Deaths Famous Dead Scientists
Sol Kimel
Israeli chemical physicist · 14 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 14
Roque Ferriols
Filipino Jesuit priest and philosopher · 14 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 14 · Filipino
Peter Whittle
New Zealand mathematician and statistican · 13 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 13
Mian Bashir Ahmed
Indian Islamic scholar and religious leader · 13 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 13 · Ahmed
Ernst van de Wetering
Dutch art historian · 12 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 12 · Wetering · Dutch
Khin Maung Win
Burmese mathematician · 12 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 12 · Win
Leon Litwack
American historian (Been in the Storm So Long) · 12 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 12 · León
Michel Laclotte
French art historian · 10 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 10 · French
Naftali Tishby
Israeli professor of computer science and computational neuroscientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem · 10 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 10
Lila R. Gleitman
American professor emerita of psychology and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania · 09 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 9 · Gleitman
María Ester Feres
Chilean politician and academic · 05 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 5 · Feres · Maria
Karl Heinz Bohrer
German literary scholar and essayist · 04 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 4 · Bohrer
Dario Sorrentino
Italian medical researcher · 04 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 4 · Doctors
Yu Ying-shih
Chinese-born American sinologist and historian · 04 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 4
Scott Mardis
American cryptozoological researcher (Champ of Lake Champlain) · 04 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 4
Ana Sánchez Urrutia
Panamanian scientist · 04 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 4 · Urrutia
Noel Swerdlow
American science historian · 03 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 3
Saggaf bin Muhammad Aljufri
Indonesian Islamic scholar · 02 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 2 · Aljufri
Gérard Théry
French engineer and computer scientist · 01 August 2021 · August 2021 · August 1 · French · Gerard
Abdul Khaliq Sambhali
Indian Islamic scholar · 29 July 2021 · July 2021 · Sambhali · July 29
Aaron L. Brody
American food scientist · 28 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 28 · Brody
Robert Dove
American parliamentarian of the United States Senate and a professor of political science at George Washington University · 28 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 28
Toshihide Maskawa
Japanese physicist (Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix) · 28 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 28
Hal Wootten
Australian judge and academic · 28 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 28
Michel Husson
French statistician and economist · 27 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 27 · French
Nada Milošević-Đorđević
Serbian literary historian and professor in the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade · 26 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 26
Enrique Planchart
Venezuelan mathematician and academic · 26 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 26
R. Ilankumaranar
Indian Tamil scholar · 26 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 26
Jean-Marie Lang
French doctor and professor · 26 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 26 · French
Willem van ‘t Spijker
Dutch minister and theologian · 25 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 25 · Spijker · Dutch
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist · 23 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 23
Miguel Ángel Virasoro
Argentine physicist (Virasoro algebra) · 23 July 2021 · Argentine · July 2021 · July 23
Juan Vital Sourrouille
Argentinian economist and former Economics Minister · 20 July 2021 · Sourrouille · July 2021 · July 20
Chunni Lal Khetrapal
Indian chemical physicist · 20 July 2021 · July 2021 · Khetrapal · July 20
Aleksandr Starovoitov
Russian security officer and academic · 19 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 19
Mohammed Sabila
Moroccan writer and philosopher · 19 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 19
Jean Pradel
French jurist and professor · 18 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 18 · French
Peter Wynne-Thomas
English cricket writer and historian. (Death reported on this date.) · 16 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 16
Pablo Pérez Tremps
Spanish jurist and academic · 15 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 15 · Tremps
Muhammad Muhsin Khan
Pakistani Islamic scholar and translator (Noble Quran) · 14 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 14 · Khan
Eric D. Weitz
American historian · 14 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 14 · Weitz · Éric
Philippe Aigrain
French computer scientist · 11 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 11 · French
Mohammed bin Ismail Al Amrani
Yemeni judge and Islamic scholar · 11 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 11 · Amrani
Luis Gasca
Spanish cinema and comic books historian · 11 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 11
Jaroslav Koča
Czech chemist and structural biologist · 10 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 10 · Czech
Miguel Gasca
Spanish cinema and comic books historian · 10 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 10
Pierre Laffitte
French politician and scientist · 07 July 2021 · July 2021 · French · July 7
Aggrey Awori
Ugandan economist and politician · 04 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 4
Richard Lewontin
American evolutionary biologist · 04 July 2021 · July 2021 · July 4