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Ajit Anantrao Pawar (22 July 1959 β 28 January 2026) was an Indian politician who served as Maharashtra's longest-serving deputy chief minister until his death in 2026. He held the office for six terms under various governments including the cabinets of Prithviraj Chavan, Devendra Fadnavis, Uddhav Thackeray, and Eknath Shinde.
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Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty (born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj ( NIK-ee min-AHZH), is a Trinidadian rapper, singer, and songwriter. Dubbed the "Queen of Rap", she is noted for her animated rap flow, musical versatility, and alter egos. Minaj began rapping professionally in the early 2000s and gained recognition with her three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009.
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Elena Andreyevna Rybakina (born 17 June 1999) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in women's singles by the WTA. Rybakina has won 11 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including a major at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships, as well as the 2025 WTA Finals and two WTA 1000 events.
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XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is a 2002 American action thriller film directed by Rob Cohen, produced by Neal H. Moritz and written by Rich Wilkes. The first installment in the xXx film series, the film stars Vin Diesel as Xander Cage, a thrill-seeking extreme sports enthusiast, stuntman, and rebellious athlete-turned-reluctant spy for the National Security Agency.
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2025β26 UEFA Champions League
The 2025β26 UEFA Champions League is the 71st season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 34th season since it was rebranded from the European Cup to the UEFA Champions League. Paris Saint-Germain are the defending champions, having secured their maiden title the previous season. The final will be played on 30 May 2026 at PuskΓ‘s ArΓ©na in Budapest, Hungary.
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Melania is a 2026 American documentary film co-produced and directed by Brett Ratner. It documents Melania Trump, the first lady of the United States, in the twenty days before her husband Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration. Development started shortly after the 2024 presidential election and received bids from Amazon, Disney, Netflix, and Paramount Pictures.
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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 (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
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Wonder Man is an American television miniseries created by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest for the streaming service Disney+, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is the 17th television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) produced by Marvel Studios, via its Marvel Television label, sharing continuity with the films of the franchise. Guest serves as showrunner.
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Nipah virus (Henipavirus nipahense) is a bat-borne, zoonotic virus that causes Nipah virus infection in humans and other animals, a disease with a very high case fatality rate (40β75%). Numerous disease outbreaks caused by Nipah virus have occurred in India, Malaysia and Singapore. Nipah virus belongs to the genus Henipavirus along with the Hendra virus, which has also caused disease outbreaks.
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Send Help is a 2026 American survival horror thriller film co-produced and directed by Sam Raimi and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. The film stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien as an employee and her boss, respectively, who become stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash and attempt to survive while tension rises between them.
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Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 β July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defenseβas well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist, and Taoist philosophiesβas a new school of martial arts thought.
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Odessa Zion Segall Adlon ( AD-lon; born June 17, 2000), known professionally as Odessa A'zion ( Ι-ZY-on), is an American actress. On television, she is known for her roles in the CBS series Fam (2019), the Netflix series Grand Army (2020) and the HBO series I Love LA (2025). For her performance in the film Marty Supreme (2025), she was nominated for an Actor Award and a British Academy Film Award.
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Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem ( NOHM; nΓ©e Arnold; born November 30, 1971) is an American politician who is the 8th United States secretary of homeland security. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the 33rd governor of South Dakota from 2019 to 2025 and represented South Dakota's at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019.
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Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (born October 4, 1982) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district since 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Before her election to Congress, Omar served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019, representing part of Minneapolis.
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. xxx is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The registry is operated by ICM Registry LLC. The ICANN Board voted to approve the sTLD on 18 March 2011.
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Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar (pronunciation: [ΚΙΙΎΙdΜͺ pΙΚaΛΙΎ], born 12 December 1940), is an Indian politician known for his long career in national politics. Pawar served three terms as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, held cabinet positions in the Union Council of Ministers, including Minister of Defence under P. V. Narasimha Rao and Minister of Agriculture under Manmohan Singh.
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Dhurandhar (transl. 'Stalwart') is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language spy action thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Aditya Dhar. Produced by Jyoti Deshpande, Aditya Dhar, and Lokesh Dhar under Jio Studios and B62 Studios, it stars Ranveer Singh, Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal, R. Madhavan, and several other actors.
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JosΓ© MΓ‘rio dos Santos Mourinho FΓ©lix ( zhoh-ZAY moh-REEN-yoh; European Portuguese: [ΚuΛzΙ moΛΙΎiΙ²u] ; born 26 January 1963) is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player, who is currently the head coach of Primeira Liga club Benfica. Nicknamed The Special One, he is one of the most decorated managers of all time.
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Elizabeth Ann Gilmour (nΓ©e Smart; born November 3, 1987) is an American child safety activist and commentator for ABC News. She gained national attention at age 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell. Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, held Smart captive for nine months until she was rescued by police officers on a street in Sandy, Utah.
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The UEFA Champions League (UCL), usually known simply as the Champions League, is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that is contested by top-division European clubs. The competition begins with a round robin league phase to qualify for the double-legged knockout rounds, and a single-leg final.
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Katherine LaNasa (born December 1, 1966) is an American actress. Since 2025, she has portrayed Nurse Dana Evans in the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt (2025βpresent), for which she earned her first Emmy win for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. LaNasa starred in films Jayne Mansfield's Car, The Campaign, and The Frozen Ground.
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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy New York City family, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
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Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily BrontΓ«, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons; and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' ethnically uncertain foster son, Heathcliff.
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Alex Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big wall climbing routes. Honnold rose to worldwide fame in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a full route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park via the 880-metre (2,900 ft) route Freerider at grade 5.
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Sunetra Ajit Pawar (born 18 October 1963) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra and a member of the Pawar political family. She is currently serving as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra as a member of the Nationalist Congress Party. She is the widow of Ajit Pawar, one of the two Deputy Chief Ministers of Maharashtra who died in 2026.
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Sean Mannion (American football)
Sean Thomas Mannion (born April 25, 1992) is an American professional football coach and former quarterback who is the offensive coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon State Beavers and was their starting quarterback from 2011 to 2014.
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV series)
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is an American fantasy drama television series created by Ira Parker and George R. R. Martin. A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011β2019), it is the third television series in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire franchise and is an adaptation of the Tales of Dunk and Egg series of novellas, beginning with The Hedge Knight.
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Iron Lung is a 2026 American science fiction horror film written, directed, executive produced, edited by, and starring Mark Fischbach in his feature directorial debut. Produced by Markiplier Studios, it is an adaptation of the 2022 video game by David Szymanski, and also stars Caroline Rose Kaplan, SeΓ‘n McLoughlin, Szymanski, Troy Baker, Elsie Lovelock, and Isaac McKee in supporting roles.
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XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is an American action spy film series created by Rich Wilkes. It consists of three full-length feature films: XXX (2002), XXX: State of the Union (2005) and XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2017), and a short film: The Final Chapter: The Death of Xander Cage. The series has grossed $694 million worldwide.
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Fallout is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet for Amazon Prime Video. Based on the role-playing video game franchise created by Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, the series is set two centuries after the Great War of 2077, in which society has collapsed following a nuclear holocaust.
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Instagram is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers.
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; nΓ© Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to Forbes, as of December 2025, Bezos's estimated net worth is US$239. 4 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world.
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Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 16:39:13 UTC (11:39:13 a. m. EST, local time at the launch site).
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Heated Rivalry is a Canadian sports romance television series created, written, and directed by Jacob Tierney for Crave. Based on the Game Changers novel series by Rachel Reid, it follows two rival professional hockey players, Canadian Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Russian Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie), whose on-ice animosity conceals a passionate, secret romance.
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Nelson Peltz (born June 24, 1942) is an American billionaire businessman and investor. He is a founding partner, together with Peter W. May and Edward P. Garden, of Trian Partners, an alternative investment management fund based in New York. He is a former director of Heinz, MondelΔz International, and Ingersoll Rand and a former CEO of Triangle Industries.
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On July 6, 2024, Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old unarmed Black woman, was murdered by Sean Grayson, a 30-year-old White deputy of the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office, in Woodside Township near Springfield, Illinois, United States. Grayson was fired by the sheriff's office and charged with three counts of first-degree murder on July 17, 2024.
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Limonene () is a colorless liquid aliphatic hydrocarbon classified as a cyclic monoterpene, and is the major component in the fragrance and essential oil of citrus fruit peels, taking its name from Italian limone ("lemon"). Limonene is a chiral molecule, and most biological sources produce just one enantiomer (isomer).
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Tommaso Whitney (born May 8, 1985), better known by the ring name Tommaso Ciampa (), is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he was a former two-time NXT Champion, and considered a defining part of NXT's "Black and Gold" period.
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Sinners is a 2025 American horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, the film stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil.
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On June 5, 2002, a 14-year-old girl named Elizabeth Ann Smart was kidnapped by Brian David Mitchell from her home in the Federal Heights neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah. She was held captive by Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, and later, in San Diego County, California.
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Avatar: Fire and Ash is a 2025 American epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron, and written by Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It is the third in the Avatar film series, and features Sam Worthington, Zoe SaldaΓ±a, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang and Kate Winslet reprising their roles from the previous films, with Oona Chaplin joining the cast.
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The Night Manager (British TV series)
The Night Manager is a British spy thriller television serial based on the 1993 novel by John le CarrΓ© and adapted by David Farr. The six-part first series, directed by Susanne Bier and starring Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, David Harewood and Elizabeth Debicki, began broadcasting on BBC One on 21 February 2016.
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One Battle After Another is a 2025 American black comedy action-thriller film produced, written, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. The film's ensemble cast is led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti (in her film debut).
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Charles Victor Thompson (June 13, 1970 β January 28, 2026) was an American convicted double murderer who was sentenced to death in April 1999 for the murder of his former girlfriend, Glenda Dennise Hayslip and her new boyfriend, Darren Keith Cain, on April 30, 1998 in the Houston suburb of Tomball. Thompson was executed on January 28, 2026.
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Wuthering Heights (stylized with quotation marks) is a 2026 romantic drama film written and directed by Emerald Fennell and loosely inspired by Emily BrontΓ«'s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. The film stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, respectively, alongside Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes, and Ewan Mitchell in supporting roles.
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Shirley Raines (non-profit founder)
Shirley Raines (December 29, 1967 β January 27, 2026) was an American community activist. She was the founder of the non-profit Beauty 2 the Streetz, which provides hair and makeup services, food, clothing, hygiene and safety items to thousands of homeless people in Skid Row, Los Angeles. In 2021, she was chosen to be the CNN Hero of the Year.
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YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google and was founded on February 14, 2005 by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, who were former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google itself and in January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.
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2025β26 UEFA Champions League knockout phase
The 2025β26 UEFA Champions League knockout phase will begin on 17 February with the knockout phase play-offs and end on 30 May 2026 with the final at the PuskΓ‘s ArΓ©na in Budapest, Hungary, to decide the champions of the 2025β26 UEFA Champions League. A total of 24 teams will compete in the knockout phase, with 16 entering in the play-offs and 8 receiving a bye to the round of 16.
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Stephen Miller (born August 23, 1985) is an American political advisor serving as White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor since 2025. He previously served as senior advisor to the president and director of speechwriting from 2017 to 2021 during the first Trump administration.
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The Board of Peace (BoP) is an American government-led international organization established by Donald Trump for the stated purpose of promoting peacekeeping around the world. It is named in United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 as a body tasked with overseeing the processes of the Gaza peace plan.
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Hamnet is a 2025 biographical historical tragedy film directed by ChloΓ© Zhao, who co-wrote the screenplay with Maggie O'Farrell, based on the 2020 novel by O'Farrell. The film dramatises the family life of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes Hathaway as they cope with the death of their 11-year-old son Hamnet.
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Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was launched in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Android, where it is currently the default browser.
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The Rip is a 2026 American action thriller film written and directed by Joe Carnahan, who developed the story with Michael McGrale. The film stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as police officers in the Miami-Dade Police Department narcotics unit. It also stars Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Sasha Calle, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Scott Adkins, and Kyle Chandler.
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The Beauty is an American science fiction body horror television series created by Ryan Murphy and Matt Hodgson. It is based on the comic book The Beauty, written by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley, and stars Evan Peters, Anthony Ramos, Jeremy Pope, Rebecca Hall, and Ashton Kutcher. The series premiered on FX and Hulu on January 21, 2026.
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Sir John Grey Gorton (9 September 1911 β 19 May 2002) was an Australian politician, farmer and airman who served as the 19th prime minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, having previously served as a senator for Victoria. He was the first and only member of the upper house of the Parliament to assume the office of prime minister.
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Margot Elise Robbie ( MAR-goh ROB-ee; born 2 July 1990) is an Australian actress and producer. The world's highest-paid actress in 2023, she is known for her performances in both blockbuster and independent films. Robbie has been nominated for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and six British Academy Film Awards.
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Supriya Sadanand Sule (nΓ©e Pawar; born 30 June 1969) is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) and currently a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha representing Baramati since 2009, leader of Nationalist Congress Party (SP) in Lok Sabha since 2014 and the Working National President of Nationalist Congress Party since 2023.
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Kyle Howard Rittenhouse (born January 3, 2003) is an American man who gained national attention at age 17 for shooting three men in Kenosha, Wisconsin, two fatally, in August 2020, amid protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. He had traveled to Kenosha during the unrest and joined a group of armed people who said they were there to protect businesses.
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On January 7, 2026, RenΓ©e Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old American woman, was fatally shot in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross. Good was in her car, stopped sideways in the street when Ross walked around it and then walked back and around her vehicle.
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Shrinking is an American comedy-drama television series created by Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel, and Brett Goldstein. The series stars Segel as a grieving therapist who decides to become drastically more involved in his patients' lives. Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams, Christa Miller, Michael Urie, Luke Tennie, Lukita Maxwell, and Ted McGinley also star.
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Luke Thompson (born 4 July 1988) is an English actor. He is known for his role as Benedict in the Netflix period drama Bridgerton (2020βpresent) and has also appeared in the BBC One drama In the Club (2014β2016). He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in the play A Little Life in 2024.
