Deaths Famous Dead Athletes
Keith McKenzie
Australian rules footballer and coach · 08 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 8
Kato Ottio
Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer · 08 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 8 · Katō
István Sándor
Hungarian Olympic rower · 08 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 8
Ulhas Bapat
Indian santoor player · 08 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 8
Gerald Degaetano
Maltese athlete · 08 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 8
Tom Dowling
American football coach (Georgetown Tigers) · 08 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 8
Nigel Sims
English footballer (Aston Villa) · 07 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 7
Dick Bestwick
American football coach (Virginia Cavaliers) · 07 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 7
Antonio Valentín Angelillo
Italian-Argentine football player (Inter Milan) · 07 January 2018 · January 2018 · Angelillo · January 7
Herb Appenzeller
American college football coach and athletic administrator (Guilford College) · 06 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 6
Senichi Hoshino
Japanese Hall of Fame baseball player (Chunichi Dragons) and manager (Chunichi Dragons · 05 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 5
Peter Birdseye
English footballer (Wycombe Wanderers) · 05 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 5
Darci Miguel Monteiro
Brazilian footballer (Volta Redonda Futebol Clube · 04 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 4 · Monteiro
Carmen Cozza
American baseball and football player and coach · 04 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 4
Papa Camara
Guinean footballer · 04 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 4
Rob Picciolo
American baseball player (Oakland Athletics · 04 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 4
Jim Wiste
Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks · 04 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 4
Lara Kruger
South African disc jockey and transgender advocate · 03 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 3
Alan Deakin
English footballer (Aston Villa) · 03 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 3
Mike McCartney
Scottish footballer (Carlisle United · 03 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 3
Dušan Mitošević
Serbian football player and manager · 02 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 2
Régis Manon
Gabonese footballer · 02 January 2018 · January 2018 · January 2
Art Dorrington
Canadian ice hockey player (Johnstown Jets) · 31 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 31
John Faulkner
English footballer (Luton Town · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30
Lothar Schämer
German footballer (Eintracht Frankfurt) · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30
Al Luplow
American baseball player (Cleveland Indians · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29
Pat Devery
Australian rugby league footballer · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29
Al Rittinger
Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins) · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29
Steve Piper
English footballer (Brighton and Hove Albion · 28 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 28
Osvaldo Fattori
Italian footballer (Inter Milan · 27 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 27
Raymond L. Brown
American football player (Baltimore Colts) · 27 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 27 · Brown
Orsten Artis
American basketball player (Texas Western Miners) · 26 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 26
Beaven Gwamure
Zimbabwean football player (Chapungu United) · 26 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 26
Willie Penman
British football player (Newcastle United · 26 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 26
Diane Straus
American publisher (Washington Monthly) and platform tennis player · 26 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 26
Ramon Luis Nieves
Puerto Rican baseball player · 26 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 26 · Nieves · Ramón
Larry Libertore
American football player (Florida Gators) and politician · 26 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 26
George Maida
American radio disk jockey (WCVE) · 25 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 25
Jerry Kindall
American baseball player (Chicago Cubs · 24 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 24
Edu Ferreira
Portuguese footballer (Boavista) · 24 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 24
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
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