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Lyle Odelein

1968 – 2026 · Ice hockey defenceman

“Stanley Cup champion and the first captain of the Columbus Blue Jackets.”

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Hayden O'Dell

2004 – 2026 · College baseball pitcher

“Fierce competitor, infectious smile: Mobile's Hayden O'Dell, gone at 22.”

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Charlie King

† 2026 · Professional wrestler

“Chicken Finger, Straight Out the Fryer: Alabama indie wrestling's bright spot, gone at 25.”

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Singeetham Srinivasa Rao

1931 – 2026 · Film director

“A restless South Indian filmmaker who treated every genre as one more story to try.”

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Mad Sandhu (Madhusudan Sandhu)

† 2026 · Makeup artist

“Amritsar makeup artist who lived openly and taught others to accept themselves.”

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Paul LeDuc

1936 – 2026 · Professional wrestler

“Quebec lumberjack tag legend who built houses, then built a media second act.”

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Sergey Mikhalyov

1953 – 2026 · Politician

“Rostov mining engineer and first deputy speaker who helped rescue forty-six trapped miners in 2003.”

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Emanuele Sorci

† 2026

“A Porto Torres man remembered by his community as someone with a big heart.”

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Gladys Mae Hopkins

† 2026

“Remembered for her love, kindness, and faithful spirit.”

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Literature

Vladimir Khanan

1945 – 2026 · Poet

“Petersburg underground poet who rebuilt a free literary life in Jerusalem.”

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Milton Windler

1932 – 2026 · NASA flight director

“Maroon Flight director who helped send Apollo crews to the Moon and bring Apollo 13 home.”

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Arthur Cantrill

1938 – 2026 · Experimental filmmaker

“Australian experimental filmmaker and composer who, with Corinne Cantrill, remade cinema as projected light, sound, and landscape.”

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Theatre

Przemysław Branny

1970 – 2026 · Actor

“Kraków Bagatela actor and Tu Es Petrus soloist whose voice and craft spanned stage and song.”

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Michael "Mico" Rodriguez

† 2026

“The Godfather of Dallas Tex-Mex, who built Mi Cocina from a twelve-table restaurant into an empire.”

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Television

Kimberly Hébert Gregory

1972 – 2025 · Actress

“Vice Principals' Dr. Belinda Brown; stage and screen artist who founded Black Rebirth Collective for Black women in theatre.”

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Colette Sénami Agossou Houeto

1939 – 2026 · Educator

“Beninese educator, feminist poet, and brief education minister who linked women's learning to public life.”

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Colin McKerral

† 2026 · Community advocate and municipal council candidate

“Greater Sudbury Ward 12 candidate and Louis Street housing advocate who pressed leaders to see tenants' lives firsthand.”

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Brigitte Bardot

1934 – 2025 · Actress

“French screen icon who left stardom to fight for animals, and made Saint-Tropez and the bikini part of world culture.”

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Andrea Warner

† 2026 · Music journalist

“Vancouver music critic who put Canadian women and Indigenous artists at the centre.”

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Kuai Dafu

1945 – 2026 · Red Guard student leader

“Tsinghua Red Guard commander who later rebuilt a quiet life in Shenzhen business”

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Johannes Doerfert

1989 – 2026 · Computer scientist

“LLVM OpenMP and Attributor pioneer who made compilers serve the people who write code.”

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Business

Wai "Bill" Jun Yee

1935 – 2026 · Restaurateur

“Second-generation keeper of Ding Ho, Columbus's oldest Chinese restaurant.”

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Raymond Pointu

1940 – 2026 · Sports journalist

“French athletics and Olympic journalist who made the tartan readable.”

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Television

Anne Schedeen

1949 – 2026 · Actress

“ALF's Kate Tanner: Oregon-born TV actress whose wry maternal calm anchored a sitcom alien.”

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Anne Lunde

† 2026 · Journalist and local historian

“Northwest Side reporter and historian who kept local memory in print.”

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Peter Barrett

1940 – 2026 · Antarctic geologist

“Antarctic geologist who found the first tetrapod fossil on the ice and led Victoria University's polar research centre.”

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Anatoly Kashpirovsky

1939 – 2026 · Psychotherapist

“Late-Soviet TV psychotherapist whose 1989 health sessions reached millions.”

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Pietro Veglio

1944 – 2026 · economist

“Bellinzona economist who led Swiss World Bank work and FOSIT after decades in Latin American cooperation.”

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Music

Tiruchi R. Thayumanavan

1931 – 2026 · Carnatic percussionist

“Pudukottai-school mridangam and kanjira vidwan whose konnakkol and guru bhakti shaped Tiruchi's laya tradition.”

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Frank Bridel

1924 – 2026 · journalist

“Lausanne journalist and writer who edited the Gazette de Lausanne and later chronicled Swiss life into his second century.”

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Alexander Butterfield

1926 – 2026 · USAF colonel

“The Nixon aide whose July 1973 testimony revealed the Oval Office tapes and transformed Watergate.”

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Margit Carlqvist

1932 – 2026 · Actress

“Swedish actress of Bergman's To Joy and Smiles of a Summer Night, and a face of 1950s Swedish film.”

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Food

Mico Rodriguez

1957 – 2026 · Restaurateur

“Godfather of Dallas Tex-Mex who co-founded Mi Cocina, minted the Mambo Taxi, and kept reinventing elevated Mexican dining.”

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Dave Rosello

1950 – 2026 · MLB infielder

“Puerto Rican MLB infielder for the Cubs and Indians, and Chicago's first Puerto Rican infielder.”

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J. Todd Anderson

1959 – 2026 · Storyboard artist

“The Coen brothers' longtime storyboard artist who put their films on paper first.”

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Tony Buss

1939 – 2026 · cricketer

“Sussex fast-medium bowler who took 958 first-class wickets and helped win the first Gillette Cups.”

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Rashied M. Schuelke

† 2026

“A 15-year-old from La Crosse, Wisconsin, whose life was cut short by gun violence.”

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Education

Gregor McLennan

1952 – 2026 · sociologist

“Bristol sociology chair and Stuart Hall collaborator who rebuilt a department and loved the mountains.”

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Tony Newhall

1941 – 2026 · newspaper publisher

“Signal publisher and 1985 SCV Man of the Year who built the Boys Club Auction into a valley institution.”

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Music

Motti Kastón

1961 – 2026 · baritone

“Israeli baritone and Stuttgart Kammersänger whose Met training shaped a 35-year ensemble career.”

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Theatre

Štěpánka Ranošová

1926 – 2026 · Theatre

“Ostrava actress who founded Bezruč Theatre and held a Thalia at 97.”

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Lauren Heike

† 2026

“Killed while hiking in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2023; her case drew years of national attention.”

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Wendy Ann Magill-Walter

† 2026

“A devoted mother, sister and animal lover, remembered for her warmth and sense of adventure.”

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