Leonid Arkayev dead at age 86
Leonid Arkayev, a Russian gymnast and gymnastics coach inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, died in Moscow on November 6, 2026, aged 86. Born in Moscow on June 3, 1940, he was an artistic…
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Jay Rockefeller has died at age 89
Jay Rockefeller, an American Democratic politician who served as governor of West Virginia and a U.S. senator, died on November 6, 2026, aged 89. Born John Davison Rockefeller IV in New York City on June 18,…
Konstantin Trenchev passed away at age 71
Konstantin Trenchev, a Bulgarian physician and syndicalist who led the Confederation of Labour Podkrepa, died November 6, 2026, aged 71. Born in Stara Zagora on February 8, 1955, he received his education in medicine before becoming a founder and leader of the labor organization. Trenchev established Podkrepa in…
Hossein Wahid Khorasani dead at age 108
Hossein Wahid Khorasani, an Iranian Shia marja', died November 6, 2026, aged 108. Born Mohammad-Hossein Molla-Saleh on January 1, 1921, in Nishapur, he became known as Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Hossein Wahid Khorasani, and was also known as Vahid Khorasani. His education included study at Najaf Seminary, while his…
Death of Michael Locke at age 47
Michael Locke, the Welsh stuntman and skateboarder known as Pancho, died November 6, 2026, aged 47. Born Michael Richard Locke on March 13, 1979, he worked as a performer from 2001 through 2026, with credits as an actor and stunt performer as well as a skateboarder. Locke was…
Vezhdi Rashidov obituary: died at age 74
Vezhdi Rashidov, a Bulgarian sculptor and politician who served twice as minister of culture, died of a heart attack on November 6, 2026, aged 74. Born Vezhdi Letif Rashidov in Dimitrovgrad on December 14, 1951, he moved with his parents to Haskovo when he was two. His mother,…
David Hewitt passes away at age 87
David Hewitt, the Irish rugby union centre who represented Ireland and the British & Irish Lions, died on November 5, 2026, aged 87. Born in Belfast on September 9, 1939, he was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Hewitt earned 18 caps for Ireland between 1958 and…
Tengku Puteri Zainah Tengku Eskandar dies at 70
Tengku Puteri Zainah Tengku Eskandar, a Malaysian political spouse and the first wife of Najib Razak, died on November 5, 2026, aged 70. Born in 1956, she was also known as Ku Ri. She and Najib shared more than 10 years of married life before divorcing. Their three…
Patricia Walsh, died aged 74
Patricia Walsh, an Argentine politician and former deputy representing Buenos Aires city, died of respiratory failure on November 5, 2026, aged 74. Born in Buenos Aires on January 1, 1952, she was the daughter of Rodolfo Walsh and studied at the National University of La Plata. She served…
Ali-Asghar Fani died at age 72
Ali-Asghar Fani, an Iranian politician and former minister of education, died November 5, 2026, aged 72. Born in Tehran on January 3, 1954, he studied at the University of Tehran and worked as a civil engineer. He was also employed by Tarbiat Modares University. Fani had previously served…
Jeffrey Allen Weisheit, died aged 50
Jeffrey Allen Weisheit, an American convicted murderer, died by lethal injection on November 5, 2026, aged 50. His case stemmed from a fire set on April 9, 2010, at his girlfriend’s home in Evansville, Indiana, where her two children, Alyssa and Caleb Lynch, died. In the early hours…
Jeffrey Weisheit passed away at age 50
Jeffrey Weisheit, an American convicted murderer, died aged 50 on November 5, 2026, after being executed by lethal injection. Born Jeffrey Allen Weisheit on March 28, 1976, he became the subject of a criminal case stemming from a fire at his girlfriend’s home in Evansville, Indiana. On April…
Pavel Moiseyev dies at 39
Pavel Moiseyev, a Russian politician and educator who served in the Tambov Oblast Duma, died in a traffic collision on November 5, 2026, aged 39. His full name was Pavel Sergeyevich Moiseyev; he was born on April 17, 1987, in Tambov, then part of the Russian SFSR within…
Jeffrey Allen Weisheit, died aged 50
Jeffrey Allen Weisheit, an American convicted murderer, died at age 50 by lethal injection on November 5, 2026. Born March 28, 1976, he was convicted in a case stemming from a 2010 fire at his girlfriend’s home in Evansville, Indiana. Weisheit set the house ablaze on April 9.…
Gianpietro Marchetti death at age 78
Gianpietro Marchetti, the Italian footballer who played as a defender for Atalanta, Juventus and the national team, died November 5, 2026, aged 78. Born in Rudiano on October 22, 1948, Marchetti began his professional career in…
Gianluca Pierobon passes away at age 59
Gianluca Pierobon, an Italian racing cyclist, died on November 5, 2026, aged 59. Born in Gallarate on March 2, 1967, he was identified as a former racing cyclist and a cyclo-cross cyclist. His recorded sporting occupations included bicycle racing and cyclo-cross, and he was associated with both disciplines…
Antonio Carattoni passed away at age 80
Antonio Carattoni, a Sammarinese politician who served as Captain Regent of San Marino, died November 5, 2026, aged 80. Born on November 8, 1945, in Sant’Agata Feltria, he is also identified in biographical records by the name Antonio Carratoni. A member of the Party of Socialists and Democrats,…
Hossein Omoumi, died aged 82
Hossein Omoumi, an Iranian musician, composer, scholar and teacher of Persian traditional music, died on November 5, 2026, aged 82. Born July 17, 1944, in Isfahan, Iran, he began studying the ney, the country’s traditional reed flute, at 14 and learned from ney master Hassan Kassai. His musical…
Mikhail Vasiliev obituary: died at age 64
Mikhail Vasiliev, a Russian ice hockey player, died November 5, 2026, aged 64. Born Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vasiliev on June 8, 1962, in Elektrogorsk, in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union, he played in the Soviet Hockey League. His Soviet clubs were Torpedo Yaroslavl and HC CSKA Moscow.…
Obituary: Sir Lloyd Geering, dead at age 108
Sir Lloyd Geering, the New Zealand theologian who faced charges of heresy, died November 5, 2026, aged 108. Born in Rangiora on February 26, 1918, he was brought up in Dunedin and spent four years with his family in Australia before returning to New Zealand. He attended Otago…
Obituary: Alan Jones, dead at age 80
Alan Jones, the Australian racing driver and Formula One world champion, died November 5, 2026, aged 80. Born Alan Stanley Jones in Melbourne on November 2, 1946, he attended Xavier College and went on to compete in Formula One from 1975 to 1986. His defining achievement came in…
Nicolas P. Retsinas died at age 79
Nicolas P. Retsinas, an American economist who held senior housing and financial-regulatory posts in the Clinton administration, died November 5, 2026, aged 79. He served as the U.S. assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing and as director of the Office of Thrift Supervision during Bill…
Paul Langmack passes away at age 61
Paul Langmack, an Australian rugby league player and coach, died of a heart attack on November 5, 2026, aged 61. Born in Sydney on May 10, 1965, he attended Patrician Brothers’ College in Fairfield, where he captained the Australian Schoolboys team in 1982. Langmack became a representative player…
Steve Davidson dies at 67
Steve Davidson, an American science fiction editor, died November 4, 2026, aged 67. Born December 18, 1958, he became editor of Amazing Stories in 2012, the year he acquired the publication and restarted it as a website. The title’s revival later extended to print: in 2018, it returned…
Tom Jensen dies at 77
Thomas Lee Jensen, an American politician who served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and Senate, died in London, Kentucky, on November 4, 2026, aged 77. He was born on December 29, 1948. Jensen’s first House election came in 1984, when he defeated incumbent Republican representative Albert Robinson…
Liudvikas Žukauskas dies at age 73
Liudvikas Žukauskas, a Lithuanian politician and public figure in Skuodas District Municipality, died on November 4, 2026, aged 73. Born on December 15, 1952, in Bolshaya Kosul, in the Bogotol district of Krasnoyarsk Krai, he spent his early years in Siberia, where his parents, Petronėlė Žukauskienė and Pranciškus…
Vadim Crîcimari, died aged 38
Vadim Crîcimari, a Moldovan footballer, died of cancer on November 4, 2026, aged 38. Born on August 22, 1988, Crîcimari played as a forward for Dacia Buiucani. At the end of July 2021, he joined Oțelul Galați. His documented career included roles at both clubs, with Dacia Buiucani…
Marta Gastón Menal death at age 53
Marta Gastón Menal, a Spanish economist and politician who served as Aragon’s minister of economy and employment, senator and deputy, died of cancer on November 3, 2026, aged…
Jan Władysław Woś passes away at age 87
Jan Władysław Woś, a Polish bibliophile, historian, essayist and fiction writer, died on November 3, 2026, aged 87. Born in Warsaw, he studied at the University of Warsaw’s…
Toni Brogno dead at age 53
Toni Brogno, a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a striker, died of liver cancer on November 3, 2026, aged 53. Born Antonio Brogno on July 19,…
Lonnie Thompson passes away at age 78
Lonnie Thompson, an American paleoclimatologist and university professor, died November 3, 2026, aged 78. At Ohio State University’s School of Earth Sciences, he pursued research into climate history…
Paul-Henri Rebut died at age 90
Paul-Henri Rebut, a French nuclear physicist whose work was in nuclear fusion, died November 3, 2026, aged 90. He studied physics at the École polytechnique in Paris and…
Janosch passes away at age 95
Janosch, the German children's author and illustrator born Horst Eckert, died November 3, 2026, aged 95. He was born on March 11, 1931, in Hindenburg, now Zabrze, Poland,…
Jesús de Miguel obituary: died at age 30
Jesús de Miguel Alameda, a Spanish professional footballer who played as a striker, died November 3, 2026, aged 30, at Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria. Born in…
Paul Kihara Kariuki obituary: died at age 72
Paul Kihara Kariuki, a Kenyan lawyer and politician who served as attorney general, died November 3, 2026, aged 72. His career also included service as a judge and…
Nand Lal dies at 72
Nand Lal, an Indian politician and Himachal Pradesh MLA, died in Shimla on November 3, 2026, aged 72. Born on April 16, 1954, in Deothi, in the Rampur…
John Frieda died at age 75
John Frieda, the British businessman and celebrity hairstylist who founded hair salon and hair-product businesses, died on November 3, 2026, aged 75. Born Alan Howard Frieda in London…
Carlos Albert has died at age 83
Carlos Albert Llorente, the Mexican footballer and journalist, died November 3, 2026, aged 83. Born in Mexico City on July 10, 1943, he played for Necaxa and represented…
Dulcy Singer dies at age 92
Dulcy Singer, an American television producer and executive producer of Sesame Street, died November 3, 2026, aged 92. Born on November 11, 1933, she built a long association…
Kjeld Thorst death at age 86
Kjeld Thorst, a Danish football player and manager, died on November 3, 2026, aged 86. Born in Øster Svenstrup, he began playing in the youth ranks of Skovsgaard…
Obituary: Harold Greene, dead at age 82
Harold Greene, an American news anchor, died November 3, 2026, aged 82. Born December 1, 1944, he built a television news career that began in Los Angeles and…
Simon Winchester passed away at age 82
Simon Winchester, the British-American author and journalist associated with The Surgeon of Crowthorne, died of a heart attack on November 3, 2026, aged 82. Born in London, he…
Obituary: Erminia Ferrari, dead at age 94
Erminia Ferrari, an Italian model and costume designer, died November 2, 2026, aged 94. Born in Taormina on November 4, 1931, she was the daughter of a hotel…
Obituary: Ahmet Nazif Zorlu, dead at age 82
Ahmet Nazif Zorlu, the Turkish industrialist and chairman of Zorlu Holding, died of cancer on November 2, 2026, aged 82. Born on August 28, 1944, in Babadağ, in…
Patrik Eichler dies at age 42
Patrik Eichler, a Czech journalist and political commentator, died November 2, 2026, aged 42. He was director of the Masaryk Democratic Academy, a social-democratic think tank, and held…
Tobias Joaquim Dai died at age 75
Tobias Joaquim Dai, a Mozambican politician and minister of defence, died on November 2, 2026, aged 75. Born on November 25, 1950, Dai served as Mozambique’s minister of…
Obituary: Georg Hack, dead at age 76
Georg Hack, a German speedway rider, died on November 2, 2026, aged 76. Born in Landshut on February 20, 1950, he represented the West German national speedway team,…
Ashok Kumar Mahapatra passed away at age 74
Ashok Kumar Mahapatra, an Indian neurosurgeon and academic known for craniopagus surgery and academic leadership, died November 2, 2026, aged 74. Born in Odisha, he built a career…
Don Knodel obituary: died at age 95
Don Knodel, an American basketball coach who led the Rice Owls and coached the Houston Angels, died November 2, 2026, in Houston. He was 95. Born in 1931,…
Obituary: Luis Rico, dead at age 81
Luis Rico Arancibia, the Bolivian singer-songwriter known as Luis Rico, died on November 2, 2026, aged 81. Born on May 15, 1945, in Tupiza, Bolivia, he worked as…
Obituary: John Killacky, dead at age 74
John Killacky, an American politician and former arts administrator who served in the Vermont House of Representatives, died of prostate cancer on November 2, 2026, aged 74. Elected…
Taurian Fontenette dies at age 43
Taurian Fontenette, an American basketball player known for streetball, died November 2, 2026, aged 43. Born in Hitchcock, Texas, on January 1, 1983, he attended Hitchcock High School…
Josef Mašín death at age 94
Josef Mašín, a Czech anti-communist resistance fighter and defector, died November 2, 2026, aged 94. With his brother Ctirad, he took up armed resistance against the communist regime…
John Evans passes away at age 79
John Evans, an English professional footballer and international bowls player, died on November 2, 2026, aged 79. Born in Torquay on March 24, 1947, John Charles Evans began…
Nadia Santini dead at age 73
Nadia Santini, an Italian chef known for Dal Pescatore, died November 2, 2026, aged 73. Born in San Pietro Mussolino, she became closely associated with the restaurant in…
Obituary: Don Murray, dead at age 80
Donald James Murray, the Scottish professional footballer known as Don Murray, died aged 80 on November 2, 2026, from complications of Lewy body dementia. Born on January 18,…
Jagdish Raj Sapolia dies at 80
Jagdish Raj Sapolia, an Indian politician and former member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, died November 2, 2026, aged 80. A member of the Indian National…
Obituary: Ignaty Lapkin, dead at age 87
Ignaty Lapkin, a Russian Orthodox preacher and author who also worked as a missionary, blogger and poet, died November 2, 2026, aged 87. Born in Karpovsky, in Russia’s…
M. Ramachandran has died at age 80
M. Ramachandran, an Indian politician and former Tamil Nadu MLA, died of cardiac arrest on November 2, 2026, aged 80. His legislative career included three assembly terms, following…
Freddie Mwila, died aged 80
Freddie Mwila, the Zambian footballer and coach, died November 2, 2026, aged 80. Born in Kasama on July 6, 1946, Mwila was among the first Zambians to play…
Beverly Whipple passed away at age 85
Beverly Whipple, an American sexologist and professor emerita at Rutgers University, died November 2, 2026, of Alzheimer’s disease, aged 85. Born January 1, 1934, she studied at Wagner…
Death of Ignatiy Lapkin at age 87
Ignatiy Lapkin, a Russian Orthodox preacher and author, died November 2, 2026, aged 87. Born in Karpovsky on June 10, 1939, he grew up in a large Old…
Capers Funnye has died at age 74
Capers Funnye, an African-American Conservative rabbi, died of cancer on November 2, 2026, aged 74. Also known as Capers C. Funnye Jr., he served as Chief Rabbi of…
Jeannot Gilbert passed away at age 85
Jeannot Gilbert, a Canadian professional ice hockey forward, died November 2, 2026, aged 85. Born in Grande-Baie, he built a professional career that lasted from 1960 to 1975,…
Hassan Habibi obituary: died at age 86
Hassan Habibi, an Iranian association football player and manager, died November 2, 2026, aged 86. Born in Kerman on February 7, 1939, he began his playing career with…
Pavel Hulva died at age 50
Pavel Hulva, a Czech zoologist and university professor, died on November 1, 2026, aged 50. Born on November 22, 1975, in Český Těšín, he attended Gymnázium Český Těšín…
Ellis Johnson obituary: died at age 83
Ellis Edward Johnson Jr., an American football player who played halfback and wide receiver for the Boston Patriots, died November 1, 2026, aged 83. Born July 9, 1943,…
John Leeson dies at age 83
John Leeson, the English actor known for voicing K9 in Doctor Who and portraying Bungle in Rainbow, died November 1, 2026, aged 83. Born John Francis Christopher Ducker…
Jerry Koosman death at age 83
Jerry Koosman, an American professional baseball pitcher, died November 1, 2026, aged 83. Born Jerome Martin Koosman in Appleton, he played in Major League Baseball from 1967 to…
Sheila Lapinsky has died at age 82
Sheila Lapinsky, a South African anti-apartheid and LGBTQ+ activist, died November 1, 2026, aged 82. Born Sheila Barsel in Johannesburg on January 1, 1944, she grew up in…
Rodney J. Clifton dies at 89
Rodney J. Clifton, an American civil engineer and professor, died November 1, 2026, aged 89. Born Rodney James Clifton in Orchard, Nebraska, on July 10, 1937, he was…
Hamid Alidoosti obituary: died at age 70
Hamid Alidoosti, an Iranian football player and manager who died of cancer, was 70 when he died on November 1, 2026. Born in Tehran on January 1, 1956,…
Tony Butala obituary: died at age 87
Tony Butala, the American singer who led the vocal group The Lettermen, died November 1, 2026, aged 87. Born Anthony Francis Butala in Sharon, Pennsylvania, on November 20,…
Obituary: Juan Atkins, dead at age 64
Juan Atkins, an American record producer, techno musician and DJ known for his work with the Belleville Three and Cybotron, died of a heart attack on November 1,…
Death of Jacques Bolognesi at age 79
Jacques Bolognesi, the French jazz musician and longtime member of the Orchestre National de Jazz, died November 1, 2026, aged 79. Born in Gap on January 6, 1947,…
Pavel Žák dies at age 85
Pavel Žák, a Czech composer and lyricist who also worked as a director, screenwriter and pianist, died November 1, 2026, aged 85. Born in Rychnov nad Kněžnou on…
Ate Gay died at age 55
Gil Aducal Morales, the Filipino comedian and television presenter known as Ate Gay, died on November 1, 2026, aged 55, from mucoepidermoid carcinoma. Born in Manila, Morales began…
QABM Rahman passed away at age 91
QABM Rahman, a Bangladeshi civil servant, died on November 1, 2026, aged 91. Born in Faridpur, then part of British India, on February 1, 1935, he entered maritime…
Death of Miquel Navarro at age 81
Miquel Navarro, Spanish sculptor, painter and contemporary poet, died on November 1, 2026, aged 81. Born in Mislata, Valencia, on September 29, 1945, he studied painting at the…
Regina Ziegler death at age 82
German film and television producer Regina Ziegler died November 1, 2026, aged 82. Born in Quedlinburg, she briefly studied law at the Free University of Berlin before leaving…
Gerry Collins dead at age 88
Gerry Collins, the Irish politician who served twice as minister for foreign affairs and as a member of the European Parliament, died November 1, 2026, aged 88. Born…
Ciara Mageean dies at 34
Ciara Mageean, the Irish Olympic middle-distance runner and European champion, died of cancer on November 1, 2026, aged 34. Born in Portaferry, County Down, on March 12, 1992,…
Todd Shell dies at age 64
Todd Shell, an American football player and coach who played linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers and later coached in the Arena Football League, died November 1, 2026,…
Ved Rahi dies at age 93
Ved Rahi, the Indian screenwriter and director, died on November 1, 2026, aged 93. Born in Jammu on May 22, 1933, he became an author whose work was…
Al Barkow passes away at age 93
Al Barkow, an American golf journalist and historian who also worked as an author, editor and lecturer, died November 1, 2026, aged 93. Born in Chicago in 1932,…