Leo Diegel (1899-1951)
American golfer (PGA C'ship 1928-29), dies of throat and lung cancer at 52
- 1962 Ernest Tyldesley, English cricket batsman (14 Tests, 3 x 100, 6 x 50, HS 138; Lancashire CCC), dies at 73
- 1978 Alfred (Harold] Gilligan, English cricketer (4 Tests for England), dies at 81
- 1983 Olin Dutra, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1932, US Open 1934), dies at 82
- 1989 Frank Easton, cricket wicket-keeper (NSW 1933-39), dies
- 1993 Dick Metz, American golfer (US Open 1938 runner-up; 10 PGA Tour titles), dies at 84
Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995)
Russian influential World Chess Champion, dies at 83
- 1996 Beryl Burton, cyclist, dies at 58
- 2000 Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (Tour de France 1938, 48; Giro d'Italia 1936-7, 46), dies of a heart attack at 85
- 2005 Ted Atkinson, American jockey (US Champion 1944, 46), dies of a stroke at 88
- 2011 Yosef Merimovich, Israeli football player, 1948-58, and manager, 1958-89, dies at 86
- 2012 Raman Surendranath, Indian cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 26 wickets), dies at 75
- 2017 Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (Olympic gold 100m backstroke 1936), dies at 98
- 2021 Del Crandall, American baseball catcher (11 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1957; 4 × Gold Glove Award; Boston/Milwaukee Braves) and manager (Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners), dies at 91
- 2022 Leo Wilden, German soccer defender (15 caps West Germany; 1. FC Köln, Bayer Leverkusen), dies at 85
- 2023 Arsenio Iglesias, Spanish soccer manager (Deportivo La Coruña, Hércules, Zaragoza, Elche, Real Madrid), dies at 92
- 2023 Siiri Rantanen, Finnish cross country skier (Olympic gold 3 × 5k relay 1956, bronze 1960; bronze 10k 1952), dies at 98
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