Savinder Singh passes away at age 88
Savinder Singh, a Malaysian field hockey player who competed in the men’s tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics, died on October 30, 2026, aged 88. Born on June 2, 1938, Singh took part in the Olympic…
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Obituary: Lee Harland, dead at age 53
Lee Harland, an English professional rugby league footballer who represented England and Great Britain Under-21, died on October 30, 2026, aged 53. Born on September 4, 1973, Harland played during the 1990s and 2000s, appearing for…
Jean-Claude Passeron dies at 95
Jean-Claude Passeron, the French sociologist, died October 30, 2026, aged 95. Born in Nice on November 26, 1930, he studied philosophy and sociology at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. During the 1960s, he and Pierre Bourdieu conducted two studies of the sociology of education. Among Passeron’s notable…
Guido Neri obituary: died at age 87
Guido Neri, an Italian cyclist, died October 30, 2026, aged 87. Born in Cesena on January 27, 1939, Neri was an Italian racing cyclist whose recorded results include a Coppa Collecchio victory and a Tour de France appearance. In 1961, he won the Coppa Collecchio, a race victory…
Domanlal Korsewada passes away at age 78
Domanlal Korsewada, an Indian politician and Chhattisgarh MLA, died on October 30, 2026, aged 78, while receiving treatment for a prolonged lung infection at Yashoda Hospital in Hyderabad. He represented the Ahiwara Assembly constituency in Durg district for two terms, first from 2008 to 2013 and again from…
Annaclara Cataldi Palau passed away at age 76
Annaclara Cataldi Palau, an Italian Hellenist and palaeographer, died October 30, 2026, aged 76. She specialised in Greek medieval and Renaissance palaeography and the history of the book. Born in Genoa, she studied Classics at the University of Genoa before spending several years in Paris. There, she studied…
Ravindra Kishore Sinha, died aged 75
Ravindra Kishore Sinha, an Indian security-firm executive and politician who founded Security and Intelligence Services (SIS) and served in the Rajya Sabha, died October 30, 2026, aged 75. Born in Buxar, Bihar, on September 22, 1951, he was also known as RK Sinha. He studied political science and…
Vatsala Rajagopal has died at age 92
Vatsala Rajagopal, an Indian television and film actor, died on October 30, 2026, aged 92. Born on December 25, 1933, she began her acting career in 1979 as a stage artist. Over 25 years, she appeared in 450 plays, building a substantial body of theatre work alongside her…
Waldemar Gerhardt passes away at age 87
Waldemar Gerhardt, a German footballer, died on October 30, 2026, aged 87. Born in Gelsenkirchen on January 6, 1939, he played as a forward in association football. His Bundesliga record comprised 82 matches and 32 goals, providing a concise statistical account of his work in Germany’s top flight.…
Obituary: Richard Daniel Alarcón Urrutia, dead at age 74
Richard Daniel Alarcón Urrutia, a Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Tarma and archbishop of Cusco, died of cancer in Cusco on October 30, 2026, aged 74. Born in Lima on April 10, 1952, he completed primary school there before continuing his secondary education as…
Sanjay Gupta, died aged 59
Sanjay Gupta, the Indian film director whose work included Kaabil, Shootout at Lokhandwala and Jazbaa, died in a fall on October 30, 2026, aged 59. Born in Mumbai on April 14, 1967, Gupta began his film career with Aatish: Feel the Fire (1994), which starred Aditya Pancholi and…
Matt Pavelich has died at age 92
Matt Pavelich, a Canadian ice hockey linesman who became the first National Hockey League linesman elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame, died October 30, 2026, aged 92. Born March 12, 1934, in Parkhill, Ontario, he began officiating at 14, working minor hockey games in Sault Ste. Marie.…
Isaac Tédambé dies at age 72
Isaac Tédambé, a Chadian economist and novelist best known for the novel *Republic for Sale*, died in N’Djamena on October 30, 2026, aged 72. Born on March 3, 1954, in Mubi, British Cameroons, he pursued work in economics alongside writing fiction. *Republic for Sale* is the work most…
Keri Jones dies at age 81
William Keri Jones, a Welsh dual-code rugby international and track-and-field athlete, died on October 29, 2026, aged 81. Born in Neath, he played rugby union and professional rugby league in the 1960s and 1970s. In union, he represented Wales and played on the wing for Cardiff RFC. His…
Josip Pečarić dead at age 79
Josip Pečarić, a Croatian mathematician and writer whose work centered on the theory of inequalities, died October 29, 2026, aged 79. Born in Kotor, then part of Yugoslavia, he completed elementary and secondary school there before…
Dan Goddard dies at age 78
Dan Goddard, an American politician who served in the Kansas Senate and House of Representatives, died October 29, 2026, aged 78. Born November 3, 1947, he represented the 15th district in the Kansas Senate from 2017 to 2021. After that term, he returned to the state Legislature as…
Ralph Sonnenberg obituary: died at age 92
Ralph Sonnenberg, the Dutch businessman who owned at least 80% of Hunter Douglas, died October 29, 2026, aged 92. Born in 1934, he became a senior leader of the Netherlands-based Hunter Douglas Group, serving as its chairman and chief executive and later as a former CEO. The company…
Obituary: Marvin Shanken, dead at age 83
Marvin Shanken, an American publisher and founder of M. Shanken Communications, died October 29, 2026, aged 83. Born in New Haven on October 4, 1943, he built a roster of lifestyle publications that included Wine Spectator, Cigar Aficionado and Whisky Advocate. Shanken served as editor and publisher of…
June Jones dies at age 73
June Jones, an American football player and coach whose full name was June Sheldon Jones III, died October 29, 2026, aged 73. Born in Portland, Oregon, on February 19, 1953, he played quarterback professionally in the NFL and Canadian Football League after playing college football for the Oregon…
Obituary: Paweł Socha, dead at age 91
Paweł Socha, a Polish Roman Catholic prelate who served as titular bishop of Thunigaba and auxiliary bishop of Zielona Góra-Gorzów, died October 29, 2026, aged 91. Born in Wojsławice, in present-day Masovian Voivodeship, he joined the Congregation of the Mission, also known as the Vincentian Fathers, in 1951…
Death of Andrés Mendoza at age 78
Andrés Mendoza, a Mexican convicted serial killer and butcher, died on October 29, 2026, aged 78. Born Andrés Filomeno Mendoza Celis in Zimatlán de Álvarez, Oaxaca, he was captured in Atizapán de Zaragoza, in the State of Mexico. For several years he worked as a butcher at a…
Sandra Kerr passes away at age 84
English folk singer Sandra Kerr died of leukaemia on October 29, 2026, aged 84. Born in Plaistow, Essex, on February 14, 1942, she sang and played English concertina, guitar, Appalachian dulcimer and autoharp. From 1963 to 1972, Kerr was a member of The Critics Group. She later wrote…
Sir Patrick Stewart, died aged 86
Sir Patrick Stewart, the English actor known for Star Trek: The Next Generation, X-Men and Hamlet, died October 29, 2026, aged 86, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Born in Mirfield on July 13, 1940, he built a career spanning more than six decades across stage and screen. Stewart…
Obituary: Manuel Donoso, dead at age 90
Manuel Gerardo Donoso Donoso, a Chilean Roman Catholic prelate who served as auxiliary bishop and later archbishop of La Serena, died October 29, 2026, aged 90. Born in Santiago on October 16, 1936, he completed his humanities studies at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones in the city…
Paolo Galluzzi passes away at age 84
Paolo Galluzzi, an Italian historian of science, died October 29, 2026, aged 84. Born in Florence in 1942, he held the chair of history of science at the University of Siena from 1979 to 1994, followed by the same chair at the University of Florence from 1994 to…
Eddie Friel died at age 64
Eddie Friel, the Irish singer who represented Ireland at the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest, died October 29, 2026, aged 64. His entry was “Dreamin’,” written by Richard Abbott and Barry Woods and selected by national broadcaster Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ) through a national final. The contest took place…
Michel Pineda passed away at age 62
Michel Pineda, the French footballer who played as a striker, died October 29, 2026, aged 62. Born Michel Pineda Ozaeta in Gien, France, on June 9, 1964, he was the son of Spanish immigrants and spent most of his playing career in Spain, his parents’ country. His career…
Liu Yandong died at age 80
Liu Yandong, a Chinese politician and former vice premier, died in Beijing on October 28, 2026, aged 80. She was born on November 22, 1945, and studied at…
Elke Sommer passes away at age 85
Elke Sommer, a German actress whose screen career included comedies, mysteries and international productions, died October 28, 2026, aged 85. Born Elke Schletz in Berlin on November 5,…
Pipo Nguyen-duy died at age 63
Pipo Nguyen-duy, a Vietnamese fine art photographer and professor of Photography at Oberlin College, died October 28, 2026, aged 63. Born Nguyễn Duy Hiếu in Hue, Vietnam, in…
Antal Steer dies at age 83
Antal Steer, a Hungarian wrestler who competed in two Summer Olympics, died October 28, 2026, aged 83. Born in Bratislava on October 10, 1943, he was identified as…
Neeraj Yadav dies at 42
Neeraj Yadav, an Indian Paralympian and track-and-field athlete who competed in throwing events, died by suicide on October 28, 2026, aged 42. Born on February 10, 1984, he…
Tony Berlant obituary: died at age 85
Tony Berlant, an American artist known for collage and sculpture, died October 28, 2026, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease, aged 85. Born Anthony Hanna Berlant in New York…
Death of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas at age 92
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a civil engineer and politician, died October 28, 2026, aged 92. Born in Mexico City on May 1, 1934, he was the son of Lázaro Cárdenas,…
Obituary: Marisa Manchado, dead at age 60
Marisa Manchado, the Spanish composer, pianist and professor, died aged 60 on October 28, 2026, in the Toledo train collision. Born María Luisa Manchado Torres in Madrid on…
Nadia Karam obituary: died at age 67
Nadia Karam, an Egyptian actress whose work was largely in Kuwait, died October 28, 2026, aged 67. Born March 24, 1959, she entered the arts in 1997 alongside…
Emerson, died aged 46
Emerson da Silva Leal, the Brazilian footballer and manager known as Emerson, died aged 46 on October 27, 2026, following complications from a heart attack. Born in Esteio…
Joseph Lagu obituary: died at age 96
Joseph Lagu, the South Sudanese politician who served as president of the Southern Sudan Autonomous Region, died October 27, 2026, aged 96. Born in Momokwe in Moli, he…
Bram van Erkel passes away at age 94
Bram van Erkel, a Dutch programme maker and television presenter, died on October 27, 2026, aged 94. Born in Rotterdam on July 24, 1932, he worked as a…
Obituary: Solomon Minassian, dead at age 95
Solomon Minassian, an Iranian movie producer and cinematographer, died October 27, 2026, aged 95. Born in Rasht in 1310 in the Iranian calendar, he was of Armenian descent…
Phil McDonald dead, Phil McDonald, English audio engineer
Phil McDonald, an English audio engineer, died on October 27, 2026. A recording-studio engineer at EMI and later Apple Records, he worked during the Beatles’ studio years alongside…
Mieke Sterk died at age 80
Mieke Sterk, a Dutch Olympic pentathlete and politician, died on October 27, 2026, aged 80. Born in Haarlem on January 5, 1946, she competed for the Netherlands as…
André Lacroix dies at age 81
André Lacroix, a Canadian ice hockey player known for his playmaking as a centre, died October 27, 2026, aged 81. Born André Joseph Lacroix in Lévis, Quebec, he…
Martin Jelínek has died at age 55
Martin Jelínek, a Czech basketball player and national-team representative, died October 27, 2026, aged 55. Born in Kutná Hora on April 16, 1971, he stood 196 centimeters tall…
Muhammad al Ali, died aged 94
Muhammad al Ali, a Saudi Arabian poet, died October 27, 2026, aged 94. Born in Al-Imran, in Al-Ahsa, in 1932, he became known as a poet and thinker…
Fernando Serrano Migallón passes away at age 81
Fernando Serrano Migallón, a Mexican jurist and member of the Mexican Academy of Language, died October 27, 2026, aged 81. Born in Mexico City on June 26, 1945,…
Obituary: Bobby Wright, dead at age 84
John Robert Wright Jr., known as Bobby Wright, an American country singer and songwriter, died October 27, 2026, aged 84. Born March 30, 1942, in Charleston, West Virginia,…
Death of Peter Dobing at age 87
Peter Dobing, an English footballer who played as an inside forward, died on October 27, 2026, aged 87. Born in Manchester on December 1, 1938, he played in…
Ronny Hallin passed away at age 88
Ronny Hallin, an American television producer and actress, died October 27, 2026, aged 88. Born in New York City on January 2, 1938, she was active in television…
Stephen Kovacevich dead at age 86
Stephen Kovacevich, the American classical pianist and composer, died October 27, 2026, aged 86. Born in San Pedro, California, to a Croatian father and an American mother, he…
Obituary: Franco Carrera, dead at age 82
Franco Carrera, an Italian footballer, died on October 27, 2026, aged 82. Born in Turin on November 8, 1943, he began playing with Juventus and made his Serie…
Barry Clemens, died aged 83
Barry Clemens, an American professional basketball player, died October 27, 2026, aged 83. Born in Dayton on May 1, 1943, he was also known as John Barry Clemens.…
Valery Lysenko died at age 65
Valery Lysenko, a Russian drummer and singer with Mister Twister, died October 27, 2026, aged 65. The band, which is identified with Lysenko’s work as a performer, was…
Norbert Haupert dead at age 86
Norbert Haupert, a Luxembourgish Olympic athlete and politician, died October 27, 2026, aged 86. Born in Schifflange on April 2, 1940, he became a leading figure in Luxembourgish…
Ursula von Rydingsvard dead at age 84
Ursula von Rydingsvard, a German-born American sculptor, died October 27, 2026, aged 84, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Born Ursula Karoliszyn in Deensen, Germany, in 1942, she was…
Peter Medak has died at age 88
Peter Medak, Hungarian-born British film and television director, died in Los Angeles on October 27, 2026, aged 88. Born Péter Medák in Budapest on December 23, 1937, he…
Obituary: Gandung Pardiman, dead at age 73
Gandung Pardiman, an Indonesian politician and member of the House of Representatives, died on October 27, 2026, aged 73. His parliamentary service began in 2009 and extended across…
Italo Zannier has died at age 94
Italo Zannier, Italian art connoisseur and art historian, died October 27, 2026, aged 94. Born in Spilimbergo, he worked as a photographer, academic and historian of photography, joining…
B. P. Singh has died at age 77
B. P. Singh, the Indian television producer and director known for C.I.D., Aahat and SuperCops Vs Super Villains, died of a heart attack on October 27, 2026, aged…
Howard Lyman has died at age 88
Howard Lyman, an American farmer and animal rights activist, died in Alexandria, Virginia, on October 27, 2026, aged 88. Born Howard Fenn Lyman in Great Falls, Montana, on…
Tetsuya Chiba dies at age 87
Tetsuya Chiba, the Japanese manga artist best known for the sports series “Ashita no Joe,” died October 27, 2026, aged 87. Born January 11, 1939, in Tsukiji, Tokyo,…
J. M. Ranson death at age 88
John Matthew Ranson (J. M. Ranson), an English rugby union player who represented his country, died October 27, 2026, aged 88. Born in Durham on July 26, 1938,…
Andrew P. Iosue, died aged 98
Andrew P. Iosue, an American Air Force general, died October 27, 2026, aged 98. Born Andrew Philip Iosue on November 7, 1927, in Somerville, Massachusetts, he attended Everett…
Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham dies at 86
Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham, a British Labour politician who served in the House of Commons and House of Lords, died on October 27, 2026, aged 86.…
Jim Boyd passed away at age 84
Jim Boyd, an American news anchor and reporter for WCVB-TV and an actor, died October 27, 2026, aged 84. Born James Lloyd Boyd in Harlem, New York City,…
Pauline Parker death at age 88
Pauline Parker, the New Zealand-born convicted murderer in the Parker–Hulme case, died October 26, 2026, aged 88. Born Pauline Yvonne Parker in Christchurch on May 26, 1938, she…
Andrés Hernando dies at 88
Andrés Hernando García, the Spanish bullfighter and fighting-bull rancher, died aged 88 in a traffic collision on October 26, 2026, in La Colilla. Born in La Velilla, a…
Jonathan Finlay dead at age 78
Jonathan Finlay, a British pediatric neuro-oncologist who specialized in brain tumors in children, adolescents and young adults, died October 26, 2026, aged 78. Born in Manchester in 1948,…
Frank Portelli, died aged 82
Frank Portelli, a Maltese politician and former member of Parliament, died on October 26, 2026, aged 82. Born on June 8, 1944, he served in the Maltese Parliament…
Akio Usami, died aged 83
Akio Usami, a Japanese Olympic long-distance runner, died of cancer on October 26, 2026, aged 83. Born May 31, 1943, in Tsubame, Niigata, Japan, he represented his country…
Keith Boardman passed away at age 100
Norman Keith Boardman, the Australian biochemist known as Keith Boardman, died October 26, 2026, aged 100. Born in Geelong, Victoria, on August 16, 1926, Boardman contributed to understanding…
Carlos Gerena dead at age 55
Carlos Gerena, a Puerto Rican boxer, died aged 55 in a traffic collision on October 26, 2026. Born Carlos Gerena Allende on January 12, 1971, in Bayamón, Puerto…
David Rigert, died aged 79
David Rigert, a Russian Olympic weightlifter and coach, died October 26, 2026, in Rostov Oblast, aged 79. Born David Adamovich Rigert in Nagornoye, in the Kazakh SSR, he…
Andrei Doroshkevich died at age 89
Andrei Georgievich Doroshkevich, a Russian theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist, died October 26, 2026, aged 89. Born January 22, 1937, he was identified as both Russian and former Soviet,…
Victor Anicet dies at 88
Victor Anicet, a French visual artist and ceramist, died October 26, 2026, aged 88. Born April 18, 1938, in Le Marigot, a commune in northern Martinique, he was…
Death of Susan Saint James at age 80
Susan Saint James, the American actress known for It Takes a Thief, McMillan & Wife and Kate & Allie, died of pancreatic cancer on October 26, 2026, aged…
Sir David Gascoigne died at age 86
Sir David Rendel Kingston Gascoigne, a New Zealand lawyer and former judicial conduct commissioner who served as viceregal consort from 2016 to 2021, died October 26, 2026, aged…
Heiko Weber passes away at age 61
Heiko Weber, the German football player and manager who played for Carl Zeiss Jena and managed ZFC Meuselwitz and Carl Zeiss Jena, died of pancreatic cancer on October…
Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren death at age 88
Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren, a Mongolian chess master, died October 26, 2026, aged 88. Born on February 17, 1938, in Buyant, in Mongolia’s Khovd aimag, he was also known as…
Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín passed away at age 69
Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín, a Spanish politician and former mayor of Seville, died October 26, 2026, aged 69. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), he led…
Leo Barry dead at age 83
Leo Denis Barry, a Canadian jurist and politician who served as a Newfoundland and Labrador member of the House of Assembly, died October 26, 2026, aged 83. Born…
Death of Sheffi Paz at age 74
Sheffi Paz, an editor and Israeli activist opposing African immigration, died of cancer on October 26, 2026, aged 74. Born in Łódź, Poland, to parents who had survived…
Abdul Waheed Kakar dead at age 89
Abdul Waheed Kakar, the Pakistani military officer who served as chief of the army staff, died October 26, 2026, aged 89. Born in Peshawar on March 23, 1937,…
Lily Wong Fillmore death at age 92
Lily Wong Fillmore, an American linguist and professor emerita in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, died October 26, 2026, aged 92. Her…
Mahadev Shankar dies at 94
Mahadev Shankar, a Malaysian jurist and former judge of the Court of Appeal, died on October 26, 2026, aged 94. He served on the court from 1994 to…