Abderrahmane Tlili died at age 83
Abderrahmane Tlili, a Tunisian politician and founder of the Democratic Unionist Party, died on August 23, 2026, at the age of 83. According to Arabic-language biographical sources, he served as…
Jay Maisel dies at age 95
Jay Maisel, an American photographer, died on August 23, 2026, aged 95. Born in Brooklyn on January 18, 1931, he studied at Abraham Lincoln High School under Leon Friend before…
Tofig Bakikhanov dies at 95
Tofig Bakikhanov, the Azerbaijani composer and music educator, died on August 23, 2026, at age 95. Born Tofig Ahmed-agha oglu Bakikhanov in Baku on December 8, 1930, he came from…
Stanley Ritchie death at age 91
Stanley Ritchie, an Australian violinist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Violin at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, died on August 23, 2026, aged 91. A specialist in historical…
Alphonse Djédjé Mady has died at age 81
Alphonse Djédjé Mady, an Ivorian politician and doctor, died on August 23, 2026, aged 81. Born in Gazehio on January 1, 1945, he studied medicine and worked as a physician…
Dave Kragthorpe death at age 93
Dave Kragthorpe, an American football player and coach, died on August 23, 2026, aged 93. He served as head football coach at South Dakota State University in 1969, at Idaho…
Obituary: Fabrizio Plessi, dead at age 86
Fabrizio Plessi, the Italian installation artist known for work centered on water and other elemental materials, died on August 23, 2026, aged 86. Born in Reggio Emilia on April 3,…
Michael Westmore II dead, Michael Westmore II, American television editor
Michael Westmore II, an American film and television editor, died on August 23, 2026. He worked as an editor on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star…
Boris Ebzeyev dies at age 76
Boris Ebzeyev, a Russian politician and jurist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 76. Born Boris Safarovich Ebzeyev, he served as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Russia from…
Abderrahmane Tlili died at age 83
Abderrahmane Tlili, a Tunisian businessman and politician, died on August 23, 2026, aged 83. Born in Gafsa on March 30, 1943, he was active in both business and public life.…
Orit Galili-Zucker passes away at age 70
Orit Galili-Zucker, an Israeli journalist and political consultant, died on August 23, 2026, at age 70. She headed the political communications team for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and also served…
Death of James Lew at age 73
James Lew, an American stuntman and actor, died on August 23, 2026, aged 73. Born James Jene Fae Lew in Escalon, California, he built a long career in film and…
Death of Jimmy Lynam at age 100
Jimmy Lynam, the Irish hurler who played for Glen Rovers and the Cork senior hurling team, died on August 23, 2026, aged 100. Also known as James Lynam, he was…
Eileen Fenton dies at 98
Eileen Fenton, the British swimmer who became the first woman to swim the English Channel, died on August 23, 2026, aged 98. Born in June 1928, she completed the crossing…
Sarjit Singh Kundan dies at 63
Sarjit Singh Kundan, a Malaysian Olympic field hockey player and coach, died on August 23, 2026, aged 63. Born on November 24, 1962, in Malaysia, he represented his country at…
Fernando Caruncho obituary: died at age 68
Fernando Caruncho, the Spanish landscape designer, died on August 23, 2026, aged 68. Born in Madrid in 1958, he worked as a landscape architect and remained active in the field…
Death of Roy Drinkard at age 106
Roy Drinkard, an American businessman and developer, died on August 23, 2026, aged 106. He lived in Cullman, Alabama, and served as president and CEO of Drinkard Development, Inc., which…
Death of Imran Ullah Khan at age 93
Imran Ullah Khan, a Pakistani army general and former governor of Balochistan, died on August 23, 2026, aged 93. A retired Pakistan Army general, he served as governor of Balochistan…
René Malo, died aged 84
René Malo, a Canadian film producer and Knight of the National Order of Quebec, died on August 23, 2026, at age 84. Born in Joliette, Quebec, he was most closely…
Gerhard Schwedes passed away at age 88
Gerhard Schwedes, an American football player who played for the New York Titans and Boston Patriots, died on August 23, 2026, aged 88. Born in Freiburg im Breisgau on April…
Death of Alcide Cerato at age 87
Alcide Cerato, an Italian racing cyclist who competed professionally in road racing, died on August 23, 2026, aged 87. Born in Legnaro in 1939, he rode as a professional from…
Ennio Mattarelli dead at age 98
Ennio Mattarelli, the Italian clay shooter who won Olympic gold in trap shooting, died on August 23, 2026, aged 98. Born in Bologna on August 5, 1928, he became an…
barbara findlay dies at age 77
Barbara findlay, a Canadian lawyer and LGBT rights activist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 77. Over more than four decades, she used law, advocacy, education and community organizing to…
Januário Machaze Nhangumbe death at age 92
Januário Machaze Nhangumbe, a Mozambican Roman Catholic prelate and bishop of Pemba, died on August 23, 2026, aged 92. He was born in Panda, in what was then Portuguese Mozambique,…
Noël Godin dies at age 80
Noël Godin, the Belgian writer, critic and actor known as an anarchist prankster and pie-thrower, died on August 23, 2026, aged 80. Born in Liège on September 13, 1945, he…
Nakayama Festa, died aged 20
Nakayama Festa, a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse, died on August 23, 2026, aged 20. Born in Mukawa on April 5, 2006, the Japanese-bred colt became a champion on the track and…
Benjamin M. Rosen dead at age 93
Benjamin M. Rosen, the American businessman who chaired Compaq and co-founded Sevin Rosen Funds, died on August 23, 2026, aged 93. Known as Ben Rosen, he also served as Compaq’s…
Death of Svein Mønnesland at age 82
Svein Mønnesland, a Norwegian Slavist and professor, died on August 23, 2026, aged 82. Born in Skien on 26 October 1943, he taught Slavic languages at the University of Oslo…
Liu I-chou dead at age 78
Liu I-chou, the Taiwanese civil servant who served as chairman of the Central Election Commission, died on August 23, 2026, aged 78. A lawyer and political scientist, he was vice…
Bruno Schrecker has died at age 97
Bruno Schrecker, the German-born British cellist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 97. Born in Frankfurt on August 27, 1928, he was the son of Robert Schrecker and Lisl Bischitsky.…
Bun’yō Ishikawa dies at age 88
Bun'yō Ishikawa, the Japanese photographer and photojournalist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 88. Born in Chiba Prefecture on March 10, 1938, he covered the Vietnam War while stationed in…
Nick Bougas obituary: died at age 71
Nick Bougas, an American film director and illustrator, died on August 23, 2026, aged 71. Born Nicholas Bougas in Savannah, Georgia, he worked across film, illustration, record production, and screenwriting…
Sean Grayson, died aged 32
Sean Grayson, an American convicted murderer, died on August 23, 2026, at age 32. He had been convicted in connection with the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old unarmed…