{ "site": "Dead-People.com", "feed_type": "deaths_on_date", "date": "2026-02-17", "timezone": "+01:00", "generated_at": "2026-07-09T17:09:15+01:00", "canonical_html_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/17-february-2026", "permanent_archive_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/17-february-2026", "items": [ { "name": "Gustavo Amador Santiago Fernández", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gustavo-amador-santiago-fernandez", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-02-18", "reported_date": "2026-02-18", "published_at": "2026-02-18T23:05:03+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Mexico" ], "description": "Mexican composer and music arranger", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Amador_Santiago_Fern%C3%A1ndez" }, { "name": "Masahi Furukawa", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/masahi-furukawa", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 90, "death_date": "2026-02-18", "reported_date": "2026-02-18", "published_at": "2026-02-18T19:40:02+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "description": "Japanese politician", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahi_Furukawa" }, { "name": "João Adolfo Hansen", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/joao-adolfo-hansen", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": -1, "death_date": "2026-02-18", "reported_date": "2026-02-18", "published_at": "2026-02-18T16:10:02+01:00", "description": "83", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Adolfo_Hansen" }, { "name": "Thomas De Koninck Canadian philosopher dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/thomas-de-koninck", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Canada" ], "description": "Thomas De Koninck, a Canadian philosopher from Québec, died on February 17, 2026. Born in Leuven in 1934, he studied at Oxford, Université Laval and Freie Universität Berlin. He taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1960 to 1964 in the United States and at Université Laval from 1964 onward in Québec.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_De_Koninck" }, { "name": "Susan Sheehan American author dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/susan-sheehan", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Susan Sheehan, an American writer and author of Is There No Place on Earth for Me?, died on February 17, 2026. Born Susanna Maria Sachsel in Vienna, Austria, on August 24, 1937, she won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for the book, which described the experiences of a young New York City woman diagnosed with schizophrenia. Sheehan wrote frequently for The New Yorker as a staff writer beginning in 1961, and her work also appeared there in later years. In 1986, she published \"A Missing Plane,\" a three-part New Yorker series about the U.S. Army's effort to identify the remains of victims of a 1944 airplane crash.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Sheehan" }, { "name": "Scott Tinsley American football coach", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/scott-tinsley-american-football-coach", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 62, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Scott Tinsley, an American football coach, died on February 17, 2026, at the age of 62. He served as head football coach at West Virginia State University in Institute, West Virginia, from 1992 through 1994 and at West Virginia University Institute of Technology from 2008 to 2011. Tinsley also coached at Nitro High School for 13 years before being named head coach at West Virginia Tech in Montgomery, West Virginia. His career college football coaching record was 17–56, including a 6–37 mark at West Virginia Tech, where the program was discontinued after the 2011 season.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Tinsley_(American_football_coach)" }, { "name": "Edward Hoagland Essayist, novelist dead at age 93", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/edward-hoagland", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 93, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "essayist", "novelist", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Edward Hoagland, the American author best known for his nature and travel writing, died on February 17, 2026, at age 93. Born Edward Morley Hoagland in Manhattan, New York City, on December 21, 1932, he attended Deerfield Academy and Harvard University. He joined the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the summers of 1951 and 1952, later selling a novel based on that experience, Cat Man, before graduating from Harvard in 1954. After two years in the Army, he went on to a career as an essayist and novelist, and taught at several colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where he retired in 2005.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hoagland" }, { "name": "Richard Stika American Roman Catholic prelate dead at age 68", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/richard-stika", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 68, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Richard Stika, an American Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Knoxville from 2009 to 2023, died on February 17, 2026. Born Richard Frank Stika on July 4, 1957, in St. Louis, Missouri, he resigned as bishop at the request of Pope Francis in 2023. Stika had been accused of covering up the rape of a diocesan employee by a former seminarian, among other allegations of misconduct and mismanagement.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stika" }, { "name": "Veikko Virtanen Organ builder dead at age 97", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/veikko-virtanen", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 97, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "organ builder" ], "nationality": [ "Finland" ], "description": "Veikko Virtanen, a Finnish organ builder, died on February 17, 2026, at the age of 97. Born Veikko Armas Virtanen in Helsinki on June 14, 1928, he built organs through his company, Urkurakentamo Veikko Virtanen OY, which was based in Espoo. The company’s work included organs for the Turku Cathedral, the Ristinkirkko in Lahti, and the Temppeliaukio Church.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikko_Virtanen" }, { "name": "Blue Prize Argentinian Thoroughbred horse dead at age 13", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/blue-prize", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 13, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Argentina" ], "description": "Blue Prize, an Argentinian Thoroughbred racehorse and winner of the 2019 Breeders' Cup Distaff, died on February 17, 2026. Born in 2013, she made her first and only start as a two-year-old on May 30, 2016, at Hipódromo Argentino de Palermo, where she finished first. At age three, she was second in her first two starts before winning the Grade-1 Argentinian Gran Premio Seleccion on October 10, 2016. She was later named Argentina's champion three-year-old filly.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Prize" }, { "name": "Jim Čert Czech singer and accordionist dead at age 69", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jim-cert", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 69, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Czechia" ], "description": "Jim Čert, the Czech singer and accordionist born František Horáček, died on February 17, 2026, at the age of 69. Born in Prague on February 25, 1956, he was known for writing ballads based on East Slavic folklore, as well as for performing popular pub rhymes and parody songs. He played the accordion and recorded under the name Jim Čert.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_%C4%8Cert" }, { "name": "William Milam American diplomat dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/william-milam", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "William Milam, an American diplomat and senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., died on February 17, 2026, at age 89. Born in Bisbee, Arizona, and raised in Sacramento, California, he received an A.B. from Stanford University and an M.A. in economics from the University of Michigan. Milam entered the Foreign Service in 1962 and retired at the end of July 2001, later returning to help set up the multilateral mechanism for the reconstruction of Afghanistan after Sept. 11 and to serve as interim charge d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Milam" }, { "name": "Kazue Sawai Japanese musician dead at age 85", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/kazue-sawai", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes", "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Japan" ], "description": "Kazue Sawai, a Japanese koto player and musician, died on February 17, 2026. Born in Kyoto on January 1, 1941, she began studying the koto at age eight with Michio Miyagi and later graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Sawai was noted for her performances of contemporary classical music and free improvisation, played both the 13-string and 17-string kotos, and performed in Japan, North America and Europe. As a soloist and with her koto ensemble, she worked with John Cage, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Yuji Takahashi, Ayuo, Roberto Carnevale, Sofia Gubaidulina, David Behrman and Carl Stone, among others.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazue_Sawai" }, { "name": "Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise American actress dead at age 34", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/grand-cayman-secrets-in-paradise", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 34, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise, an American actress, died on February 17, 2026. Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise was an American reality television series that premiered on April 9, 2024, on Freeform. The series had been ordered by Hulu on December 7, 2023, before moving to Freeform on March 6, 2024, ahead of its premiere.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Lacelle" }, { "name": "Jesse Jackson American civil rights activist and politician dead at age 84", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jesse-jackson", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 84, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights activist and politician, died on February 17, 2026, at age 84. Born Jesse Louis Burns in Greenville, South Carolina, he was an ordained Baptist minister and a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and James Bevel during the civil rights movement. Jackson became one of the most prominent civil rights leaders of the late 20th and early 21st centuries and was an early supporter of LGBTQ rights in the United States. He began his activism in the 1960s, founded organizations that later merged to form the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, launched a presidential campaign in 1984, and served as the District of Columbia’s shadow United States senator from 1991 to 1997.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson" }, { "name": "José van Dam Operatic bass-baritone dead at age 85", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jose-van-dam", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "operatic bass-baritone", "actors", "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Belgium", "France" ], "description": "José van Dam, the Belgian bass-baritone known internationally for his work in opera, died on February 17, 2026, at the age of 85. Born Joseph Van Damme in Ixelles, part of Brussels, on August 25, 1940, he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and made his opera debut in 1960 as Don Basilio in Rossini’s \"Il barbiere di Siviglia\" at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie. He began his career at the Paris Opera and went on to appear at major houses and festivals including La Scala, the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. He also served as master of the singing section at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel from 2004 to 2023.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Jos_van_Dam.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_van_Dam" }, { "name": "Mohsen Dalloul Journalist dead at age 92", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/mohsen-dalloul", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 92, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalist", "journalists", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Lebanon" ], "description": "Mohsen Dalloul, a Lebanese journalist and politician, died on February 17, 2026, at the age of 92. A member of the Progressive Socialist Party, he served as minister of agriculture and minister of defense in the 1990s. He was also a long-term member of the Lebanese Parliament, serving from 1991 to 2004. Born in Aali en Nahri in 1933, Dalloul studied at Oriental College in Zahlé and held a degree in sociology. He later worked as a teacher in the Bekaa and Beirut districts before beginning work for newspapers and magazines.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Mohsen_Dalloul.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohsen_Dalloul" }, { "name": "Ngari Rinpoche Tulku dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ngari-rinpoche", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "tulku", "politicians" ], "description": "Ngari Rinpoche, the Tibetan tulku and politician known as Tenzin Choegyal, died on February 17, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Lhasa in March 1946, he was the younger brother of the 14th Dalai Lama. He was recognized as the 16th Ngari Rinpoche and entered Drepung Monastery at age seven. He later lived in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India, where he died.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngari_Rinpoche" }, { "name": "Joachim Kempin German businessman dead at age 83", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/joachim-kempin", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Germany" ], "description": "Joachim Kempin, a German-born American businessman and former senior vice president of Microsoft, died on February 17, 2026. He ran Microsoft’s division selling operating software to PC manufacturers for 15 years and later wrote Resolve and Fortitude: Microsoft’s \"Secret Power Broker\" Breaks His Silence. Before joining Microsoft, he worked at Digital Equipment Corporation in Munich and Bedford, Massachusetts, after an earlier role at National Semiconductors and a stint with Apple in Paris as European marketing manager.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Kempin" }, { "name": "Anna dePeyster British-Australian journalist and author dead at age 81", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/anna-depeyster", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 81, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Australia", "Britain" ], "description": "Anna dePeyster, the British-Australian journalist and author known as Anna Maria dePeyster, died on February 17, 2026, at age 81. Born Anna Maria Torv in Glasgow, Scotland, on June 30, 1944, she later became the second wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and served as a director at News Corp. She was born to Jakob Tõrv, an Estonian merchant seaman, and Sylvia Iris Bodfish, a Scottish drycleaner's shop assistant, and was raised in Australia after her family emigrated there.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Anna_dePeyster.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_dePeyster" }, { "name": "Pravina Deshpande Actress dead at age 60", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/pravina-deshpande", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 60, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actress", "actors" ], "nationality": [ "India" ], "description": "Pravina Deshpande, an Indian actress, died on February 17, 2026, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, at the age of 60 from blood cancer. She worked mainly in Marathi and Hindi films and television shows from 2008 to 2026. Deshpande was known for her roles in the television shows Ghar Ek Mandir, Karam Apnaa Apnaa and Kulfi Kumar Bajewala. Her film credits included Ready, Ek Villain and Jalebi, and she last appeared in the Netflix web series Taskaree in 2026. She was cremated the same day at Andheri, Mumbai.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravina_Deshpande", "cause_of_death": { "label": "Cancer", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-cancer-cause" } }, { "name": "Ray Reach Musician dead at age 77", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ray-reach", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 77, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musician", "criminals", "musicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Ray Reach, an American musician, died on February 17, 2026, at age 77. Born Raymond Everett Reach Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama, he worked as a pianist, vocalist, guitarist, composer, arranger, music producer and educator. He performed and recorded in jazz, classical, pop, R&B, gospel, Christian and country music, and was perhaps best known for jazz, combining jazz piano stylings with Sinatra-style vocals. Reach was a member of several active performing and recording groups, including the Magic City Jazz Orchestra, which he founded and directed, the Ray Reach Orchestra and the Night Flight Big Band. He also wrote and arranged five Broadway-style musicals for Birmingham Children's Theatre.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Reach" }, { "name": "Jim Lane Irish Republican and socialist dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jim-lane-irish-republican", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Ireland" ], "description": "Jim Lane, an Irish republican and socialist from Cork, died on February 17, 2026. Born James Anthony Lane in 1938, he was a central figure in left-wing politics in Cork city from the 1960s to the late 1980s and was involved in many campaigns. He was also influential in republican circles nationally and was known as an advocate of socialist republicanism of a Marxist-Leninist hue. Lane joined the Irish Republican Army, Sinn Féin and the Cork Volunteers' Pipe Band in 1954, and took part in the IRA's 1956–62 border campaign before resigning when the Cork brigade disengaged from the armed campaign.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lane_(Irish_republican)" }, { "name": "Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber Austrian-born American academic dead at age 70", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/wolfgang-f-danspeckgruber", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 70, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Austria" ], "description": "Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber, an Austrian-born American academic and founding director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University, died on February 17, 2026. He taught at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Politics from 1988, with a focus on state, international security, self-determination, diplomacy and crisis diplomacy. Danspeckgruber was also founder and chair of the Liechtenstein Colloquium on European and International Affairs, a private diplomacy forum.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_F._Danspeckgruber" }, { "name": "Dmitry Bavilsky Russian writer dead at age 57", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/dmitry-bavilsky", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 57, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Russia" ], "description": "Dmitry Bavilsky, a Russian writer, literary critic and journalist, died on February 17, 2026. Born in Chelyabinsk on January 19, 1969, he graduated from Chelyabinsk State University in 1993 and completed post-graduate studies in foreign literature there in 1996. Bavilsky worked as deputy editor-in-chief of Uralskaya Nov from 1995 to 1999, later served as a supervisor at the Chelyabinsk Academic Theatre of Drama, and headed Vzglyad publications. His writing appeared in Literaturnaya Gazeta, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Znamya, Oktyabr and Ural. Among his novels were The Library of Babel, The Nightshade Family, The Potato Eaters, Gagarin's Last Love and The Red Dot.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Bavilsky" }, { "name": "Miquel Clar Lladó Spanish businessman and politician dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/miquel-clar-llado", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Spain" ], "description": "Miquel Clar Lladó, a Spanish businessman and politician, died on February 17, 2026. Born in Llucmajor, Mallorca, in 1938, he spent his early career as an entrepreneur and businessman on the island. In 1962, he opened the first gas station in Llucmajor and later distributed diesel for Balear Oil SL and oil and automotive lubricants for LubriMallorca S.L. In 1979, he became the first democratically elected mayor of Llucmajor after the end of the Franco dictatorship, serving until 1983. He was later elected to the Parliament of the Balearic Islands, where he served from 1984 to 1987 as a member of the former Majorcan Union party.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miquel_Clar_Llad%C3%B3" }, { "name": "Doug Moe American basketball coach dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/doug-moe", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Italy" ], "description": "Doug Moe, an American basketball coach who led the Denver Nuggets, died on February 17, 2026, at age 87. Born Douglas Edwin Moe on September 21, 1938, in New York City, he was a star small forward at North Carolina, where he was a two-time All-American. After being accused of point shaving and later cleared of fixing games, he was kicked out of school and blackballed from the NBA. Moe played professionally in Italy and later in the ABA with the New Orleans Buccaneers and other teams, earning three All-Star selections and winning the 1969 ABA championship with the Oakland Oaks. Injuries ended his playing career at 33, and he went on to coach in the ABA and NBA, including the Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Doug_Moe.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Moe" }, { "name": "Shinya Japanese musician dead at age 56", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/shinya-musician", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 56, "death_date": "2026-02-17", "reported_date": "2026-02-17", "published_at": "2026-02-17T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Japan" ], "description": "Shinya Yamada, the Japanese musician best known as the drummer of Luna Sea, died on February 17, 2026, at age 56 of cancer. Born in Hadano, Kanagawa, on January 13, 1970, he was also a media personality and businessman. He played with Luna Sea from 1989 until the band’s disbandment in 2000, and again after its 2010 reunion until his death. His career also included solo work and performances with other acts, including Maki Ohguro and Friends, Creature Creature, Toshi with T-Earth, and Yellow Fried Chickenz.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_(musician)", "cause_of_death": { "label": "Cancer", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-cancer-cause" } } ], "fallback_items": [], "page": 1, "per_page": 100, "total": 28, "total_pages": 1, "count": 28 }