Deaths in 2026: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Added Juan Atkins. Nov 05, 2026
Added Ryū Murakami. Nov 04, 2026
Added William Nordhaus. Nov 03, 2026
Added Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. Oct 30, 2026
Added Patrick Stewart. Oct 29, 2026
Added Dolores Huerta. Oct 28, 2026
Added Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. Oct 25, 2026
Added Mike Ditka. Oct 09, 2026
Added Margaret Hamilton. Oct 08, 2026
Added Eva Marie Saint. Oct 06, 2026
Added several people, including Jim Bakker. Oct 06, 2026
Added Dennis Hastert. Oct 05, 2026
Added Biljana Plavšić. Oct 04, 2026
Added Bob Pettit. Sep 25, 2026
Added Jon Kyl. Sep 18, 2026
Added a slideshow. Sep 16, 2026
Added Annie Dillard. Sep 16, 2026
Added Bob Mackie. Sep 14, 2026
Added George Chuvalo. Sep 14, 2026
Added Akiyama Toyohiro. Sep 11, 2026
Added Tung Chee-Hwa. Sep 10, 2026
Added Shirakawa Hideki. Sep 03, 2026
Added Gloria Steinem and Cassandra Wilson. Sep 03, 2026
Added Sliman Mansour. Sep 01, 2026
Added Ada Yonath. Sep 01, 2026
Added Édouard Balladur. Aug 31, 2026
Added Wendell Berry. Aug 31, 2026
Added Harald V. Aug 29, 2026
Added Yayoi Kusama. Aug 27, 2026
Added Tim Curry. Aug 26, 2026
Added Dolly Parton. Aug 25, 2026
Added Nancy Kassebaum. Aug 23, 2026
Added Hayden Panettiere. Aug 19, 2026
Added Zhu Rongji. Aug 12, 2026
Added Glen Hansard. Jul 29, 2026
Added Betye Saar. Jul 27, 2026
Changed “suggested” to “suggestive” in Victor Willis's entry. Jul 27, 2026
Added Tonegawa Susumu. Jul 21, 2026
Added Garfield Sobers. Jul 17, 2026
Added Lindsey Graham. Jul 12, 2026
Added Sheikh Hamad ibn Khalifa Al Thani. Jul 12, 2026
Updated with death of Wally Funk. Jul 09, 2026
Updated with death of Victor Willis. Jul 01, 2026
Added Abdul Ahad Mohmand. Jun 30, 2026
Added several people, including Tony Brown. Jun 28, 2026
Added Clive Davis. Jun 22, 2026
Added several people, including Alan Greenspan. Jun 22, 2026
Added Abdullah Ibrahim. Jun 16, 2026
Added David Hockney. Jun 12, 2026
Added Duane Michals. Jun 11, 2026
Added Marjane Satrapi. Jun 04, 2026
Added Sonny Rollins. May 26, 2026
Added Barney Frank. May 20, 2026
Added Ted Turner. May 06, 2026
Added various people, including Nedra Talley, J. Craig Venter, and Georg Baselitz. May 01, 2026
Added Dave Mason and Michael Tilson Thomas. Apr 24, 2026
Added Afrika Bambaataa and Asha Bhosle. Apr 14, 2026
Added several people, including Biruté Galdikas and Mary Rand. Apr 05, 2026
Added several people, including Robert Mueller. Mar 23, 2026
Added various people, including Ali Larijani. Mar 18, 2026
Added “El Mencho.” Mar 04, 2026
Added several people, including Ali Khamenei. Mar 02, 2026
Added Willie Colón and Eric Dane. Feb 22, 2026
Added several people, including Frederick Wiseman and Jesse Jackson. Feb 17, 2026
Added Robert Duvall. Feb 16, 2026
Corrected display issue. Feb 11, 2026
Added Bud Cort. Feb 11, 2026
Added James Van Der Beek. Feb 11, 2026
New article added. Feb 10, 2026
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