People who died in 2026
3,570 people remembered here.
Carles Solà1945 – 2026 · Chemical engineerUAB rector and Catalan universities minister who built a young campus.
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Ian King1969 – 2026 · GuitaristBoston hardcore guitarist with The F.U.'s; title examiner, reader, and father from Salem.
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Enrique Espejo (Yuca)1951 – 2026 · Actor and comedianPeruvian TV comedian known as Yuca, sidekick and improviser across four decades of sketch shows.
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Jim Frecklington1949 – 2026 · Royal coachmakerAustralian royal coachmaker who built state coaches for Elizabeth II and Charles III
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Lungskull2006 – 2026 · RapperParis-born Robloxcore pioneer whose track Foreign turned a game boombox into a global viral sound.
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Held: Bellaire TX Legacy notice vs Emory MD identity unresolved.
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William "Bill" Harris† 2026 · Former Symbionese Liberation Army memberSLA member in the 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapping who later rebuilt his life as a Bay Area investigator.
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Michael M. Cernea1931 – 2026 · Sociologist and anthropologistHe made the World Bank put people first, and gave the displaced a voice in development.
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Futagodake Takeshi1943 – 2026 · Sumo wrestler (komusubi) and stablemasterAomori-born komusubi whose throws and twists shaped modern sumo technique.
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David S. Greenwald1947 – 2026 · Clinical psychologistHe spoke up, but it was always with humor.
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Tomaso Tommasi di Vignano1947 – 2026 · Business executiveFounding chairman of Hera, who built one of Italy's great public utilities.
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Arvo Kruusement1928 – 2026 · Film directorDirector of Kevade who gave Estonia its century film of childhood and home.
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Marc Mercier1958 – 2026 · Professional wrestlerFrench catch world champion who rebuilt the FFCP and trained the next generation at Wissous.
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Harish Chandra Mishra1959 – 2026 · JudgeIndian judge who served as Lokayukta of Delhi and Acting Chief Justice of Jharkhand.
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Gaurang Vyas† 2026 · Music composerHe carried his father's music forward and gave Gujarati cinema the songs of more than 100 films.
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Frank Bridel1924 – 2026 · journalistLausanne journalist and writer who edited the Gazette de Lausanne and later chronicled Swiss life into his second century.
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Robert A. Kyle1928 – 2026 · PathologistMayo Clinic hematologist who named MGUS and mapped the natural history of myeloma.
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Norman Irwin1918 – 2026 · Second World War veteran (Royal Artillery and REME sergeant)Coleraine's REME founder, Desert War veteran and Northern Ireland's oldest man. Chance governs all.
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Konrad Jarausch1941 – 2026 · HistorianUNC German historian who built bridges across the Atlantic.
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Bob Davenport1932 – 2026 · Traditional folk singerGateshead voice of the British folk revival, from Camden pubs to Newport.
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Bernard Szajner1944 – 2026 · ComposerHe made light play music, and asked to be remembered for the songs.
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C.W. Morgan† 2026 · ActorThe actor who played Hank Loomis, the father at the heart of Scream's secret.
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King Harald V† 2026King of Norway for thirty five years, remembered for modernizing a quiet, well loved monarchy.
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Michel Albertini1953 – 2026 · ActorMarseille-born actor of Nelly and Mr. Arnaud and Mafiosa, and a lifelong man of the stage.
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Thomas W. Ventulett III1935 – 2026 · ArchitectAtlanta architect who cofounded TVS and shaped America's civic gathering places.
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Lottchen "Lottie" Shivers1925 – 2026 · Social workerA Bolton Hill matriarch whose curiosity and care shaped one Baltimore neighborhood for seventy years.
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Paul Gauselmann1934 – 2026 · BusinessmanMerkur Group founder who turned a jukebox side hustle into a global games empire
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Zolani Tete1988 – 2026 · Professional boxerMdantsane southpaw who set a Guinness title-fight KO record and became a two-division world champion.
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Antony Donaldson1939 – 2026 · painter and sculptorBritish Pop Art painter and sculptor of cars, figures and the Hitchcock Gainsborough head.
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Died August 21, 2026, in a Prince George's County police shooting that his family is still fighting to explain.
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Kitty Lunn1950 – 2026 · Ballet dancerShe taught dancers to dance in the body they have, and made ballet larger for everyone.
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Stanislas Lalanne1948 – 2026 · French Roman Catholic bishopA bishop and communicator who gave the French Church a clear and patient public voice.
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Randal C. Picker† 2026 · Legal scholarChicago law professor who brought game theory into law and championed free inquiry.
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Milena Zupančič1946 – 2026 · TheatreSlovenian actress, Meta of Cvetje v jeseni and a leading light of the Ljubljana Drama.
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John Niland1944 – 2026 · American football guardSix-time Pro Bowl guard who anchored the Cowboys line to their first Super Bowl.
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Deirdre McSharry1932 – 2026 · Magazine editorThe editor who made British Cosmopolitan witty, frank and unmissable.
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Arnon Soffer1935 – 2026 · Geographer and professorA founder of Haifa's geography department who spent his life studying Israel's land and people.
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Örjan Ramberg1948 – 2026 · ActorA Dramaten actor for over four decades, whose stage career and its troubled end both shaped his legacy.
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George W. Cave1929 – 2026 · CIA operations officerA Persian-speaking CIA officer who spent his life trying to understand Iran.
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Rosalina Jalosjos1947 – 2026 · Politician and registered nurseA nurse for 30 years who came home to become the first woman to govern Zamboanga del Norte.
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Gianpaolo Bellini1935 – 2026 · PhysicistThe physicist who taught the world to hear the Sun's neutrinos.
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Tulio Ramírez Padilla1960 – 2026 · Catholic bishopBishop of Guarenas and patient champion of the cause of José Gregorio Hernández.
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Alexander Romanovich1952 – 2026 · PoliticianA Soviet military interpreter who became a deputy speaker of Russia's State Duma.
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Fiorenza Marchegiani1953 – 2026 · ActressThe actress who was Marta in Ricomincio da tre and a familiar face of Italian television.
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Tomasz Szarota1940 – 2026 · HistorianThe historian who told how Warsaw lived under occupation.
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Pavel Syutkin1922 – 2026 · Army officer and Second World War veteranA wartime gunner who waited 63 years, and through homelessness, for his Hero's star.
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Kermit Davis Sr.1935 – 2026 · Basketball player and coachBabe McCarthy's first recruit, 1959 captain and Mississippi State coach for seven seasons.
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Phil Parkes1947 – 2026 · Footballer (goalkeeper)Wolves' Lofty. 127 league games in a row, a Soccer Bowl champion, and always the first to arrive and the last to leave.
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