Recent Obituaries
Browse recent memorial notices or search above to find someone specific.
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Reggae icon Bunny Wailer, co-founder of famed group the Wailers, dies at 73
Bunny Wailer, who along with bandmates Bob Marley and Peter Tosh popularized reggae music worldwide with their legendary group the Wailers, died Tuesday.Read More -
Thomas Dupree, professor emeritus of nuclear science and engineering and physics, dies at 86
Highly regarded physicist was well-known for studying plasma turbulence in terms of coherent structures.Read More -
Katherine Johnson died on February 24th
The black mathematician who guided the first manned spaceflights and the first Moon landing was 101Read More -
“Mad Mike” Hoare died on February 2nd
The commander of the “Wild Geese” mercenaries in Congo was 100Read More -
Richard Dudley, professor emeritus of mathematics, dies at 81
Longtime MIT professor strongly influenced the fields of probability, statistics, and machine learning.Read More -
Li Wenliang died on February 7th
The doctor who was one of the first to warn of a new coronavirus was 33Read More -
Homero Gómez was apparently murdered on January 13th
The protector of Mexico’s overwintering Monarch butterflies was 50Read More -
Frank Press, MIT geophysicist and U.S. science adviser, dies at 95
An advocate of international scientific cooperation, Press served as an MIT department head and lifetime MIT Corporation member.Read More