Famous Dead Athletes: Recent Athlete Deaths and Obituaries
Over 20,000 obituaries of famous dead athletes. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Sebastiano Mannironi
Italian Olympic weightlifter (1956Died on Thursday June 11th 2015
Ken Barrett
English footballer (Aston Villa)Died on Sunday June 7th 2015
John David Crow
American football playerDied on Wednesday June 17th 2015
Greg Parks
Canadian ice hockey player (New York Islanders)Died on Tuesday June 16th 2015
Steve Pritko
American football playerDied on Saturday June 6th 2015
Howard Johnson
English footballer (Sheffield United)Died on Tuesday June 16th 2015
Larry Ferguson
Bahamian keyboard player (Hot Chocolate)Died on Thursday June 4th 2015
Wilfried David
Belgian former professional cyclist and Tour de France stage winnerDied on Monday June 15th 2015
Carmine Vingo
American heavyweight boxerDied on Tuesday June 2nd 2015
Andrés Mora
Mexican baseball player (Baltimore OriolesDied on Saturday June 13th 2015
David Oniya
Nigerian footballerDied on Saturday June 13th 2015
Mike Shrimpton
New Zealand cricketer and coachDied on Saturday June 13th 2015
Max Spittle
Australian VFL football player (Melbourne)Died on Friday June 12th 2015
Ian McKechnie
Scottish footballer (Hull)Died on Thursday June 11th 2015
Larry Eschen
American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics)Died on Tuesday June 9th 2015
Dusty Rhodes
American professional wrestler (WWEDied on Thursday June 11th 2015
Sean Pappas
South African golferDied on Sunday June 7th 2015
Johnny Fullam
Irish footballerDied on Wednesday June 10th 2015
Jabe Thomas
American racecar driver (NASCAR)Died on Thursday June 4th 2015
Dennis Fidler
English footballer (Manchester United)Died on Tuesday June 2nd 2015
Peter Petherick
New Zealand cricketer. Died on Monday June 8th 2015
Giovan Battista Fabbri
Italian football player and manager (Vicenza)Died on Tuesday June 2nd 2015
Colin Jackson
Scottish footballer (RangersDied on Sunday June 7th 2015
Tsonyo Vasilev
Bulgarian footballerDied on Tuesday June 2nd 2015
Harald Eriksson
Swedish cross-country skierDied on Wednesday May 20th 2015
François Mahé
French professional cyclistDied on Sunday May 31st 2015
Kevin Hunt
American football playerDied on Friday May 22nd 2015
Bengt Berndtsson
Swedish footballer (IFK Göteborg)Died on Thursday June 4th 2015
John Mellekas
American football player (Chicago BearsDied on Tuesday June 2nd 2015
Jerry Collins
New Zealand Rugby Union player (All Blacks)Died on Friday June 5th 2015
Wayne Harris
American-born Canadian football player (Calgary Stampeders)Died on Thursday June 4th 2015
Herb Wakabayashi
Canadian ice hockey playerDied on Monday June 1st 2015
Jindřich Roudný
Czech Olympic steeplechase athlete (1952)Died on Sunday May 10th 2015
Edward Moylan
American tennis playerDied on Tuesday May 26th 2015
Jørgen Ravn
Danish footballer (Aberdeen)Died on Thursday June 4th 2015
Bevo Francis
American college basketball player (Rio Grande College)Died on Wednesday June 3rd 2015
Mario Saliwa
South African first-class cricketerDied on Sunday May 31st 2015
Henry Carr
American track and field athleteDied on Friday May 29th 2015
Alvin P. Wegeman
American nordic combined skierDied on Saturday May 30th 2015
Pat Petersen
American marathon runnerDied on Sunday May 31st 2015
Tommy Rogers
American professionl wrestlerDied on Monday June 1st 2015
Boody Gilbertson
American basketball player (Sheboygan Red Skins)Died on Saturday May 23rd 2015
Azmat Rana
Pakistani cricketerDied on Sunday May 31st 2015
Lennie Merullo
American baseball player (Chicago Cubs)Died on Saturday May 30th 2015
Doris Hart
American tennis playerDied on Friday May 29th 2015
Ray Ceresino
Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs)Died on Friday May 1st 2015
Jonas Čepulis
heavyweight boxer from LithuaniaDied on Thursday May 28th 2015
Tony McNamara
English footballer (EvertonDied on Saturday May 30th 2015
Skeeter Kell
American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics)Died on Thursday May 28th 2015
Chris Kohlhase
New Zealand softball player (national team) and coach (Samoa)Died on Friday May 29th 2015
Ali Raymi
Yemeni boxerDied on Saturday May 23rd 2015
Vladimír Hagara
Slovak footballer (FC Spartak Trnava)Died on Sunday May 24th 2015
Dean Carroll
English rugby league footballerDied on Sunday May 24th 2015
Bill Foster
American college basketball coach (Miami HurricanesDied on Wednesday May 27th 2015
John Siegal
American football player (Chicago Bears)Died on Wednesday May 27th 2015
Anton Krivosheyev
Russian martial artistDied on Monday May 25th 2015
João Lucas
Portuguese footballer (Académica)Died on Tuesday May 26th 2015
Bob Priestley
American Football Player (Philadelphia Eagles)Died on Wednesday May 20th 2015
John Elders
English rugby union player (Leicester)Died on Sunday May 3rd 2015
Claude Carliez
French fencer and stunt directorDied on Sunday May 17th 2015
César Boutteville
Vietnamese-born French chess playerDied on Thursday May 21st 2015
Hugh Boyle
Irish golf playerDied on Saturday May 23rd 2015
Andres Ortiz
Puerto Rican basketball player for the BSN's Mayaguez IndiansDied on Saturday May 23rd 2015
Eric Bakie
Scottish footballer (Dunfermline AthleticDied on Tuesday May 26th 2015
Pedro Roque
Cuban wrestlerDied on Sunday May 24th 2015
James Takemori
American judo coachDied on Friday May 15th 2015
Cristian Gómez
Argentine footballer (Club Atlético Paraná)Died on Sunday May 24th 2015
Jean-Luc Sassus
French football playerDied on Friday May 22nd 2015
John Mosley
American football player and WWII air force officerDied on Friday May 22nd 2015
Fred Gladding
American baseball player (Detroit TigersDied on Thursday May 21st 2015
Marques Haynes
American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)Died on Friday May 22nd 2015
Ernie Hannigan
Scottish footballer. (Preston North EndDied on Thursday May 21st 2015
Joaquim Durão
Portuguese chess playerDied on Thursday May 21st 2015
Zaya Avdysh
Ukrainian footballer and managerDied on Thursday May 21st 2015
Viktor Borisov
Soviet and Uzbekistan football player and coachDied on Saturday May 16th 2015
Alan Woodward
English footballer (Sheffield United)Died on Thursday May 21st 2015
Billy Baggett
American football player (Dallas TexansDied on Wednesday May 20th 2015
Leo Honkala
Finnish wrestlerDied on Sunday May 17th 2015
Keiji Matsumoto
Japanese racing driverDied on Sunday May 17th 2015
Harald Seeger
East German footballer and managerDied on Monday May 18th 2015
Ahmad Alasgarov
Azerbaijani footballer and managerDied on Tuesday May 19th 2015
John Mahaffy
Canadian professional ice hockey player (Montreal CanadiensDied on Saturday May 2nd 2015
Peter Füri
Swiss footballer (Concordia BaselDied on Monday May 11th 2015
Micheál O’Brien
Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler (Meath)Died on Thursday May 14th 2015
Adrian Robinson
American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers)Died on Saturday May 16th 2015
Bob Hopkins
American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals) and coach (Seattle SuperSonics)Died on Friday May 15th 2015
Robert Drasnin
American composer and clarinet playerDied on Wednesday May 13th 2015
Renzo Zorzi
Italian racing driverDied on Friday May 15th 2015
Ollie Brown
American baseball player (San Diego PadresDied on Friday May 15th 2015
Nina Otkalenko
Russian athleteDied on Wednesday May 13th 2015
Garo Yepremian
Cypriot-born American football player (Miami Dolphins)Died on Friday May 15th 2015