Mike Campbell
American baseball player (Seattle Mariners · 18 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 18
Deaths Famous Dead Athletes
Roland Bock
German Olympic wrestler (1968) · 18 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 18
Eugenio Perico
Italian footballer and manager (Atalanta · 18 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 18
Detlef Enge
German football player (1. FC Magdeburg) · 18 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 18
Peter Kupferschmidt
German footballer (Bayern Munich · 18 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 18
Roderick Chase
Barbadian cyclist · 18 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 18
Cynthia Mailman American painter, pancreatic cancer dead at age 82
Cynthia Mailman, an American painter and educator, died on December 19, 2025, in New York City at age 82. She was known for figurative and landscape works done in a "cool, pared-down" style. Her early paintings were presented from inside… · 19 December 2025 · December 2025
Stanislav Moskvin
Russian cyclist and cycling coach · 18 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 18
Åge Hareide
Norwegian football coach · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Other
Michele Dancelli
Italian road racing cyclist · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Miroslav Vondřička
Czech basketball coach · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Czech · Other
Ethan McLeod
English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers) · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Jack Abendschan
American football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders) · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Mario Pineida
Ecuadorian footballer (Barcelona SC · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
Komafudō Daisuke
Japanese sumo wrestler · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16 · Other
Kym Ireland
Australian Olympic field hockey player (1984) · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
David Stokes
Guatemalan footballer (national team) · 16 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 16
Solomon Grundy
American professional wrestler (WCCW · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15 · Other
Garry Smith
New Zealand rugby league player (West Coast · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15
Marian Kotleba
Slovak basketball player (BK Inter Bratislava · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15
Ángel González-Adrio
Spanish basketball player (Picadero JC · 15 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 15
Greg Thayer
American baseball player (Minnesota Twins) · 14 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 14
Garrett Ford Sr.
American football player (Denver Broncos) · 14 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 14
Paul Gagné
Canadian ice hockey player (Colorado Rockies · 14 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 14
Ido Sgrazzutti
Italian footballer (Palermo · 14 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 14
Bob Hannah
American college baseball coach (Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens) · 14 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 14 · Other
Somachandra de Silva
Sri Lanka cricketer · 14 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 14 · Silva
Steve Taneyhill
American football player (South Carolina Gamecocks) · 14 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 14
Kerry O’Brien
Australian Olympic long-distance runner (1968 · 14 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 14 · O'Brien
Mike White
American football coach (California Golden Bears · 14 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 14 · Other
Max Cunningham (rower) Australian Olympic rower dead at age 89
Max Cunningham, the Australian Olympic rower who competed in the men’s eight at the 1960 Summer Olympics, died on December 14, 2025, aged 89. Born Alexander Maxwell Cunningham in Western Australia on June 9, 1936, he was a 1960 national… · 14 December 2025 · December 2025
Bruno Baveni
Italian football/soccer player · 13 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 13
Richard Bell
American football coach (South Carolina Gamecocks) · 13 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 13 · Other
Kris Kalifatidis
Australian soccer player · 13 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 13
Gary Rowell
English footballer (Sunderland · 12 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 12
Paul Wiggin
American football player (Cleveland Browns) · 12 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 12
Ernesto Figueiredo
Portuguese footballer (Sporting CP · 12 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 12
Ueli Sutter
Swiss Olympic cyclist (1972) · 12 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 12 · Swiss
Richard Bell (American football coach) American football coach dead at age 88
Richard Bell, an American football coach who served as head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks for one season in 1982, died on December 13, 2025. Born Richard Murry Bell on September 2, 1937, in Camden, Arkansas, he played as… · 13 December 2025 · December 2025
Al Ousseynou Sène
Senegalese footballer (ASC HLM) · 12 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 12 · Sène
Whitney Paul
American football player (Kansas City Chiefs · 12 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 12
Chelliah Paramalingam
Malaysian Olympic field hockey player (1964) · 11 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 11
Marita Lange German shot putter, Olympic silver medalist dead at age 82
Marita Lange, the German shot putter and 1968 Olympic silver medalist, died on December 12, 2025, after a prolonged illness. She was 82. Born in Halle, Prussia, Germany, on June 22, 1943, Lange represented East Germany and won the silver… · 12 December 2025 · December 2025
Chuzo
Spanish footballer (Atlético Madrid · 11 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 11
Stan Brookes
English football/soccer player · 10 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 10
Ernest McCarty American bass player dead at age 84
Ernest McCarty, an American bass player, composer and playwright, died on December 11, 2025, at age 84. Born in Chicago on March 26, 1941, he was an upright bass player known for performing with Erroll Garner from 1970 until Garner’s… · 11 December 2025 · December 2025
Boris Skrynnik
Russian bandy player (Vodnik) and executive · 10 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 10
Manfrini
Brazilian football/soccer player · 10 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 10
Ross Morrison
New Zealand cricketer (Auckland) and tennis administrator · 10 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 10
Jeff Thorne
American college football coach (North Central Cardinals · 09 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 9 · Other
Nobuhiro Takashiro
Japanese baseball player (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters) and coach (Chunichi Dragons · 09 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 9
Hiroaki Inoue
Japanese baseball player (Hiroshima Toyo · 08 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 8
George Mira
American football player (Miami Hurricanes · 08 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 8
David Best
English footballer (Bournemouth · 08 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 8
Ludovic Assemoassa
Togolese footballer (Clermont Foot · 08 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 8
Erzsébet Csajbók
Hungarian Olympic handball player (1976 · 08 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 8
Bob Allen (basketball) American basketball player dead at age 79
Robert Joseph Allen, an American basketball player who played for the San Francisco Warriors, died on December 9, 2025, at age 79. Allen played in the National Basketball Association during the 1968–69 season, appearing in 27 games for the Warriors… · 09 December 2025 · December 2025
Dixie Deans
Scottish footballer (Motherwell · 08 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 8
Ioan Sdrobiș
Romanian football coach · 07 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 7 · Other
Glen De Boeck
Belgian footballer (K.V. Mechelen · 07 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 7 · Boeck
Steve Hertz
American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s) · 06 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 6
Jimmy Mariano
Filipino basketball player (Ysmael Steel Admirals) and coach (Great Taste Coffee Makers · 06 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 6 · Filipino
Volodymyr Sysenko
Tajik-born Ukrainian footballer (Pamir Dushanbe · 06 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 6
Nick Joanides
American racing driver (ARCA Menards Series) · 06 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 6 · Other
Manolo Villanova
Spanish football manager and player · 05 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 5
Abdul Rashid (hurdler) Pakistani Olympic hurdler, heart attack dead at age 46
Abdul Rashid, a Pakistani Olympic hurdler, died on December 6, 2025, of a heart attack. Born in Khanewal, Punjab, Pakistan, in 1979, he represented Pakistan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men’s 110 m… · 06 December 2025 · December 2025
Vasile Carauș
Moldovan footballer (Spartak Nalchik · 05 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 5
Brian Mackney
Canadian professional wrestler · 05 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 5 · Other
Moustafa Ali
Egyptian-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers · 04 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 4
Roy Kramer
American college football coach (Central Michigan Chippewas) and athletics administrator (Vanderbilt Commodores · 04 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 4 · Other
Alex Sánchez
Costarican footballer (Saprissa · 04 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 4
Tetsu Yamauchi
Japanese bass player (Free) · 04 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 4 · Athletes
Maurizio Thermes
Italian football/soccer player · 03 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 3
Antonio Vargiu
Italian Olympic field hockey player (1960) · 03 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 3
Mohammed Rahmatullah
Indian football player (Kolkata Mohammedan · 02 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 2
Remi Moses
English footballer (West Bromwich Albion · 02 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 2
Marvin Hinton
English footballer (Charlton Athletic · 02 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 2
Elden Campbell
American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers · 02 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 2
Ken Price
English footballer (Southend United · 01 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 1