Deaths on January 20 | Dead-People.com

Bruce Bilson

American television director (Get Smart
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 10:45 pm

Sara Jane Paez

Filipino beauty queen
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 10:40 pm

Bobby Duncum

American professional wrestler (WWWF
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 10:25 pm

Barbara Aronstein Black

American legal scholar
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 9:45 pm

Aleksandr Shavlokhov

South Ossetian politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 9:40 pm

Bob Taylor

Australian footballer (Essendon)
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 9:35 pm

Stu Tate

American baseball player (San Francisco Giants)
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 9:30 pm

Stephen Baxter

56–57
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 9:25 pm

Marie-Thérèse Lorcin

French historian and academic
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 8:30 pm

Stephen H. Hess

American political scientist
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 7:10 pm

Phillip Boudreault

Canadian boxer and outlaw biker
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 6:45 pm

Linda Kohen

Italian-born Uruguayan painter
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 6:40 pm

Helen Peters

Canadian academic
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 6:10 pm

Justin Taylor

New Zealand priest and historian
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 5:45 pm

Leopold Herz

German politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 5:15 pm

M Hafizuddin Khan

Bangladeshi bureaucrat
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 5:05 pm

Georg Winter

German businessman and environmentalist
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 5:00 pm

Mieczysław Furmanek

Polish politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 4:55 pm

Piotr Chojnacki

Polish politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 4:45 pm

Ronald Joseph

American figure skater
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 4:45 pm

Thadeu Gomes Canellas

Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 4:15 pm

Haldun Dormen

Turkish theater
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 4:05 pm

Colette Flesch

Luxembourgish Olympic fencer and politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 2:25 pm

Kamal Roy

Indian actor (Yuvajanotsavam
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 1:10 pm

Yuriy Chonka

Ukrainian footballer
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 12:20 pm

Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld

Swedish royal
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 12:20 pm

Patsy King

Australian actress (Prisoner
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 11:55 am

Ilias Javed

Bangladeshi actor and choreographer
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 11:40 am

Rifaat al-Assad

Syrian politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 11:15 am

Norman Gifford

English cricketer (Worcestershire
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 9:30 am

Raja Nadir Pervez

Pakistani politician
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 8:20 am

Eugen Botez

Romanian sprint canoer
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 6:20 am

René V. Dawis

American psychologist
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 3:20 am

Maria Alzira Seixo

Portuguese writer and literary critic
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 2:45 am

Arvo Siikamäki

Finnish sculptor
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 2:35 am

Frank Pitts

American football player (Kansas City Chiefs
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 2:15 am

Georges Borchardt

American literary agent
Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026

January 21, 2026 12:10 am

Peter Cousens South African-born English cricketer dead at age 93

Peter Cousens, the South African-born English cricketer who played for Essex,
died on January 20, 2026, aged 93. Born in Durban, Natal, on May 15, 1932, he was a right-handed…

January 20, 2026 12:00 pm

Deborah Cameron British linguist and feminist, pancreatic cancer dead at age 67

Deborah Jane Cameron, a British linguist and feminist,
died on January 20, 2026, at the age of 67. She held the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester…

January 20, 2026 12:00 pm

Vicki L. Hanson, Human-Computer InteractionAccessibility, died on January 20, 2026

Vicki L. Hanson Human-Computer InteractionAccessibility dead at age -1

Vicki L. Hanson, an American computer scientist,
died on January 20, 2026. She was noted for her research on human-computer interaction and accessibility, and for her leadership in broadening participation…

January 20, 2026 12:00 pm

Toshikatsu Yamamoto Japanese physician dead at age 96

Toshikatsu Yamamoto, a Japanese physician who worked in the field of acupuncture,
died on January 20, 2026. Born on December 15, 1929, he graduated in 1956 from Nippon Medical School…

January 20, 2026 12:00 pm

Ronald Joseph American figure skater, Olympic bronze medallist, complications from amyotrophic late…

Ronald Joseph, an American figure skater and 1964 Olympic bronze medallist,
died on January 20, 2026, at age 81 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He competed in pair skating…

January 20, 2026 12:00 pm