December 6, 2016 Athletes Aleksey Salomatin Russian ice hockey player (Spartak Moscow) Died on Tuesday December 6th 2016 Other athletesEvaristo Beccalossi Italian footballer, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage dead at age 69Valeri Zhabko Russian footballer dead at age 58José Ortiz Puerto Rican basketball player, colorectal cancer dead at age 62Chris Phelan Irish-born Australian rugby league player, pancreatic cancer dead at age 70Geoff Ablett public figure dead at age 71Hermano da Silva Ramos French-Brazilian racing driver dead at age 100Bob Skinner American baseball player and manager dead at age 94Eladio Zárate Paraguayan football player and manager dead at age 84Roque Avallay Argentine footballer dead at age 80Alex Zanardi Italian racing driver and paracyclist dead at age 59More from RussiaValeri Zhabko Russian footballer dead at age 58Herman Branover Russian-Israeli physicist dead at age 94Konstantin Tolkachyov Russian politician dead at age 73Boris Volodin Russian politician, member of the Soviet of the Union dead at age 94Stanislav Petrov Russian military officer, chief of the Russian NBC Protection Troops, suicide dead at age 87Vladimir Bayunov Russian politician, MP dead at age 73Yevgeniy Duleyev Russian rower, Olympic silver medallist dead at age 70Vladimir Voevodin Russian computer scientist dead at age 63Maya Belenkaya Russian figure skater dead at age 94Vladimir Grachev Russian scientist and politician dead at age 84More from December 6, 2016Leonard B. SandLeonard T. ConnorsAdam SaganMogens CamreSir David HayPeter VaughanJean SteadElisabeth CarronBig SykeMona Maraachli Tags 06 December 2016 2016-12-06 Aleksey Athletes December 2016 December 6 Russia Salomatin ←Lalit Mohan Gandhi Bill Endicott→