{ "site": "Dead-People.com", "feed_type": "deaths_on_date", "date": "2026-02-23", "timezone": "+01:00", "generated_at": "2026-07-09T17:09:16+01:00", "canonical_html_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/23-february-2026", "permanent_archive_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/23-february-2026", "items": [ { "name": "Monti Rock III American singer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/monti-rock-iii", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 86, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Monti Rock III, the American singer known for \"Get Dancin',\" died on February 23, 2026, at age 86. Born Joseph Moses Montanez Jr. on May 29, 1939, in New York City, he was also known professionally as Sir Monti Rock III. He worked as a hairdresser, musician and performer, and his hairdressing work in the 1960s helped bring him to television, including appearances on The Merv Griffin Show and as a regular guest on The Tonight Show.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monti_Rock_III" }, { "name": "Bobby Douglas American Olympic wrestler", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/bobby-douglas", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Bobby Douglas, an American Olympic wrestler and coach, died on February 23, 2026. Born Robert Edward Douglas on March 27, 1942, in Bellaire, Ohio, he competed as a featherweight at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics, placing fourth in 1964. He won silver at the 1966 world championships and bronze in 1970 before retiring later that year. Douglas later coached several U.S. Olympic teams and at Arizona State, where he won an NCAA team national title in 1988. His coaching record included 13 NCAA champions, 110 All-America performances and 68 conference titles.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Douglas" }, { "name": "Coleman Barks Poet dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/coleman-barks", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "poet", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America", "England" ], "description": "Coleman Barks, an American poet and writer, died on February 23, 2026, at age 88. He was an American poet and literature faculty member at the University of Georgia. Born Coleman Bryan Barks in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he grew up on the campus of the Baylor School, where his father was headmaster. He received a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1959 and a master’s in English from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961. Barks was widely known as an interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations despite not speaking or reading Persian.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Barks" }, { "name": "Nikolay Blagodatov Collector of Soviet Nonconformist Art dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/nikolay-blagodatov", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "collector of soviet nonconformist art", "artists" ], "nationality": [ "Russia" ], "description": "Nikolay Blagodatov, a Russian collector of Soviet nonconformist art and member of the Section of Criticism and Art Criticism of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, died on February 23, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Leningrad on December 21, 1937, he graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Water Communications in 1962. He began collecting modern art in 1975 and later built one of Russia’s most significant collections of Soviet Nonconformist Art, spanning 1970 to 1990. From 1979, he also wrote more than 250 articles on art and took part in more than 50 exhibitions as a collector, organizer and participant.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Blagodatov" }, { "name": "Sondra Lee American actress", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/sondra-lee", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 97, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Sondra Lee, an American actress, dancer and teacher known for her Broadway work, died on February 23, 2026. Born Sondra Lee Gash in Newark, New Jersey, on September 30, 1928, she performed on Broadway and was known for appearing in the original productions of Peter Pan in 1954 and Hello, Dolly! in 1964. She also taught acting courses at New York University and at the Stella Adler Conservatory. Lee’s career extended from 1945 to 2025.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Sondra_Lee.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra_Lee" }, { "name": "Mukul Roy Politician dead at age 71", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/mukul-roy", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 71, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politician", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "India" ], "description": "Mukul Roy, an Indian politician, died on February 23, 2026, at the age of 71. A politician from West Bengal, he served as a Minister of State in the Shipping Ministry and later in the Ministry of Railways during the second UPA government. Before the creation of Trinamool Congress, he was a member of the Indian National Congress. He later moved between Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party, joining BJP in 2017 and returning to TMC in 2021. On November 13, 2025, the Calcutta High Court terminated his MLA post for tergiversation.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukul_Roy" }, { "name": "Stephanie Kugelman American advertising executive dead at age 78", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/stephanie-kugelman", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 78, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Britain" ], "description": "Stephanie Kugelman, an American advertising executive and branding expert, died on February 23, 2026, in New York City at age 78. She was a past vice chairman and chief strategic officer of Young & Rubicam Inc., where her career began as a junior researcher and where she later served as vice chairman emeritus. Kugelman was also vice chairman of Solera Capital, a New York private equity firm, and since 2011 had served on the public boards of Whole Foods Market, Young & Rubicam Inc. and Home Shopping Network.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Kugelman" }, { "name": "Rab Nawaz Pakistani cricketer and umpire dead at age 85", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/rab-nawaz", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Pakistan" ], "description": "Rab Nawaz, a Pakistani cricketer and umpire, died on February 23, 2026. He was 85. Born in Lahore on October 17, 1940, he stood in two One Day Internationals between 1982 and 1984. His umpiring debut came in a Pakistan-Sri Lanka match at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on March 29, 1982, and his last ODI was between Pakistan and New Zealand at Sialkot Cricket Stadium on December 2, 1984.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rab_Nawaz", "cause_of_death": { "label": "prolonged illness", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-prolonged-illness" } }, { "name": "Birte Christoffersen Danish-Swedish diver dead at age 101", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/birte-christoffersen", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 101, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Denmark", "Sweden" ], "description": "Birte Christoffersen, the Danish-Swedish diver who won an Olympic bronze medal, died on February 23, 2026, at the age of 101. Born in Copenhagen in 1924, she competed for Denmark in the 3 m springboard and 10 m platform at the 1948 Summer Olympics, winning bronze in the platform, and later represented Sweden at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics. She also won European championship bronze medals in both events in 1950, after moving to Sweden in 1953, and added silver medals in both in 1954. Christoffersen, later known as Hanson and then Ekberg, turned 100 in March 2024.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birte_Christoffersen" }, { "name": "Rupert Roopnaraine Author, politician, cricket player dead at age 83", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/rupert-roopnaraine", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "author", "politician", "cricket player", "athletes", "politicians", "writers" ], "description": "Rupert Roopnaraine, a Guyanese politician, cricketer and writer, died on February 23, 2026, in Georgetown, Guyana, at the age of 83. Born in Kitty, Georgetown, British Guiana, on January 31, 1943, he played first-class cricket for Cambridge University from 1964 to 1966 and received a Blue in the University Match against Oxford in 1965 and 1966. Roopnaraine served as Guyana’s Minister of Education from 2015 to 2017 before being reassigned to the Ministry of the Presidency in 2017.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Roopnaraine" }, { "name": "Ulysses Jenkins Video art dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ulysses-jenkins", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "video art", "artists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Ulysses Jenkins, an American visual artist known for video art, died on February 23, 2026. Born in Los Angeles on September 19, 1946, he developed an interest in art during the 1960s while attending Hamilton High. He left Los Angeles in 1964 to attend Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he studied painting and drawing and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1969. After returning to Los Angeles, Jenkins exhibited his paintings and later moved to Venice Beach in 1972, where he began painting murals and created his first mural on the boardwalk at Rose Avenue and Ocean Front Walk. His work used video-performance, music, and storytelling to examine questions of race, history, and power.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Ulysses_Jenkins.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_Jenkins" }, { "name": "Ali Babachahi Poet, writer, researcher, literary critic dead at age 83", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ali-babachahi", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "poet", "writer", "researcher", "literary critic", "scientists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Iran" ], "description": "Ali Babachahi, an Iranian poet and writer, died on February 23, 2026, at age 83. Born in Bushehr in 1942, he was also a researcher and literary critic. Babachahi published more than 50 literary works and was known as one of Iran’s prominent postmodern writers and poets. He graduated in Persian literature from Shiraz University and began publishing with his 1968 book In Unreliability. From 1989, he worked on a dictionary of the Persian language at the University Publication Center and edited the poetic column of Adineh monthly magazine.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Babachahi" }, { "name": "Gary Dontzig American television producer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gary-dontzig", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Gary Dontzig, an American television producer, screenwriter and actor, died on February 23, 2026, at age 79. He worked as a writer and producer on television programs including \"Murphy Brown,\" \"Suddenly Susan\" and \"Becker.\" With his writing partner, Steven Peterman, he also wrote for the second season of \"W.I.T.C.H.,\" after being hired by their longtime friend and neighbor Greg Weisman. Dontzig won two Primetime Emmy Awards and received three additional nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series from 1991 to 1993.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Dontzig" }, { "name": "Charles S. Dean Sr. American politician dead at age 86", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/charles-s-dean-sr", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 86, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Charles S. Dean Sr., an American politician who served in the Florida Legislature, died on February 23, 2026, at age 86. A Republican, he served in the Florida Senate from 2007 to 2016, first representing the 3rd District and later the 5th District, which covered counties in North Florida. Before his election to the Senate, Dean served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2002 to 2007, representing the 43rd District. He was born in Jacksonville on May 31, 1939.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_S._Dean_Sr." }, { "name": "Richard Mauer Investigative journalist dead at age 76", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/richard-mauer", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 76, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "investigative journalist", "journalists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Richard Mauer, an American investigative journalist, died on February 23, 2026. Born Richard David Mauer on May 29, 1949, in The Bronx, New York, he graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and later attended the University of Colorado Boulder. He worked for the Idaho Statesman, The Miami News and The Daily Sentinel before moving to Alaska in 1983, where he joined the Anchorage Daily News. In 1984, he interviewed businessman Bill Allen and reported that VECO Corporation funneled money to support Alaskan Republican candidates who backed big oil.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Richard_Mauer.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mauer" }, { "name": "Lucien Ghellynck Belgian footballer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/lucien-ghellynck", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 82, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Belgium" ], "description": "Lucien Ghellynck, a Belgian footballer who played as a midfielder, died on February 23, 2026. He played almost his entire career with Gent and won the Belgian Cup with the club in 1964. Ghellynck received one call-up to the Belgian national team but did not play, and he was later pre-selected for the 1970 FIFA World Cup before being left out of the final squad. He was 82.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Lucien_Ghellynck.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Ghellynck" }, { "name": "David Chadwick American Zen Buddhist priest and writer dead at age 81", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/david-chadwick-writer", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 81, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "David Chadwick, an American Zen Buddhist priest and writer, died on February 23, 2026. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, on February 9, 1945, he moved to California in 1966 to study Zen with Shunryu Suzuki. He was ordained as a priest in 1971, shortly before Suzuki’s death, and later assisted in the operation of the San Francisco Zen Center for a number of years. Chadwick wrote Thank You and OK! An American Zen Failure in Japan and Crooked Cucumber, a biography of Suzuki. He had two children and later lived in Bali.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chadwick_(writer)" }, { "name": "Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz Dutch physicist dead at age 101", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/nicolaas-marinus-hugenholtz", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 101, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "the Netherlands" ], "description": "Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz, a Dutch physicist and academic, died on February 23, 2026. He was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Groningen from 1960 to 1989. Born in Wormerveer on 26 April 1924, he studied physics at Leiden University and received his degree in 1948. He later studied theoretical physics under Hans Kramers and earned a PhD in physics at Utrecht University in 1957 for a thesis titled The quantum theory of large systems and its application to the structure of nuclear matter. Hugenholtz was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaas_Marinus_Hugenholtz" }, { "name": "Robert Carradine Actor dead at age 71", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/robert-carradine", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 71, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actor", "actors" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Robert Carradine, an American actor known for starring as Lewis Skolnick in the Revenge of the Nerds films and Sam McGuire in the Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire, died on February 23, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. He was 71. Born in Los Angeles on March 24, 1954, Carradine was a member of the Carradine family and began his career on television Western series including Bonanza and Kung Fu, the latter starring his brother David Carradine. He worked as an actor from 1971 until 2026.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Robert_Carradine.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Carradine" }, { "name": "Andrej Medved Poet, editor and translator dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/andrej-medved", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "poet", "editor and translator", "journalists", "writers" ], "description": "Andrej Medved, a Slovene poet, editor and translator, died on February 23, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Ljubljana on February 3, 1947, he studied philosophy and the history of art at the University of Ljubljana. Medved worked as an editor at publications including Le Livre Slovène, the predecessor of Litterae slovenicae, and served as a curator at the Coastal Galleries in Piran. He was also editor of the Artes and Hyperion series. Medved published numerous poetry collections and received the Prešeren Foundation Award in 2003, the Jenko Award in 2008 and the Veronika Award in 2010.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Medved" }, { "name": "Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo Historian dead at age 98", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tetevi-godwin-tete-adjalogo", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 98, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "historian", "politicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Togo" ], "description": "Têtêvi Godwin Tété-Adjalogo, a Togolese historian and politician, died on February 23, 2026, at the age of 98. He was a member of the Democratic Convention of African Peoples (CDPA) and a founding member of the party. Born on January 16, 1928, in Ahouangor, French Dahomey, French West Africa, he studied at the École Spéciale des Travaux Publics and the University of Paris before working for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., for 20 years. He also served on the Sovereign National Conference during the 1990–1991 Togo protests and published works on the political history of Togo and on German and French colonization.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAt%C3%AAvi_Godwin_T%C3%A9t%C3%A9-Adjalogo" }, { "name": "Éliane Radigue French composer dead at age 94", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/eliane-radigue", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 94, "death_date": "2026-02-23", "reported_date": "2026-02-23", "published_at": "2026-02-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "France" ], "description": "Éliane Radigue, the French composer, died on February 23, 2026, in Paris at the age of 94. 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