Named Stearns

3 obituaries for famous people named Stearns. See who they were, when they died, and read their memorial pages.

Richard E. Stearns, American computer scientist, died on August 28, 2026

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…