Gualtiero Calboli Italian linguist dead at age 94
Gualtiero Calboli, 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…
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Aloysius Pieris Sri Lankan Jesuit priest and theologian dead at age 91
Aloysius Pieris, 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…
Arthur E. Humphrey American chemical engineer dead at age 98
Arthur E. Humphrey, 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…
Umar Shihab Islamic scholar dead at age 86
Umar Shihab, 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…
Lala Alizadeh Azerbaijani scientist dead at age 76
Lala Alizadeh, 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…
John R. Corbid American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives dead at age 81
John R. Corbid, 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…
J. Michael Bishop Oncogene Virus dead at age 90
J. Michael Bishop, 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…
Alain Brillet Virgo interferometer dead at age 78
Alain Brillet, 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…
Nicholas Haysom Diplomat, legal scholar dead at age 73
Nicholas Haysom, 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,…
Alton Sutnick American medical researcher and educator dead at age 97
Alton Sutnick, 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…
Md. Anwarul Azim Arif Academic dead at age 74
Md. Anwarul Azim Arif, 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…
Alessandro Finazzi Agrò Italian academic and biochemist dead at age 84
Alessandro Finazzi Agrò, 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…
Khamid Gizatullin Economist dead at age 94
Khamid Gizatullin, 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…
Heisuke Hironaka Japanese mathematician, Fields Medal winner dead at age 94
Heisuke Hironaka, 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…
Finn-Erik Vinje Philologist dead at age 90
Finn-Erik Vinje, 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…
George H. Goble American scientist, Ig Nobel Prize winner dead at age 73
George H. Goble, 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…
László Gallé Biologist dead at age 83
László Gallé, 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…
Ali Larijani Iranian politician, twice secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, speaker…
Ali Larijani, 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…
Sergey Maksimenko
Belarusian physicistDied on Tuesday March 17th 2026
Sergio Merusi
Italian politician and economistDied on Monday March 16th 2026
Andriy Serdyuk 87 dead at age 87
Andriy Serdyuk, a Ukrainian medical scientist and politician, died on March 16, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in Dnipropetrovsk on December 24, 1938, he served as Minister of…
Ong Kok Hai Malaysian microbiologist dead at age 80
Ong Kok Hai, a Malaysian microbiologist and Professor of Microbiology at the International Medical University, died on March 16, 2026. Born in Penang on 12 November 1945, he was one…
Francine Descarries 83–84 dead at age 83
Francine Descarries, a Canadian sociologist and professor of sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal, died on March 16, 2026, at age 84. Born in Montreal in 1942, she…
Michel Hulin French philosopher dead at age 90
Michel Hulin, a French philosopher who specialized in Indian philosophy, died on March 16, 2026. Born on Jan. 31, 1936, he was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure and…
Yves Chevallard French mathematician dead at age 79
Yves Chevallard, a French mathematician and academic, died on March 16, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Tunis on May 1, 1946, he studied at the Lycée Thiers…
James N. Hardin Jr. Germanist dead at age 87
James N. Hardin Jr., an American Germanist, died on March 16, 2026, at age 87. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 17, 1939, he earned a BA in German from…
Ernő Mészáros Hungarian air chemist and meteorologist dead at age 90
Ernő Mészáros, a Hungarian air chemist and meteorologist, died on March 16, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Budapest on April 12, 1935, he was a member of…
Jonathan Tyler British political activist and academic dead at age 85
Jonathan Tyler, a British political activist and academic, died on March 15, 2026. Born in Reading on June 8, 1940, he was a Green Party activist and academic who had…
Richard Randriamandrato Diplomat, economist, public servant dead at age 67
Richard Randriamandrato, a Malagasy diplomat, economist and public servant, died on March 15, 2026, at the age of 67. He had experience in international relations, finance and development, and held…
James M. Houston British-born Canadian theologian dead at age 103
James M. Houston, a British-born Canadian theologian and academic who was professor of spiritual theology and the first principal of Regent College in Vancouver, died on March 15, 2026. Born…
Monroe Price American academic dead at age 87
Monroe Price, an American academic and director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Global Communication Studies, died on March 15, 2026. He also served as director of the Stanhope…
Soedjana Sapi’ie
Indonesian academicDied on Sunday March 15th 2026
Paulo Fernando Professor dead at age 58
Paulo Fernando, a Brazilian politician and former four-time deputy, died on March 14, 2026, in Brasília, Brazil, at the age of 58. Born in Brasília on June 11, 1967, he…
Steve Thel American academic and lawyer dead at age 71
Steve Thel, an American academic and lawyer, died on March 14, 2026. Born Steven Scott Thel in Tacoma, Washington, on December 28, 1954, he was the son of Albert John…
Christopher A. Sims American economist dead at age 83
Christopher A. Sims, an American economist and econometrician, died on March 14, 2026, at age 83. He was the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University.…
Jürgen Habermas German philosopher and sociologist dead at age 96
Jürgen Habermas, the German philosopher and sociologist, died on March 14, 2026, at age 96. Born in Düsseldorf in 1929, he was a German philosopher and social theorist associated with…
David H. Waldeck Chemist dead at age 69
David H. Waldeck, an American chemist, died in Invalid Date. Waldeck was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 5, 1956. He earned a BS degree from the University of Cincinnati…
Shigeaki Mori Historian dead at age 88
Shigeaki Mori, a Japanese historian and atomic bomb survivor, died on March 14, 2026. He was 88. Born in Hiroshima on March 29, 1937, Mori was known for his research…
Volodymyr Babayev Ukrainian scholar and politician dead at age 74
Volodymyr Babayev, a Ukrainian scholar and politician, died on March 14, 2026, at the age of 74. Born in Kharkiv on January 10, 1952, he served as rector of O.…
Paul R. Ehrlich The Population Bomb 1968 Simon–Ehrlich wager dead at age 93
Paul R. Ehrlich, an American biologist, author, and environmentalist, died on March 13, 2026, at the age of 93. He was known for his warnings about the consequences of population…
Jacques Revel French historian dead at age 83
Jacques Revel, a French historian and emeritus director of studies and president of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), died on March 13, 2026, at the age…
Ann Gluckman First female principal of a state co-educational secondary school in New Zealand dead…
Ann Gluckman, a New Zealand educator, writer and historian, died on March 13, 2026, aged 98. Born Ann Jocelyn Klippel in London in 1927, she was appointed principal of Ngā…
Jens Blauert German scientist dead at age 87
Jens Blauert, a German scientist known for his work in psychoacoustics, died on March 13, 2026. He was an emeritus professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he founded the Institute…
Robert Trivers Evolutionary biology, Animal behavior, Sociobiology dead at age 83
Robert Trivers, an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, died on March 12, 2026, at age 83. He was known for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, facultative sex…
Hans-Georg Backhaus 96–97 dead at age 96
Hans-Georg Backhaus, a German Marxian economist and philosopher, died on March 12, 2026, in Frankfurt. He was 96 or 97. Backhaus was one of the main authors of the Neue…
Patricia Clarke (historian) Australian writer dead at age 99
Patricia Clarke, an Australian writer and historian, died on March 12, 2026. Born Mary Patricia Clarke in Alphington, Melbourne, on July 30, 1926, she was educated in Melbourne, later in…
Antón Louro Academic dead at age 73
Antón Louro, a Spanish politician, died on March 12, 2026, in Pontevedra, Spain, at the age of 73. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he served in the…
John H. Morrison American lawyer dead at age 92
John H. Morrison, an American lawyer and senior partner of Kirkland & Ellis, died on March 11, 2026. He practiced at the Chicago law firm from 1962 until his retirement…
Lewis Lehrman American banker and politician dead at age 87
Lewis Lehrman, an American banker and politician, died on March 11, 2026, at age 87. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1938, he was an investment banker, historian and politician. Lehrman…
Hermann Kulke Indologist dead at age 87
Hermann Kulke, a German historian and Indologist, died on March 10, 2026. He was 87. Kulke was professor of South and Southeast Asian history at Kiel University from 1988 to…
Susan Haack British philosopher dead at age 80
Susan Haack, a British philosopher and academic, died on March 10, 2026. She was a distinguished professor in the humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, professor of philosophy,…
Volodymyr Vlasenko
Ukrainian scientist and military doctorDied on Monday March 9th 2026
Heorhij Halenčanka Belarusian historian dead at age 90
Heorhij Halenčanka, a Belarusian historian, died on March 9, 2026. He was 89. Born in Petrozavodsk on February 28, 1937, he spent most of his childhood in Minsk. Halenčanka graduated…
Anthony Leggett Caldeira–Leggett model of quantum dissipation, Leggett–Garg inequality, Leggett ine…
Anthony Leggett, the British-American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, died on March 8, 2026. He was 87. Sir Anthony James Leggett was widely recognised as…
Philip Bourne Unix for VMS Users, PLOS Computational Biology, Protein Data Bank, SciVee dead at age…
Philip Bourne, an Australian bioinformatician and writer, died on March 8, 2026, at age 72. Philip Eric Bourne was the Stephenson Chair of Data Science, director of the School of…
Moulana Abdullah Tari Indian Islamic scholar and political activist dead at age 86
Moulana Abdullah Tari, an Indian Islamic scholar and political activist, died on March 8, 2026, following a prolonged illness. He was an official of the separatist Jammu and Kashmir Democratic…
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Malaysian philosopher dead at age 94
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, a Malaysian philosopher, died on March 8, 2026. He was a Malaysian Muslim philosopher of Arab descent and was considered one of the few contemporary scholars…
Walid Khalidi Historian dead at age 100
Walid Khalidi, a Palestinian historian, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 100. He wrote extensively on the Palestinian exodus and co-founded the Institute for Palestine Studies in…
Vasile Constantin Mao Romanian rugby union player dead at age 88
Vasile Constantin Mao, a Romanian rugby union player, died on March 8, 2026. Better known as Mao, he was a Romanian rugby union coach and academic. Born in Plevna village,…
Narayan Bareth Journalist, Political analyst, professor dead at age 68
Narayan Bareth, an Indian journalist, died on March 6, 2026. He was 68. Bareth worked in journalism for around three decades and served as State Information Commissioner of Rajasthan. He…
James Garbarino American academic and psychologist dead at age 78
James Garbarino, an American academic and psychologist, died on March 6, 2026. He was a professor at Loyola University Chicago and specialized in studying the causes of violence in children,…
Tierney Thys National Geographic Explorer dead at age 59
Tierney Thys, an American marine biologist and science educator, died on March 6, 2026, at age 59. A National Geographic explorer, she earned a biology degree from Brown University in…
Lolo Matalasi Moliga American Samoan politician dead at age 78
Lolo Matalasi Moliga, an American Samoan politician, educator and businessman who served as the seventh governor of American Samoa from 2013 to 2021, died on March 6, 2026, in Honolulu,…
Mauro Visentin
Italian philosopherDied on Thursday March 5th 2026
Tony Hoare Quicksort, Quickselect, Hoare logic, Null reference, Communicating sequential processes,…
Tony Hoare, the British computer scientist known for his work on Quicksort, died on March 5, 2026, at the age of 92. Also known as Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare,…
Lubomír Šik Czech regional historian dead at age 98
Lubomír Šik, a Czech regional historian, died on March 5, 2026. Born in Litovel on February 2, 1928, he graduated from the industrial school in Šumperk in 1949 after World…
László Vincze (politician) Hungarian politician dead at age 74
László Vincze, a Hungarian educator and politician, died on March 5, 2026. He was 74. Born on February 19, 1952, in Csongrád, Hungary, Vincze served as a member of the…
Eli Shamir pumping lemma dead at age 91
Eli Shamir, an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, died on March 5, 2026, at the age of 91. He was the Jean and Helene Alfassa Professor Emeritus of Computer Science…
Joan Leitzel Mathematician dead at age 89
Joan Leitzel, an American mathematician and university administrator, died on March 5, 2026, at age 89. She served as interim chancellor of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for six months before…
Alexander Guts Russian mathematician dead at age 78
Alexander Guts, a Russian mathematician, died on March 4, 2026. Born on August 30, 1947, in Berlin, then part of the Soviet occupation zone, he published more than 500 works…
Daniel Migliore American theologian dead at age 90
Daniel Migliore, an American theologian and author who was professor emeritus of theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, died on March 4, 2026. Born in 1935, he earned a Bachelor of…
Philip Low (chemist) American chemist dead at age 78
Philip Low, an American chemist and the Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University, died March 4, 2026, at age 78. A prolific researcher, he contributed to…
Alfredo Bengzon Hospital executive, medical professor and academic dead at age 90
Alfredo Bengzon, a Filipino physician, educator and public official, died on March 3, 2026. Also known as Alfredo R. A. Bengzon, he served as vice-president for the Professional Schools of…
Andrea Weiss (rabbi) Rabbinical ordination dead at age 60
Andrea Weiss, an American rabbi and author, died on March 3, 2026. She was ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1993 and later served there as associate professor of Bible,…
Jack Chambers (linguist) Linguistic variation dead at age 87
Jack Chambers, a Canadian linguist and expert on language variation and change, died on March 2, 2026, at age 87. Born John Kenneth Chambers in Grimsby, Ontario, he played an…
Klaus Müller (economist) German Marxian economist and academic dead at age 81
Klaus Müller, a German Marxian economist and academic, died on March 2, 2026. Born on August 10, 1944, in Ursprung, now part of Lugau in Saxony, he studied financial and…
Hélène Mouchard-Zay French academic and writer dead at age 85
Hélène Mouchard-Zay, a French academic and writer, died on March 2, 2026, at age 85. Born in Rabat on August 27, 1940, she was the daughter of Madeleine and Jean…
Janardan Waghmare Author, Educationist/Professor, Social Worker, Social Reformer dead at age 91
Janardan Waghmare, an Indian educationist and politician, died on March 2, 2026. He was 91. Waghmare served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra and was…
Ivan Hall Architectural historian dead at age 93
Ivan Hall, the British architectural historian, died on March 2, 2026, aged 93. Hall specialised in the architecture of John Carr and had lifelong interests in neoclassical architecture, the conservation…
Alice Chien Chang Taiwanese molecular biologist and neuroscientist dead at age 75
Alice Chien Chang, a Taiwanese molecular biologist and neuroscientist, died on March 2, 2026. She taught at National Yang-Ming Medical College, National Yang-Ming University, and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung…
Bob Power American record producer and music engineer dead at age 74
Bob Power, an American record producer and music engineer, died on March 1, 2026, at age 73. Born Robert Power in Chicago on April 5, 1952, he was also an…
Alexander Tzonis Greek-French architect dead at age 88
Alexander Tzonis, a Greek-French architect, author and researcher, died on March 1, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Athens on November 8, 1937, he made contributions to architectural…
Lidia Erokhina Russian economist dead at age 70
Lidia Erokhina, a Russian economist, died on March 1, 2026. Born on December 13, 1955, in Penza Oblast, she was a member of the Komsomol. In 1978, she graduated with…
Dagfinn Føllesdal Norwegian-born American academic and philosopher dead at age 93
Dagfinn Føllesdal, a Norwegian-born American academic and philosopher, died on March 1, 2026. He was the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University and professor emeritus at…
Konstantin Bogdanov Russian anthropologist and philologist dead at age 62
Konstantin Bogdanov, a Russian anthropologist and philologist, died on March 1, 2026. He was born on March 30, 1963, in Leningrad, USSR, later Saint Petersburg, Russia. Bogdanov studied classical philology…
Josep Perarnau Priest dead at age 97
Josep Perarnau, a Spanish theologian, died on March 1, 2026, at the age of 97. Born in Avinyó, Catalonia, Spain, on July 8, 1928, he was a Catalan priest, theologian…
Christine Johnson McPhail American academic administrator dead at age -1
Christine Johnson McPhail, an American academic administrator and the thirteenth president of St. Augustine's University, died on March 1, 2026, at age 80. Born in Tyler, Texas, on February 1,…