Obituary: Bill Doba, dead at age 85
Bill Doba, the American football coach who led Washington State University’s Cougars from 2003 through 2007, died on August 28, 2026, at age 85 from complications from a stroke. Born…
Joe McDonald dies at age 97
Joe McDonald, an American baseball executive, died on August 28, 2026, aged 97. Born Joseph Anthony McDonald in Staten Island, New York City, he graduated from Fordham University in 1951…
Obituary: Jim Rittwage, dead at age 81
Jim Rittwage, an American baseball player who pitched for the Cleveland Indians, died on August 28, 2026, aged 81. Born James Michael Rittwage in Cleveland on October 23, 1944, he…
Kaka Mallam Yale dead at age 73
Kaka Mallam Yale, a Nigerian politician and senator, died on August 28, 2026, aged 73. Born in January 1953 in Yale town of Konduga District, he represented Borno Central in…
Obituary: Rick Sharp, dead at age 78
Rick Sharp, an English-born American football player who spent three seasons in the NFL, died on August 28, 2026, at age 78. Born Vaughan Richard Sharp in London, he played…
Ray Miller died at age 77
Ray Miller, an American politician and former member of the Ohio General Assembly, died on August 28, 2026, aged 77. A Democrat and graduate of Ohio State University, he also…
Árpád Szűcs dies at 83
Árpád Szűcs, a Romanian footballer, died on August 28, 2026, aged 83, after sustaining injuries in a house fire. Also known as Arpad Suciu, he was born in Oradea on…
Mykola Dzyuba death at age 79
Mykola Dzyuba, a Ukrainian politician, died on August 28, 2026, aged 79. Born Mykola Hryhorovych Dzyuba on November 12, 1946, in Suvyd, then part of the Ukrainian SSR, he served…
Archibald MacKinnon passed away at age 89
Archibald MacKinnon, the Canadian rower and Olympic champion and silver medalist, died on August 28, 2026, aged 89. Born in Cranbrook, British Columbia, he studied at the University of British…
Li Weikang dies at 79
Li Weikang, the Chinese Peking opera singer and actress, died on August 28, 2026, aged 79. A native of Beijing, she was a retired performer who became a national first-class…
Kenneth Treister dead at age 96
Kenneth Treister, an American architect best known for the Holocaust Memorial he designed in Miami Beach, Florida, died on August 28, 2026, aged 96. A Fellow of the American Institute…
Harald V, died aged 89
Harald V, Norway’s king since 1991, died on August 28, 2026, at age 89. He had reigned for more than three decades after ascending the throne on January 17, 1991.…
Priit Aimla passed away at age 85
Priit Aimla, the Estonian writer, poet and politician, died on August 28, 2026, aged 85. Born in Võru on April 19, 1941, he became known for stage plays and books,…
Richard E. Stearns dies at age 90
Richard E. Stearns, the American computer scientist who helped lay the foundations of computational complexity theory, died on August 28, 2026, aged 90. Born Richard Edwin Stearns in Caldwell, he…
Obituary: Nicolae Ungureanu, dead at age 69
Nicolae Ungureanu, the Romanian footballer and manager best known for his work with Universitatea Craiova, the national team and Drobeta-Turnu Severin, died on August 28, 2026, aged 69. Born in…
Brîndușa Armanca death at age 71
Brîndușa Armanca, a Romanian journalist and academic, died on August 28, 2026, aged 71. Born in Câmpulung Moldovenesc in 1954, she studied philology at the West University of Timișoara and…
Frank Campo has died at age 99
Frank Campo, an American composer and emeritus professor of music at California State University Northridge, died on August 28, 2026, at age 99. Born in New York City in 1927,…
Jackie Glass obituary: died at age 70
Jackie Glass, an American judge and television personality, died on August 28, 2026, at age 70. Glass was known to television audiences through "Swift Justice with Jackie Glass" and was…
Grace Perreiah, died aged 89
Grace Perreiah, an American artist known for her serigraph prints, died on August 28, 2026, at age 89. Born Eleanor Grace Sievert in Los Angeles, she later became associated with…
Obituary: Joan Phillip, dead at age 74
Joan Phillip, a Canadian politician and member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, died on August 28, 2026, aged 74. Born Joan Carter in North Vancouver, she was known as…
Larry Christenson dies at age 72
Larry Christenson, the American baseball pitcher who spent his entire Major League Baseball career with the Philadelphia Phillies and helped them win the 1980 World Series, died on August 28,…
Will Murray has died at age 73
Will Murray, an American novelist, journalist and comic book writer, died on August 28, 2026, aged 73. Born William Patrick Murray on April 28, 1953, he wrote fiction, short stories…