Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber, an Austrian-born American academic and founding director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University, died on February 17, 2026. He taught at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson…
William Milam, an American diplomat and senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., died on February 17, 2026, at age 89. Born in…
Ancella Bickley, an American historian who was involved in the preservation of African American history in West Virginia, died on February 16, 2026, at age 95. Born in Huntington, West…
Wolfram Saenger, a German biochemist, crystallographer and academic, died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 86. He was known for his pioneering contributions to nucleic acid crystallography and…
Carl Grillmair, a Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist, died on February 16, 2026, after being fatally shot outside his home in Llano, California. He was 67. Grillmair was a research scientist…
Richard Ottinger, an American politician and attorney who served in the United States House of Representatives, died on February 16, 2026. He was 97. A member of the Democratic Party,…
Hélène Ahrweiler, the Greek-French Byzantologist and academic known formally as Hélène Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, died on February 16, 2026, in Athens, Greece, at the age of 99. Born in Athens on August…
Tyrone G. Martin, an American Navy commander and naval historian, died on February 16, 2026. He was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, on June 5, 1930, and was commissioned through NROTC…
Avel Gordly, an American politician and activist in Oregon, died on February 16, 2026. She was 79. Gordly was born in Portland on February 13, 1947, and became the first…
Guenter B. Risse, an American medical historian, died on February 15, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 28, 1932, he wrote numerous books,…
Theodore Seio Chihara, an American mathematician, died on February 15, 2026. He worked on orthogonal polynomials and introduced the Al-Salam–Chihara, Brenke–Chihara and Chihara–Ismail polynomials. Chihara earned his PhD from Purdue…
Ivar Bjørklund, a Norwegian anthropologist and writer, died on February 15, 2026. Born on December 25, 1949, he was professor of cultural studies at the University of Tromsø – The…
Elaine J. Coates, an American social worker and educator, died on February 14, 2026. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 15, 1937, she was the first African American woman to…
José Álvaro Moisés, a Brazilian political scientist, died on February 14, 2026, after drowning at Itamambuca Beach in Ubatuba, on the north coast of São Paulo. Born in Campinas on…
Susan George, the American-French political and social scientist, activist and writer, died on February 14, 2026. Born Susan Vance Akers on June 29, 1934, in Akron, Ohio, she wrote on…
David Harpp, a Canadian chemist and science communicator, died on February 14, 2026, at age 89. He was an award-winning university professor and held the Tomlinson Chair in Science Education…
Edward L. Deci, an American psychologist and academic, died on February 14, 2026. He was professor of psychology and Gowen Professor in the social sciences at the University of Rochester,…
American philanthropist and local historian Died on Friday February 13th 2026
Alex Caldiero, an American poet, died on February 13, 2026. Born Alissandru Francesco Caldiero in Licodia Eubea, near Catania, Sicily, in 1949, he immigrated to the United States at age…
Jacques Dubois, the Belgian literary theorist and academic, died on February 13, 2026. He was Professor Emeritus of Literature at the Université de Liège and was born in Liège in…
William C. Leggett, a Canadian population biologist and university administrator, died on February 13, 2026. He served as the 17th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University in Kingston from 1994…
Paulette Collet, a Belgian essayist and academic, died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 99. Born in Verviers in 1926, she fled to London at the onset of…
Nicolas Grimaldi, a French philosopher, died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in Paris on December 24, 1933, he was of Corsican origin. He earned his…
Joseph Halpern, an Israeli-born American computer scientist and professor at Cornell University, died on February 13, 2026, at age 72. Born in Israel in 1953, he studied mathematics at the…
Horst Helle, a German sociologist and academic, died on February 13, 2026. He was Professor Emeritus at LMU Munich in Germany. Born on July 19, 1934, Helle received a business…
Marian Jan Potograbski, a Polish writer, died on February 12, 2026. He was a researcher of the 1956 Poznań protests and received the Silver Cross of Merit of Poland in…
Dario Antiseri, an Italian philosopher and academic, died on February 12, 2026, at the age of 86. He held a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, summa cum laude, from the University…
Jenő Murádin, a Romanian art historian and academic, died on February 11, 2026. Born on November 23, 1937, in Călărași, Turda County, Romania, he was an ethnic Hungarian and a…
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, a German art historian, died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in Heidelberg on September 25, 1933, he studied at the Ludwig Maximilian…
Biodun Jeyifo, a Nigerian literary critic and scholar, died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 80. He was a Nigerian academic, critic, public intellectual and cultural theorist who…
Helmuth Rilling, the German choral conductor and academic teacher who was internationally known as an authority on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, died on February 11, 2026. Born in…
Janken Varden, the Norwegian theatre director associated with Oslo Nye Teater, died on February 10, 2026. Born in Oslo on 6 April 1938, he was a graduate of the University…
András Riedlmayer, a Hungarian-born American art historian and librarian, died on February 10, 2026. Born in Budapest in 1947, he studied at the University of Chicago and at Princeton University,…
Takamitsu Muraoka, a Japanese linguist and Semitist, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 88. He was Chair of Hebrew, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University in…
Fazail Agamali, an Azerbaijani politician, historian and professor, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 78. He was the founding leader of the Motherland Party, serving in that…
Philippe Gaulier, the French clown, died on February 9, 2026. He was a professor of theatre, dramatic theorist, pedagogue and master clown, and founded École Philippe Gaulier, a theatre school…
William Perry Flatt, an American animal and nutritional scientist, died on February 9, 2026. He was 94. Born in Newbern, Tennessee, on June 17, 1931, he was the son of…
Charles Bailleul, a French linguist and Roman Catholic missionary with the White Fathers, died on February 9, 2026, in Bry-sur-Marne, France, at the age of 98. Born in Lille on…
Gail R. Martin, an American biologist, died on February 9, 2026. She was known for her pioneering work on the isolation of pluripotent stem cells from normal embryos, for which…
Antonino Zichichi, an Italian physicist, died on February 9, 2026. He worked in nuclear physics and served as president of the World Federation of Scientists and as a professor at…
Jesús Guillera, a Spanish mathematician, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 70. He specialized in number theory and was best known for his work on Ramanujan-type series…
Teresa de Lauretis, an Italian activist, author and academic, died on February 9, 2026. She was a Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California,…
Assad Ali, a Syrian literary critic and academic, died on February 9, 2026. He was a professor of Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, a prolific writer of contemporary…
Augusta Lynn Bolles, an American anthropologist, died on February 8, 2026. She was 76. Bolles was professor emerita of women’s studies and affiliate faculty in anthropology, African American studies, American…
Giulio Lepschy, an Italian linguist and academic, died on February 8, 2026, aged 91. Born in Venice in 1935, he studied at the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale…
Ernest Morrell, an American scholar and music executive, died on February 8, 2026. He was an academic in English and Africana Studies and, in 2024, served as the Coyle Professor…
Shao Yu-ming, a Taiwanese politician, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 87. Born on November 3, 1938, in Binjiang Province in what was then Manchukuo, he moved…
Gabriel P. Weisberg, an American art historian and educator, died on February 7, 2026. He was 83. A native of New York City, he earned a bachelor’s degree from New…
Syed Mohammad Nizami, an Indian Muslim scholar and chief sajjadanasheen of the Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah Shrine, died on February 7, 2026. He had served as the head custodian of the…
Beresford Parlett, an English applied mathematician, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in London on July 4, 1932, he specialized in numerical analysis and scientific…
Herbert Sukopp, a German ecologist and academic, died on February 7, 2026. Born in Berlin on November 6, 1930, he earned his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in…
Daniel Boyd, an American filmmaker and academic, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 69. Born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on September 14, 1956, he was also an…
Mike Cruise, a British astronomer and astrophysicist, died on February 7, 2026, aged 78. Born Adrian Michael Cruise on May 12, 1947, he began his career as an X-ray astronomer…
David J. Farber, an American computer scientist and professor of computer science, died on February 7, 2026, at age 91. He was noted for major contributions to programming languages and…
Hellmut Lorenz, an Austrian art historian, died on February 6, 2026, at the age of 83. Born on June 11, 1942, in Vienna, he was a longtime professor at the…
Michael Greenhalgh, the British art historian who specialised in Classicism and the Renaissance, died on February 6, 2026. Born in Ilkley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on 25 August 1943,…
Robert J. Plemmons, an American mathematician who specialized in computational mathematics, died on February 6, 2026. He was the emeritus Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at…
Richard W. Mansbach, an American political scientist, died on February 6, 2026. Born in Brooklyn on January 3, 1943, he studied political science, history, and Spanish at Swarthmore College, graduating…
George R. Rossman, an American mineralogist and academic, died on February 6, 2026, at the age of 81. He was the Professor of Mineralogy at the California Institute of Technology.…
Stanley Zdonik, an American computer scientist and academic, died on February 5, 2026. He was 78. Zdonik specialized in database management systems and was a tenured professor of computer science…
Marie Woo, a Chinese-American ceramicist and educator, died on February 4, 2026, at age 97. Born in Seattle, Washington, on April 3, 1928, to Southern Chinese parents, she earned a…
Jorge Ruffinelli, a Uruguayan literary critic and academic, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 82. Born in Montevideo on December 16, 1943, he was an associate professor…
Mario Merlino, an Italian neo-fascist activist, historian and writer associated with National Vanguard, died on February 4, 2026. Born Mario Michele Merlino in Rome on June 2, 1944, he was…
Julian Wojtkowski, a Polish Roman Catholic prelate and theologian, died on February 4, 2026, at age 99. Born in Poznań on January 31, 1927, he was ordained a priest in…
Gisela Engeln-Müllges, a German mathematician and professor of numerical mathematics at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, died on February 4, 2026. Born in Leipzig in 1940, she studied mathematics…
John Lofland, an American sociologist, died on February 4, 2026, at age 79. Born John Franklin Lofland in Milford, Delaware, he was best known for his studies of the peace…
Zohar Shavit, an Israeli scholar, author and translator, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 74. Born in Jaffa on April 14, 1951, she was a professor at…
Igal Talmi, a Ukrainian-born Israeli nuclear physicist, died on February 4, 2026. He was 101. Born in Kiev, then in the Soviet Union, on January 31, 1925, Talmi’s family immigrated…
Şemsa Özar, a Turkish academic and professor in the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University, died on February 3, 2026, in Istanbul, Turkey, after a long illness. Born in İzmir…
André Beteille, an Indian sociologist, writer and academician, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 91. He was known for his studies of the caste system in South…
Pierre Merlin, a French geographer and academic, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Metz on May 6, 1937, he studied at the Prytanée national…
Dame Carole Jordan, a British physicist, died on February 3, 2026, aged 84. She was Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow at Somerville College,…
Ivan Nikulin, a Russian politician, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 89. Born Ivan Ivanovich Nikulin on July 10, 1936, in Bryansk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union,…
Gabor Boritt, an American historian and the Robert Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, died on February 2, 2026. Hungarian-born…
Josefina Castellví, a Spanish oceanographer, died on February 2, 2026. She was also a biologist and writer. Castellví received her bachelor's degree in 1957 and a PhD in biological sciences…
William Safran, an American academic and Holocaust survivor and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Colorado Boulder, died on February 2, 2026. Born in Dresden, Germany, on…
René Kaës, a French psychologist and psychoanalyst, died on February 1, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Fameck, France, on February 19, 1936, he studied psychosociology at Marc…
Vicki Abt, an American sociologist, died on February 1, 2026, at age 83. She was a professor of sociology and American studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Abington College. Born Isleen…
Sir Nicholas White, a British medical doctor and researcher who specialised in tropical medicine, died on February 1, 2026, aged 74. Born in London on March 13, 1951, he studied…
American linguist Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
American anthropologist and musician Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
Italian physicist and peace activist Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
British science historian Died on Friday January 30th 2026
H. Robert Reynolds, an American musician, conductor and academic, died on January 30, 2026, at the age of 91. He was principal conductor of the Wind Ensemble at the Thornton…
Paul Deheuvels, a French statistician and specialist in probability, died on January 30, 2026. He was 77. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 11, 1948, Deheuvels was a professor of…
Martin Bruns, a Swiss baritone and music lecturer, died on January 30, 2026. Born in Weil am Rhein on November 25, 1960, he was a member of the Knabenkantorei Basel…
Chip Berlet, an American investigative journalist and author, died on January 30, 2026, of leukemia. Born John Foster Berlet on November 22, 1949, he was known for his work as…
Arthur P. Dempster, an American mathematician and professor emeritus in the Harvard University department of statistics, died on January 30, 2026, at the age of 96. Born on October 8,…
American academics Died on Friday January 30th 2026
British polar historian and biographer Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Moldovan physicist Died on Friday January 30th 2026
American author and military historian Died on Friday January 30th 2026
American scientist Died on Thursday January 29th 2026
Michael H. Prosser, an American academic and professor emeritus at the University of Virginia, died on January 29, 2026, at age 89. He served at the University of Virginia from…
Heather Goodall, an Australian academic and historian, died on January 29, 2026, at the age of 75. She was Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research and…
Eric Cameron, a Canadian artist known for his conceptual art work, died on January 29, 2026. He lived in Calgary, Alberta, and was also a writer and educator. Born in…
Japanese-American historian Died on Thursday January 29th 2026
German philosopher Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
American economist Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
