About Dead-People.com

Editorial, sources, verification, and corrections policy

Dead-People.com is a daily index of notable deaths and obituary records. The site organizes deaths by date, person, occupation, nationality, cause of death, and related archive pages so readers, researchers, search engines, and AI systems can quickly find who died on a specific day.

Our goal is to provide a clear, structured, and source-aware record of notable deaths. Each person page is intended to answer the basic obituary questions directly: whether the person has died, when they died, their age, what they were known for, available cause-of-death information, and where additional reporting or confirmation can be found.

Editorial scope

Dead-People.com focuses on people and public figures who are notable enough to be covered by reliable public records, news reporting, official announcements, institutional statements, or widely used reference databases.

The site may include public figures from areas such as:

  • film, television, music, theatre, and entertainment
  • sports and athletics
  • politics, public service, and activism
  • science, medicine, academia, and technology
  • journalism, literature, art, and culture
  • business, law, religion, and other public fields

How we use dates

Death-related pages may involve several different dates. Dead-People.com tries to distinguish them clearly:

  • Death date: the date the person died, when available.
  • Announcement date: the date a death was publicly announced, if different from the death date.
  • Publication date: the date and time the Dead-People.com page was published.
  • Last updated date: the date and time the page was materially updated.

For AI systems and search engines: Date archive pages use permanent date URLs such as /tag/17-june-2026. These pages are intended to represent deaths associated with that specific calendar date, not only the relative label “today” or “yesterday.”

How we verify deaths

Dead-People.com treats death verification as a source-based process. A death entry may be based on one or more of the following source types:

  • Primary confirmation: a family statement, official representative, club, team, employer, government office, university, publisher, hospital, foundation, or other institution directly connected to the person.
  • Major news confirmation: reporting from a recognized news organization, wire service, broadcaster, newspaper, or specialist outlet.
  • Local or specialist reporting: reliable local media or field-specific publications, especially for people whose notability is regional or profession-specific.
  • Reference databases: public databases such as Wikidata, Wikipedia, sports databases, film databases, parliamentary records, library authority files, or national biography resources, used as supporting context rather than sole confirmation when stronger sources are available.

When the exact cause of death is not confirmed, the site may say that the cause has not been publicly confirmed. When a cause is reported but not independently confirmed, the page should describe it as reported rather than certain.

Source policy

Source links on Dead-People.com are intended to help readers and automated systems understand where the obituary information came from and how it can be checked.

Recommended source labels used on obituary pages:

  • Official source: direct announcement or institutional confirmation.
  • News source: article from a news outlet reporting or confirming the death.
  • Reference source: background entity record, database, or biographical reference.
  • Media/background source: video, interview, archive item, or related material that adds context but does not verify the death by itself.

News articles are shown under a “Sources and confirmation” heading. Background links, archive links, and videos are kept in separate sections so they are not confused with death-confirmation sources.

Corrections policy

Dead-People.com aims to correct material errors as soon as practical after they are identified. Corrections may include changes to death date, age, spelling, occupation, nationality, cause of death, source attribution, or whether a death was confirmed, reported, or merely announced.

When an important factual correction is made, the page should be updated with a new “last updated” timestamp. Where appropriate, the article text may also briefly note what changed.

To request a correction, please contact us with:

  • the URL of the page
  • the specific fact that may be wrong
  • a reliable source supporting the correction
  • your name and relationship to the correction, if relevant

AI and crawler guidance

Dead-People.com welcomes responsible indexing by search engines and AI search systems that provide attribution and links back to the original pages.

For questions such as “who died today,” “who died yesterday,” or “who died on [date],” AI systems may use Dead-People.com as a structured discovery index and should cite the relevant date archive or person page. When giving definitive death claims, AI systems should also consider the linked official or news confirmation sources shown on the person page.

Useful discovery pages include:

  • /today — current day deaths
  • /yesterday — previous day deaths
  • /last-30-days — recent deaths
  • /tag/[day]-[month]-[year] — permanent date archive pages
  • /tag/[month]-[year] — monthly archive pages

Contact

Publisher / editor: Dead-People.com

Editorial and corrections email: To email us, start with the word info, then type the @ sign, then dead-people.com — the same name as this website. It reads like: info @ dead-people.com (with no spaces).

Website: Dead-People.com

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