Francesco Calogero
Italian physicist and peace activistDied on Saturday January 31st 2026
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Allan Chapman
British science historianDied on Friday January 30th 2026
Arthur P. Dempster Dempster–Shafer theory, EM algorithm dead at age 96
Arthur P. Dempster, an American mathematician and professor emeritus in the Harvard University department of statistics, died on January 30, 2026, at the age of 96. Born on October 8,…
H. Robert Reynolds American musician and conductor dead at age 91
H. Robert Reynolds, an American musician, conductor and academic, died on January 30, 2026, at the age of 91. He was principal conductor of the Wind Ensemble at the Thornton…
Paul Deheuvels Probability, statistics dead at age 77
Paul Deheuvels, a French statistician and specialist in probability, died on January 30, 2026. He was 77. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 11, 1948, Deheuvels was a professor of…
Martin Bruns Swiss baritone and academic dead at age 65
Martin Bruns, a Swiss baritone and music lecturer, died on January 30, 2026. Born in Weil am Rhein on November 25, 1960, he was a member of the Knabenkantorei Basel…
Chip Berlet Study of right-wing movements and conspiracy theories dead at age 76
Chip Berlet, an American investigative journalist and author, died on January 30, 2026, of leukemia. Born John Foster Berlet on November 22, 1949, he was known for his work as…
Linda S. Wilson
American academicsDied on Friday January 30th 2026
Roland Huntford
British polar historian and biographerDied on Friday January 30th 2026
Alexei Simașchevici
Moldovan physicistDied on Friday January 30th 2026
Gordon L. Rottman
American author and military historianDied on Friday January 30th 2026
Michael McElroy
American scientistDied on Thursday January 29th 2026
Eric Cameron Artist dead at age 90
Eric Cameron, a Canadian artist known for his conceptual art work, died on January 29, 2026. He lived in Calgary, Alberta, and was also a writer and educator. Born in…
Michael H. Prosser American academic dead at age 89
Michael H. Prosser, an American academic and professor emeritus at the University of Virginia, died on January 29, 2026, at age 89. He served at the University of Virginia from…
Heather Goodall Australian academic and historian dead at age 75
Heather Goodall, an Australian academic and historian, died on January 29, 2026, at the age of 75. She was Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research and…
Akira Iriye
Japanese-American historianDied on Thursday January 29th 2026
Bernhard Waldenfels
German philosopherDied on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Dominick Salvatore
American economistDied on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Fobazi Ettarh American academic and librarian best known for coining the term “vocational awe…
Fobazi Ettarh, an American academic and librarian best known for coining the term “vocational awe,” died on January 28, 2026. Born in New Jersey in 1989, she served as a…
Josef Dvorak public figure dead at age 91
Josef Dvorak, an Austrian therapist, Catholic theologian and author, died on January 28, 2026. Born in Vienna on January 28, 1934, he was also a scholar of Karl Rahner and…
Gloria Wade-Gayles
American educator and authorDied on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Rikio Shimada
Japanese economistDied on Wednesday January 28th 2026
André Burguière
French historian and academicDied on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Ann Ashmead
American archaeologistDied on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Mark Batzer
American geneticist and academicDied on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Annette Dolphin 74–75 dead at age 74
Annette Dolphin, a British scientist and professor of pharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College London, died on January 26, 2026, aged 74–75. Born in…
Reinhardt Kiehl German mathematician dead at age 90
Reinhardt Kiehl, a German mathematician, died on January 26, 2026. Born in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, on May 31, 1935, he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy from 1955 at the University…
Anne Agur Musculoskeletal system research, Anatomy education dead at age 72
Anne Agur, a Canadian clinical anatomist and professor at the University of Toronto, died on January 26, 2026. She taught for many years in the Department of Anatomy within the…
Michael F. Adams
American political staffer and educatorDied on Monday January 26th 2026
Helen Leach
New Zealand food anthropologistDied on Sunday January 25th 2026
Frank J. Frost
American scholar and politicianDied on Sunday January 25th 2026
David Abulafia
British historian (The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean)Died on Sunday January 25th 2026
Li Wei Chinese computer scientist dead at age 82
Li Wei, a Chinese computer scientist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, died on January 25, 2026. Born in Peking on June 8, 1943, he graduated from the…
Stuart Tave
American literary scholarDied on Saturday January 24th 2026
Michael Parenti
American politician scientist and academic historianDied on Saturday January 24th 2026
Nicholas Krall
American physicistDied on Saturday January 24th 2026
Peter Duesberg
German-American molecular biologist and academicDied on Saturday January 24th 2026
Alan Musgrave
British-born New Zealand philosopherDied on Saturday January 24th 2026
George Speake
English art historian and archaeologistDied on Saturday January 24th 2026
Harry Olmer
Polish-born British Holocaust survivor and educatorDied on Friday January 23rd 2026
Andrzej Januszajtis
Polish physicist and politicianDied on Friday January 23rd 2026
Roseanne Diab
South African atmospheric scientistDied on Friday January 23rd 2026
Donald John Roberts Canadian-American economist dead at age 80
Donald John Roberts, a Canadian-American economist and professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, died on January 23, 2026. He was the John H. and Irene S. Scully Professor…
Kikuo Arakawa Research of hypertension, cardiovascular medicine dead at age 96
Kikuo Arakawa, a Japanese medical scientist and internist, died on January 23, 2026. He specialized in hypertension and cardiovascular medicine and was a Professor Emeritus at Fukuoka University. Arakawa also…
E. A. Siddiq
Indian agricultural scientistDied on Friday January 23rd 2026
Anthony Fletcher
British historianDied on Friday January 23rd 2026
Roger-Maurice Bonnet
French astrophysicist and academicDied on Thursday January 22nd 2026
Paul Larivaille
French literary critic and academicDied on Thursday January 22nd 2026
André Jammes
French bookseller and photography historianDied on Thursday January 22nd 2026
Barbara Aronstein Black
American legal scholarDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Marie-Thérèse Lorcin
French historian and academicDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Stephen H. Hess
American political scientistDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Helen Peters
Canadian academicDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Justin Taylor
New Zealand priest and historianDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
M. Hafizuddin Khan Economist, political analyst dead at age 89
M. Hafizuddin Khan, a Bangladeshi bureaucrat and former 6th comptroller and auditor general of Bangladesh, died on January 21, 2026. Born in 1936 or 1937 in Sirajganj, Bengal Province, British…
René V. Dawis
American psychologistDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Henri Dorion
Canadian academic and geographerDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Frank Kolb
German historian and academicDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Deborah Cameron British linguist and feminist, pancreatic cancer dead at age 67
Deborah Jane Cameron, a British linguist and feminist, died on January 20, 2026, at the age of 67. She held the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester…
Vicki L. Hanson Human-Computer InteractionAccessibility dead at age -1
Vicki L. Hanson, an American computer scientist, died on January 20, 2026. She was noted for her research on human-computer interaction and accessibility, and for her leadership in broadening participation…
Daniel Moerman
American medical anthropologist and ethnobotanistDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Sir Christopher White
British art historian and curatorDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Johannes Fried
German historianDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Sanal Badmaev
Russian scientistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Manuel Fernández Areal
Spanish academic and journalistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Marcial Fernández Álvarez
Spanish academicDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Jaan Ross
Estonian musicologist and psychologistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Muhammad Bashir Saliu
Nigerian Islamic scholarDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Gladys West
American mathematicianDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Stuart Altman
American economistDied on Sunday January 18th 2026
Patrick Corrigan
American psychologist and writerDied on Sunday January 18th 2026
Clare Cooper Marcus Architect dead at age 91
Clare Cooper Marcus, an American educator in landscape architecture and architecture, died on January 18, 2026, at age 91. She was a pioneer in the study of social issues in…
Yury Yemelyanov
Russian historian and authorDied on Saturday January 17th 2026
James Petras Professor of sociology dead at age 89
James Petras, an American sociologist and academic, died on January 17, 2026. He was the Bartle Professor emeritus of sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and an adjunct…
W. John McDonald Canadian physicist and academic administrator dead at age 89
W. John McDonald, a Canadian physicist and academic administrator, died on January 17, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1936, he earned degrees from the…
Murad Hasratyan
Armenian architectural historianDied on Saturday January 17th 2026
Mieczysław Mąkosza
Polish organic chemistDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Deirdre Jordan
Australian academic and educatorDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Olena Hrechanina
Ukrainian scientistDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Olena Grechanina
Ukrainian scientistDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Rudolf Urc
Slovak director of documentary and animated films and academicDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Alfred Blumstein
American scientistDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Daniel Colson
French sociologist and academicDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Jean Rossier
Belgian biologist and academicDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Catherine Duprat
French historianDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Namirembe Bitamazire
Ugandan academic and politicianDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Richard Hynes
British biologistDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Vicki L. Gregory
American academic and librarianDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Kristi Kiick
American academicDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Robert V. Kohn
American mathematicianDied on Wednesday January 14th 2026
Bennie Carlton Keel
American archaeologistDied on Wednesday January 14th 2026
Eleni Varikas
Greek-born French political philosopher and academicDied on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Allyn Bromley
American visual artist and art educatorDied on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Mario Rigutti
Italian astronomerDied on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Louis E. Brus
American chemistDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Nelson Manrique
Peruvian historian and sociologistDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Stephen E. Braude
American philosopherDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Jean-Luc Domenach
French historianDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Gabriel Barkay
Israeli archaeologistDied on Monday January 12th 2026