People who died in 2026
3,582 people remembered here.
Alexander Dzherov1929 – 2026 · Jurist and politicianA great jurist who helped write the constitution of a free Bulgaria.
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Remembered by his family as a son, brother, uncle, and lifelong lover of the Lake Michigan shoreline.
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Ali Haroun1927 – 2026 · Lawyer and politicianLawyer and FLN fighter who helped steer Algeria through war and crisis.
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Léon Ghosez1934 – 2026 · Organic chemistLouvain chemist who built a school of organic chemistry and trained a generation of scientists.
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Charles Cova1931 – 2026 · French naval officer and politicianSailor, mayor and deputy, he gave Chelles its stadium, its museum and a cultural centre shaped like a ship.
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Peter Hofstötter† 2026 · Artist representativeFor sixty years the quiet, meticulous friend behind Plácido Domingo's career.
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Jonathan Finlay1948 – 2026 · Paediatric neuro-oncologistHe spared countless children from radiation and gave them a future. Pioneer of the Head Start trials, mentor to a generation.
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Christian Piquemal1940 – 2026 · French Army generalSaint-Cyrien, paratrooper and Père Légion of the French Foreign Legion (1994 to 1999), a four-star general who never stopped speaking his mind.
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Larry Henderson1917 – 2026 · Newspaper editorMarine, deputy and family man who served Hamilton County for more than three decades.
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Asim Kurjak1942 – 2026 · GynaecologistA pioneer of ultrasound who taught a generation to see the unborn child as a patient.
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Augusto Delkáder† 2026 · Journalist and media executiveEl País founder and SER chief who lived by one rule: when in doubt, do journalism.
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Lorn Cowie1926 – 2026 · Judge and rugby union playerScotland rugby cap and High Court judge who lived to see a century.
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Álvaro Salazar1938 – 2026 · Composer and conductorComposer and conductor who opened Portugal's ears to new music for almost fifty years.
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Yehuda Cohen1958 – 2026 · Public administratorA lifelong public servant who ran councils across Israel and led the administration of its Chief Rabbinate.
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Mélanie Berger-Volle1921 – 2026 · French Resistance fighterVienna-born resistance fighter who escaped the Gestapo and spent a century warning the young against fascism.
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Ricardo Durán1938 – 2026 · RowerSan Nicolás rower who carried his river town to the Tokyo Olympics in a coxless pair.
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Sibusisiwe Gugu Manqele† 2026 · Screenwriter and actressSouth African screenwriter and actress who championed isiZulu and local storytelling.
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Yury Antipkin1950 – 2026 · Pediatrician and medical scientistUkrainian pediatrician who spent fifty years caring for the health of the nation's mothers and children.
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A devoted wife, mother and grandmother remembered for her faith, warmth and artistry.
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Tom Skerritt1933 – 2026 · ActorAir Force veteran, Emmy winner and storyteller who anchored M*A*S*H, Alien, Top Gun and Picket Fences, then helped veterans tell their own stories.
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Paris Mashile1948 – 2026 · EngineerAn engineer who pushed South Africa's phone networks to lower their prices.
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Dennis Vargas Marín1952 – 2026 · Radio journalistThe voice who helped build RPP's newsroom and brought Quechua to a World Cup broadcast.
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Daniel Sorín1951 – 2026 · Novelist and essayistArgentine novelist who turned the country's history and politics into fiction.
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Georgi Nemsadze1972 – 2026 · Footballer and coachCaptain of Georgia and a Dundee legend, he played the game with vision and grace.
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Tyler Cooper† 2026 · Physician and CEO of Cooper AerobicsPhysician, champion runner and mountaineer who carried his father's mission of healthier lives into a new generation.
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Alexander Sizov1948 – 2026 · PoliticianFrom the motor plant floor to the State Duma, he spent his life serving Yaroslavl.
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Ng Joo Pong1946 – 2026 · Olympic cyclist (Tokyo 1964The King of the Road. Malaysia's two-time Olympic cyclist, who said he would ride till his dying day.
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Donald Alexander Wright III1943 – 2026 · U.S. Navy officer and test pilotNavy helicopter test pilot who led NAS Patuxent River and wished to be remembered as a problem solver.
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Nikolay Koshman1944 – 2026 · Colonel generalThe railway builder Moscow sent to rebuild Chechnya.
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A Rochester special education teacher remembered for decades of quiet dedication to his students.
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Allen Bailey1989 – 2026 · American football playerFrom Sapelo Island to ten NFL seasons, a strong and steady presence on the defensive line.
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Amel Baccouche1949 – 2026 · ActressTunisian actress who made Jannet of Choufli Hal a household name.
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Juha Kallas1941 – 2026 · Chemical engineerAn Estonian chemical engineer who linked the universities of Tallinn and Lappeenranta.
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Andrey Terentyev1982 – 2026 · ActorThe actor who played Spirt in We Are from the Future, and gave Russian screens more than 50 roles.
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Joey Cusumano1935 – 2026 · Restaurateur and film producerThe last man standing from Las Vegas's mob era, and, by his own telling, its luckiest man.
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Larisa Naumova1945 – 2026 · PainterA Crimean-born painter who found the sacred in apples, balconies and ordinary lives.
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Peter Zinkann1928 – 2026 · Mechanical engineer and industrialist (Miele)Engineer and co-owner of Miele who built its first fully automatic washing machine.
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Kenneth Atchity1944 – 2026 · AuthorYale classicist turned Hollywood story merchant, who brought The Meg from page to screen.
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Subagyo Hadi Siswoyo1946 – 2026 · Army generalThe Kopassus general who led Indonesia's army through the fall of Suharto and the dawn of reform.
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Boris Kochubievsky† 2026 · Engineer and dissidentHe told Brezhnev he would walk to Israel if he had to, and paid with three years in a Soviet camp.
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Hilkka Kinnunen1925 – 2026 · Finnish sopranoPrima donna of Finnish operetta, who founded the Operettiteatteri and led it for over thirty years.
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Rhegan Spiegel† 2026Former UMKC volleyball player, remembered after a sudden and violent death.
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Kamaruddin Simanjuntak1974 – 2026 · LawyerIndonesian lawyer who spoke for Brigadir J's family in the Ferdy Sambo case.
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Gennady Sobolev1935 – 2026 · HistorianLeningrad historian who survived the blockade as a child and spent his life writing its history.
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Vladlen Dozortsev1939 – 2026 · PoetPoet and playwright of The Last Visitor who voted for Latvia's independence in 1990.
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Ana Rita Sithole† 2026 · PoliticianInhambane's voice in parliament who led the ACP states' assembly into the Samoa era.
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Raju Dewitt† 2026A Chatsworth man killed by a hit and run driver while walking in a crosswalk.
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Ann Hornaday1960 – 2026 · Film critic and journalistShe taught readers how to watch movies, with warmth, rigor and never a cheap shot.
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