Flavia Lattanzi dead at age 85
Flavia Lattanzi, an Italian lawyer and scholar of international law,
died on August 18, 2026, aged 85. Born in Addis Ababa in 1940, she studied law at Sapienza University of Rome, where she later specialized in…
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John Niland dead at age 82
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Peggy Webber dead at age 100
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Marcel Neven dead at age 82
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Tommy John dead at age 83
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Francis Campaner dead at age 80
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Derry Brownson dead at age 55
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Mohamed Serghini dead at age 96
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Bou Meng dead at age 85
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Eddie Richardson dead at age 90
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Jimmy Rimmer dead at age 78
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died on August 14, 2026, aged 78. Born John…
Skip Bertman dead at age 88
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Mary Heilmann dead at age 86
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Johnny Young dead at age 79, Dutch-born Australian singer, songwriter and producer
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Carla Tatò dead at age 79
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died on August 14, 2026, aged 79.…
Nikki Ross dead at age 54
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Jill Gomez dead at age 83
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Richard Čemus dead at age 72, Czech Catholic priest, member of the Jesuit order, professor of the s…
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Jack Crabtree dead at age 87, Painting, Drawing
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Stan Adelstein dead at age 94
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James T. Laney dead at age 98, Minister, professor, diplomat
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died on August 13, 2026, aged 87. A Marxist historian and writer, he was among the leading scholars of modern…
Peter Maher dead at age 79
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died on August 13, 2026, aged 79. Born in Campbellton, New Brunswick, he…
Adolf Prokop dead at age 87
Adolf Prokop, a German football referee,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 87. Born in Altenbuch on February 2, 1939, he began his refereeing career in 1969 and…
Prichard Colón dead at age 33, Puerto Rican boxer, complications from a brain hemorrhage
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Wolfgang Haber dead at age 100
Wolfgang Haber, the German biologist who helped establish landscape ecology,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 100. Born in Datteln in 1925, he studied botany, zoology, chemistry and…
Jana Hádková dead at age 74, Czech director, documentarian and dramaturg at Czech Television
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died on August 13, 2026, at the age of 74. Born in Prague on April 4, 1952,…
Helmut Lethen dead at age 87
Helmut Lethen, the German Germanist and cultural scholar,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 87. Born in Mönchengladbach in 1939, he studied at universities in Bonn, Amsterdam and…
Jacques Wallage dead at age 79, Politician, researcher, corporate director, nonprofit director, aca…
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died on August 13,…
Consuelo Rodríguez Álvarez dead at age 84
Consuelo Rodríguez Álvarez, the Spanish-Venezuelan actress and model known professionally as Chelo Rodríguez,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 84. Born in Sober, Galicia, Spain, she moved to…
Lucio Montanaro dead at age 75, Italian actor, heart attack
Lucio Montanaro, the Italian actor and comedian known for work in films such as Zappatore, La liceale al mare con l'amica di papà and La dottoressa preferisce i…
Abderrahmane Alane dead at age 55
Abderrahmane Alane, the Algerian footballer who played as a goalkeeper,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 55. He was a member of JS Kabylie’s title-winning sides in the…
Tyler Duckworth dead at age 44
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died on August 13, 2026, aged…
Vito Gruosso dead at age 78
Vito Gruosso, an Italian trade unionist and politician,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 78. Born in San Fele, Italy, on April 23, 1948, he was a member…
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam dead at age 74
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, the Bangladeshi chief of air force staff,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 74. Air Vice Marshal (Retd.) Islam served as the 10th chief of…
Elżbieta Barys dead at age 79
Elżbieta Barys, a Polish lawyer and politician who served in the Sejm from 1997 to 2001,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 79. Born Elżbieta Krystyna Barys, she…
Dumitru Marcu dead at age 76
Dumitru Marcu, the Romanian football player and manager known as “Mitică,”
died on August 13, 2026, aged 76. Born in Drăghiceni on April 9, 1950, he began playing…
Yukio Shimomura dead at age 94
Yukio Shimomura, the Japanese football player and manager who represented Japan as both a player and coach,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 94. Born in Hiroshima on…
Ruby Andrews dead at age 79
Ruby Andrews, the American soul singer known professionally by that name,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 79. Born Ruby Mae Stackhouse in Hollandale, Mississippi, she began her…
Robert Shageev dead at age 49
Robert Shageev, a Ukrainian-Russian Navy officer,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 49. He commanded the Ukrainian submarine Zaporizhzhia and served as an officer in the Ukrainian Navy…
Gregor Benko dead at age 82
Gregor Benko, the American music historian behind the International Piano Archives,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 82. Born in Cleveland on August 4, 1944, he built a…
Carlos Domingos Massoni dead at age 87, Brazilian basketball player, Olympic bronze medallist
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died on August 13, 2026, aged 87. Born in São Paulo on January 4,…
Agim Bubeqi dead at age 63
Agim Bubeqi, an Albanian footballer,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 63. Born in Vlorë on April 7, 1963, he spent his entire professional career as a striker…
Jim Powers dead at age 89
Jim Powers, a Canadian hockey player who played for the Vancouver Canucks,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 89. Born James Leroy Powers in Claresholm, Alberta, he built…
Janez Kajzer dead at age 88, writer, journalist
Janez Kajzer, a Slovene writer and journalist,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 88. Born in Vižmarje in 1938, he built a career across several corners of the…
Anton Stankov dead at age 60, Bulgarian politician, minister of justice
Anton Stankov, a Bulgarian politician who served as minister of justice,
died on August 13, 2026, aged 60. He held the justice portfolio in Bulgaria from 2001 to…
Reidun Andreassen dead at age 90
Reidun Andreassen, a Norwegian politician and former member of Parliament,
died on August 12, 2026, aged 90. Born in Oslo on 15 June 1936, she represented the Labour…
Freddy Makafui Dunyah dead at age 64
Freddy Makafui Dunyah, a Togolese environmental activist,
died on August 12, 2026, aged 64. A national of Togo, he worked as an environmental defender and was known for…
Olivier Echaudemaison dead at age 84
Olivier Echaudemaison, the French makeup artist,
died on August 12, 2026, aged 84. Born in Périgueux on April 4, 1942, he went on to build a long career…
Arthur Bodson dead at age 94, Belgian philologist and academic, rector of the University of Liège
Arthur Bodson, the Belgian philologist and academic who served as rector of the University of Liège from 1985 to 1997,
died on August 12, 2026, aged 94. Born…
Gianpaolo Bellini dead at age 91
Gianpaolo Bellini, the Italian experimental physicist known for his work in low-background neutrino detection and the Borexino experiment,
died on August 12, 2026, aged 91. Born in Milan…
Pramuan Rujanaseri dead at age 87
Pramuan Rujanaseri, a Thai politician and civil servant who served as director-general of the Department of Provincial Administration from 1997 to 1999 and later represented the House of…
Steve Barwick dead at age 65
Steve Barwick, the Welsh cricketer who played for Glamorgan and Wales Minor Counties,
died on August 12, 2026, aged 65. Born in Neath, he was also known as…
Darina Laščiaková dead at age 94
Darina Laščiaková, the Slovak folk singer and ethnographer known for her long work in radio and traditional music,
died on August 12, 2026, aged 94. Born Darina Gažová…