Jeffrey R. Holland
American religious leader and educatorDied on Saturday December 27th 2025
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Meredith Hooper Writer dead at age 86
Meredith Hooper, an Australian historian and writer, died on December 27, 2025, aged 86. Born Meredith Jean Rooney in Adelaide on October 21, 1939, she was raised in the city…
Stephen Boyden British-Australian scientist and writer dead at age 100
Stephen Boyden, a British-Australian scientist and writer, died on December 26, 2025. He was a professor emeritus at the Australian National University and was widely recognised for pioneering work in…
Daniel Walker Howe American historian dead at age 88
Daniel Walker Howe, an American historian who specialized in the early national period of U.S. history, died on December 25, 2025. He focused particularly on the period’s intellectual and religious…
Warwick Gould Australian-born British literary scholar dead at age 78
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 Young American-British lawyer and academic, heart failure dead at age 89
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 American conductor dead at age 80
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 Flynn’s taxonomy dead at age 91
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…
Claire Ortiz Hill
American scholar and translatorDied on Wednesday December 24th 2025
Maria Bonghi Jovino
Italian archaeologist/archeologistDied on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Renfrew Christie
South African scholar and anti-apartheid activistDied on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Konrad Osterwalder
Swiss mathematician and physicistDied on Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Dorothée Aimée Malenzapa Central African politician, activist, and professor dead at age 73
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 Canadian scholar dead at age 90
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 American biblical scholar and theologian dead at age 53
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 Indian civil servant and academic dead at age 85
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…
Laila Bokhari
Norwegian political scientist and politicianDied on Sunday December 21st 2025
Ramadan Dib
Syrian Shafi'i scholarDied on Sunday December 21st 2025
Rowell Huesmann American academic dead at age 82
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 Computer graphics scientist dead at age 78
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 Psychiatrist dead at age 82
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,…
Eduardo Mendieta
Colombian philosopher and academicDied on Sunday December 21st 2025
Ivan Hirsch
Czech professorDied on Saturday December 20th 2025
Ronald Chase American artist, photographer and film director dead at age 91
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,…
Nuno Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicistDied on Saturday December 20th 2025
Harald Grytten
Norwegian historianDied on Friday December 19th 2025
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Australian poet and academicDied on Friday December 19th 2025
Ivan Hartel
Czech physicistDied on Friday December 19th 2025
Cynthia Mailman American painter, pancreatic cancer dead at age 82
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 Goodman Psychiatrist dead at age 72
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 American geneticist dead at age 94
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…
Nuno F. Loureiro
Portuguese plasma physicistDied on Wednesday December 17th 2025
Ilya M. Sobol’
Russian mathematicianDied on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Jozef Gruska
Slovak computer scientist and academicDied on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Dan J. Stein
South African psychiatrist and professorDied on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Eva Giberti
Argentine psychologistDied on Monday December 15th 2025
Riyad Naasan Agha
Syrian philosopher and diplomatDied on Sunday December 14th 2025
Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi
Pakistani Islamic scholarDied on Sunday December 14th 2025
Stephen Pearton
Australian-American materials scientistDied on Sunday December 14th 2025
Ivan R. Schwab American ophthalmologist, heart failure dead at age 77
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…
Sergio Miceli
Brazilian sociologistDied on Friday December 12th 2025
Anatol Eremia
Moldovan linguistDied on Friday December 12th 2025
Jacek Semaniak
Polish physicistDied on Friday December 12th 2025
Bolesław Rakoczy
Polish historianDied on Friday December 12th 2025
Charles Weissmann
Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologistDied on Friday December 12th 2025
Nermin Abadan Unat
Turkish academics and authorDied on Friday December 12th 2025
Keith Suter
Australian social scientistDied on Thursday December 11th 2025
Kenneth W. Ford
American theoretical physicist and writerDied on Thursday December 11th 2025
Herbert W. Roesky
German chemistDied on Thursday December 11th 2025
Mark Jay Mirsky
American writer and professorDied on Wednesday December 10th 2025
Rosa Leal de Pérez
Guatemalan psychologistDied on Monday December 8th 2025
Stan Shillington Canadian lacrosse historian and sportswriter dead at age 90
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…
Wang Bingqian
Chinese economist and politicianDied on Monday December 8th 2025
Ramón Trujillo Carreño
Spanish linguistDied on Monday December 8th 2025
Milan Nakonečný
Czech psychologistDied on Saturday December 6th 2025
Richard Turnbull
English theologianDied on Saturday December 6th 2025
Dwight Morrell Smith
American chancellor and professorDied on Saturday December 6th 2025
Charles W. Sydnor Jr.
American historianDied on Friday December 5th 2025
Bernard Charlot
French academic and educational scientistDied on Friday December 5th 2025
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…
Sergey Dubinin
Russian economist and politicianDied on Thursday December 4th 2025
Rudi Tröger
German painter and academicDied on Thursday December 4th 2025
Charles Mullins 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…
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…
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)Died on Thursday December 4th 2025
Abdulaziz Sachedina
Tanzanian-born American Islamic scholarDied on Thursday December 4th 2025
Ronald Grossarth-Maticek
German sociologistDied on Thursday December 4th 2025
Murray Heimberg
American medical scientistDied on Wednesday December 3rd 2025
Marsha Kinder
American film scholarDied on Wednesday December 3rd 2025
Jānis Arveds Trapāns
Latvian politician and historianDied on Tuesday December 2nd 2025
Pamela Kola
Kenyan children’s author and educatorDied on Tuesday December 2nd 2025
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…
Robert H. Edwards
American academic administratorDied on Monday December 1st 2025
Michael Hans Kater
German-born Canadian historianDied on Monday December 1st 2025
Moshe Yegar
Argentine-born Israeli diplomat and historianDied on Sunday November 30th 2025
Gondoo U Thein Naing
Burmese writer and educatorDied on Sunday November 30th 2025
William Jenkins
South African-born American veterinary scientist and academicDied on Saturday November 29th 2025
Jamie T. Phelps
American theologianDied on Saturday November 29th 2025
Mikhail Gorshkov
Russian sociologistDied on Friday November 28th 2025
Tony Cole
Australian economistDied on Friday November 28th 2025
Lorenz Weinrich
German historian and university professorDied on Friday November 28th 2025
René Passet
French economistDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
Vladimir Boldyrev
Russian chemistDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
Bodil Nyboe Andersen
Danish economistDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
Guy Cogeval
French art historianDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
W. Michael Blumenthal
Political adviser and economistDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
Dahiru Usman Bauchi
Nigerian Islamic preacher and scholarDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
Lee Tien-Ming
Hong Kong philosopherDied on Thursday November 27th 2025
Heribert Offermanns
German chemistDied on Wednesday November 26th 2025
Tom Courchene
Canadian economistDied on Monday November 24th 2025
Teodor Gotszalk
Polish scientist and academic (Wrocław University of Science and Technology)Died on Monday November 24th 2025
Gennady Voronin
Russian economist and politicianDied on Monday November 24th 2025
Stephen Kanitz
Brazilian economistDied on Monday November 24th 2025