Notable Deaths in May 2026

Penelope Keith

Actress — The Good Life, To the Manor Born

Cancer

Sam Neill

Actor — Jurassic Park, The Piano, Peaky Blinders

Pneumonia

Antonio Rattín

Argentine football captain, infamous 1966 World Cup sending off

Lindsey Graham

U.S. Senator from South Carolina

Aortic dissection complicated by cardiovascular disease

Susumu Tonegawa

Nobel Prize in Medicine (1987) — antibody diversity

Bonnie Tyler

Singer — "Total Eclipse of the Heart", "Holding Out for a Hero"

Complications from intestinal surgery

Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop pioneer, founder of the Zulu Nation

Prostate cancer

Denny Sanford

Billionaire banker and philanthropist