Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
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
Heribert Offermanns
German chemist
Died on Wednesday November 26th 2025
Teodor Gotszalk
Polish scientist and academic (Wrocław University of Science and Technology)
Died on Monday November 24th 2025
Gennady Voronin
Russian economist and politician
Died on Monday November 24th 2025
Lê Dũng Tráng
Vietnamese-born French mathematician
Died on Friday November 21st 2025
Oleksandr Motsia
Ukrainian archaeologist and medievalist
Died on Friday November 21st 2025
Motsia Oleksandr Petrovych
Ukrainian archaeologist and medievalist. Member of NASU Institute of Archaeology
Died on Friday November 21st 2025
Maureen U. Beecher
American-Canadian historian and editor
Died on Friday November 21st 2025
Philippe Morat
French botanist and academic (National Museum of Natural History
Died on Thursday November 20th 2025
Kenneth G. Davey
Canadian biologist
Died on Thursday November 20th 2025
Jack B. Newton
Canadian astronomer
Died on Wednesday November 19th 2025
Josep Rius-Camps
Spanish biblical scholar
Died on Wednesday November 19th 2025
Paul Ekman
American researcher
Died on Wednesday November 19th 2025
Robert L. Devaney
American mathematician
Died on Wednesday November 19th 2025
Edward L. Cochran
American chemist
Died on Wednesday November 19th 2025
Wiesław Żelazko
Polish mathematician and academic (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
Died on Tuesday November 18th 2025
Lorena Mirambell
Mexican archaeologist
Died on Tuesday November 18th 2025
Yuri Tikhomirov
Russian jurist and scientist
Died on Tuesday November 18th 2025
Avishai Dekel
Israeli cosmologist
Died on Monday November 17th 2025
Barbara R. Hatton
American academic administrator
Died on Sunday November 16th 2025
Kevin Mackin
American Roman Catholic priest and academic administrator
Died on Sunday November 16th 2025
Ulrich Claesges
German philosopher
Died on Sunday November 16th 2025
Geng Baochang
Chinese researcher
Died on Sunday November 16th 2025
Michèle Audin
French mathematician and writer
Died on Friday November 14th 2025
