Deaths Famous Dead Scientists
Dwight Morrell Smith
American chancellor and professor · 05 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 5 · Other · Smith
Bernard Charlot
French academic and educational scientist · 04 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 4 · French
Jürgen Raps German pilot and aviation manager dead at age 74
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 obituaries as a member of the Lufthansa Passage executive board,… · 05 December 2025 · December 2025
Charles Mullins (physician executive) American physician dead at age 91
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 cardiologist. Mullins served as director of clinical cardiology and the… · 04 December 2025 · December 2025
Michael Boulter British paleontologist dead at age 83
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 November 22, 1942, he studied botany, geology, and chemistry at… · 04 December 2025 · December 2025
Thomas Michel, S.J.
American Jesuit priest and leading scholar of Muslim–Christian relations; former head of the Vatican's Office for Relations with Muslims (1981–1994) · 03 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 3 · Other · S.J.
Abdulaziz Sachedina
Tanzanian-born American Islamic scholar · 03 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 3 · Other
Murray Heimberg
American medical scientist · 02 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 2 · Doctors
Marsha Kinder
American film scholar · 02 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 2 · Other
Ueli Aebi
Swiss structural biologist · 01 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 1 · Swiss
Pamela Kola
Kenyan children’s author and educator · 01 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 1
Alice S. Whittemore American epidemiologist and biostatistician dead at age 89
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 mathematician focused on group theory. Whittemore was a professor of… · 02 December 2025 · December 2025
Robert H. Edwards
American academic administrator · 30 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 30 · Edwards
Moshe Yegar
Argentine-born Israeli diplomat and historian · 29 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 29 · Argentine
Gondoo U Thein Naing
Burmese writer and educator · 29 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 29 · Naing
William Jenkins
South African-born American veterinary scientist and academic · 28 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 28
Lorenz Weinrich
German historian and university professor · 27 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 27
Guy Cogeval
French art historian · 26 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 26 · French
W. Michael Blumenthal
Political adviser and economist · 26 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 26 · Blumenthal
Dahiru Usman Bauchi
Nigerian Islamic preacher and scholar · 26 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 26 · Bauchi · Other
Lee Tien-Ming
Hong Kong philosopher · 26 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 26
Teodor Gotszalk
Polish scientist and academic (Wrocław University of Science and Technology) · 23 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 23
Lê Dũng Tráng
Vietnamese-born French mathematician · 20 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 20 · French · Tráng
Oleksandr Motsia
Ukrainian archaeologist and medievalist · 20 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 20 · Other
Motsia Oleksandr Petrovych
Ukrainian archaeologist and medievalist. Member of NASU Institute of Archaeology · 20 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 20 · Petrovych · Other
Anneli Aejmelaeus
Finnish biblical scholar · 19 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 19 · Other
Philippe Morat
French botanist and academic (National Museum of Natural History · 19 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 19 · French
Josep Rius-Camps
Spanish biblical scholar · 18 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 18 · Other
Wiesław Żelazko
Polish mathematician and academic (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences) · 17 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 17
Barbara R. Hatton
American academic administrator · 15 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 15 · Hatton
Kevin Mackin
American Roman Catholic priest and academic administrator · 15 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 15
Anka Ptaszkowska
Polish art critic and art historian · 12 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 12
Lapiso Gedelebo
Ethiopian historian · 12 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 12
Giovanni Del Tin
Italian entreprenuer and professor · 11 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 11 · Other · Tin
Rosemary Thorp
British development economist · 11 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 11
Naresh Dadhich
Indian theoretical physicist · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10
Manfred Goldberg
German-born British educator and Holocaust survivor · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10 · Other
James Watson
American molecular biologist (nucleic acid double helix) · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10
James Stevens Curl
British architectural historian and author · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10 · Curl
Madiassa Maguiraga
Malian academic and politician · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10
Antonio Garcia-Bellido
Spanish developmental biologist · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10
George C. Christie
American legal scholar · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10 · Christie · Other
Georgy Tolstoy
Russian legal scholar · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10 · Other
Zaghloul El-Naggar
Egyptian geologist and Islamic scholar · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10 · Other
Kamal Uddin Siddiqui
Bangladeshi economist and social scientist · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10 · Siddiqui
Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman
Indian computer scientist · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10
Hedayat Amin Arsala
Afghan economist and politician · 10 November 2025 · November 2025 · November 10 · Arsala