B. J. Sams dies at age 91
B. J. Sams, an American news anchor whose career in television broadcasting spanned more than 50 years, died on June 25, 2026. Born March 19, 1935, and also known as…
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Om Malik death at age 59
Om Malik, an Indian-American writer and founder of the technology news site Gigaom, died on June 24, 2026. He was 59. Born Om Prakash Malik in New Delhi on September…
Mary-Dell Chilton dies at 87
Mary-Dell Chilton, an American biochemist and one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology, died on June 24, 2026. She was 87. Born in Indianapolis on February 2, 1939, she…
Harold Wheeler died at age 82
Harold Wheeler, an American orchestrator and composer, died on June 24, 2026, at the age of 82. Born William Harold Wheeler Jr. in St. Louis on July 14, 1943, he…
María Clemencia López Ramírez dead
María Clemencia López Ramírez, a Venezuelan diplomat, died on June 24, 2026. Born in 1940, she served as chargé d'affaires at the Venezuelan mission to the United Nations from 1977…
Mike Stamm has died at age 73
Mike Stamm died on June 24, 2026. He was an American swimmer. Tags Athletes, 24 June 2026, America, Leo, Mike, Stamm, June 2026, June 24
Obituary: Dorothy Wilken, dead at age 90
Dorothy Wilken, an American politician and former clerk of courts, died on June 24, 2026, at the age of 90. She became a prominent figure in Boca Raton, Florida, after…
Obituary: Steve Zabel, dead at age 78
Steve Zabel, an American football player who played linebacker and tight end in the NFL, died on June 24, 2026, at age 78. Born in Minneapolis on March 20, 1948,…
Ann Blyth has died at age 98
Ann Blyth, the American actress best known for Mildred Pierce, died on June 24, 2026, at age 98. Born Anne Marie Blythe in Mount Kisco, New York, she began performing…
Dorothy L. Reynolds passed away at age 97
Dorothy L. Reynolds died on June 23, 2026. Tags Politicians, 23 June 2026, America, Cancer, Dorothy, Reynolds, June 2026, June 23
Joanne Glasser dead
Joanne Glasser, an American educator and academic administrator who served as president of Eastern Kentucky University and later Bradley University, died on June 23, 2026. She was the first woman…
John P. Reardon passes away at age 88
John P. Reardon died June 23, 2026. Tags Scientists, 23 June 2026, America, John, Reardon, June 2026, June 23
Erie Mills has died at age 73
Erie Mills, an American operatic soprano and voice teacher, died on June 23, 2026, at age 73. Born in Granite City, Illinois, on June 22, 1953, she developed an early…
Roger W. Sandler died at age 92
Roger W. Sandler, an American Army general who rose to become a retired major general in the U.S. Army and former chief of the U.S. Army Reserve, died on June…
Jill Smokler, died aged 48
Jill Smokler, an American blogger and founder of the Scary Mommy website, died on June 22, 2026, at age 48. Smokler started Scary Mommy as a personal blog in March…
Death of Martha Zoller at age 66
Martha Zoller, an American political commentator and radio host, died on June 22, 2026. She was 66. Born in Columbus, Georgia, on August 23, 1959, Zoller was also known as…
Bruce Tull dead at age 71
Bruce Tull died on June 22, 2026. Tags Musicians, 22 June 2026, America, Bruce, Tull, June 2026, June 22
H. Edward Knox has died at age 89
H. Edward Knox, the American politician who served as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, died on June 22, 2026, at age 89. Born Haden Edward Knox on January 22, 1937,…
Clive Davis dies at age 94
Clive Davis, the American Hall of Fame music executive and record producer who founded Arista Records, died on June 22, 2026, at the age of 94. Born Clive Jay Davis…
Gustavus Simmons passes away at age 95
Gustavus Simmons, an American cryptographer and mathematician, died on June 22, 2026, at age 95. Born in West Virginia on October 27, 1930, he studied at Deep Springs College before…
Eddie Knox, died aged 89
Eddie Knox, an American politician and lawyer who served as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, died on June 22, 2026, at age 89. Knox was the 49th mayor of Charlotte,…
Alan Greenspan obituary: died at age 100
Alan Greenspan, the American economist who served as chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006, died on June 22, 2026, at age 100. Born in New York City…
Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr. obituary: died at age 93
Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr., an American physician and medical researcher whose work helped define inherited cancer risk, died on June 22, 2026. He was 93. Born in Boston on Jan.…
Jim Goad, died aged 65
Jim Goad, an American writer and publisher best known for Answer Me! and The Redneck Manifesto, died on June 22, 2026. Born James Thaddeus Goad in Ridley Park, he built…
Joshua Gil dies at 50
Joshua Gil, an American restaurateur, died on June 22, 2026, at age 50. Born in Riverside, California, and raised in Baja California, he built a career in Southern California kitchens…
Ab DeMarco Jr. died at age 77
Ab DeMarco Jr., an American-born Canadian ice hockey player who skated in the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association during the 1970s, died June 21, 2026, at 77. Born…
Louise Holcombe died at age 72
Louise Holcombe, an American canoeist who competed in Olympic slalom events, died on June 21, 2026. She was 72. Born on March 17, 1954, in Washington, D.C., Holcombe represented the…
Gene Wiley has died at age 88
Gene Wiley, an American basketball player who spent four seasons in the NBA and later played in the ABA, died on June 21, 2026. He was 88. Born in Wichita,…
Giorgia Moll dies at 88
Giorgia Moll, the Italian actress born on January 14, 1938, died on June 21, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Prata di Pordenone, she also worked as a…
Ange Armato died at age 96
Ange Armato, an American baseball player who appeared in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, died on June 21, 2026, at the age of 96. Also known as Ange Lou…
Obituary: Kent Briggs, dead at age 68
Kent Briggs, an American football player and coach, died on June 21, 2026, at age 68. A native of Asheville, North Carolina, he played quarterback at A. C. Reynolds High…
Jim Battle passed away at age 88
Jim Battle, an American football player who competed in the NFL and CFL, died on June 21, 2026, at age 88. Battle played guard in professional football after his college…
Death of Jeff Olson at age 77
Jeff Olson, an American visual effects artist whose work helped shape films including Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Trek and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, died on…
David W. Rohde, died aged 82
David W. Rohde, a political scientist whose research focused on politics in the United States, died on June 20, 2026, aged 82. Born in Buffalo, New York, he taught at…
Jim Mitchell, died aged 77
Jim Mitchell, an American football player who spent eight seasons as a defensive end with the Detroit Lions, died on June 20, 2026. He was 77. Born in Danville, he…
Geraldene Felton passed away at age 100
Geraldene Felton died June 20, 2026. Tags Scientists, 20 June 2026, America, Aquarius, Felton, Geraldene, June 20, June 2026
Frank J. Guarini has died at age 101
Frank J. Guarini, an American politician and lawyer who served in the U.S. House of Representatives, died on June 20, 2026. He was 101. Born in Jersey City on August…
Death of Norman Tolk at age 88
Norman Tolk died on June 20, 2026. He was an American physicist. Tags Scientists, 20 June 2026, America, Capricorn, Norman, Tolk, June 20, June 2026
Hershel Parker passes away at age 90
Hershel Parker, an American literary historian and scholar of Herman Melville, died on June 19, 2026. He was 90. Born in Comanche, Oklahoma, on November 26, 1935, Parker was an…
Mark Singer, died aged 75
Mark Singer, an American journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker, died on June 19, 2026, at age 75 of complications from salivary gland cancer. Known professionally as Mark…
James Burrows has died at age 85
James Burrows, the American television director behind "Cheers," died on June 19, 2026, at age 85. Born in Los Angeles on December 30, 1940, and also known as James Edward…
Gene Bess passes away at age 91
Gene Bess, an American college basketball coach, died June 19, 2026. He was 91. Bess was a native of Oak Ridge, Missouri, and spent 12 seasons coaching at Lesterville High…
William Isaac died at age 82
William Isaac, an American banker who served as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, died on June 19, 2026. He was 82. Born in Bryan, Ohio, in 1943, he…
Elizabeth Arnold dead at age 66
Elizabeth Arnold, an American journalist who was NPR’s national political correspondent and later a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, died June 18, 2026, of complications from endometrial cancer.…
Tay Keith obituary: died at age 29
Tay Keith, the American record producer behind songs including “Sicko Mode,” “Nonstop” and “Look Alive,” died on June 18, 2026. He was 29. Born Brytavious Lakeith Chambers on Sept. 20,…
Sally Brayley dies at 88
Sally Brayley, a Canadian-American ballet dancer, died on June 18, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in London in 1937 to Canadian parents and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia,…
Justin Cary died at age 50
Justin Cary, an American bass guitarist known for his work with Sixpence None the Richer, died on June 18, 2026, at age 50. A member of the Christian alternative rock…
Mikhail Torrance passes away at age 37
Mikhail Torrance, an American basketball player, died on June 18, 2026. He was 37. Born Mikhail Renard Torrance on September 30, 1988, in Eight Mile, Alabama, he played college basketball…
Al Worthington died at age 97
Al Worthington, the American baseball pitcher and coach who played for the New York Giants, Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins, died on June 18, 2026. He was 97. Born…
Obituary: Thomas R. Metcalf, dead at age 92
Thomas R. Metcalf, an American historian and academic whose scholarship focused on South Asia, especially colonial India, and the British Empire, died on June 18, 2026. He was 92. Metcalf…
Sam Y. Zamrik passed away at age 93
Sam Y. Zamrik, a Syrian-American mechanical engineer and emeritus professor at Pennsylvania State University, died on June 18, 2026, at the age of 93. Also known as Sam Yusuf Zamrik,…
The Duke of Dorchester dies at age 81
The Duke of Dorchester, an American professional wrestler, died on June 17, 2026. Known outside the ring as Pete Doherty, he was born on January 18, 1941, in Dorchester. He…
Tony Brown died at age 93
Tony Brown, the American journalist best known for the syndicated television program Tony Brown's Journal, died on June 17, 2026. He was 93. Born William Anthony Brown on April 11,…
Tom Dreesen dies at 86
Tom Dreesen, an American stand-up comedian and actor, died on June 17, 2026. Born on September 11, 1942, in Harvey, Illinois, he grew up in the Chicago suburb and attended…
Eliot D. Cohen has died at age 84
Eliot D. Cohen, an American electrical engineer, died on June 17, 2026, at age 84. Born Eliot Dorsey Cohen on March 10, 1942, in Washington, D.C., he earned a bachelor’s…
Ralph G. Wright dead at age 91
Ralph G. Wright, an American politician and former speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, died on June 17, 2026. He was 91. Wright served as speaker from 1985 to…
Walter Parazaider passed away at age 81
Walter Parazaider, an American Hall of Fame woodwind musician and founding member of Chicago, died on June 17, 2026, at age 81 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. Born in Chicago…
Toney Lee dead at age 72
Toney Lee, an American singer, songwriter and record producer, died on June 17, 2026, at age 72. Born James Anthony Lee on September 12, 1953, he worked in garage house,…
Obituary: Judith Wyler, dead at age 84
Judith Wyler died on June 17, 2026. Tags Actors, 17 June 2026, America, Judith, Wyler, June 17, June 2026
Beau Williams dies at 76
Beau Williams, an American gospel singer, died on June 17, 2026, at age 76. Born in Houston on January 6, 1950, he began his career in 1982 and became known…
Paul Avery passed away at age 81
Paul Avery died on June 16, 2026. He was an actor. Tags Actors, 16 June 2026, America, Avery, Paul, June 16, June 2026
John J. Snow Jr. death at age 80
John J. Snow Jr., an American politician and lawyer, died on June 16, 2026, at age 80. A native of Asheville, North Carolina, he earned both his undergraduate degree and…
Obituary: Daveigh Chase, dead at age 35
Daveigh Chase, an American actress known for roles in Lilo & Stitch, The Ring and Donnie Darko, died June 16, 2026, at age 35 of complications from meningitis. Born Daveigh…
Michael Kapovich dead at age 63
Michael Kapovich, a Russian-American mathematician who worked at the University of California, Davis, died on June 16, 2026. He was 63. Born in Khabarovsk on March 13, 1963, and also…
Pat Holmes died at age 85
Pat Holmes, an American football player who played for the Houston Oilers, Calgary Stampeders and Kansas City Chiefs, died on June 16, 2026, at age 85. Born James Patrick Holmes…
Death of Robert Thurman at age 84
Robert Thurman, an American Buddhist writer and academic, died on June 16, 2026, at age 84. Born Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman in New York City on August 3, 1941, he…
Bobby Prince dies at age 81
Bobby Prince, an American video game composer and sound designer, died on June 16, 2026. He was known professionally for work on landmark games including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II:…
Alexander Rabinowitch, died aged 91
Alexander Rabinowitch, an American historian whose scholarship on the Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolution of 1917 made him a leading authority in the field, died on June 16, 2026. He…
Christine Hamm dies at age 83
Christine Hamm died on June 16, 2026. She was an American politician. Tags Politicians, 16 June 2026, America, Christine, Hamm, Libra, June 16, June 2026
Fred Alexander dead
Fred Alexander died on June 15, 2026. He was a drummer. Tags Musicians, 15 June 2026, Alexander, America, Fred, June 15, June 2026
Judy Wyler died at age 84
Judy Wyler died on June 15, 2026. She was an actress. Tags Actors, 15 June 2026, America, Judy, Wyler, June 15, June 2026
Rosalind Gefre obituary: died at age 96
Rosalind Gefre, an American Catholic religious sister and masseuse, died on June 15, 2026. She was 96. Born Mary Margaret Gefre on November 6, 1929, in Strasburg, North Dakota, she…
Obituary: I. Robert Lehman, dead at age 101
I. Robert Lehman, a Lithuanian-born American biochemist, died on June 15, 2026, at the age of 101. Born in Tauragė, Lithuania, on October 5, 1924, he emigrated to the United…
Obituary: Megan Kimmel, dead at age 46
Megan Kimmel died June 15, 2026, at the age of 45. She was an American athletics competitor. Kimmel was born in Denver in 1980. Tags Athletes, 10 June 2026, America,…
Thomas H. Greco Jr. death at age 89
Thomas H. Greco Jr. died on June 15, 2026. Tags Scientists, 15 June 2026, America, Greco, Thomas, June 15, June 2026
Obituary: Rock Perdoni, dead at age 78
Rock Perdoni, the American football player known for his career with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, died on June 15, 2026. He was 78. Born in Italy on December 10,…
Frank J. Gargiulo dies at age 87
Frank J. Gargiulo, an American politician, died on June 15, 2026, at age 87. Born in Jersey City on May 18, 1939, he was a Republican Party member who served…
Bob Winograd dies at 76
Bob Winograd, a Canadian professional ice hockey player, died on June 15, 2026, at the age of 76. Born Robert Earl Winograd in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on June 6, 1950, he…
Obituary: J. Michael Criley, dead at age 95
J. Michael Criley, an American cardiologist and medical researcher, died on June 15, 2026. He was 95. A professor emeritus at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Criley was…
Eddie Andelman passed away at age 89
Eddie Andelman, the American sports radio talk-show host whose voice became a fixture in Boston for more than four decades, died on June 15, 2026. He was 89. Andelman built…
Death of Beatrice Lumpkin at age 107
Beatrice Lumpkin, an American union organizer, activist, professor and writer, died on June 15, 2026, at the age of 107. Born Beatrice Shapiro on August 3, 1918, in The Bronx,…
Danny Simmons dies at 72
Danny Simmons, an American abstract expressionist painter, died on June 15, 2026, at age 72. Born Daniel Simmons Jr. on August 17, 1953, in New York, he worked as a…
Ronell Johnson died at age 49
Ronell Johnson, an American trombonist with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, died on June 15, 2026. He was 49. Johnson was identified in reports as a member of the long-running…
John Stockwell has died at age 88
John Stockwell, an American CIA officer and later peace activist, died on June 14, 2026. He was 88. Born on January 1, 1937, in Angleton, Texas, Stockwell studied at the…
Converse Chellis died at age 82
Converse Chellis, an American politician and former treasurer of South Carolina, died on June 14, 2026. He was 82. Born in Summerville, South Carolina, Chellis served in the South Carolina…
Andy Lewis dead at age 39
Andy Lewis, an American slackliner and stunt performer known as Sketchy Andy, died on June 14, 2026, at age 39. Born in Santa Rosa, California, on October 7, 1986, he…
Craig Fennie passes away at age 54
Craig Fennie, an American physicist and applied physicist, died on June 14, 2026. He was 54. Fennie was a professor in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell…
Obituary: Charles A. Holloway, dead at age 90
Charles A. Holloway died June 14, 2026. He was an American educator. Tags Scientists, 14 June 2026, America, Cancer, Charles, Holloway, June 14, June 2026
Stephen Dobyns has died at age 85
Stephen Dobyns, an American poet and novelist, died on June 14, 2026. He was 85. Born Stephen J. Dobyns in Orange, New Jersey, on February 19, 1941, he studied at…
Oliver Tree passed away at age 32
Oliver Tree, the American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, comedian and filmmaker, died on June 14, 2026, in a helicopter crash in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was 32. Born Oliver…
Anne Schedeen dies at 77
Anne Schedeen, an American actress best known for her roles on ALF, Marcus Welby, M.D. and Three's Company, died on June 14, 2026. She was 77. Born Luanne Ruth Schedeen…
Kay Halloran death at age 89
Kay Halloran, an American politician and lawyer who served in the Iowa House of Representatives and later as mayor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died on June 14, 2026, at age…
Andy Lewis dead at age 39
Andy Lewis, an American slackliner and stunt performer known professionally as Sketchy Andy, died on June 14, 2026, at age 39. Born in Santa Rosa, California, on October 7, 1986,…
T.B. Porter passed away at age 99
T.B. Porter died June 13, 2026, at age 99. He was an American Hall of Fame bulldogger and calf roper. Porter was a member of the National Rodeo Hall of…
T. B. Porter has died at age 99
T. B. Porter, an American Hall of Fame bulldogger and calf roper, died on June 13, 2026. He was 99. Born T. Barrett Porter on March 9, 1927, in Pineville,…
Sheldon S. Sawyer has died at age 91
Sheldon S. Sawyer, an American politician who served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, died June 13, 2026. He was 91. Born Sheldon Scott Sawyer in Jaffrey, New Hampshire,…
Aldon Smith dies at age 36
Aldon Smith, the American football player who starred for the San Francisco 49ers and later the Oakland Raiders, died on June 13, 2026, at age 36. Born Aldon Jacarus Smith…
John D. Groendyke death at age 81
John D. Groendyke, an American trucking executive and chief executive officer of Groendyke Transport, died on June 13, 2026. He led the Enid, Oklahoma-based company, which by 2015 was the…
Obituary: Betty Lindberg, dead at age 101
Betty Lindberg, an American track and field athlete, died on June 13, 2026, at the age of 101. Born on September 7, 1924, she was identified in records as a…