Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
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.…
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…
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…
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…
American scholar and translatorDied on Wednesday December 24th 2025
Italian archaeologist/archeologistDied on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
South African scholar and anti-apartheid activistDied on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Swiss mathematician and physicistDied on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Norwegian political scientist and politicianDied on Sunday December 21st 2025
Syrian Shafi'i scholarDied on Sunday December 21st 2025
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…
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…
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,…
Colombian philosopher and academicDied on Sunday December 21st 2025
Czech professorDied on Saturday December 20th 2025
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,…
Portuguese plasma physicistDied on Saturday December 20th 2025
Norwegian historianDied on Friday December 19th 2025
Australian poet and academicDied on Friday December 19th 2025
Czech physicistDied on Friday December 19th 2025
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…
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…
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…
Portuguese plasma physicistDied on Wednesday December 17th 2025
Russian mathematicianDied on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Slovak computer scientist and academicDied on Tuesday December 16th 2025
South African psychiatrist and professorDied on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Argentine psychologistDied on Monday December 15th 2025
Syrian philosopher and diplomatDied on Sunday December 14th 2025
Pakistani Islamic scholarDied on Sunday December 14th 2025
Australian-American materials scientistDied on Sunday December 14th 2025
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…
Brazilian sociologistDied on Friday December 12th 2025
Moldovan linguistDied on Friday December 12th 2025
Polish physicistDied on Friday December 12th 2025
Polish historianDied on Friday December 12th 2025
Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologistDied on Friday December 12th 2025
Turkish academics and authorDied on Friday December 12th 2025
Australian social scientistDied on Thursday December 11th 2025
American theoretical physicist and writerDied on Thursday December 11th 2025
German chemistDied on Thursday December 11th 2025
American writer and professorDied on Wednesday December 10th 2025
Guatemalan psychologistDied on Monday December 8th 2025
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…
Chinese economist and politicianDied on Monday December 8th 2025
Spanish linguistDied on Monday December 8th 2025
Czech psychologistDied on Saturday December 6th 2025
English theologianDied on Saturday December 6th 2025
American chancellor and professorDied on Saturday December 6th 2025
American historianDied on Friday December 5th 2025
French academic and educational scientistDied on Friday December 5th 2025
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…
Russian economist and politicianDied on Thursday December 4th 2025
German painter and academicDied on Thursday December 4th 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…
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…
American Jesuit priest and leading scholar of Muslim–Christian relations; former head of the Vatican's Office for Relations with Muslims (1981–1994)Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
Tanzanian-born American Islamic scholarDied on Thursday December 4th 2025
German sociologistDied on Thursday December 4th 2025
American medical scientistDied on Wednesday December 3rd 2025
American film scholarDied on Wednesday December 3rd 2025
Latvian politician and historianDied on Tuesday December 2nd 2025
Kenyan children’s author and educatorDied on Tuesday December 2nd 2025
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…
American academic administratorDied on Monday December 1st 2025
German-born Canadian historianDied on Monday December 1st 2025
Argentine-born Israeli diplomat and historianDied on Sunday November 30th 2025
Burmese writer and educatorDied on Sunday November 30th 2025
South African-born American veterinary scientist and academicDied on Saturday November 29th 2025
American theologianDied on Saturday November 29th 2025
Russian sociologistDied on Friday November 28th 2025
Australian economistDied on Friday November 28th 2025
German historian and university professorDied on Friday November 28th 2025
French economistDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
Russian chemistDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
Danish economistDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
French art historianDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
Political adviser and economistDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
Nigerian Islamic preacher and scholarDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
Hong Kong philosopherDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
German chemistDied on Wednesday November 26th 2025
Canadian economistDied on Monday November 24th 2025
Polish scientist and academic (Wrocław University of Science and Technology)Died on Monday November 24th 2025
Russian economist and politicianDied on Monday November 24th 2025
Brazilian economistDied on Monday November 24th 2025
Vietnamese-born French mathematicianDied on Friday November 21st 2025
Ukrainian archaeologist and medievalistDied on Friday November 21st 2025
Ukrainian archaeologist and medievalist. Member of NASU Institute of ArchaeologyDied on Friday November 21st 2025
American-Canadian historian and editorDied on Friday November 21st 2025