Deaths Died in 24 January 2026
Dominic Kokkat
Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic prelate · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24 · Other
Sia Figiel
Samoan writer · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24
Seyni Awa Camara
Senegalese sculptor · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24 · Camara
Roy Erskine
Scottish footballer (Stirling Albion · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24
Siegfried Radandt
German Olympic bobsledder (1976) · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24 · Athletes
Yuri Rymanov
Russian guitarist (Lyube) · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24
Orest Salamakha
Ukrainean politician · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24
Dede Sulaeman
Indonesian football player (Persija Jakarta · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24
Inderjit Singh Bindra
Indian sports administrator · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24 · Bindra · Other
David Abulafia
British historian (The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean) · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24
Kim Vo
American hairstylist · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24 · Other
Marian Goodman
American art dealer · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24 · Other
Faruk Kulenović
Bosnian-Croatian basketball player (HAKK Mladost) and coach (Šibenka) · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24
Robert Joseph Banks
American Roman Catholic prelate · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24 · Banks · Other
Lee Fobbs
American football player (Ottawa Rough Riders) and coach (North Carolina A&T Aggies · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24
Pedro Pablo Elizondo
Mexican Roman Catholic prelate · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24 · Elizondo · Other
Marie Rouanet
French singer and writer · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24 · French
Joe Gadston
English football player (Exeter City · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24
Liao Xilong
Chinese general · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24 · Other
Wim Kelleners
Dutch racing cyclist · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24 · Dutch
Abhijit Majumdar
Indian singer and music director · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24
William Foege
American physician and epidemiologist · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 24
William M. Keys American Marine general dead at age 88
William M. Keys, an American Marine general and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general, died on January 24, 2026. Born in Fredericktown, Pennsylvania, on March 29, 1937, he was a combat veteran who received the Navy Cross for heroic… · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · Other
Paul William Coteus Packaging for high-performance computer systems, BlueGene supercomputer family…
Paul William Coteus, an American electrical engineer, died on January 24, 2026, at age 72. He worked at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and was known for his work on packaging for high-performance computer systems… · 24 January 2026 · January 2026 · Other
Robyn Thorn Australian swimmer, Olympic silver medalist dead at age 80
Robyn Thorn, an Australian swimmer and Olympic silver medalist, died on January 24, 2026, aged 80. Also known by her married name Robyn Nock, she won silver in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Born… · 24 January 2026 · January 2026
Peter Ryan (rugby union, born 1930) English rugby union player dead at age 95
Peter Henry Ryan, an English international rugby union player, died on January 24, 2026, aged 95. Born in Bucklow, England, on October 1, 1930, he was head boy and football captain at Harrow School, where he also played in the… · 24 January 2026 · January 2026
Bob Jones (ice hockey) Canadian ice hockey player dead at age 80
Bob Jones, a Canadian ice hockey player who appeared in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers, died on January 24, 2026, at age 80. Robert Charles Jones was born in Espanola, Ontario, on November 27, 1945, and… · 24 January 2026 · January 2026
Lennart Backman Swedish footballer dead at age 91
Lennart Backman, the Swedish footballer who played for IFK Norrköping, AIK and the national team, died on January 24, 2026. Born Kurt Lennart Ingemar Backman on February 7, 1934, he played as a winger and made more than 200 Allsvenskan… · 24 January 2026 · January 2026