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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Arthur P. Dempster, an American mathematician and professor emeritus in the Harvard University department of statistics, died on January 30, 2026, at the age of 96. Born on October 8, 1929, he was one of four faculty members composing the… · 30 January 2026 · January 2026
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
Paul Deheuvels, a French statistician and specialist in probability, died on January 30, 2026. He was 77. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 11, 1948, Deheuvels was a professor of mathematics at Pierre-et-Marie Curie University in Paris from 1974 to… · 30 January 2026 · January 2026
Martin Bruns, a Swiss baritone and music lecturer, died on January 30, 2026. Born in Weil am Rhein on November 25, 1960, he was a member of the Knabenkantorei Basel during his school years. He studied violin at the City… · 30 January 2026 · January 2026
Chip Berlet, an American investigative journalist and author, died on January 30, 2026, of leukemia. Born John Foster Berlet on November 22, 1949, he was known for his work as a research analyst, photojournalist, scholar and activist focused on extreme… · 30 January 2026 · January 2026
British polar historian and biographer · 29 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 29
American author and military historian · 29 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 29 · Rottman
Heather Goodall, an Australian academic and historian, died on January 29, 2026, at the age of 75. She was Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research and writing focused on Indigenous and environmental history and intercolonial networks.… · 29 January 2026 · January 2026
Eric Cameron, a Canadian artist known for his conceptual art work, died on January 29, 2026. He lived in Calgary, Alberta, and was also a writer and educator. Born in Leicester, England, on April 18, 1935, Cameron moved to Canada… · 29 January 2026 · January 2026 · Éric
Michael H. Prosser, an American academic and professor emeritus at the University of Virginia, died on January 29, 2026, at age 89. He served at the University of Virginia from 1972 to 2001 and was a Fulbright Professor at the… · 29 January 2026 · January 2026
Fobazi Ettarh, an American academic and librarian best known for coining the term “vocational awe,” died on January 28, 2026. Born in New Jersey in 1989, she served as a librarian at Temple University Libraries, California State University, Dominguez Hills… · 28 January 2026 · January 2026
Josef Dvorak, an Austrian therapist, Catholic theologian and author, died on January 28, 2026. Born in Vienna on January 28, 1934, he was also a scholar of Karl Rahner and a co-founder of the Viennese Actionism. He worked for several… · 28 January 2026 · January 2026 · Dvořák
American geneticist and academic · 26 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 26
Anne Agur, a Canadian clinical anatomist and professor at the University of Toronto, died on January 26, 2026. She taught for many years in the Department of Anatomy within the Department of Surgery and was a full professor. Agur received… · America · 26 January 2026 · January 2026
Annette Dolphin, a British scientist and professor of pharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College London, died on January 26, 2026, aged 74–75. Born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, in 1951, she studied biochemistry at the… · 26 January 2026 · January 2026
Reinhardt Kiehl, a German mathematician, died on January 26, 2026. Born in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, on May 31, 1935, he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy from 1955 at the University of Göttingen and the University of Heidelberg. He received his… · 26 January 2026 · January 2026
American political staffer and educator · 25 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 25 · Adams · Other
British historian (The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean) · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24
Li Wei, a Chinese computer scientist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, died on January 25, 2026. Born in Peking on June 8, 1943, he graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics at Peking University in 1966.… · 25 January 2026 · January 2026
American literary scholar · 23 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 23 · Other
German-American molecular biologist and academic · 23 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 23