Bruce Bilson
American television director (Get Smart
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Tag: 2026-01-20
42 obituaries from 2026-01-20. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Sara Jane Paez
Filipino beauty queen
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Bobby Duncum
American professional wrestler (WWWF
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Barbara Aronstein Black
American legal scholar
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Aleksandr Shavlokhov
South Ossetian politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Bob Taylor
Australian footballer (Essendon)
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Stephen Baxter
56–57
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Marie-Thérèse Lorcin
French historian and academic
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Stephen H. Hess
American political scientist
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Phillip Boudreault
Canadian boxer and outlaw biker
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Linda Kohen
Italian-born Uruguayan painter
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Helen Peters
Canadian academic
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Justin Taylor
New Zealand priest and historian
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Leopold Herz
German politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
M Hafizuddin Khan
Bangladeshi bureaucrat
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Georg Winter
German businessman and environmentalist
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Mieczysław Furmanek
Polish politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Piotr Chojnacki
Polish politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Ronald Joseph
American figure skater
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Thadeu Gomes Canellas
Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Haldun Dormen
Turkish theater
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Colette Flesch
Luxembourgish Olympic fencer and politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Yuriy Chonka
Ukrainian footballer
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld
Swedish royal
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Patsy King
Australian actress (Prisoner
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Ilias Javed
Bangladeshi actor and choreographer
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Rifaat al-Assad
Syrian politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Norman Gifford
English cricketer (Worcestershire
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Raja Nadir Pervez
Pakistani politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Eugen Botez
Romanian sprint canoer
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
René V. Dawis
American psychologist
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Maria Alzira Seixo
Portuguese writer and literary critic
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Frank Pitts
American football player (Kansas City Chiefs
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Georges Borchardt
American literary agent
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Vicki L. Hanson Human-Computer InteractionAccessibility dead at age -1
Vicki L. Hanson, an American computer scientist,
died on January 20, 2026. She was noted for her research on human-computer interaction and accessibility, and for her leadership in broadening participation…
Toshikatsu Yamamoto Japanese physician dead at age 96
Toshikatsu Yamamoto, a Japanese physician who worked in the field of acupuncture,
died on January 20, 2026. Born on December 15, 1929, he graduated in 1956 from Nippon Medical School…
Ronald Joseph American figure skater, Olympic bronze medallist, complications from amyotrophic late…
Ronald Joseph, an American figure skater and 1964 Olympic bronze medallist,
died on January 20, 2026, at age 81 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He competed in pair skating…
Peter Cousens South African-born English cricketer dead at age 93
Peter Cousens, the South African-born English cricketer who played for Essex,
died on January 20, 2026, aged 93. Born in Durban, Natal, on May 15, 1932, he was a right-handed…
Deborah Cameron British linguist and feminist, pancreatic cancer dead at age 67
Deborah Jane Cameron, a British linguist and feminist,
died on January 20, 2026, at the age of 67. She held the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester…