People who died in 2026

3,753 people remembered here.

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  Brian Kratzer

  1970 – 2026 · Photojournalism professor

  A photojournalism teacher who saw the photographer in every student.

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  George Allen MacNaughton

  1952 – 2026 · Master plumber and pipefitter

  Lakeland pipefitter who took pride in honest work and family.

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  Povilas Varanauskas

  1941 – 2026 · Engineer

  March 11 Independence Act signatory, engineer and advocate for Lithuania's deportees.

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  Manel Abeysekera

  1933 – 2026 · Diplomat

  Sri Lanka's first woman career diplomat, Madame-Sir of protocol who helped host NAM 1976 and calm a hijacking.

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  Megan Povey

  1947 – 2026 · Food physicist

  Food physicist who taught the world to listen to its food, and a lifelong fighter for fairness.

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  Milton Abell

  1951 – 2026 · Golf professional

  Golf professional and turf management specialist remembered for family and four decades in Georgia golf.

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  Bryan Isacks

  1936 – 2026 · Geophysicist

  He made sinking plates visible in earthquakes, and taught a generation to see Earth's surface anew.

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  Helmut Wiesinger

  1952 – 2026 · Actor

  Austrian stage actor who gave more than 100 roles to Landestheater Niederosterreich.

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  Georg Westenfelder

  1935 – 2026 · Organ builder

  German organ builder who made Lintgen a cross-border centre of the craft.

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  Fannie Mae Johnson

  † 2026 · Civic leader

  The heart of Meridian: she fed the hungry and served her city.

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  Ahmad Muhammad Sani II

  1942 – 2026 · Emir of Gumel

  The 16th Emir of Gumel, who opened his palace doors to his people for nearly 46 years.

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  Bernard Haisch

  1949 – 2026 · Astrophysicist and author

  Astrophysicist who searched the stars and the quantum vacuum for the deepest questions of existence.

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  Richard Salvatore Vacca

  † 2026 · Professor emeritus of education

  Scholar of school law who helped educators understand the rules that shape classrooms.

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  Charles Hatcher

  1939 – 2026 · U.S. Representative

  Southwest Georgia Democrat who put peanut farmers first in Congress.

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  Hinson Mosley

  1932 – 2026 · Georgia state representative

  Southeast Georgia lawmaker who brought mill-town common sense to the House.

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  Jean Lopez

  † 2026 · Actress

  Sampaguita's doll-faced star: actress, singer and noontime host who traded fame for family in Canada.

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  Rollie Sheldon

  1936 – 2026 · Major League Baseball pitcher

  Yankees right-hander on the 1961 and 1962 champions who later pitched in the 1964 World Series.

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  P. David Pearson

  1941 – 2026 · American reading and literacy scholar

  A reading scholar who showed how children make meaning from what they read.

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  Yoshimi Masaki

  1962 – 2026 · Judoka

  1985 open-weight world champion who later shaped Tenri and Japanese judo as a coach

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  Igor Grekhov

  1934 – 2026 · Russian physicist and electrical engineer

  A physicist who helped build Soviet power electronics and kept climbing for forty years.

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  Marjory Allingham Ramey

  1925 – 2026 · University administrator

  UO's first female Housing Director; Mazamas climber who lived to 101.

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  Judy Liedtke

  1948 – 2026 · Retail worker

  A devoted wife, sister and caregiver, remembered for reading, birds and family.

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  Judson Hale

  1933 – 2026 · Editor of Yankee magazine and The Old Farmer's Almanac

  Editor who made Yankee magazine and The Old Farmer's Almanac the voice of New England.

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  Toshio Masuda

  1927 – 2026 · Film director

  Kobe-born Nikkatsu action hitmaker of Red Handkerchief, Tora! Tora! Tora! and Space Battleship Yamato.

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  Pigford v. Glickman

  † 2026

  The North Carolina farmer whose lawsuit forced the USDA to confront decades of racial discrimination.

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  Tofig Bakikhanov

  1930 – 2026 · Azerbaijani composer

  A composer who carried mugham into the symphony and taught Baku's musicians for half a century.

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  Angela Michelle Perkins

  1973 – 2026 · Teacher

  A devoted teacher and daughter who encouraged her students and cherished her family.

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  Vedrana Rudan

  1949 – 2026 · Croatian journalist

  She left for an area with no reception, and left seventeen books behind.

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  Tamisuke Watanuki

  1927 – 2026 · Politician

  Former Lower House Speaker who rebuilt Tonami Transport and led the postal privatization revolt.

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  Elizabeth "Betty" Catherine Folz Spahn

  1930 – 2026 · Homemaker

  Beloved wife, mother, and grandmother whose devotion spanned more than seventy years of marriage.

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  Franklin Kury

  1936 – 2026 · Lawyer and politician

  He wrote the right to clean air and pure water into Pennsylvania's constitution.

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  Alexander Danilin

  1960 – 2026 · Psychiatrist

  A Moscow doctor who spent thirteen years talking about the human soul on national radio.

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  Phil Lyne

  1947 – 2026 · Rodeo cowboy

  Five-time world champion and one of rodeo's greatest all-around cowboys.

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  Samai Charoenchang

  1955 – 2026 · Politician and Islamic scholar

  A teacher and scholar of Islam who represented Bangkok in Thailand's parliament.

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  Vito Gruosso

  1948 – 2026 · Trade unionist and politician

  Union leader and senator who spent his life standing up for the workers of Basilicata.

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  Carlos Domingos Massoni

  1939 – 2026 · Basketball player

  Mosquito: Brazil's world champion and two-time Olympic bronze guard.

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  Helmut Lethen

  1939 – 2026 · Literary and cultural scholar

  A scholar who traced the culture of coldness in Weimar Germany and wrote with warmth.

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  Yukio Shimomura

  1932 – 2026 · Football goalkeeper and manager

  Hiroshima survivor who built Toyo Kogyo's golden era and later managed Japan.

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  Miroslav Koníček

  1936 – 2026 · Rowing coxswain

  Czech coxswain who steered Czechoslovak eights to Olympic bronze in Rome and Tokyo.

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  Adolf Prokop

  1939 – 2026 · Football referee

  East German referee who took charge at two World Cups and three European club finals.

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  Vicente Quirarte

  1954 – 2026 · Poet

  A poet of Mexico City's streets who spent his life teaching others to read them.

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  Jill Gomez

  1942 – 2026 · Operatic soprano

  Trinidad-born soprano whose creamy voice lit Glyndebourne, Auvergne songs, and Powder Her Face

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  M. P. Parameswaran

  1935 – 2026 · Nuclear engineer and people's science activist

  A nuclear scientist who gave up the laboratory to bring science and literacy to ordinary people.

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  Timothy M. Carney

  1944 – 2026 · Diplomat

  A diplomat who went where others would not, and listened to the people he found there.

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  Prince Mongo

  † 2026 · Businessman and perennial political candidate

  The barefoot visitor from Zambodia who ran for mayor of Memphis for forty years.

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  Chikara Sakaguchi

  1934 – 2026 · Politician

  A doctor in politics who told the state to stop fighting the people it had wronged.

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  Peter Katsis

  † 2026 · Music manager

  Chicago-born music manager who took Ministry, Backstreet Boys, Korn and the Smashing Pumpkins from clubs to arenas.

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  Jean Lodge

  1927 – 2026 · Stage

  Hull-born actress, Guinevere of The Black Knight, who left the screen for the family she loved.

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