Juwono Sudarsono, died aged 84
Juwono Sudarsono, an Indonesian diplomat and politician who served as ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2003 to 2004 and as minister of education and twice as minister of defense,…
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
William S. Cleveland death at age 83
William S. Cleveland, an American computer scientist and professor of statistics and computer science at Purdue University, died on March 27, 2026, at age 83. Known for his work on…
Death of Henry Lee at age 87
Henry Lee, the Taiwanese-American forensic scientist and biochemist known for his work in the killing of JonBenét Ramsey, the murder trial of O. J. Simpson and the 9/11 forensic investigation,…
Grey J. Dimenna passed away at age 72
Grey J. Dimenna, an American academic administrator and former president of Monmouth University, died on March 26, 2026, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, at age 72. He served as the…
Jean-Pierre Faye, died aged 100
Jean-Pierre Faye, the French philosopher and writer known for his work on horseshoe theory, died on March 26, 2026. He was 100. Born in Paris on July 19, 1925, Faye…
Ronald H. Spector passes away at age 83
Ronald H. Spector, an American military historian, died on March 26, 2026, at age 83. He was a professor at George Washington University and also taught at the University of…
Tordis Ørjasæter passed away at age 99
Tordis Ørjasæter, a Norwegian literary critic, died on March 25, 2026. She was also a biographer, professor of educational science and novelist, and was particularly engaged in culture and literature…
Nikolai Liutsianovich Orlov dies at age 73
Nikolai Liutsianovich Orlov, a Russian herpetologist, died on March 25, 2026, at age 73. He was a Soviet and Russian researcher of Southeast Asian herpetofauna, particularly that of northern Annam.…
Jaysinghrao Pawar death at age 84
Jaysinghrao Pawar, an Indian historian, died on March 25, 2026. He was an authority on Maratha and Kolhapur history and worked for more than three decades as a professor. Born…
Obituary: Harold Ellis, dead at age 100
Harold Ellis, an English surgeon, died on March 25, 2026, aged 100. Born in Stepney Green on January 13, 1926, he was a professor of surgery at the University of…
Paula Hollinger death at age 85
Paula Hollinger, an American politician and former Maryland state senator, died on March 25, 2026, at age 85. A Democrat, she represented Maryland’s 11th district in the state Senate from…
Alexander Kluge has died at age 94
Alexander Kluge, the German author, film director, academic and founder of a television production company, died on March 25, 2026, at the age of 94. Born in Halberstadt in 1932,…
Mel Schilling passes away at age 53
Mel Schilling, the Australian television presenter and psychologist best known for appearing as one of the dating experts on Married at First Sight, died on March 24, 2026, at the…
José Maria Ricciardi dead at age 71
José Maria Ricciardi, a Portuguese banker, died on March 24, 2026. He was a Portuguese economist and banker who earned a degree in Sciences Economiques Appliqués from the Institute of…
Death of Pavlo Fedorenko at age 89
Pavlo Fedorenko, a Ukrainian academic and mining engineer, died on March 24, 2026. He was born on October 8, 1936, in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, then in the Ukrainian SSR,…
Obituary: Theodore L. Brown, dead at age 97
Theodore L. Brown, an American scientist and author, died on March 24, 2026. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on October 15, 1928, he was known for research, teaching, and writing…
Janusz Jasiński dies at age 97
Janusz Jasiński, a Polish historian, died on March 24, 2026. Born in Wołomin on September 4, 1928, he completed an undergraduate degree in history at the Catholic University of Lublin…
Biruté Galdikas dies at age 79
Biruté Galdikas, the Canadian primatologist, conservationist and author known for her work with orangutans and as founder of the Orangutan Foundation International, died on March 24, 2026. She was 79.…
Peter Messent, died aged 79
Peter Messent, a British academic and professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham, died on March 24, 2026, aged 79. Born in Wimbledon, London, he attended Wimbledon College…
Tracy Kidder dies at age 80
Tracy Kidder, the American writer whose nonfiction books included The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains, died March 24, 2026, of lung cancer. He was 80. Kidder…
Rodolfo Acuña, died aged 93
Rodolfo Acuña, an American historian and educator, died on March 23, 2026, at age 93. He was a professor at California State University, Northridge, and a scholar of Chicano studies.…
Jean-Bernard Racine died at age 85
Jean-Bernard Racine, a Swiss geographer and academic, died on March 23, 2026, at the age of 85. Born in Neuchâtel on April 29, 1940, he was a professor of geography…
José Bengoa passed away at age 81
José Bengoa, a Chilean historian and anthropologist, died on March 23, 2026, at the age of 81. Known in Chile for his study of Mapuche history and society, he was…
Marica Vilcek has died at age 89
Marica Vilcek, an American art historian and philanthropist, died on March 23, 2026. Born on October 13, 1936, in Ivanka pri Dunaji, Czechoslovakia, she worked with museums and arts institutions…
Obituary: Manuel Escudero, dead at age 79
Manuel Escudero, a Spanish economist and politician who served as deputy from 2003 to 2004 and as ambassador to the OECD from 2018 to 2024, died on March 23, 2026.…
Wu Dexin dead at age 89
Wu Dexin, a Chinese materials scientist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, died on March 23, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Laoting County, Hebei, on…
Saeed Shamghadri Academic dies
Saeed Shamghadri, an Iranian academic and associate professor of control engineering at the Iran University of Science and Technology, died on March 23, 2026, in an airstrike at his private…
Death of Edna Foa at age 88
Edna Foa, an Israeli psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, died on March 23, 2026. She served as director of the university’s Center for the…
Leonard Swidler dead at age 97
Leonard Swidler, an American academic, died on March 22, 2026. He was professor of Catholic Thought and Interreligious Dialogue at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he taught from 1966 to…
Peter Stead dead at age 83
Peter Stead, Welsh writer, broadcaster and historian, died on March 22, 2026. Born in Barry, Wales, in 1943, he attended grammar schools in Barry and Gowerton and studied history at…
Ed Blaine has died at age 86
Ed Blaine, an American football player who played guard for the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles, died on March 22, 2026, at age 86. Born Edward Homer Blaine in…
Andrew Pawley dies at age 84
Andrew Pawley, an Australian linguist and academic, died on March 22, 2026, at the age of 84. Andrew Kenneth Pawley was an Australian–New Zealand linguist who served as a professor…
Michael Aaron Rockland passed away at age 90
Michael Aaron Rockland, an American writer, journalist and academic who was professor of American Studies at Rutgers University, died on March 22, 2026. Born in The Bronx, New York City,…
Gualtiero Calboli passed away at age 94
Gualtiero Calboli, an Italian linguist and classicist, died on March 21, 2026. He was Chair of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Bologna, where he was appointed in…
Aloysius Pieris dies at age 91
Aloysius Pieris, a Sri Lankan Jesuit priest and theologian, died on March 21, 2026. He was born in Ampitiya, British Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka, on April 9, 1934, and studied…
Arthur E. Humphrey died at age 98
Arthur E. Humphrey, an American chemical engineer, died on March 21, 2026, at age 98. Born in Moscow, Idaho, on November 9, 1927, he attended the University of Idaho, the…
Umar Shihab died at age 86
Umar Shihab, an Indonesian Islamic scholar and politician, died on March 21, 2026, at the age of 86. Born on July 2, 1939, in Sidenreng Rappang Regency, he was a…
Lala Alizadeh, died aged 76
Lala Alizadeh, an Azerbaijani scientist, died on March 20, 2026. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, on February 5, 1950, she was the author of roughly 100 scientific, literary and methodological…
John R. Corbid has died at age 81
John R. Corbid, an American politician and educator who served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1975 to 1980, died on March 20, 2026. He was a Democrat and…
J. Michael Bishop dies at 90
J. Michael Bishop, an American immunologist and academic administrator who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and served as chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco…
Alain Brillet dies at 78
Alain Brillet, a French physicist who specialised in gravitational wave detectors, died on March 20, 2026. Born on March 30, 1947, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, he graduated from ESPCI Paris in…
Alton Sutnick dead at age 97
Alton Sutnick, an American medical researcher and educator, died on March 19, 2026. Sutnick was also an administrator and the author of more than 200 scholarly publications. He received a…
Death of Md. Anwarul Azim Arif at age 74
Md. Anwarul Azim Arif, a Bangladeshi academic administrator and banker who served as vice-chancellor of the University of Chittagong from 2011 to 2015 and of International Islamic University Chittagong from…
Alessandro Finazzi Agrò died at age 84
Alessandro Finazzi Agrò, an Italian academic and biochemist, died on March 19, 2026. Born in Rome on May 30, 1941, he served as president of the University of Rome Tor…
Khamid Gizatullin has died at age 94
Khamid Gizatullin, a Russian economist, died on March 19, 2026, at the age of 94. Khamid Nurislamovich Gizatullin was a Russian Bashkir economist and a member of the Russian Academy…
Nicholas Haysom obituary: died at age 73
Nicholas Haysom, a South African diplomat and lawyer who served as the United Nations Secretary-General’s special representative and head of the UN Mission in South Sudan, died on March 19,…
Obituary: George H. Goble, dead at age 73
George H. Goble, an American scientist and academic and 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner, died on March 18, 2026. Born George Harry Goble on December 11, 1952, he was a…
Heisuke Hironaka dead at age 94
Heisuke Hironaka, a Japanese mathematician and 1970 Fields Medal winner, died on March 18, 2026, at age 94. Born in Yamaguchi, Japan, on April 9, 1931, he was recognized for…
Finn-Erik Vinje dies at age 90
Finn-Erik Vinje, a Norwegian philologist, died on March 18, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Oslo on March 6, 1936, he was a professor at the University of…
Obituary: László Gallé, dead at age 83
László Gallé, a Hungarian biologist, died on March 17, 2026, at the age of 83. Born in Szeged, Hungary, on November 18, 1942, he was a recipient of the Széchenyi…
Ali Larijani died at age 67
Ali Larijani, Iranian politician and twice secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, died on March 17, 2026, in Tehran, Iran, at the age of 67 after being assassinated. He…
Sergey Maksimenko died at age 71
Belarusian physicist Died on Tuesday March 17th 2026
Death of Sergio Merusi at age 83
Italian politician and economist Died on Monday March 16th 2026
Ernő Mészáros has died at age 90
Ernő Mészáros, a Hungarian air chemist and meteorologist, died on March 16, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Budapest on April 12, 1935, he was a member of…
Yves Chevallard passed away at age 79
Yves Chevallard, a French mathematician and academic, died on March 16, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Tunis on May 1, 1946, he studied at the Lycée Thiers…
Obituary: James N. Hardin Jr., dead at age 87
James N. Hardin Jr., an American Germanist, died on March 16, 2026, at age 87. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 17, 1939, he earned a BA in German from…
Obituary: Andriy Serdyuk, dead at age 87
Andriy Serdyuk, a Ukrainian medical scientist and politician, died on March 16, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in Dnipropetrovsk on December 24, 1938, he served as Minister of…
Ong Kok Hai obituary: died at age 80
Ong Kok Hai, a Malaysian microbiologist and Professor of Microbiology at the International Medical University, died on March 16, 2026. Born in Penang on 12 November 1945, he was one…
Francine Descarries, died aged 83
Francine Descarries, a Canadian sociologist and professor of sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal, died on March 16, 2026, at age 84. Born in Montreal in 1942, she…
Michel Hulin passes away at age 90
Michel Hulin, a French philosopher who specialized in Indian philosophy, died on March 16, 2026. Born on Jan. 31, 1936, he was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure and…
Death of Monroe Price at age 87
Monroe Price, an American academic and director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Global Communication Studies, died on March 15, 2026. He also served as director of the Stanhope…
Death of Jonathan Tyler at age 85
Jonathan Tyler, a British political activist and academic, died on March 15, 2026. Born in Reading on June 8, 1940, he was a Green Party activist and academic who had…
Yuk L. Yung dies at age 79
Yuk L. Yung, a Chinese-born American planetary scientist and professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology, died on March 15, 2026. Born in Hong Kong on August…
Richard Randriamandrato dead at age 67
Richard Randriamandrato, a Malagasy diplomat, economist and public servant, died on March 15, 2026, at the age of 67. He had experience in international relations, finance and development, and held…
Alessandro Cortese de Bosis passed away at age 99
Alessandro Cortese de Bosis, an Italian academic, diplomat and writer, died on March 15, 2026, at the age of 99. Born in Rome on April 23, 1926, he served as…
James M. Houston dead at age 103
James M. Houston, a British-born Canadian theologian and academic who was professor of spiritual theology and the first principal of Regent College in Vancouver, died on March 15, 2026. Born…
Soedjana Sapi’ie died at age 95
Indonesian academic Died on Sunday March 15th 2026
Jürgen Habermas passed away at age 96
Jürgen Habermas, the German philosopher and sociologist, died on March 14, 2026, at age 96. Born in Düsseldorf in 1929, he was a German philosopher and social theorist associated with…
Shigeaki Mori dies at age 88
Shigeaki Mori, a Japanese historian and atomic bomb survivor, died on March 14, 2026. He was 88. Born in Hiroshima on March 29, 1937, Mori was known for his research…
Volodymyr Babayev has died at age 74
Volodymyr Babayev, a Ukrainian scholar and politician, died on March 14, 2026, at the age of 74. Born in Kharkiv on January 10, 1952, he served as rector of O.…
David H. Waldeck death at age 69
David H. Waldeck, an American chemist, died in Invalid Date. Waldeck was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 5, 1956. He earned a BS degree from the University of Cincinnati…
Francine Demichel passes away at age 87
Francine Demichel, a French academic and jurist, died on March 14, 2026, at the age of 87. Born Francine Batailler in Marseille on October 31, 1938, she served as president…
Paulo Fernando obituary: died at age 58
Paulo Fernando, a Brazilian politician and former four-time deputy, died on March 14, 2026, in Brasília, Brazil, at the age of 58. Born in Brasília on June 11, 1967, he…
Steve Thel passed away at age 71
Steve Thel, an American academic and lawyer, died on March 14, 2026. Born Steven Scott Thel in Tacoma, Washington, on December 28, 1954, he was the son of Albert John…
Andrew B. Wittkower obituary: died at age 91
Andrew B. Wittkower, a British-born Canadian-American physicist and technology executive known for his contributions to ion implantation technology and the semiconductor industry, died on March 14, 2026, at the age…
Christopher A. Sims death at age 83
Christopher A. Sims, an American economist and econometrician, died on March 14, 2026, at age 83. He was the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University.…
Jacques Revel death at age 83
Jacques Revel, a French historian and emeritus director of studies and president of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), died on March 13, 2026, at the age…
Ann Gluckman dead at age 98
Ann Gluckman, a New Zealand educator, writer and historian, died on March 13, 2026, aged 98. Born Ann Jocelyn Klippel in London in 1927, she was appointed principal of Ngā…
Jens Blauert dies at age 87
Jens Blauert, a German scientist known for his work in psychoacoustics, died on March 13, 2026. He was an emeritus professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he founded the Institute…
Paul R. Ehrlich dead at age 93
Paul R. Ehrlich, an American biologist, author, and environmentalist, died on March 13, 2026, at the age of 93. He was known for his warnings about the consequences of population…
İlber Ortaylı dead at age 78
İlber Ortaylı, a Turkish historian and professor of history, died on March 13, 2026. He was 78. Born on 21 May 1947 in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Allied-occupied Austria, to Crimean Tatar…
Robert Trivers died at age 83
Robert Trivers, an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, died on March 12, 2026, at age 83. He was known for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, facultative sex…
Hans-Georg Backhaus, died aged 96
Hans-Georg Backhaus, a German Marxian economist and philosopher, died on March 12, 2026, in Frankfurt. He was 96 or 97. Backhaus was one of the main authors of the Neue…
Patricia Clarke, died aged 99
Patricia Clarke, an Australian writer and historian, died on March 12, 2026. Born Mary Patricia Clarke in Alphington, Melbourne, on July 30, 1926, she was educated in Melbourne, later in…
Antón Louro passed away at age 73
Antón Louro, a Spanish politician, died on March 12, 2026, in Pontevedra, Spain, at the age of 73. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he served in the…
John H. Morrison passed away at age 92
John H. Morrison, an American lawyer and senior partner of Kirkland & Ellis, died on March 11, 2026. He practiced at the Chicago law firm from 1962 until his retirement…
Lewis Lehrman passes away at age 87
Lewis Lehrman, an American banker and politician, died on March 11, 2026, at age 87. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1938, he was an investment banker, historian and politician. Lehrman…
Hermann Kulke died at age 87
Hermann Kulke, a German historian and Indologist, died on March 10, 2026. He was 87. Kulke was professor of South and Southeast Asian history at Kiel University from 1988 to…
Susan Haack death at age 80
Susan Haack, a British philosopher and academic, died on March 10, 2026. She was a distinguished professor in the humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, professor of philosophy,…
Volodymyr Vlasenko dies at age 77
Ukrainian scientist and military doctor Died on Monday March 9th 2026
Heorhij Halenčanka dies at 90
Heorhij Halenčanka, a Belarusian historian, died on March 9, 2026. He was 89. Born in Petrozavodsk on February 28, 1937, he spent most of his childhood in Minsk. Halenčanka graduated…
K. N. Panikkar death at age 89
K. N. Panikkar, an Indian historian and professor, died on March 9, 2026, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, at the age of 89. He was an Indian Marxist historian associated with…
Anthony Leggett died at age 87
Anthony Leggett, the British-American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, died on March 8, 2026. He was 87. Sir Anthony James Leggett was widely recognised as…
Philip Bourne passes away at age 72
Philip Bourne, an Australian bioinformatician and writer, died on March 8, 2026, at age 72. Philip Eric Bourne was the Stephenson Chair of Data Science, director of the School of…
Aleksandr Dulichenko death at age 84
Aleksandr Dulichenko, a Russian-Estonian Esperantist, linguist and expert in Slavic microlanguages, died on March 8, 2026. Born in Krasnodar in 1941, he lived in Estonia and served as a professor…
Moulana Abdullah Tari obituary: died at age 86
Moulana Abdullah Tari, an Indian Islamic scholar and political activist, died on March 8, 2026, following a prolonged illness. He was an official of the separatist Jammu and Kashmir Democratic…
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas dies at 94
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, a Malaysian philosopher, died on March 8, 2026. He was a Malaysian Muslim philosopher of Arab descent and was considered one of the few contemporary scholars…
Walid Khalidi obituary: died at age 100
Walid Khalidi, a Palestinian historian, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 100. He wrote extensively on the Palestinian exodus and co-founded the Institute for Palestine Studies in…