Loraine Braham
Australian politician
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Deaths on January 7
This archive lists notable deaths associated with January 7 across multiple years. For the specific 2026 archive, see Deaths on January 7, 2026.
Chiara Valentini
Italian journalist and writer
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Jon Lindsay
American politician
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Howard Sanderford
American politician
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Denise Harlow
American politician
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Chiara Valentini
Italian Journalist and writer
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Raffaella Bragazzi
Italian television presenter and radio personality
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Fazl-ur-Raheem Ashrafi
Pakistani Islamic scholar
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
James Bernard
American music journalist and magazine editor (The Source
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Bernard Lemoux
French businessman
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Uljana Semjonova
Latvian basketball player
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Claude-Inga Barbey
Swiss comedian
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Murad Wahba
Egyptian writer
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Domenico Graziani
Italian Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Klaus Keitel
German politician
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Rolf Riehm
German composer (Sirenen – Bilder des Begehrens und des Vernichtens)
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Roger Guesnerie
French economist and academic
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Herbet Beck
German art historian
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Ángel Coerezza
Argentine football referee (AFA)
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Miroslav Stárek
Czech footballer (AC Sparta Prague
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Hiroya Ebina
Japanese politician
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Sidney de Jong
Dutch Olympic baseball player (2004
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Jean-Max Causse
French actor (I Stand Alone)
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Terry Yorath
Welsh football player (Leeds United
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Mourad Wahba
Egyptian writer
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Vijay Singh Gond
Indian politician
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Hiroshi Nakamura
Japanese artist
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Madhav Gadgil
Indian ecologist
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Sir Tim Shadbolt
New Zealand politician
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Roberto Mondragón
American politician
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Renee Nicole Good
American poet and writer
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Glenn Hall
Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Bruce Hammock
American entomologist
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
William H. Yohn Jr.
American jurist and politician
Died on Thursday January 8th 2026
Arthur Stockwin British political scientist dead at age 90
Arthur Stockwin, a British political scientist who specialised in the politics and foreign policy of Japan,
died on January 7, 2026. Born in Birmingham on November 28, 1935, he studied…
Raj Kumar Pathria Statistical Mechanics 1972 dead at age 92
Raj Kumar Pathria, an Indian-American physicist and Urdu poet,
died on January 7, 2026, at the age of 92. He was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo…
Willie Knox public figure dead at age 88
Willie Knox, the Scottish football player and manager,
died on January 7, 2026. Born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, on September 9, 1937, he played as a wing half for Raith Rovers,…
Killing of Renée Good American poet and writer, shot dead at age 37
Renée Nicole Macklin Good, an American poet and writer, was fatally shot in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 7, 2026. She was 37. According to reports, Good was in her car,…
Aldrich Ames
American former counterintelligence officer (CIA) and convicted spy
Died on Wednesday January 7th 2026
Øyvind Vågnes
Norwegian writer and magazine editor
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Emmanuel Bonde
Cameroonian politician
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Geraint H. Jenkins
Welsh historian
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Jorge Cáceres
Argentine-born Colombian footballer (San Martín de Tucumán
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Fabio Cudicini
Italian footballer (Udinese
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Gerard Caris
Dutch sculptor and artist
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Knud Heinesen
Danish politician
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Pritish Nandy
Indian filmmaker
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Mirosława Marcheluk
Polish actress (Hero of the Year
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Pedro Luis García Pérez
Spanish mathematician
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Winnie Khumalo
South African singer and actress.
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Brian Usher
English footballer (Sunderland
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Rino Tommasi
Italian journalist
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Beej Chaney
American punk/new wave musician (The Suburbs)
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Gunvor Nelson
Swedish filmmaker (Schmeerguntz
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Dušan Maravić
Serbian footballer (Red Star Belgrade
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Joseph Trần Xuân Tiếu
Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Bill McMaster
Australian football player and coach (Geelong)
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Lucky Jayawardena
Sri Lankan politician
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Dale Wilson
Canadian voice actor (Dragon Ball Z
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Brian Matusz
American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Philippa Blair
New Zealand artist
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
John S. Hunkin
Canadian banker
Died on Wednesday January 8th 2025
Larry Collins
American guitarist (The Collins Kids)
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Ricardo Gálvez
Chilean lawyer
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Ron Taylor
Australian rugby league player (Eastern Suburbs
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
J. P. R. Williams
Welsh rugby union player (Barbarians
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Gonzalo García Núñez
Peruvian economist and politician
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Héctor Murguía Lardizábal
Mexican politician
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Gian Franco Reverberi
Italian composer and musician
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
John Pat Fanning
American politician and mortician
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Dwight Cook
American politician
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Ventura Pons
Spanish film director (Ocaña
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Shahla Lahiji
Iranian writer
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Frédéric Bluche
French legal historian
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Phill Niblock
American composer
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Mushtaq Talib Al-Saeedi
Iraqi militant commander (Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba)
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Franz Beckenbauer
German footballer and manager (Bayern Munich
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Maksym Kryvtsov
Ukrainian poet and soldier
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Mark Kharitonov
Russian novelist
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Guy Bonnet
French author
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Wissam al-Tawil
Lebanese militant
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
József Finta
Hungarian architect
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Bohdan Shershun
Ukrainian footballer
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Francesco Amirante
Italian magistrate
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Alessandro Argenton
Italian Olympic equestrian (1972)
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
John Scales Avery
American chemist and peace activist
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Paul Theriault
Canadian ice hockey coach (Buffalo Sabres)
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
James Herbert Brennan
Northern Irish author
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Carlos Bremer
Mexican businessman and philanthropist.
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Jorge Aguilar Mora
Mexican poet and writer
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Germana Caroli
Italian singer
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Norma Fernandes
Pakistani teacher
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Rick Duckett
American basketball coach (Fayetteville State Broncos
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Erwin Schild
German-born Canadian Conservative rabbi and author
Died on Monday January 8th 2024
Jack Bender
American cartoonist (Alley Oop)
Died on Sunday January 8th 2023