{ "site": "Dead-People.com", "feed_type": "deaths_on_date", "date": "2026-04-23", "timezone": "+01:00", "generated_at": "2026-06-19T05:54:25+01:00", "canonical_html_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/23-april-2026", "permanent_archive_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/23-april-2026", "items": [ { "name": "Jack R. Thornell American photographer, complications from kidney disease dead at age 86", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jack-r-thornell", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 86, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "artists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Jack R. Thornell, an American photographer, died on April 23, 2026, from complications from kidney disease. He was 86. Born Jack Randolph Thornell in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on August 29, 1939, he served in the Army Signal Corps and worked as a photographer for the Jackson Daily News from 1960 to 1964 and later for decades for The Associated Press. Thornell won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of James Meredith after the activist was attacked and wounded by a sniper during the June 1966 March Against Fear in Mississippi. He married Carolyn Wilson in 1964, and they had two children, Candice and Jay Randolph.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_R._Thornell", "cause_of_death": { "label": "kidney disease", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-kidney-disease" } }, { "name": "Jean-Bernard Pommier French pianist and conductor dead at age 81", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jean-bernard-pommier", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 81, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "France", "Russia" ], "description": "Jean-Bernard Pommier, French pianist and conductor, died on April 23, 2026, at the age of 81. Born in Béziers, France, on August 17, 1944, he began playing the piano at age four and gave his first public concert at seven. He had his first lessons with the Russian-schooled pianist Mina Koslova in Béziers. At 14, he moved to Paris to study piano with Yves Nat and Pierre Sancan and conducting with Eugene Bigot at the Paris Conservatory. He won the Berlin Young Musicians International Competition in 1960.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bernard_Pommier" }, { "name": "Will Stanhope Canadian rock climber, fall dead at age 39", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/will-stanhope", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 39, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "other" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Canada" ], "description": "Will Stanhope, a Canadian rock climber and professional rock guide, died on April 23, 2026, after a climbing accident in which his protection failed and he took a ground fall. He was 39. Before his death, Stanhope was described as one of North America’s leading trad climbers and one of Canada’s boldest climbers. He worked as an Association of Canadian Mountain Guides certified guide. In 2015, he made the first free ascent of The Tom Egan Memorial Route, a 5.14 trad route on Snowpatch Spire in the Bugaboos. Stanhope also published stories about his adventures in the Canadian Alpine Journal and American Alpine Journal and appeared in multiple films.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Stanhope", "cause_of_death": { "label": "fall", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-fall" } }, { "name": "Suresh Harilal Soni Indian social worker, Padma Shri winner dead at age 81", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/suresh-harilal-soni", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 81, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "other" ], "nationality": [ "India" ], "description": "Suresh Harilal Soni, an Indian social worker and Padma Shri winner (2025), died on April 23, 2026, at the age of 81. He worked for the welfare and rehabilitation of leprosy patients and intellectually disabled people. Born on November 23, 1944, in Sinor, Vadodara, Gujarat, he earned a Master of Science with first-class honors from M. S. University, Vadodara. In 1988, he founded Sahyog trust to support affected people and was known as Sabarkantha no Sahyojak. He was assisted in his work by his wife, Indira Soni, and they had two children, Dipak and Parul.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Suresh_Harilal_Soni.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suresh_Harilal_Soni" }, { "name": "Nancy Cox American virologist, glioblastoma dead at age 77", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/nancy-cox", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 77, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "other" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Nancy Cox, an American virologist and former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Influenza Division, died on April 23, 2026, at age 77. Cox, who was born in 1949 and was a native of Curlew, Iowa, served as director of the CDC’s World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Control of Influenza from 1992 to 2014 and as director of the Influenza Division from 2006 to 2014. She graduated from Iowa State University in 1970 with a degree in bacteriology and earned a doctoral degree in virology at the University of Cambridge in 1975. Cox began working on influenza at the CDC in 1976 and retired in December 2014 after 37 years and 278 publications.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Cox_(virologist)" }, { "name": "James Valentine Australian radio and television presenter, assisted suicide dead at age 64", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/james-valentine", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 64, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "musicians", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Australia" ], "description": "James Valentine, an Australian radio and television presenter and musician, died on April 23, 2026, by assisted suicide. He was 64. Born in Ballarat, Victoria, Valentine worked as a saxophonist and was a member of Jo Jo Zep, Models and Absent Friends. His career also included work as a writer, and he was active from 1980 until 2026.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Valentine_(journalist)", "cause_of_death": { "label": "assisted suicide", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-assisted-suicide" } }, { "name": "Luigi Farina Italian footballer dead at age 83", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/luigi-farina", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Italy" ], "description": "Luigi Farina, an Italian footballer, died on April 23, 2026.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Farina" }, { "name": "Ruth Slenczynska public figure dead at age 101", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ruth-slenczynska", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 101, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Ruth Slenczynska, an American classical pianist, died on April 23, 2026. She was 101. Slenczynska was born in Sacramento, California, on January 15, 1925, and was the last living piano student of Sergei Rachmaninoff. She studied in Europe from age 4 and later studied with Artur Schnabel, Egon Petri, Alfred Cortot, Josef Hofmann and Rachmaninoff. At 15, she left home and later attended the University of California, Berkeley. After a marriage to George Born ended in divorce in 1953, she taught piano for a living before returning to performing.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Ruth_Slenczynska.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Slenczynska" }, { "name": "Renzo Travanut Italian politician dead at age 80", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/renzo-travanut", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 80, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Italy" ], "description": "Renzo Travanut, an Italian politician, died on April 23, 2026.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renzo_Travanut" }, { "name": "Rexhep Qosja Albanian writer and politician dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/rexhep-qosja", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "doctors", "politicians", "scientists", "writers" ], "description": "Rexhep Qosja, an Albanian writer and politician, died on April 23, 2026, at the age of 89. He was a novelist, poet, social critic, literary critic and professor at the University of Prishtina. Qosja was a prolific literary critic and literary historian of Albanian literature, and was the first Doctor of Philological Sciences in Kosovo. He was also known for his 1974 novel \"Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes,\" which was translated into multiple languages, and for authoring anthologies and scholarly monographs, including a three-volume history of Albanian literature in the Romantic period.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Rexhep_Qosja.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexhep_Qosja" }, { "name": "Jean Pierre Biyiti bi Essam Cameroonian politician and diplomat, ambassador to Israel dead at age 76", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jean-pierre-biyiti-bi-essam", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 76, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Cameroon" ], "description": "Jean Pierre Biyiti bi Essam died on April 23, 2026. He was a Cameroonian politician and diplomat who served as ambassador to Israel from 2018 to 2025.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Pierre_Biyiti_bi_Essam" }, { "name": "George Ley public figure dead at age 80", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/george-ley", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 80, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes", "lawyers" ], "nationality": [ "America", "England" ], "description": "George Ley, an English footballer who played for Portsmouth, Dallas Tornado and Exeter City, died on April 23, 2026. He also played professionally for Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham between 1963 and 1976. After his English career, Ley moved to the Dallas Tornado of the North American Soccer League, where he was twice named to the NASL All Star second team as a defender. He later played for the Wichita Wings and went into coaching, serving as Luton Town head youth coach, head coach of the USISL Austin Sockadillos, and later director of coaching for the River City Rangers and the Crossfire Soccer Club.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ley" }, { "name": "Tajang Laing Malaysian Orang Ulu politician, member of the Cobbold Commission, Sarawak State Legislative Assembly dead at age 100", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tajang-laing", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 100, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Malaysia" ], "description": "Tajang Laing died on April 23, 2026. He was a Malaysian Orang Ulu politician and served as a member of the Cobbold Commission. Laing also served in the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly from 1979 to 1983.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajang_Laing" }, { "name": "Claude Bessy French ballerina dead at age 93", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/claude-bessy", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 93, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "other" ], "nationality": [ "France" ], "description": "Claude Bessy, the French ballerina who served as ballet master of the Paris Opera Ballet and later directed the Paris Opera Ballet School, died on April 23, 2026, at age 93. Born on October 20, 1932, she trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School from age 10 and joined the Paris Opera Ballet at 13. Promoted to étoile in 1956, she was closely associated with Serge Lifar and created leading roles in his works Snow White, Noces fantastiques and Daphnis and Chloe. Bessy also appeared in Gene Kelly’s film Invitation to the Dance, and he later created Pas de dieux for her. She staged ballets for the Comédie Française and Opéra Comique and continued to stage Lifar’s ballets throughout Europe.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bessy_(dancer)" }, { "name": "Musa Akhmadov Russian playwright, poet and writer dead at age 70", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/musa-akhmadov", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 70, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Russia" ], "description": "Musa Akhmadov died on April 23, 2026. He was a Russian playwright, poet and writer. No other details about his life or work were provided.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Musa_Akhmadov.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_Akhmadov" }, { "name": "Łukasz Litewka Polish sociologist and politician, traffic collision dead at age 36", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/lukasz-litewka", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 36, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Poland" ], "description": "Łukasz Litewka, a Polish sociologist and politician, died on April 23, 2026, in a traffic collision. He was 36. Born in Sosnowiec on May 9, 1989, he studied sociology at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Litewka served on the Sosnowiec City Council from 2014 to 2023 and was elected to the Sejm in the 2023 parliamentary election from constituency No. 32, centered on Sosnowiec. He was a member of the Democratic Left Alliance and, since 2021, of its successor, the New Left.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/ukasz_Litewka.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81ukasz_Litewka", "cause_of_death": { "label": "Traffic collision", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-traffic-collision" } }, { "name": "Jean-Benoît Meybeck public figure dead at age 53", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jean-benoit-meybeck", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 53, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "artists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "France" ], "description": "Jean-Benoît Meybeck, a French comic book author and illustrator, died on April 23, 2026, at the age of 53. Born in Grenoble on January 29, 1973, he worked as a graphic designer before starting a comics blog in 2010. He went on to make appearances at the Angoulême International Comics Festival and wrote comics on immigration, jihadism, and biodynamic agriculture. From 2023 to 2026, he collaborated with Pascal Marchand on a five-part series about the history of science.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Jean-Beno_t_Meybeck.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Beno%C3%AEt_Meybeck" }, { "name": "Aleksey Pimanov Russian television presenter, journalist and film director dead at age 64", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/aleksey-pimanov", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 64, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "journalists" ], "nationality": [ "Russia" ], "description": "Aleksey Pimanov died on April 23, 2026. He was a Russian television presenter, journalist and film director, known for Eleven Silent Men. His work spanned television, journalism and film directing.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Pimanov" }, { "name": "Richard P. Simmons American metallurgist, industrialist and philanthropist dead at age 94", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/richard-p-simmons", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 94, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "other" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Richard P. Simmons, an American metallurgist, industrialist and philanthropist, died on April 23, 2026. He was 94. Simmons was born on May 3, 1931, and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology beginning in 1949. He became a metallurgist at Allegheny Ludlum Steel in Pittsburgh in 1953, later worked for other steel companies, and returned to Allegheny Ludlum in 1968. He became chief executive in 1972 and, during his tenure, took the company public and led a management buyout. Simmons also served as a director, trustee or trustee emeritus for institutions including MIT, PNC Financial Services, Pittsburgh National Bank, US Airways, Sewickley Valley Hospital, the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_P._Simmons" }, { "name": "Sylvana Lorenz French art dealer and writer dead at age 73", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/sylvana-lorenz", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 73, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "artists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "France" ], "description": "Sylvana Lorenz, French art dealer and writer, died on April 23, 2026, at the age of 73. Born in Tunis, Tunisia, on February 14, 1953, she opened her first art gallery in 1981 and became known for supporting young artists. In 1983, Pierre Cardin visited her gallery to buy an artwork, beginning a long association that continued until his death in 2020. From 1998 to 2015, Lorenz managed communications for Espace Cardin in Paris.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Sylvana_Lorenz.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvana_Lorenz" }, { "name": "Kay Denman dead at age 88, Schoolteacher", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/kay-denman", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "schoolteacher", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Australia" ], "description": "Kay Denman, an Australian politician and schoolteacher, died on April 23, 2026. She served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1993 to 2005, representing the Australian Labor Party. Before entering politics, she worked as a schoolteacher. Denman was born in Latrobe, Tasmania, on July 22, 1937, and was raised in Railton. She was appointed to the Senate in 1993 to fill a casual vacancy and later held roles including Deputy Government Whip and Deputy Opposition Whip.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Denman" }, { "name": "Ellie Rodríguez Puerto Rican baseball catcher dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ellie-rodriguez", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "other" ], "description": "Ellie Rodríguez, a Puerto Rican baseball catcher, died on April 23, 2026, at age 79. Born Eliseo Rodríguez Delgado on May 24, 1946, in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, he moved with his family to New York City in 1953 and grew up within walking distance of Yankee Stadium. He attended James Monroe High School in the Bronx, graduating in 1964, and began his professional career that year after signing with the Kansas City Athletics as an amateur free agent. Rodríguez played in Major League Baseball from 1968 to 1976 for the New York Yankees, Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, California Angels, and Los Angeles Dodgers.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Ellie_Rodr_guez.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Rodr%C3%ADguez" }, { "name": "Josh Mauro English-born American football player dead at age 35", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/josh-mauro", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [ { "source_type": "news_confirmation", "publisher": "Yahoo Entertainment", "url": "https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=1_cc-session_71f8258d-9d5a-4990-b6c4-00d9942d9412", "relationship": "confirms death", "title": "Ex-New York Giants DE Josh Mauro's cause of death revealed" }, { "source_type": "news_confirmation", "publisher": "USA Today", "url": "https://cardswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cardinals/2026/05/15/former-arizona-cardinals-dl-josh-mauro-died-of-drug-overdose/90110782007/", "relationship": "confirms death", "title": "Former Arizona Cardinals DL Josh Mauro died of drug overdose" }, { "source_type": "news_confirmation", "publisher": "NBCSports.com", "url": "https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/report-josh-mauro-died-of-accidental-drug-overdose", "relationship": "confirms death", "title": "Report: Josh Mauro died of accidental drug overdose" }, { "source_type": "news_confirmation", "publisher": "Yahoo Entertainment", "url": "https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=1_cc-session_4c348a45-023a-451c-902f-7e5ed5f17a38", "relationship": "confirms death", "title": "Report: Josh Mauro died of accidental drug overdose" }, { "source_type": "news_confirmation", "publisher": "Yahoo Entertainment", "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/former-nfl-player-josh-mauro-230414585.html", "relationship": "confirms death", "title": "Former NFL player Josh Mauro died from fentanyl, cocaine and ethanol overdose, according to records" }, { "source_type": "news_confirmation", "publisher": "Breitbart News", "url": "https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2026/05/15/report-former-nfl-player-josh-mauros-cause-death-revealed/", "relationship": "confirms death", "title": "REPORT: Former NFL Player Josh Mauro's Cause of Death Revealed" } ], "age": 35, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "America", "England" ], "description": "Josh Mauro, an English-born American football player who played for the Arizona Cardinals, New York Giants and Jacksonville Jaguars, died on April 23, 2026, at age 35. Born in St Albans, England, on February 17, 1991, he moved to Texas at age 3. Mauro played college football at Stanford and later served as a defensive end in the NFL. 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He played as an inside right forward and represented the Pakistan national football team in the 1960s, including the squad that finished runners-up at the 1962 Merdeka Tournament. Rahi began his career in 1954 with Karachi-based clubs Baghdad Sports, Sindh Government Press and Keamari Muhammadan in the Karachi First Division Football League. He later played for Karachi Kickers on a tour of Saudi Arabia in 1958, represented Karachi in the National Football Championship, and moved to Dhaka Mohammedan in 1960 before also appearing for East Pakistan and Dacca Division.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Abdullah_Rahi.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Rahi" }, { "name": "Jack Bass American author and journalist dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jack-bass", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-04-23", "reported_date": "2026-04-23", "published_at": "2026-04-23T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Jack Bass, an American author and journalist, died on April 23, 2026, at age 91. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1934 and grew up in North as the youngest of seven children. Bass graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1956 with a degree in journalism and served in the U.S. Navy after attending officer's candidate school in Newport, Rhode Island. He later worked as a journalist in Charleston and as Columbia bureau chief for The Charlotte Observer from 1966 to 1973. Bass also taught journalism at the University of South Carolina, the University of Mississippi and the College of Charleston.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Jack_Bass.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bass" } ], "fallback_items": [], "page": 1, "per_page": 100, "total": 25, "total_pages": 1, "count": 25 }