Takamitsu Muraoka passed away at age 88
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…
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Assad Ali died at age 88
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…
Fazail Agamali obituary: died at age 78
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 passed away at age 82
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 Flatt passes away at age 94
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…
Obituary: Charles Bailleul, dead at age 98
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 has died at age 81
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 died at age 96
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…
Death of Jesús Guillera at age 70
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, died aged 87
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,…
Lynn Bolles, died aged 76
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…
Obituary: Giulio Lepschy, dead at age 91
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 dies at age 54
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 death at age 87
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 death at age 83
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 died at age -1
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 has died at age 93
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…
Death of Herbert Sukopp at age 95
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 dies at 69
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 obituary: died at age 78
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 obituary: died at age 91
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 dead at age 83
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 dead at age 82
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 dies at age 87
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 dead at age 83
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…
Obituary: George R. Rossman, dead at age 81
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 has died at age 78
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 died at age 97
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, died aged 82
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 passes away at age 81
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 died at age 99
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 has died at age 85
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…
Obituary: John Lofland, dead at age 79
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 passed away at age 74
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 died at age 101
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 passed away at age -1
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 has died at age 91
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 passed away at age 88
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…
Carole Jordan passed away at age 84
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 death at age 89
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 death at age 86
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 death at age 90
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 has died at age 95
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…
Obituary: René Kaës, dead at age 89
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 death at age 83
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…
Nicholas White obituary: died at age 74
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…
Barbara McNamara obituary: died at age 83
American linguist Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
José Cuéllar death at age 85
American anthropologist and musician Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
Francesco Calogero died at age 90
Italian physicist and peace activist Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
Allan Chapman death at age 79
British science historian Died on Friday January 30th 2026
H. Robert Reynolds died at age 91
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 died at age 77
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 died at age 65
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 passes away at age 76
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, died aged 96
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,…
Linda S., died aged 89
American academics Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Roland Huntford, died aged 98
British polar historian and biographer Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Alexei Simașchevici obituary: died at age 96
Moldovan physicist Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Gordon L. died at age 78
American author and military historian Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Michael McElroy dead at age 86
American scientist Died on Thursday January 29th 2026
Michael H. Prosser dies at 89
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, died aged 75
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 dies at 90
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…
Akira Iriye dies at age 91
Japanese-American historian Died on Thursday January 29th 2026
Bernhard Waldenfels, died aged 91
German philosopher Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Dominick Salvatore has died at age 86
American economist Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Fobazi Ettarh has died at age 37
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…
Josef Dvorak dies 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…
Death of Gloria Wade-Gayles at age 88
American educator and author Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Rikio Shimada died at age 86
Japanese economist Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
André Burguière passes away at age 87
French historian and academic Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Ann Ashmead passes away at age 96
American archaeologist Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Mark Batzer obituary: died at age 64
American geneticist and academic Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Reinhardt Kiehl died 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, died aged 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 passed away 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. has died at age 77
American political staffer and educator Died on Monday January 26th 2026
Obituary: Helen Leach, dead at age 80
New Zealand food anthropologist Died on Sunday January 25th 2026
Frank J. died at age 96
American scholar and politician Died on Sunday January 25th 2026
David Abulafia, died aged 76
British historian (The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean) Died on Sunday January 25th 2026
Li Wei dies at 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 passed away at age 102
American literary scholar Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Michael Parenti dies at 92
American politician scientist and academic historian Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Nicholas Krall passes away at age 93
American physicist Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Peter Duesberg passes away at age 89
German-American molecular biologist and academic Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Alan Musgrave dies at age 85
British-born New Zealand philosopher Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
George Speake, died aged 81
English art historian and archaeologist Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Harry Olmer passes away at age 98
Polish-born British Holocaust survivor and educator Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
Andrzej Januszajtis, died aged 97
Polish physicist and politician Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
Roseanne Diab dies at 76
South African atmospheric scientist Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
Death of Donald John Roberts 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…
Kikuo Arakawa passed away 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…
E. A., died aged 88
Indian agricultural scientist Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
Anthony Fletcher, died aged 84
British historian Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
Roger-Maurice Bonnet dead at age 88
French astrophysicist and academic Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
Paul Larivaille passed away at age 93
French literary critic and academic Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
André Jammes dead at age 98
French bookseller and photography historian Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
Barbara Aronstein dead at age 92
American legal scholar Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Marie-Thérèse Lorcin obituary: died at age 93
French historian and academic Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026