Obituary: Robert Alexy, dead at age 80
Robert Alexy, the German jurist and legal philosopher, died on September 5, 2026, aged 80. Born in Oldenburg on September 9, 1945, he studied law and philosophy at the University…
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Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Georgy Matyukhin, died aged 92
Georgy Matyukhin, a Russian economist who served as chairman of the Central Bank of Russia from August 1990 to June 1992, died on September 5, 2026, aged 92. Born Georgy…
Andy Fish dead at age 60
Andy Fish, an American graphic novelist and educator, died on September 5, 2026, aged 60, following blood cancer. Born Andrew Tiberius Fish, he worked as a comic book artist, illustrator,…
Albert Alós passes away at age 86
Albert Alós, a Spanish-born Nigerian engineer, academic and missionary, died on September 5, 2026, aged 86. Born in Barcelona in 1939, he graduated in electrical engineering from the University of…
Death of Torstein Jøssang at age 92
Torstein Jøssang, the Norwegian physicist, died on September 5, 2026, aged 92. Born in Jørpeland in 1933, he studied at the University of Oslo, earning his cand.real. in 1962 and…
Thérèse Brenet dead at age 90
Thérèse Brenet, the French composer and educator, died on September 5, 2026, aged 90. Born in Paris in 1935, she studied piano at the Conservatoire de Reims and later at…
Obituary: Shirley Strum Kenny, dead at age 92
Shirley Strum Kenny, an English scholar and university president, died on September 5, 2026, aged 92. Kenny led Stony Brook University as its fourth president from 1994 through the 2008–2009…
Resil B. Mojares died at age 83
Resil B. Mojares, a Filipino author, historian and literary critic, died on September 5, 2026, aged 83. Born Resil Buagas Mojares on September 4, 1943, in Polanco, Zamboanga del Norte,…
Felton Earls has died at age 84
Felton Earls, the American child psychiatrist and epidemiologist, died on September 5, 2026, at age 84. Born Felton James Earls in New Orleans in January 1942, he was known for…
Jan-Åke Gustafsson death at age 83
Jan-Åke Gustafsson, a Swedish scientist and biochemist, died on September 4, 2026, aged 83. Born in Stockholm on August 4, 1943, he studied and later worked at Karolinska Institutet, where…
Javad Mojabi died at age 86
Javad Mojabi, the Iranian poet and writer, died on September 4, 2026, at age 86. Born in Qazvin in 1939, he was among Iran’s prominent modern writers and poets and…
Death of Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton at age 92
Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton, a British-Australian aristocrat and academic, died on September 4, 2026, aged 92. Born Francis Egerton Grosvenor on February 8, 1934, he was the eldest…
Pedro Rodriguez dead at age 93
Pedro Rodriguez, the Spanish theologian and priest of the prelature of Opus Dei, died on September 4, 2026, aged 93. Born Pedro Rodríguez García in Cartagena in 1933, he specialized…
Don Wilhelms, died aged 96
Don Wilhelms, an American geologist who helped map the Moon and train Apollo astronauts, died on September 4, 2026, aged 96. Born Don Edward Wilhelms in Los Angeles on July…
Constantin Floros, died aged 96
Constantin Floros, the Greek-German musicologist known for his work on the Second Viennese School, died on September 4, 2026, aged 96. Born in Thessaloniki on January 4, 1930, he studied…
Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher has died at age 95
Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher, a German-born American literary scholar, died September 4, 2026, at age 95. A Princeton University professor emeritus, he taught there from 1979 to 2006 as the William…
Obituary: Ritu Khullar, dead at age 62
Ritu Khullar, a Canadian jurist and judge who served as chief justice of Alberta, died on September 3, 2026, aged 62. At the time of her death, she also sat…
Mireille Calle-Gruber obituary: died at age 80
Mireille Calle-Gruber, the French literary critic and academic, died on September 3, 2026, aged 80. A longtime professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, she was also a literary scholar, writer and…
Isaac M. Daniel, died aged 92
Isaac M. Daniel, an American engineer, died on September 3, 2026, aged 92. Also known as Isaac Mordochai Daniel, he was a Greek-American engineer and professor whose work centered on…
Bernard Haisch passed away at age 77
Bernard Haisch, the German-born American astrophysicist who died on September 3, 2026, at age 77 from complications of Parkinson's disease, studied solar-stellar astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, observational X-ray and ultraviolet astronomy,…
Libor Balák has died at age 65
Libor Balák, the Czech painter and illustrator, died on September 2, 2026, aged 65. Born in Brno on February 10, 1961, he also worked as a draughtsman, comic-book artist and…
Robert A. Kyle has died at age 98
Robert A. Kyle, an American academic and longtime Mayo Clinic professor of medicine, laboratory medicine and pathology, died September 2, 2026, aged 98. A pathologist and hematologist, he spent much…
Death of Rachel Blau DuPlessis at age 84
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, an American poet and essayist, died on September 2, 2026, aged 84. She was known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist…
Death of Konrad Jarausch at age 85
Konrad Jarausch, the German-American historian and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor, died on September 1, 2026, aged 85. Born in Magdeburg, Germany, on August 14, 1941, he…
Charles Josselin dies at 88
Charles Josselin, a French politician and economist, died on September 1, 2026, aged 88. Born in Pleslin-Trigavou, in Brittany, on March 31, 1938, he became a prominent Socialist figure in…
Annette Saint-Pierre passes away at age 101
Annette Saint-Pierre, a Canadian educator, writer and publisher, died on September 1, 2026, at age 101. Born in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Quebec, she studied at the Scolasticat Saint-Joseph in Saint-Hyacinthe and at…
Death of Édouard Balladur at age 97
Édouard Balladur, the French politician who served as prime minister, minister of finance and twice deputy, died on August 31, 2026, aged 97. Born Édouard Léon Raoul Balladur in İzmir,…
Death of Anatoly Kholkin at age 89
Anatoly Kholkin, a Russian chemist, died on August 31, 2026, aged 89. Born Anatoly Ivanovich Kholkin on March 8, 1937, he was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences…
Obituary: Elco Brinkman, dead at age 78
Elco Brinkman, the Dutch politician who served in the House of Representatives and Senate, died on August 31, 2026, aged 78. Born Leendert Cornelis Brinkman in Dirksland on February 5,…
Phillips Robbins dies at age 96
Phillips Robbins, an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Boston University, died on August 31, 2026, aged 96. Born in Barre, Massachusetts, in 1930, he built a long academic career…
Indu Mitha died at age 97
Indu Mitha, the Pakistani Bharatanatyam classical dancer and music educator, died on August 31, 2026, aged 97. Born Indu Chatterjee in 1929, she was among Pakistan’s best-known exponents of Bharatanatyam…
Toyohiro Akiyama dies at 84
Toyohiro Akiyama, the Japanese journalist and cosmonaut who became the first person of Japanese nationality to fly in space, died on August 31, 2026, aged 84. Born in Setagaya in…
Frances Stonor Saunders, died aged 60
Frances Stonor Saunders, the British journalist and historian, died on August 31, 2026, aged 60. Born in London on April 14, 1966, she was also known as Frances Hélène Jeanne…
Peter Freebody obituary: died at age 76
Peter Freebody, an Australian literary educator and researcher, died on August 30, 2026, aged 76. Born in Sydney on August 12, 1950, he built a career in literacy education and…
Yoshimi Masaki death at age 64
Yoshimi Masaki, a Japanese judoka and professor at Tenri University, died on August 30, 2026, aged 64. Born in Osaka Prefecture on August 20, 1962, he began judo in elementary…
Ibrahim Adam dead, Animal scientist, politician
Ibrahim Adam, a Ghanaian politician and animal scientist, died on August 30, 2026. He served as the member of parliament for the Choggo/Tishigu constituency in Ghana’s Northern Region from January…
Obituary: Igor Grekhov, dead at age 91
Igor Grekhov, a Soviet and Russian physicist and electrical engineer whose work advanced the physics and engineering of power semiconductor devices, died on August 30, 2026, at age 91. Born…
Iván T. Berend dies at 95
Iván T. Berend, the Hungarian historian who led the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and later taught at UCLA, died on August 30, 2026, aged 95. Born in Budapest on December…
Death of P. David Pearson at age 85
P. David Pearson, an American literary scholar and reading and literacy scholar, died on August 30, 2026, aged 85. He was professor emeritus in the School of Education at the…
Death of Peter R. Griffiths at age 84
Peter R. Griffiths, a British chemist and professor, died on August 29, 2026, aged 84. Born in London in 1942, he studied at St John’s College, Oxford, where he earned…
Narana Coissoró obituary: died at age 94
Narana Coissoró, a Portuguese lawyer, academic and politician, died on August 29, 2026, aged 94. Born in Goa, then in Portuguese India, on October 3, 1931, he moved to Portugal…
Obituary: Jeffrey G. Williamson, dead at age 90
Jeffrey G. Williamson, an American academic and economic historian, died on August 29, 2026, aged 90. He was the Laird Bell Professor of Economics emeritus at Harvard University and also…
Li Weikang dies at 79
Li Weikang, the Chinese Peking opera singer and actress, died on August 28, 2026, aged 79. A native of Beijing, she was a retired performer who became a national first-class…
Kenneth Treister dead at age 96
Kenneth Treister, an American architect best known for the Holocaust Memorial he designed in Miami Beach, Florida, died on August 28, 2026, aged 96. A Fellow of the American Institute…
Richard E. Stearns dies at age 90
Richard E. Stearns, the American computer scientist who helped lay the foundations of computational complexity theory, died on August 28, 2026, aged 90. Born Richard Edwin Stearns in Caldwell, he…
Brîndușa Armanca death at age 71
Brîndușa Armanca, a Romanian journalist and academic, died on August 28, 2026, aged 71. Born in Câmpulung Moldovenesc in 1954, she studied philology at the West University of Timișoara and…
Frank Campo has died at age 99
Frank Campo, an American composer and emeritus professor of music at California State University Northridge, died on August 28, 2026, at age 99. Born in New York City in 1927,…
Mamtaz Sanghamita dead at age 80
Mamtaz Sanghamita, an Indian politician and gynaecologist who served as a member of parliament from Bardhaman-Durgapur in the 16th Lok Sabha, died on August 27, 2026, aged 80. She entered…
Death of Patrick Baudelaire at age 81
Patrick Baudelaire, a French computer scientist and engineer recognized as a pioneer in desktop publishing and computer graphics, died on August 27, 2026, aged 81. Born on March 30, 1945,…
Mary Tsingou obituary: died at age 97
Mary Tsingou, the American physicist and mathematician known for the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem, died on August 27, 2026, aged 97. Born in Milwaukee, she was one of the first programmers on…
Robert C. Hughes dies at age 85
Robert C. Hughes, an American chemist, died on August 27, 2026, aged 85. Born Robert Clark Hughes on November 27, 1940, in Cleveland, Ohio, he studied chemistry at Carleton College…
Granville Straker passed away at age 86
Granville Straker, an American record producer and businessman, died on August 27, 2026, aged 86. Born in Saint Vincent in 1939, he moved to Brooklyn from Trinidad in 1959 and…
Jack Grassel passed away at age 77
Jack Grassel, an American jazz guitarist, teacher and author from Milwaukee, died on August 26, 2026, aged 77, in a traffic collision. Born in Milwaukee and educated at the University…
Jan Štěpán died at age 78
Jan Štěpán, a Czech logician, philosopher and mathematician, died on August 26, 2026, aged 78. Born on January 19, 1948, in Dolní Újezd in the Přerov district, he studied numerical…
Obituary: Ulrich Berner, dead at age 78
Ulrich Berner, a German scholar of religion, died on August 26, 2026, aged 78. Berner was a German religionist and phenomenologist of religion whose work combined phenomenological approaches with historical…
Javier Giraldo dead at age 82
Javier Giraldo, a Colombian priest and human rights activist, died on August 25, 2026, aged 82. Known also as Javier Giraldo Moreno, he was a Catholic Jesuit priest, researcher, and…
Michele Zappella dies at age 90
Michele Zappella, the Italian psychiatrist and scholar of child neuropsychiatry, died on August 25, 2026, aged 90. Born in Viareggio on March 4, 1936, he graduated in medicine and surgery…
Catherine Millot obituary: died at age 81
Catherine Millot, the French psychologist and academic, died on August 24, 2026, at age 81. A Lacanian psychoanalyst and author, she taught psychoanalysis at the University of Paris-VIII after studying…
Donald Shankweiler, died aged 91
Donald Shankweiler, an American academic and psychologist who studied language processing in the brain, died on August 24, 2026, aged 91. He was professor emeritus of psychology at the University…
Giri Dandasena, died aged 76
Giri Dandasena, an Indian writer in the Odia language, died on August 24, 2026, aged 76. A writer, columnist and historian from Odisha, he produced fiction and works on the…
Mitchell Doens dead at age 79
Mitchell Doens, a Panamanian politician, economist and writer, died on August 24, 2026, aged 79. Doens, whose full name was Mitchell Constantino Doens Ambrosio, was born in Colón Province on…
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook, died aged 93
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook, a British zoologist, died on August 24, 2026, aged 93. Also known as Lord Medway, he was active from 1956 in ornithology, mammalogy and…
Hideki Shirakawa obituary: died at age 90
Hideki Shirakawa, the Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize laureate whose work on conductive polymers helped reshape materials science, died on August 24, 2026, aged 90. Born in Tokyo on August…
Tofig Bakikhanov dies at 95
Tofig Bakikhanov, the Azerbaijani composer and music educator, died on August 23, 2026, at age 95. Born Tofig Ahmed-agha oglu Bakikhanov in Baku on December 8, 1930, he came from…
Stanley Ritchie death at age 91
Stanley Ritchie, an Australian violinist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Violin at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, died on August 23, 2026, aged 91. A specialist in historical…
barbara findlay dies at age 77
Barbara findlay, a Canadian lawyer and LGBT rights activist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 77. Over more than four decades, she used law, advocacy, education and community organizing to…
Death of Svein Mønnesland at age 82
Svein Mønnesland, a Norwegian Slavist and professor, died on August 23, 2026, aged 82. Born in Skien on 26 October 1943, he taught Slavic languages at the University of Oslo…
Liu I-chou dead at age 78
Liu I-chou, the Taiwanese civil servant who served as chairman of the Central Election Commission, died on August 23, 2026, aged 78. A lawyer and political scientist, he was vice…
Bruce Rogers has died at age 93
Bruce Rogers, the Canadian broadcast journalist who was the original anchor of The World at Six and the first host of Metro Morning, died on August 22, 2026, aged 93.…
Paul S. Russell dies at 101
Paul S. Russell, an American physician, died on August 22, 2026, aged 101. Born Paul Snowdell Russell Jr. on January 22, 1925, in Chicago, he studied at the University of…
Sengaku Mayeda obituary: died at age 95
Sengaku Mayeda, a Japanese writer and philosopher, died on August 22, 2026, aged 95. Born in Nagoya on April 1, 1931, he was known for his work on Indian philosophy…
V. C. Manning passes away at age 78
V. C. Manning, an American politician and educator, died on August 21, 2026, at age 78. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Mississippi State Senate from…
Dave Morice, died aged 79
Dave Morice, an American poet, died on August 21, 2026, aged 79. Born in St. Louis on September 10, 1946, he also worked as a writer, visual artist, performance artist…
Andrée Ehresmann passes away at age 91
Andrée Ehresmann, a French mathematician known for her work in category theory, died on August 21, 2026, aged 91. Born Andrée Bastiani in Nice, France, she studied at the University…
Syarhei Kastsyan passed away at age 85
Syarhei Kastsyan, a Belarusian politician and academic who served as a member of the Supreme Council from 1996 to 2001, died on August 21, 2026, aged 85. Born in Usochi…
Sidney A. Bludman obituary: died at age 99
Sidney A. Bludman, an American physicist, died on August 21, 2026, aged 99. Born Sidney Arnold Bludman in New York, he studied at the Bronx High School of Science, where…
Death of William Lewis at age 94
William Lewis, an American tenor and academic, died on August 21, 2026, aged 94. Born in Tulsa on November 23, 1931, he studied at the University of Colorado, Texas Christian…
Ariel Fenster dies at age 83
Ariel Fenster, a French-born Canadian chemist and science educator, died on August 20, 2026, aged 83. Born in Bergerac, France, he became a founding member of McGill University’s Office for…
John Iliffe dies at age 87
John Iliffe, a historian of Africa, died on August 20, 2026, aged 87. A British scholar whose work focused especially on the history of Tanzania, he was educated at Framlingham…
Death of Merrelyn Emery at age 86
Merrelyn Emery, an Australian social scientist known for her work on open systems theory, died on August 20, 2026, aged 86. Her research helped develop open systems theory as a…
Obituary: Isao Tsukamoto, dead at age 92
Isao Tsukamoto, a Japanese academic and translator, died on August 20, 2026, aged 92. He was a Japanese scholar of Korean language and a former professor at Osaka University of…
Nancy Kissinger dead at age 92
Nancy Kissinger, an American philanthropist and longtime Rockefeller aide, died on August 20, 2026, at age 92. Born Nancy Sharon Maginnes in Manhattan, she was educated at The Masters School,…
John Allen passes away at age 97
John Allen, the British engineer and plasma physicist known for work on dusty plasmas, plasma boundaries and the Bohm criterion, died on August 19, 2026, aged 97. Born John Edward…
Eduard Maur, died aged 89
Eduard Maur, a Czech historian, historical demographer and university teacher, died on August 19, 2026, aged 89. Born in Plzeň on April 1, 1937, he focused on the economic and…
Bill Lubenow dies at 87
Bill Lubenow, an American historian and longtime professor of history at Stockton University in New Jersey, died on August 19, 2026, aged 87. Over a career that spanned from 1971…
Death of Tudor Chiriac at age 77
Tudor Chiriac, the Moldovan composer, died on August 19, 2026, aged 77. Born in Ciuciuleni, Moldova, on March 21, 1949, he became a professor doctor and was a member of…
Ġorġ Mallia, died aged 68
Ġorġ Mallia, a Maltese communications academic, author and cartoonist, died on August 19, 2026, aged 68. Born in Malta on November 9, 1957, he built a career in communications, instructional…
Bishnu S. Atal passes away at age 93
Bishnu S. Atal, an Indian physicist and engineer whose work helped shape modern speech coding, died on August 19, 2026, aged 93. Born in India in 1933, he studied at…
Anthony Devaney, died aged 86
Anthony Devaney, an American electrical engineer, died on August 18, 2026, at age 86. Born on February 1, 1940, in Braintree, Massachusetts, he attended Braintree High School, graduating in 1959,…
P. E. Easterling passes away at age 92
P. E. Easterling, the English classical scholar and expert on Sophocles, died on August 18, 2026, aged 92. Born Patricia Elizabeth Fairfax in Blackburn on March 11, 1934, she studied…
Constantine Tsoucalas passed away at age 89
Constantine Tsoucalas, the Greek sociologist, academic and politician, died on August 18, 2026, aged 89. Born in Athens on August 5, 1937, he taught at universities in Greece, the United…
Norman A. Bailey passes away at age 95
Norman A. Bailey, the American economist and former U.S. government official, died on August 18, 2026, aged 95. Born in Chicago in 1931, he served as senior director of international…
Samir Radwan, died aged 83
Samir Radwan, the Egyptian economist and politician who served as minister of finance in 2011, died on August 18, 2026, aged 83. Born in Koum Hamada in Beheira Governorate, he…
Constantine Tsoucalas passed away at age 89
Constantine Tsoucalas, the Greek sociologist, academic and politician, died on August 18, 2026, aged 89. Born in Athens on August 5, 1937, he taught at universities in Greece, the United…
Obituary: Flavia Lattanzi, dead at age 85
Flavia Lattanzi, an Italian lawyer and scholar of international law, died on August 18, 2026, aged 85. Born in Addis Ababa in 1940, she studied law at Sapienza University of…
Jean-Louis Brunaux, died aged 72
Jean-Louis Brunaux, the French archaeologist and historian known for excavations at the sanctuaries of Gournay-sur-Aronde and Ribemont-sur-Ancre, died on August 18, 2026, aged 72. Born in Lachelle in 1953, he…
Shaul Mishal dies at age 81
Shaul Mishal, the Israeli political scientist who studied Arab and Palestinian politics, died on August 18, 2026, aged 81. Born in Baghdad in 1945, he later made aliyah with his…
Wanda Traczyk-Stawska death at age 99
Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, a Polish psychologist, social activist and participant in the Warsaw Uprising, died on August 18, 2026, aged 99. Known by the pseudonyms “Pączek” and “Atma,” she was born…
Vincent Van Brunt has died at age 82
Vincent Van Brunt, an American chemical engineer, died on August 17, 2026, aged 82. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he attended Friends Academy in Long Island before earning a bachelor’s…