Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Arthur Ashkin
American scientist
Died on Saturday September 26th 2020
Sally Engle Merry
American anthropologist
Died on Saturday September 26th 2020
Isher Judge Ahluwalia
Indian economist
Died on Saturday September 26th 2020
Yvette Taborin
French archaeologist
Died on Saturday September 26th 2020
Viktor Panin
Russian physicist
Died on Saturday September 26th 2020
Viktor Yevgenievich Panin
Russian physicist
Died on Saturday September 26th 2020
Sekhar Basu
Indian nuclear scientist
Died on Thursday September 24th 2020
Dame Georgina Mace
British ecologist and conservation scientist
Died on Thursday September 24th 2020
Dan Olweus
Swedish psychologist
Died on Wednesday September 23rd 2020
Sergey Khoruzhiy
Russian theoretical physicist
Died on Tuesday September 22nd 2020
László Török
Hungarian historian and archaeologist
Died on Monday September 21st 2020
Mykola Polyakov
Ukrainian scientist
Died on Monday September 21st 2020
Meron Benvenisti
Israeli political scientist
Died on Sunday September 20th 2020
Stephen F. Cohen
American academic and historian
Died on Saturday September 19th 2020
Shah Ahmad Shafi
Bangladeshi Islamic scholar
Died on Friday September 18th 2020
Berni Alder
German-born American physicist
Died on Friday September 18th 2020
Carol Braun Pasternack
American literary historian
Died on Thursday September 17th 2020
Luboš Perek
Czech astronomer
Died on Thursday September 17th 2020
Peter Paret
German-born American historian
Died on Thursday September 17th 2020
William Henry Danforth
American physician and academic administrator
Died on Thursday September 17th 2020
Vital Alsar
Spanish sailor and scientist
Died on Wednesday September 16th 2020
Kapila Vatsyayan
Indian classical scholar
Died on Wednesday September 16th 2020
Nigel Te Hiko
New Zealand Māori historian (Ngāti Raukawa)
Died on Wednesday September 16th 2020
Yasin Mazhar Siddiqi
Indian Islamic scholar
Died on Tuesday September 15th 2020
Mario Torelli
Italian archaeologist
Died on Tuesday September 15th 2020
Didier Lapeyronnie
French sociologist
Died on Monday September 14th 2020
Alberto Collino
Italian mathematician
Died on Monday September 14th 2020
James Jackson
American social psychologist
Died on Monday September 14th 2020
André Lespagnol
French professor and politician
Died on Monday September 14th 2020
Zameer Akhtar Naqvi
Indian-born Pakistani Islamic scholar
Died on Sunday September 13th 2020
Roberto Finzi
Italian historian
Died on Saturday September 12th 2020
Patricia Thiel
American chemist and materials scientist
Died on Friday September 11th 2020
Jean-Léon Beauvois
French psychologist
Died on Wednesday September 9th 2020
Sir Vaughan Jones
New Zealand mathematician (Jones polynomial)
Died on Tuesday September 8th 2020
Gene Budig
American baseball executive and academic
Died on Tuesday September 8th 2020
George Carr Frison
American archaeologist
Died on Tuesday September 8th 2020
Jiřina Prekopová
Czech psychologist
Died on Tuesday September 8th 2020
Govind Swarup
Indian radio astronomer
Died on Monday September 7th 2020
Abdul Malik Fadjar
Indonesian politician and academic
Died on Monday September 7th 2020
Norman J. W. Thrower
British-born American geographer and historian of cartography
Died on Sunday September 6th 2020
Michael Redhead
British philosopher of science
Died on Saturday September 5th 2020
Richard M. Weiner
Romanian-born German theoretical physicist
Died on Friday September 4th 2020
David Graeber
American anthropologist and author (Bullshit Jobs
Died on Thursday September 3rd 2020
Curt Vendel
Atari historian
Died on Thursday September 3rd 2020
Masahiro Koishikawa
Japanese astronomer
Died on Wednesday September 2nd 2020
Hans A. Linde
American judge and legal scholar
Died on Tuesday September 1st 2020
Yngvar Lundh
Norwegian computer scientist
Died on Tuesday September 1st 2020
Robert Finkelstein
American theoretical physicist
Died on Tuesday September 1st 2020
Marguerite Harl
French literary scholar
Died on Monday August 31st 2020
P. R. Dubhashi
Indian civil servant and social scientist
Died on Monday August 31st 2020
P. B. Waite
Canadian historian
Died on Monday August 31st 2020
Ricardo Valderrama Fernández
Peruvian anthropologist and politician
Died on Monday August 31st 2020
Ángel Faus Belau
Spanish journalist and academic (University of Navarra)
Died on Monday August 31st 2020
Jorge Flores Ochoa
Peruvian anthropologist and academic
Died on Monday August 31st 2020
Bernd Fischer
German mathematician
Died on Monday August 31st 2020
Frederick Baker
Austrian-British filmmaker and archaeologist
Died on Sunday August 30th 2020
Jan D. Achenbach
Dutch-American acoustical engineer and academic
Died on Saturday August 29th 2020
Peter Stuart Excell
British engineer and scientist
Died on Saturday August 29th 2020
Eric M. Hammel
American military historian and novelist
Died on Saturday August 29th 2020
Edward Wilson Merrill
American biomaterials scientist
Died on Saturday August 29th 2020
Eugene S. Mills
American academic administrator
Died on Saturday August 29th 2020
Fujio Matsuda
American engineer and academic administrator
Died on Saturday August 29th 2020
Assar Lindbeck
Swedish economist
Died on Saturday August 29th 2020
Edward Bruner
American anthropologist
Died on Saturday August 29th 2020
Finis Welch
economist (Vice-President of the American Economic Association in 2002)
Died on Friday August 28th 2020
Rebeca Guber
Argentine mathematician and computer scientist
Died on Thursday August 27th 2020
Keri Kaa
New Zealand educator and writer
Died on Thursday August 27th 2020
Gaston Roberge
Canadian priest and film historian
Died on Wednesday August 26th 2020
Erik Allardt
Finnish sociologist
Died on Wednesday August 26th 2020
Albert Appel
American art educator and musician
Died on Wednesday August 26th 2020
Stoyan Alexandrov
Bulgarian economist
Died on Monday August 24th 2020
John Ohala
American linguist
Died on Monday August 24th 2020
Philippe Mongin
French economist
Died on Monday August 24th 2020
Maria Janion
Polish scholar and critic
Died on Sunday August 23rd 2020
Ann Syrdal
American psychologist and computer science researcher who developed the first female-sounding voice synthesizer
Died on Sunday August 23rd 2020
Gerald Gaus
American philosopher
Died on Sunday August 23rd 2020
Arnold R. Weber
American academic administrator
Died on Saturday August 22nd 2020
Andrzej Walicki
Polish historian and philosopher
Died on Friday August 21st 2020
Sir Bob Elliott
New Zealand medical researcher
Died on Friday August 21st 2020
Wojciech Karpiński
Polish writer and historian of ideas
Died on Thursday August 20th 2020
Alan Trachtenberg
American historian
Died on Thursday August 20th 2020
Lungile Pepeta
South African academic
Died on Thursday August 20th 2020
Durbin Feeling
American Cherokee linguist
Died on Thursday August 20th 2020
Durban Feeling
American Cherokee linguist
Died on Wednesday August 19th 2020
Miriam Jiménez Román
Puerto Rican academic
Died on Wednesday August 19th 2020
Borys Paton
Ukrainian scientist
Died on Wednesday August 19th 2020
Kenneth Kunen
American mathematician
Died on Wednesday August 19th 2020
Charles Allen
British writer and historian
Died on Tuesday August 18th 2020
Ladislav Jirků
Czech politician (member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic 2010–2013) and academic
Died on Tuesday August 18th 2020