Death of Maurice Herriott at age 86
Maurice Herriott, the British steeplechase runner and Olympic silver medallist, died on August 24, 2026, aged 86. A track and field athlete who specialised in the 3000 metres steeplechase, he…
Asadollah Nasr Esfahani passes away at age 99
Asadollah Nasr Esfahani, an Iranian military officer and politician who served as minister of interior, died on August 24, 2026, aged 99. Born in Isfahan on February 10, 1927, he…
Obituary: Silvia Buendía, dead at age 58
Silvia Buendía, an Ecuadorian journalist, lawyer and civil rights activist, died on August 24, 2026, at age 58. Born in Guayaquil on October 9, 1967, she graduated in law from…
Fabio Grossi dead at age 68
Fabio Grossi, the Italian actor and stage director known for roles in films including I fichissimi, The Family Friend and Darker Than Midnight, died on August 24, 2026, aged 68.…
Death of Lesley Grant-Adamson at age 83
Lesley Grant-Adamson, the British writer and journalist, died on August 24, 2026, aged 83. Born Lesley Heycock, she built her career in journalism before turning to full-time writing, holding a…
Tina Dalton dead
Tina Dalton, the Australian filmmaker and television presenter who helped launch the Nine Network travel program Getaway in 1992, died on August 24, 2026. Known professionally as Bettina “Tina” Dalton,…
Sliman Mansour obituary: died at age 79
Sliman Mansour, the Palestinian painter, sculptor and author, died on August 24, 2026, aged 79. Also known as Suleiman or Suliman Mansour, he was born in 1947 in Birzeit and…
Obituary: Noah Segsy, dead at age 22
Noah Segsy, a German pornographic actor, died on August 24, 2026, aged 22, after drowning. Known professionally as Noah Segsy, he performed in gay adult content and built an online…
Giorgio Blais, died aged 91
Giorgio Blais, the Italian major-general who won public notice for a solo walk across Italy in 2000, died on August 24, 2026, aged 91. Born in Turin on April 14,…
Jean-Pierre Darchen, died aged 86
Jean-Pierre Darchen, a French footballer and manager who played as a midfielder, died on August 24, 2026, aged 86. Born in Douarnenez on May 20, 1940, he was a member…
James Harkness obituary: died at age 90
James Harkness, a Scottish Church of Scotland minister, died on August 24, 2026, aged 90. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and held…
Grégoire Laourou passed away at age 73
Grégoire Laourou, the Beninese politician who served as minister of finance, died on August 24, 2026, aged 73. A native of Bantè, he was elected to parliament on several occasions…
Carlos Sáenz de Santamaría dead
Carlos Sáenz de Santamaría, a Spanish civil servant and politician, died on August 24, 2026, in Tricio. Known in full as Carlos Sáenz de Santamaría Alegría, he was a member…
Izuru Narushima, died aged 65
Izuru Narushima, a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for Midnight Eagle, The Lone Scalpel and Solomon's Perjury, died on August 24, 2026, aged 65, of lung cancer. Born in…
Rajuddin Noeh dies at age 86
Rajuddin Noeh, an Indonesian politician and civil servant, died on August 24, 2026, aged 86. Born on September 2, 1939, in Kajai, he was a member of Golkar and served…
Yasmin Shaikh dies at age 101
Yasmin Shaikh, an Indian writer and Marathi language grammarian, died on August 24, 2026, aged 101. She wrote on Marathi language issues in magazines and newspapers and was known for…
Cletus Chandrasiri Perera died at age 78
Cletus Chandrasiri Perera, a Sri Lankan Roman Catholic prelate and bishop of Ratnapura, died on August 24, 2026, aged 78. Born on September 6, 1947, he entered the Benedictine order…
Catherine Millot obituary: died at age 81
Catherine Millot, the French psychologist and academic, died on August 24, 2026, at age 81. A Lacanian psychoanalyst and author, she taught psychoanalysis at the University of Paris-VIII after studying…
Mohabbat Jan Chowdhury has died at age 92
Mohabbat Jan Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi politician and former army major general who also served as home minister and director general of DGFI, died on August 24, 2026, aged 92. He…
Chen Wu passed away at age 71
Chen Wu, a Chinese politician who served as vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and as chairman of Guangxi, died on August 24, 2026, aged 71. Born…
Donald Shankweiler, died aged 91
Donald Shankweiler, an American academic and psychologist who studied language processing in the brain, died on August 24, 2026, aged 91. He was professor emeritus of psychology at the University…
Mirosław Różański, died aged 63
Mirosław Różański, the Polish military officer and politician who became a senator and lieutenant general, died on August 24, 2026, aged 63. Born in Głogów on December 1, 1962, he…
Ole Bjur passed away at age 57
Ole Bjur, a Danish footballer who played for Vanløse IF, Brøndby IF and the Denmark national team, died on August 24, 2026, aged 57. Born in Rødovre on September 13,…
Obituary: Klaus-Michael Kühne, dead at age 89
Klaus-Michael Kühne, the German transport and logistics magnate and chairman of Kuehne + Nagel, died on August 24, 2026, aged 89. The Hamburg-born businessman built his career around the family-linked…
Giri Dandasena, died aged 76
Giri Dandasena, an Indian writer in the Odia language, died on August 24, 2026, aged 76. A writer, columnist and historian from Odisha, he produced fiction and works on the…
Mitchell Doens dead at age 79
Mitchell Doens, a Panamanian politician, economist and writer, died on August 24, 2026, aged 79. Doens, whose full name was Mitchell Constantino Doens Ambrosio, was born in Colón Province on…
Storm dies at 61
Storm, an American reality television competitor best known for appearing on American Gladiators from 1991 to 1993, died on August 24, 2026, aged 61. He was part of the syndicated…
Philippe Bouvard dies at 96
Philippe Bouvard, the French broadcaster best known for Les Grosses Têtes and Le Petit Théâtre de Bouvard, died on August 24, 2026, aged 96. Born in Coulommiers in 1929, he…
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook, died aged 93
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook, a British zoologist, died on August 24, 2026, aged 93. Also known as Lord Medway, he was active from 1956 in ornithology, mammalogy and…
Mieczysław Rutyna obituary: died at age 95
Mieczysław Rutyna, a Polish Olympic racewalker, died on August 24, 2026, aged 95. Born on May 29, 1931, in Wielowieś, he represented Poland in race walking at the 1964 Summer…
Hideki Shirakawa obituary: died at age 90
Hideki Shirakawa, the Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize laureate whose work on conductive polymers helped reshape materials science, died on August 24, 2026, aged 90. Born in Tokyo on August…
Jaye P. Morgan died at age 94
Jaye P. Morgan, the American singer and actress known for "That's All I Want from You" and for appearing in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, died on August…