1930 Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and thoroughbred horse breeder, dies at 58
1931 Charles Comiskey, American Baseball HOF infielder (St. Louis Brown Stockings/Browns), team owner (Chicago White Sox) and manager (St. Louis Browns), dies at 72
1936 Rodney Heath, Australian tennis player (Australasian C'ship 1905, 10), dies of stomach cancer at 52
1952 Myrtle McAteer, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1900), dies at 74
1961 Edgar Mayne, Australian cricketer (4 Tests for Australia around WWI), dies at 79
1978 George "Jackie" Grant, West Indian cricketer (West Indian captain 1930-35), dies at 71
1983 Mike Michalske, American football NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers), dies at 80
1984 Gus Mancuso, American baseball catcher (World Series 1931, 33; MLB All Star 1935, 37; NY Giants, St. Louis Cardinals) and broadcaster (Cardinals' radio network), dies from emphysema at 78
1985 Bob Scheffing, American baseball catcher (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds), manager (Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers) and executive (GM NY Mets 1970-74), dies at 72
1986 Jackson Scholz, American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m 1920, 200m 1924), dies at 89
1989 Andy Roberts, New Zealand cricket all-rounder (7 Tests, 1 x 50, 4 wickets; Northern Districts, Waikato, Hamilton & Bay of Plenty), dies at 42
1992 (Dorothy) "Dottie" Green, American AAGPBL baseball player (Rockford Peaches), dies of cancer at 71
1995 Agha Saadat Ali, Pakistani cricketer (8 not out in 1 inn for Pak 1956), dies at 66
2004 Bobby Ávila, Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman (MLB All-Star 1952, 54, 55; AL batting champion 1954; Cleveland Indians), dies of diabetes and lung ailment at 80
2007 Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
2014 Jeff Robinson, American baseball player, dies at 52
2019 Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican track and field athlete, and first woman to light the Olympic Cauldron (Mexico City, 1968), dies of pneumonia at 71
2021 Umberto Colombo, Italian soccer midfielder (3 caps; Juventus, Atalanta), dies at 88
2021 Walter Smith, Scottish football manager (Rangers, Everton; Scotland 2004-07), dies at 73
2023 Guy Camberabero, French rugby union flyhalf (14 Tests 110 points; ROC La Voulte Sportif, US Tyrosse RUC), dies at 87
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