Deaths Famous Dead Scientists
Sekhar Basu
Indian nuclear scientist · 23 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 23
Dame Georgina Mace
British ecologist and conservation scientist · 23 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 23 · Mace
Sergey Khoruzhiy
Russian theoretical physicist · 21 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 21
Shah Ahmad Shafi
Bangladeshi Islamic scholar · 17 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 17 · Shafi
Carol Braun Pasternack
American literary historian · 16 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 16 · Pasternack
William Henry Danforth
American physician and academic administrator · 16 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 16 · Danforth
Ed Bearss
American military historian and author · 16 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 16
Vital Alsar
Spanish sailor and scientist · 15 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 15
Kapila Vatsyayan
Indian classical scholar · 15 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 15
Nigel Te Hiko
New Zealand Māori historian (Ngāti Raukawa) · 15 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 15 · Hiko
Yasin Mazhar Siddiqi
Indian Islamic scholar · 14 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 14 · Siddiqi
Zameer Akhtar Naqvi
Indian-born Pakistani Islamic scholar · 12 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 12 · Naqvi
Patricia Thiel
American chemist and materials scientist · 10 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 10
Sir Vaughan Jones
New Zealand mathematician (Jones polynomial) · 07 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 7
Gene Budig
American baseball executive and academic · 07 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 7
Norman J. W. Thrower
British-born American geographer and historian of cartography · 05 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 5 · Thrower
Michael Redhead
British philosopher of science · 04 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 4
Richard M. Weiner
Romanian-born German theoretical physicist · 03 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 3 · Weiner
David Graeber
American anthropologist and author (Bullshit Jobs · 02 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 2
Curt Vendel
Atari historian · 02 September 2020 · September 2020 · September 2
Hans A. Linde
American judge and legal scholar · 31 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 31 · Linde
Yngvar Lundh
Norwegian computer scientist · 31 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 31
Robert Finkelstein
American theoretical physicist · 31 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 31
Marguerite Harl
French literary scholar · 30 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 30 · French
P. R. Dubhashi
Indian civil servant and social scientist · 30 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 30 · Dubhashi
Ángel Faus Belau
Spanish journalist and academic (University of Navarra) · 30 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 30 · Belau
Frederick Baker
Austrian-British filmmaker and archaeologist · 29 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 29
Jan D. Achenbach
Dutch-American acoustical engineer and academic · 28 August 2020 · August 2020 · Achenbach · August 28 · Dutch
Peter Stuart Excell
British engineer and scientist · 28 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 28 · Excell
Eric M. Hammel
American military historian and novelist · 28 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 28 · Hammel · Éric
Edward Wilson Merrill
American biomaterials scientist · 28 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 28 · Merrill
Eugene S. Mills
American academic administrator · 28 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 28 · Mills
Fujio Matsuda
American engineer and academic administrator · 28 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 28
Finis Welch
economist (Vice-President of the American Economic Association in 2002) · 27 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 27
Rebeca Guber
Argentine mathematician and computer scientist · 26 August 2020 · August 2020 · Argentine · August 26
Gaston Roberge
Canadian priest and film historian · 25 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 25
Albert Appel
American art educator and musician · 25 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 25
Ann Syrdal
American psychologist and computer science researcher who developed the first female-sounding voice synthesizer · 22 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 22
Arnold R. Weber
American academic administrator · 21 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 21 · Weber
Sir Bob Elliott
New Zealand medical researcher · 20 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 20 · Doctors · Elliott
Wojciech Karpiński
Polish writer and historian of ideas · 19 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 19
Durbin Feeling
American Cherokee linguist · 19 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 19
Durban Feeling
American Cherokee linguist · 18 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 18
Miriam Jiménez Román
Puerto Rican academic · 18 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 18 · Roman
Ladislav Jirků
Czech politician (member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic 2010–2013) and academic · 17 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 17 · Czech
Frank Barnaby
British nuclear physicist · 17 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 17
Cesare Romiti
Italian economist and businessman · 17 August 2020 · August 2020 · August 17