{ "site": "Dead-People.com", "feed_type": "deaths_on_date", "date": "2026-02-22", "timezone": "+01:00", "generated_at": "2026-07-10T13:50:58+01:00", "canonical_html_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/22-february-2026", "permanent_archive_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/22-february-2026", "items": [ { "name": "Petr Horák", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/petr-horak-historian", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 90, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T18:35:02+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Czechia" ], "description": "Czech historian of philosophy", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Hor%C3%A1k_(historian)" }, { "name": "Jim Parsons English rugby union player", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jim-parsons-rugby-union", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 82, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "England" ], "description": "Jim Parsons, an English rugby union player, died on February 22, 2026, aged 82. Michael James Parsons was born in Chipping Norton, England, on 13 March 1943 and died in Oxford. Educated at The King’s School, Canterbury, he was an Oxfordshire farmer who played his rugby for Oxford and Northampton. Parsons was an English international rugby union player.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Parsons_(rugby_union)" }, { "name": "Iris Cantor American philanthropist dead at age 95", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/iris-cantor", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 95, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Iris Cantor, an American philanthropist, died on February 22, 2026. Based in New York City and Los Angeles, she led the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, which donated several hundred million dollars to museums, universities and hospitals from 1978 on. Her primary interests were medicine and the arts, and she was cited among the 50 top contributors in the United States.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Cantor" }, { "name": "Amnat Sonimsat Actor dead at age 92", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/amnat-sonimsat", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 92, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actor", "actors", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Thailand" ], "description": "Amnat Sonimsat, a Thai politician, died on February 22, 2026, at the age of 92. An independent, he served in the National Legislative Assembly from 1991 to 1992 and in the Senate from 1992 to 2000. Born in Bangkok on October 19, 1933, Sonimsat was also identified in additional context as an actor.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnat_Sonimsat" }, { "name": "Gregorio Morán Spanish journalist and writer dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gregorio-moran", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Spain" ], "description": "Gregorio Morán, a Spanish journalist and writer, died on February 22, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Oviedo in 1947, he lived in Paris during the Franco regime and returned to Spain during the transition to democracy. He worked as a journalist for La Vanguardia, Crónica Global, and Vozpópuli. In 2014, his book El Cura y los mandarines was published. Historia no oficial del bosque de los letrados. Cultura y política en España (1962–1996) was rejected by publisher Grupo Planeta over the censorship of certain passages.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Mor%C3%A1n" }, { "name": "Hans-Dieter Sues Paleontologist dead at age 70", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/hans-dieter-sues", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 70, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "paleontologist", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Germany" ], "description": "Hans-Dieter Sues, a German-born American paleontologist and Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, died on February 22, 2026, at age 70. He was born in Rheydt, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, on January 13, 1956. Sues attended Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, the University of Alberta and Harvard University, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1984. He also worked at McGill University, the Smithsonian, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1998, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003, and served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology from 2002 to 2004.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Dieter_Sues" }, { "name": "Joan Huber Work on gender stratification dead at age 100", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/joan-huber", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 100, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "work on gender stratification", "politicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Joan Huber, an American sociologist and professor of sociology at Ohio State University, died on February 22, 2026. Born on October 17, 1925, in Bluffton, Ohio, she taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1967 to 1971 and later joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she directed the Women's Studies Program from 1978 to 1980 and headed the Department of Sociology from 1979 to 1983. In 1984, she moved to Ohio State, where she served as dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, coordinating dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, and senior vice president for academic affairs and university provost. Huber was president of the American Sociological Association in 1989 and received its Jessie Bernard Award in 1985.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Huber" }, { "name": "Bill Glen Scottish rugby union player dead at age 93", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/bill-glen", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 93, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Scotland" ], "description": "Bill Glen, a Scottish international rugby union player, died on February 22, 2026, aged 93. Born William Sutherland Glen on 13 March 1932, he was educated at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, where he captained the rugby team. He went on to develop as a blindside wing-forward and earned Scottish Schoolboys representative honours. A Scone cattle farmer, Glen was selected for Scotland via Edinburgh Wanderers for the 1955 Five Nations match against Wales at Murrayfield, which Scotland won 14–8. He retained his place for the next match against Ireland, but withdrew after a leg injury.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Glen" }, { "name": "Fernand Roberge Canadian politician dead at age 85", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/fernand-roberge", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Canada" ], "description": "Fernand Roberge, a Canadian hotelier and politician who served as a senator, died on February 22, 2026, at age 85. Born in Laurierville, Quebec, on July 19, 1940, he became in 1977 the first French Canadian chief executive officer of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal and held the post for more than 12 years. He was also part-owner of the hotel until selling his interest in 1991 to the Rolaco Group of New York. Roberge was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in May 1993 and had previously been appointed by Mulroney to the Air Canada board in 1985.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Roberge" }, { "name": "Maurie Raper Australian footballer dead at age -1", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/maurie-raper", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": -1, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Australia" ], "description": "Maurie Raper, an Australian rugby league footballer who played for Penrith and Cronulla-Sutherland, died on February 22, 2026. He played as a five-eighth in the 1960s and 1970s in the NSWRL premiership. Raper was an inaugural Penrith player and took part in the club’s first ever game. He joined Penrith in 1967 after playing his junior rugby league for Canterbury and Western Suburbs, and later moved to Cronulla at the end of 1970.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurie_Raper" }, { "name": "Doctor R. Crants Businessman dead at age 81", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/doctor-r-crants", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 81, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "businessman", "doctors" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Doctor R. Crants, an American businessman and co-founder of the Corrections Corporation of America, died on February 22, 2026. He was 81. Born Doctor Robert Crants in Salamanca, New York, on November 17, 1944, he did not generally use the name Doctor as an adult. He grew up on a Seneca reservation in New York, was educated at Lansing Central High School, and graduated from the United States Military Academy. He later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1974. Crants served in Vietnam and Southeast Asia and was chairman and chief executive officer of Corrections Corporation of America from 1994 to 1999.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_R._Crants" }, { "name": "John Bertalot English organist dead at age 94", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/john-bertalot", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 94, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "England" ], "description": "John Bertalot, an English organist who served at Blackburn Cathedral in England and at Trinity Church in Princeton, New Jersey, died on February 22, 2026. Born in Maidstone, Kent, on September 15, 1931, he was inspired to study the organ during a childhood visit to Canterbury Cathedral. He studied at Shoreham Grammar School, trained under Harold Darke at the Royal College of Music in London, and later was an organ scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bertalot" }, { "name": "El Mencho Mexican drug lord dead at age 59", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/el-mencho", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 59, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Mexico" ], "description": "Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, the Mexican drug lord known as El Mencho and head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, died on February 22, 2026, at age 59. He led the Jalisco-based criminal organization from its rise after several of his bosses were arrested or killed, and was wanted in both Mexico and the United States at the time of his death. Authorities had offered rewards of up to US$15 million and MXN$300 million for information leading to his arrest. Born in Aguililla, Michoacán, he was active in organized crime from 1986 until 2026.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/El_Mencho.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mencho" }, { "name": "Miervaldis Polis Latvian painter and performance artist dead at age 77", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/miervaldis-polis", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 77, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "artists", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Latvia" ], "description": "Miervaldis Polis, a Latvian painter and performance artist, died on February 22, 2026. He was 77. In the early 1970s, he and Līga Purmale, his wife at the time, helped start a new trend of photorealism in Latvian painting. In the early 1980s, he turned to performance art, including The Bronze Man, in which he roamed the streets of Riga in a bronze suit covered from head to toe in bronze paint. In the 1990s, after Latvia regained independence, Polis became known as the Latvian court painter and received commissions to paint portraits of members of the Latvian elite, including former presidents Guntis Ulmanis and Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miervaldis_Polis" }, { "name": "Eugene G. Sander American academic dead at age 90", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/eugene-g-sander", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 90, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Eugene G. Sander, an American academic and former president of the University of Arizona, died on February 22, 2026, at the age of 90. He served as president from 2011 to 2012 after the resignation of Robert N. Shelton, and was appointed to lead the Fiesta Bowl. Before deferring his retirement to become president, Sander had been vice provost and dean of the UA's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_G._Sander" }, { "name": "Ali Tutal 75-76 dead at age 75", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ali-tutal", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 75, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "Turkey" ], "description": "Ali Tutal, a Turkish actor, died on February 22, 2026, at the age of 75-76. Born in Diyarbakır in June 1950, he began his career in advertising before starting his cinema career in 1976 with Permission. Over the course of his career, he appeared in more than 50 feature films and television series, including On Fertile Lands (1980), Hemşo (2000) and Home Coming (2006).", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Tutal" }, { "name": "Serge Lajeunesse Canadian ice hockey player dead at age 75", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/serge-lajeunesse", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 75, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Canada" ], "description": "Serge Lajeunesse, a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Detroit Red Wings and Philadelphia Flyers, died on February 22, 2026, at age 75. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Lajeunesse played 103 games in the National Hockey League between 1970 and 1974. He began in hockey with the Montreal Junior Canadiens of the Ontario Hockey Association, helping them win the Memorial Cup. He later started in the Red Wings’ farm system with the Fort Worth Wings before being called up to Detroit in November 1970.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Serge_Lajeunesse.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Lajeunesse" }, { "name": "Nasser Mohammadifar Iranian Brigadier General dead at age 80", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/nasser-mohammadifar", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 80, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Iran" ], "description": "Nasser Mohammadifar, an Iranian brigadier general, died on February 22, 2026, at the age of 80. He served as the Supreme Military Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Iran and Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, and was the 14th commander-in-chief of the Iranian Army Ground Forces from 2001 to 2005. Born in Mian Rudan, Iran, on May 30, 1945, he began his military career in 1967 in the Imperial Iranian Ground Forces. During the Iran-Iraq War, he commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 88th Armoured Division, the 35th Ranger Brigade, the 16th Armoured Division of Qazvin, the 81st Armored Division of Kermanshah and the Southern Headquarters.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasser_Mohammadifar" }, { "name": "Maureen Hemphill Canadian politician, Manitoba MLA dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/maureen-hemphill", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Canada" ], "description": "Maureen Hemphill, a Canadian politician and Manitoba MLA from 1981 to 1990, died on February 22, 2026, at age 89. Born Maureen Lucille Miller in Grand Forks, British Columbia, on January 26, 1937, she served in the cabinet of NDP Premier Howard Pawley and was an unsuccessful candidate for the party’s leadership in 1988. Hemphill also served on the Assiniboine South School Board in 1969, 1970 and 1973. She first ran for the provincial legislature in 1977 in the Winnipeg riding of Charleswood.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Hemphill" }, { "name": "Fan Tsung-pei Taiwanese cellist and composer dead at age 65", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/fan-tsung-pei", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 65, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "Fan Tsung-pei, a Taiwanese cellist and composer, died on February 22, 2026. He graduated from National Taiwan Academy of Arts and served as the lead cellist of the National Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra for nine years, until 1997. In 1997, he and Lee Shou-chuan shared the Golden Horse Award for Best Original Film Score for the soundtrack to Super Citizen Ko. That same year, his album Sound of Armour won the Golden Melody Award for Best Instrumental Album. The following year, Fan and Pairang Pavavaljung received the best music award at the Asia Pacific Film Festival for Connection by Fate.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_Tsung-pei" }, { "name": "Yaroslav Cherstvy Russian Olympic rower dead at age 92", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/yaroslav-cherstvy", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 92, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Russia" ], "description": "Yaroslav Cherstvy, a Russian rower who represented the Soviet Union, died on February 22, 2026, at the age of 92. Born on 7 May 1933, he competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne in the men's coxed four, where his crew was eliminated in the semi-final. Earlier that year, he won a silver medal in the coxed four at the European Rowing Championships in Bled. He later won the Grand Challenge Cup in 1958 with Trud Leningrad at the Henley Royal Regatta and took silver in the men's eight at the 1962 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslav_Cherstvy" }, { "name": "Luci4 American rapper dead at age 23", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/luci4", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 23, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "James Dear, known professionally as Luci4, was an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer, died on February 22, 2026, at age 23. Born in Los Angeles, he began making music after getting a laptop for Christmas and started his career in 2016 under the stage name 4jay. He later founded the internet rap collective Jewelxxet and was known for pioneering the mixing style he called sigilkore, which became an internet microgenre. He first drew wider attention in 2017 when a beat he made was used by Tay-K on \"Gotta Blast,\" and his 2020 single \"Bodypartz\" later received gold certification from the RIAA.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luci4" }, { "name": "Birgitta Andersson Swedish actress dead at age 92", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/birgitta-andersson", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 92, "death_date": "2026-02-22", "reported_date": "2026-02-22", "published_at": "2026-02-22T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Birgitta Andersson, the Swedish actress and comedian, died on February 22, 2026, at the age of 92. Born Ulla Birgitta Helena Andersson in Mariestad on April 20, 1933, she worked in film, television and stage performances from 1954 to 2010. She made her breakthrough in variety shows with Povel Ramel and Karl Gerhard and later became part of the group around Hasse & Tage, appearing in productions including Gula Hund, Docking the Boat, Spader, Madame!, The Apple War, Ägget är löst, The Adventures of Picasso and Häxan Surtant. In 1967, she portrayed Teskedsgumman in the Swedish advent calendar of the same name.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Birgitta_Andersson.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgitta_Andersson" } ], "fallback_items": [], "page": 1, "per_page": 100, "total": 23, "total_pages": 1, "count": 23 }