Athletes Who Died in June 1946

  • Jun 5 Maud Watson, British tennis player (first Wimbledon female champion 1884-85), dies at 81

Jack Johnson (1878-1946)

Jun 10 American boxer (1st African-American world heavyweight champion 1908-15), dies in a car accident aged 68

  • Jun 14 Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (Olympic bronze 1,500m 1906) and executive (first Secretary-General International Association of Athletics Federations 1913-14), dies at 65
  • Jun 17 Joe Dawson, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1912), dies at 56
  • Jun 29 Frank Hadow, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1878; first exponent of the lob), dies at 91