Death of John M. Geddes at age 74
John M. Geddes, an American journalist and editor at The New York Times, died of lung disease on October 20, 2026, aged 74. Born in Providence, Geddes graduated from the…
Recent Celebrity Deaths: Last 30 Days
Who died recently? Over 700 obituaries from the last 30 days — notable and famous deaths updated daily.
Obituary: Julio Dalmao, dead at age 86
Julio Dalmao, a Uruguayan footballer who played for Nacional, Vélez Sarsfield and Uruguay’s national team, died October 20, 2026, aged 86. Born in Montevideo on March 1, 1940, he made…
Brother Valentino passed away at age 85
Brother Valentino, the Trinidadian calypsonian and soca musician known offstage as Emrold Anthony Philip, died October 20, 2026, aged 85. Born in Cherry Hill, Grenada, on July 7, 1941, he…
Alex Sanders died at age 88
Alexander Mullings Sanders Jr., an American jurist, politician and academic administrator, died October 20, 2026, aged 88. Born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, he served in the U.S. Army…
Michael Joseph Melloy death at age 78
Michael Joseph Melloy, an American jurist who served as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, died of cancer on October 20, 2026, aged 78.…
Manuel Otto obituary: died at age 30
Manuel Otto, a German game developer known for Stick Run, died by suicide on October 20, 2026, aged 30. He developed Stick Run, a free-to-play jump-and-run game that became available…
Paul Barril has died at age 80
Paul Barril, a French military officer and former National Gendarmerie officer, died on October 20, 2026, aged 80. Born on April 13, 1946, in Vinay, he studied at the Académie…
Manuel Otto obituary: died at age 30
Manuel Otto, a German video game developer who created Stick Run, died by suicide on October 20, 2026, aged 30. Born on July 18, 1996, Otto was a 14-year-old secondary-school…
Sir Philip Otton, died aged 93
Sir Philip Otton, the British judge who served as a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1995 to 2001, died October 20, 2026, aged 93. Born on 28 May 1933, he…
Mehdi Khanbaba Tehrani obituary: died at age 92
Mehdi Khanbaba Tehrani, an Iranian politician, died on October 20, 2026, aged 92. A political and media activist who lived in Europe, Tehrani became involved in politics during his youth.…
Sandy Frank dies at age 97
Sandy Frank, an American television producer and founder of Sandy Frank Entertainment, died October 20, 2026, aged 97. Born Sundel Frank on July 11, 1929, in Mount Kisco, New York,…
Eva Ngigi–Sarwari passed away at age 45
Eva Ngigi–Sarwari, a Kenyan financial services executive, died October 20, 2026, aged 45. Born in Kenya in 1981, she was born Eva Ngigi. She graduated from Moi University in 2004…
Allen Bailey death at age 37
Allen Bailey, an American football player who played defensive end in the NFL, died October 20, 2026, aged 37. Born March 25, 1989, on Sapelo Island, Georgia, he attended McIntosh…
Early Voting dies at age 7
Early Voting, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, died of colic on October 20, 2026, aged 7. Born on March 7, 2019, and bred in Kentucky by Three Chimneys Farm, he was…
Antonio Grimau death at age 82
Antonio Grimau, an Argentinian actor whose career spanned film, theater and television, died October 20, 2026, aged 82. Born Antonio Rebolini in Lanús, Buenos Aires province, on March 10, 1944,…
Kalju Kruusa dies at 53
Kalju Kruusa, the Estonian poet, editor and translator, died October 20, 2026, aged 53. Born Jaanus Valk in Tallinn on October 10, 1973, he became known by the name Kalju…
Rajaa Mohammed has died at age 64
Rajaa Mohammed, the Kuwaiti actress and singer, died on October 20, 2026, aged 64. Born Raja Mohammed Saleem on October 4, 1962, she began her artistic career in 1978, at…
Sergey Kucherov obituary: died at age 46
Sergey Kucherov, a Russian track cyclist who competed for his country in the men’s team sprint at two Summer Olympics, died on October 20, 2026, aged 46. Born in Tula…
Death of Georgios Liveris at age 94
Georgios Liveris, a Greek sports shooter who competed in two rifle events at the 1960 Summer Olympics, died in Athens on October 20, 2026, aged 94. Born in Athens on…
Noah Musingku, died aged 61
Noah Musingku, a Papuan con artist and fugitive, died October 20, 2026, aged 61. Born in 1964 in Tonu on Bougainville Island, he became known for U-Vistract, a Ponzi scheme…
Obituary: Oleg Garin, dead at age 60
Oleg Garin, the Russian footballer and manager associated with Okean Nakhodka and Lokomotiv Moscow as a player and Dynamo Bryansk as a manager, died October 20, 2026, aged 60. Born…
Obituary: Barry Swallow, dead at age 84
Ernest Barry Swallow, the English former professional footballer known as Barry Swallow, died on October 20, 2026, aged 84. Born in Arksey, Doncaster, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on…
Death of Isaak Sigal at age 99
Isaak Sigal, a Ukrainian scientist, died October 20, 2026, aged 99. Born in Vinnytsia on March 31, 1927, he studied at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and pursued research on…
Gordon Cheng, died aged 64
Gordon Cheng, an Australian Christian writer and journalist, died October 20, 2026, aged 64. He studied at the University of Sydney and the Australian University of Theology. Of Swedish and…
Harry Tsuchidana has died at age 94
Harry Tsuchidana, an American painter, died October 20, 2026, aged 94. Also known as Harry Suyemi Tsuchidana, he was born in Waipahu, Hawaii, where his parents owned a two-acre farm.…
William Reaves has died at age 77
William Reaves, an American convicted murderer, was executed by lethal injection on October 20, 2026, at age 77. His conviction was connected to the 1986 killing of Richard Raczkoski, a…
Amel Baccouche death at age 77
Amel Baccouche, a Tunisian actress, died on October 20, 2026, aged 77. Born on March 14, 1949, in Bab Souika, a district of Tunis, she grew up in an artistic…
Mr. Whitekeys, died aged 79
Mr. Whitekeys, an American musician also known as W. Keys, died October 19, 2026, aged 79. A musician, recording artist, entrepreneur, writer, media personality and ornithologist in Alaska, he became…
Subagyo Hadi Siswoyo obituary: died at age 80
Subagyo Hadi Siswoyo, an Indonesian Army general, died in Yogyakarta on October 19, 2026, aged 80. Born in Yogyakarta on June 12, 1946, he studied at the Akademi Tentara Nasional…
Hilkka Kinnunen dies at age 101
Hilkka Kinnunen, a Finnish operatic soprano and actress, died October 19, 2026, aged 101. Born Hilkka Terttu Annikki Kinnunen in Viipuri on March 19, 1925, she began theatre studies in…
Death of Andy King at age 78
Andy King, the British Labour politician who represented Rugby and Kenilworth in Parliament from 1997 to 2005, died on October 19, 2026, aged 78. Born on September 14, 1948, he…
Kamaruddin Simanjuntak passed away at age 52
Indonesian lawyer Kamaruddin Simanjuntak, whose full name was Kamaruddin Hendra Simanjuntak, died on October 19, 2026, aged 52. Born on May 21, 1974, he completed secondary school at SMA Negeri…
Coos Huijsen obituary: died at age 87
Coos Huijsen, a Dutch historian, writer and politician who served in the House of Representatives, died October 19, 2026, aged 87. Born Jacobus Huijsen in The Hague on March 20,…
Geoff Thompson has died at age 86
Geoffrey William Fleetwood Thompson, known as Geoff Thompson, a barrister and solicitor and former New Zealand National Party politician, died on October 19, 2026, aged 86. Born in Wellington on…
Florin Cotora death at age 53
Florin Cotora, a Romanian footballer who played as a goalkeeper, died on October 19, 2026, aged 53. Born in Sibiu on December 12, 1972, Cotora built a career in association…
Demetris Kizas died at age 73
Demetris Kizas, a Cypriot footballer who played for Enosis Neon Paralimni, Panathinaikos, Panachaiki and OFI, died on October 19, 2026, aged 73. Born in Paralimni on September 6, 1953, he…
Chuck Amato death at age 80
Chuck Amato, an American college football coach who led NC State and coached at Florida State, died of throat cancer on October 19, 2026, aged 80. Born Charles Michael Amato…
Sir Michael Hobbs has died at age 89
Sir Michael Frederick Hobbs, a British Army officer who rose to major-general and later became a charity director and Governor of the Military Knights of Windsor, died on October 19,…
Carlos Miguel Suárez dead, Carlos Miguel Suárez, Mexican actor and salesman
Carlos Miguel Suárez, the Mexican actor and salesman known professionally as Carlos Miguel, died on October 19, 2026. His full name was Carlos Miguel Suárez Soto. During the 1980s and…
Emmanuel Uduaghan passes away at age 71
Emmanuel Uduaghan, a Nigerian politician and former governor of Delta State, died October 19, 2026, aged 71. A physician by training, he led the state from 2007 to 2015 as…
Yusef Majidzadeh obituary: died at age 90
Yusef Majidzadeh, an Iranian archaeologist, died on October 19, 2026, aged 90. A native of Tabriz, he built his career around the study of Iran’s archaeological past. He directed excavations…
Alexandre Chorin passed away at age 88
Alexandre Chorin, an American mathematician known for work in computational fluid mechanics, turbulence and computational statistical mechanics, died October 19, 2026, aged 88. Born Alexandre Joel Chorin in Warsaw, Poland,…
Frank Goode has died at age 86
Frank Goode, an Australian rules footballer and coach, died October 19, 2026, aged 86. Born on December 19, 1939, he played for North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during…
Ediémou Blin Jacob dies at 80
Ediémou Blin Jacob, an Ivorian pastor and civil servant, died in Abidjan on October 19, 2026, aged 80. Born in Grand-Bassam on November 5, 1945, he attended high school with…
Kenneth Atchity dead at age 82
Kenneth Atchity, an American film producer, died October 19, 2026, aged 82. Born Kenneth John Atchity in Eunice, Louisiana, on January 16, 1944, he worked in film and literary fields…
Tom Daniel dies at age 89
Tom Daniel, an American designer aged 89, died October 19, 2026. Tags Other, 19 October 2026, America, Daniel, Tom, October 19, October 2026
Vladlen Dozortsev dead at age 87
Vladlen Dozortsev, a Russian-Latvian politician who served in Latvia’s legislature, died in Latvia on October 19, 2026, aged 87. Born on July 3, 1939, in Roslavl, Smolensk Oblast, in the…
Vladlens Dozorcevs, died aged 87
Vladlens Dozorcevs, a Russian-Latvian politician, died on October 19, 2026, aged 87. Born on July 3, 1939, in Roslavl, Smolensk Oblast, in the Russian SFSR, he was educated at the…
Michael Brambell dies at 94
Michael Brambell, a British zoologist who directed Chester Zoo, died October 18, 2026, aged 94. Born Michael Rogers Brambell in London on August 2, 1932, he grew up in Bangor,…
Ibrahima Sory Sow passed away at age 85
Ibrahima Sory Sow, a Guinean politician and member of Ghana’s Parliament from 1995 to 2002, died in Dakar on October 18, 2026, aged 85. Born in Conakry on March 13,…
Larry Hibbard dead at age 81
Larry Hibbard, a rancher and Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, died October 18, 2026, aged 81. Born Larry Paul Hibbard on September 14, 1945, in Toronto, Kansas,…
Henry Dougier dies at age 90
Henry Dougier, a French publisher, died October 18, 2026, aged 90. Born on December 27, 1936, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Dougier was associated with two publishing ventures: the magazine Le Management…
Ann Hornaday obituary: died at age 66
Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post’s chief film critic, died October 18, 2026, aged 66. She was an American film critic and journalist whose career included work at national publications and…
Jost Hochuli death at age 93
Jost Hochuli, a Swiss graphic designer known for his book designs, died October 18, 2026, aged 93. Born in St. Gallen on June 8, 1933, he began his training in…
Ronald Lancaster dies at age 95
Ronald Lancaster, the British Anglican clergyman, chemist and businessman who founded Kimbolton Fireworks, died October 18, 2026, aged 95. Born in Huddersfield, he became interested in fireworks after the 1937…
Lua Blanco passed away at age 39
Lua Blanco, a Brazilian actress and singer known for Rebelde and the band Rebeldes, died of cancer on October 18, 2026, aged 39. Born in São Paulo on March 5,…
Ana Rita Sithole dead, Ana Rita Sithole, Mozambican politician
Ana Rita Sithole, a Mozambican politician and member of FRELIMO, died October 18, 2026. She had served in the Assembly of the Republic since 2000, spending more than a quarter-century…
Gregory Ibe death at age 63
Gregory Ikechukwu Ibe, a Nigerian industrialist, politician and academic who founded Gregory University, Uturu, died on October 18, 2026, aged 63. Born in Kaduna on December 10, 1963, he grew…
Mary Fell dies at age 79
Mary Fell, an American poet and academic, died October 18, 2026, aged 79, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on September 22, 1947, she graduated from Worcester…
Miroslav Čerbák died at age 90
Miroslav Čerbák, a Czech physician and politician who served in parliament and as a deputy health minister, died October 18, 2026, in Dolní Řasnice, aged 90. Born in Brno on…
Lee Kwan-Young passes away at age 80
Lee Kwan-Young, a South Korean taekwondo practitioner and former military officer, died October 18, 2026, aged 80. Born in Seoul on April 19, 1946, he worked in taekwondo as a…
Inger Nordal death at age 82
Inger Nordal, a Norwegian botanist and academic, died October 18, 2026, aged 82. Born in Oslo on August 11, 1944, she studied at the University of Oslo and joined its…
Frans Geysen dies at age 90
Frans Geysen, a Belgian composer and writer on music topics, died October 18, 2026, aged 90. Born on July 29, 1936, in Oostham, Limburg, he studied at the Lemmens Institute…
Napoleon Bonaparte passes away at age 60
Napoleon Bonaparte, an Indonesian police officer, died on October 18, 2026, aged 60. Born in South Sumatra on October 26, 1965, he graduated from the Indonesian Police Academy in 1988…
Syukron Ma’mun passed away at age 84
Syukron Ma'mun, an Indonesian educator and politician, died on October 18, 2026, aged 84. Born on December 21, 1941, he was also a religious scholar and led the Daarul Rahman…
Ng Hong-mun dies at age 100
Ng Hong-mun, a Chinese politician who served as a deputy to China’s National People’s Congress, died October 18, 2026, aged 100. Born in Shantou in 1926, he studied at National…
Ken Ward death at age 91
Ken Ward, an Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond, died October 18, 2026, aged 91. Born on September 30, 1935, Ward played for the club in the Victorian Football…
B. Madhusoodhana Kurup, died aged 71
B. Madhusoodhana Kurup, the founding vice-chancellor of Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS), died October 18, 2026, aged 71. An Indian fisheries researcher and academic administrator, he led…
Gary Heffern died at age 72
Gary Heffern, a Finnish-American punk rock singer associated with The Penetrators, died October 18, 2026, aged 72, in Rovaniemi, Finland. Born Veli-Matti Tervaniemi on August 20, 1954, in Finland, he…
Obituary: Benito di Paula, dead at age 84
Benito di Paula, the Brazilian singer-songwriter, composer and pianist, died of prostate cancer on October 18, 2026, aged 84. Born Uday Vellozo in Nova Friburgo, he became known professionally as…
Obituary: Robert Christopherson, dead at age 90
Robert Henry Christopherson, an American Olympic boxer, died October 18, 2026, aged 90. Born October 7, 1936, in Finlayson, Minnesota, he competed as an amateur in the men’s light heavyweight…
Death of James P. Axiotis at age 63
James P. Axiotis, an American television producer known for Cold Case Files, died October 18, 2026, aged 63. Born James Photi Axiotis in Athens, Greece, he was adopted by Greek…
John Beake obituary: died at age 87
John Beake, an American football coach and executive who served as general manager of the Denver Broncos, died October 17, 2026, aged 87. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, he…
Samuel S. Kim dead at age 91
Samuel S. Kim, an American political scientist and writer, died October 17, 2026, aged 91. Born Samuel Soonki Kim in Hamhung, North Korea, he emigrated to South Korea in 1950.…
Death of Rinze Visser at age 87
Rinze Visser, a Dutch communist politician, died on October 17, 2026, aged 87, from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Born in Lemmer, he encountered communist ideas early through his father and…
Leonel Nunes has died at age 76
Leonel Martinho Gomes Nunes, a Brazilian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, died in Funchal on October 17, 2026, aged 76. A member of the Portuguese Communist…
Ota Jirák obituary: died at age 77
Ota Jirák, the Czech actor, voice actor and entertainer, died on October 17, 2026, aged 77. Born in Debř on April 12, 1949, he studied puppetry at the Academy of…
Jacques Charlin has died at age 77
Jacques Charlin, a French mathematician and professor of mathematics at Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, died on October 17, 2026, aged 77. Born on November 2, 1948, he was described…
Louis-André Dacoury-Tabley, died aged 81
Louis-André Dacoury-Tabley, an Ivorian politician, died on October 17, 2026, aged 81. Born in Gagnoa on September 14, 1945, he later served in government in two ministerial roles. In December…
Yvette Biro has died at age 96
Yvette Biro, a Hungarian-American screenwriter and essayist, died in Paris on October 17, 2026, aged 96. Born in Budapest on April 3, 1930, she worked as a film critic, playwright…
Obituary: Eduardo Viana, dead at age 71
Eduardo Viana, the Portuguese actor, died on October 17, 2026, aged 71. Born in Lisbon on May 3, 1955, he worked in film and television, appearing in more than 50…
Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani has died at age 32
Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani, a Saudi Arabian footballer who played for Damac and Al-Diriyah, died aged 32 on October 17, 2026, from injuries sustained in a traffic collision. Born in Abha on…
Obituary: Pierre-Yves Collombat, dead at age 81
Pierre-Yves Collombat, a French politician who represented the Var department in France’s Senate as a member of the Socialist Party, died October 17, 2026, aged 81. Born in Voiron on…
Per Haftorsen died at age 79
Per Haftorsen, a Norwegian football goalkeeper who represented Haugar, Fredrikstad and his country, died on October 17, 2026, aged 79. Born in Haugesund Municipality on September 6, 1947, he spent…
Alan Cribb passes away at age 101
Alan Cribb, an Australian botanist and phycologist, died on October 17, 2026, aged 101. Born in Ipswich, Queensland, he grew up around Longreach, where his father, a grazier, encouraged his…
Sabri Anar dies at age 60
Sabri Anar, a Turkish hierarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church and archbishop of Amida, died October 17, 2026, aged 60. He had served as archbishop of the Archeparchy of Diyarbakır…
Randy See passed away at age 34
Randy See, a Filipino model, actor and television host, died aged 34 on October 17, 2026, in a traffic accident. His acting credits include the films Beauty and the Bestie…
Michèle Magny passes away at age 82
Michèle Magny, a Canadian actress and theatre director, died October 17, 2026, aged 82. Tags Actors, Politicians, Writers, 17 October 2026, Canada, Capricorn, France, Magny, Michèle, October 17, October 2026
Tom DeSimone passes away at age 87
Tom DeSimone, an American film director, writer and producer whose work included Chatterbox, Hell Night and The Concrete Jungle, died October 17, 2026, aged 87. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in…
Patrick Dele-Cole dies at 86
Patrick Dele-Cole, a Nigerian politician, journalist and historian who became managing director of the Daily Times, died October 17, 2026, aged 86. His career brought together newspaper leadership, party politics,…
Denis Boytsov passes away at age 40
Denis Boytsov, a Russian boxer, died on October 17, 2026, aged 40. Born Denis Nikolayevich Boytsov on February 14, 1986, he was from Oryol, then in the Russian SFSR of…
Marianne Helms died at age 90
Marianne Helms, a German musicologist, died October 17, 2026, aged 90. Born Marianne Henze in Berlin on July 3, 1936, she began her studies at the Free University of Berlin…
Death of Janet Jackel at age 79
Janet Jackel, an American optical engineer and former chief scientist at Telcordia, died October 17, 2026, aged 79. Born in Queens, New York, on May 30, 1947, she studied physics…
Penehupifo Pohamba has died at age 78
Penehupifo Pohamba, a Namibian nurse, politician and former first lady, died on October 17, 2026, aged 78. She was the second First Lady of Namibia during the presidency of her…
Obituary: Raymond Heard, dead at age 90
Raymond Heard, a South African-born Canadian journalist, died October 17, 2026, aged 90. His career included journalism, editing, media management and political strategy. He contributed to Canada’s National Post and…
Deva, died aged 75
Devanesan Chokkalingam, the Indian film composer and singer known as Deva, died October 17, 2026, aged 75. A prominent contributor to Tamil cinema, he also composed songs and background scores…
Michael Cheng, died aged 88
Michael Cheng, a Hong Kong politician and school principal who served on the Legislative Council from 1988 to 1991, died October 17, 2026, aged 88. Born in Hong Kong, he…
Clara Joana death at age 85
Clara Joana de Oliveira Vitorino, the Portuguese actress professionally known as Clara Joana, died October 17, 2026, aged 85. Her work extended across film, theatre and television, and she was…
Robert S. Knox has died at age 95
Robert S. Knox, an American physicist, died October 17, 2026, aged 95, in Rochester, New York. Born July 13, 1931, in Newton, New Jersey, he studied at Lehigh University, earning…