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He was also known to use a lissoir when sculpting masks.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Stiefel" }, { "name": "Manchester Orchestra American rock drummer dead at age 42", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/manchester-orchestra", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 42, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Manchester Orchestra, the American rock drummer for the Atlanta indie rock band Manchester Orchestra, died on February 14, 2026. The band formed in 2004 and was led by singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist Andy Hull, with lead guitarist Robert McDowell and bassist Andy Prince in the current lineup. Hull has been the only original member, overseeing every iteration of the group. Manchester Orchestra released several EPs and six studio albums, including I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child, Mean Everything to Nothing, Simple Math, Cope, A Black Mile to the Surface and The Million Masks of God, along with The Valley of Vision in 2023.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Very" }, { "name": "Tom Noonan American actor dead at age 74", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tom-noonan", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 74, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Thomas Patrick Noonan, an American actor, director and screenwriter, died on February 14, 2026, at age 74. He was best known for playing Francis Dollarhyde in Manhunter, Frankenstein's Monster in The Monster Squad, Cain in RoboCop 2, The Ripper in Last Action Hero, Kelso in Heat, Sammy Barnathan in Synecdoche, New York, Mr. Ulman in The House of the Devil, Reverend Nathaniel in Hell on Wheels, and the Pallid Man in 12 Monkeys. He also voiced everyone but Michael and Lisa in Anomalisa. His debut feature as a filmmaker, What Happened Was..., won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Noonan" }, { "name": "Trevor Wilson Australian rules footballer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/trevor-wilson-footballer", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 75, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Australia" ], "description": "Trevor Wilson, an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL), died on February 14, 2026, aged 75. Born on December 10, 1950, Wilson was a VFL player whose career included time with both clubs. 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Born on 9 September 1927 in Saharsa, in British India, he later studied at Kashi Hindu Vishwavidyalaya in Benaras and was a founding member of the Nepali National Congress in 1946.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Bishwa_Bandhu_Thapa.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishwa_Bandhu_Thapa" }, { "name": "Susan George American-French political and social scientist dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/susan-george-political-scientist", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "lawyers", "politicians", "scientists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America", "France" ], "description": "Susan George, the American-French political and social scientist, activist and writer, died on February 14, 2026. Born Susan Vance Akers on June 29, 1934, in Akron, Ohio, she wrote on global social justice, Third World poverty, underdevelopment and debt. She was president of the Transnational Institute, a think-tank in Amsterdam. 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Bean was elected to represent the Belknap 2 district on November 6, 2018, and assumed office on December 5, 2018.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Harry_Bean.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bean" }, { "name": "Anna Ranalli Italian singer dead at age 84", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/anna-ranalli", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 84, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Italy" ], "description": "Anna Ranalli, the Italian model, singer and actress, died on February 14, 2026, at the age of 84. Born in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, on January 21, 1942, she was named Miss Europe 1960, becoming the second Italian woman to win the title after Eloisa Cianni in 1953. The following year, she released two singles before moving into an acting career.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Ranalli" }, { "name": "Faʻaolesa Katopau Ainuʻu Samoan jurist and politician dead at age 62", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/faaolesa-katopau-ainuu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 62, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "lawyers", "politicians" ], "description": "Faʻaolesa Katopau Ainuʻu, a Samoan jurist and politician, died on February 14, 2026. Born in November 1963, he was a lawyer, politician and high chief (matai) who served as Samoa’s minister of justice and courts administration from 2016 to 2021. He was also a member of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa, representing Vaimauga West 2. Ainuʻu was formerly a member of the Human Rights Protection Party and became a founding member of the Samoa Labour Party in 2025. Before entering politics, he practised as a barrister and solicitor in Samoa and American Samoa and owned the independent newspaper Samoa Post.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Fa_aolesa_Katopau_Ainu_u.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%CA%BBaolesa_Katopau_Ainu%CA%BBu" }, { "name": "Michel Charrel Actor dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/michel-charrel", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actor", "actors" ], "nationality": [ "France" ], "description": "Michel Charrel, a French actor, died on February 14, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Tarare, France, on September 13, 1936, he grew up in a family of grocery store owners. He earned his Baccalauréat from the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. Charrel received his first large roles in the 1960s and expanded his career in the 1970s.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Charrel" }, { "name": "Xhelil Gjoni Albanian politician dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/xhelil-gjoni", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "politicians" ], "description": "Xhelil Gjoni, an Albanian politician and journalist, died on February 14, 2026, at the age of 87. Born on November 3, 1938, in Maqellarë, Dibër, Albania, he was a member of the Albanian Workers' Party (PPSh). He studied philosophy in Moscow and Leningrad during 1956 to 1961, and after returning to Albania in 1961, worked for the Zëri i Popullit newspaper for 17 years. Gjoni also served as a representative in the National Assembly during the 12th legislature from 1991 to 1992 and was on the governing board of the Socialist Party of Albania.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhelil_Gjoni" }, { "name": "Bogusław Wąs Electromechanic dead at age 73", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/boguslaw-was", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 73, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "electromechanic", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Poland" ], "description": "Bogusław Wąs, a Polish politician, died on February 14, 2026, at the age of 73. Born on February 18, 1952, in Czajęcice, Poland, he served in the Sejm from 1989 to 1991 as a member of the Parlamentarny Klub Lewicy Demokratycznej.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus%C5%82aw_W%C4%85s" }, { "name": "Joe Nossek American baseball player and coach dead at age 85", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/joe-nossek", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Joseph Rudolph Nossek, an American baseball player, coach and scout for the Minnesota Twins, died on February 14, 2026. He was 85. Nossek played Major League Baseball as an outfielder, throwing and batting right-handed. Born on November 8, 1940, he attended Ohio University and played for the Ohio Bobcats baseball team. He was signed by the Minnesota Twins as an amateur free agent in 1961 and made his major league debut on April 18, 1964, against the Washington Senators. He was inducted into the Kermit Blosser Ohio Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Joe_Nossek.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Nossek" }, { "name": "Elaine J. Coates First African American graduate of University of Maryland dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/elaine-j-coates", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "first african american graduate of university of maryland", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Elaine J. Coates, an American social worker and educator, died on February 14, 2026. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 15, 1937, she was the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Maryland, College Park. Coates later worked as a social worker and educator, teaching at the high school she had attended and earning a master’s degree in social work. She also became a Licensed Certified Social Worker–Clinical and provided social services to pediatric and adult trauma patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital before retiring in 2006.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_J._Coates" }, { "name": "Dóra Maurer Conceptual art, geometric abstraction dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/dora-maurer", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "conceptual art", "geometric abstraction", "artists" ], "nationality": [ "Hungary" ], "description": "Dóra Maurer, the Hungarian visual artist associated with conceptual art and geometric abstraction, died on February 14, 2026. Born in Budapest in 1937, she worked across drawing, printmaking, photography, film, painting, installation, and performance over a career spanning more than five decades. Maurer developed systems-based artworks exploring transformation, seriality, and the perception of movement and time. She first gained recognition in the 1970s through experimental works linked to the Central and Eastern European neo-avant-garde, and her later practice focused increasingly on geometric painting and rule-based visual systems derived from mathematical structures. She was professor emerita at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest and also served as a curator and organizer in Hungary’s experimental art scene.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3ra_Maurer" }, { "name": "Joe Stowell American basketball player and coach dead at age 99", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/joe-stowell", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 99, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes", "journalists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Joe Stowell, an American basketball player and coach for the Bradley Braves, died on February 14, 2026, at age 99. Stowell attended Bradley University and played on its basketball team from 1947 to 1950 before returning as an assistant coach in 1956. He became Bradley’s ninth head coach in 1965 and led the program for 13 seasons, winning 197 games before being dismissed in 1978. His coaching career also included two seasons with high school boys teams and two years coaching the Bradley University women. In 1985, he joined Dave Snell as a WMBD (AM) broadcaster for Bradley basketball games and remained in that role until 2010.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Stowell" }, { "name": "Richard de Prémare Painter dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/richard-de-premare", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "painter", "artists" ], "nationality": [ "France" ], "description": "Richard de Prémare, a French painter who specialised in figurative art, died on February 14, 2026, at the age of 89. Born Richard Dumouchel de Prémare in Casablanca, in the French protectorate in Morocco, on May 6, 1936, he attended the Académie Charpentier and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. He became well known in figurative art and received praise from André Flament and Élisabeth Amyot. He died in Aigneville, France.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_de_Pr%C3%A9mare" }, { "name": "Nurcan Çelik Turkish footballer and coach dead at age 46", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/nurcan-celik", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 46, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Turkey" ], "description": "Nurcan Çelik, a Turkish footballer and coach, died on February 14, 2026. She played as a goalkeeper and represented Turkey at under-19 level before joining the senior national team. Çelik later founded and served as president of Akdeniz Nurçelik Spor. After ending her playing career, she became manager of the newly reestablished women’s team of Galatasaray.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurcan_%C3%87elik" }, { "name": "Ray Webster Aviation executive dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ray-webster-businessman", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "aviation executive" ], "nationality": [ "Britain", "New Zealand" ], "description": "Ray Webster, the New Zealand-born British businessman who served as chief executive of easyJet from 1996 to 2005, died on February 14, 2026, aged 79. Born Raymond Douglas Webster in Greymouth, New Zealand, on 9 July 1946, he was the first managing director and later the first chief executive of the low-cost airline. He began his career in aviation with New Zealand National Airways Corporation in 1965, later studied at the University of Canterbury and Cranfield Institute of Technology, and went on to hold senior roles in the airline industry.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Webster_(businessman)" }, { "name": "Ferrero SpA 87 dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ferrero-spa", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Italy" ], "description": "Ferrero SpA, the Italian multinational manufacturer of branded chocolate and confectionery products, died on February 14, 2026, at age 87. Headquartered in Alba, Piedmont, Ferrero was better known as Ferrero Group and was the second largest chocolate producer and confectionery company in the world by revenue. The private company was owned by the Ferrero family and had been described as one of the world’s most secretive firms. Founded in 1946 in Alba by Pietro Ferrero, it grew under Michele Ferrero and later passed to the next generation of the family.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Maria_Franca_Fissolo.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Franca_Fissolo" }, { "name": "Lowell Green Canadian radio personality dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/lowell-green", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Canada" ], "description": "Lowell Green, a Canadian radio personality, journalist and author, died on February 14, 2026. He was 89. Green was best known as the host of The Lowell Green Show, a conservative morning talk show on Ottawa radio station CFRA, and earlier hosted Greenline, which became the longest-running open-line talk show in North America. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1936 to Canadian parents, he immigrated to Canada and graduated from Macdonald Agricultural College of McGill University in 1956. He began his broadcasting career in Brantford, Ontario, later working in Sudbury and Montreal before joining CFRA in 1960 as a news and farm reporter. He also wrote newspaper articles and autobiographical, historical and fictional books.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Lowell_Green.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Green" }, { "name": "John Fraser Australian tennis player dead at age 90", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/john-fraser-tennis", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 90, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes", "doctors" ], "nationality": [ "Australia" ], "description": "John Fraser, an Australian tennis player and medical doctor, died on February 14, 2026, aged 90. Born in Melbourne on August 1, 1935, he attended St Kevin’s College before studying medicine at Melbourne University, graduating in 1958. He later completed three years as a resident at St Vincent's Hospital. In 1962, Fraser and his brother Neale undertook a world-wide tennis tour that began in Egypt and ended in Japan. Fraser was appointed medical officer for the Fitzroy Football Club in 1965 and served until 1982, before taking the same role at the Carlton Football Club until 1990. He was also the medical officer for the Australian Tennis Open from 1963 to 1998.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fraser_(tennis)" }, { "name": "Sheikh Kabir Hossain Bangladeshi insurance executive dead at age 83", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/sheikh-kabir-hossain", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Bangladesh" ], "description": "Sheikh Kabir Hossain, a Bangladeshi insurance executive and businessman, died on February 14, 2026. He was president of the Bangladesh Insurance Association and also served as president of the Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh. Born in Gopalganj on 3 February 1942, he was a member of the Sheikh family of Tungipara. Hossain completed his master’s degree from the University of Dhaka and later worked at the Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation, the Bureau of Statistics and Sonali Bank before resigning from government service in 1975 after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Sheikh_Kabir_Hossain.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Kabir_Hossain" }, { "name": "Henrike Naumann Artist dead at age 41", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/henrike-naumann", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 41, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "artist", "artists" ], "nationality": [ "Germany" ], "description": "Henrike Naumann, a German installation artist, died on February 14, 2026, at the age of 41. Born in Zwickau, East Germany, in 1984, she became known for her furniture installations, often made from wall units from the 1990s. Her work examined the relationship between furniture and interior design alongside political and social issues, drawing broad media attention. Naumann received the Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff Fellowship, the Max Pechstein Prize from the city of Zwickau, and the Villa Aurora Scholarship from the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles. Her exhibitions included the SculptureCenter in New York, Haus der Kunst in Munich, Documenta in Kassel and the Kyiv Biennal.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrike_Naumann" }, { "name": "Merauder American guitarist dead at age -1", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/merauder", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": -1, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Merauder, an American guitarist associated with the band Merauder, died on February 14, 2026. Merauder was an American metalcore band from New York City, formed in 1990. The group established itself on the New York hardcore and metal scene through frequent touring and demo releases. In 1995, after vocalist Jorge Rosado joined, the band released a split EP with Stigmata and toured with Biohazard. Its full-length debut, Master Killer, was released later that year.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Colon" }, { "name": "Michael Silverblatt American literary critic and broadcaster dead at age 73", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/michael-silverblatt", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 73, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Michael Silverblatt, an American literary critic and broadcaster who hosted the nationally syndicated radio program Bookworm, died on February 14, 2026, at age 73. He presented the show from 1989 to 2022 on KCRW, the Los Angeles public radio station, and recorded more than 1,600 interviews with authors and other literary figures. His guests included Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, David Foster Wallace, William H. Gass, W. G. Sebald and John Ashbery. Born in New York City, he attended SUNY Buffalo, where he majored in English, and later began postgraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, but did not complete them.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Silverblatt" }, { "name": "Coca Boom Spanish drag queen dead at age 28", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/coca-boom", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 28, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Spain" ], "description": "Coca Boom, a Spanish drag queen and performer known professionally as David Parra, died on February 14, 2026. Born on October 24, 1997, Parra won the first season of Regias del Drag España and was known for work as a seamstress and designer in several seasons of Drag Race España. Outside of drag, Boom worked as a costume designer and airport flight attendant.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_Boom" }, { "name": "Green Vigo South African rugby footballer dead at age 75", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/green-vigo", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 75, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "South Africa" ], "description": "Green Vigo, the South African rugby footballer who played for Wigan Warriors, died on February 14, 2026, aged 75. Born in Saldanha Bay, Cape Province, South Africa, in 1950, Green Gregory Vigo played rugby union in the 1970s and 1980s before switching to rugby league. He represented Proteas in rugby union and played club rugby union for Saldanha Tigers as a centre. In rugby league, he represented Other Nationalities and played at club level for Wigan, Swinton and Oldham as a wing. He made 168 first-team appearances for Wigan, scoring 86 tries, before joining Swinton in 1980 and later Oldham.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Vigo" }, { "name": "Sega Japanese businessman and engineer dead at age 75", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/sega", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 75, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Japan" ], "description": "Sega, a Japanese businessman and engineer, died on February 14, 2026. 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He was an award-winning university professor and held the Tomlinson Chair in Science Education at McGill University. Born in Albany, New York, on January 20, 1937, Harpp earned a bachelor of arts from Middlebury College in 1959, a master’s degree from Wesleyan University in 1962 and a PhD from the University of North Carolina in 1965. He published more than 230 chemistry articles in peer-reviewed publications, with research focused on organosulfur and selenium molecules, and also published 20 articles on teaching innovation.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harpp" }, { "name": "We All Together Peruvian singer and composer dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/we-all-together", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "England", "Peru", "Spain" ], "description": "We All Together, the Peruvian rock and roll band formed in 1971, died on February 14, 2026. The group composed songs in English and Spanish and was known for “Carry On Till Tomorrow,” a cover of the Badfinger song, as well as “Hey Revolution” and “It’s A Sin To Go Away,” which appeared on Nuggets II. Its first line-up included Saúl Cornejo, Manuel Cornejo, Carlos Guerrero, Carlos Salom and Ernesto Samamé. The band broke up in 1974, regrouped in 1989 and later disbanded again after a farewell concert on November 5, 2011, marking 40 years of music.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%C3%BAl_Cornejo" }, { "name": "Edward L. Deci Academic, author, psychologist dead at age 83", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/edward-l-deci", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-02-14", "reported_date": "2026-02-14", "published_at": "2026-02-14T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "academic", "author", "psychologist", "scientists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Edward L. Deci, an American psychologist and academic, died on February 14, 2026. 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