František Mezihorák, a Czech university pedagogue and politician, died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 88. Born on October 6, 1937, in Vracov, Czechoslovakia, he was a professor and a member of the Czech Social Democratic Party. Mezihorák… · 20 February 2026 · February 2026
David Judge, a British political scientist and writer, died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 75 from oesophageal cancer. He was based at the University of Strathclyde, where he was Emeritus Professor in the School of Government and… · 20 February 2026 · February 2026
Mutumba Mainga, a Zambian historian and politician, died on February 20, 2026. Born in 1938, she was the first Zambian woman to gain a PhD, the first Zambian woman to lecture at the University of Zambia, and the first Zambian… · 20 February 2026 · February 2026
Alexander Avdonin, a Russian geologist, died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in Sverdlovsk in 1932, he worked as a mineralogist and archeologist. Avdonin was known as the first recorded person to begin exhuming the grave… · 20 February 2026 · February 2026
Hidé Ishiguro, a Japanese analytic philosopher and emeritus professor at Keio University in Tokyo, died on February 20, 2026. Born in Tokyo in August 1931, she studied at Tokyo University before pursuing graduate work at the Sorbonne and earning a… · 20 February 2026 · February 2026
Giovanni Fazio, an American physicist, died on February 19, 2026. He was an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian who initiated and participated in multiple observation programs. In 1962, he joined the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and… · 19 February 2026 · February 2026
Michel Imbert, a French neuropsychologist and teacher-researcher in cognitive neurosciences, died on February 19, 2026. Born in Béziers on June 29, 1935, he was professor emeritus at Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University from 2003 and honorary director of studies at the École des… · 19 February 2026 · February 2026
William M. Bugg, an American physicist, died on February 19, 2026, at the age of 95. Born William Maurice Bugg in St. Louis, Missouri, on January 23, 1931, he attended Oak Ridge High School and graduated in 1948. He earned… · 19 February 2026 · February 2026
Norman Francis, an American academic who served as president of Xavier University of Louisiana, died on February 18, 2026, at age 94. He led the university from 1968 to 2015, becoming its first Black and first lay president and the… · 18 February 2026 · February 2026
Leila Shahid, a Palestinian diplomat and the first woman ambassador of Palestine, died on February 18, 2026. Born in Beirut in 1949, she represented the Palestine Liberation Organization in Ireland in 1989 and in the Netherlands in 1990. She later… · 18 February 2026 · February 2026
Antonis Manitakis, a Greek university professor and politician, died on February 18, 2026, at the age of 81. Born in Thessaloniki on May 23, 1944, he studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received a doctorate in law… · 18 February 2026 · February 2026
Orland Larson, a Canadian goldsmith and metalsmith, died on February 18, 2026, at age 94. Larson was also an art educator who played a central role in developing professional jewellery education in Canada. He served as head of jewellery departments… · 18 February 2026 · February 2026
Karen Glaser, an American underwater photographer, died on February 18, 2026, of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Born on June 12, 1954, she began her career as a printer before turning to photography with an underwater Instamatic camera. She learned to… · Parkinson's Disease · 18 February 2026 · February 2026
Thomas De Koninck, a Canadian philosopher from Québec, died on February 17, 2026. Born in Leuven in 1934, he studied at Oxford, Université Laval and Freie Universität Berlin. He taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1960 to 1964… · 17 February 2026 · February 2026
Ray Reach, an American musician, died on February 17, 2026, at age 77. Born Raymond Everett Reach Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama, he worked as a pianist, vocalist, guitarist, composer, arranger, music producer and educator. He performed and recorded in jazz,… · 17 February 2026 · February 2026
Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber, an Austrian-born American academic and founding director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University, died on February 17, 2026. He taught at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of… · 17 February 2026 · February 2026
William Milam, an American diplomat and senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., died on February 17, 2026, at age 89. Born in Bisbee, Arizona, and raised in Sacramento, California, he received an… · 17 February 2026 · February 2026
Ancella Bickley, an American historian who was involved in the preservation of African American history in West Virginia, died on February 16, 2026, at age 95. Born in Huntington, West Virginia, on July 4, 1930, she earned a bachelor’s degree… · 16 February 2026 · February 2026
Tyrone G. Martin, an American Navy commander and naval historian, died on February 16, 2026. He was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, on June 5, 1930, and was commissioned through NROTC in 1952. During 23 years of Navy service, he commanded… · 16 February 2026 · February 2026
Richard Ottinger, an American politician and attorney who served in the United States House of Representatives, died on February 16, 2026. He was 97. A member of the Democratic Party, Ottinger represented New York in the House from 1965 to… · 16 February 2026 · February 2026
Hélène Ahrweiler, the Greek-French Byzantologist and academic known formally as Hélène Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, died on February 16, 2026, in Athens, Greece, at the age of 99. Born in Athens on August 29, 1926, to a family of Greek refugees from Bursa,… · 16 February 2026 · February 2026
Wolfram Saenger, a German biochemist, crystallographer and academic, died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 86. He was known for his pioneering contributions to nucleic acid crystallography and structural biology over a scientific career spanning more than four… · 16 February 2026 · February 2026
Carl Grillmair, a Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist, died on February 16, 2026, after being fatally shot outside his home in Llano, California. He was 67. Grillmair was a research scientist at the California Institute of Technology from 1997, where he… · 16 February 2026 · February 2026
Avel Gordly, an American politician and activist in Oregon, died on February 16, 2026. She was 79. Gordly was born in Portland on February 13, 1947, and became the first African-American woman elected to the Oregon State Senate in 1996,… · 16 February 2026 · February 2026
Guenter B. Risse, an American medical historian, died on February 15, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 28, 1932, he wrote numerous books, including "Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's… · 15 February 2026 · February 2026
Theodore Seio Chihara, an American mathematician, died on February 15, 2026. He worked on orthogonal polynomials and introduced the Al-Salam–Chihara, Brenke–Chihara and Chihara–Ismail polynomials. Chihara earned his PhD from Purdue University, where his thesis advisor was Arthur Rosenthal. He was… · 15 February 2026 · February 2026
Ivar Bjørklund, a Norwegian anthropologist and writer, died on February 15, 2026. Born on December 25, 1949, he was professor of cultural studies at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway and a researcher on interethnic relations… · 15 February 2026 · February 2026
Elaine J. Coates, an American social worker and educator, died on February 14, 2026. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 15, 1937, she was the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Maryland, College Park. Coates later… · 14 February 2026 · February 2026
José Álvaro Moisés, a Brazilian political scientist, died on February 14, 2026, after drowning at Itamambuca Beach in Ubatuba, on the north coast of São Paulo. Born in Campinas on September 4, 1945, he was a full professor of political… · 14 February 2026 · February 2026
Susan George, the American-French political and social scientist, activist and writer, died on February 14, 2026. Born Susan Vance Akers on June 29, 1934, in Akron, Ohio, she wrote on global social justice, Third World poverty, underdevelopment and debt. She… · 14 February 2026 · February 2026
David Harpp, a Canadian chemist and science communicator, died on February 14, 2026, at age 89. He was an award-winning university professor and held the Tomlinson Chair in Science Education at McGill University. Born in Albany, New York, on January… · America · 14 February 2026 · February 2026
Edward L. Deci, an American psychologist and academic, died on February 14, 2026. He was professor of psychology and Gowen Professor in the social sciences at the University of Rochester, where he also directed the Human Motivation Program. Deci was… · 14 February 2026 · February 2026
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Alex Caldiero, an American poet, died on February 13, 2026. Born Alissandru Francesco Caldiero in Licodia Eubea, near Catania, Sicily, in 1949, he immigrated to the United States at age nine and was raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He attended… · Italy · 13 February 2026 · February 2026
Jacques Dubois, the Belgian literary theorist and academic, died on February 13, 2026. He was Professor Emeritus of Literature at the Université de Liège and was born in Liège in 1933. Dubois developed the concept of the Literary Institution, following… · 13 February 2026 · February 2026
William C. Leggett, a Canadian population biologist and university administrator, died on February 13, 2026. He served as the 17th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University in Kingston from 1994 to 2004, becoming only the second scientist to hold the… · 13 February 2026 · February 2026
Paulette Collet, a Belgian essayist and academic, died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 99. Born in Verviers in 1926, she fled to London at the onset of World War II and earned a bachelor’s degree from King’s… · 13 February 2026 · February 2026
Nicolas Grimaldi, a French philosopher, died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in Paris on December 24, 1933, he was of Corsican origin. He earned his agrégation in 1959 and his doctorate in 1970. Grimaldi spent… · 13 February 2026 · February 2026
Joseph Halpern, an Israeli-born American computer scientist and professor at Cornell University, died on February 13, 2026, at age 72. Born in Israel in 1953, he studied mathematics at the University of Toronto, earning a B.S. in 1975, and later… · 13 February 2026 · February 2026
Horst Helle, a German sociologist and academic, died on February 13, 2026. He was Professor Emeritus at LMU Munich in Germany. Born on July 19, 1934, Helle received a business degree from the University of Hamburg, earned an MBA from… · 13 February 2026 · February 2026
Marian Jan Potograbski, a Polish writer, died on February 12, 2026. He was a researcher of the 1956 Poznań protests and received the Silver Cross of Merit of Poland in 2006. · 12 February 2026 · February 2026
Dario Antiseri, an Italian philosopher and academic, died on February 12, 2026, at the age of 86. He held a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, summa cum laude, from the University of Perugia and spent many years as Full Professor of… · 12 February 2026 · February 2026
Jenő Murádin, a Romanian art historian and academic, died on February 11, 2026. Born on November 23, 1937, in Călărași, Turda County, Romania, he was an ethnic Hungarian and a professor at the Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca. Murádin… · 11 February 2026 · February 2026
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, a German art historian, died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in Heidelberg on September 25, 1933, he studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Bonn before serving… · 11 February 2026 · February 2026
Biodun Jeyifo, a Nigerian literary critic and scholar, died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 80. He was a Nigerian academic, critic, public intellectual and cultural theorist who specialized in world Anglophone literature and culture. Born in Ibadan… · 11 February 2026 · February 2026
Helmuth Rilling, the German choral conductor and academic teacher who was internationally known as an authority on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, died on February 11, 2026. Born in Stuttgart on May 29, 1933, he founded the Gächinger Kantorei… · 11 February 2026 · February 2026
Janken Varden, the Norwegian theatre director associated with Oslo Nye Teater, died on February 10, 2026. Born in Oslo on 6 April 1938, he was a graduate of the University of Oslo Law School. He worked as a stage director… · 10 February 2026 · February 2026
András Riedlmayer, a Hungarian-born American art historian and librarian, died on February 10, 2026. Born in Budapest in 1947, he studied at the University of Chicago and at Princeton University, where he lectured in Ottoman history and Near Eastern Studies.… · 10 February 2026 · February 2026
Takamitsu Muraoka, a Japanese linguist and Semitist, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 88. He was Chair of Hebrew, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University in the Netherlands from 1991 to 2003. Muraoka was noted for… · 10 February 2026 · February 2026
Fazail Agamali, an Azerbaijani politician, historian and professor, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 78. He was the founding leader of the Motherland Party, serving in that role from 1990 to 2026. Agamali was a member of… · 09 February 2026 · February 2026
Philippe Gaulier, the French clown, died on February 9, 2026. He was a professor of theatre, dramatic theorist, pedagogue and master clown, and founded École Philippe Gaulier, a theatre school in Étampes, outside Paris. After studying at Théâtre National Populaire… · Britain · 09 February 2026 · February 2026
William Perry Flatt, an American animal and nutritional scientist, died on February 9, 2026. He was 94. Born in Newbern, Tennessee, on June 17, 1931, he was the son of Carl Flatt. He graduated as valedictorian of Trimble High School… · 09 February 2026 · February 2026
Charles Bailleul, a French linguist and Roman Catholic missionary with the White Fathers, died on February 9, 2026, in Bry-sur-Marne, France, at the age of 98. Born in Lille on December 21, 1927, he was also known as Baabilen Kulubali.… · 09 February 2026 · February 2026
Gail R. Martin, an American biologist, died on February 9, 2026. She was known for her pioneering work on the isolation of pluripotent stem cells from normal embryos, for which she coined the term “embryonic stem cells.” Martin also was… · 09 February 2026 · February 2026
Antonino Zichichi, an Italian physicist, died on February 9, 2026. He worked in nuclear physics and served as president of the World Federation of Scientists and as a professor at the University of Bologna. Born in Trapani, Sicily, on October… · 09 February 2026 · February 2026
Jesús Guillera, a Spanish mathematician, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 70. He specialized in number theory and was best known for his work on Ramanujan-type series for calculating the mathematical constant π. Largely self-taught in advanced… · 09 February 2026 · February 2026
Teresa de Lauretis, an Italian activist, author and academic, died on February 9, 2026. She was a Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with interests in semiotics, psychoanalysis, film theory, literary… · England · 09 February 2026 · February 2026
Assad Ali, a Syrian literary critic and academic, died on February 9, 2026. He was a professor of Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, a prolific writer of contemporary Arabic poetry, and the founder and chairman of the World… · England · 09 February 2026 · February 2026
Giulio Lepschy, an Italian linguist and academic, died on February 8, 2026, aged 91. Born in Venice in 1935, he studied at the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa before conducting research at several European universities.… · 08 February 2026 · February 2026
Ernest Morrell, an American scholar and music executive, died on February 8, 2026. He was an academic in English and Africana Studies and, in 2024, served as the Coyle Professor in Literacy Education at Notre Dame, director of the Notre… · 08 February 2026 · February 2026
Augusta Lynn Bolles, an American anthropologist, died on February 8, 2026. She was 76. Bolles was professor emerita of women’s studies and affiliate faculty in anthropology, African American studies, American studies, comparative literature and the Latin American studies center at… · 08 February 2026 · February 2026 · Heart Failure
Shao Yu-ming, a Taiwanese politician, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 87. Born on November 3, 1938, in Binjiang Province in what was then Manchukuo, he moved to Taiwan in 1948 and later studied at National Chengchi… · China · 07 February 2026 · February 2026
Beresford Parlett, an English applied mathematician, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in London on July 4, 1932, he specialized in numerical analysis and scientific computation. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the… · 07 February 2026 · February 2026
Gabriel P. Weisberg, an American art historian and educator, died on February 7, 2026. He was 83. A native of New York City, he earned a bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1963, followed by a master’s degree in… · 07 February 2026 · February 2026
Syed Mohammad Nizami, an Indian Muslim scholar and chief sajjadanasheen of the Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah Shrine, died on February 7, 2026. He had served as the head custodian of the shrine since 2015. Nizami was the nephew of Khwaja Hasan… · 07 February 2026 · February 2026
Herbert Sukopp, a German ecologist and academic, died on February 7, 2026. Born in Berlin on November 6, 1930, he earned his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1958 under Erich Werdermann and completed his habilitation in botany… · 07 February 2026 · February 2026
Daniel Boyd, an American filmmaker and academic, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 69. Born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on September 14, 1956, he was also an author and communications professor. Boyd taught at West Virginia State… · 07 February 2026 · February 2026
Mike Cruise, a British astronomer and astrophysicist, died on February 7, 2026, aged 78. Born Adrian Michael Cruise on May 12, 1947, he began his career as an X-ray astronomer and later worked on instrumentation for space missions at other… · 07 February 2026 · February 2026
David J. Farber, an American computer scientist and professor of computer science, died on February 7, 2026, at age 91. He was noted for major contributions to programming languages and computer networking and served as distinguished professor and co-director of… · 07 February 2026 · February 2026
Hellmut Lorenz, an Austrian art historian, died on February 6, 2026, at the age of 83. Born on June 11, 1942, in Vienna, he was a longtime professor at the University of Salzburg and the Free University of Berlin. In… · 06 February 2026 · February 2026
Michael Greenhalgh, the British art historian who specialised in Classicism and the Renaissance, died on February 6, 2026. Born in Ilkley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on 25 August 1943, he studied at the University of Manchester, earning a BA… · 06 February 2026 · February 2026
Robert J. Plemmons, an American mathematician who specialized in computational mathematics, died on February 6, 2026. He was the emeritus Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wake Forest University. In 1979, he co-authored the book "Nonnegative… · 06 February 2026 · February 2026
Richard W. Mansbach, an American political scientist, died on February 6, 2026. Born in Brooklyn on January 3, 1943, he studied political science, history, and Spanish at Swarthmore College, graduating in 1964. He then attended the University of Oxford as… · 06 February 2026 · February 2026
George R. Rossman, an American mineralogist and academic, died on February 6, 2026, at the age of 81. He was the Professor of Mineralogy at the California Institute of Technology. Born George Robert Rossman on August 3, 1944, in La… · 06 February 2026 · February 2026
Stanley Zdonik, an American computer scientist and academic, died on February 5, 2026. He was 78. Zdonik specialized in database management systems and was a tenured professor of computer science at Brown University. Born in Boston, he lived in the… · 05 February 2026 · February 2026
Marie Woo, a Chinese-American ceramicist and educator, died on February 4, 2026, at age 97. Born in Seattle, Washington, on April 3, 1928, to Southern Chinese parents, she earned a bachelor’s degree in fine art from the University of Washington… · 04 February 2026 · February 2026
Jorge Ruffinelli, a Uruguayan literary critic and academic, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 82. Born in Montevideo on December 16, 1943, he was an associate professor at the University of Buenos Aires in 1973, a professor… · 04 February 2026 · February 2026
Mario Merlino, an Italian neo-fascist activist, historian and writer associated with National Vanguard, died on February 4, 2026. Born Mario Michele Merlino in Rome on June 2, 1944, he was identified in the available record as an Italian neo-fascist activist.… · 04 February 2026 · February 2026
Julian Wojtkowski, a Polish Roman Catholic prelate and theologian, died on February 4, 2026, at age 99. Born in Poznań on January 31, 1927, he was ordained a priest in 1950 after studying for the priesthood for the Diocese of… · 04 February 2026 · February 2026
Gisela Engeln-Müllges, a German mathematician and professor of numerical mathematics at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, died on February 4, 2026. Born in Leipzig in 1940, she studied mathematics at RWTH Aachen University beginning in 1961 after escaping to… · 04 February 2026 · February 2026
John Lofland, an American sociologist, died on February 4, 2026, at age 79. Born John Franklin Lofland in Milford, Delaware, he was best known for his studies of the peace movement and for his first book, Doomsday Cult: A Study… · 04 February 2026 · February 2026
Zohar Shavit, an Israeli scholar, author and translator, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 74. Born in Jaffa on April 14, 1951, she was a professor at Tel Aviv University’s School for Cultural Studies and received the… · 04 February 2026 · February 2026
Igal Talmi, a Ukrainian-born Israeli nuclear physicist, died on February 4, 2026. He was 101. Born in Kiev, then in the Soviet Union, on January 31, 1925, Talmi’s family immigrated to Mandate Palestine later that year and settled in Kfar… · 04 February 2026 · February 2026
Şemsa Özar, a Turkish academic and professor in the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University, died on February 3, 2026, in Istanbul, Turkey, after a long illness. Born in İzmir on March 15, 1954, she earned her degree and master's… · 03 February 2026 · February 2026
André Beteille, an Indian sociologist, writer and academician, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 91. He was known for his studies of the caste system in South India and served with educational institutions in India including the… · 03 February 2026 · February 2026
Pierre Merlin, a French geographer and academic, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Metz on May 6, 1937, he studied at the Prytanée national militaire, the Paris Institute of Statistics and the École polytechnique… · 03 February 2026 · February 2026
Dame Carole Jordan, a British physicist, died on February 3, 2026, aged 84. She was Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford. Jordan was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from… · 03 February 2026 · February 2026
Ivan Nikulin, a Russian politician, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 89. Born Ivan Ivanovich Nikulin on July 10, 1936, in Bryansk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, he was a member of the Communist Party of the… · 03 February 2026 · February 2026 · Iván
Gabor Boritt, an American historian and the Robert Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, died on February 2, 2026. Hungarian-born and raised, he took part as a teenager in the… · 02 February 2026 · February 2026 · Gábor
Josefina Castellví, a Spanish oceanographer, died on February 2, 2026. She was also a biologist and writer. Castellví received her bachelor's degree in 1957 and a PhD in biological sciences at the University of Barcelona in 1969. She began working… · 02 February 2026 · February 2026
William Safran, an American academic and Holocaust survivor and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Colorado Boulder, died on February 2, 2026. Born in Dresden, Germany, on July 8, 1930, to Romanian and Polish immigrant parents, he… · France · 02 February 2026 · February 2026
René Kaës, a French psychologist and psychoanalyst, died on February 1, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Fameck, France, on February 19, 1936, he studied psychosociology at Marc Bloch University. He wrote a thesis titled Images de la… · 01 February 2026 · February 2026
Vicki Abt, an American sociologist, died on February 1, 2026, at age 83. She was a professor of sociology and American studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Abington College. Born Isleen Vicki Abt on December 9, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York,… · 01 February 2026 · February 2026
Sir Nicholas White, a British medical doctor and researcher who specialised in tropical medicine, died on February 1, 2026, aged 74. Born in London on March 13, 1951, he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School at King's College London… · 01 February 2026 · February 2026
Italian physicist and peace activist · 30 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 30
British science historian · 29 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 29
H. Robert Reynolds, an American musician, conductor and academic, died on January 30, 2026, at the age of 91. He was principal conductor of the Wind Ensemble at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, where… · 30 January 2026 · January 2026