Obituary: Telma de Souza, dead at age 82
Telma Sandra Augusto de Souza, the Brazilian professor, teacher and politician known as Telma de Souza, died of a stroke on October 10, 2026, aged 82. Born in Santos on…
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Lou Yulie died at age 91
Lou Yulie, a Chinese philosopher and professor of philosophy and religious studies at Peking University, died October 9, 2026, aged 91. Born in Hangzhou on December 10, 1934, he attended…
Josep Pinyol obituary: died at age 73
Josep Pinyol, a Catalan historian, entrepreneur, political analyst and independence activist, died on October 9, 2026, aged 73. Born in Cornellà de Llobregat in 1952, he graduated in modern and…
Bakir Bayakhunov died at age 93
Bakir Bayakhunov, a Kazakh composer and People’s Artist of Kazakhstan, died October 9, 2026, aged 93. Born in Almaty on September 15, 1933, he studied at the Almaty Conservatory, now…
Bakir Bayakhunov died at age 93
Kazakh composer Bakir Bayakhunov died on October 9, 2026, aged 93. Born in Alma-Ata, now Almaty, on September 15, 1933, he worked in classical and operatic music and was a…
Chris Wickham, died aged 76
Chris Wickham, a British historian and academic, died on October 9, 2026, aged 76. Born Christopher John Wickham in Rossett, Wales, on May 18, 1950, he attended Millfield before studying…
António Vitalino Dantas dead at age 84
António Vitalino Dantas, a Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate who served as auxiliary bishop of Lisbon and bishop of Beja, died October 9, 2026, aged 84. Born on November 3, 1941,…
Colin Mackerras dies at age 87
Colin Patrick Mackerras, the Australian sinologist, died October 8, 2026, aged 87. Born in Sydney on August 26, 1939, he became a specialist in Chinese culture whose work ranged across…
Stephen A. Schuker died at age 87
Stephen A. Schuker, an American historian who served as William W. Corcoran Professor of History at the University of Virginia, died October 8, 2026, aged 87. He studied at Cornell…
Vladimír Kopecký passed away at age 94
Vladimír Kopecký, the Czech painter, graphic artist and glass artist who taught at university, died October 8, 2026, aged 94. Born in Svojanov on November 26, 1931, he wanted to…
L. Ian MacDonald dies at 78
L. Ian MacDonald, a Canadian writer, broadcaster and diplomat, died October 8, 2026, aged 78. A journalist and political scientist educated at Loyola College, he built a career spanning political…
Xosé Manuel Beiras passed away at age 90
Xosé Manuel Beiras, a Spanish politician, economist and Galician nationalist, died in Santiago de Compostela on October 8, 2026, aged 90. Born Xosé Manuel Hixinio Beiras Torrado in Santiago on…
Saeed-ur-Rahman Azmi Nadvi dead at age 92
Saeed-ur-Rahman Azmi Nadvi, an Indian Islamic scholar who served as principal of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama from 2000, died in Lucknow on October 7, 2026, aged 92. Born in Mau…
Jakub Schwarz Trojan has died at age 99
Jakub Schwarz Trojan, a Czech theologian and dean of the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Charles University, died in Prague on October 7, 2026, aged 99. Born in Paris on May…
Theodore J. St. Antoine death at age 97
Theodore J. St. Antoine, an American lawyer and academic who served as dean of the University of Michigan Law School from 1971 to 1978, died October 7, 2026, aged 97.…
T. Randall Lee died at age 64
T. Randall Lee, an American chemist who held the Cullen Distinguished University Chair in Chemistry at the University of Houston, died October 6, 2026, aged 64. At the university, he…
Joseph Sciorra dead, Joseph Sciorra, American cultural historian
Joseph Sciorra, an American cultural historian who specialized in Italian American culture, died October 5, 2026. Born Joseph Umberto Sciorra on April 4, 1955, he devoted his work to the…
Otto Rössler death at age 86
Otto Eberhard Rössler, a German interdisciplinary scientist in theoretical biochemistry and nonlinear physics, died October 5, 2026, aged 86. Born in Berlin on May 20, 1940, he became internationally known…
John Rudnicki passed away at age 75
John Rudnicki, an American engineer, died October 5, 2026, aged 75. Born in Huntington, West Virginia, he began studying at Brown University in 1969, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1973,…
Coke Reed dies at age 86
Coke Reed, an American mathematician, computer scientist and inventor of the Data Vortex, died October 5, 2026, aged 86. Born in Austin, Texas, in the United States, on March 8,…
Dean Hawkes, died aged 87
Dean Hawkes, a British designer, architect and award-winning academic, died on October 4, 2026, aged 87. Born in Rochdale, Lancashire, in 1938, he studied at the Regional College of Art…
Death of Denis Zacharopoulos at age 74
Denis Zacharopoulos, a Greek art historian, died in Athens on October 4, 2026, aged 74. Born in Athens on June 11, 1952, he studied music there before moving to France…
James M. Adovasio died at age 82
James M. Adovasio, an American archaeologist known for his work at Meadowcroft Rockshelter, died October 4, 2026, aged 82. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, on February 17, 1944, he earned a…
Shalva Bedoyev passes away at age 85
Shalva Bedoyev, a Russian painter, died on October 4, 2026, aged 85. Born on October 15, 1940, in the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, he became known as a Soviet and…
Death of Callixte Mbarushimana at age 63
Callixte Mbarushimana, a Rwandan computer scientist indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity, died October 4, 2026, aged 63. Born in Ndusu, in…
Neem Chandra Bhowmik dead, Neem Chandra Bhowmik, Bangladeshi physicist and diplomat
Neem Chandra Bhowmik, a Bangladeshi physicist and diplomat, died on October 4, 2026. He was a professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Dhaka and a…
Giovanni Lista passes away at age 83
Giovanni Lista, an Italian art historian and art critic specializing in Futurism, died in Paris on October 3, 2026, aged 83. Born on February 13, 1943, in Castiglione del Lago,…
Palle Rama Rao passes away at age 89
Palle Rama Rao, an Indian scientist and metallurgist, died on October 3, 2026, aged 89. He was known for his work in physical and mechanical metallurgy and held academic and…
Henri Maler died at age 79
Henri Maler, a French political activist and academic, died on October 3, 2026, aged 79. Born in Toulouse on November 26, 1946, he graduated from the University of Paris, where…
Death of Bob Hitchcock at age 97
Robert William “Bob” Hitchcock, an American high school football coach and educator, died October 3, 2026, aged 97. Born in San Bernardino, California, to Robert and Helen Hitchcock, he graduated…
İoanna Kuçuradi dies at age 89
İoanna Kuçuradi, the Turkish philosopher and academic, died on October 2, 2026, aged 89. Born in Istanbul on October 4, 1936, she studied philosophy at Istanbul University after attending Zappeion…
Denys Tremblay dies at age 75
Denys Tremblay, a Canadian artist and micronational leader who served as king of L'Anse-Saint-Jean, died October 2, 2026, aged 75. Born in Chicoutimi, Quebec, on February 5, 1951, Tremblay was…
Irene Butter death at age 95
Irene Butter, the German-American academic and Holocaust survivor, died on October 2, 2026, aged 95. Born Irene Hasenberg in Berlin in 1930, she became a public health scholar and professor…
J. C. Duncan, died aged 97
Jason Charlie (J. C.) Duncan, a South Carolina politician and teacher, died October 2, 2026, aged 97. Born June 27, 1929, in Lyman, South Carolina, he served in the state…
Irene H. Butter passed away at age 95
Irene H. Butter, a German-American academic and Holocaust survivor, died on October 2, 2026, aged 95. Born Irene Hasenberg in Berlin in 1930, she was a public health scholar and…
Dottie Martin died at age 89
Dottie Martin, an American educator and real estate broker who served as First Lady of North Carolina, died on October 2, 2026, aged 89. Born Dorothy Ann McAulay in Charlotte,…
Toshio Kamo passes away at age 81
Toshio Kamo, a Japanese political scientist and professor emeritus of Osaka City University, died of acute respiratory failure on October 1, 2026, aged 81. His scholarship focused on local government…
Carl Berger, died aged 87
Carl Berger, a Canadian historian and academic, died October 1, 2026, aged 87. Born in The Pas, Manitoba, Berger studied at the University of Manitoba, earning a bachelor’s degree in…
Obituary: Biljana Plavšić, dead at age 96
Biljana Plavšić, the Bosnian Serb politician who served as president of Republika Srpska, died on October 1, 2026, aged 96. Born in Tuzla in 1930, she worked as a university…
Margaret Hamilton dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, an American computer scientist and software engineer, died September 30, 2026, aged 90. Born Margaret Elaine Heafield in Paoli, Indiana, she became a central figure in the development…
Steve Selvin has died at age 85
Steve Selvin, an American statistician and professor emeritus of biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley, died September 30, 2026, aged 85. Born July 4, 1941, he studied at Berkeley…
Dominique Foata, died aged 91
Dominique Foata, a French mathematician whose work helped shape enumerative combinatorics, died September 30, 2026, aged 91. Born in Damascus on October 12, 1934, he studied at the University of…
Pat Saiki death at age 96
Pat Saiki, an American politician and educator who represented Hawaii in the U.S. House of Representatives, died on September 30, 2026, at age 96. Born Patricia Hatsue Fukuda in Hilo,…
Kalki Bhagawan, died aged 77
Kalki Bhagawan, a spiritual teacher from India, died on September 29, 2026, aged 77. Born Vijay Kumar Naidu on March 7, 1949, in Natham, Tamil Nadu, he was also known…
Amos Rapoport passed away at age 97
Amos Rapoport, the Polish-American architect and professor, died September 29, 2026, aged 97. He was one of the founders of Environment-Behavior Studies (EBS) and produced more than 200 academic publications…
Ionel Haiduc death at age 89
Ionel Haiduc, the Romanian chemist who led the Romanian Academy from 2006 to 2014, died on September 29, 2026, aged 89. Born in Cluj-Napoca on May 9, 1937, he studied…
Julián García Vargas dies at 81
Julián García Vargas, the Spanish politician who served as minister of health from 1986 to 1991 and minister of defence from 1991 to 1995, died on September 29, 2026, aged…
Colette Sénami Agossou Houeto death at age 87
Colette Sénami Agossou Houeto, the Beninese educator, feminist poet and politician, died on September 29, 2026, aged 87. Born in Porto-Novo, she studied at the University of Strasbourg and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität…
Jacek Furdyna dies at 93
Jacek Furdyna, a Polish American physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, died on September 28, 2026, at age 93. Furdyna built his career in condensed matter…
Pietro Veglio passes away at age 81
Pietro Veglio, a Swiss economist and Executive Director of the World Bank, died on September 28, 2026, aged 81. Born in Bellinzona in 1944, he began his career in 1969…
Juraj Hraško died at age 95
Juraj Hraško, a Slovak politician and diplomat, died on September 28, 2026, aged 95. Born in Točnica on May 14, 1931, he was widely regarded as a founder of modern…
Concepción Márquez died at age 84
Concepción Márquez, a Mexican actress, died September 28, 2026, aged 84. Born August 6, 1942, she was also a poet and built a long career in theater, while appearing in…
Obituary: Jean-François Le Nail, dead at age 80
Jean-François Le Nail, a French archivist and historian, died on September 28, 2026, aged 80. Born in Toulouse on December 23, 1945, he trained at the École des chartes and…
Bethany Barratt dies at age 54
Bethany Barratt, an American political scientist and author, died on September 28, 2026, aged 54. She taught political science at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where she also directed the Joseph…
Yevgeny Sverdlov obituary: died at age 87
Yevgeny Sverdlov, a Russian biochemist and academic, died on September 28, 2026, aged 87. Born Yevgeny Davidovich Sverdlov on November 16, 1938, in Dnipro, he became a Doctor of Sciences…
John Dixon Hunt, died aged 90
John Dixon Hunt, an English landscape historian, died September 27, 2026, aged 90. Born in Gloucester, he attended Bristol Grammar School and King’s College, and began his academic career teaching…
Howard H. Stevenson passes away at age 85
Howard H. Stevenson, an American business theorist who became the Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, died September 27, 2026, aged 85. Born June 27, 1941, he studied…
Tony Currie passed away at age 74
Tony Currie, the Scottish broadcaster best known for his work as a television continuity announcer and radio presenter, died on September 26, 2026, aged 74, after tonsil cancer. A British…
Bob Agee death at age 88
Bob Agee, the American academic administrator who served as president of Oklahoma Baptist University, died on September 26, 2026, at age 88. He led the university as its 13th president…
Maksim Ovodenko, died aged 96
Maksim Ovodenko, a Russian metallurgist and aeronautical scientist and member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, died on September 26, 2026, aged 96. Born in Cherkasy on August 11, 1930,…
Peter Barrett dead at age 86
Peter Barrett, the New Zealand geologist known for the discovery of the first tetrapod fossils in Antarctica, died on September 26, 2026, aged 86. Born in Hamilton on August 11,…
Remo Calzona passes away at age 87
Remo Calzona, an Italian civil engineer and university teacher, died on September 25, 2026, aged 87. Born in Catanzaro on January 19, 1939, he graduated in civil engineering from Sapienza…
Ryszard Lenczewski dies at age 78
Ryszard Lenczewski, a Polish cinematographer, died on September 25, 2026, aged 78. Born in Miłków in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, he began working in film in 1973 after studying at the…
Roger Tarpy death at age 84
Roger Tarpy, an American psychologist, died September 25, 2026, aged 84. Tags Scientists, 25 September 2026, America, Capricorn, Roger, Tarpy, September 2026, September 25
Richard Mulcahey dies at 91
Richard Mulcahey, an American politician and educator who served in the Illinois House of Representatives, died on September 24, 2026, aged 91. A Democrat, he represented the chamber from 1975…
Death of John J. McCusker at age 87
John J. McCusker, an American economist and economic historian, died on September 24, 2026, aged 87. A native of upstate New York, he did graduate work at the University of…
Death of Yehuda Atlas at age 89
Yehuda Atlas, the Israeli writer, poet and translator, died on September 24, 2026, aged 89. Born on February 12, 1937, in Ein Iron, he built a career that began in…
J. Richard Wuest died at age 88
J. Richard Wuest, an American pharmacist and professor at the University of Cincinnati, died on September 24, 2026, aged 88. He joined the university’s James L. Winkel College of Pharmacy…
Dee Brock obituary: died at age 96
Dee Brock, the American cheerleading director who founded and became the first director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, died on September 23, 2026, aged 96. Brock was hired by Tex…
Vyacheslav Dolgov died at age 89
Vyacheslav Dolgov, a Russian diplomat and professor, died on September 23, 2026, aged 89. Born Vyacheslav Ivanovich Dolgov in Moscow on July 31, 1937, he graduated from the Moscow State…
Obituary: Soorya Krishnamoorthy, dead at age 78
Soorya Krishnamoorthy, the Indian artist and philanthropist who founded the Soorya Festival, died on September 23, 2026, aged 78. Also known as Nataraja Krishnamoorthy, he was associated with the Soorya…
Edward Rogalski obituary: died at age 84
Edward Rogalski, the American academic administrator who served as president of St. Ambrose University from 1987 to 2007, died on September 23, 2026, aged 84. He was the 12th president…
Cyril Hilsum has died at age 101
Cyril Hilsum, a British physicist and academic known for his work in liquid-crystal science and technology, died on September 23, 2026, aged 101. He was elected to the National Academy…
Death of Barry Luokkala at age 72
Barry Luokkala, an American physicist and longtime Carnegie Mellon University faculty member, died on September 23, 2026, aged 72. He spent his entire career at Carnegie Mellon, joining the university…
Harry Haines passes away at age 87
Harry Allen Haines, an American lawyer and judge who served on the United States Tax Court, died September 22, 2026, aged 87. Born in Missoula, Montana, to Jack and Millie…
Harry Haines passes away at age 87
Harry Haines, an American judge of the United States Tax Court, died September 22, 2026, aged 87. Born Harry Allen Haines in Missoula, Montana, on May 30, 1939, he built…
Lucien Lazare died at age 101
Lucien Lazare, the French-Israeli history teacher and French Resistance fighter, died on September 22, 2026, aged 101. Born in Strasbourg on November 24, 1924, he studied at the University of…
Bernard Brizay died at age 85
Bernard Brizay, a French historian and academic, died on September 22, 2026, aged 85. Born in August 1941 in Mont-Saint-Aignan, he studied history and earned a master’s degree in history…
Tsuneko Okazaki passes away at age 93
Tsuneko Okazaki, the Japanese molecular biologist known for her work on DNA replication, died of gastrointestinal bleeding on September 22, 2026, aged 93. Born in Nagoya in 1933, she studied…
Kenneth Lane dead at age 84
Kenneth Lane, an American theoretical particle physicist and professor of physics at Boston University, died September 22, 2026, aged 84. His research focused on electroweak and flavor symmetry breaking, and…
Dadeus Grings, died aged 90
Dadeus Grings, a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of São João da Boa Vista and archbishop of Porto Alegre, died on September 21, 2026, aged 90. Born…
Jochen Fahrenberg dies at 89
Jochen Fahrenberg, a German psychologist whose work spanned personality research, psychophysiology and the philosophy of science, died on September 21, 2026, aged 89. Born in Berlin on September 18, 1937,…
Burhan Ozfatura died at age 83
Burhan Ozfatura, the Turkish mayor, politician and columnist, died on September 21, 2026, at the age of 83 after cardiac arrest. A native of Mustafakemalpaşa, he was born on June…
JJ Pionke passes away at age 47
JJ Pionke, an American librarian and disability advocate, died September 21, 2026, aged 47. He also worked as a professor and library and information studies educator. Born in Chicago in…
Jean-Paul Desprat obituary: died at age 79
Jean-Paul Desprat, the French writer and historian, died on September 21, 2026, aged 79. Born in Drancy, France, on June 13, 1947, he became a specialist in the 17th and…
Andrew Strathern died at age 87
Andrew Strathern, the British anthropologist known for his work on "Ongka's Big Moka," died on September 21, 2026, aged 87. Also known as Andrew Jamieson Strathern, Andrew J. Strathern and…
André Bon obituary: died at age 80
André Bon, a French composer, died on September 20, 2026, aged 80. Born in Lille on August 17, 1946, he studied music and composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de…
Michael James Gaffey obituary: died at age 80
Michael James Gaffey, an American planetary scientist who specialized in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra, died on September 20, 2026, aged 80. Born on December 1,…
Death of Nico Perrone at age 91
Nico Perrone, an Italian journalist, historian and writer, died on September 19, 2026, aged 91. Born Nicola Carlo Perrone in Bari on April 27, 1935, he became known for his…
Arthur Asa Berger passes away at age 93
Arthur Asa Berger, an American author and academic who taught media studies for years at San Francisco State University, died on September 19, 2026, aged 93. Born in Boston on…
Richard Giragosian, died aged 61
Richard Giragosian, an Armenian-American academic and political scientist, died on September 19, 2026, aged 61. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, on January 8, 1965, he became known as a contributing…
Tim Read dies at age 64
Tim Read, an Australian politician and former general practitioner and medical researcher, died on September 19, 2026, aged 64. He represented the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Brunswick from November…
Frank Pieter Israel passed away at age 79
Frank Pieter Israel, a Dutch astronomer, died on September 18, 2026, aged 79. Born in Delft on December 31, 1946, he earned his PhD in astronomy at Leiden Observatory in…
Albert S. Axelrad died at age 87
Albert S. Axelrad, an American rabbi and author, died on September 18, 2026, aged 87. A Reform rabbi, educator and community leader, he helped foster the American Jewish counterculture of…
Zimani Kadzamira passed away at age 85
Zimani Kadzamira, the Malawian academic, civil servant and diplomat, died on September 18, 2026, aged 85. Also known as Zimani David Kadzamira, he was born in Harare in July 1941…
Karal Ann Marling dead at age 82
Karal Ann Marling, an American historian and writer, died on September 18, 2026, at age 82. A professor emerita at the University of Minnesota, she was an American studies scholar…
Oscar Wambrauw dies at age 57
Oscar Wambrauw, an Indonesian academic and professor of economics at Cenderawasih University, died on September 17, 2026, aged 57. He had served as the university’s rector from 2022 until his…