Ben Reyes has died at age 79
Ben Reyes, an American politician who served in the Texas House of Representatives and on the Houston City Council, died November 6, 2026, aged 79. Known formally as Ben Torres…
Famous Dead People from Mexico
Over 1,000 obituaries for famous people from Mexico who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
María Alicia Delgado has died at age 77
Mexican actress and comedian María Alicia Delgado, aged 77, died November 4, 2026, in Mexico City. Born in Monterrey, she performed in Monterrey and Oaxaca for years before a staff…
Carlos Albert has died at age 83
Carlos Albert Llorente, the Mexican footballer and journalist, died November 3, 2026, aged 83. Born in Mexico City on July 10, 1943, he played for Necaxa and represented Mexico in…
Obituary: Luis Rico, dead at age 81
Luis Rico Arancibia, the Bolivian singer-songwriter known as Luis Rico, died on November 2, 2026, aged 81. Born on May 15, 1945, in Tupiza, Bolivia, he worked as a singer,…
Death of Andrés Mendoza at age 78
Andrés Mendoza, a Mexican convicted serial killer and butcher, died on October 29, 2026, aged 78. Born Andrés Filomeno Mendoza Celis in Zimatlán de Álvarez, Oaxaca, he was captured in…
Death of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas at age 92
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a civil engineer and politician, died October 28, 2026, aged 92. Born in Mexico City on May 1, 1934, he was the son of Lázaro Cárdenas, who served…
Fernando Serrano Migallón passes away at age 81
Fernando Serrano Migallón, a Mexican jurist and member of the Mexican Academy of Language, died October 27, 2026, aged 81. Born in Mexico City on June 26, 1945, he became…
Carlos Gerena dead at age 55
Carlos Gerena, a Puerto Rican boxer, died aged 55 in a traffic collision on October 26, 2026. Born Carlos Gerena Allende on January 12, 1971, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, he…
Komanche obituary: died at age 30
Carlos José Rivera Alfaro, the Salvadoran streamer and organizer of the Squid Craft Games known as El Komanche or Komanche, died in Monterrey, Mexico, on October 25, 2026, aged 30.…
Carlos Miguel Suárez dead, Carlos Miguel Suárez, Mexican actor and salesman
Carlos Miguel Suárez, the Mexican actor and salesman known professionally as Carlos Miguel, died on October 19, 2026. His full name was Carlos Miguel Suárez Soto. During the 1980s and…
Gabino Palomares obituary: died at age 76
Gabino Palomares, the Mexican singer-songwriter and political activist, died on September 30, 2026, at age 76. Born in Comonfort, Guanajuato, he became one of the leading figures of the nueva…
Jorge Kahwagi passes away at age 58
Jorge Kahwagi, a Mexican businessman, politician and boxer, died on September 30, 2026, aged 58. Born Jorge Antonio Kahwagi Macari in Mexico City on May 28, 1968, he became known…
Obituary: Otto Sirgo, dead at age 79
Otto Sirgo, the Cuban actor and director of Mexican telenovelas and theater, died on September 29, 2026, aged 79. Born in Havana on December 19, 1946, he built a career…
Concepción Márquez died at age 84
Concepción Márquez, a Mexican actress, died September 28, 2026, aged 84. Born August 6, 1942, she was also a poet and built a long career in theater, while appearing in…
Obituary: Franco Columbo, dead at age 73
Franco Columbo, the Mexican professional wrestler known in private life as Javier Esparza Coronado, died on September 20, 2026, aged 73. Born in Guadalajara on August 11, 1953, he made…
Obituary: Anay Beltrán Reyes, dead at age 44
Anay Beltrán Reyes, a Mexican politician and incumbent federal deputy, died on September 17, 2026, aged 44. Affiliated with Morena, she represented the State of Mexico’s 8th district in the…
Death of Jesús Rico at age 73
Jesús Rico, a Mexican Olympic footballer, died on September 11, 2026, aged 73. Born on January 11, 1953, he was a Mexican association football player who competed in the men's…
Óscar Mario Beteta died at age 70
Óscar Mario Beteta, a Mexican journalist and radio host, died on September 9, 2026, at age 70. Born in Mexico City on January 13, 1956, he was known professionally as…
Roberto Rodríguez Pérez death at age 80
Roberto Rodríguez Pérez, the Mexican footballer known as Monito, died on September 8, 2026, at the age of 80. Born on April 1, 1946, in Tlaquiltenango Municipality, he began his…
Zenyazen Escobar died at age 42
Zenyazen Escobar, a Mexican politician and federal deputy, died on September 4, 2026, aged 42. Escobar García, whose full name was Zenyazen Roberto Escobar García, was affiliated with the National…
Zenyazen Escobar García, died aged 42
Zenyazen Escobar García, a Mexican politician and incumbent federal deputy, died on September 4, 2026, aged 42. Affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement, he represented Veracruz’s 16th district in the…
Obituary: Jonathan Meléndez, dead at age 38
Jonathan Meléndez, the Mexican keyboardist and composer known as Honas, died on September 1, 2026, aged 38. Born Jonathan Samuel Meléndez Ochoa in Mexico City, he helped found the synth-pop…
Camilo Séptimo, died aged 38
Camilo Séptimo, a Mexican musician and member of the band Camilo Séptimo, died on September 1, 2026, at age 38. The group, also styled as Camilo VII and CVII, was…
Geles Cabrera obituary: died at age 100
Geles Cabrera, the Mexican sculptor, died on September 1, 2026, aged 100. Born Geles Cabrera Alvarado in Mexico City on August 2, 1929, she built a career as a sculptor…
Jesús Martínez Álvarez obituary: died at age 81
Jesús Martínez Álvarez, a Mexican politician, died on August 21, 2026, aged 81. Born in Oaxaca de Juárez on September 18, 1944, he was affiliated with the Citizens' Movement after…
Carlos Reyes López dies at 69
Carlos Reyes López, a Mexican politician and former deputy, died on August 20, 2026, aged 69. Born on 24 February 1957 in José Mariano Jiménez, he was known as Carlos…
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…
Diana La Cazadora dead at age 48
Diana La Cazadora, the Mexican professional wrestler better known to fans as Alma Corina Gutiérrez, died on August 8, 2026, aged 48, of a lung infection. Born in Ciudad Madero,…
Death of Carlos Garfias Merlos at age 75
Carlos Garfias Merlos, a Mexican Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Netzahualcóyotl from 2003 to 2010 and later as archbishop of Acapulco and Morelia, died on August 6,…
Tomás Parra dies at 88
Tomás Parra, a Mexican sculptor, died on August 5, 2026, aged 88. Born in Mexico City on January 1, 1937, he studied at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y…
Pablo Garrido passes away at age 88
Pablo Garrido, a Mexican athlete, died on July 28, 2026, aged 88. Born in Mexico City, he competed in athletics in the late 1960s and represented Mexico at the 1968…
Alfonso Sánchez Anaya passed away at age 85
Alfonso Sánchez Anaya, the Mexican politician who served as deputy, senator and governor of Tlaxcala, died on July 26, 2026. He was 85. Born in Apizaco on January 23, 1941,…
Elsa Aguirre death at age 95
Elsa Aguirre, the Mexican actress known for films including Midnight, A Decent Woman and Giant, died on July 15, 2026. Born Elsa Irma Aguirre Juárez in Chihuahua City on September…
Ella Laboriel dead at age 77
Ella Laboriel died on July 8, 2026. She was a Mexican singer. Tags Musicians, 08 July 2026, Aries, Ella, Laboriel, Mexico, July 2026, July 8
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo death at age 52
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo died on July 7, 2026. He was a Mexican construction business owner. Reports said he was shot. Tags Other, 07 July 2026, Araujo, Lorenzo, Mexico, Shot, July…
Benjamín Medrano Quezada dies at age 59
Benjamín Medrano Quezada died on July 7, 2026. He was a Mexican politician and municipal president of Fresnillo from 2013 to 2015. He was 59. Tags Politicians, 07 July 2026,…
Juan Frausto Pallares passed away at age 84
Juan Frausto Pallares died July 2, 2026. Tags Other, 02 July 2026, Cancer, Juan, Mexico, Pallares, July 2, July 2026
Luis de la Rosa has died at age 34
Luis de la Rosa died June 24, 2026. Tags Other, 24 June 2026, Luis, Mexico, Rosa, June 2026, June 24
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…
Alan Riding dies at 82
Alan Riding, a British journalist and author who spent much of his career with The New York Times, died on June 6, 2026. He was 82. Born in Rio de…
Billy Álvarez obituary: died at age 80
Billy Álvarez, the Mexican football executive who served as president of Cruz Azul from 1988 to 2020 and later was identified as a convicted criminal, died on May 30, 2026.…
Jorge Alonso Treviño dies at age 90
Jorge Alonso Treviño, the Mexican politician who served as governor of Nuevo León from 1985 to 1991, died on May 29, 2026. He was 90. Born in Monterrey on November…
Arturo Herviz Reyes dies at age 71
Arturo Herviz Reyes, a Mexican politician and senator from 2006 to 2012, died on May 24, 2026, of a heart attack. He was 71. Born on July 12, 1954, in…
Ulises Schmill Ordóñez, died aged 89
Ulises Schmill Ordóñez, a Mexican judge and minister of the Supreme Court, died on May 18, 2026, at the age of 89. He served as a minister of the court…
Death of Luis de la Peña at age 95
Luis de la Peña, a Mexican physicist, died on May 17, 2026, at the age of 95. Born in Mexico City in 1931, he studied mechanical-electrical engineering at ESIME of…
Dai-won Moon died at age 83
Dai-won Moon, a South Korean-born Mexican taekwondo practitioner, died on May 16, 2026, at age 83. Known as the Father of Mexican Taekwondo, he introduced the sport to Mexico in…
Antonio Becerra Gaytán dies at 93
Antonio Becerra Gaytán, a Mexican politician and activist, died on May 9, 2026, at the age of 93. He served as a deputy from 1979 to 1982 and was a…
Miguel Ángel J. Márquez Ruiz dead at age 83
Miguel Ángel J. Márquez Ruiz, a Mexican veterinarian, died on May 4, 2026. He was a veterinarian with more than 50 years of professional practice and received international recognition for…
Rossana Reguillo passed away at age 70
Rossana Reguillo, a Mexican sociologist, died on April 25, 2026, at the age of 70. Born in Guadalajara in 1955, she was a Mexican academic known for researching social norms,…
Tommy Nuñez obituary: died at age 88
Tommy Nuñez, an American basketball referee, died on April 24, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in Santa Maria, California, on September 10, 1938, he was of Mexican American…
Gran Markus Jr., died aged 72
Gran Markus Jr., a Mexican wrestler, died on April 24, 2026. Gran Markus Jr., 72, Mexican wrestler. Tags Athletes, 24 April 2026, Gran, Markus, Mexico, 2026-04-24, April 2026, April 24
Karina Duprez passes away at age 79
Karina Duprez, a Mexican actress and television director, died on April 22, 2026, at the age of 79. Born Karina Julia Descalzó Guzmán in Mexico City on December 23, 1946,…
José Ulises Macías Salcedo dies at 85
José Ulises Macías Salcedo, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate and archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo, died on April 22, 2026, at age 85. He served as bishop of Mexicali…
Ricardo de Pascual died at age 85
Ricardo de Pascual, a Mexican actor and comedian known for roles in El Chavo del Ocho, Senda de gloria and Camaleones, died on April 21, 2026, at the age of…
Miguel Canto has died at age 78
Miguel Canto, a Mexican boxer, died on April 16, 2026, at the age of 78. Born Miguel Angel Canto Solis in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, on January 30, 1948, he was…
Carolina Flores Gómez, died aged 27
Carolina Flores Gómez, a Mexican beauty queen and content creator, died on April 15, 2026, after being shot in the Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City. She was 27. A former…
Lucha Moreno died at age 86
Lucha Moreno, a Mexican singer and actress, died on April 15, 2026, at age 86. Born Irma Gloria Ochoa Salinas in Guadalupe, Nuevo León, Mexico, on April 23, 1939, she…
Anita Martinez passes away at age 100
Anita Martinez, the American politician who served as a Dallas city councillor from 1969 to 1973, died on April 13, 2026. She was 100. Martinez was the first Mexican-American member…
Benjamín Castillo Plascencia, died aged 80
Benjamín Castillo Plascencia, a Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, died on April 13, 2026, at age 80. He served as auxiliary bishop of Guadalajara from 1999 to 2003, bishop of Tabasco…
Juan José Cruz Martínez has died at age 73
Juan José Cruz Martínez, a Mexican politician and agronomic engineer who served as a deputy from 1997 to 2000, died on April 13, 2026, at the age of 73. Born…
Juan Cruz Martínez has died at age 73
Juan Cruz Martínez, a Mexican politician and agricultural engineer who served as a deputy from 1997 to 2000, died on April 13, 2026, at the age of 73. Born in…
Obituary: Manuel Gurría Ordóñez, dead at age 94
Manuel Gurría Ordóñez, a Mexican politician and lawyer, died on April 11, 2026, at the age of 94. He served twice in the Chamber of Deputies, was a senator from…
Magaly Achach Solís has died at age 71
Magaly Achach Solís, a Mexican politician and former mayor of Benito Juárez Municipality, died on April 10, 2026, at the age of 71. She served as mayor from 1999 to…
Melchor Peredo, died aged 99
Melchor Peredo, a Mexican muralist, died on April 8, 2026, at the age of 99. Born Oscar Melchor Peredo in Mexico City on January 6, 1927, he was a representative…
Salvador Castañeda Álvarez death at age 79
Salvador Castañeda Álvarez, a Mexican writer and cultural functionary, died on April 1, 2026, at the age of 79. Born on an ejido in the municipality of Matamoros, Coahuila, on…
Deborah Dultzin has died at age 80
Deborah Dultzin, a Mexican astrophysicist and professor and researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), died on March 30, 2026. Born in Monterrey…
Rodolfo Acuña, died aged 93
Rodolfo Acuña, an American historian and educator, died on March 23, 2026, at age 93. He was a professor at California State University, Northridge, and a scholar of Chicano studies.…
Obituary: Pedro Friedeberg, dead at age 90
Pedro Friedeberg, the Italian-born Mexican artist and designer known for his surrealist work, died on March 5, 2026. He was best known for the “Hand-Chair,” a sculpture-chair designed for people…
Ana Luisa Peluffo has died at age 96
Ana Luisa Peluffo, a Mexican actress, died on March 4, 2026, at the age of 96. Born Ana Luisa de Jesús Quintana Paz Peluffo in Querétaro in 1929, she worked…
Marco Tolama has died at age -1
Mexican racing driver and sportscaster Died on Saturday February 28th 2026
Carmen Ochoa death at age 80
Mexican television director and producer (El Chavo del 8 Died on Friday February 27th 2026
Gregorio Luque passed away at age 83
Gregorio Luque, a Mexican baseball catcher and manager, died on February 27, 2026. Born in Nogales, Sonora, on May 9, 1942, he played and managed in the Mexican League during…
La Academia has died at age 47
La Academia, the Mexican reality musical talent television series shown on TV Azteca, died on February 25, 2026. The program premiered in June 2002 and was in its thirteenth installment.…
2026 Jalisco operation dead at age -1
2026 Jalisco operation, a Mexican cartel member associated with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, died on February 24, 2026. According to reports, he was among those killed in an operation…
El Mencho dead at age 59
Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, the Mexican drug lord known as El Mencho and head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, died on February 22, 2026, at age 59. He led…
Gustavo Amador death at age 91
Mexican composer and music arranger Died on Friday February 20th 2026
Obituary: Arturo León Lerma, dead at age 88
Arturo León Lerma, a Mexican Hall of Fame baseball executive with Naranjeros de Hermosillo and politician, died on February 19, 2026, at age 88. Born in Álamos, Sonora, in 1937,…
Obituary: Gustavo Amador, dead at age 91
Mexican composer and music arranger Died on Wednesday February 18th 2026
Roger von Gunten passed away at age 92
Roger von Gunten, a Swiss-born Mexican painter and artist, died on February 18, 2026, at age 92. Born in Zurich in 1933, he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule under Johannes Itten…
Alejandro Ostoa passed away at age 64
Mexican actor and playwright Died on Monday February 16th 2026
Juan de death at age -1
Mexican actor (Los Motivos de Luz Died on Sunday February 15th 2026
Oscar Botello passed away at age -1
Mexican rapper Died on Friday February 13th 2026
Josefina Aguilar dead at age 80
Josefina Aguilar, a Mexican folk artist known for her small clay figurines called muñecas, died on February 13, 2026. Born Margarita Josefina Aguilar Alcántara in Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, on…
Obituary: Milkman Mexican, dead at age -1
Milkman (rapper), the Mexican rapper, producer and composer known professionally as MLKMN, died on February 13, 2026. Born Óscar Botello on April 11, 1989, he was born in Monterrey, Mexico…
Dolores Muñoz Ledo has died at age 107
Dolores Muñoz Ledo, a Mexican voice actress, died on February 13, 2026, in Mexico City at age 107. Born María Dolores Muñoz Ledo Ortega in Mexico City on April 14,…
Sammy Ortiz dead at age 88
Mexican stuntman actor Died on Thursday February 12th 2026
Eladio González Garza passes away at age 89
Eladio González Garza, a Mexican voice actor, died on February 12, 2026. Born in Monterrey on April 24, 1936, he was known for Spanish dubbing roles including Bo Duke in…
María Elena Álvarez Bernal death at age 95
María Elena Álvarez Bernal, a Mexican politician and member of the National Action Party (PAN), died on February 12, 2026, at the age of 95. A native of Zamora, Michoacán,…
Mario Cid died at age 93
Mexican actor Died on Wednesday February 4th 2026
Alexis Ortega passed away at age 36
Mexican dub actor Died on Wednesday February 4th 2026
Death of Gloria Rocha at age 94
Mexican actress and dub director Died on Wednesday February 4th 2026
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…
Obituary: Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz, dead at age 75
Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz, a Mexican Roman Catholic prelate and bishop of the Diocese of La Paz, Baja California Sur, died on February 2, 2026, in La Paz, Baja California…
Gerardo Taracena dies at age 55
Gerardo Taracena, a Mexican actor and dancer, died on January 31, 2026, at age 55. Born in Mexico City on March 27, 1970, he worked in film, television and theater…
Gustavo Sánchez Vásquez dies at age 62
Gustavo Sánchez Vásquez, a Mexican politician and lawyer, died on January 31, 2026. He was a member of the National Action Party (PAN) and served as municipal president of Mexicali,…
Henner Hofmann has died at age 75
Mexican cinematographer Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
Obituary: Pedro Pablo, dead at age 76
Mexican Roman Catholic prelate Died on Sunday January 25th 2026
Pedro Pablo dead at age 76
Mexican Roman Catholic prelate Died on Saturday January 24th 2026