Francis Campaner died at age 80
Francis Campaner, a French professional road bicycle racer, died on August 14, 2026, aged 80. Born on February 1, 1946, in Saint-Germain-de-la-Rivière, France, he competed as a road cyclist and…
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Finlay Tarling passed away at age 19
Finlay Tarling, a Welsh racing cyclist, died on August 14, 2026, aged 19, following a traffic collision. Tarling, born on 2 October 2006, rode for the UCI Continental team NSN…
Jimmy Rimmer passes away at age 78
Jimmy Rimmer, the English footballer who served as a goalkeeper for Manchester United, Swansea City, Arsenal and Aston Villa, died on August 14, 2026, aged 78. Born John James Rimmer…
Skip Bertman, died aged 88
Skip Bertman, the American baseball player and coach who became one of Louisiana State University’s most accomplished athletic figures, died on August 14, 2026, aged 88. Born Stanley Bertman in…
Death of Johnny Young at age 79
Johnny Young, the Dutch-born Australian singer, songwriter and producer known for his work on Young Talent Time, died on August 14, 2026, aged 79. Born Johnny Benjamin Arthur de Jong…
Obituary: Duane Nutt, dead at age 92
Duane Nutt, an American football player and coach, died on August 14, 2026, at age 92. Nutt played college football at Southern Methodist University, where he developed into a player…
Prichard Colón died at age 33
Prichard Colón, the Puerto Rican boxer who became an honorary WBC World Champion, died on August 13, 2026, aged 33, from complications of a brain hemorrhage. Born in Maitland, Florida,…
Abderrahmane Alane passes away at age 55
Abderrahmane Alane, the Algerian footballer who played as a goalkeeper, died on August 13, 2026, aged 55. He was a member of JS Kabylie’s title-winning sides in the 1994–95 Algerian…
Dumitru Marcu dies at 76
Dumitru Marcu, the Romanian football player and manager known as “Mitică,” died on August 13, 2026, aged 76. Born in Drăghiceni on April 9, 1950, he began playing junior football…
Yukio Shimomura obituary: died at age 94
Yukio Shimomura, the Japanese football player and manager who represented Japan as both a player and coach, died on August 13, 2026, aged 94. Born in Hiroshima on January 25,…
Death of Carlos Domingos Massoni at age 87
Carlos Domingos Massoni, the Brazilian basketball player and Olympic bronze medallist known as Mosquito, died on August 13, 2026, aged 87. Born in São Paulo on January 4, 1939, Massoni…
Agim Bubeqi dies at 63
Agim Bubeqi, an Albanian footballer, died on August 13, 2026, aged 63. Born in Vlorë on April 7, 1963, he spent his entire professional career as a striker with Flamurtari…
Jim Powers has died at age 89
Jim Powers, a Canadian hockey player who played for the Vancouver Canucks, died on August 13, 2026, aged 89. Born James Leroy Powers in Claresholm, Alberta, he built a lengthy…
Steve Barwick obituary: died at age 65
Steve Barwick, the Welsh cricketer who played for Glamorgan and Wales Minor Counties, died on August 12, 2026, aged 65. Born in Neath, he was also known as Stephen Royston…
Obituary: Takamitsu Ota, dead at age 56
Takamitsu Ota, a Japanese footballer who played for Shimizu S-Pulse, Consadole Sapporo and Jatco TT, died on August 12, 2026, aged 56. Born in Shizuoka Prefecture on July 19, 1970,…
Pádraig Horan, died aged 76
Pádraig Horan, the Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer from St. Rynagh’s, Offaly, died on August 12, 2026, aged 76. Born in Banagher on April 21, 1950, he became known for…
Víctor Limba dead at age 78
Víctor Limba, an Argentine Olympic cyclist, died on August 12, 2026, aged 78. Born on October 6, 1947, he represented Argentina in the sprint event at the 1972 Summer Olympics…
Piet du Plessis died at age 79
Piet du Plessis, a South African rugby union player, died on August 12, 2026, aged 79. Also known as Pieter George du Plessis, he was born in Modimolle on July…
Brian Smith has died at age 59
Brian Smith, the Australian rugby union and league player who represented both Australia and Ireland in rugby union, died on August 12, 2026, aged 59. Smith, whose full name was…
Obituary: Vyacheslav Vorobyov, dead at age 63
Vyacheslav Vorobyov, a Russian footballer who played for Kuban, Tighina and KAMAZ, died on August 11, 2026, aged 63. Also known as Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Vorobyov, he was identified in records…
Darryl Neighbour passed away at age 78
Darryl Neighbour, a Canadian wheelchair curler, died on August 11, 2026, aged 78, after being struck by a driver while crossing a road in Richmond, British Columbia. He was the…
Death of Phan Thanh Hùng at age 66
Phan Thanh Hùng, the Vietnamese footballer and coach who worked with Quảng Nam-Đà Nẵng, the national team, SHB Đà Nẵng and Hanoi T&T, died on August 11, 2026, aged 66,…
Gurjeet Singh Toot dies at 45
Gurjeet Singh Toot, an Indian Punjabi kabaddi player who died on August 11, 2026, aged 45, died from complications related to drug addiction. An international circle kabaddi raider, he represented…
Alejandro Castellanos death at age 46
Alejandro Castellanos, a Honduran swimmer, died on August 10, 2026, aged 46, after a heart attack. Born in Honduras on August 29, 1979, he represented his country in international swimming…
Ana Noovao died at age 58
Ana Noovao, a New Zealand netball player and former captain of the national team, died on August 10, 2026, aged 58. A New Zealand international, she first came to prominence…
Death of Jean-Paul Rostagni at age 78
Jean-Paul Rostagni, a French footballer, died on August 10, 2026, aged 78. Born in Drap, he played as a defender and spent three seasons with AS Monaco from 1966 to…
Juan Muhlethaler has died at age 71
Juan Muhlethaler, the Uruguayan footballer who played as a forward for Montevideo Wanderers and Técnico Universitario and won six caps for Uruguay, died on August 10, 2026, aged 71. Born…
Ahn Jin-soo death at age 81
Ahn Jin-soo, a South Korean actor, died on August 10, 2026, aged 81. He is identified in available biographical records as a South Korean cross-country skier, born on June 27,…
James McHugh dead
James McHugh, an ESB and Gaelic footballer, died on August 10, 2026. Born in Letterkenny, he became known for his career with Cill Chartha and the Donegal county team, where…
Obituary: Douglas Franklin, dead at age 76
Douglas Franklin, the Brazilian footballer known for his spells with Santos and Bahia, died on August 9, 2026, aged 76, after cancer. Born Douglas da Silva Franklin in Barretos on…
Giancarlo Ferretti, died aged 84
Giancarlo Ferretti, the Italian road racing cyclist who later became a directeur sportif, died on August 9, 2026, aged 84. Born in Lugo on October 16, 1941, he first competed…
Livio Berruti, died aged 87
Livio Berruti, the Italian athlete who won the 200-meter dash at the 1960 Summer Olympics, died on August 9, 2026, aged 87. Born in Turin on May 19, 1939, he…
Don Nelson has died at age 86
Don Nelson, the American basketball player and coach who won five NBA championships with the Boston Celtics before becoming one of the league’s most influential head coaches, died on August…
Romain Noble passes away at age 46
Romain Noble, the French wheelchair fencer and Paralympic champion, died on August 9, 2026, aged 46. Born in Bordeaux on June 24, 1980, he competed in international fencing competitions and…
Wacław Orłowski death at age 81
Wacław Orłowski, the Polish Olympic wrestler who competed at the 1968 Summer Games, died on August 9, 2026, aged 81. Born on January 5, 1945, Orłowski represented Poland in the…
Death of Ilya Kuleshin at age 25
Ilya Kuleshin, a Russian footballer who played for Khimik-Arsenal, Arsenal Tula and Avangard Kursk, died on August 9, 2026, aged 25. Born Ilya Vladimirovich Kuleshin on August 29, 2000, in…
Dennis Grey dead at age 79
Dennis Grey, an American basketball player who spent two seasons in the American Basketball Association, died on August 9, 2026, at age 79. A center, he played for the Los…
Death of Piston van Wyk at age 82
Piston van Wyk, the South African rugby union player who represented Northern Transvaal, Natal and the Springboks, died on August 9, 2026, aged 82. Born Jacobus Frederick Beatrix van Wyk…
Douglas died at age 76
Douglas, a Brazilian footballer best known for his time with Santos and Bahia, died on August 9, 2026, aged 76. Born in Barretos on September 9, 1949, he was an…
Rick Galbos dies at 75
Rick Galbos, an American football player who later played running back in the Canadian Football League, died on August 8, 2026, aged 75. Galbos grew up in Mentor, Ohio, and…
Diana La Cazadora dead at age 48
Diana La Cazadora, the Mexican professional wrestler better known to fans as Alma Corina Gutiérrez, died on August 8, 2026, aged 48, of a lung infection. Born in Ciudad Madero,…
Big Buck’s passes away at age 23
Big Buck's, the French Thoroughbred racehorse, died on August 8, 2026, aged 23. Foaled on April 16, 2003, he became a leading National Hunt runner in Britain under trainer Paul…
Phil Parkes dead at age 79
Phil Parkes, the English footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Vancouver Whitecaps and Chicago Sting, died on August 8, 2026, aged 79. Born in West Bromwich on…
Violet Hensley, died aged 109
Violet Hensley, an American luthier and fiddle player, died on August 7, 2026, aged 109. Born Violet Brumley in Mount Ida, Arkansas, she made and played the fiddle and later…
Jorge Messi obituary: died at age 68
Jorge Messi, the Argentine businessman and sports agent best known as the father and representative of Lionel Messi, died on August 7, 2026, aged 68. Born in Rosario on April…
Matt McQuillan obituary: died at age 45
Matt McQuillan, a Canadian golfer, died on August 7, 2026, aged 45. Born in Kingston, Ontario, in 1981, he turned professional and built his career on the Canadian Tour, where…
Jim Miller, died aged 107
Jim Miller, the Australian footballer known formally as James Henry Miller, died on August 7, 2026, aged 107. Born in Footscray, Victoria, on May 30, 1919, he went on to…
Death of Aaron Marsh at age 81
Aaron Marsh, an American football player for the Boston Patriots, died on August 7, 2026, at age 81. Known as Butch, Aaron Washington Marsh Jr. was born on July 27,…
Alphonse Vandenrydt has died at age 99
Alphonse Vandenrydt, a Belgian Olympic distance runner, died on August 7, 2026, aged 99. Born in Ixelles on April 12, 1927, he was a Belgian athletics competitor who specialized in…
Death of Hermann Gericke at age 95
Hermann Gericke, an Austrian Olympic swimmer, died on August 6, 2026, aged 95. Born on August 12, 1931, he was a Swiss former swimmer who represented his sport at the…
Death of Geraldão at age 77
Geraldão, the Brazilian footballer better known as Geraldo da Silva, died on August 6, 2026, aged 77. A forward, he rose to prominence as the top scorer in the 1974…
Flo Anthony death at age 74
Flo Anthony, an American gossip columnist, died on August 6, 2026, aged 74. Known also as Florence Anthony, she worked as a journalist and writer, building a career that included…
Shimon Shelah dies at 94
Shimon Shelah, the Israeli basketball player and coach who was associated with Hapoel Tel Aviv and the national team, died on August 6, 2026, at age 94. Born in Vilnius…
Giuseppe Marchioro dead at age 90
Giuseppe Marchioro, the Italian football manager who worked with Como, Milan and Genoa, died on August 6, 2026, aged 90. Born in Milan on March 13, 1936, he built a…
Manuel Martín Piñera died at age 95
Manuel Martín Piñera, the Spanish racing cyclist who won five stages of the Vuelta a España, died on August 6, 2026, aged 95. Born in Cabezón de la Sal on…
Sammy Price death at age 82
Sammy Price, an American football player who ran for the Miami Dolphins in the American Football League, died on August 5, 2026, at age 82. Born on October 1, 1943,…
Obituary: Shimon Charnuha, dead at age 78
Shimon Charnuha, an Israeli footballer who played for Maccabi Netanya and Beitar Jerusalem, died on August 5, 2026, aged 78. Born on May 10, 1948, in Jerusalem, he was a…
Zoltán Melis died at age 78
Zoltán Melis, the Hungarian Olympic rower who competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics, died on August 5, 2026, aged 78. Born in Budapest on September 11, 1947, he…
David Owori passes away at age 27
David Owori, a Ugandan footballer with SC Villa and the Uganda national team, died on August 5, 2026, aged 27, after complications from beating. Born in Tororo on September 23,…
Wilhelmina Lust death at age 94
Wilhelmina Lust, the Dutch Olympic athlete who competed at the 1952 Summer Games, died on August 5, 2026, aged 94. Born Wilhelmina Maria Lust in Zaandam on June 19, 1932,…
Egon Rusch obituary: died at age 97
Egon Rusch, the Austrian Olympic boxer, died on August 5, 2026, aged 97. Rusch represented Austria at the Olympic level and is identified in the record as an Austrian boxer…
Cozell McQueen dead at age 64
Cozell McQueen, an American basketball player who was part of North Carolina State’s 1983 NCAA championship team, died on August 5, 2026, aged 64. Born in Paris, McQueen played center…
Robby Albarado death at age 52
Robby Albarado, an American jockey, died on August 4, 2026, aged 52. Born in Lafayette, Louisiana, he became one of thoroughbred racing’s most accomplished riders, winning more than 5,000 races…
Dory Funk Jr. passes away at age 85
Dory Funk Jr., the American professional wrestler and trainer known for his work in NWA and AJPW, died on August 4, 2026, aged 85. Born Dorrance Earnest Funk in Hammond,…
Jim Toman dies at 64
Jim Toman, an American baseball player and coach, died on August 4, 2026, aged 64, after a battle with brain cancer. A native of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, Toman played baseball at…
Terry Trotter passes away at age 85
Terry Trotter, the American jazz pianist and composer who wrote the theme music for "Everybody Loves Raymond," died on August 4, 2026, aged 85. Born in Los Angeles in 1940,…
Victor Niederhoffer passed away at age 82
Victor Niederhoffer, an American investor and writer, died on August 4, 2026, aged 82. Born in Brooklyn on December 10, 1943, he was also known as a statistician, economist and…
John Damore death at age 92
John Damore, an American football player who played offensive lineman for the Chicago Bears, died on August 4, 2026, at age 92. Born in Riverside, Illinois, on October 20, 1933,…
Wayne Martin death at age 73
Wayne Martin, a New Zealand cricketer, died on August 4, 2026, aged 73. Also known as Kenneth Wayne Martin, he was born in New Plymouth on April 28, 1953. Martin…
Mateusz Bąk dies at 43
Mateusz Bąk, a Polish football player best known for his long spell with Lechia Gdańsk, died on August 3, 2026, aged 43. A goalkeeper by trade, he was born in…
Ray Jarvis, died aged 77
Ray Jarvis, an American football player who played wide receiver in the National Football League, died on August 3, 2026, aged 77. Born Leon Raeminton Jarvis on February 2, 1949,…
Robin Cowling obituary: died at age 82
Robin Cowling, the English rugby union player who represented Gloucester, Leicester Tigers and England, died on August 3, 2026, aged 82. Born Robin James Cowling on March 24, 1944, he…
Ruslan Taramov obituary: died at age 65
Ruslan Taramov, the Russian Olympic boxer who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, died on August 3, 2026, aged 65. Born on July 13, 1965, in Grozny, then in the…
Anbar Saeed died at age 67
Anbar Saeed, the Kuwaiti footballer who was a forward and one of the most celebrated figures in Kuwait’s game, died on August 2, 2026, at age 67. Known for his…
Rick Sapienza passes away at age 90
Rick Sapienza, an American football player who was a defensive back for the New York Titans, died on August 2, 2026, at age 90. Born Americo Sapienza in Boston, he…
Obituary: Paul Bradshaw, dead at age 72
Paul Bradshaw, the English footballer who played for Burnley and Sheffield Wednesday, died on August 2, 2026, aged 72. Born in Sheffield on 2 October 1953, he came through the…
Margot Eppinger obituary: died at age 72
Margot Eppinger, the German Olympic pentathlete who competed in the women’s pentathlon at two Summer Games, died on August 2, 2026, aged 72. Born on January 8, 1952, in Denkendorf,…
Death of Sepp Puschnig at age 79
Sepp Puschnig, the Austrian Olympic ice hockey player who represented his country at three Winter Games, died on August 2, 2026, aged 79. Born Josef Puschnig in Klagenfurt, Austria, on…
Anbar Said died at age 67
Anbar Said, a Kuwaiti footballer who played as a forward, died on August 2, 2026, aged 67, after a traffic collision. Born in Iraq in 1959, Said joined Al-Arabi in…
Anbar Saeed died at age 67
Anbar Saeed, a Kuwaiti footballer who played as a forward, died on August 2, 2026, aged 67, after a traffic collision. Saeed, whose full name was Anbar Saeed Maqroun, represented…
Valeriy Tursunov passed away at age 71
Valeriy Tursunov, a Tajikistani football player and manager, died on August 2, 2026, aged 71. Also known as Valeriy Yuldashevich Tursunov, he was born in Kulob on August 3, 1954,…
Bill Goichberg died at age 83
Bill Goichberg, an American chess player, died on August 2, 2026, at age 83. Widely known in chess circles as both a master and a tournament organizer, he founded the…
Francisco Mora dies at age 74
Francisco Mora, a Cuban Olympic rower, died on August 1, 2026, aged 74. Known also as Francisco Mora Molina, he was born on July 30, 1952, and competed for Cuba…
Fred Hoaglin death at age 82
Fred Hoaglin, an American football player and coach, died on August 1, 2026, aged 82. A native of Alliance, Ohio, he was born George Frederick Hoaglin on January 28, 1944,…
Sam Nusum dead at age 82
Sam Nusum, a Bermudian soccer player who played as a goalkeeper, died on August 1, 2026, aged 82. Born in Bermuda on October 3, 1943, he represented his country at…
Gonzalo Díaz Beitia passed away at age 89
Gonzalo Díaz Beitia died on August 1, 2026, aged 89. He was a Spanish footballer. No further details about his career or personal life were provided in the available record.…
Ulla Flegel died at age 86
Ulla Flegel, the Austrian athlete who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics, died on August 1, 2026, aged 86. Born in Linz on October 22, 1939, she was a pentathlete,…
Marijke Moser passed away at age 79
Marijke Moser, the Dutch-born Swiss Olympic runner who became a respected middle- and long-distance athlete, died on August 1, 2026, aged 79. Born Marijke Van de Graaf in the Netherlands…
Beitia obituary: died at age 89
Beitia, the Spanish footballer known as Gonzalo Díaz Beitia, died on August 1, 2026, aged 89. A forward who played in Spanish football from 1955 to 1967, he was born…
Alexeis Argilagos death at age 51
Alexeis Argilagos, a Cuban volleyball player and member of the country’s men’s national team, died on August 1, 2026, aged 51. He represented Cuba at the 2000 Summer Olympics in…
Obituary: Norris Brown, dead at age 65
Norris Brown, an American football player who played for the Minnesota Vikings, New Jersey Generals and Jacksonville Bulls, died on July 31, 2026, at age 65. Willie Norris Brown was…
Death of Michela Monari at age 53
Michela Monari, an Italian volleyball player who represented the Italy women's national volleyball team, died on July 31, 2026, aged 53. Born on March 29, 1973, she competed at the…
Alexei Murygin passed away at age 39
Alexei Murygin, a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender, died on July 31, 2026, aged 39. Born in Khabarovsk in 1986, he began his professional career with Amur Khabarovsk and made…
Franco Baresi death at age 66
Franco Baresi, the Italian footballer who starred for AC Milan and the national team, died on July 31, 2026, aged 66. Born in Travagliato on May 8, 1960, he spent…
Magic Weisner has died at age 27
Magic Weisner, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, died on July 30, 2026, aged 27. Bred by Nancy H. Alberts, he was sired by Ameri Valay and traced his lineage to Bold…
Obituary: Walter Kammermann, dead at age 94
Walter Kammermann, the Swiss Olympic runner, died on July 30, 2026, aged 94. Born in Zürich on December 6, 1931, he represented Switzerland in the men’s 3000 metres steeplechase at…
Ivan Edeshko, died aged 81
Ivan Edeshko, the Belarusian basketball player and coach, died on July 30, 2026, at age 81. Born Ivan Ivanovich Edeshko on March 25, 1945, in Stsiatski in the Byelorussian SSR,…
Seppo Sairanen died at age 74
Seppo Sairanen, the Finnish footballer and manager who played as a goalkeeper and later coached FC Jazz, died on July 30, 2026, aged 74. Born in Pori on March 23,…
Obituary: Tadeusz Gapiński, dead at age 78
Tadeusz Gapiński, a Polish footballer, died on July 30, 2026, aged 78. Born in Łódź on January 7, 1948, he was a Polish former association football player whose career is…