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Fazl-ur-Raheem Ashrafi
Pakistani Islamic scholar · 07 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 7 · Other
Céline Bellot
Canadian criminologist and academic · 06 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 6
Jiří Witzany
Czech academic and former rector of ČVUT (2000–2006) · 06 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 6 · Czech
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 philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford and… · Australia · 07 January 2026 · January 2026
Raj Kumar Pathria Statistical Mechanics 1972 dead at age 92
Raj Kumar Pathria, an Indian-American physicist and Urdu poet, died on January 7, 2026, at the age of 92. He was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo and was known for his work on statistical mechanics, including… · 07 January 2026 · January 2026
Baghir Suleimanov
Azerbaijani petroleum scientist · 05 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 5
Maulana Fazl-ur-Raheem Ashrafi
Pakistani Islamic scholar · 04 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 4 · Ashrafi · Other
Herbert Beck (historian) 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 was born on April 30, 1941. · 05 January 2026 · January 2026
Amal Fathullah Zarkasyi
Indonesian Muslim scholar · 02 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 2 · Zarkasyi · Other
Patrick Duffy (British politician) British politician, MP and president of the NATO Assembly dead a…
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 economist, he represented Colne Valley from a 1963 by-election until… · 02 January 2026 · January 2026
Mohamed Harbi
Algerian historian · 31 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 31
Imants Freibergs
Latvian computer scientist · 31 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 31
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 El Harrouch, Algeria, he came from a wealthy family and… · 01 January 2026 · January 2026
Ion H. Ciubotaru
Romanian ethnologist and literary historian · 30 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 30 · Ciubotaru
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 on August 29, 1929, he was raised in Springville, Utah,… · 31 December 2025 · December 2025
Enno Hallek Artist dead at age 94
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 French botanist and biologist dead at age 87
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
Alexandra Wedgwood
British architectural historian · 29 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 29
Killing of Monique and Spencer Tepe American early childhood educator, shot dead at age 39
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 Journalist, academic, lobbyist, politician, ambassador dead at age 95
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
Syed Mukhtaruddin Shah
Pakistani Islamic scholar · 28 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 28 · Other · Shah
James Akins (tubist) Musician dead at age 69
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
Wu Feng
Chinese material scientist and engineer · 28 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 28
Emma Johnston
Australian marine ecologist and academic · 28 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 28
Monic Cecconi-Botella French pianist, composer and academic dead at age 89
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
Jeffrey R. Holland
American religious leader and educator · 26 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 26 · Holland · Other
Meredith Hooper Writer dead at age 86
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 British-Australian scientist and writer dead at age 100
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 American historian dead at age 88
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 Australian-born British literary scholar dead at age 78
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
David Young (Watergate) American-British lawyer and academic, heart failure dead at age 89
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
Isaiah Jackson (conductor) American conductor dead at age 80
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 Flynn’s taxonomy dead at age 91
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
Claire Ortiz Hill
American scholar and translator · 23 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 23 · Other · Hill
Maria Bonghi Jovino
Italian archaeologist/archeologist · 22 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 22 · Jovino · Other
Renfrew Christie
South African scholar and anti-apartheid activist · 22 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 22 · Other
Roy Billinton Canadian scholar dead at age 90
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
Dorothée Aimée Malenzapa Central African politician, activist, and professor dead at age 73
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 of Rural Development… · 23 December 2025 · December 2025
Daniel Treier American biblical scholar and theologian dead at age 53
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 Seminary before… · 22 December 2025 · December 2025
Syed Shahid Mahdi Indian civil servant and academic dead at age 85
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. After retiring from… · 22 December 2025 · December 2025
Ramadan Dib
Syrian Shafi'i scholar · 20 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 20 · Other · Dib
Rowell Huesmann American academic dead at age 82
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 age of… · 21 December 2025 · December 2025
Loren Carpenter Computer graphics scientist dead at age 78
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 Psychiatrist dead at age 82
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
Ivan Hirsch
Czech professor · 19 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 19 · Czech · Other · Iván
Ronald Chase American artist, photographer and film director dead at age 91
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
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist · 19 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 19
Cynthia Mailman American painter, pancreatic cancer dead at age 82
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 Goodman (psychiatrist) Psychiatrist dead at age 72
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 American geneticist dead at age 94
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 in 1931, Carlson… · 17 December 2025 · December 2025
Nuno F. Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicist · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Loureiro
Jozef Gruska
Slovak computer scientist and academic · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15 · Józef
Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi
Pakistani Islamic scholar · 13 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 13 · Naqshbandi · Other
Stephen Pearton
Australian-American materials scientist · 13 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 13
Ivan R. Schwab American ophthalmologist, heart failure dead at age 77
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
Charles Weissmann
Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist · 11 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 11 · Swiss
Keith Suter
Australian social scientist · 10 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 10
Kenneth W. Ford
American theoretical physicist and writer · 10 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 10 · Ford
Rosa Leal de Pérez
Guatemalan psychologist · 07 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 7 · Other · Pérez
Stan Shillington Canadian lacrosse historian and sportswriter dead at age 90
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