Deaths Famous Dead Athletes
Neftalí Rivera
Puerto Rican basketball player · 23 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 23
John Atkinson
English rugby league player (Leeds Rhinos) · 23 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 23
Cyril Beavon
English footballer (Oxford United) · 23 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 23
Carl Forney
American baseball player and manager (Indianapolis Clowns) · 23 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 23
Pervis Atkins
American football player (Los Angeles Rams · 23 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 23
Reinhart Fuchs
German chess player · 23 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 23
Hal Bedsole
American football player (Minnesota Vikings) · 23 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 23
Ken Hands
Australian Australian rules footballer · 23 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 23
Bob Moses
Australian rugby league player (death announced on this day) · 22 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 22
Jason Lowndes
Australian racing cyclist · 22 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 22
Charlie Hennigan
American football player (Houston Oilers) · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
George Mans
American football coach and politician · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Manouchehr Boroumand
Iranian heavyweight weightlifter · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Paul Yesawich
American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals) and judge · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Frank Hodgkin
Australian footballer (St Kilda) · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Jiří Sloup
Czech footballer (Viktoria Plzeň · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Red Murrell
American basketball player (Drake) · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Paul Genève
French long-distance runner · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Frank North
American football coach · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Yevhen Kotelnykov
Soviet footballer and coach · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Stan Pilecki
Polish-born Australian rugby union player (Queensland Reds) · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Antanas Vaupšas
Lithuanian Soviet Olympic athlete (1964) · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Laurie Rymer
Australian footballer (Collingwood) · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Doug Gallagher
American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) · 19 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 19
Hugh Davies
Welsh cricketer (Glamorgan) · 19 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 19
Bob Dawson
Canadian football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats) · 19 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 19
David Huntley
Canadian lacrosse player (Philadelphia Wings) and coach (Atlanta Blaze) · 19 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 19
Josef Pešice
Czech footballer and manager (AC Sparta Prague · 18 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 18
Dave Boyd
Australian footballer (Port Adelaide) · 18 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 18
Robert Follis
American mixed martial arts coach (Xtreme Couture Mixed Martial Arts) · 18 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 18
Tom Zenk
American professional wrestler (WCW) · 17 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 17
Len Ceglarski
American college ice hockey coach (Boston College Eagles) · 17 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 17
Robin Waters
Irish cricketer (Sussex · 16 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 16
Paul Holz
German footballer (FC Schalke 04 · 16 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 16
Bill Hudson
American football player (Montreal Alouettes · 15 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 15
Frank Lary
American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) · 15 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 15
Laurence de Grandhomme
Zimbabwean cricketer · 14 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 14 · Grandhomme
Ivan Stoyanov
Bulgarian footballer (Levski Sofia · 14 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 14 · Iván
Tony Sumpter
American football player (Chicago Rockets) · 14 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 14
Tommy Nobis
American football player (Atlanta Falcons) · 13 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 13
Ron Boehm
Canadian ice hockey player (Oakland Seals) · 13 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 13
Pál Dárdai
Hungarian football player and manager · 13 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 13 · Pal
Manny Jiménez
Dominican baseball player · 13 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 13
Zarley Zalapski
Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins · 12 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 12
Benjamin Massing
Cameroonian footballer (Créteil · 10 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 10
Joe Newton
American track and field coach · 10 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 10
Armenak Alachachian
Armenian basketball player · 09 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 9
Tubby Raymond
American football coach (Delaware Blue Hens) · 08 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 8
Pál Dárdai Sr.
Hungarian football player and manager · 08 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 8 · Pal
Roland Taylor
American basketball player (Virginia Squires · 08 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 8
Tracy Stallard
American baseball player (Boston Red Sox · 07 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 7
Max Burkhart
German alpine skier · 07 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 7
Juan José Díaz Galiana
Spanish football coach (RCD Espanyol) · 06 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 6 · Galiana
Ron Meyer
American football coach (New England Patriots · 06 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 6
Nikola Špear
Yugoslav tennis player and coach · 05 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 5
Ian Twitchin
English footballer (Torquay United) · 04 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 4
C.W. Smith
American NASCAR driver · 04 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 4
Jean Barthe
French rugby league and rugby union player · 03 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 3
Dick Gernert
American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) · 03 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 3
Omar Manap
Malaysian badminton player (national team) · 03 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 3
Bert Ormond
Scottish-born New Zealand footballer (Falkirk) · 03 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 3
Don Arakawa
Japanese professional wrestler (NJPW) · 02 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 2
Russell Evans
English cricket player and umpire · 02 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 2
Fredy Schmidtke
German track cyclist · 02 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 2
Ernestine Petras
American baseball player (AAGPBL) · 02 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 2
Perry Wallace
American basketball player (Vanderbilt University) and jurist · 02 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 2
Ján Strausz
Slovak footballer · 01 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 1 · Jan
Mauro Maugeri
Italian waterpolo player en coach · 30 November 2017 · November 2017 · November 30
Eliezer Spiegel
Israeli football player and manager · 30 November 2017 · November 2017 · November 30
Eva Ernström
Swedish Olympic athlete · 30 November 2017 · November 2017 · November 30
Zdeněk Šreiner
Czech footballer (FC Baník Ostrava) · 29 November 2017 · November 2017 · November 29
Ken Gray
American football player (Chicago Cardinals · 28 November 2017 · November 2017 · November 28
Walter Reyes
American football player (Tennessee Titans) · 28 November 2017 · November 2017 · November 28