People who died in 2026
3,401 people remembered here.
Lee Yong-joo1982 – 2026 · Actor and former fashion modelModel-turned actor who made Korea laugh as Blue Tower's lovable rookie soldier.
51 candles · 8 tributes
Laura Cardoso1927 – 2026 · Actress (radioPioneer of Brazilian TV whose Isaura, Guiomar and Doroteia still echo.
51 candles · 5 tributes
Marly Kinney2006 – 2026A 19-year-old from Ashland whose death closed a five-day search at Grayson Lake.
51 candles · 9 tributes
Judy Markey1944 – 2026 · Radio hostWGN's Girlfriend whose candor and wit made Chicago feel heard.
50 candles · 8 tributes
Johan Mijail1990 – 2026 · WriterDominican writer and performer who made Afro-Caribbean dissident bodies speak on the page, the altar, and the stage.
50 candles · 5 tributes
Iván Carvajal1948 – 2026 · PoetEl poema se nos impone; no es solo expresión de la subjetividad.
50 candles · 7 tributes
Nisar Wayanad† 2026 · Stage singerKerala stage singer whose Udit-like voice filled Gulf halls, taken hours before the next show.
50 candles · 6 tributes
John Irvin1940 – 2026 · Film and television directorA director with balls behind the camera.
50 candles · 8 tributes
Robert Wolk1985 – 2026 · Racing driverA fierce competitor on track and a gentleman off it.
49 candles · 4 tributes
Vitantonio Lovallo1914 – 2026 · ShepherdZiton of Avigliano: Europe's oldest man, keeper of hillside memory.
49 candles · 7 tributes
Eberhard Vogel1943 – 2026 · Footballer (left winger / striker)Oberliga record man who said no to Santos and stayed East.
49 candles · 6 tributes
Kenneth Treister (FAIA)1930 – 2026 · ArchitectMiami architect and sculptor of the Holocaust Memorial's Sculpture of Love and Anguish.
49 candles · 10 tributes
Jan McDaniel1957 – 2026 · PianistOCU vocal coach and conductor who shaped Oklahoma opera and musical theatre.
49 candles · 9 tributes
Peter Gill1939 – 2026 · PlaywrightCardiff-born writer and director who made ordinary lives the centre of British theatre.
49 candles · 8 tributes
Ralf Richter1957 – 2026 · ActorRuhrpott original who made Frenssen and Kalle Grabowski unforgettable, then kept playing the honest roughnecks.
48 candles · 7 tributes
Peter Max1937 – 2026 · Graphic designerThe rainbow-eyed painter who put flower power on posters, stamps and stadiums.
48 candles · 7 tributes
Hidetoshi Nakanishi1958 – 2026 · Judoka1983 world champion who turned Olympic experience into a lifetime of teaching judo at Tokai.
48 candles · 6 tributes
Raffaele Costa1936 – 2026 · Italian politicianPiedmontese liberal who led the PLI's last season and fought waste with hospital blitzes.
48 candles · 9 tributes
Ketaki Kushari Dyson1940 – 2026 · PoetBilingual Bengali-English poet and Tagore translator who kept faith with two literary worlds.
48 candles · 6 tributes
Alexander Sharovsky1948 – 2026 · Actor and theatre directorBaku actor and director who led the Russian Drama Theatre for three decades.
48 candles · 5 tributes
Barry Melrose1956 – 2026 · Ice hockey defensemanMulleted Kings Cup Final coach and ESPN's unmistakable hockey voice for nearly three decades.
48 candles · 6 tributes
William Henry Draper III1928 – 2026 · Venture capitalistSilicon Valley venture pioneer who led Ex-Im Bank and UNDP, backing founders and human development worldwide.
48 candles · 5 tributes
Natalia Danilova1955 – 2026 · ActressRemembered as Varvara Sinichkina and a Komissarzhevskaya stage mainstay.
48 candles · 5 tributes
Gene Bertoncini1937 – 2026 · Jazz guitaristNylon-string jazz poet whose architectural ear made standards glow with quiet fire.
48 candles · 4 tributes
Dave Marsh1950 – 2026 · Music journalistDetroit rock critic who wrote Springsteen into history and argued for justice as hard as he argued about records.
48 candles · 5 tributes
Guo Lanying1929 – 2026 · Operatic sopranoPeople's Artist whose My Motherland and White-Haired Girl voice became China's shared song memory.
48 candles · 9 tributes
J. Dewayne Thomas† 2026 · Chancery Court judgeLongest-serving Hinds chancellor, devoted to children and the vulnerable.
47 candles · 7 tributes
Margaret Clark1941 – 2026 · Political scientistFirst New Zealand woman professor of political science; a wise Wellington teacher.
47 candles · 3 tributes
Bill Schmidt1947 – 2026 · Olympic javelin throwerFrom Southview coal camp to Munich bronze and Be Like Mike: the last U.S. men's Olympic javelin medalist.
47 candles · 4 tributes
Klaus Hänsch1938 – 2026 · SPD politicianFormer EP President who brought Klartext from Erkrath to Strasbourg and made Commissioner hearings public.
47 candles · 4 tributes
Abdullah Ibrahim1934 – 2026 · PianistCape Town's piano voice; exile anthem maker; Mandela's Mozart.
47 candles · 9 tributes
Essie Fogarty† 2026 · GAA volunteerWicklow GAA volunteer and club stalwart who gave a lifetime of quiet service.
46 candles · 7 tributes
Steve Shepard1951 – 2026 · LawyerAugusta lawyer and magistrate who served his city with courage and grace.
46 candles · 6 tributes
Giorgos Mazonakis1972 – 2026 · Greek modern folk-pop / laiko-pop singerThe night's own voice of Greek laiko-pop.
46 candles · 8 tributes
Jackson Nascimento1924 – 2026 · Professional footballer (midfielder / meia-esquerda)Furacão 1949 idol, Athletico's second-highest scorer, lived 102 years for the club.
46 candles · 5 tributes
Simon Lui1964 – 2026 · ActorHong Kong's King of Ghosts, who haunted screens from Troublesome Night to Vulgaria and late-night radio.
46 candles · 9 tributes
Joseph Arnaouti1936 – 2026 · Armenian Catholic bishopSyrian Armenian Catholic shepherd who stayed with Damascus through war.
46 candles · 7 tributes
Jimmy Batten1955 – 2026 · Professional boxer (British light-middleweight champion)British light-middleweight champion who went the distance with Roberto Duran and never stopped smiling.
46 candles · 6 tributes
Samuel Monroe Jr.1973 – 2026 · ActorUnforgettable face of 1990s Black cinema whose grit on screen never erased the kindness friends remembered off it.
46 candles · 8 tributes
Harold P. Freeman1933 – 2026 · Surgical oncologistFather of patient navigation who proved poverty, not destiny, decides who survives cancer.
46 candles · 7 tributes
Martha Rivers Ingram1935 – 2026 · BusinesswomanNashville's First Lady of the Arts who built halls, saved a symphony, and led a billion-dollar company.
46 candles · 6 tributes
Amanda Mack† 2026 · College volleyball outside hitterMaryville-to-IMG outside hitter who reached Division I and left teammates grieving.
45 candles · 5 tributes
Patricio Guzmán1941 – 2026 · Documentary film directorHe filmed Chile's memory so the disappeared, the coup and the landscape could keep speaking.
45 candles · 9 tributes
Griselda Gambaro1928 – 2026 · PlaywrightArgentine dramatist who made silence, cruelty and refusal the grammar of a nation's stage.
45 candles · 6 tributes
Jim Bradshaw1939 – 2026 · American football safetySteelers safety of the 1960s; Chattanooga Hall of Famer; Ohio family man.
45 candles · 8 tributes
Liang Shaoji† 2026 · Conceptual artistA conceptual artist who made living silkworms partners in meditations on nature and time.
45 candles · 3 tributes
Frank McDonald1950 – 2026 · AuthorIrish Times editor who defended Dublin and the climate.
45 candles · 7 tributes
Enos Mafokate1944 – 2026 · Show jumperKgosi ya Dipere who opened the arena and then the Soweto gates.
45 candles · 10 tributes