People who died in 2026
3,758 people remembered here.
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Walter Koenig1936 – 2026 · ActorHe took the Enterprise's helm as Chekov and stayed a friend to Star Trek fans for life.
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Joachim Lottmann1956 – 2026 · Novelist and journalistThe self-declared inventor of German pop literature, who turned his life, and finally his own dying, into literature.
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Sergei Konakov1967 – 2026 · Bandy playerA bandy forward who scored goals for a quarter of a century and won two titles with Vodnik.
4 candles · 1 tributes- SScott Dingman† 2026
Lineman, husband, and father whose 2021 killing finally led to a murder charge in 2026.
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Oswaldinho do Acordeon1954 – 2026 · AccordionistMaster of the sanfona who carried forró from his father's São Paulo dance halls to Rock in Rio and the jazz stages of the world.
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Guido Jonckers1947 – 2026 · ActorThe voice of Boes and a Hague theatre maker who never ranked the professional stage above the amateur.
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Frank Gagliano1937 – 2026 · Track and field coachHe told generations of runners to hit it, and they did.
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René Belletto1945 – 2026 · NovelistLyon's master of noir and the fantastic, who found music, fear and poetry in the same dark streets.
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Pepa Arenós† 2026 · Actress and activistCatalan actress whose voice and conviction carried from the stage to the streets.
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Pyotr Starchik1938 – 2026 · BardHe sang banned poets in small rooms, and no psychiatric ward could silence him.
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Viorel Păunescu1935 – 2026 · Businessman and sports administratorHandball international, hotelier and Steaua president who said he would live it all again.
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Bruno Spaggiari1933 – 2026 · Motorcycle racerDucati racer from Reggio Emilia who won at Monza and came within a few drops of fuel of Imola glory.
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Arch Jelley1922 – 2026 · Athletics coach and school principalThe Dunedin teacher who coached John Walker to the first sub 3:50 mile and Olympic gold, and was still coaching Olympians at 93.
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Pius Osunyikanmi1971 – 2026 · Politician and public administratorOndo's education commissioner who led Nigeria's Technical Aid Corps for a decade.
4 candles · 1 tributes- KKenneth Ray Eddington† 2026
A builder of roads and a tender of gardens, remembered by a large and loving family.
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Jouni Yrjölä1959 – 2026 · Chess grandmasterFinland's highest ranked chess player ever, a grandmaster who led his country on top board.
4 candles · 1 tributes- PPatricia Ann Sexton† 2026
A beloved mother and grandmother from Wayland, Kentucky.
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Nigel Durham† 2026 · Heavy metal drummerSaxon's drummer on Destiny and a powerhouse of the British heavy metal scene.
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Sean Romeo1994 – 2026 · Ice hockey goaltender and meteorologistRecord-setting Ohio State goaltender and scholar who found a second calling forecasting Maine weather.
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Danny Guice Jr.1953 – 2026 · PoliticianGulf Coast lawmaker, daredevil and storyteller, quick with a wink and a smile.
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Loro Coirón1948 – 2026 · Engraver and illustratorA Parisian engraver who found his home in Valparaíso and gave its people back to themselves.
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Alberto Masotti1936 – 2026 · EntrepreneurThe doctor turned entrepreneur who carried La Perla from his mother's Bologna workshop to the world.
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Pauline Downing† 2026A mother, a wife, and, in the words of her community, a light to all who knew her.
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Thomas Allen (T.A.) Bryan, Sr.1935 – 2026 · Insurance agent and charity founderLebanon insurance man who founded Cedarcroft Home to shelter men with nowhere else to go.
4 candles · 1 tributes- DDwane Eugene Cox† 2026
A man of faith and family, remembered by those who loved him.
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Jacob "Jake" Johnson1980 – 2026 · High school football coach and athletic directorMillsap's football coach, who believed his job was to build men first and football players second.
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Marilyn Slaby1939 – 2026 · PoliticianA teacher at heart who carried her classroom kindness into the Ohio statehouse.
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Arlene Lesewski1936 – 2026 · PoliticianMarshall insurance agent who spent a decade speaking for rural southwestern Minnesota.
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Irina Gensler1930 – 2026 · Ballet dancer and teacherKirov character dancer who kept the tradition of national dance alive for generations of students.
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Nguyễn Vinh Sơn1953 – 2026 · Film and television directorThe director of Đất phương Nam, who made few films and made each one count.
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Krishnaraj Ramasamy† 2026The voice behind some of Tamil cinema's best loved film songs of the 1990s.
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Jorge Veras1959 – 2026 · Footballer and coachThe Gre-Nal Man from Fortaleza, a goalscorer and teacher of young footballers.
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Charles Matovu1985 – 2026 · Politician and electrical engineerHe carried Busiro South for the opposition and fought for it to the very end.
4 candles · 1 tributes- LLinda Faith Donahue† 2026
A devoted sister, aunt and caretaker remembered for quiet generosity.
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Yasuo Fukuda1936 – 2026 · PoliticianJapan's 91st prime minister, who worked quietly for peace with his neighbours.
4 candles · 1 tributes- CCharles Emerson Rankin Jr.† 2026
A husband, father and grandfather of Marietta, Ohio, remembered by his family.
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Leon Cleveland Burns Jr.1936 – 2026 · Criminal court judgeFor 38 years he judged the Upper Cumberland fairly, and never once faced an opponent.
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Keith Bailey1961 – 2026 · FootballerA gifted, mild-natured footballer who rode every challenge, from Tampa Bay to Steeton.
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Gianfranco Morgando1949 – 2026 · Italian politicianA patient builder of Catholic democratic politics, from Borgiallo to Rome and back.
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Bridget O'Brien† 2026Bridget O'Brien, found dead with her partner months after they lost their two children in a fire.
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Timothy Smiley1930 – 2026 · Philosopher and logicianA Cambridge logician who gave 71 years to Clare and taught generations to reason with care.
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Ken Ring† 2026 · Writer and long-range weather forecasterNew Zealand's Moon Man, who read the weather in the tides and never stopped believing anything was possible.
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Hugo Rivero† 2026 · FootballerA Uruguayan defender who helped Huachipato win its first Chilean title in 1974.
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Viktor Khelemendik1934 – 2026 · JournalistJournalist and scholar who studied how press, radio and television shape one another.
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Sardar Nisar Ali Hazara† 2026 · Politician and Hazara tribal elderHazara elder and Balochistan education minister who survived an assassin's bullets to keep serving his people.
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Lyudmila Marts1935 – 2026 · Art historian and curatorShe knew Russian sculpture and its sculptors by heart, and gave the Tretyakov its modern collection.
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