January 9, 2026 Athletes Antonino Mangano Italian marathon and middle-distance running athlete Died on Friday January 9th 2026 Other athletesRoque Avallay Argentine footballer dead at age 80Alex Zanardi Italian racing driver and paracyclist dead at age 59Alfredrick Hughes American basketball player dead at age 63Yevgeniy Duleyev Russian rower, Olympic silver medallist dead at age 70Péter Bikár Hungarian ice hockey player dead at age 81Dionysis Tsamis public figure dead at age 74Charlie Williams Maltese footballer dead at age 82Abdollah Movahed Iranian wrestler, Olympic champion, heart attack dead at age 86Merle Bettenhausen American racing driver, complications from a stroke dead at age 82Ghenadie Dudoglo Moldovan weightlifter dead at age 39More from ItalyBranko Marušič public figure dead at age 88Alex Zanardi Italian racing driver and paracyclist dead at age 59Antonio Arcari Italian Roman Catholic prelate, apostolic nuncio to Honduras, Mozambique, and Costa Rica dead at age 72Daniele Roscia Italian politician, deputy dead at age 72Giuseppe Commisso Italian mobster dead at age 79Renzo Travanut Italian politician dead at age 80Luigi Farina Italian footballer dead at age 83Biagio De Giovanni Italian philosopher and politician dead at age 94Federico Vercellone Italian philosopher dead at age 70Piero Dotti Italian footballer dead at age 86More from January 8, 2026Murat Bisenbin Kazakh actor, cancer dead at age 53Ian Fraser (Canadian Army officer) Canadian army colonel and military event organiser dead at age 93Howard Riley (footballer) English footballer dead at age 87Hessy Levinsons TaftDavid M. MaddoxJim FurlongJohannes FabianMadjoulba BatocfetouFrédéric CerdalJenny Plocki Tags 08 January 2026 2026-01-08 Antonino Athletes Italy January 2026 January 8 Mangano ←Joan Costa Armengol Heloísa de Carvalho→