Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
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, 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, 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, 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, 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…
American academicsDied on Friday January 30th 2026
British polar historian and biographerDied on Friday January 30th 2026
Moldovan physicistDied on Friday January 30th 2026
American author and military historianDied on Friday January 30th 2026
American scientistDied on Thursday January 29th 2026
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, 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, 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…
Japanese-American historianDied on Thursday January 29th 2026
German philosopherDied on Wednesday January 28th 2026
American economistDied on Wednesday January 28th 2026
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, 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…
American educator and authorDied on Wednesday January 28th 2026
Japanese economistDied on Wednesday January 28th 2026
French historian and academicDied on Tuesday January 27th 2026
American archaeologistDied on Tuesday January 27th 2026
American geneticist and academicDied on Tuesday January 27th 2026
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, 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, 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…
American political staffer and educatorDied on Monday January 26th 2026
New Zealand food anthropologistDied on Sunday January 25th 2026
American scholar and politicianDied on Sunday January 25th 2026
British historian (The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean)Died on Sunday January 25th 2026
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…
American literary scholarDied on Saturday January 24th 2026
American politician scientist and academic historianDied on Saturday January 24th 2026
American physicistDied on Saturday January 24th 2026
German-American molecular biologist and academicDied on Saturday January 24th 2026
British-born New Zealand philosopherDied on Saturday January 24th 2026
English art historian and archaeologistDied on Saturday January 24th 2026
Polish-born British Holocaust survivor and educatorDied on Friday January 23rd 2026
Polish physicist and politicianDied on Friday January 23rd 2026
South African atmospheric scientistDied on Friday January 23rd 2026
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…
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…
Indian agricultural scientistDied on Friday January 23rd 2026
British historianDied on Friday January 23rd 2026
French astrophysicist and academicDied on Thursday January 22nd 2026
French literary critic and academicDied on Thursday January 22nd 2026
French bookseller and photography historianDied on Thursday January 22nd 2026
American legal scholarDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
French historian and academicDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
American political scientistDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Canadian academicDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
New Zealand priest and historianDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
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…
American psychologistDied on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Canadian academic and geographerDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
German historian and academicDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
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, 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…
American medical anthropologist and ethnobotanistDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
British art historian and curatorDied on Tuesday January 20th 2026
German historianDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Russian scientistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Spanish academic and journalistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Spanish academicDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Estonian musicologist and psychologistDied on Monday January 19th 2026
Nigerian Islamic scholarDied on Monday January 19th 2026
American mathematicianDied on Monday January 19th 2026
American economistDied on Sunday January 18th 2026
American psychologist and writerDied on Sunday January 18th 2026
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…
Russian historian and authorDied on Saturday January 17th 2026
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, 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…
Armenian architectural historianDied on Saturday January 17th 2026
Polish organic chemistDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Australian academic and educatorDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Ukrainian scientistDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Ukrainian scientistDied on Friday January 16th 2026
Slovak director of documentary and animated films and academicDied on Friday January 16th 2026
American scientistDied on Friday January 16th 2026
French sociologist and academicDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Belgian biologist and academicDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
French historianDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
Ugandan academic and politicianDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
British biologistDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
American academic and librarianDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
American academicDied on Thursday January 15th 2026
American mathematicianDied on Wednesday January 14th 2026
American archaeologistDied on Wednesday January 14th 2026
Greek-born French political philosopher and academicDied on Tuesday January 13th 2026
American visual artist and art educatorDied on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Italian astronomerDied on Tuesday January 13th 2026
American chemistDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Peruvian historian and sociologistDied on Monday January 12th 2026
American philosopherDied on Monday January 12th 2026
French historianDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Israeli archaeologistDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Pedro A. Sanchez, an American soil scientist and former director at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, died on January 12, 2026. He was 85. Sanchez served as director of the Agriculture…
Japanese-born American mathematicianDied on Monday January 12th 2026