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Lage Tedenby, Swedish Olympic steeplechaser, died on May 18, 2026

Lage Tedenby dead at age 88

Lage Tedenby
died on May 18, 2026. He was a Swedish Olympic steeplechaser. Tags Other, 18 May 2026, Gemini, Lage, Sweden, Tedenby, May 18, May 2026

May 18, 2026 4:16 pm

Jacqueline Maurer-Mayor dead at age 78, Swiss politician, member of the Grand Council of Vaud, memb…

Jacqueline Maurer-Mayor, Swiss politician and civil servant,
died on May 18, 2026, at the age of 78. She served on the Grand Council of Vaud from 1978 to 1985 and…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

José Ribamar Pereira dead at age 81

José Ribamar Pereira, a Brazilian politician who served as a Piauí state deputy from 1999 to 2003 and again in 2011,
died on May 18, 2026. He was 81. Pereira…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Abomé l’Éléphant dead at age 33

Abomé l'Éléphant, the Ivorian singer and rapper better known by his stage name,
died on May 18, 2026, in Treichville, Ivory Coast, at the age of 33. Born Anassin Boris…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Sally Head dead at age 79

Sally Head, the British television producer behind Cracker, Prime Suspect and Jeeves and Wooster,
died on May 18, 2026, of cancer. She was 79. Head began her career as a…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Ofer Bronchtein, Activist, died on May 18, 2026

Ofer Bronchtein dead at age 69, French-Israeli peace activist and diplomat, complications from chro…

Ofer Bronchtein, a French-Israeli peace activist and diplomat,
died on May 18, 2026, in Paris, France, from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 69. Born in Beersheba, Israel,…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Helmut F. Kaplan dead at age 73

Helmut F. Kaplan
died on May 18, 2026. He was an Austrian philosopher. Tags Scientists, 18 May 2026, Austria, Helmut, Kaplan, May 18, May 2026

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Patrick Sookhdeo dead at age 79, British activist, founder and director of Barnabas Aid

Patrick Sookhdeo, a British activist and founder and director of Barnabas Aid from 1993 to 2015,
died on May 18, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in British Guiana…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Meredith Lillich dead at age 94

Meredith Lillich, an American art historian,
died on May 18, 2026. She was 94. Lillich was an art historian and medievalist who taught at Syracuse University. She was educated at…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Crawford Henry dead at age 88

Crawford Henry, an American tennis player,
died on May 18, 2026, at age 88. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 30, 1937, he was a high school tennis standout in…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Roberto Malenotti dead at age 86

Roberto Malenotti
died on May 18, 2026. He was 86. The Italian filmmaker was born in Pisa on June 6, 1939. Malenotti worked as a film director, screenwriter and producer.…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Tom Kane, American cartoonist, died on July 14, 2022

Tom Kane dead at age 64, American voice actor, complications from a stroke

Tom Kane, an American voice actor known for work in The Powerpuff Girls, Star Wars and The Wild Thornberrys, died May 18, 2026, of complications from a stroke. He was…

July 14, 2022 12:00 am

Jim Irvine dead at age 85

Jim Irvine, the Scottish footballer who played for Dundee United, Middlesbrough and Barrow,
died on May 18, 2026, aged 85. Irvine, who was a forward, appeared in the Scottish Football…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Caitlin O’Heaney, American actress, died on May 18, 2026

Caitlin O’Heaney dead at age 73

Caitlin O'Heaney, the American actress best known for her lead role in the television adventure series "Tales of the Gold Monkey,"
died on May 18, 2026, at age 73. Born…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Tore Berger, died on May 19, 2026, at the age of 81. Born in Asker on 11 November 1944, he competed mainly in four-man events and represented Norway at the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games. Berger won an Olympic gold medal in 1968 and placed third at the 1972 Games. He also won a world title in 1970 and a European title in 1969. He died in Bærum, died on May 18, 2026

Tore Berger dead at age 81

Tore Berger, a Norwegian Olympic sprint canoeist,
died on May 19, 2026, at the age of 81. Born in Asker on 11 November 1944, he competed mainly in four-man events…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Ulises Schmill Ordóñez dead at age 89, Mexican judge, minister and president of the supreme court

Ulises Schmill Ordóñez, a Mexican judge and minister of the Supreme Court,
died on May 18, 2026, at the age of 89. He served as a minister of the court…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Stepan Kubiv dead at age 64, Ukrainian politician, first deputy prime minister and chairman of the…

Stepan Kubiv, a Ukrainian politician who served as first deputy prime minister from 2016 to 2019 and as chairman of the National Bank in 2014,
died on May 18, 2026.…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Gregory D. Shorey Jr. dead at age 101, American politician, chairman of the South Carolina Republic…

Gregory D. Shorey Jr., an American politician who served as chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party from 1958 to 1961,
died on May 18, 2026. He was 101. Born…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Étienne Davignon dead at age 93

Étienne Davignon, Belgian diplomat and civil servant who served as European commissioner from 1977 to 1985,
died on May 18, 2026, at age 93. Born in Budapest on October 4,…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Serigne Ibrahima Mahmoud Cissé dead at age 73

Serigne Ibrahima Mahmoud Cissé, a Senegalese teacher and religious guide,
died on May 18, 2026. Born in 1952, he taught traditional Arab and Islamic traditions in Senegalese schools in a…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Crow dead at age 64

Crow, the Australian rock band founded in Sydney in 1986 by songwriters Peter Fenton and Peter Archer,
died on May 18, 2026. Known for three albums released in the 1990s,…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Aldo Naouri, French paediatric psychologist and psychoanalyst, died on May 18, 2026

Aldo Naouri dead at age 88

Aldo Naouri, a French paediatric psychologist and psychoanalyst,
died on May 18, 2026, in Paris, France, aged 88. Born in Benghazi, Italian Libya, on Dec. 22, 1937, he came from…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Gianclaudio Bressa, business consultant, died on May 18, 2026

Gianclaudio Bressa dead at age 70, Italian politician, mayor of Belluno, deputy, and senator

Gianclaudio Bressa, an Italian politician who served as mayor of Belluno from 1990 to 1993, deputy from 1996 to 2018, and senator from 2018 to 2022,
died on May 18,…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Feliksas Bajoras dead at age 91

Feliksas Bajoras, a Lithuanian composer and academic,
died on May 18, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in Alytus on October 7, 1934, he studied violin at the Lithuanian…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Geovani Silva, Bologna, national team), Olympic silver medallist, organ failure, died on May 18, 2026

Geovani Silva dead at age 62, Brazilian footballer, Olympic silver medallist, organ failure

Geovani Silva, a Brazilian footballer who played for Vasco da Gama, Bologna and the national team,
died on May 18, 2026, of organ failure. He was 62. A midfielder, he…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Huguette Bouchardeau, minister of the environment, died on May 18, 2026

Huguette Bouchardeau dead at age 90, French politician, minister of the environment

Huguette Bouchardeau, French politician and minister of the environment from 1984 to 1986,
died on May 18, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France, on June…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Marideth Sisco dead at age 82

Marideth Sisco, an American author and musician,
died on May 18, 2026, at the age of 82. Also known as Marideth Ann Sisco, she was an American storyteller, folklorist, singer-songwriter,…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Carey Scurry dead at age 63

Carey Scurry, an American basketball player,
died on May 18, 2026, at the age of 63. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 4, 1962, he was a 6-foot-7 small…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Ole Nydahl, Danish lama, died on May 18, 2026

Ole Nydahl dead at age 85

Ole Nydahl, the Danish lama known for providing Mahamudra teachings in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism,
died on May 18, 2026, at age 85. Born in Copenhagen on…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Piper J. Drake dead at age 49

Piper J. Drake, an American author,
died on May 18, 2026, at the age of 49. Better known by the pseudonym Piper J. Drake and also writing as PJ Schnyder,…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Patriotic Kenny dead at age 84, American veteran and influencer, lung cancer and congestive heart f…

Patriotic Kenny, an American veteran and social media personality,
died on May 18, 2026, at age 84 of lung cancer and congestive heart failure. Born Kenneth Jary on January 29,…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am

Toshifumi Suzuki dead at age 93

Toshifumi Suzuki, a Japanese businessman and former CEO and president of 7-Eleven,
died on May 18, 2026, at the age of 93. Suzuki was a longtime executive who had been…

May 18, 2026 12:00 am