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He made 52 first-class appearances for Oxford University, the joint-highest total for the university, and took nearly 150 wickets as an off break bowler. Piachaud also played county cricket for Hampshire and first-class cricket for Ceylon.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Piachaud" }, { "name": "Lionel Fernando Sri Lankan-born Australian cricketer dead at age 86", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/lionel-fernando-cricketer", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 86, "death_date": "2026-03-31", "reported_date": "2026-03-31", "published_at": "2026-03-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Australia", "Britain", "Sri Lanka" ], "description": "Lionel Fernando, a Sri Lankan-born Australian cricketer, died on March 31, 2026, aged 86. Born in Negombo, British Ceylon, in 1939, he played for Ceylon from 1964 to 1971 as a batsman and slip fielder. He made his first-class debut for a Ceylon Board President's XI against a Pakistan team in 1964-65. In 1965-66, he top-scored with 40 in a one-day match for Ceylon against the touring MCC. He also toured Pakistan with the Ceylon team in 1966-67 and played in one of the unofficial Tests.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Fernando_(cricketer)" }, { "name": "Rezvi Sheriff Co-founder of Sri Lanka’s first kidney transplant programme and dialysis unit, Medical research dead at age 77", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/rezvi-sheriff", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 77, "death_date": "2026-03-30", "reported_date": "2026-03-30", "published_at": "2026-03-30T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "co-founder of sri lanka's first kidney transplant programme and dialysis unit", "medical research", "doctors", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Sri Lanka" ], "description": "Rezvi Sheriff, a Sri Lankan nephrologist and physician, died on March 30, 2026. 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He was known as the first nephrologist in Sri Lanka and as a co-founder of the country’s first kidney transplant programme and dialysis unit.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rezvi_Sheriff" }, { "name": "Aloysius Pieris Sri Lankan Jesuit priest and theologian dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/aloysius-pieris", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-03-21", "reported_date": "2026-03-21", "published_at": "2026-03-21T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Britain", "Sri Lanka" ], "description": "Aloysius Pieris, a Sri Lankan Jesuit priest and theologian, died on March 21, 2026. He was born in Ampitiya, British Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka, on April 9, 1934, and studied at St. Aloysius' College, Galle. He took his Jesuit vows in 1953 and later earned theological degrees from Sacred Heart College in Shembaganur, India, the Pontifical Theological Faculty in Naples, and Tilburg University. Pieris was the founding director of the Tulana Research Centre for Encounter and Dialogue and was a Buddhist scholar and fluent in more than twenty languages.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_Pieris" }, { "name": "Tissa Vitharana Physician dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tissa-vitharana", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-02-13", "reported_date": "2026-02-13", "published_at": "2026-02-13T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "physician", "doctors", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Sri Lanka" ], "description": "Tissa Vitharana, a Sri Lankan physician and politician, died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 91. Known formally as Vidya Jyothi Upali Tissa Vitharana, he served as a Member of Parliament and a cabinet minister, led the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, and was Governor of North Central Province from 2019 to 2020. Born in Nuwara Eliya on August 30, 1934, he studied at Trinity College, Kandy, Ananda College, Colombo, and the University of Ceylon’s medical faculty in Colombo, graduating with an MBBS degree in 1959.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissa_Vitharana" }, { "name": "Nihal Fernando Sri Lankan actor dead at age 71", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/nihal-fernando", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 71, "death_date": "2025-12-04", "reported_date": "2025-12-04", "published_at": "2025-12-04T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Sri Lanka" ], "description": "Nihal Fernando, a Sri Lankan actor known for Kalpanthe Sihinayak, Maya 3D and Aloko Udapadi, died on December 4, 2025, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, aged 71. Born in Colombo on 29 July 1954, he worked in cinema, television and theatre over a career spanning more than four decades. He also served as a teledrama director and scriptwriter, as well as a stage playwright, theatre director and filmmaker. Fernando studied at Lumbini College, Colombo. 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