People who died in 2026
3,423 people remembered here.
Andrés Hernando1938 – 2026 · BullfighterA classical Castilian matador who opened the great gate of Las Ventas three times.
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Akio Usami1943 – 2026 · Marathon runner and professorHe climbed to the summit as a boy, and never stopped running for Japan.
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Michelle Morales† 2026 · Community organizer and foundation presidentShe organized for justice all her life and made sure everyone had a seat at the table.
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A dairy farmer and factory worker from the hills of central New York.
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Krishnaraj† 2026 · Tamil film playback singerThe voice of Thanjavooru Mannu Eduthu, carrying Tamil cinema songs into every home.
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Tetsuya Chiba1939 – 2026 · Manga artistHe drew Joe Yabuki burning down to white ash, and showed Japan that manga is culture.
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Reimo Wukounig1943 – 2026 · PainterA Carinthian painter who turned a wounded childhood into fearless, uncompromising art.
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A nurse who spent her life caring for new mothers, their babies, and anyone who needed her.
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Manuel Otto† 2026 · Video game developerCreator of Stick Run, who gave millions of players a game he built as a schoolboy.
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Allen Strickland† 2026Longtime McNairy County chief deputy and emergency management director.
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Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Malov1975 – 2026 · EducatorChabad educator who filled his neighbourhood synagogue with children learning Torah each night.
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Samantha Humphrey† 2026Samantha Humphrey of Schenectady, loved and missed, gone too soon at fourteen.
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Rinze Visser1938 – 2026 · Communist politician and municipal councillorLemmer communist who served his town for 56 years, the longest serving councillor in the Netherlands.
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Antonio Nisi† 2026A gardener from Ostuni, a motorsport champion, remembered as always smiling and full of life.
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Taiwo Godwin (Taiwo Godwin Ayodeji)† 2026A nursing student whose sudden death raised hard questions about emergency care in Nigeria.
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A devoted mother, grandmother and companion from Reading, Pennsylvania.
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A devoted wife, mother and grandmother remembered for her warmth and faith.
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Bo Johansson1942 – 2026 · Football coachThe gentle Swede who took Denmark to the 1998 World Cup quarter-finals.
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Ruthann Shigeko Kurose1951 – 2026 · Human rights activistSeattle activist and congressional aide who helped start the fight for Japanese American redress.
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Michael Forest1929 – 2026 · Actor and voice actorActor who played Apollo on Star Trek and lent his voice to hundreds of films.
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Horst Johanning† 2026 · Theatre director and managerBonn theatre maker who led the Contra-Kreis-Theater for more than four decades.
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Peter D. Thomas1973 – 2026 · Historian of political thought and Marxist theoristGramsci scholar whose Gramscian Moment remade Marxist political theory.
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Ēvalds Grabovskis1941 – 2026 · Ice hockey coachCoach of Dinamo Riga and Podhale, and keeper of Latvian hockey's memory.
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Japheth Njoku† 2026A security guard whose death in Nigerian police custody exposed abuses inside Imo's Tiger Base unit.
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Liam Lynch† 2026 · PhotographerSouth African rock photographer who framed Fokofpolisiekar's early years.
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Cynthia Miller† 2026Beloved wife of Detroit Lions broadcaster Dan Miller and devoted mother of four.
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A devoted wife, mother and teacher from Horton, Michigan, remembered for a life of faith and family.
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Vladimír Kopecký1931 – 2026 · PainterCzech painter and glass artist who taught a generation to value expression over polish.
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Claudia Whitworth† 2026 · Newspaper editor and publisherShe kept the Roanoke Tribune in print every week for 55 years, and put her community's good news first.
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Remembered by family and friends for her curiosity, warmth, and love of life.
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Anwar Shaikh1945 – 2026 · EconomistHe rebuilt economics from the classics and taught generations to see how capitalism really works.
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A devoted father and grandfather who found his greatest pride in his daughter, Jennifer.
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Jean Manga Onguéné1946 – 2026 · FootballerLa Tête d'Or of Canon Yaoundé, 1980 African Footballer of the Year, and a lifelong servant of Cameroonian football.
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Michael Kearns1950 – 2026 · ActorHollywood's first openly gay actor and an AIDS performer-warrior who turned his own truth into theatre and activism.
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Gary Cosay† 2026 · Talent agentCo-founder of United Talent Agency who championed television's writers for decades.
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Larry Gay1951 – 2026 · College basketball assistant coach and former Florida State playerWinchester's own, from the 1972 Final Four to a life on the bench. His heart was always at GRC.
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Gary Daugherty1967 – 2026 · PoliticianKane County Board member and brief Illinois House appointee who taught firearm and motorcycle safety.
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Moïse Kwasivi Fiadjoe† 2026 · Gynaecologist and fertility specialistThe Togolese doctor who performed his country's first IVF and gave hope to thousands of couples.
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Bryan Walker† 2026 · Fashion executiveCo-founder of Bryn Walker, the Berkeley women's clothing label he built with his wife, Michelle Min, over more than 30 years.
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Irene Hasenberg Butter1930 – 2026 · Professor Emeritus of Public HealthHolocaust survivor, U-M professor emeritus, and peace educator who taught never to be a bystander.
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Myles O'Connor1967 – 2026 · Professional ice hockey defencemanMichigan captain, NHL defenceman with the Devils and Mighty Ducks, and proud hockey dad.
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Von Scales1968 – 2026 · EntrepreneurSt. Louis entrepreneur and husband of Trina Braxton, remembered for steady warmth.
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A Navy veteran, shipyard crane operator, devoted husband and grandfather.
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Jasmine Aujla Gill† 2026A young mother whose disappearance became a case that shook a community and demanded justice.
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Hayden O'Dell2004 – 2026 · College baseball pitcherFierce competitor, infectious smile: Mobile's Hayden O'Dell, gone at 22.
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Gonzalo Suárez1934 – 2026 · Film directorAsturian filmmaker and writer who remade myth and genre with restless imagination.
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Susie Wasdin† 2026 · Philanthropist and fundraiserCocoa Village philanthropist whose joyful galas raised millions for Brevard causes.
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