Events in Sport
- 1972-09-10 Yugoslavia beats Czechoslovakia, 21-16 in the inaugural Olympic handball final in Munich
- 2013-01-27 Spain defeats Denmark to win the 2013 World Men's Handball Championship
- 2015-02-01 France defeats Qatar, 25-22 to win the World Men's Handball Championship in Lusail, Qatar
Birthdays in Sport
- 1938-08-06 Bernardino Lombao, Spanish handballer (Atlético de Madrid 1967-69), coach (Nat basketball teams) and TV presenter (De Olimpia a Los Ángeles, Objetivo 92), born in Ribas de Sil, Spain (d. 2020)
- 1940-07-22 Yuriy Klimov, USSR, team handball (Olympic gold 1976)
- 1946-01-11 Ludmila Poradnik, Ukrainian handball player (Olympic gold USSR 1976, 80), born in Kiev, Ukraine
- 1946-05-17 Sinaida Turchina, USSR, team handball (Olympic gold 1976)
- 1949-11-03 Roswitha Krause, German swimmer and team handball player (first woman Summer Olympic medals in different sports; silver 4x100m freestyle 1968, handball 1976), born in Dahme, Germany
- 1950-06-05 Adrian Cosma, Romanian handballer (Olympic silver 1976)
- 1950-07-29 Radu Voina, Romania, team handball (Olympic silver/2 bronze-1972, 76, 80)
- 1955-07-24 Lubov Odinokova, Soviet handball player (Olympic gold 1976, 80)
- 1956-03-26 Tatyana Kochergina, Ukrainian handball player who won Olympic gold 1976, 80 USSR, born in Ovidiopol, Ukraine
- 1956-09-03 Hans-Georg Beyer, East German team handball player (Olympic gold 1980), born in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
- 1958-08-07 Larisa Karlova, Ukrainian handball player (Olympic gold USSR 1976, 80; World C'ship gold 1982, 86), born in Kyiv, Ukraine
- 1960-08-11 Leora "Sam" Jones, American US team handball player (Olympic-92), born in Mt. Olive, North Carolina
- 1961-07-05 Zlatko Saračević, Croatian handball player (145 caps Yugoslavia, 75 Croatia; Olympic gold 1996 Croatia), born in Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina (d. 2021)
- 1962-10-16 Laura Coenen, team handball goalie (Olymp-1988, 92, 96), born in Neenah, Wisconsin
- 1963-06-06 Dannette Leininger, Kailua HA, team handball wing (Olympics 1992, 96)
- 1963-12-23 Carol Peterka, American team handball back court (Olympics 1992, 96), born in Little Falls, Minnesota
- 1965-01-31 Kim Clarke, American team handball back court (Olympics 1988, 92, 96), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
- 1966-12-18 Patricia Neder, American team handball right wing (Olympics 1992 & 1996), born in Waukesha, Wisconsin
- 1968-01-15 Iñaki Urdangarín, Spanish handball player and royal, born in Basque Country, Spain
- 1968-01-15 Laurie Fellner, American team handball goalie (Olympics 1992, 96), born in Appleton, Wisconsin
- 1968-04-13 Tami Lyn Jameson, American team handball goalie (Olympics 1992, 96), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 1968-08-10 Jennifer Horton, American team handball goalie (Olympics 1992, 96), born in Dover, New Jersey
- 1974-10-05 Andon Boshkovski, Macedonian handball coach (Georgia 2017-19, Macedonia [ass't] 2008-13), born in Skopje, North Macedonia (d. 2022)
- 1982-09-08 Marian Cozma, Romanian handball player (Romania 60 caps), born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 2009)
Weddings in Sport
- 1997-10-04 Infanta Cristina of Spain (32) weds retired handball player turned entrepreneur Iñaki Urdangarin (29) in Barcelona, Spain
Deaths in Sport
- 2015-12-09 Gheorghe Gruia, Romanian handball player, dies at 75
- 2020-04-23 Bernardino Lombao, Spanish handballer (Atlético de Madrid 1967-69), coach (Nat basketball teams) and TV presenter (De Olimpia a Los Ángeles, Objetivo 92), dies at 81
- 2021-02-21 Zlatko Saračević, Croatian handball player (145 caps Yugoslavia, 75 Croatia; Olympic gold 1996 Croatia), dies at 59
- 2022-09-24 Andon Boshkovski, Macedonian handball coach (Georgia 2017-19, Macedonia [ass't] 2008-13), dies at 47