a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and sociologist, died on April 8, 2026, at the age of 74. Born in Uccle on October 30, 1951, he was ordained a priest in 1982 and served at the Paroisse de Blocry in Louvain-la-Neuve.… · 08 April 2026 · April 2026
a Russian politician, died on April 8, 2026, at the age of 83. Born on July 24, 1942, in Shekpeer, in the Tuvan People's Republic, he was a retired politician who led Tuva for 21 years, from 1986 to 2007.… · 08 April 2026 · April 2026
Norwegian politician and minister of trade and shipping from 1990 to 1991, died on April 8, 2026, at the age of 83. A member of the Labour Party, she was born in Skien and served as personal secretary to the… · 08 April 2026 · April 2026
the French educational sociologist, died on April 8, 2026, aged 87 or 88. Born in 1938, he was a scholar of the sociology of education and an emeritus professor at the University of Provence. A student of Louis Althusser, he… · 08 April 2026 · April 2026
a British teacher and historian, died on April 7, 2026, aged 86. Born Averil Millicent Sutton in Leek, Staffordshire, on February 8, 1940, she was the only child of Tom Roy Sutton and Millicent Sutton. She read literae humaniores at… · 07 April 2026 · April 2026
an Uzbek politician and economist who served as minister of economy from 2005 to 2006, died on April 7, 2026, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, at the age of 75. Born in Tashkent on March 30, 1951, he held the post of… · 07 April 2026 · April 2026
2026. He was a Turkish socialist writer, economist and historian. Küçük was known for his work across writing, economics and history, and his death was noted on that date · 06 April 2026 · April 2026 · April 6
Argentine military officer, academic and historian, died on April 6, 2026, at the age of 86. Born in Rosario on December 1, 1939, he served in the Argentine Navy, reaching the rank of Comodoro. He was an academic and later… · 06 April 2026 · April 2026
a Togolese inventor and researcher, died on April 5, 2026. Born in Togo, he worked in information and communications technology and studied at the Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology and the École nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort. During his… · 05 April 2026 · April 2026
an Australian-born scholar of German literature, died on April 5, 2026, at age 93 in Tübingen, Germany. Born in Sydney on December 20, 1932, he earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Sydney in 1953 and received his doctorate… · 05 April 2026 · April 2026
a Togolese inventor and researcher, died on April 5, 2026. Born in Togo, he worked in information and communications technology and studied at the Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology and the École nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort. During his… · 05 April 2026 · April 2026
an American architect, died on April 5, 2026, at age 90. He was the Eva Li Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley, and a co-designer of Sea Ranch, California. Born on January 7,… · 05 April 2026 · April 2026
an American judge and justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, died on April 4, 2026, at age 66 from complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Wilson was born in Smith Center, Kansas, on December 6, 1959. She graduated from Bethany College… · 04 April 2026 · April 2026
2026. He was an Italian philologist and historian of literature. No further details about his death were provided · 04 April 2026 · April 2026 · April 4
2026. He was an Italian historian and writer · 04 April 2026 · April 2026 · April 4
an American chemist and activist, died on April 4, 2026 · 04 April 2026 · April 2026
an American editor and academic, died on April 4, 2026, at the age of 93. He was Professor Emeritus of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and served on the university press’s editorial board. Keyishian directed Fairleigh Dickinson University Press from… · 04 April 2026 · April 2026
an Argentine statistician, died on April 3, 2026, at age 91. Born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1935, she was an Argentine and Canadian economist and statistician and a professor chiara fama of statistical sciences at the University of Bologna. Dagum… · 03 April 2026 · April 2026
an American geologist and seismologist, died on April 2, 2026, at the age of 97. His research focused on subduction, tsunami, and the geology of Alaska. After prolonged study of the 1964 Alaska earthquake, he concluded that the largest earthquakes… · 02 April 2026 · April 2026
a German-American academic, literary scholar, poet, and educator, died on April 2, 2026. He was 96. Born in Munich, Germany, on August 4, 1929, he emigrated to the United States with his family in 1936. Neumeyer earned degrees from the… · 02 April 2026 · April 2026
an Israeli historian, died on April 2, 2026 · 02 April 2026 · April 2026
an American biologist and academic, died on April 2, 2026, at age 84. He was Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University and had been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Zar earned a BS… · 02 April 2026 · April 2026
2026. He was a Swedish historian and author · 02 April 2026 · April 2026 · April 2
2026. He was a French linguist, historian, and academic. His work in those fields formed the basis of his professional life · 02 April 2026 · April 2026 · April 2
a Saudi academic and civil servant and member of the Shura Council of Saudi Arabia from 1994 to 1998, died on April 2, 2026. Born in Medina in 1936, he earned a bachelor’s degree in science, majoring in chemistry and… · 02 April 2026 · April 2026
a Hungarian astronomer, died on April 2, 2026, at the age of 89. She was also a space researcher and planetologist, and served as an emerita researcher at the Konkoly Thege Miklós Astronomical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.… · 02 April 2026 · April 2026
an Indian Catholic priest and composer, died on April 2, 2026, at the age of 90. Also known as Fr. Justin, he was a priest of the Discalced Carmelite congregation and worked as a music composer, writer, theologian and lyricist.… · 02 April 2026 · April 2026 · Manjummel · Leo
a Canadian literary historian and academic, died on April 1, 2026, in Sherbrooke, Quebec. He was 80. Born in Montreal on May 12, 1945, Michon was a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke, where he co-founded the Groupe de recherches… · 01 April 2026 · April 2026
2026. He was an Italian civil servant and economist. No further details were provided about his life or career · 01 April 2026 · April 2026 · April 1
a Swiss biologist, died on April 1, 2026, at the age of 82. He was a structural biologist and co-founder of the Maurice E. Müller Institute for Structural Biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. Born in Bern… · 01 April 2026 · April 2026 · Andreas,
the British classical scholar known especially for her work on the metres of ancient Greek poetry, died on April 1, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in England in 1933 and published under her maiden name, Laetitia Parvin Erna… · 01 April 2026 · April 2026
the Canadian politician and diplomat who served as an Ontario MPP from 1963 to 1978, died on March 31, 2026, of cancer. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1963 and led the Ontario New Democratic Party… · 31 March 2026 · March 2026
an American academic administrator and president of the University of the Pacific from 1995 to 2009, died on March 31, 2026. He was the 23rd president of the university and was named President Emeritus by the Board of Regents in… · 31 March 2026 · March 2026
a Mexican astrophysicist and professor and researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), died on March 30, 2026. Born in Monterrey on October 9, 1945, Dultzin Kessler, also published as Deborah Dultzin-Hacyan, specialized… · 30 March 2026 · March 2026
an American philosopher, died on March 30, 2026, at age 90. He was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Research Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Earlier, he served as Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.… · 30 March 2026 · March 2026
an American sculptor, died on March 30, 2026, at age 88. Melvin Eugene Edwards Jr. was an American abstract sculptor, printmaker, and arts educator. Raised in segregated communities in Texas and an integrated community in Ohio, he moved to California… · 30 March 2026 · March 2026
a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educator, died on March 30, 2026. He served as Director-General of Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya, also known as Patiya Madrasa, from February 2024, and became chairman of Anjuman-e-Ittihadul Madaris Bangladesh in October 2025. He… · 30 March 2026 · March 2026
a Sri Lankan nephrologist and physician, died on March 30, 2026. He was an academic who served as director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, senior professor of medicine, and head of the Department of Clinical Medicine at the Faculty… · 30 March 2026 · March 2026
an American politician and educator who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives, died on March 30, 2026. She represented District 10, covering Webster Parish and Minden, from 1998 to 2012. Doerge also served as director of the Germantown Colony… · 30 March 2026 · March 2026
a British historian and museum administrator, died on March 29, 2026, aged 87. Born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, on January 15, 1939, he studied at the University of Liverpool. He was the first director of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust from… · England · 29 March 2026 · March 2026
a Norwegian political scientist, died on March 29, 2026. Born in Oslo on February 11, 1931, he first studied the history of ideas and graduated with the mag.art. degree in 1959. He was among the proponents of the Norwegian Institute…
a Hungarian linguist, teacher and poet, died on March 29, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Budapest on February 15, 1947, he taught linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University from 1972 to 2018 and… · 29 March 2026 · March 2026 · Adam
an Indonesian diplomat and politician who served as ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2003 to 2004 and as minister of education and twice as minister of defense, died on March 28, 2026. He was 84. Born on March 5,… · 28 March 2026 · March 2026
an American computer scientist and professor of statistics and computer science at Purdue University, died on March 27, 2026, at age 83. Known for his work on data visualization, including nonparametric regression, local regression and the dot plot, he was… · 27 March 2026 · March 2026
the Taiwanese-American forensic scientist and biochemist known for his work in the killing of JonBenét Ramsey, the murder trial of O. J. Simpson and the 9/11 forensic investigation, died on March 27, 2026, in Henderson, Nevada, at age 87. Henry… · China · 27 March 2026 · March 2026
an American academic administrator and former president of Monmouth University, died on March 26, 2026, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, at age 72. He served as the ninth president of Monmouth University in West Long Branch from 2017 to 2019,… · Traffic Collision · 26 March 2026 · March 2026
the French philosopher and writer known for his work on horseshoe theory, died on March 26, 2026. He was 100. Born in Paris on July 19, 1925, Faye wrote fiction and prose poetry. He was a member of the editing… · 26 March 2026 · March 2026
an American military historian, died on March 26, 2026, at age 83. He was a professor at George Washington University and also taught at the University of Alabama. Spector enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in the… · 26 March 2026 · March 2026 · Cancer
the German author, film director, academic and founder of a television production company, died on March 25, 2026, at the age of 94. Born in Halberstadt in 1932, he studied with Theodor W. Adorno in Frankfurt and later worked as… · 25 March 2026 · March 2026
a Norwegian literary critic, died on March 25, 2026. She was also a biographer, professor of educational science and novelist, and was particularly engaged in culture and literature for children. Born in Oslo on March 25, 1927, she wrote biographical… · 25 March 2026 · March 2026
a Russian herpetologist, died on March 25, 2026, at age 73. He was a Soviet and Russian researcher of Southeast Asian herpetofauna, particularly that of northern Annam. Born on June 12, 1952, in Cherkasy, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, he worked… · 25 March 2026 · March 2026
an Indian historian, died on March 25, 2026. He was an authority on Maratha and Kolhapur history and worked for more than three decades as a professor. Born on December 30, 1941, in Tadsargaon village in Pune district, Maharashtra, he… · 25 March 2026 · March 2026
an English surgeon, died on March 25, 2026, aged 100. Born in Stepney Green on January 13, 1926, he was a professor of surgery at the University of London and professor in the Department of Anatomy and Human Sciences at… · Britain · 25 March 2026 · March 2026
an American politician and former Maryland state senator, died on March 25, 2026, at age 85. A Democrat, she represented Maryland’s 11th district in the state Senate from 1987 to 2007 after serving in the Maryland House of Delegates from… · 25 March 2026 · March 2026 · Leukemia
a Polish historian, died on March 24, 2026. Born in Wołomin on September 4, 1928, he completed an undergraduate degree in history at the Catholic University of Lublin in 1954. He earned a PhD from the University of Warsaw in… · 24 March 2026 · March 2026
the Canadian primatologist, conservationist and author known for her work with orangutans and as founder of the Orangutan Foundation International, died on March 24, 2026. She was 79. Galdikas, a professor at Simon Fraser University, was recognized as a leading… · 24 March 2026 · Lung Cancer · March 2026 · Birutė
a British academic and professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham, died on March 24, 2026, aged 79. Born in Wimbledon, London, he attended Wimbledon College before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from the… · 24 March 2026 · March 2026
the American writer whose nonfiction books included The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains, died March 24, 2026, of lung cancer. He was 80. Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize for The Soul of a New Machine in… · 24 March 2026 · March 2026
the Australian television presenter and psychologist best known for appearing as one of the dating experts on Married at First Sight, died on March 24, 2026, at the age of 53. Schilling, born Melanie Jane Schilling in Melbourne on April… · 24 March 2026 · March 2026 · Cancer
a Portuguese banker, died on March 24, 2026. He was a Portuguese economist and banker who earned a degree in Sciences Economiques Appliqués from the Institute of Business Administration of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, graduating with honors.… · 24 March 2026 · March 2026
a Ukrainian academic and mining engineer, died on March 24, 2026. He was born on October 8, 1936, in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, then in the Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. Fedorenko received the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and… · 24 March 2026 · March 2026
an American scientist and author, died on March 24, 2026. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on October 15, 1928, he was known for research, teaching, and writing in physical inorganic chemistry, as well as for his work as a university… · 24 March 2026 · March 2026
an Israeli psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, died on March 23, 2026. She served as director of the university’s Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety and was recognized as an authority on… · 23 March 2026 · March 2026
an American historian and educator, died on March 23, 2026, at age 93. He was a professor at California State University, Northridge, and a scholar of Chicano studies. Acuña wrote the 1972 book "Occupied America: A History of Chicanos," a… · Mexico · 23 March 2026 · March 2026
a Swiss geographer and academic, died on March 23, 2026, at the age of 85. Born in Neuchâtel on April 29, 1940, he was a professor of geography at the Institute of Geography in the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment… · 23 March 2026 · March 2026
an American art historian and philanthropist, died on March 23, 2026. Born on October 13, 1936, in Ivanka pri Dunaji, Czechoslovakia, she worked with museums and arts institutions in both Czechoslovakia and the United States. She was associated with the… · 23 March 2026 · March 2026
a Chilean historian and anthropologist, died on March 23, 2026, at the age of 81. Known in Chile for his study of Mapuche history and society, he was dismissed from his work at the University of Chile after the 1973… · 23 March 2026 · March 2026
a Spanish economist and politician who served as deputy from 2003 to 2004 and as ambassador to the OECD from 2018 to 2024, died on March 23, 2026. Born in San Sebastián on March 29, 1946, he studied business sciences… · 23 March 2026 · March 2026
an Iranian academic and associate professor of control engineering at the Iran University of Science and Technology, died on March 23, 2026, in an airstrike at his private residence in North Tehran. He was an expert on military missiles. During… · 23 March 2026 · March 2026
a Chinese materials scientist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, died on March 23, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Laoting County, Hebei, on December 20, 1936, she graduated from the Department of Radio Electronic Engineering… · 23 March 2026 · March 2026
an American academic, died on March 22, 2026. He was professor of Catholic Thought and Interreligious Dialogue at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he taught from 1966 to 2022. Swidler co-founded the Journal of Ecumenical Studies with Arlene Swidler in… · 22 March 2026 · March 2026
Welsh writer, broadcaster and historian, died on March 22, 2026. Born in Barry, Wales, in 1943, he attended grammar schools in Barry and Gowerton and studied history at Swansea University under Prof Glanmor Williams. He later served as a visiting… · 22 March 2026 · March 2026
an American football player who played guard for the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles, died on March 22, 2026, at age 86. Born Edward Homer Blaine in Farmington, Missouri, on January 30, 1940, he played college football for the… · 22 March 2026 · March 2026
an Australian linguist and academic, died on March 22, 2026, at the age of 84. Andrew Kenneth Pawley was an Australian–New Zealand linguist who served as a professor at the Australian National University. Born in Sydney on March 31, 1941,… · 22 March 2026 · March 2026
an American writer, journalist and academic who was professor of American Studies at Rutgers University, died on March 22, 2026. Born in The Bronx, New York City, on July 14, 1935, he attended Hunter College and later served in the… · 22 March 2026 · March 2026
an American chemical engineer, died on March 21, 2026, at age 98. Born in Moscow, Idaho, on November 9, 1927, he attended the University of Idaho, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University, where he received a PhD in… · 21 March 2026 · March 2026
an Indonesian Islamic scholar and politician, died on March 21, 2026, at the age of 86. Born on July 2, 1939, in Sidenreng Rappang Regency, he was a member of Golkar and served in the House of Representatives of Indonesia… · 21 March 2026 · March 2026
an Italian linguist and classicist, died on March 21, 2026. He was Chair of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Bologna, where he was appointed in 1973. From 1982 to 2000, he headed the Department of Classical and… · 21 March 2026 · March 2026
a Sri Lankan Jesuit priest and theologian, died on March 21, 2026. He was born in Ampitiya, British Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka, on April 9, 1934, and studied at St. Aloysius' College, Galle. He took his Jesuit vows in 1953… · 21 March 2026 · March 2026
an American immunologist and academic administrator who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and served as chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco from 1998 to 2009, died on March 20, 2026. He was 90. Bishop… · 20 March 2026 · March 2026 · Pneumonia
a French physicist who specialised in gravitational wave detectors, died on March 20, 2026. Born on March 30, 1947, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, he graduated from ESPCI Paris in 1970 and later worked for the CNRS in Orsay during his doctoral… · 20 March 2026 · March 2026
an Azerbaijani scientist, died on March 20, 2026. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, on February 5, 1950, she was the author of roughly 100 scientific, literary and methodological articles published in Azerbaijan and abroad. Her notable publications included "The Secret… · 20 March 2026 · March 2026 · Lála
an American politician and educator who served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1975 to 1980, died on March 20, 2026. He was a Democrat and lived in Oklee, Red Lake County, Minnesota, with his wife and family. Corbid… · 20 March 2026 · March 2026
an American medical researcher and educator, died on March 19, 2026. Sutnick was also an administrator and the author of more than 200 scholarly publications. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1950 and… · 19 March 2026 · March 2026
a Bangladeshi academic administrator and banker who served as vice-chancellor of the University of Chittagong from 2011 to 2015 and of International Islamic University Chittagong from 2021 to 2024, died on March 19, 2026, at the age of 74. Born… · 19 March 2026 · March 2026
an Italian academic and biochemist, died on March 19, 2026. Born in Rome on May 30, 1941, he served as president of the University of Rome Tor Vergata from 1996 to 2008. Finazzi Agrò died in Rome at the age… · 19 March 2026 · March 2026 · Agro
a Russian economist, died on March 19, 2026, at the age of 94. Khamid Nurislamovich Gizatullin was a Russian Bashkir economist and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He received the Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th… · 19 March 2026 · March 2026
a South African diplomat and lawyer who served as the United Nations Secretary-General’s special representative and head of the UN Mission in South Sudan, died on March 19, 2026, in New York City, at the age of 73. Haysom, also… · 19 March 2026 · March 2026
an American scientist and academic and 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner, died on March 18, 2026. Born George Harry Goble on December 11, 1952, he was a staff member at the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network. He was commonly known… · 18 March 2026 · March 2026
a Japanese mathematician and 1970 Fields Medal winner, died on March 18, 2026, at age 94. Born in Yamaguchi, Japan, on April 9, 1931, he was recognized for his contributions to algebraic geometry. Hironaka is also associated with Hironaka's example… · 18 March 2026 · March 2026
a Norwegian philologist, died on March 18, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Oslo on March 6, 1936, he was a professor at the University of Trondheim from 1971 to 1975 and at the University of Oslo from… · 18 March 2026 · March 2026
a Hungarian biologist, died on March 17, 2026, at the age of 83. Born in Szeged, Hungary, on November 18, 1942, he was a recipient of the Széchenyi Prize in 2007 · 17 March 2026 · March 2026 · Galle
Iranian politician and twice secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, died on March 17, 2026, in Tehran, Iran, at the age of 67 after being assassinated. He served as speaker of the Parliament from 2008 to 2020 and as… · 17 March 2026 · March 2026