Hamid Lounaouci dies at 71
Hamid Lounaouci, an Algerian civil servant and politician who served as a deputy and transport minister, died on October 8, 2026, aged 71. Born in Tizi-Ouzou on April 3, 1955, he was a member of the…
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Jeff Cannonball has died at age 39
Jeff Guerriero, the American professional wrestler and punk musician known as Jeff Cannonball, died October 8, 2026, aged 39, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Active on the independent wrestling scene, he became best known for…
Geoffrey Chard obituary: died at age 96
Geoffrey Chard, an Australian opera baritone, died October 8, 2026, aged 96. Tags Musicians, 08 October 2026, Australia, Chard, Geoffrey, Leo, October 2026, October 8
Hamid Lounaouci dies at 71
Hamid Lounaouci, an Algerian politician and former transport minister, died on October 8, 2026, aged 71. Born on April 3, 1955, in Tizi Ouzou, he entered politics with the Front of Socialist Forces (FFS), founded by Hocine Aït Ahmed. In 1991, Lounaouci left the FFS to join the…
Xosé Manuel Beiras passed away at age 90
Xosé Manuel Beiras, a Spanish politician, economist and Galician nationalist, died in Santiago de Compostela on October 8, 2026, aged 90. Born Xosé Manuel Hixinio Beiras Torrado in Santiago on April 7, 1936, he became a professor of structural economy at the University of Santiago de Compostela and…
Nana Patekar dead at age 75
Nana Patekar, the Indian actor and filmmaker, died of cardiac arrest on October 8, 2026, aged 75. Born Vishwanath Patekar in Murud on January 1, 1951, he studied at Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art and worked chiefly in Hindi and Marathi cinema. His Bollywood acting debut came…
Piero passed away at age 81
Piero Antonio Franco De Benedictis, the Italian-born Argentine singer-songwriter known professionally as Piero, died on October 7, 2026, aged 81. Born in Gallipoli, in Italy’s Apulia region, he moved with his family to Argentina in 1948, when he was three. He began his professional singing career in 1964…
Curtis Flowers died at age 56
Curtis Flowers, an American man who was wrongfully imprisoned, died October 7, 2026, aged 56. Born Curtis Giovanni Flowers on May 29, 1970, in Winona, Mississippi, he spent more than 22 years in prison while being tried six times for the same four killings. Flowers was accused of…
Patricia Blevins passes away at age 72
Patricia Blevins, an American politician and former member of the Delaware Senate, died October 7, 2026, aged 72. A Democrat, she represented the Senate’s 7th District from 1990 until 2016, after earlier service in local government in Elsmere. From 1985 to 1990, Blevins served on the town council…
Eirik Skadsdammen passed away at age 45
Eirik Bruntjernsberget Skadsdammen, a Norwegian ice hockey forward who played for Storhamar and the national team, died on October 7, 2026, aged 45, after a cardiac arrest. Raised in Lundersæter, he later lived in Kongsvinger, where Kongsvinger IL Ishockey became his home club. He cycled with his brother…
Frank Dewane dies at 76
Frank Dewane, an American Roman Catholic prelate who served as coadjutor bishop and bishop of Venice in Florida, died October 7, 2026, aged 76. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on March 9, 1950, he was appointed coadjutor bishop by Pope Benedict XVI on April 25, 2006, to assist…
Maricarmen Abascal obituary: died at age 87
Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old Spanish woman who had been evicted from her home, died on October 7, 2026. She was taken to hospital immediately after the eviction and died there. Her eviction on September 23 became a high-profile event that brought Spain’s ongoing affordable-housing crisis back into the…
Maricarmen Abascal obituary: died at age 87
Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old Spanish woman who had been evicted, died October 7, 2026. Known as María del Carmen “Maricarmen” Abascal, she was evicted on September 23, an event that drew national attention to Spain’s affordable-housing crisis. Her case became a catalyst for a series of protests, as…
Death of Bernard Boileau at age 67
Bernard Boileau, the Belgian former professional tennis player, died October 7, 2026, aged 67. Born in Liège on May 25, 1959, he won Belgium’s national championship every year from 1978 through 1983, a six-title run that began as he started touring. He remained a regular member of Belgium’s…
Death of Sandra Bolden Cunningham at age 76
Sandra Bolden Cunningham, an American politician and former member of the New Jersey Senate, died October 7, 2026, aged 76. A Democrat, she represented the 31st Legislative District from 2007 through 2024 and was sworn into…
Stefania Corna passed away at age 35
Stefania Corna, an Italian volleyball player, died on October 7, 2026, aged 35, after a long illness. Born in Bergamo on November 5, 1990, she played for Volley Bergamo and Club Italia and represented Italy’s national team. Her documented honors came with Italy’s under-20 team, with which she…
Brice Tarvel dies at age 80
Brice Tarvel, a French author and comics artist, died October 7, 2026, aged 80. Born Jean Pol Laselle in Reims on August 5, 1946, he became known professionally by the pen name Brice Tarvel. A native of Reims, he spent much of his career publishing with Éditions Fleurus,…
Frank Joseph Dewane death at age 76
Frank Joseph Dewane, an American Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Venice, died October 7, 2026, aged 76. He died in Sarasota, Florida. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on March 9, 1950, Dewane was a Catholic priest and bishop in the United States. He led the…
Hans-Dieter Schmidt died at age 78
Hans-Dieter Schmidt, a German football manager and former player, died on October 7, 2026, aged 78. Born in Hanover on January 9, 1948, Schmidt played football, including for Hannover 96. A severe injury when he was 23 brought his playing career to an early end. He subsequently passed…
Jakub Schwarz Trojan has died at age 99
Jakub Schwarz Trojan, a Czech theologian and dean of the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Charles University, died in Prague on October 7, 2026, aged 99. Born in Paris on May 13, 1927, to Czech parents who were there temporarily, he moved with his family to Czechoslovakia in 1929…
Miloslav Kopečný dies at 82
Miloslav Kopečný, a Czech actor whose best-known role was the Banker in Bony a klid and Bony a klid 2, died October 7, 2026, aged 82. Born in Třebíč on September 18, 1944, he was also sometimes known as Miloš Kopečný and came from Nové Dvory, where his…
Barbara Spinelli passes away at age 80
Barbara Spinelli, an Italian journalist, writer and politician, died in Rome on October 7, 2026, aged 80. Born in Rome on May 31, 1946, she was the daughter of Altiero Spinelli, a federalist political theorist, and Ursula Hirschmann, a German-Jewish anti-fascist activist. Her public roles encompassed journalism, writing…
Virjibhai Thummar died at age 64
Virjibhai Thummar, an Indian politician who served as a member of Parliament and a Gujarat MLA, died on October 7, 2026, aged 64. Born in Amreli, Gujarat, on May 31, 1959, he was a member of the Indian National Congress. Thummar served in Parliament from 2004 to 2009…
Peng Yu dies at 92
Peng Yu, a Chinese actress known for her work in television and film, died October 7, 2026, aged 92. Born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, on January 26, 1934, she was also known as Yu Peng. Her Chinese name is 彭玉, with the pinyin rendering Péng Yù. Her acting…
Eva Marie Saint passed away at age 102
Eva Marie Saint, the American actress, died October 6, 2026, aged 102. Born in Newark on July 4, 1924, she graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1946 and began working in television and radio in the late 1940s. Her career, which ran from 1944 to 2021, encompassed…
Heidi Burge has died at age 54
Heidi Burge, an American basketball player who played for the Los Angeles Sparks and Washington Mystics, died October 6, 2026, aged 54. Born Heidi Ann Burge, she was also known as Heidi Ann Horton. Her education included Palos Verdes High School and the University of Virginia. Before she…
Obituary: Joseph Mécène Jean-Louis, dead at age 77
Joseph Mécène Jean-Louis, a Haitian judge and justice of the Supreme Court from 2011 to 2021, died October 6, 2026, aged 77. Born in Dessalines, Haiti, he served on the country’s highest court for a decade. His judicial tenure overlapped with the 2018–2021 Haitian protests, a period of…
Vlado Jug death at age 79
Vlado Jug, a Slovenian ice hockey player and Olympian, died October 5, 2026, aged 79. Born in Jesenice, in what was then Yugoslavia, on April 6, 1947, he…
Samuel Odoi-Sykes passes away at age 98
Samuel Odoi-Sykes, a Ghanaian politician, diplomat, information officer and teacher, died October 5, 2026, aged 98. Born in Accra, he was also known as Samuel Arthur Odoi-Sykes. He…
Kalev Mutond obituary: died at age 69
Kalev Mutond, a Congolese civil servant and politician who served as general manager of the Agence nationale de renseignements from 2011 to 2019, died in Paris on October…
Freddie Jackson dead at age 70
Freddie Jackson, the American rhythm and blues singer known for “You Are My Lady” and “Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake),” died October 5, 2026, aged 70.…
Obituary: Michael Kearns, dead at age 76
Michael Kearns, an American actor and activist, died October 5, 2026, aged 76. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he studied at the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago,…
Lena Martell dies at age 86
Lena Martell, the Scottish singer known for “One Day at a Time,” died October 5, 2026, aged 86. Born Helen Thomson in Glasgow, she began singing at 11…
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…
Sam McDowell dead at age 84
Sam McDowell, the American former professional baseball player and starting pitcher known as “Sudden Sam,” died October 5, 2026, aged 84. Born in Pittsburgh on September 21, 1942,…
Göksel Arsoy obituary: died at age 90
Göksel Arsoy, the Turkish actor known for films including Şafak Bekçileri, Gençlik Hülyaları and Şehirdeki Yabancı, died on October 5, 2026, aged 90. Born in Kayseri on March…
Dennis Hastert died at age 84
Dennis Hastert, the American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 to 2007 and as speaker from 1999 to 2007, died October 5, 2026,…
John Rudnicki passed away at age 75
John Rudnicki, an American engineer, died October 5, 2026, aged 75. Born in Huntington, West Virginia, he began studying at Brown University in 1969, earning a bachelor’s degree…
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…
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…
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…
Colin Wilson passes away at age 54
Colin Wilson, the Australian heavyweight boxer known as “Kid Coalminer,” died on October 5, 2026, aged 54. Born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, on April 18, 1972, Wilson…
Benon Sevan dead at age 88
Benon Sevan, a Cypriot international diplomat and assistant secretary-general in the United Nations Department of Political Affairs from 1992 to 2005, died October 5, 2026, aged 88. Born…
Jim Bakker dies at 86
Jim Bakker, an American televangelist known for The PTL Club, died October 5, 2026, aged 86. Born James Orsen Bakker in Muskegon, Michigan, he attended North Central University…
Tom J. Dugger, died aged 78
Tom J. Dugger, an accountant and former Oklahoma state senator, died October 5, 2026, aged 78. A Republican, he represented the state Senate’s 21st District after winning election…
Dean Hawkes, died aged 87
Dean Hawkes, a British designer, architect and award-winning academic, died on October 4, 2026, aged 87. Born in Rochdale, Lancashire, in 1938, he studied at the Regional College…
Gordon Davis obituary: died at age 85
Gordon Jamison Davis, an American lawyer and civic leader who served as New York City parks commissioner from 1978 to 1983, died October 4, 2026, from complications of…
Death of Denis Zacharopoulos at age 74
Denis Zacharopoulos, a Greek art historian, died in Athens on October 4, 2026, aged 74. Born in Athens on June 11, 1952, he studied music there before moving…
Yosef Hagoel death at age 80
Yosef Hagoel, an Israeli military officer, died on October 4, 2026, aged 80. Born in Tel Aviv and raised in Ramat Gan, he enlisted in the Israel Defense…
Louis Erlo death at age 97
Louis Erlo, the French stage director who led the Opéra de Lyon from 1969 to 1995, died October 4, 2026, aged 97. Born Louis Jean Marie Camerlo in…
Obituary: Emil Poklitar, dead at age 87
Emil Poklitar, a German footballer and coach, died in Saarbrücken on October 4, 2026, aged 87. Born in Tatanir on June 14, 1939, he was the son of…
Nelson Toburen dies at 87
Nelson Toburen, an American football player who played linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, died of pancreatic cancer on October 4, 2026, aged 87. Born Nelson Edward Toburen…
Amund Sjøbrend death at age 73
Amund Sjøbrend, the Norwegian Olympic speed skater, died October 4, 2026, aged 73. Born Amund Martin Sjøbrend on December 1, 1952, in Slåstad, he became one of Norway’s…
Messan Hilaire Locoh-Donou dead, Messan Hilaire Locoh-Donou, Togolese architect and hotelier
Messan Hilaire Locoh-Donou, a Togolese architect, urban planner, lecturer and hotelier, died in Lomé on October 4, 2026. He studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in…
Death of Clément Atangana at age 85
Clément Atangana, a Cameroonian magistrate who served as a counsellor of the Supreme Court from 1991 to 2014, died in Paris on October 4, 2026, aged 85. He…
Antoine Ciosi passes away at age 94
Antoine Ciosi, a French singer and composer, died on October 4, 2026, aged 94, in Corbara, Corsica. Born on December 15, 1931, in Sorbo-Ocagnano, he grew up in…
Joseph Yegba Maya, died aged 82
Joseph Yegba Maya, a Cameroonian footballer associated with Marseille, Valenciennes and the national team, died on October 4, 2026, aged 82. Born in Otélé, Cameroon, on April 8,…
Death of Vladimir Gogoladze at age 60
Vladimir Gogoladze, the Georgian gymnast who represented the Soviet Union at the 1988 Olympic Games, died on October 4, 2026, aged 60. Born in Tbilisi on August 18,…
James M. Adovasio died at age 82
James M. Adovasio, an American archaeologist known for his work at Meadowcroft Rockshelter, died October 4, 2026, aged 82. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, on February 17, 1944, he…
Anastazja Pustelnik passes away at age 76
Anastazja Pustelnik, the Polish Roman Catholic nun of the Daughters of Divine Charity and cookbook author known as Sister Anastazja, died on October 4, 2026, aged 76. Born…
Devprasad John Ganawa has died at age 74
Devprasad John Ganawa, an Indian Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Jhabua from 2009 to 2012 and of Udaipur from 2012, died on October 4, 2026,…
Shalva Bedoyev passes away at age 85
Shalva Bedoyev, a Russian painter, died on October 4, 2026, aged 85. Born on October 15, 1940, in the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, he became known as a…
Ángel Arroyo passed away at age 70
Ángel Arroyo, the Spanish racing cyclist who finished second overall in the 1983 Tour de France, died on October 4, 2026, aged 70. Born in El Barraco, Spain,…
Obituary: Robert Corbin, dead at age 78
Robert Corbin, a Guyanese politician who led the opposition People's National Congress from 2002 to 2012, died on October 4, 2026, aged 78. Born Robert Herman Orlando Corbin…
Neem Chandra Bhowmik dead, Neem Chandra Bhowmik, Bangladeshi physicist and diplomat
Neem Chandra Bhowmik, a Bangladeshi physicist and diplomat, died on October 4, 2026. He was a professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Dhaka…
Joël Manglou passed away at age 68
Joël Manglou, a French musician, died October 3, 2026, aged 68. Born on June 14, 1958, in Sainte-Suzanne, Réunion, he grew up in a family of nine children.…
Palle Rama Rao passes away at age 89
Palle Rama Rao, an Indian scientist and metallurgist, died on October 3, 2026, aged 89. He was known for his work in physical and mechanical metallurgy and held…
Dafroza Gauthier dies at age 72
Dafroza Gauthier, a Rwandan political activist and chemical engineer, died on October 3, 2026, aged 72. Born Dafroza Mukarumongi in Butare on August 4, 1954, she became known…
Jim Ray Smith passes away at age 94
Jim Ray Smith, an American football player who played as an offensive guard for the Cleveland Browns and Dallas Cowboys, died October 3, 2026, aged 94. Born James…
Robert Kelker-Kelly died at age 62
Robert Kelker-Kelly, the American actor known for playing Bo Brady on Days of Our Lives and Sam Fowler on Another World, and a professional aircraft pilot, died October…
Singeetham Srinivasa Rao passed away at age 95
Singeetham Srinivasa Rao, an Indian film director and screenwriter who was regarded as one of the most versatile and innovative filmmakers in South Indian cinema, died on October…
Bob Fontaine Jr. passes away at age 73
Bob Fontaine Jr., an American baseball scout with the Toronto Blue Jays, died October 3, 2026, aged 73. The son of Bob Fontaine Sr., he worked in Major…
Henri Maler died at age 79
Henri Maler, a French political activist and academic, died on October 3, 2026, aged 79. Born in Toulouse on November 26, 1946, he graduated from the University of…
Mad Sandhu death at age 29
Mad Sandhu, an Indian LGBTQ social media influencer and make-up artist, died in Amritsar on October 3, 2026, aged 29. Born Madhusudan Sandhu, he also worked as a…
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
Vincent M. Battle, an American diplomat who served as ambassador to Lebanon, died on October 3, 2026, aged 85. Also known as Vincent Martin Battle, he represented the…
Anatoly Kashpirovsky passes away at age 87
Anatoly Kashpirovsky, the Ukrainian-born Russian psychotherapist, hypnotist and politician who became one of the Soviet Union’s best-known alternative healers, died on October 3, 2026, aged 87. Born Anatoly…
Jan Roelof Kruithof, died aged 89
Jan Roelof Kruithof, the Dutch speed skater and marathonschaatser, died on October 3, 2026, aged 89. Born in Ouwsterhaule on October 16, 1936, he became one of the…
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
Geoff Hickson, the English footballer who played as a goalkeeper, died on October 3, 2026, aged 87. Born in Crewe in 1939, he came through as an amateur…
Sidney Offit dies at 97
Sidney Offit, an American author and writer, died on October 3, 2026, aged 97. Born in Baltimore on October 13, 1928, he became known for his children's books…
Moïse Kwasivi Fiadjoe dead
Moïse Kwasivi Fiadjoe, a Togolese gynecologist, died in France on October 3, 2026. A graduate of the faculty of medicine at the University of Lille, he specialized in…
Darya Shipilova passes away at age 28
Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old Russian laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, died on October 2, 2026, under unclear circumstances. She…
Tony Reno passes away at age 52
Tony Reno, an American college football player and coach, died on October 2, 2026, at age 52. A native of Oxford, Massachusetts, he was born Anthony Paul Reno…
İoanna Kuçuradi dies at age 89
İoanna Kuçuradi, the Turkish philosopher and academic, died on October 2, 2026, aged 89. Born in Istanbul on October 4, 1936, she studied philosophy at Istanbul University after…