- 1916 William Booth, English Test cricket batsman (WWI 2 Tests), dies at the Somme at 39
- 1948 Achille Varzi, Italian auto racer (14 Grand Prix wins), dies in practise crash at 43
- 1965 Wally Hammond, England cricket batsman (7,249 Test runs @ 58.45), dies of a heart attack at 62
- 1971 Learie Constantine, West Indian cricket all-rounder, lawyer and politician (UK's first black peer), dies of a heart attack at 69 [1]
- 1974 Kick Smit, Dutch soccer striker and manager (29 caps; HFC Haarlem), dies at 62
- 1979 Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey left wing (Olympic gold 1956) and soccer striker (3 caps), dies at 56
- 1982 Ray Scarborough, American MLB pitcher (All Star 1950), dies at 64
- 1983 Erich Juskowiak, German footballer, dies at 56
- 1995 Bruce Mitchell, South African cricket opening batsman (42 Tests), dies at 86
- 1999 Jack Moroney, Australian cricket batsman (7 Tests, 2 x 100, HS 118; NSWCA), dies at 81
- 2003 Wesley Mouzon, American boxing trainer (Roy Jones Jr., Dwight Muhammad Qawi), dies of kidney cancer at 75
- 2005 Gus Bodnar, Canadian NHL center (NHL record 3 assists in 21 seconds 1952), dies at 82
- 2006 Fred Trueman, England cricket fast bowler (England 67 Tests, 307 wickets), dies of small cell carcinoma at 75
- 2008 John Pont, American college football coach (Miami, Yale, Northwestern, Indiana), dies at 80
- 2009 Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer (3-weight world champion), dies of self inflicted gun wound at 57
- 2010 Don Coryell, American College/Pro Football HOF coach (NCAA Division champion 1966, 67, 68 San Diego State; St. Louis Cardinals, SD Chargers), dies at 85
- 2012 Loyd Gentry, American thoroughbred trainer (Kentucky Derby 1967 Proud Clarion), dies of heart failure at 86
- 2013 John Stanford, American college baseball coach/administrator (Middle Tennessee), dies at 77
Everton Weekes (1925-2020)
West Indian cricket batsman (48 Tests; 4,455 runs @ 58.61, 15 x 100s), dies at 95
- 2021 Marcel Puget, French rugby union halfback and captain (17 Tests; CA Brive, Stade Toulousain, Stade Rodez Aveyron), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 80
- 2023 Christian Dalger, French soccer forward (6 caps; SC Toulon, AS Monaco FC) and manager (SC Toulon, Grenoble, Mali), dies at 73
- 2023 Dilano van 't Hoff, Dutch race car driver (F4 Spanish Championship, 2021), dies in a crash during Regional European Championship race at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium at 18
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