Claude Cantini obituary: died at age 96
Swiss historian and journalist Died on Monday December 29th 2025
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
James Akins death at age 69
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,…
Wu Feng dies at age 74
Chinese material scientist and engineer Died on Monday December 29th 2025
Emma Johnston dead at age 52
Australian marine ecologist and academic Died on Monday December 29th 2025
Monic Cecconi-Botella dies at 89
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…
Daniel Brélaz, died aged 75
Swiss mathematician and politician Died on Sunday December 28th 2025
Jeffrey R., died aged 85
American religious leader and educator Died on Saturday December 27th 2025
Meredith Hooper passed away at age 86
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…
Obituary: Stephen Boyden, dead at age 100
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 has died at age 88
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 has died at age 78
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 Young death at age 89
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 dies at age 80
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 died at age 91
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…
Death of Claire Ortiz at age 74
American scholar and translator Died on Wednesday December 24th 2025
Maria Bonghi passes away at age -1
Italian archaeologist/archeologist Died on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Renfrew Christie died at age 76
South African scholar and anti-apartheid activist Died on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Konrad Osterwalder died at age 83
Swiss mathematician and physicist Died on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Dorothée Aimée Malenzapa has died at age 73
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 obituary: died at age 90
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 dies at age 53
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 passed away at age 85
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…
Laila Bokhari death at age 51
Norwegian political scientist and politician Died on Sunday December 21st 2025
Ramadan Dib, died aged 105
Syrian Shafi'i scholar Died on Sunday December 21st 2025
Obituary: Aggrey Burke, dead at age 82
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,…
Rowell Huesmann dies at age 82
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, died aged 78
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…
Death of Eduardo Mendieta at age 61
Colombian philosopher and academic Died on Sunday December 21st 2025
Ivan Hirsch obituary: died at age 79
Czech professor Died on Saturday December 20th 2025
Ronald Chase dies at 91
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,…
Nuno Loureiro has died at age 47
Portuguese plasma physicist Died on Saturday December 20th 2025
Harald Grytten obituary: died at age 87
Norwegian historian Died on Friday December 19th 2025
Chris Wallace-Crabbe dies at age 91
Australian poet and academic Died on Friday December 19th 2025
Ivan Hartel died at age 82
Czech physicist Died on Friday December 19th 2025
Cynthia Mailman, died aged 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 died 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 death 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. dies at 47
Portuguese plasma physicist Died on Wednesday December 17th 2025
Ilya M. dead at age 99
Russian mathematician Died on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Obituary: Jozef Gruska, dead at age 92
Slovak computer scientist and academic Died on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Kate Ho died at age 53
British-American economist Died on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Dan J. passes away at age 63
South African psychiatrist and professor Died on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Eva Giberti obituary: died at age 96
Argentine psychologist Died on Monday December 15th 2025
Riyad Naasan died at age 78
Syrian philosopher and diplomat Died on Sunday December 14th 2025
Zulfiqar Ahmad dies at 72
Pakistani Islamic scholar Died on Sunday December 14th 2025
Stephen Pearton death at age 68
Australian-American materials scientist Died on Sunday December 14th 2025
Ivan R. Schwab dies at 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 has died at age 80
Brazilian sociologist Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Anatol Eremia dead at age 94
Moldovan linguist Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Jacek Semaniak, died aged 61
Polish physicist Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Death of Bolesław Rakoczy at age 82
Polish historian Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Charles Weissmann obituary: died at age 94
Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Nermin Abadan passed away at age 104
Turkish academics and author Died on Friday December 12th 2025
Keith Suter dies at age 77
Australian social scientist Died on Thursday December 11th 2025
Kenneth W. death at age 99
American theoretical physicist and writer Died on Thursday December 11th 2025
Herbert W. died at age 90
German chemist Died on Thursday December 11th 2025
Mark Jay death at age 86
American writer and professor Died on Wednesday December 10th 2025
Rod Paige passed away at age 92
American academic and politician Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Death of Wang Xun at age 91
Chinese academic and physicist Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Rosa Leal dies at age 71
Guatemalan psychologist Died on Monday December 8th 2025
Stan Shillington obituary: died 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 died at age 100
Chinese economist and politician Died on Monday December 8th 2025
Ramón Trujillo obituary: died at age 94
Spanish linguist Died on Monday December 8th 2025
Obituary: Milan Nakonečný, dead at age 93
Czech psychologist Died on Saturday December 6th 2025
Richard Turnbull dies at age 65
English theologian Died on Saturday December 6th 2025
Dwight Morrell dies at 94
American chancellor and professor Died on Saturday December 6th 2025
Charles W. passes away at age 82
American historian Died on Friday December 5th 2025
Bernard Charlot obituary: died at age 81
French academic and educational scientist Died on Friday December 5th 2025
Jürgen Raps dies at 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 obituary: died at age 74
Russian economist and politician Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
Rudi Tröger dies at age 96
German painter and academic Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
Death of Charles Mullins 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, died aged 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, dies at 84
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 has died at age 83
Tanzanian-born American Islamic scholar Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
Ronald Grossarth-Maticek dies at 85
German sociologist Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
Murray Heimberg has died at age 100
American medical scientist Died on Wednesday December 3rd 2025
Death of Marsha Kinder at age 85
American film scholar Died on Wednesday December 3rd 2025
Ueli Aebi dead at age 79
Swiss structural biologist Died on Tuesday December 2nd 2025
Jānis Arveds obituary: died at age 87
Latvian politician and historian Died on Tuesday December 2nd 2025
Pamela Kola, died aged 82
Kenyan children’s author and educator Died on Tuesday December 2nd 2025
Alice S. Whittemore passed away 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…
Obituary: Robert H., dead at age 90
American academic administrator Died on Monday December 1st 2025
Michael Hans passed away at age 88
German-born Canadian historian Died on Monday December 1st 2025
Moshe Yegar passed away at age 95
Argentine-born Israeli diplomat and historian Died on Sunday November 30th 2025
Gondoo U obituary: died at age 89
Burmese writer and educator Died on Sunday November 30th 2025
Death of William Jenkins at age 88
South African-born American veterinary scientist and academic Died on Saturday November 29th 2025
Jamie T. dead at age 84
American theologian Died on Saturday November 29th 2025
Mikhail Gorshkov death at age 74
Russian sociologist Died on Friday November 28th 2025
Tony Cole dies at age 78
Australian economist Died on Friday November 28th 2025
Death of Hazel Walford at age 85
Welsh academic and author Died on Friday November 28th 2025
Obituary: Lorenz Weinrich, dead at age 96
German historian and university professor Died on Friday November 28th 2025
René Passet passes away at age 99
French economist Died on Thursday November 27th 2025
Vladimir Boldyrev passed away at age 98
Russian chemist Died on Thursday November 27th 2025
Bodil Nyboe dies at age 85
Danish economist Died on Thursday November 27th 2025
Guy Cogeval dies at 70
French art historian Died on Thursday November 27th 2025
Death of W. Michael at age 99
Political adviser and economist Died on Thursday November 27th 2025
Obituary: Dahiru Usman, dead at age 98
Nigerian Islamic preacher and scholar Died on Thursday November 27th 2025
Lee Tien-Ming obituary: died at age 80
Hong Kong philosopher Died on Thursday November 27th 2025