Oleksandr Dovgach dies at age -1
Ukrainian military pilot Died on Monday March 9th 2026
Tag: 2026-03-08
32 obituaries from 2026-03-08. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Volodymyr Vlasenko dies at age 77
Ukrainian scientist and military doctor Died on Monday March 9th 2026
Vasile Constantin Mao passes away at age 88
Vasile Constantin Mao, a Romanian rugby union player, died on March 8, 2026. Better known as Mao, he was a Romanian rugby union coach and academic. Born in Plevna village,…
David Keene, died aged 80
David Keene, an American political consultant, died on March 8, 2026, in Baltimore, Maryland, at the age of 80. He was also a presidential advisor and newspaper editor, and served…
Lutfiya al-Dulaimi has died at age 87
Lutfiya al-Dulaimi, an Iraqi writer, journalist and women's rights activist, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in Baqubah on March 7, 1939, she grew up…
Lilias, Yoga and You dies at 90
Lilias Folan, the American yoga teacher and television presenter behind the PBS program Lilias, Yoga and You, died on March 8, 2026. The show, later shortened to Lilias!, first aired…
Fahad Al-Mejmed died at age 33
Fahad Al-Mejmed, a Kuwaiti footballer, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 33. Fahad Abdulaziz Al-Mejmed was also a military officer in the General Directorate of Land Border…
Graham Sissons died at age 91
Graham Sissons, an English footballer who played as a defender, died on March 8, 2026. He made more than 250 Football League appearances for Birmingham City, Peterborough United and Walsall.…
Mantana Morakul, died aged 102
Mantana Morakul, the Thai singer and actress known as Mantana Keartiwongs, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 102. Born on March 30, 1923, she was the first…
Sam Scarber dies at age 76
Sam Scarber, an American actor and former football player, died on March 8, 2026, at age 76. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 24, 1949, he played fullback in…
Zeph Ellis obituary: died at age 37
Zeph Ellis, the British rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer better known as Dot Rotten, died on March 8, 2026, aged 37. Born Joseph Daniel Joel Ellis-Stevenson in London, he…
Ernie Mills has died at age 91
Ernie Mills, an American decoy maker, died on March 8, 2026. Ernest Leon Mills Jr. was a third-generation duck decoy maker who made Lower Chesapeake-style decoys. Nationally recognized as a…
Joseph T. Threston passed away at age 90
Joseph T. Threston, an American Navy systems engineer known for his contributions to the development of the Aegis Combat System, died on March 8, 2026. Threston began his career in…
Aleksandr Dulichenko death at age 84
Aleksandr Dulichenko, a Russian-Estonian Esperantist, linguist and expert in Slavic microlanguages, died on March 8, 2026. Born in Krasnodar in 1941, he lived in Estonia and served as a professor…
Death of H. H. Hamid at age 85
H. H. Hamid, an Indian footballer and forward, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 85. He played for India at the 1960 Summer Olympics and was a…
Slavoljub Marjanović passes away at age 71
Slavoljub Marjanović, a Serbian chess grandmaster, died on March 8, 2026. Born in Lalinac, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia, on January 6, 1955, he was awarded the grandmaster title in 1978…
Moulana Abdullah Tari obituary: died at age 86
Moulana Abdullah Tari, an Indian Islamic scholar and political activist, died on March 8, 2026, following a prolonged illness. He was an official of the separatist Jammu and Kashmir Democratic…
Anthony Leggett died at age 87
Anthony Leggett, the British-American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, died on March 8, 2026. He was 87. Sir Anthony James Leggett was widely recognised as…
Herbs New dies at -1
Herbs, the New Zealand reggae group founded in 1979, died on March 8, 2026. The multi-ethnic band featured Samoans, Tongans, Cook Islanders, New Zealand Europeans and Māori members. Led by…
Philip Bourne passes away at age 72
Philip Bourne, an Australian bioinformatician and writer, died on March 8, 2026, at age 72. Philip Eric Bourne was the Stephenson Chair of Data Science, director of the School of…
Rostyslav Chapiuk death at age 88
Rostyslav Chapiuk, a Ukrainian politician, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Rusiv on May 22, 1937, he served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine…
B. Wongar passes away at age 93
B. Wongar, the pen name of Serbian writer Sreten Božić, died on March 8, 2026, aged 93-94. Born in 1932 in Gornja Trešnjevica, in what was then the Kingdom of…
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas dies at 94
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, a Malaysian philosopher, died on March 8, 2026. He was a Malaysian Muslim philosopher of Arab descent and was considered one of the few contemporary scholars…
Curzia Ferrari dies at 96
Curzia Ferrari, an Italian journalist, writer and translator of Russian poetry, died on March 8, 2026, in Milan at the age of 96. Born in Milan in May 1929, she…
David Rokni died at age 94
David Rokni, an Israeli reserve colonel who served as the commander of the annual Israel Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem for nearly four decades, died on…
Jerzy Szymanek has died at age 88
Jerzy Szymanek, a Polish politician, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Ręczno on April 11, 1937, he was a member of the United People's…
Mohamed Hansal death at age 78
Mohamed Hansal, an Algerian football referee, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 78. Born in Oran, French Algeria, on November 6, 1947, he refereed one match at…
Blake Emmons has died at age 81
Blake Emmons, a Canadian country singer and television host, died on March 8, 2026, at age 81. Born Bruce MacKenzie in Toronto and raised in Prince George, British Columbia, he…
Walid Khalidi obituary: died at age 100
Walid Khalidi, a Palestinian historian, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 100. He wrote extensively on the Palestinian exodus and co-founded the Institute for Palestine Studies in…
Fahad Al-Mejmed died at age 33
Fahad Al-Mejmed, a Kuwaiti footballer and military officer, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 33. Al-Mejmed, a centre-back, played for Al Qadsia SC until 2019 and spent…
Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters, died aged -1
Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters died on March 8, 2026. An Iranian military general, he served as head of the Military Office of Iran's Supreme Leader. The position placed him in…
Death of Ray Schoenke at age 84
Ray Schoenke, an American football player who played offensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins, died on March 8, 2026, at age 84. Born Raymond Frederick Schoenke on…