Bisera Alikadić, died aged 87
Bisera Alikadić, a Bosnian poet and author, died on October 6, 2026, aged 87. Born in Podhum near Livno, she built a body of work that included poetry, romance novels and books for children. She was…
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Dennis Franchione passed away at age 75
Dennis Franchione, an American college football coach who led programs including Pittsburg State, TCU and New Mexico, died of cancer on October 6, 2026, aged 75. Born in Girard, Kansas, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pittsburg State University in 1973. Franchione coached for 27 seasons…
Jean Manga Onguéné passed away at age 80
Jean Manga Onguéné, a Cameroonian footballer, died on October 6, 2026, aged 80. Born on June 12, 1946, he played as a centre-forward and spent his entire playing career with Canon Yaoundé in Cameroon. That made the Yaoundé club the sole team of his playing career, while his…
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Víctor Hugo Ayala, the Colombian singer known for bolero recordings and his performance of the national anthem, died October 6, 2026, aged 92. Born in Bogotá on June 13, 1934, he began singing in radio competitions and won first prize in a contest on Radio Santa Fe. In…
Richard Morecroft dies at 70
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Neil Andrew dies at age 82
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Hesham Yahya dies at 63
Hesham Yahya, an Egyptian journalist, novelist and screenwriter, died October 5, 2026, aged 63. His career joined newspaper journalism and literary writing, and also included television program preparation and screenwriting. He worked for several Egyptian publications, among them Akhbar al-Youm, Al-Ahrar, Al-Wafd and Al-Haqiqa, and participated in founding…
Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare died at age 86
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Death of George Fenton at age 76
George Richard Ian Howe Fenton, known professionally as George Fenton, the English composer, died October 5, 2026, aged 76. Born in Bromley, Kent, he became best known for writing film scores and music for television. His work earned five Academy Award nominations and several Ivor Novello, BAFTA, Golden…
Carlos Alberto Dias dies at 59
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Tadeusz Lutak, a Polish World War II veteran and soldier, died October 5, 2026, aged 109. Born Tadeusz Władysław Lutak on August 29, 1917, in Żarnowa, then part of Austria-Hungary, he was known by the nom de guerre “Pancerz.” Before the war, he served in Poland’s armoured forces…
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Vlado Jug death at age 79
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Freddie Jackson dead at age 70
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Obituary: George Ali Murad Khan, dead at age 93
George Ali Murad Khan, the Pakistani monarch who served as Mir of Khairpur from 1947 to 1954, died October 5, 2026, aged 93. Born in Brighton, England, on June 29, 1933, he was a member of the Talpur dynasty. His parents were Faiz Muhammad Khan II of Khairpur…
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Dennis Hastert died at age 84
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Gabriele Sabatini passes away at age 50
Gabriele Sabatini, an Italian football player and manager, died on October 5, 2026, aged 50. Born in La Spezia on March 22, 1976, he played for Pisa, Castelnuovo and Cuneo before establishing himself in coaching. Sabatini was appointed head coach of Fezzanese on June 5, 2017, when the…
Obituary: Fred Claire, dead at age 91
Fred Claire, the American baseball executive who served as vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, died October 5, 2026, aged 91. He worked in several capacities for the Dodgers from 1969 to 1998, including as general manager from 1987 through 1998. Born in Jamestown,…
William Osorio dead at age 55
William Adalberto Osorio Rivera, the Salvadoran footballer known as William Osorio, died October 5, 2026, aged 55. Born in San Salvador on April 13, 1971, he was a retired player who also worked as a coach. He came through at Coca-Cola and made his debut for the club…
Colin Wilson passes away at age 54
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Benon Sevan dead at age 88
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Jim Ray Smith passes away at age 94
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Robert Kelker-Kelly died at age 62
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Singeetham Srinivasa Rao passed away at age 95
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Bob Fontaine Jr. passes away at age 73
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Mad Sandhu death at age 29
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Vladimir Khanan dead at age 81
Vladimir Khanan, a Russian-Israeli poet, prose writer and essayist, died on October 3, 2026, at age 81. Born in Yerevan on May 9, 1945, he was also known…
Vincent M. Battle death at age 85
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Anatoly Kashpirovsky passes away at age 87
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Jan Roelof Kruithof, died aged 89
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Metal Maniac dead, Metal Maniac, American professional wrestler
Metal Maniac, the American professional wrestler best known as Jeffrey Miller, died on October 3, 2026. A native of North Plainfield, New Jersey, he also wrestled under his…
Geoff Hickson, died aged 87
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Moïse Kwasivi Fiadjoe dead
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Tony Reno passes away at age 52
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İoanna Kuçuradi dies at age 89
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Obituary: Robert Kururangi, dead at age 69
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Duke Carlisle died at age 84
Duke Carlisle, the American football player who starred at quarterback for the Texas Longhorns, died on October 2, 2026, at age 84. Born Emmet Augustus Carlisle III in…
Denys Tremblay dies at age 75
Denys Tremblay, a Canadian artist and micronational leader who served as king of L'Anse-Saint-Jean, died October 2, 2026, aged 75. Born in Chicoutimi, Quebec, on February 5, 1951,…
Roy H, died aged 14
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Lyle Odelein dies at 58
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Marjoe Gortner passes away at age 82
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Death of Sir William Heseltine at age 96
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Jeff Van Note obituary: died at age 80
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Sudi Özkan passes away at age 87
Sudi Özkan, the Turkish businessman and hotelier-casino operator, died on October 2, 2026, aged 87. Born in Adana in 1939, he built a business career that expanded from…
Toufique Imrose Khalidi dead, Toufique Imrose Khalidi, Bangladeshi journalist
Toufique Imrose Khalidi, a Bangladeshi journalist and editor, died on October 2, 2026. He was the owner and editor-in-chief of bdnews24.com, the online news outlet he launched in…
Nikos Sevastopoulos dies at 81
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Cheikh Hamidou Kane dead at age 98
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Ray Close dead at age 57
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Irene Butter death at age 95
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Death of Sir William Heseltine at age 96
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Death of Bruce Baird at age 84
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Irene H. Butter passed away at age 95
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Dottie Martin died at age 89
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Cesar Virata passes away at age 95
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Sass Jordan, died aged 63
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Oscar Reynert Olsen has died at age 101
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Hilary McPhee, died aged 85
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Obituary: Kol Israel, dead at age 85
Kol Israel, an Israeli radio program editor, died on October 1, 2026, at age 85. Also known as Kol Yisrael, the name identified Israel’s public domestic and international…
George Waft passes away at age 26
George Waft, British politician, died on October 1, 2026, aged 26. A Manx politician, he served as a Member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man.…
Khawaja Zakauddin died at age 89
Khawaja Zakauddin, a Pakistani Olympic field hockey player and forward, died on October 1, 2026, aged 89. Born in Jalandhar in 1936, he played for Pakistan from 1958…
Lito Sousa died at age 59
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J. Todd Anderson dead at age 125
J. Todd Anderson, an American storyboard artist, died on October 1, 2026, aged 125. He worked with a number of filmmakers, including the Coen brothers, and also helped…
Obituary: Bart Batten, dead at age 68
Bart Batten, an American professional wrestler known as one-half of the Batten Twins, died on October 1, 2026, at age 68. Batten and his identical twin brother, Brad,…
Conrad Lant passed away at age 63
Conrad Lant, the British metal singer and bassist known as Cronos and founder, vocalist and bassist of Venom, died on October 1, 2026, aged 63. Born Conrad Thomas…
Death of Ken Krawetz at age 75
Ken Krawetz, a Canadian politician and Saskatchewan MLA from 1995 to 2016, died on October 1, 2026, aged 75. Known formally as Kenneth Patrick Krawetz, he was born…
Mario Eusebio Mestril Vega dead at age 86
Mario Eusebio Mestril Vega, a Cuban Roman Catholic prelate who served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Camagüey from 1991 to 1996 and bishop of Ciego de…
Kamil Pulec passes away at age 63
Kamil Pulec, a Czech actor, died on October 1, 2026, aged 63. Born on September 1, 1963, in Prešov, then in Czechoslovakia, he grew up from 1969 in…
Štěpánka Ranošová dies at age 99
Štěpánka Ranošová, the Czech actress and founding member of the Petr Bezruč Theatre in Ostrava, died on October 1, 2026, aged 99. Born in Mariánské Hory, now part…
James Walker dies at age 38
James Walker, the English-born Antiguan and Barbudan footballer who played as a striker, died on October 1, 2026, aged 38. Born in the London Borough of Hackney on…
Toshio Kamo passes away at age 81
Toshio Kamo, a Japanese political scientist and professor emeritus of Osaka City University, died of acute respiratory failure on October 1, 2026, aged 81. His scholarship focused on…
Gilad Ben Shach death at age 85
Gilad Ben Shach, an Israeli radio program editor at Kol Israel, died on October 1, 2026, at age 85. According to the Hebrew biographical record, he was also…
Antônio Roberto Cavuto dies at 82
Antônio Roberto Cavuto, a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and bishop of Itapipoca, died on October 1, 2026, aged 82. Born in Espírito Santo do Pinhal on May 19,…
Alisa Aksyonova dies at age 95
Alisa Aksyonova, a Russian museum director, died on October 1, 2026, aged 95. Born Alisa Ivanovna Kurnaeva on March 13, 1931, in Savino in what is now Ivanovo…
Obituary: Biljana Plavšić, dead at age 96
Biljana Plavšić, the Bosnian Serb politician who served as president of Republika Srpska, died on October 1, 2026, aged 96. Born in Tuzla in 1930, she worked as…
Nobutaka Tsutsui dies at age 81
Nobutaka Tsutsui, a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives in Japan’s Diet as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan, died on October 1,…
Don Wing dies at age 88
Don Wing, the Australian politician who served in the Tasmanian Legislative Council and as mayor of Launceston, died on October 1, 2026, aged 88. Born in Ulverstone on…
Milton Windler, died aged 94
Milton Windler, the American NASA flight director who helped guide some of the space agency’s most significant missions, died on October 1, 2026, aged 94. Known as Milt…