Timothy Yang dead at age 83
Timothy Yang, the Taiwanese diplomat who served as minister of foreign affairs from 2009 to 2012 and as secretary-general to the president from 2012 to 2015,
died on May 24,…
Named Yang
49 obituaries for famous people named Yang. See who they were, when they died, and read their memorial pages.
Yang Hsien
Taiwanese folk singer
Died on Tuesday December 16th 2025
Yang Chen-Ning
Chinese theoretical physicist and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics
Died on Saturday October 18th 2025
Choy Weng Yang
Singaporean artist and curator
Died on Thursday August 7th 2025
Yang Shaohua
Chinese xiangsheng comedian and actor
Died on Wednesday July 9th 2025
Yang Zhenhuai
Chinese politician
Died on Friday October 25th 2024
Yang Jen-fu
Taiwanese politician
Died on Friday September 6th 2024
Yang Shi’e
Chinese underwater acoustic engineer
Died on Monday March 25th 2024
Yang Ching-shun
Taiwanese pool player
Died on Wednesday December 6th 2023
Yang Hsiao-ping
Chinese pop singer and actress
Died on Wednesday May 3rd 2023
Yang Bing-yi
95-96
Died on Thursday March 30th 2023
Yang Zhanjia
Chinese film art director (Temptation of a Monk
Died on Sunday February 26th 2023
Yang Xusong
Chinese politician
Died on Saturday November 12th 2022
Yang Shuzi
Chinese engineer
Died on Saturday November 5th 2022
Peter Yang
Hong Kong film director (The Escape) and actor (You Can't Tell Him
Died on Tuesday October 25th 2022
Yang Yongsong
founding major general in the People's Liberation Army of China
Died on Saturday September 3rd 2022
Yang Fujia
Chinese nuclear physicist
Died on Sunday July 17th 2022
Yang Hyong-sop
North Korean politician
Died on Sunday May 15th 2022
Sze-Piao Yang
Taiwanese-Japanese physician and pulmonologist
Died on Friday May 28th 2021
Yang Xiong
Chinese politician
Died on Monday April 12th 2021
Yang Zhenduo
Chinese martial artist
Died on Sunday November 8th 2020
Yang Xin
79–80
Died on Monday February 3rd 2020
Yang Xiaobo
56–57
Died on Tuesday January 28th 2020
Yang Shengnan
Chinese historian and palaeographer
Died on Saturday May 11th 2019
Yang Naisi
Chinese linguist
Died on Monday April 1st 2019
Yang Ziyuan
Chinese politician
Died on Wednesday October 31st 2018
Yang Rudai
Chinese politician
Died on Saturday February 24th 2018
Olive Yang
Burmese warlady
Died on Tuesday July 18th 2017
Yang Yiyan
Chinese writer (Red Crag)
Died on Saturday May 20th 2017
Yang Shiming
Chinese thermodynamicist
Died on Monday February 20th 2017
Yang Jingnian
Chinese economist
Died on Sunday September 4th 2016
Yang Jiang
Chinese playwright
Died on Wednesday May 25th 2016
Yang Jian Bing
Chinese MMA fighter (ONE Championship)
Died on Friday December 11th 2015
Jianbing Yang
Chinese MMA Fighter (ONE Championship)
Died on Friday December 11th 2015
Yang Baibing
Chinese military leader and politician
Died on Tuesday January 15th 2013
Cindy Yang
Taiwanese actress
Died on Wednesday April 22nd 2015