 88
Robert Williamson, the British-Australian geneticist and molecular biologist, died on October 10, 2026, aged 88. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Scottish parents, he moved to Britain at 16 when his…
Obituary: Telma de Souza, dead at age 82
Telma Sandra Augusto de Souza, the Brazilian professor, teacher and politician known as Telma de Souza, died of a stroke on October 10, 2026, aged 82. Born in Santos on…
Lou Yulie died at age 91
Lou Yulie, a Chinese philosopher and professor of philosophy and religious studies at Peking University, died October 9, 2026, aged 91. Born in Hangzhou on December 10, 1934, he attended…
Josep Pinyol obituary: died at age 73
Josep Pinyol, a Catalan historian, entrepreneur, political analyst and independence activist, died on October 9, 2026, aged 73. Born in Cornellà de Llobregat in 1952, he graduated in modern and…
Bakir Bayakhunov died at age 93
Bakir Bayakhunov, a Kazakh composer and People’s Artist of Kazakhstan, died October 9, 2026, aged 93. Born in Almaty on September 15, 1933, he studied at the Almaty Conservatory, now…
Bakir Bayakhunov died at age 93
Kazakh composer Bakir Bayakhunov died on October 9, 2026, aged 93. Born in Alma-Ata, now Almaty, on September 15, 1933, he worked in classical and operatic music and was a…
Chris Wickham, died aged 76
Chris Wickham, a British historian and academic, died on October 9, 2026, aged 76. Born Christopher John Wickham in Rossett, Wales, on May 18, 1950, he attended Millfield before studying…
António Vitalino Dantas dead at age 84
António Vitalino Dantas, a Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate who served as auxiliary bishop of Lisbon and bishop of Beja, died October 9, 2026, aged 84. Born on November 3, 1941,…
Colin Mackerras dies at age 87
Colin Patrick Mackerras, the Australian sinologist, died October 8, 2026, aged 87. Born in Sydney on August 26, 1939, he became a specialist in Chinese culture whose work ranged across…