Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
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…
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…
American philosopher
Died on Tuesday December 30th 2025
Cuban guitarist and academic
Died on Tuesday December 30th 2025
Pakistani Islamic scholar
Died on Monday December 29th 2025
Canadian astronomer and academic
Died on Monday December 29th 2025
Swiss historian and journalist
Died on Monday December 29th 2025
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,…
Australian marine ecologist and academic
Died on Monday December 29th 2025
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…
Swiss mathematician and politician
Died on Sunday December 28th 2025
American religious leader and educator
Died on Saturday December 27th 2025
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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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, 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…
American scholar and translator
Died on Wednesday December 24th 2025
Italian archaeologist/archeologist
Died on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
South African scholar and anti-apartheid activist
Died on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Swiss mathematician and physicist
Died on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
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, 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, 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, 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…
Norwegian political scientist and politician
Died on Sunday December 21st 2025
Syrian Shafi'i scholar
Died on Sunday December 21st 2025
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, 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, 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,…
Colombian philosopher and academic
Died on Sunday December 21st 2025
Czech professor
Died on Saturday December 20th 2025
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,…
Portuguese plasma physicist
Died on Saturday December 20th 2025
Norwegian historian
Died on Friday December 19th 2025
Australian poet and academic
Died on Friday December 19th 2025
Czech physicist
Died on Friday December 19th 2025
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 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, 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…
Portuguese plasma physicist
Died on Wednesday December 17th 2025
Russian mathematician
Died on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Slovak computer scientist and academic
Died on Tuesday December 16th 2025
South African psychiatrist and professor
Died on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Argentine psychologist
Died on Monday December 15th 2025
Syrian philosopher and diplomat
Died on Sunday December 14th 2025
Pakistani Islamic scholar
Died on Sunday December 14th 2025
Australian-American materials scientist
Died on Sunday December 14th 2025
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…
Brazilian sociologist
Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Moldovan linguist
Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Polish physicist
Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Polish historian
Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist
Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Turkish academics and author
Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Australian social scientist
Died on Thursday December 11th 2025
American theoretical physicist and writer
Died on Thursday December 11th 2025
German chemist
Died on Thursday December 11th 2025
American writer and professor
Died on Wednesday December 10th 2025
Guatemalan psychologist
Died on Monday December 8th 2025
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…
Chinese economist and politician
Died on Monday December 8th 2025
Spanish linguist
Died on Monday December 8th 2025
Czech psychologist
Died on Saturday December 6th 2025
English theologian
Died on Saturday December 6th 2025
American chancellor and professor
Died on Saturday December 6th 2025
American historian
Died on Friday December 5th 2025
French academic and educational scientist
Died on Friday December 5th 2025
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…
Russian economist and politician
Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
German painter and academic
Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
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, 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…
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
Tanzanian-born American Islamic scholar
Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
German sociologist
Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
American medical scientist
Died on Wednesday December 3rd 2025
American film scholar
Died on Wednesday December 3rd 2025
Latvian politician and historian
Died on Tuesday December 2nd 2025
Kenyan children’s author and educator
Died on Tuesday December 2nd 2025
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…
American academic administrator
Died on Monday December 1st 2025
German-born Canadian historian
Died on Monday December 1st 2025
Argentine-born Israeli diplomat and historian
Died on Sunday November 30th 2025
Burmese writer and educator
Died on Sunday November 30th 2025
South African-born American veterinary scientist and academic
Died on Saturday November 29th 2025
American theologian
Died on Saturday November 29th 2025
Russian sociologist
Died on Friday November 28th 2025
Australian economist
Died on Friday November 28th 2025
Welsh academic and author
Died on Friday November 28th 2025
German historian and university professor
Died on Friday November 28th 2025
French economist
Died on Thursday November 27th 2025
