J. Craig Venter passes away at age 79
J. Craig Venter, an American genomics researcher and founder of Celera Corporation and the J. Craig Venter Institute, died on April 29, 2026, of complications from cancer. He was 79.…
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Eddy Pratomo death at age 72
Eddy Pratomo, an Indonesian diplomat and law scholar, died on April 29, 2026, at the age of 72. He served as Indonesia’s ambassador to Germany from 2009 to 2013 and…
Vladimir Voevodin, died aged 63
Vladimir Voevodin, a Russian computer scientist, died on April 29, 2026. He was 63. Born in Moscow on May 25, 1962, Voevodin studied at Moscow State University, where he graduated…
Brent Robbins dead at age 55
Brent Robbins, an American psychologist and academic, died on April 28, 2026, at the age of 55. He was an associate professor of psychology at Point Park University in Pittsburgh,…
Murad Taqqu passed away at age 84
Murad Taqqu, an Iraqi-born American mathematician whose work helped lay the mathematical foundations for modern internet traffic, died on April 28, 2026. He was 84. Born in Baghdad and raised…
Ittai Gradel obituary: died at age 61
Ittai Gradel, an Israeli-born British antiques dealer, died on April 28, 2026, at the age of 61 from renal cancer. Born in Haifa on January 29, 1965, he was also…
Silvano Raia, died aged 95
Silvano Raia, a Brazilian liver surgeon, died on April 28, 2026, at the age of 95. He specialized in liver diseases and was professor emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine…
Dame Bridget Ogilvie dead at age 88
Dame Bridget Ogilvie died on April 27, 2026. Tags Scientists, 27 April 2026, Australia, Britain, Dame, Ogilvie, April 2026, April 27
Edith Eger death at age 98
Edith Eger, a Hungarian-American psychologist and author, died on April 27, 2026, at age 98. Born Edith Eva Elefánt on September 29, 1927, in Budapest, Hungary, she was a clinical…
John E. Franz, died aged 96
John E. Franz, an American chemist known for discovering glyphosate, died on April 27, 2026. Born on December 21, 1929, in Springfield, he worked at Monsanto Company, where he discovered…
Zelda F. Gamson death at age 90
Zelda F. Gamson, an American sociologist, died on April 27, 2026, at age 90 from pancreatic cancer. Born Zelda Finkelstein in Philadelphia on March 12, 1936, she was a writer…
Obituary: Erik Thorbecke, dead at age 97
Erik Thorbecke died on April 26, 2026. Tags Scientists, 26 April 2026, America, Erik, Thorbecke, April 2026, April 26
Vladimir Grachev, died aged 84
Vladimir Grachev, a Russian scientist and politician, died on April 26, 2026, at the age of 84. He was also an ecologist, a professor, and a corresponding member of the…
Marcos Petrillo death at age 67
Marcos Petrillo, a Brazilian promoter, author and music researcher, died on April 26, 2026. He was identified with work connected to the album "Skylab," a 1999 release by Brazilian musician…
David Klahr obituary: died at age 86
David Klahr, an American psychologist, died on April 26, 2026, at age 86. He was known for his research in cognitive development, psychology of science, and educational psychology, including work…
Y. Karunadasa obituary: died at age 92
Y. Karunadasa, a Sri Lankan Buddhist scholar, died on April 26, 2026. Born in 1934 in British Ceylon, he was known for his work in Buddhist Studies, with particular specialisation…
Nigel Dunnett dies at age 63
Nigel Dunnett, British horticulturalist and professor, died on April 26, 2026, at the age of 63. He was professor of planting design and urban horticulture at the University of Sheffield…
Sam Hunt died at age 83
Samuel Michael Hunt, an American politician and educator, died on April 26, 2026. He was 83. Born in Billings, Montana, on December 9, 1942, Hunt served in the Washington State…
George C. Tiao dead at age 92
George C. Tiao died on April 25, 2026. Tags Journalists, Scientists, 25 April 2026, America, Cancer, George, Taiwan, Tiao, April 2026, April 25
Jaan Puhvel passed away at age 94
Jaan Puhvel, the Estonian-American linguist and comparative mythologist, died on April 25, 2026. He was 94. Born in Tallinn, Estonia, on January 24, 1932, Puhvel specialized in Indo-European studies. After…
Rossana Reguillo passed away at age 70
Rossana Reguillo, a Mexican sociologist, died on April 25, 2026, at the age of 70. Born in Guadalajara in 1955, she was a Mexican academic known for researching social norms,…
Obituary: Beng Chin Ooi, dead at age 64
Beng Chin Ooi, a Singaporean computer scientist, died on April 25, 2026. He was 64 or 65. Ooi was known for work on systems including GEOQL, BestPeer, Apache SINGA, BlockBench…
Obituary: Hirohiko Okano, dead at age 101
Hirohiko Okano, a Japanese poet, died on April 24, 2026, at age 101. Born in Misugi, now part of Tsu in Mie Prefecture, on July 7, 1924, he published numerous…
Nancy Siraisi passed away at age 93
Nancy Siraisi, an American medical historian and academic, died on April 24, 2026, aged 93. She was a historian of medicine and was distinguished professor emerita in history at Hunter…
Włodzimierz Korohoda dies at age 89
Włodzimierz Korohoda, a Polish cell biologist and swimmer, died on April 24, 2026, at the age of 89. Born on January 1, 1937, he was affiliated with Jagiellonian University as…
Zofia Zdybicka has died at age 97
Zofia Zdybicka, a Polish Roman Catholic nun and philosopher, died on April 24, 2026, at the age of 97. Born in Kraśnik, Poland, on August 5, 1928, she was a…
Obituary: Reg Austin, dead at age 91
Reg Austin died on April 23, 2026. Tags Lawyers, Scientists, 23 April 2026, Austin, Reg, April 2026, April 23
Peter Kramer died at age 93
Peter Kramer, a German physicist whose career centered on theoretical physics, died on April 23, 2026, at the age of 93. Born on March 16, 1933, Kramer studied physics at…
William J. Prior has died at age 79
William J. Prior died on April 23, 2026. He was a philosopher. Tags Scientists, 23 April 2026, America, Prior, William, April 2026, April 23
Manfred T. Reetz died at age 82
Manfred T. Reetz died on April 23, 2026. He was a chemist and academic. Tags Scientists, 23 April 2026, Germany, Manfred, Reetz, April 2026, April 23
Rexhep Qosja dead at age 89
Rexhep Qosja, an Albanian writer and politician, died on April 23, 2026, at the age of 89. He was a novelist, poet, social critic, literary critic and professor at the…
Obituary: Łukasz Litewka, dead at age 36
Łukasz Litewka, a Polish sociologist and politician, died on April 23, 2026, in a traffic collision. He was 36. Born in Sosnowiec on May 9, 1989, he studied sociology at…
Biagio De Giovanni passed away at age 94
Biagio De Giovanni, an Italian philosopher and politician, died on April 22, 2026. Biagio De Giovanni [it], 94, Italian philosopher and politician. Tags Politicians, Scientists, 22 April 2026, Biagio, Giovanni,…
Federico Vercellone passes away at age 70
Federico Vercellone, an Italian philosopher, died on April 21, 2026. Federico Vercellone [it], 70, Italian philosopher. Tags Scientists, 21 April 2026, Federico, Italy, Vercellone, 2026-04-21, April 2026, April 21
Andrew Hacker died at age 96
Andrew Hacker, an American political scientist and academic, died on April 21, 2026. He was 96 or 97. Hacker was a professor in the department of political science at Queens…
Allan M. Collins obituary: died at age 88
Allan M. Collins, an American cognitive scientist and professor emeritus of learning sciences, died on April 20, 2026, at age 88. His work focused on semantic memory, artificial intelligence, intelligent…
Georgette Dorn death at age 91
Georgette Dorn, a Hungarian-born American academic who led the Library of Congress’ Hispanic Division, died on April 20, 2026, at age 91. Born Georgette Magassy in Budapest on August 13,…
Rita Mulier has died at age 91
Rita Mulier, the Belgian feminist author and economist, died on April 20, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in Kortrijk in 1934, she studied law and economics at Leuven…
Thijs de Graauw death at age 84
Thijs de Graauw, a Dutch astronomer, died on April 20, 2026, at the age of 84. Born Mattheus Wilhelmus Maria de Graauw in Kerkdriel on March 10, 1942, he studied…
Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton death at age 84
Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton, a British meteorologist and life peer, died on April 20, 2026, aged 84. He was born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, British India, on September…
Karl O. Christe dies at age 89
Karl O. Christe, a German-born American inorganic chemist known for his work in fluorine chemistry, died on April 19, 2026. He was 89. Born Karl Otto Christe on July 24,…
George E. Nowotny dies at age 93
George E. Nowotny, a geologist, banker and real estate businessman, died on April 19, 2026, at age 93. Born in Tulsa, he built a career in business while also serving…
Georges Benrekassa dies at 93
Georges Benrekassa, the French historian and literary critic, died on April 19, 2026. He was 93. Born in Marseille in 1932, Benrekassa was a longtime professor at Paris Diderot University.…
Chems-Eddine Chitour dies at 81
Chems-Eddine Chitour, Algerian academic and politician who served as minister of higher education and scientific research in 2020, died on April 19, 2026, at the age of 81. He was…
Death of Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden at age 88
Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, German conductor and founder of the Tölzer Knabenchor, died on April 19, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, on June 19, 1937, he…
Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, died aged 86
Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, an Indian-born British academic and political activist, died on April 18, 2026, at the age of 86. He was a leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain,…
Stanton Davis died at age 80
Stanton Davis, an American jazz trumpeter and educator, died on April 18, 2026, at age 80. Born Stanton Davis, Jr. in New Orleans on November 10, 1945, he studied at…
Dean Schwarz obituary: died at age 88
Dean Schwarz, an American ceramic artist, died on April 18, 2026. Dean Lester Schwarz was also a painter, historian, writer, publisher and teacher, and he co-founded the South Bear School…
Terry L. Bruce, died aged 82
Terry L. Bruce, an American politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993, died on April 17, 2026, at age 82. Born in Olney, Illinois,…
Sergio Landucci obituary: died at age 88
Sergio Landucci died on April 17, 2026. He was an Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy. His work placed him within two closely connected fields of study, philosophy and its…
John R. Reed death at age 88
John R. Reed, an American academic and writer, died on April 16, 2026, at the age of 88. Born John Robert Reed in Duluth, Minnesota, he earned a bachelor’s degree…
Edoardo Borzatti von Löwenstern passes away at age 91
Edoardo Borzatti von Löwenstern died on April 16, 2026. He was an Italian archaeologist and paleontologist. Edoardo Borzatti von Löwenstern [it], 91, Italian archaeologist and paleontologist. Tags Scientists, 16 April…
Raza Kazim, died aged 96
Raza Kazim, a Pakistani philosopher and political activist, died on April 16, 2026, at the age of 96. Born on January 13, 1930, in British India, he was also a…
Oleg Maisenberg death at age 80
Oleg Maisenberg, a Ukrainian-born Austrian pianist, died on April 16, 2026, at the age of 80. Born in Odessa, then in the Ukrainian SSR, he received his first piano lessons…
Laura Balbo, died aged 92
Laura Balbo, an Italian politician and sociologist, died on April 16, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in Padua on November 30, 1933, she graduated from the University of…
Hiroshi Shiono passed away at age 94
Hiroshi Shiono, a Japanese legal scholar and academic, died on April 15, 2026, at the age of 94. He specialized in administrative law and served as an honorary professor at…
Robert Skidelsky dead at age 86
Robert Skidelsky, the British historian, economist and life peer who sat in the House of Lords from 1991, died on April 15, 2026, aged 86. Known as a British economic…
Sir Peter Beale, died aged 92
Sir Peter Beale, the British Army lieutenant general and military physician, died on April 15, 2026, aged 92. Lieutenant-General Sir Peter John Beale was born on 18 March 1934 in…
Obituary: Kevin Klose, dead at age 85
Kevin Klose, the American broadcast executive who served as president of National Public Radio from 1998 to 2008, died on April 15, 2026, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was…
Ernest A. Larsen death at age 93
Ernest A. Larsen, an American politician and educator, died on April 14, 2026, at age 93. Born in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, he earned a bachelor's degree in vocational education…
Erik Kruskopf dies at 95
Erik Kruskopf, a Finnish art critic, died on April 14, 2026, at the age of 95. He was also an art historian and writer and was a member of Finland’s…
Dan Wall obituary: died at age 72
Dan Wall, an American jazz organist and pianist, died on April 14, 2026, at age 72. Daniel Lee Wall Jr. was born on September 7, 1953, and was also a…
Obituary: Bernardin Mfumbusa, dead at age 64
Bernardin Mfumbusa, a Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate and bishop of Kondoa since 2011, died on April 14, 2026, at the age of 64. Born on April 1, 1962, in Arusha,…
Franklin F. Kuo has died at age 91
Franklin F. Kuo, a Chinese-born American computer scientist and academic, died on April 14, 2026. He was 91. Born in Wuhan, China, on April 22, 1934, Kuo came to the…
Michael O. Rabin dies at 94
Michael O. Rabin, an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, died on April 14, 2026, at the age of 94. Born on September 1, 1931, in Breslau, Germany, Rabin was known…
Shlomo Breznitz dies at 89
Shlomo Breznitz, a Czechoslovak-born Israeli author, psychologist and former lawmaker, died on April 14, 2026. He was 89. Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in 1936, Breznitz served as a member of…
Marc Galanter has died at age 95
Marc Galanter, an American academic and professor of law emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School, died on April 14, 2026, at age 95. He was also honorary professor…
Annetta Alexandridis dies at 58
Annetta Alexandridis died on April 13, 2026. Tags Scientists, 13 April 2026, Alexandridis, America, Annetta, Germany, April 13, April 2026
Edward Norman died at age 87
Edward Norman died on April 13, 2026. He was a historian. Tags Scientists, 13 April 2026, Britain, Edward, Norman, April 13, April 2026
Bernard Roizman died at age 96
Bernard Roizman died on April 13, 2026. Tags Scientists, 13 April 2026, America, Bernard, Roizman, April 13, April 2026
André de Muralt passed away at age 94
André de Muralt, a Swiss philosopher, died on April 13, 2026, at the age of 94. Born in Lausanne on September 1, 1931, to Elisabeth Feer and Hans de Muralt,…
Ilsetraut Hadot passed away at age 97
Ilsetraut Hadot, a French philosopher and historian, died on April 13, 2026, at the age of 97. Born in Berlin, Germany, on December 20, 1928, she specialized in stoicism, neoplatonism,…
John Dalgleish Donaldson has died at age 84
John Dalgleish Donaldson, a Scottish-Australian mathematician and professor, died on April 12, 2026, at the age of 84. Death was announced on that date. Born on September 5, 1941, in…
Reinhold Wittig death at age 88
Reinhold Wittig died on April 11, 2026. He was a German board game designer and geologist. His work spanned both fields, reflecting a career that combined science and game design.…
Death of Vojtěch Broža at age 91
Vojtěch Broža died on April 11, 2026. He was a Czech professor, water manager and hydrotechnician. His work was associated with these fields, according to the information provided. Vojtěch Broža…
Death of Flo Oy Wong at age 87
Flo Oy Wong, an American artist, curator and educator, died on April 11, 2026, at age 87. Born in Oakland, California, on October 28, 1938, she earned a Bachelor of…
Sir Alan Frampton dies at 96
Sir Alan Frampton, a New Zealand agricultural economist, died on April 10, 2026, aged 96. Born in Morrinsville on 2 November 1929, he completed a master’s degree at Massey University…
Marianne Lederer dead at age 91
Marianne Lederer, a French translation scholar, died on April 10, 2026, at the age of 91. She further developed the Interpretive Theory of Translation with Danica Seleskovitch, who first proposed…
William Leon McBride, died aged 88
William Leon McBride, an American philosopher, died on April 10, 2026. He was 88. McBride was the Arthur G. Hansen Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He was known…
Gerry Ward passed away at age 84
Gerry Ward, an American basketball player who played for the Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers and Chicago Bulls, died on April 10, 2026, at age 84. Born Gerald W. Ward on…
Colette Khoury dies at 95
Colette Khoury, a Syrian novelist and poet, died on April 10, 2026, at the age of 95. Born in 1931 in Bab Tuma, Damascus, she was also a writer, academic…
Brian Rotman dies at 87
Brian Rotman, a British academic who worked in the United States, died on April 10, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in London in 1938, he studied mathematics at…
Obituary: Arkady Yanenko, dead at age 85
Arkady Yanenko died on April 9, 2026. He was a Russian physicist and politician who served as a people's deputy of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991. Arkady Yanenko…
Eva Ramm passed away at age 100
Eva Ramm, a Norwegian psychologist and essayist, died on April 9, 2026, at the age of 100. Born in Bergen on November 23, 1925, she also worked as a novelist…
Ari Ben-Menahem death at age 97
Ari Ben-Menahem, a German-born Israeli mathematician and geophysicist, died on April 9, 2026. He was 97. Born in Berlin on November 4, 1928, he was a professor of mathematics and…
Obituary: Sherig-ool Oorzhak, dead at age 83
Sherig-ool Oorzhak, a Russian politician, died on April 8, 2026, at the age of 83. Born on July 24, 1942, in Shekpeer, in the Tuvan People's Republic, he was a…
Charles Delhez dies at age 74
Charles Delhez, a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and sociologist, died on April 8, 2026, at the age of 74. Born in Uccle on October 30, 1951, he was ordained a…
Eldrid Nordbø dies at 83
Eldrid Nordbø, Norwegian politician and minister of trade and shipping from 1990 to 1991, died on April 8, 2026, at the age of 83. A member of the Labour Party,…
Roger Establet dead at age 87
Roger Establet, the French educational sociologist, died on April 8, 2026, aged 87 or 88. Born in 1938, he was a scholar of the sociology of education and an emeritus…
Averil Cameron has died at age 86
Averil Cameron, a British teacher and historian, died on April 7, 2026, aged 86. Born Averil Millicent Sutton in Leek, Staffordshire, on February 8, 1940, she was the only child…
Vyacheslav Golishev died at age 75
Vyacheslav Golishev, an Uzbek politician and economist who served as minister of economy from 2005 to 2006, died on April 7, 2026, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, at the age of 75.…
Yalçın Küçük obituary: died at age 87
Yalçın Küçük died on April 6, 2026. He was a Turkish socialist writer, economist and historian. Küçük was known for his work across writing, economics and history, and his death…
Miguel Ángel De Marco passed away at age 86
Miguel Ángel De Marco, Argentine military officer, academic and historian, died on April 6, 2026, at the age of 86. Born in Rosario on December 1, 1939, he served in…
Death of Danielle Sheypuk at age 48
Danielle Sheypuk, an American psychologist and disability-rights advocate, died on April 5, 2026, at age 48. Born Danielle Ann Sheypuk on February 28, 1978, in Jermyn, Pennsylvania, she built a…
Victor Kossikouma Agbégnénou Togolese inventor and researcher dies
Victor Kossikouma Agbégnénou, a Togolese inventor and researcher, died on April 5, 2026. Born in Togo, he worked in information and communications technology and studied at the Moscow State Academy…
Donlyn Lyndon dead at age 90
Donlyn Lyndon, an American architect, died on April 5, 2026, at age 90. He was the Eva Li Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California,…
Lawrence J. Ryan has died at age 93
Lawrence J. Ryan, an Australian-born scholar of German literature, died on April 5, 2026, at age 93 in Tübingen, Germany. Born in Sydney on December 20, 1932, he earned a…
Victor Agbégnénou Togolese inventor and researcher dies
Victor Agbégnénou, a Togolese inventor and researcher, died on April 5, 2026. Born in Togo, he worked in information and communications technology and studied at the Moscow State Academy of…
Evelyn Wilson, died aged 66
Evelyn Wilson, an American judge and justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, died on April 4, 2026, at age 66 from complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Wilson was born in…