Obituary: Klaus-Michael Kühne, dead at age 89
Klaus-Michael Kühne, the German transport and logistics magnate and chairman of Kuehne + Nagel, died on August 24, 2026, aged 89. The Hamburg-born businessman built his career around the family-linked…
Recent Celebrity Deaths: Last 30 Days
Who died recently? Over 700 obituaries from the last 30 days — notable and famous deaths updated daily.
Giri Dandasena, died aged 76
Giri Dandasena, an Indian writer in the Odia language, died on August 24, 2026, aged 76. A writer, columnist and historian from Odisha, he produced fiction and works on the…
Mitchell Doens dead at age 79
Mitchell Doens, a Panamanian politician, economist and writer, died on August 24, 2026, aged 79. Doens, whose full name was Mitchell Constantino Doens Ambrosio, was born in Colón Province on…
Storm dies at 61
Storm, an American reality television competitor best known for appearing on American Gladiators from 1991 to 1993, died on August 24, 2026, aged 61. He was part of the syndicated…
Philippe Bouvard dies at 96
Philippe Bouvard, the French broadcaster best known for Les Grosses Têtes and Le Petit Théâtre de Bouvard, died on August 24, 2026, aged 96. Born in Coulommiers in 1929, he…
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook, died aged 93
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook, a British zoologist, died on August 24, 2026, aged 93. Also known as Lord Medway, he was active from 1956 in ornithology, mammalogy and…
Mieczysław Rutyna obituary: died at age 95
Mieczysław Rutyna, a Polish Olympic racewalker, died on August 24, 2026, aged 95. Born on May 29, 1931, in Wielowieś, he represented Poland in race walking at the 1964 Summer…
Hideki Shirakawa obituary: died at age 90
Hideki Shirakawa, the Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize laureate whose work on conductive polymers helped reshape materials science, died on August 24, 2026, aged 90. Born in Tokyo on August…
Jaye P. Morgan died at age 94
Jaye P. Morgan, the American singer and actress known for "That's All I Want from You" and for appearing in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, died on August…
Abderrahmane Tlili died at age 83
Abderrahmane Tlili, a Tunisian politician and founder of the Democratic Unionist Party, died on August 23, 2026, at the age of 83. According to Arabic-language biographical sources, he served as…
Jay Maisel dies at age 95
Jay Maisel, an American photographer, died on August 23, 2026, aged 95. Born in Brooklyn on January 18, 1931, he studied at Abraham Lincoln High School under Leon Friend before…
Tofig Bakikhanov dies at 95
Tofig Bakikhanov, the Azerbaijani composer and music educator, died on August 23, 2026, at age 95. Born Tofig Ahmed-agha oglu Bakikhanov in Baku on December 8, 1930, he came from…
Stanley Ritchie death at age 91
Stanley Ritchie, an Australian violinist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Violin at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, died on August 23, 2026, aged 91. A specialist in historical…
Alphonse Djédjé Mady has died at age 81
Alphonse Djédjé Mady, an Ivorian politician and doctor, died on August 23, 2026, aged 81. Born in Gazehio on January 1, 1945, he studied medicine and worked as a physician…
Dave Kragthorpe death at age 93
Dave Kragthorpe, an American football player and coach, died on August 23, 2026, aged 93. He served as head football coach at South Dakota State University in 1969, at Idaho…
Obituary: Fabrizio Plessi, dead at age 86
Fabrizio Plessi, the Italian installation artist known for work centered on water and other elemental materials, died on August 23, 2026, aged 86. Born in Reggio Emilia on April 3,…
Michael Westmore II dead, Michael Westmore II, American television editor
Michael Westmore II, an American film and television editor, died on August 23, 2026. He worked as an editor on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star…
Boris Ebzeyev dies at age 76
Boris Ebzeyev, a Russian politician and jurist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 76. Born Boris Safarovich Ebzeyev, he served as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Russia from…
Abderrahmane Tlili died at age 83
Abderrahmane Tlili, a Tunisian businessman and politician, died on August 23, 2026, aged 83. Born in Gafsa on March 30, 1943, he was active in both business and public life.…
Orit Galili-Zucker passes away at age 70
Orit Galili-Zucker, an Israeli journalist and political consultant, died on August 23, 2026, at age 70. She headed the political communications team for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and also served…
Death of James Lew at age 73
James Lew, an American stuntman and actor, died on August 23, 2026, aged 73. Born James Jene Fae Lew in Escalon, California, he built a long career in film and…
Death of Jimmy Lynam at age 100
Jimmy Lynam, the Irish hurler who played for Glen Rovers and the Cork senior hurling team, died on August 23, 2026, aged 100. Also known as James Lynam, he was…
Eileen Fenton dies at 98
Eileen Fenton, the British swimmer who became the first woman to swim the English Channel, died on August 23, 2026, aged 98. Born in June 1928, she completed the crossing…
Sarjit Singh Kundan dies at 63
Sarjit Singh Kundan, a Malaysian Olympic field hockey player and coach, died on August 23, 2026, aged 63. Born on November 24, 1962, in Malaysia, he represented his country at…
Fernando Caruncho obituary: died at age 68
Fernando Caruncho, the Spanish landscape designer, died on August 23, 2026, aged 68. Born in Madrid in 1958, he worked as a landscape architect and remained active in the field…
Death of Roy Drinkard at age 106
Roy Drinkard, an American businessman and developer, died on August 23, 2026, aged 106. He lived in Cullman, Alabama, and served as president and CEO of Drinkard Development, Inc., which…
Death of Imran Ullah Khan at age 93
Imran Ullah Khan, a Pakistani army general and former governor of Balochistan, died on August 23, 2026, aged 93. A retired Pakistan Army general, he served as governor of Balochistan…
René Malo, died aged 84
René Malo, a Canadian film producer and Knight of the National Order of Quebec, died on August 23, 2026, at age 84. Born in Joliette, Quebec, he was most closely…
Gerhard Schwedes passed away at age 88
Gerhard Schwedes, an American football player who played for the New York Titans and Boston Patriots, died on August 23, 2026, aged 88. Born in Freiburg im Breisgau on April…
Death of Alcide Cerato at age 87
Alcide Cerato, an Italian racing cyclist who competed professionally in road racing, died on August 23, 2026, aged 87. Born in Legnaro in 1939, he rode as a professional from…
Ennio Mattarelli dead at age 98
Ennio Mattarelli, the Italian clay shooter who won Olympic gold in trap shooting, died on August 23, 2026, aged 98. Born in Bologna on August 5, 1928, he became an…
barbara findlay dies at age 77
Barbara findlay, a Canadian lawyer and LGBT rights activist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 77. Over more than four decades, she used law, advocacy, education and community organizing to…
Januário Machaze Nhangumbe death at age 92
Januário Machaze Nhangumbe, a Mozambican Roman Catholic prelate and bishop of Pemba, died on August 23, 2026, aged 92. He was born in Panda, in what was then Portuguese Mozambique,…
Noël Godin dies at age 80
Noël Godin, the Belgian writer, critic and actor known as an anarchist prankster and pie-thrower, died on August 23, 2026, aged 80. Born in Liège on September 13, 1945, he…
Nakayama Festa, died aged 20
Nakayama Festa, a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse, died on August 23, 2026, aged 20. Born in Mukawa on April 5, 2006, the Japanese-bred colt became a champion on the track and…
Benjamin M. Rosen dead at age 93
Benjamin M. Rosen, the American businessman who chaired Compaq and co-founded Sevin Rosen Funds, died on August 23, 2026, aged 93. Known as Ben Rosen, he also served as Compaq’s…
Death of Svein Mønnesland at age 82
Svein Mønnesland, a Norwegian Slavist and professor, died on August 23, 2026, aged 82. Born in Skien on 26 October 1943, he taught Slavic languages at the University of Oslo…
Liu I-chou dead at age 78
Liu I-chou, the Taiwanese civil servant who served as chairman of the Central Election Commission, died on August 23, 2026, aged 78. A lawyer and political scientist, he was vice…
Bun’yō Ishikawa dies at age 88
Bun'yō Ishikawa, the Japanese photographer and photojournalist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 88. Born in Chiba Prefecture on March 10, 1938, he covered the Vietnam War while stationed in…
Nick Bougas obituary: died at age 71
Nick Bougas, an American film director and illustrator, died on August 23, 2026, aged 71. Born Nicholas Bougas in Savannah, Georgia, he worked across film, illustration, record production, and screenwriting…
Sean Grayson, died aged 32
Sean Grayson, an American convicted murderer, died on August 23, 2026, at age 32. He had been convicted in connection with the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old unarmed…
Bruce Rogers has died at age 93
Bruce Rogers, the Canadian broadcast journalist who was the original anchor of The World at Six and the first host of Metro Morning, died on August 22, 2026, aged 93.…
Shelley Fabares death at age 82
Shelley Fabares, the American actress known for her roles on The Donna Reed Show, One Day at a Time and Coach, died on August 22, 2026, aged 82. Born Michele…
Slava Veder passed away at age 99
Slava Veder, the American photojournalist best known for the Associated Press image "Burst of Joy," died on August 22, 2026, aged 99. Veder, who was born in Berkeley, California, on…
Marion Blackwell dies at 98
Marion Blackwell, an Australian landscape architect and ecologist, died on August 22, 2026, aged 98. Born Marion Isabel Blackwell on April 3, 1928, in Manilla, New South Wales, she grew…
Death of Philippe Puaud at age 89
Philippe Puaud, a French politician and former deputy in the National Assembly, died on August 22, 2026, aged 89. Born on August 26, 1936, in Sainte-Hermine, France, he was a…
John Anson dies at 77
John Anson, a Canadian professional wrestler, died on August 22, 2026, aged 77. Born in Vancouver in 1949, he began his career in 1971 and wrestled under the ring name…
Sefou Fagbohoun death at age 80
Sefou Fagbohoun, a Beninese businessman and former member of Benin’s National Assembly, died on August 22, 2026, aged 80. He was also president of the African Movement for Development and…
Bill Ayres passes away at age 85
Bill Ayres, an American talk radio host and co-founder of WhyHunger, died on August 22, 2026, aged 85. Born on January 14, 1941, Ayres became a Roman Catholic priest for…
Hans Maurer death at age 93
Hans Maurer, a German politician and teacher who served in the Landtag of Bavaria from 1970 to 1998, died on August 22, 2026, aged 93. A member of the Christian…
Janie Bradford obituary: died at age 87
Janie Bradford, the American songwriter whose work was closely associated with Motown, died on August 22, 2026, aged 87. Born in Charleston, Missouri, on June 2, 1939, she began her…
Alejandro Larrea, died aged 59
Alejandro Larrea, the Uruguayan football player and manager, died on August 22, 2026, aged 59. A forward born in Montevideo on December 5, 1966, Larrea built a career in South…
Taiwo Hassan dies at age 66
Taiwo Hassan, the Nigerian actor, producer, director and screenwriter known as Ogogo, died on August 22, 2026, aged 66. Born on October 31, 1959, in Ilaro, Ogun State, he built…
Quevin Castro has died at age 25
Quevin Castro, a Portuguese footballer, died on August 22, 2026, aged 25. Known in full as Quévin Moisés Cachicote da Rocha de Castro, he was born in Portugal on August…
Kiattichai Chaichaowarat obituary: died at age 87
Kiattichai Chaichaowarat, a Thai politician who served as president of the Office of the Prime Minister, died on August 22, 2026, aged 87. He represented Udon Thani Province in the…
Sabirzhan Ruziyev death at age 73
Sabirzhan Ruziyev, a Kyrgyz fencer and Olympic silver medallist, died on August 22, 2026, aged 73. Born in Belovodskoye in the Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union, he competed for the Soviet…
Kiattichai Chaichaowarat obituary: died at age 87
Kiattichai Chaichaowarat, a Thai politician and former Minister to the Office of the Prime Minister, died on August 22, 2026, aged 87. He served in senior government posts including minister…
Bobby Ross, died aged 84
Bobby Ross, the Scottish football player and coach who made 323 Football League appearances for Brentford, died on August 22, 2026, aged 84. Born Robert Herdman Ross in Edinburgh on…
Manoel Dias passed away at age 88
Manoel Dias, a Brazilian politician and minister of labour, died on August 22, 2026, aged 88. Born in Criciúma, Santa Catarina, on August 13, 1938, he trained as a lawyer…
Myeongjin passes away at age 75
Myeongjin, a South Korean Buddhist monk, died on August 22, 2026, aged 75. Known by the dharma name Myeongjin and born Han Gi-jung, he was born in Dangjin, South Chungcheong…
Obituary: Sir Andrew Nicol, dead at age 75
Sir Andrew Nicol, the British judge who served as a justice of the High Court from 2009 to 2021, died on August 22, 2026, aged 75. Born Sir Andrew George…
Kaiser has died at age 65
Kaiser, the Burmese singer-songwriter also known as Kaizar, died on August 22, 2026, aged 65. A Rakhine artist whose career began in 1978, he was widely heard in Myanmar from…
Max Trenorden, died aged 78
Max Trenorden, an Australian politician who served in both houses of the Western Australian Parliament, died on August 22, 2026, aged 78. Born Maxwell Wayne Trenorden on August 1, 1948,…
Siim Kallas passed away at age 77
Siim Kallas, the Estonian politician who served as prime minister from 2002 to 2003 and as a European Commissioner from 2004 to 2014, died on August 22, 2026, aged 77.…
Charlie St. Clair passed away at age 74
Charlie St. Clair, an American politician and Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, died on August 22, 2026, aged 74. He represented the Belknap 5th district until…
Latimore obituary: died at age 86
Latimore, the American soul singer best known for "Let's Straighten It Out," died on August 22, 2026, aged 86. Born Benjamin William Lattimore in Charleston, Tennessee, he worked as a…
Matteo Fiorini, died aged 48
Matteo Fiorini, a Sammarinese politician and former Captain Regent of San Marino, died on August 21, 2026, aged 48. Born in the City of San Marino on February 10, 1978,…
Jean Giard death at age 99
Jean Giard, a French politician, died on August 21, 2026, aged 99. Born in Paris on September 30, 1926, he served as a Communist member of the National Assembly from…
V. C. Manning passes away at age 78
V. C. Manning, an American politician and educator, died on August 21, 2026, at age 78. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Mississippi State Senate from…
Dave Morice, died aged 79
Dave Morice, an American poet, died on August 21, 2026, aged 79. Born in St. Louis on September 10, 1946, he also worked as a writer, visual artist, performance artist…
Zolani Tete passed away at age 38
Zolani Tete, the South African boxer, died on August 21, 2026, at age 38. Born in Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape, he rose to become a two-weight world champion, holding…
Andrée Ehresmann passes away at age 91
Andrée Ehresmann, a French mathematician known for her work in category theory, died on August 21, 2026, aged 91. Born Andrée Bastiani in Nice, France, she studied at the University…
Ira A. Fulton has died at age 94
Ira A. Fulton, an American philanthropist and businessman, died on August 21, 2026, aged 94. A Tempe, Arizona native, Fulton founded Fulton Homes and became a major benefactor to educational…
Herbert Dixon dies at 106
Herbert Dixon, an American golfer who won the National Negro Open in 1951 and played on the African American circuit during segregation, died on August 21, 2026, aged 106. Dixon…
Paul Gauselmann passed away at age 91
Paul Gauselmann, the German businessman who founded and led the Gauselmann group, died on August 21, 2026, aged 91. Born on August 26, 1934, in Steinfurt, he built the company…
Syarhei Kastsyan passed away at age 85
Syarhei Kastsyan, a Belarusian politician and academic who served as a member of the Supreme Council from 1996 to 2001, died on August 21, 2026, aged 85. Born in Usochi…
Death of Roger McKenzie at age 75
Roger McKenzie, an American comic book writer, died on August 21, 2026, aged 75, of heart failure and kidney disease. He was best known for his work on Daredevil with…
Steve Edmonds died at age 72
Steve Edmonds, the Australian rugby league player known as “Rock,” died on August 21, 2026, aged 72. Born in Sydney on March 4, 1954, he played in the 1970s and…
Gérard Stenger dies at age 94
Gérard Stenger, the French ultrarunner and co-founder of the International Association of Ultrarunners, died on August 21, 2026, aged 94. Born on March 7, 1932, he competed in races ranging…
Pranab Patnaik death at age 88
Pranab Patnaik, an Indian playback singer and one of the pioneering voices of Odia cinema, died on August 21, 2026, aged 88. Born on January 20, 1938, in Buxi Bazaar,…
Zdeněk Šesták dead at age 100
Zdeněk Šesták, the Czech composer known for symphonic, chamber and choral works, died on August 21, 2026, aged 100. Born in Cítoliby near Louny on December 10, 1925, he came…
Frans Verbeeck death at age 85
Frans Verbeeck, the Belgian road bicycle racer, died on August 21, 2026, aged 85. Born in Langdorp on June 13, 1941, he went on to build a career in cycling…
Jacques Van Gompel passes away at age 79
Jacques Van Gompel, the Belgian politician who served as mayor of Charleroi from 2000 to 2006, died on August 21, 2026, aged 79. Born in Gilly on June 12, 1947,…
Death of Sowcar Janaki at age 94
Sowcar Janaki, the Indian actress known for films including Iru Kodugal, Puthiya Paravai and Kaviya Thalaivi, died on August 21, 2026, aged 94. Born Sankaramanchi Janaki on December 12, 1931,…
Jesús Martínez Álvarez obituary: died at age 81
Jesús Martínez Álvarez, a Mexican politician, died on August 21, 2026, aged 81. Born in Oaxaca de Juárez on September 18, 1944, he was affiliated with the Citizens' Movement after…
Imam Tantowi dead at age 80
Imam Tantowi, an Indonesian film director and screenwriter, died on August 21, 2026, aged 80. Born in Tegal on August 13, 1946, he began his career in stage directing before…
Yao Eng-chi death at age 91
Yao Eng-chi, a Taiwanese politician who served as a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1981 to 2005 and as vice president from 1999 to 2002, died on August 21,…
Jerome Smith death at age 87
Jerome Smith, an American civil rights activist, died on August 21, 2026, aged 87. Nicknamed "Big Duck," Smith was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he later died, and became…
José Maria Júnior dies at 83
José Maria Júnior, a Portuguese footballer who played as a midfielder, died on August 21, 2026, aged 83. Born in Portugal on June 7, 1943, he built his career in…
Michael Wright dies at 70
Michael Wright, an American film and television actor known for The Five Heartbeats, Streamers and Sugar Hill, died on August 21, 2026, aged 70. Born in New York City, he…
Sidney A. Bludman obituary: died at age 99
Sidney A. Bludman, an American physicist, died on August 21, 2026, aged 99. Born Sidney Arnold Bludman in New York, he studied at the Bronx High School of Science, where…
Nancy Kassebaum dies at age 94
Nancy Kassebaum, the American politician who served in the U.S. Senate from 1978 to 1997, died on August 21, 2026, aged 94. A Kansas Republican, she was born Nancy Josephine…
Caroline Langford dies at age 68
Caroline Langford, an Israeli actress, died on August 21, 2026, aged 68. Hebrew sources identified her as an Israeli performer and said she was born on February 1, 1958. The…
Anny Schlemm death at age 97
Anny Schlemm, the German opera singer, died on August 21, 2026, aged 97. Born in Neu-Isenburg on February 22, 1929, she studied in Berlin with Erna Westenberger and made her…
Ariel Fenster dies at age 83
Ariel Fenster, a French-born Canadian chemist and science educator, died on August 20, 2026, aged 83. Born in Bergerac, France, he became a founding member of McGill University’s Office for…
Fikile Mokgohloa dead at age 65
Fikile Mokgohloa, a South African jurist and judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal, died on August 20, 2026, aged 65. Born in Pretoria on June 1, 1961, she began…
Carlos Reyes López dies at 69
Carlos Reyes López, a Mexican politician and former deputy, died on August 20, 2026, aged 69. Born on 24 February 1957 in José Mariano Jiménez, he was known as Carlos…
Tomislav Simović death at age 91
Tomislav Simović, the Serbian general and retired Yugoslav People’s Army lieutenant colonel general, died on August 20, 2026, aged 91. Born in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1935, he spent…
John Iliffe dies at age 87
John Iliffe, a historian of Africa, died on August 20, 2026, aged 87. A British scholar whose work focused especially on the history of Tanzania, he was educated at Framlingham…