People who died in 2026

367 people remembered here.

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  Pranab Patnaik

  1938 – 2026 · Playback singer

  Golden Voice of Odia song, forever on the airwaves.

  90 candles · 6 tributes
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  O.J. Brigance

  1969 – 2026 · Professional American and Canadian football linebacker and special-teams player

  Super Bowl Raven. Grey Cup Stallion. 19 years fighting ALS with grace.

  90 candles · 8 tributes
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  Tommy John

  1943 – 2026 · MLB pitcher

  The Bionic Man: 288 wins, 26 seasons, and the elbow surgery that gave pitchers second lives.

  90 candles · 8 tributes
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  Hal Williams

  1934 – 2026 · Actor

  Smitty, Lester, and a lifetime of grace on screen.

  90 candles · 10 tributes
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  Papa Urhobo

  † 2026 · Singer

  Papa Urhobo: the Urhobo voice on Timaya's Ogologomma who kept Asaba stages alive.

  89 candles · 4 tributes
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  Francisco Resendez

  1941 – 2026 · Voice actor

  Latin America's Scooby-Doo voice, and the first director of Los Simpson in Spanish.

  89 candles · 6 tributes
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  Will Murray

  1953 – 2026 · Novelist

  Kept Doc Savage alive and co-created Squirrel Girl; pulp historian who bridged fan to pro.

  89 candles · 6 tributes
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  Prichard Colón

  1992 – 2026 · Professional boxer (super welterweight / junior middleweight)

  Eleven years of fighting like a true champion.

  89 candles · 7 tributes
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  Bill Oddie

  1941 – 2026 · Comedian

  My ashes can be scattered on Hampstead Heath. I love it there.

  89 candles · 7 tributes
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  Robert Skidelsky

  1939 – 2026 · Economic historian

  Definitive Keynes biographer who made economics a moral argument for the good life.

  89 candles · 6 tributes
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  Mike Detillier

  1960 – 2026 · Sports radio host

  Louisiana's Football Guy who made the draft make sense.

  88 candles · 10 tributes
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  Reggie Bannister

  1945 – 2026 · Actor

  You'll always be Hot as Love.

  88 candles · 8 tributes
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  John Crowley

  1942 – 2026 · Novelist (fantasy

  Fantasy novelist of Little, Big who blurred dream and history into living story.

  88 candles · 7 tributes
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  Jeon Gyeong-cheol

  1962 – 2026 · Author

  Peter Pan Dad who searched a thousand doors so his son could live with dignity.

  87 candles · 5 tributes
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  Michel Paulin

  1933 – 2026 · Actor

  Narrator of Les Mystérieuses Cités d'or; French voice of Chinatown's Jake Gittes.

  87 candles · 4 tributes
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  Didier Decoin

  1945 – 2026 · Novelist

  Goncourt storyteller; Cotentin sea; high idea of language.

  87 candles · 9 tributes
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  Joe Morgan (manager)

  1930 – 2026 · Baseball manager

  Walpole Joe of Morgan Magic: the snowplow skipper who made Fenway believe again.

  86 candles · 9 tributes
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  Pel Schlechter

  1921 – 2026 · Graphic designer

  Comic pioneer who drew Luxembourg's posters and wrote a century in its own language.

  86 candles · 6 tributes
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  Jay Maisel

  1931 – 2026 · Photographer

  He taught generations to look: light, color, gesture.

  86 candles · 5 tributes
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  Juan Tamariz

  1942 – 2026 · Magician

  Spain's joyful master of cards: he made wonder feel like play, and made magicians rethink magic.

  86 candles · 10 tributes
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  Marty Nadler

  1945 – 2026 · Television writer-producer

  Comic's comic who wrote the laughs and shared the stage.

  85 candles · 9 tributes
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  William G. Anderson

  1927 – 2026 · Osteopathic physician and surgeon

  Albany Movement leader and first Black AOA president who healed patients and challenged a segregated nation.

  85 candles · 6 tributes
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  Ben Jones

  1941 – 2026 · Actor

  Cooter of Hazzard County and Georgia congressman who kept the General Lee running for fans.

  85 candles · 5 tributes
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  Jing Yidan

  1955 – 2026 · Television host

  Thank you, world, for letting me walk through it. (感谢这世界，让我走过)

  84 candles · 6 tributes
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  Silvia Ederra

  1983 – 2026 · Handball player (pivot

  Pivot of Estella who made the six-metre line a life's work, and came back when her body said she could.

  84 candles · 10 tributes
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  Bruce Davis

  1943 – 2026 · Film executive

  Academy executive who guarded Oscar for 22 years and wrote how the statue got its name.

  84 candles · 4 tributes
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  Milan Ohnisko

  1965 – 2026 · Poet

  He lived by poetry, and treated every word as a duty to freedom.

  84 candles · 4 tributes
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  Brian Fallon

  1933 – 2026 · Art critic

  Irish Times critic who made art feel spoken, not rarefied.

  84 candles · 8 tributes
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  Fabio Mussi

  1948 – 2026 · Politician

  Piombino worker's son who said no to the PD and kept a left gaze.

  84 candles · 4 tributes
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  Shirley Strum Kenny

  1934 – 2026 · English scholar (Restoration and eighteenth-century British drama)

  Gave Stony Brook a heart and a beautiful campus.

  84 candles · 6 tributes
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  Charles Floyd Hatcher

  1939 – 2026 · U.S. Representative (D-GA-2)

  Southwest Georgia peanut champion who treated public service as friendship.

  84 candles · 6 tributes
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  Andrea Eastman

  1940 – 2026 · Casting director (Paramount head of casting)

  Godfather casting pioneer and ICM trailblazer who spent her later years rescuing horses and dogs.

  84 candles · 5 tributes
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  Slobodan Snajder

  1948 – 2026 · Writer

  Writer of Croatian Faust and The Brass Age who would not let history go quiet.

  83 candles · 8 tributes
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  Benjamin Alire Sáenz

  1954 – 2026 · Poet

  Border poet who made lonely boys feel seen, and made El Paso a universe of love.

  83 candles · 7 tributes
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  Robert Alexy

  1945 – 2026 · German jurist and legal philosopher

  Made principles optimization commands and insisted law claim correctness.

  82 candles · 7 tributes
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  Ivan Gudelj

  1960 – 2026 · Professional footballer (defensive midfielder / versatile midfielder-defender)

  Hajduk legend and Yugoslavia's youngest captain, who turned a broken career into a life of faith and teaching.

  82 candles · 6 tributes
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  Betye Saar

  1926 – 2026 · Assemblage artist

  Assemblage pioneer who armed Aunt Jemima and remade racist kitsch into Black feminist power.

  82 candles · 9 tributes
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  Paddy Payne

  1936 – 2026 · Jumps jockey

  Hawera-born trainer who raised a racing family and a Melbourne Cup winner.

  80 candles · 7 tributes
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  Serhat Kılıç

  1975 – 2026 · Actor (theatre

  Turkish stage and screen actor of Winter Sleep and Seksenler's Ergun Plak; teacher and showman.

  80 candles · 6 tributes
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  Blanche d'Alpuget

  1944 – 2026 · Biographer

  Australian biographer of Bob Hawke, novelist of power, and the writer who asked to be remembered by one line: love one another.

  79 candles · 6 tributes
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  André Pronovost

  1936 – 2026 · Professional ice hockey left wing

  Four Cups with Montreal. Forever a proud Shawiniganais.

  79 candles · 5 tributes
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  Pierfranco Vianelli

  1946 – 2026 · Amateur then professional road cyclist (1969 to 1973)

  Brescian amateur who won Olympic road gold in Mexico City in 1968, then built bicycles at home.

  79 candles · 8 tributes
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  Stephen Walker

  † 2026 · Journalist

  BBC NI truth-teller; Hume and Trimble's biographer; Sky Blue to the end.

  79 candles · 5 tributes
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  Camilo Escalona

  1955 – 2026 · Chilean politician

  Socialist organizer who returned from exile to rebuild Chile's democracy, and led his party and Senate with steel resolve.

  79 candles · 7 tributes
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  Jerome Smith

  1939 – 2026 · Civil rights activist

  Freedom Rider who mentored Treme children and demanded humanity be respected.

  79 candles · 7 tributes
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  Alfonso Lizarazo

  1940 – 2026 · Television presenter

  Creator of Sábados Felices, who taught Colombia to laugh together and built schools with that same smile.

  79 candles · 8 tributes
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  Elaine Mokhtefi

  1928 – 2026 · Anti-colonial activist

  American-Algerian activist who made Algiers a Third World capital and told the Panthers' exile story.

  78 candles · 5 tributes
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  Ilan Dar

  1937 – 2026 · Actor (stage

  Israeli stage and screen giant; forever Ilan of Krovim Krovim.

  78 candles · 8 tributes