Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths

This is a list of people who died in the last 5 days with an article at the English Wikipedia. For people without an English Wikipedia page see: Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths (red links). Generally updated at least daily, last time: 04:47, 18 May 2024 (UTC).

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Item	label	Born	Died	description	occupation	position held	country of citizenship	place of birth	place of death	manner of death	place of burial
Q27663789	Thaneswar Boro	1939	2024-05-17	politician	politician	Member of the Assam Legislative Assembly	India
Q28058330	Roberta Marrero	1972-03-02	2024-05-17	Spanish artist, writer and poet	singer actor disc jockey writer poet		Spain	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Q452373	Sid Going	1943-08-19	2024-05-17	New Zealand rugby union footballer	priest rugby union player		New Zealand	Kawakawa			Maromaku
Q10371588	Silvio Luiz	1934-07-14	2024-05-16	Brazilian association football referee	association football referee		Brazil	São Paulo	São Paulo
Q112577767	Eddie Gossage	1958-10-15	2024-05-16	Former president of Texas Motor Speedway (1958-2024)	business executive sports executive		United States of America	Nashville
Q125958762	Carmen Sheila	1944-05-23	2024-05-16	Brazilian voice actress (1944–2024)	voice actor			Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro
Q27507346	Dharmapaal Barsingh Thapa	1939	2024-05-16	Ex Chief of Nepal Army
Q28086097	Vishwas Gangurde		2024-05-16	Indian politician	politician	Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly	India
Q444028	Carmen Berenguer	1946-09-09	2024-05-16	Chilean writer	poet visual artist		Chile	Santiago	Santiago
Q446717	Dabney Coleman	1932-01-03	2024-05-16	American actor	actor television actor stage actor film actor voice actor		United States of America	Austin
Q4864383	Barry Kemp	1940-05-14	2024-05-16	British Egyptologist	anthropologist archaeologist egyptologist		United Kingdom	Birmingham
Q6167768	Jaye Robinson	No/unknown value	2024-05-16	Former Canadian municipal politician in Toronto	politician	member of the Toronto City Council	Canada	Toronto
Q7932406	Vineet Nayyar	1939 1938	2024-05-16	Indian businessman	businessperson		India British Raj Dominion of India
Q102060173	Malti Joshi	1943 1934-06-04	2024-05-15	Indian writer	novelist writer short story writer		India	Aurangabad	New Delhi
Q10393241	Washington Rodrigues	1936-09-01	2024-05-15	Brazilian journalist	journalist association football coach		Brazil	Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro
Q1887085	John Hawken	1940-05-09	2024-05-15	English keyboardist	musician		United Kingdom	Bournemouth	Metuchen
Q1892258	Kamla Beniwal	1927-01-12	2024-05-15	Governor of the Indian state of Gujarat	politician	Governor of Gujarat governor of Tripura Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly governor of Mizoram	British Raj India Dominion of India
Q3050489	Elda Peralta	1922-07-28 1932-07-28	2024-05-15	Mexican actress and writer	film actor television actor stage actor writer screenwriter		Mexico	Hermosillo
Q3603413	Abdullatif Abdulhamid	1954-01-05	2024-05-15	Syrian film director (1954-2024)	film director actor screenwriter		First Syrian Republic United Arab Republic Syria	Homs
Q6932730	Muhamad Sharip Othman	1941-08-14	2024-05-15	Malaysian magistrate,	judge		Malaysia	Rembau	Rembau
Q953426	Yvon Picotte	1941-10-27	2024-05-15	Canadian politician	politician	Member of the National Assembly of Quebec ministre de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery, Food and Regional Development	Canada	Louiseville
Q124683541	Netiporn Sanesangkhom	1995-07-20 1995-08-08	2024-05-14	Thai political activist (1995-2024)	political activist		Thailand		Thammasat University Hospital	hunger strike
Q16304177	Narong Kittikachorn	1933-10-21	2024-05-14	Thai politician	politician	Member of the House of Representatives of Thailand	Thailand	Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya	Bangkok
Q24961707	Edgar Alarcón	1961-05-09	2024-05-14	Peruvian politician	accountant politician	member of the Congress of the Republic of Peru	Peru	Arequipa Department	Ayacucho Department	accidental death
Q2734303	Fabián Cancelarich	1965-12-30	2024-05-14	Argentine association football player	association football player		Argentina	Santa Fe	Buenos Aires	natural causes
Q28936321	Hisham Arafat	1964	2024-05-14	Former Transport Minister of Egypt	engineer politician	Minister of Transportation of Egypt	United Arab Republic Egypt			natural causes
Q3035882	Don Perlin	1929-08-27	2024-05-14	American comics artist, writer and editor	comics artist writer editor illustrator visual artist		United States of America	New York City
Q3118850	Gudrun Ure	1926-03-12	2024-05-14 2024-05-12	Scottish actress (1926–2024)	actor		United Kingdom	Milton of Campsie	London
Q393816	Baiba Indriksone	1932-02-22 1932-02-23	2024-05-14	Soviet and Latvian actress	actor		Latvia Soviet Union	Riga
Q4231069	Maxim Kononenko	1971-03-13	2024-05-14	Russian writer (1971-2024)	journalist programmer blogger editing staff columnist television presenter radio personality		Soviet Union Russia	Apatity	Moscow
Q4274333	Tony Windis	1933-01-27	2024-05-14	basketball player	basketball player		United States of America	New York City
Q5271430	Diane Deans	1958	2024-05-14	Canadian politician	politician	Ottawa City Council Member of Ottawa City Council	Canada
Q6099983	Ramón Rocha Maqueda	1939-09-04	2024-05-14	Spanish politician	politician	presidente de la Diputación Provincial de Badajoz	Spain	Jerez de los Caballeros	Olivenza
Q6100726	Ayten Gökçer	1940-01-26	2024-05-14	Turkish actress	actor		Turkey	Ankara	Istanbul
Q7114528	Owen John Thomas	1939-10-03	2024-05-14	Welsh politician	politician	Member of the 1st National Assembly for Wales Member of the 2nd National Assembly for Wales	United Kingdom	Cardiff	Cardiff
Q7147330	Patrick Nilan	1941-06-30	2024-05-14	Australian field hockey player	field hockey player		Australia	Sydney
Q961116	Jimmy James	1940-09-13	2024-05-14	Jamaican singer	singer		Jamaica	Jamaica
Q984514	Dene O'Kane	1963-02-24	2024-05-14	New Zealand snooker player (1963–2024)	snooker player		New Zealand	Christchurch	Auckland City Hospital
Q104450561	Iswar Prasanna Hazarika	1937-01-22	2024-05-13	Indian politician	politician		India	North Lakhimpur
Q125915440	Talal Abu Zarifa	1960-05-13	2024-05-13	Palestinian communist militant (1960–2024)	politician		State of Palestine	Abasan al-Kabira	Sabra, Gaza	homicide
Q16888040	Josef Michl	1939-03-12	2024-05-13	Czech chemist and chemistry professor	chemist pedagogue university teacher academic		United States of America	Prague	Prague
Q21483899	Luis María Serra	1941-08-24	2024-05-13	Argentinian composer (1942-2024)	musician composer conductor pianist choir director		Argentina	Buenos Aires Lanús		natural causes
Q234819	Alice Munro	1931-07-10	2024-05-13	Canadian writer (1931-2024)	writer screenwriter novelist short story writer journalist		Canada	Wingham	Port Hope
Q2865163	Arthur Irving	1930-07-14	2024-05-13	Canadian businessman (1930-2024)	businessperson		Canada	Saint John	Boston
Q324309	Christian Escoudé	1947-09-23	2024-05-13	French Gypsy jazz guitarist (1947–2024)	composer jazz guitarist		France	Angoulême
Q3265638	Lucien Mias	1930-09-29	2024-05-13	French rugby union player	rugby union player physician school teacher geriatrician		France	Saint-Germain-de-Calberte	Mazamet
Q39919902	Joseph E. Potter		2024-05-13	American sociologist (died 2024)	sociologist demographer
Q4095664	Yevgeny Brago	1929-03-01	2024-05-13	Russian rower	rower		Russia	Moscow
Q4892177	Berkley Cox	1934-05-03	2024-05-13	Australian rules footballer	Australian rules football player				Launceston
Q5126731	Clarence Sasser	1947-09-12	2024-05-13	American soldier (1947–2024)	combat medic		United States of America	Chenango	Sugar Land
Q5200923	Cyril Wecht	1931-03-20	2024-05-13	American forensic pathologist	lawyer pathologist		United States of America	Dunkard Township
Q54358546	Birubala Rabha	1954	2024-05-13	Indian activist	human rights activist activist		India	Goalpara	Gauhati Medical College and Hospital	natural causes

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