Melvin Defleur
American mass communications scholarDied on Thursday February 16th 2017
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
B. B. Bhattacharya
Indian economist and educationalistDied on Tuesday February 14th 2017
Egon Schwarz
Austrian-born American literary scholarDied on Tuesday February 14th 2017
Jan Vansina
Belgian historian and professor (University of Wisconsin–Madison)Died on Tuesday February 14th 2017
Ren Xinmin
Chinese rocket scientistDied on Monday February 13th 2017
John Howes
American professor of Asian studiesDied on Sunday February 12th 2017
Seymour Jonathan Singer
American molecular biologistDied on Saturday February 11th 2017
Joseph Green
American academic and theatre producerDied on Friday February 10th 2017
Arthur Hyman
American academicDied on Friday February 10th 2017
Raymond Smullyan
American mathematician and philosopherDied on Friday February 10th 2017
Claude Geffré
French Roman Catholic theologianDied on Friday February 10th 2017
Richard DuFour
American educational researcherDied on Wednesday February 8th 2017
Neil Gehrels
American astronomerDied on Wednesday February 8th 2017
Hans Rosling
Swedish Professor of International Health and co-founder of the Gapminder FoundationDied on Tuesday February 7th 2017
Tzvetan Todorov
Bulgarian-French philosopherDied on Tuesday February 7th 2017
Ivor Noël Hume
British archaeologistDied on Tuesday February 7th 2017
Roy Heenan
Canadian lawyer and academicDied on Tuesday February 7th 2017
Basil Hetzel
Australian medical researcherDied on Monday February 6th 2017
Su Hongjun
Chinese astronomerDied on Sunday February 5th 2017
Marjorie Corcoran
American particle physicistDied on Sunday February 5th 2017
Ernst Petzold
German theologianDied on Sunday February 5th 2017
Martin Gotthard Schneider
German theologian and musicianDied on Sunday February 5th 2017
Angelo Bissesarsingh
Trinidadian historian and authorDied on Sunday February 5th 2017
Peter Woodman
Irish archaeologistDied on Saturday February 4th 2017
John E. Wills, Jr.
American historianDied on Friday February 3rd 2017
Erika Böhm-Vitense
German-born American astronomerDied on Friday February 3rd 2017
Elliot Sperling
American historianDied on Friday February 3rd 2017
Harald Friedrich
German physicistDied on Thursday February 2nd 2017
Charles S. MacKenzie
American theologian and college presidentDied on Thursday February 2nd 2017
Erwin Obermair
Austrian astronomerDied on Thursday February 2nd 2017
Bharati Mukherjee
Indian-born American writer and academicDied on Wednesday February 1st 2017
John N. Mather
American mathematicianDied on Wednesday February 1st 2017
Aleksander Jackowski
Polish anthropologist and ethnographerDied on Wednesday February 1st 2017
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American academic administratorDied on Wednesday February 1st 2017
Jerome A. Berson
American chemistDied on Tuesday January 31st 2017
Jamshid Giunashvili
Georgian linguist and IranologistDied on Sunday January 29th 2017
Yuji Ijiri
Japanese-born American accounting academicDied on Sunday January 29th 2017
Umar Anggara Jenie
Indonesian scientistDied on Sunday January 29th 2017
Stuart Timmons
American gay historian and activistDied on Sunday January 29th 2017
Charles LeMaistre
American academic administratorDied on Sunday January 29th 2017
Malcolm Peat
Canadian academicDied on Sunday January 29th 2017
Arthur H. Rosenfeld
American physicistDied on Friday January 27th 2017
Stephen P. Cohen
Canadian academicDied on Thursday January 26th 2017
Rudolf Wille
German mathematicianDied on Wednesday January 25th 2017
Mustafa Imamović
Bosnian historianDied on Wednesday January 25th 2017
Roman Jarymowycz
Austrian-born Canadian soldier and educatorDied on Wednesday January 25th 2017
Erland Kolding Nielsen
Norwegian academicDied on Tuesday January 24th 2017
Władysław Markiewicz
Polish sociologistDied on Tuesday January 24th 2017
Sir John Hanson
British diplomat and historianDied on Sunday January 22nd 2017
Walter Benz
German mathematicianDied on Sunday January 22nd 2017
Zohurul Hoque
Indian Islamic scholarDied on Saturday January 21st 2017
Jack August
American historianDied on Saturday January 21st 2017
Svennik Høyer
Norwegian political scientistDied on Saturday January 21st 2017
Bruno Amoroso
Italian-born Danish economistDied on Saturday January 21st 2017
Jalal Allakhverdiyev
Azerbaijani mathematicianDied on Thursday January 19th 2017
Steven Plaut
American-born Israeli economist and academicDied on Thursday January 19th 2017
Mieczyslaw Malinski
Polish theologianDied on Thursday January 19th 2017
Ronan Fanning
Irish historianDied on Wednesday January 18th 2017
John Sailhamer
American evangelical Old Testament scholarDied on Tuesday January 17th 2017
Roman Darowski
Polish philosopherDied on Tuesday January 17th 2017
C. V. Vishveshwara
Indian physicistDied on Tuesday January 17th 2017
Hans Berliner
German-born American computer scientist and chess playerDied on Tuesday January 17th 2017
Travis Hirschi
American sociologistDied on Monday January 16th 2017
Jill Roe
Australian historian and academicDied on Monday January 16th 2017
Claude Steiner
French-born American psychologistDied on Monday January 16th 2017
Kevin Starr
American historianDied on Monday January 16th 2017
Udo Ulfkotte
German political scientist and journalist (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)Died on Saturday January 14th 2017
Laurel Woodcock
Canadian artist and academicDied on Saturday January 14th 2017
Betty Lasky
American film historianDied on Friday January 13th 2017
Martin Katz
American psychologistDied on Friday January 13th 2017
Nikolay Neprimerov
Russian physicistDied on Thursday January 12th 2017
John Herbert Sailhamer
American evangelical Old Testament scholarDied on Thursday January 12th 2017
Giulio Angioni
Italian writer and anthropologistDied on Thursday January 12th 2017
Anthony King
Canadian-born British political scientistDied on Thursday January 12th 2017
Victor Griffin
Irish priest and theologianDied on Wednesday January 11th 2017
Rodney H. Brady
American businessman (Deseret Management Corporation) and academic administrator (Weber State University)Died on Wednesday January 11th 2017
Russell Trood
Australian politician and academicDied on Tuesday January 10th 2017
T. K. Whitaker
Irish economist and public servantDied on Monday January 9th 2017
Ramanuja Devnathan
Indian Sanskrit scholarDied on Monday January 9th 2017
Ali Shariatmadari
Iranian politician and academicDied on Monday January 9th 2017
Spartak Belyaev
Russian theoretical physicistDied on Monday January 9th 2017
John Deely
American philosopherDied on Monday January 9th 2017
Jewel Plummer Cobb
American biologistDied on Monday January 9th 2017
Heinz Billing
German physicist and computer scientistDied on Sunday January 8th 2017
Nat Hentoff
American Political philosopher Died on Sunday January 8th 2017
Lech Trzeciakowski
Polish historianDied on Saturday January 7th 2017
Michael Scanlan
American Roman Catholic priest and academic administratorDied on Saturday January 7th 2017
Jeremy Stone
American scientist and arms control activistDied on Friday January 6th 2017
Gangmumei Kamei
Indian academic and politicianDied on Thursday January 5th 2017
Tullio De Mauro
Italian linguistDied on Thursday January 5th 2017
J. Dewey Daane
American economistDied on Wednesday January 4th 2017
Derek Parfit
English philosopherDied on Monday January 2nd 2017
Tony Atkinson
British economistDied on Sunday January 1st 2017