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 El Harrouch, Algeria, he came from a wealthy family and… · 01 January 2026 · January 2026
Romanian ethnologist and literary historian · 30 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 30 · Ciubotaru
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 on August 29, 1929, he was raised in Springville, Utah,… · 31 December 2025 · December 2025
Enno Hallek, a Swedish artist and academic, died on December 31, 2025, at the age of 94. Born in Rohuküla, Estonia, on November 7, 1931, he moved with his family to Sweden in 1943 after fleeing Soviet-occupied Estonia as refugees.… · 31 December 2025 · December 2025
Francis Hallé, the French botanist and biologist, died on December 31, 2025, at the age of 87. He was a specialist in tropical rainforests and tree architecture, and is best known for the first "Radeau des cimes" ("Navigating the peaks"),… · 31 December 2025 · December 2025 · Halle
British architectural historian · 29 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 29
Monique Tepe, an American early childhood educator, was shot dead on December 30, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. She and her husband, Spencer Tepe, were found dead inside their home after Spencer failed to report to work and a welfare check… · 30 December 2025 · December 2025
Mate Meštrović, a Croatian-American journalist, died on December 30, 2025, in Zagreb at the age of 95. Also known as Matthew Mestrovic and Matthew Meštrović, he was born in Zagreb on September 13, 1930. The son of Croatian-American sculptor Ivan… · 30 December 2025 · December 2025
Pakistani Islamic scholar · 28 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 28 · Other · Shah
James Milton Akins, an American tubist and music professor best known for his association with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, died on December 29, 2025, at age 69. Born in Savannah, Georgia, on June 15, 1956, he studied the tuba with… · 29 December 2025 · December 2025
Chinese material scientist and engineer · 28 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 28
Australian marine ecologist and academic · 28 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 28
Monic Cecconi-Botella, a French pianist, music educator and composer, died on December 28, 2025. Born in Courbevoie on September 30, 1936, she studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Maurice Duruflé, Jean Rivier and Henri Dutilleux. She later taught music… · 28 December 2025 · December 2025
American religious leader and educator · 26 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 26 · Holland · Other
Meredith Hooper, an Australian historian and writer, died on December 27, 2025, aged 86. Born Meredith Jean Rooney in Adelaide on October 21, 1939, she was raised in the city and later graduated in history from the University of Adelaide.… · 27 December 2025 · December 2025
Stephen Boyden, a British-Australian scientist and writer, died on December 26, 2025. He was a professor emeritus at the Australian National University and was widely recognised for pioneering work in immunology and human ecology. Born in Croydon, England, on February… · 26 December 2025 · December 2025
Daniel Walker Howe, an American historian who specialized in the early national period of U.S. history, died on December 25, 2025. He focused particularly on the period’s intellectual and religious dimensions. Howe was Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford… · 25 December 2025 · December 2025
Warwick Gould, an Australian-born British literary scholar, died on December 25, 2025. Born in Sydney in 1947, he specialized in the Irish Literary Revival, particularly the writings of W. B. Yeats, as well as textual transmission studies and the history… · England · 25 December 2025 · December 2025
Isaiah Jackson, an American conductor and academic teacher, died on December 24, 2025, at age 80. He was music director of the Royal Ballet in London from 1987 to 1990 and, from 2001, served for seven years as conductor of… · 24 December 2025 · December 2025
Michael J. Flynn, an American computer scientist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, died on December 24, 2025, at the age of 91. Born in Jamaica, New York, Flynn attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School before earning a bachelor's degree… · 24 December 2025 · December 2025
David Reginald Young, an American-British lawyer and academic, died on December 24, 2025, in Oxford, England, at the age of 89. He served as a Special Assistant at the National Security Council in the Nixon administration and as an Administrative… · 24 December 2025 · December 2025 · Heart Failure
American scholar and translator · 23 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 23 · Other · Hill
Italian archaeologist/archeologist · 22 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 22 · Jovino · Other
South African scholar and anti-apartheid activist · 22 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 22 · Other
Dorothée Aimée Malenzapa, a Central African politician, women's activist, and professor, died on December 23, 2025. Born in 1951, she served during Bozize's administration as Minister of International Cooperation, Regional Integration and Francophonie from 2011 to 2013 and as Minister… · 23 December 2025 · December 2025
Roy Billinton, a Canadian scholar and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, died on December 23, 2025. He was known for his work on power system reliability evaluation and for research and application of reliability concepts… · 23 December 2025 · December 2025
Daniel Treier, an American biblical scholar and theologian who served as Gunther H. Knoedler Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, died on December 22, 2025. Treier grew up near Bloomdale, Ohio, and studied at Cedarville University and Grand Rapids Theological… · 22 December 2025 · December 2025
Syed Shahid Mahdi, an Indian civil servant and academic, died on December 22, 2025. He served as the 11th vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia from 2000 to 2004. Mahdi was a 1963 batch IAS officer allotted to the Bihar cadre.… · 22 December 2025 · December 2025
Syrian Shafi'i scholar · 20 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 20 · Other · Dib
Rowell Huesmann, an American academic and the Amos N. Tversky Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies and Psychology and director of the ISR Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan, died on December 21, 2025, at the… · 21 December 2025 · December 2025
Loren Carpenter, an American computer graphics researcher and developer, died on December 21, 2025, at age 78. Born in Brighton, Michigan, on February 7, 1947, he was a founding employee and chief scientist at Pixar Animation Studios. Carpenter was the… · 21 December 2025 · December 2025
Aggrey Burke, Jamaican-born British psychiatrist and academic, died on December 21, 2025, at the age of 82. Burke spent much of his medical career at St George's Hospital in London, where he specialised in transcultural psychiatry and wrote on changing… · 21 December 2025 · December 2025
Czech professor · 19 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 19 · Czech · Other · Iván
Ronald Chase, an American artist, photographer and film director, died on December 20, 2025, at the age of 91. Born in Seminole, Oklahoma, on December 29, 1934, he studied dance, design and directing at Bard College, where he joined the… · 20 December 2025 · December 2025
Portuguese plasma physicist · 19 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 19
Cynthia Mailman, an American painter and educator, died on December 19, 2025, in New York City at age 82. She was known for figurative and landscape works done in a "cool, pared-down" style. Her early paintings were presented from inside… · 19 December 2025 · December 2025
Robert Nicholas Goodman, a British child psychiatrist, died on December 18, 2025, aged 72. He was Professor of Brain and Behavioural Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at King’s College London. Goodman… · 18 December 2025 · December 2025
Elof Axel Carlson, an American geneticist and historian of science, died on December 17, 2025, at age 94. He was a distinguished teaching professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Born in New York City… · 17 December 2025 · December 2025
Portuguese plasma physicist · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Loureiro
Slovak computer scientist and academic · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15 · Józef
Pakistani Islamic scholar · 13 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 13 · Naqshbandi · Other
Australian-American materials scientist · 13 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 13
Ivan R. Schwab, an American ophthalmologist and professor of ophthalmology at the University of California Davis School of Medicine, died on December 13, 2025. He completed his undergraduate degree at West Virginia University and received his M.D. from the West… · 13 December 2025 · December 2025 · Heart Failure · Iván
Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist · 11 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 11 · Swiss
Australian social scientist · 10 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 10
American theoretical physicist and writer · 10 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 10 · Ford
Guatemalan psychologist · 07 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 7 · Other · Pérez
Stan Shillington, a Canadian lacrosse historian, sportswriter and statistician, died on December 8, 2025, at age 90. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on January 21, 1935, he was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame as a builder in… · 08 December 2025 · December 2025
American chancellor and professor · 05 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 5 · Other · Smith
French academic and educational scientist · 04 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 4 · French
Jürgen Raps, a German pilot and aviation manager, died on December 5, 2025. He served as chief operating officer (operations) at Lufthansa Passenger Airlines (Lufthansa Passage), and was described in obituaries as a member of the Lufthansa Passage executive board,… · 05 December 2025 · December 2025
Charles Mullins, an American physician and physician executive, died on December 4, 2025. He was the Ashbel Smith Emeritus Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and a cardiologist. Mullins served as director of clinical cardiology and the… · 04 December 2025 · December 2025
Michael Boulter, a British paleontologist and professor of paleobiology at the Natural History Museum and the University of East London, died on December 4, 2025. Born Michael Charles Boulter on November 22, 1942, he studied botany, geology, and chemistry at… · 04 December 2025 · December 2025
American Jesuit priest and leading scholar of Muslim–Christian relations; former head of the Vatican's Office for Relations with Muslims (1981–1994) · 03 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 3 · Other · S.J.
Tanzanian-born American Islamic scholar · 03 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 3 · Other
American medical scientist · 02 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 2 · Doctors
American film scholar · 02 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 2 · Other
Swiss structural biologist · 01 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 1 · Swiss
Kenyan children’s author and educator · 01 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 1
Alice S. Whittemore, an American epidemiologist and biostatistician, died on December 2, 2025. She studied the effects of genetics and lifestyle on cancer after an earlier career as a pure mathematician focused on group theory. Whittemore was a professor of… · 02 December 2025 · December 2025
American academic administrator · 30 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 30 · Edwards
Argentine-born Israeli diplomat and historian · 29 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 29 · Argentine
Burmese writer and educator · 29 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 29 · Naing