Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Peter G. Neumann, an American computer science researcher,
died on May 17, 2026, at age 93 from complications from a fall. He worked on the Multics operating system in the…
Luis de la Peña, a Mexican physicist,
died on May 17, 2026, at the age of 95. Born in Mexico City in 1931, he studied mechanical-electrical engineering at ESIME of…
Stephen Bungay, the director of the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre at Hult International Business School,
died on May 16, 2026, at the age of 71. A British management consultant, historian…
Hajibaba Azimov, an Azerbaijani politician and member of the Supreme Soviet from 1991 to 1995,
died on May 16, 2026, at the age of 87. Born on August 1, 1938,…
International Journal of Comic Art, the American comics scholar who founded the International Journal of Comics Art,
died on May 16, 2026. John A. Lent established the biannual journal in…
Tatsuya Hori, Japanese politician and governor of Hokkaido from 1995 to 2003,
died on May 16, 2026, of cancer. He was 90. Hori was born in Tomakishi, Karafuto, on Nov.…
Frank Land, a German-born British information systems researcher,
died on May 16, 2026, at the age of 97. Born Frank Landsberger in Berlin in October 1928, he was the first…
Tarsy Carballas, a Spanish soil scientist and academic,
died on May 16, 2026. Born in Taboada on June 2, 1934, she was a pioneer in the study of soils in…
Quinn G. McKay, an American academic, writer and Mormon leader,
died on May 16, 2026. He was 99. McKay was born on October 30, 1926, and was raised in Huntsville,…
James Robison, an American televangelist,
died on May 17, 2026, at age 82, according to an announcement of his death. He was also a pastor, theologian, and author, and founded…
Frank Hayden, a Canadian academic and physical education and kinesiology professor,
died on May 16, 2026, at the age of 96. Hayden was born in Windsor, Ontario, on January 11,…
Shin'ichirō Tawata
died on May 15, 2026. He was a Japanese linguist. Tags Scientists, 15 May 2026, Cancer, Japan, Tawata, May 15, May 2026, Shin'ichirō
Aleksandr Borovkov, a Russian mathematician and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
died on May 15, 2026, at age 95. Borovkov was born in Moscow on March 6, 1931.…
Shinichiro Tawada, a Japanese linguist,
died on May 15, 2026. Tags Scientists, 15 May 2026, Cancer, Japan, Shinichiro, Tawada, May 15, May 2026
Jules Angst, a Swiss psychiatrist and academic,
died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 99. Born in Zurich on December 11, 1926, he completed his medical and psychiatric…
Edmund Phelps, an American economist and 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate,
died on May 16, 2026. He was 92. Born in Evanston, Illinois, on July 26, 1933,…
Alan Morton, an Australian rugby union player and leading sport scientist,
died on May 15, 2026, aged 91. Born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, on September 10, 1934, he attended…
Randal Marlin, a Canadian academic and philosophy professor at Carleton University,
died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 88. He specialized in the study of propaganda and was…
Nikolay Tsaturyan, the Armenian theatre director,
died on May 14, 2026, in Yerevan. Born in Yerevan on January 8, 1945, Tsaturyan was also an actor and playwright and was named…
Rubem Medina, a Brazilian politician and economist who served as a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies from 1967 to 2003,
died on May 14, 2026, in Rio de Janeiro.…
Morris Soller, an American-Israeli agricultural geneticist,
died on May 14, 2026. He was 94 or 95. Soller, whose Hebrew name was Moshe Morris Soller, was born in Manhattan, New York…
John Bryan Taylor, a British physicist,
died on May 14, 2026, at the age of 97. Born in Birmingham on December 26, 1928, he was known for his contributions to…
Hans van Houwelingen, a Dutch mathematician,
died on May 14, 2026, at the age of 81. Born Johannes Cornelis van Houwelingen in Rotterdam on March 25, 1945, he was also…
Adone Brandalise
died on May 14, 2026. He was an Italian literary critic and philosopher. A brief notice of his death was published without further details about the circumstances. Tags…
Liah Greenfeld
died on May 13, 2026. She was a Russian-born Israeli-American sociologist and anthropologist. Greenfeld, born on August 22, 1954, wrote on nationalism and related subjects. Tags Scientists, 13…
Kenneth Keith, a New Zealand jurist and legal scholar who served as a judge of the International Court of Justice from 2006 to 2015,
died on May 13, 2026, at…
Ladislav Skula, a Czech mathematician and professor,
died on May 13, 2026, at the age of 88. He was known for work in topology, algebraic number theory and the theory…
Khalifa Chater, a Tunisian academic and historian,
died on May 13, 2026. Khalifa Chater, 90, Tunisian academic and historian. Tags Scientists, 13 May 2026, Chater, Khalifa, Tunisia, 2026-05-13, May 13,…
Barry W. Blaustein, an American screenwriter and film director,
died on May 12, 2026, of pancreatic cancer. He was 72. Blaustein was best known for writing on Saturday Night Live…
William V. Tamborlane, an American pediatrician and academic,
died on May 12, 2026. He was Professor and Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at Yale School of Medicine from 1986. Born in…
Patrick Arnold, an American organic chemist known as the “Father of Prohormones,”
died on May 12, 2026, at age 59. Born in 1966 in Guilford, Connecticut, he was identified in…
Kenneth B. Wiberg, an American chemist and professor emeritus of organic chemistry at Yale University,
died on May 10, 2026, at the age of 98. Born Kenneth Berle Wiberg on…
José Ballesta, the Spanish politician who served as mayor of Murcia,
died on May 10, 2026, of cancer. He was 67. Born in Murcia in 1958, he was a medical…
Mark Ratner, an American chemist and professor emeritus at Northwestern University,
died on May 10, 2026, at the age of 83. Ratner was known for his work on the interplay…
Mary Lovelace O'Neal, an American artist and arts educator,
died on May 10, 2026, at age 84. Born in Jackson, Mississippi, on February 10, 1942, she was known for painting…
Joyce Woodhouse, an American politician and former member of the Nevada Senate,
died on May 9, 2026. She was 82. Woodhouse served in the Nevada Senate representing the 5th district…
Antonio Becerra Gaytán, a Mexican politician and activist,
died on May 9, 2026, at the age of 93. He served as a deputy from 1979 to 1982 and was a…
Alan Gribben, an American literary scholar,
died on May 9, 2026. Born in Parsons, Kansas, on November 21, 1941, he built his career on the works of Mark Twain and…
Mark Smythe
died on May 9, 2026, at the age of 53 from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. He was a New Zealand-born American composer known for Daddy's Little Girl, Unfallen, and…
Theo van Boven, a Dutch jurist and professor emeritus in international law,
died on May 9, 2026. He was appointed in 1977 as director of the United Nations Division for…
Melo Freire, a Brazilian politician and deputy from 1975 to 1991,
died on May 8, 2026, at age 99. Born Joaquim de Melo Freire on January 11, 1927, in Passos,…
Anna Ritchie, a British archaeologist and historian,
died on May 8, 2026, aged 82. Born on September 28, 1943, she was known for her work at archaeological sites in Orkney…
Festus Mogae, the Motswana president from 1998 to 2008 and an economist,
died on May 8, 2026, at the age of 86. He was Botswana’s third president, succeeding Quett Masire…
Ursula Bäumlin, a Swiss politician and theologian who served as a member of the National Council from 1987 to 1998,
died on May 7, 2026, at the age of 87.…
Pierre Chambon, a French biologist and member of the French Academy of Sciences,
died on May 7, 2026, at the age of 95. Born on February 7, 1931, in Mulhouse,…
Aimable Karasira, a Rwandan academic, singer, YouTuber and political activist,
died on May 6, 2026, of a drug overdose. Karasira was an ethnic Tutsi whose parents were killed in the…
Liviu Volconovici, a Moldovan politician, agronomist and professor who served as Minister of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment in 2018,
died on May 6, 2026, at the age of 69.…
Georgy Golitsyn, a Russian scientist known for his work in atmospheric physics,
died on May 6, 2026. He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR…
Anatoly Rusanov, a Russian chemist,
died on May 6, 2026, at the age of 94. Born in Leningrad on April 20, 1932, he was a member of the Russian Academy…
Algis Jurgis Kundrotas, a Lithuanian physicist,
died on May 6, 2026, at age 75. He was also a habilitated doctor of physical sciences, university professor and independent researcher. Born on…
Val Attenbrow
died on May 5, 2026. She was an Australian archaeologist. Tags Scientists, 05 May 2026, Attenbrow, Australia, Scorpio, Val, May 2026, May 5
Peter Ferrara, an American lawyer and policy analyst,
died on May 5, 2026, at the age of 71. He was also a columnist and served as an analyst for The…
Shaikh Idrees, a Pakistani Islamic scholar and politician who served as a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 2002 to 2007,
died on May 5, 2026, after…
Pierre Pascallon, a French politician and former deputy and mayor of Issoire,
died on May 5, 2026, at the age of 84. He served as a deputy in the National…
Idris Tarangzai, a Pakistani Islamic scholar and politician who served as a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MPA from 2002 to 2007,
died on May 5, 2026, after being shot. He was 64.…
Robert A. Stebbins, an American-born Canadian sociologist,
died on May 4, 2026. He was 87. Stebbins was professor emeritus at the University of Calgary and served as associate editor for…
Ion Toderaș
died on May 4, 2026. He was a Moldovan ecologist and biologist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Tags Scientists, 04 May 2026, Ion,…
Peter Cannon-Brookes
died on May 3, 2026. He was a British art historian. Tags Scientists, 03 May 2026, Britain, Peter, Cannon-Brookes, May 2026, May 3
Krzysztof Pawłowski, a Polish politician and senator from 1989 to 1993,
died on May 3, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Nowy Sącz on June 26, 1946, he…
Charles W. Curtis, an American mathematician and historian of mathematics,
died on May 3, 2026. He was known for his work in finite group theory and representation theory and served…
Geoff Stedman, a New Zealand physicist,
died on May 3, 2026, aged 83. He was known for his work on ring lasers and had research interests including the foundations of…
Branko Marušič, a Slovenian historian,
died on May 3, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Gorizia, Italy, to an upper middle class Slovene family, he moved with his…
Colin H. Williams, a Welsh academic,
died on May 2, 2026. Tags Scientists, 02 May 2026, Colin, Wales, Williams, May 2, May 2026
Emily Grosholz, an American poet and philosopher,
died on May 2, 2026. Born on October 17, 1950, in Philadelphia, she was the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, African American…
Martin C. Weisskopf, an American space scientist,
died on May 2, 2026, at age 84. Weisskopf was an astrophysicist who, until his retirement from NASA at the end of May…
Peter R. Moody Jr., an American political scientist and sinologist,
died on May 2, 2026. He was professor emeritus of political science at the University of Notre Dame in South…
Castell V. Bryant, an American academic administrator and former interim president of Florida A&M University,
died on May 2, 2026. She was 88. Bryant served as interim president of Florida…
Finn Wagle, a Norwegian Church of Norway clergyman and bishop of Nidaros from 1991 to 2008,
died on May 2, 2026, at the age of 84. Born in Oslo on…
Michel Debost, a French flutist,
died on May 2, 2026, at age 92. Born in Paris on January 20, 1934, he was one of the best-known flutists of the French…
G. Robert Blakey, an American attorney and emeritus law professor,
died on May 1, 2026, at age 90. He was best known for his work in connection with drafting the…
Panayot Butchvarov, the Bulgarian philosopher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Iowa,
died on May 1, 2026. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, on April 2, 1933, he…
Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, a Swiss physician and advocate for therapeutic fasting,
died on May 1, 2026, at the age of 73. Born in Geneva on February 5, 1953, she…
Stephen Owen, an American sinologist,
died on May 1, 2026, at age 79. He specialized in Chinese literature, particularly Tang dynasty poetry and comparative poetics, and taught Chinese literature and…
Philippe Lazar, French statistician and epidemiologist,
died on May 1, 2026, at the age of 90. He served as president of Inserm from 1982 to 1996 and as president of…
Michael Sollis, an Australian musician,
died on May 1, 2026, aged 40, from bowel cancer. He was also an interdisciplinary artist, artistic director, researcher and teaching artist. Sollis founded and…
Juliet Winters Carpenter, an American translator,
died on May 1, 2026. She was a translator of modern Japanese literature whose fiction and nonfiction translations won numerous awards. Born in Ann…
Peter L. P. Dillon
died on April 30, 2026. Tags Scientists, 30 April 2026, America, Dillon, Peter, April 2026, April 30
Paul A. Fleury
died on April 30, 2026. Tags Scientists, 30 April 2026, America, Fleury, Paul, April 2026, April 30
Pirkko-Liisa Lehtosalo-Hilander
died on April 30, 2026. Tags Scientists, 30 April 2026, Finland, April 2026, April 30, Lehtosalo-Hilander, Pirkko-Liisa
Fernando Novais
died on April 30, 2026. No cause of death was stated. Tags Scientists, Writers, 30 April 2026, Brazil, Fernando, Novais, April 2026, April 30
Tony Ridley
died on April 29, 2026. Tags Scientists, 29 April 2026, Britain, Ridley, Tony, April 2026, April 29
Marguerite Shuster
died on April 29, 2026. Tags Scientists, 29 April 2026, America, Marguerite, Shuster, April 2026, April 29
Eddy Pratomo, an Indonesian diplomat and law scholar,
died on April 29, 2026, at the age of 72. He served as Indonesia’s ambassador to Germany from 2009 to 2013 and…
Vladimir Voevodin, a Russian computer scientist,
died on April 29, 2026. He was 63. Born in Moscow on May 25, 1962, Voevodin studied at Moscow State University, where he graduated…
Richard Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth, the British Anglican clergyman and life peer who served as Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006 and sat in the House of Lords…
Craig Venter, an American genomics researcher and founder of Celera Corporation and the J. Craig Venter Institute,
died on April 29, 2026, at age 79 from complications from cancer. Venter,…
J. Craig Venter, an American genomics researcher and founder of Celera Corporation and the J. Craig Venter Institute,
died on April 29, 2026, of complications from cancer. He was 79.…
Brent Robbins, an American psychologist and academic,
died on April 28, 2026, at the age of 55. He was an associate professor of psychology at Point Park University in Pittsburgh,…
Murad Taqqu, an Iraqi-born American mathematician whose work helped lay the mathematical foundations for modern internet traffic,
died on April 28, 2026. He was 84. Born in Baghdad and raised…
Ittai Gradel, an Israeli-born British antiques dealer,
died on April 28, 2026, at the age of 61 from renal cancer. Born in Haifa on January 29, 1965, he was also…
Silvano Raia, a Brazilian liver surgeon,
died on April 28, 2026, at the age of 95. He specialized in liver diseases and was professor emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine…
Dame Bridget Ogilvie
died on April 27, 2026. Tags Scientists, 27 April 2026, Australia, Britain, Dame, Ogilvie, April 2026, April 27
John E. Franz, an American chemist known for discovering glyphosate,
died on April 27, 2026. Born on December 21, 1929, in Springfield, he worked at Monsanto Company, where he discovered…
Zelda F. Gamson, an American sociologist,
died on April 27, 2026, at age 90 from pancreatic cancer. Born Zelda Finkelstein in Philadelphia on March 12, 1936, she was a writer…
Edith Eger, a Hungarian-American psychologist and author,
died on April 27, 2026, at age 98. Born Edith Eva Elefánt on September 29, 1927, in Budapest, Hungary, she was a clinical…
Erik Thorbecke
died on April 26, 2026. Tags Scientists, 26 April 2026, America, Erik, Thorbecke, April 2026, April 26
