People who died in 2026
3,797 people remembered here.
Christine Hellyar1947 – 2026 · Sculptor and installation artistShe saw the earth as a body and made us look again at leaves, bones and cupboards.
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Hélène Hazera1952 – 2026 · JournalistFrance's first openly trans journalist, voice of Chanson Boum and lifelong fighter for the most precarious.
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Jeffrey Archer1940 – 2026 · NovelistMaster storyteller whose life read like one of his novels. Kane and Abel author, MP and peer, married to Mary for 60 years.
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Bill Spenceley† 2026A beloved Arcata teacher and community leader, remembered for his kindness on the trail he loved.
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A hardworking handyman, cook and family man, remembered for his generosity and warmth.
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Lothar Milde1934 – 2026 · Discus throwerOlympic silver medallist in Mexico City, a giant of the discus circle and a lifelong son of Halle.
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Tadeusz Lutak1917 – 2026 · SoldierMaczek's dispatch rider in 1939, Home Army fighter "Pancerz", and Poland's oldest man, who kept the memory alive to 109.
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James M. Adovasio1944 – 2026 · ArchaeologistDoc to thousands of students, he dug deep at Meadowcroft and showed people reached the Americas far earlier than anyone believed.
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William DeGraf1926 – 2026 · Army officerA soldier of three wars who kept his word and his integrity, even when it cost him a general's star.
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Ann Elizabeth O'Polka† 2026She lived entirely on her own terms, happily single, among the hundreds of trees she planted herself.
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John Rudnicki1951 – 2026 · Engineer and Northwestern University professor of civilNorthwestern engineer who taught the world how rocks deform, fail and shake, and taught students for 45 years.
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A beloved teacher, wife and grandmother who taught for 40 years and lived life with boundless energy.
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Sidney Offit1928 – 2026 · AuthorAuthor, teacher and champion of writers, Kurt Vonnegut's best friend and the liberal voice of New York's nightly TV debates.
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Robert Kelker-Kelly1964 – 2026 · Actor and professional pilotThe actor who made Bo Brady his own, then took to the skies as a pilot and teacher.
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Joël Manglou1958 – 2026 · SingerSinger of the land and the Creole tongue, who carried the soul of Réunion in every song.
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A Navy veteran and SRS retiree remembered for his devotion to family and to Dunbarton's history.
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Sergey Mikhalyov1953 – 2026 · PoliticianRostov mining engineer and first deputy speaker who helped rescue forty-six trapped miners in 2003.
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Roberto Tibiriçá1954 – 2026 · Conductor (maestro)Brazilian maestro who shaped orchestras from Rio to Curitiba and taught generations how the baton speaks.
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Leroy Griffith1932 – 2026 · Theater and nightclub ownerThe Burlesque King who ran more than 70 theaters and outlasted 17 Miami Beach mayors.
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İoanna Kuçuradi (Ioanna Koutsouradi)1936 – 2026 · Philosopher and professorThe philosopher who taught Turkey that a human being is valuable simply for being human.
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Matthew Posey1958 – 2026 · ActorFounder of Ochre House and pioneer of the Suavant-Garde, who stepped back onstage five weeks after being shot.
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Bob Saunders1935 – 2026 · Car dealer and philanthropistColwood car dealer who spent his life paying it forward to the West Shore.
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Murder of Abby Choi† 2026Hong Kong model and socialite whose brutal 2023 murder shocked the city and the world.
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Sudi Özkan1939 – 2026 · BusinessmanFrom a grocer's son in Adana to the King of Casinos across 16 countries.
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Toufique Imrose Khalidi1967 – 2026 · JournalistPioneer of Bangladesh digital news who built bdnews24.com and kept the news objective.
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Cesar Virata1930 – 2026 · StatesmanPrime minister and long-serving finance chief who shaped Philippine economic policy across four decades.
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Doug Loft1986 – 2026 · Professional footballer (midfielder)Port Vale's promotion-winning captain and Gillingham skipper: a versatile, hard-working midfielder who always put the team first.
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Juarez Pontes (Juarez da Tekpix)† 2026 · TV pitchman and presenter (Tekpix advertisements)Vamos falar de coisa boa? The voice of Tekpix and of a generation of Brazilian commercial breaks.
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Marcia Linsky† 2026Fort Wayne attorney and former Allen County magistrate, remembered for decades of service in the courtroom.
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Nobutaka Tsutsui1944 – 2026 · PoliticianFive-term Niigata Diet member and agriculture vice minister who won a landmark libel judgment.
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Alisa Aksyonova1931 – 2026 · Soviet and Russian museum directorMuseum director who turned Vladimir-Suzdal into a world heritage museum empire and became a Hero of Labour.
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Melissa Hart† 2026 · judgeColorado Supreme Court justice who fought for access to justice and taught constitutional law.
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Mary Louise Weller1946 – 2026 · ActressMandy Pepperidge of Animal House; Ford model, Jean Naté face, and lifelong horsewoman.
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Mario Mestril1940 – 2026 · Roman Catholic bishopFirst bishop of Ciego de Ávila, who shepherded central Cuba's newest diocese for two decades.
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Bart Batten1958 – 2026 · Professional wrestler (Batten Twins tag team)Identical twin tag-team star of Central States, WWC Puerto Rico, and Smoky Mountain Wrestling.
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Dušan Uhlíř1938 – 2026 · Historian and museum directorThe Brno historian who brought Austerlitz and White Mountain to life for generations of readers.
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Yousef Majidzadeh1936 – 2026 · ArchaeologistIranian archaeologist who led the Jiroft excavations and brought the Bronze Age Halil Rud civilisation to the world's attention.
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Jim Concannon1931 – 2026 · Winemaker and third-generation vintner of Concannon VineyardThird-generation Livermore vintner, Father of Petite Sirah and the Concannon Clones.
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Colin Brown† 2026A sixteen year old hockey player from St. Louis, killed by a stray bullet on I-55.
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Carlos Miguel Suárez† 2026 · Mexican telenovela actor (El Poncho in Tú y yo) and taco vendorForever El Poncho. A Televisa villain who made Mexico laugh, and rebuilt his life with dignity.
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Dominique Foata1934 – 2026 · Mathematician (combinatorics)He found the hidden order in permutations and made Strasbourg a home for combinatorics.
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Tanner Ausmus† 2026A young man with severe epilepsy whose 2023 death led to a closely watched Tennessee trial.
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Ramón Luis Rivera1929 – 2026 · Puerto Rican politicianMayor of Bayamón for 24 years. PNP leader and lifelong champion of Puerto Rican statehood.
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Gabino Palomares1950 – 2026 · Singer-songwriterMexican canto nuevo voice; author of La maldición de Malinche.
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Jérôme Bignon1949 – 2026 · Avocat and politicianSomme avocat and parliamentarian who championed France's coasts and wetlands.
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Paulien Cornelisse1976 – 2026 · WriterDutch writer and cabaretier who turned everyday language into a national comic pastime.
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Steve Selvin1941 – 2026 · BiostatisticianHe showed the world why you should switch doors, and showed generations of students that statistics could be fun.
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Julián García Vargas1945 – 2026 · EconomistEconomist and statesman who built Spain's universal health system and modernized its Armed Forces.
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