May 2, 2015 Athletes Oiteyama Hirokuni Japanese sumo wrestler Died on Thursday January 2nd 2014 Other athletesRoque Avallay Argentine footballer dead at age 80Alex Zanardi Italian racing driver and paracyclist dead at age 59Alfredrick Hughes American basketball player dead at age 63Yevgeniy Duleyev Russian rower, Olympic silver medallist dead at age 70Péter Bikár Hungarian ice hockey player dead at age 81Dionysis Tsamis public figure dead at age 74Charlie Williams Maltese footballer dead at age 82Abdollah Movahed Iranian wrestler, Olympic champion, heart attack dead at age 86Merle Bettenhausen American racing driver, complications from a stroke dead at age 82Ghenadie Dudoglo Moldovan weightlifter dead at age 39More from JapanKazuhiro Ninomiya Japanese judoka dead at age 79Juliet Winters Carpenter American translator dead at age 77Gordon Snell public figure dead at age 93Katsumi Miyaji Japanese rugby union player and coach dead at age 85Adrienne Staples New Zealand politician, mayor of South Wairarapa and member of the Greater Wellington Regional Council dead at age 69Kenji Gokenya Japanese politician dead at age 87Seigō Tsuchida Japanese politician, mayor of Higashine dead at age 82Masayoshi Tsuchida Japanese politician dead at age 82Kazuo Imanishi Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia dead at age 85Isami Okamoto Japanese baseball player and coach dead at age 95More from January 2, 2014Terry BiddlecombeJeanne BrabantsTerry Magaoa ChapmanAnne Dorte of RosenborgLouis GeorgeBernard GlasserPatrick HeronElizabeth Jane HowardR. Crosby Kemper, Jr.Thomas Kurzhals Tags 02 January 2014 2014-01-02 Athletes Hirokuni January 2 January 2014 Japan Oiteyama ←Dirk Sager Harald Nugiseks→