2026 Obituaries Thread

[whowouldeverhurtawhammy]

We start the 2026 obituaries reporting the passing of Anne Frank's stepsister and Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss, who died at her home in London on 1/3/26, no cause of death given at this time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y45yxjn5ro

[Ccook]

Bret Hanna-Shuford, actor who more recently appeared in the Broadway edition of Wicked, age 46 of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and T-cell lymphoma.

[SamJ93]

Michael Reagan, adopted son of former President Ronald Reagan and original host of Lingo in 1987, age 80 after a battle with cancer.

[Ccook]

Sidney Kibrick, who was Woim in the old Our Gang (later The Little Rascals) shorts, age 97.

[RJSchex]

Stanley Kibrick, who was Woim in the old Our Gang (later The Little Rascals) shorts, age 97.

Correction: first name is Sidney. Got me confused with filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, who died in 1999.

[Ccook]

Noted and corrected. Thanks.

[C8]

If anyone watches America’s Test Kitchen on PBS like I do, long time test cook Elle Simone Scott has died at 49 of ovarian cancer.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2026-01-08/elle-simone-scott-chef-americas-test-kitchen-death-ovarian-cancer

[TPIR98665]

If anyone watches America’s Test Kitchen on PBS like I do, long time test cook Elle Simone Scott has died at 49 of ovarian cancer.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2026-01-08/elle-simone-scott-chef-americas-test-kitchen-death-ovarian-cancer

I watch..sad. I did notice she had lost a lot of weight and her hair was much shorter...Cancer will do that..

[Roadgeek Adam]

Hans Herrmann, 97, the last living Formula One driver to score a podium in the 1950s (the first decade of the organized world championship) at the 1954 Swiss Grand Prix at the Circuit Bremgarten, finishing third behind Mercedes works teammate Juan Manuel Fangio and Ferrari's Jose Froilan Gonzalez. He would end up making his career at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, being the Porsche AG's factory's head driver for years and winning the 1970 Le Mans in the Porsche 917.

(Fun story, both Fangio and Herrmann at one point or another in their lives have been kidnapped. Fangio was abducted at the 1958 Cuban Grand Prix by a pro-Castro militant group who wanted some attention and released him after the race. Herrmann also got kidnapped in the 1990s and held for ransom of 1 million deutsche mark.)

[Ccook]

T.K. Carter actor from movies (The Thing, Space Jam) and TV (Punky Brewster, The Steve Harvey Show), age 69.

[PatrickRox80]

Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, aged 78.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/10/grateful-dead-guitarist-bob-weir-dies/

[PatrickRox80]

Another musician: Guy Moon, 63, who composed for Butch Hartman's shows and Cow & Chicken, dead from a car crash.

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2026/01/guy-moon-composer-for-johnny-bravo-fairly-oddparents-and-others-dies-at-63/

[SamJ93]

Dilbert creator Scott Adams, age 68 after a battle with prostate cancer.

[RJSchex]

Mark Brnovich, 59, former Arizona Attorney General.

[whowouldeverhurtawhammy]

Here's an oddball of an obituary causing some speculation and doubt...

Nasser bin Radan Al Rashid Al Wadaei, a resident of Saudi Arabia who is said to be that country's oldest living man, has passed away on 1/8/26, no cause of death given...but the report claims that he was aged 142.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/saudi-arabia-s-oldest-man-dies-at-the-age-of-142/ar-AA1Udy2X?ocid=msedgntp&pc=SMTS&cvid=696877d3c6de4787b848196a3a421c50&ei=16

Sounds rather impossible, but RIP nonetheless.