Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Helmut Veith
Austrian computer scientistDied on Saturday March 12th 2016
James Oyedeji
Ghanian football historianDied on Monday April 4th 2016
Patricia Thompson
American philosopherDied on Friday April 1st 2016
Toni Grant
American radio host and psychologistDied on Sunday March 27th 2016
Henry Harpending
American anthropologistDied on Sunday April 3rd 2016
Jules Schelvis
Dutch historian and Holocaust survivorDied on Sunday April 3rd 2016
Sebastian Rahtz
British digital humanities researcherDied on Tuesday March 15th 2016
David H. Porter
American academicDied on Friday March 25th 2016
Werner Baer
American economistDied on Thursday March 31st 2016
Mei Ko-wan
Taiwanese academic administratorDied on Friday April 1st 2016
Gordon Guyer
American educatorDied on Wednesday March 30th 2016
Clodomir Santos de Morais
Brazilian sociologistDied on Friday March 25th 2016
Josef Simon
German philosopherDied on Monday March 28th 2016
Vladimir Braginsky
Soviet and Russian physicistDied on Wednesday March 30th 2016
Steven Sample
American educatorDied on Tuesday March 29th 2016
Lester Thurow
American political economistDied on Friday March 25th 2016
José María Blázquez Martínez
Spanish historianDied on Sunday March 27th 2016
Petru Mocanu
Romanian mathematicianDied on Monday March 28th 2016
Mostafa Kamal Tolba
Egyptian scientistDied on Monday March 28th 2016
Alain Decaux
French historianDied on Sunday March 27th 2016
James M. Robinson
American biblical scholarDied on Tuesday March 22nd 2016
Tạ Chí Đại Trường
Vietnamese historianDied on Thursday March 24th 2016
Tibor R. Machan
Hungarian-American philosopherDied on Thursday March 24th 2016
J. Russell Nelson
American educatorDied on Wednesday March 23rd 2016
Morton Hunt
American psychologist and science writerDied on Thursday March 10th 2016
Ernest George Mardon
British-born Canadian historianDied on Sunday March 6th 2016
R. Tom Zuidema
American anthropologistDied on Wednesday March 2nd 2016
Peter Mathias
British economic historianDied on Tuesday March 1st 2016
Charles Kaufman
American educator (Mannes College of Music)Died on Thursday March 17th 2016
Kalidas Shrestha
Nepali artist and academicDied on Wednesday March 2nd 2016
Film News Anandan
Indian film historianDied on Monday March 21st 2016
Geoffrey Eglinton
British chemistDied on Friday March 11th 2016
Tita Kovač Artemis
Slovene-born Greek chemist and writerDied on Friday March 11th 2016
Solomon Marcus
Romanian mathematicianDied on Thursday March 17th 2016
Erik Duval
Belgian computer scientistDied on Saturday March 12th 2016
Arkangelo Bari Wanji
South Sudanese politician and academicDied on Monday March 14th 2016
Alexander Esenin-Volpin
Soviet-born American poet and mathematicianDied on Wednesday March 16th 2016
Verena Huber-Dyson
American mathematicianDied on Saturday March 12th 2016
Akira Tago
Japanese psychologistDied on Tuesday March 15th 2016
Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs
British historian and life peerDied on Tuesday March 15th 2016
Virgilio Elizondo
American priest and theologianDied on Monday March 14th 2016
Gerard Reedy
American priest and academicDied on Friday March 11th 2016
Anita Brookner
British novelist and art historianDied on Monday March 14th 2016
Hilary Putnam
American philosopherDied on Sunday March 13th 2016
Lloyd Shapley
American mathematician and economist (Nobel laureateDied on Saturday March 12th 2016
Cees Fasseur
Dutch historian and legal scholarDied on Sunday March 13th 2016
Anthony Carrigan
British academicDied on Thursday March 3rd 2016
Alfred E. Senn
American historian and academicDied on Tuesday March 8th 2016
Ben Bagdikian
Armenian-American educator and journalistDied on Friday March 11th 2016
David S. Johnson
American computer scientistDied on Tuesday March 8th 2016
Giancarlo Ibarguen
Guatemalan businessman and academicDied on Wednesday March 9th 2016
Robert E. Lee
American educatorDied on Monday March 7th 2016
Sergio Ricossa
Italian economistDied on Wednesday March 2nd 2016
Aldo Ferrer
Argentine economistDied on Tuesday March 8th 2016
Bryan Coombs
British academic and shorthand expert (Pitman shorthand)Died on Wednesday March 9th 2016
Stephen H. Webb
American theologianDied on Saturday March 5th 2016
Marilyn Stokstad
American art historianDied on Friday March 4th 2016
Paul Webley
British educatorDied on Wednesday March 2nd 2016
Sture Eskilsson
Swedish economistDied on Saturday March 5th 2016
Elizabeth Garrett
American educatorDied on Sunday March 6th 2016
María Rostworowski
Peruvian historianDied on Sunday March 6th 2016
Taha Jabir Alalwani
Iraq-born American Islamic theologianDied on Friday March 4th 2016
Thomas Rea
American physician and medical researcher (leprosy)Died on Sunday February 7th 2016
Per Beskow
Swedish biblical scholarDied on Thursday March 3rd 2016
Gwyneth George
British concert cellist and music academicDied on Thursday March 3rd 2016
Frances Bonner
American chemist and academicDied on Monday February 15th 2016
Benoît Lacroix
Canadian Dominican father and historian from QuebecDied on Wednesday March 2nd 2016
Kenneth van Barthold
British concert pianist and musical academicDied on Tuesday February 16th 2016
Henk Vreekamp
Dutch theologianDied on Monday February 29th 2016
Joseph J. McGowan
American academicDied on Tuesday March 1st 2016
Vid Pečjak
Slovene psychologist and writerDied on Tuesday March 1st 2016
Stephen Clarkson
Canadian political scientist and academicDied on Sunday February 28th 2016
Reynaldo G. Reyes
Filipino-born American concert pianist and music academicDied on Monday February 15th 2016
Ranginui Walker
New Zealand Māori academicDied on Monday February 29th 2016
Reynaldo Reyes
Filipino-born American concert pianist and music academicDied on Monday February 15th 2016
A. K. N. Ahmed
Bangladeshi economist and diplomatDied on Wednesday February 24th 2016
John Gagnon
American sociologistDied on Thursday February 11th 2016
Tosun Terzioğlu
Turkish mathematicianDied on Tuesday February 23rd 2016
Harold C. Conklin
American anthropologistDied on Thursday February 18th 2016
Ryszard Bender
Polish politician and historianDied on Wednesday February 24th 2016
W. F. H. Nicolaisen
German-born Scottish scholarDied on Monday February 15th 2016
Xie Jialin
Chinese physicistDied on Saturday February 20th 2016
Alexandru Vulpe
Romanian historian and archaeologistDied on Tuesday February 9th 2016
Milton V. Backman
American historianDied on Saturday February 6th 2016
Belinda Nash
Canadian-born American historianDied on Tuesday February 16th 2016
Umberto Eco
Italian philosopher and novelist (The Name of the Rose)Died on Friday February 19th 2016
Keith Jeffery
Northern Irish historianDied on Friday February 12th 2016
Cherussery Zainuddeen Musliyar
Indian religious scholarDied on Thursday February 18th 2016
Charles Caldwell Ryrie
American theologianDied on Tuesday February 16th 2016
Joanne M. Cohoon
American sociologistDied on Sunday February 14th 2016
Jerzy Kroh
Polish chemistDied on Monday February 15th 2016
Sir Christopher Zeeman
Japanese-born British mathematicianDied on Saturday February 13th 2016