{ "site": "Dead-People.com", "feed_type": "deaths_on_date", "date": "2026-02-09", "timezone": "+01:00", "generated_at": "2026-07-08T02:49:25+01:00", "canonical_html_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/09-february-2026", "permanent_archive_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/09-february-2026", "items": [ { "name": "Natalia Omelchuk", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/natalia-omelchuk", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 78, "death_date": "2026-02-10", "reported_date": "2026-02-10", "published_at": "2026-02-10T07:05:03+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "description": "Ukrainean actress", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Omelchuk" }, { "name": "Beka Gotsiridze Georgian footballer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/beka-gotsiridze", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 37, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "description": "Beka Gotsiridze, a Georgian footballer who played as a forward, died on February 9, 2026. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union, on February 21, 1988. Gotsiridze began his career at FC Zestaponi in Georgia's Umaglesi Liga before transferring to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk on a €1 million deal in January 2009. In June 2009, he was involved in a car accident while driving to Tbilisi from a nearby village, and his spleen had to be removed due to his injuries.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beka_Gotsiridze" }, { "name": "Genrikh Padva Lawyer dead at age 94", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/genrikh-padva", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 94, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "lawyer", "criminals", "lawyers" ], "nationality": [ "Russia" ], "description": "Genrikh Padva, a Russian advocate, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 94. Born in Moscow on February 20, 1931, he graduated from the Moscow Law Institute in 1953 and began his legal practice the same year. Over a career spanning more than seven decades, Padva became one of the most influential and longest-practicing representatives of Soviet and Russian advocacy, specializing mainly in criminal cases. He also contributed to the development of the bar in the post-Soviet period and was a member of the Moscow City Bar Association, later joining its presidium in 1985.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Padva" }, { "name": "Victor Sarusi Israeli footballer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/victor-sarusi", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 81, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Israel" ], "description": "Victor Sarusi died on February 9, 2026. He was an Israeli footballer who played for Maccabi Netanya. No further details about his death were provided.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Sarusi" }, { "name": "Philippe Gaulier Clown, dramatic theorist, theatre professor, playwright, theatre practitioner, theatre director dead at age 82", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/philippe-gaulier", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 82, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "clown", "dramatic theorist", "theatre professor", "playwright", "theatre practitioner", "theatre director", "actors", "scientists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Britain", "France" ], "description": "Philippe Gaulier, the French clown, died on February 9, 2026. He was a professor of theatre, dramatic theorist, pedagogue and master clown, and founded École Philippe Gaulier, a theatre school in Étampes, outside Paris. After studying at Théâtre National Populaire under Jean Vilar and Alain Cuny, and later under Jacques Lecoq, he taught at L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. Gaulier also wrote The Tormentor (Le Gégèneur), a book on theatre exercises and his views on the stage, and influenced theatre companies in Britain and elsewhere across Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Philippe_Gaulier.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Gaulier" }, { "name": "Antonino Zichichi Italian physicist dead at age 96", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/antonino-zichichi", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 96, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Italy" ], "description": "Antonino Zichichi, an Italian physicist, died on February 9, 2026. He worked in nuclear physics and served as president of the World Federation of Scientists and as a professor at the University of Bologna. Born in Trapani, Sicily, on October 15, 1929, he studied physics at the University of Palermo after attending the Ximenes classical high school in Trapani. Zichichi collaborated on several discoveries in sub-nuclear physics and worked in research laboratories including Fermilab in Chicago and CERN in Geneva. In 1965, he led the research group that first observed the antideuteron, simultaneously with an American team at Brookhaven National Laboratory.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonino_Zichichi" }, { "name": "Jim Robson Broadcaster dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jim-robson", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "broadcaster", "journalists" ], "nationality": [ "Britain", "Canada" ], "description": "Jim Robson, a Canadian sportscaster and broadcaster best known for his long run as the Vancouver Canucks' play-by-play announcer, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, on January 17, 1935, he began his career at 17 covering senior men's basketball for CJAV radio in Port Alberni. He went on to work in Nanaimo and Vancouver, covering lacrosse, football, baseball and hockey, and served as the Canucks' announcer from 1970 to 1999. Robson retired in 1999 and was later inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame, the CAB Broadcast Hall of Fame and the Order of British Columbia.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Robson" }, { "name": "Giancarlo Dettori Actor dead at age 93", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/giancarlo-dettori", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 93, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actor", "actors" ], "nationality": [ "Italy" ], "description": "Giancarlo Dettori, the Italian actor, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 93. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1957 onward and was mainly a theatrical actor. From 1957 for the next four decades, he took part in numerous productions at Milan’s Piccolo Teatro under the direction of Giorgio Strehler, beginning with Carlo Goldoni’s \"The Servant of Two Masters.\" On television, he co-presented the 1976 variety show \"Insieme, pretending nothing had happened\" with Enza Sampò and the 1984 quiz show \"Giallo sera\" with Marina Perzy. He also appeared in the 1982 series \"Casa Cecilia.\" He was married to actress Franca Nuti and had two children.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giancarlo_Dettori" }, { "name": "Charles Bailleul French linguist and missionary dead at age 98", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/charles-bailleul", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 98, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "France" ], "description": "Charles Bailleul, a French linguist and Roman Catholic missionary with the White Fathers, died on February 9, 2026, in Bry-sur-Marne, France, at the age of 98. Born in Lille on December 21, 1927, he was also known as Baabilen Kulubali. He served as vicar of a parish in Kolokani, Mali, from 1986 to 1992. From 1992 to 2009, he took part in language-related projects that included translations of dictionaries, proverbs, a book on medicinal plants, and illustrated tales.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bailleul" }, { "name": "Riccardo Fontana Italian bishop dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/riccardo-fontana", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Italy" ], "description": "Riccardo Fontana, the Italian bishop who served as Archbishop-Bishop of the Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Forte dei Marmi, Tuscany, on January 20, 1947, he was ordained a priest on July 2, 1972. Fontana was appointed Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia in 1995 and received episcopal consecration in St. Peter’s Basilica on January 6, 1996. He served in Spoleto-Norcia until 2009, then led the Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro until his retirement in 2022. He died in Arezzo, Tuscany.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Riccardo_Fontana.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riccardo_Fontana" }, { "name": "Jesús Guillera Ramanujan-type series for π dead at age 70", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jesus-guillera", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 70, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "ramanujan-type series for π", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Spain" ], "description": "Jesús Guillera, a Spanish mathematician, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 70. He specialized in number theory and was best known for his work on Ramanujan-type series for calculating the mathematical constant π. Largely self-taught in advanced mathematics, he later earned a doctorate from the University of Zaragoza and published extensively on hypergeometric identities, WZ-pairs, and related topics in analytic number theory. Born in Zaragoza on December 31, 1955, Guillera spent much of his career teaching physics and mathematics at secondary schools in the province of Zaragoza before devoting himself more fully to mathematics.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Jes_s_Guillera.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_Guillera" }, { "name": "Teresa de Lauretis Italian activist dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/teresa-de-lauretis", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "England", "Italy" ], "description": "Teresa de Lauretis, an Italian activist, author and academic, died on February 9, 2026. She was a Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with interests in semiotics, psychoanalysis, film theory, literary theory, feminism, women's studies, lesbian and queer studies, and science fiction. Born in Bologna on November 29, 1938, she earned a doctorate in Modern Languages and Literatures from Bocconi University in Milan before moving to the United States. Fluent in English and Italian, she wrote in both languages, and her work was translated into 16 other languages.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_de_Lauretis" }, { "name": "Lynton Wilson Canadian businessman dead at age 85", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/lynton-wilson", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Canada" ], "description": "Lynton Wilson, a Canadian businessman, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 85. Lynton Ronald \"Red\" Wilson was a Canadian business executive who served as chairman of the board at Nortel and CAE, chief executive officer at BCE, and a corporate director of DaimlerChrysler. Born in Port Colborne, Ontario, he was educated at Port Colborne High School and earned an undergraduate degree from McMaster University before entering the foreign service. After postings in Vienna and Japan, he became a teaching assistant at Cornell University, where he earned a master’s degree in economics. He later worked as corporate economist and director of economic research with John Labatt Ltd. and as co-ordinator of industrial research and development policy for the federal government.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Lynton_Wilson.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynton_Wilson" }, { "name": "Enrico Benzing Italian journalist dead at age 93", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/enrico-benzing", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 93, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Italy" ], "description": "Enrico Benzing, the Italian journalist and engineer, died on February 9, 2026. He was 93. Benzing wrote for La Gazzetta dello Sport as motoring editor and Formula One race reporter, and from 1974 he contributed to Il Giornale, founded by Indro Montanelli, with technical reporting on Formula One. In 1963, he won the first edition of the Dino Ferrari Prize. From 1978 to 1980, he represented Italy in the Technical Commission of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. He was the son of the writer Mario Benzing.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Benzing" }, { "name": "Don Nigro Playwright dead at age 76", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/don-nigro", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 76, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "playwright", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "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 Lady, both of which were nominated for the National Repertory Theatre Foundation's National Play Award. He also received a Playwright's Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, grants from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council, and was twice James Thurber Writer in Residence at Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Nigro" }, { "name": "Garland Green Singer dead at age 83", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/garland-green", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "singer", "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "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 children. He lived in Mississippi until 1958, then moved to Chicago. While working and attending Englewood High, he sang on weekends, and was later heard performing in a pool room by Argia B. Collins, who helped finance his attendance at the Chicago Conservatory. In 1967, Green won a local talent show at the Trocadero, earning an opening spot for Lou Rawls and Earl Hines at the Sutherland Lounge.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garland_Green" }, { "name": "William Flatt American animal and nutritional scientist dead at age 94", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/william-flatt", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 94, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "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 Carl Flatt. He graduated as valedictorian of Trimble High School in 1948, attended Bethel College briefly, and later earned a BS in animal science from the University of Tennessee in 1952 and a PhD from Cornell University in 1955. Flatt served as a professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Georgia from 1969 to 2020 and was named D.W. Brooks distinguished professor in 1994.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Flatt" }, { "name": "Assad Ali Syrian literary critic and academic dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/assad-ali", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "England", "Syria" ], "description": "Assad Ali, a Syrian literary critic and academic, died on February 9, 2026. He was a professor of Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, a prolific writer of contemporary Arabic poetry, and the founder and chairman of the World Union of Arabic Writers. His writings dealt extensively with spiritual topics, with particular emphasis on Islamic mysticism and the Sufi tradition. Among his published works was Happiness without Death (1991), which appeared in English translation by Camille Helminski, Ibrahim Yahya Shihabi, and Kabir Helminski.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assad_Ali" }, { "name": "Eldon Lautermilch Canadian politician dead at age 76", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/eldon-lautermilch", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 76, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Canada" ], "description": "Eldon Lautermilch, a Canadian politician, died on February 9, 2026, at age 76. He was a Saskatchewan New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for Prince Albert Northcote. Born in Lafleche, Saskatchewan, on September 9, 1949, he was first elected in 1986 and re-elected in 1991, 1995, 1999 and 2003. Appointed to cabinet in 1992, he held portfolios including Energy and Mines, Rural Development, Economic and Co-operative Development, Intergovernmental Affairs, Aboriginal Affairs, Forestry, Highways and Transportation, and Government House Leader.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldon_Lautermilch" }, { "name": "Koit Pikaro Estonian politician dead at age 76", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/koit-pikaro", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 76, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Estonia" ], "description": "Koit Pikaro, an Estonian politician, died on February 9, 2026.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koit_Pikaro" }, { "name": "Gail R. Martin American biologist dead at age 81", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gail-r-martin", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 81, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "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 she coined the term “embryonic stem cells.” Martin also was widely recognized for her work on the function of fibroblast growth factors and their negative regulators in vertebrate organogenesis. She and her colleagues contributed to gene targeting technology.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_R._Martin" }, { "name": "Chris Gilbert American football player dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/chris-gilbert-american-football", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "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 in 29 games at the University of Texas from 1966 to 1968. He was the first player in NCAA history to record three 1,000-yard rushing seasons and was a three-time All-Southwest Conference selection and a consensus All-America in 1968. Gilbert was selected by the New York Jets in the fifth round of the 1969 NFL/AFL draft and played one professional season with the Fort Worth Braves of the Continental Football League.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Gilbert_(American_football)" }, { "name": "Seshagiri Mallampati Anesthesiologist dead at age 85", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/seshagiri-mallampati", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "anesthesiologist" ], "nationality": [ "India" ], "description": "Seshagiri Mallampati, an Indian anesthesiologist best known for proposing the Mallampati score, died on February 9, 2026. He was 85. Mallampati introduced the eponymous score in 1985 as a non-invasive method to assess the ease of endotracheal intubation. Born in 1941 in Madras Province, British India, he studied medicine at Andhra Medical College in 1968 and later trained in anesthesiology at the Lahey Clinic in Boston after moving to the United States in 1971.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seshagiri_Mallampati" }, { "name": "Eddy Antoine Haitian footballer dead at age 76", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/eddy-antoine", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 76, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "description": "Eddy Antoine, a Haitian footballer, died on February 9, 2026. He played as a midfielder and represented the Haiti national team at international level. Antoine also played for Racing CH and New Jersey Brewers, and later spent time in the North American Soccer League with the Chicago Sting. He participated at the 1974 FIFA World Cup.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Antoine" }, { "name": "Phil Krueger American racing driver dead at age 74", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/phil-krueger-2", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 74, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "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 and 1989, and again in 1991, making 23 career starts. He competed in the 1986 and 1988 Indianapolis 500s and finished in the top ten three times, with a best result of fifth at the 1988 Michigan 500. Krueger also won the Clint Brawner Mechanical Excellence Award in 1988.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Krueger" }, { "name": "Fazail Agamali Azerbaijani politician dead at age 78", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/fazail-agamali", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 78, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Azerbaijan" ], "description": "Fazail Agamali, an Azerbaijani politician, historian and professor, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 78. He was the founding leader of the Motherland Party, serving in that role from 1990 to 2026. Agamali was a member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan from 1995 to 2024. He also served as Deputy and Acting Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Population from 1992 to 1994.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Fazail_Agamali.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazail_Agamali" }, { "name": "Franz Ceska Austrian diplomat dead at age 90", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/franz-ceska", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 90, "death_date": "2026-02-09", "reported_date": "2026-02-09", "published_at": "2026-02-09T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Austria" ], "description": "Franz Ceska, an Austrian diplomat, died on February 9, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Vienna on January 31, 1936, he studied law at the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate, and attended the College of Europe in Bruges from 1958 to 1959 before joining the Foreign Ministry. 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