Irish golfer
Died on Wednesday January 6th 2016
Christy O’Connor Jnr
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- Daniel Ingham, British racing driver, racing collision, dies at age 33 of racing collision
- Nemesio Pozuelo, Russian footballer, dies at age 85
- George Bork, American Hall of Fame football player, dies at age 84
- Claude Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at age 60
- Milan Kužela, Slovak ice hockey player, Ice Hockey World Championship winner, dies at age 80
- Mark Bailey, American baseball player, cancer, dies at age 64 of cancer
- Bob Horner, American baseball player, dies at age 68
- Esa Klinga, Finnish Olympic skier, dies at age 86
- Victor Udoh, Nigerian footballer, dies at age 21
- Manny Fernandez, American football player, dies at age 79
More from Ireland
- Jim Treacy, Irish hurler, dies at age 82
- Timothy Yang, Taiwanese diplomat, minister of foreign affairs and secretary-general to the president, dies at age 83
- Frank McGuigan, public figure, dies at age 70
- Liz Howard, public figure, dies
- Arthur Lewis (rugby union), public figure, dies at age 84
- Scott Hastings (rugby union), Scottish rugby union player, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, dies at age 61
- Herb Wharton, public figure, dies at age 89
- Auroras Encore, public figure, dies at age 23
- Chris Phelan, Irish-born Australian rugby league player, pancreatic cancer, dies at age 70 of cancer
- Bob Belden, American football player, dies at age 78
More from January 6, 2016
- Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress, dies at age 90
- Labhshankar Thakar, Indian author, dies at age 80
- Nivaria Tejera, Cuban poet and novelist, dies at age 86
- Florence King, American writer, dies at age 80
- Hayes McClerkin, American lawyer and politician, dies at age 84
- Yves Vincent, French actor, dies at age 94
- Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor, dies at age 86
- Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros, Cuban trumpeter, dies at age 87
- Roland Peugeot, French industrialist, dies at age 89
- Ioannis Petridis, Greek politician, dies at age 81