Giuseppe Armocida
Italian historian and physicianDied on Sunday March 1st 2026
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
François-Bernard Michel
French academicDied on Sunday March 1st 2026
Jean-Yves Lallemand
French chemistDied on Sunday March 1st 2026
Niels Davidsen-Nielsen
Danish linguistDied on Sunday March 1st 2026
Kira Rogova
Russian linguistDied on Sunday March 1st 2026
Rémy Scheurer Academic dead at age 91
Rémy Scheurer, a Swiss politician, died on February 28, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in Neuchâtel on March 11, 1934, he was a member of the Swiss Liberal…
Lars Lallerstedt Swedish industrial designer dead at age 87
Lars Lallerstedt, a Swedish industrial designer and pioneer in the field in Sweden, died on February 28, 2026. Born on June 5, 1938, he worked across a range of design…
Patricia Schady British astrophysicist dead at age 47
Patricia Schady, a British astrophysicist, died on February 28, 2026. She specialized in gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies and was a senior lecturer at the University of Bath at…
Mario Buhagiar Maltese art historian dead at age 81
Mario Buhagiar, a Maltese art historian and author, died on February 28, 2026, aged 81. He was a professor in the history of art at the University of Malta and…
Michael F. Robinson English composer dead at age 92
Michael F. Robinson, an English composer, died on February 28, 2026. Born in Gloucester on March 3, 1933, he was also a musicologist and academic best known for his scholarly…
Karlen G. Adamyan Armenian cardiologist dead at age 89
Karlen G. Adamyan, an Armenian cardiologist, died on February 28, 2026, at the age of 89. Born on January 19, 1937, in Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR, he graduated from Yerevan…
Jack Scarisbrick 97-98 dead at age 97
John Joseph Scarisbrick MBE, a British historian who taught at the University of Warwick, died on February 28, 2026, aged 97. Born in London on October 6, 1928, he studied…
Robin Weiss Scientific discoveries related to HIV retrovirus dead at age 86
Robin Weiss, the British molecular biologist and influential scientist in virology and cancer biology, died on February 27, 2026, aged 86. His research focused on retroviruses, and he was noted…
Andrzej Trautman Robinson–Trautman gravitational wavesTrautman recovery theorem in Newton–Cartan th…
Andrzej Trautman, a Polish mathematical physicist, died on February 27, 2026, at age 93. Born in Warsaw on January 4, 1933, he contributed to classical gravitation and general relativity. His…
David Botstein Genetic linkage map using restriction fragment length polymorphisms dead at age 83
David Botstein, an American biologist, died on February 27, 2026. He was director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University from 2003 to 2013 and held the…
Malcolm Budd English philosopher dead at age 84
Malcolm Budd, an English philosopher, died on February 26, 2026. Budd studied mathematics and philosophy at Jesus College, Cambridge, and taught at University College London from 1970 until 2001. He…
Ardis E. Parshall American historian dead at age 66
Ardis E. Parshall, an American historian and independent researcher of Latter-day Saint history, died on February 26, 2026. She published her research on the blog Keepapitchinin and worked for The…
T. K. Oommen Indian sociologist dead at age 88
T. K. Oommen, an Indian sociologist, died on February 26, 2026. Also known as Tharailath Koshy Oommen, he was Professor Emeritus at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems,…
Carl H. Brans Brans–Dicke theory dead at age 90
Carl H. Brans, an American mathematical physicist best known for his work on gravitation and the Brans–Dicke theory, died on February 26, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in…
Piero Barucci Italian politician dead at age 92
Piero Barucci, the Italian academic, economist and politician who served as Minister of Treasury from 1992 to 1994, died on February 26, 2026, in Florence, Italy, at the age of…
Bevan Morris Australian-born American academic and politician dead at age 76
Bevan Morris, an Australian-born American academic and politician who served as president of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, for 36 years and was a founder of the Natural…
Takeshi Amemiya Japanese economist dead at age 90
Takeshi Amemiya, a Japanese economist, died on February 25, 2026. Born in Tokyo on March 29, 1935, he specialized in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece. Amemiya was the…
Carol Walker American mathematician dead at age 90
Carol Walker, an American mathematician and mathematics textbook author, died on February 25, 2026. Born Carol Lee Walker on August 19, 1935, in Martinez, California, she studied music education at…
Charlie Smith Dannelly American politician dead at age 101
Charlie Smith Dannelly, an American politician and retired educator, died on February 25, 2026. He served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate from 1994 to 2013, representing…
Ora Kedem Contributions to thermodynamics and separation processes dead at age 101
Ora Kedem, an Austrian-born Israeli chemist and professor emerita, died on February 25, 2026. She was 101. Kedem taught at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Ben-Gurion University of the…
William E. Connolly American political theorist dead at age 88
William E. Connolly, an American political theorist, died on February 25, 2026. Born William Eugene Connolly on January 6, 1938, in Flint, Michigan, he was known for his work on…
Abdul Majid Arfaei Researcher, author, elamitologist dead at age 86
Abdul Majid Arfaei, an Iranian researcher and elamitologist, died on February 25, 2026, at the age of 86. Also known as Abdul Majid Arfaee, he was born on September 1,…
Roman Kofman Ukrainian conductor and composer dead at age 89
Roman Kofman, the Ukrainian conductor, violinist and composer, died on February 24, 2026, at age 89. Born in Kyiv in 1936, he was a music educator and was named a…
Stephen Koch (writer) American writer dead at age 84
Stephen Koch, an American writer, novelist, essayist, historian and teacher, died on February 24, 2026, at age 84. Born Stephen Bayard Koch on May 8, 1941, in Saint Paul, Minnesota,…
Elaine Ingham American microbiologist dead at age 73
Elaine Ingham, an American microbiologist, died on February 24, 2026. She was a soil biology researcher and the founder of Soil Foodweb Inc. and the Soil Foodweb School. Ingham was…
Petr Horák (historian)
Czech historian of philosophyDied on Monday February 23rd 2026
Ali Babachahi Poet, writer, researcher, literary critic dead at age 83
Ali Babachahi, an Iranian poet and writer, died on February 23, 2026, at age 83. Born in Bushehr in 1942, he was also a researcher and literary critic. Babachahi published…
Stephanie Kugelman American advertising executive dead at age 78
Stephanie Kugelman, an American advertising executive and branding expert, died on February 23, 2026, in New York City at age 78. She was a past vice chairman and chief strategic…
Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz Dutch physicist dead at age 101
Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz, a Dutch physicist and academic, died on February 23, 2026. He was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Groningen from 1960 to 1989. Born…
Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo Historian dead at age 98
Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo, a Togolese historian and politician, died on February 23, 2026, at the age of 98. He was a member of the Democratic Convention of African Peoples (CDPA)…
Eugene G. Sander American academic dead at age 90
Eugene G. Sander, an American academic and former president of the University of Arizona, died on February 22, 2026, at the age of 90. He served as president from 2011…
Joan Huber Work on gender stratification dead at age 100
Joan Huber, an American sociologist and professor of sociology at Ohio State University, died on February 22, 2026. Born on October 17, 1925, in Bluffton, Ohio, she taught at the…
Hans-Dieter Sues Paleontologist dead at age 70
Hans-Dieter Sues, a German-born American paleontologist and Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, died…
Vicente L. Rafael Contracting Colonialism; “White Love”; The Promise of the ForeignR…
Vicente L. Rafael, a Filipino historian and professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Washington, Seattle, died on February 21, 2026. He was 70. Rafael received his B.A.…
MaryAnn Bin-Sallik Australian Indigenous Djaru elder and academic dead at age 85
MaryAnn Bin-Sallik, an Australian Indigenous Djaru elder and academic, died on February 21, 2026, aged 85. Born in Broome, Western Australia, on 2 November 1940, she moved with her family…
Daryl Jackson Architect dead at age 89
Daryl Jackson, Australian architect and educator, died on February 21, 2026, aged 89. Daryl Sanders Jackson AO was responsible for a number of notable designs, working alone and with partners…
František Mezihorák Professor dead at age 88
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…
David Judge (political scientist) British political scientist and writer, oesophageal cancer dead a…
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…
Mutumba Mainga Zambian historian ans politician dead at age 88
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…
Alexander Avdonin Russian geologist dead at age 93
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…
Hidé Ishiguro 94–95 dead at age 94
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…
Giovanni Fazio infrared instruments, including the Infrared Array Camera IRAC aboard the Spitzer Sp…
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…
William M. Bugg Physicist dead at age 95
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…
Michel Imbert French neuropsychologist dead at age 90
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…
Norman Francis Lawyer dead at age 94
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,…
Leila Shahid Diplomat, anthropologist dead at age 76
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…
Antonis Manitakis Greek politician dead at age 81
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…
Orland Larson Goldsmithing dead at age 94
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…
Karen Glaser (photographer) Underwater photography dead at age 71
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…
Thomas De Koninck Canadian philosopher dead at age 91
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…
Ray Reach Musician dead at age 77
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,…
Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber Austrian-born American academic dead at age 70
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…
William Milam American diplomat dead at age 89
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…
Ancella Bickley American historian dead at age 95
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…
Tyrone G. Martin American navy commander and naval historian dead at age 95
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…
Richard Ottinger American politician dead at age 97
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,…
Hélène Ahrweiler Greek-French Byzantologist dead at age 99
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…
Wolfram Saenger X-ray crystallography of membrane proteins dead at age 86
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…
Carl Grillmair Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist, shot dead at age 67
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…
Avel Gordly Activist, community organizer, educator dead at age 79
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…
Theodore Seio Chihara American mathematician dead at age 96
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…
Ivar Bjørklund Norwegian anthropologist and writer dead at age 76
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…
Guenter B. Risse American medical historian dead at age 93
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,…
Elaine J. Coates First African American graduate of University of Maryland dead at age 88
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…
José Álvaro Moisés Brazilian political scientist dead at age 81
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…
Susan George (political scientist) American-French political and social scientist dead at age 91
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…
David Harpp Science communication dead at age -1
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…
Edward L. Deci Academic, author, psychologist dead at age 83
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,…
Robert S. Anderson
American philanthropist and local historianDied on Friday February 13th 2026
Alex Caldiero American poet dead at age 76
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…
Jacques Dubois (literary theorist) Belgian literary theorist and academic dead at age 92
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…
William C. Leggett Canadian population biologist and university administrator dead at age 86
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…
Paulette Collet Belgian essayist and academic dead at age 99
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…
Nicolas Grimaldi Philosopher dead at age 92
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…
Joseph Halpern Israeli-born American computer scientist dead at age 72
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…
Horst Helle German sociologist and academic dead at age 91
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…
Marian Potograbski Writer dead at age -1
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…
Dario Antiseri Italian philosopher dead at age 86
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…
Jenő Murádin Art historian dead at age 88
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…
Christoph Luitpold Frommel Art historian dead at age 92
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…
Biodun Jeyifo Nigerian literary critic and scholar dead at age 80
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…
Helmuth Rilling German choral conductor dead at age 92
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…
Janken Varden Norwegian theatre director dead at age 87
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…
András Riedlmayer Hungarian-born American art historian dead at age 79
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,…
Takamitsu Muraoka Japanese linguist dead at age 88
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…
Fazail Agamali Azerbaijani politician dead at age 78
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…
Philippe Gaulier Clown, dramatic theorist, theatre professor, playwright, theatre practitioner, the…
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…
William Flatt American animal and nutritional scientist dead at age 94
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…
Charles Bailleul French linguist and missionary dead at age 98
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…
Gail R. Martin American biologist dead at age 81
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…
Antonino Zichichi Italian physicist dead at age 96
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…
Jesús Guillera Ramanujan-type series for π dead at age 70
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…
Teresa de Lauretis Italian activist dead at age 87
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,…
Assad Ali Syrian literary critic and academic dead at age 88
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…