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2,235 notable people with a 2026 date of death on record, the 100 most widely known shown here.

Ali Khamenei
dead
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026
1939 – 2026
Dolly Parton
dead
American singer-songwriter
1946 – 2026
Chuck Norris
dead
American martial artist and action actor
1940 – 2026
Harald V of Norway
dead
King of Norway from 1991 to 2026
1937 – 2026
Jürgen Habermas
dead
German sociologist and philosopher
1929 – 2026
Robert Duvall
dead
American actor and director
1931 – 2026
Ada Yonath
dead
Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate
1939 – 2026
Ratko Mladić
dead
convicted war-criminal and former general of the Bosnian Serb military (1991–1996),
1943 – 2026
François Englert
dead
Belgian theoretical physicist
1932 – 2026
Ted Turner
dead
American media mogul
1938 – 2026
Kevin Keegan
dead
English association football player and manager
1951 – 2026
Bonnie Tyler
dead
Welsh singer
1951 – 2026
Sam Neill
dead
New Zealand actor
1947 – 2026
Catherine O'Hara
dead
Canadian-American actress
1954 – 2026
Hayden Panettiere
dead
American actress and singer
1989 – 2026
Tim Curry
dead
British actor
1946 – 2026
Jesse Jackson
dead
American Baptist minister, activist, civil rights leader, politician, and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition
1941 – 2026
Marjane Satrapi
dead
Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author
1969 – 2026
Alan Greenspan
dead
American economist and financial advisor
1926 – 2026
Lionel Jospin
dead
93rd Prime Minister of France
1937 – 2026
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi
dead
President of Yemen from 2012 to 2022
1945 – 2026
Yayoi Kusama
dead
Japanese artist
1929 – 2026
David Hockney
dead
painter, printmaker, set designer, photographer
1937 – 2026
Hideki Shirakawa
dead
Japanese scientist
1936 – 2026
Franco Baresi
dead
Italian association football player
1960 – 2026
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
dead
Emir of Qatar from 1995 to 2013
1952 – 2026
Susumu Tonegawa
dead
Japanese biologist, neuroscientist
1939 – 2026
Zhu Rongji
dead
5th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1998 to 2003
1928 – 2026
Asha Bhosle
dead
Indian playback singer
1933 – 2026
Ilia II of Georgia
dead
Patriarch of Georgia
1933 – 2026
Lindsey Graham
dead
American politician and attorney
1955 – 2026
Erich von Däniken
dead
Swiss pseudoscientific writer and ufologist
1935 – 2026
Edmund Phelps
dead
American economist
1933 – 2026
Ali Larijani
dead
Iranian politician and military officer
1958 – 2026
Rudolph A. Marcus
dead
Canadian-American chemist
1923 – 2026
James Van Der Beek
dead
American actor
1977 – 2026
Robert Mueller
dead
American attorney and sixth director of the FBI
1944 – 2026
Festus Mogae
dead
President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008
1939 – 2026
Eric Dane
dead
American actor
1972 – 2026
J. Michael Bishop
dead
American immunologist and microbiologist who specialized in cancer research
1936 – 2026
Cees Nooteboom
dead
Dutch writer
1933 – 2026
Desmond Morris
dead
British zoologist and ethologist
1928 – 2026
Georg Baselitz
dead
German artist
1938 – 2026
Édouard Balladur
dead
91st Prime Minister of France
1929 – 2026
Valentino
dead
Italian fashion designer
1932 – 2026
Luísa Diogo
dead
Mozambican politician
1958 – 2026
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi
dead
engineer and politician
1972 – 2026
Chan Santokhi
dead
President of Suriname from 2020 to 2025
1959 – 2026
Yukio Shimomura
dead
Japanese association football player and manager
1932 – 2026
Mircea Lucescu
dead
Romanian football player and manager
1945 – 2026
Béla Tarr
dead
Hungarian filmmaker and anarchist
1955 – 2026
Brenda Fricker
dead
Irish actress
1945 – 2026
Nathalie Baye
dead
French actress
1948 – 2026
Francisco Guterres
dead
East Timorese politician
1954 – 2026
Slavenka Drakulić
dead
Croatian journalist and novelist
1949 – 2026
Tony Hoare
dead
British computer scientist
1934 – 2026
Koji Tanaka
dead
Japanese association football player and manager
1955 – 2026
Sonny Rollins
dead
American jazz saxophonist and composer
1930 – 2026
Daveigh Chase
dead
American actress
1990 – 2026
Moya Brennan
dead
Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist
1952 – 2026
Peter Cullen
dead
Canadian voice actor
1941 – 2026
Louis E. Brus
dead
American chemist
1943 – 2026
Kazuo Imanishi
dead
Japanese association football player and manger
1941 – 2026
Sergei Ivanov
dead
Russian senior official and politician
1953 – 2026
Siim Kallas
dead
Estonian politician
1948 – 2026
Nirmal Purja
dead
Nepali‑born English mountaineer
1983 – 2026
Ann Blyth
dead
American actress
1927 – 2026
Scott Adams
dead
American cartoonist and author
1957 – 2026
Dan Simmons
dead
American novelist
1948 – 2026
Craig Venter
dead
American biotechnologist and businessman
1946 – 2026
Oliver Tree
dead
American singer, record producer, and comedian
1993 – 2026
Alex Manninger
dead
Austrian association football player
1977 – 2026
Jan Timman
dead
Dutch chess grandmaster
1951 – 2026
Umberto Bossi
dead
Italian politician
1941 – 2026
Mario Adorf
dead
German actor and writer
1930 – 2026
Edgar Morin
dead
French philosopher and sociologist
1921 – 2026
Afrika Bambaataa
dead
American DJ, record producer, and rapper
1957 – 2026
Neil Sedaka
dead
American singer
1939 – 2026
Vincent Pastore
dead
American actor
1946 – 2026
Toyohiro Akiyama
dead
First Japanese astronaut
1942 – 2026
Anthony Head
dead
English actor
1954 – 2026
Uļjana Semjonova
dead
Latvian basketball player
1952 – 2026
Carlo Ginzburg
dead
Italian historian
1939 – 2026
Péter Nádas
dead
Hungarian writer and photographer
1942 – 2026
Kazimira Prunskienė
dead
Lithuanian politician
1943 – 2026
Glen Hansard
dead
Irish musician and songwriter
1970 – 2026
Alex Zanardi
dead
Italian racing driver and para-cyclist
1966 – 2026
Aziz Nasirzadeh
dead
Iranian military officer
1964 – 2026
Valerie Perrine
dead
American actress
1943 – 2026
Claudette Colvin
dead
African-American civil rights activist
1939 – 2026
Gladys West
dead
American mathematician
1930 – 2026
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld
dead
Swedish princess; elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
1938 – 2026
Len Deighton
dead
English writer
1929 – 2026
Guy Scott
dead
Zambian politician
1944 – 2026
Jayden Adams
dead
South African soccer player
2001 – 2026
Bajrakitiyabha, Princess Rajasarinisiribajra
dead
Thai princess and daughter of Rama X
1978 – 2026
Nicholas Brendon
dead
American actor
1971 – 2026
Robert Carradine
dead
American actor
1954 – 2026
Aldrich Ames
dead
CIA analyst and Soviet spy
1941 – 2026
Giorgos Vasiliou
dead
3rd President of the Republic of Cyprus
1931 – 2026

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