People who died in 2026
3,399 people remembered here.
Khalid Mahmood1941 – 2026 · Field hockey player (right-out)Olympic gold medallist and inaugural World Cup captain who kept serving Pakistan hockey for decades after he hung up the stick.
91 candles · 6 tributes
Nina Popova1945 – 2026 · Actress (theatreSixty years on one Moscow stage, and Zhenya in the first Soviet television serial.
91 candles · 6 tributes
Monti Parungao1967 – 2026 · Film and television directorDirek Monti: soft on set, honest in the fight, forever rolling.
91 candles · 9 tributes
Annette Saint-Pierre1925 – 2026 · EducatorEducator and publisher who made Franco-Manitoban literature visible and saved Gabrielle Roy's house.
91 candles · 7 tributes
Larry Christenson1953 – 2026 · MLB pitcher (Phillies 1973-1983)LC: smile on, teammates kept close.
91 candles · 10 tributes
Dimitris Kokotas1968 – 2026 · SingerBe strong enough to keep singing the songs we loved.
91 candles · 8 tributes
Francisco Resendez1941 – 2026 · Voice actorLatin America's Scooby-Doo voice, and the first director of Los Simpson in Spanish.
90 candles · 6 tributes
Rachel Blau DuPlessis1941 – 2026 · PoetFeminist poet-critic whose life poem Drafts remade the American long poem.
90 candles · 10 tributes
Jean-François Leroy1956 – 2026 · PhotojournalistHe made Perpignan a beacon: go and see, never look away.
90 candles · 4 tributes
Pranab Patnaik1938 – 2026 · Playback singerGolden Voice of Odia song, forever on the airwaves.
90 candles · 6 tributes
Janie Bradford1939 – 2026 · SongwriterMotown's early lyric voice; Money's couplet; HAL's family keeper.
90 candles · 9 tributes
Hal Williams1934 – 2026 · ActorSmitty, Lester, and a lifetime of grace on screen.
90 candles · 10 tributes
Dory Chamoun1931 – 2026 · PoliticianEldest son of Camille Chamoun who led the National Liberal Party through occupation, boycott and the Cedar Revolution.
89 candles · 4 tributes
Papa Urhobo† 2026 · SingerPapa Urhobo: the Urhobo voice on Timaya's Ogologomma who kept Asaba stages alive.
89 candles · 4 tributes
Jeon Gyeong-cheol1962 – 2026 · AuthorPeter Pan Dad who searched a thousand doors so his son could live with dignity.
89 candles · 5 tributes
Eric Pearce1931 – 2026 · Field hockey player (centre-forward)Four-time Olympian, first Australian hockey player at four Games; bronze Tokyo, silver Mexico, forever Kookaburra #148.
89 candles · 8 tributes
Tommy John1943 – 2026 · MLB pitcherThe Bionic Man: 288 wins, 26 seasons, and the elbow surgery that gave pitchers second lives.
89 candles · 8 tributes
Prichard Colón1992 – 2026 · Professional boxer (super welterweight / junior middleweight)Eleven years of fighting like a true champion.
89 candles · 7 tributes
Bill Oddie1941 – 2026 · ComedianMy ashes can be scattered on Hampstead Heath. I love it there.
89 candles · 7 tributes
Robert Skidelsky1939 – 2026 · Economic historianDefinitive Keynes biographer who made economics a moral argument for the good life.
89 candles · 6 tributes
James Wehr1999 – 2026 · Car influencerCo-founder of the world's biggest weekly car show, remembered for building community one Saturday at a time.
88 candles · 7 tributes
Mike Detillier1960 – 2026 · Sports radio hostLouisiana's Football Guy who made the draft make sense.
88 candles · 10 tributes
Will Murray1953 – 2026 · NovelistKept Doc Savage alive and co-created Squirrel Girl; pulp historian who bridged fan to pro.
88 candles · 6 tributes
O.J. Brigance1969 – 2026 · Professional American and Canadian football linebacker and special-teams playerSuper Bowl Raven. Grey Cup Stallion. 19 years fighting ALS with grace.
88 candles · 8 tributes
Aracy Amaral1930 – 2026 · Art historianHistorian of Brazilian modernism who led museums and made Tarsila's catalogue a national reference.
87 candles · 5 tributes
Michel Paulin1933 – 2026 · ActorNarrator of Les Mystérieuses Cités d'or; French voice of Chinatown's Jake Gittes.
87 candles · 4 tributes
Didier Decoin1945 – 2026 · NovelistGoncourt storyteller; Cotentin sea; high idea of language.
87 candles · 9 tributes
Virgil Williams1991 – 2026 · High school football coachCoach Vee Will: Evangel champ, Virgil Island at Southern, Calvary mentor.
86 candles · 6 tributes
Catherine Ringer1957 – 2026 · Singer-songwriterVoice of Les Rita Mitsouko who made French pop dance, then kept the repertoire alive alone.
86 candles · 9 tributes
Joe Morgan (manager)1930 – 2026 · Baseball managerWalpole Joe of Morgan Magic: the snowplow skipper who made Fenway believe again.
86 candles · 9 tributes
Juan Tamariz1942 – 2026 · MagicianSpain's joyful master of cards: he made wonder feel like play, and made magicians rethink magic.
86 candles · 10 tributes
John Crowley1942 – 2026 · Novelist (fantasyFantasy novelist of Little, Big who blurred dream and history into living story.
86 candles · 7 tributes
Ian Berry1934 – 2026 · PhotojournalistMagnum eye at Sharpeville whose frames proved the crowd was fleeing, not fighting.
85 candles · 4 tributes
Pel Schlechter1921 – 2026 · Graphic designerComic pioneer who drew Luxembourg's posters and wrote a century in its own language.
85 candles · 6 tributes
William G. Anderson1927 – 2026 · Osteopathic physician and surgeonAlbany Movement leader and first Black AOA president who healed patients and challenged a segregated nation.
85 candles · 6 tributes
Olu Jacobs1942 – 2026 · ActorNollywood godfather who brought RADA craft from British TV to over 120 Nigerian films.
84 candles · 7 tributes
Sean Michael Lee1976 – 2026 · United States Army paratrooperArmy paratrooper and rescue organiser who answered every call with Send me.
84 candles · 3 tributes
Bruce Davis1943 – 2026 · Film executiveAcademy executive who guarded Oscar for 22 years and wrote how the statue got its name.
84 candles · 4 tributes
Shirley Strum Kenny1934 – 2026 · English scholar (Restoration and eighteenth-century British drama)Gave Stony Brook a heart and a beautiful campus.
84 candles · 6 tributes
Brian Fallon1933 – 2026 · Art criticIrish Times critic who made art feel spoken, not rarefied.
84 candles · 8 tributes
Fabio Mussi1948 – 2026 · PoliticianPiombino worker's son who said no to the PD and kept a left gaze.
84 candles · 4 tributes
Milan Ohnisko1965 – 2026 · PoetHe lived by poetry, and treated every word as a duty to freedom.
84 candles · 3 tributes
Charles Floyd Hatcher1939 – 2026 · U.S. Representative (D-GA-2)Southwest Georgia peanut champion who treated public service as friendship.
84 candles · 6 tributes
Marty Nadler1945 – 2026 · Television writer-producerComic's comic who wrote the laughs and shared the stage.
84 candles · 9 tributes
Andrea Eastman1940 – 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
Jay Maisel1931 – 2026 · PhotographerHe taught generations to look: light, color, gesture.
84 candles · 5 tributes