Claude Cantini
Swiss historian and journalist
Died on Monday December 29th 2025
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
James Akins Musician dead at age 69
James Milton Akins, an American tubist and music professor best known for his association with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra,
died on December 29, 2025, at age 69. Born in Savannah,…
Emma Johnston
Australian marine ecologist and academic
Died on Monday December 29th 2025
Monic Cecconi-Botella French pianist, composer and academic dead at age 89
Monic Cecconi-Botella, a French pianist, music educator and composer,
died on December 28, 2025. Born in Courbevoie on September 30, 1936, she studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Maurice…
Daniel Brélaz
Swiss mathematician and politician
Died on Sunday December 28th 2025
Jeffrey R. Holland
American religious leader and educator
Died on Saturday December 27th 2025
Meredith Hooper Writer dead at age 86
Meredith Hooper, an Australian historian and writer,
died on December 27, 2025, aged 86. Born Meredith Jean Rooney in Adelaide on October 21, 1939, she was raised in the city…
Stephen Boyden British-Australian scientist and writer dead at age 100
Stephen Boyden, a British-Australian scientist and writer,
died on December 26, 2025. He was a professor emeritus at the Australian National University and was widely recognised for pioneering work in…
Daniel Walker Howe American historian dead at age 88
Daniel Walker Howe, an American historian who specialized in the early national period of U.S. history,
died on December 25, 2025. He focused particularly on the period’s intellectual and religious…
Warwick Gould Australian-born British literary scholar dead at age 78
Warwick Gould, an Australian-born British literary scholar,
died on December 25, 2025. Born in Sydney in 1947, he specialized in the Irish Literary Revival, particularly the writings of W. B.…
David Young American-British lawyer and academic, heart failure dead at age 89
David Reginald Young, an American-British lawyer and academic,
died on December 24, 2025, in Oxford, England, at the age of 89. He served as a Special Assistant at the National…
Isaiah Jackson American conductor dead at age 80
Isaiah Jackson, an American conductor and academic teacher,
died on December 24, 2025, at age 80. He was music director of the Royal Ballet in London from 1987 to 1990…
Michael J. Flynn Flynn’s taxonomy dead at age 91
Michael J. Flynn, an American computer scientist and professor emeritus at Stanford University,
died on December 24, 2025, at the age of 91. Born in Jamaica, New York, Flynn attended…
Claire Ortiz Hill
American scholar and translator
Died on Wednesday December 24th 2025
Maria Bonghi Jovino
Italian archaeologist/archeologist
Died on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Renfrew Christie
South African scholar and anti-apartheid activist
Died on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Konrad Osterwalder
Swiss mathematician and physicist
Died on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Dorothée Aimée Malenzapa Central African politician, activist, and professor dead at age 73
Dorothée Aimée Malenzapa, a Central African politician, women's activist, and professor,
died on December 23, 2025. Born in 1951, she served during Bozize's administration as Minister of International Cooperation, Regional…
Roy Billinton Canadian scholar dead at age 90
Roy Billinton, a Canadian scholar and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon,
died on December 23, 2025. He was known for his work on power system…
Daniel Treier American biblical scholar and theologian dead at age 53
Daniel Treier, an American biblical scholar and theologian who served as Gunther H. Knoedler Professor of Theology at Wheaton College,
died on December 22, 2025. Treier grew up near Bloomdale,…
Syed Shahid Mahdi Indian civil servant and academic dead at age 85
Syed Shahid Mahdi, an Indian civil servant and academic,
died on December 22, 2025. He served as the 11th vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia from 2000 to 2004. Mahdi was…
Laila Bokhari
Norwegian political scientist and politician
Died on Sunday December 21st 2025
Rowell Huesmann American academic dead at age 82
Rowell Huesmann, an American academic and the Amos N. Tversky Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies and Psychology and director of the ISR Research Center for Group Dynamics at the…
Loren Carpenter Computer graphics scientist dead at age 78
Loren Carpenter, an American computer graphics researcher and developer,
died on December 21, 2025, at age 78. Born in Brighton, Michigan, on February 7, 1947, he was a founding employee…
Aggrey Burke Psychiatrist dead at age 82
Aggrey Burke, Jamaican-born British psychiatrist and academic,
died on December 21, 2025, at the age of 82. Burke spent much of his medical career at St George's Hospital in London,…
Eduardo Mendieta
Colombian philosopher and academic
Died on Sunday December 21st 2025
Ronald Chase American artist, photographer and film director dead at age 91
Ronald Chase, an American artist, photographer and film director,
died on December 20, 2025, at the age of 91. Born in Seminole, Oklahoma, on December 29, 1934, he studied dance,…
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist
Died on Saturday December 20th 2025
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Australian poet and academic
Died on Friday December 19th 2025
Cynthia Mailman American painter, pancreatic cancer dead at age 82
Cynthia Mailman, an American painter and educator,
died on December 19, 2025, in New York City at age 82. She was known for figurative and landscape works done in a…
Robert Goodman Psychiatrist dead at age 72
Robert Nicholas Goodman, a British child psychiatrist,
died on December 18, 2025, aged 72. He was Professor of Brain and Behavioural Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry in the Department…
Elof Axel Carlson American geneticist dead at age 94
Elof Axel Carlson, an American geneticist and historian of science,
died on December 17, 2025, at age 94. He was a distinguished teaching professor emeritus at the State University of…
Nuno F. Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist
Died on Wednesday December 17th 2025
Ilya M. Sobol’
Russian mathematician
Died on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Jozef Gruska
Slovak computer scientist and academic
Died on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Dan J. Stein
South African psychiatrist and professor
Died on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Eva Giberti
Argentine psychologist
Died on Monday December 15th 2025
Riyad Naasan Agha
Syrian philosopher and diplomat
Died on Sunday December 14th 2025
Stephen Pearton
Australian-American materials scientist
Died on Sunday December 14th 2025
Ivan R. Schwab American ophthalmologist, heart failure dead at age 77
Ivan R. Schwab, an American ophthalmologist and professor of ophthalmology at the University of California Davis School of Medicine,
died on December 13, 2025. He completed his undergraduate degree at…
Sergio Miceli
Brazilian sociologist
Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Jacek Semaniak
Polish physicist
Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Charles Weissmann
Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist
Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Nermin Abadan Unat
Turkish academics and author
Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Keith Suter
Australian social scientist
Died on Thursday December 11th 2025
Kenneth W. Ford
American theoretical physicist and writer
Died on Thursday December 11th 2025
Herbert W. Roesky
German chemist
Died on Thursday December 11th 2025
Mark Jay Mirsky
American writer and professor
Died on Wednesday December 10th 2025
Rod Paige
American academic and politician
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Rosa Leal de Pérez
Guatemalan psychologist
Died on Monday December 8th 2025
Stan Shillington Canadian lacrosse historian and sportswriter dead at age 90
Stan Shillington, a Canadian lacrosse historian, sportswriter and statistician,
died on December 8, 2025, at age 90. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on January 21, 1935, he was inducted into…
Wang Bingqian
Chinese economist and politician
Died on Monday December 8th 2025
Milan Nakonečný
Czech psychologist
Died on Saturday December 6th 2025
Richard Turnbull
English theologian
Died on Saturday December 6th 2025
Dwight Morrell Smith
American chancellor and professor
Died on Saturday December 6th 2025
Bernard Charlot
French academic and educational scientist
Died on Friday December 5th 2025
Jürgen Raps dead at age 74
Jürgen Raps, the German pilot and aviation manager who served as chief operating officer of Lufthansa Passenger Airlines,
died on December 5, 2025, aged 74. Born in Bayreuth on August…
Sergey Dubinin
Russian economist and politician
Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
Rudi Tröger
German painter and academic
Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
Charles Mullins American physician dead at age 91
Charles Mullins, an American physician and physician executive,
died on December 4, 2025. He was the Ashbel Smith Emeritus Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and a…
Michael Boulter British paleontologist dead at age 83
Michael Boulter, a British paleontologist and professor of paleobiology at the Natural History Museum and the University of East London,
died on December 4, 2025. Born Michael Charles Boulter on…
Thomas Michel, S.J.
American Jesuit priest and leading scholar of Muslim–Christian relations; former head of the Vatican's Office for Relations with Muslims (1981–1994)
Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
Abdulaziz Sachedina
Tanzanian-born American Islamic scholar
Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
Ronald Grossarth-Maticek
German sociologist
Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
Murray Heimberg
American medical scientist
Died on Wednesday December 3rd 2025
Jānis Arveds Trapāns
Latvian politician and historian
Died on Tuesday December 2nd 2025
Pamela Kola
Kenyan children’s author and educator
Died on Tuesday December 2nd 2025
Alice S. Whittemore American epidemiologist and biostatistician dead at age 89
Alice S. Whittemore, an American epidemiologist and biostatistician,
died on December 2, 2025. She studied the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer after an earlier career as a pure…
Robert H. Edwards
American academic administrator
Died on Monday December 1st 2025
Michael Hans Kater
German-born Canadian historian
Died on Monday December 1st 2025
Moshe Yegar
Argentine-born Israeli diplomat and historian
Died on Sunday November 30th 2025
Gondoo U Thein Naing
Burmese writer and educator
Died on Sunday November 30th 2025
William Jenkins
South African-born American veterinary scientist and academic
Died on Saturday November 29th 2025
Jamie T. Phelps
American theologian
Died on Saturday November 29th 2025
Mikhail Gorshkov
Russian sociologist
Died on Friday November 28th 2025
Tony Cole
Australian economist
Died on Friday November 28th 2025
Lorenz Weinrich
German historian and university professor
Died on Friday November 28th 2025
René Passet
French economist
Died on Thursday November 27th 2025
Vladimir Boldyrev
Russian chemist
Died on Thursday November 27th 2025
W. Michael Blumenthal
Political adviser and economist
Died on Thursday November 27th 2025
Dahiru Usman Bauchi
Nigerian Islamic preacher and scholar
Died on Thursday November 27th 2025
Lee Tien-Ming
Hong Kong philosopher
Died on Thursday November 27th 2025