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Ivan Hall, the British architectural historian,
died on March 2, 2026, aged 93. Hall specialised in the architecture of John Carr and had lifelong interests in neoclassical architecture, the conservation…
Alice Chien Chang, a Taiwanese molecular biologist and neuroscientist,
died on March 2, 2026. She taught at National Yang-Ming Medical College, National Yang-Ming University, and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung…
Christine Johnson McPhail, an American academic administrator and the thirteenth president of St. Augustine's University,
died on March 1, 2026, at age 80. Born in Tyler, Texas, on February 1,…
Bob Power, an American record producer and music engineer,
died on March 1, 2026, at age 73. Born Robert Power in Chicago on April 5, 1952, he was also an…
Alexander Tzonis, a Greek-French architect, author and researcher,
died on March 1, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Athens on November 8, 1937, he made contributions to architectural…
Lidia Erokhina, a Russian economist,
died on March 1, 2026. Born on December 13, 1955, in Penza Oblast, she was a member of the Komsomol. In 1978, she graduated with…
Dagfinn Føllesdal, a Norwegian-born American academic and philosopher,
died on March 1, 2026. He was the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University and professor emeritus at…
Konstantin Bogdanov, a Russian anthropologist and philologist,
died on March 1, 2026. He was born on March 30, 1963, in Leningrad, USSR, later Saint Petersburg, Russia. Bogdanov studied classical philology…
Josep Perarnau, a Spanish theologian,
died on March 1, 2026, at the age of 97. Born in Avinyó, Catalonia, Spain, on July 8, 1928, he was a Catalan priest, theologian…
Italian historian and physician
Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
John Joseph Scarisbrick MBE, a British historian who taught at the University of Warwick,
died on February 28, 2026, aged 97. Born in London on October 6, 1928, he studied…
Rémy Scheurer, a Swiss politician,
died on February 28, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in Neuchâtel on March 11, 1934, he was a member of the Swiss Liberal…
Mario Buhagiar, a Maltese art historian and author,
died on February 28, 2026, aged 81. He was a professor in the history of art at the University of Malta and…
Patricia Schady, a British astrophysicist,
died on February 28, 2026. She specialized in gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies and was a senior lecturer at the University of Bath at…
Lars Lallerstedt, a Swedish industrial designer and pioneer in the field in Sweden,
died on February 28, 2026. Born on June 5, 1938, he worked across a range of design…
Michael F. Robinson, an English composer,
died on February 28, 2026. Born in Gloucester on March 3, 1933, he was also a musicologist and academic best known for his scholarly…
Karlen G. Adamyan, an Armenian cardiologist,
died on February 28, 2026, at the age of 89. Born on January 19, 1937, in Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR, he graduated from Yerevan…
Andrzej Trautman, a Polish mathematical physicist,
died on February 27, 2026, at age 93. Born in Warsaw on January 4, 1933, he contributed to classical gravitation and general relativity. His…
David Botstein, an American biologist,
died on February 27, 2026. He was director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University from 2003 to 2013 and held the…
Robin Weiss, the British molecular biologist and influential scientist in virology and cancer biology,
died on February 27, 2026, aged 86. His research focused on retroviruses, and he was noted…
Malcolm Budd, an English philosopher,
died on February 26, 2026. Budd studied mathematics and philosophy at Jesus College, Cambridge, and taught at University College London from 1970 until 2001. He…
Ardis E. Parshall, an American historian and independent researcher of Latter-day Saint history,
died on February 26, 2026. She published her research on the blog Keepapitchinin and worked for The…
T. K. Oommen, an Indian sociologist,
died on February 26, 2026. Also known as Tharailath Koshy Oommen, he was Professor Emeritus at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems,…
Carl H. Brans, an American mathematical physicist best known for his work on gravitation and the Brans–Dicke theory,
died on February 26, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in…
Piero Barucci, the Italian academic, economist and politician who served as Minister of Treasury from 1992 to 1994,
died on February 26, 2026, in Florence, Italy, at the age of…
Bevan Morris, an Australian-born American academic and politician who served as president of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, for 36 years and was a founder of the Natural…
Takeshi Amemiya, a Japanese economist,
died on February 25, 2026. Born in Tokyo on March 29, 1935, he specialized in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece. Amemiya was the…
Charlie Smith Dannelly, an American politician and retired educator,
died on February 25, 2026. He served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate from 1994 to 2013, representing…
Ora Kedem, an Austrian-born Israeli chemist and professor emerita,
died on February 25, 2026. She was 101. Kedem taught at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Ben-Gurion University of the…
William E. Connolly, an American political theorist,
died on February 25, 2026. Born William Eugene Connolly on January 6, 1938, in Flint, Michigan, he was known for his work on…
Carol Walker, an American mathematician and mathematics textbook author,
died on February 25, 2026. Born Carol Lee Walker on August 19, 1935, in Martinez, California, she studied music education at…
Abdul Majid Arfaei, an Iranian researcher and elamitologist,
died on February 25, 2026, at the age of 86. Also known as Abdul Majid Arfaee, he was born on September 1,…
Roman Kofman, the Ukrainian conductor, violinist and composer,
died on February 24, 2026, at age 89. Born in Kyiv in 1936, he was a music educator and was named a…
Elaine Ingham, an American microbiologist,
died on February 24, 2026. She was a soil biology researcher and the founder of Soil Foodweb Inc. and the Soil Foodweb School. Ingham was…
Stephen Koch, an American writer, novelist, essayist, historian and teacher,
died on February 24, 2026, at age 84. Born Stephen Bayard Koch on May 8, 1941, in Saint Paul, Minnesota,…
Czech historian of philosophy
Died on Monday February 23rd 2026
Ali Babachahi, an Iranian poet and writer,
died on February 23, 2026, at age 83. Born in Bushehr in 1942, he was also a researcher and literary critic. Babachahi published…
Stephanie Kugelman, an American advertising executive and branding expert,
died on February 23, 2026, in New York City at age 78. She was a past vice chairman and chief strategic…
Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz, a Dutch physicist and academic,
died on February 23, 2026. He was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Groningen from 1960 to 1989. Born…
Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo, a Togolese historian and politician,
died on February 23, 2026, at the age of 98. He was a member of the Democratic Convention of African Peoples (CDPA)…
Joan Huber, an American sociologist and professor of sociology at Ohio State University,
died on February 22, 2026. Born on October 17, 1925, in Bluffton, Ohio, she taught at the…
Hans-Dieter Sues, a German-born American paleontologist and Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, died…
Eugene G. Sander, an American academic and former president of the University of Arizona,
died on February 22, 2026, at the age of 90. He served as president from 2011…
Daryl Jackson, Australian architect and educator,
died on February 21, 2026, aged 89. Daryl Sanders Jackson AO was responsible for a number of notable designs, working alone and with partners…
Vicente L. Rafael, a Filipino historian and professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Washington, Seattle,
died on February 21, 2026. He was 70. Rafael received his B.A.…
MaryAnn Bin-Sallik, an Australian Indigenous Djaru elder and academic,
died on February 21, 2026, aged 85. Born in Broome, Western Australia, on 2 November 1940, she moved with her family…
David Judge, a British political scientist and writer,
died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 75 from oesophageal cancer. He was based at the University of Strathclyde, where…
František Mezihorák, a Czech university pedagogue and politician,
died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 88. Born on October 6, 1937, in Vracov, Czechoslovakia, he was a professor…
Mutumba Mainga, a Zambian historian and politician,
died on February 20, 2026. Born in 1938, she was the first Zambian woman to gain a PhD, the first Zambian woman to…
Alexander Avdonin, a Russian geologist,
died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in Sverdlovsk in 1932, he worked as a mineralogist and archeologist. Avdonin was known…
Hidé Ishiguro, a Japanese analytic philosopher and emeritus professor at Keio University in Tokyo,
died on February 20, 2026. Born in Tokyo in August 1931, she studied at Tokyo University…
William M. Bugg, an American physicist,
died on February 19, 2026, at the age of 95. Born William Maurice Bugg in St. Louis, Missouri, on January 23, 1931, he attended…
Giovanni Fazio, an American physicist,
died on February 19, 2026. He was an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian who initiated and participated in multiple observation…
Michel Imbert, a French neuropsychologist and teacher-researcher in cognitive neurosciences,
died on February 19, 2026. Born in Béziers on June 29, 1935, he was professor emeritus at Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University from…
Karen Glaser, an American underwater photographer,
died on February 18, 2026, of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Born on June 12, 1954, she began her career as a printer before turning…
Norman Francis, an American academic who served as president of Xavier University of Louisiana,
died on February 18, 2026, at age 94. He led the university from 1968 to 2015,…
Leila Shahid, a Palestinian diplomat and the first woman ambassador of Palestine,
died on February 18, 2026. Born in Beirut in 1949, she represented the Palestine Liberation Organization in Ireland…
Antonis Manitakis, a Greek university professor and politician,
died on February 18, 2026, at the age of 81. Born in Thessaloniki on May 23, 1944, he studied law at the…
Orland Larson, a Canadian goldsmith and metalsmith,
died on February 18, 2026, at age 94. Larson was also an art educator who played a central role in developing professional jewellery…
Thomas De Koninck, a Canadian philosopher from Québec,
died on February 17, 2026. Born in Leuven in 1934, he studied at Oxford, Université Laval and Freie Universität Berlin. He taught…
Ray Reach, an American musician,
died on February 17, 2026, at age 77. Born Raymond Everett Reach Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama, he worked as a pianist, vocalist, guitarist, composer, arranger,…
Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber, an Austrian-born American academic and founding director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University,
died on February 17, 2026. He taught at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson…
William Milam, an American diplomat and senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.,
died on February 17, 2026, at age 89. Born in…
Ancella Bickley, an American historian who was involved in the preservation of African American history in West Virginia,
died on February 16, 2026, at age 95. Born in Huntington, West…
Wolfram Saenger, a German biochemist, crystallographer and academic,
died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 86. He was known for his pioneering contributions to nucleic acid crystallography and…
Carl Grillmair, a Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist,
died on February 16, 2026, after being fatally shot outside his home in Llano, California. He was 67. Grillmair was a research scientist…
Richard Ottinger, an American politician and attorney who served in the United States House of Representatives,
died on February 16, 2026. He was 97. A member of the Democratic Party,…
Hélène Ahrweiler, the Greek-French Byzantologist and academic known formally as Hélène Glykatzi-Ahrweiler,
died on February 16, 2026, in Athens, Greece, at the age of 99. Born in Athens on August…
Tyrone G. Martin, an American Navy commander and naval historian,
died on February 16, 2026. He was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, on June 5, 1930, and was commissioned through NROTC…
Avel Gordly, an American politician and activist in Oregon,
died on February 16, 2026. She was 79. Gordly was born in Portland on February 13, 1947, and became the first…
Guenter B. Risse, an American medical historian,
died on February 15, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 28, 1932, he wrote numerous books,…
Theodore Seio Chihara, an American mathematician,
died on February 15, 2026. He worked on orthogonal polynomials and introduced the Al-Salam–Chihara, Brenke–Chihara and Chihara–Ismail polynomials. Chihara earned his PhD from Purdue…
Ivar Bjørklund, a Norwegian anthropologist and writer,
died on February 15, 2026. Born on December 25, 1949, he was professor of cultural studies at the University of Tromsø – The…
Elaine J. Coates, an American social worker and educator,
died on February 14, 2026. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 15, 1937, she was the first African American woman to…
José Álvaro Moisés, a Brazilian political scientist,
died on February 14, 2026, after drowning at Itamambuca Beach in Ubatuba, on the north coast of São Paulo. Born in Campinas on…
Susan George, the American-French political and social scientist, activist and writer,
died on February 14, 2026. Born Susan Vance Akers on June 29, 1934, in Akron, Ohio, she wrote on…
David Harpp, a Canadian chemist and science communicator,
died on February 14, 2026, at age 89. He was an award-winning university professor and held the Tomlinson Chair in Science Education…
Edward L. Deci, an American psychologist and academic,
died on February 14, 2026. He was professor of psychology and Gowen Professor in the social sciences at the University of Rochester,…
American philanthropist and local historian
Died on Friday February 13th 2026
Alex Caldiero, an American poet,
died on February 13, 2026. Born Alissandru Francesco Caldiero in Licodia Eubea, near Catania, Sicily, in 1949, he immigrated to the United States at age…
Jacques Dubois, the Belgian literary theorist and academic,
died on February 13, 2026. He was Professor Emeritus of Literature at the Université de Liège and was born in Liège in…
William C. Leggett, a Canadian population biologist and university administrator,
died on February 13, 2026. He served as the 17th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University in Kingston from 1994…
Paulette Collet, a Belgian essayist and academic,
died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 99. Born in Verviers in 1926, she fled to London at the onset of…
Nicolas Grimaldi, a French philosopher,
died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in Paris on December 24, 1933, he was of Corsican origin. He earned his…
Joseph Halpern, an Israeli-born American computer scientist and professor at Cornell University,
died on February 13, 2026, at age 72. Born in Israel in 1953, he studied mathematics at the…
Horst Helle, a German sociologist and academic,
died on February 13, 2026. He was Professor Emeritus at LMU Munich in Germany. Born on July 19, 1934, Helle received a business…
Marian Jan Potograbski, a Polish writer,
died on February 12, 2026. He was a researcher of the 1956 Poznań protests and received the Silver Cross of Merit of Poland in…
Dario Antiseri, an Italian philosopher and academic,
died on February 12, 2026, at the age of 86. He held a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, summa cum laude, from the University…
Jenő Murádin, a Romanian art historian and academic,
died on February 11, 2026. Born on November 23, 1937, in Călărași, Turda County, Romania, he was an ethnic Hungarian and a…
Christoph Luitpold Frommel, a German art historian,
died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in Heidelberg on September 25, 1933, he studied at the Ludwig Maximilian…
Biodun Jeyifo, a Nigerian literary critic and scholar,
died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 80. He was a Nigerian academic, critic, public intellectual and cultural theorist who…
Helmuth Rilling, the German choral conductor and academic teacher who was internationally known as an authority on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach,
died on February 11, 2026. Born in…
Janken Varden, the Norwegian theatre director associated with Oslo Nye Teater,
died on February 10, 2026. Born in Oslo on 6 April 1938, he was a graduate of the University…
András Riedlmayer, a Hungarian-born American art historian and librarian,
died on February 10, 2026. Born in Budapest in 1947, he studied at the University of Chicago and at Princeton University,…
