John Anson dies at 77
John Anson, a Canadian professional wrestler, died on August 22, 2026, aged 77. Born in Vancouver in 1949, he began his career in 1971 and wrestled under the ring name…
Famous Dead People from America
Over 31,000 obituaries for famous people from America who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
Bill Ayres passes away at age 85
Bill Ayres, an American talk radio host and co-founder of WhyHunger, died on August 22, 2026, aged 85. Born on January 14, 1941, Ayres became a Roman Catholic priest for…
Paul S. Russell dies at 101
Paul S. Russell, an American physician, died on August 22, 2026, aged 101. Born Paul Snowdell Russell Jr. on January 22, 1925, in Chicago, he studied at the University of…
Janie Bradford obituary: died at age 87
Janie Bradford, the American songwriter whose work was closely associated with Motown, died on August 22, 2026, aged 87. Born in Charleston, Missouri, on June 2, 1939, she began her…
Alejandro Larrea, died aged 59
Alejandro Larrea, the Uruguayan football player and manager, died on August 22, 2026, aged 59. A forward born in Montevideo on December 5, 1966, Larrea built a career in South…
Charlie St. Clair passed away at age 74
Charlie St. Clair, an American politician and Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, died on August 22, 2026, aged 74. He represented the Belknap 5th district until…
Latimore obituary: died at age 86
Latimore, the American soul singer best known for "Let's Straighten It Out," died on August 22, 2026, aged 86. Born Benjamin William Lattimore in Charleston, Tennessee, he worked as a…
V. C. Manning passes away at age 78
V. C. Manning, an American politician and educator, died on August 21, 2026, at age 78. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Mississippi State Senate from…
Dave Morice, died aged 79
Dave Morice, an American poet, died on August 21, 2026, aged 79. Born in St. Louis on September 10, 1946, he also worked as a writer, visual artist, performance artist…
Ira A. Fulton has died at age 94
Ira A. Fulton, an American philanthropist and businessman, died on August 21, 2026, aged 94. A Tempe, Arizona native, Fulton founded Fulton Homes and became a major benefactor to educational…
Herbert Dixon dies at 106
Herbert Dixon, an American golfer who won the National Negro Open in 1951 and played on the African American circuit during segregation, died on August 21, 2026, aged 106. Dixon…
Death of Roger McKenzie at age 75
Roger McKenzie, an American comic book writer, died on August 21, 2026, aged 75, of heart failure and kidney disease. He was best known for his work on Daredevil with…
Jerome Smith death at age 87
Jerome Smith, an American civil rights activist, died on August 21, 2026, aged 87. Nicknamed "Big Duck," Smith was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he later died, and became…
Michael Wright dies at 70
Michael Wright, an American film and television actor known for The Five Heartbeats, Streamers and Sugar Hill, died on August 21, 2026, aged 70. Born in New York City, he…
Sidney A. Bludman obituary: died at age 99
Sidney A. Bludman, an American physicist, died on August 21, 2026, aged 99. Born Sidney Arnold Bludman in New York, he studied at the Bronx High School of Science, where…
Nancy Kassebaum dies at age 94
Nancy Kassebaum, the American politician who served in the U.S. Senate from 1978 to 1997, died on August 21, 2026, aged 94. A Kansas Republican, she was born Nancy Josephine…
Death of William Lewis at age 94
William Lewis, an American tenor and academic, died on August 21, 2026, aged 94. Born in Tulsa on November 23, 1931, he studied at the University of Colorado, Texas Christian…
Ann O’Connell dies at age 92
Ann O'Connell, an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Nevada State Senate from 1984 to 2004, died on August 21, 2026, aged 92. Born in Albuquerque,…
Christian Styles died at age 29
Christian Styles, an American pornographic actor and adult model, died on August 20, 2026, aged 29. Born Zachary Christian Jaghab on January 17, 1997, in Canton, Michigan, he entered the…
Brent Carter dies at age 77
Brent Carter, the American poker player and two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, died on August 20, 2026, aged 77. A native of Oak Park, Illinois, Carter built a…
Darrell Hickman dead at age 91
Darrell Hickman, an American jurist and justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, died on August 20, 2026, at age 91. Hickman served on the state’s highest court from 1977 to…
Bob Ives died at age 87
Bob Ives, an American politician, died on August 20, 2026, aged 87. Also known as Robert Stuart Ives, he was born on December 16, 1938, and was educated at the…
Nancy Kissinger dead at age 92
Nancy Kissinger, an American philanthropist and longtime Rockefeller aide, died on August 20, 2026, at age 92. Born Nancy Sharon Maginnes in Manhattan, she was educated at The Masters School,…
Bill Lubenow dies at 87
Bill Lubenow, an American historian and longtime professor of history at Stockton University in New Jersey, died on August 19, 2026, aged 87. Over a career that spanned from 1971…
José Suárez dies at age 55
José Suárez, an American broadcaster who led several Telemundo stations, died on August 19, 2026, at age 55 in a helicopter crash in Samburu County, Kenya. Suárez served as president…
Dorothy Kloss death at age 102
Dorothy Kloss, an American dancer, died on August 19, 2026, at age 102. Known also as Dorothy Dale Kloss, she began dancing at age 102 and later won a tap…
Elaine Cheris obituary: died at age 80
Elaine Cheris, an American Olympic fencer, died on August 19, 2026, at age 80. Also known as Elaine Gayle Cheris, she was born in Dothan, Alabama, and became a foil…
Anthony Devaney, died aged 86
Anthony Devaney, an American electrical engineer, died on August 18, 2026, at age 86. Born on February 1, 1940, in Braintree, Massachusetts, he attended Braintree High School, graduating in 1959,…
Charles Walker passed away at age 78
Charles Walker, an American politician and former state senator in Georgia, died on August 18, 2026, aged 78. A Democrat from Augusta, he was first elected to the Georgia Senate…
Death of G. Wallace Caulk Jr. at age 85
G. Wallace Caulk Jr., an American politician and member of the Delaware House of Representatives, died on August 18, 2026, at age 85. Known as Wally Caulk, he was born…
Bill Rasmussen death at age 93
Bill Rasmussen, the American television executive and co-founder and president of ESPN and ESPN Inc., died on August 18, 2026, at age 93. Born William F. Rasmussen in Chicago on…
Norman A. Bailey passes away at age 95
Norman A. Bailey, the American economist and former U.S. government official, died on August 18, 2026, aged 95. Born in Chicago in 1931, he served as senior director of international…
Cindy Denby died at age 70
Cindy Denby, an American politician and member of the Michigan House of Representatives, died August 18, 2026, aged 70. A Republican from Michigan, she served in the state House from…
Frank R. Fisher passed away at age 99
Frank R. Fisher, an American jazz trumpeter and composer, died on August 18, 2026, aged 99. Born Frank Rufus Fisher in Huntsville, Texas, in 1926, he built a career that…
Wayne McKoy has died at age 68
Wayne McKoy, an American basketball player, died on August 18, 2026, aged 68. Born in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, he emerged as a highly recruited high school prospect at Long Island…
O. J. Brigance passed away at age 56
O. J. Brigance, an American football player who competed in the Canadian Football League and the National Football League, died on August 17, 2026, at age 56 from complications of…
Orientate passes away at age 28
Orientate, an American Thoroughbred racehorse and 2002 Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner, died on August 17, 2026, aged 28. Foaled in Kentucky in 1999, the American-bred colt was bred by Gainesway…
Obituary: Frank Beard, dead at age 77
Frank Beard, the American Hall of Fame rock drummer best known for his long run with ZZ Top, died on August 17, 2026, aged 77. Born Frank Lee Beard in…
Vincent Van Brunt has died at age 82
Vincent Van Brunt, an American chemical engineer, died on August 17, 2026, aged 82. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he attended Friends Academy in Long Island before earning a bachelor’s…
Mike Bailey death at age 84
Mike Bailey, the English footballer and manager who played for Charlton Athletic, Wolverhampton Wanderers and England, died on August 17, 2026, aged 84, following complications from dementia. Born in Wisbech…
Bob Lee dead at age 81
Bob Lee, an American football player who spent part of his NFL career with the Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Falcons and Los Angeles Rams, died on August 17, 2026, aged 81.…
Obituary: Frank Beard, dead at age 77
Frank Beard, the American Hall of Fame rock drummer best known for his long tenure with ZZ Top, died on August 17, 2026, aged 77. Born Frank Lee Beard on…
Dick Stevens passes away at age 78
Dick Stevens, an American football player who spent five seasons as an offensive tackle with the Philadelphia Eagles, died on August 17, 2026, aged 78, from complications of dementia and…
Robert Lanou dies at age 98
Robert Lanou, an American physicist, died on August 17, 2026, aged 98. Born Robert Eugene Lanou Jr. on February 13, 1928, in Colchester, Vermont, he studied at the University of…
Paul Cranis dead at age 91
Paul Cranis, the American tennis player known as “Tall Paul,” died on August 11, 2026, aged 91. Born Paul Leonard Cranis in New York City on April 12, 1935, he…
Franklin Kury died at age 89
Franklin Kury, an American politician who served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, died on August 16, 2026, aged 89. Kury served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1966 to…
Venus passes away at age 17
Venus, the American tortoiseshell cat known for her unusual coloring, died on August 16, 2026, at age 17. Widely recognized as Venus the Two-Faced Cat, she was noted for a…
Barry Pearson passes away at age 76
Barry Pearson, an American football player who spent four seasons as a wide receiver in the NFL, died on August 16, 2026, at age 76. Born Barry Lynn Pearson in…
Richard Herman dies at 88
Richard Herman, an American politician who served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, died on August 16, 2026, aged 88. A Democrat, he represented his district in the state…
Hasan M. El-Shamy, died aged 88
Hasan M. El-Shamy, the Egyptian-born American folklorist and professor, died on August 16, 2026, at age 88. Born in Cairo, he taught folklore at Indiana University, where he held appointments…
Hayden Panettiere obituary: died at age 36
Hayden Panettiere, the American actress known for roles in Heroes and Nashville, died on August 16, 2026, aged 36. Born Hayden Lesley Panettiere in Palisades, New York, she began appearing…
Rex A. Wade obituary: died at age 89
Rex A. Wade, an American historian and author, died on August 16, 2026, aged 89. Born in Piedmont, he was also known as Rex Arvin Wade and taught Russian and…
John Niland dead at age 82
John Niland, an American football player who starred as an offensive guard for the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles, died on August 15, 2026, aged 82. Born John Hugh Niland…
Peggy Webber dies at age 100
Peggy Webber, an American actress known for work in Dragnet, Macbeth and The Smurfs, died on August 15, 2026, aged 100. Born in Laredo, Texas, on September 15, 1925, she…
Randal C. Picker obituary: died at age 66
Randal C. Picker, an American legal scholar in antitrust law and intellectual property law, died on August 15, 2026, aged 66. He was the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor…
Obituary: Tommy John, dead at age 83
Tommy John, the American baseball player known for his long major league career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox, died on August 15, 2026,…
Barry “The obituary: died at age 83
Barry "The Reazar" Richards, an American radio and television personality and music consultant, died on August 15, 2026, aged 83. Also known as Barry Richards, he was born in Washington,…
Barry “Reazar” passed away at age 83
Barry "Reazar" Richards, an American radio and television personality and music consultant, died on August 15, 2026, aged 83. Born in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1946, Richards began his…
Butch Huskey, died aged 54
Butch Huskey, the American baseball player known for his time with the New York Mets, died on August 14, 2026, aged 54. Robert Leon Huskey was born on November 10,…
Obituary: Dave Marsh, dead at age 76
Dave Marsh, the American music critic and radio talk show host, died on August 14, 2026, at age 76. Born in Detroit on March 1, 1950, he grew up in…
Mark Rydell has died at age 97
Mark Rydell, the American film director behind On Golden Pond, The Rose and The River, died on August 14, 2026, aged 97. Born Mortimer H. Rydell in New York City…
George W. Cave dies at age 97
George W. Cave, an American author and CIA agent, died on August 14, 2026, aged 97. Cave was a retired CIA operations officer and an authority on Iran who later…
Brian Holguin obituary: died at age 62
Brian Holguin, an American cartoonist and comic book writer, died on August 14, 2026, aged 62. He was known for his work on Aria and Todd McFarlane's Spawn, and also…
Skip Bertman, died aged 88
Skip Bertman, the American baseball player and coach who became one of Louisiana State University’s most accomplished athletic figures, died on August 14, 2026, aged 88. Born Stanley Bertman in…
Mary Heilmann death at age 86
Mary Heilmann, an American painter, died on August 14, 2026, at age 86. Based in Manhattan and Bridgehampton on Long Island, New York, she was known for abstract paintings that…
Obituary: Duane Nutt, dead at age 92
Duane Nutt, an American football player and coach, died on August 14, 2026, at age 92. Nutt played college football at Southern Methodist University, where he developed into a player…
Phil Lyne dies at age 79
Phil Lyne, an American rodeo cowboy who won multiple world championships in the Rodeo Cowboys Association and Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, died on August 14, 2026, aged 79. Born in…
Obituary: Nikki Ross, dead at age 54
Nikki Ross, an American gospel singer, died on August 14, 2026, at age 54. A singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and composer from Houston, Texas, she was known for her work…
Stan Adelstein dies at 94
Stan Adelstein, an American politician who served in the South Dakota House of Representatives and Senate, died on August 13, 2026, aged 94. Adelstein, a Republican, represented the House from…
James T. Laney, died aged 98
James T. Laney, an American minister, professor and diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to South Korea from 1993 to 1996 and as president of Emory University from 1977 to…
Death of Bill Kerby at age 88
Bill Kerby, an American screenwriter whose credits included the 1970s films "Hooper" and "The Rose," died on August 13, 2026, aged 88. Born in the United States, he built a…
Prichard Colón died at age 33
Prichard Colón, the Puerto Rican boxer who became an honorary WBC World Champion, died on August 13, 2026, aged 33, from complications of a brain hemorrhage. Born in Maitland, Florida,…
Tyler Duckworth passes away at age 44
Tyler Duckworth, an American reality television contestant known for appearing on The Real World: Key West and multiple seasons of The Challenge, died on August 13, 2026, aged 44. Duckworth…
Ruby Andrews passes away at age 79
Ruby Andrews, the American soul singer known professionally by that name, died on August 13, 2026, aged 79. Born Ruby Mae Stackhouse in Hollandale, Mississippi, she began her career in…
Gregor Benko passed away at age 82
Gregor Benko, the American music historian behind the International Piano Archives, died on August 13, 2026, aged 82. Born in Cleveland on August 4, 1944, he built a career as…
Jim Powers has died at age 89
Jim Powers, a Canadian hockey player who played for the Vancouver Canucks, died on August 13, 2026, aged 89. Born James Leroy Powers in Claresholm, Alberta, he built a lengthy…
Juan Manuel Escobar death at age 76
Juan Manuel Escobar, an American politician and judge, died on August 12, 2026, aged 76. A former member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 43rd district, he served…
Nancy Wyman dies at age 80
Nancy Wyman, an American politician who served as Connecticut’s lieutenant governor and state comptroller, died on August 12, 2026, aged 80. A Democrat, she was the 108th lieutenant governor of…
Christy Knowings dead at age 46
Christy Knowings, the American actress and comedian best known for her work on Nickelodeon’s sketch-comedy series "All That," died August 11, 2026, at age 46 from complications from an asthma…
Sensational dies at 51
Sensational, the Guyanese-American rapper known to fans as Colin Julius Bobb, died on August 11, 2026, at age 51. Born on October 18, 1974, in Guyana, he began making music…
Harold P. Freeman passed away at age 93
Harold P. Freeman, an American physician and patients' rights advocate, died on August 11, 2026, at age 93. A leading figure in the study of race, poverty and cancer, he…
Carol Cass dies at age 83
Carol Cass, an American-born Canadian medical researcher, died on August 11, 2026, aged 83. A research scientist in oncology, she led Alberta's Cross Cancer Institute from 2003 to 2010 and…
Len Brown dead at age 84
Len Brown, an American comic book writer and creator of Mars Attacks, died on August 11, 2026, aged 84. Born in Brooklyn on October 7, 1941, he also worked as…
Barton Myers has died at age 91
Barton Myers, an American architect who led Barton Myers Associates Inc. in Santa Barbara, California, died on August 11, 2026, aged 91. Over a career that spanned more than four…
Ward Churchill dies at age 78
Ward Churchill, the American academic, activist and writer known for his controversial work on political dissent and Native Americans, died on August 11, 2026, aged 78. Born Ward LeRoy Churchill…
Prince Mongo passed away at age 89
Prince Mongo, the American novelty politician and Memphis local political personality who repeatedly ran for mayor, died on August 10, 2026, aged 89. Born Robert Hodges, he became known in…
Paul Snyder passed away at age 87
Paul Snyder, the American sports administrator who owned the Buffalo Braves, died on August 10, 2026, aged 87. Snyder was an American businessman in Buffalo, New York, and a graduate…
Miguel Mancera obituary: died at age 93
Miguel Mancera, the Mexican economist who directed the Bank of Mexico from 1982 to 1998, died on August 10, 2026, aged 93. Also known as Miguel Mancera Aguayo, he was…
Timothy M. Carney died at age 82
Timothy M. Carney, a career U.S. diplomat and consultant, died on August 10, 2026, aged 82. A native of St. Joseph, Missouri, he spent 32 years as a Foreign Service…
Obituary: Reed E. Pyeritz, dead at age 78
Reed E. Pyeritz, an American medical geneticist and physician whose work focused on Marfan syndrome and related inherited cardiovascular disorders, died on August 10, 2026, aged 78. He was a…
Death of Ben Jones at age 84
Ben Jones, the American politician and actor best known for playing Cooter Davenport on The Dukes of Hazzard and serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1993,…
Death of Edward B. Fort at age 95
Edward B. Fort, an American academic administrator who served as chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University from 1981 to 1999, died on August 9, 2026, aged 95.…
John F. Link dead at age 91
John F. Link, the American film editor known for his work on Commando, Predator and Die Hard, died on August 9, 2026, aged 91. Also credited as John F. Link…
Don Nelson has died at age 86
Don Nelson, the American basketball player and coach who won five NBA championships with the Boston Celtics before becoming one of the league’s most influential head coaches, died on August…
Lynn Council died at age 92
Lynn Council, an American victim of an aborted or mock lynching, died on August 9, 2026, aged 92. He was the African American man at the center of a 1952…
John Crowley passes away at age 83
John Crowley, the American writer and screenwriter whose works of fantasy, science fiction and historical fiction included Little, Big, the Ægypt sequence and Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of…
Dennis Grey dead at age 79
Dennis Grey, an American basketball player who spent two seasons in the American Basketball Association, died on August 9, 2026, at age 79. A center, he played for the Los…
Brian Dyson obituary: died at age 90
Brian Dyson, the former chief executive of The Coca-Cola Company, died on August 9, 2026, aged 90. An American businessman, Dyson was chief executive officer of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. from…