Pedro A. Sanchez American soil scientist dead at age 85
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…
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Takashi Ono
Japanese-born American mathematicianDied on Monday January 12th 2026
Edith M. Flanigen
American chemistDied on Sunday January 11th 2026
Ivan Štampach
Czech religionist and theologianDied on Sunday January 11th 2026
Nelly Chatué Diop
Cameroonian computer scientistDied on Sunday January 11th 2026
Musa Gibril Bala Gaye
Gambian economist and politicianDied on Sunday January 11th 2026
Orazio Svelto
Italian physicistDied on Saturday January 10th 2026
Sergey Daniel
Soviet art historianDied on Saturday January 10th 2026
Zhang Shaokang
Chinese scholarDied on Saturday January 10th 2026
Ang Ziming
Chinese professorDied on Saturday January 10th 2026
Zhou Liwei
Chinese electro-optics professorDied on Saturday January 10th 2026
Carmen Arnold Biucchi
Switzerland numismatist and archaeologistDied on Saturday January 10th 2026
Hessy Levinsons Taft
German chemist and child modelDied on Friday January 9th 2026
Johannes Fabian
German anthropologistDied on Friday January 9th 2026
Herbert Beck
German art historianDied on Friday January 9th 2026
Ted Nichols Composer dead at age 97
Ted Nichols, an American composer, conductor and arranger best known for his work on Hanna-Barbera productions including The Flintstones and Jonny Quest, died on January 9, 2026, at age 97.…
David Quail
South African politician and educatorDied on Friday January 9th 2026
Fazl-ur-Raheem Ashrafi
Pakistani Islamic scholarDied on Thursday January 8th 2026
Roger Guesnerie
French economist and academicDied on Thursday January 8th 2026
Herbet Beck
German art historianDied on Thursday January 8th 2026
Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon
Icelandic artist and academicDied on Wednesday January 7th 2026
Céline Bellot
Canadian criminologist and academicDied on Wednesday January 7th 2026
Jiří Witzany
Czech academic and former rector of ČVUT (2000–2006)Died on Wednesday January 7th 2026
Arthur Stockwin British political scientist dead at age 90
Arthur Stockwin, a British political scientist who specialised in the politics and foreign policy of Japan, died on January 7, 2026. Born in Birmingham on November 28, 1935, he studied…
Baghir Suleimanov
Azerbaijani petroleum scientistDied on Tuesday January 6th 2026
Baghir A. Suleimanov
Azerbaijani academicDied on Tuesday January 6th 2026
Samuel O. Thier
American doctor and academicDied on Tuesday January 6th 2026
Maulana Fazl-ur-Raheem Ashrafi
Pakistani Islamic scholarDied on Monday January 5th 2026
Herbert Beck German art historian dead at age 84
Herbert Beck, a German art historian and museum director, died on January 5, 2026, at the age of 84. He served as director of the Liebieghaus and the Städel. Beck…
Jitamitra Prasad Singh Deo
Indian historian and archaeologistDied on Sunday January 4th 2026
Andrzej Paczkowski
Polish historianDied on Saturday January 3rd 2026
Amal Fathullah Zarkasyi
Indonesian Muslim scholarDied on Saturday January 3rd 2026
Yehezkel Dror
Austrian-born Israeli political scientistDied on Saturday January 3rd 2026
Volodymyr Marchenko
Ukrainian mathematicianDied on Friday January 2nd 2026
Patrick Duffy British politician, MP and president of the NATO Assembly dead at age 105
Patrick Duffy, the British politician who served as a Member of Parliament and president of the NATO Assembly, died on January 2, 2026, aged 105. A Labour Party politician and…
Mohamed Harbi
Algerian historianDied on Thursday January 1st 2026
Imants Freibergs
Latvian computer scientistDied on Thursday January 1st 2026
Mohammed Harbi Algerian historian dead at age 92
Mohammed Harbi, an Algerian historian and former member of the National Liberation Front during the Algerian War of Independence, died on January 1, 2026. Born on June 16, 1933, in…
Ion H. Ciubotaru
Romanian ethnologist and literary historianDied on Wednesday December 31st 2025
Dean C. Jessee American historian dead at age 96
Dean C. Jessee, an American historian of the early Latter Day Saint movement and a leading expert on the writings of Joseph Smith Jr., died on December 31, 2025. Born…
Enno Hallek Artist dead at age 94
Enno Hallek, a Swedish artist and academic, died on December 31, 2025, at the age of 94. Born in Rohuküla, Estonia, on November 7, 1931, he moved with his family…
Francis Hallé French botanist and biologist dead at age 87
Francis Hallé, the French botanist and biologist, died on December 31, 2025, at the age of 87. He was a specialist in tropical rainforests and tree architecture, and is best…
Alexandra Wedgwood
British architectural historianDied on Tuesday December 30th 2025
Francisco Fernández Marugán
Spanish politician and economistDied on Tuesday December 30th 2025
Killing of Monique and Spencer Tepe American early childhood educator, shot dead at age 39
Monique Tepe, an American early childhood educator, was shot dead on December 30, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. She and her husband, Spencer Tepe, were found dead inside their home after…
Mate Meštrović Journalist, academic, lobbyist, politician, ambassador dead at age 95
Mate Meštrović, a Croatian-American journalist, died on December 30, 2025, in Zagreb at the age of 95. Also known as Matthew Mestrovic and Matthew Meštrović, he was born in Zagreb…
Laurence Thomas
American philosopherDied on Tuesday December 30th 2025
Elías Barreiro
Cuban guitarist and academicDied on Tuesday December 30th 2025
Syed Mukhtaruddin Shah
Pakistani Islamic scholarDied on Monday December 29th 2025
René Racine
Canadian astronomer and academicDied on Monday December 29th 2025
Claude Cantini
Swiss historian and journalistDied on Monday December 29th 2025
James Akins Musician dead at age 69
James Milton Akins, an American tubist and music professor best known for his association with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, died on December 29, 2025, at age 69. Born in Savannah,…
Emma Johnston
Australian marine ecologist and academicDied on Monday December 29th 2025
Monic Cecconi-Botella French pianist, composer and academic dead at age 89
Monic Cecconi-Botella, a French pianist, music educator and composer, died on December 28, 2025. Born in Courbevoie on September 30, 1936, she studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Maurice…
Daniel Brélaz
Swiss mathematician and politicianDied on Sunday December 28th 2025
Jeffrey R. Holland
American religious leader and educatorDied on Saturday December 27th 2025
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