Hesham Yahya dies at 63
Hesham Yahya, an Egyptian journalist, novelist and screenwriter, died October 5, 2026, aged 63. His career joined newspaper journalism and literary writing, and also included television program preparation and screenwriting.…
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Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare died at age 86
Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, the British politician and author, died October 5, 2026, aged 86. Born in London on April 15, 1940, he was educated at Wellington School…
Death of Matt Howarth at age 72
Matt Howarth, an American comic book writer and artist, died October 5, 2026, aged 72. He was known for the series Those Annoying Post Bros, Savage Henry, Star Crossed and…
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 to France…
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 in Dylągowa…
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 3, 2026,…
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 by his…
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 and for…
Cheikh Hamidou Kane dead at age 98
Cheikh Hamidou Kane, the Senegalese writer best known for L’Aventure ambiguë, died on October 2, 2026, aged 98. Born in Matam in 1928, he became one of Senegal’s best-known literary…
Irene H. Butter passed away at age 95
Irene H. Butter, a German-American academic and Holocaust survivor, died on October 2, 2026, aged 95. Born Irene Hasenberg in Berlin in 1930, she was a public health scholar and…
Hilary McPhee, died aged 85
Hilary McPhee, the Australian publisher who co-founded McPhee Gribble with Di Gribble, died on October 1, 2026, aged 85. Also known as Hilary Jane McPhee, she was born in Melbourne…
Štěpánka Ranošová dies at age 99
Štěpánka Ranošová, the Czech actress and founding member of the Petr Bezruč Theatre in Ostrava, died on October 1, 2026, aged 99. Born in Mariánské Hory, now part of Ostrava,…
Gilad Ben Shach death at age 85
Gilad Ben Shach, an Israeli radio program editor at Kol Israel, died on October 1, 2026, at age 85. According to the Hebrew biographical record, he was also a composer…
Gabino Palomares obituary: died at age 76
Gabino Palomares, the Mexican singer-songwriter and political activist, died on September 30, 2026, at age 76. Born in Comonfort, Guanajuato, he became one of the leading figures of the nueva…
Paulien Cornelisse has died at age 50
Paulien Cornelisse, the Dutch writer and television presenter, died on September 30, 2026, aged 50. Born in Amsterdam in 1976, she built a career across writing, cabaret, podcasting and television,…
Amos Rapoport passed away at age 97
Amos Rapoport, the Polish-American architect and professor, died September 29, 2026, aged 97. He was one of the founders of Environment-Behavior Studies (EBS) and produced more than 200 academic publications…
Gonzalo Suárez has died at age 92
Gonzalo Suárez, the Spanish film director behind Rowing with the Wind, Epilogue and The Detective and Death, died on September 29, 2026, aged 92. Born Gonzalo Suárez Morilla in Oviedo…
Jan Jarboe Russell dead at age 75
Jan Jarboe Russell, an American journalist and writer who was born in Beaumont, Texas, died September 29, 2026, at age 75. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin,…
Colette Sénami Agossou Houeto death at age 87
Colette Sénami Agossou Houeto, the Beninese educator, feminist poet and politician, died on September 29, 2026, aged 87. Born in Porto-Novo, she studied at the University of Strasbourg and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität…
Janine Boissard dies at 93
Janine Boissard, the French author, died on September 28, 2026, aged 93. Born in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, she built a career as a writer and was best known…
Bob Davenport dead at age 94
Bob Davenport, the English traditional folk singer who helped shape the British folk revival from the early 1960s, died on September 28, 2026, aged 94. Born Robert H. Davenport in…
Anne Claire Poirier has died at age 94
Anne Claire Poirier, the Canadian film producer, director and screenwriter behind works including Before the Time Comes, A Scream from Silence and Beyond Forty, died on September 28, 2026, aged…
Bethany Barratt dies at age 54
Bethany Barratt, an American political scientist and author, died on September 28, 2026, aged 54. She taught political science at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where she also directed the Joseph…
Michael Wynn-Jones dies at 85
Michael Wynn-Jones, the Welsh writer, editor and publisher, died on September 28, 2026, aged 85. Born on January 1, 1941, he studied at Lancing College and the University of Oxford…
Avaz Zeynallı has died at age 56
Avaz Zeynallı, an Azerbaijani investigative journalist and media executive, died on September 28, 2026, aged 56. Known also as Avaz Tapdig oghlu Zeynalli, he was a critic, investigative journalist and…
Avaz Zeynalli obituary: died at age 56
Avaz Zeynalli, an Azerbaijani investigative journalist and media executive, died on September 28, 2026, aged 56. Known also as Avaz Tapdig oghlu Zeynalli, he headed the Xural Media Group, founded…
Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali has died at age 100
Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, a Malaysian physician and civil servant who served as the spouse of Malaysia’s prime minister, died on September 28, 2026, aged 100. Widely known as Siti…
Obituary: Andrea Tempestini, dead at age 40
Andrea Tempestini, an Italian journalist, died on September 28, 2026, aged 40. He worked as a journalist for Libero, a daily newspaper based in Milan. The Sango-language biography identifies him…
Robert Rivas dies at age 80
Robert Rivas, the Trinidadian-born Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop of Kingstown, died on September 27, 2026, aged 80. Born in La Pastora, Trinidad, on June 7, 1946, he served in…
Oscar E. Bosetti, died aged 71
Oscar E. Bosetti, the Argentine journalist and radio host known as a leading authority on the history of Argentine radio, died on September 27, 2026, at age 71. Born Oscar…
Peter May dies at 74
Peter May, the Scottish television screenwriter, novelist and crime writer, died on September 25, 2026, aged 74. Born in Glasgow and educated at Eastwood High School, he built a career…
Mohammed Benchicou passed away at age 74
Mohammed Benchicou, the Algerian journalist and writer who directed and published the opposition newspaper Le Matin, died on September 24, 2026, aged 74. Also known as Mohammed Boualem Benchicou, he…
John Baer died at age 79
John Baer, an American journalist and political columnist, died September 24, 2026, at age 79. He spent 32 years at The Philadelphia Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer before joining…
Jacob Goldwasser has died at age 76
Jacob Goldwasser, the Israeli screenwriter and film director known for his work on films including "Shoelaces," "She’s Got It" and "Max and Morris," died on September 24, 2026, aged 76.…
Obituary: Marina Vlady, dead at age 88
Marina Vlady, the French actress, singer and writer, died on September 24, 2026, aged 88. Born Marina Catherine de Poliakoff-Baydaroff in Clichy, France, she built a long career in film…
Death of L. Krishnan at age 103
L. Krishnan, the Indian-born film director and screenwriter, died on September 24, 2026, aged 103. Born Lakshmanan Krishnan on October 21, 1922, in Chennai, he was raised in Penang before…
Death of Yehuda Atlas at age 89
Yehuda Atlas, the Israeli writer, poet and translator, died on September 24, 2026, aged 89. Born on February 12, 1937, in Ein Iron, he built a career that began in…
Death of Akhtar Hossain at age 80
Akhtar Hossain, a Bangladeshi children’s writer, died on September 24, 2026, aged 80. Born on November 1, 1945, in Natore District, he was known for his work in children’s literature…
Philippe Huet death at age 84
Philippe Huet, the French journalist and writer who served as deputy editor-in-chief of Paris-Normandie, died on September 23, 2026, aged 84. Born in Le Havre on April 24, 1942, he…
Death of Alfonsas Bukontas at age 85
Alfonsas Bukontas, a Lithuanian poet, translator and publicist, died on September 23, 2026, aged 85. Born on September 11, 1941, in the Mažeikiai District Municipality, he studied Lithuanian philology at…
Sergey Sosedov death at age 59
Sergey Sosedov, the Russian journalist and music critic who served as a judge on televised music contests, died on September 23, 2026, aged 59. Born Sergey Vasilevich Sosedov in Moscow,…
Sjoerd Kuyper dead at age 74
Sjoerd Kuyper, the Dutch poet and author whose work ranged from children's books to screenplays and lyrics, died on September 22, 2026, aged 74. Born in Amsterdam on March 6,…
James Becket has died at age 89
James Becket, an American filmmaker and human rights lawyer, died on September 22, 2026, aged 89. Born in New York City on October 5, 1936, he built a career that…
Alojzy Lysko, died aged 84
Alojzy Lysko, the Silesian writer and politician, died on September 22, 2026, aged 84. Born on February 15, 1942, in Bojszowy, Poland, he was a Polish politician, writer, teacher and…
Obituary: Zuenir Ventura, dead at age 95
Zuenir Ventura, the Brazilian journalist and writer who became a longtime columnist for O Globo and Época, died on September 22, 2026, aged 95. Born Zuenir Carlos Ventura in Além…
Rodolphe has died at age 78
Rodolphe, the French comic book writer known professionally as Rodolphe and born Rodolphe Daniel Jacquette, died on September 22, 2026, aged 78. Born in Bois-Colombes in 1948, he built a…
Rodolphe has died at age 78
Rodolphe, the French comics writer known professionally by that name, died on September 22, 2026, at age 78. Born Rodolphe Daniel Jacquette in Bois-Colombes on May 18, 1948, he built…
Dadeus Grings, died aged 90
Dadeus Grings, a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of São João da Boa Vista and archbishop of Porto Alegre, died on September 21, 2026, aged 90. Born…
Burhan Ozfatura died at age 83
Burhan Ozfatura, the Turkish mayor, politician and columnist, died on September 21, 2026, at the age of 83 after cardiac arrest. A native of Mustafakemalpaşa, he was born on June…
Jean-Paul Desprat obituary: died at age 79
Jean-Paul Desprat, the French writer and historian, died on September 21, 2026, aged 79. Born in Drancy, France, on June 13, 1947, he became a specialist in the 17th and…
Josef Kalbáč died at age 86
Josef Kalbáč, a Czech agronomist and politician who served as a senator, died on September 21, 2026, aged 86. Born in Třebohostice on February 17, 1940, he spent much of…
Terry Denton death at age 76
Terry Denton, the Australian author and illustrator best known for his work on the Treehouse books, died on September 21, 2026, aged 76. He wrote and illustrated more than 30…
Obituary: Sid Ahmed Agoumi, dead at age 86
Sid Ahmed Agoumi, the Algerian actor also known as Sid Ahmed Méziane, died on September 20, 2026, aged 86. Born on October 5, 1940, in Bologhine, near Algiers, he began…
Jeff Scott obituary: died at age 72
Jeff Scott, an American baseball writer and journalist, died on September 19, 2026, at age 72. Scott served as senior writer for Major League Baseball Productions from 1988 until the…
Death of Nico Perrone at age 91
Nico Perrone, an Italian journalist, historian and writer, died on September 19, 2026, aged 91. Born Nicola Carlo Perrone in Bari on April 27, 1935, he became known for his…
Arthur Asa Berger passes away at age 93
Arthur Asa Berger, an American author and academic who taught media studies for years at San Francisco State University, died on September 19, 2026, aged 93. Born in Boston on…
Graciela Taquini passed away at age 85
Graciela Taquini, the Argentine artist, curator and teacher whose work helped shape the country’s video-art scene, died on September 19, 2026, aged 85. Born in Buenos Aires on July 1,…
Death of Richard Harrison at age 90
Richard Harrison, the American actor known for Secret Agent Fireball, 100.000 dollari per Ringo and The Invincible Gladiator, died on September 18, 2026, aged 90. Born in Salt Lake City…
Obituary: Bryan Bishop, dead at age 48
Bryan Bishop, an American radio personality and production and sound-effects worker known to podcast listeners as Bald Bryan, died on September 18, 2026, aged 48. He was best known for…
Albert S. Axelrad died at age 87
Albert S. Axelrad, an American rabbi and author, died on September 18, 2026, aged 87. A Reform rabbi, educator and community leader, he helped foster the American Jewish counterculture of…
Margaret Chant-Papandreou dead at age 102
Margaret Chant-Papandreou, an American-born Greek women’s rights activist, writer and former first lady, died on September 18, 2026, aged 102. Born Margaret Esther Chant in Oak Park, Illinois, she later…
Obituary: Sō Kuramoto, dead at age 91
Sō Kuramoto, a Japanese screenwriter and playwright, died on September 18, 2026, at age 91. Born in Tokyo, he attended Azabu Junior and Senior High School and the University of…
Eugenio Zanetti, died aged 79
Eugenio Zanetti, the Argentine dramatist and set designer who won an Academy Award for Best Production Design, died on September 18, 2026, aged 79. Born in Córdoba in 1946, Zanetti…
Karal Ann Marling dead at age 82
Karal Ann Marling, an American historian and writer, died on September 18, 2026, at age 82. A professor emerita at the University of Minnesota, she was an American studies scholar…
Anton Kurnia, died aged 52
Anton Kurnia, an Indonesian writer and translator, died on September 18, 2026, aged 52. He studied geological engineering at the Bandung Institute of Technology and journalism at IAIN Sunan Gunung…
Obituary: P. C. Vey, dead at age 70
P. C. Vey, the American cartoonist whose work appeared in The New Yorker, MAD Magazine and National Lampoon, died on September 17, 2026, aged 70. Known professionally as Peter C.…
Alla Akhundova passes away at age 86
Alla Akhundova, the Azerbaijani poet, screenwriter and translator, died on September 17, 2026, aged 86. Born in Moscow on October 27, 1939, she studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute…
Alla Akhundova passes away at age 86
Alla Akhundova, the Azerbaijani poet, screenwriter and translator, died on September 17, 2026, aged 86. Born in Moscow on October 27, 1939, she built a career across poetry, drama and…
Gary McCracken died at age 75
Gary McCracken, a Canadian musician and drummer, died on September 17, 2026, aged 75. He was best known as the drummer for Max Webster from 1976 until the band dissolved…
John Whenham dead, John Whenham, English musicologist
John Whenham, an English musicologist and academic specializing in early Italian Baroque music, died September 16, 2026. He earned a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Arts at the…
Obituary: Bonnie Greer, dead at age 77
Bonnie Greer, the American-British playwright, critic and novelist, died on September 16, 2026, aged 77. Born in Chicago in 1948, she lived in the UK from 1986 and built a…
Death of Domingo Buesa Conde at age 73
Domingo Buesa Conde, a Spanish historian, writer, politician and Aragonese cultural advocate, died on September 16, 2026, aged 73. Born in Bagüés in 1952, he earned a doctorate in history…
Jodie Allen has died at age 88
Jodie Allen, an American journalist and senior editor at the Pew Research Center, died on September 15, 2026, aged 88. Allen was born on September 1, 1938, in the United…
John Broughton, died aged 78
John Broughton, the New Zealand academic and playwright, died on September 15, 2026, aged 78. Also known as John Renata Broughton and John R. Broughton, he was a Māori dental…
Pye Dubois dead at age 77
Pye Dubois, the Canadian lyricist and poet who wrote for Max Webster, Kim Mitchell and occasionally Rush, died on September 15, 2026, aged 77. Born Paul Phillip Woods, he was…
Charles Trueheart dies at age 75
Charles Trueheart, an American journalist and essayist, died on September 15, 2026, aged 75. He reported for The Washington Post from 1986 to 2000 and later served as director of…
Gerrit Graham, died aged 77
Gerrit Graham, the American actor best known for Phantom of the Paradise and for voicing Franklin Sherman on The Critic, died on September 15, 2026, aged 77. Born in New…
Patricio Guzmán has died at age 85
Patricio Guzmán, the Chilean film director known for The Battle of Chile, Nostalgia for the Light and The Pearl Button, died on September 15, 2026, at age 85. His death…
Tanella Boni passes away at age 71
Tanella Boni, the Ivorian poet and novelist, died on September 15, 2026, aged 71. Born in Abidjan, she was also an academic and professor of philosophy at the University of…
Amelinha Teles death at age 81
Amelinha Teles, a Brazilian journalist and political activist, died on September 15, 2026, aged 81. Born Maria Amélia de Almeida Teles in Contagem, Minas Gerais, she became known for her…
Obituary: Annie Dillard, dead at age 81
Annie Dillard, the American writer whose work included Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and The Maytrees, died on September 15, 2026, aged 81. Born Annie Doak…
Flora Brovina died at age 76
Flora Brovina, the Kosovar-Albanian poet, pediatrician, women's rights activist and politician, died on September 15, 2026, aged 76. Born in Skenderaj in Kosovo’s Drenica Valley, she was raised in Pristina,…
Griselda Gambaro passes away at age 98
Griselda Gambaro, the Argentine playwright and writer whose work examined political violence in her country, died on September 15, 2026, aged 98. Born in Buenos Aires on July 24, 1928,…
Bodil Cappelen dies at age 96
Bodil Cappelen, a Norwegian artist and writer, died on September 14, 2026, aged 96. Born in Stavanger on April 26, 1930, she worked as a painter, textile artist and book…
David Arnason dies at 86
David Arnason, a Canadian author and poet, died on September 14, 2026, aged 86. Born in Gimli, Manitoba, he was of Icelandic descent and often wrote about the Icelandic community…
Louis Caron obituary: died at age 84
Louis Caron, the Canadian journalist, writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating and writing the television drama series He Shoots, He Scores, died on September 14, 2026, of a heart…
Claude Bachand obituary: died at age 75
Claude Bachand, a Canadian politician and educator who represented Saint-Jean in the House of Commons from 1993 to 2011, died on September 14, 2026, aged 75. Born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec,…
Ketaki Kushari Dyson, died aged 86
Ketaki Kushari Dyson, the Indian-born British writer and scholar who worked as a poet, novelist, playwright, translator and critic, died on September 12, 2026, aged 86. Born Ketaki Kushari in…
Raffaele Costa dead at age 90
Raffaele Costa, the Italian politician who served as a deputy, minister and provincial president, died on September 11, 2026, aged 90. Born in Mondovì on September 8, 1936, he graduated…
Elaine Mokhtefi dead at age 98
Elaine Mokhtefi, the Algerian-American anti-colonial activist and writer known for her work as a translator and author, died on September 11, 2026, aged 98. Born Elaine Klein in New York…
Roger Simon has died at age 78
Roger Simon, the American journalist and writer who became Politico’s chief political columnist, died on September 10, 2026, aged 78. Born in Chicago and educated at the University of Illinois…
Vsevolod Bogdanov passed away at age 82
Vsevolod Bogdanov, the Russian journalist who chaired the Russian Union of Journalists from 1992 to 2017, died on September 10, 2026, aged 82. Born on February 6, 1944, in Kholmogorsky…
Michael M. Cernea passes away at age 94
Michael M. Cernea, the Romanian-born sociologist and anthropologist who helped bring sociological and anthropological perspectives into the World Bank, died on September 10, 2026, at age 94. Born Mihail Musi…
Mike McFarland obituary: died at age 56
Mike McFarland, an American voice actor, died on September 10, 2026, aged 56. Born in Texas City, Texas, he worked extensively on English-language dubs of Japanese anime as a voice…
Death of Gaylyn Studlar at age 73
Gaylyn Studlar, an American feminist, film and media critic, died on September 9, 2026, aged 73. She was David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities and director of the…
June Wyndham Davies died at age 97
June Wyndham Davies, a British television producer and director, died on September 9, 2026, aged 97. She was known for her work in television drama and for co-producing the film…
Death of Andrzej Elżanowski at age 76
Andrzej Elżanowski, a Polish paleontologist and zoologist, died on September 9, 2026, aged 76. Born in Przasnysz on January 21, 1950, he studied at the University of Warsaw and worked…
Death of Blanche d’Alpuget at age 82
Blanche d'Alpuget, the Australian writer and widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke, died on September 9, 2026, aged 82, after complications from influenza. Born Josephine Blanche d'Alpuget in Sydney…
Frank Bridel died at age 101
Frank Bridel, the Swiss journalist and writer who served as editor-in-chief of the Gazette de Lausanne and later became a longtime columnist at Entreprise romande, died on September 8, 2026,…