Deaths Tag: 2026-01-15
Jefery Levy
American filmmaker (S.F.W · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Other
Peer Bork
German bioinformatician · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Other
Jaro Zawislan
American college soccer coach (Cornell Big Red) · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Other
Horst Witzler
German football manager (Schwarz-Weiß Essen · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Other
Netsanet Workneh
Ethiopian actor · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15
János Koltai
Hungarian actor and director (The Round-Up · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15
Anouschka Bernhard
German footballer (national team) · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15
Mieczysław Mąkosza
Polish organic chemist · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15
John Kershaw, 4th Baron Kershaw
British hereditary peer · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Kershaw · Other
Melpo Zarokosta
Greek actress (Maiden's Cheek · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Greek
Luísa Diogo
Mozambican politician · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Luisa
José Eduardo Velásquez Tarazona
Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Tarazona · Other
Ratbek hadji Nysanbayev
Kazakh religious figure · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Nysanbayev · Other
Abdullahi Abubakar
Nigerian Islamic cleric and humanitarian · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Other
Rudolf Urc
Slovak director of documentary and animated films and academic · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15
James E. O’Grady
American sheriff · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · O'Grady · Other
Edgar Salvé
Belgian middle-distance runner · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15
Yolande Viviane Compaoré
Burkinabe politician · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 15 · Compaoré
Filip Stojanović (politician) Serbian politician dead at age 81
Filip Stojanović, a Serbian politician who served several terms in the parliaments of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia, died on January 15, 2026. He was a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party. Born on August 10, 1944, in… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · Stojanovic
Arne Roosman Estonian-born Canadian painter dead at age 93
Arne Roosman, an Estonian-born Canadian painter, died on January 15, 2026, at age 93. Born in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 6, 1932, he was also a lithographer and muralist. After fleeing the Soviet occupation of Estonia and Nazi Germany, Roosman… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026
Kenny Morris (drummer) English drummer dead at age 68
Kenny Morris, an English drummer and painter best known as the first studio drummer of Siouxsie and the Banshees, died on January 15, 2026, aged 68. Born Kenneth Ian Morris on February 1, 1957, he joined the band in February… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026
Dogardisc Colombian champeta singer and songwriter, diabetes dies
Dogardisc, the stage name of Colombian champeta singer and songwriter Ismael Simancas, died on January 15, 2026. Born in Cartagena, Colombia, he was an important figure in the Colombian coastal genre of champeta and was described by El Tiempo as… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026
Clay Iles English tennis player and coach dead at age 83
Clay Iles, an English tennis player and coach, died on January 15, 2026, aged 83. A British player and LTA-licensed tennis coach, he also worked as a sports writer and tennis umpire. Iles competed at the Wimbledon Championships 12 times… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026
Alan Woods (priest) English Anglican priest, dean of Gibraltar dead at age 83
Alan Geoffrey Woods, English Anglican priest and dean of Gibraltar from 2003 to 2008, died on January 15, 2026, aged 83. Born on July 18, 1942, he was educated at Bristol Cathedral Choir School. After qualifying as an accountant, he… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026 · Other
James F. White Funeral director, politician dead at age 90
James F. White, an American funeral director and politician, died on January 15, 2026, in Farmington, Minnesota, at the age of 90. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, he served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1975 to 1978.… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026
Jim Wearne American musician dead at age 75
Jim Wearne, an American musician, died on January 15, 2026, at the age of 75. He was a Cornish-American musician who lived most of his life in the Chicago area of northern Illinois. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised… · 15 January 2026 · January 2026