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Jim Hines (1946-2023)

Jun 3 American athlete (Olympic gold 100m, 4x100m relay 1968), dies at 76

Jim Hines
  • Jun 4 Roger Craig, American baseball pitcher (World Series 1955, 59 - Brooklyn/LA Dodgers, 1964 St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (SD Padres, 1978-79; SF Giants, 1985-92), dies at 93
  • Jun 6 Gints Freimanis, Latvian soccer right-back (13 caps; Jelgava 110 games), dies from skin cancer at 38
  • Jun 6 Pat Casey, American BMX rider (World C'ship gold Freestyle park BMX 2011; X Games gold dirt, BMX park 2021), dies in a motocross practice accident at 29
  • Jun 6 Teddy McCarthy, Irish hurler (2 x All-Ireland Titles; Cork; Sarsfields GAA) and Gaelic footballer (2 x All-Ireland Titles; Cork; Glanmire GFC), dies at 57
  • Jun 8 Jorge Roldán, Guatemalan soccer midfielder (43 caps; Aurora FC 380 games) and coach (Aurora FC), dies at 82
  • Jun 8 Rale Rasic, Australian soccer coach (Australia 1969-74; Marconi Stallions FC) and broadcaster (SBS), dies at 87
  • Jun 10 Clive Barker, South African soccer coach (South Africa 1994-97; AmaZulu FC), dies of Lewy body dementia at 78
  • Jun 11 Jean Wicki, Swiss bobsledder (Olympic gold 4-man 1972, bronze 1968; bronze 2-man 1972), dies at 89
  • Jun 12 Harvey Glance, American athlete (Olympic gold 4x100m relay 1976; World C'ship gold 4x100m relay 1987), dies of a heart attack at 66
  • Jun 13 Paul Rendall, English rugby union prop (28 caps; London Wasps RUFC), dies from motor neurone disease at 69
  • Jun 13 Viktor Lisitsky, Russian gymnast (5 x Olympic silver USSR 1964, 68; World C'ship silver team 1962, 70), dies at 83
  • Jun 14 Homer Jones, American football wide receiver (Pro Bowl 1967, 68; NFL record: career yards per reception: 22.3; NY Giants, Cleveland Browns), dies at 82
  • Jun 14 John Hollins, English soccer midfielder (1 cap; Chelsea 465 games, QPR, Arsenal) and manager (Chelsea, Swansea City AFC, Rochdale AFC), dies at 76
  • Jun 14 Vladimir Shmelyov, Russian modern pentathlete (Olympic gold USSR, team [with Boris Onishchenko & Pavel Lednyov] 1972), dies at 76
  • Jun 15 Antonio Jiménez Quiles, Spanish road cyclist (Vuelta a España 1955 runner-up), dies at 88
  • Jun 15 Gordon McQueen, Scottish soccer defender (30 caps; St. Mirren FC, Leeds United, Manchester United) and manager (Airdrieonians FC), dies from dementia at 70
  • Jun 15 James Hardy, Australian winemaker (Thomas Hardy & Sons Wines) and yachtsman (Australian skipper America's Cup 1970, 74, 80; 4 x Admiral's Cup Ocean C'ships), dies at 90
  • Jun 16 Alfredo Rojas, Argentine soccer striker (15 caps; CA Lanús, Real Betis, Gimnasia de La Plata, CA Boca Juniors), dies at 86
  • Jun 16 Ben Helfgott, Polish-British Holocaust survivor, Olympian (1956, 1960), champion weightlifter, and Holocaust educator, dies at 93
  • Jun 16 Bob Brown, American College-Pro Football HOF offensive tackle (University of Nebraska; 5 × First-team All-Pro; 6 x Pro-Bowl; Philadelphia Eagles, LA Rams, Oakland Raiders), dies at 81
  • Jun 16 Gino Mäder, Swiss road and track cyclist (Vuelta a España Young rider classification 2021), dies in a race accident at 26
  • Jun 16 Manabu Kitabeppu, Japanese Baseball HOF pitcher (Hiroshima Toyo Carp; 7 x NPB All-Star; Central League MVP 1986), dies from leukemia at 65
  • Jun 19 Karolis Chvedukas, Lithuanian soccer midfielder (20 caps; FK Sūduva 163 games, Waterford FC), dies at 32
  • Jun 20 Ray Wheatley, Australian boxer (NSW featherweight champion), official (IBF supervisor, referee & judge; VP IBF 2000-12) and broadcaster (Sky Channel, ESPN, 9 Network), dies at 74
  • Jun 21 Guillermo Escalada, Uruguayan soccer forward (30 caps; Nacional, Gimnasia de La Plata, Montevideo Wanderers FC), dies at 87
  • Jun 21 Peter Allan, Australian cricket fast bowler (1 Test, 2 wickets; Queensland), dies at 87
  • Jun 21 Ronnie Nolan, Irish soccer wing-half (33 caps League of Ireland XI, 10 Republic of Ireland; Shamrock Rovers 297 games), dies at 89
  • Jun 22 Bev Risman, English rugby union fly-half (8 Tests England, 4 British & Irish Lions; University of Oxford RFC) and rugby league fullback (5 Tests GB, 1 England; Leigh RLFC, Leeds RLFC), dies at 85
  • Jun 22 Stéphane Demol, Belgian soccer central defender (38 caps; Anderlecht, Bologna, Porto, Toulouse, Standard Liège), dies from cardiac arrest at 57
  • Jun 23 Jimmy Kim, American taekwondo practitioner (Olympic gold heavyweight 1988; World Cup gold 1987), dies at 56
  • Jun 24 Cédric Roussel, Belgian soccer forward (3 caps; KAC Gent, Coventry City, Wolverhampton Wanderers, RAEC Mons, KRC Genk), dies from cardiac arrest at 45
  • Jun 24 Dean Smith, American athlete (Olympic gold 4x100m relay 1952) and actor, rodeo cowboy and stuntman, dies at 91
  • Jun 24 Ian Browne, Australian track cyclist (Olympic gold 2000m tandem 1956 [with Tony Marchant], dies at 92
  • Jun 25 Wilhelm Büsing, German equestrian (Olympic silver team eventing, bronze Individual eventing 1952) and coach (Olympics 1956, 60, 64), dies at 102
  • Jun 26 Craig Brown, Scottish soccer wing half (Rangers, Dundee, Falkirk) and manager (Scotland 1993-2001; Preston NE, Motherwell, Aberdeen), dies at 82
  • Jun 30 Vahidin Musemić, Bosnian soccer striker (17 caps Yugoslavia; FK Sarajevo, OGC Nice), dies at 76


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