Kavinsky
French · 50 years old · Died 3 July 2026
Electronic musician — "Nightcall" (Drive soundtrack)
Kavinsky was a French electronic musician whose track "Nightcall" became globally famous after it was featured in the opening sequence of the 2011 film Drive. The song's dark, pulsing synthwave sound helped define the entire retrowave genre and has been streamed over a billion times. Born Vincent Belorgey, he created a fictional backstory for his Kavinsky persona — a musician who died in a car crash in 1986 and returned as a zombie.
Since Kavinsky died
Live count since 3 July 2026
Total deaths worldwide since then
---
Other notable deaths in 2026
Alan Greenspan
100 · January
Robert Mueller
81 · February
Jesse Jackson
84 · June
Bernadette Chirac
93 · March
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
74 · April
Rifaat al-Assad
88 · February