May 2, 2015 Athletes Olga Knyazeva Russian fencer Died on Saturday January 3rd 2015 Other athletesValeri Zhabko Russian footballer dead at age 58José Ortiz Puerto Rican basketball player, colorectal cancer dead at age 62Chris Phelan Irish-born Australian rugby league player, pancreatic cancer dead at age 70Geoff Ablett public figure dead at age 71Eladio Zárate Paraguayan football player and manager dead at age 84Roque Avallay Argentine footballer dead at age 80Alex Zanardi Italian racing driver and paracyclist dead at age 59René Paardekooper Dutch footballer dead at age 39Alfredrick Hughes American basketball player dead at age 63Yevgeniy Duleyev Russian rower, Olympic silver medallist dead at age 70More from RussiaValeri Zhabko Russian footballer dead at age 58Herman Branover Russian-Israeli physicist dead at age 94Konstantin Tolkachyov Russian politician dead at age 73Boris Volodin Russian politician, member of the Soviet of the Union dead at age 94Stanislav Petrov Russian military officer, chief of the Russian NBC Protection Troops, suicide dead at age 87Vladimir Bayunov Russian politician, MP dead at age 73Yevgeniy Duleyev Russian rower, Olympic silver medallist dead at age 70Vladimir Voevodin Russian computer scientist dead at age 63Maya Belenkaya Russian figure skater dead at age 94Vladimir Grachev Russian scientist and politician dead at age 84More from January 3, 2015Jamal Uddin AhmadDaniel AlbrightMartin AndersonAdunni BankoleEdward BrookeBryan CaldwellPaulinus CostaMaher HathoutBill JessupRueben Philip Job Tags 03 January 2015 2015-01-03 Athletes January 2015 January 3 Knyazeva Olga Russia ←Bernice Madigan Muath al-Kasasbeh→