Death of Richard Sterban at age 83
Richard Sterban, the bass singer for the country and gospel quartet the Oak Ridge Boys, died of pancreatic cancer on November 14, 2026, aged 83. Born Richard Anthony Sterban in Camden, New Jersey, he grew up…
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Michel Destot has died at age 80
Michel Destot, a French politician, died November 14, 2026, aged 80. Born in Malo-les-Bains on September 2, 1946, he was also a physicist and studied at Arts et Métiers ParisTech and the Grenoble Institute of Political…
Paddy Turner passes away at age 87
Paddy Turner, an Irish footballer who represented Dundalk, Morton and the Republic of Ireland, died November 14, 2026, aged 87. He played as a forward for clubs in Ireland, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with his career taking in Shamrock Rovers, Shelbourne, Morton, Celtic, Glentoran, Dundalk and Bohemians. At…
Carlo Favre has died at age 77
Carlo Favre, an Italian cross-country skier, died November 14, 2026, aged 77. Born in Nus, Italy, on February 2, 1949, he competed for Italy in cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics and the 1976 Winter Olympics. Those appearances placed him in two editions of the Winter Games,…
Vatsilov Davudov died at age 31
Vatsilov Davudov, a Russian judoka and sambo practitioner, was shot and killed in Makhachkala on November 14, 2026, aged 31. He was born on March 29, 1995, in Gindib, in Dagestan’s Tlyaratinsky district. His sporting career began in 2009, when he moved to Makhachkala with his older brother,…
Giri Babu has died at age 83
Giri Babu, the Indian actor and director known for films including Karunamayudu and Kurukshetram, died on November 14, 2026, aged 83. Born Yerra Seshagiri Rao on June 8, 1943, in Ravinuthala, in Andhra Pradesh’s Prakasam district, he moved to Madras to pursue a career in films. He began…
Obituary: Yevhen Shakh, dead at age 80
Yevhen Shakh, a Ukrainian actor and voice actor known as the Ukrainian voice of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films, died on November 14, 2026, aged 80. Born on February 9, 1946, in Kulikiv, in Lviv Oblast, he trained at the Drama Studio attached to the Ivan…
Death of Purabi Basu at age 77
Purabi Basu, a Bangladeshi poet, short-story writer, essayist, pharmacologist and feminist activist, died November 14, 2026, aged 77. Born in Munshiganj District, then part of East Bengal, she began writing in childhood and later published in Dainik Bangla under Ahsan Habib's guidance. Her academic path joined literary work…
László Sáry dies at age 86
László Sáry, the Hungarian composer, pianist and music educator, died November 14, 2026, aged 86. Born in Győr, Hungary, on January 1, 1940, he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and later taught there as a university teacher. His professional work also included musicology. Sáry was…
Jan Pijnenburg passed away at age 70
Jan Pijnenburg, the Dutch drummer who became known as a member of Doe Maar, died November 13, 2026, aged 70. Born in Vught on December 29, 1955, Pijnenburg pursued musical and artistic training before building a career as a drummer. After completing secondary school, he began studying graphic…
Mohamed Osman al-Mirghani dies at 90
Mohamed Osman al-Mirghani, a Sudanese politician and Islamic leader, died on November 13, 2026, aged 90. Born in 1936, he led the Khatmiyya Sufi order and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), joining religious and political leadership in his public life. He became leader of the Khatmiyya and the…
Peter Moran passed away at age 91
Peter Antony Moran, the British Roman Catholic bishop who served as bishop of Aberdeen from 2003 to 2011, died November 13, 2026, aged 91. Born in Glasgow on April 13, 1935, he received early schooling in Lanarkshire and East Dunbartonshire before spending nine years in further primary and…
Agron Memedi dies at 45
Agron Memedi, a North Macedonian footballer and coach, died on November 13, 2026, aged 45. Born in Tetovo on November 5, 1980, he was identified in biographical accounts as a former footballer who played as a defender. He came from an Albanian family in North Macedonia and became…
Death of Guðjón Þórðarson at age 71
Guðjón Þórðarson, the Icelandic football player and manager, died of Parkinson’s disease on November 13, 2026, aged 71. Born in Akranes on September 14, 1955, he played for Íþróttabandalag Akraness and represented Iceland’s national team before taking managerial posts at clubs and national sides in several countries. Known…
Claudete Soares obituary: died at age 91
Claudete Soares, a Brazilian singer, died on November 13, 2026, aged 91. Born Claudette Colbert Soares in Rio de Janeiro on October 31, 1935, she began performing as a child, gaining early exposure on A raia…
Death of Richard Weize at age 81
Richard Weize, the German writer and music executive who founded Bear Family Records, died November 13, 2026, aged 81. Born and raised in Bad Gandersheim, he came from a family engaged in bookbinding since 1845 that also ran a book and stationery shop. His interest in popular music…
Claudette Soares dies at 91
Claudette Soares, the Brazilian singer, died November 13, 2026, aged 91. Born Claudette Colbert Soares in Rio de Janeiro on October 31, 1935, she began her career at an early age, gaining notice on A raia miúda, Renato Murce’s program on Rádio Nacional. She went on to appear…
Jaroslav Šuvarský dies at 85
Jaroslav Šuvarský, a Czech Orthodox priest who served as a metropolitan protopresbyter of the Czech Orthodox Church and spiritual administrator of the Orthodox Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius, died November 13, 2026, aged 85. He was born on May 25, 1941, in Zavidov, in what is now…
Obituary: Zahidi Zainul Abidin, dead at age 65
Zahidi Zainul Abidin, a Malaysian politician, died November 13, 2026, aged 65. Born on January 9, 1961, he died in Bayan Lepas, Penang. His public career included elected office in Perlis and federal service in communications and multimedia. Zahidi represented Padang Besar in Parliament from May 2013 until…
Mondonguito dies at age 67
José Lorenzo Zubiate Zegarra, the Peruvian comedian known as Mondonguito, died of pulmonary fibrosis in Lima on November 13, 2026, aged 67. Born in Bagua Grande, in Peru’s Amazonas region, he spent his early years in Lima’s Comas district after his family moved there for his parents’ work.…
Death of Dvora Hacohen at age 89
Dvora Hacohen, an Israeli historian and professor, died November 13, 2026, aged 89. A scholar of modern history at Bar-Ilan University, she taught in its Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology and focused on the development of Israeli society. Born Dvora Klirs, Hacohen first earned a…
Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier passes away at age 79
Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, a German classical archaeologist who directed the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, died November 13, 2026, aged 79. Born in Göttingen on May 1, 1947, he studied classical archaeology, ancient history, prehistory and early history, and Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Göttingen from 1968…
Praneetsilpa Vacharapol died at age 94
Praneetsilpa Vacharapol, a Thai businesswoman and chairwoman of Thairath since 1996, died November 13, 2026, aged 94. Born Praneetsilpa Thummanon on October 24, 1932, she was the daughter of Chamniarn and Lamai Thummanon and one of nine siblings. She married Kamphon Vacharapol on March 5, 1950; he founded…
Dionísio Mendes de Sousa dead at age 86
Dionísio Mendes de Sousa, a Portuguese politician who served as president of the Legislative Assembly of the Azores from 1995 to 1996, died November 13, 2026, aged 86. Born on October 9, 1940, in Vila de São Sebastião, he was from Angra do Heroísmo on the island of…
C. S. Karnan death at age 71
C. S. Karnan, an Indian jurist who served as a judge of the Madras and Calcutta High Courts, died on November 13, 2026, aged 71. He was born Karunanithi Swaminathan on June 12, 1955, in Karnatham, in the Cuddalore district of what was then Madras, now Tamil Nadu.…
Masaaki Yamazaki has died at age 84
Masaaki Yamazaki, a Japanese politician who served as president of the House of Councillors and deputy chief cabinet secretary, died November 13, 2026, aged 84. Known in Japanese as 山崎正昭, he was born May 24, 1942, in Nishitani and graduated from Nihon University’s School of Law. His elected…
John Reilly obituary: died at age 68
John M. Reilly, an American politician and former member of the Michigan House of Representatives, died November 13, 2026, aged 68, from injuries sustained in a bicycle accident. He died in Orion Township, Michigan. Born in Detroit on January 31, 1958, Reilly attended Oakland Community College and owned…
Ujjal Biswas death at age 72
Ujjal Biswas, an Indian politician and West Bengal MLA, died of multiple organ failure on November 11, 2026, aged 72. Born in Krishnanagar, Nadia district, on June 17,…
Laurence Crouzet passes away at age 65
Laurence Crouzet, a French voice actress, died November 11, 2026, aged 65. Born in France on March 31, 1961, she worked as an actress, translator and dubbing director…
Alexander Darchiev dies at 66
Alexander Nikitich Darchiev, a Russian diplomat who served as ambassador to the United States from 2025, died on November 11, 2026, aged 66. Born in Budapest in 1960…
Dan Hicks dies at age 64
John Daniel Hicks, an American sportscaster for NBC Sports, died November 11, 2026, aged 64. Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Hicks attended Sabino High School, graduating in…
Carlos Babington death at age 77
Carlos Alberto Babington, an Argentine footballer and manager, died November 11, 2026, aged 77. Born in Buenos Aires on September 20, 1949, he played as an attacking midfielder…
Peter Iden has died at age 88
Peter Iden, a German theater critic and art critic, died November 11, 2026, aged 88. Born in Meseritz, now Międzyrzecz, Poland, he fled with his family from the…
Oldřich Svojanovský, died aged 80
Oldřich Svojanovský, a Czech rower known chiefly for competing in coxed pairs with his older brother, Pavel, died November 11, 2026, aged 80. Born March 9, 1946, in…
Tom O’Brien passed away at age 39
Tom O'Brien, a British-based Irish jockey who competed in National Hunt racing, died of cancer on November 11, 2026, aged 39. Born in Wexford, he began in racing…
Obituary: Tony Richards, dead at age 69
Tony Richards, an American drummer and original member of heavy metal band W.A.S.P., died November 11, 2026, aged 69. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 19, 1957, Richards…
Finn Coren dies at 65
Finn Coren, the Norwegian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, died November 11, 2026, aged 65. Born in Herøy Municipality on March 28, 1961, he became known for albums that set…
Steve Camp has died at age 71
Steve Camp, an American contemporary Christian singer and pastor, died of heart failure on November 11, 2026, aged 71. Born Steven J. Camp in Wheaton, Illinois, he began…
Regina Torné died at age 82
Mexican actress Regina Torné, born Rosa Virgen del Pilar Martina Incháustegui Anaya, died November 11, 2026, aged 82. Born on July 21, 1944, in Villahermosa, Tabasco, she worked…
Hamadou Moustapha dies at 81
Hamadou Moustapha, a Cameroonian politician, died November 11, 2026, aged 81. Born in Maroua on May 11, 1945, he studied at Cameroon’s National School of Administration and Magistracy…
Tapio Koskinen obituary: died at age 73
Tapio Koskinen, a Finnish Olympic ice hockey player who competed at the 1976 Winter Games, died November 10, 2026, aged 73. Born in Pori on January 22, 1953,…
Antonello Palombi passed away at age 58
Italian opera tenor Antonello Palombi, aged 58, died November 10, 2026. Born in Spoleto on July 7, 1968, he began his singing career in 1990, making his debut…
Kevin Murray passes away at age 66
Kevin Girard Murray, an American lawyer and former politician who served in the California State Assembly and Senate, died November 10, 2026, aged 66. Born in Los Angeles…
Todd Russell died at age 54
Todd Russell, an Australian miner who survived the 2006 Beaconsfield Mine collapse, died November 10, 2026, aged 54. The disaster began at 9:26 p.m. on April 25, when…
Željko Matuš passed away at age 91
Željko Matuš, the Croatian footballer who represented Dinamo Zagreb and Yugoslavia, died November 10, 2026, aged 91. Born in Donja Stubica on August 9, 1935, he began his…
David B. Wingate dies at 91
David B. Wingate, a Bermuda-British ornithologist and naturalist, died November 10, 2026, aged 91. Born in Smith’s Parish, Bermuda, on October 11, 1935, Wingate became known for his…
Elisa Ramírez death at age 82
Elisa Ramírez, the Spanish actress whose screen credits included Man with the Golden Winchester, The Wanton of Spain and The Troublemaker, died on November 10, 2026, aged 82.…
Luciano Tessari died at age 98
Luciano Tessari, an Italian football player and manager, died on November 10, 2026, aged 98. Born on September 29, 1928, in San Martino Buon Albergo, in the Province…
Obituary: Don MacAdam, dead at age 76
Don MacAdam, a Canadian ice hockey coach, died November 10, 2026, aged 76. Born Donald Joseph MacAdam on August 14, 1950, he played as a defenceman for the…
Arif Mirzayev obituary: died at age 82
Arif Mirzayev, an Azerbaijani composer, organist and pianist, died on November 10, 2026, aged 82. Born in Baku on April 10, 1944, he grew up in a family…
Obituary: Marsha M. Linehan, dead at age 83
Marsha M. Linehan, an American professor, psychologist and creator of dialectical behavior therapy, died November 10, 2026, aged 83. Born in Tulsa on May 5, 1943, she became…
Mike Friedman dead, Mike Friedman, American college football coach
Mike Friedman, an American college football coach, died November 10, 2026. Educated at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, he went on to lead the football program at the…
Catherine Laboubée, died aged 71
Catherine Laboubée, a French historian and writer, died November 10, 2026, aged 71. Born in Rouen on May 4, 1955, she earned a maîtrise and taught art history…
Héctor Aguer death at age 83
Héctor Aguer, the Argentine Roman Catholic prelate who served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and later as coadjutor archbishop and archbishop of La Plata, died November 10,…
Irma P. Hall death at age 91
Irma P. Hall, the American actress whose film credits included The Ladykillers, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Soul Food, died November 10, 2026, aged…
Frédéric Boilet has died at age 66
Frédéric Boilet, a French cartoonist and manga artist, died November 10, 2026, aged 66. Born in Épinal on January 16, 1960, he studied at the École nationale supérieure…
Oleg Lapshin died at age 89
Oleg Borisovich Lapshin, a Russian professional football coach, died November 10, 2026, aged 89. Born in Moscow on October 18, 1937, he is described in biographical accounts both…
Death of Petr Hajn at age 91
Petr Hajn, a Czech lawyer and professor of commercial law, died November 10, 2026, aged 91. Born in Prague on March 30, 1935, he studied at Charles University’s…
Solange Alexandre passed away at age 104
Solange Alexandre, a French World War II resistance fighter and schoolteacher, died November 10, 2026, aged 104. Born Solange Dubuisson on September 9, 1922, in Mamers, Sarthe, she…
Danny Kelly dies at 69
Danny Kelly, the British journalist and radio presenter whose career included work at New Musical Express, Q and Talksport, died of throat cancer on November 10, 2026, aged…
Ninoslav Radovanović died at age 86
Ninoslav Radovanović, a Serbian cardiac surgeon, died on November 10, 2026, aged 86. Born in Niš on May 6, 1940, he graduated from the University of Belgrade School…
Samuel O. Freedman has died at age 98
Samuel O. Freedman, a Canadian immunologist and academic, died November 10, 2026, aged 98. Born in Montreal, he studied at McGill University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree…
Marcos Camino passed away at age 76
Marcos Camino, the Argentine accordionist associated with Los Palmeras, died by suicide on November 10, 2026, aged 76. Los Palmeras, a cumbia band founded in Santa Fe in…
Death of Shaji Kumar at age 57
Shaji Kumar, an Indian cinematographer whose work spanned Malayalam and Tamil films, died of heart failure on November 10, 2026, aged 57. Born in Kochi, Kerala, he was…
Bunker Roy passes away at age 81
Sanjit “Bunker” Roy, the Indian educationist and founder of the Barefoot College, died in Tilonia, Rajasthan, on November 10, 2026, aged 81. Born in Burnpur on June 30,…
Ryan Ghietti died at age 37
Ryan Ghietti, an Australian rugby league player who represented Italy internationally and played for Northern Pride, died on November 10, 2026, aged 37. Born in Innisfail, Queensland, Australia,…
Obituary: Sid Morrison, dead at age 93
Sidney Wallace Morrison, an American farmer and politician who served as Washington’s secretary of transportation, died November 10, 2026, aged 93. Born in Yakima, Washington, on May 13,…
Valery Kerdemelidi died at age 88
Valery Kerdemelidi, a Russian artistic gymnast and Olympic silver medallist, died on November 10, 2026, aged 88. Born in Moscow on July 18, 1938, he competed for the…
Marcos Camino passed away at age 76
Argentine accordionist Marcos Camino died by suicide on November 10, 2026, aged 76. He was associated with Los Palmeras, the cumbia band founded in Santa Fe in 1972.…
Stacy Keach died at age 85
Stacy Keach, the American actor known for playing private detective Mike Hammer, died November 10, 2026, aged 85. Born Walter Stacy Keach Jr. in Savannah, Georgia, he studied…
Mörður Árnason died at age 73
Mörður Árnason, an Icelandic journalist and politician, died November 10, 2026, aged 73. Born in Reykjavík on October 30, 1953, he was a member of the Social Democratic…
Anthony Clark passed away at age 62
Anthony Clark, an American comedian and actor, died November 10, 2026, aged 62. Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, he spent part of his childhood there before his family moved,…
Dai Henwood has died at age 48
Dafydd Morgan “Dai” Henwood, the New Zealand comedian and television host, died November 10, 2026, aged 48. Born in Wellington, Henwood began performing comedy while studying Theatre and…
Richard Posner died at age 87
Richard Posner, an American legal scholar and federal judge who served as a judge and chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, died…
Jim Herd death at age 87
Jim Herd, an American television production executive and professional wrestling executive, died November 10, 2026, aged 87. Born James Herd on March 24, 1939, he held positions in…
Dilyara Alkayeva death at age 77
Dilyara Alkayeva, a Russian jurist who served as a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Tatarstan, died November 9, 2026, aged 77. Born on September…
Brian Steele obituary: died at age 97
Brian Steele, a New Zealand rugby union player who represented Wellington, Horowhenua and the national side, died November 9, 2026, aged 97. Born Leo Brian Steele in Wellington…
Tibor Palánkai dies at age 88
Tibor Palánkai, a Hungarian economist, university teacher and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, died November 9, 2026, aged 88. Born in Jakabszállás on March 1, 1938,…
Death of Francis Pipelin at age 93
Francis Pipelin, a French professional racing cyclist, died in Noyal-sur-Vilaine on November 9, 2026, aged 93. Born on July 7, 1933, in Saint-Méen-le-Grand, France, he was a French…
Obituary: Robert Marty, dead at age 90
Robert Marty, a French mathematician and semiotician, died November 9, 2026, aged 90. Born May 22, 1936, in Perpignan, he pursued advanced study in mathematics and philosophy, earning…
Vanderlei Lázaro death at age 77
Vanderlei Lázaro, a Brazilian footballer who played as a left back, died on November 9, 2026, aged 77. Born in Uberaba on June 20, 1947, he began his…
Maurice Hasson has died at age 92
Maurice Hasson, a French-Venezuelan violinist, died November 9, 2026, aged 92. Born July 6, 1934, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Line Talluel and Joseph Calvet. He…
Bob Mills died at age 79
Bob Mills, an American businessman and founder of Bob Mills Furniture, died November 9, 2026, aged 79. Born in Roswell, New Mexico, on July 13, 1947, he was…
Badrul Kamal death at age 80
Badrul Kamal, an Indonesian politician and former mayor of Depok, died November 9, 2026, aged 80. Born in Bogor on December 20, 1945, he was the son of…
Ronald Canestrari dead at age 83
Ronald J. Canestrari, an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly, died November 9, 2026, aged 83. Born May…