James R. Gibson passes away at age 91
James R. Gibson died May 29, 2026. He was a Canadian historian and geographer. Tags Scientists, 29 May 2026, Canada, Gibson, James, Taurus, May 2026, May 29
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
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Death of Sidney Moko Mead at age 99
Sidney Moko Mead, a New Zealand Māori anthropologist and historian, died on May 29, 2026. He was 99. Born in Wairoa on January 8, 1927, Mead was also known as…
Edgar Morin passed away at age 104
Edgar Morin, the French philosopher and sociologist whose work on complexity and “polycrisis” shaped debates across the social sciences, died on May 29, 2026. He was 104. Born Edgar Nahoum…
José Manuel Blecua Perdices dead at age 86
José Manuel Blecua Perdices, the Spanish philologist who directed the Royal Spanish Academy from 2010 to 2014, died on May 29, 2026. He was 86. Born in Zaragoza on June…
James M. Redfield dead at age 90
James M. Redfield, an American academic known for his work on Homer and Herodotus, died on May 28, 2026. He was 91. Redfield’s best-known book was Nature and Culture in…
Yitzhak Apeloig dead at age 81
Yitzhak Apeloig, an Uzbek-born Israeli computational chemist and scholar who served as president of Technion from 2001 to 2009, died on May 28, 2026. He was 81. Apeloig was born…
Marie-Jo Lafontaine obituary: died at age 75
Marie-Jo Lafontaine, the Belgian sculptor and video artist, died on May 28, 2026. She was 75. Born in Antwerp on November 17, 1950, she studied at the École nationale supérieure…
Jang Jae-sik obituary: died at age 91
Jang Jae-sik died on May 28, 2026. He was a South Korean politician and economist. Further details about his life and career were not provided in the available record. Tags…
Carlos Oliva dies at age 61
Carlos Oliva died on May 27, 2026. He was a Peruvian economist who served as director of the Central Reserve Bank and as minister of economy and finance. Tags Politicians,…
Jean-Bosco Tchagolé dead
Jean-Bosco Tchagolé, priest of the Diocese of Sokodé and a Togolese Catholic cleric, died on May 27, 2026. He served in pastoral ministry in northern Togo and was known for…
Choi Jeong-woon, died aged 73
Choi Jeong-woon died on May 27, 2026. He was a Korean professor. Tags Scientists, 27 May 2026, Choi, Sagittarius, Jeong-woon, May 2026, May 27
Carlos Oliva dies at age 61
Carlos Oliva, a Peruvian economist who served as director of the Central Reserve Bank from 2015 to 2016 and again from 2021, died on May 27, 2026, at the age…
Paul Dorpat death at age 87
Paul Dorpat, an American historian, died on May 27, 2026. He was 87. Dorpat was an author and photographer who focused on the history of Seattle and Washington state. He…
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy dies at 86
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, an American historian and academic, died on May 26, 2026, at age 86. Kennedy was among the founding feminists in the early women’s studies program at the…
Renato Rosaldo passes away at age 85
Renato Rosaldo, an American cultural anthropologist, died on May 26, 2026. Born in Champaign, Illinois, on April 15, 1941, he carried out field research among the Ilongots of northern Luzon…
Dragoljub Mićunović passed away at age 95
Dragoljub Mićunović, a Serbian politician and former president of the chamber of citizens of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003 and of the Assembly of Serbia and…
Death of Abdillah Toha at age 84
Abdillah Toha, an Indonesian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2009, died on May 26, 2026. He was 84. A member of…
Arnold Whittall dies at 90
Arnold Whittall, the British musicologist who wrote widely on 20th- and 21st-century classical music, died on May 26, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on November…
Klaus Lehnertz dies at 88
Klaus Lehnertz, a German pole vaulter and Olympic bronze medalist, died on May 26, 2026. He was 88. Born in Solingen on April 13, 1938, Lehnertz competed for the United…
Gennaro Sasso obituary: died at age 97
Gennaro Sasso died on May 26, 2026. He was 97. An Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy, Sasso was born in Rome on June 25, 1928. His work and teaching…
Stanley Michael Gartler died at age 102
Stanley Michael Gartler died on May 25, 2026. He was an American biologist. Tags Scientists, 25 May 2026, America, Gartler, Gemini, Stanley, May 2026, May 25
Shereen Ratnagar dead at age 82
Shereen Ratnagar, an Indian archaeologist, died on May 25, 2026. She was 82. Ratnagar’s work focused on the Indus Valley civilization, and she wrote several books and academic textbooks. She…
Russell M. Pitzer dies at 88
Russell M. Pitzer, an American chemist and educator, died on May 25, 2026, at the age of 88. Born Russell Mosher Pitzer on May 10, 1938, in Berkeley, California, he…
Massimo Capaccioli death at age 82
Massimo Capaccioli died on May 25, 2026. He was an Italian astrophysicist. Tags Scientists, 25 May 2026, Capaccioli, Italy, Massimo, May 2026, May 25
Kathryn Sessions, died aged 84
Kathryn Sessions, an American politician who served in the Wyoming Senate from 1999 to 2011 and in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1993 to 1998, died on May 25,…
Gary Foster dead at age 89
Gary Foster, an American musician and educator whose career spanned jazz, cool jazz, classical and pop, died on May 24, 2026, at the age of 90. Born Norman Gary Foster…
John Eaton dies at age 91
John Eaton, the American jazz pianist and musicologist, died on May 24, 2026, at the age of 91. Born John Livingston Eaton in Washington, D.C., on May 29, 1934, he…
Heinrich Jarczyk passed away at age 101
Heinrich Jarczyk died on May 24, 2026, at the age of 101. The German natural scientist, draftsman and painter was also described in records as a biologist and artist. Born…
Linda Masarira dies at 43
Linda Masarira, a Zimbabwean politician and human rights activist, died on May 24, 2026, at the age of 43. She was known for her work in human rights activism and…
Liu Zaifu passes away at age 84
Liu Zaifu, a Chinese writer, poet and academic known for Farewell to Revolution, died on May 24, 2026, at the age of 84. He was also known for his work…
Richard A. Tapia obituary: died at age 88
Richard A. Tapia, an American mathematician, died on May 23, 2026. He was known for his work in mathematical optimization and iterative methods for nonlinear problems, with more recent research…
Ann Fox Chandonnet passed away at age 83
Ann Fox Chandonnet, an American poet, died on May 23, 2026, at age 83. She was also known as a journalist, book reviewer, and culinary historian. Born Ann Alicia Fox…
Toman Brod death at age 97
Toman Brod, a Czech historian, anti-communist dissident and Holocaust survivor, died on May 23, 2026. He was 97. Brod was born in Prague on January 18, 1929, to an assimilated…
Clarence B. Jones dies at age 95
Clarence B. Jones, an American lawyer and counsel, died on May 22, 2026. He was 95. Jones was the former personal counsel, adviser, draft speech writer and close friend of…
Tomáš Čermák dead at age 83
Tomáš Čermák, the Czech engineer and rector of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, died on May 22, 2026, at the age of 83. He led the university during two…
Tamati Reedy dies at age 89
Sir Tamati Reedy, a New Zealand Māori academic, rugby union player and public servant, died on May 21, 2026. Born in Ruatoria in 1936, he served as secretary of the…
Gerald M. Pomper dead at age 91
Gerald M. Pomper, an American political scientist, died on May 21, 2026. He was 91. Pomper specialized in American elections and politics and was the Board of Governors Professor Emeritus…
Teet Veispak passed away at age 70
Teet Veispak, an Estonian historian and academic, died on May 20, 2026, at the age of 70. Born on September 25, 1955, he graduated from Tartu State University’s Faculty of…
Cleve Moler, died aged 86
Cleve Moler, an American mathematician and computer programmer known for MATLAB and MathWorks, died on May 20, 2026, at age 86. He specialized in numerical analysis and was one of…
Henri Barki passed away at age 75
Henri Barki, a Turkish-Canadian social scientist and professor at HEC Montréal, died on May 19, 2026, at age 75. He was a long-serving member of the Université de Montréal faculty,…
Christian Freeling passes away at age 79
Christian Freeling, a Dutch game designer and mathematician, died on May 19, 2026, in Enschede, Netherlands, at the age of 79. Born in Enschede on February 1, 1947, he was…
Tito Benady dies at 95
Tito Benady, a Gibraltarian historian, died on May 19, 2026, at the age of 95. Also known as Mesod Benady MBE, he was of Sephardic Jewish descent and specialised in…
Heinz-Helmich van Schewick, died aged 85
Heinz-Helmich van Schewick, a German politician and member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1985 to 2000, died on May 19, 2026. He was 85. Van Schewick was a…
João Maurício Adeodato obituary: died at age 70
João Maurício Adeodato, a Brazilian jurist and legal philosopher, died on May 19, 2026, at age 70. Born João Maurício Leitão Adeodato on March 12, 1956, he was born in…
Tom Kane passes away at age 64
Tom Kane, an American voice actor known for work in The Powerpuff Girls, Star Wars and The Wild Thornberrys, died May 18, 2026, of complications from a stroke. He was…
Helmut F. Kaplan passes away at age 73
Helmut F. Kaplan died on May 18, 2026. He was an Austrian philosopher. Tags Scientists, 18 May 2026, Austria, Helmut, Kaplan, May 18, May 2026
Feliksas Bajoras death at age 91
Feliksas Bajoras, a Lithuanian composer and academic, died on May 18, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in Alytus on October 7, 1934, he studied violin at the Lithuanian…
Meredith Lillich dies at 94
Meredith Lillich, an American art historian, died on May 18, 2026. She was 94. Lillich was an art historian and medievalist who taught at Syracuse University. She was educated at…
Death of Cho Il-hyeon at age 70
Cho Il-hyeon, a South Korean politician and former member of the National Assembly, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 70. Born on July 15, 1955, in Hongcheon…
Juris Upatnieks passes away at age 90
Juris Upatnieks, a Latvian-American physicist and inventor, died on May 17, 2026, at age 90. Born in Riga, Latvia, on May 7, 1936, he was a pioneer in holography and…
Peter Checkland died at age 95
Peter Checkland, British management scientist and academic, died on May 17, 2026, at the age of 95. He was an emeritus professor of systems at Lancaster University and developed soft…
Fred Negrit died at age 76
Fred Negrit, a French educator and cultural promoter, died on May 17, 2026, at the age of 76. He was known for his work promoting Indian languages and culture in…
Peter G. Neumann dies at age 93
Peter G. Neumann, an American computer science researcher, died on May 17, 2026, at age 93 from complications from a fall. He worked on the Multics operating system in the…
Death of Luis de la Peña at age 95
Luis de la Peña, a Mexican physicist, died on May 17, 2026, at the age of 95. Born in Mexico City in 1931, he studied mechanical-electrical engineering at ESIME of…
Stephen Bungay dead at age 71
Stephen Bungay, the director of the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre at Hult International Business School, died on May 16, 2026, at the age of 71. A British management consultant, historian…
Hajibaba Azimov dead at age 87
Hajibaba Azimov, an Azerbaijani politician and member of the Supreme Soviet from 1991 to 1995, died on May 16, 2026, at the age of 87. Born on August 1, 1938,…
International Journal of Comic Art passes away at age 90
International Journal of Comic Art, the American comics scholar who founded the International Journal of Comics Art, died on May 16, 2026. John A. Lent established the biannual journal in…
Obituary: Tatsuya Hori, dead at age 90
Tatsuya Hori, Japanese politician and governor of Hokkaido from 1995 to 2003, died on May 16, 2026, of cancer. He was 90. Hori was born in Tomakishi, Karafuto, on Nov.…
Frank Land, died aged 97
Frank Land, a German-born British information systems researcher, died on May 16, 2026, at the age of 97. Born Frank Landsberger in Berlin in October 1928, he was the first…
Tarsy Carballas obituary: died at age 91
Tarsy Carballas, a Spanish soil scientist and academic, died on May 16, 2026. Born in Taboada on June 2, 1934, she was a pioneer in the study of soils in…
Quinn G. McKay obituary: died at age 99
Quinn G. McKay, an American academic, writer and Mormon leader, died on May 16, 2026. He was 99. McKay was born on October 30, 1926, and was raised in Huntsville,…
James Robison died at age 82
James Robison, an American televangelist, died on May 17, 2026, at age 82, according to an announcement of his death. He was also a pastor, theologian, and author, and founded…
Frank Hayden has died at age 96
Frank Hayden, a Canadian academic and physical education and kinesiology professor, died on May 16, 2026, at the age of 96. Hayden was born in Windsor, Ontario, on January 11,…
Shin’ichirō Tawata death at age 78
Shin'ichirō Tawata died on May 15, 2026. He was a Japanese linguist. Tags Scientists, 15 May 2026, Cancer, Japan, Tawata, May 15, May 2026, Shin'ichirō
Death of Aleksandr Borovkov at age 95
Aleksandr Borovkov, a Russian mathematician and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, died on May 15, 2026, at age 95. Borovkov was born in Moscow on March 6, 1931.…
Shinichiro Tawada death at age 78
Shinichiro Tawada, a Japanese linguist, died on May 15, 2026. Tags Scientists, 15 May 2026, Cancer, Japan, Shinichiro, Tawada, May 15, May 2026
Jules Angst, died aged 99
Jules Angst, a Swiss psychiatrist and academic, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 99. Born in Zurich on December 11, 1926, he completed his medical and psychiatric…
Edmund Phelps death at age 92
Edmund Phelps, an American economist and 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, died on May 16, 2026. He was 92. Born in Evanston, Illinois, on July 26, 1933,…
Death of Alan Morton at age 91
Alan Morton, an Australian rugby union player and leading sport scientist, died on May 15, 2026, aged 91. Born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, on September 10, 1934, he attended…
Randal Marlin died at age 88
Randal Marlin, a Canadian academic and philosophy professor at Carleton University, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 88. He specialized in the study of propaganda and was…
Obituary: Nikolay Tsaturyan, dead at age 81
Nikolay Tsaturyan, the Armenian theatre director, died on May 14, 2026, in Yerevan. Born in Yerevan on January 8, 1945, Tsaturyan was also an actor and playwright and was named…
Rubem Medina dies at age 83
Rubem Medina, a Brazilian politician and economist who served as a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies from 1967 to 2003, died on May 14, 2026, in Rio de Janeiro.…
Morris Soller died at age 94
Morris Soller, an American-Israeli agricultural geneticist, died on May 14, 2026. He was 94 or 95. Soller, whose Hebrew name was Moshe Morris Soller, was born in Manhattan, New York…
John Bryan Taylor, died aged 97
John Bryan Taylor, a British physicist, died on May 14, 2026, at the age of 97. Born in Birmingham on December 26, 1928, he was known for his contributions to…
Death of Hans van Houwelingen at age 81
Hans van Houwelingen, a Dutch mathematician, died on May 14, 2026, at the age of 81. Born Johannes Cornelis van Houwelingen in Rotterdam on March 25, 1945, he was also…
Adone Brandalise death at age 76
Adone Brandalise died on May 14, 2026. He was an Italian literary critic and philosopher. A brief notice of his death was published without further details about the circumstances. Tags…
Liah Greenfeld dead at age 71
Liah Greenfeld died on May 13, 2026. She was a Russian-born Israeli-American sociologist and anthropologist. Greenfeld, born on August 22, 1954, wrote on nationalism and related subjects. Tags Scientists, 13…
Kenneth Keith death at age 88
Kenneth Keith, a New Zealand jurist and legal scholar who served as a judge of the International Court of Justice from 2006 to 2015, died on May 13, 2026, at…
Ladislav Skula death at age 88
Ladislav Skula, a Czech mathematician and professor, died on May 13, 2026, at the age of 88. He was known for work in topology, algebraic number theory and the theory…
Khalifa Chater dead at age 90
Khalifa Chater, a Tunisian academic and historian, died on May 13, 2026. Khalifa Chater, 90, Tunisian academic and historian. Tags Scientists, 13 May 2026, Chater, Khalifa, Tunisia, 2026-05-13, May 13,…
Barry W. Blaustein death at age 72
Barry W. Blaustein, an American screenwriter and film director, died on May 12, 2026, of pancreatic cancer. He was 72. Blaustein was best known for writing on Saturday Night Live…
William V. Tamborlane dies at age 79
William V. Tamborlane, an American pediatrician and academic, died on May 12, 2026. He was Professor and Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at Yale School of Medicine from 1986. Born in…
Patrick Arnold obituary: died at age 59
Patrick Arnold, an American organic chemist known as the “Father of Prohormones,” died on May 12, 2026, at age 59. Born in 1966 in Guilford, Connecticut, he was identified in…
Kenneth B. Wiberg obituary: died at age 98
Kenneth B. Wiberg, an American chemist and professor emeritus of organic chemistry at Yale University, died on May 10, 2026, at the age of 98. Born Kenneth Berle Wiberg on…
José Ballesta, died aged 67
José Ballesta, the Spanish politician who served as mayor of Murcia, died on May 10, 2026, of cancer. He was 67. Born in Murcia in 1958, he was a medical…
Mark Ratner, died aged 83
Mark Ratner, an American chemist and professor emeritus at Northwestern University, died on May 10, 2026, at the age of 83. Ratner was known for his work on the interplay…
Obituary: Mary Lovelace, dead at age 84
Mary Lovelace O'Neal, an American artist and arts educator, died on May 10, 2026, at age 84. Born in Jackson, Mississippi, on February 10, 1942, she was known for painting…
Death of Joyce Woodhouse at age 82
Joyce Woodhouse, an American politician and former member of the Nevada Senate, died on May 9, 2026. She was 82. Woodhouse served in the Nevada Senate representing the 5th district…
Antonio Becerra Gaytán dies at 93
Antonio Becerra Gaytán, a Mexican politician and activist, died on May 9, 2026, at the age of 93. He served as a deputy from 1979 to 1982 and was a…
Alan Gribben passed away at age 84
Alan Gribben, an American literary scholar, died on May 9, 2026. Born in Parsons, Kansas, on November 21, 1941, he built his career on the works of Mark Twain and…
Mark Smythe dead, 53 New Zealand-born American composer, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Mark Smythe died on May 9, 2026, at the age of 53 from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. He was a New Zealand-born American composer known for Daddy's Little Girl, Unfallen, and…
Theo van Boven dies at age 91
Theo van Boven, a Dutch jurist and professor emeritus in international law, died on May 9, 2026. He was appointed in 1977 as director of the United Nations Division for…
Obituary: Melo Freire, dead at age 99
Melo Freire, a Brazilian politician and deputy from 1975 to 1991, died on May 8, 2026, at age 99. Born Joaquim de Melo Freire on January 11, 1927, in Passos,…
Anna Ritchie dies at 82
Anna Ritchie, a British archaeologist and historian, died on May 8, 2026, aged 82. Born on September 28, 1943, she was known for her work at archaeological sites in Orkney…
Festus Mogae obituary: died at age 86
Festus Mogae, the Motswana president from 1998 to 2008 and an economist, died on May 8, 2026, at the age of 86. He was Botswana’s third president, succeeding Quett Masire…
Bede Liu dies at age 91
Bede Liu, a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer, died on May 7, 2026. He was a professor emeritus at Princeton University. Born in Shanghai, China, on September 25, 1934, Liu earned a…
Ursula Bäumlin passes away at age 87
Ursula Bäumlin, a Swiss politician and theologian who served as a member of the National Council from 1987 to 1998, died on May 7, 2026, at the age of 87.…
Pierre Chambon has died at age 95
Pierre Chambon, a French biologist and member of the French Academy of Sciences, died on May 7, 2026, at the age of 95. Born on February 7, 1931, in Mulhouse,…