{ "site": "Dead-People.com", "feed_type": "deaths_on_date", "date": "2026-02-16", "timezone": "+01:00", "generated_at": "2026-07-09T23:15:48+01:00", "canonical_html_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/16-february-2026", "permanent_archive_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/16-february-2026", "items": [ { "name": "Abderrazak Zouaoui", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/abderrazak-zouaoui", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 90, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T21:40:02+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists" ], "description": "Algerian sport commentator", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abderrazak_Zouaoui" }, { "name": "Abderrazak Zouari", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/abderrazak-zouari", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 90, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T21:05:03+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists" ], "description": "Algerian sport commentator", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abderrazak_Zouari" }, { "name": "Frederick Wiseman American filmmaker dead at age 96", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/frederick-wiseman", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 96, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "journalists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Frederick Wiseman, an American filmmaker, died on February 16, 2026, at age 96. Born in Boston in 1930, he worked as a documentarian, theater director, editor, actor, producer, director and writer from 1963 to 2025. His films focused on American institutions and social and economic issues in the United States. Among his best-known documentaries were Titicut Follies, Hospital, Welfare and In Jackson Heights. He also directed High School, Law and Order, Model, Missile, Ballet, State Legislature, La Danse, Boxing Gym, National Gallery, Ex Libris: The New York Public Library, Monrovia, Indiana, City Hall and Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros. Wiseman directed two narrative films, La Dernière Lettre and A Couple, and received an Academy Honorary Award in 2016.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Frederick_Wiseman.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Wiseman" }, { "name": "Tyrone G. Martin American navy commander and naval historian dead at age 95", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tyrone-g-martin", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 95, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Tyrone G. Martin, an American Navy commander and naval historian, died on February 16, 2026. He was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, on June 5, 1930, and was commissioned through NROTC in 1952. During 23 years of Navy service, he commanded two destroyers on tours off Korea and Vietnam before becoming the 58th commanding officer of USS Constitution on August 6, 1974. In 1976, he helped host Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip during their private tour of the ship. Later, he served as a Senior Naval Science Instructor for the NJROTC program at Boston Technical High School and received the Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Tyrone_G._Martin.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_G._Martin" }, { "name": "Avel Gordly Activist, community organizer, educator dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/avel-gordly", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "activist", "community organizer", "educator", "politicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Avel Gordly, an American politician and activist in Oregon, died on February 16, 2026. She was 79. Gordly was born in Portland on February 13, 1947, and became the first African-American woman elected to the Oregon State Senate in 1996, serving from 1997 to 2009. She was also known as a community organizer and educator.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avel_Gordly" }, { "name": "Wolfram Saenger X-ray crystallography of membrane proteins dead at age 86", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/wolfram-saenger", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 86, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "x-ray crystallography of membrane proteins", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Germany" ], "description": "Wolfram Saenger, a German biochemist, crystallographer and academic, died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 86. He was known for his pioneering contributions to nucleic acid crystallography and structural biology over a scientific career spanning more than four decades. Saenger worked at Harvard University, the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine and the Free University of Berlin, where he led the Institute for Crystallography until his retirement in 2011. At the Free University of Berlin, he built one of Germany’s leading crystallography groups and trained numerous doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. His research focused on the structural chemistry of nucleic acids, protein–nucleic acid complexes, hydration patterns in DNA and molecular recognition at atomic resolution.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Saenger" }, { "name": "Raseswari Panigrahi Politician dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/raseswari-panigrahi", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politician", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "India" ], "description": "Raseswari Panigrahi, an Indian politician, died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 79. She was active in Odisha politics with the Biju Janata Dal and was elected to the Odisha Legislative Assembly from the Sambalpur constituency in the 2014 election. Born on October 28, 1946, to Narasingha Panigrahi, she worked as a gynaecologist before entering politics after retirement. Her brother, Sriballav Panigrahi, was also a politician. Panigrahi later lost the 2019 assembly election in Sambalpur to Jaynarayan Mishra of the BJP.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raseswari_Panigrahi" }, { "name": "Carl Grillmair Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist, shot dead at age 67", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/carl-grillmair", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 67, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Canada" ], "description": "Carl Grillmair, a Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist, died on February 16, 2026, after being fatally shot outside his home in Llano, California. He was 67. Grillmair was a research scientist at the California Institute of Technology from 1997, where he studied exoplanets, galactic structure and dark matter. He also worked on NASA missions including the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, and discovered water on multiple exoplanets.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Grillmair", "cause_of_death": { "label": "shot", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-shot" } }, { "name": "Juan Carlos Desanzo Argentine film director dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/juan-carlos-desanzo", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Argentina" ], "description": "Juan Carlos Desanzo, an Argentine film director, screenwriter and cinematographer, died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Buenos Aires on January 15, 1938, he worked in Argentine film across those three occupations. Desanzo died in Buenos Aires.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Desanzo" }, { "name": "Lélio Souza Brazilian politician dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/lelio-souza", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Brazil" ], "description": "Lélio Souza, a Brazilian politician, died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 88. Born Lélio Miguel Antunes de Souza on September 29, 1937, in Rosário do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, he was a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party. Souza served in the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Sul from 1971 to 1983, in the Chamber of Deputies from 1983 to 1991, and in the Constituent Assembly from 1987 to 1988. He died in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9lio_Souza" }, { "name": "Guido A. Zäch Doctor dead at age 90", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/guido-a-zach", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 90, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "doctor", "doctors", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Switzerland" ], "description": "Guido A. Zäch, a Swiss politician and doctor, died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Häggenschwil on October 1, 1935, he studied medicine at the University of Fribourg and the University of Basel. Zäch founded the Schweizer Paraplegiker-Zentrum and served as its director from 1973 to 1989, and he was president of the Swiss Paraplegic Foundation until 2007. He was elected to the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt in 1984 and served until 1988, before winning election to the National Council with the Christian Democratic People's Party in 1999.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_A._Z%C3%A4ch" }, { "name": "King Liu Founder and Chairman of Giant Bicycles dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/king-liu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "founder and chairman of giant bicycles" ], "nationality": [ "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "King Liu, the Taiwanese businessman who founded Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd., died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in central Taiwan on July 2, 1934, Liu worked for his father’s trading and food manufacturing business before investing in logistics and aquaculture, including trucking, importing fish feed, and eel farming. After a series of failures, he founded Giant in 1972. He was not a cyclist before starting the company, but later rode bicycles to work in Giant’s early years. In 2007, at age 73, he rode around Taiwan, and at 75 he rode from Beijing to Shanghai.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Liu" }, { "name": "Dana Eden Israeli creator and producer dead at age -1", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/dana-eden", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": -1, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "Israel" ], "description": "Dana Eden, an Israeli creator and producer best known for co-creating and producing the Apple TV+ espionage series Tehran, died on February 16, 2026. She was 52. Born on September 3, 1973, Eden joined her father’s company, Dana Productions, in 1996 and produced her first series, Teenage Dreams, the following year. She later took over the company and produced Tehran during filming of its fourth season in Athens, Greece.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Dana_Eden.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Eden" }, { "name": "Harry Barnes English politician dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/harry-barnes-labour-politician", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "England" ], "description": "Harry Barnes, the English Labour politician who served as the party’s Member of Parliament for North East Derbyshire, died on February 16, 2026, aged 89. Born in Easington, County Durham, on 22 July 1936, he was educated at Ruskin College in Oxford and the University of Hull. Elected to Parliament in 1987, he held the seat until standing down at the 2005 general election, when he was succeeded by Natascha Engel. Barnes was considered to be on the left of the Labour Party and was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, voting against Tony Blair’s leadership on a number of issues. He was not an advocate of the Troops Out Movement, and supported NATO intervention in Kosovo in 1999.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Barnes_(Labour_politician)" }, { "name": "Homo Sapiens Italian singer and bassist dead at age -1", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/homo-sapiens-band", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": -1, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Italy" ], "description": "Homo Sapiens, the Italian singer and bassist associated with the pop rock group Homo Sapiens, died on February 16, 2026. The group, sometimes spelled Gli Homo Sapiens, was mainly successful in the 1970s. Formed in the late 1960s as I Tarli, it adopted its current name in 1972 and had its first major success in 1975 with the ballad \"Tornerai tornerò,\" which reached ninth place on the Italian hit parade. The group won the 1977 Sanremo Music Festival with \"Bella da morire,\" and later scored another success with \"Io e te stasera\" before disbanding in the early 1980s and reuniting in 1990.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marzio_Mazzanti" }, { "name": "Jane Baer Animator dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jane-baer", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "animator" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Canada" ], "description": "Jane Baer, a Canadian-American animator known for her work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, died on February 16, 2026, in Van Nuys, California, at the age of 91. Born Jane Maureen Shattuck in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on October 30, 1934, she worked in animation from the 1950s through 1997. Her credits included The Fox and the Hound, Mickey's Christmas Carol, The Black Cauldron, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Rover Dangerfield. Baer was a member of the Animation Guild, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She also helped found Women in Animation and served on its advisory board.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Jane_Baer.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Baer" }, { "name": "Richard Ottinger American politician dead at age 97", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/richard-ottinger", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 97, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "lawyers", "politicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Richard Ottinger, an American politician and attorney who served in the United States House of Representatives, died on February 16, 2026. He was 97. A member of the Democratic Party, Ottinger represented New York in the House from 1965 to 1971 and again from 1975 to 1985. He was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in 1970, when he was defeated by Conservative James Buckley. Born in New York City, he also served as a law professor and practiced international and corporate law after being admitted to the New York bar.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ottinger" }, { "name": "Consty Eka Cameroonian television presenter and businessman dead at age 56", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/consty-eka", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 56, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists" ], "nationality": [ "Cameroon" ], "description": "Consty Eka, a Cameroonian television presenter and businessman, died on February 16, 2026, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, at the age of 65. Born in Yaoundé on January 13, 1961, he became a prominent figure in the Cameroonian and Ivorian media landscapes in the 1980s. He created the CEKAM group and the channels CEN TV and Voltage 2. During the 2018 Cameroonian presidential election, he produced programs and special television reports for CEN TV, including content related to President Paul Biya.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consty_Eka" }, { "name": "Hélène Ahrweiler Greek-French Byzantologist dead at age 99", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/helene-ahrweiler", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 99, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "France", "Greece" ], "description": "Hélène Ahrweiler, the Greek-French Byzantologist and academic known formally as Hélène Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, died on February 16, 2026, in Athens, Greece, at the age of 99. Born in Athens on August 29, 1926, to a family of Greek refugees from Bursa, she studied history and archaeology at the University of Athens and later moved to Paris in 1953. She became Deputy Principal of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne from 1970 to 1973 and was Principal from 1976 to 1981, the first woman to hold that post in the 700-year history of the Sorbonne. She also served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Greece.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/H_l_ne_Ahrweiler.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_Ahrweiler" }, { "name": "Bob Howes Canadian football player", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/bob-howes", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Canada" ], "description": "Bob Howes, a Canadian football player who was an offensive lineman in the Canadian Football League, died on February 16, 2026, at age 83. He played 14 seasons in the CFL, mainly for the Edmonton Eskimos, and was part of five Grey Cup championship teams with the club. Howes played college football and basketball at Queen's University and later coached the Queen's Golden Gaels football team for many years, serving as both an assistant and head coach.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Howes" }, { "name": "Bobby Henrich American baseball player dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/bobby-henrich", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Bobby Henrich, an American baseball player who played for the Cincinnati Redlegs and Reds, died on February 16, 2026. Robert Edward Henrich was a Major League Baseball shortstop who played parts of three seasons, from 1957 until 1959, for the Cincinnati Redlegs. He was used most frequently as a pinch runner. Born in Lawrence, Kansas, he first drew the attention of pro scouts after his junior year at Compton High School and later played both shortstop and center field in high school.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Bobby_Henrich.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Henrich" }, { "name": "Semyon Gluzman Struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/semyon-gluzman", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the soviet union", "doctors" ], "nationality": [ "Russia", "Ukraine" ], "description": "Semyon Gluzman, a Ukrainian psychiatrist and human rights activist, died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Kyiv on September 10, 1946, Gluzman graduated from the Kyiv Medical Institute in 1968 and became known for his struggle against the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. He was the president and founder of the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association, founder of the American-Ukrainian Bureau for Human Rights, director of the International Medical Rehabilitation Center for the Victims of War and Totalitarian Regimes, and a member of the Council of Experts under Ukraine’s Ministry of Labor and Social Policy. He also served as co-chairperson of the Babi Yar Committee.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Gluzman" }, { "name": "Bo Lamar American basketball player", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/bo-lamar", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 74, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Dwight \"Bo\" Lamar, an American basketball player, died on February 16, 2026, at age 74. Born April 7, 1951, in Columbus, Ohio, he was raised there and attended East High School before playing at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Lamar was a two-time consensus All-American, led the NCAA in scoring in the 1971-72 season, and averaged 31.2 points over his college career. He was selected No. 1 overall in the 1973 American Basketball Association Draft.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Lamar" }, { "name": "Gérard Mathieu Schoolteacher dead at age 78", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gerard-mathieu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 78, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "schoolteacher", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Belgium" ], "description": "Gérard Mathieu, a Belgian politician and schoolteacher, died on February 16, 2026, in Arlon, Belgium, at the age of 78. A member of the Reformist Movement (MR), he taught Latin and Greek at the secondary school level and served in the Parliament of Wallonia from 1995 to 2004. Born in Habay on September 21, 1947, Mathieu was identified in the available record as a Belgian politician of the Reformist Movement.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Mathieu" }, { "name": "Billy Steinberg American songwriter", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/billy-steinberg", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 74, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "artists", "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Billy Steinberg, an American songwriter known for \"Like a Virgin,\" died on February 16, 2026, at age 75. Born William Endfield Steinberg in Fresno, California, he achieved his greatest success in the 1980s with songwriting partner Tom Kelly. Together they wrote or co-wrote No. 1 hits including Madonna’s \"Like a Virgin,\" Cyndi Lauper’s \"True Colors,\" Heart’s version of \"Alone,\" Whitney Houston’s \"So Emotional\" and the Bangles’ \"Eternal Flame.\" Steinberg also worked with other songwriters later in his career and wrote or co-wrote songs including \"Falling into You,\" \"One & One,\" \"All About Us,\" \"Too Little Too Late,\" \"Over It\" and \"Give Your Heart a Break.\"", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Billy_Steinberg.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Steinberg" }, { "name": "Linda Seger American author dead at age 80", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/linda-seger", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 80, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Linda Seger, an American author and screenwriting consultant, died on February 16, 2026, at age 80. Best known for her books on screenwriting, she was born in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and grew up there. Seger earned an undergraduate degree from Colorado College in 1967, followed by an MA in Religion in Arts from the Pacific School of Religion in 1973 and a Th.D. in Drama and Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in 1976. She also worked as a script consultant and consulted on more than 80 produced films and television episodes before retiring in 2020. In addition to screenwriting, she wrote books on spirituality and religion.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Seger" }, { "name": "Eddie Carvery Canadian social activist dead at age -1", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/eddie-carvery", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": -1, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Canada" ], "description": "Eddie Carvery, a Canadian social activist, died on February 16, 2026. He was from Africville, Nova Scotia, where he became known for protesting the destruction of the small, mainly Black Halifax community in the 1960s as part of an urban renewal project after years of neglect and poor services. Carvery began his protest at the site in 1970 and lived on and off in what became known as Seaview Park for more than 25 years. He later continued his protest on adjacent land and remained on the grounds of Africville in later years, including behind the reconstructed Africville Church.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Carvery" }, { "name": "Ancella Bickley American historian dead at age 95", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ancella-bickley", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 95, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Ancella Bickley, an American historian who was involved in the preservation of African American history in West Virginia, died on February 16, 2026, at age 95. Born in Huntington, West Virginia, on July 4, 1930, she earned a bachelor’s degree in English from West Virginia State College in 1950, a master’s degree in English from Marshall University in 1954, and an Ed.D. in English from West Virginia University in 1974. Bickley was professor emerita of English and retired as vice president of academic affairs at West Virginia State University. She lived in Florida and continued her work to bring greater recognition to African Americans, their history in Appalachia, and their accomplishments.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancella_Bickley" } ], "fallback_items": [], "page": 1, "per_page": 100, "total": 28, "total_pages": 1, "count": 28 }