Javier Lasagabaster dies at age 93
Javier Lasagabaster, a Spanish politician and lawyer, died on August 17, 2026, aged 93. Born Javier José Luis Lasagabaster Echarri in Pasaia on January 5, 1933, he served as Minister…
Recent Celebrity Deaths: Last 30 Days
Who died recently? Over 700 obituaries from the last 30 days — notable and famous deaths updated daily.
Alex Fiorio dead at age 61
Alex Fiorio, the Italian rally driver, died on August 17, 2026, aged 61, after being diagnosed with stomach cancer. Born Alessandro Fiorio in Turin on March 10, 1965, he made…
Nicolas Altmayer dies at 61
Nicolas Altmayer, a French film producer, died on August 17, 2026, at age 61 in a car crash. Born on September 8, 1962, he worked in partnership with his brother…
Andrey Sobolyev death at age 71
Andrey Sobolyev, a Russian political figure, died on August 17, 2026, aged 71. Born Andrey Nikolayevich Sobolev on December 1, 1954, in Ostrovnoy, he served as a member of the…
Fritz Schramma passes away at age 78
Fritz Schramma, the German politician who served as mayor of Cologne, died on August 17, 2026, aged 78. Born in Cologne on August 27, 1947, he built his career in…
Harry van der Kamp passes away at age 79
Harry van der Kamp, the Dutch bass singer and voice teacher, died on August 17, 2026, aged 79. Born in Kampen in 1947, he became known for work in opera…
Liu Jiyuan dead at age 93
Liu Jiyuan, a Chinese space engineer, died on August 17, 2026, aged 93. Born Chen Jiyuan on August 1, 1933, he was from Xing County in Shanxi Province and became…
Obituary: Frank Beard, dead at age 77
Frank Beard, the American Hall of Fame rock drummer best known for his long tenure with ZZ Top, died on August 17, 2026, aged 77. Born Frank Lee Beard on…
Dick Stevens passes away at age 78
Dick Stevens, an American football player who spent five seasons as an offensive tackle with the Philadelphia Eagles, died on August 17, 2026, aged 78, from complications of dementia and…
Robert Lanou dies at age 98
Robert Lanou, an American physicist, died on August 17, 2026, aged 98. Born Robert Eugene Lanou Jr. on February 13, 1928, in Colchester, Vermont, he studied at the University of…
Kenneth Chen died at age 86
Kenneth Chen, a Singaporean architect and politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 1992 to 2001, died on August 17, 2026, aged 86. Born Kenneth Chen Koon Lap…
Sofia Södergård dies at 39
Sofia Södergård, a Swedish dancer, choreographer, drag performer and actor, died on August 17, 2026, aged 39. Born Hanna Sofia Charlotta Södergård Treichl in Selångers församling in Sundsvall, she trained…
Paul Cranis dead at age 91
Paul Cranis, the American tennis player known as “Tall Paul,” died on August 11, 2026, aged 91. Born Paul Leonard Cranis in New York City on April 12, 1935, he…
Franklin Kury died at age 89
Franklin Kury, an American politician who served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, died on August 16, 2026, aged 89. Kury served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1966 to…
Venus passes away at age 17
Venus, the American tortoiseshell cat known for her unusual coloring, died on August 16, 2026, at age 17. Widely recognized as Venus the Two-Faced Cat, she was noted for a…
Barry Pearson passes away at age 76
Barry Pearson, an American football player who spent four seasons as a wide receiver in the NFL, died on August 16, 2026, at age 76. Born Barry Lynn Pearson in…
Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja dead at age 80
Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, a Spanish herder and the subject of the film Among Wolves, died on August 16, 2026, aged 80. Born in Añora in 1946, he became known as…
Obituary: Marcelle Benoit, dead at age 104
Marcelle Benoit, the French musicologist and music historian, died on August 16, 2026, aged 104. Born Marcelle Andrée Madeleine Benoit in Lille on 17 December 1921, she graduated from the…
Wally Sykes died at age 83
Wally Sykes, the British Olympic sports shooter, died on August 16, 2026, aged 83. Known also as Wallace Sykes, he competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and represented England at…
Durga Lal Shrestha dies at age 91
Durga Lal Shrestha, the Nepali poet and lyricist who wrote in Nepal Bhasa and Nepali, died on August 16, 2026, aged 91. Born in Kathmandu in July 1935, he was…
Asish Banerjee passes away at age 74
Asish Banerjee, an Indian politician and former associate professor at Rampurhat College, died on August 16, 2026, aged 74. He represented the Trinamool Congress and served as the 13th deputy…
Raja Sen death at age 70
Raja Sen, the Indian film director known for Damu and Desh, died on August 16, 2026, aged 70. Born in Kolkata on November 10, 1955, he built a career as…
Richard Herman dies at 88
Richard Herman, an American politician who served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, died on August 16, 2026, aged 88. A Democrat, he represented his district in the state…
Hasan M. El-Shamy, died aged 88
Hasan M. El-Shamy, the Egyptian-born American folklorist and professor, died on August 16, 2026, at age 88. Born in Cairo, he taught folklore at Indiana University, where he held appointments…
Hayden Panettiere obituary: died at age 36
Hayden Panettiere, the American actress known for roles in Heroes and Nashville, died on August 16, 2026, aged 36. Born Hayden Lesley Panettiere in Palisades, New York, she began appearing…
Takeshi Fukuda dies at age 105
Takeshi Fukuda, a Japanese politician and former mayor of Kanuma in Tochigi Prefecture, died on August 16, 2026, aged 105. Born in Tochigi, he studied at Utsunomiya Middle School, Keio…
Rex A. Wade obituary: died at age 89
Rex A. Wade, an American historian and author, died on August 16, 2026, aged 89. Born in Piedmont, he was also known as Rex Arvin Wade and taught Russian and…
John Niland dead at age 82
John Niland, an American football player who starred as an offensive guard for the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles, died on August 15, 2026, aged 82. Born John Hugh Niland…
Baek In-chun died at age 83
Baek In-chun, a South Korean baseball player and manager, died on August 15, 2026, aged 83, after cardiac arrest from cerebral infarction. He played for the Lotte Orions and Sammi…
Peggy Webber dies at age 100
Peggy Webber, an American actress known for work in Dragnet, Macbeth and The Smurfs, died on August 15, 2026, aged 100. Born in Laredo, Texas, on September 15, 1925, she…
Claude Antonini dies at 80
Claude Antonini, the French singer-songwriter, died on August 15, 2026, at age 80. Born in Belfort on April 11, 1946, she became known for drawing on the styles of Paol…
Marcel Neven obituary: died at age 82
Marcel Neven, a Belgian politician and sports executive, died on August 15, 2026, aged 82. Born in Visé on August 27, 1943, he was a member of the Reformist Movement…
Neville Callam obituary: died at age 125
Neville Callam, a Jamaican Baptist minister and theologian who served as general secretary emeritus of the Baptist World Alliance, died on August 15, 2026, aged 125. Born in Jamaica into…
Milena Zupančič dies at age 79
Milena Zupančič, the Slovenian actress, died on August 15, 2026, aged 79. Born in Jesenice in 1946, she began her career in 1970 and became one of Slovenia’s best-known stage…
Randal C. Picker obituary: died at age 66
Randal C. Picker, an American legal scholar in antitrust law and intellectual property law, died on August 15, 2026, aged 66. He was the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor…
Death of Elisabeth Schnell at age 93
Elisabeth Schnell, a German politician and catechist who served in the Landtag of Bavaria, died on August 15, 2026, aged 93. Born on October 27, 1932, in Sontheim, she was…
Dariya Alioshkina passes away at age 44
Dariya Alioshkina, a Ukrainian sculptor and traditional handicrafts artist, died on August 15, 2026, aged 44. Born in Kyiv on March 5, 1982, she was the daughter of noted Ukrainian…
Obituary: Tommy John, dead at age 83
Tommy John, the American baseball player known for his long major league career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox, died on August 15, 2026,…
Manuel Gaspar Soares da Silva death at age 66
Manuel Gaspar Soares da Silva, an East Timorese teacher and politician, died on August 15, 2026, aged 66. A member of Fretilin, he served in the National Parliament from 2012…
Kenneth Røpke death at age 60
Kenneth Røpke, a Danish cyclist and Olympic competitor, died on August 15, 2026, aged 60, after suffering a cardiac arrest. Born in Gentofte on August 17, 1965, he represented Denmark…
Jan Frycz dead at age 72
Jan Frycz, the Polish actor whose stage, film and television career spanned nearly five decades, died on August 15, 2026, aged 72. Born in Kraków on May 15, 1954, he…
Alex Mukulu passed away at age 72
Alex Mukulu, the Ugandan playwright, died on August 15, 2026, aged 72. Born in Misebe in Ssingo County, Buganda, in 1954, he studied at Kololo Secondary School before going on…
Heinz-Peter Gasse death at age 73
Heinz-Peter Gasse, a German politician and electrician, died on August 15, 2026, aged 73. Born in Duisburg on October 17, 1952, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party…
Konstantin M. Polivanov death at age 66
Konstantin M. Polivanov, a Russian scholar, died on August 15, 2026, aged 66. He was identified in the Russian Wikipedia as Konstantin Mikhailovich Polivanov, a literary scholar. No further biographical…
Peter Howell passed away at age 85
Peter Howell, a British academic and historian, died on August 15, 2026, aged 85. Born in Malta on July 29, 1941, he began his career in 1964 as an assistant…
Death of Stefanos Manos at age 86
Stefanos Manos, the Greek politician who served as minister of finance, died on August 15, 2026, aged 86. Born in Athens in 1939, he entered politics with New Democracy and…
Barry “The obituary: died at age 83
Barry "The Reazar" Richards, an American radio and television personality and music consultant, died on August 15, 2026, aged 83. Also known as Barry Richards, he was born in Washington,…
Toshio Kanbe dies at 83
Toshio Kanbe, a Japanese baseball player and former Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes pitcher, died on August 15, 2026, at age 83. Born in Harima on March 24, 1943, he went on…
Rufat Riskiyev, died aged 76
Rufat Riskiyev, the Uzbek boxer and Olympic silver medallist, died on August 15, 2026, aged 76. Born in Akkurgan in the Uzbek SSR on October 2, 1949, he represented the…
Alexander Danilin, died aged 66
Alexander Danilin, a Russian writer, psychotherapist, psychiatrist and physician-narcologist, died on August 15, 2026, aged 66. Born on March 12, 1960, he was also known as Alexander Gennadievich Danilin, Aleksandr…
Joanna Rawik obituary: died at age 92
Joanna Rawik, the Polish singer, actress, and journalist, died on August 15, 2026, aged 92. Born Joanna Szamota in Chernivtsi on January 31, 1934, she later used the names Gronkowska…
Barry “Reazar” passed away at age 83
Barry "Reazar" Richards, an American radio and television personality and music consultant, died on August 15, 2026, aged 83. Born in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1946, Richards began his…
Jacques Grandon died at age 99
Jacques Grandon, a French lawyer and politician, died on August 14, 2026, aged 99. Born in Saint-Benoît on May 9, 1927, he studied at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and…
Jason Arday obituary: died at age 41
Jason Arday, the British academic and author of Great and Unfortunate Things: A Memoir, died on August 14, 2026, aged 41. A former sociology professor, he taught at the University…
Anatoly Mikhaylov passes away at age 89
Anatoly Mikhaylov, a Belarusian radiologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, died on August 14, 2026, aged 89. Born on November 3, 1936, in Vitebsk District,…
Butch Huskey, died aged 54
Butch Huskey, the American baseball player known for his time with the New York Mets, died on August 14, 2026, aged 54. Robert Leon Huskey was born on November 10,…
Obituary: Dave Marsh, dead at age 76
Dave Marsh, the American music critic and radio talk show host, died on August 14, 2026, at age 76. Born in Detroit on March 1, 1950, he grew up in…
Mark Rydell has died at age 97
Mark Rydell, the American film director behind On Golden Pond, The Rose and The River, died on August 14, 2026, aged 97. Born Mortimer H. Rydell in New York City…
Stanisław Adamiak death at age 93
Stanisław Adamiak, a Polish politician and farmer who served in the Sejm from 1976 to 1985, died on August 14, 2026, aged 93. Born on November 12, 1932, in Karwacz,…
Werner Breitwieser passes away at age 89
Werner Breitwieser, a German politician and school administrator who served in the Landtag of Hesse from 1989 to 1999, died on August 14, 2026, aged 89. A member of the…
Yevhen Shaho death at age 84
Yevhen Shaho, a Ukrainian politician and engineer who served as a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada from 2006 to 2012, died on August 14, 2026, aged 84. Born Yevhen Petrovych…
Francis Campaner died at age 80
Francis Campaner, a French professional road bicycle racer, died on August 14, 2026, aged 80. Born on February 1, 1946, in Saint-Germain-de-la-Rivière, France, he competed as a road cyclist and…
Finlay Tarling passed away at age 19
Finlay Tarling, a Welsh racing cyclist, died on August 14, 2026, aged 19, following a traffic collision. Tarling, born on 2 October 2006, rode for the UCI Continental team NSN…
George W. Cave dies at age 97
George W. Cave, an American author and CIA agent, died on August 14, 2026, aged 97. Cave was a retired CIA operations officer and an authority on Iran who later…
Death of Samai Charoenchang at age 71
Samai Charoenchang, a Thai politician and former senator, died on August 14, 2026, aged 71. A member of the Democrat Party, he served in Thailand’s House of Representatives from 1995…
Heinz Cibulka died at age 83
Heinz Cibulka, the Austrian photographer and assemblage artist, died on August 14, 2026, aged 83. Born in Vienna on January 16, 1943, he worked as a photographer and assemblage artist…
Anna Parzymies passes away at age 87
Anna Parzymies, a professor at Warsaw University and Polish arabist, died on August 14, 2026, aged 87. Born in Sofia on January 5, 1939, she was also a doctor of…
Derry Brownson dies at age 55
Derry Brownson, an English musician known for his work with EMF, died on August 14, 2026, aged 55. Brownson was part of the alternative rock, alternative dance, indie rock and…
Mohamed Serghini passes away at age 96
Mohamed Serghini, the Moroccan poet, died on August 14, 2026, at age 96. Born on January 1, 1930, he was a male poet of Moroccan nationality who studied at the…
Wallace Kirsop obituary: died at age 92
Wallace Kirsop, an academic and bibliographer, died on August 14, 2026, aged 92. An Australian scholar in French studies and book trade history, he was born in Chatswood, New South…
Örjan Ramberg passed away at age 78
Örjan Ramberg, the Swedish actor known for his work on stage and screen, died on August 14, 2026, aged 78. Born Ralf Örjan Valter Ramberg in Örgryte, Gothenburg, he began…
Brian Holguin obituary: died at age 62
Brian Holguin, an American cartoonist and comic book writer, died on August 14, 2026, aged 62. He was known for his work on Aria and Todd McFarlane's Spawn, and also…
Arnon Soffer died at age 90
Arnon Soffer, an Israeli geographer and professor, died on August 14, 2026, aged 90. He was a leading scholar of geography and environmental sciences, with a particular focus on water…
Rosalina Jalosjos obituary: died at age 79
Rosalina Jalosjos, a Filipino politician who served as governor of Zamboanga del Norte from 2022 to 2025, died on August 14, 2026, aged 79. Known locally as Nene Jalosjos, she…
Peter Snape passed away at age 84
Peter Snape, the British politician who served as Labour MP for West Bromwich East from 1974 to 2001 and later sat in the House of Lords as Baron Snape, died…
Bou Meng has died at age 85
Bou Meng, a Cambodian artist and survivor of the Tuol Sleng prison camp, died on August 14, 2026, aged 85. Born in 1941 in Kampong Cham Province, he was among…
Eddie Richardson, died aged 90
Eddie Richardson, an English gangster associated with the Richardson Gang, died on August 14, 2026, aged 90. Active in the 1950s and 1960s, he was linked to a South London…
Jimmy Rimmer passes away at age 78
Jimmy Rimmer, the English footballer who served as a goalkeeper for Manchester United, Swansea City, Arsenal and Aston Villa, died on August 14, 2026, aged 78. Born John James Rimmer…
Skip Bertman, died aged 88
Skip Bertman, the American baseball player and coach who became one of Louisiana State University’s most accomplished athletic figures, died on August 14, 2026, aged 88. Born Stanley Bertman in…
Deirdre McSharry died at age 94
Deirdre McSharry, the British magazine editor who died on August 14, 2026, aged 94, worked across print journalism for decades and was associated with several leading titles. She began her…
Mary Heilmann death at age 86
Mary Heilmann, an American painter, died on August 14, 2026, at age 86. Based in Manhattan and Bridgehampton on Long Island, New York, she was known for abstract paintings that…
Yayoi Kusama passes away at age 97
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese installation and performance artist whose work helped define postwar avant-garde art, died on August 14, 2026, aged 97. Born in Matsumoto in 1929 and known also…
Death of Johnny Young at age 79
Johnny Young, the Dutch-born Australian singer, songwriter and producer known for his work on Young Talent Time, died on August 14, 2026, aged 79. Born Johnny Benjamin Arthur de Jong…
Carla Tatò died at age 79
Carla Tatò, the Italian actress known for films including Slap the Monster on Page One, We Want the Colonels and The Five Days, died on August 14, 2026, aged 79.…
Obituary: Duane Nutt, dead at age 92
Duane Nutt, an American football player and coach, died on August 14, 2026, at age 92. Nutt played college football at Southern Methodist University, where he developed into a player…
Phil Lyne dies at age 79
Phil Lyne, an American rodeo cowboy who won multiple world championships in the Rodeo Cowboys Association and Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, died on August 14, 2026, aged 79. Born in…
Obituary: Nikki Ross, dead at age 54
Nikki Ross, an American gospel singer, died on August 14, 2026, at age 54. A singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and composer from Houston, Texas, she was known for her work…
Jill Gomez passes away at age 83
Jill Gomez, the Trinidadian-British soprano who built an active career on the operatic stage and in the concert hall, died on August 13, 2026, aged 83. Born Barbara Jill Gomez…
Richard Čemus died at age 72
Richard Čemus, a Czech Catholic priest, Jesuit and professor of the spirituality of the Christian East at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, died on August 13, 2026, aged 72.…
Obituary: Jack Crabtree, dead at age 87
Jack Crabtree, an English painter and teacher, died on August 13, 2026, aged 87. Born in Rochdale in 1938, he studied at Rochdale College of Art before continuing at Saint…
Stan Adelstein dies at 94
Stan Adelstein, an American politician who served in the South Dakota House of Representatives and Senate, died on August 13, 2026, aged 94. Adelstein, a Republican, represented the House from…
James T. Laney, died aged 98
James T. Laney, an American minister, professor and diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to South Korea from 1993 to 1996 and as president of Emory University from 1977 to…
Sumit Sarkar has died at age 87
Sumit Sarkar, the Indian historian of modern India, died on August 13, 2026, aged 87. A Marxist historian and writer, he was among the leading scholars of modern Indian history…
Peter Maher passed away at age 79
Peter Maher, the Canadian radio broadcaster best known as the Calgary Flames’ longtime play-by-play voice, died on August 13, 2026, aged 79. Born in Campbellton, New Brunswick, he began broadcasting…
Adolf Prokop dies at age 87
Adolf Prokop, a German football referee, died on August 13, 2026, aged 87. Born in Altenbuch on February 2, 1939, he began his refereeing career in 1969 and became best…
Prichard Colón died at age 33
Prichard Colón, the Puerto Rican boxer who became an honorary WBC World Champion, died on August 13, 2026, aged 33, from complications of a brain hemorrhage. Born in Maitland, Florida,…
Wolfgang Haber dead at age 100
Wolfgang Haber, the German biologist who helped establish landscape ecology, died on August 13, 2026, aged 100. Born in Datteln in 1925, he studied botany, zoology, chemistry and geography at…