Explore

Iwan Setiawan

† 2026 · Association football coach

“Charismatic local coach who spent nearly thirty years teaching Indonesian football, sharp-tongued on the touchline and remembered by peers as a mentor.”

🕯 53 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1

Papa Urhobo

† 2026 · Singer

“Papa Urhobo: the Urhobo voice on Timaya's Ogologomma who kept Asaba stages alive.”

🕯 89 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 1

Mireille Calle-Gruber

1945 – 2026 · Literary critic

“Critic and professor who kept Claude Simon, Butor and the créatrices vividly alive.”

🕯 65 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1

Media

Alexey Vishnevetsky

1965 – 2026 · Journalist

“The union deputy who said journalism is a duty of responsibility, not a race to be first.”

🕯 76 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1

David Cobb

1962 – 2026 · Attorney

“Green nominee who fought corporate rule, then built land trusts.”

🕯 78 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 2

Marty Lowe

1971 – 2026 · Quarterback

“Cardinals QB who won the Cup, then taught kids at Seneca Park.”

🕯 38 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 2

Frank Schambor

1971 – 2026 · Radio host

“The voice that woke Lower Saxony, as ffn-Morgenmän Franky.”

🕯 94 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 1

Taiwo "Ogogo" Hassan

1959 – 2026 · Actor

“Ogogo: mechanic-turned Yoruba cinema king who chanted, acted, and carried Owo Blow to Netflix.”

🕯 59 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1

Jeon Gyeong-cheol

1962 – 2026 · Author

“Peter Pan Dad who searched a thousand doors so his son could live with dignity.”

🕯 89 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1

Jerry Oates

1947 – 2026 · Professional wrestler

“Columbus territorial wrestler. Titles with Ted, Ventura, and Garvin. Gym owner, trainer, deputy.”

🕯 92 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 2

Francois Rosse

1945 – 2026 · Composer

“Alsatian-born composer and pianist who treated improvisation as a way of thinking composition.”

🕯 64 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 2

Mike Detillier

1960 – 2026 · Sports radio host

“Louisiana's Football Guy who made the draft make sense.”

🕯 88 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 3

Blanche d'Alpuget

1944 – 2026 · Biographer

“Australian biographer of Bob Hawke, novelist of power, and the writer who asked to be remembered by one line: love one another.”

🕯 79 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 1

Tadeusz Kasyanov

1938 – 2026 · Boxer

“Boatswain Matveich and a pioneer of Soviet karate, who taught the fight and staged the stunts.”

🕯 51 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 2

Mehdi Zana

1940 – 2026 · Kurdish politician

“Diyarbakir's independent socialist mayor; Prison No. 5 witness for Kurdish rights.”

🕯 43 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1

Media

Chucho Gallegos

1941 – 2026 · Entertainment journalist

“He made Mexican television a weekly reading habit, then stayed in the newsroom.”

🕯 92 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 1

Yin Carrizo

1939 – 2026 · Accordionist

“Accordionist called El Cantor de la Patria, who wrote Viva Panama and Lucy.”

🕯 70 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 1

Michel Paulin

1933 – 2026 · Actor

“Narrator of Les Mystérieuses Cités d'or; French voice of Chinatown's Jake Gittes.”

🕯 87 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 2

K. Achuthan

1950 – 2026 · Politician

“Chittur's Congress face for twenty years, built first in the cooperative bank and the municipality.”

🕯 71 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 3

Ilfinesh Qannoo

1962 – 2026 · Oromo singer

“Oromo singer whose songs kept a language, a memory, and a claim to freedom in the open.”

🕯 96 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1

Media

Masao Yora

1957 – 2026 · Political journalist

“Mainichi political voice and Nスタ commentator who cut into Nagatacho with glasses, a mustache, and an evening column.”

🕯 30 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1

Rudy Ariffin

1953 – 2026 · Civil servant

“Two-term South Kalimantan governor who moved the capital offices and barred coal trucks from public roads.”

🕯 41 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1

Garry Sobers

1936 – 2026 · Cricketer

“Barbados National Hero and cricket's complete all-rounder: 365 not out, six sixes, and a life played for the game.”

🕯 77 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 1

Francisco Resendez

1941 – 2026 · Voice actor

“Latin America's Scooby-Doo voice, and the first director of Los Simpson in Spanish.”

🕯 90 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 1

George Harrison

1943 – 2001 · Musician

“All things must pass.”

🕯 292 · ✍️ 24 · 📷 3

Ramon Espinar Gallego

1954 – 2026 · Spanish politician and lawyer

“First president of the Madrid Assembly and the first democratic mayor of Leganes.”

🕯 54 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1

Joe McDonald

1929 – 2026 · Baseball executive

“From Ebbets Field turnstiles to six World Series rings, a baseball lifer.”

🕯 63 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 3

Kuku Kohli

1949 – 2026 · Film director

“The director who put Ajay Devgn on two bikes and launched a Hindi film star.”

🕯 99 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 1

Jan Frycz

1954 – 2026 · Actor

“Krakow actor who made supporting roles unforgettable, from Lupa's stage to Dario.”

🕯 99 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 3

Education

Ivan T Berend

1930 – 2026 · Historian and economist

“He survived Dachau at 14 and spent a long life teaching how Central Europe's economies rose, failed, and changed.”

🕯 53 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 1

Georgy Matyukhin

1934 – 2026 · economist

“First Bank of Russia chairman, who built a two-tier system as the Soviet Union ended.”

🕯 61 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 1

Television

Bob Saget

1956 – 2022 · Stand-up comedian

“America's TV dad who also told the dirtiest jokes.”

🕯 256 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 6

Chris Cornell

1964 – 2017 · Singer

“Four-octave voice of Seattle grunge who kept reinventing hard rock.”

🕯 101 · ✍️ 14 · 📷 4

Antonino Fogliani

1976 – 2026 · Conductor

“He kept rare bel canto alive, from Pesaro to Bad Wildbad, with a joy that reached the last row.”

🕯 74 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 2

Royalty

PK Kerala Varma

1936 – 2026 · Traditional ruler

“Zamorin of Kozhikode who made medicines, shared family rule, and chose a public cremation.”

🕯 63 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 1

David Johansen

1950 – 2025 · Singer

“Proto-punk Doll who kept reinventing New York, from glam chaos to Hot Hot Hot.”

🕯 91 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 4

Ismael Laguna

1943 – 2026 · Professional boxer

“The Tiger of Colón. Twice world lightweight champion, never stopped, never forgotten.”

🕯 74 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 2

Shinichi Abe

1950 – 2026 · Manga artist

“Garo artist who turned Asagaya love and later illness into private manga that outlived the silence.”

🕯 70 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 1

Vadim Popov

1940 – 2026 · Politician

“Twice Speaker of Belarus's lower house, he asked that Belarusians live with dignity.”

🕯 55 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1

Tony Harrison

1937 – 2025 · Poet

“Public poet of Leeds: verse for page, stage and screen.”

🕯 98 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 2

Comedy

Great Gidayu

1958 – 2026 · Japanese comedian

“Takeshi Army's Benkei: guitar, rakugo, and laughter through dialysis.”

🕯 74 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 3

Arts

Lucien Smith

1989 – 2026 · Multidisciplinary artist

“From Rain Paintings to Serving the People and FOOD, he turned early market fame into community.”

🕯 40 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 2

Comedy

Jim Geoghan

1947 – 2026 · Television writer

“From Bronx club stages to the Tipton Hotel, he kept children laughing and parents trusting the half hour.”

🕯 72 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 1

Theatre

Slobodan Snajder

1948 – 2026 · Writer

“Writer of Croatian Faust and The Brass Age who would not let history go quiet.”

🕯 81 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 2

Science

Yoshikazu Hasegawa

1930 – 2026 · Vertebrate paleontologist

“He showed Japan its first plesiosaur and spent a life reading fossil bones.”

🕯 95 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 1

Television

James Gandolfini

1961 – 2013 · Actor

“Tony Soprano who redefined TV antiheroes, and a Jersey son who never forgot home.”

🕯 156 · ✍️ 19 · 📷 5

Yvette Roudy

1929 – 2026 · Politician

“France's first women's rights minister. She made abortion reimbursable and wrote equality into working life.”

🕯 52 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1