January 18, 2026 Athletes Wilbur Wood American baseball player (Boston Red Sox Died on Sunday January 18th 2026 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 AmericaJohn Sterling American sportscaster, heart failure dead at age 87Lee Allen Zeno American musician, cancer dead at age 71Doris F. Fisher American businesswoman dead at age 94David Kendall American television writer and producer and film director dead at age 68James Lawrence King American judge dead at age 98Chet Dobis American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives dead at age 83René Henry Gracida American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Corpus Christi and Pensacola–Tallahassee dead at age 102Alfredrick Hughes American basketball player dead at age 63Audrey Beth Davis American entertainment publicist dead at age 82Juliet Winters Carpenter American translator dead at age 77More from January 17, 2026Fabian Malbon British Royal Navy officer, lieutenant governor of Guernsey dead at age 79W. John McDonald Canadian physicist and academic administrator dead at age 89James Petras Professor of sociology dead at age 89Hoot Gibson (American football) American football player (San Diego Chargers dead at age 86Craig Anderson (bishop) American bishop dead at age 83John 'Oke AfarehaPhil GoyetteStuart AltmanRoger AllersPatrick Corrigan Tags 17 January 2026 2026-01-17 America Athletes January 17 January 2026 Wilbur Wood ←John ‘Oke Afareha Bill Millar→