Obituary: Patricia Donlon, dead at age 83
Patricia Donlon, the Irish librarian and academic who served as director of the National Library of Ireland, died on July 23, 2026, at the age of 83. Known as Pat…
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Bill McGlaughlin died at age 82
Bill McGlaughlin, the American composer and radio host who led the public radio programs Exploring Music and Saint Paul Sunday, died on July 22, 2026. He was 82. Born William…
John Sheffield dead at age 89
John Sheffield, a British physicist, died on July 22, 2026, aged 89. Born in London on December 15, 1936, he studied at Imperial College London, where he earned a BSc…
Gordon G. Gallup death at age 85
Gordon G. Gallup, an American psychologist known for his research in biopsychology, died on July 22, 2026, aged 85. He was a professor in the University at Albany’s psychology department…
David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, died aged 96
David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, a British aristocrat and pottery designer, died on July 22, 2026, at the age of 96. Born David Harrington Angus Douglas in London on…
Obituary: Josep Vallverdú, dead at age 103
Josep Vallverdú, the Catalan writer and linguist, died on July 21, 2026, at the age of 103. Born in Lleida on July 9, 1923, he became known as a poet,…
R. W. Johnson passes away at age 82
R. W. Johnson, the English-born South African historian and academic, died on July 21, 2026, aged 82. Born Richard William Johnson in England in September 1943, he studied at Natal…
Jean-Marc Sylvestre dead at age 79
Jean-Marc Sylvestre, the French journalist known for his long career in economics reporting on TF1, i>Télé and RT France, died on July 21, 2026, at the age of 79. Born…
Edgar C. Otálvora died at age 66
Edgar C. Otálvora, the Venezuelan journalist, writer and historian, died on July 21, 2026. Born Edgar Omar Contreras Otálvora on September 6, 1959, in Tovar, he built a career as…
John C. Dvorak dies at 80
John C. Dvorak, an American tech writer and broadcaster, died on July 20, 2026, at age 80. He wrote about technology and personal computing for decades, serving as a columnist…
Roy Jackson dies at 94
Roy Jackson, a British chemical engineer, died on July 20, 2026, aged 94. Born in Manchester on October 6, 1931, he attended Bolton School before his studies were interrupted by…
Tim Murphy, died aged 73
Tim Murphy, the American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Pennsylvania Senate, died on July 19, 2026. He was 73. Murphy represented Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional…
Richard Heinberg passes away at age 75
Richard Heinberg, a writer and educator whose work examined energy, economic and ecological issues, died on July 19, 2026, aged 75. He was known for writing extensively about oil depletion…
Esmaeil Yaghmaei, died aged 84
Esmaeil Yaghmaei, an Iranian archaeologist and writer, died on July 19, 2026. Born in Tehran in 1941, he studied at the University of Tehran and went on to lead numerous…
Venceslas Kruta, died aged 86
Venceslas Kruta, a French archaeologist and historian, died on July 19, 2026. Born in Saumur on November 4, 1939, he specialized in the protohistory of Europe and the commercial and…
Gregory Karotemprel obituary: died at age 93
Gregory Karotemprel, an Indian East Syriac Catholic bishop and bishop emeritus of Rajkot, died on July 19, 2026, at the age of 93. Known in church life as Mar Gregory…
Jaroslav Zvěřina dies at 83
Jaroslav Zvěřina, a Czech politician and former member of the European Parliament, died on July 19, 2026, at the age of 83. Born in Třebíč on December 18, 1942, he…
Christine Borland has died at age 61
Christine Borland, the British sculptrix and Scottish artist, died on July 19, 2026, at the age of 61. Born in Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1965, she became associated with the…
Sidney H. Griffith passes away at age 87
Sidney H. Griffith, an American academic and professor of Early Christian Studies at the Catholic University of America, died on July 19, 2026. Born on January 1, 1938, Griffith spent…
Joseph Algazy, died aged 87
Joseph Algazy, the Israeli historian and journalist who wrote for Haaretz and Le Monde diplomatique, died on July 18, 2026. Born in Alexandria on September 11, 1938, he studied and…
Heinz Dieterich passes away at age 82
Heinz Dieterich, the German sociologist and political analyst, died on July 18, 2026, aged 82. Residing in Mexico, he was known for his left-wing outlook and for work that ranged…
Stanisław Gomułka dies at age 85
Stanisław Gomułka, a Polish economist and academic, died on July 18, 2026. Born on September 10, 1940, in Krężoły in what is now the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, he studied at the…
Death of Alexandria Holloway at age 79
Alexandria Holloway, the founding dean of the Honors College at Miami Dade College and a longtime music educator and academic administrator, died on July 18, 2026, aged 79. Holloway spent…
Robert Wiremu died at age 55
Robert Wiremu, a New Zealand composer and baritone singer, died on July 18, 2026, aged 55. Also known as Robert Spencer Wiremu, he was a music educator and choral director…
Arvi Altmäe dies at age 83
Arvi Altmäe, an Estonian architect and academic, died on July 17, 2026. Born on July 22, 1942, in Estonia, he built a career that combined architecture, teaching and academic administration.…
William Gehrlein obituary: died at age 80
William Gehrlein, an American academic and researcher known for work in social choice theory, decision theory and graph theory, died on July 17, 2026. Born July 1, 1946, Gehrlein earned…
Ronald Trubuhovich dead at age 97
Ronald Trubuhovich, a New Zealand medical doctor and pioneer of critical care medicine in New Zealand, died on July 16, 2026, aged 97. Known as Ronald Valentine Trubuhovich, he was…
Eberhard Gill, died aged 65
Eberhard Gill, a German researcher and space systems engineer known for work in GNSS technology and tracking, space system engineering, multi-satellite systems and systems engineering, died on July 16, 2026,…
Rudolph A. Marcus dead at age 102
Rudolph A. Marcus, the Canadian-born American chemist who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on electron transfer reactions, died on July 16, 2026. He was 102.…
Elza Berquó dies at 100
Elza Berquó, a Brazilian mathematician and statistician whose work also extended into research, died on July 16, 2026. Born on October 17, 1925, in Guaxupé, she studied mathematics at the…
Lattie F. Coor, died aged 89
Lattie F. Coor, an American university administrator and professor of public policy who led the University of Vermont and Arizona State University, died on July 16, 2026. Born in Phoenix…
Norman Ravitch passed away at age 89
Norman Ravitch, an American historian and professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside, died on July 16, 2026. Born on January 1, 1936, he spent part of…
Lutz von Padberg has died at age 76
Lutz von Padberg, a German historian whose work focused on medieval history and the Christianization of the Germanic peoples, died on July 16, 2026. Born in Essen on February 22,…
Chiang C. Mei dead at age 91
Chiang C. Mei, an American physicist and fluid dynamicist whose work influenced civil, environmental and coastal engineering, died on July 16, 2026. Born in Wuhan on April 4, 1935, Mei,…
Denise Oliver-Velez dies at 78
Denise Oliver-Velez, an American activist and community organizer, died on July 15, 2026. She was 78. Born Denise Roberts Oliver on August 1, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York, she became…
Randolph Thummel died at age 80
Randolph Thummel, an American chemist, died on July 15, 2026, aged 80. He was known for work in organic and inorganic chemistry and taught at the University of Houston, where…
Piotr Oczko dies at age 53
Piotr Oczko, a Polish scholar of English and Dutch studies, literature and art historian, and translator, died on July 15, 2026. Born in Kraków on January 1, 1973, he studied…
John Esposito dies at age 86
John Esposito, the American academic and scholar of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, died on July 15, 2026. Born John Louis Esposito on May 19, 1940, in Brooklyn, he taught…
Richard J. Estes passed away at age 85
Richard J. Estes, an American academic and professor emeritus of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, died on July 15, 2026, at the age…
Ihor Losiev died at age 71
Ihor Losiev, a Ukrainian political scientist and publicist, died on July 15, 2026. Born in Sevastopol on March 10, 1955, he became known as a columnist, journalist, and scholar of…
Ackbar Abbas dead at age 84
Ackbar Abbas, a Hong Kong literary scholar and professor of comparative literature, died on July 15, 2026. Born in Kennedy Town in 1942, he taught at the University of California,…
Elena Baranová, died aged 80
Elena Baranová, a Slovak linguist and philologist, died on July 14, 2026. Born on October 12, 1945, in Martin, then part of Czechoslovakia, she focused much of her scholarly work…
Hans Michael Maitzen, died aged 83
Hans Michael Maitzen, an Austrian astronomer, died on July 14, 2026, at the age of 83. Born in Graz on March 28, 1943, he studied astronomy, mathematics and physics at…
Márton Flander, died aged 41
Márton Flander, a Hungarian triathlete and economist, died on July 14, 2026. Born in Baja on March 5, 1985, he began competing in triathlon in 2002 and went on to…
Harry Swinney obituary: died at age 87
Harry Swinney, the American physicist known for work in pattern formation and fluid dynamics experiments, died on July 13, 2026. Born in Opelousas, Louisiana, on April 10, 1939, he was…
Hervé Hasquin passes away at age 83
Hervé Hasquin, a Belgian historian, university professor and politician, died on July 13, 2026, at the age of 83. Born in Charleroi on December 31, 1942, he taught at the…
Jo Wan-kyu passed away at age 98
Jo Wan-kyu, a South Korean politician who served as minister of education from 1992 to 1993, died on July 13, 2026, at the age of 98. Born on February 11,…
Death of Barry Dickins at age 76
Barry Dickins, an Australian author, artist, actor, educator and journalist, died on July 13, 2026, aged 76. Born in Reservoir in Melbourne, he became known for historical dramas and for…
Michael Stürmer dead at age 87
Michael Stürmer, the German historian known for his work on the history of the German Empire and his role in the Historikerstreit of the 1980s, died on July 13, 2026.…
Death of Mary Morello at age 102
Mary Morello died on July 12, 2026, at the age of 102. An American activist and founder of Parents for Rock and Rap, she was also known as the mother…
Obituary: Gita Upadhyay, dead at age 87
Gita Upadhyay, an Indian writer and translator from Assam, died on July 12, 2026, at the age of 87. Born on February 14, 1939, in Gangmouthan in what is now…
Kent Carpenter, died aged 73
Kent Carpenter, an American marine biologist who spent much of his career based in the Philippines, died on July 12, 2026. Born on January 20, 1953, he earned a bachelor’s…
Kent E. Carpenter has died at age 73
Kent E. Carpenter, an American marine biologist and professor of biological sciences at Old Dominion University, died on July 12, 2026. He was a researcher in marine biology and ichthyology…
Rui Resende dead at age 88
Rui Resende, the Brazilian actor known for work in film and television, died on July 12, 2026. Born José Pereira Rezende Filho in Araguari in 1937, he began his career…
Rui Rezende dies at age 88
Rui Rezende, the Brazilian actor known for roles in "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" and "Roque Santeiro," died on July 12, 2026. He was 88. Born José Pereira Rezende…
Susumu Tonegawa died at age 86
Susumu Tonegawa, the Japanese biologist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering V(D)J recombination, died on July 11, 2026. Born in Nagoya on September 5,…
Gunter Stein dies at 84
Gunter Stein, a German-American electrical engineer, died on July 11, 2026. Born on July 16, 1941, in Bordesholm, Germany, he emigrated to the United States with his family in 1954.…
Yahiya Emerick has died at age 55
Yahiya Emerick, an American author and scholar, died on July 11, 2026. Born John Joseph Emerick, he became known as a prolific American Muslim writer and educator whose work focused…
Đorđe Kadijević passed away at age 93
Đorđe Kadijević died on July 10, 2026, at age 93. He was a Serbian film director, screenwriter and art critic. Born in Šibenik on January 6, 1933, Kadijević also worked…
Obituary: Mark B. Wise, dead at age 72
Mark B. Wise, the Canadian-American theoretical physicist whose work helped shape heavy quark effective theory, died on July 10, 2026. Born on November 9, 1953, he conducted research in elementary…
Obituary: Eva Røine, dead at age 97
Eva Røine, the Norwegian psychologist, actress, author and former beauty pageant titleholder, died on July 10, 2026. Born in Mysen on December 11, 1928, she was first known in younger…
Obituary: José Bada Panillo, dead at age 97
José Bada Panillo died on July 9, 2026. He was a Spanish politician who served as minister of culture and education of Aragon from 1983 to 1987. Tags Politicians, Scientists,…
Olev Raju dead at age 78
Olev Raju died on July 9, 2026. He was an Estonian politician and economist who served as a member of parliament from 1995 to 2003. Born in Tartu on January…
Obituary: Robert E. Cohen, dead at age 79
Robert E. Cohen, an American chemical engineer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died on July 9, 2026, aged 79, of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was known…
Obituary: Kathy Muehlemann, dead at age 76
Kathy Muehlemann, an American abstract painter and professor of art, died on July 9, 2026, at age 76. Born in Austin in 1950, she earned a B.F.A. from Empire State…
Assaf Razin, died aged 85
Assaf Razin died on July 8, 2026. He was an Israeli economist, academic and author. Razin taught at Tel Aviv University and Cornell University, and was recognized as a Fellow…
Jesper Bøje Christensen dead at age 81
Jesper Bøje Christensen, the Danish harpsichordist and music researcher known for his work on basso continuo, died on July 8, 2026, at age 81. Born in Copenhagen on December 3,…
Béla Kádár passes away at age 92
Béla Kádár died on July 8, 2026, at the age of 92. He was a Hungarian economist and politician. Born in Pécs on March 21, 1934, Kádár also worked as…
Obituary: Ihor Zvarych, dead at age 73
Ihor Zvarych died on July 8, 2026. He was a Ukrainian politician. Tags Politicians, Scientists, 08 July 2026, Ihor, Scorpio, Ukraine, Zvarych, July 2026, July 8
Béla Kádár passes away at age 92
Béla Kádár died on July 8, 2026. He was a Hungarian economist and politician. Tags Politicians, Scientists, 08 July 2026, Hungary, Béla, July 2026, July 8, Kádár
Henry O. Pollak dies at 98
Henry O. Pollak, the Austrian-American mathematician, died on July 8, 2026, aged 98. Born Henry Otto Pollak in Vienna on December 13, 1927, he was educated at Yale University and…
Musharrof Husain Khan has died at age 92
Musharrof Husain Khan, a university academic and professor, died on July 7, 2026, aged 92. Also known as M. H. Khan, he was a Bangladeshi academic who served as the…
Alberto Lettieri has died at age 67
Alberto Lettieri died on July 6, 2026. He was an Argentine historian and academic who taught and conducted research at the University of Buenos Aires and the National Scientific and…
John Van Antwerp Fine Jr. obituary: died at age 86
John Van Antwerp Fine Jr., a professor of history and scholar of Balkan and Byzantine studies, died on July 6, 2026. He was 86. Fine taught for decades at the…
Saverio “Sonny” death at age 94
Saverio "Sonny" Morea died on July 6, 2026. He was an American aerospace engineer and aviator, and his work also included service as a scientist, aircraft pilot and military flight…
Death of Vladimir Okrepilov at age 82
Vladimir Okrepilov died on July 6, 2026. He was a Russian economist and academic. Born in Saint Petersburg on February 23, 1944, Okrepilov worked in economics and taught at several…
Death of Erminio Gius at age 88
Erminio Gius died on July 6, 2026. He was a psychologist. Tags Scientists, 06 July 2026, Erminio, Gemini, Gius, July 2026, July 6
Herman Chernoff passed away at age 103
Herman Chernoff died July 6, 2026. He was an American mathematician. Tags Scientists, 06 July 2026, America, Cancer, Chernoff, Herman, July 2026, July 6
Mike Wallace passes away at age 83
Mike Wallace died on July 5, 2026. He was an American historian. Tags Scientists, 05 July 2026, America, Cancer, Mike, Wallace, July 2026, July 5
Piatro Sadoŭski dies at 85
Piatro Sadoŭski died on July 5, 2026. He was a Belarusian diplomat and politician. Born on February 2, 1941, Sadoŭski also worked as a linguist. His career included service in…
Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq dead at age 85
Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq died on July 5, 2026. He was a professor and writer. Tags Scientists, Writers, 05 July 2026, Abul, Haq, Libra, July 2026, July 5
Petr Šmolka has died at age 80
Petr Šmolka died on July 5, 2026. He was a Czech psychologist and marriage counselor. His work focused on relationships and family life. Tags Scientists, 05 July 2026, Czechia, Petr,…
Obituary: Eutimio Martino, dead at age 101
Eutimio Martino died on July 5, 2026. He was a Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and writer. Martino was also known as a historian, theologian, Catholic priest, poet, university teacher and…
Walt Odets dies at age 79
Walt Odets died July 5, 2026. He was an American psychologist and author. Born in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, 1947, Odets was a clinical psychologist who also wrote books.…
Linda McCarriston obituary: died at age 82
Linda McCarriston, an American poet and longtime University of Alaska Anchorage professor, died on July 5, 2026, aged 82. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, she taught creative writing and literary arts…
George Benedek obituary: died at age 97
George Benedek, an American physicist who helped develop quasi-elastic light scattering spectroscopy and taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died on July 5, 2026. He was 97. Born on…
David Emil Mungello, died aged 82
David Emil Mungello died on July 4, 2026. He was an American historian. Tags Scientists, 04 July 2026, America, Capricorn, David, Mungello, July 2026, July 4
Shahed Kamal died at age 85
Shahed Kamal, a Bangladeshi journalist and teacher, died on July 4, 2026. He was 85. Known in cultural circles as Shamim Mama, Kamal worked as a senior news editor at…
Robert B. Sloan passes away at age 77
Robert B. Sloan died on July 3, 2026. He was an American academic and theologian. Born on January 1, 1949, Sloan was also known as Robert Bryan Sloan, Jr. Tags…
József Tóth passed away at age 93
József Tóth died on July 3, 2026. He was a Hungarian hydrogeologist and academic. He was 93. Tags Scientists, 03 July 2026, Cancer, Hungary, József, July 2026, July 3, Tóth
Obituary: Apostolos Papageorgiou, dead at age 89
Apostolos Papageorgiou died on July 2, 2026. He was a Greek academic. Tags Scientists, 02 July 2026, Apostolos, Greece, Papageorgiou, July 2, July 2026
Bernd Rauschenbach obituary: died at age 73
Bernd Rauschenbach died on July 2, 2026. He was a German literary scholar and writer. Tags Scientists, Writers, 02 July 2026, Bernd, Germany, Rauschenbach, July 2, July 2026
Alexandru Madgearu dies at age 62
Alexandru Madgearu died on July 2, 2026. Tags Scientists, 02 July 2026, Alexandru, Madgearu, Romania, July 2, July 2026
Death of Lilly Marcou at age 89
Lilly Marcou, a French historian and researcher, died on July 1, 2026, aged 89. Of Romanian origin, she specialised in the history of communism and built much of her career…
Death of Hans Aarsleff at age 100
Hans Aarsleff died on July 1, 2026. He was a Danish linguist and academic. Born on July 19, 1925, Aarsleff was a university teacher who taught at the University of…
Anthony M. Trozzolo passed away at age 96
Anthony M. Trozzolo died on July 1, 2026. He was an American chemist. Tags Scientists, 01 July 2026, America, Anthony, Capricorn, Trozzolo, July 1, July 2026
Puviarasu dead at age 96
Puviarasu, an Indian poet and translator, died on June 30, 2026, at the age of 96. Born in 1930 in a village near Udumalpet, he was born S. Jagannathan and…
Obituary: Yves-Marie Bercé, dead at age 89
Yves-Marie Bercé died on June 30, 2026. He was a French historian. Tags Scientists, 30 June 2026, France, Bercé, June 2026, June 30, Yves-Marie
Death of Viktor Sagaradze at age 84
Viktor Sagaradze died on June 30, 2026. He was a Russian physicist. Tags Scientists, 30 June 2026, Libra, Russia, Sagaradze, Viktor, June 2026, June 30