Deaths Famous Dead Athletes
Bob Shearer
Australian golfer and golf course architect · 08 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 8
Carl Linhart
American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) · 08 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 8
Jimmy Smith
English footballer (Chelsea) · 07 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 7
Nina Rocheva
Russian Olympic athlete · 07 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 7
Dee Booher
American professional wrestler and actress · 07 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 7
Viktor Mazin
Russian featherweight weightlifter · 07 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 7
Barbara Jacket
American track and field coach · 07 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 7 · Other
Rolf-Dieter Amend
German Olympic slalom canoeist · 07 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 7
Larry Haylor
Canadian football coach (Western Ontario Mustangs) · 06 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 6 · Other
Jack Kissane
Irish Gaelic footballer and brigadier general · 06 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 6
Dale Clevenger
American horn player · 05 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 5
David Carpenter
English cricketer (Gloucestershire) · 05 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 5
Siiri Perälä
Finnish Futsal player · 05 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 5
Strong Kobayashi
Japanese professional wrestler · 05 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 5
Darwin Semotiuk
Canadian football coach · 05 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 5 · Other
Ralph Neely
American football player (Dallas Cowboys) · 05 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 5
Greg Robinson
American football coach (UCLA Bruins · 04 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 4 · Other
Alyaksandr Fyedarovich
Belarusian football player (Dnepr Mogilev · 04 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 4
Ross Browner
American Hall of Fame football player (Cincinnati Bengals · 04 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 4
Tommy Matchick
American baseball player (Detroit Tigers · 04 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 4
Andreas Michalopoulos
Greek footballer (Panachaiki) · 04 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 4 · Andreas, · Greek
Odell Barry
American football player (Denver Broncos) and politician · 04 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 4 · O'dell
Javier Astúa
Costa Rican footballer (Puntarenas · 03 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 3
Tu’u Maori
Papua New Guinean rugby player · 03 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 3 · Tu'u
Zbigniew Łój
Polish Olympic field hockey player · 03 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 3
Stelios Serafidis
Greek football player (AEK Athens · 03 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 3 · Greek
Jim Corsi
American baseball player (Oakland Athletics · 03 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 3
Oussou Konan Anicet
Ivorian footballer · 03 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 3 · Anicet
Olga Gavrilova
Russian track and field athlete · 03 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 3
Kamel Lemoui
Algerian football player and manager · 02 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 2
Hamish More
Scottish cricketer (national team) · 02 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 2
Jens Jørgen Hansen
danish fotball player · 02 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 2 · Hansen
Larry Biittner
American baseball player (Texas Rangers · 02 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 2
Fred Pickard
American college football player (Florida State) and coach (Tennessee-Martin) · 01 January 2022 · January 2022 · January 1
Fred Cone
American football player (Green Bay Packers · 30 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 30
Don Whitten
Australian footballer (Footscray · 30 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 30
Jean Vassieux
French ice hockey player (Ours de Villard-de-Lans · 30 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 30 · French
Joe Hernandez
American gridiron football player (Toronto Argonauts · 29 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 29 · Hernández
Rudolf Isupov
Russian footballer (Metallurg Tula · 29 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 29
Ron Jones
Welsh track and field athlete · 29 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 29 · Welsh
Karel Loprais
Czech rally raid driver · 29 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 29 · Czech
Steve Peplow
English footballer (Swindon Town · 28 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 28
Thomas Milani
Canadian-born Italian ice hockey player (Minnesota Fighting Saints · 28 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 28
Valeriy Fomenkov
Russian ice hockey player (Krylya Sovetov Moscow · 28 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 28
Christian Gyan
Ghanaian Dutch footballer (Feyenoord · 28 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 28 · Dutch
Ahmed Daham
Iraqi football player (Al-Naft · 28 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 28
Josef Pospíšil (footballer)
Czech footballer (Partizán Bardejov · 28 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 28 · Czech
Josef Pospíšil (fotbalista)
Czech footballer (Partizán Bardejov · 28 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 28 · Czech
Stanislav Zavidonov
Russian football player (Zenit Leningrad) and manager (ASM Oran) · 28 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 28
John Madden
American Hall of Fame football coach (Oakland Raiders) and sportscaster (NFL on CBS · 28 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 28 · Other
Tibi
Portuguese footballer (Leixões · 27 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 27
Hugo Maradona
Argentine footballer (Rayo Vallecano · 27 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 27 · Argentine
Nikolay Shirshov
Uzbekistani footballer · 27 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 27
Jim Wiley
Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins · 27 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 27
Bruce Davis
American football player (Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders · 27 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 27
Barclay Wade
Australian Olympic rower (1964) · 26 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 26
Grzegorz Więzik
Polish footballer (ŁKS Łódź · 26 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 26
Yaacov Adler
Israeli basketball coach (Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C · 26 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 26 · Other
Diego Montiel
Argentine footballer (Atlético de Rafaela) · 26 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 26 · Argentine
Dorval Rodrigues
Brazilian footballer (Santos FC · 25 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 25
Janice Long
English disc jockey and radio broadcaster (Top of the Pops) · 25 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 25
Sulamai Lavea
New Zealand rugby league player (Auckland · 25 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 25
Sofiane Lokar
Algerian footballer (MC Saïda) · 24 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 24
Sofiane Loukar
Algerian footballer (MC Saïda) · 24 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 24
Ray Illingworth
English cricketer (Yorkshire · 24 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 24
José Villegas
Mexican footballer (Guadalajara · 24 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 24
Vojvoda Malesija
Montenegrin football manager and player · 24 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 24
J. D. Crowe
American banjo player and bluegrass band leader (New South) · 23 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 23 · Crowe
Raúl Madero
Argentine footballer (Boca Juniors · 23 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 23 · Argentine
Francisco Valada
Portuguese Olympic cyclist (1960) · 23 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 23
Keith Rae
Australian footballer (Carlton · 23 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 23
Bob McCammon
Canadian ice hockey coach (Vancouver Canucks · 23 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 23 · Other
Sid Blanks
American football player (Houston Oilers · 22 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 22
Pete Petcoff
Canadian football player (Calgary Stampeders · 22 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 22
Clyde Bennett
Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders) · 21 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 21
Makhlid Al-Raqadi
Omani footballer (Fanja SC · 21 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 21
Béla Hornyák
Hungarian footballer (MTK Budapest FC · 21 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 21 · Hornyak
Bob Keselowski
American stock car racing driver (NASCAR) · 21 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 21
Norberto Boggio
Argentine footballer (Atlante) · 21 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 21 · Argentine
Alessandro Casse
Italian alpine skier · 21 December 2021 · December 2021 · December 21