Josef Dvorak public figure dead at age 91
Josef Dvorak, an Austrian therapist, Catholic theologian and author,
died on January 28, 2026. Born in Vienna on January 28, 1934, he was also a scholar of Karl Rahner and…
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Fobazi Ettarh American academic and librarian best known for coining the term “vocational awe…
Fobazi Ettarh, an American academic and librarian best known for coining the term “vocational awe,”
died on January 28, 2026. Born in New Jersey in 1989, she served as a…
Gloria Wade-Gayles
American educator and author
Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Rikio Shimada
Japanese economist
Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
André Burguière
French historian and academic
Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Ann Ashmead
American archaeologist
Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Mark Batzer
American geneticist and academic
Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Reinhardt Kiehl German mathematician dead at age 90
Reinhardt Kiehl, a German mathematician,
died on January 26, 2026. Born in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, on May 31, 1935, he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy from 1955 at the University…
Anne Agur Musculoskeletal system research, Anatomy education dead at age 72
Anne Agur, a Canadian clinical anatomist and professor at the University of Toronto,
died on January 26, 2026. She taught for many years in the Department of Anatomy within the…
Annette Dolphin 74–75 dead at age 74
Annette Dolphin, a British scientist and professor of pharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College London,
died on January 26, 2026, aged 74–75. Born in…
Michael F. Adams
American political staffer and educator
Died on Monday January 26th 2026
Helen Leach
New Zealand food anthropologist
Died on Sunday January 25th 2026
Frank J. Frost
American scholar and politician
Died on Sunday January 25th 2026
David Abulafia
British historian (The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean)
Died on Sunday January 25th 2026
Li Wei Chinese computer scientist dead at age 82
Li Wei, a Chinese computer scientist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
died on January 25, 2026. Born in Peking on June 8, 1943, he graduated from the…
Stuart Tave
American literary scholar
Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Michael Parenti
American politician scientist and academic historian
Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Nicholas Krall
American physicist
Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Peter Duesberg
German-American molecular biologist and academic
Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Alan Musgrave
British-born New Zealand philosopher
Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
George Speake
English art historian and archaeologist
Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Harry Olmer
Polish-born British Holocaust survivor and educator
Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
Andrzej Januszajtis
Polish physicist and politician
Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
Roseanne Diab
South African atmospheric scientist
Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
Kikuo Arakawa Research of hypertension, cardiovascular medicine dead at age 96
Kikuo Arakawa, a Japanese medical scientist and internist,
died on January 23, 2026. He specialized in hypertension and cardiovascular medicine and was a Professor Emeritus at Fukuoka University. Arakawa also…
Donald John Roberts Canadian-American economist dead at age 80
Donald John Roberts, a Canadian-American economist and professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business,
died on January 23, 2026. He was the John H. and Irene S. Scully Professor…
E. A. Siddiq
Indian agricultural scientist
Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
Anthony Fletcher
British historian
Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
Roger-Maurice Bonnet
French astrophysicist and academic
Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
Paul Larivaille
French literary critic and academic
Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
André Jammes
French bookseller and photography historian
Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
Barbara Aronstein Black
American legal scholar
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Marie-Thérèse Lorcin
French historian and academic
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Stephen H. Hess
American political scientist
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Helen Peters
Canadian academic
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Justin Taylor
New Zealand priest and historian
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
M. Hafizuddin Khan Economist, political analyst dead at age 89
M. Hafizuddin Khan, a Bangladeshi bureaucrat and former 6th comptroller and auditor general of Bangladesh,
died on January 21, 2026. Born in 1936 or 1937 in Sirajganj, Bengal Province, British…
René V. Dawis
American psychologist
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Henri Dorion
Canadian academic and geographer
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Frank Kolb
German historian and academic
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Deborah Cameron British linguist and feminist, pancreatic cancer dead at age 67
Deborah Jane Cameron, a British linguist and feminist,
died on January 20, 2026, at the age of 67. She held the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester…
Vicki L. Hanson Human-Computer InteractionAccessibility dead at age -1
Vicki L. Hanson, an American computer scientist,
died on January 20, 2026. She was noted for her research on human-computer interaction and accessibility, and for her leadership in broadening participation…
Daniel Moerman
American medical anthropologist and ethnobotanist
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Sir Christopher White
British art historian and curator
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Johannes Fried
German historian
Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Sanal Badmaev
Russian scientist
Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Manuel Fernández Areal
Spanish academic and journalist
Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Marcial Fernández Álvarez
Spanish academic
Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Muhammad Bashir Saliu
Nigerian Islamic scholar
Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Gladys West
American mathematician
Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Stuart Altman
American economist
Died on Sunday January 18th 2026
Patrick Corrigan
American psychologist and writer
Died on Sunday January 18th 2026
Clare Cooper Marcus Architect dead at age 91
Clare Cooper Marcus, an American educator in landscape architecture and architecture,
died on January 18, 2026, at age 91. She was a pioneer in the study of social issues in…
Yury Yemelyanov
Russian historian and author
Died on Saturday January 17th 2026
James Petras Professor of sociology dead at age 89
James Petras, an American sociologist and academic,
died on January 17, 2026. He was the Bartle Professor emeritus of sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and an adjunct…
W. John McDonald Canadian physicist and academic administrator dead at age 89
W. John McDonald, a Canadian physicist and academic administrator,
died on January 17, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1936, he earned degrees from the…
Murad Hasratyan
Armenian architectural historian
Died on Saturday January 17th 2026
Mieczysław Mąkosza
Polish organic chemist
Died on Friday January 16th 2026
Deirdre Jordan
Australian academic and educator
Died on Friday January 16th 2026
Olena Hrechanina
Ukrainian scientist
Died on Friday January 16th 2026
Olena Grechanina
Ukrainian scientist
Died on Friday January 16th 2026
Rudolf Urc
Slovak director of documentary and animated films and academic
Died on Friday January 16th 2026
Alfred Blumstein
American scientist
Died on Friday January 16th 2026
Daniel Colson
French sociologist and academic
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Jean Rossier
Belgian biologist and academic
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Catherine Duprat
French historian
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Namirembe Bitamazire
Ugandan academic and politician
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Richard Hynes
British biologist
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Vicki L. Gregory
American academic and librarian
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Kristi Kiick
American academic
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Robert V. Kohn
American mathematician
Died on Wednesday January 14th 2026
Bennie Carlton Keel
American archaeologist
Died on Wednesday January 14th 2026
Eleni Varikas
Greek-born French political philosopher and academic
Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Allyn Bromley
American visual artist and art educator
Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Mario Rigutti
Italian astronomer
Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Louis E. Brus
American chemist
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Nelson Manrique
Peruvian historian and sociologist
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Stephen E. Braude
American philosopher
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Jean-Luc Domenach
French historian
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Gabriel Barkay
Israeli archaeologist
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Pedro A. Sanchez American soil scientist dead at age 85
Pedro A. Sanchez, an American soil scientist and former director at Columbia University’s Earth Institute,
died on January 12, 2026. He was 85. Sanchez served as director of the Agriculture…
Takashi Ono
Japanese-born American mathematician
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Edith M. Flanigen
American chemist
Died on Sunday January 11th 2026
Ivan Štampach
Czech religionist and theologian
Died on Sunday January 11th 2026
Nelly Chatué Diop
Cameroonian computer scientist
Died on Sunday January 11th 2026
Musa Gibril Bala Gaye
Gambian economist and politician
Died on Sunday January 11th 2026
Orazio Svelto
Italian physicist
Died on Saturday January 10th 2026
Sergey Daniel
Soviet art historian
Died on Saturday January 10th 2026
Zhang Shaokang
Chinese scholar
Died on Saturday January 10th 2026
Ang Ziming
Chinese professor
Died on Saturday January 10th 2026
Zhou Liwei
Chinese electro-optics professor
Died on Saturday January 10th 2026
Carmen Arnold Biucchi
Switzerland numismatist and archaeologist
Died on Saturday January 10th 2026
Hessy Levinsons Taft
German chemist and child model
Died on Friday January 9th 2026
Johannes Fabian
German anthropologist
Died on Friday January 9th 2026
Herbert Beck
German art historian
Died on Friday January 9th 2026
Ted Nichols Composer dead at age 97
Ted Nichols, an American composer, conductor and arranger best known for his work on Hanna-Barbera productions including The Flintstones and Jonny Quest,
died on January 9, 2026, at age 97.…
David Quail
South African politician and educator
Died on Friday January 9th 2026
Fazl-ur-Raheem Ashrafi
Pakistani Islamic scholar
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026