{ "site": "Dead-People.com", "feed_type": "deaths_on_date", "date": "2026-03-08", "timezone": "+01:00", "generated_at": "2026-07-10T03:36:39+01:00", "canonical_html_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/08-march-2026", "permanent_archive_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/08-march-2026", "items": [ { "name": "Oleksandr Dovgach", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/oleksandr-dovgach", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": -1, "death_date": "2026-03-09", "reported_date": "2026-03-09", "published_at": "2026-03-09T15:40:02+01:00", "nationality": [ "Ukraine" ], "description": "Ukrainian military pilot", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Dovgach" }, { "name": "Volodymyr Vlasenko", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/volodymyr-vlasenko", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 77, "death_date": "2026-03-09", "reported_date": "2026-03-09", "published_at": "2026-03-09T13:05:02+01:00", "occupation": [ "doctors", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Ukraine" ], "description": "Ukrainian scientist and military doctor", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Vlasenko" }, { "name": "Walid Khalidi Historian dead at age 100", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/walid-khalidi", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 100, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "historian", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Britain", "Israel", "Palestine" ], "description": "Walid Khalidi, a Palestinian historian, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 100. He wrote extensively on the Palestinian exodus and co-founded the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut in December 1963, serving as its general secretary until 2016. Khalidi’s first teaching post was at Oxford, which he resigned from in 1956 in protest at the British invasion of Suez. He later was professor of political studies at the American University of Beirut until 1982 and a research fellow at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, and he also taught at Princeton University.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walid_Khalidi" }, { "name": "Fahad Al-Mejmed Kuwaiti footballer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/fahad-al-mejmed", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 33, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "description": "Fahad Al-Mejmed, a Kuwaiti footballer and military officer, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 33. Al-Mejmed, a centre-back, played for Al Qadsia SC until 2019 and spent part of that period on loan at Al-Salmiya SC, beginning in January 2014. He returned to Al-Salmiya permanently in 2019 and retired on July 29, 2025. He was capped three times for Kuwait in 2014 and scored his only international goal in a 2–2 draw against Kyrgyzstan on May 16, 2014. He was the brother of Soud Al-Mejmed.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahad_Al-Mejmed" }, { "name": "Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters Iranian military general who served as head of the Military Office of Iran’s Supreme Leader dead at age -1", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/khatam-al-anbiya-central-headquarters", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": -1, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Iran" ], "description": "Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters died on March 8, 2026. An Iranian military general, he served as head of the Military Office of Iran's Supreme Leader. The position placed him in a senior military role linked to the Supreme Leader’s office. No further details were provided about his death.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_al_Qasem_Babaiyan" }, { "name": "Ray Schoenke American football player", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ray-schoenke", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 84, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Ray Schoenke, an American football player who played offensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins, died on March 8, 2026, at age 84. Born Raymond Frederick Schoenke on September 10, 1941, in Wahiawā, Hawaii Territory, he played college football for the SMU Mustangs. Schoenke attended Punahou School in Honolulu for grades 9 through 11 and later was an All-State football player at Weatherford High School in Texas.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Schoenke" }, { "name": "Vasile Constantin Mao Romanian rugby union player dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/vasile-constantin-mao", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Romania" ], "description": "Vasile Constantin Mao, a Romanian rugby union player, died on March 8, 2026. Better known as Mao, he was a Romanian rugby union coach and academic. Born in Plevna village, Călărași County, on October 7, 1937, Constantin was recognized as a prolific coach and was often referred to as the \"father\" of the Locomotiva team. He was 88.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasile_Constantin_Mao" }, { "name": "David Keene American political consultant dead at age 80", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/david-keene", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 80, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "David Keene, an American political consultant, died on March 8, 2026, in Baltimore, Maryland, at the age of 80. He was also a presidential advisor and newspaper editor, and served as Opinion Editor of The Washington Times. Keene chaired the American Conservative Union from 1984 to 2011 and was president of the National Rifle Association from 2011 to 2013. Born in Rockford, Illinois, on May 20, 1945, he was raised in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keene" }, { "name": "Lutfiya al-Dulaimi Iraqi writer dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/lutfiya-al-dulaimi", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Iraq" ], "description": "Lutfiya al-Dulaimi, an Iraqi writer, journalist and women's rights activist, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in Baqubah on March 7, 1939, she grew up in Baghdad and worked as a teacher from 1971 to 1977 before completing a degree at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 1978. Over a career that lasted from 1970 to 2026, she published more than 70 works, including novels, short story collections, analytical studies and translations. Her writing often focused on the struggles of Iraqi women amid the Iran–Iraq War, the Gulf War, sanctions and the aftermath of the 2003 invasion. After leaving Iraq, she settled in Jordan in 2008.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutfiya_al-Dulaimi" }, { "name": "Lilias, Yoga and You American yoga teacher and television presenter dead at age 90", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/lilias-yoga-and-you", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 90, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Lilias Folan, the American yoga teacher and television presenter behind the PBS program Lilias, Yoga and You, died on March 8, 2026. The show, later shortened to Lilias!, first aired on WCET in Cincinnati on October 5, 1970 and was carried nationwide on PBS three years later, running until 1999. Folan began practicing yoga as exercise in 1964 and soon taught at the YWCA in Stamford, Connecticut. She also studied asanas under T. K. V. Desikachar, B. K. S. Iyengar and Angela Farmer, and broadened her knowledge under Swami Vishnudevananda and Swami Satchidananda.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Lilias_Folan.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilias_Folan" }, { "name": "Fahad Al-Mejmed Kuwaiti footballer dead at age 33", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/fahad-al-mejmed-2", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 33, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "description": "Fahad Al-Mejmed, a Kuwaiti footballer, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 33. Fahad Abdulaziz Al-Mejmed was also a military officer in the General Directorate of Land Border Security. A centre-back, he played for Al Qadsia SC until 2019 and spent part of that period on loan at Al-Salmiya SC, before returning to Salmiya on a permanent basis in 2019. He remained there until his retirement on July 29, 2025. Al-Mejmed was capped three times by the Kuwait national team in 2014 and scored his only international goal in a 2–2 draw against Kyrgyzstan on May 16, 2014. He was the brother of Soud Al-Mejmed.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahad_Al-Majmad" }, { "name": "Graham Sissons public figure dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/graham-sissons", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes", "lawyers", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "England" ], "description": "Graham Sissons, an English footballer who played as a defender, died on March 8, 2026. He made more than 250 Football League appearances for Birmingham City, Peterborough United and Walsall. At Birmingham, he was used as Trevor Smith’s deputy at centre half and later replaced George Allen at left back. Sissons played in both legs of the 1961 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final, which Birmingham lost to Roma.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Sissons" }, { "name": "Mantana Morakul Thai singer and actress dead at age 102", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/mantana-morakul", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 102, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "artists", "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Thailand" ], "description": "Mantana Morakul, the Thai singer and actress known as Mantana Keartiwongs, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 102. Born on March 30, 1923, she was the first female singer and the oldest member of the Public Relations Department band, a Luk Krung singer, and an early-era singer of the Suntaraporn Band. She was active from 1935 to 1975 and was named a National Artist in 2009 for performing arts, Thai music and singing.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantana_Morakul" }, { "name": "Sam Scarber American actor and football player dead at age 76", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/sam-scarber", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 76, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Sam Scarber, an American actor and former football player, died on March 8, 2026, at age 76. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 24, 1949, he played fullback in the National Football League for the San Diego Chargers. Scarber played college football at the University of New Mexico after attending Northeastern Junior College, and he was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the third round of the 1971 NFL draft. He later appeared in films including The Karate Kid and Over the Top.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Scarber" }, { "name": "Zeph Ellis British rapper dead at age 37", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/zeph-ellis", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 37, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Britain" ], "description": "Zeph Ellis, the British rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer better known as Dot Rotten, died on March 8, 2026, aged 37. Born Joseph Daniel Joel Ellis-Stevenson in London, he was from Lambeth, South London, and worked in British hip-hop and grime from 2004 to 2026. He released early mixtapes independently under the names Young Dot and Dot Rotten before signing to Mercury Records, where he issued his debut studio album, Voices in My Head, in 2013. After leaving the label, he released independent EPs and projects, later recording as Zeph Ellis and focusing on production. He was known for introducing sampling techniques to grime production and for creating singing hooks on grime tracks.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeph_Ellis" }, { "name": "Ernie Mills American decoy maker dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ernie-mills-decoy-maker", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "artists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Ernie Mills, an American decoy maker, died on March 8, 2026. Ernest Leon Mills Jr. was a third-generation duck decoy maker who made Lower Chesapeake-style decoys. Nationally recognized as a folk artist, he created traditional working decoys that are held in private collections and museums, including the Smithsonian Institution. In 1980, he was commissioned by Ducks Unlimited to make decoys for fund-raising events and auctions. He received a Ducks Unlimited Life Sponsor award in 1985 and was recognized as one of the few extant decoy makers who still used a hatchet.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Mills_(decoy_maker)" }, { "name": "Joseph T. Threston American Navy systems engineer dead at age 90", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/joseph-t-threston", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 90, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Joseph T. Threston, an American Navy systems engineer known for his contributions to the development of the Aegis Combat System, died on March 8, 2026. Threston began his career in 1959 at Hughes Aircraft Company in the Guided Missile Laboratory, where he worked on the further development and production of the Falcon Missile system. In the 1960s, he joined RCA Corporation and made significant contributions to the development of the Aegis Combat System. He later received several awards and honors, including the Harold E. Saunders Award from the American Society of Naval Engineers in 1991 and the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal in 1995.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_T._Threston" }, { "name": "Aleksandr Dulichenko Russian-Estonian Esperantist dead at age 84", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/aleksandr-dulichenko", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 84, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Estonia", "Russia" ], "description": "Aleksandr Dulichenko, a Russian-Estonian Esperantist, linguist and expert in Slavic microlanguages, died on March 8, 2026. Born in Krasnodar in 1941, he lived in Estonia and served as a professor at the University of Tartu, where he headed the department of Slavic studies. He also edited Interlinguistica Tartuensis, a University of Tartu journal on interlinguistics that published seven volumes from 1982 to 1990, with an eighth volume issued in 2006.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dulichenko" }, { "name": "H. H. Hamid 85 dead at age 85", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/h-h-hamid-2", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "India" ], "description": "H. H. Hamid, an Indian footballer and forward, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 85. He played for India at the 1960 Summer Olympics and was a member of the national team that finished runners-up in the 1964 AFC Asian Cup. Hamid also represented India in other international tournaments. In domestic football, he played for Hyderabad Sporting Club, Hyderabad Police, Mohammedan Sporting Club and South Central Railway. He was a resident of Vijayanagara Colony, Hyderabad, and an associate of footballer S. A. Rahim.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Habibul_Hassan" }, { "name": "Slavoljub Marjanović Serbian chess Grandmaster dead at age 71", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/slavoljub-marjanovic", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 71, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Serbia" ], "description": "Slavoljub Marjanović, a Serbian chess grandmaster, died on March 8, 2026. Born in Lalinac, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia, on January 6, 1955, he was awarded the grandmaster title in 1978 and later became a FIDE Senior Trainer in 2004. Marjanović won the Yugoslav Chess Championship in 1985 and was part of the Yugoslav team that won bronze at the 1980 Chess Olympiad. He also won the Yugoslav Junior Chess Championship three years in a row from 1971 to 1973 and took first place in international tournaments in Belgrade, Vrnjačka Banja and Rome.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoljub_Marjanovi%C4%87" }, { "name": "Moulana Abdullah Tari Indian Islamic scholar and political activist dead at age 86", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/moulana-abdullah-tari", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 86, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "India" ], "description": "Moulana Abdullah Tari, an Indian Islamic scholar and political activist, died on March 8, 2026, following a prolonged illness. He was an official of the separatist Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party and served as the party’s Acting Chairman during the imprisonment of its chairman, Shabir Ahmad Shah. Tari was also a member of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference. He was 86.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulana_Abdullah_Tari", "cause_of_death": { "label": "Prolonged illness", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-prolonged-illness" } }, { "name": "Anthony Leggett Caldeira–Leggett model of quantum dissipation, Leggett–Garg inequality, Leggett inequality, Superfluid phase of helium-3 dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/anthony-leggett", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "caldeira–leggett model of quantum dissipation", "leggett–garg inequality", "leggett inequality", "superfluid phase of helium-3", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Britain" ], "description": "Anthony Leggett, the British-American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, died on March 8, 2026. He was 87. Sir Anthony James Leggett was widely recognised as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognised by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquids and strongly coupled superfluids, and helped set directions for research in the quantum physics of macroscopic dissipative systems and the use of condensed systems to test the foundations of quantum mechanics.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Anthony_Leggett.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Leggett" }, { "name": "Herbs New Zealand musician dead at age -1", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/herbs-band", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": -1, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "New Zealand" ], "description": "Herbs, the New Zealand reggae group founded in 1979, died on March 8, 2026. The multi-ethnic band featured Samoans, Tongans, Cook Islanders, New Zealand Europeans and Māori members. Led by singer-guitarist Dilworth Karaka, the main founding member who remained with the group until his death in March 2026, Herbs was known for its Pacific reggae sound and for songs and themes tied to race relations and opposition to nuclear weapons in the Pacific. The group was inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame as its 11th inductee.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilworth_Karaka" }, { "name": "Philip Bourne Unix for VMS Users, PLOS Computational Biology, Protein Data Bank, SciVee dead at age 72", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/philip-bourne", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 72, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "unix for vms users", "plos computational biology", "protein data bank", "scivee", "scientists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Australia" ], "description": "Philip Bourne, an Australian bioinformatician and writer, died on March 8, 2026, at age 72. Philip Eric Bourne was the Stephenson Chair of Data Science, director of the School of Data Science and professor of biomedical engineering, and served as the first associate director for data science at the National Institutes of Health. His work there included managing the Big Data to Knowledge initiative. He also held positions at the University of California, San Diego, and contributed to textbooks. Bourne was a supporter of open-access literature and software, and his interests included structural biology, medical informatics, information technology, structural bioinformatics, scholarly communication and pharmaceutical science.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Philip_Bourne.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bourne" }, { "name": "Rostyslav Chapiuk Ukrainian politician dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/rostyslav-chapiuk", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Ukraine" ], "description": "Rostyslav Chapiuk, a Ukrainian politician, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Rusiv on May 22, 1937, he served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1994 to 1998 as a member of the Peasant Party of Ukraine. He received the Order of the Badge of Honour in 1971 and was named an Honored Worker of Agriculture of Ukraine in 1997.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostyslav_Chapiuk" }, { "name": "B. Wongar Writer dead at age 93", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/b-wongar", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 93, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "writer", "journalists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Serbia" ], "description": "B. Wongar, the pen name of Serbian writer Sreten Božić, died on March 8, 2026, aged 93-94. Born in 1932 in Gornja Trešnjevica, in what was then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he lived in Australia for much of his life. His writing focused largely on the condition of Aboriginal people in Australia. His 1978 short story collection, The Track to Bralgu, drew critical acclaim from the foreign press, though later revelations about his Serbian background and inconsistencies in his life story led to controversy over claims that he was Aboriginal.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Wongar" }, { "name": "Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Malaysian philosopher dead at age 94", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 94, "death_date": "2026-03-08", "reported_date": "2026-03-08", "published_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Malaysia" ], "description": "Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, a Malaysian philosopher, died on March 8, 2026. He was a Malaysian Muslim philosopher of Arab descent and was considered one of the few contemporary scholars thoroughly rooted in the traditional Islamic sciences, with studies in theology, philosophy, metaphysics, history and literature. He pioneered the concept of Islamisation of knowledge and wrote 27 works on Islamic thought and civilisation, particularly on Sufism, cosmology, metaphysics, philosophy and Malay language and literature. 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