People who died in 2026
3,402 people remembered here.
Ben Jones1941 – 2026 · ActorCooter of Hazzard County and Georgia congressman who kept the General Lee running for fans.
84 candles · 5 tributes
Jing Yidan1955 – 2026 · Television hostThank you, world, for letting me walk through it. (感谢这世界，让我走过)
83 candles · 6 tributes
Silvia Ederra1983 – 2026 · Handball player (pivotPivot of Estella who made the six-metre line a life's work, and came back when her body said she could.
83 candles · 10 tributes
Benjamin Alire Sáenz1954 – 2026 · PoetBorder poet who made lonely boys feel seen, and made El Paso a universe of love.
83 candles · 7 tributes
Christof Straub1969 – 2026 · GuitaristAustrian guitarist and songwriter who gave Papermoon its poems and helped his daughter Zoë reach Eurovision.
82 candles · 9 tributes
Robert Alexy1945 – 2026 · German jurist and legal philosopherMade principles optimization commands and insisted law claim correctness.
82 candles · 7 tributes
Ivan Gudelj1960 – 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
Jeanie Poling† 2026 · Bluegrass and country singerGuitarist and singer at the heart of San Francisco bluegrass, 1959-2026.
82 candles · 7 tributes
Betye Saar1926 – 2026 · Assemblage artistAssemblage pioneer who armed Aunt Jemima and remade racist kitsch into Black feminist power.
82 candles · 8 tributes
Henrique1977 – 2026 · Brazilian footballer (centre-back)Vasco Libertadores champion and author of the angry survival goal.
81 candles · 4 tributes
Nobue Matsubara1961 – 2026 · Enka singerEnka star of Onna no Debune who carried Kitajima's craft through seven Kohaku nights and a hard-won second chance.
81 candles · 7 tributes
Slobodan Snajder1948 – 2026 · WriterWriter of Croatian Faust and The Brass Age who would not let history go quiet.
81 candles · 8 tributes
Ben Saunders1983 – 2026 · SingerTattoo Ben, first Voice of Holland winner, whose soul covers lit up Dutch charts overnight.
80 candles · 6 tributes
Peter Thompson1952 – 2026 · Broadcast journalistABC voice of AM, Radio National Breakfast and Talking Heads; Franklin River campaigner and teacher of persuasion.
80 candles · 7 tributes
Paddy Payne1936 – 2026 · Jumps jockeyHawera-born trainer who raised a racing family and a Melbourne Cup winner.
80 candles · 7 tributes- YYuri Nakamura1982 – 2026 · Actress
Zainichi Korean actress who lit every scene and kept working through illness.
80 candles · 4 tributes 
Georg Grozer senior1964 – 2026 · volleyball playerHammer-Schorsch: Moers champion hitter who brought European silverware to the Lower Rhine.
79 candles · 7 tributes
Blanche d'Alpuget1944 – 2026 · BiographerAustralian 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
Pierfranco Vianelli1946 – 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
Stephen Walker† 2026 · JournalistBBC NI truth-teller; Hume and Trimble's biographer; Sky Blue to the end.
79 candles · 5 tributes
Serhat Kılıç1975 – 2026 · Actor (theatreTurkish stage and screen actor of Winter Sleep and Seksenler's Ergun Plak; teacher and showman.
79 candles · 6 tributes
Camilo Escalona1955 – 2026 · Chilean politicianSocialist organizer who returned from exile to rebuild Chile's democracy, and led his party and Senate with steel resolve.
79 candles · 7 tributes
Jerome Smith1939 – 2026 · Civil rights activistFreedom Rider who mentored Treme children and demanded humanity be respected.
79 candles · 7 tributes
Alfonso Lizarazo1940 – 2026 · Television presenterCreator of Sábados Felices, who taught Colombia to laugh together and built schools with that same smile.
79 candles · 8 tributes
David Hockney1937 – 2026 · PainterYorkshire Pop pioneer who painted California pools, opera sets and the joy of looking.
79 candles · 14 tributes
Flora Brovina1949 – 2026 · PediatricianKosovar pediatrician, poet and political prisoner who healed children, wrote of mothers and measured freedom.
78 candles · 4 tributes- CChick Harrity† 2026 · Photojournalist
AP and U.S. News photographer who framed Vietnam, protest and Nixon's farewell.
78 candles · 7 tributes 
André Pronovost1936 – 2026 · Professional ice hockey left wingFour Cups with Montreal. Forever a proud Shawiniganais.
78 candles · 3 tributes
David Cobb1962 – 2026 · AttorneyGreen nominee who fought corporate rule, then built land trusts.
78 candles · 5 tributes
Ilan Dar1937 – 2026 · Actor (stageIsraeli stage and screen giant; forever Ilan of Krovim Krovim.
78 candles · 8 tributes
Pedro Rodríguez García1933 – 2026 · Roman Catholic priest (Opus Dei)Priest-theologian who found Trent's catechism manuscript and served Vatican II's reception.
78 candles · 5 tributes
Esterina Tartman1957 – 2026 · PoliticianA blunt Yisrael Beiteinu MK and Channel 14 panelist who never softened her line.
77 candles · 8 tributes
Agni Deo Singh1965 – 2026 · Trade unionistFTU leader who carried teachers' fights into Fiji's Cabinet as employment minister.
77 candles · 9 tributes
Klaus Wanger1941 – 2026 · PoliticianLandtag president who backed Liechtenstein's 2003 constitution.
77 candles · 7 tributes- CChristy Knowings1980 – 2026 · American actress
All That scene-stealer whose Brenda Stone and Whateverrr energy still makes 90s kids laugh.
77 candles · 6 tributes 
Garry Sobers1936 – 2026 · CricketerBarbados National Hero and cricket's complete all-rounder: 365 not out, six sixes, and a life played for the game.
77 candles · 10 tributes
Mohamed Garfi1948 – 2026 · MusicologistTunisian musicologist, conductor and composer who renewed Arab lyric theatre from Orchestre 71 to Men Gaâ El Khabia.
76 candles · 9 tributes
Elaine Mokhtefi1928 – 2026 · Anti-colonial activistAmerican-Algerian activist who made Algiers a Third World capital and told the Panthers' exile story.
76 candles · 4 tributes
Stanislaw Malkowski1944 – 2026 · Roman Catholic priestChaplain of Solidarity and friend of Father Jerzy Popieluszko. He stood for a free and just Poland.
76 candles · 9 tributes
Alexey Vishnevetsky1965 – 2026 · JournalistThe union deputy who said journalism is a duty of responsibility, not a race to be first.
76 candles · 5 tributes
Johnny Young1947 – 2026 · SingerGoodnight Australia: joy, songs, and Young Talent Time.
76 candles · 4 tributes
Surendra Koli† 2026 · Domestic workerAcquitted after years on death row in the Nithari case; found dead in Haridwar.
75 candles · 3 tributes
Victor Simpson1942 – 2026 · JournalistAP Rome bureau chief who covered five popes across four decades of foreign correspondence.
75 candles · 6 tributes
George Chuvalo1937 – 2026 · Professional boxerCanadian heavyweight who never hit the canvas, and kept fighting after the bell.
75 candles · 9 tributes
Aleksandr Pashchenko1945 – 2026 · SingerFrom scenery crew to People's Artist, he gave Orenburg nearly 700 roles and his whole heart.
75 candles · 9 tributes- GGeorgina Lightning1963 – 2026 · First Nations (Samson Cree / Maskwacis Plains Cree) film director
Samson Cree filmmaker who made media that matters and opened the feature door for Indigenous women directors.
75 candles · 5 tributes 
Konrad H. Jarausch1941 – 2026 · German-American historianTransatlantic historian who taught Germans and Americans to face a shattered past and rebuild civil society.
75 candles · 6 tributes