Maksim Ovodenko, died aged 96
Maksim Ovodenko, a Russian metallurgist and aeronautical scientist and member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, died on September 26, 2026, aged 96. Born in Cherkasy on August 11, 1930,…
Famous Dead Scientists: Recent Scientist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 10,000 obituaries of famous dead scientists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Remo Calzona passes away at age 87
Remo Calzona, an Italian civil engineer and university teacher, died on September 25, 2026, aged 87. Born in Catanzaro on January 19, 1939, he graduated in civil engineering from Sapienza…
Ryszard Lenczewski dies at age 78
Ryszard Lenczewski, a Polish cinematographer, died on September 25, 2026, aged 78. Born in Miłków in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, he began working in film in 1973 after studying at the…
Richard Mulcahey dies at 91
Richard Mulcahey, an American politician and educator who served in the Illinois House of Representatives, died on September 24, 2026, aged 91. A Democrat, he represented the chamber from 1975…
Death of Yehuda Atlas at age 89
Yehuda Atlas, the Israeli writer, poet and translator, died on September 24, 2026, aged 89. Born on February 12, 1937, in Ein Iron, he built a career that began in…
Dee Brock obituary: died at age 96
Dee Brock, the American cheerleading director who founded and became the first director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, died on September 23, 2026, aged 96. Brock was hired by Tex…
Vyacheslav Dolgov died at age 89
Vyacheslav Dolgov, a Russian diplomat and professor, died on September 23, 2026, aged 89. Born Vyacheslav Ivanovich Dolgov in Moscow on July 31, 1937, he graduated from the Moscow State…
Obituary: Soorya Krishnamoorthy, dead at age 78
Soorya Krishnamoorthy, the Indian artist and philanthropist who founded the Soorya Festival, died on September 23, 2026, aged 78. Also known as Nataraja Krishnamoorthy, he was associated with the Soorya…
Edward Rogalski obituary: died at age 84
Edward Rogalski, the American academic administrator who served as president of St. Ambrose University from 1987 to 2007, died on September 23, 2026, aged 84. He was the 12th president…
Cyril Hilsum has died at age 101
Cyril Hilsum, a British physicist and academic known for his work in liquid-crystal science and technology, died on September 23, 2026, aged 101. He was elected to the National Academy…
Lucien Lazare died at age 101
Lucien Lazare, the French-Israeli history teacher and French Resistance fighter, died on September 22, 2026, aged 101. Born in Strasbourg on November 24, 1924, he studied at the University of…
Dadeus Grings, died aged 90
Dadeus Grings, a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of São João da Boa Vista and archbishop of Porto Alegre, died on September 21, 2026, aged 90. Born…
Jochen Fahrenberg dies at 89
Jochen Fahrenberg, a German psychologist whose work spanned personality research, psychophysiology and the philosophy of science, died on September 21, 2026, aged 89. Born in Berlin on September 18, 1937,…
Burhan Ozfatura died at age 83
Burhan Ozfatura, the Turkish mayor, politician and columnist, died on September 21, 2026, at the age of 83 after cardiac arrest. A native of Mustafakemalpaşa, he was born on June…
Jean-Paul Desprat obituary: died at age 79
Jean-Paul Desprat, the French writer and historian, died on September 21, 2026, aged 79. Born in Drancy, France, on June 13, 1947, he became a specialist in the 17th and…
Andrew Strathern died at age 87
Andrew Strathern, the British anthropologist known for his work on "Ongka's Big Moka," died on September 21, 2026, aged 87. Also known as Andrew Jamieson Strathern, Andrew J. Strathern and…
André Bon obituary: died at age 80
André Bon, a French composer, died on September 20, 2026, aged 80. Born in Lille on August 17, 1946, he studied music and composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de…
Michael James Gaffey obituary: died at age 80
Michael James Gaffey, an American planetary scientist who specialized in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra, died on September 20, 2026, aged 80. Born on December 1,…
Death of Nico Perrone at age 91
Nico Perrone, an Italian journalist, historian and writer, died on September 19, 2026, aged 91. Born Nicola Carlo Perrone in Bari on April 27, 1935, he became known for his…
Arthur Asa Berger passes away at age 93
Arthur Asa Berger, an American author and academic who taught media studies for years at San Francisco State University, died on September 19, 2026, aged 93. Born in Boston on…
Richard Giragosian, died aged 61
Richard Giragosian, an Armenian-American academic and political scientist, died on September 19, 2026, aged 61. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, on January 8, 1965, he became known as a contributing…
Tim Read dies at age 64
Tim Read, an Australian politician and former general practitioner and medical researcher, died on September 19, 2026, aged 64. He represented the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Brunswick from November…
Frank Pieter Israel passed away at age 79
Frank Pieter Israel, a Dutch astronomer, died on September 18, 2026, aged 79. Born in Delft on December 31, 1946, he earned his PhD in astronomy at Leiden Observatory in…
Albert S. Axelrad died at age 87
Albert S. Axelrad, an American rabbi and author, died on September 18, 2026, aged 87. A Reform rabbi, educator and community leader, he helped foster the American Jewish counterculture of…
Zimani Kadzamira passed away at age 85
Zimani Kadzamira, the Malawian academic, civil servant and diplomat, died on September 18, 2026, aged 85. Also known as Zimani David Kadzamira, he was born in Harare in July 1941…
Karal Ann Marling dead at age 82
Karal Ann Marling, an American historian and writer, died on September 18, 2026, at age 82. A professor emerita at the University of Minnesota, she was an American studies scholar…
Oscar Wambrauw dies at age 57
Oscar Wambrauw, an Indonesian academic and professor of economics at Cenderawasih University, died on September 17, 2026, aged 57. He had served as the university’s rector from 2022 until his…
Ludmila Javorová, died aged 94
Ludmila Javorová, a Czech Roman Catholic theologian, died on September 17, 2026, aged 94. Born in Brno in 1932, she came from a Catholic family and worked for the underground…
Blas Wilfredo Omar Jaime dies at age 92
Blas Wilfredo Omar Jaime, the last native speaker of Chaná and a transporter, died on September 17, 2026, aged 92. Born in Nogoyá, Argentina, on February 2, 1934, he was…
Death of Domingo Buesa Conde at age 73
Domingo Buesa Conde, a Spanish historian, writer, politician and Aragonese cultural advocate, died on September 16, 2026, aged 73. Born in Bagüés in 1952, he earned a doctorate in history…
John Broughton, died aged 78
John Broughton, the New Zealand academic and playwright, died on September 15, 2026, aged 78. Also known as John Renata Broughton and John R. Broughton, he was a Māori dental…
Tanella Boni passes away at age 71
Tanella Boni, the Ivorian poet and novelist, died on September 15, 2026, aged 71. Born in Abidjan, she was also an academic and professor of philosophy at the University of…
Nebojša Radunović passes away at age 72
Nebojša Radunović, a Serbian university professor of obstetrics and gynecology, died on September 15, 2026, aged 72. He taught at the University of Belgrade’s School of Medicine and served as…
Jim Peters, died aged 88
Jim Peters, the New Zealand politician and former MP who served from 2002 to 2005, died on September 15, 2026, aged 88. Born James Leonard Peters in Kawakawa in 1937,…
Aracy Amaral, died aged 96
Aracy Amaral, the Brazilian art historian and curator who directed the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo from 1975 to 1979 and the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University…
Dory Chamoun has died at age 94
Dory Chamoun, a Lebanese politician who led the National Liberal Party and served as a member of parliament from 2009 to 2018, died on September 14, 2026, aged 94. Born…
Claude Bachand obituary: died at age 75
Claude Bachand, a Canadian politician and educator who represented Saint-Jean in the House of Commons from 1993 to 2011, died on September 14, 2026, aged 75. Born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec,…
Death of Kari Wærness at age 87
Kari Wærness, the Norwegian sociologist whose research focused on women and gender studies, family and caring, died on September 13, 2026, aged 87. Born in Leknes on January 13, 1939,…
Ann Kaiser obituary: died at age 78
Ann Kaiser, an American academic, died on September 13, 2026, aged 78. Born in Great Bend, Kansas, on March 1, 1948, she earned an undergraduate degree in political science and…
Byron Sher dead at age 98
Byron Sher, the American politician and law professor who served in the California State Assembly from 1980 to 1996 and in the State Senate from 1996 to 2004, died on…
Michael J. Brennan, died aged 83
Michael J. Brennan, an American financial economist, died September 12, 2026, at age 83. He was emeritus professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and had earlier…
Ketaki Kushari Dyson, died aged 86
Ketaki Kushari Dyson, the Indian-born British writer and scholar who worked as a poet, novelist, playwright, translator and critic, died on September 12, 2026, aged 86. Born Ketaki Kushari in…
Carles Solà died at age 81
Carles Solà, the Spanish academic administrator and politician who served as rector of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, died on September 12, 2026, aged 81. Born in Xàtiva, in Valencia…
Rachel Rabin dies at 101
Rachel Rabin, an Israeli educator and activist who was a founding member of kibbutz Manara, died on September 11, 2026, aged 101. Born in Tel Aviv on February 1, 1925,…
Death of Dame Margaret Clark at age 85
Dame Margaret Clark, a New Zealand political scientist, died on September 11, 2026, aged 85. Born in Wellington on 28 January 1941, she became a leading political science academic and…
Solomon Pappaiah dies at age 90
Solomon Pappaiah, the Indian scholar and actor known for his work in Tamil television and film, died on September 11, 2026, aged 90. Born in Madurai on February 22, 1936,…
Obituary: Peter Thompson, dead at age 73
Peter Thompson, an Australian broadcast journalist and educator, died on September 11, 2026, aged 73. Born in Sydney in 1952, he built a career in Australian broadcasting and later worked…
Death of Paul Bender at age 93
Paul Bender, an American attorney and legal scholar who served as dean of the Arizona State University college of law, died on September 11, 2026, aged 93. Born in Brooklyn…
Michael M. Cernea passes away at age 94
Michael M. Cernea, the Romanian-born sociologist and anthropologist who helped bring sociological and anthropological perspectives into the World Bank, died on September 10, 2026, at age 94. Born Mihail Musi…
Hyacinth Knight, died aged 86
Hyacinth Knight, a Jamaican politician and former member of Parliament, died on September 9, 2026, aged 86. Knight served in Jamaica’s House of Representatives from 1983 to 1989 as a…
Death of Gaylyn Studlar at age 73
Gaylyn Studlar, an American feminist, film and media critic, died on September 9, 2026, aged 73. She was David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities and director of the…
Bryan Isacks dies at 90
Bryan Isacks, an American geophysicist who helped provide seismological evidence for the theory of plate tectonics in the late 1960s, died on September 9, 2026, aged 90. Born in New…
Paul Butzer obituary: died at age 98
Paul Butzer, the German mathematician and historian of mathematics, died on September 9, 2026, aged 98. Born in Mülheim an der Ruhr on April 15, 1928, he built a career…
Obituary: Alexander Sharovsky, dead at age 78
Alexander Sharovsky, the Azerbaijani actor and theatre director, died on September 9, 2026, aged 78. Born in Baku in 1948, he began his career in 1967 and went on to…
Ranee Brylinski died at age 69
Ranee Brylinski, an American mathematician known for her work in representation theory and quantum logic gates, died on September 9, 2026, at age 69. Born Ranee Kathryn Gupta in Detroit…
Serge Losique, died aged 94
Serge Losique, the Canadian writer, festival organizer and academic best known as the founder of the Montreal World Film Festival, died on September 8, 2026, aged 94. Born in Yugoslavia…
Margaret Bedggood has died at age 87
Margaret Bedggood, the New Zealand legal scholar and former chief human rights commissioner, died on September 8, 2026, aged 87. Born Margaret Ann Bedggood in Takapuna on April 10, 1939,…
Norberto Galasso death at age 90
Norberto Galasso, an Argentine historian and essayist, died on September 7, 2026, aged 90. Born in Buenos Aires on July 28, 1936, he studied economics at the University of Buenos…
Sir Roger Jones dead at age 83
Sir Roger Jones, the Welsh pharmaceutical executive and researcher, died on September 7, 2026, aged 83. Born on July 2, 1943, he was also known as Roger Spencer Jones. Educated…
Obituary: Hafidh Ameir, dead at age 76
Hafidh Ameir, a Tanzanian politician and agriculturalist who served as Tanzania’s first gentleman, died on September 7, 2026, aged 76. Ameir became the country’s first First Gentleman after Samia Suluhu…
Hafidh Ameir Hassan passed away at age 76
Hafidh Ameir Hassan, a Tanzanian agriculturalist and teacher who served as First Gentleman of Tanzania, died on September 7, 2026, aged 76. He held the role from March 19, 2021,…
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Elio Lo Cascio passes away at age 78
Elio Lo Cascio, an Italian historian and teacher of Roman history at Sapienza University of Rome, died on September 6, 2026, aged 78. Born in Palermo in 1948, he studied…
Rosa Fung Pineda death at age 90
Rosa Fung Pineda, a Peruvian archaeologist and university teacher, died on September 6, 2026, aged 90. Among the first professional female archaeologists in Peru, she taught for many years at…
Obituary: Darío Silva Silva, dead at age 88
Darío Silva Silva, a Colombian Evangelical pastor, died on September 6, 2026, aged 88. Born in Tarqui, Huila, in 1938, he was known as a journalist, columnist, conferencier, theologian, missionary,…
Iván Carvajal dies at age 78
Iván Carvajal, the Ecuadorian poet and writer, died on September 6, 2026, aged 78. Born in San Gabriel, he became one of Ecuador’s notable literary voices and worked as a…
Obituary: Robert Alexy, dead at age 80
Robert Alexy, the German jurist and legal philosopher, died on September 5, 2026, aged 80. Born in Oldenburg on September 9, 1945, he studied law and philosophy at the University…
Georgy Matyukhin, died aged 92
Georgy Matyukhin, a Russian economist who served as chairman of the Central Bank of Russia from August 1990 to June 1992, died on September 5, 2026, aged 92. Born Georgy…
Andy Fish dead at age 60
Andy Fish, an American graphic novelist and educator, died on September 5, 2026, aged 60, following blood cancer. Born Andrew Tiberius Fish, he worked as a comic book artist, illustrator,…
Albert Alós passes away at age 86
Albert Alós, a Spanish-born Nigerian engineer, academic and missionary, died on September 5, 2026, aged 86. Born in Barcelona in 1939, he graduated in electrical engineering from the University of…
Death of Torstein Jøssang at age 92
Torstein Jøssang, the Norwegian physicist, died on September 5, 2026, aged 92. Born in Jørpeland in 1933, he studied at the University of Oslo, earning his cand.real. in 1962 and…
Thérèse Brenet dead at age 90
Thérèse Brenet, the French composer and educator, died on September 5, 2026, aged 90. Born in Paris in 1935, she studied piano at the Conservatoire de Reims and later at…
Obituary: Shirley Strum Kenny, dead at age 92
Shirley Strum Kenny, an English scholar and university president, died on September 5, 2026, aged 92. Kenny led Stony Brook University as its fourth president from 1994 through the 2008–2009…
Resil B. Mojares died at age 83
Resil B. Mojares, a Filipino author, historian and literary critic, died on September 5, 2026, aged 83. Born Resil Buagas Mojares on September 4, 1943, in Polanco, Zamboanga del Norte,…
Felton Earls has died at age 84
Felton Earls, the American child psychiatrist and epidemiologist, died on September 5, 2026, at age 84. Born Felton James Earls in New Orleans in January 1942, he was known for…
Javad Mojabi died at age 86
Javad Mojabi, the Iranian poet and writer, died on September 4, 2026, at age 86. Born in Qazvin in 1939, he was among Iran’s prominent modern writers and poets and…
Death of Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton at age 92
Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton, a British-Australian aristocrat and academic, died on September 4, 2026, aged 92. Born Francis Egerton Grosvenor on February 8, 1934, he was the eldest…
Pedro Rodriguez dead at age 93
Pedro Rodriguez, the Spanish theologian and priest of the prelature of Opus Dei, died on September 4, 2026, aged 93. Born Pedro Rodríguez García in Cartagena in 1933, he specialized…
Don Wilhelms, died aged 96
Don Wilhelms, an American geologist who helped map the Moon and train Apollo astronauts, died on September 4, 2026, aged 96. Born Don Edward Wilhelms in Los Angeles on July…
Constantin Floros, died aged 96
Constantin Floros, the Greek-German musicologist known for his work on the Second Viennese School, died on September 4, 2026, aged 96. Born in Thessaloniki on January 4, 1930, he studied…
Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher has died at age 95
Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher, a German-born American literary scholar, died September 4, 2026, at age 95. A Princeton University professor emeritus, he taught there from 1979 to 2006 as the William…
Obituary: Ritu Khullar, dead at age 62
Ritu Khullar, a Canadian jurist and judge who served as chief justice of Alberta, died on September 3, 2026, aged 62. At the time of her death, she also sat…
Mireille Calle-Gruber obituary: died at age 80
Mireille Calle-Gruber, the French literary critic and academic, died on September 3, 2026, aged 80. A longtime professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, she was also a literary scholar, writer and…
Isaac M. Daniel, died aged 92
Isaac M. Daniel, an American engineer, died on September 3, 2026, aged 92. Also known as Isaac Mordochai Daniel, he was a Greek-American engineer and professor whose work centered on…
Libor Balák has died at age 65
Libor Balák, the Czech painter and illustrator, died on September 2, 2026, aged 65. Born in Brno on February 10, 1961, he also worked as a draughtsman, comic-book artist and…
Robert A. Kyle has died at age 98
Robert A. Kyle, an American academic and longtime Mayo Clinic professor of medicine, laboratory medicine and pathology, died September 2, 2026, aged 98. A pathologist and hematologist, he spent much…
Death of Rachel Blau DuPlessis at age 84
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, an American poet and essayist, died on September 2, 2026, aged 84. She was known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist…
Death of Konrad Jarausch at age 85
Konrad Jarausch, the German-American historian and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor, died on September 1, 2026, aged 85. Born in Magdeburg, Germany, on August 14, 1941, he…
Charles Josselin dies at 88
Charles Josselin, a French politician and economist, died on September 1, 2026, aged 88. Born in Pleslin-Trigavou, in Brittany, on March 31, 1938, he became a prominent Socialist figure in…
Annette Saint-Pierre passes away at age 101
Annette Saint-Pierre, a Canadian educator, writer and publisher, died on September 1, 2026, at age 101. Born in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Quebec, she studied at the Scolasticat Saint-Joseph in Saint-Hyacinthe and at…
Death of Édouard Balladur at age 97
Édouard Balladur, the French politician who served as prime minister, minister of finance and twice deputy, died on August 31, 2026, aged 97. Born Édouard Léon Raoul Balladur in İzmir,…
Death of Anatoly Kholkin at age 89
Anatoly Kholkin, a Russian chemist, died on August 31, 2026, aged 89. Born Anatoly Ivanovich Kholkin on March 8, 1937, he was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences…
Obituary: Elco Brinkman, dead at age 78
Elco Brinkman, the Dutch politician who served in the House of Representatives and Senate, died on August 31, 2026, aged 78. Born Leendert Cornelis Brinkman in Dirksland on February 5,…
Phillips Robbins dies at age 96
Phillips Robbins, an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Boston University, died on August 31, 2026, aged 96. Born in Barre, Massachusetts, in 1930, he built a long academic career…
Indu Mitha died at age 97
Indu Mitha, the Pakistani Bharatanatyam classical dancer and music educator, died on August 31, 2026, aged 97. Born Indu Chatterjee in 1929, she was among Pakistan’s best-known exponents of Bharatanatyam…
Toyohiro Akiyama dies at 84
Toyohiro Akiyama, the Japanese journalist and cosmonaut who became the first person of Japanese nationality to fly in space, died on August 31, 2026, aged 84. Born in Setagaya in…
Frances Stonor Saunders, died aged 60
Frances Stonor Saunders, the British journalist and historian, died on August 31, 2026, aged 60. Born in London on April 14, 1966, she was also known as Frances Hélène Jeanne…
Peter Freebody obituary: died at age 76
Peter Freebody, an Australian literary educator and researcher, died on August 30, 2026, aged 76. Born in Sydney on August 12, 1950, he built a career in literacy education and…
Yoshimi Masaki death at age 64
Yoshimi Masaki, a Japanese judoka and professor at Tenri University, died on August 30, 2026, aged 64. Born in Osaka Prefecture on August 20, 1962, he began judo in elementary…
Ibrahim Adam dead, Animal scientist, politician
Ibrahim Adam, a Ghanaian politician and animal scientist, died on August 30, 2026. He served as the member of parliament for the Choggo/Tishigu constituency in Ghana’s Northern Region from January…