Karel Pexidr passed away at age 96
Karel Pexidr died on June 29, 2026. He was a Czech writer, lawyer, philosopher and composer of classical music. Born on November 4, 1929, Pexidr was known for his work…
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Ervin László dies at age 94
Ervin László, the Hungarian-born American philosopher and writer, died on June 29, 2026, at age 94. Born in Budapest on May 12, 1932, he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy…
Salman Nadwi died at age 72
Salman Nadwi, an Indian Islamic scholar and professor, died on June 29, 2026. He was 72. Born in 1954 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, he served as dean of the Faculty…
Gregor McLennan has died at age 74
Gregor McLennan died on June 29, 2026. He was a British sociologist. Tags Scientists, 29 June 2026, Britain, Gregor, Libra, June 2026, June 29, McLennan
Tom Siddon death at age 84
Tom Siddon, a Canadian politician and former MP who served from 1978 to 1993, died on June 28, 2026, at age 84. Born Thomas Edward Siddon in Drumheller, Alberta, on…
Sergei Sorokin dies at age 93
Sergei Sorokin died on June 27, 2026, in Winchester. He was a scientist. Born on April 13, 1933, in Winchester, he was the son of sociologist Pitirim Sorokin. Tags Scientists,…
Valery Fabrikant has died at age 86
Valery Fabrikant, a Belarusian-born Canadian academic and convicted mass murderer, died on June 27, 2026. Born Valery Iosifovich Fabrikant in Minsk on January 28, 1940, he became an associate professor…
Mykola Frolov passes away at age 67
Mykola Frolov, a Ukrainian politician and academic administrator, died on June 27, 2026, at the age of 67. Born in Zaporizhzhia on January 9, 1959, he became a prominent figure…
C. Robin Ganellin has died at age 92
C. Robin Ganellin died on June 27, 2026. He was a British medicinal chemist whose work was recognized with election as a Fellow of the Royal Society and other honors.…
Rob Scheller has died at age 98
Rob Scheller, the Dutch art historian and professor of art history at the University of Amsterdam, died on June 27, 2026. Born in Amsterdam in 1927 as Robert Wouter Hans…
Kairat Kadyrzhanov died at age 80
Kairat Kadyrzhanov died on June 26, 2026. He was a scientist born on December 5, 1945, in Taldyqorğan. Further details about his career were not provided in the available record.…
Obituary: Huno Rätsep, dead at age 98
Huno Rätsep, an Estonian linguist and longtime University of Tartu professor, died on June 26, 2026, at the age of 98. Born in Tartu on December 28, 1927, he graduated…
John T. Pawlikowski passes away at age 85
John T. Pawlikowski, an American Servite priest and professor emeritus of social ethics at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, died on June 26, 2026. He was 85. A member of…
Gail Bowen dies at age 84
Gail Bowen, a Canadian playwright and writer best known for the Joanne Kilbourn mystery series, died on June 26, 2026. She was 83. Born Gail Dianne Bowen in Toronto on…
Cui Kun has died at age 100
Cui Kun died on June 26, 2026. Tags Scientists, 26 June 2026, Cancer, China, Cui, Kun, June 2026, June 26
Christopher Robert Hallpike dies at age 88
Christopher Robert Hallpike, a British-born Canadian anthropologist and emeritus professor of anthropology at McMaster University in Ontario, died on June 26, 2026. Born on April 19, 1938, Hallpike was known…
Věra Linhartová has died at age 88
Věra Linhartová, the Czech writer and art historian, died on June 26, 2026, at age 88 in Paris. Born in Brno on March 22, 1938, she studied art history at…
Death of David B. Danbom at age 79
David B. Danbom, an American historian and author, died on June 26, 2026, aged 79. He taught agricultural history at North Dakota State University from 1974 to 2010 and was…
Annie Baglin dies at age 87
Annie Baglin died on June 26, 2026. She was a French astrophysicist. Tags Scientists, 26 June 2026, Annie, Baglin, France, June 2026, June 26
Alain Roux died at age 91
Alain Roux died on June 26, 2026. He was a French historian and sinologist who taught at Paris 8 University and the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. Born…
Wang Luolin obituary: died at age 88
Wang Luolin, a Chinese politician and academic administrator, died on June 26, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in June 1938 in Wuchang, Hubei, he studied economics at Peking…
Obituary: Milena Flodrová, dead at age 91
Milena Flodrová died on June 25, 2026. She was a Czech historian. Tags Scientists, 25 June 2026, Czechia, Milena, Flodrová, June 2026, June 25
Salomó Marquès, died aged 84
Salomó Marquès, a Spanish academic and writer, died on June 25, 2026, at the age of 84. Born in L'Escala on February 4, 1942, he built a career in education,…
Salomó Marquès, died aged 84
Salomó Marquès died on June 25, 2026. He was a Spanish educationist, professor and writer, and also worked as a pedagogue, historian and author. Born in L'Escala on February 4,…
Stefano Piano, died aged 85
Stefano Piano died on June 24, 2026. He was an Italian linguist, historical linguist, Indologist and university teacher. Born in Silvano d'Orba on March 1, 1941, he taught at the…
Roy Goode, died aged 93
Roy Goode, the English legal scholar who founded the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, died on June 24, 2026, at the age of 93.…
Rudolf Samusev dead at age 86
Rudolf Samusev died June 23, 2026. He was a scientist. Tags Scientists, 23 June 2026, Rudolf, Russia, Samusev, Virgo, Volgograd, June 2026, June 23
Joanne Glasser dead
Joanne Glasser, an American educator and academic administrator who served as president of Eastern Kentucky University and later Bradley University, died on June 23, 2026. She was the first woman…
Maurice-Ruben Hayoun dies at age 75
Maurice-Ruben Hayoun, a French philosopher, historian and writer, died on June 23, 2026, at the age of 75. Born on September 21, 1950, in Agadir, he was known for his…
Valmai Holt, died aged 90
Valmai Holt died on June 23, 2026. She was a British military historian. Tags Scientists, 23 June 2026, Britain, Holt, Valmai, June 2026, June 23
John P. Reardon passes away at age 88
John P. Reardon died June 23, 2026. Tags Scientists, 23 June 2026, America, John, Reardon, June 2026, June 23
Obituary: Petro Volvach, dead at age 87
Petro Volvach died on June 22, 2026. Tags Scientists, Writers, 22 June 2026, Petro, Sagittarius, Ukraine, Volvach, June 2026, June 22
Gustavus Simmons passes away at age 95
Gustavus Simmons, an American cryptographer and mathematician, died on June 22, 2026, at age 95. Born in West Virginia on October 27, 1930, he studied at Deep Springs College before…
Alan Greenspan obituary: died at age 100
Alan Greenspan, the American economist who served as chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006, died on June 22, 2026, at age 100. Born in New York City…
Miloš Trapl passed away at age 91
Miloš Trapl died on June 22, 2026. Tags Scientists, Writers, 22 June 2026, Czechia, Trapl, June 2026, June 22, Miloš
Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr. obituary: died at age 93
Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr., an American physician and medical researcher whose work helped define inherited cancer risk, died on June 22, 2026. He was 93. Born in Boston on Jan.…
Obituary: Vittorio Parisi, dead at age 89
Vittorio Parisi, an Italian politician and former senator, died on June 21, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Milan on January 1, 1936, he was a member of…
András Simor dead at age 87
András Simor, a Hungarian poet and writer, died on June 21, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in Budapest on July 5, 1938, he studied at Kölcsey Ferenc Gimnázium…
Jim Battle passed away at age 88
Jim Battle, an American football player who competed in the NFL and CFL, died on June 21, 2026, at age 88. Battle played guard in professional football after his college…
Katja Rost dies at 50
Katja Rost died on June 20, 2026. Tags Scientists, 20 June 2026, Germany, Katja, Rost, June 20, June 2026
David W. Rohde, died aged 82
David W. Rohde, a political scientist whose research focused on politics in the United States, died on June 20, 2026, aged 82. Born in Buffalo, New York, he taught at…
Geraldene Felton passed away at age 100
Geraldene Felton died June 20, 2026. Tags Scientists, 20 June 2026, America, Aquarius, Felton, Geraldene, June 20, June 2026
Ivan Khitskov passed away at age 89
Ivan Khitskov died on June 20, 2026. Tags Scientists, 20 June 2026, Ivan, Khitskov, Pisces, Russia, June 20, June 2026
Sami al-Oraydi has died at age 52
Sami al-Oraydi, a Jordanian sharia official, died on June 20, 2026. Born in Amman in 1973, he was also known as Abu Mahmoud al-Shami and was educated at the University…
Death of Yves Lacoste at age 96
Yves Lacoste, the French geographer and geopolitician whose work helped shape modern geopolitics, died on June 20, 2026, at the age of 96. Born in Fez, Morocco, on September 7,…
Ivan Khitskov passed away at age 89
Ivan Khitskov died June 20, 2026. He was a scientist. Tags Scientists, 20 June 2026, Ivan, Khitskov, Pisces, Russia, June 20, June 2026
Death of Norman Tolk at age 88
Norman Tolk died on June 20, 2026. He was an American physicist. Tags Scientists, 20 June 2026, America, Capricorn, Norman, Tolk, June 20, June 2026
Hershel Parker passes away at age 90
Hershel Parker, an American literary historian and scholar of Herman Melville, died on June 19, 2026. He was 90. Born in Comanche, Oklahoma, on November 26, 1935, Parker was an…
Haruhiro Yamashita death at age 87
Haruhiro Yamashita, a Japanese Olympic gymnast, died on June 19, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in Uwajima on November 11, 1938, he represented Japan at the 1964 Summer…
Gábor Bona death at age 77
Gábor Bona died on June 19, 2026. He was a Hungarian historian. Tags Scientists, 19 June 2026, Bona, Hungary, Gábor, June 19, June 2026
Rodolfo Giampaoli passes away at age 86
Rodolfo Giampaoli, an Italian politician who served as president of Marche from 1990 to 1993, died on June 19, 2026, at the age of 86. Born in Pesaro, Italy, on…
Elizabeth Arnold dead at age 66
Elizabeth Arnold, an American journalist who was NPR’s national political correspondent and later a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, died June 18, 2026, of complications from endometrial cancer.…
Death of Natalia Belitser at age 87
Natalia Belitser died on June 18, 2026. Tags Scientists, 18 June 2026, Belitser, Natalia, Ukraine, June 18, June 2026
Death of François Englert at age 93
François Englert, the Belgian theoretical physicist who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, died on June 18, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in Etterbeek, near Brussels, on…
Wulf Herzogenrath obituary: died at age 82
Wulf Herzogenrath, the German art historian and art curator, died on June 18, 2026, at the age of 82. Born on March 23, 1944, in Rathenow, Germany, he became a…
Obituary: Thomas R. Metcalf, dead at age 92
Thomas R. Metcalf, an American historian and academic whose scholarship focused on South Asia, especially colonial India, and the British Empire, died on June 18, 2026. He was 92. Metcalf…
Daniel Castellano obituary: died at age 53
Daniel Castellano, a Venezuelan journalist, writer and researcher, died on June 18, 2026. Born in Caracas on November 20, 1972, and also known as Daniel Alirio Castellano Amarista, he studied…
Bob Jolly dead at age 95
Bob Jolly, a New Zealand veterinary scientist and academic, died on June 18, 2026, aged 95. Born Robert Dudley Jolly in Hamilton on October 1, 1930, he built his career…
Sam Y. Zamrik passed away at age 93
Sam Y. Zamrik, a Syrian-American mechanical engineer and emeritus professor at Pennsylvania State University, died on June 18, 2026, at the age of 93. Also known as Sam Yusuf Zamrik,…
Obituary: Theoliptos Fenerlis, dead at age 69
Theoliptos Fenerlis, a Turkish-Greek Orthodox prelate and metropolitan of Iconium, died on June 18, 2026, at the age of 69. Born Iakovos Fenerlis on April 17, 1957, in Tarabya, Istanbul,…
Tony Brown died at age 93
Tony Brown, the American journalist best known for the syndicated television program Tony Brown's Journal, died on June 17, 2026. He was 93. Born William Anthony Brown on April 11,…
Manuel Benza Pflücker obituary: died at age 82
Manuel Benza Pflücker, a Peruvian politician and sociologist, died on June 17, 2026. He was 82. Born in Lima on April 16, 1944, Benza was a member of the Revolutionary…
Carlo Ginzburg dead at age 87
Carlo Ginzburg, an Italian historian and leading figure in microhistory, died on June 17, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in Turin on April 15, 1939, he became known…
Death of Alfred Bayer at age 93
Alfred Bayer, a German politician and longtime Christian Social Union of Bavaria representative, died on June 16, 2026, at age 93. Born in Munich on March 8, 1933, he studied…
Camillo Ruini passes away at age 95
Camillo Ruini, the Italian Roman Catholic cardinal who led the Italian Episcopal Conference from 1991 to 2007 and served as cardinal vicar of Rome from 1991 to 2008, died on…
Peter Kampits passes away at age 83
Peter Kampits, an Austrian philosopher and author who taught at the University of Vienna, died on June 16, 2026. He was 83. Born in Vienna on January 1, 1942, Kampits…
Claude Bardos passes away at age 86
Claude Bardos, a French mathematician who specialized in mathematical physics, died on June 16, 2026, at the age of 86. Born on April 4, 1940, he earned a doctorate from…
Michael Kapovich dead at age 63
Michael Kapovich, a Russian-American mathematician who worked at the University of California, Davis, died on June 16, 2026. He was 63. Born in Khabarovsk on March 13, 1963, and also…
Juliet Gardiner passes away at age 83
Juliet Gardiner, a British historian and writer, died on June 16, 2026, at the age of 83. She was a commentator on British social history from Victorian times through the…
Death of Robert Thurman at age 84
Robert Thurman, an American Buddhist writer and academic, died on June 16, 2026, at age 84. Born Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman in New York City on August 3, 1941, he…
Alexander Rabinowitch, died aged 91
Alexander Rabinowitch, an American historian whose scholarship on the Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolution of 1917 made him a leading authority in the field, died on June 16, 2026. He…
Slavenko Saletović dies at 78
Slavenko Saletović, a Serbian theatre director and professor, died on June 15, 2026, at the age of 78. Born in Visoko on May 11, 1948, he studied at the Academy…
Peter Littlewood death at age 71
Peter Littlewood, a British physicist and professor at the University of Chicago, died on June 15, 2026, at the age of 71. Known for his work on polariton condensation and…
Death of Peter Schuster at age 85
Peter Schuster, the Austrian theoretical chemist known for his work on molecular evolution, died on June 15, 2026. He was 85. Born in Vienna on March 7, 1941, Schuster studied…
Thomas H. Greco Jr. death at age 89
Thomas H. Greco Jr. died on June 15, 2026. Tags Scientists, 15 June 2026, America, Greco, Thomas, June 15, June 2026
Piero Amerio dies at age 92
Piero Amerio died on June 15, 2026. He was an academic. Tags Scientists, 15 June 2026, Amerio, Italy, Piero, June 15, June 2026
Obituary: J. Michael Criley, dead at age 95
J. Michael Criley, an American cardiologist and medical researcher, died on June 15, 2026. He was 95. A professor emeritus at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Criley was…
Death of Beatrice Lumpkin at age 107
Beatrice Lumpkin, an American union organizer, activist, professor and writer, died on June 15, 2026, at the age of 107. Born Beatrice Shapiro on August 3, 1918, in The Bronx,…
Telê Ancona Lopez passed away at age 87
Telê Ancona Lopez died on June 15, 2026. She was a Brazilian literary scholar who worked at the University of São Paulo and its Institute of Brazilian Studies. Born in…
Craig Fennie passes away at age 54
Craig Fennie, an American physicist and applied physicist, died on June 14, 2026. He was 54. Fennie was a professor in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell…
Obituary: Charles A. Holloway, dead at age 90
Charles A. Holloway died June 14, 2026. He was an American educator. Tags Scientists, 14 June 2026, America, Cancer, Charles, Holloway, June 14, June 2026
Ivan Rektor has died at age 77
Ivan Rektor died on June 14, 2026. He was a Slovak neurologist, neuroscientist and academic at CEITEC, Masaryk University. His death was reported without further details. Tags Doctors, Scientists, 14…
Josep Maria Sans i Travé has died at age 78
Josep Maria Sans i Travé died on June 14, 2026. He was a Spanish archivist and historian. Born on July 1, 1947, Sans i Travé was also identified as a…
Felix Kreichman has died at age 77
Felix Kreichman died on June 13, 2026. He was a Russian economist and politician. Born in Tiraspol on June 8, 1949, he studied at Samara State University of Economics. Kreichman…
Annick Chartreux dies at age 83
Annick Chartreux, a French composer, died on June 13, 2026, at the age of 83. Born Anne-Marie Chartreux in Nancy in 1942, she studied at the Conservatoire Régional du Grand…
Obituary: Rosamond McKitterick, dead at age 77
Rosamond McKitterick, a British medieval historian and university teacher, died on June 13, 2026, at the age of 77. Born Rosamond Deborah Pierce in Chesterfield on May 31, 1949, she…
Felix Kreichman has died at age 77
Felix Kreichman died on June 13, 2026, at the age of 77. He was a Russian economist and politician. Born on June 8, 1949, in Tiraspol, he studied at Samara…
Luisa Muraro dead at age 85
Luisa Muraro, an Italian philosopher and feminist activist, died on June 13, 2026. She was 85, one day short of her 86th birthday. Born in Montecchio Maggiore on June 14,…
Umer Chapra dies at age 93
Umer Chapra, a Pakistani-Saudi economist and adviser, died on June 13, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in Bombay on February 1, 1933, he was also known as Muhammad…
Joseph LaPalombara, died aged 101
Joseph LaPalombara, an American political scientist whose work focused on comparative politics, interest groups and the foreign investments of global firms, died on June 12, 2026. He was 101. A…
Kola Oyewo died at age 80
Kola Oyewo, a Nigerian actor, dramatist and scholar known for The Gods Are Not to Blame, Saworoide and Koseegbe, died on June 12, 2026, at the age of 80. Born…
Death of Antony Jameson at age 91
Antony Jameson, a British aerospace scientist and engineer, died on June 11, 2026. Born Guy Antony Jameson in Gillingham, England, he became known for his work in computational fluid dynamics…
Obituary: Lynn Leibovitz, dead at age 67
Lynn Leibovitz, an American judge who served as an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, died on June 11, 2026, at age 67. Born in…
María Ángeles Mezquíriz Irujo dies at age 97
María Ángeles Mezquíriz Irujo died on June 11, 2026. She was a Spanish archaeologist. Tags Scientists, 11 June 2026, Aquarius, Irujo, Pamplona, Spain, June 11, June 2026, María
Death of Natalino Irti at age 90
Natalino Irti died on June 11, 2026. He was an Italian academic and jurist. Tags Lawyers, Scientists, 11 June 2026, Irti, Italy, Natalino, Rome, June 11, June 2026
Merle Boucher passed away at age 79
Merle Boucher, an American politician and former member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, died June 11, 2026, at age 79. Born July 19, 1946, in Rolette, North Dakota,…
Ren Yanshen dies at age 80
Ren Yanshen, a Chinese politician and academic, died on June 10, 2026. He was 80. Ren served as deputy party secretary of Jiangsu Province and as vice chairman of the…
Arthur Buikema dead at age 85
Arthur Buikema, an American biologist and ecologist, died June 10, 2026, at age 85. Born Arthur Louis Buikema Jr. on February 4, 1941, in Cook County, Illinois, he was raised…
Emi Koyama, died aged 51
Emi Koyama died on June 10, 2026. Koyama was an artist. Tags Artists, Scientists, 10 June 2026, Emi, Koyama, June 10, June 2026