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…
Duca passed away at age 92
Duca, the Brazilian footballer better known as Adrualdo Barroso da Silva, died on August 15, 2026, aged 92. Born in Recife on May 4, 1934, he emerged from Flamengo’s youth…
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…
Obituary: Daria Alyoshkina, dead at age 44
Daria Alyoshkina, the Ukrainian visual artist known for her vytynanka cut artworks, died on August 15, 2026, aged 44. Born in Kyiv in 1982, she was a papercut artist who…
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…