Over 9,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
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…
British polar historian and biographer
Died on Friday January 30th 2026
American author and military historian
Died on Friday January 30th 2026
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…
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…
Japanese-American historian
Died on Thursday January 29th 2026
German philosopher
Died 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 author
Died on Wednesday January 28th 2026
French historian and academic
Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
American archaeologist
Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
American geneticist and academic
Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
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…
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…
American political staffer and educator
Died on Monday January 26th 2026
New Zealand food anthropologist
Died on Sunday January 25th 2026
American scholar and politician
Died 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 politician scientist and academic historian
Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
German-American molecular biologist and academic
Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
British-born New Zealand philosopher
Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
English art historian and archaeologist
Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Polish-born British Holocaust survivor and educator
Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
Polish physicist and politician
Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
South African atmospheric scientist
Died 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 scientist
Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
French astrophysicist and academic
Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
French literary critic and academic
Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
French bookseller and photography historian
Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
French historian and academic
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
American political scientist
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
New Zealand priest and historian
Died 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 psychologist
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Canadian academic and geographer
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
German historian and academic
Died 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 ethnobotanist
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
British art historian and curator
Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Spanish academic and journalist
Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Estonian musicologist and psychologist
Died on Monday January 19th 2026
American mathematician
Died on Monday January 19th 2026
American psychologist and writer
Died 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 author
Died 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 historian
Died on Saturday January 17th 2026
Australian academic and educator
Died on Friday January 16th 2026
Slovak director of documentary and animated films and academic
Died on Friday January 16th 2026
French sociologist and academic
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Belgian biologist and academic
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Ugandan academic and politician
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
American academic and librarian
Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
American mathematician
Died on Wednesday January 14th 2026
American archaeologist
Died on Wednesday January 14th 2026
Greek-born French political philosopher and academic
Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
American visual artist and art educator
Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Italian astronomer
Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Peruvian historian and sociologist
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
American philosopher
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Israeli archaeologist
Died 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 mathematician
Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Czech religionist and theologian
Died on Sunday January 11th 2026
Cameroonian computer scientist
Died on Sunday January 11th 2026
Gambian economist and politician
Died on Sunday January 11th 2026
