Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Taha Jabir Alalwani
Iraq-born American Islamic theologian
Died on Friday March 4th 2016
Thomas Rea
American physician and medical researcher (leprosy)
Died on Sunday February 7th 2016
Gwyneth George
British concert cellist and music academic
Died on Thursday March 3rd 2016
Frances Bonner
American chemist and academic
Died on Monday February 15th 2016
Benoît Lacroix
Canadian Dominican father and historian from Quebec
Died on Wednesday March 2nd 2016
Kenneth van Barthold
British concert pianist and musical academic
Died on Tuesday February 16th 2016
Henk Vreekamp
Dutch theologian
Died on Monday February 29th 2016
Vid Pečjak
Slovene psychologist and writer
Died on Tuesday March 1st 2016
Stephen Clarkson
Canadian political scientist and academic
Died on Sunday February 28th 2016
Reynaldo G. Reyes
Filipino-born American concert pianist and music academic
Died on Monday February 15th 2016
Ranginui Walker
New Zealand Māori academic
Died on Monday February 29th 2016
Reynaldo Reyes
Filipino-born American concert pianist and music academic
Died on Monday February 15th 2016
A. K. N. Ahmed
Bangladeshi economist and diplomat
Died on Wednesday February 24th 2016
John Gagnon
American sociologist
Died on Thursday February 11th 2016
Tosun Terzioğlu
Turkish mathematician
Died on Tuesday February 23rd 2016
Harold C. Conklin
American anthropologist
Died on Thursday February 18th 2016
Ryszard Bender
Polish politician and historian
Died on Wednesday February 24th 2016
W. F. H. Nicolaisen
German-born Scottish scholar
Died on Monday February 15th 2016
Alexandru Vulpe
Romanian historian and archaeologist
Died on Tuesday February 9th 2016
Belinda Nash
Canadian-born American historian
Died on Tuesday February 16th 2016
Umberto Eco
Italian philosopher and novelist (The Name of the Rose)
Died on Friday February 19th 2016
Charles Caldwell Ryrie
American theologian
Died on Tuesday February 16th 2016
Joanne M. Cohoon
American sociologist
Died on Sunday February 14th 2016
Sir Christopher Zeeman
Japanese-born British mathematician
Died on Saturday February 13th 2016
Dag Gundersen
Norwegian linguist and lexicographer
Died on Tuesday February 2nd 2016
Richard Kekuni Blaisdell
American Hawaii sovereign activist and professor of medicine
Died on Friday February 12th 2016
Thomas N. Hibbard
American computer scientist
Died on Thursday February 11th 2016
Muriel Casals i Couturier
70 Spanish Catalan economist
Died on Sunday February 14th 2016
Emanuel Parzen
American statistician
Died on Saturday February 6th 2016
Konstantinos Despotopoulos
Greek philosopher and politician
Died on Sunday February 7th 2016
John Hirst
Australian historian
Died on Friday February 5th 2016
Margaret Rylatt
British archaeologist for Coventry City Council (1971–1998)
Died on Saturday February 6th 2016
Trude Dothan
Israeli archaeologist
Died on Thursday January 28th 2016
Shirley Tonkin
New Zealand paediatrician and sudden infant death syndrome researcher
Died on Wednesday January 27th 2016
Paul Terasaki
American scientist and philanthropist
Died on Monday January 25th 2016
Dmitry Shirkov
Russian theoretical physicist
Died on Saturday January 23rd 2016
Fredrik Barth
Norwegian social anthropologist
Died on Sunday January 24th 2016
Marvin Minsky
American cognitive scientist and pioneer in Artificial Intelligence
Died on Sunday January 24th 2016
Peter Atteslander
Swiss sociologist
Died on Friday January 15th 2016
Edward Yourdon
American computer scientist
Died on Wednesday January 20th 2016
David Finkelstein dead at age 86
David Finkelstein, an American physicist and emeritus professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology,
died on January 24, 2016. Born in New York City on July 19, 1929, he earned…
Eugene Borowitz
American rabbi and philosopher
Died on Friday January 22nd 2016
Robin Fletcher
British academic administrator and Olympic field hockey player
Died on Friday January 15th 2016
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American Historian and Constitutional Scholar
Died on Tuesday January 19th 2016
Lloyd Rudolph
American political scientist
Died on Saturday January 16th 2016
Robert M. Carter
British-born Australian marine geologist and climate skeptic
Died on Tuesday January 19th 2016
Rudolf Haag
German theoretical physicist
Died on Tuesday January 5th 2016
William Craig
American philosopher
Died on Wednesday January 13th 2016
John McDade Howell
American academic and university chancellor (East Carolina University)
Died on Sunday January 3rd 2016
Anthony Mellows
British barrister and academic
Died on Sunday January 10th 2016
John Coleman Moore
American mathematician
Died on Friday January 1st 2016
Peter Gavin Hall
Australian statistician
Died on Saturday January 9th 2016
János Radványi
Hungarian-born American political scientist and diplomat
Died on Monday January 11th 2016
Leonard Berkowitz
American social psychologist
Died on Sunday January 3rd 2016
Berge Furre
Norwegian politician and historian
Died on Monday January 11th 2016
Danylo Kulynyak
Ukrainian poet and historian
Died on Tuesday January 5th 2016
Abbas Bahri
Tunisian mathematician
Died on Sunday January 10th 2016
Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds
Latvian computer scientist and mathematician
Died on Monday January 4th 2016
Danilo Kulinyak
Ukrainian poet and historian
Died on Tuesday January 5th 2016
Gianni Rondolino
Italian film critic and historian
Died on Saturday January 9th 2016
Helmut Koester
German-born American history professor
Died on Friday January 1st 2016
Mahabub Hossain
Bangladeshi development economist
Died on Monday January 4th 2016
Jacques Deny
French mathematician
Died on Friday January 1st 2016
Homa Nategh
Iranian educator and historian
Died on Friday January 1st 2016
Sabino Acquaviva
Italian sociologist
Died on Wednesday December 30th 2015
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
German-born American political scientist
Died on Wednesday December 23rd 2015
Abish Kekilbayev
Kazakh politician and academic
Died on Friday December 11th 2015
Ed Dobson
British-born American theologian
Died on Saturday December 26th 2015