- 1941 Benjamin Dwight, American tennis championship umpire, dies
- 1949 Bobby Walthour Sr., American cyclist (motor-pacing World Championships gold 1904-05; Madison Square Garden 6-Day Race 1901, 03), dies at 71
- 1983 Lennox Brown, South African cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies at 72
- 1985 Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
- 1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti, American MLB Commissioner (1989) and President of Yale University (1978-86), dies of a heart attack at 51
- 1992 Chick Harbert, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1954, Ryder Cup 1949, 55), dies of a cerebral haemorrhage at 77
- 1994 Wallis Mathias, Pakistan cricket batsman (21 Tests; first non-Muslim to play for Pakistan), dies at 59
Cary Middlecoff (1921-1998)
American golfer (US Open 1949, 56; US Masters 1955), dies at 77
- 2001 Brian Moore, British sports commentator (BBC Radio, London Weekend Television 'The Big Match'), dies of heart failure at 69
- 2007 Viliam Schrojf, Slovak soccer goalkeeper (39 caps Czechoslovakia; Slovan Bratislava 240 games), dies at 76
- 2010 Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (b. 1928)
Tommy Morrison (1969-2013)
American boxer (WBO heavyweight title, 1993) and actor (Rocky V), dies from sepsis, multi organ failure, and cardiac arrest at 44
- 2016 Len Maddocks, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (7 Tests, 19 dismissals; Victoria, Tasmania), dies at 90
- 2021 Jim Fuller, American college football coach and athletics administrator (coach 1977-83; AD 2003-08 Jacksonville State University), dies from COVID-19 at 76
- 2021 Juan Rodríguez Vega, Chilean soccer defender (26 caps; Universidad de Chile, Atlético Español), dies at 77
- 2022 Earnie Shavers, American boxer (2 x world heavyweight c'ship challenger [Muhammad Ali 1977, Larry Holmes 1979]), dies at 78
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