Heiko Weber passes away at age 61
Heiko Weber, the German football player and manager who played for Carl Zeiss Jena and managed ZFC Meuselwitz and Carl Zeiss Jena, died of pancreatic cancer on October 26, 2026,…
Famous Dead Athletes: Recent Athlete Deaths and Obituaries
Over 20,000 obituaries of famous dead athletes. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Robin Stubbs dead at age 85
Robin Stubbs, the English professional footballer, died October 25, 2026, aged 85. Born Robin Gregory Stubbs in Quinton, Birmingham, on April 22, 1941, he played as a centre-forward and made…
Phil O’Callaghan dead at age 80
Phil O’Callaghan, the Irish rugby union international prop, died October 25, 2026, aged 80. Born in Cork on March 25, 1946, he was known in rugby as “Philo.” Raised in…
Death of Jack Armstrong at age 79
Jack Armstrong, an American professional wrestler known for work in the World Wide Wrestling Federation and Universal Wrestling Federation, died October 25, 2026, aged 79. Born Leonard Ornstein in Los…
Jumbo Baretta died at age 58
American professional wrestler Jumbo Baretta died October 25, 2026, aged 58. Born Julio Barrera in Tampa, Florida, in 1967, he trained with Boris Malenko and made his professional debut in…
Józef Lipień has died at age 77
Józef Lipień, a Polish Greco-Roman wrestler and 1980 Olympic silver medalist, died October 25, 2026, aged 77. Born in Jaczków on February 6, 1949, he competed in amateur wrestling and…
Frank Gagliano dies at 89
Frank Gagliano, an American track and field coach, died October 25, 2026, aged 89. Tags Athletes, 25 October 2026, America, Capricorn, Frank, Gagliano, October 2026, October 25
Darko Božović has died at age 48
Darko Božović, a Montenegrin footballer, died October 25, 2026, aged 48. Born in Podgorica on August 9, 1978, he played as a goalkeeper. A memorable episode in his career came…
Pete Banaszak has died at age 82
Pete Banaszak, an American football player who was a running back for the Oakland Raiders, died October 24, 2026, aged 82. Born Peter Andrew Banaszak on May 21, 1944, in…
John Cordts obituary: died at age 91
John Cordts, a Canadian racing driver, died October 24, 2026, aged 91. Born July 23, 1935, in Hamburg, Germany, he competed in Formula One and North American sports car racing.…
Barry Murphy, died aged 86
Barry Murphy, the English footballer who played in the Football League for Barnsley, died October 24, 2026, aged 86. Born in Consett on February 10, 1940, he was also known…
Phil Vandersea death at age 83
Phil Vandersea, an American football player who played for the Green Bay Packers, New Orleans Saints and Montreal Alouettes, died October 24, 2026, aged 83. Born Phillip John Vandersea on…
Arch Jelley passes away at age 104
Arch Jelley, a New Zealand Hall of Fame athletics coach, died October 24, 2026, aged 104. Born Albert Archibald Jelley in Dunedin on August 13, 1922, he trained at Dunedin…
Lawrence McCutcheon died at age 76
Lawrence McCutcheon, an American professional football player and running back, died October 23, 2026, aged 76. Born in Plainview, Texas, he graduated from Plainview High School in 1968 before playing…
George Thomas, died aged 88
George Thomas, an American former professional baseball player for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins, died October 23, 2026, aged 88. Born George Edward…
Dale Brown dies at age 90
Dale Brown, an American college basketball coach, died October 23, 2026, aged 90. His full name was Dale Duward Brown; he was born October 31, 1935, in Minot, North Dakota.…
Lorn Cowie, Lord Cowie, died aged 100
Lorn Cowie, Lord Cowie, the Scottish rugby union player and jurist who served as a senator of the College of Justice, died October 23, 2026, aged 100. Born William Lorn…
Obituary: William Cowie, Lord Cowie, dead at age 100
William Lorn Kerr Cowie, Lord Cowie, the Scottish rugby union player who played for West of Scotland and represented Scotland internationally, died October 23, 2026, aged 100. Born in Glasgow…
Albert Childs passed away at age 96
Albert Childs, the English footballer who played as a defender, died October 23, 2026, aged 96. Born in Liverpool on September 25, 1930, he made his Liverpool debut on September…
Wm. Roger Louis dies at 90
Wm. Roger Louis, an American historian and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, died October 23, 2026, aged 90. Born in Detroit on May 8, 1936, he…
Mariusz Urbaniak passed away at age 54
Mariusz Urbaniak, a Polish footballer who played as a midfielder, died on October 23, 2026, aged 54. Born in Zgorzelec on June 22, 1972, he began his football development in…
Death of Daniel Stewart at age 37
Daniel Stewart, an Australian rules footballer who played for Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League (AFL), died on October 23, 2026, aged 37. Born on October 30, 1988, he…
Leaname Maotoanong passes away at age 35
Leaname Maotoanong, a Motswana Olympic sprinter who competed in the 200 and 400 metres, died October 22, 2026, aged 35. Born May 9, 1991, in Shoshong, Botswana, he represented his…
Ricardo Durán dies at age 88
Ricardo Durán, an Argentine Olympic rower who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics, died on October 22, 2026, aged 88. Born on September 20, 1938, Durán represented Argentina in the…
Richard Green death at age 58
Richard Green, an English professional footballer, died on October 22, 2026, aged 58. Born in Wolverhampton on November 22, 1967, he was also known as Richard Edward Green. His professional…
Petr Slaný death at age 74
Petr Slaný, a Czech footballer who represented Czechoslovakia, died on October 22, 2026, aged 74. Born in Olomouc on September 1, 1952, he played for Baník Ostrava, Dukla Prague and…
Death of Toya Jones at age 49
Toya Jones, an American football player who played for the San Francisco 49ers, Denver Broncos and Houston Texans, died October 22, 2026, aged 49. A defensive back, Jones was born…
Jorge Veras dead at age 67
Jorge de Souza Veras, the Brazilian footballer known as Jorge Veras, died October 22, 2026, aged 67, following complications from pancreatic cancer. Born in Fortaleza, he played as a forward…
Death of Ron Duguay at age 69
Ron Duguay, the Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played for the New York Rangers, died of colon cancer on October 22, 2026, aged 69. Born Ronald Duguay on…
Peter Horton passed away at age 81
Peter Alan Horton, an Australian rugby union international and sport historian, died October 22, 2026, aged 81. Born in Brixton, London, on July 20, 1945, and raised in England, he…
John Vaughan passes away at age 62
John Vaughan, an English professional footballer and coach who served as Bradford City’s goalkeeping coach, died October 22, 2026, aged 62. Born in Isleworth on June 26, 1964, he was…
William J. Thorn passed away at age 96
William J. Thorn, an American runner and longtime coach, died October 22, 2026, aged 96. Born William Jackson Thorn on September 4, 1930, he coached football, cross country and track…
Yury Tsyhalka passes away at age 43
Yury Tsyhalka, a Belarusian footballer, died on October 22, 2026, aged 43. Born in Minsk on May 27, 1983, he played for Dinamo Minsk and Dinamo Brest, and Shakhtyor Soligorsk…
Cornell Green, died aged 86
Cornell Green, an American football player, died October 21, 2026, aged 86. Born Cornell M. Green on February 10, 1940, in Oklahoma City, he was raised in northern California and…
Todd Benzinger dies at age 63
Todd Benzinger, an American baseball player and 1990 World Series champion, died October 21, 2026, aged 63. Born Todd Eric Benzinger in Dayton, Kentucky, on February 11, 1963, he graduated…
Georgi Nemsadze dies at age 54
Georgi Nemsadze, a Georgian professional footballer and manager, died of a heart attack in Tbilisi on October 21, 2026, aged 54. Born in Tbilisi on May 10, 1972, he played…
Ng Joo Pong dies at 80
Ng Joo Pong, a Malaysian Olympic cyclist, died October 21, 2026, aged 80. Born in Kuala Lumpur on June 19, 1946, he competed for Malaysia on the international cycling stage.…
Kevin O’Neill obituary: died at age 89
Kevin O'Neill, a Northern Irish Gaelic footballer and veterinarian, died on October 21, 2026, aged 89. Born and raised in Newry, County Down, he attended Abbey CBS, where he played…
Keith Bailey dies at age 65
Keith Bailey, a Canadian professional soccer player whose clubs included Bradford City and the Tampa Bay Rowdies, died October 21, 2026, aged 65. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, on…
Obituary: Julio Dalmao, dead at age 86
Julio Dalmao, a Uruguayan footballer who played for Nacional, Vélez Sarsfield and Uruguay’s national team, died October 20, 2026, aged 86. Born in Montevideo on March 1, 1940, he made…
Manuel Otto obituary: died at age 30
Manuel Otto, a German game developer known for Stick Run, died by suicide on October 20, 2026, aged 30. He developed Stick Run, a free-to-play jump-and-run game that became available…
Manuel Otto obituary: died at age 30
Manuel Otto, a German video game developer who created Stick Run, died by suicide on October 20, 2026, aged 30. Born on July 18, 1996, Otto was a 14-year-old secondary-school…
Early Voting dies at age 7
Early Voting, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, died of colic on October 20, 2026, aged 7. Born on March 7, 2019, and bred in Kentucky by Three Chimneys Farm, he was…
Allen Bailey death at age 37
Allen Bailey, an American football player who played defensive end in the NFL, died October 20, 2026, aged 37. Born March 25, 1989, on Sapelo Island, Georgia, he attended McIntosh…
Sergey Kucherov obituary: died at age 46
Sergey Kucherov, a Russian track cyclist who competed for his country in the men’s team sprint at two Summer Olympics, died on October 20, 2026, aged 46. Born in Tula…
Obituary: Oleg Garin, dead at age 60
Oleg Garin, the Russian footballer and manager associated with Okean Nakhodka and Lokomotiv Moscow as a player and Dynamo Bryansk as a manager, died October 20, 2026, aged 60. Born…
Kamaruddin Simanjuntak passed away at age 52
Indonesian lawyer Kamaruddin Simanjuntak, whose full name was Kamaruddin Hendra Simanjuntak, died on October 19, 2026, aged 52. Born on May 21, 1974, he completed secondary school at SMA Negeri…
Florin Cotora death at age 53
Florin Cotora, a Romanian footballer who played as a goalkeeper, died on October 19, 2026, aged 53. Born in Sibiu on December 12, 1972, Cotora built a career in association…
Demetris Kizas died at age 73
Demetris Kizas, a Cypriot footballer who played for Enosis Neon Paralimni, Panathinaikos, Panachaiki and OFI, died on October 19, 2026, aged 73. Born in Paralimni on September 6, 1953, he…
Chuck Amato death at age 80
Chuck Amato, an American college football coach who led NC State and coached at Florida State, died of throat cancer on October 19, 2026, aged 80. Born Charles Michael Amato…
Frank Goode has died at age 86
Frank Goode, an Australian rules footballer and coach, died October 19, 2026, aged 86. Born on December 19, 1939, he played for North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during…
Ediémou Blin Jacob dies at 80
Ediémou Blin Jacob, an Ivorian pastor and civil servant, died in Abidjan on October 19, 2026, aged 80. Born in Grand-Bassam on November 5, 1945, he attended high school with…
Lee Kwan-Young passes away at age 80
Lee Kwan-Young, a South Korean taekwondo practitioner and former military officer, died October 18, 2026, aged 80. Born in Seoul on April 19, 1946, he worked in taekwondo as a…
Ken Ward death at age 91
Ken Ward, an Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond, died October 18, 2026, aged 91. Born on September 30, 1935, Ward played for the club in the Victorian Football…
Obituary: Robert Christopherson, dead at age 90
Robert Henry Christopherson, an American Olympic boxer, died October 18, 2026, aged 90. Born October 7, 1936, in Finlayson, Minnesota, he competed as an amateur in the men’s light heavyweight…
John Beake obituary: died at age 87
John Beake, an American football coach and executive who served as general manager of the Denver Broncos, died October 17, 2026, aged 87. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, he…
Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani has died at age 32
Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani, a Saudi Arabian footballer who played for Damac and Al-Diriyah, died aged 32 on October 17, 2026, from injuries sustained in a traffic collision. Born in Abha on…
Per Haftorsen died at age 79
Per Haftorsen, a Norwegian football goalkeeper who represented Haugar, Fredrikstad and his country, died on October 17, 2026, aged 79. Born in Haugesund Municipality on September 6, 1947, he spent…
Denis Boytsov passes away at age 40
Denis Boytsov, a Russian boxer, died on October 17, 2026, aged 40. Born Denis Nikolayevich Boytsov on February 14, 1986, he was from Oryol, then in the Russian SFSR of…
Michael Gray passed away at age 75
Michael Gray, an American actor known for playing Billy Batson in the 1970s television series Shazam!, died October 16, 2026, aged 75. Born in Chicago on September 2, 1951, Gray…
Medaglia d’Oro has died at age 27
Medaglia d’Oro, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, died October 16, 2026, aged 27. A dark bay or brown stallion marked with a white star and three white socks, he was bred…
Mária Szolnoki has died at age 79
Mária Szolnoki, a Polish Olympic fencer, died on October 16, 2026, aged 79. Tags Athletes, 16 October 2026, Gemini, Hungary, Poland, Szolnoki, Mária, October 16, October 2026
Hyron Andrews dead at age 31
Hyron Diego Andrews, a South African rugby union player for the Lions, died in a fall on October 16, 2026, aged 31. Born in Paarl on July 6, 1995, he…
Alan Brown dies at 90
Alan Brown, an English cricketer who represented Kent and England, died on October 16, 2026, aged 90. Born in Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, on October 17, 1935, he established himself as a…
Mariusz Strzałka died at age 67
Mariusz Strzałka, a Polish fencer who represented Poland and later Germany at the Olympic Games, died on October 16, 2026, aged 67. Born in Wrocław on March 27, 1959, he…
Li Kou-tin dead at age 87
Li Kou-tin, a Taiwanese table tennis player, died October 16, 2026, aged 87. Born in Taihoku on November 16, 1938, he was known by the Chinese name 李國定. He attended…
Sam Noto dies at age 96
Sam Noto, an American jazz trumpeter, died October 16, 2026, aged 96. Born in Buffalo, New York, on April 17, 1930, he built a career in jazz as a trumpet…
Jon Morris obituary: died at age 84
Jon Morris, an American football player who played center for the New England Patriots, Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears, died October 15, 2026, aged 84. Born in Washington, D.C., on…
Basil Ince dead at age 93
Basil Ince, a Trinidadian sprinter and politician who served as minister of foreign affairs from 1981 to 1985, died October 15, 2026, aged 93. Born May 1, 1933, Ince was…
Jorge Dubanced passes away at age 76
Jorge Roberto Dubanced Conversano, an Argentine footballer and manager, died October 15, 2026, aged 76. Born in Buenos Aires on June 28, 1950, he played as a forward, beginning his…
Death of Stefan Lord at age 71
Stefan Lord, a Swedish darts player, died on October 15, 2026, aged 71. Born in Stockholm on December 4, 1954, he competed in British Darts Organisation events during the 1970s,…
Bo Johansson passes away at age 83
Bo Johansson, the Swedish football manager who led Östers IF to consecutive Allsvenskan championships and coached Denmark’s national team, died October 15, 2026, aged 83. Born in Kalmar, he was…
Cliff Hagan passed away at age 94
Clifford Oldham Hagan, the American Hall of Fame basketball player, died October 15, 2026, aged 94. Born in Owensboro, Kentucky, he attended Owensboro High School and the University of Kentucky,…
Michael Forest death at age 97
Michael Forest, the American actor known for Star Trek: The Original Series, Beast from Haunted Cave and Atlas, died October 14, 2026, aged 97. Born Gerald Michael Charlebois in Harvey,…
Jorge Castro died at age 59
Jorge Fernando Castro, the Argentine former professional boxer known as Roña, died October 14, 2026, aged 59. Born in Caleta Olivia, he competed professionally from 1987 to 2007 and held…
Angelo Groppelli has died at age 80
Angelo Groppelli, an Italian weightlifter, died October 14, 2026, aged 80. Born in Varese on July 12, 1946, he is identified in biographical records as a former Italian shot putter.…
Vin Denson, died aged 90
Vin Denson, an English professional racing cyclist, died on October 14, 2026, aged 90. Born in Chester on November 24, 1935, he got his first bicycle at 12: a black…
Obituary: Kasey Redfern, dead at age 35
Kasey Redfern, an American football punter who had been receiving chemotherapy for a cancerous brain tumor and CNS lymphoma, died October 13, 2026, aged 35. Born September 26, 1991, in…
Guy Conti died at age 84
Guy Conti, an American baseball coach who served as the New York Mets’ bullpen coach, died October 13, 2026, aged 84. Born Guy Clyde Conti in Pittsburgh, he studied at…
Heikki Mälkiä dies at age 68
Heikki Mälkiä, a Finnish hockey player and coach, died October 13, 2026, aged 68. Born in Imatra on March 7, 1958, he ended his playing career and worked as a…
Ken Friar has died at age 92
Ken Friar, the English football executive and life president of Arsenal F.C., died on October 13, 2026, aged 92. Born Kenneth John Friar in Islington on August 13, 1934, he…
Parvinder Singh Jhota dead
Parvinder Singh Jhota, an anti-drug activist and kabaddi player from Mansa, was shot dead on October 13, 2026. Born Parvinder Singh in 1983 or 1984, he was also known as…
Sarah Dambanevana obituary: died at age 36
Sarah Dambanevana, a Zimbabwean cricketer and cricket umpire, died on October 12, 2026, aged 36. Born on May 26, 1990, she represented the Zimbabwe women’s cricket team from 2009 to…
Doug Loft died at age 39
Doug Loft, an English professional footballer, died on October 12, 2026, aged 39. Known also as Douglas James Loft, he was born in Maidstone on December 25, 1986. A midfielder,…
Giorgio Bracardi dies at 93
Giorgio Bracardi, the Italian actor and comedian, died on October 12, 2026, aged 93, from complications of a broken femur. Born in Rome on May 3, 1933, by Caesarean section,…
Liu Changcheng obituary: died at age 62
Liu Changcheng, a Chinese Olympic volleyball player who later coached in Germany, died October 12, 2026, aged 62. Born in Beijing on May 3, 1964, he represented China at the…
Jean-Paul Defrang passed away at age 70
Jean-Paul Defrang, a Luxembourgish footballer and goalkeeper, died October 12, 2026, aged 70. Born on June 22, 1956, he played for Jeunesse Esch and Progrès Niederkorn and represented Luxembourg’s national…
John Mocatta dies at age 90
John Mocatta, an English first-class cricketer who represented Oxford University, died October 12, 2026, aged 90. Born John Edward Abraham Mocatta in St John’s Wood, London, on May 6, 1936,…
Keith Ellis dies at age 90
Keith Ellis, an English professional footballer who played for Sheffield Wednesday, Cardiff City and Scunthorpe United, died on October 11, 2026, aged 90. Also known as Keith Duncan Ellis, he…
Cheryl Smith has died at age 56
Cheryl Moana Smith, a New Zealand rugby union player, coach and administrator who represented Auckland and the national team, died of bowel cancer on October 11, 2026, aged 56. Born…
Ralph Hosack, died aged 90
Ralph Hosack, a Canadian Olympic boxer, died October 11, 2026, aged 90. Born in 1935, he competed in the men’s middleweight event at the 1956 Summer Olympics. That Olympic appearance…
Death of Bobby Gould at age 69
Bobby Gould, a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, died October 10, 2026, aged 69. Born Robert Alexander Gould in Petrolia, Ontario, he attended the University of New Hampshire before…
Jack Hearn dies at 103
Jack Hearn, the English judo instructor known as Judo Jack, died on October 10, 2026, aged 103. Born John Hearn in North Shields on September 19, 1923, he was raised…
Death of Bud Zipfel at age 87
Marion Sylvester “Bud” Zipfel, an American baseball player who appeared with the Washington Senators, died October 10, 2026, aged 87. Born in Belleville, Illinois, on November 18, 1938, he graduated…
Keven McDonald has died at age 70
Keven McDonald, an American basketball player and lawyer, died October 10, 2026, aged 70. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he attended Seton Hall Preparatory School, where he scored 1,774 career…
Musa Taimazov obituary: died at age 42
Musa Taimazov, a Russian Paralympic athlete, died October 10, 2026, aged 42. Born on April 8, 1984, he competed in para-athletics for Russia. His full name was Musa Izamutdinovich Taimazov.…
Ellen Meliesie dies at age 63
Ellen Meliesie, the Dutch Olympic rower who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, died of breast cancer on October 10, 2026, aged 63. Born Elisabeth Johanna Wilhelmina Meliesie in Zwolle…
Wilfredo Gómez dies at age 69
Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican Hall of Fame boxer and former three-division world champion, died October 10, 2026, aged 69. Born Wilfredo Gómez Rivera in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico,…
Trevor Ryan dies at 72
Trevor Ryan, an Australian rugby league footballer, died of lung cancer on October 10, 2026, aged 72. Born in Bellingen, New South Wales, on May 4, 1954, he grew up…