Mireille Calle-Gruber obituary: died at age 80
Mireille Calle-Gruber, the French literary critic and academic, died on September 3, 2026, aged 80. A longtime professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, she was also a literary scholar, writer and…
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Milan Ohnisko has died at age 61
Milan Ohnisko, the Czech poet, editor and dissident, died on September 3, 2026, aged 61. Born in Brno on July 16, 1965, he became known for work that combined naivist…
Obituary: Cassandra Wilson, dead at age 70
Cassandra Wilson, the American jazz singer and two-time Grammy winner, died on September 2, 2026, aged 70. Born in Jackson, Mississippi, she built a long career as a singer, songwriter…
Obituary: Gracindo Júnior, dead at age 83
Gracindo Júnior, the Brazilian actor, died on September 2, 2026, aged 83. Born in Rio de Janeiro on May 21, 1943, he built a career in theatre and television under…
Raif Dizdarević dies at age 99
Raif Dizdarević, the Bosnian politician who served as president of the Presidency of Yugoslavia, died on September 2, 2026, aged 99. Born in Fojnica on December 9, 1926, he became…
Gloria Steinem dies at age 92
Gloria Steinem, the American feminist, journalist and writer who co-founded the Women's Media Center, died on September 2, 2026, at age 92. Born Gloria Marie Steinem in Toledo, Ohio, she…
Tony Gatlif died at age 77
Tony Gatlif, the French film director, screenwriter, actor and producer, died on September 2, 2026, aged 77. Born Michel Dahmani in Algiers on September 10, 1948, he built a career…
Jean-Paul Rappeneau passes away at age 94
Jean-Paul Rappeneau, the French film director and screenwriter whose work included Cyrano de Bergerac, died on September 2, 2026, aged 94. Born in Auxerre in 1932, he began in film…
Death of Konrad Jarausch at age 85
Konrad Jarausch, the German-American historian and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor, died on September 1, 2026, aged 85. Born in Magdeburg, Germany, on August 14, 1941, he…
Annette Saint-Pierre passes away at age 101
Annette Saint-Pierre, a Canadian educator, writer and publisher, died on September 1, 2026, at age 101. Born in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Quebec, she studied at the Scolasticat Saint-Joseph in Saint-Hyacinthe and at…
Lilia Lardone obituary: died at age 84
Lilia Lardone, the Argentine writer who focused on children’s and young adult literature, died on August 31, 2026, aged 84. Born in Hernando, Córdoba, she moved to Córdoba city at…
Miguel Zavaleta passes away at age 71
Miguel Zavaleta, the Argentine musician and songwriter behind Suéter and the author of "Amanece en la ruta," died on August 31, 2026, aged 71. Born in Buenos Aires on February…
Michel Fano dies at age 96
Michel Fano, the French musician, composer and writer whose work also extended to filmmaking and sound design, died on August 31, 2026, aged 96. Born in the 16th arrondissement of…
Victor Miller died at age 86
Victor Miller, the American screenwriter best known for writing the original Friday the 13th, died on August 31, 2026, aged 86. Born Victor Brooke Miller in New Orleans, he wrote…
Obituary: Wendell Berry, dead at age 92
Wendell Berry, the American novelist and essayist whose work as a poet, farmer and cultural critic was closely tied to rural Kentucky, died on August 31, 2026, aged 92. Born…
Ibrahim Adam dead, Animal scientist, politician
Ibrahim Adam, a Ghanaian politician and animal scientist, died on August 30, 2026. He served as the member of parliament for the Choggo/Tishigu constituency in Ghana’s Northern Region from January…
Slobodan Šnajder passed away at age 78
Slobodan Šnajder, the Croatian writer and publicist, died on August 30, 2026, aged 78. Born in Zagreb in 1948, he studied at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at…
Mehdi Zana passes away at age 85
Mehdi Zana, the Turkish Kurdish politician and human rights defender who served as mayor of Diyarbakır from 1977 to 1980, died on August 29, 2026, aged 85. Born in Silvan,…
Obituary: Triona Holden, dead at age 66
Triona Holden, the British author, artist, journalist and former BBC presenter and correspondent, died on August 29, 2026, aged 66. Writing under the name Triona Palmer after her marriage, she…
Helao Shityuwete death at age 92
Helao Shityuwete, the Namibian writer and military commander, died on August 29, 2026, aged 92. A politician, military commander and author, he was born on August 25, 1934, in Evale,…
Kenneth Treister dead at age 96
Kenneth Treister, an American architect best known for the Holocaust Memorial he designed in Miami Beach, Florida, died on August 28, 2026, aged 96. A Fellow of the American Institute…
Priit Aimla passed away at age 85
Priit Aimla, the Estonian writer, poet and politician, died on August 28, 2026, aged 85. Born in Võru on April 19, 1941, he became known for stage plays and books,…
Brîndușa Armanca death at age 71
Brîndușa Armanca, a Romanian journalist and academic, died on August 28, 2026, aged 71. Born in Câmpulung Moldovenesc in 1954, she studied philology at the West University of Timișoara and…
Will Murray has died at age 73
Will Murray, an American novelist, journalist and comic book writer, died on August 28, 2026, aged 73. Born William Patrick Murray on April 28, 1953, he wrote fiction, short stories…
Filip Štojdl dies at 50
Filip Štojdl, a Czech bishop of the Pilsen diocese of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and former CČSH clergyman, died on August 27, 2026, aged 50. He served as bishop of…
Death of T. K. D. Muzhappilangad at age 80
T. K. D. Muzhappilangad, an Indian writer, died on August 27, 2026, aged 80, after injuries sustained in a traffic collision. Born T.K. Damodaran in Muzhappilangad, a coastal village in…
Jack Grassel passed away at age 77
Jack Grassel, an American jazz guitarist, teacher and author from Milwaukee, died on August 26, 2026, aged 77, in a traffic collision. Born in Milwaukee and educated at the University…
Death of Péter Nádas at age 83
Péter Nádas, the Hungarian writer, playwright and essayist best known for works including A Book of Memories, Parallel Stories and The End of a Family Story, died on August 26,…
Kuku Kohli died at age 77
Kuku Kohli, the Indian film director behind Phool Aur Kaante, Suhaag and Kohraam, died on August 25, 2026, at age 77 after a heart attack. Born Avtar Kohli on June…
Tom Byabagamba obituary: died at age 59
Tom Byabagamba, a Rwandan military officer and presidential bodyguard, died on August 25, 2026, aged 59. A former colonel in the Rwanda Defense Force, he also served as head of…
Fabio Grossi dead at age 68
Fabio Grossi, the Italian actor and stage director known for work in films including I fichissimi, The Family Friend and Darker Than Midnight, died on August 25, 2026, aged 68.…
Michel Albertini obituary: died at age 73
Michel Albertini, the French actor, set designer and writer, died on August 25, 2026, aged 73. Born in Marseille on May 15, 1953, he was a French national who trained…
Jose Rod dead at age 63
Jose Rod, the Indian tiatr singer known professionally as a singer and composer in khell tiatr and tiatr productions, died on August 25, 2026, aged 63. Born Joseph Constancio Rodrigues…
Obituary: Silvia Buendía, dead at age 58
Silvia Buendía, an Ecuadorian journalist, lawyer and civil rights activist, died on August 24, 2026, at age 58. Born in Guayaquil on October 9, 1967, she graduated in law from…
Death of Lesley Grant-Adamson at age 83
Lesley Grant-Adamson, the British writer and journalist, died on August 24, 2026, aged 83. Born Lesley Heycock, she built her career in journalism before turning to full-time writing, holding a…
Sliman Mansour obituary: died at age 79
Sliman Mansour, the Palestinian painter, sculptor and author, died on August 24, 2026, aged 79. Also known as Suleiman or Suliman Mansour, he was born in 1947 in Birzeit and…
Izuru Narushima, died aged 65
Izuru Narushima, a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for Midnight Eagle, The Lone Scalpel and Solomon's Perjury, died on August 24, 2026, aged 65, of lung cancer. Born in…
Yasmin Shaikh dies at age 101
Yasmin Shaikh, an Indian writer and Marathi language grammarian, died on August 24, 2026, aged 101. She wrote on Marathi language issues in magazines and newspapers and was known for…
Catherine Millot obituary: died at age 81
Catherine Millot, the French psychologist and academic, died on August 24, 2026, at age 81. A Lacanian psychoanalyst and author, she taught psychoanalysis at the University of Paris-VIII after studying…
Giri Dandasena, died aged 76
Giri Dandasena, an Indian writer in the Odia language, died on August 24, 2026, aged 76. A writer, columnist and historian from Odisha, he produced fiction and works on the…
Mitchell Doens dead at age 79
Mitchell Doens, a Panamanian politician, economist and writer, died on August 24, 2026, aged 79. Doens, whose full name was Mitchell Constantino Doens Ambrosio, was born in Colón Province on…
Philippe Bouvard dies at 96
Philippe Bouvard, the French broadcaster best known for Les Grosses Têtes and Le Petit Théâtre de Bouvard, died on August 24, 2026, aged 96. Born in Coulommiers in 1929, he…
Stanley Ritchie death at age 91
Stanley Ritchie, an Australian violinist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Violin at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, died on August 23, 2026, aged 91. A specialist in historical…
Orit Galili-Zucker passes away at age 70
Orit Galili-Zucker, an Israeli journalist and political consultant, died on August 23, 2026, at age 70. She headed the political communications team for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and also served…
Noël Godin dies at age 80
Noël Godin, the Belgian writer, critic and actor known as an anarchist prankster and pie-thrower, died on August 23, 2026, aged 80. Born in Liège on September 13, 1945, he…
Bruce Rogers has died at age 93
Bruce Rogers, the Canadian broadcast journalist who was the original anchor of The World at Six and the first host of Metro Morning, died on August 22, 2026, aged 93.…
Taiwo Hassan dies at age 66
Taiwo Hassan, the Nigerian actor, producer, director and screenwriter known as Ogogo, died on August 22, 2026, aged 66. Born on October 31, 1959, in Ilaro, Ogun State, he built…
Dave Morice, died aged 79
Dave Morice, an American poet, died on August 21, 2026, aged 79. Born in St. Louis on September 10, 1946, he also worked as a writer, visual artist, performance artist…
Death of Roger McKenzie at age 75
Roger McKenzie, an American comic book writer, died on August 21, 2026, aged 75, of heart failure and kidney disease. He was best known for his work on Daredevil with…
Imam Tantowi dead at age 80
Imam Tantowi, an Indonesian film director and screenwriter, died on August 21, 2026, aged 80. Born in Tegal on August 13, 1946, he began his career in stage directing before…
Obituary: Mostafa Derkaoui, dead at age 82
Mostafa Derkaoui, the Moroccan film director and screenwriter known for socially engaged and revolutionary films, died on August 20, 2026, aged 82. Born in Oujda in 1944, he studied philosophy…
Perry Rosemond death at age 89
Perry Rosemond, a Canadian television writer and producer, died August 20, 2026, aged 89. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he built a long career in television as a writer, producer and…
Ġorġ Mallia, died aged 68
Ġorġ Mallia, a Maltese communications academic, author and cartoonist, died on August 19, 2026, aged 68. Born in Malta on November 9, 1957, he built a career in communications, instructional…
Juan Tamariz passed away at age 83
Juan Tamariz, the Spanish magician and television presenter, died on August 18, 2026, aged 83. Born Juan Tamariz-Martel Negrón in Madrid on October 18, 1942, he became one of Spain’s…
Vereslav Eingorn, died aged 69
Vereslav Eingorn, a Ukrainian chess grandmaster, coach and author, died on August 18, 2026, aged 69. Born in Odesa in 1956, he earned the grandmaster title in 1986 and became…
Vedrana Rudan passes away at age 76
Vedrana Rudan, a Croatian journalist and novelist, died on August 18, 2026, aged 76. A native of Rijeka, she was born in 1949 and built a career across Croatian media…
Shaul Mishal dies at age 81
Shaul Mishal, the Israeli political scientist who studied Arab and Palestinian politics, died on August 18, 2026, aged 81. Born in Baghdad in 1945, he later made aliyah with his…
Durga Lal Shrestha dies at age 91
Durga Lal Shrestha, the Nepali poet and lyricist who wrote in Nepal Bhasa and Nepali, died on August 16, 2026, aged 91. Born in Kathmandu in July 1935, he was…
Raja Sen death at age 70
Raja Sen, the Indian film director known for Damu and Desh, died on August 16, 2026, aged 70. Born in Kolkata on November 10, 1955, he built a career as…
Rex A. Wade obituary: died at age 89
Rex A. Wade, an American historian and author, died on August 16, 2026, aged 89. Born in Piedmont, he was also known as Rex Arvin Wade and taught Russian and…
Peggy Webber dies at age 100
Peggy Webber, an American actress known for work in Dragnet, Macbeth and The Smurfs, died on August 15, 2026, aged 100. Born in Laredo, Texas, on September 15, 1925, she…
Alex Mukulu passed away at age 72
Alex Mukulu, the Ugandan playwright, died on August 15, 2026, aged 72. Born in Misebe in Ssingo County, Buganda, in 1954, he studied at Kololo Secondary School before going on…
Alexander Danilin, died aged 66
Alexander Danilin, a Russian writer, psychotherapist, psychiatrist and physician-narcologist, died on August 15, 2026, aged 66. Born on March 12, 1960, he was also known as Alexander Gennadievich Danilin, Aleksandr…
Jason Arday obituary: died at age 41
Jason Arday, the British academic and author of Great and Unfortunate Things: A Memoir, died on August 14, 2026, aged 41. A former sociology professor, he taught at the University…
Obituary: Dave Marsh, dead at age 76
Dave Marsh, the American music critic and radio talk show host, died on August 14, 2026, at age 76. Born in Detroit on March 1, 1950, he grew up in…
George W. Cave dies at age 97
George W. Cave, an American author and CIA agent, died on August 14, 2026, aged 97. Cave was a retired CIA operations officer and an authority on Iran who later…
Mohamed Serghini passes away at age 96
Mohamed Serghini, the Moroccan poet, died on August 14, 2026, at age 96. Born on January 1, 1930, he was a male poet of Moroccan nationality who studied at the…
Brian Holguin obituary: died at age 62
Brian Holguin, an American cartoonist and comic book writer, died on August 14, 2026, aged 62. He was known for his work on Aria and Todd McFarlane's Spawn, and also…
James T. Laney, died aged 98
James T. Laney, an American minister, professor and diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to South Korea from 1993 to 1996 and as president of Emory University from 1977 to…
Sumit Sarkar has died at age 87
Sumit Sarkar, the Indian historian of modern India, died on August 13, 2026, aged 87. A Marxist historian and writer, he was among the leading scholars of modern Indian history…
Brendan Myers dies at age 52
Brendan Myers, a Canadian philosopher and author, died on August 13, 2026, aged 52. Also known as Brendan Cathbad Myers, he was recognized for work in environmental philosophy, Druidry and…
Gregor Benko passed away 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 career as…
Janez Kajzer dies at 88
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 literary and…
Ahn Pan-seok death at age 65
Ahn Pan-seok, the South Korean film and television director behind Behind the White Tower, Secret Affair and Heard It Through the Grapevine, died on August 12, 2026, aged 65, of…
Mikhail Gulko obituary: died at age 95
Mikhail Gulko, the singer-songwriter known for his Russian chanson performances, died on August 12, 2026, at age 95. Born Mikhail Aleksandrovich Gulko on July 23, 1931, in Kharkiv, in the…
M. P. Parameswaran passes away at age 91
M. P. Parameswaran, the Indian physicist, nuclear engineer and educationist who played an important role in the Indian nuclear programme, died on August 11, 2026, aged 91. Born in Kiralur…
Krishneswara Rao dead, Krishneswara Rao, Indian actor and writer
Krishneswara Rao, an Indian actor and writer known for his work in Telugu films and stage theatre, died on August 11, 2026. Born in Guntur district, he was credited as…
Len Brown dead at age 84
Len Brown, an American comic book writer and creator of Mars Attacks, died on August 11, 2026, aged 84. Born in Brooklyn on October 7, 1941, he also worked as…
Ward Churchill dies at age 78
Ward Churchill, the American academic, activist and writer known for his controversial work on political dissent and Native Americans, died on August 11, 2026, aged 78. Born Ward LeRoy Churchill…
Death of Vincent Dieutre at age 65
Vincent Dieutre, the French film director and screenwriter known for Beirut Hotel, died on August 10, 2026, aged 65. Born in Le Petit-Quevilly on 25 November 1960, he built a…
Death of Slavko Pregl at age 80
Slavko Pregl, a Slovenian writer, editor and publisher, died on August 10, 2026, aged 80. Best known for his youth literature, he was born in Šentvid on September 9, 1945,…
Vladimír Páral passes away at age 94
Vladimír Páral, the Czech fiction writer, died on August 10, 2026, aged 94. Born in Prague, he studied chemical engineering at a branch of the University of Chemistry and Technology…
Death of Ben Jones at age 84
Ben Jones, the American politician and actor best known for playing Cooter Davenport on The Dukes of Hazzard and serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1993,…
Death of Maurice Buttin at age 97
Maurice Buttin, the French lawyer and writer, died on August 9, 2026, aged 97. Born in Meknes on December 10, 1928, he joined the Rabat Bar Association in 1954 and…
John Crowley passes away at age 83
John Crowley, the American writer and screenwriter whose works of fantasy, science fiction and historical fiction included Little, Big, the Ægypt sequence and Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of…
Obituary: David H. Lund, dead at age 86
David H. Lund, an American philosopher and writer, died on August 9, 2026, aged 86. Born David Herbert Lund in Roseau, Minnesota, on October 23, 1939, he studied at the…
Reggie Bannister dies at 80
Reggie Bannister, the American actor best known for playing Reggie in the Phantasm film series, died on August 9, 2026, aged 80, of complications from dementia and Parkinson's disease. Born…
John Rousmaniere, died aged 82
John Rousmaniere, an American author and sailor whose work focused on sailing and historical writing, died on August 8, 2026, at age 82. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he wrote 30…
Joaquim Sarmento dies at age 74
Joaquim Sarmento, a Portuguese lawyer, politician and former deputy in the Assembly of the Republic, died on August 8, 2026, aged 74. Born Joaquim Sebastião Sarmento da Fonseca Almeida on…
Rachel Naomi Remen, died aged 88
Rachel Naomi Remen, an American pediatrician, died on August 8, 2026, aged 88. Born in New York City on February 8, 1938, she became known as an author and teacher…
C. J. Binks dead at age 94
C. J. Binks, the Tasmanian writer and educator known also as Christopher John Binks, died on August 8, 2026, aged 94. A long-time figure in Tasmanian education, he taught at…
Andrzej Gąsiorowski, died aged 75
Andrzej Gąsiorowski, a Polish academic and historian, died on August 7, 2026, aged 75. He worked as a research scientist at the Stutthof concentration camp Museum in Sztutowo and as…
Wimal Dissanayake died at age 86
Wimal Dissanayake, a Sri Lankan writer, literary critic and scholar of Asian cinema and communication theory, died on August 7, 2026, aged 86. He was known as a creative writer…
Death of Keiko Kishi at age 93
Keiko Kishi, the Japanese actress known for films including The Makioka Sisters, Snow Country and The Rendezvous, died on August 7, 2026, aged 93. Born in Yokohama on August 11,…
Carola von Braun passed away at age 78
Carola von Braun, a German politician and women's rights activist who served in the Bundestag, the Senate of Berlin and the Berlin House of Representatives, died on August 7, 2026,…
Boris Conunov dies at 79
Boris Conunov, a Moldovan director and screenwriter, died on August 7, 2026, aged 79. Born in Tashkent on May 24, 1947, he was identified in Russian-language sources as a Soviet…
Zuca Sardan died at age 92
Zuca Sardan, the literary name of Carlos Felipe Alves Saldanha, died on August 6, 2026, aged 92, in Hamburg, Germany, of complications from a fall. A Brazilian poet, writer, draughtsman…
Martha Rivers Ingram dies at age 90
Martha Rivers Ingram, the American business executive who led Ingram Industries as chairman and chief executive officer, died on August 6, 2026, aged 90. Known also as Martha Robinson Rivers…
Flo Anthony death at age 74
Flo Anthony, an American gossip columnist, died on August 6, 2026, aged 74. Known also as Florence Anthony, she worked as a journalist and writer, building a career that included…