Stephen H. Hess
American political scientist
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
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Helen Peters
Canadian academic
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Justin Taylor
New Zealand priest and historian
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
M. Hafizuddin Khan Economist, political analyst dead at age 89
M. Hafizuddin Khan, a Bangladeshi bureaucrat and former 6th comptroller and auditor general of Bangladesh,
died on January 21, 2026. Born in 1936 or 1937 in Sirajganj, Bengal Province, British…
René V. Dawis
American psychologist
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Henri Dorion
Canadian academic and geographer
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Frank Kolb
German historian and academic
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Deborah Cameron British linguist and feminist, pancreatic cancer dead at age 67
Deborah Jane Cameron, a British linguist and feminist,
died on January 20, 2026, at the age of 67. She held the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester…
Vicki L. Hanson Human-Computer InteractionAccessibility dead at age -1
Vicki L. Hanson, an American computer scientist,
died on January 20, 2026. She was noted for her research on human-computer interaction and accessibility, and for her leadership in broadening participation…
Daniel Moerman
American medical anthropologist and ethnobotanist
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Sir Christopher White
British art historian and curator
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Johannes Fried
German historian
Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Manuel Fernández Areal
Spanish academic and journalist
Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Jaan Ross
Estonian musicologist and psychologist
Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Gladys West
American mathematician
Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Stuart Altman
American economist
Died on Sunday January 18th 2026
Patrick Corrigan
American psychologist and writer
Died on Sunday January 18th 2026
Clare Cooper Marcus Architect dead at age 91
Clare Cooper Marcus, an American educator in landscape architecture and architecture,
died on January 18, 2026, at age 91. She was a pioneer in the study of social issues in…
Yury Yemelyanov
Russian historian and author
Died on Saturday January 17th 2026
James Petras Professor of sociology dead at age 89
James Petras, an American sociologist and academic,
died on January 17, 2026. He was the Bartle Professor emeritus of sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and an adjunct…
W. John McDonald Canadian physicist and academic administrator dead at age 89
W. John McDonald, a Canadian physicist and academic administrator,
died on January 17, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1936, he earned degrees from the…
Murad Hasratyan
Armenian architectural historian
Died on Saturday January 17th 2026
Deirdre Jordan
Australian academic and educator
Died on Friday January 16th 2026
Rudolf Urc
Slovak director of documentary and animated films and academic
Died on Friday January 16th 2026
Daniel Colson
French sociologist and academic
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Jean Rossier
Belgian biologist and academic
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Namirembe Bitamazire
Ugandan academic and politician
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Richard Hynes
British biologist
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Vicki L. Gregory
American academic and librarian
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Kristi Kiick
American academic
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Robert V. Kohn
American mathematician
Died on Wednesday January 14th 2026
Bennie Carlton Keel
American archaeologist
Died on Wednesday January 14th 2026
Eleni Varikas
Greek-born French political philosopher and academic
Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Allyn Bromley
American visual artist and art educator
Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Mario Rigutti
Italian astronomer
Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Louis E. Brus
American chemist
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Nelson Manrique
Peruvian historian and sociologist
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Stephen E. Braude
American philosopher
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Jean-Luc Domenach
French historian
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Gabriel Barkay
Israeli archaeologist
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Pedro A. Sanchez American soil scientist dead at age 85
Pedro A. Sanchez, an American soil scientist and former director at Columbia University’s Earth Institute,
died on January 12, 2026. He was 85. Sanchez served as director of the Agriculture…
Takashi Ono
Japanese-born American mathematician
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Edith M. Flanigen
American chemist
Died on Sunday January 11th 2026
Ivan Štampach
Czech religionist and theologian
Died on Sunday January 11th 2026
Nelly Chatué Diop
Cameroonian computer scientist
Died on Sunday January 11th 2026
Musa Gibril Bala Gaye
Gambian economist and politician
Died on Sunday January 11th 2026
Orazio Svelto
Italian physicist
Died on Saturday January 10th 2026
Sergey Daniel
Soviet art historian
Died on Saturday January 10th 2026
Zhou Liwei
Chinese electro-optics professor
Died on Saturday January 10th 2026
Carmen Arnold Biucchi
Switzerland numismatist and archaeologist
Died on Saturday January 10th 2026
Hessy Levinsons Taft
German chemist and child model
Died on Friday January 9th 2026
Johannes Fabian
German anthropologist
Died on Friday January 9th 2026
Herbert Beck
German art historian
Died on Friday January 9th 2026
Ted Nichols Composer dead at age 97
Ted Nichols, an American composer, conductor and arranger best known for his work on Hanna-Barbera productions including The Flintstones and Jonny Quest,
died on January 9, 2026, at age 97.…
David Quail
South African politician and educator
Died on Friday January 9th 2026
Roger Guesnerie
French economist and academic
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon
Icelandic artist and academic
Died on Wednesday January 7th 2026
Céline Bellot
Canadian criminologist and academic
Died on Wednesday January 7th 2026
Jiří Witzany
Czech academic and former rector of ČVUT (2000–2006)
Died on Wednesday January 7th 2026
Arthur Stockwin British political scientist dead at age 90
Arthur Stockwin, a British political scientist who specialised in the politics and foreign policy of Japan,
died on January 7, 2026. Born in Birmingham on November 28, 1935, he studied…
Baghir Suleimanov
Azerbaijani petroleum scientist
Died on Tuesday January 6th 2026
Baghir A. Suleimanov
Azerbaijani academic
Died on Tuesday January 6th 2026
Samuel O. Thier
American doctor and academic
Died on Tuesday January 6th 2026
Maulana Fazl-ur-Raheem Ashrafi
Pakistani Islamic scholar
Died on Monday January 5th 2026
Herbert Beck German art historian dead at age 84
Herbert Beck, a German art historian and museum director,
died on January 5, 2026, at the age of 84. He served as director of the Liebieghaus and the Städel. Beck…
Jitamitra Prasad Singh Deo
Indian historian and archaeologist
Died on Sunday January 4th 2026
Amal Fathullah Zarkasyi
Indonesian Muslim scholar
Died on Saturday January 3rd 2026
Yehezkel Dror
Austrian-born Israeli political scientist
Died on Saturday January 3rd 2026
Volodymyr Marchenko
Ukrainian mathematician
Died on Friday January 2nd 2026
Patrick Duffy British politician, MP and president of the NATO Assembly dead at age 105
Patrick Duffy, the British politician who served as a Member of Parliament and president of the NATO Assembly,
died on January 2, 2026, aged 105. A Labour Party politician and…
Mohammed Harbi Algerian historian dead at age 92
Mohammed Harbi, an Algerian historian and former member of the National Liberation Front during the Algerian War of Independence,
died on January 1, 2026. Born on June 16, 1933, in…
Ion H. Ciubotaru
Romanian ethnologist and literary historian
Died on Wednesday December 31st 2025
Dean C. Jessee American historian dead at age 96
Dean C. Jessee, an American historian of the early Latter Day Saint movement and a leading expert on the writings of Joseph Smith Jr.,
died on December 31, 2025. Born…
Enno Hallek Artist dead at age 94
Enno Hallek, a Swedish artist and academic,
died on December 31, 2025, at the age of 94. Born in Rohuküla, Estonia, on November 7, 1931, he moved with his family…
Francis Hallé French botanist and biologist dead at age 87
Francis Hallé, the French botanist and biologist,
died on December 31, 2025, at the age of 87. He was a specialist in tropical rainforests and tree architecture, and is best…
Alexandra Wedgwood
British architectural historian
Died on Tuesday December 30th 2025
Francisco Fernández Marugán
Spanish politician and economist
Died on Tuesday December 30th 2025
Mate Meštrović Journalist, academic, lobbyist, politician, ambassador dead at age 95
Mate Meštrović, a Croatian-American journalist,
died on December 30, 2025, in Zagreb at the age of 95. Also known as Matthew Mestrovic and Matthew Meštrović, he was born in Zagreb…
Killing of Monique and Spencer Tepe American early childhood educator, shot dead at age 39
Monique Tepe, an American early childhood educator, was shot dead on December 30, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. She and her husband, Spencer Tepe, were found dead inside their home after…
Laurence Thomas
American philosopher
Died on Tuesday December 30th 2025
Elías Barreiro
Cuban guitarist and academic
Died on Tuesday December 30th 2025
René Racine
Canadian astronomer and academic
Died on Monday December 29th 2025