Politics
Presidents, prime ministers, ministers and campaigners who shaped the countries they served. 394 people are remembered here. Light a candle, read their story, and add a memory of your own.
Slavi Binev1965 – 2026 · Taekwondo championEuropean taekwondo champion, MEP and federation president who saw Bulgaria win its first Olympic taekwondo medal.
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Jean-Paul Huchon1946 – 2026 · Politician and senior civil servantHe led the Paris region for seventeen years and never lost his love of rock and roll.
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Josef Duchač1938 – 2026 · Politician and chemical engineerThuringia's first minister-president after reunification, who led the state through its founding months.
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Ng Hong-mun1926 – 2026 · Educator and politicianPui Kiu's principal for 27 years and Hong Kong's longest-serving deputy to the National People's Congress.
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Leonel Nunes1949 – 2026 · Trade unionist and politicianMadeira hotel worker who fought 18 years to win back his job, then served his island in parliament.
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Norberto Di Próspero1965 – 2026 · Trade unionistArgentine union leader who spent 22 years defending the workers of the National Congress.
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Irene Mathyssen1951 – 2026 · Politician and teacherLondon's first NDP MP, a teacher who fought for women, veterans and workers.
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Atar Singh Bhadana1957 – 2026 · PoliticianFrom village sarpanch in Pali to Bayana's MLA, a Gurjar farmer leader who never forgot where he came from.
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Telma de Souza1944 – 2026 · PoliticianThe only woman elected mayor of Santos, who opened the asylum doors and put public health first.
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Bärbel Steinkemper1947 – 2026 · EconomistFirst full-time mayor of Alfter; she modernised a Rhineland municipality without forgetting its villages.
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Adinno Phizo† 2026 · President of the Naga National CouncilEldest daughter of A Z Phizo, she led the Naga National Council for 36 years and never wavered on Naga sovereignty.
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Sir John Hannam1929 – 2026 · PoliticianExeter's MP for 27 years, who fought quietly and tirelessly for the rights of disabled people.
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Patricia Blevins1954 – 2026 · PoliticianFrom Elsmere's town council to the head of Delaware's Senate, she stood up for those too often unheard.
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Patrick Anthony Conmy1934 – 2026 · Federal judge and politicianNinety two years of laughter, music, family, friends, and a life well lived.
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Benon Sevan1937 – 2026 · DiplomatA Nicosia-born UN diplomat of four decades and a pillar of Cyprus's Armenian community.
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Robert Corbin1948 – 2026 · Guyanese politicianSon of Linden who served Guyana for four decades, from youth leader to Deputy Prime Minister and Opposition Leader.
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Neem Chandra Bhowmik† 2026 · PhysicistDhaka physicist, freedom fighter and minority-rights leader who also served as ambassador to Nepal.
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Toshitsugu Saito1944 – 2026 · PoliticianSeven terms for Shizuoka, and a steady hand at the Defense Agency.
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Hubert Colin de Verdière1941 – 2026 · DiplomatTwice France's voice in Algiers, and a diplomat who chose his words with care.
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Bruce Baird1942 – 2026 · Liberal politicianModerate Liberal who helped win Sydney 2000 and fought for a more compassionate refugee policy.
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E.T. Ezung† 2026 · PoliticianFormer Nagaland Assembly Speaker who served Bhandari and the Lotha community for decades.
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Seamus O'Donnell† 2026 · CouncillorWest Waterford Independent councillor who served Dungarvan-Lismore and his beloved An tSean Phobal.
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Major Vijai Singh Mankotia† 2026 · politicianSoldier, five-time Shahpur MLA and fearless critic of power in Himachal Pradesh.
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Teodoro Gómez1963 – 2026 · Catholic bishopBishop of Choluteca and first Honduran to lead that diocese.
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Nikolay Velikdan1956 – 2026 · Politician and agronomistVillage agronomist from Sovetskoye Runo who rose to lead the Duma of Stavropol Krai and gave his life to his native land.
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Sidya Touré1945 – 2026 · PoliticianGuinean prime minister and UFR leader who linked treasury reform to opposition politics.
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Paul Butler1956 – 2026 · Sinn Fein MLA for Lagan ValleySinn Fein MLA who opened Lagan Valley for his party, then spent fifteen years supporting conflict-bereaved families.
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Career ambassador who carried Russia through the 1990s, then taught a generation at MGIMO.
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Konstantin Polezhayev1972 – 2026 · Russian politicianBelgorod mayor and housing deputy who rose from road engineer to city leader.
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Yahya Lampong1940 – 2026 · PoliticianSabah veteran who served Kota Belud and kept crossing party lines.
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Ibrahim Idris1949 – 2026 · PoliticianIbro of Kogi: businessman, two-term governor, remembered for work and mercy.
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Sir Nathaniel Waena1945 – 2026 · Governor-General of Solomon IslandsFifth Governor-General of Solomon Islands; Ulawa statesman of parliament, peace, and public service.
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Tyler Abell1932 – 2026 · LawyerLawyer and Johnson-era Chief of Protocol who kept protocol and friendship close.
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James Vincent Monsu1964 – 2026 · Chief of Emergency Management43-year USACE public servant and emergency management chief who lived life fully.
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Kip Tyner† 2026 · City council presidentCouncil president who rebuilt Alberta after the tornado.
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Heilongjiang governor and machinery industry leader.
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Princess Lindiwe† 2026 · Princess of EswatiniPrincess, Home Affairs minister, and pastor who served Eswatini with faith.
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Povilas Varanauskas1941 – 2026 · EngineerMarch 11 Independence Act signatory, engineer and advocate for Lithuania's deportees.
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Manel Abeysekera1933 – 2026 · DiplomatSri Lanka's first woman career diplomat, Madame-Sir of protocol who helped host NAM 1976 and calm a hijacking.
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Fannie Mae Johnson† 2026 · Civic leaderThe heart of Meridian: she fed the hungry and served her city.
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Tamisuke Watanuki1927 – 2026 · PoliticianFormer Lower House Speaker who rebuilt Tonami Transport and led the postal privatization revolt.
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Franklin Kury1936 – 2026 · Lawyer and politicianHe wrote the right to clean air and pure water into Pennsylvania's constitution.
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Samai Charoenchang1955 – 2026 · Politician and Islamic scholarA teacher and scholar of Islam who represented Bangkok in Thailand's parliament.
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Vito Gruosso1948 – 2026 · Trade unionist and politicianUnion leader and senator who spent his life standing up for the workers of Basilicata.
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Prince Mongo† 2026 · Businessman and perennial political candidateThe barefoot visitor from Zambodia who ran for mayor of Memphis for forty years.
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Timothy M. Carney1944 – 2026 · DiplomatA diplomat who went where others would not, and listened to the people he found there.
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Chikara Sakaguchi1934 – 2026 · PoliticianA doctor in politics who told the state to stop fighting the people it had wronged.
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Michael Conaghan1944 – 2026 · Teacher and politicianA Ballyfermot teacher who served Dublin as councillor, lord mayor and TD.
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