People who died in 2026
3,451 people remembered here.
Stephen "Cat" Coore1956 – 2026 · GuitaristReggae Ambassador whose guitar and cello carried Jamaica to the world.
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Glenn Hall1931 – 2026 · Professional ice hockey goaltender (NHL)Mr. Goalie. Hall of Fame goaltender who started 502 straight NHL games without a mask and pioneered the butterfly style.
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Steve Holsey† 2026 · Journalist and entertainment columnistLet the music play!
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Terry Yorath1950 – 2026 · Footballer and football managerCaptain and manager of Wales, Leeds United champion, and a gentle father who carried his grief with quiet dignity.
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Zaur Rzayev1952 – 2026 · Azerbaijani singerA warm voice of Azerbaijani song who led the Armed Forces ensemble for over thirty years.
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Shae Hopkins† 2026Forty years at KET, more than seventeen at its helm, in service to every corner of Kentucky.
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Vladimir Aleinikov1946 – 2026 · Russian poetLeader of SMOG, whose poems lived in samizdat for decades before Russia could read them.
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Charles Faggart† 2026Jacksonville man whose death in custody prompted a judge to order the release of jail records.
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Franco Carrera1943 – 2026 · FootballerNovara captain from Turin who swapped the midfield for the kitchen and made ravioli for forty years.
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Yuri Shkuropat1937 – 2026 · Civil engineerA builder who led Irkutsk and helped raise much of the city he served.
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Bram van Erkel1932 – 2026 · Television director and presenterTeacher turned television director who gave Dutch children Oebele and Q & Q.
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Allison DeFoor1953 – 2026 · LawyerJudge, sheriff, priest and steward of Florida's wild places.
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Joseph Lagu1931 – 2026 · Military officerThe general who united the south's struggle and lived to see South Sudan born.
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Neeraj Yadav1984 – 2026 · Para-athlete (F55 javelinThree-time Asian Para Games champion who rose from childhood paralysis to the top of Asian para throwing.
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Boris Ataev1957 – 2026 · Linguist and Caucasus scholarA son of Khunzakh who gave his life to the Avar language and the languages of Dagestan.
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Antoine Spire1946 – 2026 · JournalistFrance Culture voice who gave the airwaves to great thinkers, to exiles and to the debate of ideas.
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Sheffi Paz1952 – 2026 · ActivistA south Tel Aviv activist who never stopped fighting for her neighbourhood as she saw it.
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Victor Anicet1938 – 2026 · Martinican ceramistPotter of memory who gave Martinique's clay a voice and kept his studio open to all.
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Dionysis Ferendinos† 2026 · Television and film directorDirector who brought some of Greece's best loved television comedies to the screen.
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Andrei Doroshkevich1937 – 2026 · Astrophysicist and cosmologistCosmologist who foresaw that the afterglow of the Big Bang could be measured.
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Keith Boardman1926 – 2026 · BiochemistBiochemist who proved photosynthesis runs on two photosystems and led CSIRO through an era of change.
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Mahadev Shankar† 2026 · Lawyer and judgeA Malaysian judge remembered for wise judgments and service on three Royal Commissions.
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Ross Newhan1937 – 2026 · SportswriterHe wrote the story of Southern California baseball for more than forty years.
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Paolo Romeo1938 – 2026 · Italian Catholic cardinalDiplomat of the Holy See on four continents and shepherd of Palermo. Caritas omnia sustinet: love bears all things.
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Rudi Fuchs1942 – 2026 · Art historianHe led the Van Abbe, the Gemeentemuseum and the Stedelijk, and taught a nation to look.
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Marcelo Trepat1964 – 2026 · ActorFrom Drácula to Les Luthiers, Pergamino's song-and-dance man found his quiet stage in the Córdoba hills.
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Pete Banaszak1944 – 2026 · American football playerRaiders running back for 13 seasons, Super Bowl XI scorer and part of the Holy Roller.
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Derrick Harriott1939 – 2026 · SingerThe Jiving Juniors star and Crystal label pioneer who sang The Loser and helped launch Dennis Brown.
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Husband, father, and devoted volunteer for the Zoar community he loved.
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Lauren Maturo† 2026Marketing executive at RXR, remembered by colleagues after her sudden death at 32.
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Sergei Sarbash1967 – 2026 · Jurist and judgeA judge and scholar who taught Russian lawyers how contracts are kept.
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Dudley Coetzee† 2026 · PoliticianOverstrand's careful keeper of the public purse, who served his coastal towns as mayor and councillor to the very end.
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Dale Brown1935 – 2026 · College basketball coachThe Master Motivator who hung nets across Louisiana and took LSU to two Final Fours.
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Engineer, musician, and family man who helped build America's spacecraft and submarines.
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Anika Rashaun† 2026Reality television personality and host, remembered for her warmth and determination.
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Thayer Scudder1930 – 2026 · Social anthropologistCaltech anthropologist who spent 60 years showing what big dams cost the people displaced by them.
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Vladimir Abroyan1939 – 2026 · Caricaturist and graphic artistArmenian caricaturist whose cartoons for Vozni and Krokodil made readers laugh for more than sixty years.
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A devoted wife, mother, and grandmother remembered for her faith and love of family.
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Steven Echendu† 2026Nigerian actor remembered as one of Nollywood's longtime, steady hands.
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Vladislovas Jonaitis1935 – 2026 · DiplomatLithuanian born diplomat who served Moscow for four decades, from Ho Chi Minh City to Kinshasa to Sydney.
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Napo Meskhia1938 – 2026 · Neurosurgeon and politicianHe brought neurosurgery to Abkhazia and stood by its displaced people to the end.
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Vummidi Ethiraj1926 – 2026 · Jeweller and craftsmanHe helped craft the Sengol that marked the dawn of India's independence.
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Jack Cawthon† 2026 · RestaurateurThe Nashville caterer who let the pigs fly over Broadway and helped bring Lower Broadway back to life.
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Bob Franken† 2026 · Journalist and television correspondentHe reported history live from Capitol Hill to Baghdad, always with a pun ready.
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Longtime ESPN Radio producer remembered as one of the steadiest, kindest voices behind the scenes.
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Her death was announced in Bandon, County Cork; further details are not yet confirmed.
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A Rockford Koeds ballplayer, world traveling wife and devoted mother, remembered with love.
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Jan Novák1947 – 2026 · Theatre directorVinohrady's artistic chief whose staging of The Hill spoke truth about power in 1988.
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