People who died in 2026
3,433 people remembered here.
Peppino di Capri1939 – 2026 · SingerThe dreamer from Capri who taught Neapolitan song to twist, and gave Italy Champagne, Roberta and Luna caprese.
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Roland Collombin1951 – 2026 · Alpine ski racer (downhill)La Colombe of Bagnes: Olympic silver, two downhill globes, and a laugh the whole valley still hears.
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Sparky D1965 – 2026 · RapperBrownsville's battle MC who answered Roxanne and opened the door for women in rap.
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Les Mills1934 – 2026 · Olympic athleteNew Zealand Olympian, Auckland mayor and founder of the Les Mills fitness brand.
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Anjanette Comer1939 – 2026 · ActressMid-1960s star of The Loved One and The Appaloosa, remembered for a brief, vivid run of leading roles.
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Tom Kane1962 – 2026 · Voice actor and announcerThe voice of Yoda, Professor Utonium and the Clone Wars narrator, who gave a generation its cartoon heroes.
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Robert Mueller1944 – 2026 · LawyerMarine, prosecutor and FBI director who served four presidents and put the rule of law above party.
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Vidi Aldiano1990 – 2026 · Singer-songwriterThe voice of Nuansa Bening and Status Palsu, who met cancer with courage, faith and a smile.
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James Tolkan1931 – 2026 · Character actor (Back to the FutureThe Back to the Future and Top Gun character actor who made "slacker" immortal, and was never one himself.
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Reggie McFadden1968 – 2026 · Stand-up comedianBrooklyn comic who turned the projects into punchlines, from Def Comedy Jam and In Living Color to a new life in Tanzania.
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Michel Pineda1964 – 2026 · FootballerA striker the Espanyol faithful never forgot.
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June Jones1953 – 2026 · American football coachJune would throw, and Hawaii loved him for it.
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Kojiro Ikegaya1952 – 2026 · Baseball pitcherCarp ace who won the 1976 Sawamura Award and never backed down from a hitter.
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Sir Patrick Stewart1940 – 2026 · Actor (stageA son of Mirfield who carried Shakespeare to the stars. Make it so.
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Trần Xuân Tiến† 2026 · ComposerComposer who sang for Saigon's students and wrote songs for generations of young Vietnamese.
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Heidi Grundmann1938 – 2026 · Radio journalistShe gave artists the airwaves and made radio itself a work of art.
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Émerson Leal1980 – 2026 · FootballerGrêmio academy midfielder and 2001 Copa do Brasil winner from Esteio, who died aged 46.
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Fernando Serrano Migallón1945 – 2026 · Jurist and historianSon of the Spanish exile who taught Mexico the history of its constitutions.
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Misha Mavashi (Mikhail Nits)† 2026Russian rapper turned far-right nationalist leader, dead at 41 in circumstances still unexplained.
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Gerald Fischbach1938 – 2026 · Neuroscientist and physicianHe showed how nerve cells connect, and spent his life connecting scientists to each other.
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Farit Gubaev1951 – 2026 · Photographer and journalistKazan photographer who spent half a century recording the everyday life of Tatarstan.
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Sandro De Palma1957 – 2026 · PianistA Neapolitan pianist who gave forgotten music and young players a stage.
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Jeffrey D. Stark (Jeffrey DeWitt Stark)† 2026Founder of the Life Enrichment Christian Counseling Center, devoted to helping families for over 45 years.
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Barry Murphy1940 – 2026 · Footballer and coachBarnsley's record appearance maker, 569 games for the Reds. Once a Red, always a Red.
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Gitta Lindemann1939 – 2026 · Journalist and poetShe gave Mecklenburg's writers a voice on the radio and kept her curiosity to the end.
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She built a business around Jamaican talent and helped carry its music to the world.
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Mikhail Lipskerov1939 – 2026 · ScreenwriterThe screenwriter behind The Littlest Gnome and The Wolf and the Calf, and a novelist at 68.
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Wm. Roger Louis1936 – 2026 · Historian of the British EmpireHistorian of the end of the British Empire, who taught at UT Austin for 50 years and edited The Oxford History of the British Empire.
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Kamene Okonjo† 2026 · Sociologist and professorPioneering Nigerian sociologist, scholar of Igbo women and queen mother of Ogwashi-Uku.
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Jiro Ono1953 – 2026 · Police officialPolice official, secretary to Prime Minister Koizumi and reform-minded legislator who said he was against war.
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Anouk Deschamps† 2026 · Content creatorYoung creator who showed thousands that life does not stop with a cancer diagnosis.
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Sytze Faber1937 – 2026 · Political scientistFrisian independent thinker who served in parliament, led Hoogeveen and never stopped writing.
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Russell Stone1923 – 2026 · Historian and academicThe father of Auckland history, still sharing what he knew at 103.
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A mother, grandmother and great grandmother remembered for her warmth, laughter and love of family.
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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji1933 – 2026 · PhysicistHe taught light to tame atoms, and taught generations of physicists to think clearly.
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Yury Tsyhalka1983 – 2026 · Footballer (goalkeeper)Champion in goal for Dinamo Minsk, a Belarus international, and forever one of the Tsyhalka twins.
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Jan Kříž1974 – 2026 · Physicist and university rectorA physicist who lived and breathed for his university and its students.
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Nancy Stevens1961 – 2026 · PoliticianMarlborough's first woman mayor, who went from school volunteer to three terms at City Hall.
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Kalju Kruusa1973 – 2026 · Poet and translatorEstonian poet and translator whose playful, musical verse opened Estonian to the poetry of the world.
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Oleg Garin1966 – 2026 · Footballer and coachFar Eastern striker whose goals won Lokomotiv two Russian Cups and a scoring record.
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Kang Heon (강헌)1962 – 2026 · Popular music criticThe critic who read Korean history through its songs.
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Bibhuti Pati† 2026 · JournalistOdia investigative and environmental reporter who served the state's newsrooms for decades.
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Mária Szolnoki1947 – 2026 · Hungarian foil fencer and fencing coachHungarian foil fencer, Olympic silver medallist in Munich and team world champion in 1973.
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Lua Blanco1987 – 2026 · Actress and singerRebelde's Roberta, a bossa nova granddaughter who sang for a generation.
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A devoted wife, mother and grandmother remembered for quiet strength and steady love.
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Larry Hibbard1945 – 2026 · FarmerGreenwood County rancher who served Kansas with conviction, humor and friends on both sides.
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A life about which little is known, ended in a death that raised troubling questions.
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