Famous Dead Athletes: Recent Athlete Deaths and Obituaries
Over 20,000 obituaries of famous dead athletes. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Ray Mabbutt
English footballer
Died on Thursday November 3rd 2016
Jean-Marie Trappeniers
Belgian footballer (Anderlecht
Died on Thursday November 3rd 2016
Gil Krueger
American football coach (Northern Michigan)
Died on Thursday November 3rd 2016
Vern Handrahan
Canadian baseball player (Kansas City Athletics)
Died on Thursday November 3rd 2016
Martin Lippens
Belgian footballer (national team)
Died on Wednesday November 2nd 2016
Jimmy Gray
English cricketer (Hampshire)
Died on Wednesday November 2nd 2016
Victor Cannings
English cricketer (Hampshire)
Died on Wednesday November 2nd 2016
Giovanni Steffè
Italian Olympic rower.
Died on Tuesday November 1st 2016
Sverre Andersen
Norwegian footballer (Viking
Died on Tuesday November 1st 2016
Betty Ann Kennedy
American bridge player
Died on Monday October 31st 2016
John Spanswick
English cricketer (Kent)
Died on Monday October 31st 2016
Bjørn Lidin Hansen
Norwegian footballer (Tromsø
Died on Monday October 31st 2016
David Nash
Welsh rugby union player
Died on Sunday October 30th 2016
John Hicks
American football player (New York Giants)
Died on Sunday October 30th 2016
Krešo Omerzel
Slovenian speedway rider and coach
Died on Sunday October 30th 2016
Harold Mann
Canadian boxer
Died on Sunday October 30th 2016
Samuel Zhukhovitsky
Russian chess player
Died on Saturday October 29th 2016
Fernando Moresi
Argentine field hockey player
Died on Saturday October 29th 2016
John McDougal
American college basketball coach (Northern Illinois)
Died on Friday October 28th 2016
Jack Sellers
American race car driver
Died on Friday October 28th 2016
Barbara Romack
American golfer
Died on Friday October 28th 2016
Bob McCord
Canadian ice hockey player
Died on Friday October 28th 2016
Samuele Schiavina
Italian racing cyclist
Died on Friday October 28th 2016
Ali Hussein Shihab
Iraqi footballer (national team)
Died on Friday October 28th 2016
Brian Hill
English footballer (Coventry City)
Died on Thursday October 27th 2016
Patricia Scott
American baseball player (AAGPBL)
Died on Thursday October 27th 2016
David Pope
American basketball player (Kansas City Kings)
Died on Wednesday October 26th 2016
Heinz Poenn
Canadian Olympic slalom canoeist (1972)
Died on Wednesday October 26th 2016
Edouard Pliner
Russian figure skating coach
Died on Wednesday October 26th 2016
Filomeno Codiñera
Filipino baseball and softball player
Died on Wednesday October 26th 2016
Carlos Alberto Torres
Brazilian footballer and manager
Died on Tuesday October 25th 2016
Roy Jennings
English footballer (Brighton and Hove Albion)
Died on Tuesday October 25th 2016
Jerry Rullo
American professional basketball player
Died on Tuesday October 25th 2016
Sammy Smyth
Northern Irish footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.)
Died on Monday October 24th 2016
Constantin Frățilă
Romanian footballer (FC Dinamo București)
Died on Monday October 24th 2016
Reinhard Häfner
German footballer
Died on Monday October 24th 2016
Haguroiwa Tomomi
Japanese sumo wrestler
Died on Monday October 24th 2016
William Löfqvist
Swedish ice hockey player
Died on Sunday October 23rd 2016
Uwe Dreher
German footballer (Stuttgarter Kickers)
Died on Sunday October 23rd 2016
Nicolas Koob
Luxembourgian racing driver
Died on Sunday October 23rd 2016
Bob Vanatta
American basketball coach
Died on Sunday October 23rd 2016
Per Rune Wølner
Norwegian footballer (Strømsgodset)
Died on Saturday October 22nd 2016
Walter Argus
New Zealand rugby union player (All Blacks)
Died on Friday October 21st 2016
Morris Stroud
American football player (Kansas City Chiefs)
Died on Friday October 21st 2016
George Konik
Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins)
Died on Friday October 21st 2016
Gail Cogdill
American football player
Died on Friday October 21st 2016
Frenchy Martin
Canadian professional wrestler and manager
Died on Friday October 21st 2016
Doug Anderson
New Zealand rugby league player
Died on Friday October 21st 2016
Tommy Bartlett
American tennis and basketball coach
Died on Thursday October 20th 2016
Safet Berisha
Albanian footballer (Partizani Tirana)
Died on Thursday October 20th 2016
Luis María Echeberría
Spanish footballer (Athletic Bilbao
Died on Thursday October 20th 2016
Seiji Hirao
Japanese rugby union player and coach
Died on Thursday October 20th 2016
Mark Birch
British jockey
Died on Thursday October 20th 2016
Sergei Likhachev
Azeri-born Russian tennis player and coach
Died on Wednesday October 19th 2016
Gary Sprake
Welsh football player (Leeds United
Died on Wednesday October 19th 2016
Dave Colclough
Welsh professional poker player
Died on Wednesday October 19th 2016
Izu Joseph
Nigerian footballer (Shooting Stars)
Died on Wednesday October 19th 2016
Laurie Dwyer
Australian football player (North Melbourne)
Died on Tuesday October 18th 2016
Tony Golab
Canadian football player
Died on Monday October 17th 2016
George Peebles
Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic
Died on Monday October 17th 2016
Primo Sentimenti
Italian footballer
Died on Monday October 17th 2016
Viktor Zubkov
Russian Olympic basketball player
Died on Sunday October 16th 2016
Bruce Marshall
American ice hockey coach (Connecticut Huskies
Died on Saturday October 15th 2016
Eddie O’Hara
Scottish footballer (Falkirk
Died on Friday October 14th 2016
Anthony Foley
Irish rugby union player and head coach (Munster)
Died on Sunday October 16th 2016
Dennis Byrd
American football player (New York Jets)
Died on Saturday October 15th 2016
Quentin Groves
former American football player (Auburn)
Died on Sunday October 16th 2016
Antero Lumme
Finnish racing cyclist
Died on Tuesday October 11th 2016
Aleksandr Syomin
Soviet Azerbaijani footballer (Neftçi)
Died on Friday October 14th 2016
Fred Slaughter
American basketball player
Died on Thursday October 6th 2016
Leo Harrison
English cricketer (Hampshire)
Died on Wednesday October 12th 2016
Shahlyla Baloch
Pakistani footballer (national team)
Died on Wednesday October 12th 2016
Fulton Walker
American football player (Miami Dolphins
Died on Wednesday October 12th 2016
Matti Hagman
Finnish ice hockey player (Boston Bruins
Died on Wednesday October 12th 2016
Lorenzo Freeman
American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers
Died on Monday October 10th 2016
Tony Adamowicz
American racing driver
Died on Monday October 10th 2016
Dickie Jeeps
English rugby union player (Northampton Saints)
Died on Saturday October 8th 2016
Aaron Pryor
American boxer (WBA/IBF super-lightweight world champion)
Died on Sunday October 9th 2016
Gair Allie
American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates
Died on Tuesday October 4th 2016
Anne Pashley
British Olympic athlete and opera singer
Died on Friday October 7th 2016
Merfyn Jones
Welsh footballer (Scunthorpe United
Died on Saturday October 8th 2016
Mervyn Jones
Welsh footballer (Scunthorpe United
Died on Saturday October 8th 2016
Maximiliano Giusti
Argentine footballer
Died on Saturday October 8th 2016
Peter Denton
English footballer
Died on Friday October 7th 2016
John Gleeson
Australian Test cricketer.
Died on Saturday October 8th 2016
Rigobert Song
Cameroonian footballer (Liverpool
Died on Friday October 7th 2016
Gonzalo Peralta
Argentine footballer
Died on Friday October 7th 2016
Alan Hodgson
English cricketer (Northamptonshire)
Died on Thursday October 6th 2016
Tony Mottram
British tennis player
Died on Thursday October 6th 2016
Marina Sanaya
Russian figure skater
Died on Thursday October 6th 2016
Cameron Moore
American basketball player (Reyer Venezia Mestre)
Died on Wednesday October 5th 2016
Josh Samman
American mixed martial artist
Died on Wednesday October 5th 2016