Doug Coombs
New Zealand geologist (University of Otago) and cricketer (Otago)
Died on Friday December 23rd 2016
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Weston Noble
American music educator and conductor
Died on Thursday December 22nd 2016
Sidney Drell
American physicist
Died on Thursday December 22nd 2016
Rachel Owen
British academic and print-maker
Died on Wednesday December 21st 2016
Toby Hemenway
American author and educator
Died on Wednesday December 21st 2016
Brendan J. Dugan
American academic administrator
Died on Tuesday December 20th 2016
Reginald Stackhouse
Canadian politician and academic
Died on Monday December 19th 2016
V. C. Kulandaiswamy
Indian academic
Died on Monday December 19th 2016
Saumitra Chaudhuri
Indian economist
Died on Sunday December 18th 2016
Günther Wilke
German chemist
Died on Sunday December 18th 2016
Jeanette Sky
Norwegian religion historian
Died on Saturday December 17th 2016
Gustav Jahoda
Austrian-born British psychologist
Died on Saturday December 17th 2016
Brockway McMillan
American government official and scientist
Died on Saturday December 17th 2016
Felix Browder
American mathematician
Died on Thursday December 15th 2016
Stephen Fienberg
Canadian statistician
Died on Thursday December 15th 2016
Thomas Schelling
American economist and professor
Died on Tuesday December 13th 2016
Sadiq Jalal al-Azm
syrian Philosopher and academician
Died on Monday December 12th 2016
William J. Richardson
American philosopher
Died on Monday December 12th 2016
George Klein
Hungarian-Swedish biologist
Died on Monday December 12th 2016
George Junus Aditjondro
Indonesian academic and political dissident
Died on Saturday December 10th 2016
Thomas C. Oden
American theologian
Died on Friday December 9th 2016
Charles B. Reed
American educator
Died on Wednesday December 7th 2016
Julia Elena Fortún
Bolivian anthropologist
Died on Wednesday December 7th 2016
Duncan B. Forrester
Scottish theologian
Died on Monday December 5th 2016
Max Lennon
American educator and president of Clemson University (1986-94)
Died on Sunday December 4th 2016
Ljubo Sirc
Slovene economist
Died on Saturday December 3rd 2016
Bosco Tjan
American psychologist
Died on Saturday December 3rd 2016
Hans Witsenhausen
German mathematician
Died on Friday December 2nd 2016
Charles M. Stein
American statistician
Died on Friday December 2nd 2016
H. Keith H. Brodie
American psychiatrist and educator
Died on Friday December 2nd 2016
Andrew Rippin
British-born Canadian historian of Islam
Died on Thursday December 1st 2016
Claudio Pavone
Italian historian
Died on Wednesday November 30th 2016
Bruce Mazlish
American historian
Died on Wednesday November 30th 2016
Viktor Ivannikov
Russian computer scientist
Died on Monday November 28th 2016
Debra Saunders-White
American educator
Died on Saturday November 26th 2016
Karin Johannisson
Swedish idea historian
Died on Friday November 25th 2016
John Ebersole
American educator
Died on Thursday November 24th 2016
Irfan Shahîd
Palestinian literature professor
Died on Wednesday November 23rd 2016
Jerzy Cynk
Polish-British aviation historian
Died on Wednesday November 23rd 2016
Likhit Dhiravegin
Thai political scientist
Died on Wednesday November 23rd 2016
Jackie Pigeaud
French historian
Died on Wednesday November 23rd 2016
Edward L. Kimball
American legal scholar and biographer
Died on Tuesday November 22nd 2016
M. G. K. Menon
Indian physicist
Died on Tuesday November 22nd 2016
A. Thomas Kraabel
American classics scholar
Died on Monday November 21st 2016
Maria Glazovskaya
soil scientist
Died on Monday November 21st 2016
Huang Zhitang
Chinese chemist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Died on Monday November 21st 2016
You Xiaozeng
Chinese chemist
Died on Monday November 21st 2016
Khairulla Murtazin
Russian mathematician
Died on Saturday November 19th 2016
Hans Avé Lallemant
Dutch-born American geologist
Died on Saturday November 19th 2016
Daniel Leab
German-born American historian
Died on Thursday November 17th 2016
Jay Wright Forrester
American computer engineer and systems scientist
Died on Thursday November 17th 2016
Howard Ruff
American economist
Died on Thursday November 17th 2016
Ruth Baron Ziff
American sociologist
Died on Thursday November 17th 2016
Billy Miller
music historian
Died on Thursday November 17th 2016
Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono
Indonesian psychologist and terrorism expert
Died on Tuesday November 15th 2016
Sarlito Sarwono
Indonesian psychologist and terrorism expert
Died on Tuesday November 15th 2016
Jiří Všetečka
Czech photographer and academic
Died on Saturday November 12th 2016
Malek Chebel
French anthropologist and philosopher
Died on Saturday November 12th 2016
Leonid Keldysh
Russian physicist
Died on Saturday November 12th 2016
David Adamany
American academic administrator
Died on Saturday November 12th 2016
Yaffa Eliach
Polish-born American Holocaust historian
Died on Thursday November 10th 2016
Touran Mirhadi
Iranian educator
Died on Tuesday November 8th 2016
Giles Waterfield
British art historian and curator (Dulwich Picture Gallery)
Died on Tuesday November 8th 2016
Turid Karlsen Seim
Norwegian theologian
Died on Monday November 7th 2016
Kanu Gandhi
Indian scientist (NASA)
Died on Monday November 7th 2016
M. R. Khan
Bangladeshi paediatrician and professor
Died on Monday November 7th 2016
Mohammad Rafi Khan
Bangladeshi pediatrician and national professor
Died on Sunday November 6th 2016
Rodolfo Stavenhagen
Mexican sociologist
Died on Sunday November 6th 2016
Ralph J. Cicerone
American scientist
Died on Sunday November 6th 2016
Leif Einar Plahter
Norwegian art historian and conservator
Died on Saturday November 5th 2016
Auke Bloembergen
Dutch jurist and legal scholar
Died on Thursday November 3rd 2016
Stefan Jentsch
German biologist
Died on Wednesday November 2nd 2016
Bob Blauner
American sociologist
Died on Monday October 31st 2016
John D. Roberts
American chemist
Died on Sunday October 30th 2016
David Tyack
American historian
Died on Saturday October 29th 2016
Susan Lindquist
American biologist
Died on Friday October 28th 2016
Tim Couzens
South African historian
Died on Thursday October 27th 2016
Benedict Read
British art historian
Died on Wednesday October 26th 2016
Jerzy Szacki
Polish sociologist
Died on Wednesday October 26th 2016
Charles Wolf, Jr
American economist
Died on Tuesday October 25th 2016
Edward A. Allworth
American historian
Died on Tuesday October 25th 2016
Colin Snedeker
American chemist (Crayola)
Died on Tuesday October 25th 2016
C. Peter Wagner
American theologian and religious leader (New Apostolic Reformation)
Died on Monday October 24th 2016
Gordon Hamilton
scientist who studied glaciers
Died on Monday October 24th 2016