Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Andrew B. Wittkower, a British-born Canadian-American physicist and technology executive known for his contributions to ion implantation technology and the semiconductor industry, died on March 14, 2026, at the age…
Christopher A. Sims, an American economist and econometrician, died on March 14, 2026, at age 83. He was the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University.…
Jens Blauert, a German scientist known for his work in psychoacoustics, died on March 13, 2026. He was an emeritus professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he founded the Institute…
Paul R. Ehrlich, an American biologist, author, and environmentalist, died on March 13, 2026, at the age of 93. He was known for his warnings about the consequences of population…
İlber Ortaylı, a Turkish historian and professor of history, died on March 13, 2026. He was 78. Born on 21 May 1947 in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Allied-occupied Austria, to Crimean Tatar…
Jacques Revel, a French historian and emeritus director of studies and president of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), died on March 13, 2026, at the age…
Ann Gluckman, a New Zealand educator, writer and historian, died on March 13, 2026, aged 98. Born Ann Jocelyn Klippel in London in 1927, she was appointed principal of Ngā…
Robert Trivers, an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, died on March 12, 2026, at age 83. He was known for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, facultative sex…
Hans-Georg Backhaus, a German Marxian economist and philosopher, died on March 12, 2026, in Frankfurt. He was 96 or 97. Backhaus was one of the main authors of the Neue…
Patricia Clarke, an Australian writer and historian, died on March 12, 2026. Born Mary Patricia Clarke in Alphington, Melbourne, on July 30, 1926, she was educated in Melbourne, later in…
Antón Louro, a Spanish politician, died on March 12, 2026, in Pontevedra, Spain, at the age of 73. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he served in the…
John H. Morrison, an American lawyer and senior partner of Kirkland & Ellis, died on March 11, 2026. He practiced at the Chicago law firm from 1962 until his retirement…
Lewis Lehrman, an American banker and politician, died on March 11, 2026, at age 87. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1938, he was an investment banker, historian and politician. Lehrman…
Hermann Kulke, a German historian and Indologist, died on March 10, 2026. He was 87. Kulke was professor of South and Southeast Asian history at Kiel University from 1988 to…
Susan Haack, a British philosopher and academic, died on March 10, 2026. She was a distinguished professor in the humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, professor of philosophy,…
Ukrainian scientist and military doctor Died on Monday March 9th 2026
Heorhij Halenčanka, a Belarusian historian, died on March 9, 2026. He was 89. Born in Petrozavodsk on February 28, 1937, he spent most of his childhood in Minsk. Halenčanka graduated…
K. N. Panikkar, an Indian historian and professor, died on March 9, 2026, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, at the age of 89. He was an Indian Marxist historian associated with…
Anthony Leggett, the British-American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, died on March 8, 2026. He was 87. Sir Anthony James Leggett was widely recognised as…
Philip Bourne, an Australian bioinformatician and writer, died on March 8, 2026, at age 72. Philip Eric Bourne was the Stephenson Chair of Data Science, director of the School of…
Aleksandr Dulichenko, a Russian-Estonian Esperantist, linguist and expert in Slavic microlanguages, died on March 8, 2026. Born in Krasnodar in 1941, he lived in Estonia and served as a professor…
Moulana Abdullah Tari, an Indian Islamic scholar and political activist, died on March 8, 2026, following a prolonged illness. He was an official of the separatist Jammu and Kashmir Democratic…
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, a Malaysian philosopher, died on March 8, 2026. He was a Malaysian Muslim philosopher of Arab descent and was considered one of the few contemporary scholars…
Walid Khalidi, a Palestinian historian, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 100. He wrote extensively on the Palestinian exodus and co-founded the Institute for Palestine Studies in…
Vasile Constantin Mao, a Romanian rugby union player, died on March 8, 2026. Better known as Mao, he was a Romanian rugby union coach and academic. Born in Plevna village,…
Mahendra Pal Singh, an Indian legal scholar and jurist, died on March 7, 2026. He was a scholar of constitutional law, administrative law and comparative law, and professor emeritus at…
Sadok Belaïd, a Tunisian jurist and academic, died on March 7, 2026, at the age of 87. Born on March 3, 1939, he was a longtime professor at Tunis University…
Lolo Matalasi Moliga, an American Samoan politician, educator and businessman who served as the seventh governor of American Samoa from 2013 to 2021, died on March 6, 2026, in Honolulu,…
Narayan Bareth, an Indian journalist, died on March 6, 2026. He was 68. Bareth worked in journalism for around three decades and served as State Information Commissioner of Rajasthan. He…
James Garbarino, an American academic and psychologist, died on March 6, 2026. He was a professor at Loyola University Chicago and specialized in studying the causes of violence in children,…
Tierney Thys, an American marine biologist and science educator, died on March 6, 2026, at age 59. A National Geographic explorer, she earned a biology degree from Brown University in…
Italian philosopher Died on Thursday March 5th 2026
Joan Leitzel, an American mathematician and university administrator, died on March 5, 2026, at age 89. She served as interim chancellor of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for six months before…
Tony Hoare, the British computer scientist known for his work on Quicksort, died on March 5, 2026, at the age of 92. Also known as Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare,…
Lubomír Šik, a Czech regional historian, died on March 5, 2026. Born in Litovel on February 2, 1928, he graduated from the industrial school in Šumperk in 1949 after World…
László Vincze, a Hungarian educator and politician, died on March 5, 2026. He was 74. Born on February 19, 1952, in Csongrád, Hungary, Vincze served as a member of the…
Eli Shamir, an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, died on March 5, 2026, at the age of 91. He was the Jean and Helene Alfassa Professor Emeritus of Computer Science…
Bernard Rands, the British-born American composer and professor, died on March 4, 2026. He was 92. Born in Sheffield, England, on March 2, 1934, Rands wrote orchestral works and chamber…
Daniel Migliore, an American theologian and author who was professor emeritus of theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, died on March 4, 2026. Born in 1935, he earned a Bachelor of…
Alexander Guts, a Russian mathematician, died on March 4, 2026. Born on August 30, 1947, in Berlin, then part of the Soviet occupation zone, he published more than 500 works…
Philip Low, an American chemist and the Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University, died March 4, 2026, at age 78. A prolific researcher, he contributed to…
Alfredo Bengzon, a Filipino physician, educator and public official, died on March 3, 2026. Also known as Alfredo R. A. Bengzon, he served as vice-president for the Professional Schools of…
Andrea Weiss, an American rabbi and author, died on March 3, 2026. She was ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1993 and later served there as associate professor of Bible,…
Janardan Waghmare, an Indian educationist and politician, died on March 2, 2026. He was 91. Waghmare served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra and was…
Ivan Hall, the British architectural historian, died on March 2, 2026, aged 93. Hall specialised in the architecture of John Carr and had lifelong interests in neoclassical architecture, the conservation…
Alice Chien Chang, a Taiwanese molecular biologist and neuroscientist, died on March 2, 2026. She taught at National Yang-Ming Medical College, National Yang-Ming University, and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung…
Jack Chambers, a Canadian linguist and expert on language variation and change, died on March 2, 2026, at age 87. Born John Kenneth Chambers in Grimsby, Ontario, he played an…
Hélène Mouchard-Zay, a French academic and writer, died on March 2, 2026, at age 85. Born in Rabat on August 27, 1940, she was the daughter of Madeleine and Jean…
Klaus Müller, a German Marxian economist and academic, died on March 2, 2026. Born on August 10, 1944, in Ursprung, now part of Lugau in Saxony, he studied financial and…
Vyacheslav Klepikov, a Ukrainian nuclear physicist, died on March 1, 2026, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, at the age of 76. He was also a professor and a doctor of physical and…
Christine Johnson McPhail, an American academic administrator and the thirteenth president of St. Augustine's University, died on March 1, 2026, at age 80. Born in Tyler, Texas, on February 1,…
Bob Power, an American record producer and music engineer, died on March 1, 2026, at age 73. Born Robert Power in Chicago on April 5, 1952, he was also an…
Alexander Tzonis, a Greek-French architect, author and researcher, died on March 1, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Athens on November 8, 1937, he made contributions to architectural…
Lidia Erokhina, a Russian economist, died on March 1, 2026. Born on December 13, 1955, in Penza Oblast, she was a member of the Komsomol. In 1978, she graduated with…
Dagfinn Føllesdal, a Norwegian-born American academic and philosopher, died on March 1, 2026. He was the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University and professor emeritus at…
Konstantin Bogdanov, a Russian anthropologist and philologist, died on March 1, 2026. He was born on March 30, 1963, in Leningrad, USSR, later Saint Petersburg, Russia. Bogdanov studied classical philology…
Josep Perarnau, a Spanish theologian, died on March 1, 2026, at the age of 97. Born in Avinyó, Catalonia, Spain, on July 8, 1928, he was a Catalan priest, theologian…
Italian historian and physician Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
French academic Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
French chemist Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Danish linguist Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Russian linguist Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Karlen G. Adamyan, an Armenian cardiologist, died on February 28, 2026, at the age of 89. Born on January 19, 1937, in Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR, he graduated from Yerevan…
John Joseph Scarisbrick MBE, a British historian who taught at the University of Warwick, died on February 28, 2026, aged 97. Born in London on October 6, 1928, he studied…
Rémy Scheurer, a Swiss politician, died on February 28, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in Neuchâtel on March 11, 1934, he was a member of the Swiss Liberal…
Patricia Schady, a British astrophysicist, died on February 28, 2026. She specialized in gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies and was a senior lecturer at the University of Bath at…
Mario Buhagiar, a Maltese art historian and author, died on February 28, 2026, aged 81. He was a professor in the history of art at the University of Malta and…
Lars Lallerstedt, a Swedish industrial designer and pioneer in the field in Sweden, died on February 28, 2026. Born on June 5, 1938, he worked across a range of design…
Michael F. Robinson, an English composer, died on February 28, 2026. Born in Gloucester on March 3, 1933, he was also a musicologist and academic best known for his scholarly…
Andrzej Trautman, a Polish mathematical physicist, died on February 27, 2026, at age 93. Born in Warsaw on January 4, 1933, he contributed to classical gravitation and general relativity. His…
Robin Weiss, the British molecular biologist and influential scientist in virology and cancer biology, died on February 27, 2026, aged 86. His research focused on retroviruses, and he was noted…
David Botstein, an American biologist, died on February 27, 2026. He was director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University from 2003 to 2013 and held the…
Malcolm Budd, an English philosopher, died on February 26, 2026. Budd studied mathematics and philosophy at Jesus College, Cambridge, and taught at University College London from 1970 until 2001. He…
Ardis E. Parshall, an American historian and independent researcher of Latter-day Saint history, died on February 26, 2026. She published her research on the blog Keepapitchinin and worked for The…
T. K. Oommen, an Indian sociologist, died on February 26, 2026. Also known as Tharailath Koshy Oommen, he was Professor Emeritus at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems,…
Carl H. Brans, an American mathematical physicist best known for his work on gravitation and the Brans–Dicke theory, died on February 26, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in…
Piero Barucci, the Italian academic, economist and politician who served as Minister of Treasury from 1992 to 1994, died on February 26, 2026, in Florence, Italy, at the age of…
Bevan Morris, an Australian-born American academic and politician who served as president of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, for 36 years and was a founder of the Natural…
Abdul Majid Arfaei, an Iranian researcher and elamitologist, died on February 25, 2026, at the age of 86. Also known as Abdul Majid Arfaee, he was born on September 1,…
Takeshi Amemiya, a Japanese economist, died on February 25, 2026. Born in Tokyo on March 29, 1935, he specialized in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece. Amemiya was the…
Charlie Smith Dannelly, an American politician and retired educator, died on February 25, 2026. He served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate from 1994 to 2013, representing…
Carol Walker, an American mathematician and mathematics textbook author, died on February 25, 2026. Born Carol Lee Walker on August 19, 1935, in Martinez, California, she studied music education at…
Ora Kedem, an Austrian-born Israeli chemist and professor emerita, died on February 25, 2026. She was 101. Kedem taught at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Ben-Gurion University of the…
William E. Connolly, an American political theorist, died on February 25, 2026. Born William Eugene Connolly on January 6, 1938, in Flint, Michigan, he was known for his work on…
Roman Kofman, the Ukrainian conductor, violinist and composer, died on February 24, 2026, at age 89. Born in Kyiv in 1936, he was a music educator and was named a…
Elaine Ingham, an American microbiologist, died on February 24, 2026. She was a soil biology researcher and the founder of Soil Foodweb Inc. and the Soil Foodweb School. Ingham was…
Stephen Koch, an American writer, novelist, essayist, historian and teacher, died on February 24, 2026, at age 84. Born Stephen Bayard Koch on May 8, 1941, in Saint Paul, Minnesota,…
Czech historian of philosophy Died on Monday February 23rd 2026
Ali Babachahi, an Iranian poet and writer, died on February 23, 2026, at age 83. Born in Bushehr in 1942, he was also a researcher and literary critic. Babachahi published…
Stephanie Kugelman, an American advertising executive and branding expert, died on February 23, 2026, in New York City at age 78. She was a past vice chairman and chief strategic…
Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz, a Dutch physicist and academic, died on February 23, 2026. He was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Groningen from 1960 to 1989. Born…
Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo, a Togolese historian and politician, died on February 23, 2026, at the age of 98. He was a member of the Democratic Convention of African Peoples (CDPA)…
Eugene G. Sander, an American academic and former president of the University of Arizona, died on February 22, 2026, at the age of 90. He served as president from 2011…
Hans-Dieter Sues, a German-born American paleontologist and Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, died…
Joan Huber, an American sociologist and professor of sociology at Ohio State University, died on February 22, 2026. Born on October 17, 1925, in Bluffton, Ohio, she taught at the…
MaryAnn Bin-Sallik, an Australian Indigenous Djaru elder and academic, died on February 21, 2026, aged 85. Born in Broome, Western Australia, on 2 November 1940, she moved with her family…
Daryl Jackson, Australian architect and educator, died on February 21, 2026, aged 89. Daryl Sanders Jackson AO was responsible for a number of notable designs, working alone and with partners…
Vicente L. Rafael, a Filipino historian and professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Washington, Seattle, died on February 21, 2026. He was 70. Rafael received his B.A.…
