Roseanne Diab
South African atmospheric scientistDied on Friday January 23rd 2026
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Donald John Roberts Canadian-American economist dead at age 80
Donald John Roberts, a Canadian-American economist and professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, died on January 23, 2026. He was the John H. and Irene S. Scully Professor…
Kikuo Arakawa Research of hypertension, cardiovascular medicine dead at age 96
Kikuo Arakawa, a Japanese medical scientist and internist, died on January 23, 2026. He specialized in hypertension and cardiovascular medicine and was a Professor Emeritus at Fukuoka University. Arakawa also…
E. A. Siddiq
Indian agricultural scientistDied on Friday January 23rd 2026
Anthony Fletcher
British historianDied on Friday January 23rd 2026
Roger-Maurice Bonnet
French astrophysicist and academicDied on Thursday January 22nd 2026
Paul Larivaille
French literary critic and academicDied on Thursday January 22nd 2026
André Jammes
French bookseller and photography historianDied on Thursday January 22nd 2026
Barbara Aronstein Black
American legal scholarDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Marie-Thérèse Lorcin
French historian and academicDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Stephen H. Hess
American political scientistDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Helen Peters
Canadian academicDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Justin Taylor
New Zealand priest and historianDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
M. Hafizuddin Khan Economist, political analyst dead at age 89
M. Hafizuddin Khan, a Bangladeshi bureaucrat and former 6th comptroller and auditor general of Bangladesh, died on January 21, 2026. Born in 1936 or 1937 in Sirajganj, Bengal Province, British…
René V. Dawis
American psychologistDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Henri Dorion
Canadian academic and geographerDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Frank Kolb
German historian and academicDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Vicki L. Hanson Human-Computer InteractionAccessibility dead at age -1
Vicki L. Hanson, an American computer scientist, died on January 20, 2026. She was noted for her research on human-computer interaction and accessibility, and for her leadership in broadening participation…
Deborah Cameron British linguist and feminist, pancreatic cancer dead at age 67
Deborah Jane Cameron, a British linguist and feminist, died on January 20, 2026, at the age of 67. She held the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester…
Daniel Moerman
American medical anthropologist and ethnobotanistDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Sir Christopher White
British art historian and curatorDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Johannes Fried
German historianDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Sanal Badmaev
Russian scientistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Manuel Fernández Areal
Spanish academic and journalistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Marcial Fernández Álvarez
Spanish academicDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Jaan Ross
Estonian musicologist and psychologistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Muhammad Bashir Saliu
Nigerian Islamic scholarDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Gladys West
American mathematicianDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Stuart Altman
American economistDied on Sunday January 18th 2026
Patrick Corrigan
American psychologist and writerDied on Sunday January 18th 2026
Clare Cooper Marcus Architect dead at age 91
Clare Cooper Marcus, an American educator in landscape architecture and architecture, died on January 18, 2026, at age 91. She was a pioneer in the study of social issues in…
Yury Yemelyanov
Russian historian and authorDied on Saturday January 17th 2026
James Petras Professor of sociology dead at age 89
James Petras, an American sociologist and academic, died on January 17, 2026. He was the Bartle Professor emeritus of sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and an adjunct…
W. John McDonald Canadian physicist and academic administrator dead at age 89
W. John McDonald, a Canadian physicist and academic administrator, died on January 17, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1936, he earned degrees from the…
Murad Hasratyan
Armenian architectural historianDied on Saturday January 17th 2026
Mieczysław Mąkosza
Polish organic chemistDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Deirdre Jordan
Australian academic and educatorDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Olena Hrechanina
Ukrainian scientistDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Olena Grechanina
Ukrainian scientistDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Rudolf Urc
Slovak director of documentary and animated films and academicDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Alfred Blumstein
American scientistDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Daniel Colson
French sociologist and academicDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Jean Rossier
Belgian biologist and academicDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Catherine Duprat
French historianDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Namirembe Bitamazire
Ugandan academic and politicianDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Richard Hynes
British biologistDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Vicki L. Gregory
American academic and librarianDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Kristi Kiick
American academicDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Robert V. Kohn
American mathematicianDied on Wednesday January 14th 2026
Bennie Carlton Keel
American archaeologistDied on Wednesday January 14th 2026
Eleni Varikas
Greek-born French political philosopher and academicDied on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Allyn Bromley
American visual artist and art educatorDied on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Mario Rigutti
Italian astronomerDied on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Louis E. Brus
American chemistDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Nelson Manrique
Peruvian historian and sociologistDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Stephen E. Braude
American philosopherDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Jean-Luc Domenach
French historianDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Gabriel Barkay
Israeli archaeologistDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Pedro A. Sanchez American soil scientist dead at age 85
Pedro A. Sanchez, an American soil scientist and former director at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, died on January 12, 2026. He was 85. Sanchez served as director of the Agriculture…
Takashi Ono
Japanese-born American mathematicianDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Edith M. Flanigen
American chemistDied on Sunday January 11th 2026
Ivan Štampach
Czech religionist and theologianDied on Sunday January 11th 2026
Nelly Chatué Diop
Cameroonian computer scientistDied on Sunday January 11th 2026
Musa Gibril Bala Gaye
Gambian economist and politicianDied on Sunday January 11th 2026
Orazio Svelto
Italian physicistDied on Saturday January 10th 2026
Sergey Daniel
Soviet art historianDied on Saturday January 10th 2026
Zhang Shaokang
Chinese scholarDied on Saturday January 10th 2026
Ang Ziming
Chinese professorDied on Saturday January 10th 2026
Zhou Liwei
Chinese electro-optics professorDied on Saturday January 10th 2026
Carmen Arnold Biucchi
Switzerland numismatist and archaeologistDied on Saturday January 10th 2026
Hessy Levinsons Taft
German chemist and child modelDied on Friday January 9th 2026
Johannes Fabian
German anthropologistDied on Friday January 9th 2026
Herbert Beck
German art historianDied on Friday January 9th 2026
Ted Nichols Composer dead at age 97
Ted Nichols, an American composer, conductor and arranger best known for his work on Hanna-Barbera productions including The Flintstones and Jonny Quest, died on January 9, 2026, at age 97.…
David Quail
South African politician and educatorDied on Friday January 9th 2026
Fazl-ur-Raheem Ashrafi
Pakistani Islamic scholarDied on Thursday January 8th 2026
Roger Guesnerie
French economist and academicDied on Thursday January 8th 2026
Herbet Beck
German art historianDied on Thursday January 8th 2026
Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon
Icelandic artist and academicDied on Wednesday January 7th 2026
Céline Bellot
Canadian criminologist and academicDied on Wednesday January 7th 2026
Jiří Witzany
Czech academic and former rector of ČVUT (2000–2006)Died on Wednesday January 7th 2026
Arthur Stockwin British political scientist dead at age 90
Arthur Stockwin, a British political scientist who specialised in the politics and foreign policy of Japan, died on January 7, 2026. Born in Birmingham on November 28, 1935, he studied…
Baghir Suleimanov
Azerbaijani petroleum scientistDied on Tuesday January 6th 2026
Baghir A. Suleimanov
Azerbaijani academicDied on Tuesday January 6th 2026
Samuel O. Thier
American doctor and academicDied on Tuesday January 6th 2026
Maulana Fazl-ur-Raheem Ashrafi
Pakistani Islamic scholarDied on Monday January 5th 2026
Herbert Beck German art historian dead at age 84
Herbert Beck, a German art historian and museum director, died on January 5, 2026, at the age of 84. He served as director of the Liebieghaus and the Städel. Beck…
Jitamitra Prasad Singh Deo
Indian historian and archaeologistDied on Sunday January 4th 2026
Andrzej Paczkowski
Polish historianDied on Saturday January 3rd 2026
Amal Fathullah Zarkasyi
Indonesian Muslim scholarDied on Saturday January 3rd 2026
Yehezkel Dror
Austrian-born Israeli political scientistDied on Saturday January 3rd 2026
Volodymyr Marchenko
Ukrainian mathematicianDied on Friday January 2nd 2026
Patrick Duffy British politician, MP and president of the NATO Assembly dead at age 105
Patrick Duffy, the British politician who served as a Member of Parliament and president of the NATO Assembly, died on January 2, 2026, aged 105. A Labour Party politician and…
Mohamed Harbi
Algerian historianDied on Thursday January 1st 2026
Imants Freibergs
Latvian computer scientistDied on Thursday January 1st 2026
Mohammed Harbi Algerian historian dead at age 92
Mohammed Harbi, an Algerian historian and former member of the National Liberation Front during the Algerian War of Independence, died on January 1, 2026. Born on June 16, 1933, in…
Ion H. Ciubotaru
Romanian ethnologist and literary historianDied on Wednesday December 31st 2025
Dean C. Jessee American historian dead at age 96
Dean C. Jessee, an American historian of the early Latter Day Saint movement and a leading expert on the writings of Joseph Smith Jr., died on December 31, 2025. Born…