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2026 Israeli legislative election

Legislative elections were held in Israel on 27 October 2026 to elect the 120 members of the 26th Knesset and determine the governing coalition that succeeds the 37th government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Sunny Ozell

American singer-songwriter (born 1978)

Sunny Ozell, Lady Stewart is an American singer and songwriter who resides in Los Angeles, California. She was married to the English actor Sir Patrick Stewart until his death in 2026.

William Contreras

Venezuelan baseball player (born 1997)

William Jesús Contreras, nicknamed "Wild Bill", is a Venezuelan professional baseball catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Jacob Misiorowski

American baseball player (born 2002)

Jacob Walter Misiorowski, nicknamed "the Miz", is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2025 and his first MLB All-Star appearance the same year. In 2026, he set the record for the fastest pitch thrown by a starting pitcher since tracking began in 2008. On September 8, 2026, Misiorowski became the first pitcher in MLB history to throw 1,000 pitches 100+ mph in one season, something no team in the speed-tracking era has ever done.

Bob Uecker

American baseball player and broadcaster (1934–2025)

Robert George Uecker, affectionately called "Ueck", was an American professional baseball catcher and sportscaster who served as the play-by-play announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB) for 54 seasons. He was also an occasional television and film actor.

Pat Murphy (baseball manager)

American baseball manager (born 1958)

Patrick Thomas Murphy is an American professional baseball coach who is the manager for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously served as the interim manager of the San Diego Padres and head coach for college baseball teams including Arizona State University and the University of Notre Dame, as well as the Netherlands national team.

Milwaukee Brewers

Major League Baseball franchise in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The Milwaukee Brewers are an American professional baseball team based in Milwaukee. The Brewers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central Division. The team's name alludes to the city's association with the beer industry and has been used by several other baseball teams that have called Milwaukee home. Since 2001, the Brewers have played their home games at American Family Field, which was named Miller Park through the 2020 season and has a seating capacity of 41,900 people.

Barbara Barrie

American actress and author (1931–2026)

Barbara Ann Barrie was an American actress and author, who was nominated for an Oscar, a Tony, and three Emmys.

Deaths in 2026

The following notable deaths occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence:Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality, what subject was noted for, cause of death, and a reference.

Lewy body dementia

Umbrella term covering two types of dementia

Lewy body dementia (LBD) is an umbrella term for two similar and common subtypes of dementia: dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD). Both are characterized by changes in thinking, movement, behavior, and mood. The two conditions have similar features and may have similar causes, and are believed to belong on a spectrum of Lewy body disease that includes Parkinson's disease. As of 2014, they were more often misdiagnosed than any other common dementia.

Elizabeth Holmes

American businesswoman (born 1984)

Elizabeth Anne Holmes is an American businesswoman convicted of fraud in connection with her health technology company Theranos. Holmes founded Theranos in 2003, and its valuation soared in the early 2010s after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that needed only very small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick. In 2015, Forbes named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in the United States on the basis of a $9 billion valuation of Theranos. In the following year, as accusations of fraud about Theranos's claims began to surface, Forbes revised its estimate of Holmes's net worth to zero, and Fortune named her in its feature article on "The World's 19 Most Disappointing Leaders".

Cooper Pratt

American baseball player (born 2004)

Cooper Wickham Pratt is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2026.

Ian McKellen

English actor (born 1939)

Sir Ian Murray McKellen is an English actor. Widely considered one of Britain's greatest actors, he is noted for his versatile roles on stage and screen, in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is regarded as a British cultural icon and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991. He has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, six Laurence Olivier Awards, two Actor Awards and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, five BAFTAs and five Primetime Emmy Awards.

Jeffery Simmons

American football player (born 1997)

Jeffery Bernard Simmons Jr. is an American professional football defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Mississippi State Bulldogs and was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the first round of the 2019 NFL draft.

Jailer 2

2026 Indian film by Nelson Dilipkumar

Jailer 2 is a 2026 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film written and directed by Nelson Dilipkumar. It was produced by Kalanithi Maran through Sun Pictures. A sequel to Jailer (2023), the film stars Rajinikanth, Ramya Krishnan, Yogi Babu, Mirnaa and Rithvik reprising their roles from the predecessor, with S. J. Suryah, Mithun Chakraborty, Suraj Venjaramoodu and Vidya Balan joining the cast.

Wendy Neuss

American television and film producer (born 1954)

Wendy Neuss is an American television and film producer.

Christian Yelich

American baseball player (born 1991)

Christian Stephen Yelich is an American professional baseball left fielder and designated hitter who captains the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Miami Marlins. Internationally, Yelich represents the United States. In the 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC), he helped win Team USA's first gold medal in a WBC tournament and was named to the All-World Baseball Classic Team.

You Can See Everything

2026 film by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim

You Can See Everything is a 2026 American metadocumentary film directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. It follows Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the defunct health technology company Theranos, and her partner Billy Evans, who invited a film crew to document them beginning in the weeks before Holmes began serving a United States federal prison sentence for defrauding investors.

Matthew Perry

American and Canadian actor (1969–2023)

Matthew Langford Perry was an American and Canadian actor. Known primarily for his work in comedy, he gained international fame for starring as Chandler Bing on the NBC television sitcom Friends (1994–2004), receiving his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2002 for the role. Perry also appeared on Ally McBeal (2002), The West Wing (2003) and The Ron Clark Story (2006) receiving Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in the latter two. He played a leading role in the NBC series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–2007), and also became known for his leading film roles in Fools Rush In (1997), Almost Heroes (1998), Three to Tango (1999), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), Serving Sara (2002), The Whole Ten Yards (2004), and 17 Again (2009).

Willson Contreras

Venezuelan baseball player (born 1992)

Willson Eduardo Contreras is a Venezuelan professional baseball first baseman and catcher for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals.

Jonestown

Peoples Temple cult settlement in Guyana, led by Jim Jones

The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name Jonestown, was a remote commune in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious organization led by Jim Jones. On November 18, 1978, 918 people died in a coordinated mass murder-suicide across three locations: the Jonestown compound, a nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and the group's headquarters in Georgetown, making "Jonestown" internationally infamous. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.

Elke Sommer

German-American actress (1940–2026)

Elke Sommer was a German actress who appeared in numerous films throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in The Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark (1964), the Bob Hope comedy Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966), Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (1974), and the British Carry On series in Carry On Behind (1975).

Jennifer Hetrick

American actress (born 1958)

Jennifer Hetrick is an American actress. She is known for playing Vash in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Corrinne Becker on L.A. Law.

Ansel Adams

American photographer and environmentalist (1902–1984)

Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.

Avengers: Doomsday

Upcoming Marvel Studios film

Avengers: Doomsday is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is intended to be the sequel to Avengers: Endgame (2019) and the 39th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, and written by Michael Waldron, Stephen McFeely, and the writing team of Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, the film features an ensemble cast led by Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom. In the film, the Avengers, Wakandans, New Avengers, Fantastic Four, and the X-Men converge from different universes to face Doom amidst the collapse of the multiverse.

Clayface (film)

2026 DC Studios film

Clayface is a 2026 American body horror film based on the eponymous character from DC Comics. Directed by James Watkins from a screenplay by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini, it is the third film in the DC Universe (DCU). Tom Rhys Harries stars as Matt Hagen / Clayface, alongside Naomi Ackie, David Dencik, Max Minghella, and Eddie Marsan. In the film, after becoming disfigured by a mobster (Dencik), rising actor Matt Hagen seeks help from a scientist (Ackie) to restore his appearance, but the procedure transforms him into a shapeshifting creature. It is produced by Matt Reeves and Lynn Harris alongside James Gunn and Peter Safran of DC Studios.

VisionQuest

Marvel Studios television miniseries

VisionQuest is an American television miniseries created by Terry Matalas for the streaming service Disney+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Vision. A spin-off from and sequel to the miniseries WandaVision (2021), it is the 18th television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) from Marvel Studios and is produced under its Marvel Television label. The series shares continuity with the films of the MCU. It follows the synthezoid Vision as he attempts to understand who he is by communicating with AI personas embedded in his programming, and goes on the run with a mysterious teenager who may be his reincarnated son. Matalas serves as showrunner and a director.

2026 Toledo train collision

High-speed train collision in Spain

On 28 October 2026 at 08:54 CET (UTC+01:00), an AVE high-speed train collided end-on with a stationary Iryo high-speed train in Los Yébenes, Toledo, on the Madrid–Seville high-speed rail line, killing at least 69 people. Both trains involved in the crash were travelling from Atocha station in Madrid to Santa Justa station in Seville.

William Shatner

Canadian actor (born 1931)

William Shatner is a Canadian actor. From 1966 to 1994, he starred as Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, from his debut as the captain of the starship Enterprise in the second pilot of the first Star Trek television series to his final appearance as Captain Kirk in the seventh Star Trek feature film, Star Trek Generations.

Mark Attanasio

American businessman (born 1957)

Mark L. Attanasio is an American businessman who is currently the principal owner of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team and the majority shareholder of English football club Norwich City. As of 2026, he is worth an estimated $1.9 billion.

Abdul El-Sayed

American politician and epidemiologist (born 1984)

Abdul El-Sayed is an American epidemiologist, public health administrator, academic and politician who is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan.

2026 United States elections

Elections are scheduled to be held in the United States, in large part, on November 3, 2026. In these midterm elections, scheduled to occur during the second term of Republican president Donald Trump, all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate will be contested to determine the 120th United States Congress. Thirty-nine state and territorial U.S. gubernatorial elections, attorney general elections, and numerous state and local elections, will also be contested.

Dolores Huerta

American labor leader (1930–2026)

Dolores Huerta was an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta joined Filipino leader Larry Itliong in the Delano grape strike in 1965, managing boycott campaigns on the east coast and negotiating with the grape companies to end the strike. Some credited her with the UFW slogan "sí se puede".

Wildwood (film)

2026 film by Travis Knight

Wildwood is a 2026 American stop-motion animated dark fantasy film directed by Travis Knight and written by Chris Butler, based on the 2011 novel by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis. Produced by Laika, the film stars Carey Mulligan, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Richard E. Grant, Awkwafina, Amandla Stenberg, Tom Waits, Charlie Day, Blythe Danner, Arthur Knight, Angela Bassett, and Mahershala Ali. In the film, a teenage girl named Prue (Lee) and her classmate Curtis (Tremblay) travel into an enchanted forest in search of her infant brother after he is abducted, where they encounter Alexandra (Mulligan), a mysterious woman who tragically lost her son.

2022 Israeli legislative election

Legislative elections were held in Israel on 1 November 2022 to elect the 120 members of the 25th Knesset. The results saw the right-wing national camp of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu win a parliamentary majority, amid losses for left-wing and Arab parties, as well as gains by the far-right.

Walter Koenig

American actor and screenwriter (1936–2026)

Walter Marvin Koenig was an American actor and screenwriter. He began acting professionally in the mid-1960s and quickly rose to prominence for his supporting role as Ensign Pavel Chekov in Star Trek (1967–1969). He went on to reprise this role in all six original-cast Star Trek films and in Star Trek: Generations (1994). He also acted in several other series and films including Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971), The Questor Tapes (1974), and Babylon 5 (1993). As a screenwriter, Koenig worked on Land of the Lost (1974), Family (1976), What Really Happened to the Class of '65? (1977) and The Powers of Matthew Star (1982), and wrote several books.

Trevor Megill

American baseball player (born 1993)

Trevor J. Megill is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Chicago Cubs and Minnesota Twins. He was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 7th round of the 2015 MLB draft. In 2025, Megill was named to his first All-Star game.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999; 2009–2021; 2022–present)

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as prime minister of Israel since 2022. Having previously held office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021, Netanyahu is Israel's longest-serving prime minister.

Wicker (film)

2026 film by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson

Wicker is a 2026 romantic fantasy comedy-drama film written and directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, based on the short story "The Wicker Husband" by Ursula Wills. The film stars Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki, Marli Siu, Nabhaan Rizwan, Richard E. Grant, and Peter Dinklage.

Brett Sylvia

U.S. Army general

Brett Gareth Sylvia is a United States Army lieutenant general who served as the director of Strategy, Plans, and Policy of the Joint Staff from 2025 to 2026. He previously served as the commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division and Fort Campbell from 2023 to 2025, and as the vice director for strategy, plans, and policy of the Joint Staff.

WhatsApp

Messaging and VoIP service owned by Meta

WhatsApp Messenger, commonly known simply as WhatsApp, is an American social media, instant messaging (IM), and Voice over IP (VoIP) service accessible via desktop and mobile app. Owned by Meta Platforms, the service allows users to send text messages, voice messages, and video messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content. The service requires a cellular mobile telephone number to register. WhatsApp was launched in May 2009. In January 2018, WhatsApp released a standalone business app called WhatsApp Business which can communicate with the standard WhatsApp client. As of May 2025, the service had 3 billion monthly active users, making it the most popular messenger app. The name of the app is meant to sound like "what's up".