Elsie Kelly, an English actress known for Benidorm, The Famous Five and Crossroads, died on April 21, 2026, aged 89. Born in Dovecot, Liverpool, in 1936, she began her television work with Crossroads in 1979, playing cleaner and gossip Mrs…
Hayat Al-Fahad, a Kuwaiti actress, writer, broadcaster and producer known for Um Harun, died on April 21, 2026, at the age of 78. Born in Sharq, Kuwait, she was active from 1970 to 2026. Al-Fahad was best known for her…
Viktor Liashko died on April 21, 2026. He was a Ukrainian politician and served as a member of parliament from 1990 to 1994.
Gopalrao Patil, an Indian politician and former Rajya Sabha member, died on April 21, 2026. He was 94. Patil was a Bharatiya Janata Party member and served as a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2000. He was…
Federico Vercellone, an Italian philosopher, died on April 21, 2026.
Ricardo de Pascual, a Mexican actor and comedian known for roles in El Chavo del Ocho, Senda de gloria and Camaleones, died on April 21, 2026, at the age of 85. Born in Mexico City on August 21, 1940, he…
Barrie Tomlinson, a British comic book editor and writer, died on April 21, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in St Albans, England, in February 1938, he began his career at IPC Magazines in 1961 after responding to a…
Nikolai Romanov died on April 21, 2026, in a traffic collision. He was a Russian politician and served as mayor of Saratov from 2006 to 2007. The death was reported in connection with the collision, and his role in Saratov… · 21 April 2026 · April 2026
Pavel Matuška died on April 21, 2026. He was a Czech painter, cartoonist and humorist. His work was associated with painting, cartooning and humor.
Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth, a Thai billionaire businessman and former surgeon, died on April 21, 2026, at the age of 93. He was the founder and owner of Bangkok Dusit Medical Services, Thailand’s largest private healthcare group, and owner of Bangkok Airways.…
Mariano Baptista Gumucio, a Bolivian politician and writer, died on April 21, 2026, in La Paz at the age of 92. Born in Cochabamba on December 11, 1933, he was a member of the Academia Boliviana de la Lengua and…
Henry J. Mansell, an American Roman Catholic prelate and archbishop of Hartford from 2004 to 2013, died April 21, 2026, at age 88. Born in the Bronx section of New York City on October 10, 1937, he was ordained a…
Robin Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 5th Baron Derwent, died on April 21, 2026. He was a British hereditary peer and a member of the House of Lords from 1986 to 1999.
Carlos Mella, a Spanish writer and politician, died on April 21, 2026, at the age of 95. Born Xosé Carlos Mella Villar on August 13, 1930, in A Estrada, Spain, he was a member of the Union of the Democratic…
Lena Maria Gårdenäs, the Swedish singer and actress, died on April 21, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Brännkyrka, a suburb of Stockholm, in 1947, she moved to Helsingborg at the age of five. She began her career…
Luis Puenzo, the Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer, died on April 21, 2026, at age 80. Born in Buenos Aires on Feb. 19, 1946, he worked mainly in the cinema of Argentina and also worked in the United…
Tadeusz Cichocki, a histologist, died on April 21, 2026, at the age of 89. He was a Polish histologist and rector of the Medical Academy in Kraków from 1987 until 1990. Cichocki graduated from the Medical Academy in Kraków in…
Dean Buntrock, an American waste service executive and co-founder of Waste Management, Inc., died on April 21, 2026. He was 94. Buntrock was best known for founding and leading Waste Management, Inc., North America’s largest waste services company. He was…
Monica Azuba Ntege, a Ugandan politician and engineer who served as minister of works and transport from 2016 to 2019, died on April 21, 2026. Born in about 1954 in Uganda’s Busoga sub-region, she studied at Gayaza High School and…
Gideon Tish, an Israeli football player for Hapoel Tel Aviv, died on April 21, 2026, at the age of 86. Tish was known for his time at Hapoel Tel Aviv, where he scored 55 goals, placing him among the club’s…
Hussein Mohammed Hadi Al-Sadr, an Iraqi politician, died on April 21, 2026.
Moogie Canazio, a Brazilian recording engineer, mixing engineer and record producer, died on April 21, 2026, at age 70. Born Antonio Canazio in Rio de Janeiro, he worked with artists including Antônio Carlos Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Ivan Lins, João Gilberto,…
Andrew Hacker, an American political scientist and academic, died on April 21, 2026. He was 96 or 97. Hacker was a professor in the department of political science at Queens College in New York and had taught at Cornell before…
José Honório, an East Timorese politician and minister of higher education, science and culture, died on April 21, 2026. Also known as José Honório da Costa Pereira Jerónimo, he was an East Timorese university lecturer and independent politician. He served…