People who died in 2026
372 people remembered here.
Cheryl Hall1950 – 2026 · ActressCitizen Smith's Shirley, Doctor Who's Shirna, and a fierce Labour voice for Kent.
35 candles · 9 tributes
Dory Funk Jr.1941 – 2026 · Professional wrestlerNever quit: NWA world champion, Hall of Famer, and Ocala's master teacher.
35 candles · 4 tributes
Paddy Keenan1950 – 2026 · MusicianBothy Band founding piper who made the uilleann pipes roar like rock without leaving the tradition.
34 candles · 6 tributes
Nina Shipman1938 – 2026 · Film and television actressFox starlet, Western guest star, Nell Shipman's granddaughter. Screen craft across three decades.
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Klaus-Michael Kühne1937 – 2026 · German billionaire businessmanLogistics patriarch who built a global freight empire and left it to a Swiss foundation.
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Brian Dyson1935 – 2026 · Business executiveCoca-Cola leader who launched Diet Coke, weathered New Coke, and taught the world work is rubber, the rest is glass.
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Robin Morgan1941 – 2026 · PoetPoet and Sisterhood editor who made radical feminism audible, global, and impossible to ignore.
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Győző Martos1949 – 2026 · Footballer (right-back / defender)Fradi right-back who marked Blohin and wore the crest at two World Cups.
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Yehuda Widawski1919 – 2026 · Holocaust survivorIsrael's oldest Holocaust survivor; his revenge was that the Nazis lost and Israel lives.
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R. Sarath† 2026 · Film directorNational Award Malayalam director who put conscience, mural heritage, and social drama on screen.
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Lloyd Robertson1934 – 2026 · Television and radio news anchorCanada's trusted anchor: that's the kind of day it's been.
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Hafidh Ameir Hassan1946 – 2026 · agriculturalistTanzania's first First Gentleman, a teacher who stayed offstage.
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Guus Kouwenhoven1942 – 2026 · BusinessmanDutch timber baron convicted over Liberia's war, who never served the sentence.
31 candles · 9 tributes
Dario Silva Silva1938 – 2026 · Protestant pastorFrom Huila newsrooms to the pulpit, he taught Colombia to build its house upon the rock.
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Bill Dundee1943 – 2026 · Professional wrestlerMemphis Superstar. Circus flyer turned territory legend. Forever Lawler's greatest rival and partner.
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Gastón Acurio Velarde1930 – 2026 · Civil engineerCusco engineer who helped found Acción Popular, built roads as minister, and served three Senate terms.
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Masao Yora1957 – 2026 · Political journalistMainichi political voice and Nスタ commentator who cut into Nagatacho with glasses, a mustache, and an evening column.
30 candles · 8 tributes
Raif Dizdarevic1926 – 2026 · Yugoslav-Bosnian politicianPartisan diplomat who led Yugoslavia's Presidency in crisis and stayed in besieged Sarajevo.
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Ritu Khullar† 2026 · JuristAlberta's Chief Justice and Charter advocate who made history as Canada's first South Asian woman provincial chief justice.
2 candles · 2 tributes- SSamuel “Sam” Okafor1971 – 2026 · Bus driver and youth football coach
Never missed a match. Never missed a shift. Never missed a chance to make you laugh.
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Tony Mundine1951 – 2026 · Professional boxerFour-division Australian champion who never lost to another Aussie, then opened Redfern's doors to the next generation.
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Richard O'Sullivan1944 – 2026 · ActorMaster of effortless charm who brought warmth and wit into millions of British living rooms.
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Chen Kuan-tai1945 – 2026 · Martial arts actorShaw Brothers hard man whose real kung fu made Ma Yongzhen immortal.
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Tony Gatlif1948 – 2026 · Film directorHe filmed music, exile and freedom until the road ran out. Latcho drom.
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Lau Siu-ming1931 – 2026 · DancerMing Sir: Europe-trained dance pioneer and Ghost Story tree demon who taught Hong Kong how to move and act.
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Ronald McCoy1930 – 2026 · Obstetrician and gynaecologistDoctor who delivered thousands of babies and gave the world ICAN to abolish nuclear weapons.
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Alan Knight1961 – 2026 · Professional footballer (goalkeeper)Pompey's Legend: 801 games, one club, and a life spent helping others after the gloves came off.
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Gracindo Junior1943 – 2026 · ActorGlobo pioneer and Casarão heir who kept Brazilian stages and screens honest for six decades.
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Carla Jeffery1993 – 2026 · Actor best known as Bree in Disney’s Zombies franchiseThe Seabrook cheerleader who made friendship look easy - and taught a generation that joy could be a craft.
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Jean-Paul Rappeneau1932 – 2026 · Film directorHe made French cinema gallop: Cyrano, screwball grace, and the art of the fugue.
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Victor Miller1940 – 2026 · ScreenwriterHe wrote the original Friday the 13th, then spent decades making daytime drama and reclaiming his words.
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Toyohiro Akiyama1942 – 2026 · Television journalist (TBS)First Japanese in space. Journalist on Mir. Farmer after the flight.
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Hideki Shirakawa1936 – 2026 · Chemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of TsukubaThe chemist who made plastic conduct electricity and opened a new era of materials.
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Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker1932 – 2026 · U.S. SenatorKansas senator who led HIPAA, broke barriers, and chose independence over party lines.
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Frank Beard1949 – 2026 · MusicianTexas shuffle keeper of ZZ Top, the man with no beard, whose backbeat kept the little ol' band on top.
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Don Nelson1940 – 2026 · NBA playerFive-time Celtics champ and Hall of Fame coach who invented Nellie Ball and remade the modern NBA.
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