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"2026-06-03", "reported_date": "2026-06-03", "published_at": "2026-06-03T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "hong kong actor", "actors" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Chung King-fai, Hong Kong actor.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/06/Chung_King-fai.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_King-fai" }, { "name": "Wei-Wen Yu dead at age 102, Civil engineer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/wei-wen-yu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [ { "source_type": "news_confirmation", "publisher": "nullandsonfuneralhome.com", "url": "https://www.nullandsonfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Dr-Wei-Wen-Yu?obId=48593568", "relationship": "confirms death", "title": "Dr. Wei-Wen Yu" } ], "age": 102, "death_date": "2026-06-02", "reported_date": "2026-06-02", "published_at": "2026-06-02T08:55:48+01:00", "occupation": [ "civil engineer", "scientists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America", "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "Wei-Wen Yu, Civil engineer.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/06/Wei-Wen_Yu_p1655294.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei-Wen_Yu" }, { "name": "Wei Zongwan dead at age 87, Actor", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/wei-zongwan", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-06-01", "reported_date": "2026-06-01", "published_at": "2026-06-01T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actor", "actors" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Wei Zongwan, Actor.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Zongwan" }, { "name": "Gu Songfen dead at age 96, Chinese aircraft designer, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gu-songfen", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [ { "source_type": "news_confirmation", "publisher": "sastind.gov.cn", "url": "https://www.sastind.gov.cn/n10086205/n10086389/c10751708/content.html", "relationship": "confirms death", "title": "送别！ 顾诵芬院士逝世" } ], "age": 96, "death_date": "2026-05-31", "reported_date": "2026-05-31", "published_at": "2026-05-31T16:00:21+01:00", "occupation": [ "chinese aircraft designer", "the chinese academy of sciences and chinese academy of engineering", "other" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Gu Songfen, Chinese aircraft designer, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/05/Gu_Songfen_p1655877.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_Songfen" }, { "name": "An Yunwu dead at age 78, Chinese peking opera actor", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/an-yunwu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 78, "death_date": "2026-05-28", "reported_date": "2026-05-28", "published_at": "2026-05-28T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "chinese peking opera actor", "actors" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "An Yunwu, Chinese peking opera actor.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E9%9B%B2%E6%AD%A6" }, { "name": "Samuel Yin dead at age 75, Businessman", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/samuel-yin", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 75, "death_date": "2026-05-26", "reported_date": "2026-05-26", "published_at": "2026-05-26T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "businessman", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China", "England", "Taiwan" ], "description": "Samuel Yin, Businessman.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/05/Samuel_Yin.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Yin" }, { "name": "Samuel Tak Lee dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/samuel-tak-lee", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-05-24", "reported_date": "2026-05-24", "published_at": "2026-05-24T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "property developer", "other" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Samuel Tak Lee, public figure.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/05/Samuel_Tak_Lee.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Tak_Lee" }, { "name": "Liu Zaifu dead at age 84, Writer, poet", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/liu-zaifu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 84, "death_date": "2026-05-24", "reported_date": "2026-05-24", "published_at": "2026-05-24T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "writer", "poet", "journalists", "scientists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Liu Zaifu, Writer, poet.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/05/Liu_Zaifu.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Zaifu" }, { "name": "Jacqui Chan dead at age 91, Trinidadian actress, dancer and singer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jacqui-chan", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-05-19", "reported_date": "2026-05-19", "published_at": "2026-05-19T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Jacqui Chan, a Trinidadian actress, dancer and singer, died on May 19, 2026, at the age of 91. Born Jacqueline Chan in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on July 15, 1934, she was a Chinese-Trinidadian performer who became a principal dancer in the London West End production of The King and I. She later appeared in the London stage production of The World of Suzie Wong and played Gwennie in the film version. Her other screen credits included Cleopatra and Krakatoa, East of Java.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/05/Jacqui_Chan.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui_Chan" }, { "name": "Nelson Wang dead at age 75", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/nelson-wang", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 75, "death_date": "2026-05-15", "reported_date": "2026-05-15", "published_at": "2026-05-15T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "other" ], "nationality": [ "China", "India" ], "description": "Nelson Wang, an Indian restaurateur and founder of China Garden in Mumbai’s Kemps Corner neighborhood, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 75 or 76. Born in Kolkata in 1950, Wang was of Chinese descent and is widely credited by various sources with inventing Chicken Manchurian, a popular Indian-Chinese dish. He moved to Mumbai in 1974 with ₹27, began working in a small restaurant in Colaba, and later said he had also taken odd jobs, including as a limbo dancer. Wang has said he was working at the Cricket Club of India when, in 1975, a customer asked him to create a new dish.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Wang" }, { "name": "Zhang Anjian dead at age 55, Chinese politician", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/zhang-anjian", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 55, "death_date": "2026-05-07", "reported_date": "2026-05-07", "published_at": "2026-05-07T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "chinese politician", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Zhang Anjian, Chinese politician.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Anjian" }, { "name": "Wang Yongguo dead at age 87, Chinese vice admiral", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/wang-yongguo", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-05-07", "reported_date": "2026-05-07", "published_at": "2026-05-07T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "chinese vice admiral", "other" ], "nationality": [ "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "Wang Yongguo, Chinese vice admiral.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Yongguo" }, { "name": "Bede Liu dead at age 91, Taiwanese-American electrical engineer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/bede-liu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-05-07", "reported_date": "2026-05-07", "published_at": "2026-05-07T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "Bede Liu, a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer, died on May 7, 2026. He was a professor emeritus at Princeton University. Born in Shanghai, China, on September 25, 1934, Liu earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1954 and went on to receive a master’s degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for contributions to digital signal processing algorithms and later to Academia Sinica in 2006. Liu also received the IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing and held several patents.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede_Liu" }, { "name": "Peter R. Moody Jr. dead at age 82, American political scientist and sinologist", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/peter-r-moody-jr", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 82, "death_date": "2026-05-02", "reported_date": "2026-05-02", "published_at": "2026-05-02T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "China" ], "description": "Peter R. Moody Jr., an American political scientist and sinologist, died on May 2, 2026. He was professor emeritus of political science at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and was known for his work on modern Chinese politics, Asian international affairs, Chinese political thought, international relations theory, and party theory. Born in San Francisco on October 13, 1943, he also pursued scholarship under the Chinese name Mu Panshi.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_R._Moody_Jr." }, { "name": "Stephen Owen American sinologist dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/stephen-owen", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 74, "death_date": "2023-06-30", "reported_date": "2023-06-30", "published_at": "2026-05-01T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "China" ], "description": "Stephen Owen, an American sinologist, died on May 1, 2026, at age 79. He specialized in Chinese literature, particularly Tang dynasty poetry and comparative poetics, and taught Chinese literature and comparative literature at Harvard University, where he was James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 30, 1946, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Chinese literature from Yale University in 1968 and a Ph.D. there in 1972. He taught at Yale until 1982, then moved to Harvard. Owen completed a six-volume annotated translation of the surviving poems of Du Fu in 2015 and shared the 2018 Tang Prize in Sinology with Yoshinobu Shiba.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Owen_(politician)" }, { "name": "Bai Jingfu dead at age 80, Chinese politician", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/bai-jingfu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [ { "source_type": "news_confirmation", "publisher": "finance.sina.com.cn", "url": "https://finance.sina.com.cn/wm/2026-05-06/doc-inhwycsf3382600.shtml", "relationship": "confirms death", "title": "公安部原主持常务工作的副部长白景富逝世" } ], "age": 80, "death_date": "2026-04-29", "reported_date": "2026-04-29", "published_at": "2026-04-29T16:31:33+01:00", "occupation": [ "chinese politician", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Bai Jingfu, Chinese politician.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai_Jingfu" }, { "name": "Li Daoyu Chinese diplomat, ambassador to the United States dead at age 93", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/li-daoyu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 93, "death_date": "2026-04-20", "reported_date": "2026-04-20", "published_at": "2026-04-20T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Li Daoyu, a Chinese diplomat and former ambassador to the United States from 1993 to 1998, died on April 20, 2026. He was 93. Born in Hefei, Anhui province, China, in August 1932, Li graduated from the University of Shanghai in 1952. He later served as China’s ambassador to the United States, a post he held for five years.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Daoyu" }, { "name": "Franklin F. Kuo Chinese-born American computer scientist and academic dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/franklin-f-kuo", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-04-14", "reported_date": "2026-04-14", "published_at": "2026-04-14T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "China" ], "description": "Franklin F. Kuo, a Chinese-born American computer scientist and academic, died on April 14, 2026. He was 91. Born in Wuhan, China, on April 22, 1934, Kuo came to the United States in 1950 and finished high school in New York City the following year. He earned his BS, MS and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where his doctoral adviser was Mac Van Valkenburg. Kuo taught at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, the University of Hawaii, Stanford University, Jiao Tong University and the University of Mannheim. He also authored eight books on network theory and computer network communications.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Franklin_F._Kuo.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_F._Kuo" }, { "name": "Feng Yufang Chinese engineer and major general, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering dead at age 63", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/feng-yufang", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 63, "death_date": "2026-04-13", "reported_date": "2026-04-13", "published_at": "2026-04-13T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "other" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Feng Yufang, a Chinese engineer and major general, and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, died on April 13, 2026. He was born in Yuyao, Zhejiang, on January 29, 1963. After graduating from Yuyao High School in 1979, he was admitted to the National University of Defense Technology, where he majored in applied physics. He joined the Communist Party in September 1985, and after university in 1987 enlisted in the People's Liberation Army and was dispatched to the Fourth Research Institute of the Second Artillery Corps.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_Yufang" }, { "name": "Koo Sze-yiu Chinese political activist, colon cancer dead at age 80", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/koo-sze-yiu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 80, "death_date": "2026-04-08", "reported_date": "2026-04-08", "published_at": "2026-04-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "other" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Koo Sze-yiu, a Chinese political activist known for anti-communism protests, died on April 8, 2026, at the age of 80 from colon cancer. Also known by the nickname \"Long Beard,\" he was widely recognized for carrying a handmade coffin and burning flags at demonstrations. He was jailed 12 times over his protests and continued taking part in Hong Kong social movements after 1989, including 1 July marches and other actions after the 1997 handover.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Koo_Sze-yiu.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koo_Sze-yiu", "cause_of_death": { "label": "Cancer", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-cancer-cause" } }, { "name": "Yangling Dorje Chinese politician, chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the CPCC dead at age 95", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/yangling-dorje", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 95, "death_date": "2026-04-06", "reported_date": "2026-04-06", "published_at": "2026-04-06T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Yangling Dorje died on April 6, 2026. He was a Chinese politician who served as chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the CPCC from 1984 to 1986.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangling_Dorje" }, { "name": "Chen Lihua Chinese property developer dead at age 85", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/chen-lihua", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-04-05", "reported_date": "2026-04-05", "published_at": "2026-04-05T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "other" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Chen Lihua, a Chinese property developer, died on April 5, 2026.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Chen_Lihua.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Lihua" }, { "name": "Ling Liong Sik Politician, physician dead at age 82", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ling-liong-sik", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 82, "death_date": "2026-04-04", "reported_date": "2026-04-04", "published_at": "2026-04-04T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politician", "physician", "doctors", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China", "Malaysia" ], "description": "Ling Liong Sik, a Malaysian politician who served as acting prime minister in 1988, died on April 4, 2026. He was a member of parliament from 1974 to 2004 and served as minister of transport from 1986 to 2003. Ling was the sixth president of the Malaysian Chinese Association, and he was also chancellor and former chairman of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. Born on September 18, 1943, in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, he died in Kuala Lumpur at the age of 82.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Ling_Liong_Sik.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ling_Liong_Sik" }, { "name": "Henry Lee Taiwanese-American forensic scientist and biochemist dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/henry-lee-forensic-scientist", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-03-27", "reported_date": "2026-03-27", "published_at": "2026-03-27T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "Henry Lee, the Taiwanese-American forensic scientist and biochemist known for his work in the killing of JonBenét Ramsey, the murder trial of O. J. Simpson and the 9/11 forensic investigation, died on March 27, 2026, in Henderson, Nevada, at age 87. Henry Chang-Yu Lee was born in Rugao, Jiangsu, China, on November 22, 1938. He graduated from Central Police College in 1960 with a bachelor of arts in police administration and joined the Taipei Police Department, where he rose to the rank of captain at age 22, the youngest captain in Taiwan's history.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Henry_Lee_forensic_scientist.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_(forensic_scientist)" }, { "name": "Lin Yuan-lang Taiwanese politician, magistrate of Nantou County dead at age 85", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/lin-yuan-lang", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-03-27", "reported_date": "2026-03-27", "published_at": "2026-03-27T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "lawyers", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "Lin Yuan-lang, a Taiwanese politician and former magistrate of Nantou County, died on March 27, 2026. He served as magistrate from 1989 to 1997. Lin was born on December 28, 1940, and died at the age of 85.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Lin_Yuan-lang.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Yuan-lang" }, { "name": "Wu Dexin Chinese materials scientist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/wu-dexin", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2026-03-23", "reported_date": "2026-03-23", "published_at": "2026-03-23T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Wu Dexin, a Chinese materials scientist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, died on March 23, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Laoting County, Hebei, on December 20, 1936, she graduated from the Department of Radio Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University in 1961 and was then assigned to the Institute of Semiconductors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She later transferred in 1986 to the academy’s Microelectronics Center, now the Institute of Microelectronics. Wu specialized in semiconductors and integrated circuits and was also a delegate to the Ninth Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Wu_Dexin.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Dexin" }, { "name": "Agosto Machado American performance artist dies", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/agosto-machado", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [ { "source_type": "news_confirmation", "publisher": "ARTnews", "url": "https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/giorno-poetry-systems-grants-1234783059/", "relationship": "confirms death", "title": "Giorno Poetry Systems Gives Grants to 12 Artists Including Jacolby Satterwhite, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), and the Late Agosto Machado" } ], "death_date": "2026-03-20", "reported_date": "2026-03-20", "published_at": "2026-03-20T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "artists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "China", "Portugal" ], "description": "Agosto Machado, an American performance artist, died on March 20, 2026. He was a performance and visual artist, activist, and archivist who became a major figure in the New York City downtown arts scene beginning in the 1960s. Machado was orphaned as a child and grew up in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. As a child, he began collecting pictures of food from newspapers and magazines, later expanding the collection to include a range of objects. He chose the name Agosto Machado for himself in 1959, taking the surname Machado as a tribute to the Chinese-Portuguese fashion model China Machado.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agosto_Machado" }, { "name": "Yuk L. Yung Chinese-born American planetary scientist dead at age 79", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/yuk-l-yung", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 79, "death_date": "2026-03-15", "reported_date": "2026-03-15", "published_at": "2026-03-15T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "China" ], "description": "Yuk L. Yung, a Chinese-born American planetary scientist and professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology, died on March 15, 2026. Born in Hong Kong on August 23, 1946, he earned a B.S. in engineering physics with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1974. He specialized in the physics and chemistry of planetary atmospheres and worked on NASA projects including Galileo, Cassini-Huygens and the Earth Observing System.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuk_L._Yung" }, { "name": "Donald Liao Hong Kong civil servant and architect dead at age 96", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/donald-liao", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 96, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "Donald Liao, a Hong Kong civil servant and architect, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 96. Taiwanese-born and known also as a landscape architect, he played an instrumental role in the expansion of public housing in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 70s, designing new types of public estates. He served as Secretary for Housing and chairman of the Hong Kong Housing Authority from 1980 to 1985, and later was Secretary for District Administration from 1985 to 1989.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Liao" }, { "name": "Keith Ingham English jazz pianist dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/keith-ingham", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-03-11", "reported_date": "2026-03-11", "published_at": "2026-03-11T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "China", "England" ], "description": "Keith Ingham, an English jazz pianist, died on March 11, 2026. Born in London on February 5, 1938, he was mainly active in swing and Dixieland revival. Largely self-taught, he began playing piano at the age of ten and first performed in nightclubs while on government service in Hong Kong in 1960 to 1962. He later studied at Oxford University, where he specialized in classical Chinese. His professional gigs began in 1964, and over the following decade he played with Sandy Brown, Bruce Turner and Wally Fawkes. He later worked with Bob Wilber, Bud Freeman, Benny Goodman, Susannah McCorkle, Maxine Sullivan, Marty Grosz and Harry Allen.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ingham" }, { "name": "Wang Jinshan Chinese politician dead at age 81", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/wang-jinshan", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 81, "death_date": "2026-03-10", "reported_date": "2026-03-10", "published_at": "2026-03-10T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Wang Jinshan, a Chinese politician who served as governor of Anhui province and later as the province’s party secretary, died on March 10, 2026. He was 81. Wang served as governor from 2003 to 2007 and as party secretary, the top political post in the province, from 2007 to 2010. A native of Gongzhuling in Jilin province, he graduated from Siping Normal School in Siping City.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Jinshan" }, { "name": "Song Ping Chinese politician dead at age 108", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/song-ping", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 108, "death_date": "2026-03-04", "reported_date": "2026-03-04", "published_at": "2026-03-04T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Song Ping, a Chinese politician and Communist revolutionary, died on March 4, 2026. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and was considered the last living member of the second generation of CCP leadership. Born on April 24, 1917, in Ju County, Shandong, he entered school at age nine and later studied at Peking University and Tsinghua University. During his time at Tsinghua, he took part in the December 9th Movement and joined a CCP-led patriotic student organization in 1936.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Song_Ping.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Ping" }, { "name": "Gao Mingxuan", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gao-mingxuan", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 97, "death_date": "2026-03-01", "reported_date": "2026-03-01", "published_at": "2026-03-01T03:05:02+01:00", "occupation": [ "lawyers" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Chinese jurist", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Mingxuan" }, { "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": "Lee Yi-ting Taiwanese politician dead at age 71", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/lee-yi-ting", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 71, "death_date": "2026-02-20", "reported_date": "2026-02-20", "published_at": "2026-02-20T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "Lee Yi-ting, a Taiwanese politician, died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 71. Born in 1954 or 1955, he was raised in Houlong and attended National Taichung University of Science and Technology. Lee led several local agricultural organizations and worked for the Houlong Township Office before seeking election to the Legislative Yuan.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Yi-ting" }, { "name": "King Liu Founder and Chairman of Giant Bicycles dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/king-liu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-02-16", "reported_date": "2026-02-16", "published_at": "2026-02-16T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "founder and chairman of giant bicycles" ], "nationality": [ "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "King Liu, the Taiwanese businessman who founded Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd., died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in central Taiwan on July 2, 1934, Liu worked for his father’s trading and food manufacturing business before investing in logistics and aquaculture, including trucking, importing fish feed, and eel farming. After a series of failures, he founded Giant in 1972. He was not a cyclist before starting the company, but later rode bicycles to work in Giant’s early years. In 2007, at age 73, he rode around Taiwan, and at 75 he rode from Beijing to Shanghai.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Liu" }, { "name": "Alfred Chen Taiwanese politician dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/alfred-chen", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-02-12", "reported_date": "2026-02-12", "published_at": "2026-02-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "Alfred Chen, a Taiwanese business executive and politician, died on February 12, 2026, at the age of 88. Also known as Chen Fei-lung, he was born on October 2, 1937, in Hong Kong and was raised in Shanghai until he completed sixth grade. He graduated from Tamkang University with a bachelor’s degree in foreign languages and later earned a Master of Public Administration from the University of San Francisco. Chen became board director of Namchow Group after the death of its founder, Chen Rong-gong, in 1974.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Alfred_Chen.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Chen" }, { "name": "Wai Kee-shun Hong Kong newspaper proprietor dead at age 92", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/wai-kee-shun", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 92, "death_date": "2026-02-11", "reported_date": "2026-02-11", "published_at": "2026-02-11T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Wai Kee-shun, a Hong Kong newspaper proprietor, businessman, publisher and sports commentator, died on February 11, 2026. Born on March 8, 1933, he was educated at New Method College and later studied in the United States before returning to Hong Kong in 1956. He helped his brother establish Tin Tin Daily News and served as its president from 1960 to 1977. Wai was also a long-time sports commentator for TVB and Cable TV, covering boxing and other sports, and held leadership roles in several sports associations in the 1960s and 1970s.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wai_Kee-shun" }, { "name": "Chen Bangzhu Chinese politician, governor of Hunan and chairman of the Committee of Population, Resources and Environment dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/chen-bangzhu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-02-08", "reported_date": "2026-02-08", "published_at": "2026-02-08T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Chen Bangzhu, a Chinese politician who served as governor of Hunan from 1989 to 1994 and as chairman of the Committee of Population, Resources and Environment from 2000 to 2008, died on February 8, 2026, at age 91. Born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, in September 1934, he graduated from Chongqing Jianzhu University in 1954 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in October 1975. He also served as mayor of Yueyang, minister of Internal Trade from 1995 to 1998, and deputy director of the State Economic and Trade Commission in 1998.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Bangzhu" }, { "name": "Shao Yu-ming Historian dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/shao-yu-ming", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-02-07", "reported_date": "2026-02-07", "published_at": "2026-02-07T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "historian", "politicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "Shao Yu-ming, a Taiwanese politician, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 87. Born on November 3, 1938, in Binjiang Province in what was then Manchukuo, he moved to Taiwan in 1948 and later studied at National Chengchi University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and the University of Chicago. He served as director-general of the Government Information Office from 1987 to 1991.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/02/Shao_Yu-ming.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shao_Yu-ming" }, { "name": "Marie Woo Ceramicist dead at age 97", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/marie-woo", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 97, "death_date": "2026-02-04", "reported_date": "2026-02-04", "published_at": "2026-02-04T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "ceramicist", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "China" ], "description": "Marie Woo, a Chinese-American ceramicist and educator, died on February 4, 2026, at age 97. Born in Seattle, Washington, on April 3, 1928, to Southern Chinese parents, she earned a bachelor’s degree in fine art from the University of Washington in 1954 and a master’s degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1956. There, she studied under Maija Grotell and became proficient in clay. After what she described as a transformative graduate program, Woo spent part of the 1960s in Southeast Asia and later based her postgraduate work primarily in and around Bizen, Japan, where she studied ancient clay-working methods and local unglazed pottery traditions.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Woo" }, { "name": "Peng Qingyi", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/peng-qingyi", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 94, "death_date": "2026-02-03", "reported_date": "2026-02-03", "published_at": "2026-02-03T13:00:04+01:00", "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Chinese dancer", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Qingyi" }, { "name": "Wei Wenbin", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/wei-wenbin", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 76, "death_date": "2026-02-03", "reported_date": "2026-02-03", "published_at": "2026-02-03T12:50:04+01:00", "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Chinese media figure", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Wenbin" }, { "name": "Yuan Wei-jen Taiwanese singer-songwriter dead at age 57", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/yuan-wei-jen", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 57, "death_date": "2026-02-02", "reported_date": "2026-02-02", "published_at": "2026-02-02T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "Yuan Wei-jen, a Taiwanese singer-songwriter and music producer, died on February 2, 2026. Born on June 24, 1968, he rose to fame in 1991 as part of the duo Fanren with Mo Fan, winning the Golden Melody Award for Best Vocal Group twice. He later worked mainly as a producer and became a significant figure in the Mandopop industry. Among his credits were helping establish Na Ying as a major pop singer with hits including “Conquer,” “Just a Dream,” and “Awaken,” and composing the Mandarin version of “Stubborn” for Faye Wong.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Wei-jen" }, { "name": "Li Wei Chinese computer scientist dead at age 82", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/li-wei-computer-scientist", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 82, "death_date": "2026-01-25", "reported_date": "2026-01-25", "published_at": "2026-01-25T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Li Wei, a Chinese computer scientist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, died on January 25, 2026. Born in Peking on June 8, 1943, he graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics at Peking University in 1966. He later earned a PhD in computer science from the University of Edinburgh in 1983, supervised by Gordon Plotkin. Li was funded as a senior programmer at Newcastle University and the University of Edinburgh, was a visiting professor at Saarland University, and became president of Beihang University in 2002. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wei_(computer_scientist)" }, { "name": "Liao Xilong", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/liao-xilong", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-01-25", "reported_date": "2026-01-25", "published_at": "2026-01-25T09:55:03+01:00", "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Chinese general", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liao_Xilong" }, { "name": "Liang Dongcai", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/liang-dongcai", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 93, "death_date": "2026-01-19", "reported_date": "2026-01-19", "published_at": "2026-01-19T12:35:02+01:00", "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Chinese molecular biophysicist", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang_Dongcai" }, { "name": "Gao Dezhan", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gao-dezhan", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 93, "death_date": "2026-01-19", "reported_date": "2026-01-19", "published_at": "2026-01-19T06:25:04+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Chinese politician", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Dezhan" }, { "name": "Wei Fulin", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/wei-fulin", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-01-17", "reported_date": "2026-01-17", "published_at": "2026-01-17T12:00:03+01:00", "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Chinese army general", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Fulin" }, { "name": "Nie Weiping", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/nie-weiping", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 73, "death_date": "2026-01-15", "reported_date": "2026-01-15", "published_at": "2026-01-15T02:50:02+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Chinese Go player", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nie_Weiping" }, { "name": "Lu Kejian Chinese politician, deputy dead at age 93", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/lu-kejian", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 93, "death_date": "2026-01-12", "reported_date": "2026-01-12", "published_at": "2026-01-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "China" ], "description": "Lu Kejian, a Chinese politician and deputy, died on January 12, 2026. 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