Kim Bukhantsov Russian Olympic discus thrower dead at age 94
Kim Bukhantsov, a Soviet athlete and Russian Olympic discus thrower, died on March 29, 2026, at the age of 94. He competed in the men's discus throw at the 1956,…
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Willie Watson Scottish footballer dead at age 76
Willie Watson, a Scottish footballer who played as a defender, died on March 29, 2026. Born William Watson on 4 December 1949, he signed with Manchester United in 1970 and…
Bill Riley Canadian ice hockey player and coach, cancer dead at age 75
Bill Riley, a Canadian ice hockey player and coach, died on March 29, 2026, of cancer. Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, on September 20, 1950, he played 139 NHL games…
Jay Robinson American Hall of Fame wrestler and coach dead at age 79
Jay Paul Robinson, an American Hall of Fame wrestler and coach, died on March 29, 2026. Known as J Robinson, he competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics as a middleweight…
Chang Ung Sports administrator dead at age 87
Chang Ung North Korean basketball player (national team) and sports administrator, president of ITF (2002–2015) and member of the IOC (1996–2018) · Died March 28, 2026 Chang Ung, a North…
Joël Henry French footballer dead at age 63
Joël Henry, the French footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, died on March 28, 2026. He made 345 appearances and scored 51 goals in Ligue 1 between 1978 and…
Joey Browner American football player dead at age 65
Joey Browner, an American football player who played safety for the Minnesota Vikings and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, died on March 28, 2026, at age 65. Browner played for the Vikings…
Dallas O’Neill Australian rugby league and union player dead at age 83
Dallas O'Neill, an Australian rugby league and rugby union player, died on March 28, 2026, aged 83. Born in Mackay, Queensland, O'Neill was an Australian rugby union international who represented…
Jeff Siemon American football player dead at age 75
Jeff Siemon, an American football player who spent his entire 11-year NFL career as a linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings, died on March 28, 2026. He was 75. Siemon played…
David Cabrero Spanish Olympic track cyclist dead at age 49
David Cabrero, a Spanish Olympic track cyclist, died on March 27, 2026, after a long illness. Born in Madrid on December 11, 1976, Cabrero competed in two events at the…
Kitty Harrison American college tennis coach dead at age 91
Kitty Harrison, an American college tennis coach who led the North Carolina Tar Heels women’s tennis team, died on March 27, 2026. Katherine Gordon Harrison coached the Tar Heels from…
Larry Price American football player and radio host dead at age 91
Larry Price, an American football player and radio host, died on March 27, 2026. He was 91. Price was a resident of Honolulu and was known for his work as…
Mary Rand British track and field athlete, Olympic champion dead at age 86
Mary Rand, the British track and field athlete and 1964 Olympic champion, died on March 27, 2026, aged 86. Born Mary Denise Bignal in Wells, Somerset, England, she excelled at…
Barret Robbins American football player dead at age 52
Barret Robbins, an American football player who spent nine seasons as a center for the Oakland Raiders, died on March 26, 2026, at age 52. Born in Houston, Texas, in…
Rosa Salikhova Russian volleyball player, Olympic champion dead at age 81
Rosa Salikhova, a Russian volleyball player and Olympic champion, died on March 26, 2026. Born on September 24, 1944, in Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, in the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union,…
Orlando Wiet Surinamese-Dutch mixed martial artist dead at age 60
Orlando Wiet, a Surinamese-Dutch mixed martial artist, died on March 26, 2026, at the age of 60. Born in Paramaribo, then in Dutch Guiana, on October 24, 1965, he was…
Alex Cropley Scottish footballer dead at age 75
Alex Cropley, a Scottish footballer who played for Hibernian, Aston Villa and the Scotland national team, died on March 26, 2026. Born in Aldershot, Hampshire, and raised in Edinburgh, he…
Giuseppe Savoldi Italian footballer dead at age 79
Giuseppe Savoldi, the Italian footballer who played for Bologna, Napoli and the Italy national team, died on March 25, 2026. A forward who played in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s,…
Wilson Bombarda Brazilian Olympic basketball player dead at age 95
Wilson Bombarda, a Brazilian basketball player who competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics, died on March 25, 2026, at the age of 95. Born on October…
Ken Clay American baseball player, heart and kidney issues dead at age 71
Ken Clay, an American baseball player who pitched for the New York Yankees, Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners, died on March 25, 2026. He was 71. Clay, whose full name…
Mel Schilling Australian television presenter, colon cancer dead at age 53
Mel Schilling, the Australian television presenter and psychologist best known for appearing as one of the dating experts on Married at First Sight, died on March 24, 2026, at the…
Geoff Vowden English footballer dead at age 84
Geoff Vowden, the English footballer who played for Birmingham City, Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest, died on March 24, 2026. Born Geoffrey Alan Vowden on 27 April 1941 in Barnsley,…
Makarios Djan Ghanaian Olympic sprinter dead at age 70
Makarios Djan, a Ghanaian sprinter and Olympic competitor, died on March 24, 2026, at the age of 70. Born on June 3, 1955, he competed in the men's 4 ×…
Bob Rossell American racing driver dead at age 89
Bob Rossell, an American racing driver and pioneering driver of modified stock cars, died on March 24, 2026, at age 89. Born in Wrightstown, New Jersey, he began his career…
François Morlaes French rugby union player dead at age 82
François Morlaes, a French rugby union player who played as a scrum-half, died on March 23, 2026. Born in Pau, German-occupied France, on October 6, 1943, he won the 1968–69…
Carlo Russolillo Italian Olympic boxer dead at age 69
Carlo Russolillo, an Italian boxer who competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1980 Summer Olympics, died on March 23, 2026, at the age of 69. Born in Genoa…
David Sklansky American poker player and author, heart failure dead at age 78
David Sklansky, an American professional poker player and author, died on March 23, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada, of heart failure. He was 78. Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, on…
Tin Myint Aung Burmese football player and manager dead at age 58
Tin Myint Aung, a Burmese football player and manager, died on March 22, 2026. He was associated with Finance and Revenue F.C. and the Myanmar national team. Born on March…
Jerry Hanlon American football player and coach dead at age 96
Jerry Hanlon, an American football player, coach and radio broadcaster, died on March 22, 2026. He was a halfback on Miami University teams from 1953 to 1955 that won two…
Ed Blaine American football player dead at age 86
Ed Blaine, an American football player who played guard for the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles, died on March 22, 2026, at age 86. Born Edward Homer Blaine in…
Per Hegna Norwegian tennis player dead at age 80
Per Hegna, a Norwegian professional tennis player, died on March 22, 2026, at the age of 80. A native of Oslo, he played out of the Berg Tennisklubb and won…
Marcos Leite Brazilian Olympic basketball player dead at age 73
Marcos Leite, the Brazilian basketball player and coach known as Marquinhos Leite, died on March 22, 2026. He was 73. Leite represented Brazil at three Summer Olympics and four FIBA…
Dennis Condrey American professional wrestler dead at age 76
Dennis Condrey, an American professional wrestler best known for his appearances with the Continental Wrestling Association, Jim Crockett Promotions and World Championship Wrestling, died on March 20, 2026, at age…
Sam Goodwin American football coach dead at age 82
Sam Goodwin, an American football coach and athletic director, died on March 20, 2026, at the age of 82. He was born in Pineville, Louisiana, on January 20, 1944. Goodwin…
Clive Leach English cricketer and media executive, pneumonia dead at age 91
Clive Leach, the English cricketer and media executive, died on March 20, 2026, of pneumonia. Born in Bombay, British India, on December 4, 1934, he was a right-handed batsman who…
Alevtina Yelesina Russian cross-country skier, Paralympic champion dead at age 71
Alevtina Yelesina, a Russian cross-country skier and Paralympic champion, died on March 19, 2026, at the age of 71. Born on August 22, 1954, in Aleksandrovskoye in the Mozhginsky District…
Marcos Conigliaro Argentine football player and manager dead at age 83
Marcos Conigliaro, an Argentine football player and manager, died on March 19, 2026. Born in Quilmes on December 9, 1942, he was a forward known for his technical ability. He…
Michael Bambang Hartono Owner of BCA, Founder of Polytron dead at age 86
Michael Bambang Hartono, an Indonesian banker, electronics and cigarettes industry executive, and bridge player who founded Polytron and co-owned Djarum since 1963, died on March 19, 2026. He was 86.…
Garry Leo Australian rugby league footballer dead at age 81
Garry Leo, an Australian rugby league footballer who played for the Balmain Tigers, died on March 19, 2026, aged 81. Born in 1944 or 1945, he played in the 1960s…
Saleh Mohammadi Iranian wrestler, execution by hanging dead at age 19
Saleh Mohammadi, an Iranian wrestler and member of the country’s national wrestling team, died on March 19, 2026, in Qom, Iran, at the age of 19. Born in Saveh and…
Chuck Norris American martial artist, actor and author dead at age 86
Chuck Norris, the American martial artist, actor and author known for Walker, Texas Ranger, Missing in Action and The Way of the Dragon, died on March 19, 2026, at the…
Silvino Louro Portuguese football player and coach dead at age 67
Silvino Louro, a Portuguese football player and coach, died on March 18, 2026. Known simply as Silvino during his playing career, he was a goalkeeper who represented Vitória de Setúbal,…
Józef Beker Polish Olympic cyclist dead at age 88
Józef Beker, a Polish cyclist who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics, died on March 18, 2026, at the age of 88. Beker rode in the team time trial at…
Carl Poelker American athletics coach dead at age 82
Carl Poelker, an American athletics coach, died on March 17, 2026, at age 82. He coached football, wrestling and track and field, and was head football coach at Millikin University…
Zlatko Šimenc Croatian water polo player, Olympic silver medallist dead at age 87
Zlatko Šimenc, a Croatian water polo player and coach, died on March 17, 2026. Born in Zagreb on November 29, 1938, he was of Slovenian origin and played for the…
Manuel Etura Spanish footballer dead at age 93
Manuel Etura, a Spanish footballer who played as a defensive midfielder for Athletic Bilbao, died on March 17, 2026. Born Manuel González Etura on February 21, 1933, in Sestao, Biscay,…
Marian Kielec Polish footballer
Marian Kielec, a Polish footballer who played as a forward, died on March 17, 2026, at the age of 84. He spent his entire career with Pogoń Szczecin and remains…
Giovanni Bolzoni
Italian footballer (SampdoriaDied on Monday March 16th 2026
Giovanni Bolzoni
Italian footballerDied on Monday March 16th 2026
Tony Balsamo American baseball player dead at age 89
Tony Balsamo, an American baseball player who played for the Chicago Cubs, died on March 16, 2026. Balsamo, whose full name was Anthony Alred Balsamo, was 89. He attended Fordham…
Vladimír Stránský Czech ice hockey player
Vladimír Stránský, a Czech professional ice hockey player, died on March 16, 2026, at the age of 78. Born in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia, on June 7, 1947, he played in the…
Larry Stahl American baseball player dead at age 84
Larry Stahl, an American baseball player who appeared for the Kansas City Athletics, New York Mets and San Diego Padres, died on March 16, 2026. Larry Floyd Stahl, born June…
Bernt Mæland Norwegian footballer
Bernt Mæland, a Norwegian footballer, died on March 16, 2026. He played as a forward in the Norwegian top league for Bryne and Viking in the 1980s. Originally from Bømlo,…
Bob Tullius American racing driver dead at age 95
Bob Tullius, an American racing driver and racing team owner, died on March 16, 2026. Born Robert Charles Tullius in Rochester, New York, on December 7, 1930, he was active…
Doug Camilli American baseball player dead at age 89
Doug Camilli, an American baseball player and coach who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Senators, died on March 16, 2026. He was 89. Camilli played in Major…
Ken Cole Australian basketball coach and player dead at age 82
Ken Cole, an Australian basketball coach and player, died on March 15, 2026, aged 82. Born Kenneth Frank Cole in Sydney on October 15, 1943, he represented Australia in the…
Wakashimazu Mutsuo Japanese sumo wrestler dead at age 69
Wakashimazu Mutsuo, a Japanese sumo wrestler, died on March 15, 2026. Born Mutsuo Hidaka on January 12, 1957, in Nakatane, Kagoshima, he reached the rank of ōzeki and won two…
Bill Dempsey Australian rules footballer dead at age 83
Bill Dempsey, an Australian rules footballer, died on March 15, 2026, aged 83. Born in Birdum, Northern Territory, on March 17, 1942, he played for Darwin in the Northern Territory…
Abdulrahman Al-Bishi Saudi footballer
Abdulrahman Al-Bishi, a Saudi footballer who played as a forward, died on March 15, 2026. Born on July 1, 1982, he joined Al-Nassr in 1996 through Mr. Abdulla Al-Howaishel. Fifteen…
Orhan Kaynak Turkish football player
Orhan Kaynak, a Turkish football player and coach, died on March 15, 2026. Known as Küçük Orhan, he played as a forward and had stints in the Süper Lig with…
John Galas American soccer coach, synovial sarcoma dead at age 53
John Galas, an American soccer coach, died on March 15, 2026. He was known for coaching Lane United and Tucsom. Born in Walnut Creek, California, Galas moved with his family…
Jim Fleeting Scottish football player
James Taylor Fleeting, a Scottish football player and manager, died on March 15, 2026. A centre half, he began his professional career with Norwich City, making one appearance before joining…
Bjørn Nilsen Norwegian poet, journalist and television producer dead at age 91
Bjørn Nilsen, a Norwegian poet, journalist and television producer, died on March 15, 2026. He was born in Strinda, now Trondheim, on December 27, 1934, the son of Eilif Asbjørn…
Matt Gallagher
English rugby union player (Coventry R.F.C.)Died on Saturday March 14th 2026
Samir Karabašić Bosnian Olympic canoeist dead at age 59
Samir Karabašić, a Bosnian slalom canoer and Olympic canoeist, died on March 14, 2026. He competed in the mid-1990s and finished 41st in the K-1 event at the 1996 Summer…
Henry Nwosu Nigerian footballer
Henry Nwosu, a Nigerian footballer and manager, died on March 14, 2026. Henry Onyemanze Nwosu spent his career at home with New Nigeria Bank of Benin City and African Continental…
Jochen Bachfeld German boxer dead at age 73
Jochen Bachfeld, a German boxer and East German Olympic champion, died on March 14, 2026, at the age of 73. Born in Sülte, East Germany, on December 17, 1952, he…
H. H. Hamid Indian Olympic footballer dead at age 83
H. H. Hamid, an Indian footballer and Olympic player, died on March 14, 2026. He played as a forward and represented India at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where he was…
Gary Wagner American baseball player
Gary Wagner, an American professional baseball right-handed pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox, died on March 13, 2026. Gary Edward Wagner was born June 28,…
Billy Campbell Northern Irish footballer
Billy Campbell, the Northern Irish footballer, died on March 13, 2026, at the age of 81. He played as a right winger for Sunderland, Dundee, Motherwell, Hamilton Academical and Northern…
Amy Carr English footballer
Amy Carr, an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper, died on March 13, 2026. Born on April 27, 1991, she began her youth career in Arsenal’s academy in 2005…
Billy McCullough Northern Irish footballer
Billy McCullough, the Northern Irish footballer who made more than 250 appearances for Arsenal and was capped 10 times for Northern Ireland, died on March 13, 2026. Born in Carrickfergus,…
Cameron Ontko American football player dead at age 33
Cameron Ontko, an American professional football player who played for the BC Lions, died on March 13, 2026. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 23, 1992. Ontko played…
Doug Shively American football coach
Douglas Armstead Shively, an American football coach and player, died on March 13, 2026, at age 88. Shively was head coach of the Arizona Wranglers of the United States Football…
Phil Wise public figure dead at age 76
Phil Wise, an American football defensive back in the National Football League, died on March 13, 2026, at age 76. He was selected by the New York Jets in the…
Tom Brown American Hall of Fame football player dead at age 89
Tom Brown, an American professional football player and guard for the BC Lions, died on March 12, 2026, at age 89. Brown played college football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers…
Andrei Socaci Romanian weightlifter dead at age 59
Andrei Socaci, a Romanian weightlifter, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 59. He won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics as a lightweight before moving up…
Rolf Birkhölzer German footballer
Rolf Birkhölzer, a German professional footballer and goalkeeper, died on March 12, 2026. Born on 29 September 1949, he began playing football at the age of nineteen with 1. FC…
Phil Summerill English footballer
Phil Summerill, the English footballer who played as a striker for Birmingham City, Huddersfield Town, Millwall and Wimbledon, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 78. Born Philip…
Antonio Puddu Italian boxer dead at age 81
Antonio Puddu, the Italian boxer also known as Tonino Puddu, died on March 12, 2026. Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, on 8 May 1944, he won bronze at the 1963 Italian…
Trevor McMahon New Zealand test cricketer dead at age 96
Trevor McMahon, a New Zealand Test cricketer and wicket-keeper, died on March 12, 2026, aged 96. Born in Wellington on November 8, 1929, he played five Test matches for New…
Ron Roberts English footballer, cancer dead at age 83
Ron Roberts, a Welsh footballer who played as a winger for Wrexham and Tranmere Rovers in the Football League, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 83. He…
Gordon Wallace Scottish football player and manager dead at age 82
Gordon Wallace, the Scottish football player and manager, died on March 12, 2026. A forward, he began his career with Montrose in 1961 before playing for Raith Rovers, Dundee and…
Jesús Malavé Venezuelan sprinter dead at age 60
Jesús Malavé, a Venezuelan sprinter, died on March 11, 2026, at the age of 60. Jesús Rafael Malavé Paredes, born on October 24, 1965, specialized in the 200 and 400…
Natalya Vetoshnikova Russian tennis player dead at age 104
Natalya Vetoshnikova, a Russian tennis player, died on March 11, 2026, at the age of 104. Born on September 26, 1921, in Petrograd, Russian SFSR, she was a Soviet tennis…
Vicente Paniagua Spanish basketball player dead at age 78
Vicente Paniagua, a Spanish basketball player, died on March 11, 2026. Born on 17 May 1947, he played as a small forward for Real Madrid from 1966 to 1977 and…
Ron Delany Irish Olympic runner dead at age 91
Ron Delany, the Irish Olympic runner who won gold in the 1500 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics, died on March 11, 2026, at the age of 91. Ronald Michael…
Nev MacEwan New Zealand rugby union player
Nev MacEwan, a New Zealand rugby union player, died on March 11, 2026, aged 91. Born Ian Neven MacEwan in Auckland on May 1, 1934, he was educated at Nelson…
Henryk Stroniarz Polish football player and manager dead at age 89
Henryk Stroniarz, a Polish football player and manager, died on March 10, 2026. A goalkeeper, he played for Cracovia and made one appearance for the Poland national team in 1965.…
Valeriu Irimescu Romanian rugby union player dead at age 85
Valeriu Irimescu, a Romanian rugby union player and coach, died on March 10, 2026, at the age of 85. Born in Bucharest on November 3, 1940, he began playing rugby…
Mauricio Nanni Uruguayan footballer dead at age 46
Mauricio Nanni, a Uruguayan footballer, died on March 10, 2026. Mauricio Daniel Nanni Lima was a goalkeeper who played for the Uruguay under-20 national team at the 1999 FIFA World…
Sergei Nekrasov Russian football player dead at age 53
Sergei Nekrasov, a Russian football player, died on March 10, 2026. He was 53. Nekrasov, whose full name was Sergei Vladimirovich Nekrasov, played as a defender and midfielder. He made…
Matt Snell American football player dead at age 84
Matt Snell, an American football player who was a fullback for the New York Jets, died on March 10, 2026. He was 84. Snell played college football for the Ohio…
Zdeněk Hummel dead at age 79, Czech basketball player and coach
Zdeněk Hummel, a Czech basketball player and coach, died on March 10, 2026, at the age of 79. He was a guard for NHKG Ostrava in the first division of…
Eduard Apalkov Russian former football player dead at age 56
Eduard Apalkov, a Russian former football player and defender, died on March 9, 2026. He was 56. Born Eduard Ivanovich Apalkov on January 30, 1970, he is identified in the…
Derek Bellotti English footballer dead at age 79
Derek Bellotti, the English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, died on March 9, 2026. Born on December 25, 1946, he began his career as an apprentice with Queens…
Engin Fırat Turkish football manager and player dead at age 55
Engin Fırat, a Turkish football manager and player, died on March 9, 2026. Born on June 11, 1970, he was described as a Turkish footballer and manager. Fırat signed a…
Pasquale Fiore Italian footballer
Pasquale Fiore, an Italian footballer and Napoli goalkeeper, died on March 9, 2026, at the age of 72. He was the second goalkeeper for Napoli from 1977 to 1984, playing…
