Elizabeth Barret, died aged 74
Elizabeth Barret, an American documentary filmmaker best known for Stranger with a Camera, died on February 13, 2026. She documented Appalachia and Eastern Kentucky through her work at Appalshop and…
Famous Dead People from America
Over 31,000 obituaries for famous people from America who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
Joseph Halpern died at age 72
Joseph Halpern, an Israeli-born American computer scientist and professor at Cornell University, died on February 13, 2026, at age 72. Born in Israel in 1953, he studied mathematics at the…
John Shirreffs died at age 80
John Shirreffs, an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer, died on February 12, 2026, at age 80. Born John Alexander Shirreffs on June 1, 1945, in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, he began training…
George Bunting passes away at age -1
George Howard Bunting Jr., an American politician and member of the Delaware Democratic Party, died on February 12, 2026, at the age of 81. He represented District 20 in the…
2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting obituary: died at age 18
2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting, an American mass murderer in the Tumbler Ridge shooting, died on February 12, 2026, following the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. On February…
Robert Daverman, died aged 84
Robert Daverman, an American topologist, died on February 12, 2026. Robert Jay Daverman was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on September 28, 1941. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Calvin…
Pat Collins dead at age 84
Pat Collins, an American football coach and the seventh head football coach for Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe, Louisiana, died on February 12, 2026. He was 84. Born on August…
Roy Face died at age 97
Roy Face, the American baseball player best known for his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, died on February 12, 2026. A right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1953…
Jerry McMillan died at age 89
American photographer Died on Thursday February 12th 2026
George Quincey Lumsden Jr. passed away at age 95
George Quincey Lumsden Jr., an American diplomat, died on February 11, 2026, at age 95. A Career Foreign Service Officer, he served as American Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the…
Bud Cort dies at age 77
Bud Cort, the American actor best known for his role in "Harold and Maude," died on February 11, 2026, at age 77. Born Walter Edward Cox in Rye, New York,…
James Van Der Beek passed away at age 48
James Van Der Beek, an American actor known for his role as Dawson Leery on "Dawson’s Creek," died on February 11, 2026, at age 48. Born on March 8, 1977,…
Jerry Kennedy passed away at age 85
Jerry Kennedy, an American record producer, songwriter and guitarist, died on February 11, 2026. Born Jerry Glenn Kennedy in Shreveport, Louisiana, on August 10, 1940, he worked in country music…
William Nyhan dies at 99
William Leo Nyhan, an American physician and co-discoverer of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, died on February 11, 2026, at age 99. Born in Boston on March 13, 1926, he later served as…
Dean G. Auten dies at age 88
Dean G. Auten, an American politician, died on February 11, 2026, at age 88. Born in Gaston County, North Carolina, on September 6, 1937, he attended Appalachian State Teachers College.…
Michael Proctor obituary: died at age 58
Michael Proctor, an American football player and quarterback in the Arena Football League, World League of American Football and Canadian Football League, died on February 11, 2026. Nicknamed "the General,"…
Obituary: Jeffrey Evangelos, dead at age 73
Jeffrey Evangelos, an American politician from Maine, died on February 11, 2026. He was an unenrolled member of the Maine House of Representatives, serving four two-year terms between 2012 and…
András Riedlmayer dies at 79
András Riedlmayer, a Hungarian-born American art historian and librarian, died on February 10, 2026. Born in Budapest in 1947, he studied at the University of Chicago and at Princeton University,…
Ed Crane passes away at age 81
Ed Crane, an American libertarian activist and co-founder of the Cato Institute, died on February 10, 2026. He was 81. Crane, whose full name was Edward Harrison Crane, served as…
Shelly Desai obituary: died at age 90
Shelly Desai, an Indian-born American actor best known for his work in "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "Men of a Certain Age," died on February 10, 2026, in Los…
Ed Crane passes away at age 81
Edward Harrison Crane, an American libertarian activist and co-founder of the Cato Institute, died on February 10, 2026, at age 81. Crane served as the institute’s president until October 2012.…
Obituary: Mark Smith, dead at age 51
Mark Smith, an American football player who played defensive tackle in the National Football League and for the Arizona Cardinals, died on February 10, 2026, at age 51. Born in…
King T. Leatherbury passed away at age 92
King T. Leatherbury, an American racehorse trainer, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 92. Born King Taylor Leatherbury on March 26, 1933, in Shady Side, Maryland, he…
Gary Blaylock obituary: died at age 94
Gary Blaylock, an American baseball player and right-handed pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees, died on February 9, 2026. Born Gary Nelson Blaylock in…
Gail R. Martin has died at age 81
Gail R. Martin, an American biologist, died on February 9, 2026. She was known for her pioneering work on the isolation of pluripotent stem cells from normal embryos, for which…
Garland Green has died at age 83
Garland Green, an American soul singer and pianist, died on February 9, 2026. Born Garfield Green Jr. on June 14, 1942, in Dunleith, Mississippi, he was the tenth of 11…
Chris Gilbert has died at age 79
Chris Gilbert, an American college football player for the Texas Longhorns, died on February 9, 2026, at age 79. Born in Houston, Texas, in 1946, he ran for 3,231 yards…
William Flatt passes away at age 94
William Perry Flatt, an American animal and nutritional scientist, died on February 9, 2026. He was 94. Born in Newbern, Tennessee, on June 17, 1931, he was the son of…
Tracy Scroggins dies at age 56
Tracy Scroggins, an American football player who spent his entire 10-year career with the Detroit Lions, died on February 9, 2026, at age 56. Scroggins played as a defensive end…
Phil Krueger obituary: died at age 74
Phil Krueger, an American racing driver, died on February 9, 2026. Phillip Eugene Krueger competed in the CART Indy car series over nine seasons from 1981 to 1986, in 1988…
Don Nigro dead at age 76
Don Nigro, an American playwright, died on February 9, 2026. Born on September 30, 1949, in Canton, Ohio, he wrote plays including Anima Mundi and The Dark Sonnets of the…
Ernest Morrell dies at age 54
Ernest Morrell, an American scholar and music executive, died on February 8, 2026. He was an academic in English and Africana Studies and, in 2024, served as the Coyle Professor…
Hannah Henry passes away at age 26
Hannah Henry, a Canadian triathlete, died on February 8, 2026, at age 26. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, on October 27, 1999, she began competing in triathlon at age 9…
Terry L. Fields obituary: died at age 66
Terry L. Fields, an American politician, died on February 8, 2026, at the age of 66. A Democrat, he served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008,…
Owen Donohoe dies at 80
Owen Donohoe, an American politician from Kansas who served as a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, died on February 8, 2026, at age 80. He represented the…
Blake Garrett passes away at age 33
Blake Garrett, an American actor, died on February 8, 2026, at age 33. Born Nolan Blake Garrett on September 14, 1992, in Austin, Texas, he was an American film and…
Kirk Francis passes away at age 78
Kirk Francis, an American sound engineer, died on February 8, 2026, at the age of 78. He won the Academy Award for sound on The Bourne Ultimatum in 2008 and…
Lynn Bolles, died aged 76
Augusta Lynn Bolles, an American anthropologist, died on February 8, 2026. She was 76. Bolles was professor emerita of women’s studies and affiliate faculty in anthropology, African American studies, American…
David J. Farber obituary: died at age 91
David J. Farber, an American computer scientist and professor of computer science, died on February 7, 2026, at age 91. He was noted for major contributions to programming languages and…
Adriano Lima dead at age 52
Adriano Lima, the Brazilian Paralympic swimmer, died on February 7, 2026, of bone cancer in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, at the age of 52. Born in Natal on…
Obituary: Cabell Tennis, dead at age 93
Cabell Tennis, an American Episcopal prelate and former Bishop of Delaware, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in Hampton, Virginia, on October 24, 1932, he…
Terrance Gore obituary: died at age 34
Terrance Gore, an American professional baseball outfielder who debuted in Major League Baseball with the Kansas City Royals, died on February 7, 2026. He was 34. Gore also played for…
Gabriel P. Weisberg death at age 83
Gabriel P. Weisberg, an American art historian and educator, died on February 7, 2026. He was 83. A native of New York City, he earned a bachelor’s degree from New…
Daniel Boyd dies at 69
Daniel Boyd, an American filmmaker and academic, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 69. Born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on September 14, 1956, he was also an…
William B. Steele dead at age 96
William B. Steele, an American major general and two-star general of the U.S. Army, died on February 7, 2026, at age 96. He commanded the 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized) and…
Obituary: Brad Arnold, dead at age 47
Brad Arnold, the American singer and lead vocalist of 3 Doors Down, died on February 7, 2026, at age 47. Born Bradley Kirk Arnold in Escatawpa, Mississippi, on September 27,…
Barry Wilburn dead at age 62
Barry Wilburn, an American football player who played cornerback in the NFL and CFL, died on February 6, 2026. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, on December 9, 1963, he played college…
Jeffrey Carver dead at age 76
Jeffrey Carver, an American science fiction author, died on February 6, 2026, at the age of 76. Born in Cleveland on August 25, 1949, he graduated from Brown University and…
Obituary: George R. Rossman, dead at age 81
George R. Rossman, an American mineralogist and academic, died on February 6, 2026, at the age of 81. He was the Professor of Mineralogy at the California Institute of Technology.…
Sonny Jurgensen death at age 91
Sonny Jurgensen, the Hall of Fame football player and longtime radio color commentator, died on February 6, 2026, at age 91. Christian Adolph Jurgensen III was a quarterback for 18…
John Wheeler obituary: died at age 95
John Wheeler, an American actor known for his work on "Star Trek: The Original Series," died on February 6, 2026. Wheeler was born Johnnie Lee Wheeler Jr. on June 20,…
Robert J. Plemmons dies at age 87
Robert J. Plemmons, an American mathematician who specialized in computational mathematics, died on February 6, 2026. He was the emeritus Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at…
Richard W. Mansbach dead at age 83
Richard W. Mansbach, an American political scientist, died on February 6, 2026. Born in Brooklyn on January 3, 1943, he studied political science, history, and Spanish at Swarthmore College, graduating…
Death of Tres Chicas at age -1
Tres Chicas, the American country musician and alternative country group from Raleigh, North Carolina, died on February 6, 2026. The group formed in 1999 after Lynn Blakey, Caitlin Cary and…
Afleet Alex obituary: died at age 24
Afleet Alex, the American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes in 2005, died on February 6, 2026, at age 23. Owned by the Cash Is King…
128th Georgia General Assembly death at age 99
The 128th Georgia General Assembly, an American political body, died on February 6, 2026. It convened its first session on January 13, 1965, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta,…
Reta Holden passes away at age 87
Reta Holden, an American politician, died on February 6, 2026. Reta Faye Eaves Holden was born on August 7, 1938, to Odie Lee and Floy Triplett Eaves. She served as…
Charles C. dead at age 95
American actor (Will & Grace) Died on Friday February 6th 2026
Death of Jeff Griffin at age 81
Jeff Griffin, an American businessman and politician who served as mayor of Reno, Nevada, from 1995 to 2002, died on February 5, 2026. During his tenure, he chaired the Criminal…
Henry G. Lackey died at age 78
Henry G. Lackey, an American politician from Kentucky, died on February 5, 2026, at the age of 78. He served in the Kentucky Senate from 1982 to 1987 and again…
Death of Alan Trustman at age 95
Alan Trustman, an American screenwriter best known for The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt and They Call Me Mister Tibbs!, died on February 5, 2026, at age 95. Born in Brookline,…
Fred Smith dies at age 77
Fred Smith, the American bassist best known for his work with the rock band Television, died on February 5, 2026, at the age of 77. Born Fredrick Edward Lefkowitz in…
Troy Poteete death at age 70
Troy Poteete, an American Cherokee politician and jurist, died on February 5, 2026, at age 70. Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on March 6, 1955, he served on the Cherokee Nation…
Ray Handley dies at age 81
Ray Handley, an American football coach best known for leading the New York Giants, died on February 5, 2026, at age 81. Handley was the Giants’ head coach from 1991…
Greg Brown dead at age 56
Greg Brown, an American musician and songwriter known for his work with Cake and Deathray, died on February 5, 2026. Born Gregory Paul Brown in Sacramento, California, on January 3,…
Stanley Zdonik has died at age 78
Stanley Zdonik, an American computer scientist and academic, died on February 5, 2026. He was 78. Zdonik specialized in database management systems and was a tenured professor of computer science…
Lloyd Monsen dies at 94
Lloyd Monsen, an American soccer player, died on February 5, 2026. A forward and baseball pitcher, he spent eleven seasons in the American Soccer League and also played in the…
Death of Scott Printz at age 69
American television producer (How to Get Away with Murder Died on Wednesday February 4th 2026
Death of Mickey Lolich at age 85
Mickey Lolich, the American baseball player best known as a left-handed pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, died on February 4, 2026. He played in Major League Baseball from 1963 until…
Charles Poindexter died at age 83
Charles Douglas Poindexter, an American politician, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 83. A Republican, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2008 to 2022,…
Ted Berger died at age 85
Ted Berger, an American arts activist, died on February 4, 2026. He was based in New York City and was one of the creators of the Cultural Council Foundation's Artists…
Sandra Schultz Newman death at age 87
Sandra Schultz Newman, an American judge and former justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, died on February 4, 2026, at age 87. Born Sandra Schultz on November 4, 1938, she…
Ed Iskenderian passes away at age 104
Ed Iskenderian, an American hot rodder and entrepreneur, died on February 4, 2026, at age 104. Known as Edward “Isky” Iskenderian, he was an Armenian-American hot rodder and businessman born…
Tommy Crook obituary: died at age 81
Tommy Crook, an American guitarist, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 81. Thomas Paul Crook was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on February 16, 1944, and lived in…
Marie Woo died at age 97
Marie Woo, a Chinese-American ceramicist and educator, died on February 4, 2026, at age 97. Born in Seattle, Washington, on April 3, 1928, to Southern Chinese parents, she earned a…
The Elegants death at age 88
The Elegants, the American doo-wop vocal group formed in 1958 in South Beach, Staten Island, New York, died on February 4, 2026. The group was started by Vito Picone, Arthur…
Death of Margalit Oved at age 96
Margalit Oved, an American-Israeli dancer and choreographer, died on February 4, 2026, at age 96. Born in the Aden Protectorate on January 21, 1930, she was airlifted to Israel in…
Ron Teasley died at age 99
Ron Teasley, an American baseball player who played for the New York Cubans, died on February 4, 2026. Ronald Teasley Sr. was born on January 26, 1927, and was a…
Obituary: John Lofland, dead at age 79
John Lofland, an American sociologist, died on February 4, 2026, at age 79. Born John Franklin Lofland in Milford, Delaware, he was best known for his studies of the peace…
Lee Hamilton dies at 94
Lee Hamilton, an American politician and lawyer from Indiana, died on February 3, 2026. A Democrat, he represented Indiana’s 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1965…
Obituary: Jim Morrison, dead at age 94
Jim Morrison, a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman, coach and scout who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins, died on February 3, 2026, at age…
Rick Renick, died aged 81
Rick Renick, an American baseball player who played for the Minnesota Twins, died on February 3, 2026. Renick, whose full name was Warren Richard Renick, had a 14-year professional playing…
Ron Kenoly passed away at age 81
Ron Kenoly, an American Christian worship leader, singer and songwriter, died on February 3, 2026, at age 81. Born in Coffeyville, Kansas, on December 6, 1944, he grew up there…
Lamonte McLemore died at age 86
Lamonte McLemore, an American singer, actor, composer and photographer who was a founding member of The 5th Dimension, died on February 3, 2026, at age 90. Born Herman Lamonte McLemore…
Ruben Rodriguez dead at age 60
Ruben Rodriguez, an American football punter who played in the National Football League, died on February 3, 2026, at age 60. Rodriguez played for the Seattle Seahawks, Denver Broncos and…
Slave American passes away at age 67
Slave, the American Ohio-based funk band formed in Dayton in 1975 by trombonist Floyd Miller and trumpeter Steve Washington, died on February 2, 2026. The group was popular in the…
Frankie Cain dies at 93
Frankie Cain, the American professional wrestler known as James Ault, died on February 2, 2026, at age 93. Born in Columbus, Ohio, on August 13, 1932, he wrestled under the…
Daryl Hoole died at age 91
Daryl Hoole, an American author and public speaker, died on February 2, 2026, at age 91. Born Daryl Van Dam in Salt Lake City, Utah, she wrote on home management…
Chuck Negron dead at age 83
Chuck Negron, an American singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band Three Dog Night, died on February 2, 2026, of heart failure and…
Gabor Boritt death at age 86
Gabor Boritt, an American historian and the Robert Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, died on February 2, 2026. Hungarian-born…
Bud Moore dead at age 86
Robert W. "Bud" Moore, an American college football player and coach, died on February 2, 2026, at age 86. Moore played at the University of Alabama under Bear Bryant from…
Death of Frank S. Royal at age 86
Frank S. Royal, an American physician, company director and civic leader, died on February 2, 2026. Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, on September 15, 1939, he graduated from Virginia Union University…
Ken Peplowski died at age 66
Kenneth Joseph Peplowski, an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, died on February 2, 2026, at age 66. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 23, 1959, he was known primarily…
Chuck Sullivan, died aged 83
Chuck Sullivan, an American lawyer and sports executive who was vice president of the New England Patriots and owned the team's stadium, Foxboro Stadium, died on February 2, 2026. He…
Myra MacPherson died at age -1
Myra MacPherson, an American journalist, died on February 2, 2026, in Washington, D.C., at age 91. Born Myra Lea MacPherson in Marquette, Michigan, and raised in Belleville, Michigan, she graduated…
William Safran has died at age 95
William Safran, an American academic and Holocaust survivor and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Colorado Boulder, died on February 2, 2026. Born in Dresden, Germany, on…
Vicki Abt death at age 83
Vicki Abt, an American sociologist, died on February 1, 2026, at age 83. She was a professor of sociology and American studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Abington College. Born Isleen…
Death of Don Adams at age 85
Don Adams, an American country singer, died on February 1, 2026. Born in Ross County, Ohio, on January 4, 1941, he often supported George Jones, including on Live at Dancetown…