People who died in 2026
370 people remembered here.
Mark Rydell1929 – 2026 · Film directorActor's director who drew Oscars from Fonda and Hepburn and whispered greatness into Midler.
69 candles · 8 tributes
Francesco Guccini1940 – 2026 · Singer-songwriter (cantautore)Storyteller of everyday life, from Via Emilia to the West.
69 candles · 6 tributes
Claudette Colvin1939 – 2026 · Civil rights activistAt 15 she refused to give up her bus seat, then helped end segregation on America's public transit.
69 candles · 10 tributes
Solomon Pappaiah1936 – 2026 · Tamil scholarHe made Tamil laugh, think, and gather around the debate stage.
68 candles · 4 tributes
Ratnakar Mahajan1946 – 2026 · PoliticianMaharashtra socialist, Congress spokesperson and planning-board chair who spoke politics without firebrand heat.
68 candles · 9 tributes
Jon Small† 2026 · DrummerDrummer who became the eye behind Walk This Way and Billy Joel's landmark concert films.
68 candles · 4 tributes
Carlos Horacio Salinas1956 – 2026 · Professional footballer (attacking midfielder / forward)Boca's Intercontinental hero who scored the Karlsruhe goal.
68 candles · 7 tributes
Franco Fontana1933 – 2026 · PhotographerWhat remains of me when I go? Colour.
68 candles · 5 tributes
Li Weikang1947 – 2026 · Peking opera danGolden-voiced Peking opera dan who fused Mei, Cheng, and Zhang schools into a style of her own.
68 candles · 6 tributes
Ruben Rada1943 – 2026 · MusicianUruguay's candombe beat pioneer who made Montevideo swing the world with drums, humour and heart.
68 candles · 6 tributes
Sir Billy Boston1934 – 2026 · Professional rugby league footballer (wingRugby league's first knight: Tiger Bay powerhouse who became Everybody's Hero in Wigan.
68 candles · 10 tributes
Rachel Naomi Remen, MD1938 – 2026 · Physician (pediatrician / pediatric endocrinology background)Physician-patient who taught medicine to listen: curing is not the same as healing.
68 candles · 5 tributes
Jeremy Thomas1949 – 2026 · Film producerIndependent producer of The Last Emperor, Sexy Beast and Crash, who backed daring directors across more than 80 films.
67 candles · 7 tributes
Barry Cleavin1939 – 2026 · Fine art printmaker (intaglio/etchingNZ master printmaker who made doubt, bones and Hereweka speak in ink.
67 candles · 7 tributes
Edward Field1924 – 2026 · PoetVillage poet who stood up, friend, for a century.
67 candles · 4 tributes
Celestí Alomar1949 – 2026 · GeographerA Mallorcan who treated a tourist tax as a question of who the islands were for.
67 candles · 7 tributes
Francesc Garrido1969 – 2026 · Actor (stageEssential Catalan actor of stage and screen, magnetic and discreet, aged 56.
67 candles · 9 tributes
Richard E. Stearns1936 – 2026 · Computer scientistCo-founder of computational complexity who made hardness a science.
67 candles · 9 tributes
Emma Bonino1948 – 2026 · PoliticianRadical who legalised choice in Italy and spent five decades fighting for freedom, Europe, and human rights.
66 candles · 4 tributes
Bruce Lunsford1947 – 2026 · AttorneyKentucky builder who raced Art Collector and nearly unseated Mitch McConnell.
66 candles · 10 tributes
Geles Cabrera1926 – 2026 · SculptorMexico's pioneering woman sculptor who carved a museum of her own and taught bodies to move in stone.
66 candles · 4 tributes
Sowcar Janaki1931 – 2026 · ActressSeven decades, four languages, nearly 400 films: the actress who kept South Indian screens honest.
66 candles · 4 tributes
Otto Jelinek1940 – 2026 · Pair figure skater (OlympianWorld pairs champion who fled Prague, then returned as gold medallist, minister, and ambassador.
65 candles · 5 tributes
Noël Godin1945 – 2026 · WriterEntartons les pompeux cornichons: Belgium's anarchist pie thrower who pied the powerful.
65 candles · 5 tributes
Mireille Calle-Gruber1945 – 2026 · Literary criticCritic and professor who kept Claude Simon, Butor and the créatrices vividly alive.
65 candles · 9 tributes
Andreas Hoppe1960 – 2026 · Actor (theatreCiao Kopper: heart on the right side.
65 candles · 6 tributes
Grace Chang1933 – 2026 · SingerMambo Girl of Cathay's golden age, whose voice outlived the screen.
65 candles · 10 tributes
David Silverstein1944 – 2026 · CardiologistChicago-born cardiologist who built heart care in Kenya and stood by Moi for four decades.
64 candles · 9 tributes
Francois Rosse1945 – 2026 · ComposerAlsatian-born composer and pianist who treated improvisation as a way of thinking composition.
64 candles · 8 tributes
He Yong1969 – 2026 · Singer-songwriterBeijing rock pioneer who asked if there was hope, then sang the Bell and Drum Towers home.
64 candles · 8 tributes
Jorge Messi1958 – 2026 · Sports agent / businessmanFather, first coach and agent who walked Lionel Messi from Rosario youth pitches to world football.
64 candles · 5 tributes
PK Kerala Varma1936 – 2026 · Traditional ruler (Zamorin / Samoothiri of Kozhikode)Zamorin of Kozhikode who made medicines, shared family rule, and chose a public cremation.
63 candles · 6 tributes
Norberto Galasso1936 – 2026 · HistorianMiró la historia desde abajo, con el pueblo como protagonista.
63 candles · 7 tributes
Don Wilhelms1930 – 2026 · USGS planetary and lunar geologistLunar mapper who taught Apollo crews to read the Moon.
63 candles · 8 tributes
Charles Josselin1938 – 2026 · PoliticianBreton socialist who renamed the Côtes-d'Armor and beat Big Oil.
63 candles · 7 tributes
Joe McDonald1929 – 2026 · Baseball executiveFrom Ebbets Field turnstiles to six World Series rings, a baseball lifer.
63 candles · 8 tributes
Richard Tesařík1945 – 2026 · SingerCzech reggae pioneer and Yo Yo Band voice who put Kladno, Karviná and Rybitví on the pop map.
62 candles · 7 tributes
Georgy Matyukhin1934 – 2026 · economistFirst Bank of Russia chairman, who built a two-tier system as the Soviet Union ended.
61 candles · 9 tributes
Krishna AchutaRao† 2026 · Climate scientistClimate attribution scientist who linked ocean warming and India's extremes to human influence.
61 candles · 7 tributes- WWilfried Wesemael1950 – 2026 · Professional road cyclist (1973-1982)
Tour de Suisse winner who became Aalst's WilFrit, serving fries as hard as he rode.
61 candles · 8 tributes 
Archibald "Archie" MacKinnon1937 – 2026 · Olympic rowerBow of the Cinderella Four. Canada's first Olympic rowing gold.
61 candles · 5 tributes
Manel Dueso1953 – 2026 · ActorCatalan stage free spirit who cofounded Sala Beckett and kept writing until the end.
60 candles · 9 tributes
Keyvan Khosrovani1938 – 2026 · Iranian architectArchitect and couturier who dressed an empress in Iranian crafts, and kept building beauty in exile.
60 candles · 7 tributes- CCraig Douglas1941 – 2026 · Singer (pop / rock and roll)
Isle of Wight Singing Milkman whose Only Sixteen topped Britain in 1959.
60 candles · 6 tributes 
Edith Barr1936 – 2026 · Singer (musica criolla / Peruvian Creole music)Peru's Flor Morena who carried criolla song from La Victoria to the Waldorf and the Pope.
60 candles · 9 tributes
Taiwo "Ogogo" Hassan1959 – 2026 · ActorOgogo: mechanic-turned Yoruba cinema king who chanted, acted, and carried Owo Blow to Netflix.
60 candles · 8 tributes
Matt Suhey1958 – 2026 · American football fullbackLead blocker. Loyal friend. Super Bowl XX champion.
59 candles · 9 tributes