- 1880 James Southerton, English cricket spin bowler (2 Tests; played in first Test match; oldest player to make Test debut at 49; Sussex CCC, Hampshire CCC), dies at 52
- 1970 Brian Piccolo, American NFL football running back, 1965-69 (Chicago Bears), and subject of the 1971 TV movie "Brian's Song", dies of cancer at 26
- 1984 Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
- 1987 John Mikaelsson, Swedish race walker (Olympic gold 10k 1948, 52), dies at 73
- 1993 Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricket batsman and captain (43 Tests; 3,073 runs @ 46.56; 10 x 100s; Victoria) and broadcaster (ABC 1956-81), dies at 79
- 1994 Bernard Moitessier, French sailor, vagabond and author who famously led the 1st non-stop, singlehanded, round the world yacht race before sailing a 2nd lap of the world back to Tahiti, dies of prostate cancer at 69 [1]
- 1996 Mel Allen, American sportscaster (voice of NY Yankees; 22 World Series; 24 MLB All Star games), dies at 83
- 2008 Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (b. 1975)
- 2013 Hans Hass, Austrian diving pioneer, dies at 94
Tony Gwynn (1960-2014)
American Baseball HOF outfielder (15 x MLB All Star; 8 x NL batting champion; 5 × Gold Glove Award; SD Padres), dies of salivary gland cancer at 54
- 2018 Donald Ritchie, Scottish ultra-runner (world record 100 miles 11:51:11 1979), dies of health complications at 73
- 2022 Don Neely, New Zealand cricket historian, administrator (President NZ Cricket 2006-09), dies at 86
- 2022 Steinar Amundsen, Norwegian sprint canoeist (Olympic gold K-4 1000m 1968; World C'ship gold 1970, 75), dies at 76
- 2023 Alfredo Rojas, Argentine soccer striker (15 caps; CA Lanús, Real Betis, Gimnasia de La Plata, CA Boca Juniors), dies at 86
- 2023 Ben Helfgott, Polish-British Holocaust survivor, Olympian (1956, 1960), champion weightlifter, and Holocaust educator, dies at 93
- 2023 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
- 2023 Gino Mäder, Swiss road and track cyclist (Vuelta a España Young rider classification 2021), dies in a race accident at 26
- 2023 Manabu Kitabeppu, Japanese Baseball HOF pitcher (Hiroshima Toyo Carp; 7 x NPB All-Star; Central League MVP 1986), dies from leukemia at 65
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