@Jörg_Hoh , @kautuk_sahni,  I have just tested and working as expected. Our business teams, authors are new to AEM and they reported it few times. I will check and update exact scenario as it happed few times.

Request for Feature Enhancement (RFE) Summary:Delete page in author should auto unpublish the page.Use-case:Content authors who are new to AEM are deleting the pages without unpublishing them, assuming it will reflect the on actual site. Page is deleted in author but not in publish or in live site.C...